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Everyone knows, Wow, what is it?
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Ah, Yes, everyone knows it's windy because it's been well windy. Fifty to sixty mile an hour wind gusts have been battering parts of Massachusetts today. We'll get better. How about thirty to forty mile an hour wind gus tomorrow. A high wind warning still up for central Massachusetts. A wind advisory in eastern mass Powers out to just over fifteen one thousand customers across the commonwealth and in Boston. Earlier today, a scaffolding collapsed in the back bay. It happened at
Beacon and Exeter Streets. A couple of cars were hit by falling debris.
As see how especially trained firefighters that went underneath the scaffolding that's collapsed onto the onto the cars to make sure that there's no one in the cars and that there's no civilians.
We might have been walking on the sidebar. Nobody was heard. Fire officials say there does not appear to be significant damage to the building Rhods are expected to be closed off for some time for a full cleanup effort. In the back bay. Were following some developing news involving your Boston Bruins. We have Brian Antonelli here to tell us who's going where and who's coming here.
Then, Brad Marshan had played in over one thousand games with the Bruins, where he was fourth all time and goals, fifth in points, and he was the final player from the team that won the twenty eleven Stanley Cup squad. Butts I say was because the Bruins have traded their captain today at the deadline to the Florida Panthers, so in the division. Still no word on what the return is. But once again, Brad Marshan no longer a Bruin, He's
a Panther. The Bees were busy elsewhere. They sent Charlie Coyle to Colorado for a couple of and a conditional second round pick, and they did receive a first round pick and a three team deal that has sent Brandon Carlow to Toronto.
All right, continuing to follow developments here, we'll let you know and we know more right here on WBZ. Don't forget to download the iHeartRadio app, take us with you wherever you go, and make WBZ You're number one present why not? Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell's filed the lawsuit against the number of federal agencies for mass layoffs of probationary federal workers, along with twenty other attorneys at General Campbell's asking a federal court to order agencies to stop
the layoffs and reinstate the fired workers. They argued the Trump administration failed to follow federal laws around large scale reductions in force, failing to provide enough advanced notice to workers terminated federal employees and Massachusetts have already applied to the state for unemployment benefits. The Federal Reserve says the US economy is strong despite concerns about inflation and tariffs.
The Federal Reserve is not rushing to cut interest rates, as Chairman Jerome Powell now Friday.
The economy remains strong, but inflation does not continue to move sustainably towards two percent. We can maintain policy restraint for longer.
And when it comes to the economic effect of President Trump's policy.
Changes, uncertainty around the changes and their likely effects remains high.
Powell told the US Monetary Policy Forum in Chicago the FED is well positioned to wait for greater clarity. Brian Clark ABC News windy. Yes, it'll be less windy tomorrow, but still windy. Wind advisories are effect till seven o'clock tonight, but when the advisory expires, the winds don't just vanish, they just dim down a little bit. So we've had
wind gus today fifty sixty miles an hour. Tonight will be breezy, probably forty mile an hour wind gusts of possibility tomorrow thirty to forty mile an hour wind gusts. So see, it's getting a little better each day. We'll be chilly tomorrow forty two, feeling though like it's in the twenties.
With that wind. There will be some sunshine and some clouds, mainly clear tomorrow nine love twenty five, still a little breezy. On Sunday, partly sunny, temperatures in the low forties. Monday, clouds will give way to sunshine. Will be breezy again forty seven and then into the fifties on Tuesday. Right now, it is forty one degree in Boston downtown. Lowell's newest business is already proving to be a big hit with the area's cat lovers.
When Lowell's Lazy Cat Lounge opened its doors for the very first time this morning, Miranda from Burlington was here and ready to make some new friends.
Hi fiance is allergic to cats, and I love them, so this is a great place for me to go to get some cat time.
And that's exactly what Brandy Jong is offering, along with coffee and fresh bake goods in a cozy space with Victorian sitting room vibe and lots of friendly feelines. John created this space for folks like Miranda who might be starred for cat companionship, or who might be looking to adopt one of the cats on loan from the MSPCA.
You know you're not going in and seeing a cat who's been in a cage all day and been stressed out.
This is a more homelike environment.
You get to see their personality a little bit better.
The MSPCA, where Jong is volunteered for twenty five years, gets a dollar for every person who comes here to the Lazy Cat Lounge sessions or booked online from Lowell Kendall. Built to busy Boston's news radio.
Sleep tonight because tomorrow night clocks go forward an hour and knocks an hour off your night time. Losing sleep no fun, but it can have side effects too.
Research has shown the ritual of changing the clocks in spring and fall can impact productivity and our mental and physical health.
Honestly, even sleeping in an hour, I get groggy, and then losing the hour, I just get evil.
It's why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine wants to eliminate seasonal time changes.
It's harder to go to bed when it's light out, so that can make it harder to fall asleep.
But yet our responsibilities are the same in terms of waking up for school, waking up for work. Doctor Nina shell Gakar is president of the Academy, which recommends moving to year round, permanent standard time. Before taking office, President Trump posted his support for ending daylight saving time, saying it is inconvenient and very costly to our nation.
That issbisis Donia buckis trying to reach a deal on nuke's. President Trump says he's reached out to a rand supremely.
President Trump told Fox.
News, I've written him a letter saying, I hope you can negotiate, because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them.
He says he thinks it's a letter they want to get.
The other w alternative is we have to do something because you can't let him have a nuclear weapon.
Trump says he sent it yesterday, but a spokesperson from Ron's UN mission told CBS News they have not received it so far. Stacey Lynn, CBS News the White House.
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