1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: This is wb Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. 2 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: Rain coming down in Boston fifty five degrees at eleven o'clock. Hello, 3 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. It's December nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small. 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. The deadly shooting at The deadly shooting 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: of an MIT professor in Brookline is directly linked to 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: the Brown University shooter who took his own life in Salem, 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Our WBC's James Rohast is in Brookline, where 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: neighbors are still coming to terms with what happened. 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 3: Brookline police have been seen driving past the apartment building 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 3: of MIT professor Nunell Lorrero the day after the body 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 3: of his killer was found inside of a storage facility 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 3: in New Hampshire. That gunman, Claudio Nevis Valente, is the 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: same person who killed two and injured nine at Brown 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 3: University two days before. 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: That wasn't something we had really thought, but you know, solve. 16 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 3: This man who lives across the street from Lorero was 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 3: surprised by the connection between both shootings. 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: We'll believe that it's resolved. Obviously, it's a scary thing. 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 3: The gunman and the professor took the same academic program 20 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 3: in their home country of Portugal between ninety five and 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: two thousand. A motive is still unknown. In Brookline, James 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio. 23 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 2: And President Trump suspends the green card lottery program that 24 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: allowed the suspect subspected shooter in the Brown University and 25 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 2: MIT shootings to come to the country. In a social 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: media post, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes says that she 27 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: pause the program. That program allows fifty thousand green cars 29 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: to be given out each year to immigrants from countries 30 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: that are little represented in the US. Pausing the program 31 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: will likely bring about legal challenges. As for the investigation itself, 32 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: authority say an online tipster known simply as John helped 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: crack the case wide open. 34 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 4: I'm Lynda Kenyon. After police posted images of a person 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 4: of interest, a man known only as John began posting 36 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 4: on Reddit. He said he recognized the suspect and theorized 37 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 4: that police should look into quote possibly a rental gray Nissan. 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 4: Fellow Reddit users urged him to contact the FBI. John 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 4: told investigators he encountered the suspect in the bathroom of 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 4: the Brown University Engineering building hours before the attack, and 41 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 4: noted his clothing was inappropriate and inadequate for the weather. 42 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 4: He also reported encountering the suspect circling the block around 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 4: the Nissan Lindy Kenyon, CBS News, and. 44 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 2: Now let's check the weather. We do have a high 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: wind warning that's in effect through three pm. That's for 46 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: the city and along the coast down to the Cape 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: in the Islands. Wind advisories elsewhere till one am tomorrow morning. Today, 48 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: very windy, very warm, but rainy, very heavy at times. 49 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 2: Watch out for some flooding on those roadways. Also in 50 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 2: poor drainage areas and winds well. They could gus to 51 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 2: fifty to sixty miles per hour, bringing some localized damage, 52 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 2: also causing some scattered power outages. His though this is 53 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: the bright spot near sixty. It's going to be a 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 2: warm day, a couple of showers this evening, and then 55 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: it'll turn much colder. Overnight, skies will clear. We'll see 56 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: a low of thirty, but accu weather real field temps 57 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 2: will fall into the teens tomorrow. Breezy and colder to 58 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 2: start the weekend. Off sunshine followed by some clouds. We'll 59 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: reach a high of forty Sunday's high forty eight, a 60 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds, windy again, and then on Monday, 61 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: much colder. We'll see a breeze, some sunshine, but only 62 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: a high of thirty three degrees. Right now in Boston, 63 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: where we have some rain coming down, it's fifty five 64 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 2: degrees at eleven oh five. Back to news. The long 65 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: arm of the law stretches from California to Florida to 66 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 2: nab an alleged swindler from Marblehead. 67 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: The Sheriff of Alusia County and some of the victims 68 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: of alleged con man Robert Goodwin. We're at the Daytona 69 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: Beach Airport last night, waiting to get a piece of 70 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: their mind to the handcuffed man from Marblehead. I think 71 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: it's important that these people who you screwed over, you 72 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: look them in the eyes. Goodwin is accused of using 73 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: his Stone and Compass travel agency to take hundreds of 74 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in deposits from high schoolers for a 75 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: European vacation that never happened. He was tracked to California 76 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: and is now being held on four million dollars bond 77 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil wb Z Boston's news radio. 78 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 2: The Department of Conservation and Recreation turns to infrared equipment 79 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 2: drones for counting deer populations in Quabin Park that's in 80 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: the central western part of Massachusetts. This coming after questions 81 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: from residents last summer on whether a deer hunt at 82 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 2: the park was necessary and if the state's methods for 83 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 2: counting deer were reliable. According to the State House News Service, 84 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: DCR officials told members of the Water Supply Protection Trust 85 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: that the drones provided more precise snapshot of the deer 86 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 2: population and this reinforces previous surveys finding that deer numbers 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 2: were high enough to threaten forest health and justify a 88 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 2: managed hunt in the park. Possible name change could be 89 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: on the way for the Kennedy Center in Washington, d C. 90 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: The center's board voting to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center. 91 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 5: The president claiming the vote by his handpicked board was unanimous, 92 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 5: and there's a lot of. 93 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 4: Board members and they voted anatomistry. 94 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 5: But by law, members of Congress from both parties sit 95 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 5: on the board and Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Baty, who called 96 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 5: into the meeting, says she would have voted against it 97 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 5: but was unable to. 98 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: I was not allowed to vote because I was muted. 99 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 2: I would not have supported this. 100 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 5: A number of Democratic lawmakers and legal experts are questioning 101 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 5: if renaming the center is legal. 102 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 2: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout 103 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 2: the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart 104 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 2: Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's Please Radio.