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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news

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Speaker 1: fifty five windy degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Remembering a political giant.

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Speaker 1: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. Politically, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: everybody's cup of tea, but he didn't make a career

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: This looks like Bush Cheney country did.

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Speaker 3: Cheney hit the campaign trail many times in a long

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Speaker 3: political career, but by most accounts, he was never comfortable

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Speaker 3: with a handshaking the media spotlight. In the two thousand

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Speaker 3: and four race against the telegenic John Edwards, Cheney turned

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Speaker 3: a self deprecating humor.

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Speaker 1: People tell me, Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks,

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Speaker 1: his charm, his sex appeal, his great hair. I said,

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Speaker 1: how do you think I got the job?

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Speaker 3: It was a style that served Cheney well in six

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Speaker 3: congressional and two vice presidential campaigns. Cammy McCormick CBS.

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Speaker 1: Cheney died on Monday, complications of pneumonia and cardiac and

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Speaker 1: vascular disease. Dick Cheney was saighty four. There were a

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Speaker 1: number of contested races for mayor being decided today, or

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Speaker 1: there are not were it's not over yet. Some of

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Speaker 1: them are said to be fairly close. Not the case

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Speaker 1: in Boston, though, CBS News Boston's Julie McDonald was with

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Speaker 1: Mayor Wu as she cast her ballot earlier today.

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Speaker 4: Each individual person has a chance to shape what happens

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Speaker 4: in our future.

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Speaker 5: With her young family in her arms and by her side,

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Speaker 5: Boston Mayor Michelle Wou arrived to Phineas Bates Elementary School

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Speaker 5: in Roslindale Tuesday morning to cast her ballot.

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Speaker 6: On election day.

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Speaker 5: She's unopposed in her bid for a second term after

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Speaker 5: Josh Kraft dropped out of the race. Still, she implores

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Speaker 5: every registered voter in the city and across the Commonwealth

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Speaker 5: to do their part.

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Speaker 4: Every single election matters, every election, and especially at a

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Speaker 4: time when so much is happening that impacts our daily

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Speaker 4: lives that can feel outside our local control, because the

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Speaker 4: federal government is playing politics with hunger and threatening to

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Speaker 4: have children and seniors go hungry.

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Speaker 1: Polls in Boston close at eight o'clock today, the first

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Speaker 1: major election day since President Trump returned to the White House,

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Speaker 1: and though it's an off year, still the President didn't

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Speaker 1: hit the campaign trail to help his party's candidates or

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Speaker 1: their causes. However, the candidates have been using his name.

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Speaker 1: No contests bigger than the governor's races in New Jersey

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Speaker 1: and Virginia the only two this year, and GOP candidates

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Speaker 1: in both those states closely aligned themselves with the president.

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Speaker 1: Public tours are coming back to the White House. CBS's

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Speaker 1: Stacy Lynne with details.

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Speaker 6: The tours were initially suspended in August when construction for

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Speaker 6: the President's new ballroom began.

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Speaker 7: The Office of the First Lady has reopened the doors

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Speaker 7: for public tours on Tuesday, December.

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Speaker 6: Twod White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said there will

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Speaker 6: be an updated route due to the construction.

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Speaker 7: But we very much look forward to celebrating the holiday

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Speaker 7: season in the public and members of Congress and anyone

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Speaker 7: who wants to come visit the First Ladies beautiful decorations

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Speaker 7: is welcome to go to White House dot.

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Speaker 6: Gov slash visit Stacy Lynn, CBS.

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Speaker 3: News the White House all day today.

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Speaker 1: It's been pretty windy. Some of the wind gus forty

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Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour blowing around. The wind advisory is

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Speaker 1: up to seven o'clock tonight. We will get a little

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Speaker 1: diminishment in the winds this evening, a little bit forty

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Speaker 1: three in Boston for the low thirty five in the

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Speaker 1: coldest suburbs. Tomorrow the wind will come roaring back. We'll

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Speaker 1: eventually get under a high wind. Watch ten o'clock tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night sixty for the high tomorrow. Temperatures in the forties.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night feeling like it's in the thirties, and some

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Speaker 1: of the suburbs will be and some of those winds

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night could be fifty to sixty miles an hour

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Speaker 1: with partly the mostly cloudy skies. Blustery. On Thursday, more

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Speaker 1: sun than clouds, high fifty two, but it'll feel in

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Speaker 1: the forties with the wind blowing around. And more wind

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Speaker 1: on Friday with some sunshine high fifty five right now

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Speaker 1: fifty five degrees in Boston. Say how about another Hallmark movie,

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Speaker 1: but this time it's a New England romance tale. Matt

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Speaker 1: Surer tells us the smallest states about to take the

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Speaker 1: big stage.

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Speaker 2: The hot Coco and an ugly christmaswater. Newport, Rhode Island

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Speaker 2: is the backdrop for a new holiday movie.

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Speaker 1: On the Hallmark Channel.

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Speaker 2: A Newport Christmas will follow socialite Ella, who in nineteen

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Speaker 2: oh five dreams of using her wealth to help the

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Speaker 2: community and ends up time traveling to twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: where she meets a sailor in Newport historian named Nick.

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Speaker 2: Are you reeled in yet? It's the first Hallmark movie

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Speaker 2: set in Rhode Island since nineteen ninety nine, because apparently

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Speaker 2: there was another Hallmark movie set in Rhode Island, and

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Speaker 2: you can catch it tonight at ten on the Hallmark Channel.

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Speaker 2: Matt Sheer WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now, baseball season's over. The World Series just ended the

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Speaker 1: other day, but we're talking baseball because women's professional Baseball

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Speaker 1: is coming to Boston.

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Speaker 8: The Women's Professional Baseball League's inaugural season is set for

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: I hope it's successful, and that's really exciting.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know there was a women's league.

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Speaker 2: So that's where is it gonna be?

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Speaker 8: Just in Boston or dope? New York, San Francisco, and

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Speaker 8: La are all joining the WPBL.

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Speaker 2: Good luck to New York, Good luck to New York people.

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Speaker 8: Outside Fenway Park they have time to cheer on another team.

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Speaker 3: I think that's really cool.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I think more women's sports is always better.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I can't hate it, gotta love it.

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Speaker 7: Probably not for me personally, but I see a lot

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Speaker 7: of people would love that.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 1: It's always great to see women getting more opportunity in sports.

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Speaker 1: I think they deserve more.

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Speaker 2: They work really hard and it's really awesome to see.

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Speaker 1: And here lots of.

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Speaker 8: The players tap to play in the first season. We're

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Speaker 8: top tier collegiate softball players. Others have been traveling with

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Speaker 8: the Savannah Bananas.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out.

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Speaker 8: Who's repping Beantown at the draft on November twentieth. Jared

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Speaker 8: Brosnan WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey, another reason for Boston and New Yorkers to have

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Speaker 1: a rivalry. Why not? You want more on this, check

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Speaker 1: out our TikTok act WBZ News Radio. Let it snow,

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Speaker 1: Let it snow. Oh come on. Yeah. We may not

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Speaker 1: be thinking about it, but some are. Let it snow.

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Speaker 6: Let it SnO nice.

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Speaker 1: That would be ski resorts. They're ready for an early

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Speaker 1: and long winter if they can get it. Some ski

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Speaker 1: resorts have announced openings later this month, not now at

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Speaker 1: some New England ski resorts, but over the weekend, there

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Speaker 1: were reports of snow. On Facebook, Sunday River posted We've

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Speaker 1: got natural snowfall, folks and road over the weekend are

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Speaker 1: the high Summits saw temperatures dip just low enough to

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Speaker 1: have flakes not just fall, but accumulate. Eyes on the

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Speaker 1: not so distant future to start making snow. Sunday River

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Speaker 1: opened mid November last year. They haven't said when they'll

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Speaker 1: open this year. Snow You are now in the loop

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