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Speaker 2: A couple of flurries out there flying and a variation
Speaker 2: attempts from forty three to thirty two depending on where
Speaker 2: you are. But a big storm is coming for all
Speaker 2: of us this weekend. Good morning, everybody, eleven o'clock. I'm
Speaker 2: Laurie Kirby and Massachusetts getting ready right now for some
Speaker 2: serious snowfalls Saturday into Sunday.
Speaker 1: Snow will develop early Saturday night to continue into Sunday
Speaker 1: morning before ending. Snow will accumulate four to weight inches
Speaker 1: across much of the area, with two to four inches
Speaker 1: down towards the south coast the cape of the Islands
Speaker 1: because of mixing.
Speaker 2: And more from ACI Weather meteorologist Joe Lamberg Coming up.
Speaker 2: Attorney General Andrea Campbell is trying to ease fears over
Speaker 2: President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. She's now teamed
Speaker 2: up was seventeen other attorneys general to try and stop
Speaker 2: the move and federal court. Wdbz's James Rohast reports.
Speaker 3: Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message to families who
Speaker 3: are concerned about the Trump Administration's effort to overturn birthright citizenship.
Speaker 4: Do not be fearful, keep your hope. We said before
Speaker 4: this president took office that we had tools in our
Speaker 4: respective offices to fight back, including running to court, getting
Speaker 4: a temporary restraining order, a pluminary injunction, whatever we needed
Speaker 4: to stop this administration from harming our constituents.
Speaker 3: When asked about how she feels of lawmakers who do
Speaker 3: support the president's executive order.
Speaker 4: Cheer hypocrisy, and I think it's their attempt to not
Speaker 4: only attempt to undermine the Constitution and attempt to eradicate it,
Speaker 4: to also distract our people from the issues that matter
Speaker 4: the most.
Speaker 3: On Beacon Hill. James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOWS Radio.
Speaker 2: Today's employment report is out. It's complicated to quote Bloomberg
Speaker 2: Xandrew O'Day he'll be joining us in six minutes. It
Speaker 2: shows the job market cooled in January. Here's ABC's Brian Clark.
Speaker 5: Private sector added one hundred and forty three thousand jobs
Speaker 5: in January, well below the one hundred seventy thousand that
Speaker 5: were expected, and it's a significant drop off from last
Speaker 5: month's blowout report that showed two hundred and fifty six
Speaker 5: thousand jobs added. In December, the unemployment rate ticked down
Speaker 5: a tenth of eight percentage point to four percent.
Speaker 2: The report also shows the average hourly wages rose by
Speaker 2: half a percent last month. And now looking at Bloomberg,
Speaker 2: it's not looking good. We'll check that coming up. Also
Speaker 2: going up today, that four River bridge, you love it,
Speaker 2: you hate it. Architecturally it's beautiful, but you know it's
Speaker 2: going to slow your ride about twenty minutes today when
Speaker 2: that outbound vessel takes off through the river, and this
Speaker 2: will impact your Route three a commute. And this is
Speaker 2: on the Weymouth Quinsy line. That bridge, you know, very
Speaker 2: old fashioned, beautiful bridge, but it's a pain. Couple of
Speaker 2: snow flurries out there. Kevin, we've been talking about the tee,
Speaker 2: so I actually saw a little bit of rainfalling very brief.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're seeing some sunshine as well, but there's
Speaker 2: just these little little pockets of precipitation. And it's forty
Speaker 2: three in the cape, so anything that falls there is
Speaker 2: going to be wet, not white. Tonight's going to be
Speaker 2: very cold by this evening, real feels into the teens
Speaker 2: pretty late. Tonight will be clear and then we cloud
Speaker 2: out so Saturday is fine daytime. The timeline on this
Speaker 2: major winter storm is seven pm Saturday night through four
Speaker 2: pm Sunday, So that is the situation. And I'm seeing
Speaker 2: a couple of models suggesting all of them suggest very
Speaker 2: high amounts, but four to eight seems to be the
Speaker 2: average range. I've seen some models here that suggest more
Speaker 2: snow than that. So we're all going to have to
Speaker 2: tune in over the weekend and again take us on
Speaker 2: the go and stream us on the new iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: as well. But we'll be covering this throughout. So do
Speaker 2: you have your snacks ready? Super Bowl Sunday of course,
Speaker 2: and the ads, And then there's the security. New Orleans
Speaker 2: is set to host the Super Bowl fifty nine at
Speaker 2: the Super Dome, and wbz's Drew Mamholland says security as
Speaker 2: tight as can be.
Speaker 6: Nilen's expects an extra one hundred thousand visitors this week
Speaker 6: thanks to the Big Game, and it's all hands on
Speaker 6: deck security wise. Former Boston Police Chief Bill Bratton's right
Speaker 6: in the heart of the city.
Speaker 7: As we'll go through large curses and begs, so even
Speaker 7: to get into the area that you have to basically
Speaker 7: expect that anything You're caring is going to be opened
Speaker 7: and searched.
Speaker 6: He tells me. The terrorist attack on New Year's Day,
Speaker 6: where a man ran over and killed fourteen people on
Speaker 6: Bourbon Street, has only added to the extra police presence,
Speaker 6: But it would have been crazy tight security wise anyway.
Speaker 6: Needless to say, the Big Easy is a hard wall
Speaker 6: of security and it will be all the way through
Speaker 6: Marty Grave, which is next Drew maholland WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: On the Road to Glory, they helped Saint John's prep
Speaker 2: hockey team hops on the coach bus tomorrow the Early Boss.
Speaker 2: They're leaving at six am bound for West Point Night.
Speaker 2: The Salem News reporting the team is taking on longtime
Speaker 2: rivals Catholic Memorial at Tate Rink this Sunday. It's the
Speaker 2: seventeenth annual First Lieutenant Derrek Hines Memorial Game. Kanye West
Speaker 2: is asking President Trump to free accuse sex trafficker Sean
Speaker 2: Diddy Combs.
Speaker 8: The hip hop mogul, remains behind bars awaiting trial after
Speaker 8: numerous allegations of trafficking and sex abuse. US posted on
Speaker 8: x Thursday, writing free Puff in all caps. He later
Speaker 8: appealed directly to President Trump. Posting a request to quote,
Speaker 8: please free my brother Puff Combs faces federal charges which
Speaker 8: your president has the power to pardon. I'm Michael Kasner.
Speaker 2: Well this one's a little different. The president of Columbia
Speaker 2: wants the world to legalize cocaine.
Speaker 9: President Gustavo Petro says the cocaine industry could easily be
Speaker 9: dismantled if the drug were legalized globally. He claimed scientists
Speaker 9: have found cocaine as no worse than whiskey, but he
Speaker 9: says it it's illegal because it's made in Latin America.
Speaker 9: Patres says legalized cocaine would be sold like wine. Columbia
Speaker 9: is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter. That production
Speaker 9: rose to a record high twenty six hundred tons of
Speaker 9: cocaine in twenty twenty three. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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