Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News Friday morning. Blue skies, breezy out there. We have
Speaker 2: a wind advisory and a wind warning out there is
Speaker 2: going to be a blustery weekend, but clear. We hope
Speaker 2: to see more lanes cleared on the mass Pike after
Speaker 2: a serious rollover crash this morning in Alston. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to Kevin Bredditt in the WBZ twenty four hour
Speaker 2: traffic station.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Louri.
Speaker 3: Cleanup continues here eastbound on the mass Pike right at
Speaker 3: the Alston Curve. Earlier this morning, just prior to five
Speaker 3: o'clock this morning, we had a tractor trailer rollover with
Speaker 3: a fuel spill. They're still in the process of cleaning
Speaker 3: that up. They were able to get the truck uprighted
Speaker 3: and out of there. Nonetheless, two left lanes are still
Speaker 3: blocked here. Right lane is getting by, and you got
Speaker 3: about a five mile backup. Officials are estimating cleanup should
Speaker 3: be a little after eleven maybe eleven thirty here, but
Speaker 3: that's just a guestimation. I'll have more for you just
Speaker 3: a bit. With traffic on the.
Speaker 2: Threes, speed was a factor. A new National Safety report
Speaker 2: investigated the MBTA Green Line crash last month in Summerville.
Speaker 2: The NTSB also found the trolley was speeding when it
Speaker 2: blasted through a stop sign before kreened into an out
Speaker 2: of service train, derailing. Both two passengers and four crew
Speaker 2: members were injured. The t says it look this over
Speaker 2: and they agree with the initial findings of this report.
Speaker 2: Now moving forward, federal investigators say they will focus now
Speaker 2: on crash worthiness, human performance, internal and external safety oversight,
Speaker 2: and operating procedures. Also, TA crews worked through the night
Speaker 2: inspecting and removing ceiling panels after one came careening down
Speaker 2: on the Red Line ceiling yesterday, hitting no people, but
Speaker 2: it did hit the subway platform at Harvard Station. We
Speaker 2: are standing by for President Trump to speak any moment
Speaker 2: now from the Oval Office. It's unclear about what and
Speaker 2: the speech was only just added to his schedule within
Speaker 2: the last hour. It comes as businesses nation water facing
Speaker 2: a case of tariff whiplash, with President Trump pausing some
Speaker 2: of the tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports for a
Speaker 2: second time. ABC's Mary Bruce reports.
Speaker 4: The suspension just a short term escape until April second.
Speaker 4: According to the White House, about half of imports from Mexico,
Speaker 4: and only thirty eight percent of goods from Canada qualify
Speaker 4: for the pause, including auto parts and most produce. Economists
Speaker 4: continue to warn that Trump's sweeping tariffs will be paid
Speaker 4: for it by American businesses who will pass along the
Speaker 4: costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Speaker 2: Will take a look at the markets at eleven A
Speaker 2: see if that selloff goes on. Meanwhile, President Trump says
Speaker 2: he sent a letter to around Supreme Leader seeking to
Speaker 2: negotiate a nuclear deal. The President mentioned the letter in
Speaker 2: an interview on Fox this morning, and by the way,
Speaker 2: it's been confirmed by the White House. Perhaps this is
Speaker 2: what this will be about the Oval Office, not a speech,
Speaker 2: but he will speak from the Oval Office momentarily, President Trump,
Speaker 2: We're standing by. I do want to add. It comes
Speaker 2: as Tehran enriches uranium at near weapons grade levels right now,
Speaker 2: with both the United States and Israel warning they will
Speaker 2: never let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Let's go back
Speaker 2: to the latest jobs report, now out mixed reviews.
Speaker 1: The Labor Department reports one hundred and fifty one thousand
Speaker 1: jobs added to the US economy last month, with unemployment
Speaker 1: up slightly from four to four point one percent, economist
Speaker 1: Gus Fauchet.
Speaker 5: As of early twenty twenty five, the labor market is
Speaker 5: quite solid and the unemployment rate remains historically low.
Speaker 1: Today's numbers do not take into account federal government firings.
Speaker 2: I see snow on the Doppler in Massachusetts right now,
Speaker 2: in western mass This is part of a system that
Speaker 2: is covering a lot of New York, Syrahcuse, Kingston. Actually
Speaker 2: this goes up to Canada. Interesting, so we are seeing
Speaker 2: a little bit of snow in the Berks years right
Speaker 2: now that it's pretty or not because we do have
Speaker 2: those strong winds. So actually that could be a problem
Speaker 2: for visibility. Winds gusting to fifty five miles an hour
Speaker 2: today and that sun is not really going to do
Speaker 2: much in terms of warming us out of the real
Speaker 2: field twenty zone during the daytime, and the wind sticks
Speaker 2: around this entire weekend as well. I don't see any
Speaker 2: precipitation in this forecast through the weekend. We warm up
Speaker 2: on Monday. It's a snuggle weekend. There you have it.
Speaker 2: It's also a weekend to lose a little sleep. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: we got an extra hour of sleep last fall. Didn't
Speaker 2: we well, we're paying it back this weekend. Wbz's Drewmalin
Speaker 2: is more on daylight saving time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, time is messing with our minds again this weekend,
Speaker 6: and losing that hour of sleep actually does do some harm.
Speaker 6: Increases symptoms of anxiety depression. It's also been tied to
Speaker 6: a rise in heart attacks and strokes, so that's not good.
Speaker 6: Them will rise after seven am on Sunday, But there
Speaker 6: is that silver lining and it is a big one, folks.
Speaker 6: The sun will set at six forty five pm.
Speaker 2: Poor sleep can be a problem for teens.
Speaker 5: Teens who don't get enough sleep are at risk for
Speaker 5: high blood pressure. A study by the American Heart Association
Speaker 5: found teens who either had insomnia or slept less than
Speaker 5: seven point seven hours had an elevated blood pressure compared
Speaker 5: to teens who were getting enough sleep. The findings show
Speaker 5: that poor sleep can impact the heart even at younger.
Speaker 2: Ages, CBS, says Mike George. The American Academy of Sleep
Speaker 2: Medicine recommends teens get eight to ten hours of sleep
Speaker 2: every night. Most high school students get about six and
Speaker 2: a half hours of sleep, So there is a national
Speaker 2: do not Call Registry. How about a do not knock list.
Speaker 2: Matsouan has one. They have long allowed residents to join
Speaker 2: the police departments no knock registry to stop salespeople at
Speaker 2: your front door. But the Eagle Tribune says the city
Speaker 2: just put the application online and they've been absolutely swamped.
Speaker 2: More than five hundred and twenty seven people signed up
Speaker 2: in the first twenty four hours. The mayor actually talked
Speaker 2: to the Tribune. He said he himself has fallen victim
Speaker 2: to the inconvenient house visits that knock on the door.
Speaker 2: They don't know when we work, they don't know we
Speaker 2: get up at four am, they don't care, and that
Speaker 2: many of the complaints he's seeing are about door to
Speaker 2: door salespeople selling solar panels. You are now in the loop.
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