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Speaker 3: You ready for Friday, because I believe Friday is ready
Speaker 3: for you. It is six o'clock on this Friday morning,
Speaker 3: and we're waking up under mostly cloudy skies in fifty
Speaker 3: six degrees. The News at six brought to us by
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Speaker 3: Welcome aboard this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. Another nice day
Speaker 3: with a sea.
Speaker 1: Breeze, harty sunny today.
Speaker 4: We'll have a high near seventy down town, though it's
Speaker 4: going to make it into the minto upper seventies.
Speaker 1: Well Inland.
Speaker 3: Is WBZ achi weather meteorologist tether sayre not nice tomorrow
Speaker 3: as some rain is gonna move in. The Patriots stick
Speaker 3: to the script and they pick LSU's Will Campbell with
Speaker 3: the number four overall pick in the NFL Draft. Rounds
Speaker 3: two and three underway tonight in Green Bay, Celtic's Magic
Speaker 3: Game three in the opening round of the NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 3: The series switches to Orlando. With Boston containing a two
Speaker 3: game lead. Red Sox will be on the road. They
Speaker 3: visit Cleveland for the opener of a weekend series beginning tonight.
Speaker 3: Security at the Vatican will be tight as a drum
Speaker 3: this weekend for tomorrow's funeral for Pope Francis. President Trump
Speaker 3: and the First Lady will join dozens of other heads
Speaker 3: of state and royalty representing in Saint Peter's Basilica. Back home,
Speaker 3: nothing appears to be sacred for the future of the
Speaker 3: Catholic Church. Bookmakers are already taking bets on one of
Speaker 3: the hottest things going, who will be the next Pope.
Speaker 3: According to a recent report, gamblers are ready to place
Speaker 3: bets and it's one of the top thirty most active
Speaker 3: betting markets so far this year. The College of Cardinals
Speaker 3: will enter conclave early next month in the Sistine Chapel
Speaker 3: to begin voting. It started as a joke, Should I
Speaker 3: run again? You tell me, It's now become mainstream. The
Speaker 3: Trump Store begins teasing a third term for President Trump
Speaker 3: by selling new Trump twenty twenty eight hats. Almost since
Speaker 3: day one of his second term, the President has been
Speaker 3: hitting in third and as time goes by, it seems
Speaker 3: to be more than just to tease. The President says
Speaker 3: there are ways to get around constitutional term limits, but
Speaker 3: also says it's way too early to start thinking or
Speaker 3: talking about that. Wanted artists, The Trump administration is calling
Speaker 3: on sculptors to come up with ideas for the Garden
Speaker 3: of American Heroes that a honor America's two hundred and
Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary celebration. Winning bids come with a two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars federal grant with money from the National Endowment
Speaker 3: for the Humanities. The White House is interested in sculptures
Speaker 3: of traditional and non traditional heroes, and is not interested
Speaker 3: in abstract or modernist designs. Younger Americans' money dances like
Speaker 3: sugar plums in their heads. Wbz's Drew mo'holland is here
Speaker 3: to explain this one. What's going on, Good Morning, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5: Some of America's younger generations say they are in a
Speaker 5: good place financially when compared to their parents and older generations.
Speaker 5: Recent pull from NBC News finds more than a quarter
Speaker 5: of the eighteen to twenty nine year old crowd those
Speaker 5: are the kids, apparently, that's what we're saying. Eighteen to
Speaker 5: twenty nine say their money is on more solid ground
Speaker 5: this year compared to one year ago. But the older
Speaker 5: you get, the less confident Americans feel about their balance
Speaker 5: sheets over all, though a majority in all age groups
Speaker 5: say their personal financial situation is worse today than this
Speaker 5: time last year.
Speaker 3: So what you're telling me is their confidence. But then again,
Speaker 3: maybe not all that confidence. Yes, I guess that's good
Speaker 3: to know. Back to you, it looks like another relatively
Speaker 3: nice day and greater Boston today. We are starting under
Speaker 3: cloudy skies, though in fifty six degrees. We will see
Speaker 3: some sunshine along the way today. Temperatures are going to
Speaker 3: be a little bit warmer in inland locations because we
Speaker 3: do have a sea breeze coming at us. Along the
Speaker 3: shoreline and especially the north shore, will struggle to stay
Speaker 3: warm a little bit later today, as temperatures will stall
Speaker 3: out in the sixties there, but will be around seventy
Speaker 3: of the rest of the shore and into the mid
Speaker 3: seventies in inland location. Some areas might get as warm
Speaker 3: as eighty degrees this afternoon. This weekend not so fortunate.
Speaker 3: The timing is simply terrible, and even with expecting rain tomorrow,
Speaker 3: it looks like the timing has been moved up a
Speaker 3: little bit. The rain will arrive, it looks like sometime
Speaker 3: tomorrow morning and continue throughout much of the day, although
Speaker 3: later in the day it might tape her off. And
Speaker 3: then on Sunday, it looks like we're going to start
Speaker 3: to see some sunshine back in the picture, but cooler
Speaker 3: temperatures eyes only in the upper fifties to low sixties.
Speaker 3: Big warm up in the cards for next week. We're
Speaker 3: talking temperatures in the eighty degree range. Right now, it's
Speaker 3: cloudy skies in fifty six here in Boston on this
Speaker 3: Friday morning, it is six oh six. If a tree
Speaker 3: falls in the forest today, many people will hear it.
Speaker 3: What better way to celebrate Arbor Day than to be
Speaker 3: among the trees and nature. That's what Deanna and her
Speaker 3: friends are doing.
Speaker 6: It's awesome out here. You can hear the birds, the owls,
Speaker 6: You see the deer running around, sometimes a fox. It's
Speaker 6: a fun time out here connecting with nature.
Speaker 1: Admittedly, she was not aware it was a holiday, but
Speaker 1: that's okay. She's still a fan.
Speaker 6: The pines are beautiful. There's some birch trees along the
Speaker 6: way out here in the reservation.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm Mercy from California, so I'm biased the
Speaker 1: to a palm tree, not that many over here.
Speaker 6: I'm Actually, I grew Upinstathern, California, so yeah, I know
Speaker 6: you won't see palm trees here.
Speaker 1: For those who are aware of the day, a lot
Speaker 1: of events are planned all around, with folks rolling up
Speaker 1: their sleeves and planting more trees around the community at
Speaker 1: breakheart James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 3: I'll ever hear this in the middle of the night
Speaker 3: often sends chills up a spine. Many people say it
Speaker 3: sounds like a screaming child, but it's a fisher cat
Speaker 3: and they're being saved. On the South Shore this week.
Speaker 4: In Cohacid, construction crews found baby fishers inside of a
Speaker 4: tree I was about to be processed by a machine
Speaker 4: to come down. Cohasset Natural Resource officers were called in
Speaker 4: to help, and they did. They arrived and brought the
Speaker 4: fisher babies deep into the woods so they could hopefully
Speaker 4: make their way back to their mother. For years, there
Speaker 4: weren't many sightings of fishers south of Boston, but they've
Speaker 4: been spotted on trail cams in recent years. While commonly
Speaker 4: referred to as fisher cats, their DNA what's them in
Speaker 4: the same family as weasels? They are nocturnal, sometimes spotted
Speaker 4: during the day in the spring as it's their breeding season.
Speaker 4: Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: Several airline executives are warning of turbulence ahead as business
Speaker 3: starts to slow down.
Speaker 2: Top executives from three different airlines are warning shareholders to
Speaker 2: buckle up.
Speaker 3: Uncertainty is the word of the day.
Speaker 2: American Airlines CEO Robert Isiam Bob Jordan, the CEO at Southwest,
Speaker 2: says business travel is okay, but leisure early.
Speaker 3: February, we began to see the economic weakness creep in.
Speaker 2: That's the same from Alaska Air CEO Ben Manucci. I
Speaker 2: think we're.
Speaker 3: Seeing what everyone else is seeing on the domestic leisure front,
Speaker 3: is a softening of domestic leisure demand.
Speaker 2: Each CEO separately telling CNBC bookings dropped three then six percent,
Speaker 2: up ending their profit forecasts for the year. Rooralneo, WBZ
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