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February 1, 2025 7 mins
A second plane crash shakes the Country, Boston's skating community continues to mourn, and Karen Read returns to court. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Heavy snow and thirty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Good Saturday morning. It's February first. I'm Sherry Small. Let's
get you caught up here. So what's happening all right?
Half of Massachusetts is still dealing with snow for a
bit longer snow.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
We'll be moving on out this afternoon, but there's still
could be a few slippery spots out there versus a.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Colder and that's hacky weather meteorologist John Ferick. Of course,
the full like you weather forecasts coming up in three.
A second plane crash in as many days shakes the country,
this time a medical ambulance jet falls from the sky
onto a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
The child had just received care from a children's hospital
in Philadelphia. All six on board heading back to their
home country of Mexico, with a stop in Springfield, Missouri.
The jet taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport shortly after
sea crashing just moments later. Dramatic images capturing the fiery
aftermath of the crash, A massive blaze in the streets.

(01:09):
Buildings at vehicles engulfed in flames, first responders and emergency
vehicles rushing to the seat.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
And that's ABC Stephanie Ramos. Reporting authorities say there were
no survivors, no word of any deaths on the ground,
but at least six people were hospitalized. And the Philadelphia
crash happening just days after that deadly plane crash at
Washington's Reagan National Airport. The NTSB confirming that the cockpit

(01:36):
voice recorder from the wreckage of the military helicopter has
been recovered. Large barges are due at the crash site
on the Potomac River this morning to help in the
recovery efforts. The Medical Examiner's Office also continuing to identify
the victims. So far, more than forty victims have been
recovered from the wreckage of the American Airlines flight from Wichita,

(01:56):
Kansas and a militarily military helicopter that collided midair. Boston
skating community continuing to mourn the lives lost in that crash,
with skaters returning to the ice with heavy hearts. At
the Skating Club of Boston yesterday, ike in to the
building six am. I'm gonna cry.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
Very strong, but Coach Olga Ganicheva couldn't hide the tears
remembering fellow coaches voting nomov Jenya Shishkova, sixteen year old
skater Spencer Lane, and her own student, thirteen year old
Gina Hahn, who were killed in Wednesday's plane crash, especially
having to walk by her now empty chair.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
This empty chairs is just crush me emotionally.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
At the Skating Club of Boston, skaters gradually returned to
their rigorous practice routines, which Ghanicheva says is essential to
honor the family members lost.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The people who die was very happy, very happy, im kite.
I tell them just in their memory, please stay so.
In that report from CBS News Boston's Beth Germano, officials
with a Skating Club of Boston say that they are
working on a way to permanently memorialize the victims. Let's
check the acuweather forecast. For half of us we are

(03:14):
seeing clear skies, the other half in snow. A few
slippery spots still around until this snow moves out. We
will see a cold day today with temps slowly falling
through the twenties, and tonight mostly clear but very cold,
dropping to ten degrees in Boston single digits in the suburbs,
and if that's not cold enough, acuweather real field tamps

(03:34):
will reach single digits and below zero all right, Sunday
giving sun giving way to clouds, highs close to thirty degrees,
and then tomorrow night some snow returning. We could see
a coding to an inch or two with a low
of twenty five degrees. And once you know, as we
head back to work on Monday, that's when we're going
to see a warm up, a mix of sun and clouds,

(03:57):
but reaching a high of forty five degrees. Tuesday, remaining breezy,
clouds giving way to some sunny skies in a high
of forty two in Boston. Right now we're seeing heavy
snow and thirty degrees. And as I refreshed the radar map,
let's see what the snow is doing now. All right,
we're looking at Framingham on east up all the way

(04:20):
through northern mass Loll everything east of everything, Taunt and
Fall River, New Bedford, Wareham, along the Cape, all seeing
snow right now for the rest of the state, moving westward,
they're Saint Clair skies but cold. It's eleven oh six.

(04:42):
Back to news Karen read back to Norfolk Superior Court
in Denham yesterday for a hearing.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
The hearing is about a digital forensics expert that testified
for the defense. Richard Green, said a Google search made
by Jen McCabe past long to Dian Cold was done
at two twenty seven, long before John O'Keefe's body was found.
Ada Hank Brennan questions Green's methodology.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
He should explain to the court of how he has
come to these baseless, inaccurate, in predudicial plans.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
But defense attorney Robert Alessi says the government's own experts
verified Green's methodology.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So what if, your honor, what did it evidence you're
a hearing do We're just going to come in and
have witnesses talk about their difference of opinion.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
That's not what Adalbert is for.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Judge Cononi said, it sounds like it might just be
a difference of opinion and she'll decide no later than Monday.
In Denham, Suzanne Soosville WBZ Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Authorities are warning about a new fishing scam involving calls
from summer named Jessica. Since last November. The Better Business
Bureau says is to receive more than five hundred reports
of people receiving aggressive scam calls from someone called Jessica
from loan Approvals Now. The caller says they need details
to complete a loan application, but it is all just

(06:01):
an attempt to steal private information. Here in New England,
the Bureau says that they've had dozens of people targeted
just this week alone. If you do receive a call
and you're debating whether or not it's real, you should
contact your bank directly. Climbers on the North Shore say
they they'll face financial ruin after the state adopts what

(06:22):
they're calling an unnecessary federal standard.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I am going to be the guy that has to
enforce it.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes, a fee.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Tough as the Ipswitch Police departments. Natural Resource Officer Matt
Bodwell's jurisdiction includes Ipswitch River clamflats closed since the Commonwealth
adopted a national standard for buffer zones around waste water
overflow pipes, not because those pipes pump unclean water into
the area. These waters regularly pass rigorous tests, but in
case they ever did, bod Well, Well, aware of the
financial blow of the closures, delivered a residence like Paul Damon,

(06:51):
who's lived off climbing for forty seven years.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
We rely heavily on the Ipswich River these last few years,
that has been the majority of our income.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's just devastating.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
This week, Congressman Seth Moulton and State Senator Bruce Tyr
came to town so hear from affected clamors and from Budwell.
New hopes regulators in Washington will see what he sees here.
I feel like Congressman Malton not what he said, and
I hope he can go up the ladder with it.
State Fisheries Management officials have not responded to requests for comments.
For miswitch Kenna be able to w BZY, Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart
Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio
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