1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: Thirty one degrees in Boston. We have some fog and 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 2: freezing rain out there. The forecast coming up in about 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: three minutes. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 2: Watching developing news out of the Atlantic Ocean. The United 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 2: States has seized a pair of sanctioned oil tankers connected 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: to Venezuela. The Trump administration also continuing its saber rattling 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: toward Greenland. Let's get the latest from CBS News. 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: The Trump administration says the military is seized two Venezuela 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: linked oil tankers. CBS's Charlie dagatas as one was watched 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: for a long time. 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 3: That ship that they had been tracking now for weeks. 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 3: It had evaded that blockade in the Caribbean region and 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 3: got out to the North Atlantic, but it had been 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 3: tracked all the way. 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: The second tanker was seized in the Caribbean. Military force 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: is said to be among the possibilities as the US 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: considered is a takeover in Greenland. Kentucky Republican Rand Paul 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: on CBS Mornings, it. 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 4: Won't happen under my watch. I will do everything to 21 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 4: stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland. 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: What I can tell you those. 23 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 4: If you want to purchase Greenland, the best way would 24 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 4: be to try to have goodwill with the people. 25 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: CBS News Brief. I'm Steve Kafe. 26 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: Now on social media. This morning, President Trump says the 27 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: US will always be there for the NATO alliance, but 28 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: he quotes doubt NATO would be there for us if 29 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 2: we really needed them. It should be noted the only 30 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: time Article five has been invoked was in defense of 31 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: the United States. After nine to eleven is coming after 32 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,639 Speaker 2: the White House again maintains the military is an option 33 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: to take control of Greenland, citing national security concerns. 34 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 5: European leaders are incensed, the Danish government issuing a joint 35 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: statement with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain 36 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 5: and the UK saying Greenland belongs to its people. 37 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: It is for. 38 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 5: Denmark and Greenland and them only to decide on matters 39 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 5: concerning Denmark and Greenland. 40 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: That is ABC's Martha Ratits Other news at eleven oh two, 41 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 2: transcripts of self recorded videos from the man responsible for 42 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing of 43 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 2: an MIT professor in Brookline have now been released by 44 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: the FBI. The videos from Claudio Nevis Valente, which were 45 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 2: recorded just before taking his own life in a New 46 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: Hampshire storage unit, reveal a twenty year long grudge led 47 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: him to buy guns and carry out the attack. Here's 48 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 2: ABC's Erinktirsky. 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 6: I never wanted to do it in an auditorium. I 50 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 6: wanted to do it in a regular room, the suspect 51 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 6: said on the video. I had plenty of opportunities, especially 52 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 6: this semester. He then went to Boston and murdered Professor 53 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 6: Nuno l'lero of MIT, before hiding out in the storage 54 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 6: unit he had rented three years earlier and recording his 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 6: rambling testimonial. The testimonial concluded by cruelly suggesting his victims 56 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 6: a brown could have escaped. 57 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 2: In one of the videos, he shared no remorse for 58 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: his actions and refused to apologize, saying that quote during 59 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: my lifetime, no one sincerely apologized to me. End quote. 60 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: It right now is definitely a little bit dicey outside 61 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 2: when it comes to getting around in central mass we've 62 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: got some freezing rain falling. Really, the back edge of 63 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 2: this is through places like Spencer and Rutland getting over 64 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 2: toward Brookfield, Lemonster over toward Route two, and then we're 65 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 2: seeing this freezing rain expanding into the Boston area. I'd 66 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: say right around one twenty eight and four ninety five 67 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 2: that's where you're seeing that rain and snow line. But 68 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: then again we're starting to see some plain rain popping 69 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: up a bit more in southeastern mass One of those 70 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: days where we're going to see this all make its 71 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: way out over a couple of hours. But when it does, 72 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: we will have a couple of hours of just clouds 73 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: this afternoon, and temperatures will rise into the mid to 74 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: upper thirties. Thing is tonight, as we clear out, temperatures 75 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: will drop again into the mid twenties, about thirty two 76 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: thirty three in Boston. So wet roads and sidewalks and 77 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: so on and so forth that aren't treated could refreeze. 78 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: For Tomorrow, mostly sunny. We've got a hinhiear forty five, 79 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: increasing clouds on Friday, could have some rain in the afternoon, 80 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: and it's going to become windy. We have a high 81 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: in the mid forties right now. We're looking at Foggin 82 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: Plymouth thirty seven degrees west of Boston. We've got freezing 83 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: rain in Worcester, twenty nine north of Boston and Lawrence 84 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: clouds and twenty nine degrees. Right now in Boston, foggy 85 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,239 Speaker 2: and freezing rain thirty one degrees at eleven oh six. 86 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: A deadly crash overnight on the roads of Central mass 87 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: wbz's Drew o'holland has more. 88 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 4: An Oxbridge police officer has been killed struck by a 89 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 4: passing vehicle overnight while attending to crashes on Route one 90 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 4: forty six northbound in Uxbridge. Hours after the crash, just 91 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 4: before sunrise, we watched a procession of police cars and 92 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 4: the medical examiner leave that scene on Route one forty six. 93 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 4: Uxbridge police telling WBZ this is a devastating loss. They 94 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 4: also change their social media profile to show a black 95 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 4: bunting in tribute to the fallen officer. The comments page, 96 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 4: as you can imagine, filling up with condolences from all 97 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 4: around the country after today's tragedy in Uxbridge. Drumaholland WBZ 98 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 4: Boston's new it. 99 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 2: Is going to cost the state millions more to cram 100 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: in ballot questions on the upcoming ballot. 101 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 7: During the traditional drop off of signature sheets for ballot 102 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 7: question proposals at the state House. Secretary of State Bill 103 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 7: Galvin says the election cycle may cost the state five 104 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 7: million more than expected because of the sheer number of 105 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 7: initiative petitions. 106 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 8: It focuses the legislation's attention on these questions they have 107 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 8: until May, and if they take action before May, even 108 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 8: if it's they have to hold them up a down. 109 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 7: There's a diverse topic pool here on rent control, reduced 110 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 7: state income to axes. One proposal that takes aim at 111 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,799 Speaker 7: recreational marijuana in the state. 112 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 8: The proposal that's now been presented is here would basically 113 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 8: rescind the legalization of marijuana for retail sales. I can't 114 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 8: say that's everything, but some of it. 115 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 7: There's been a counter petition filed from those in the 116 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 7: cannabis business fighting to keep recreational marijuana legal. Jay will 117 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 7: Lett WBZ Boston's News Radio. 118 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: Lots of flu cases still popping up by the day 119 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts. Jeremy Russ one around and ask people 120 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 2: how concerned they are. 121 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 9: Among the people I talk to here in East Boston, 122 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 9: I would say the collective feeling is responsible concern, but 123 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 9: not quite panic. Caitlin is pregnant. She says she's fortunate 124 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 9: enough to work from home. 125 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: I personally would not consider social distancing, but I might 126 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: consider masking in certain situations for myself. 127 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 9: And while the Department of Public Health isn't quite recommending 128 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 9: social distancing, it is urging people to consider masking up 129 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 9: in crowded indoor areas. That might be hard to do 130 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 9: after years of masking during the pandemic. But a lot 131 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 9: of people I talk to see the merit. 132 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 7: You know, I think we should have learned that lesson 133 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 7: public health is important. 134 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 9: In East Boston. Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's News Radio. 135 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 2: You are now in the leap for news updates throughout 136 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 2: the day. Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. 137 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis wb LEE, and to Boston's News Radio.