1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: We defining local news. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 3: Thirty one degrees in Boston right now, mostly sunny. It's 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 3: eleven o'clock on Friday morning. Good to have you with us. 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 3: I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. We have extremely 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: cold temperatures, a possible blockbuster snowstorm on the way. Certainly 7 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 3: no better weekend to stay indoors and make French toast. 8 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 3: Forecasters say wind chills tomorrow will be only in the teens. Actually, 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: we're gonna see highs only in the teens tomorrow. Wind 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: chills down to twenty below zero tonight and about ten 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 3: below zero tomorrow, So again, dangerous, bitter cold. National Weather 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 3: Service meteorologist Catherine Mensch says, if the storm that we're 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 3: expecting this weekend stays on track, we'll start to see 14 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 3: the snow come down midday Sunday, a lot of it, 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 3: especially when it first starts. Given you as cold as 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 3: it's going to be, it's definitely going to start on 17 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 3: a fluffy side. 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 4: Towards the end of the system, we actually might get 19 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 4: a little bit of, you know, less bluffy snow. 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 5: Now. 21 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 3: While much of the southern US is looking in ice 22 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 3: storm here for us, here in Massachusetts, we're looking at 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: least a foot of snow, if not more when all 24 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: is said and done. Now we're used to snow around here, 25 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean we're all happy about getting it. 26 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 1: It's terrible. 27 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 3: I don't want it. I'm wishing for sunshine. 28 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: Consider me the bear of bad news to Linda from Carver. Unfortunately, 29 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: that sunshine is really going away later this weekend. We 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 2: head into a deep freeze tomorrow than a snowstorm on Sunday, 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 2: the likes of which we haven't probably seen in a decade. 32 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: Many now fueling up and for good reason, only use. 33 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: High fast on my small equipment. So that's why I'm 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: getting high tests for my snowblower. 35 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 4: And I'll get everything ready and in line up, throwing 36 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 4: a couple extra bucks of gas in case I gotta 37 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 4: run it for a while. 38 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: We'll be with you on WBZ News Radio the whole 39 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: way this Sunday and Monday. Linda says she'll be listening 40 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: and also thanking some very warm thoughts for later this year. 41 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: I want summer, I want warm weather. 42 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: Chearing up for the storm enployment. Jim McKay wb Z, 43 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,919 Speaker 2: Boston's news radio. 44 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 3: Remember keep your devices charged, get that iHeartRadio app on 45 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 3: your phone, and you can get access to us anytime anywhere. 46 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: It's eleven oh two and school officials in Minnesota are 47 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: upset that ice agents are taking some of their students. Here, 48 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 3: CBS is Michael Wallace. 49 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 5: Columbia Heights School Superintendent Zena Stenvicks's agents took five year 50 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 5: old Liam Ramos and his father from their driveway this 51 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 5: week as Liam arrived home from preschool. 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 3: Why detain a five year old? 53 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 4: You can't tell me that this child is going to 54 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 4: be classified as a violent criminal, I says. 55 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 5: Liam and his father, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador, are 56 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 5: now at a processing center in Texas. A Columbia Heights 57 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 5: fourth grader and her mother are also there. 58 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 4: Our children should not continue to be targeted by massed 59 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 4: agents brandishing large weapons. 60 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 5: Michael Wallace, CBS News. 61 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 3: For the rest of the day, it is going to 62 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 3: be nice and sunny out there. Good day to get 63 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 3: outside and take care of all the preps you might 64 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: need for the upcoming storm. It will be chillier than yesterday, 65 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 3: for sure. We have a high only about freezing so 66 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: thirty two thirty three degrees, but again we've got plenty 67 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: of sun and the wind is not going to be 68 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 3: too gusty, but you will have a bit of a 69 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 3: breeze out there while you're trying to make your way 70 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: around and get stuff done. Then for tonight we have 71 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 3: a flurry in places, and then we've got mostly clear, 72 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: blustery conditions. This is where this arctic air is going 73 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 3: to be moving in. We have a low tonight of 74 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: five in Boston below zero. Well inland, real feels falling 75 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 3: to about twenty below. Again, this is very dangerous. We 76 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 3: have a cold weather advisory up starting at ten o'clock 77 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 3: tonight through ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and temperatures are not 78 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 3: warming up tomorrow very much at all. We have a 79 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 3: high only about fifteen real feels throughout the day five 80 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: to fifteen below. So if you've got to be outside tomorrow, 81 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 3: definitely bundle up, get the good parka, get the good 82 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 3: winter gloves. Not the day to focus on looking cute, 83 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 3: overlooking warm, staying warm someday. This is the storm we're 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 3: watching here. The snow is expected to arrive later in 85 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: the afternoon. We have a high year twenty and then 86 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: the snow is heavy at times, very windy out there 87 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 3: as well Sunday night into Monday. So far we are 88 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 3: again a couple of days out here. The models are 89 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 3: still working and doing their thing, but when it comes 90 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: to snowfall, we're looking at about ten to fifteen inches, 91 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: could have locally higher amounts. We'll finally start to see 92 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 3: this moving out later in the day on Monday. Right 93 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 3: now in Boston, we're at thirty one degrees at eleven 94 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: oh five, and let's talk about getting things ready for 95 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 3: the storm. Focusing on this man who normally is your 96 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: typical handyman, but he's busy making house calls for a 97 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 3: different reason. Yeah. Man, it's been a long time coming. 98 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 4: Man. That's why I was waiting for. 99 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: Meet mister John, a mobile repair man whose phone has 100 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: been off the hook the last twenty four hours. 101 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 3: And then one oh one ticks. 102 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: It's been crazy. 103 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: I got another one guy walking in hire Pak. 104 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 5: I know. 105 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: Most calls are to get snowblowers like this one running 106 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: again before the bad weather comes. 107 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 4: They've been sitting for so long, so the guys go 108 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 4: the ky builder. 109 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 2: That's the common issues. 110 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: In minutes, mister John made sure this Belmont resident was 111 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: ready to clear his driveway. 112 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 3: And I report there from CBS Boston's airin Parsigian and 113 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: Wooster Police say they're trying to figure out what led 114 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 3: to a plow truck's window shattering while the driver was 115 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 3: clearing the streets, as happened early yesterday about two in 116 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: the morning on Sterling Street. Police say the man driving 117 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 3: the plow told them a projectile flew through his open 118 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: driver's side window and shattered the window on the other side. 119 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 3: If you have any information, you're asked to call Worcester Police. 120 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 3: Days after launching her reelection bid, last night, Governor Morey 121 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 3: heally addressed the state in her annual State of the 122 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: Commonwealth address, and she focused on affordability. 123 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 6: You had a sense that if you worked hard, things 124 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 6: were going to be okay. Right now, it doesn't feel 125 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 6: that way. Fixing that and lowering costs should be the 126 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 6: focus of every elected official in America. 127 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,799 Speaker 3: It's certainly mine. The governor doubling down on the state's 128 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 3: efforts to push back against the Trump administer, hitting the 129 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: President on his moves to cut snap Amit, the ongoing 130 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 3: immigration crackdown, and TikTok has beat the clock on a 131 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 3: ban in the United States. 132 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 4: White House official confirmed both China and the US signed 133 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 4: off on a deal to spin off TikTok's US operations, 134 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 4: and it comes just a day before the deadline that 135 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 4: could have forced the app offline. Now, the new company 136 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 4: would be majority owned by a group of mostly American investors, 137 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 4: as according to an internal memo that we reviewed back 138 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 4: in December. How those investors would include private equity firms 139 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 4: silver Lake MGX that's an Abu Dhabi based fund, and 140 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 4: tech giant. 141 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 3: Oracle CBS's Kelly O. Grady. The company says, along with 142 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 3: an emphasis on data protection, TikTok's algorithm will be tested, retrained, 143 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 3: and updated on US user data. You are now in 144 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 3: the loop for news updates throughout the day. 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