Mid Day Report: Sunday, December 7, 2025

Authorities in New Hampshire are investigating a deadly officer-involved shooting in Manchester yesterday morning. Mayor Wu and a state senator from South Boston are at odds over property taxes. A West Coast establishment is giving up on the practice of tipping. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is BZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sunny in thirty nine degrees in the city at eleven o'clock.
Hello and thanks for being with us on this Sunday morning.
It's December seventh. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Sunshine
starting off our day, but then a changeup.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Look for clouds to build through the day to day
on the way to another day of highs right around forty.
Then the risk for a flurry or tune to the
north of the city, especially early tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
And that thack you weather Meteorologist Loa Troy Thornton. The
full forecast is coming up to news. Authorities in New
Hampshire investigating a deadly officer involved shooting in Manchester yesterday morning.
It all started with a call on a suspicious vehicle
around South Mammoth Road. When officers arrived on the scene,
a car chase ensued, now the driver eventually crashing and

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was shot as police say he'd tried to run off.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office has the unidentified man
was taken to a local hospital where he later died.
His name has not been publicly released and the officers
involved have not been named. It's no longer a mystery.
The World Cup games in Foxborough next summer are announced.

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Our WBC's Jared Brosnan tells us who's playing.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
We now know who's playing in the five group stage
matchups in Foxboro. In Group C, Scotland faces Haiti on
June thirteenth and returns to play Morocco on the nineteenth.
That means Brazil will not play in Foxborough during the
group stage. In Group I, Foxborough gets a double dose
of the Norwegians. Norway will face France on June twenty sixth,
but their matchup on the sixteenth is still to be determined.

(01:39):
With Bolivia, Surreynam and Iraq still vying for that final
spot in the tournament and for our loan matchup in
Group EL, it's England versus Ghana on June twenty third.
Jared Brosnan WVZ boston' SNOOS Radio, Mayirwou.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And a state Senator from South Boston at odds over
property taxes.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Under Collins and his colleagues know how to do this,
and they know why it's important and how it works.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Boston May and Michelle Woo responding to Senator Nick Collins,
who accused the mayor of attempting to circumvent Proposition two
and a half, the law approved by voters to limit
property tax hikes. The mayor calling on state lawmakers to
go along with her proposal to shift the property tax
burden from homeowners to commercial property owners at a time

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when homeowners faced the prospect of a thirteen percent tax hike.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
What we're asking for in this case is a very limited, specific,
balanced compromise, one that was supported by business groups last year,
passed the City Council twice, past the House of Representatives twice,
and in fact, the state Senate also passed for Watertown
in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Boston's property tax crisis the result of plummeting commercial property
values in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Mike Macklan
WBZ man.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now here's Bill Degger with the four DA WBZ ACHU
weather forecast.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
This afternoon. Clouds will be on the increased temperatures top
out at forty could be a flurry or two tonight,
mainly to the north. Otherwise clearing and colder behind a
front low twenty three plus three, very cold tomorrow. Despite
sunshine Hi just twenty seven real feeld single digits and
teens increasing clouds back above freezing Tuesday thirty five, cloudy Wednesday,

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forty five, chants of rain later in the day. I'm
akiweather medigabrologist Bill Dagger WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Let's take a quick look at the region. Right now,
we are seeing ah and far western Mass low thirties,
low thirties in Central Mass as well, and mid thirties
to low forties along the coast cape and islands, averaging
about forty two degrees right now thirty nine and mostly
sunny in Boston at eleven oh five. Well, this may

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be the season of tipping, but a West Coast establishment
is pushing back on the practice.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
For some, it gets tiring being asked for a.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Tip everywhere you go, even for this little item they're
flipping around.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
The little iPad.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Recent survey found forty one percent of people said tipping
is now out of control at restaurants. The trend has
been toward more tip free dining.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
This no tip line on the check. When you sign
your bill, that's the end.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Of your transaction. He's at Las Sagal in San Francisco,
which opened two months ago. Servers make forty dollars an
hour and get paid vacations.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Creates a sense of security for everyone.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Definitely takes a degree of pressure off from each night.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Steve Kith and c MES.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
News 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