22News at 4: Digital Edition 12/25/25

Happy holidays everyone and welcome to 22 News at 4. I'm Aretta Odaya. Now we'll get to your top four at four in just a moment, but first a look at your commuter traffic and weather. We have 22 Storm Team Meteorologist Chris Bozak is here with us. Oh, can you restart? I'm so sorry, guys. I'm sorry. I talked. Streaming from the 22 News Broadcast Center. This is 22 News at four p.m. Digital Edition. Happy holidays everyone and welcome to 22 News at four. I'm Aretta Odaya. Now we'll get to your top four at four in just a moment, but first a look at your commuter traffic and weather. We have 22 News Storm Team Meteorologist Chris Bozak is here with us this afternoon. Chris, how are the roads looking today? Yeah, everything's looking good, especially we're heading out for any Christmas night travel plans. We're looking good as you look up up and down 91 there. The Mass Pike looking great as well. 3 91 looking good. And even if you're traveling up along Route 202 towards Belcher Town, that looks good as well. Pretty much as much as you can see there, it is looking great. So any evening travel plans, you're looking a okay if you're heading out the door for any evening or overnight plans. But for right now, let's take a live look out in Springfield. We're looking good. Sun is starting to set. It's definitely windy. You can see that shake there on the camera lens and also taking a live look here in Greenfield. Looking good as well. It's cold, especially when you factor in that breeze. And speaking of cold weather, we do have some winter weather alerts that are brand new to us, and this is ahead of some of that snow that comes in for tomorrow night. We do have a winter weather advisory up and down the Berkshires there and for western Hamming County, there is likely going to be an extension onto this as we go into tonight. So I won't be surprised. We start to see Hampshire County and all of Hamming County get under that winter weather advisory, but we'll keep an eye on it. But that's what we got right now. Breeze out of the north, and you can see 18 miles per hour there in Springfield air temperature, mostly in the thirties. We'll talk more about that snow potential coming up for tomorrow night in the 20 storm team fat forecast in just a moment. Thanks, Chris. A person from Needham has died after a large four alarm fire broke out at a home on the morning of Christmas Eve. According to the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services, firefighters responded to the home at 28 Woodworth Road just before five in the morning. The fire quickly spread, making it difficult to get under control. Around 75 firefighters came in to assist. Two residents of the home were able to get out safely, but one person was found dead inside. Their cause of death is still being investigated. France, Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom are responding to a U. S. Decision to place visa bans on five Europeans who is accused of leading campaigns that target misinformation online of the five. One of them is said to have orchestrated the European Union's Digital Services Act aimed at making the Internet safer by compelling online platforms. The U. S. Claims that the law unfairly targets American tech companies and citizens. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, warned that it would take action against any quote unjustified measures. It said it has requested clarification from the U. S. State Department. The commission countered that their digital rules ensure a safe fair and level playing field for all companies. In his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo addressed 26,000 people as part of the traditional to the city into the world address in ST Peter's Square. Many major conflicts were addressed happening in places around the world, including Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. He called for quote justice, peace and stability and urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything. The pope emphasized that everyone can contribute to world peace with humility and responsibility. A health expert is warning people to be careful of holiday heart syndrome. Holiday heart syndrome is the development of cardiac rhythm disturbances or heart failures around the holidays. Signs of the syndrome can include palpitations, fatigue and shortness of breath. Those who have high blood pressure or diabetes are most at risk. The American Heart Association says more people have died between December 25th and January 1st than any other time of the year. Experts recommend keeping salty foods and alcohol to a minimum. Now let's get another check of today's weather. 22 new storm team meteorologist Chris Bozakis is here. Chris, what can we expect tonight? Yeah, tonight's looking fine. If you have any plans, you're heading out the door for this evening. You look good. We can take a wider view here on clouds of radar. Much of the region looking fine. That will be changing about 24 hours from now. We're gonna be watching for some snow to come in, but for the rest of the night, four p.m. Here going towards six p.m. Looking great heading into the overnight hours were nice and clear. Temperatures are gonna drop likely back to the teens, even some low twenties going through much of the day tomorrow, going towards noon. Even three p.m. Looks fine, but clouds start to increase, giving way to some of that light snow developing as we go into tomorrow evening. Tomorrow night, this is eight p.m. Tomorrow night. You can see that some snow is falling for mostly everyone on and off. Snow continues through the overnight hours, ending on Saturday morning. So we'll talk about the timing more. And, of course, those totals in the 20 new storm team forecast. Tune in at five just for that. One lucky person is waking up this Christmas morning a whole lot richer. That's after the massive parable jackpot worth over $1.8 billion was won last night in Arkansas. This is the only this is only the second time a jackpot has been won on Christmas Eve. The last time was back in 2011. It's officially the second largest in game history, with a cash option of $834.9 million. The number one spot is still held by $2.4 billion prize won in California in 2022. Macy's is among the major retailers that are planning to shutter shut some of their locations starting next year. This includes Walgreens, Foot Locker and the restaurant Red Robin. Macy's is in the process of closing 150 stores next year as part of its bold new chapter strategy, which includes closing under productive stores. Now for a look at what we're working on for 22 new starting at five open pantry community services held their annual holiday meals program in Springfield tonight. How the meals that followed helped brighten people's day. Plus, the Holyoke Police Department dropped toys off to Children earlier today. We'll hear from the police chief on why they decided to give back and we'll tell you why some families have made it a Christmas tradition to visit bright nights in Forest Park and your last look at your traffic here again. Heading out the door, you'll find no matter where you look, you just see green up and down 91 the mass pike here. Even along Route 202. Everything looks good. Even as you head down to the Connecticut, everything looks fine for any evening travel plans. So drive safe. Merry Christmas. And again, we'll talk about more about that snow and the accumulation on 20 news at five.