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Speaker 3: Good morning, eleven o'clock in sunny and right now we're
Speaker 3: looking at thirty one and if it's thirty nine degrees
Speaker 3: in Boston, nice day. But the big weather story I
Speaker 3: think you're all wondering about is the earthquake on three
Speaker 3: point nine nine two being built all around Greater Boston
Speaker 3: and beyond. Today. W Boozy's Dremalin has now.
Speaker 4: This thing strikes centered off the coast of York Harbor, Maine.
Speaker 4: And yes, lots of people are feeling it here. No
Speaker 4: word yet on any injuries or damage. I just got
Speaker 4: off the phone with the US Geological Survey. This is
Speaker 4: what they got.
Speaker 5: Located eleven kilometers southeast of York Harbor, Maine, offshore, so
Speaker 5: it puts it at about five five and a half
Speaker 5: miles southeast of York Harbor.
Speaker 4: Light to moderate's shaking, so we don't expect too much damage.
Speaker 4: If any of the depth of this thing was six
Speaker 4: miles deep. Most of massive you SAIDs as far out
Speaker 4: as Springfield could have felt this, as well as most
Speaker 4: of New Hampshire, lower third of Maine, parts of Connecticut
Speaker 4: and Rhode Island. Again, a big earthquake centered up the
Speaker 4: coast of Maine. Your Carver, We got you covered all
Speaker 4: day here WBZ News Radio and streaming on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: I'm Drew maholland WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: A lot of people calling about this one, wondering what
Speaker 3: was that shaking. It was an earthquake from Newton to Quinsy,
Speaker 3: Needham and Denham. Getting reports of people feeling that little
Speaker 3: bit of rattle, that little bit of shaking, wondering is
Speaker 3: it a snowplow. No, it was an earthquake again, three
Speaker 3: point nine magnitude. They just updated that measurement to three
Speaker 3: point eight. It's now three point eight. No report of
Speaker 3: any injuries or damage. We'll stay on this story both
Speaker 3: here and streaming on the new iHeartRadio app. Our Other
Speaker 3: breaking news today, Josh Kraft is running for mayor of Boston.
Speaker 3: He just filed the paperwork, and wbz's Jared Brosnan has more.
Speaker 6: As the president of the New England Patriots Foundation and
Speaker 6: the son of Pat's owner Robert Kraft, he's certainly no
Speaker 6: stranger to Bostonians. He also currently serves as board chair
Speaker 6: for the Urban League of Massachusetts and previously spent thirty
Speaker 6: years working for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston.
Speaker 6: According to the campaign filings, he's running as a Democrat,
Speaker 6: and all signs point to a face off with incumbent
Speaker 6: Mayor Michelle wou. She just hasn't pulled the trigger on
Speaker 6: an official announcement just yet. Jared Brosnan w BZ, Boston's
Speaker 6: News Radio on.
Speaker 3: The picket line today, professors at Toffs University. They're on
Speaker 3: strike after their contract talks failed.
Speaker 1: After nearly a year with no new contract, Over one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty lecturers in the School of Arts and
Speaker 1: Sciences are going on a two day strike. Not only
Speaker 1: are they demanding a pay increase to meet the cost
Speaker 1: of living, but also a more manageable workload, signing undergraduate
Speaker 1: enrollment continuing to climb. A tough spokesperson says the university
Speaker 1: has a compensation and merit increased philosophy that applies to
Speaker 1: all faculty and staff, adding they look forward to continuing
Speaker 1: to work with the union to arrive at an agreement.
Speaker 1: In Metaford, James Rojas w b z Z Boston Some news radio.
Speaker 3: Blues Skys it's sunny out there. We're head of our
Speaker 3: high of thirty nine. Most of you in the thirty
Speaker 3: three to degree maybe thirty two degrees zone now and
Speaker 3: it's a little bit windy, especially on the Cape. Tonight,
Speaker 3: it will be windy with some snow falling by morning.
Speaker 3: And again because we're thawing out a little bit today
Speaker 3: from the Arctic blast, we can see it. It's going
Speaker 3: to freeze tonight at a low of thirty two, So
Speaker 3: that's going to be icy tomorrow when we head back
Speaker 3: to work, and we could see some morning snow showers.
Speaker 3: We could see some steady or snow tomorrow night actually
Speaker 3: into Wednesday morning, and again one to three inches. How
Speaker 3: about that. Now we have some actual measurements here, one
Speaker 3: to three inches of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday, and
Speaker 3: Wednesday looks like it's a little snowy. It's eleven oh five.
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Speaker 4: Dave Matthews, a notorious girl dad to Grace and Stella,
Speaker 4: is now a grandfather. He shared the news with his
Speaker 4: fans during his annual weekend in Mexico Dave paused for
Speaker 4: a long time in that crowd, and a lot of
Speaker 4: diehard fans who know him well, they knew something was up.
Speaker 1: My first, my first grand babies here.
Speaker 4: What a surprise for the Dave Matthews fans in Mexico.
Speaker 4: Now the crowd went crazy. Dave Matthews notoriously holds the
Speaker 4: family stuff very close to the vest. So we don't
Speaker 4: know which daughter had the baby, or if it's a
Speaker 4: boy or girl. But I'm sure we'll know soon enough.
Speaker 4: Drew mohalland Aberty Busy, Oh Guys, Sion Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: And the One That Got Away No More. Pop star
Speaker 3: Katy Perry is heading out on tour for the first
Speaker 3: time since twenty eighteen. Should be making a stop in Boston.
Speaker 3: She'll be taking the stage at the TV Guard in
Speaker 3: August days as she tours her latest record for teen
Speaker 3: teen thirty two. The pre sale of tickets begins tomorrow,
Speaker 3: followed by a general sale on Friday for Katie Perry
Speaker 3: and it's opening day for tax season. Starting today, the
Speaker 3: IRS will begin accepting and processing your tax returns from
Speaker 3: last year. But here's the question. Do you do it
Speaker 3: yourself or do you hire somebody to help you do
Speaker 3: it see me as News business analyst Jill's Lessinger weighs
Speaker 3: in on that if you're a.
Speaker 2: Way journer, you could probably do it yourself. If you
Speaker 2: have some complexity, you own a business, you are self employed,
Speaker 2: maybe you sold the piece of real estate you have
Speaker 2: to file on a state tax return.
Speaker 3: You may want to hire a professional. Do it now.
Speaker 2: The IRS has some tips about how to look for
Speaker 2: a professional and what is considered a legitimate tax professional.
Speaker 3: All right, and justa heads up, Massachusetts taxpayers, we do
Speaker 3: not get an extra day this year to fill our
Speaker 3: taxes because tax Day is April fifteenth and Patriots Day
Speaker 3: is the twenty. You are now in the loop for
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