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Hello Monday, we meet again, and still you bring nothing to the table. We're getting started though, under clear skies in twenty seven degrees on this Monday morning. The News at six brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today. I'm Jeff Brown. This kind of feels like a setup. Sunshine mixed with some clouds today and increasingly windy with
a high of thirty nine. As WBZ aki weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg, a clipper system threatens to bring some snow to us middle of this week. It is a kinder, gentler winter for COVID cases in the United States. Health officials say a combination of factors has pushed positive test results and hospitalizations lower this year. Doctors do say that coronavirus is not a seasonal disorder, but due to a surge in the late summer months, the virus is taking
it a little bit easier on us. This weey weekend, it appears to have peaked. Wastewater samples will prove that also. Stronger COVID vaccines this time around and the fact that people are not routinely testing as much all contribute to the lower numbers. Flu by the way, is the driver of winter's misery and respiratory illnesses this year. It's ugly, but it's ours and it's historic. The Boston Landmarks Commission designates Boston City Hall an official Historic Landmark on claims
it's got civic and cultural significance. A recent conservation management plan allows the building to address needed updates while preserving its architecture. It was built in the nineteen sixties. It is considered a prime example of brutalist architecture. It's also been voted the fourth ugliest building in the world, second ugliest to the United States, second only to the j. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. After months of stalled talks, teachers at Toughs start to walk. Over one hundred.
Lecturers in the School of Arts are skipping class today and tomorrow. This comes after ten months of failed contract negotiations with Tufts University. The union, representing one hundred and twenty two members, says their average salary is at or below eighty percent of the area median income. They're also demanding a manageable workload as the number of undergraduates enrolling continues to go up. The lecturers may not be in the classroom, but students are expected to show up as
subs will be used both days of the strike. In Metford, James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.
The varsity cheer coach and Quinsy, is off the job this morning and under investigation, accused of providing alcohol and marijuana to high school students. The coach's name is not yet being released, but officials also say students may have been exposed to inappropriate online images. Quinsy School authority say the alleged incidents happened on at least one occasion. Parents have been notified and investigation continues. Celtics host the Rockets
tonight at the Garden. Bruins are off until tomorrow, when they travel to Buffalo and rematch of a Super Bowl two years ago. The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will battle in Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans. It is twenty seven degrees here in the city. We'll get to near forty once again today. Sunshine will begin, some clouds on the increase, and it's going to get windy once again. It's the beginning of an active weather
pattern this week. We have a couple of chances of snow. The first arrives in the form of snow showers tomorrow won't amount to much, but temperatures will be in the mid to upper thirties starting out and then falling throughout the afternoon. And then on Wednesday morning, a clipper system look like looks like it's going to dump some snow on us, especially in the morning. We could see a coding to a inch of snow in many areas and temperatures eventually going to get into the thirties and we
dry out after that. Mainly sunny skies on Thursday, and milder again to round out the week on Friday, with highs approaching forty degrees right now in Boston's twenty seven clear skies to get us going. This Monday morning at six oh five, tax season is here, which means you're on the cloth.
RS kicks off its annual payday for Uncle Sam today, with the option to file online now available in half of all states, including Massachusetts, following a successful test launch last year, but the future of the direct file program remains unclear after twenty twenty five. The program has faced criticism from tax preparers, who say it poses an existential
crisis for them. The tax filing deadline is Tuesday, April fifteenth, and Massachusetts will not get its traditional break due to the Patriots Day holiday, which falls.
Late this year.
April twenty first, Jay will let WBZ Boston's news radio.
While we were watching football this weekend, the president of Columbia was pushing all the wrong buttons. With President Trump livid over the country's refusal to accept planeloads of deported Colombians, Mister Trump threatens to hit that nation with twenty five percent tariffs this week, increasing to fifty percent next week. And after first saying retaliatory taviss would strike next, Columbia's President rethinks that strategy and now will accept the nationals back.
The tariff threat by the United States has been called off, and immigration blitz across the country ends with the roundup of about one thousand immigrants. Borders are Tom Homan says this operation zeroed in on criminals, with the bulk of the action in Chicago, but spreading elsewhere to Atlanta, Colorado, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, even Puerto Rico. The FBI gets an assist from several other government agencies, including the DEA
and US. Marshal's officials say that targeted operation focused on immigrants with active warrants. The White House Cabinet is slowly being assembled, its new Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett's first day on the job after an historic vice presidential tie breaking vote in the Senate. Former South Dakota Governor Christy Nome begins her new job as Director of Homeland Security. Today.
Senators are busy again on Capitol Hill, with confirmation hearings set this week for Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the controversial pick as head of Health and Human Services, Kash Patel's nomination to run the FBI, and Tulsey Gabbard will testify later this week, is nominee for head of National Intelligence. Another study looks at the addiction that many kids have to their smartphones. WBZ S Drew moholland is here with some details. Good morning, Andre, Good morning, Jeffrey.
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Yes, smartphones. Oh you love that, don't you?
Worst sound ever?
You use the phone to wake up in the morning. We're always connected, but the phones these days could be making teens more aggressive and get this, and new study finds they could be causing hallucinations. Furthermore, the younger a person is when they start using a smartphone, the more likely they are to develop psychological problems. These teens pulled had feelings of, among other things, hopelessness, guilt, anxiety, and unwonted strange thoughts yikes. AnyWho, Good morning.
There, it is again time to wake up six oh eight. 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