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Speaker 2: Hello Monday, we meet again, and still you bring nothing
Speaker 2: to the table. We're getting started though, under clear skies
Speaker 2: in twenty seven degrees on this Monday morning. The News
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown. This kind of feels like a setup.
Speaker 2: Sunshine mixed with some clouds today and increasingly windy with
Speaker 2: a high of thirty nine. As WBZ aki weather meteorologist
Speaker 2: Joe Lundberg, a clipper system threatens to bring some snow
Speaker 2: to us middle of this week. It is a kinder,
Speaker 2: gentler winter for COVID cases in the United States. Health
Speaker 2: officials say a combination of factors has pushed positive test
Speaker 2: results and hospitalizations lower this year. Doctors do say that
Speaker 2: coronavirus is not a seasonal disorder, but due to a
Speaker 2: surge in the late summer months, the virus is taking
Speaker 2: it a little bit easier on us. This weey weekend,
Speaker 2: it appears to have peaked. Wastewater samples will prove that also.
Speaker 2: Stronger COVID vaccines this time around and the fact that
Speaker 2: people are not routinely testing as much all contribute to
Speaker 2: the lower numbers. Flu by the way, is the driver
Speaker 2: of winter's misery and respiratory illnesses this year. It's ugly,
Speaker 2: but it's ours and it's historic. The Boston Landmarks Commission
Speaker 2: designates Boston City Hall an official Historic Landmark on claims
Speaker 2: it's got civic and cultural significance. A recent conservation management
Speaker 2: plan allows the building to address needed updates while preserving
Speaker 2: its architecture. It was built in the nineteen sixties. It
Speaker 2: is considered a prime example of brutalist architecture. It's also
Speaker 2: been voted the fourth ugliest building in the world, second
Speaker 2: ugliest to the United States, second only to the j.
Speaker 2: Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. After months of stalled talks,
Speaker 2: teachers at Toughs start to walk. Over one hundred.
Speaker 1: Lecturers in the School of Arts are skipping class today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow. This comes after ten months of failed contract
Speaker 1: negotiations with Tufts University. The union, representing one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty two members, says their average salary is at or
Speaker 1: below eighty percent of the area median income. They're also
Speaker 1: demanding a manageable workload as the number of undergraduates enrolling
Speaker 1: continues to go up. The lecturers may not be in
Speaker 1: the classroom, but students are expected to show up as
Speaker 1: subs will be used both days of the strike. In Metford,
Speaker 1: James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The varsity cheer coach and Quinsy, is off the job
Speaker 2: this morning and under investigation, accused of providing alcohol and
Speaker 2: marijuana to high school students. The coach's name is not
Speaker 2: yet being released, but officials also say students may have
Speaker 2: been exposed to inappropriate online images. Quinsy School authority say
Speaker 2: the alleged incidents happened on at least one occasion. Parents
Speaker 2: have been notified and investigation continues. Celtics host the Rockets
Speaker 2: tonight at the Garden. Bruins are off until tomorrow, when
Speaker 2: they travel to Buffalo and rematch of a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: two years ago. The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Eagles will battle in Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: It is twenty seven degrees here in the city. We'll
Speaker 2: get to near forty once again today. Sunshine will begin,
Speaker 2: some clouds on the increase, and it's going to get
Speaker 2: windy once again. It's the beginning of an active weather
Speaker 2: pattern this week. We have a couple of chances of snow.
Speaker 2: The first arrives in the form of snow showers tomorrow
Speaker 2: won't amount to much, but temperatures will be in the
Speaker 2: mid to upper thirties starting out and then falling throughout
Speaker 2: the afternoon. And then on Wednesday morning, a clipper system
Speaker 2: look like looks like it's going to dump some snow
Speaker 2: on us, especially in the morning. We could see a
Speaker 2: coding to a inch of snow in many areas and
Speaker 2: temperatures eventually going to get into the thirties and we
Speaker 2: dry out after that. Mainly sunny skies on Thursday, and
Speaker 2: milder again to round out the week on Friday, with
Speaker 2: highs approaching forty degrees right now in Boston's twenty seven
Speaker 2: clear skies to get us going. This Monday morning at
Speaker 2: six oh five, tax season is here, which means you're
Speaker 2: on the cloth.
Speaker 3: RS kicks off its annual payday for Uncle Sam today,
Speaker 3: with the option to file online now available in half
Speaker 3: of all states, including Massachusetts, following a successful test launch
Speaker 3: last year, but the future of the direct file program
Speaker 3: remains unclear after twenty twenty five. The program has faced
Speaker 3: criticism from tax preparers, who say it poses an existential
Speaker 3: crisis for them. The tax filing deadline is Tuesday, April fifteenth,
Speaker 3: and Massachusetts will not get its traditional break due to
Speaker 3: the Patriots Day holiday, which falls.
Speaker 2: Late this year.
Speaker 3: April twenty first, Jay will let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: While we were watching football this weekend, the president of
Speaker 2: Columbia was pushing all the wrong buttons. With President Trump
Speaker 2: livid over the country's refusal to accept planeloads of deported Colombians,
Speaker 2: Mister Trump threatens to hit that nation with twenty five
Speaker 2: percent tariffs this week, increasing to fifty percent next week.
Speaker 2: And after first saying retaliatory taviss would strike next, Columbia's
Speaker 2: President rethinks that strategy and now will accept the nationals back.
Speaker 2: The tariff threat by the United States has been called off,
Speaker 2: and immigration blitz across the country ends with the roundup
Speaker 2: of about one thousand immigrants. Borders are Tom Homan says
Speaker 2: this operation zeroed in on criminals, with the bulk of
Speaker 2: the action in Chicago, but spreading elsewhere to Atlanta, Colorado,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, even Puerto Rico. The FBI gets
Speaker 2: an assist from several other government agencies, including the DEA
Speaker 2: and US. Marshal's officials say that targeted operation focused on
Speaker 2: immigrants with active warrants. The White House Cabinet is slowly
Speaker 2: being assembled, its new Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett's first day
Speaker 2: on the job after an historic vice presidential tie breaking
Speaker 2: vote in the Senate. Former South Dakota Governor Christy Nome
Speaker 2: begins her new job as Director of Homeland Security. Today.
Speaker 2: Senators are busy again on Capitol Hill, with confirmation hearings
Speaker 2: set this week for Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the controversial
Speaker 2: pick as head of Health and Human Services, Kash Patel's
Speaker 2: nomination to run the FBI, and Tulsey Gabbard will testify
Speaker 2: later this week, is nominee for head of National Intelligence.
Speaker 2: Another study looks at the addiction that many kids have
Speaker 2: to their smartphones. WBZ S Drew moholland is here with
Speaker 2: some details. Good morning, Andre, Good morning, Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yes, smartphones. Oh you love that, don't you?
Speaker 2: Worst sound ever?
Speaker 4: You use the phone to wake up in the morning.
Speaker 4: We're always connected, but the phones these days could be
Speaker 4: making teens more aggressive and get this, and new study
Speaker 4: finds they could be causing hallucinations. Furthermore, the younger a
Speaker 4: person is when they start using a smartphone, the more
Speaker 4: likely they are to develop psychological problems. These teens pulled
Speaker 4: had feelings of, among other things, hopelessness, guilt, anxiety, and
Speaker 4: unwonted strange thoughts yikes. AnyWho, Good morning.
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