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A couple of flurries out there flying and a variation attempts from forty three to thirty two depending on where you are. But a big storm is coming for all of us this weekend. Good morning, everybody, eleven o'clock. I'm Laurie Kirby and Massachusetts getting ready right now for some serious snowfalls Saturday into Sunday.
Snow will develop early Saturday night to continue into Sunday morning before ending. Snow will accumulate four to weight inches across much of the area, with two to four inches down towards the south coast the cape of the Islands because of mixing.
And more from ACI Weather meteorologist Joe Lamberg Coming up. Attorney General Andrea Campbell is trying to ease fears over President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. She's now teamed up was seventeen other attorneys general to try and stop the move and federal court. Wdbz's James Rohast reports.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message to families who are concerned about the Trump Administration's effort to overturn birthright citizenship.
Do not be fearful, keep your hope. We said before this president took office that we had tools in our respective offices to fight back, including running to court, getting a temporary restraining order, a pluminary injunction, whatever we needed to stop this administration from harming our constituents.
When asked about how she feels of lawmakers who do support the president's executive order.
Cheer hypocrisy, and I think it's their attempt to not only attempt to undermine the Constitution and attempt to eradicate it, to also distract our people from the issues that matter the most.
On Beacon Hill. James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOWS Radio.
Today's employment report is out. It's complicated to quote Bloomberg Xandrew O'Day he'll be joining us in six minutes. It shows the job market cooled in January. Here's ABC's Brian Clark.
Private sector added one hundred and forty three thousand jobs in January, well below the one hundred seventy thousand that were expected, and it's a significant drop off from last month's blowout report that showed two hundred and fifty six thousand jobs added. In December, the unemployment rate ticked down a tenth of eight percentage point to four percent.
The report also shows the average hourly wages rose by half a percent last month. And now looking at Bloomberg, it's not looking good. We'll check that coming up. Also going up today, that four River bridge, you love it, you hate it. Architecturally it's beautiful, but you know it's going to slow your ride about twenty minutes today when that outbound vessel takes off through the river, and this will impact your Route three a commute. And this is
on the Weymouth Quinsy line. That bridge, you know, very old fashioned, beautiful bridge, but it's a pain. Couple of snow flurries out there. Kevin, we've been talking about the tee, so I actually saw a little bit of rainfalling very brief. I mean, we're seeing some sunshine as well, but there's just these little little pockets of precipitation. And it's forty three in the cape, so anything that falls there is
going to be wet, not white. Tonight's going to be very cold by this evening, real feels into the teens pretty late. Tonight will be clear and then we cloud out so Saturday is fine daytime. The timeline on this major winter storm is seven pm Saturday night through four pm Sunday, So that is the situation. And I'm seeing a couple of models suggesting all of them suggest very high amounts, but four to eight seems to be the average range. I've seen some models here that suggest more
snow than that. So we're all going to have to tune in over the weekend and again take us on the go and stream us on the new iHeartRadio app as well. But we'll be covering this throughout. So do you have your snacks ready? Super Bowl Sunday of course, and the ads, And then there's the security. New Orleans is set to host the Super Bowl fifty nine at the Super Dome, and wbz's Drew Mamholland says security as tight as can be.
Nilen's expects an extra one hundred thousand visitors this week thanks to the Big Game, and it's all hands on deck security wise. Former Boston Police Chief Bill Bratton's right in the heart of the city.
As we'll go through large curses and begs, so even to get into the area that you have to basically expect that anything You're caring is going to be opened and searched.
He tells me. The terrorist attack on New Year's Day, where a man ran over and killed fourteen people on Bourbon Street, has only added to the extra police presence, But it would have been crazy tight security wise anyway. Needless to say, the Big Easy is a hard wall of security and it will be all the way through Marty Grave, which is next Drew maholland WBZ Boston's news radio.
On the Road to Glory, they helped Saint John's prep hockey team hops on the coach bus tomorrow the Early Boss. They're leaving at six am bound for West Point Night. The Salem News reporting the team is taking on longtime rivals Catholic Memorial at Tate Rink this Sunday. It's the seventeenth annual First Lieutenant Derrek Hines Memorial Game. Kanye West is asking President Trump to free accuse sex trafficker Sean Diddy Combs.
The hip hop mogul, remains behind bars awaiting trial after numerous allegations of trafficking and sex abuse. US posted on x Thursday, writing free Puff in all caps. He later appealed directly to President Trump. Posting a request to quote, please free my brother Puff Combs faces federal charges which your president has the power to pardon. I'm Michael Kasner.
Well this one's a little different. The president of Columbia wants the world to legalize cocaine.
President Gustavo Petro says the cocaine industry could easily be dismantled if the drug were legalized globally. He claimed scientists have found cocaine as no worse than whiskey, but he says it it's illegal because it's made in Latin America. Patres says legalized cocaine would be sold like wine. Columbia is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter. That production rose to a record high twenty six hundred tons of cocaine in twenty twenty three. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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