Back for you on check on the road. Julie wanted to remind you longfellow bridge will be close tonight until 5 00 a. M. On monday. Things looking good on route 1 in saugus. 93 a little sluggish through somerville. 128 southbound is slow as you head through lexington. Pike though moving along at decent clip and look at that. It is a friday on weekday commute and we have a ton of space between the cars eastbound through brighton. Here are live drive times, 19 minutes on the pike from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel. 22 minutes on route 9 from 495 to speen street and 34 minutes on 128 south from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Daniel 9 01. New information coming into the newsroom about 15 minutes ago. Elementary school in winchendon is closed today after a large number of students came down with what suspected to be norovirus. The School Superintendent says 20 of students at Memorial Elementary School stayed home or norovirus is stomach virus that causes vomiting. Julie
Inland. Well watch for that overnight tonight and early tomorrow. Heavier rain on sunday. This will be the pertinent area of low pressure that carves its way into the great lakes. This will send mild air, gusty winds and a batch of heavier rain, looking like about a sixhour window. Id say from about 9 00 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. , about an inch to an inch and a half of rain in near record highs well into the 50s. More on that forecast coming up in a bit. Christa okay. Lets go over to danielle gershen happy friday to you, danielle. Chris happy friday, christa. Danielle happy friday, everyone. Zakim bridge, leverett connector look good. Go to the maps. No major delays to tell you about yet out there. Coming into town from the north, route 1 looking good. So is 93. The expressway from the braintree split into boston just nine minutes so far this morning. South of town, route 24, 95 and route 3 all looking good so far this morning. The pike wide open out to framingham and enter town from 128
Here goes ahead with a referendum on sunday. Expect the reprisals on monday. So says the us secretary of state to john kerry. Hes sending a message to moscow after confirming his European Partners russias application to join the police cd is now on hold. Us based Economic Organization announced thursday it was postponing moscow Succession Process the major was taken after russias incursion into crimea. German chancellor Angela Merkel and james tiniest and independence referendum and warned that the repercussions from russia could be severe. Im thankful that its the difference and continues on the course of the last few weeks. Peace will not only a few times during the free ukraine. I thought last night the neighbors of brush that we would see is that france this would change the European Unions relationship with russia nine s bass was echoed by us secretary of state john kerry speaking to the Senate Judiciary committee in washington. There will be a response of some time to the referen
Passed for strengthening manufacturing in this country because the wto hobby was violative of the wto. So we try to replace the pen that was also found to be wto violative. So then we passed the present action. At the last minute, oil and gas was placed in the air. It had nothing to do with manufacturing. It was done in the wee hours. We were stuck with days you want a replacement which will have manufactured this country, including oil and gas are you going to vote against the whole dang thing . Accepted a compromise. It has to be extracted talking about oil and gas. Not the last question. Im sorry, francine. [inaudible] everything you run out of tax reform process has been out with a has to measure to make them maybe not impossible, but much less likely to tax reform goes forward this year. Is that basically what you believe . If you could say a word about why tax reform should go forward. What do you see as the upside of that . Im not saying that. What im saying is they think we too
That he would fight for a College Football playoff system which we also raided a promise kept indeed, you could say this is the aggregate and you need to look in on the more narrow numbers. We published an article yesterday but we welcome anybody who wants to tally them up in different ways and provide an analysis. All promises are not created equal. Host we are looking at the top promises on politifact tell us more about compromise. Guest the credit for workers is a tax credit that was part of the economic stimulus originally, he sought 500 and i think ultimately, law was less than that. That was a classic compromise that he did not get. Another compromise was his promise to repeal the bush tax cuts for higher income. His goal was couples making more than 200th 50,000 or couples making 200,000 and the fiscal cliff deal did not achieve that. We rented that a compromise. Lets go to fort lauderdale,. Caller with respect to not keeping a promise for negotiations with a health kicce i thin