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Morning Report: Friday, March 7, 2025

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Another ceiling panel crashes down at Harvard station, spring break travelers head to Logan Airport, and time to spring forward the clock for daylight saving. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1

This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hey Ma, the cold weather is here on this Friday morning. We are back to pretty much where we should be this time of year. It's thirty degrees. But here's the thing. Wind gusts are blowing at fifty miles per hour. Not good. The News at six is brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your Hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for joining us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. If you've got hatches, might be time to bat them down.

It'll be very windy and chilly today with more Southerlan clouds and winds gusting to forty to fifty miles per hour. And this WBZ acky Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg mid forties today, but with a wind, chill and power outa Jazara thing today. According to MIMA, there are about five thousand people waking up in the dark this morning. Celtics continue to rolls McCall on NBC Sports Boston. This time the Celtics take it out on the Sixers set. The Garden Bruins lose

in Carolina. Red Sox hosts the Marlins at gent Blue Park. This afternoon, it'll be sunny in eighty in Fort Myers, passengers will need to look up the MBTA's red line. After another ceiling panel comes crashing down, barely missing people on a subway platform at the Harvard station. A tumbling tile is caught on surveillance video and is eerily reminiscent of a similar incident at the same station and roughly the same spot at the Harvard stop two years ago.

The te says visual inspections of these tiles happen routinely, but work to remove similar tiles from the ceiling kept cruise pretty busy overnight. It's a fork in the road for America's Miracle drugs. A federal judge puts the final nail on the coffin and ends a prior approval for compounding pharmacies to make and sell generic versions of popular

weight loss drugs. In earlier approval from the FDA meant to alleviate a shortage of Elie Lily's Monjiro and zep Bound is no longer needed, as the company says it's back on its feet. Compounding versions of the treatments are substantially cheaper than the brand names. College Kids it's spring break season and Logan is becoming a zoo. It's not just any busy Friday at Logan. For many, it's the unofficial start of spring break.

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And I was like, oh, it's pretty smooth, that's what Now.

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When I saw the traffic, I was like, oh, no, no, no, the spring Breakers they're here.

Speaker 1

Alexandra and her friends are traveling.

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We're gonna have a wonderful flight, and we're gonna.

Speaker 1

Pot after Pott of Logan James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio. By the way, there are some delays at Logan Airport already this morning. Flight Aware is reporting more than a dozen delays, a couple of cancelations on the board as well. Well, here it comes this weekend. It's time to pay back the hour we gained last fall. Not something we've been looking forward to. I imagine WBC Strew moholland is here with details. Good morning, Andrew, Good.

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Morning, Jeffrey.

Speaker 1

I never go until I get the good morning.

Speaker 4

Time is messing with our minds again this weekend, Daylight Saving Time returns annual tradition where we give back the hour we gained last fall. As you mentioned, did you know, Jeff Losing an hour asleep has been known to be hazardous to our health, links increased to anxiety depression. It's also been ties to arise in heart attacks and strokes, so serious stuff. At the very least we won't be

able to snap out of it. Early next week, more traffic crashes, missing work, later rivals at work in school, all attributed to this. The sun will rise after seven am on Sunday. But Jeff, the silver lining here, okay, the sunset six forty five pm.

Speaker 1

I was wondering where the silver line is? My friend, is the silver lining? Thank you for that? Pretty much the story that we've been living with this winter. High wind's going to be a problem again today. In fact, a wind advisory has been posted for much of the area through seven o'clock tonight, and a high wind warning just outside four ninety five. And it's apparent too, because the gusts are at fifty miles per hour at this

point in time. It's thirty degrees as we walk out the door this morning, and about twenty five degrees colder than this time yesterday, So you get the idea of the kind of day it's going to be. The only thing different about it really is that we'll see plenty of sunshine, although it's going to be very windy throughout the day and cold too, temperatures in the mid forties,

but there is a wind chill involved as well. Pretty much the same story, although not as stiff a wind tomorrow coming at us, but we will see times of sun and clouds, high temperatures in the middle forties. The more comfortable of the weekend days is coming up on Sunday. Highs in the forties once again, and as we head into a new work week next week, it looks like we'll be flirting with temperatures in the mid fifties for

a good portion of the week. Anyway, right now in Boston thirty degrees, very windy sunrise in the city six oh six this Friday morning. Upon further review, President Trump flip flops on tariffs again, puts another one month pause on levies on imports from Canada and Mexico. The twenty five percent tariffs are now on hold. We get more from CBS's Erica Brown.

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Canada responded to the tariff pause, saying it will not go ahead with a second wave of Retalia Tory tariffs on one hundred and twenty five billion dollars worth of US products until April second. Doug Ford, the Premiere of the Province of Ontario, expressed doubts about Trump's decision to reverse course for now.

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He said that before, and he switched his mind a few days later or a week later.

Speaker 1

So once I touch the stove and I get burned.

Speaker 2

Once I don't touch that stove again.

Speaker 1

The tariffs ease pressure on most goods in the US Mexico Canada Agreement, which President Trump negotiated during his first term in office. Peace talks are set to begin between the United States and Ukraine next week. Both President Trump and Vladimir Zelenski confirmed the negotiations will be held in Saudi Arabia. The announcement comes about a week after an Oval office blowout that ended with Zelenski's abrupt departure from

the White House. A social media expression of regret from the leader of Ukraine for the way things went down started this ball rolling. Meantime, the European Union has been meeting in support of Ukraine, but still has no plan for military aids to that country, and today marks the sixtieth anniversary of what many considered to be one of the most shameful days in American history.

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In nineteen sixty five, a young black man named Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed by a trooper as black people trying to exercise their right to vote were being turned away daily. Now gold Is Mundum demonstrators led by John Lewis, chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, headed for the Edmund Pettis Bridge and Selma and were confronted by.

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Troopers your heart, but they did not and were set upon by Alabama state troopers and others who beat them bloody. Two weeks later, a crowd of thousands led by doctor Martin Luther King Junior, marched across that bridge. Allison Key, CBS News.

Speaker 1

You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio

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