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Well, good morning, and this is a switch. We've got some rain here in Greater Boston this morning. It is forty eight degrees out the door this Thursday. The News at six is brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Jeff Brown. It's a super.
Soaker Friday today and increasingly windy with period the rain.
It will be steady as from late morning on the hindiear fifty or as close as we're gonna get. That's WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Showers could hang out with us until early Saturday. We've seen fire and we've seen rain, and today's rain is going to help, no doubt about that, but won't put an end to severe drought in much of Massachusetts. WBC's James Rojas is in Saugus.
The Fern and Castle Rock fires here at break Heart have burned over forty acres combined now. Though it's not exactly known how these fires started, the DCR Bureau of Forest Fire Control says almost all fire activity is human cost that being said because of the ongoing drought conditions, the chance of lightning cost fires increases if there are
thunderstorms in the area. At the moment, there are over twenty active brush fires and the Commonwealth with the largest burning in Great Barrington with over eleven hundred acres scots so far in Saugust. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news.
Radio officials in North Andover and Middleton have also declared states of emergency as firefighters there have been working on the flames for weeks on end. Again, some six hundred brush fires have ignited in this historic drought since just last month. In Massachusetts, New this morning, new Russia launches an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine. It is the first time that Russia has used such a powerful weapon in
its more than one thousand day war. The strike comes after President Biden Grant's authority to use US made long range missiles and land mines, and after Ukraine also fires British made long range weapons this week as well. The battles in the Middle East continue and now come with a glimmer of hope.
US and Lebanese officials say progress has been made during a second day of ceasefire talks in Beirut. US Special Envoy Almos Holstein says the gaps are narrowing. Lebanon's chief negotiators says the sides agree on eighty percent of the US ceasefire proposal. Holstein now bringing the latest draft here to Israel where home meet Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin Natanya who I'm the new Defence Minister Jordana Miller, ABC News Jerusalem.
For the second time this week, New England feels the earth move under our feet. This time it's a two point three magnitude earthquake. It rattles nerves and moods in Moodis, Connecticut, about a half hour southeast of Hartford. This follows a similar quake centered in Lunenburg earlier this week. No damage reported in either, and it's Saudi Podner.
In Nashville, the Country Music Awards were headed out in Nashville. Cowboys, Weather and that song Leather one Album of the Year for Cody Johnson. He accepted the award this way on ABC.
There's very few.
Moments when in your career and when your life the Rick Flair feels appropriate.
But Entertainer of the Year went to Morgan Wallen, though he was not there. The show was hosted by Luke, Brian Peyton Manning and Lady Wilson Matt Piper CBS News.
So here we go Thursday morning, a little bit of light rain and greater Boston. This is just the appetizer because if you look at the radar, the main event is still a couple of hours away, and it includes some steadier and heavier rain. And if you scope out and look at western New York, we're also seeing some
snow also, which could make its way into Massachusetts. It is doubtful that we'll see manything more than just maybe a couple of flakes in some of the elevated areas throughout the day today, but this is certainly what we've been waiting for. Some more steady rain is on the way. Temperatures will struggle to get out of the forties today. This will help and will put just a little bit
of a dent in the ongoing drought situation. Overnight tonight, windy rain continues, temperatures will be really pretty steady in the forties. Even Tomorrow looks like mostly cloudy with occasional showers and some of these lingering showers will extend into the early stages of the weekend as well. Next best chance to see a return of the sunshine, though, is coming up on Sunday. Right now, it's forty eight raining
lightly in Boston this morning six oh five. On this Thursday, it's another date with the xbox for about ten thousand students on the North Shore, and quite frankly, a lot of them are getting tired of it. As teacher strikes continue in three communities. But in Gloucester, if.
Management were to work with the deal on the table and look at the numbers, it could have been struck before dinner.
Teachers in Beverly and Marblehead still have some work to do at the bargaining table as the pressure mounts.
Miss Nice.
Students in Marblehead February and April vacation are now at risk. After the school committee talked about how to make up the growing number of canceled school days.
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Until we know where we are.
Students never thought they'd be counting the days to go back.
It's time we go back to school.
It's time.
It just comes soon.
Ends teachers say they're willing to stay for as long as it takes until a deal is reached.
Mis wbztvs Tammy Mutasa. Governor Mara Heally is now calling on teachers and the school districts to work with a renewed sense of urgency to get back to class. The teachers' unions, by the way, continue to be hit with daily progressive fines. It's the most wonderful time of the year for Massachusetts. Former First Lady.
Lauren Baker got involved with the Wonderfund as a volunteer and a board member when her husband, Charlie Baker was governor. Now she's CEO of the private nonprofit that has a deep commitment to children involved with the state, a commitment that has an intense focus right now during the holiday season.
The Wonderfund tries to make sure at every single one of those fifty thousand children engaged with DCF get a holiday gift chosen specifically for them.
Social workers at DCF collect toy wish lists from thousands of children, and that information is put on the Wonderfund website, where donors can choose how they want to bring a piece of Christmas into the lives of children who've had it pretty rough from swampskat Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's News Radio.
And Elvis is back in the building. Costello is coming.
Soon skill.
The short run of dates kicks off in eastern Pennsylvania on February nineteenth. From there, Costello stops in the Red Bank, New Jersey, Fortsmouth in New Hampshire, and Woodstock, New York, among other cities. The dates conclude in Chicago on March fourteenth. For most of the show's Costello only performs with his keyboardist Steve Naive. Tickets go on sale today. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Elvis Costello will also perform at the Cabinet Theater in Beverly on Saturday, March first. 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.