Of the morning and still got the burbs nashua 20s, milder in plymouth 35 and 40s for the cape and islands. But this is the storm system thats moving toward us. Most of the snow stays well to the north in canada as it moves on in, it is just going to be patch rain showers for us. So check it out, 9 00 this morning, temperatures in the middle 30s, we got some partial sun this morning, clouds will keep thickening up, so at noon time mostly cloudy points north and west of boston and slight risk of shower, temps in the middle 40s and commute later today we have a lot of 40s around town and we got a few remaining showers, 44 to 50 today, partly sunny this morning, time out how long the showers last coming up in just a couple minutes. Julie grauert standing by with live drive time traffic and delay on the t. Julie yes, shiri, the delay is on red line, moderate northbound delays between quincy and umass because of a signal problem. Sky fox we have boston above the accident on expressway southb
Like weather today, shir. Shiri looking at pots like norwood 20 degrees and you are more than doubling your temperature once we hit the afternoon. Last hour. 24 in bedford. 32 in lawrence. A couple of 30s in worcester and down to the cape as well. 20s and 30s for the most part this morning the storm system that will be tracking toward us today and little chunk of cloud and thicken up. That means here for the morning commute that we are starting out in the 20s and 30s, but future cast has us going lets say to the low and mid30s with some sunshine here by 8 00 this morning. Noontime temperatures are going to make it into the middle and the upper 40s. It will be very balmy out there it will be very balmy out there. And also pretty blustery and we will start bringing in these widely scattered showers to the north and west of boston just after lunchtime today and this evening is going to favor southeastern massachusetts, so we will take you a little deep coming up in a couple of minutes. Tr
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Forecast for brent crude saying oversupply is likely to peak in whos doing it best. The Second Quarter of the next and candidly, new york really year. Those prices are looking at a was doing the best work in this near fiveyear low. And the worst case scenario, brent could fall as low as 43 space. Were in a good position from a in the next six months. Thats something to be watching. Budget point. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. On a cash basis. Good morning. We have Corporate News this morning as well. Here are the stocks to watch. Reaching nearrecord levels. The first one out of the box is im comfortable well be able to merck reportedly in talks to buy absorb and pay for the costs. Cubist pharmaceuticals to make and im also confident that the antibiotics and they will pay entrepreneurs coming with roughly 7 billion. Foreignborn citizens and thats more than 34 premium. Immigrants will more than contribute their fair share to also in other drug news, bristol atlantas economy and m
Khalidi, former israeli soldier eran efrati, and israeli journalist alaqsa amira hass. Then to the keystone xl pipeline. Any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change a vote, if not on this road, the yeas are 5 the 60 vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. In a dramatic showdown tuesday, the senate rejected legislation that would have forced approval of the keystone xl pipeline. The measure fell one vote short of the 60 votes needed for passage. Now republicans are threatening to bring the bill back in january. We will speak with cyril scott from south dakota and guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate republicans have blocked a sweeping measure aimed at reining in the National Security agencys dragnet surveillance. The usa freedom act would have ended the bulk collection of telephone records by requiring the nsa to make specific reque