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

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Speaker 1: good morning, fellow grinches.

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Speaker 2: It is six o'clock on a what is a Tuesday

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Speaker 2: morning here in Boston. The holiday is quickly approaching, and

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Speaker 2: we are getting started under partly cloudy skies and thirty

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Speaker 2: one degrees here in Boston. The News at six is

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Speaker 2: brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your

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Speaker 2: hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown. Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow.

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Speaker 2: The cloudy day today will have some wet snow and

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Speaker 2: rain during the late morning and afternoon. Howorth will highs

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Speaker 2: in the thirties to the year Fortyes. Is WBZ achi

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Speaker 2: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg with a twinkle in his eye.

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Speaker 2: One to three inches of snow accumulation for much of

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Speaker 2: the area coming up later today. Big night for the Celtics,

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Speaker 2: who managed to dig themselves a pretty big hole against

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Speaker 2: the Pacers and then dig right out for a come

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Speaker 2: from behind victory. Celtics will travel to Indiana for a

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Speaker 2: game with the Pacers on Friday night.

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Speaker 1: Next.

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Speaker 2: Bruins get the garden nice tonight as the Canadians come

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Speaker 2: calling just before the holiday and Monday Night football ends

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Speaker 2: as Week sixteen comes to a close and the San

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Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine Ers blow out Old Man Rivers and

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Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts. A record setting number of Americans will

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Speaker 2: be traveling by plane, trains, and automobiles this holiday, and

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Speaker 2: so far one mode of travel is off the rails at.

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Speaker 3: A time most critical for holiday travel. Down to power

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Speaker 3: wires across the tracks are a cause for headaches on

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Speaker 3: the rails. Just after six o'clock last night, Amtrak says

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Speaker 3: it had to cancel multiple Asella trains heading between New

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Speaker 3: Haven and Boston, and customers trying to travel between the

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Speaker 3: two cities had to be accommodated on other services.

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Speaker 2: Now we're not sure yet.

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Speaker 3: What this means, if anything at all. For today, WBZ

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Speaker 3: News Radio has reached out to Amtrak Northeast. Meantime, it's

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Speaker 3: the first day out of a two week MBTA Green

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Speaker 3: Line shutdown in Boston. Jay will let WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And as of right now at Logan Airport, it's not

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Speaker 2: too bad. Getting out of the air field yields just

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Speaker 2: about twenty delays are on the board and cancelations. That

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Speaker 2: is according to flight Aware. This morning, officials at Brown

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Speaker 2: University put the school's police chief on leave as the

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Speaker 2: federal government launches an investigation into potential violations of a

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Speaker 2: government campus safety act. The move comes following a deadly

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Speaker 2: shooting spree on campus at a multi state manhunt that

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Speaker 2: ended with the discovery of the suspect's body in Salem,

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Speaker 2: New Hampshire. The Education Department says it's going to look

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Speaker 2: into possible violations of the gene Clarity Campus Safety Act,

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Speaker 2: which requires schools that receive federal funding to adhere to

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Speaker 2: security related requirements. Former Providence police chief, Colonel Hugh Clements Junior,

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Speaker 2: will take over as interim campus chief at Brown University.

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Speaker 2: And a police chief from New Jersey runs into trouble

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Speaker 2: in Boston.

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Speaker 4: Herman Veniticiano walked into a Boston court room. The forty

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Speaker 4: seven year old police chief of Toto and New Jersey,

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Speaker 4: finding himself on the wrong side of the.

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Speaker 5: Law, defends one chatting you with kidnapping and as to

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Speaker 5: offenses two, three and four chatting you with the saltmn

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Speaker 5: a family or household member.

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Speaker 4: The prosecution says. A night out for Benziano and his

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Speaker 4: then girlfriend in Boston went bad when she locked him

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Speaker 4: out of their Back Bay hotel room.

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Speaker 5: The trip went well until it didn't, and things between

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Speaker 5: them I deteriorated when he.

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Speaker 4: Got back inside. That's when investigators allege he lashed out.

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Speaker 5: By headbutting her, by dragging her by her legs, by

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Speaker 5: holding her down on the bed, plying which he described

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Speaker 5: as pressure points to her body that were painful, and

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Speaker 5: also throwing water on her.

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Speaker 4: The Commonwealth says security call police, but it wasn't until

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Speaker 4: days after the incident when the girlfriend told police her story.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Louisa Mohler Venizzio pleads not guilty. He's

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Speaker 2: been placed on leave back home. It is due back

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Speaker 2: in Suffolk Superior Court in February. Christmas is coming, and

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Speaker 2: so's the snow. It appears that we'll start to see

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Speaker 2: some light snow falling around mid morning, mixing with rain

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Speaker 2: along the shoreline and especially south of the city. But

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Speaker 2: from this city of Boston, north and west, that's where

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Speaker 2: we could see some snow flurries and some snow showers

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Speaker 2: throughout the remainder of the day, and that's where the

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Speaker 2: accumulation will be anywhere between one and three inches, and

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Speaker 2: three inches for a lot of people is considered plowable snow,

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Speaker 2: so I guess we're going to have some plowable snow

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Speaker 2: before the holiday. Some in northern New England will definitely

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Speaker 2: have a white Christmas out of this, but others snow

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Speaker 2: may melt as temperatures are expected to get to break

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Speaker 2: into the forties tomorrow and Christmas Day as well. But

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Speaker 2: first things first, we've got cloudy skies right now in

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Speaker 2: the city. It's thirty one degrees at the moment. The

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Speaker 2: snow is on the way in just a mere hour

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Speaker 2: or so, several hours, I should say, next few hours

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Speaker 2: is when it's going to start to pick up an intensity,

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Speaker 2: perhaps a little snow and flurries overnight tonight, extend into

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Speaker 2: the early morning hours tomorrow. Before it clears on out

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Speaker 2: of here. We're left with cloudy skies and tempts in

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Speaker 2: the lower forties tomorrow, and then on Christmas Day more

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Speaker 2: clouds than sun again the upper thirties to low forties.

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Speaker 2: But looks like we have another chance to see some

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Speaker 2: snow flourry activity coming in on Friday. Right now in

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Speaker 2: Boston thirty one and cloud These guys at six oh

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Speaker 2: six on this Tuesday morning, Holiday procrastinators continue to perfect

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Speaker 2: their craft.

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Speaker 6: It's down to the wire, but he's not feeling any

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Speaker 6: pressure because it's all about getting the proper gift for

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Speaker 6: folks on his Christmas list.

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Speaker 2: It takes me that long to figure out what people

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Speaker 2: like and want and need. Well.

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Speaker 6: She employs intuition in her shop game, which is way

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Speaker 6: ahead of the fold.

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Speaker 2: I think I've been done since the end of last month.

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Speaker 6: How do you know everything that everybody wants so soon?

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Speaker 7: So mother's instinct, I guess you see, like, oh my

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Speaker 7: kiddle like this, and you just buy it.

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Speaker 6: A recent survey finds more than one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 6: million wait until the last week before Christmas to complete

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Speaker 6: their shopping white knuckle consumerism, to which he can relate.

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Speaker 1: Got it all done this past weekend.

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Speaker 2: It was awful. Cards everywhere, people everywhere, traffic everywhere.

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Speaker 6: Chris Vama, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: You know, I find when you get a Christmas list

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Speaker 2: from people on your shopping list helps a great deal.

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Speaker 7: Yes, is that what your daughters did?

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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean I don't procrastinate. It just means I have

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Speaker 2: the list and tons of ideas. It seems America is

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Speaker 2: going to need a professional to crack the powerball code again.

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Speaker 2: No winner in last night's drawing, which makes a Christmas

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Speaker 2: Eve stocking stuffer worth one point seven billion dollars. This

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Speaker 2: remains the fourth largest top prize in this game's history,

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Speaker 2: but still off the mark from a two billion dollar

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Speaker 2: haul three years ago. Lottery prizes for getting increasingly bigger

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Speaker 2: due to recent changes to the games and higher ticket prices. Well,

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Speaker 2: this is your brain on video games e A Sports,

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Speaker 2: It's in the game.

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Speaker 7: Washington Post analyzed a number of studies that found that

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Speaker 7: playing video games can help with the wide range of

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Speaker 7: cognitive skills, like paying attention to visual information and our

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Speaker 7: ability to learn. One study looked at people who play

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Speaker 7: the popular game StarCraft two or players have to manage

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Speaker 7: large armies and resources in a rapidly changing environment. It

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Speaker 7: found people who played the game were more efficient in

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Speaker 7: processing information and had more connectivity in parts of their

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Speaker 7: brains for visual attention and Executsative function experts say it's

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Speaker 7: still important to practice moderation. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.

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