Hauled in 129 million in taxes off recreational marijuana. I know you are thinking it sounds like a ton, until i show you this, 10. 3 billion is how much the state collected through all of its general fund taxes in the same year, we are talking income tax, sales tax, a bunch more. You can see that Marijuana Tax only amounts to 1. 3 of the total. If you got a 1. 3 raise in your pay tomorrow, it is probably not going to changeou you wont go out and buy a house twice the size, but you might make upgrades and that is what the sate is doing. Remember that 2 and change of whole sale tax before we rang it up . It goes to schools, it added up to 40 million on School Construction projects last year, not enough to build a bunch of schools, it mostly pays for upgrades in rural districts. We will show you one of those projects tomorrow. As for the sales tax, local governments get a cut of what kept 76. 5 million in the last year, it up to the legislature to decide how to spend that, they forced ma
While Congress Stays out in the district. Yorks a tweet from new congresswoman louise slaughter. I had a wonderful time meeting with medical students at the university of rochester to talk about Health Issues facing congress. Michigan senator gary peters jumping into lake here on to view some of the wrecked ships. We will play the video. There he goes. Aving into lake huron in wetsuit. A couple had led from politico. State departments order to review 15,000 Clinton Emails for potential release. The article says the federal judge today ordered the state department to review for potential release of nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed documents related to Hillary Clintons use of a personal email server. Preaching another headache for the democratic nominee. Creating another headache for the democratic nominee. Another headline, donald trump flipflopping on immigration. His surrogates pushed back against the idea that the republican president ial nominee is softening his hardline positio
That could reach negative 30. So cold it can be dangerous being outside even for a few minutes. Our chief meteorologist eric fisher. Just here at 11 00 its 8 below in worcester and 13 below in pits field. Some incredible numbers out there. We have the wind which is really the bigger issue tonight. Weve got wind gusts a little over 30 miles per hour. Vineyard haven at 38 and our feels like temperatures, 34 below in manchester and 35 below in concord and these areas where it kind of drops out are color scale only goes across Northern New England tonight. Windchill warnings in effect the strongest winds now until lunchtime tomorrow. Still cold in the afternoon. But at least that wind is going to start to relax a little bit. As for actual air temperatures, forecasting 8 below in boston. That will smash the record for the date. 13 below in worcester and 12 morning and if we reach that 8 below mark, not just break the record for the date, but well also see the coldest temperature this mornin
Jason i dont doubt it. Good thing you were able to start the car. We have negative readings area wide. Minus 9 right now in boston. Minus 15 in worcester. Its even negative 7 in hyannis there. And cape cod. Look at wind gusts 30 Miles Per Hour in many locations. That strips the heat away from the skin and then were talking about wind chills. The feels like numbers are running minus 30 to minus 40 as you get started on monday. Keep it indoors. No reason to be inside. We are shattering the records. The records stand at minus 3 and minus 11 at worcester and boston. Look at this, weve already been down, minus 9 and minus 15. No problem running right through those. Future cast shows negative readings through 9 00 this morning. Wont be until 9 00 or 12 before we see zero or above. Despite that, High Temperatures today only climbing in the teens. Its going to be another cold night tonight. Those numbers coming up and talk about our next snow chance too in a minute. Heather like jason just sai
Today the brutal weather breaking some serious records. Since 1957. Ive got to tell you. It hurts just to look at the bottom right of your screen and you see the temperatures below 8 degrees right now. That doesnt factor in the wind chill which is brutal, negative 36, 37. Lets get over to meteorologist rob eicher. Rob, these are dangerous temperatures were talking about. Ive got two records for the price of one. The temperature dropped so quickly last night. It got to minus 4 setting a record for yesterday. And minus 9 shattering the record going back to 1934. Worcester down to minus 17. Still 5 below zero more than two hours after sunrise. 11 below zero in worcester. You factor in the wind, 28 below zero. 36 below zero the current wind the strong cold winds still leading to some ocean effect snow for the outer cape. That will only last another hour or two. The rest of the day a lot sunshine. As we head into the afternoon and evening hours we become dead hours. That will help the wind