November 29, 2025 • 6 mins
A storm is coming up the coast, expected to arrive Tuesday. U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of the National Guard soldiers ambushed outside of the Washington, D.C. metro station has died from her injuries. A hot Black Friday ticket item at Walmart sold out in seconds. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
thirty four degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
I'm Charlie burg Around. Here's what's happening. And while you're
out and about searching for Christmas gifts, you may want
to get the milk and bread. Storm coming up the coast.
(00:21):
We'll get here tuesday. So who gets the snow? As always,
it will depend on the track of the storm. But
right now, central and western Massachusetts, especially the Worcester Hills
the Berkshires have the best chance for plowable snow. City
of Boston, south Shore, much of the Cape rain snow
mix leaning toward Rain's been a while since we've had
(00:41):
any really significant snow. February of twenty twenty two, eight
and a half inches of snow recorded at Logan Airport.
That's the biggest amount of snow we've seen in three years.
US Army specialist Sarah Bextram, one of the National Guard
soldiers ambushed outside of Washington, d c's Metro station, has
died from her injuries, and while the investigation into the
(01:02):
shooter's motives is underway, President Trump says he should never
have been in the country and wants to remove even
more foreign nationals he says don't love the US. CBS
is Natalie Brand from Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The two soldiers were shot while on patrol Wednesday outside
of DC Metro, just blocks from the White House, in
an ambush attack. Prosecutors say the suspect, twenty nine year
old raman Ala Lochenwall, an Afghan national from Washington State,
will now face murder in the first degree.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We will do everything in our power to seek the
death penalty against that monster who should not have been
in our country.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And his social media post Thursday night, President Trump said
he will permanently pause migration from what he calls third
world country.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The second guardsman who was shot, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf,
remains in critical condition. Air Bus is ordering immediate repair
to thousands of their A three to twenty aircraft after
finding a software problem that could corrupt data critically needed
for flight controls. CBS News senior Transportation correspondent Ris Vancleeve.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
All of the airlines now are quickly scrambling to assess
how many of their Airbus planes need these updates and
trying to get them done as quickly as they can.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The problem was found following a review of an incident
where several passengers were hurt aboard a Jet Blue flight
between Cancun and Newark, New Jersey, when the aircraft had
a sudden loss in altitude. A Boxford man arrested in
New Hampshire Thanksgiving night, twenty two year old Mason Hebert
charged with driving under the influence and disobeying a police officer.
(02:40):
New Hampshire State troopers clocked Hebert traveling at more than
one hundred twenty miles per hour with no lights on
on Route ninety five northn Hampton. Hebrew was later tracked
down behind a business on Rout one in Portsmouth and
taken into custody. Let's check the four day wbz AC
weather forecast. De Troy Thornton tells us we'll have some sunshine.
It will be breezy again today and high forty three,
(03:04):
cloudy tonight, low thirty one. Tomorrow, It's a cloudy day,
It's breezy, get some afternoon rain moving through which will
stick around into tomorrow night. Hi tomorrow be about fifty Monday,
it's breezy, chilly, sun clouds, high forty four and as
we mentioned at the top of the hour. Come Tuesday.
Got some snow coming, some rain. Snow accumulations maybe coding
(03:28):
to an inch for Boston, three to six inches to
the north and west of the city where snow will
last longer and it'll turn to rain. Along the shoreline.
High thirty eight on Tuesday. Right now thirty four degrees
and it's really windy again. The wind out of the
west gusting into twenty seven miles per hour feels like
eighteen at six oh five. There are twenty six shopping
(03:50):
days till Christmas, and the race is on. Yesterday kicked
off the frenzy with doorbusters, long lines and a full
contact hunt for deals. As shoppers sprinted into the holiday season,
CBS's eLink Keihano.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Shoppers are expected to spend an average eight hundred ninety
dollars each on gifts, decor, and food this holiday season.
That's down slightly from last year as consumers face higher
prices due to sticky inflation and tariff costs. Consumer savings
expert Andrea Warraw there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Won't be as wide of discounts, but you'll definitely get
some deep discounts on select products.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Some of the best deals during Black Friday are going
to be anything with.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
A plug and if you're looking for some ideas, Time
editorial director Emma Barker with her top pick.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
One of the biggest gifts of the year is going
to be the Nintendo switch To. The Nintendo Switch was
on our original The original Nintendo Switch was on our
Best Inventions list in I believe twenty seventeen when it
first came out.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The Nintendo switch to will set you back anywhere between
four hundred and fifty and five hundred dollars. Here it
is the hot Black Friday ticket item at Walmart that's
sold out in second.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Many people spent hours on the Walmart website trying to
get their hands on the limited edition Mac Friday Box.
It's a giant box of Kraft Mac and cheese. It's
literally the size of a flat screen TV, a sixty
five inch flat screen TV. Wait until you see what's
inside here.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I'm just gonna let her.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Rip sixty five boxes of the iconic noodles and cheese.
But when it went live at midnight Friday, it sold
out in seconds. It was only nineteen dollars thirty seven cents.
Expect to see boxes resold on places like eBay for
a whole lot more now. No word if Walmart will
restock before Christmas. Stacey Lind CBS News.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know. It wasn't on my list. Kraft Mac
and Cheese sold out in seconds. The twenty twenty six
FIFA Men's World Cup is just over six months away
to let Stadium in Foxboro be among the hosting venues.
Five years from now the twenty thirty one Women's World Cup.
The United States Soccer Federation has proposed fourteen American sides
(06:02):
among twenty possible venues to host matches. Julutt Stadium among
the facilities listed as a possible location. The forty eight
nation tournament is projected to draw four and a half
million fans and generate four billion dollars in revenue. You
are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
Listen to DOUBDBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
(06:24):
Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
thirty four degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
I'm Charlie burg Around. Here's what's happening. And while you're
out and about searching for Christmas gifts, you may want
to get the milk and bread. Storm coming up the coast.
(00:21):
We'll get here tuesday. So who gets the snow? As always,
it will depend on the track of the storm. But
right now, central and western Massachusetts, especially the Worcester Hills
the Berkshires have the best chance for plowable snow. City
of Boston, south Shore, much of the Cape rain snow
mix leaning toward Rain's been a while since we've had
(00:41):
any really significant snow. February of twenty twenty two, eight
and a half inches of snow recorded at Logan Airport.
That's the biggest amount of snow we've seen in three years.
US Army specialist Sarah Bextram, one of the National Guard
soldiers ambushed outside of Washington, d c's Metro station, has
died from her injuries, and while the investigation into the
(01:02):
shooter's motives is underway, President Trump says he should never
have been in the country and wants to remove even
more foreign nationals he says don't love the US. CBS
is Natalie Brand from Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The two soldiers were shot while on patrol Wednesday outside
of DC Metro, just blocks from the White House, in
an ambush attack. Prosecutors say the suspect, twenty nine year
old raman Ala Lochenwall, an Afghan national from Washington State,
will now face murder in the first degree.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We will do everything in our power to seek the
death penalty against that monster who should not have been
in our country.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And his social media post Thursday night, President Trump said
he will permanently pause migration from what he calls third
world country.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The second guardsman who was shot, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf,
remains in critical condition. Air Bus is ordering immediate repair
to thousands of their A three to twenty aircraft after
finding a software problem that could corrupt data critically needed
for flight controls. CBS News senior Transportation correspondent Ris Vancleeve.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
All of the airlines now are quickly scrambling to assess
how many of their Airbus planes need these updates and
trying to get them done as quickly as they can.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The problem was found following a review of an incident
where several passengers were hurt aboard a Jet Blue flight
between Cancun and Newark, New Jersey, when the aircraft had
a sudden loss in altitude. A Boxford man arrested in
New Hampshire Thanksgiving night, twenty two year old Mason Hebert
charged with driving under the influence and disobeying a police officer.
(02:40):
New Hampshire State troopers clocked Hebert traveling at more than
one hundred twenty miles per hour with no lights on
on Route ninety five northn Hampton. Hebrew was later tracked
down behind a business on Rout one in Portsmouth and
taken into custody. Let's check the four day wbz AC
weather forecast. De Troy Thornton tells us we'll have some sunshine.
It will be breezy again today and high forty three,
(03:04):
cloudy tonight, low thirty one. Tomorrow, It's a cloudy day,
It's breezy, get some afternoon rain moving through which will
stick around into tomorrow night. Hi tomorrow be about fifty Monday,
it's breezy, chilly, sun clouds, high forty four and as
we mentioned at the top of the hour. Come Tuesday.
Got some snow coming, some rain. Snow accumulations maybe coding
(03:28):
to an inch for Boston, three to six inches to
the north and west of the city where snow will
last longer and it'll turn to rain. Along the shoreline.
High thirty eight on Tuesday. Right now thirty four degrees
and it's really windy again. The wind out of the
west gusting into twenty seven miles per hour feels like
eighteen at six oh five. There are twenty six shopping
(03:50):
days till Christmas, and the race is on. Yesterday kicked
off the frenzy with doorbusters, long lines and a full
contact hunt for deals. As shoppers sprinted into the holiday season,
CBS's eLink Keihano.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Shoppers are expected to spend an average eight hundred ninety
dollars each on gifts, decor, and food this holiday season.
That's down slightly from last year as consumers face higher
prices due to sticky inflation and tariff costs. Consumer savings
expert Andrea Warraw there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Won't be as wide of discounts, but you'll definitely get
some deep discounts on select products.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Some of the best deals during Black Friday are going
to be anything with.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
A plug and if you're looking for some ideas, Time
editorial director Emma Barker with her top pick.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
One of the biggest gifts of the year is going
to be the Nintendo switch To. The Nintendo Switch was
on our original The original Nintendo Switch was on our
Best Inventions list in I believe twenty seventeen when it
first came out.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The Nintendo switch to will set you back anywhere between
four hundred and fifty and five hundred dollars. Here it
is the hot Black Friday ticket item at Walmart that's
sold out in second.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Many people spent hours on the Walmart website trying to
get their hands on the limited edition Mac Friday Box.
It's a giant box of Kraft Mac and cheese. It's
literally the size of a flat screen TV, a sixty
five inch flat screen TV. Wait until you see what's
inside here.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I'm just gonna let her.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Rip sixty five boxes of the iconic noodles and cheese.
But when it went live at midnight Friday, it sold
out in seconds. It was only nineteen dollars thirty seven cents.
Expect to see boxes resold on places like eBay for
a whole lot more now. No word if Walmart will
restock before Christmas. Stacey Lind CBS News.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know. It wasn't on my list. Kraft Mac
and Cheese sold out in seconds. The twenty twenty six
FIFA Men's World Cup is just over six months away
to let Stadium in Foxboro be among the hosting venues.
Five years from now the twenty thirty one Women's World Cup.
The United States Soccer Federation has proposed fourteen American sides
(06:02):
among twenty possible venues to host matches. Julutt Stadium among
the facilities listed as a possible location. The forty eight
nation tournament is projected to draw four and a half
million fans and generate four billion dollars in revenue. You
are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
Listen to DOUBDBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
(06:24):
Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio
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