Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Well, good morning, a little bit of a rude awakening
Speaker 2: as we get started this Thursday morning. It is six o'clock.
Speaker 2: It is snowing more than likely where you are. We've
Speaker 2: got mixed precipitation elsewhere and here in Boston. We're getting
Speaker 2: started at thirty four degrees on this Thursday morning. The
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Speaker 2: Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown,
Speaker 2: and welcome aboard. We got ourselves a good old fashioned mess.
Speaker 2: So what snow and rain will say for off this morning?
Speaker 2: It'll become windy this afternoon with the clouds of breaking
Speaker 2: and a leftover rain or snowshower. At a WBZ acky
Speaker 2: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg, a blast of even colder air
Speaker 2: is moving in for the weekend.
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Speaker 1: the WBZ Storm Center.
Speaker 2: Certainly, in the final days of fall, winter decides to
Speaker 2: show up with this mixed blast this morning.
Speaker 3: There's no miss thinking it white, fluffy, wet, that snow
Speaker 3: falling here in Greater Boston.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it's definitely coming down for the first snowfall,
Speaker 4: it's definitely come down good.
Speaker 5: Today's I figured i'd get up this oneting to be
Speaker 5: not on the ground at all, nothing.
Speaker 3: Making unfortunately for some slick road conditions for commuters.
Speaker 5: Driving into stuff's the worst.
Speaker 3: Does it make you nervous a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, even worse, he says, than these dismal conditions
Speaker 2: brought on by mother nature.
Speaker 5: See other drivers. Usually you get one lane, stay there
Speaker 5: you find. But when these people start cutting lanes, that's
Speaker 5: when you can't see them. That's the problem.
Speaker 3: Chris Fama WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The Jackpod appears to be west of four ninety five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, walking around, lemmister, we're looking at around two to
Speaker 3: three inches of snow. Sidewalks at least where I'm at,
Speaker 3: covered in a good layer of white powder. Fortunately the
Speaker 3: streets have been treated and I'm looking too bad, just
Speaker 3: wet and slushy. Jake over here, he's going to be
Speaker 3: doing his best to make sure the roads are in
Speaker 3: good condition. Well, this is what we do for work
Speaker 3: in the wind.
Speaker 1: I'm heading in now.
Speaker 5: I know the rest of the public works guys were
Speaker 5: in all night long since eight last night putting salt down.
Speaker 3: And they did a pretty good job.
Speaker 5: It looks like they kept right up with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jake and his team are going to be busy
Speaker 3: keeping the streets clear, so he's asking folks to not
Speaker 3: rush and to drive safe. In Leminster. James throwhas WBZ
Speaker 3: BOSTON'SNOOS radio.
Speaker 2: So this is a clipper system notoriously. It is quite
Speaker 2: potent and is very quick moving. It'll be out of
Speaker 2: the way for us later on this morning. But in
Speaker 2: the meantime, the rain snow line has now collapsed. It
Speaker 2: is snowing and much of Boston and much of the
Speaker 2: South Shore as well the extreme south Shore Capean Island
Speaker 2: still dealing with rain and in pockets heavy rain at times.
Speaker 2: But this is the final stages and we are seeing
Speaker 2: some snowfall here in Boston. As of right now at
Speaker 2: Logan Airport, there are two dozen canceled delays, I should
Speaker 2: say on the board. Several school systems have either canceled
Speaker 2: classes or have delayed classes to begin today, mostly in
Speaker 2: central and West mass It's snowing pretty much everywhere this morning.
Speaker 2: As the system is quickly moving through the region. It
Speaker 2: is expected to be gone by nine or ten o'clock
Speaker 2: this morning, and we will be left over with whatever
Speaker 2: mess is in your driveway and sidewalks. And in central
Speaker 2: and western Massachusetts the totals have been up to about
Speaker 2: five or six inches of snow in isolated local areas,
Speaker 2: but elsewhere east of four ninety five, this has just
Speaker 2: been a wintry mix and a mess at that some
Speaker 2: mixed precipitation coming down for most of the storm, and
Speaker 2: that includes mostly rain. Here in Greater Boston at the
Speaker 2: current moment, it is above freezing at thirty four degrees
Speaker 2: and we will get into the low forties today, So
Speaker 2: whatever is frozen on the ground at least here in
Speaker 2: the immediate Greater Boston area will soon melt away because
Speaker 2: we're going to see these clouds breaking up for some
Speaker 2: sunshine this afternoon in a cold front is going to
Speaker 2: move in. Yes, it's going to get colder than this.
Speaker 2: Some of the coldest air of the season is going
Speaker 2: to be here tomorrow. We'll be in the twenties to
Speaker 2: start the day. We'll try to get into the mid
Speaker 2: thirties tomorrow with some sunny skies, but it will actually
Speaker 2: be a little bit colder with falling temperatures in the
Speaker 2: afternoon as cold air is going to stay with us
Speaker 2: right through the weekends. It appears looks like the long
Speaker 2: range forecast seems to see more readings in the forties
Speaker 2: coming up next week, so we'll wait for that and
Speaker 2: endure this Right now. It's snowing in Boston thirty four
Speaker 2: degrees at six oh six on this Thursday morning, as
Speaker 2: winter settles in. Wbz's Drew Mouholland this morning tells us
Speaker 2: it's a good time to understand what keeps us up
Speaker 2: at night.
Speaker 6: Restless nights. Can't sleep through the night, those starts and stops, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's not good. Maybe you know the feeling, and one
Speaker 6: cause could be the hormone cortisol. This essentially has the
Speaker 6: opposite effect of melatonin, which helps us sleep. Cortisol wakes
Speaker 6: us up as part of our normal circadian rhythm. If
Speaker 6: cortisol levels are out of whax, so is your sleep.
Speaker 3: The waking of itself is not the problem.
Speaker 6: The problem comes in when you're unable to go back
Speaker 6: to sleep in a reasonable amount of time. Sleep expert
Speaker 6: Janie Kennedy. She suggests sitting up using a cold pack
Speaker 6: on your forehead. Maybe try one of those comm noises apps,
Speaker 6: and you can always talk to your doctor too. Drumholland WBZ,
Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Experts say we might gain about five pounds this holiday season,
Speaker 2: But go ahead, indulge your chocolate fix just might be
Speaker 2: good for you, but watch what kind of chocolate you eat.
Speaker 2: New research says dark chocolate is better for you than
Speaker 2: milk chocolate and can help reduce the risk of type
Speaker 2: two diabetes. The study is one of the largest of
Speaker 2: its kind and reveals that five servings of dark chocolate
Speaker 2: per week helps lower the risk of type two diabetes
Speaker 2: by some twenty percent. Scientists really aren't sure why this occurs,
Speaker 2: but the report in the medical journal BMJ this week
Speaker 2: suggests it might be because dark chocolate has less sugar
Speaker 2: and more plant based compounds than milk chocolate. Well, Boston
Speaker 2: gets brighter by the night. Another tree lighting ceremony kicks
Speaker 2: off at six o'clock tonight, this time on the Common.
Speaker 2: It's the eighty second annual tree lighting, and it's thanks
Speaker 2: to a gift every year from the people of Nova Scotia,
Speaker 2: who continue to send us gratitude for the city's help
Speaker 2: in a maritime tragedy. More than one hundred years ago,
Speaker 2: which left thousands of Canadians dead. This here's forty five
Speaker 2: foot tall white spruce, features five thousand lights and gets
Speaker 2: ten times brighter when all of the common and public
Speaker 2: garden are lit up with a flip of the switch.
Speaker 2: Big news for an elementary school in South Boston. It's
Speaker 2: home to the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Miss Sparrow's class. It's a place to make friends,
Speaker 4: have fun, and build your future.
Speaker 3: Miss Sparrow's specialty is special education.
Speaker 4: Bessie Commissioner Russell Johnston came down to the Oliver Perry
Speaker 4: School along with the Governor and the Mayor. She is
Speaker 4: always determined to help every single one of her students
Speaker 4: get as much joy, experience, and learning out of every
Speaker 4: moment possible. You can find Miss Sparrow's class exploring downtown
Speaker 4: or at a cooking class. She mentors other teachers, works
Speaker 4: with foster kids and elderly neighbors. And for Miss Sparrow,
Speaker 4: the real stars are these kids. You are the reason
Speaker 4: I do this work. I love you, she says. They
Speaker 4: inspire her to be a better teacher and a better human.
Speaker 4: We could all learn something from Miss Sparrow. In Southea.
Speaker 4: I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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