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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, and this is a switch. We've got
Speaker 2: some rain here in Greater Boston this morning. It is
Speaker 2: forty eight degrees out the door this Thursday. The News
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Speaker 3: Soaker Friday today and increasingly windy with period the rain.
Speaker 2: It will be steady as from late morning on the
Speaker 2: hindiear fifty or as close as we're gonna get. That's
Speaker 2: WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Showers could hang out with
Speaker 2: us until early Saturday. We've seen fire and we've seen rain,
Speaker 2: and today's rain is going to help, no doubt about that,
Speaker 2: but won't put an end to severe drought in much
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. WBC's James Rojas is in Saugus.
Speaker 3: The Fern and Castle Rock fires here at break Heart
Speaker 3: have burned over forty acres combined now. Though it's not
Speaker 3: exactly known how these fires started, the DCR Bureau of
Speaker 3: Forest Fire Control says almost all fire activity is human
Speaker 3: cost that being said because of the ongoing drought conditions,
Speaker 3: the chance of lightning cost fires increases if there are
Speaker 3: thunderstorms in the area. At the moment, there are over
Speaker 3: twenty active brush fires and the Commonwealth with the largest
Speaker 3: burning in Great Barrington with over eleven hundred acres scots
Speaker 3: so far in Saugust. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio officials in North Andover and Middleton have also declared
Speaker 2: states of emergency as firefighters there have been working on
Speaker 2: the flames for weeks on end. Again, some six hundred
Speaker 2: brush fires have ignited in this historic drought since just
Speaker 2: last month. In Massachusetts, New this morning, new Russia launches
Speaker 2: an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine. It is the first
Speaker 2: time that Russia has used such a powerful weapon in
Speaker 2: its more than one thousand day war. The strike comes
Speaker 2: after President Biden Grant's authority to use US made long
Speaker 2: range missiles and land mines, and after Ukraine also fires
Speaker 2: British made long range weapons this week as well. The
Speaker 2: battles in the Middle East continue and now come with
Speaker 2: a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 4: US and Lebanese officials say progress has been made during
Speaker 4: a second day of ceasefire talks in Beirut. US Special
Speaker 4: Envoy Almos Holstein says the gaps are narrowing. Lebanon's chief
Speaker 4: negotiators says the sides agree on eighty percent of the
Speaker 4: US ceasefire proposal. Holstein now bringing the latest draft here
Speaker 4: to Israel where home meet Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin
Speaker 4: Natanya who I'm the new Defence Minister Jordana Miller, ABC
Speaker 4: News Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: For the second time this week, New England feels the
Speaker 2: earth move under our feet. This time it's a two
Speaker 2: point three magnitude earthquake. It rattles nerves and moods in Moodis, Connecticut,
Speaker 2: about a half hour southeast of Hartford. This follows a
Speaker 2: similar quake centered in Lunenburg earlier this week. No damage
Speaker 2: reported in either, and it's Saudi Podner.
Speaker 5: In Nashville, the Country Music Awards were headed out in Nashville. Cowboys,
Speaker 5: Weather and that song Leather one Album of the Year
Speaker 5: for Cody Johnson. He accepted the award this way on ABC.
Speaker 6: There's very few.
Speaker 1: Moments when in your career and when your life the
Speaker 1: Rick Flair feels appropriate.
Speaker 5: But Entertainer of the Year went to Morgan Wallen, though
Speaker 5: he was not there. The show was hosted by Luke,
Speaker 5: Brian Peyton Manning and Lady Wilson Matt Piper CBS News.
Speaker 2: So here we go Thursday morning, a little bit of
Speaker 2: light rain and greater Boston. This is just the appetizer
Speaker 2: because if you look at the radar, the main event
Speaker 2: is still a couple of hours away, and it includes
Speaker 2: some steadier and heavier rain. And if you scope out
Speaker 2: and look at western New York, we're also seeing some
Speaker 2: snow also, which could make its way into Massachusetts. It
Speaker 2: is doubtful that we'll see manything more than just maybe
Speaker 2: a couple of flakes in some of the elevated areas
Speaker 2: throughout the day today, but this is certainly what we've
Speaker 2: been waiting for. Some more steady rain is on the way.
Speaker 2: Temperatures will struggle to get out of the forties today.
Speaker 2: This will help and will put just a little bit
Speaker 2: of a dent in the ongoing drought situation. Overnight tonight,
Speaker 2: windy rain continues, temperatures will be really pretty steady in
Speaker 2: the forties. Even Tomorrow looks like mostly cloudy with occasional
Speaker 2: showers and some of these lingering showers will extend into
Speaker 2: the early stages of the weekend as well. Next best
Speaker 2: chance to see a return of the sunshine, though, is
Speaker 2: coming up on Sunday. Right now, it's forty eight raining
Speaker 2: lightly in Boston this morning six oh five. On this Thursday,
Speaker 2: it's another date with the xbox for about ten thousand
Speaker 2: students on the North Shore, and quite frankly, a lot
Speaker 2: of them are getting tired of it. As teacher strikes
Speaker 2: continue in three communities. But in Gloucester, if.
Speaker 3: Management were to work with the deal on the table
Speaker 3: and look at the numbers, it could have been struck
Speaker 3: before dinner.
Speaker 2: Teachers in Beverly and Marblehead still have some work to
Speaker 2: do at the bargaining table as the pressure mounts.
Speaker 4: Miss Nice.
Speaker 7: Students in Marblehead February and April vacation are now at risk.
Speaker 7: After the school committee talked about how to make up
Speaker 7: the growing number of canceled school days.
Speaker 6: Well, Queene can make a file of de season.
Speaker 4: Until we know where we are.
Speaker 7: Students never thought they'd be counting the days to go back.
Speaker 3: It's time we go back to school.
Speaker 2: It's time.
Speaker 8: It just comes soon.
Speaker 7: Ends teachers say they're willing to stay for as long
Speaker 7: as it takes until a deal is reached.
Speaker 2: Mis wbztvs Tammy Mutasa. Governor Mara Heally is now calling
Speaker 2: on teachers and the school districts to work with a
Speaker 2: renewed sense of urgency to get back to class. The
Speaker 2: teachers' unions, by the way, continue to be hit with
Speaker 2: daily progressive fines. It's the most wonderful time of the
Speaker 2: year for Massachusetts. Former First Lady.
Speaker 6: Lauren Baker got involved with the Wonderfund as a volunteer
Speaker 6: and a board member when her husband, Charlie Baker was governor.
Speaker 6: Now she's CEO of the private nonprofit that has a
Speaker 6: deep commitment to children involved with the state, a commitment
Speaker 6: that has an intense focus right now during the holiday season.
Speaker 8: The Wonderfund tries to make sure at every single one
Speaker 8: of those fifty thousand children engaged with DCF get a
Speaker 8: holiday gift chosen specifically for them.
Speaker 6: Social workers at DCF collect toy wish lists from thousands
Speaker 6: of children, and that information is put on the Wonderfund website,
Speaker 6: where donors can choose how they want to bring a
Speaker 6: piece of Christmas into the lives of children who've had
Speaker 6: it pretty rough from swampskat Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: And Elvis is back in the building. Costello is coming.
Speaker 6: Soon skill.
Speaker 1: The short run of dates kicks off in eastern Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: on February nineteenth. From there, Costello stops in the Red Bank,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Fortsmouth in New Hampshire, and Woodstock, New York,
Speaker 1: among other cities. The dates conclude in Chicago on March fourteenth.
Speaker 1: For most of the show's Costello only performs with his
Speaker 1: keyboardist Steve Naive. Tickets go on sale today. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2: Elvis Costello will also perform at the Cabinet Theater in
Speaker 2: Beverly on Saturday, March first. You are now in the
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