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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: six o'clock in Boston on this Thursday morning, and it

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Speaker 1: is cold once again, temperature readings mainly in the teens

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Speaker 1: across the region. The News at six is brought to

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Speaker 1: us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all

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Speaker 1: wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jeff Brown. It's winter the way it.

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Speaker 2: Should be, plenty of sunshine, brisk and cold today, the

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Speaker 2: high thirty three.

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Speaker 1: It's WBZ akieweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Winter the way it

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Speaker 1: wants to be is coming up next with snow and

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Speaker 1: bitter cold. It's been more than a week and a

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Speaker 1: half since Boston got clobbered by one of its biggest

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Speaker 1: snowstorms of all time, and a few more inches are

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Speaker 1: expected this weekend. The leftover snow is still posing hazards

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Speaker 1: on city streets, and now State Senator Nick Collins jumps

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Speaker 1: on the snow removal bandwagon and calls on the state

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Speaker 1: to bail out Boston before things get out of hand

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Speaker 1: and what he calls a public safety issue. The sound

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Speaker 1: familiar to you, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is also

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Speaker 1: urging for fast action and calls on Mayor Michelle Woo

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Speaker 1: to buy a fleet of snow melting hot tub styled

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Speaker 1: trucks to melt the snow immediately. Bad attitudes in Boston

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Speaker 1: prevail as frustration continues to grow over the winter snow.

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Speaker 3: A man and woman are recovering from knife wounds after

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Speaker 3: things got heated over an icy, snowy parking spot. Boston

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Speaker 3: Police say it was Wednesday around one point thirty in

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Speaker 3: the morning in the area of West Codman Hill when

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Speaker 3: the victim confronted a man who he claimed parked in

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Speaker 3: a space they cleared of snow. Things escalated when the

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Speaker 3: suspect pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed the man

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Speaker 3: in the hand. The same happened to a woman who

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Speaker 3: tried stopping the fight. The victims are taken to the

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Speaker 3: hospital and the suspect has been charged with AsSalt and

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Speaker 3: battery with a dangerous weapon in Dorchester. James Rojas w

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Speaker 3: b Z Boston Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 1: NBC Today Show host Savannah Guthrie appears with her family

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Speaker 1: and an emotional video calling for contact with the suspected

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Speaker 1: kidnapper of her eighty four year old mother. A mom

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Speaker 1: is a kind, fiercely loving woman of goodness and what

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Speaker 1: a tearful Savannah tells the camera. The family is aware

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Speaker 1: of a ransom note and is ready to talk with

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Speaker 1: the kidnapper of eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie, but

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Speaker 1: only with proof that her mother is still alive. It

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Speaker 1: has been five days since the last sighting of Nancy Guthrie,

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Speaker 1: and investigators have no new leads on a suspect. Savannah

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Speaker 1: Guthries brother in law, the last person known to have

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Speaker 1: seen Nancy before her disappearance. Over the weekend, sports Celtics

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Speaker 1: beat the Rockets, Bruins lose to the Panthers another heartbreaker

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Speaker 1: in a shootout in Florida, and at the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: the most talked about elbow in Patriot's Nation is back

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Speaker 1: to normal. Quarterback Drake May is listed as a full

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Speaker 1: go for Sunday, and the hope is everyone's going to

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Speaker 1: be ready.

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Speaker 4: They say we're all playing hurt this time of year,

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Speaker 4: and Pat's coach Mike Vrabel agrees, saying no one is

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Speaker 4: one hundred percent right now. I spoke with former Patriots

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Speaker 4: offensive lineman Max Lane nineteen ninety seven Super Bowl starter.

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Speaker 4: He was on that Bill Parcells, Drew bledsoe led team.

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Speaker 4: Needless to say, you would have considered him a warrior

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Speaker 4: back in the day.

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Speaker 5: Probably the first thing is, you know, coming out of

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Speaker 5: college that you kind of got to figure out you

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Speaker 5: got to figure out the difference and being hurt and

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Speaker 5: being injured. You know, you can play hurt, can't play injured.

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Speaker 4: Is there something that like that was a tough day

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Speaker 4: at the office playing through that.

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Speaker 5: Torn rotator cuff in ninety five. The day after I

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Speaker 5: went in and got surgery, and then when I came,

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Speaker 5: you know, out at anesthesia, they said, oh, you had

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Speaker 5: a torn biceps tend and torn rotator cuff dislocation. You know,

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Speaker 5: they're like, I don't know how you played with it.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Max Lane. They don't make them like

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Speaker 4: that anymore, or maybe they do, but yikes.

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Speaker 6: Drew maholl and w b Z Boston's News.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it looks like it's going to be another

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Speaker 1: winter day here in Boston. Nice winter day, cold and

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Speaker 1: relatively calm, plenty of sunshine, too high, temperatures right around

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Speaker 1: freezing today. Clouds are on the increase overnight tonight, Lowe's

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Speaker 1: once again in the teens. Tomorrow looks like it's more

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Speaker 1: clouds will overtake the sun early on and hides will

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Speaker 1: only be in the twenties. We're watching a system that

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Speaker 1: could dump a couple of inches of snow on us

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Speaker 1: as we leave tomorrow night and enter the weekend on

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning, and some areas hugging the coastline could see

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Speaker 1: up to four inches of snow from this quick hitting storm.

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Speaker 1: Then after that it's another bitter blast of Arctic air,

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Speaker 1: the coldest air we've experienced so far this winter, which

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Speaker 1: is speaking volume since we've been through our share of

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Speaker 1: winter cold so far. High temperatures excuse me, this weekend

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Speaker 1: only in the mid teens, and it looks like that

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Speaker 1: could extend into the brand new work week as well.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's twenty degrees at Logan Airport in Boston

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Speaker 1: six oh six on this Thursday morning, and new this

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Speaker 1: morning some trouble on the tracks. Amtrack It's US where

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Speaker 1: it hurts.

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Speaker 2: Amtrack says it's scrapped canceled at least twenty trains in

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Speaker 2: the Northeast Corridor because of an equipment unavailability. They're asking

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Speaker 2: passengers to book on the next available service. This includes

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Speaker 2: trains between New York Philly all the way up here

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Speaker 2: to Boston across the Northeast network, but again some twenty

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Speaker 2: trains are completely set back because of an equipment unavailability.

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Speaker 2: Double check those bookings if you were thinking of getting

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Speaker 2: an early jump on the weekend. WBZ NewsRadio has reached

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Speaker 2: out to Amtrak. J. Willett WBZ Boston's news Radio, and.

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Speaker 1: Then both add certainly adds some insult to recent injury

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Speaker 1: at Boston South Station terminal at the commuter Rail station,

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Speaker 1: which is otherwise back to normal. This morning, the contact

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Speaker 1: less new fare stations are back in business online after

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Speaker 1: officials with the MBTA and Commuter Rail operator Kiolas covered

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Speaker 1: them up before the snowstorm and left them that way

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Speaker 1: until today. All systems seem to be a go, aside

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Speaker 1: from the train equipment problem with Amtrak. This morning, as

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Speaker 1: an iconic restaurant reinvents itself on Root one in Saugus,

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Speaker 1: it's also planning a trip to the beach. Kowloon is

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Speaker 1: making plans to open an entirely new experience on Revere Beach.

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Speaker 1: Officials with the more than seventy five year old restaurants

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Speaker 1: say Kowloon Tiki by the Sea in Revere is expected

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Speaker 1: to open sometime this spring with a completely new vibe.

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Speaker 1: The original location is about to be torn down to

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Speaker 1: make way for a smaller version of itself as part

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Speaker 1: of a mixed use development on Root one Northbound in Saugus.

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Speaker 1: You Get Ai, Everyone gets Ai.

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Speaker 6: Amazon releases the latest version of its Alexa Ai model

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Speaker 6: to everyone. But here's the thing. Alexa Plus will cost

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Speaker 6: twenty bucks a month unless you're a Prime member. The

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Speaker 6: move comes about a year after Amazon started testing it.

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Speaker 6: The Plus version can handle several questions at once and

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Speaker 6: will read your mind, acting as an agent to take

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Speaker 6: actions like booking appointments on your behalf. Scary stuff, but

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