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

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Speaker 2: Very cold start to this Friday morning. We are at

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Speaker 2: eighteen degrees feeling like three right now in Boston. It

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Speaker 2: is six o'clock on this Friday, January two, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: This hour of news brought to you by your New

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Speaker 2: England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay and

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Speaker 2: here's what's happening, well expected of the cold one on tap,

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Speaker 2: very cold morning here before we see that morning sunbrise,

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Speaker 2: and you can bet it's going to be a cold

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Speaker 2: Friday and a very cold first weekend of twenty twenty six, Sonny,

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Speaker 2: and rather cold weather for the next couple of days

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Speaker 2: than a chance for a little bit of snow or

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Speaker 2: flurries over the weekend. And that's snowfall that we saw

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Speaker 2: yesterday wasn't a whole lot, but just enough to get

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Speaker 2: around a little bit of a dusting on the ground.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to be melting immediately like we saw

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Speaker 2: earlier in the week, because really these temperatures are just

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Speaker 2: going to stay well below that freezing mark. We continue

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Speaker 2: now at six to ZHO one Here on WBZ News Radio,

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Speaker 2: the Craft Group committing millions of dollars to cities that

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Speaker 2: would be impacted by a new soccer stadium. And I've

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Speaker 2: written wbz's James Johas saying Summerville is the latest to

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Speaker 2: be included.

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Speaker 1: The Craft Group has agreed to pay over seventeen million

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Speaker 1: dollars for a second head house right here at the

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Speaker 1: Assembly Orange Line station in Somerville. That's according to state

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Speaker 1: Representative Mike Connolly, who made the announcement on social media,

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Speaker 1: thanking Everett Mayor Carlo de Maria and others involved in negotiations.

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Speaker 1: The cities of Everett and Boston recently announced tens of

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars in investments that they say will go

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Speaker 1: towards investing in community value infrastructure improvements and transportation and

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Speaker 1: traffic mitigation at Assembly Row in Somerville. James Rojas w

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Speaker 1: b Z Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we continue now at six to so two. The

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Speaker 2: Page will do their best to set aside distractions this weekend.

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Speaker 2: They'll close out the regular season by hosting the Miami

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Speaker 2: Dolphins on Sunday. Pat still have a chance to clinch

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Speaker 2: the top seed in the AFC, taking care of business

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Speaker 2: on the road. Meantime, the Celtics were playing in Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: Fading away the basket accounts.

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Speaker 2: Hey spin one twenty one ZHO six win against the Kings,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Brown leading all scores. He had twenty nine points.

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Speaker 2: As the Celtics will tip it off tomorrow night, still

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Speaker 2: on the West Coast taking on the Clippers. Bruins continue

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Speaker 2: their five game road trip tomorrow against the Canucks, another

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Speaker 2: late night puck drop as well. Out on the West Coast.

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Speaker 2: We'll enjoy that ride. New numbers show few serious crimes

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Speaker 2: on the NBTA last year.

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Speaker 3: That's according to Transit Police data, which says serious crimes

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Speaker 3: decreased fourteen percent from twenty twenty four. That data was

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Speaker 3: collected between January first and December fifteenth of last year.

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Speaker 3: Attracts part one crimes like robberies, larceny, and auto theft,

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Speaker 3: all of which saw the biggest decreases in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: That being said, some crimes did in fact increase slightly.

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Speaker 3: For example, there were three rapes last year as opposed

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Speaker 3: to two in twenty twenty four. Trying to police say

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Speaker 3: three is about average for the past few years. Jeremy

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Speaker 2: This forecast that we are going to be watching here

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Speaker 2: is going to be yet another cold one as we

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Speaker 2: head off into the first weekend of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: At the moment here before our sun rise, we are

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Speaker 2: sitting right at around eighteen degrees and we are looking

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Speaker 2: at some clouds out there before we start to hit daybreak.

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Speaker 2: Once we do, we're only getting up to right around

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Speaker 2: ten degrees in terms of our real fields. The actual

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Speaker 2: outside temperature of her twenties is going to be cleared

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Speaker 2: down around twenty four tonight, sunshining clouds tomorrow, high of

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Speaker 2: thirty two, and we'll have a chance of some flourries

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Speaker 2: or late night snowshower Saturday night into Sunday, not what

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Speaker 2: we saw yesterday, but could add a bit more of

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Speaker 2: a dusting onto what has fallen thus far. And we

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Speaker 2: the ground that is going to be sticking around. It'll

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Speaker 2: be cold enough to do so until about the middle

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Speaker 2: of next week when we'll finally start to see some

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Speaker 2: serious melt because we'll be getting into the forties. But

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Speaker 2: until then, it's going to be awfully cold all the

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Speaker 2: way through the end of the weekend. At the moment,

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Speaker 2: eighteen degrees with clouds in Boston six oh six.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Voters in Massachusetts going to the polls in the year

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Speaker 2: ahead to elect or potentially re elect senator and a governor.

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Speaker 4: Ed Markey has represented the base state in the Senate

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Speaker 4: since twenty thirteen. It'll be challenged in the Democratic primary

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Speaker 4: by US Representative Seth Moulton and political newcomer Alex Raclean

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Speaker 4: early polling from the University of New Hampshire and a

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Speaker 4: Globe Suffolk University poll gives Markey the early advantage. The

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Speaker 4: state Republican Party has endorsed John Deaton to challenge the winner,

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Speaker 4: Democratic Governor Morri Heely seeking a second term in the

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Speaker 4: corner office. We'll wait and watch as Republicans Mike Kinnealy,

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Speaker 4: Brian short Sleeve, and Michael Minogue try and earn the

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Speaker 4: right to challenge the incumbent in November. Your voting won't end.

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Speaker 4: There still to be determined how many ballot questions will

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Speaker 4: make it to the polling booth. Dozens are being considered,

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Speaker 4: including on rent control and rolling back the state income

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Speaker 4: tax Charlie bergeron WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And at six h seven. Deadly hit and run investigation

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Speaker 2: continues in New Bedford a woman struck and killed on

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve she was leaving a local church gathering.

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Speaker 2: Thirty three year old nicolasa Ventura Kolosh was with her

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Speaker 2: family when she was struck by a passing suv on

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Speaker 2: a cushnat ab the neighborhood where she lived, saying she

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Speaker 2: was a hard worker and a good woman who cared

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Speaker 2: about her church. New Bedford Police in the Bristol County

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Speaker 2: District Attorney's Office is leaving that investigation. As of right now,

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Speaker 2: they do not have a description of that vehicle well.

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Speaker 2: President Trump is defending the state of his health in

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Speaker 2: a new sit down and bit of a tell all

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Speaker 2: what the Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 5: In July, the President saw doctors about swelling in his leg,

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Speaker 5: which is physician called superficial chronic venus insufficiency, common in

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Speaker 5: older adults when one way valves and veins don't work properly.

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Speaker 5: I took my physical I got all a's everything. And

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Speaker 5: in recent months he's been caught with his eyes closed

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Speaker 5: during cabinet meetings and oval office events, but he told

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Speaker 5: the journal he blames trouble sleeping at night and photographers

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Speaker 5: who take a picture of me blinking.

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Speaker 2: Well, CBS, is that o'keef the president, saying he had

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Speaker 2: SCT scan last fall to rule out cardiovascular disease. You

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Speaker 2: are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.

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