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

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, just Thursday, here at six o'clock and you're

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Speaker 1: welcome to it. Mainly clear skies and a little windy

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Speaker 1: as we get going this morning, and here comes the

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Speaker 1: cold again. It is thirty eight, still relatively okay as

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Speaker 1: we kick things off this Thursday morning. Welcome aboard. The

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Speaker 1: news at six is brought to us by your New

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Speaker 1: England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being here. I'm Jeff Brown. Apparently we're one and done.

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Speaker 1: Sunshine at some clouds today become a very windy and

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Speaker 1: turning colder. That is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg.

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Speaker 1: Our one day break from the cold is now definitely over.

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Speaker 1: Very windy as well. Today highs will only be in

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Speaker 1: the thirties and on the ninth day of testimony, the

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Speaker 1: defense will get the case. In the Brian Walsh murder trial,

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Speaker 1: the Commonwealth rests after the jury. Here from the last

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Speaker 1: people who saw on a wall, Shaba.

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Speaker 2: She was kind of breaking down because everything had been

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Speaker 2: really hard. Prosecutors resting their case after two emotional witnesses.

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Speaker 2: A close friend of Anna's Alyssa Kirby, who testified that

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Speaker 2: Anna was at a breaking point in her marriage working

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Speaker 2: in Washington.

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Speaker 3: D C.

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Speaker 2: While her husband and kids stayed in Massachusetts. Brian Walsh

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Speaker 2: was unable to leave the state due to his ongoing

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Speaker 2: art fraud case.

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Speaker 4: She wanted her family together. She also was exhausted and.

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Speaker 1: Not really sure what to do.

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Speaker 4: Anna came running out of the house.

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Speaker 5: To greet me.

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Speaker 2: And Jim Mootlou, who described spending a happy and fun

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve with a couple in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: just hours before Ona's debt.

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Speaker 1: CBS News Boston's Penny commit Now lawyers say they may

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Speaker 1: call Brian Wallsh to the stands to testify in his

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Speaker 1: own defense. Well it is a day off today for

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Speaker 1: an elementary school and Medford down for the count following

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Speaker 1: a suspect outbreak of norovirus, also known as the stomach bug.

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Speaker 1: More than one hundred and thirty students in staff call

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Speaker 1: out sick, and dozens more at school say they're not

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Speaker 1: feeling well, so the Roberts Elementary will take the day

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Speaker 1: while local health officials conduct a deep clean of the

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Speaker 1: property with an extra scrubbing in the cafeteria. The CDC

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Speaker 1: does remind us that norovirus is highly contagious, So you

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Speaker 1: forgot to play the power ball, no worries. No one

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Speaker 1: hit the jackpot again, SOO, Saturday night's drawing is going

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Speaker 1: to be one billion dollars. Three tickets sold for last

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Speaker 1: night's game, however, are.

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Speaker 2: Worth one million dollars.

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Speaker 1: This is the seventh largest powerball jackpot in the game's history.

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Speaker 1: The drawing on Saturday night again one billion dollars from

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Speaker 1: the You never get a second chance to make a

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Speaker 1: first impression, files, WBC's match Shearer out to know.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy. Rachel's Luca's first date story is wild.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't met this guy through myce that's not the

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Speaker 2: wild part.

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Speaker 4: They decided to go for a walk along the beach midwinter.

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Speaker 4: We are at Revere Beach, still not the.

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Speaker 2: Wildest part, and we come upon this jetty.

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Speaker 4: The problem is that this so called jetty was actually

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Speaker 4: three hundred and fifty yards from the shore.

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Speaker 1: It just happened to be low tide.

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Speaker 3: We sit and we're talking for a while, and we're like,

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Speaker 3: all right, let's.

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Speaker 6: Go get some hot chocolate.

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Speaker 1: But there was a problem.

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Speaker 3: The tide had come back in and we were completely

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Speaker 3: surrounded by.

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Speaker 4: Ocean all right, before we go any further.

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Speaker 1: I have a confession to make her date.

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Speaker 4: That night was me.

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Speaker 1: I think that you did mention like should we call

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Speaker 1: for help?

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Speaker 2: And I was like, we're just doing this.

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Speaker 4: And we attempted and failed to wade through frigid waste

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Speaker 4: deep water before climbing onto a rock and calling for help.

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Speaker 4: Hypothermia was the diagnosis. We got it mass General and

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Speaker 4: if you can believe it, we were together for two

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Speaker 4: years after that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a big bonding.

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Speaker 4: Experience that sheer WBZ Boston's news radio as.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be right back at it our regularly

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Speaker 1: scheduled late fall as we transitioned to winter, and the

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Speaker 1: new season is not even here yet, but it feels

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Speaker 1: like we're in the middle of it. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a old air blowing today and it's really going

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Speaker 1: to be howling. Two. We're looking for wind gusts in

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Speaker 1: excess of forty miles an hour, maybe fifty throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: That's why a wind advisory is officially posted for later

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Speaker 1: on this morning. Through most of the day today, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a very dicey day. So we're

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Speaker 1: at thirty eight right now in Boston. Temperature is actually

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Speaker 1: going to fall through the day, will only be in

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Speaker 1: the thirties. Throughout. We will see some sunshine followed by

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Speaker 1: a spotty afternoon snow shower as well, continued windy overnight tonight,

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Speaker 1: mainly clear lows in the twenties. We wind up the

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Speaker 1: work week tomorrow with highs again just barely above freezing

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Speaker 1: with a mix of sun and clouds, and the weekend

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Speaker 1: we are watching the potential for some snow falling Saturday

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Speaker 1: night into Sunday. This storm system is currently tracking a

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Speaker 1: little bit south of our region, but especially south of

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Speaker 1: the city, we could see some accumulating snow out of this.

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Speaker 1: Right now in Boston, it's thirty eight and mainly clear

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Speaker 1: skies at six oh six on this Thursday morning. It

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Speaker 1: has been said you get what you pay for, But

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Speaker 1: in the world of Wacky Tobacci, maybe not. Allegations of

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Speaker 1: fraud and Massachuset. It's cannabis industry.

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Speaker 5: What they're doing is they're ripping off the consumer.

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Speaker 3: But Matt Gutwill, president of the New England Narcotic Enforcement

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Speaker 3: Officers Association, argues cannabis consumers aren't getting what they're paying for.

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Speaker 5: I take my system and I just lay the device

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Speaker 5: up on top.

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Speaker 3: In a significant number of cases, Gutwill says, the THHC

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Speaker 3: level in the test comes back lower than what's advertised

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Speaker 3: on the product's label.

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Speaker 5: It's saying it's twelve point eight percent zero point one

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Speaker 5: percent CDD, but when we purchase this, it said that

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Speaker 5: it was a thirty four point sixty five percent THC level.

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Speaker 3: Contends it's a symptom of a bigger problem, a lack

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Speaker 3: of oversight by the Cannabis Control Commission or CCC, the

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Speaker 3: regulators which oversee the industry.

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Speaker 1: They are doing nothing on the enforcement and CBS News

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Speaker 1: Boston's Louisa Moehler tells US state regulations do require cannabis

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Speaker 1: products to be tested by licensed labs before being sold

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Speaker 1: at dispensaries. The owner a bowling alley in Milford is

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Speaker 1: accused of spending more than a million dollars in pandemic

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Speaker 1: relief money intended for use on his business instead on himself.

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Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors say fifty four year old David Breen took

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Speaker 1: the money and ran to build a mansion in South

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Speaker 1: Carolina and treated himself to some luxury vehicles rather than

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Speaker 1: use that money to help employees at his Pins bowling Alley.

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Speaker 1: The fraud charges carry a maximum prison sentence of ten

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Speaker 1: years and a quarter million dollar fine. Tough times at

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Speaker 1: the North Pole this season.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel like Buddy the Elf does about Santa.

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Speaker 4: Santa's coming in sah my God, Then you'll be sorry

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Speaker 4: to hear that.

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Speaker 6: Hire Santa dot Com says demand for Santa's at holiday

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Speaker 6: events in the nation is down by more than a

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Speaker 6: quarter from last year. Indeed, Hiring Labor says things are

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Speaker 6: slowing down in seasonal hiring and in the broader labor market.

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Speaker 6: So who's going to pay for the Reindeers group?

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Speaker 4: Allison Keys, CBS News.

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