December 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Hundreds gather at candlelight vigil following Brown University shooting, FIFA to make some $60 tickets available for World Cup in Foxboro, and Medford school closed due to norovirus scare. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hey kids,
Wednesday morning in Boston. We're getting there six o'clock here
and under mostly clear skies. It is thirty degrees as
we get going. The News at six is brought to
(00:21):
us by your New England's Toyota Dealers, your hybrid all
wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us on this
Wednesday morning drive to work. I'm Jeff Brown. Okay, this
will do not so cold today with sun and clouds
and temperatures reaching the mid forty at is WBZ achiweather
meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Same thing on Deckford tomorrow in temps
near sixty. On Friday, hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil
(00:44):
at the campus of Brown University. As new enhanced video
surveillance is released by police and Providence. The manhunt for
a killer begins its fifth day today, Still no clues
and no sign of the suspect, though official say a
new person of interest dressed all in black and wearing
a face mask appears in that video. Law enforcement is
so desperate for a break in the case they are
(01:05):
now pleading for the public's help. The FBI is offering
a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
Killer Bruins take control. They beat Utah at the Garden.
They're off tonight. The Oilers are in town tomorrow. Celtics
are off until Friday night, and the NBA Cup goes
to the New York Knicks. They take the inn season
tournament with a win over the Spurs in Las Vegas.
(01:27):
Soccer's World Cup won't take the heat, so it's going
to step away from the kitchen. Following fan outrage over
the ticket prices of next year's matches, FIFA cries uncle
and will make some tickets available for sixty bucks each.
Here's the catch. Just ten percent of the available tickets
for more than one hundred matches in North America, including
(01:48):
several at Jiltte Stadium, will go for that much called
supporter entry level tickets. This is still a fire cry
from ticket prices in the thousands of dollars for the
US Paraguay match in Los Angele Jills and the opener
to nearly nine thousand bucks a ticket in the knockout round. Oh,
Christmas Tree, put some clothes on, would you? The new
less is more trend in holiday decorating continues to take
(02:11):
off this year. The naked Christmas tree, stripped of all
decorations and just some white lights is just a tree
to some, but others say it reflects the true spirit
of the season. The social media trend is hot this year,
but critics are just as hot, saying a tree needs
ornaments or it's not a Christmas tree. Those who go
all natural say it's being budget conscious, other words, cheap.
(02:36):
In part. Just seven shopping days left, and Christmas is
burning a hole in our pockets.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This year, Holidays spending in this country for the first
time ever, is expected to top one trillion dollars. The
average shopper is spending eleven hundred dollars on presents this
time around, some two hundred dollars more than last year.
And here's an annual tradition, the twelve Days of Christmas.
We've been calculating the costs since nineteen eighty four and
using current market rates for each gift three hundred and
(03:03):
sixty four presents. When the song and the repeating is
all said and done, the cost this year comes to
two hundred and eighteen five hundred and forty dollars. That's
a four and a half percent increase from last year.
Happy Holidays, everybody, Drew mamholland wb is A Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're expecting tempts today to reach the mid forties, a
little bit warmer tomorrow, and still milder on Friday. So
here's the progression. This morning here in Boston. We're waking
up under mostly clear skies. It is thirty degrees right now,
so still in the twenties and below freezing in much
of the area this morning. But we'll fix that again
today with a mixture of clouds and sun. Highs will
(03:38):
be in the mid forties, mostly clear overnight tonight at
a mix of sun and clouds, Tomorrow with highs once
again in the mid to upper forties now Tomorrow night
into Friday, that's when things start to get a little
bit dicey. We're going to see some rain in the
area moving in tomorrow night. Temperatures will rise while we're asleep,
and then all day on Friday will be well into
the fifties for much of the day, but it's going
(03:59):
to come with some heavy rain throughout and some significant
winds as well, maybe some damaging winds too. Some of
that heavy rain could accumulate and bring about an inch
or more of precipitation by the time it's done. The
fifty degree plus temperatures will be a one hit wonder
because we're right back in the thirties as we enter
the weekend. Right now in Boston, it is exactly thirty
degrees clear skies here in the city at six oh
(04:21):
six on this Wednesday morning. Today is another sick day
at another school in Medford.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Last week, Roberts Elementary closed its stores when over one
hundred and thirty students called him sick, potentially due to neurovirus.
This week, Saint Joseph's School has canceled classes for a
second day in a row after twenty percent of students
were absent on Monday. The school is now undergoing a
deep cleaning out of an abundance of caution after students
reported feeling sick to their stomach. Classes are expected to
(04:48):
pick back up tomorrow in Medford. James Rojas wb Z
Boston's news radio, we.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The people will not get a chance to see the
video of a controversial double tap attack on suspected drug
runners in the Caribbean. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn't want
us to see it, and the Pentagon will not release it.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the second strike against what
the administration calls Narco terrorists might be a war crime.
(05:14):
Heg Seth and Admiral Mitch Bradley say the survivors from
the first missile attack on September second were still in
the fight and still a threat, so a second strike,
they say, was justified. Building a better ballroom is a
national security concern. The Justice Department backs up President Trump's
three hundred million dollar project that began with a teardown
(05:35):
of the East Wing to make way for a massive
structure on White House grounds. The National Trust for Historic
Preservation wants a federal court judge to halt the proceedings,
but the Secret Service says it needs to go. It
needs to go on to meet its obligations in protective mission.
No word and when a ruling might come. Flu season
begins its rampage.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Blue cases are on the rise nationwide.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
We're likely to have a substantial influenza season this year,
just as we had last year, which was a real biggie.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Vanderbilt University Professor doctor William Scheffner.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's not too late to get vaccinated if you haven't,
but don't linger A.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
New variant is causing the spiking cases not just in
the US, but around the world, including in the UK, Canada, Japan,
and Australia. Stacy LINCBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
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 WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hey kids,
Wednesday morning in Boston. We're getting there six o'clock here
and under mostly clear skies. It is thirty degrees as
we get going. The News at six is brought to
(00:21):
us by your New England's Toyota Dealers, your hybrid all
wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us on this
Wednesday morning drive to work. I'm Jeff Brown. Okay, this
will do not so cold today with sun and clouds
and temperatures reaching the mid forty at is WBZ achiweather
meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Same thing on Deckford tomorrow in temps
near sixty. On Friday, hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil
(00:44):
at the campus of Brown University. As new enhanced video
surveillance is released by police and Providence. The manhunt for
a killer begins its fifth day today, Still no clues
and no sign of the suspect, though official say a
new person of interest dressed all in black and wearing
a face mask appears in that video. Law enforcement is
so desperate for a break in the case they are
(01:05):
now pleading for the public's help. The FBI is offering
a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
Killer Bruins take control. They beat Utah at the Garden.
They're off tonight. The Oilers are in town tomorrow. Celtics
are off until Friday night, and the NBA Cup goes
to the New York Knicks. They take the inn season
tournament with a win over the Spurs in Las Vegas.
(01:27):
Soccer's World Cup won't take the heat, so it's going
to step away from the kitchen. Following fan outrage over
the ticket prices of next year's matches, FIFA cries uncle
and will make some tickets available for sixty bucks each.
Here's the catch. Just ten percent of the available tickets
for more than one hundred matches in North America, including
(01:48):
several at Jiltte Stadium, will go for that much called
supporter entry level tickets. This is still a fire cry
from ticket prices in the thousands of dollars for the
US Paraguay match in Los Angele Jills and the opener
to nearly nine thousand bucks a ticket in the knockout round. Oh,
Christmas Tree, put some clothes on, would you? The new
less is more trend in holiday decorating continues to take
(02:11):
off this year. The naked Christmas tree, stripped of all
decorations and just some white lights is just a tree
to some, but others say it reflects the true spirit
of the season. The social media trend is hot this year,
but critics are just as hot, saying a tree needs
ornaments or it's not a Christmas tree. Those who go
all natural say it's being budget conscious, other words, cheap.
(02:36):
In part. Just seven shopping days left, and Christmas is
burning a hole in our pockets.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This year, Holidays spending in this country for the first
time ever, is expected to top one trillion dollars. The
average shopper is spending eleven hundred dollars on presents this
time around, some two hundred dollars more than last year.
And here's an annual tradition, the twelve Days of Christmas.
We've been calculating the costs since nineteen eighty four and
using current market rates for each gift three hundred and
(03:03):
sixty four presents. When the song and the repeating is
all said and done, the cost this year comes to
two hundred and eighteen five hundred and forty dollars. That's
a four and a half percent increase from last year.
Happy Holidays, everybody, Drew mamholland wb is A Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're expecting tempts today to reach the mid forties, a
little bit warmer tomorrow, and still milder on Friday. So
here's the progression. This morning here in Boston. We're waking
up under mostly clear skies. It is thirty degrees right now,
so still in the twenties and below freezing in much
of the area this morning. But we'll fix that again
today with a mixture of clouds and sun. Highs will
(03:38):
be in the mid forties, mostly clear overnight tonight at
a mix of sun and clouds, Tomorrow with highs once
again in the mid to upper forties now Tomorrow night
into Friday, that's when things start to get a little
bit dicey. We're going to see some rain in the
area moving in tomorrow night. Temperatures will rise while we're asleep,
and then all day on Friday will be well into
the fifties for much of the day, but it's going
(03:59):
to come with some heavy rain throughout and some significant
winds as well, maybe some damaging winds too. Some of
that heavy rain could accumulate and bring about an inch
or more of precipitation by the time it's done. The
fifty degree plus temperatures will be a one hit wonder
because we're right back in the thirties as we enter
the weekend. Right now in Boston, it is exactly thirty
degrees clear skies here in the city at six oh
(04:21):
six on this Wednesday morning. Today is another sick day
at another school in Medford.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Last week, Roberts Elementary closed its stores when over one
hundred and thirty students called him sick, potentially due to neurovirus.
This week, Saint Joseph's School has canceled classes for a
second day in a row after twenty percent of students
were absent on Monday. The school is now undergoing a
deep cleaning out of an abundance of caution after students
reported feeling sick to their stomach. Classes are expected to
(04:48):
pick back up tomorrow in Medford. James Rojas wb Z
Boston's news radio, we.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The people will not get a chance to see the
video of a controversial double tap attack on suspected drug
runners in the Caribbean. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn't want
us to see it, and the Pentagon will not release it.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the second strike against what
the administration calls Narco terrorists might be a war crime.
(05:14):
Heg Seth and Admiral Mitch Bradley say the survivors from
the first missile attack on September second were still in
the fight and still a threat, so a second strike,
they say, was justified. Building a better ballroom is a
national security concern. The Justice Department backs up President Trump's
three hundred million dollar project that began with a teardown
(05:35):
of the East Wing to make way for a massive
structure on White House grounds. The National Trust for Historic
Preservation wants a federal court judge to halt the proceedings,
but the Secret Service says it needs to go. It
needs to go on to meet its obligations in protective mission.
No word and when a ruling might come. Flu season
begins its rampage.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Blue cases are on the rise nationwide.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
We're likely to have a substantial influenza season this year,
just as we had last year, which was a real biggie.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Vanderbilt University Professor doctor William Scheffner.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's not too late to get vaccinated if you haven't,
but don't linger A.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
New variant is causing the spiking cases not just in
the US, but around the world, including in the UK, Canada, Japan,
and Australia. Stacy LINCBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
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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