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Speaker 2: It is six o'clock on this Friday morning, finally here
Speaker 2: in Boston, and we are just getting started under mainly
Speaker 2: clear skies. It is a twenty two chili degrees here
Speaker 2: in Boston. The News at six is brought to us
Speaker 2: by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 2: drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. Welcome aboard. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: some baby steps here.
Speaker 3: Sunshine mixing with claps today.
Speaker 1: It'll be brisk and rather cold with the high of
Speaker 1: thirty three and.
Speaker 2: Is WBZ Accuwater meteorologist Joe Lundberg continued, dry and a
Speaker 2: little easier to take outside this weekend as well. Patriot
Speaker 2: star Jabriel Peppers is due back in court today and
Speaker 2: we'll take the stand once again in Quincy District Court.
Speaker 2: The twenty nine year old testifies in his own defense
Speaker 2: on assault charges. Prosecutors say he physically assaulted a woman
Speaker 2: in his home last fall after she got a message
Speaker 2: from another man. Peppers pleaded guilty to drug possession charges
Speaker 2: just before jury's selection began yesterday for the assault case.
Speaker 2: Celtics get blown out by the Lakers in a late
Speaker 2: night in La Bruins shout out the senators at the
Speaker 2: garden and the joke's on you. Novak Djokovic loses in
Speaker 2: the first set in the Australian Open Tennis tournament semifinal
Speaker 2: and then hangs it up, retires.
Speaker 1: You can't believe some people are brewing.
Speaker 4: Let's just dest focus and yeah, there's some people are
Speaker 4: bowing and Novak's put the thumbs up.
Speaker 1: That's the surrenders.
Speaker 2: Joker booed by the crowd. Patrick McEnroe not happy with
Speaker 2: the Australian tennis fans as well. That tournament continues on
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. The full Senate yets set to vote on
Speaker 2: the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary after a
Speaker 2: confirmation committee narrowly advances his bid despite the objections of
Speaker 2: Maine Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. The process
Speaker 2: comes despite new allegations of verbal abuse by Hegsath and
Speaker 2: now a statement from one of Hegseeth's ex wives in
Speaker 2: which he claims he still has an alcohol abuse problem.
Speaker 2: A controversial executive order to ban birthright citizenship in the
Speaker 2: United States is now placed on hold. More from Cbs'suija Jang.
Speaker 4: A federal judge in Washington State called it blatantly unconstitutional,
Speaker 4: temporarily blocking the order for two weeks as several states
Speaker 4: challenge it in court.
Speaker 1: Well, obviously we'll look the other. They put it before
Speaker 1: a certain judge in Seattle.
Speaker 5: I guess right, and there's no surprises with that judge.
Speaker 2: President Trump says his his administration will certainly appeal. It's
Speaker 2: over the work from home lifestyle that is of the
Speaker 2: federal government employee. President Trump orders directors of federal agencies
Speaker 2: to rescind the pandemic era policy by close of business
Speaker 2: today and give employees thirty days to get back to
Speaker 2: their office desks. Now, this means no more sweatpantsies, not
Speaker 2: to mention, it's causing sleepless nights for parents who need
Speaker 2: to look for childcare while adding to the workday misery
Speaker 2: in a likely long commute. Critics say this will force
Speaker 2: many federal workers to quit, but the White House says
Speaker 2: that's kind of the point. So we started the week
Speaker 2: with a holiday, it's a four day week, and it
Speaker 2: seems like it's one of the longest weeks that we've experienced,
Speaker 2: and it's probably because of the cold as well. It
Speaker 2: is twenty two degrees here in Boston. Real field temperature
Speaker 2: stuck in the teens this morning under mainly clear skies.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a nice day today with sunshine
Speaker 2: much of the time, like breezes too, with highs right
Speaker 2: around the freezing mark. Mainly clear, back in the teens
Speaker 2: overnight tonight, and this ultra dry weather is going to
Speaker 2: continue through the weekend as well. We'll see sunshine both
Speaker 2: tomorrow and Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon we might fit
Speaker 2: very close to forty degrees by then. Looks like the
Speaker 2: theme is going to be cold and dry into next
Speaker 2: work week as well. Right now in Boston, mainly clear,
Speaker 2: twenty two degrees here in the city. It's six oh
Speaker 2: five on this Friday morning. Finally, the NBTA feels the
Speaker 2: need for speed. It's coming to a subway line near you, with.
Speaker 3: Speed restrictions a thing of the past, and the Red
Speaker 3: Line south of Dorchester. Agency officials now say a peak
Speaker 3: speed of fifty miles per hour could be achieved.
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 3: Quicker commute, the better commute, and things have been going
Speaker 3: more smoothly of late.
Speaker 4: They say, less time now for me.
Speaker 2: This good thing.
Speaker 4: It's faster, a little more reliable.
Speaker 3: But hitting fifty on the speedometer and even fifty five
Speaker 3: and some stretches on the orange line as the agency
Speaker 3: suggests the system was designed for. I've never seen it
Speaker 3: go that fast just because they fixed what they what
Speaker 3: was bulken.
Speaker 4: Unless they made improvements, it's not going to hit the.
Speaker 3: So you'd be afraid to go fifty miles an hour
Speaker 3: on this Chris Fom and WBZ, Boston's news radio, better
Speaker 3: watch your speed when coming up on a red light
Speaker 3: because tucked inside a sixty billion dollars state budget some cameras.
Speaker 4: Josh isn't shy about his driving habits yet.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't even worry about speeding in Boston.
Speaker 3: I think cops have bigger fish of fries, so they
Speaker 3: don't really worry about speeding quite as much.
Speaker 4: So as people like him that the governor wants to
Speaker 4: deter from speeding. He at least proposed a budget would
Speaker 4: allow state and local governments to install speed cameras on highways, streets,
Speaker 4: and roads.
Speaker 1: I mean, it would definitely make me slow down.
Speaker 4: If approved, Massachusetts would join nineteen other states and DC
Speaker 4: allowing the use of automated cameras to catch fast drivers.
Speaker 4: James Rojas WBZ, Boston's NewsRadio.
Speaker 2: For poultry farms and egg producers, The headache from a
Speaker 2: stampeding bird flu crisis is the nightmare that never ends
Speaker 2: for farmers on Long Island, New York. The entire flock
Speaker 2: of one hundred thousand ducks needs to be euthanized after
Speaker 2: the virus hits hard. The birds at Crescent Duck Farm
Speaker 2: are harvested and known as a delicacy with mild flavor
Speaker 2: and tender meat. The H five and one virus detected
Speaker 2: last week. Some thirteen million birds in the US have
Speaker 2: been killed in the past month alone for this fourth
Speaker 2: generation family run farm, though a loss of all of
Speaker 2: its ducks likely means that farm is going to go
Speaker 2: out of business. An epic north Shore high school hockey
Speaker 2: rivalry renews this weekend newberry Port and Triton. With a
Speaker 2: little help from a friend.
Speaker 5: All right him Here at the graff Arena in Newburyport,
Speaker 5: I'm joined by my friend Ben Say Lolins. Ben, I
Speaker 5: have seen you at this rink year after year. You
Speaker 5: open the doors and let the teams on and off
Speaker 5: the ice.
Speaker 1: You enjoy doing this?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. Did you ever get cold in here?
Speaker 1: For you? No, it is a cold rink. Come on,
Speaker 1: you're tough. I'm just a toughie. You're a toughy. Very good.
Speaker 1: What's the best part about being here working the rink
Speaker 1: and then catching all these games?
Speaker 5: Just be myself, Zamboni's going through right now. If I
Speaker 5: have any questions, can I just come to you here
Speaker 5: at the rink. You pretty much know everything, right I
Speaker 5: so do.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your time, man, appreciate it. The bument Let's
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Speaker 5: Let's go clippers from Newburyport Drew Mohaal and WBC Boston's
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