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Speaker 1: Good morning kids at six o'clock on a Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: and we've got clear skies in thirty eight degrees in
Speaker 1: Boston this morning. The News at six brought to us
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Speaker 1: Guess what It's the final full day of winter.
Speaker 2: Lots of sunshine and iyear fifty of the city, but
Speaker 2: approaching sixty.
Speaker 3: Well Inland.
Speaker 1: A's WBZ acky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The Spring equinoxes
Speaker 1: tomorrow just before sunrise, but rain is going to be
Speaker 1: on our parade tomorrow. It's hot and getting hotter on
Speaker 1: planet Earth. Scientists say twenty twenty four set the standard
Speaker 1: for heat, eclipsing the prior high water mark set just
Speaker 1: the year before, and experts say the past ten years
Speaker 1: have been the ten hottest on record on two centuries
Speaker 1: of record keeping. The World Media or a Loge organization,
Speaker 1: says that's never happened before. Researchers say the annual report
Speaker 1: finds the extra energy in the atmosphere and the world's
Speaker 1: oceans continues to fuel climate related disasters all around the globe.
Speaker 1: The worst kept secret in the nation's money lending industry
Speaker 1: comes this afternoon. The consensus is interest rates will be
Speaker 1: left alone. The Federal Reserve will break from a two
Speaker 1: day monetary policy meeting today. Chair Jerome Powell will break
Speaker 1: the news at two o'clock this afternoon. The Fed is
Speaker 1: indicated it is still on track to cut interest rates
Speaker 1: later this year, but inflation has been stubborn, and many
Speaker 1: economists warn President Trump's tariff policies will make inflation worse
Speaker 1: in the months to come. The fight between state lawmakers
Speaker 1: and the state auditor continues. Voters in Massachusetts have already
Speaker 1: spoken their minds, and they're doing it again.
Speaker 2: Not only does a recent poll show people want Auditor
Speaker 2: Diana Dezaglio to be able to look into the legislature's finances,
Speaker 2: but they also want the Attorney General to get involved.
Speaker 2: The survey of eight hundred likely voters showed eighty one
Speaker 2: percent support Andrea Campbell and forcing the law to audit
Speaker 2: the legislature. Around eight percent said they don't think the
Speaker 2: ag should get involved. This comes as dos Auglio continues
Speaker 2: to face pushback from House and Senate Democrats who've expressed
Speaker 2: concerns around constitutional separation of powers at the State House.
Speaker 2: James Rojas w b Z, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Celtics struggle early but pull away from the nets for
Speaker 1: their third straight win. This at the Garden. There off
Speaker 1: until Friday night. Ruins are off till tomorrow night. And
Speaker 1: Red Sox Tigers in spring training baseball this afternoon in
Speaker 1: Fort Myers. Look who's here. Wbz's Drew m'hollands, which brings
Speaker 1: you here this morning?
Speaker 4: Brackets?
Speaker 3: Baby?
Speaker 1: Oh there it is March Madness bracket new yours yet?
Speaker 4: Uh no, okay, well you got time to go out time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but the first two are in Jeffrey as March Madness
Speaker 4: begins with a bang. Here we go North Carolina smoking
Speaker 4: San Diego State late night, quieting all the doubters. But
Speaker 4: the game of the night was Alabama State and Saint
Speaker 4: Francis can I set the scene. Tie game final seconds.
Speaker 4: Alabama State has to go the length of the floor.
Speaker 3: Point four seconds left, and here we go.
Speaker 1: This is where dreams are made.
Speaker 4: It off for at all.
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Speaker 4: Winter Winter Hell Mary Paper.
Speaker 1: It is getting started on the right flesh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see this? The ball bounces around, guy
Speaker 4: catches it under the hoop lay.
Speaker 1: In for the game when some of the early the experts, Yeah,
Speaker 1: brackets are already busted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well you know you still have.
Speaker 1: Time to make yours, though the first four isn't really
Speaker 1: We've got clear skies in thirty eight degrees this morning,
Speaker 1: and today is going to feature more sunshine than clouds.
Speaker 1: It is also the final full day of winter. Temperatures
Speaker 1: will be in the lower fifties here in the Boston area.
Speaker 1: Some inland locations will get very close to sixty degrees,
Speaker 1: but if your travels again take you to the Cape
Speaker 1: and Islands, it looks like you were going to be
Speaker 1: stuck in the forties overnight tonight it's going to be
Speaker 1: clouding up and some drizzle is moving into the area.
Speaker 1: The Spring Equinox arrive arrives just after five am tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, it looks like it's going to rain on
Speaker 1: our parade tomorrow as we jump once again into the fifties.
Speaker 1: Friday features a colder blast of air coming in. Highs
Speaker 1: will only be in the forties, mix the sun and
Speaker 1: clouds to wrap up the workweek, though right now in Boston,
Speaker 1: thirty eight clear skies at six oh five on this
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. If you know, you know, and one in
Speaker 1: four American adults do know they suffer from lower back pain,
Speaker 1: and a new study finds there's not much we can
Speaker 1: do about it.
Speaker 3: It's a condition that mystifies doctors with no clear cause,
Speaker 3: but it's a leading contributor to disability around the world.
Speaker 3: The results of this study in this week's medical journal
Speaker 3: BMG Evidence Based Medicine finds acupuncture, massage, even opioids do
Speaker 3: little to ease the pain. The silver lining comes in
Speaker 3: over the counter treatment. Scientists say ibuprofen or aspirin is
Speaker 3: an effective treatment and acute cases in the short term,
Speaker 3: experts say some short term relief can be found at
Speaker 3: chiropractors or with exercise, but in all cases the benefits
Speaker 3: are small. Jay will Lett WBZ, Boston's news radio or
Speaker 3: bird flew.
Speaker 1: To worry about health officials say the first outbreak of
Speaker 1: the eight seven and nine strain in eight years has
Speaker 1: arrived at the poultry farm in Mississippi. Sciences say this
Speaker 1: version is distinct from the current av and flu that
Speaker 1: has resulted in the culling of more than one hundred
Speaker 1: million birds and the US and has infected dozens of humans.
Speaker 1: Now Here in Boston. We check the pulse of the city.
Speaker 1: You worried about it.
Speaker 5: They're not too worried.
Speaker 1: Not really. We're looking up to so many days.
Speaker 4: I'm aware of it, but not really nervous, though not.
Speaker 1: I don't think much of it.
Speaker 5: Since it was first detected a dozen years ago, the
Speaker 5: age seven strain has killed nearly forty percent of all
Speaker 5: humans that have been infected, according to the World Health Organization.
Speaker 5: Through the agency said it doesn't transmit easily from person
Speaker 5: to person. This is the first outbreak of this particular
Speaker 5: strain on US soil since twenty seventeen. Chris Falman WBZ, Boston's.
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