Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Doug good morning, everybody. Im doug meehan. Saturday morning, february 6. Antoinette and im antoinette antonio. We want to get your morning started off with this lovely image of yesterdays beautiful sunset. Kerry foley is is sending this to us from west roxbury. So many of you sharing those photos of the calm after the storm. And we just love them. Its so nice to wake up to that. You know, a blast of cold air also gets you going this morning. Danielle if you werent awake, just step outside. You get awake very fast. Temperatures are starting out this morning, doug and antoinette, eight degrees in orange. Ten in springfield. 20 in worcester. In the teens on the south shore. And then you factor in the winds. And the winds are anywhere from about 515 miles an hour now in worcester. And it makes it feel like seven degrees in worcester, like eight in lawrence. There this morning. And because we had that
Its saturday, february 6. Antoinette thank you so much for joining us. Im antoinette antonio. We want to start off this morning by taking a live look. Were on the roads, on the rose kennedy green way this morning. Look at all the snow on the left side. Its a pretty sight, but driving conditions not too bad on the main roads, danielle. It is cold out there though this morning. Danielle yes, it is indeed. You know that snow could lead to those roads being, you know, if theyre not untreated, some black ice out there this morning to talk about. Be aware and be careful out there especially with sidewalks i think in the parking lots. We picked up anywhere from 812 inches of snow in this bull preponderance eye of an area. A lot of areas seeing anywhere from 69 inches of snow in boston ray lone. 6. 8 inches of snow fell yesterday. Right now its 26 in the city though. Nine in bedford. Nine in orange. And as we go through the next 12 hours, say, worcester county, youre going to warm up above the
Tuesday. He said it is always hard to lose. Life is life it just goes on, no need to dwell on it. The European Central bank is offering yet another lifeline to grace. It has reportedly agreed to come up with 3. 8 billion in emergency cash for great banks. It has request a sixmonth loan extension. The eurogroup will meet on friday in brussels to iron out a final agreement. Japanese stocks are soaring. The nikkei hit its highest level in nearly 15 years. The rally was fueled by an announcement that japans trade deficit has plunged nearly 60 . Thanks to strong exports in january. Tom . Tom very good. President obama said the way to fight islam extremists is for International Communities to embrace its muslim immigrants. The president made the comments in a white house summit on combating terrorism. Mr. Obama says the u. S. Has a long tradition of embracing immigrants suggesting muslims in america are more integrated than those in europe. Delegates from 65 countries are attending the three
Kathmandu, the capital. First report said there were no damages to kathmandu, but it may take some time to determine impact. John kerry is in russia meeting with Vladimir Putin. He arrived this morning in sochi, the black sea resort for last years winter olympics. Relations with the u. S. And russia had been strained over a variety of conflicts. Kerry wants prorussian rebels in the ukraine to honor a ceasefire. The National Football league is coming down on the new England Patriots for the fleet gate for deflategate. The patriots have been fined 1 million the most in sports history for the nfl. They also lose a couple of valuable draft picks. Brady was aware that the football that was used in the afc championship game was partially deflated. He plans to appeal. There is no breakout republican candidate in New Hampshire yet. The poll shows rand paul, marco rubio, and jeff push all have failed and jeb bush all have between 59 and 62 . But scott walker and ted cruz are right behind at 54
Suddenly getting hammered. Dagen wolverine was firm red dawn just for movie buffs. Connell will be along. And Larry Summers, the next fed chairman kontakion life of its own. That will be interesting. Dagen to make the decision by having a math or science contest between the two. Would that be fun . Will talk about all of it. Connell first, lets go to nicole. Stocks now. We are getting hit pretty hard. Exhilaration to the downside. The dollar has been weaker, but you are seeing selling going forward. A few of earnings. Confidence numbers, Consumer Sentiment came in. That was better than expected, but it looks like we are ramming natalie get people deciding to take profits. I was talking earlier this week, also ben willis. There were just talking about the fact that we have run up four straight weeks in a row, and there are people who want to just take their days of the table. Fed week, a lot to go on. But this week it looks like we will have our first losing week for the dow and the s p