December 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Rebounding from problems on the rails, sweating out the last days of holiday shopping and the Powerball jackpot is still up for grabs. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Well,
good morning, fellow grinches.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is six o'clock on a what is a Tuesday
morning here in Boston. The holiday is quickly approaching, and
we are getting started under partly cloudy skies and thirty
one degrees here in Boston. The News at six is
brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your
hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today.
I'm Jeff Brown. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow.
(00:34):
The cloudy day today will have some wet snow and
rain during the late morning and afternoon. Howorth will highs
in the thirties to the year Fortyes. Is WBZ achi
weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg with a twinkle in his eye.
One to three inches of snow accumulation for much of
the area coming up later today. Big night for the Celtics,
who managed to dig themselves a pretty big hole against
the Pacers and then dig right out for a come
(00:55):
from behind victory. Celtics will travel to Indiana for a
game with the Pacers on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Next.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Bruins get the garden nice tonight as the Canadians come
calling just before the holiday and Monday Night football ends
as Week sixteen comes to a close and the San
Francisco forty nine Ers blow out Old Man Rivers and
the Indianapolis Colts. A record setting number of Americans will
be traveling by plane, trains, and automobiles this holiday, and
so far one mode of travel is off the rails at.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
A time most critical for holiday travel. Down to power
wires across the tracks are a cause for headaches on
the rails. Just after six o'clock last night, Amtrak says
it had to cancel multiple Asella trains heading between New
Haven and Boston, and customers trying to travel between the
two cities had to be accommodated on other services.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now we're not sure yet.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What this means, if anything at all. For today, WBZ
News Radio has reached out to Amtrak Northeast. Meantime, it's
the first day out of a two week MBTA Green
Line shutdown in Boston. Jay will let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And as of right now at Logan Airport, it's not
too bad. Getting out of the air field yields just
about twenty delays are on the board and cancelations. That
is according to flight Aware. This morning, officials at Brown
University put the school's police chief on leave as the
federal government launches an investigation into potential violations of a
government campus safety act. The move comes following a deadly
(02:18):
shooting spree on campus at a multi state manhunt that
ended with the discovery of the suspect's body in Salem,
New Hampshire. The Education Department says it's going to look
into possible violations of the gene Clarity Campus Safety Act,
which requires schools that receive federal funding to adhere to
security related requirements. Former Providence police chief, Colonel Hugh Clements Junior,
(02:39):
will take over as interim campus chief at Brown University.
And a police chief from New Jersey runs into trouble
in Boston.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Herman Veniticiano walked into a Boston court room. The forty
seven year old police chief of Toto and New Jersey,
finding himself on the wrong side of the.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Law, defends one chatting you with kidnapping and as to
offenses two, three and four chatting you with the saltmn
a family or household member.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
The prosecution says. A night out for Benziano and his
then girlfriend in Boston went bad when she locked him
out of their Back Bay hotel room.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The trip went well until it didn't, and things between
them I deteriorated when he.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Got back inside. That's when investigators allege he lashed out.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
By headbutting her, by dragging her by her legs, by
holding her down on the bed, plying which he described
as pressure points to her body that were painful, and
also throwing water on her.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The Commonwealth says security call police, but it wasn't until
days after the incident when the girlfriend told police her story.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
CBS News Boston's Louisa Mohler Venizzio pleads not guilty. He's
been placed on leave back home. It is due back
in Suffolk Superior Court in February. Christmas is coming, and
so's the snow. It appears that we'll start to see
some light snow falling around mid morning, mixing with rain
along the shoreline and especially south of the city. But
from this city of Boston, north and west, that's where
(04:01):
we could see some snow flurries and some snow showers
throughout the remainder of the day, and that's where the
accumulation will be anywhere between one and three inches, and
three inches for a lot of people is considered plowable snow,
so I guess we're going to have some plowable snow
before the holiday. Some in northern New England will definitely
have a white Christmas out of this, but others snow
(04:21):
may melt as temperatures are expected to get to break
into the forties tomorrow and Christmas Day as well. But
first things first, we've got cloudy skies right now in
the city. It's thirty one degrees at the moment. The
snow is on the way in just a mere hour
or so, several hours, I should say, next few hours
is when it's going to start to pick up an intensity,
perhaps a little snow and flurries overnight tonight, extend into
(04:42):
the early morning hours tomorrow. Before it clears on out
of here. We're left with cloudy skies and tempts in
the lower forties tomorrow, and then on Christmas Day more
clouds than sun again the upper thirties to low forties.
But looks like we have another chance to see some
snow flourry activity coming in on Friday. Right now in
Boston thirty one and cloud These guys at six oh
six on this Tuesday morning, Holiday procrastinators continue to perfect
(05:05):
their craft.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
It's down to the wire, but he's not feeling any
pressure because it's all about getting the proper gift for
folks on his Christmas list.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It takes me that long to figure out what people
like and want and need. Well.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
She employs intuition in her shop game, which is way
ahead of the fold.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think I've been done since the end of last month.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
How do you know everything that everybody wants so soon?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
So mother's instinct, I guess you see, like, oh my
kiddle like this, and you just buy it.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
A recent survey finds more than one hundred and fifty
million wait until the last week before Christmas to complete
their shopping white knuckle consumerism, to which he can relate.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Got it all done this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was awful. Cards everywhere, people everywhere, traffic everywhere.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Chris Vama, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know, I find when you get a Christmas list
from people on your shopping list helps a great deal.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yes, is that what your daughters did?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Doesn't mean I don't procrastinate. It just means I have
the list and tons of ideas. It seems America is
going to need a professional to crack the powerball code again.
No winner in last night's drawing, which makes a Christmas
Eve stocking stuffer worth one point seven billion dollars. This
remains the fourth largest top prize in this game's history,
but still off the mark from a two billion dollar
(06:23):
haul three years ago. Lottery prizes for getting increasingly bigger
due to recent changes to the games and higher ticket prices. Well,
this is your brain on video games e A Sports,
It's in the game.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Washington Post analyzed a number of studies that found that
playing video games can help with the wide range of
cognitive skills, like paying attention to visual information and our
ability to learn. One study looked at people who play
the popular game StarCraft two or players have to manage
large armies and resources in a rapidly changing environment. It
found people who played the game were more efficient in
processing information and had more connectivity in parts of their
(06:58):
brains for visual attention and Executsative function experts say it's
still important to practice moderation. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Well,
good morning, fellow grinches.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is six o'clock on a what is a Tuesday
morning here in Boston. The holiday is quickly approaching, and
we are getting started under partly cloudy skies and thirty
one degrees here in Boston. The News at six is
brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your
hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today.
I'm Jeff Brown. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow.
(00:34):
The cloudy day today will have some wet snow and
rain during the late morning and afternoon. Howorth will highs
in the thirties to the year Fortyes. Is WBZ achi
weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg with a twinkle in his eye.
One to three inches of snow accumulation for much of
the area coming up later today. Big night for the Celtics,
who managed to dig themselves a pretty big hole against
the Pacers and then dig right out for a come
(00:55):
from behind victory. Celtics will travel to Indiana for a
game with the Pacers on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Next.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Bruins get the garden nice tonight as the Canadians come
calling just before the holiday and Monday Night football ends
as Week sixteen comes to a close and the San
Francisco forty nine Ers blow out Old Man Rivers and
the Indianapolis Colts. A record setting number of Americans will
be traveling by plane, trains, and automobiles this holiday, and
so far one mode of travel is off the rails at.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
A time most critical for holiday travel. Down to power
wires across the tracks are a cause for headaches on
the rails. Just after six o'clock last night, Amtrak says
it had to cancel multiple Asella trains heading between New
Haven and Boston, and customers trying to travel between the
two cities had to be accommodated on other services.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now we're not sure yet.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What this means, if anything at all. For today, WBZ
News Radio has reached out to Amtrak Northeast. Meantime, it's
the first day out of a two week MBTA Green
Line shutdown in Boston. Jay will let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And as of right now at Logan Airport, it's not
too bad. Getting out of the air field yields just
about twenty delays are on the board and cancelations. That
is according to flight Aware. This morning, officials at Brown
University put the school's police chief on leave as the
federal government launches an investigation into potential violations of a
government campus safety act. The move comes following a deadly
(02:18):
shooting spree on campus at a multi state manhunt that
ended with the discovery of the suspect's body in Salem,
New Hampshire. The Education Department says it's going to look
into possible violations of the gene Clarity Campus Safety Act,
which requires schools that receive federal funding to adhere to
security related requirements. Former Providence police chief, Colonel Hugh Clements Junior,
(02:39):
will take over as interim campus chief at Brown University.
And a police chief from New Jersey runs into trouble
in Boston.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Herman Veniticiano walked into a Boston court room. The forty
seven year old police chief of Toto and New Jersey,
finding himself on the wrong side of the.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Law, defends one chatting you with kidnapping and as to
offenses two, three and four chatting you with the saltmn
a family or household member.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
The prosecution says. A night out for Benziano and his
then girlfriend in Boston went bad when she locked him
out of their Back Bay hotel room.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The trip went well until it didn't, and things between
them I deteriorated when he.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Got back inside. That's when investigators allege he lashed out.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
By headbutting her, by dragging her by her legs, by
holding her down on the bed, plying which he described
as pressure points to her body that were painful, and
also throwing water on her.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The Commonwealth says security call police, but it wasn't until
days after the incident when the girlfriend told police her story.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
CBS News Boston's Louisa Mohler Venizzio pleads not guilty. He's
been placed on leave back home. It is due back
in Suffolk Superior Court in February. Christmas is coming, and
so's the snow. It appears that we'll start to see
some light snow falling around mid morning, mixing with rain
along the shoreline and especially south of the city. But
from this city of Boston, north and west, that's where
(04:01):
we could see some snow flurries and some snow showers
throughout the remainder of the day, and that's where the
accumulation will be anywhere between one and three inches, and
three inches for a lot of people is considered plowable snow,
so I guess we're going to have some plowable snow
before the holiday. Some in northern New England will definitely
have a white Christmas out of this, but others snow
(04:21):
may melt as temperatures are expected to get to break
into the forties tomorrow and Christmas Day as well. But
first things first, we've got cloudy skies right now in
the city. It's thirty one degrees at the moment. The
snow is on the way in just a mere hour
or so, several hours, I should say, next few hours
is when it's going to start to pick up an intensity,
perhaps a little snow and flurries overnight tonight, extend into
(04:42):
the early morning hours tomorrow. Before it clears on out
of here. We're left with cloudy skies and tempts in
the lower forties tomorrow, and then on Christmas Day more
clouds than sun again the upper thirties to low forties.
But looks like we have another chance to see some
snow flourry activity coming in on Friday. Right now in
Boston thirty one and cloud These guys at six oh
six on this Tuesday morning, Holiday procrastinators continue to perfect
(05:05):
their craft.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
It's down to the wire, but he's not feeling any
pressure because it's all about getting the proper gift for
folks on his Christmas list.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It takes me that long to figure out what people
like and want and need. Well.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
She employs intuition in her shop game, which is way
ahead of the fold.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think I've been done since the end of last month.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
How do you know everything that everybody wants so soon?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
So mother's instinct, I guess you see, like, oh my
kiddle like this, and you just buy it.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
A recent survey finds more than one hundred and fifty
million wait until the last week before Christmas to complete
their shopping white knuckle consumerism, to which he can relate.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Got it all done this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was awful. Cards everywhere, people everywhere, traffic everywhere.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Chris Vama, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know, I find when you get a Christmas list
from people on your shopping list helps a great deal.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yes, is that what your daughters did?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Doesn't mean I don't procrastinate. It just means I have
the list and tons of ideas. It seems America is
going to need a professional to crack the powerball code again.
No winner in last night's drawing, which makes a Christmas
Eve stocking stuffer worth one point seven billion dollars. This
remains the fourth largest top prize in this game's history,
but still off the mark from a two billion dollar
(06:23):
haul three years ago. Lottery prizes for getting increasingly bigger
due to recent changes to the games and higher ticket prices. Well,
this is your brain on video games e A Sports,
It's in the game.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Washington Post analyzed a number of studies that found that
playing video games can help with the wide range of
cognitive skills, like paying attention to visual information and our
ability to learn. One study looked at people who play
the popular game StarCraft two or players have to manage
large armies and resources in a rapidly changing environment. It
found people who played the game were more efficient in
processing information and had more connectivity in parts of their
(06:58):
brains for visual attention and Executsative function experts say it's
still important to practice moderation. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio
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