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Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, we defining local news.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, six o'clock as we get started again on

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Speaker 2: this Wednesday morning. Maybe some areas of drizzle out and about. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: it's a mostly cloudy beginning here in the city in

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Speaker 2: forty nine degrees. The News at six is brought to

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Speaker 2: us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all

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Speaker 2: wheel drive headquarters. Good to have you along for our

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Speaker 2: ride today. I'm Jeff Brown. Certainly not a good look Boston.

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Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy today with a chilly, gusty wind. There could

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Speaker 1: be a few sprinkles, especially south of the city to

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Speaker 1: High fifty three.

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Speaker 2: It's WBZ akiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Some heavy rain is

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Speaker 2: expected to move in tomorrow. New survey this morning finds

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Speaker 2: many Americans have had it with the government shutdown, day

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Speaker 2: twenty nine and counting. The poll from Morning Consult shows

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Speaker 2: consumer confidence is starting to drag on the American economy,

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Speaker 2: and that begins to send a message to lawmakers on

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Speaker 2: Capitol Hill that the strategy of continuing to dig in

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Speaker 2: by both Republicans and Democrats is losing its luster. Confidence

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Speaker 2: among all adults is down more than two and a

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Speaker 2: half percent, even steeper for high income households, neither good

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Speaker 2: news for the future heading into holiday shopping season. Experts

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Speaker 2: say if this stalemate extends into next month, a negative

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Speaker 2: income shock could rise to one hundred and forty billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: A federal judge, meantime orders the White House to stop

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Speaker 2: trying to fire people during the shutdown. President Trump has

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Speaker 2: promised drastic and permanent changes to democratic programs during the

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Speaker 2: impass that could mean more than ten thousand additional terminations.

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Speaker 2: Reduction enforced notices have already been delivered to some four

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Speaker 2: thousand federal employees. Blue Jays bounce back in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: It only takes nine innings this time around for Toronto

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Speaker 2: to tie the World Series at two games apiece. Game

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Speaker 2: five in Dodger Stadium Tonight, Bruins bounce back as well.

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Speaker 2: They wipe out the Islanders of the Garden. They're off

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Speaker 2: tonight and the Celtics will get the Garden parkade tonight.

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Speaker 2: The Cleveland Cavaliers in town. New research this morning finds

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Speaker 2: many of us are literally asleep at the wheel.

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Speaker 3: You're the double d's of the open road. Drunk driving,

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Speaker 3: distracted driving, and drowsy driving, the ladder of which, according

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Speaker 3: to a new study, can be just as hazardous as

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Speaker 3: the first two.

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Speaker 2: Just now, that's doing a trip, and I'm like, I

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Speaker 2: don't even make it new one already, I was, doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean I remember half of the trip.

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Speaker 3: Fifty percent of all men and a third of women,

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Speaker 3: regardless of aids, say they aren't rested well enough when

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Speaker 3: they climb behind the wheel.

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Speaker 1: I have driven many times drowsy, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: just try to think of the best thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Maybe pull off the road, get a nap.

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Speaker 3: Plenty of drivers, fortunately, are doing just that at this

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Speaker 3: rest up on ninety five and Newton.

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Speaker 1: I am amazed. I actually pulled in here and I

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Speaker 1: was just like, what all these cars doing in here?

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Speaker 1: And you realize that most of them are sleeping.

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Speaker 3: Chris Mama WBZ, Boston's news radio, as we are going

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Speaker 3: to be stuck in neutral in Greater Boston today, and

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Speaker 3: by the looks of things, we're not really getting off

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Speaker 3: on the right foot.

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Speaker 2: We get mostly cloudy skies in some drizzle here and there.

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Speaker 2: This morning. It's forty nine degrees right now, substantially warmer

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Speaker 2: this morning compared to yesterday, but still the same result. Today,

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Speaker 2: highs will only be in the middle fifties. The difference

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Speaker 2: is going to be This is a mostly cloudy day

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Speaker 2: and there will be some precipitation from time to time

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Speaker 2: in the form of mist and drizzle. Mostly we do

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Speaker 2: have some widespread showers occurring south of town later on today.

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Speaker 2: Overnight tonight rather cloudy, pretty breezy, still some patchy drizzle,

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Speaker 2: low temperatures in the forties, and Tomorrow looks like it's

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Speaker 2: going to be the worst of the bunch, with mostly

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Speaker 2: cloudy skies and some heavy rain moving in later in

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Speaker 2: the day. Temps will be in the upper fifties tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: as a warming trend is going to greet us as

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Speaker 2: we head towards Halloween in the weekend. Now, this storm

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Speaker 2: system will likely be out of the way by early

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Speaker 2: Friday morning. Any leftover showers will begin to pull out,

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Speaker 2: but it's the wind that's going to be of concern

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Speaker 2: on Friday, as temperatures will jump into the sixties. But

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Speaker 2: by Trick or Treat time it'll still be windy, but

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Speaker 2: kids will get it in. Looks like the weekend is

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Speaker 2: going to feature some sunshine and relatively mild for this

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Speaker 2: time of year with highs well into the fifties. Right

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Speaker 2: now the in boss and it's forty nine and mostly cloudy.

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Speaker 2: At six oh five on this Wednesday morning, it's landfall again.

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Melissa slams into Cuba this morning after laying waste

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Speaker 2: to Jamaica.

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Speaker 4: This is a special report from ABC News on Cave Packer.

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Speaker 4: The Prime Minister of Jamaica declared the country a disaster

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Speaker 4: area in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. A storm surge

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Speaker 4: up to thirteen feet. ABC Zaykajachi and Kingston says winds

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Speaker 4: were up to one hundred and eighty five miles per hour, and.

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Speaker 3: I gotta say this right now, the real danger isn't

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Speaker 3: just the wind.

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Speaker 5: It's the sheer volume of rain that's really staggering, catastrophic

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Speaker 5: flash flooding and landslides.

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Speaker 2: This is ABC News. Thirty inches at least of rain

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Speaker 2: in portions of Jamaica, and it's expected another two feet

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Speaker 2: of precipitation will fall in Cuba this morning. Melissa arrives

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Speaker 2: as a Category three storm. It is still considered a

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Speaker 2: major storm, though significantly weakened, with wind gusts of about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty miles per hour. And sustained wind

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Speaker 2: speeds there. Melissa is expected to move on to the

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Speaker 2: Bahamas later on today. Watch your step a word of

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Speaker 2: warning in more neighborhoods in Boston these days, the.

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Speaker 6: Number of reported needle pickups have gone up by twenty

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Speaker 6: percent since just last year. That's according to a local

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Speaker 6: researcher who looked at three one one data showing drug

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Speaker 6: use around mass and Casts is increasing and spreading to

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Speaker 6: more parts of the city, including to other parts here

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Speaker 6: in the South End. It has city councilor Aaron Murphy

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Speaker 6: planning to call an emergency hearing citing public health and

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Speaker 6: safety hazards. Researcher James Piccarelly says needle reports have more

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Speaker 6: than doubled in surrounding areas, including parts of Roxbury, Dorchester

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Speaker 6: and the Back Bay in the South End. James Rojas

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Speaker 2: ND party people, Halloween is just a couple of days away.

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Speaker 2: Unless you're going to unless you're going to college, you're

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Speaker 2: already partying, right.

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Speaker 5: I went to a host party last weekend.

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Speaker 2: Now it was wild. Now you you're Wally the Green

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Speaker 2: Giant this week Wally the Green Monster. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I did Monster, the game Giant. So where do we party?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be places that are hotter

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Speaker 2: than others.

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Speaker 5: You want to know what the top five cities in

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Speaker 5: this country.

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Speaker 2: Are for Halloween?

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Speaker 5: I asked, And what they looked at here was everything,

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Speaker 5: all right, candy, costumes, horror films, haunted houses, parties, Yes,

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Speaker 5: all right. Number one is New York City. Okay, I

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Speaker 5: like that, yep, Number two Jersey City. Interesting, I thought,

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Speaker 5: number three Los Angeles for Chicago, five Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Boston does come in at number eight.

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Speaker 5: My big issue with this all is where is Salem?

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Speaker 5: I mean, how do you have a Halloween list without Salem?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more of an event. I don't know. Is

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Speaker 2: it a party in Salem or an event? I know,

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Speaker 2: I think that's probably It's where Halloween lives. Yes, there's

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Speaker 2: plenty of parties. Is where Halloween started. It's haunted happenings

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Speaker 2: at Salem.

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Speaker 5: More than a million visitors they had already before this

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Speaker 5: week even started.

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Speaker 2: So it doesn't make the list at all, No, it did.

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Speaker 5: It kind of look at like bigger cities.

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Speaker 2: I guess Boston, we're number eight. Congratulations, foam hands for

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