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