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Speaker 2: Sunny in thirty one degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. It's February eighth. Let's
Speaker 2: get you caught up. Here's what's happening, all right, Grace
Speaker 2: for a snowstorm.
Speaker 3: After're ned increasing clouds tight thirty four.
Speaker 1: That snow arrives this evening, comes heavy at times later
Speaker 1: tonight before ending tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: And that's hacky weather meteorologist Phil Degger. A winter storm warning,
Speaker 2: in fact, is in effect starting at seven o'clock tonight
Speaker 2: for almost all of Massachusetts except the Cape in the Islands.
Speaker 2: WBC's Jared Brosnan has the very latest for us.
Speaker 4: No, it is on its way, as we're seeing at
Speaker 4: the moment. Snow will arrive in the Boston area between
Speaker 4: the nine to ten PM hour or so tonight.
Speaker 5: That's Francis Terazowitz with the National Weather Service. He says
Speaker 5: most of the state will see between five to nine inches,
Speaker 5: but how it looks depends on where you are.
Speaker 4: Highest impacts there likely with the northern third of the state,
Speaker 4: generally north of the mass Pike, probably closer to that
Speaker 4: nine inch amount. Towards coastal areas, the Cape and the Islands,
Speaker 4: lesser amounts of snowfalls, and those areas we'll see a
Speaker 4: heavier wet snow with potentially some sleet mixing in, especially
Speaker 4: around the islands or so.
Speaker 5: But there's some good news for those heading out of
Speaker 5: the house tomorrow afternoon for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Though actual snow falling from the sky will be an issue.
Speaker 4: Of course, the secondary roads may be issues. But yeah,
Speaker 4: generally speaking, we're not expecting snow to really last much
Speaker 4: longer than Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: Ready to shovel, I'm Jared Brosnan, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A Boston teacher arrested at his home in Brookline for
Speaker 2: allegedly exchanging sexual messages and photos with teenage girls online.
Speaker 2: Police say thirty two year old John Gavin was talking
Speaker 2: on discord with up to six girls between the ages
Speaker 2: of twelve and seventeen, and they say that's where he
Speaker 2: allegedly told the girls that he was a teacher and
Speaker 2: enticed them to swap naked photos. Official saying none of
Speaker 2: the victims were from Massachusetts. Gavin is a teacher at
Speaker 2: the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston and used to
Speaker 2: work at the Hayes School in Brookline as a paraprofessional.
Speaker 2: He was arraigned yesterday in Brookline District Court and ordered
Speaker 2: held on fifty thousand dollars cash bail. Meanwhile, a Newton
Speaker 2: man is arraigned on charges of allegedly sexually assaulting a
Speaker 2: teenage girl last year on a flight from Puerto Rico
Speaker 2: to Boston. Jonathan Leffman's attorney spoke with reporters, including CBS
Speaker 2: News Boston's Best GERMANO in South Boston Federal Court.
Speaker 3: Do you have anything to say?
Speaker 5: Say?
Speaker 3: He say your new laim es.
Speaker 4: Jonathan Lefman is completely interced of these charges.
Speaker 3: We look forward to being vindicated in court.
Speaker 1: Twenty six year old Jonathan Leffman rushed with his attorney
Speaker 1: to a waiting car after facing charges of making repeated
Speaker 1: sexual contact with a seventeen year old girl seated in
Speaker 1: front of him on a Jet Blue flight from Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico to Boston last August. According to court documents, investigators
Speaker 1: who in interviewed the team say she pointed her finger
Speaker 1: and made a sweeping motion left and right across her
Speaker 1: buttocks to describe what happened.
Speaker 2: The victim claims that she has video evidence of the assault.
Speaker 2: Left men faces up to two years in prison and
Speaker 2: a quarter million dollar fine if convicted. And ALIS check
Speaker 2: the weather. Don't be fooled. It looks really calm out
Speaker 2: there right now. We have beautiful sunny skies, but we
Speaker 2: have quite the storm on the way. Winter storm warning
Speaker 2: is in effect from seven o'clock tonight, lasting through one
Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow afternoon. But as I said, we're just seeing
Speaker 2: right now sunshine followed by some clouds with a high
Speaker 2: thirty four, but the snow arriving tonight, becoming heavy at
Speaker 2: times later at night, before it ends tomorrow morning. All
Speaker 2: is said and done, we'll see about forty eight inches
Speaker 2: in some of those areas two to four toward the
Speaker 2: cape and the islands. Low tonight is twenty seven degrees Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: just some lingering clouds in the afternoon and a lot
Speaker 2: of clean up. Highs thirty three to thirty six. Monday,
Speaker 2: we had back to work with mostly sunny skies, but
Speaker 2: it's going to be cold to I have just thirty three,
Speaker 2: pretty much the same on Tuesday, and if we look ahead,
Speaker 2: another chance of snow arrives for Tuesday night ends to Wednesday.
Speaker 2: It's eleven oh six. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey sounding the
Speaker 2: alarm about climate funding that's been frozen.
Speaker 3: Senator Markuee says he showed up to the doorstep of
Speaker 3: the EPA this.
Speaker 1: Week and I was refused entrance.
Speaker 3: As inside, a team of Elon Musk's federal cost cutters
Speaker 3: ask scientists to justify their jobs.
Speaker 4: They're doing this in darkness.
Speaker 3: In Markey's eyes, what's happening in Washington right now is
Speaker 3: a scheme to loot funds from agencies and use the
Speaker 3: money for tax breaks for the wealthy.
Speaker 5: In Massachusetts, a loan talking about the EPA funding, It's
Speaker 5: three hundred and sixteen million dollars is frozen right.
Speaker 3: Now, funds for things like solar panels and electric school buses.
Speaker 3: A judge has ordered funds from the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 3: to be unfrozen, but.
Speaker 5: It's very clear that has not happened.
Speaker 3: The White House says it's sweeping plan. It's to make
Speaker 3: sure spending is aligned with the president's agenda. In Government Center,
Speaker 3: I'm Madison Rogers w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Right blocked a federal judge issues in order preventing Elon
Speaker 2: Musk in the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury
Speaker 2: Department records. Judge Paul Engelmayer ruling the Treasury records contained
Speaker 2: sensitive personal data like social security and bank account numbers
Speaker 2: for millions of Americans. The judge's preliminary injunction coming in
Speaker 2: response to a suit that was filed by nineteen Attorneys general,
Speaker 2: including Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell. This morning's ruling also orders
Speaker 2: anyone having access to the information since January twentieth, that's
Speaker 2: including Musk's doge Bros. To immediately destroy any copies that
Speaker 2: were downloaded from Treasury's the Treasury's systems. President Trump continues
Speaker 2: to talk tariff fitting alongside Japan's minister. Trump said he'll
Speaker 2: announced tariff's next week that match the duties other countries
Speaker 2: impose on American product.
Speaker 1: Reciprocal trade so that we're treated evenly with other countries.
Speaker 3: From also announcing nip On Steel will make a major
Speaker 3: investment in US Steel after Biden blocked the Japanese company's
Speaker 3: fourteen billion dollar takeover bid.
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