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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news nineteen

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Speaker 1: degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Cleanup aisle everywhere? Is that all possible?

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Speaker 1: To try to stay off the roads and stay inside

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Speaker 1: if they can. That is Boston may Or Michelle Wio.

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Speaker 1: She's urging residents to stay inside, let crews get the

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Speaker 1: cleanup job done. And with upwards of two feet of

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Speaker 1: snow in some spots, there is a lot of cleaning

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Speaker 1: up to do. We have more snow falling this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: That'll add to the cleanup fun. Could add a few

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Speaker 1: more inches to the already high snowfall amounts as some

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Speaker 1: icing on the cake. The winter storm warning, though has

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Speaker 1: been lifted once every four years. Well that's probably more

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Speaker 1: than enough for most Bostonians when it comes to getting

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Speaker 1: whacked with snow like this. The latest storm, the biggest

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Speaker 1: snowstorm Boston's seen in a while. The BC's Jeremy Russ

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Speaker 1: checking in with residents to see how they're holding up.

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Speaker 2: January twenty twenty two. That was the last time in

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Speaker 2: Boston saw this much snow. Were you caught off guard.

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Speaker 3: It was quite a track through my front porch.

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Speaker 2: For someone like Claire who's only been here a few years.

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Speaker 3: The answer was yes, I was here a couple of

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Speaker 3: years ago when Governor Moore, Hiley and Mariwu made the

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Speaker 3: emergency shut down a couple of years ago, and we

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Speaker 3: got nothing, So I was not axecting us to actually

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Speaker 3: get a lot of snow.

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Speaker 2: This current snow Emergency and Parking band is still in effect.

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Speaker 2: That means you can use space, savers and parking spots

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Speaker 2: for the time being. Meantime, the tea is operating on

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Speaker 2: a normal schedule with a revolving door of delays. Jeremy

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Speaker 2: Ross WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: The winter storm that pounded the Northeast has also been

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Speaker 1: hitting other parts of the country. More than a dozen

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Speaker 1: people are dead across multiple states with the storm dumping

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Speaker 1: ice and snow and freezing rain that's knocked out powered

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Speaker 1: more than eight hundred thousand people in the South. The

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Speaker 1: storm's also causing headaches for travelers, thousands of canceled and

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Speaker 1: delayed flights more cancelations today. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says

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Speaker 1: it'll take a couple of days to get back to normal.

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Speaker 4: We are hoping to get back to normal on this Wednesday,

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Speaker 4: and this is going to be more capacity. Right as

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Speaker 4: people have had a flight's canceled, they're going to have

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Speaker 4: to get down another flight if they need to fly,

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Speaker 4: and so you're going to see fuller flights as we

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Speaker 4: come back online.

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Speaker 1: There have been five hundred and sixty eight flight cancelations

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Speaker 1: at Logan Airport today, about fifty eight hundred or so

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Speaker 1: cancelations across the country, accordated to numbers from flight Aware.

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Speaker 1: Several people are dead after a private jet crashes at

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Speaker 1: Bangor Mainz Airport. It all happened about seven forty five

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Speaker 1: last night.

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Speaker 5: Snow removal operations were in progress and again there were

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Speaker 5: planes landing and partying at that around that time.

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Speaker 3: Of the incident.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bangor Airport director Jose savidre He says the NTSB

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Speaker 1: will be investigating. There are reports that record show Bombadier

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Speaker 1: Challenger six hundred. That's what kind of plane this one

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Speaker 1: was had been registered to a law firm based in Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Nearly two and a half years after the Hamas attack

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Speaker 1: in Israel, the remains of the final hostage in Gaza

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Speaker 1: have now been recovered. It clears the way for the

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Speaker 1: next phase of the ceasefire that's stopped the real hermas wore.

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Speaker 1: The returning of all living or dead hostages had been

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Speaker 1: a key part of the Gaza cease fire first phase.

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Speaker 1: AMAS says it's now committed to all terms of that

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Speaker 1: first phase. The snow still falling in many areas this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to amount to anything like yesterday's

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Speaker 1: snow storm and the one that wrapped up this morning,

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Speaker 1: but nonetheless handful of inches of snow are possible in

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Speaker 1: some of the places where we have been seeing this

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Speaker 1: snow through the afternoon, and it'll continue for a little

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Speaker 1: while longer. Take a look at the radar. We've got

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Speaker 1: a little bit hug in the coast, especially south of

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Speaker 1: the city. And then there's another batch that stretches basically

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Speaker 1: down through central Massachusetts and off into almost all over

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Speaker 1: Island really and eastern Connecticut. And then there's more out

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Speaker 1: into western Massachusetts. So we may pick up two, three

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Speaker 1: four inches of snow in some places, depending on how

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Speaker 1: those bands set up. There have been a few heavier

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Speaker 1: bands this afternoon, but later tonight, no fearce we'll actually

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Speaker 1: get clearing skies. What will happen when the sky's clear

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Speaker 1: is it will get cold, and it'll stay cold all

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Speaker 1: week long. In fact, low temperatures are going to be

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Speaker 1: in the single digits much of the time for many

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Speaker 1: of us, with the real fields dropping well below zero.

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Speaker 1: Daytime highs only in the low twenties. Except for Friday,

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Speaker 1: now nineteen degrees in Boston. That used to be time

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Speaker 1: to make the donuts, still is, I guess, But now

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Speaker 1: it's time to make the coffee. And yesterday one local

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Speaker 1: woman was doing just that. Wbz's Matt Shearer caught up with.

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Speaker 5: Her in the peak of the storm when it seemed

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Speaker 5: like everything else in the world had shut down. Good morning,

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Speaker 5: the Duncan drive through at Fresh Pond was putting in

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Speaker 5: the work. What's happening, yo, Sharon? That voice sounds familiar

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Speaker 5: or maybe her laugh? Yeah, because Sharon Smith is kind

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Speaker 5: of a local legend. She's the GM of a few

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Speaker 5: Dunks locations in Cambridge, Medford, Belmont. I interviewed her back

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Speaker 5: in October. But weather like this is her Super Bowl Man.

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Speaker 6: Central over here.

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Speaker 5: I've been doing it all week.

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Speaker 6: You miss out the action earlier here cops here, customers

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Speaker 6: will laugh.

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Speaker 5: I told them, I go, hey, we're ready to go here,

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Speaker 5: don't worry. And you knows she's a good boss because

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Speaker 5: she managed to pull together a whole staff to hang

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Speaker 5: out all night long in the middle of a snowstorm.

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Speaker 6: Because they like it.

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Speaker 5: They love dunkin, they love the people, and they're crazy,

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Speaker 5: all right, Yeah, Cambridge, Matt Shearer, WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 1: Tons of snow and a cherished winter past time, put

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Speaker 1: them together, and you've got kids having fun and brighton

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Speaker 1: wbz's Ile Schaffel with the tails.

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Speaker 6: If you live in a place with snow and even

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Speaker 6: a slight inclient snow days only mean one thing.

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Speaker 3: Just get here was rough, check in through the snow

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Speaker 3: was rough.

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Speaker 1: But sledding We're hoping it's going to be fun.

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Speaker 3: It's it's my son's first time.

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Speaker 6: That's because he's a COVID baby, and this much snow

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Speaker 6: doesn't really happen that often. Dozens of kids and they're

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Speaker 6: designated adults went to Rogers Park to take advantage of

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Speaker 6: their free time and the serious sledding hill there. I

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Speaker 6: asked one connoisseur how it was going good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you rally bumpy.

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Speaker 6: But even the parents that are here to supervise can

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Speaker 6: recognize a good time when they see one.

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Speaker 3: I'm a teacher.

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Speaker 6: I love snow days to be busy. Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: How you doing? Eh just started ask, but that is

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Speaker 1: what a new survey asked of businesses. Turns out many

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Speaker 1: are doing okay. They're also optimistic about the months ahead,

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Speaker 1: though there are still challenges.

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Speaker 7: The survey from the National Association for Business Economics fines

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Speaker 7: companies are cautiously optimistic. More than half expect sales to increase,

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Speaker 7: and most say labor shortages are not a problem, even

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Speaker 7: though they're not necessarily hiring. Survey analysts Lester Jones, pretty

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Speaker 7: much people.

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Speaker 3: Are sticking with what they have. This is kind of

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Speaker 3: this no hire, no fire environment.

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Speaker 7: Nearly seventy three percent of respondents said they were optimistic

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Speaker 7: about AI's impact on their business. Cammy McCormick, CBS News.

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