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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Hartley, cloudy, and thirty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I'm Suzanne Sosville. Here's what's happening. President Trump

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Speaker 2: says he believes Ukrainian President Zelenski and Russian President Putin

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Speaker 2: both want peace.

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Speaker 1: Make people die, and I think both presidents want to

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Speaker 1: look at you.

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Speaker 2: Mister Trump is meeting with Zelenski behind closed doors at

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Speaker 2: Mara Lago to discuss the Ukrainian peace deal for ending

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Speaker 2: the war with Russia. The President spoke earlier with Putin

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Speaker 2: by phone, which he called very productive. Various members of

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration are also attending today's meeting, including Secretary

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Speaker 2: of State Marco Rubio and Foreign Envoy Steve Whitcoff. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: Russia launches a new wave of missile strikes, overnight.

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Speaker 3: Explosions rocking Keev, killing at least two, wounding dozens more.

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Speaker 3: Ukraine's capital hit by one of the heaviest Russian attacks

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Speaker 3: in months, leaving hundreds without power and families freezy. Putin

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Speaker 3: is showing no signs he's ready for compromise, warning that

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Speaker 3: if Ukraine rejects peace talks. Russia will press on with

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Speaker 3: its military campaign.

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Speaker 2: ABC Selina Wang reporting a local lobster heist puts a

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Speaker 2: shipping ceo out four hundred grand. Wb z's Hyle Schaffel

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Speaker 2: talked to him.

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Speaker 4: A national shipping logistics ceo is using a lobster heist

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Speaker 4: in Taunton to spread the word about a Rizon industry crime.

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Speaker 5: Some folks in our office to Dylan, Hey, we got

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Speaker 5: an issue we want to make you aware of.

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Speaker 4: Dylan Rexon says he hired a seemingly legitimate trucking company

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Speaker 4: to drive four hundred thousand dollars of frozen lobster from

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Speaker 4: a warehouse in Taunton to the Midwest. But as soon

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Speaker 4: as the thieves got the product in hand, they vanished and.

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Speaker 5: They turned the tracking off shortly after picking up the product,

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Speaker 5: which we was kind of a telltale sign that something's

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Speaker 5: not right.

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Speaker 4: Dylan says, steph like this only hurts the consumer, driving

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Speaker 4: up prices. He says, cargo theft is underreported but extremely common.

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Speaker 4: It has been getting worse since the pandemic.

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Speaker 5: It happens every day, seven days a week, three hundred

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Speaker 5: and sixty five days a year, probably more than once

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Speaker 5: a day.

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Speaker 1: He said.

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Speaker 4: Police told them the theft earlier this month was the

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Speaker 4: second from the same facility in Taunton in just ten days.

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Speaker 4: Kyle Schaffel WBZ Balston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: We've reached out to Taunton police for comment. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: the busiest day for air travel this holiday season, and

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Speaker 2: the pressure is on at Logan Airport WBZ Shava led

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Speaker 2: is there, that's the airport.

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Speaker 3: Earlier our flight was delayed, so we're just on top

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 6: I guess here at Terminal A, it's plenty of long

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Speaker 6: bags filled with skis, sun hats for the Caribbean and

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Speaker 6: others carrying the gifts they received under their arms heading home.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like we have the appropriate amount of

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Speaker 3: time to jail with everything here.

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Speaker 6: At the start of this holiday season, TSA predicted this

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Speaker 6: would be the busiest day for air travel, hands down.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a lot of people at the airport today.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, just hope for the best.

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Speaker 6: Delaysing cancelations are rampant too, but they're not sweating it.

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Speaker 7: We're heading to Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 2: I have low expectations.

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Speaker 6: No, we do not get some in Atlanta at Logan,

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Speaker 6: j Will at WBZ Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio, and checking Logan Airport right now. According to flight Aware,

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Speaker 2: there are one hundred and ninety five delays and forty

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Speaker 2: one cancelations. Some freezing rain and drizzle begins this evening

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Speaker 2: in Boston and north and west of the city. It

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Speaker 2: continues overnight, making roads slippery and potentially dangerous. Lows in

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Speaker 2: the upper twenties and low thirties. Tomorrow, cloudy, breezy and warmer,

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Speaker 2: with periods of rain. We'll see a high tomorrow near

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Speaker 2: fifty degrees. On Tuesday, mostly cloudy, windy, but that cold

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Speaker 2: comes back with a high of twenty eight real field

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Speaker 2: ten in the single digits and low teens On Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, mostly cloudy, breezy, and not quite as cold,

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Speaker 2: with a high of thirty four. Right now in Boston,

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Speaker 2: we have mostly cloudy skies and thirty six degrees. A

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Speaker 2: main Man is charged with murdering his mother. W bz's

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Speaker 2: Emma Friedman has details.

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Speaker 7: Mainstay Police say local officials responded to reports of shots

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Speaker 7: fired at a home in Corineth, Maine, around eight thirty

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Speaker 7: Saturday morning. When police arrived, they discovered forty one year

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Speaker 7: old Abigail Thomas dead with a gunshot wound. It's still

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Speaker 7: early into the investigation, but police believe Thomas got into

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Speaker 7: an altercation with her twenty two year old son, Daniel,

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Speaker 7: who also lives at the home on Main Street. He

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Speaker 7: was taken into custody and charged with murder. Thompson's body

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Speaker 7: has been taken to the Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy.

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Speaker 7: The investigation is ongoing. I'm a Friedman w b Z

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Speaker 7: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: A suspect is arrested in connection with a stabbing in

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Speaker 2: Harvard Square. It happened at around nine fifteen year yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: First Responders found a victim suffering from multiple stab wounds.

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Speaker 2: They were taken to the hospital for treatment. Police say

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Speaker 2: they later arrested a suspect inside the Harvard Square MBTA station.

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Speaker 2: The incident is under investigation, and police say there's no

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Speaker 2: ongoing threat to the public. A national a natural gas

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Speaker 2: link and leak in southern California leads to evacuations and

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Speaker 2: holiday travel frustrations. ABC's Dave Packer with that.

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Speaker 1: People more than eighteen miles away said they smelt it.

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Speaker 1: A natural gas leak Saturday night in Castay At, California,

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Speaker 1: just north of Santa Clarita. Residents reporting loud booms in

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Speaker 1: the area has met units responding. The main owned by

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Speaker 1: so Cal Gas eventually was shut off, but not before

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Speaker 1: nearly fifteen hundred people were put under a shelter in

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Speaker 1: place order, and all lanes of nearby Interstate five were

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Speaker 1: shut down Saturday evening, just as drivers tried to get

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Speaker 1: home after the holiday. No injuries were reported. La County

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Speaker 1: Fire says the hear is safe. Dave Packer ABC News.

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Speaker 2: A Lollman is arrested on shoplifting charges in the South End.

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Speaker 2: Boston Police say they responded to Dick's House of Sport

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Speaker 2: on Boylston Street yesterday morning for a report of a

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Speaker 2: man seen concealing merchandise inside the store. Police say officers

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Speaker 2: stopped the suspect after he exited the store and recovered

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Speaker 2: about four hundred dollars worth of goods. Police identified the

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Speaker 2: suspect as Darren O'Neill and say he had seven active

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Speaker 2: warrants for his arrest on charges of shoplifting, larceny, and

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Speaker 2: credit card fraud. You are now in the loop for

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