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Eversource is reporting 85,667 outages in eastern Massachusetts Thursday morning, enough to make up 7-percent of the total amount of customers in the region.

High winds and heavy rainfall is the forecast through Thursday for New England as a bomb cyclone makes its way up from the mid-Atlantic coast.

The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for parts of three states this afternoon and evening, including the potential for an isolated tornado. The outlook covers all of Massachusetts east of Berkshire County (including Bristol and Plymouth Counties), Rhode Island and northern Connecticut...