Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Forty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 2: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It was a moving start
Speaker 2: to the new week. Like try an earthquake. A three
Speaker 2: point eight magnitude tremor felt around New Into In details
Speaker 2: from wbz's Drew Maholland, this.
Speaker 3: Thing strikes centered off the coast of York Harbor, Maine.
Speaker 3: And yes, lots of people are feeling it here. No
Speaker 3: word yet on any injuries or damage. I just got
Speaker 3: off the phone with the US Geological Survey. This is
Speaker 3: what they got.
Speaker 4: Located eleven kilometers southeast of York Harbor, Maine, offshore, so
Speaker 4: it puts it at about five five and a half
Speaker 4: miles southeast of York Harbor.
Speaker 3: Light to moderates shaking, so we don't expect too much damage.
Speaker 3: Most of Massachusetts as far out as Springfield could have
Speaker 3: felt this, as well as most of New Hampshire, lower
Speaker 3: third of Maine, parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. I'm
Speaker 3: Drew mamholland, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: US public health officials are being told to stop working
Speaker 2: with the World Health Organization effective immediately. A CDC official
Speaker 2: sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency yesterday
Speaker 2: telling them to stop work with the WHO and to
Speaker 2: await further guidance. Experts say this will set back work
Speaker 2: on monitoring bird flow of the US along we try
Speaker 2: to stop outbreaks of the Marburg virus and MPOs in Africa.
Speaker 2: President Trump issued an executive order last week to begin
Speaker 2: the process of withdrawing from the WHO, but it requires
Speaker 2: the approval of Congress in order to take effect. President
Speaker 2: Trump's been using his position to sign many executive orders
Speaker 2: in his first week in office. Now, the President's expected
Speaker 2: to sign several executive orders focused on the military.
Speaker 5: According to a White House official, the president will sign
Speaker 5: an executive order that will direct the DoD to determine
Speaker 5: a policy for transgender service members based on readiness. He'll
Speaker 5: also sign an order that abolishes DEI in the military,
Speaker 5: and a third executive order will reinstate members of the
Speaker 5: military who were discharged for refusing to get the COVID vaccine.
Speaker 5: Stacey Lynn CBS News the.
Speaker 2: White House time to do the taxes. Tax Day is
Speaker 2: still two and a half months away, but today if.
Speaker 1: You happen to be ready. The IRS is ready for you.
Speaker 6: Tax filing season is here. Today is the day when
Speaker 6: the IRS officially starts accepting tax returns. If you file
Speaker 6: electronically and your return is accurate and complete, the IRS
Speaker 6: says it should take fewer than three weeks to receive
Speaker 6: a refund. The deadline to file taxes is April fifteenth.
Speaker 1: That is CBS's Matt Piper.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts experienced the same four point one percent unemployment rate
Speaker 2: in December as the country as a whole, which ends
Speaker 2: at nearly two years streak of comparatively lower joblessness in
Speaker 2: the Bay. State labor officials announced that Massachusetts unemployment rate
Speaker 2: inched upward one tenth of a percentage point from four
Speaker 2: percent in November, while at the same time, the national
Speaker 2: unemployment rate ticked downward from four point two percent to
Speaker 2: four point one percent. If you like to move it,
Speaker 2: move it, it could help you age better.
Speaker 1: Like to moved?
Speaker 7: Moved? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like them?
Speaker 2: That is the message from a new study in the
Speaker 2: Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan is moving it.
Speaker 8: Visit your neighborhood health club and you'll be hard pressed
Speaker 8: to find many wrinkles or gray hairs, but researchers who've
Speaker 8: studied years worth of data have discovered that those sixty
Speaker 8: five and over can benefit dramatically from just a little
Speaker 8: physical activity. Their study finds that one hundred and fifty
Speaker 8: minutes per week of moderate exercise like a brisk walk
Speaker 8: or dancing can reduce the risk of death from any
Speaker 8: cause by thirty one percent. Jim Ryan ABC.
Speaker 2: Some clouds as we head into the evening, although the
Speaker 2: sunshines hanging around here late in the afternoon, so you
Speaker 2: may need the sunglasses for the ride home if you're
Speaker 2: facing west, and then as those clouds come in tonight,
Speaker 2: we'll hang onto the wind. Temperatures aren't going to fall much, though,
Speaker 2: probably close to thirty real fields. That'll be the problem
Speaker 2: as we fall back into the low twenties and upper
Speaker 2: teens in many spots tomorrow a morning snowshower. This is
Speaker 2: not going to be a big deal, but whatever deal
Speaker 2: it ends up being, could put a couple of slick
Speaker 2: spots down on the roadways for your morning commute. Later
Speaker 2: in the day, it's windy clouds with some afternoon sun,
Speaker 2: temperatures into the upper thirties, and then temperatures falling into
Speaker 2: the twenties by sundown Tomorrow. Tomorrow night and into Wednesday
Speaker 2: will increase the clouds. We'll drop the attempts to about
Speaker 2: twenty degrees and then overnight and into Wednesday morning a
Speaker 2: period of snow that could accumulate one to three inches
Speaker 2: in some areas. So again, Wednesday morning may feature some
Speaker 2: slick travel too cloudy. The rest of Wednesday, a couple
Speaker 2: of snow showers, high thirty eight, and then a chili
Speaker 2: day on Thursday. Mostly sunny, still windy, temperatures in the
Speaker 2: mid twenties, feeling like it's in the teens. Right now,
Speaker 2: it is forty degrees in Boston. A legend of the
Speaker 2: field hockey game adds another trophy to an already packed case.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Hyle Shaffle has more from Watertown.
Speaker 9: During school hours. The Bill Belichick of girls field Hockey
Speaker 9: is a greed school gym teacher.
Speaker 1: I don't think gave us secret. I lean.
Speaker 9: Dona Hugh, Watertown's Woman of the Hour, was recently named
Speaker 9: National Coach of the Year. She's entering her fortieth year
Speaker 9: as a coach, with eight hundred career wins in sight
Speaker 9: and a win rate above ninety percent.
Speaker 1: She says this past year was as much a slog
Speaker 1: as any. We had a couple of close games this year.
Speaker 9: Which is basically the Donahue version of taking an oult.
Speaker 9: Her team hasn't actually lost a game for six years.
Speaker 9: I asked her for a coaching secret, and it comes
Speaker 9: down to discipline, the hard work of her players, and prep.
Speaker 9: I got to be prepared, so as soon as that
Speaker 9: practice sends and I'm driving home on my mind's going.
Speaker 9: But she says, it's important to know that even though
Speaker 9: the carousel has been spinning for years, it could.
Speaker 1: Grind to a halt at any moment.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: It's a wonderful thing that's happened, But I'm not focused
Speaker 9: on that.
Speaker 1: I'm focused on what you know, What are you going
Speaker 1: to do next?
Speaker 9: Kyle Schaeffel to be busy Boston Shows Radio.
Speaker 1: The Rocks are coming back.
Speaker 2: According to the Brockton Enterprise, the baseball teams coming back
Speaker 2: to the city of Champions, with a Red Sox Hall
Speaker 2: of Famer as part owner. The papers citing a press
Speaker 2: release since as a formal announcement will be Wednesday at
Speaker 2: Brockton City Hall and will feature Jim Rice as part
Speaker 2: of the Brockton Rocks return looking to tackle the biggest
Speaker 2: job in Boston. A familiar name in New England throwing
Speaker 2: his hat in the race for mayor.
Speaker 7: As the president of the New England Patriots Foundation and
Speaker 7: son of Pat's owner Robert Kraft, he's certainly no stranger
Speaker 7: to Bostonians. He also currently serves as board chair for
Speaker 7: the Urban League of Massachusetts and previously spent thirty years
Speaker 7: working for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. According
Speaker 7: to the campaign filings, he's running as a Democrat, and
Speaker 7: all signs point to a face off with incumbent Mayor
Speaker 7: Michelle wou She just hasn't pulled the trigger on an
Speaker 7: official announcement just yet. Jared Browsnan WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio