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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hey, Ma,

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Speaker 1: is it Friday yet? How about now? It's Thursday morning

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Speaker 1: in Boston. Sorry to say six o'clock here in the

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Speaker 1: city forty two degrees under mostly cloudy skies. This morning.

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome aboard this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. This is kind

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Speaker 1: of like the end of a winning streak.

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Speaker 2: It it'll simply mild again. Today is cloud and a

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Speaker 2: few sprinkles give way to some sun or heiney or fifty.

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Speaker 1: It'll turn much colder tonight at tomorrow. That is WBZ

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Speaker 1: acky weather meteorologist Joe Lumberg. The January thaw appears to

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Speaker 1: be just about over. The noted polar vortex is coming

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Speaker 1: up next. A tough times in Motown no longer so

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Speaker 1: tough to take. It is payday for a worker at

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Speaker 1: the Ford Motor Companies plant in Detroit. He's the guy

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Speaker 1: who flipped the bird at President Trump this week. He

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Speaker 1: did it literally and now he'll do it figureatively days

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Speaker 1: after both, in fact, gave each other the finger during

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Speaker 1: the President's stop there. Friends of the now suspended TJ

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Speaker 1: Sabula help raise more than eight hundred thousand dollars and

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Speaker 1: go fund me campaigns. These campaigns have proven so successful

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Speaker 1: both have now been shut down. President Trump will meet

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Speaker 1: with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Carino Machado at the White

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Speaker 1: House today, hours after Vice President jd. Vance is needed

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Speaker 1: to break a tie in the Senate and block a

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Speaker 1: war powers resolution that would have involved lawmakers prior to

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Speaker 1: any further military action in Venezuela. Meantime, the White House

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Speaker 1: says it has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil

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Speaker 1: for five hundred million dollars, part of a plan to

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Speaker 1: sell up to three billion dollars worth of oil since

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Speaker 1: the arrest a former president Nicolas Maduro. There's action in

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Speaker 1: Europe over the apparent breakdown in talks between the White

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Speaker 1: House and Danish and Greenland Representative.

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Speaker 3: Ranksicky Barker at the Foreign Desk Denmark, at at least

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Speaker 3: four of its European allies are scrambling troops to Greenland

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Speaker 3: in what for now is a largely symbolic gesture. They're

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Speaker 3: deploying ahead of a joint exercise that'll involve small numbers

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Speaker 3: of unarmed or lightly armed personnel from Germany, Norway, Sweden,

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Speaker 3: and France. Canada and the Netherlands may also participate. Russia

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Speaker 3: has already expressed its concern about these deployments of NATO members.

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Speaker 3: Vicki Barker, CBS News.

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Speaker 1: Former Boston Police commander sues Commissioner Michael Cox on claims

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Speaker 1: of retaliation after being demoted for blowing the whistle on

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Speaker 1: detail and overtime fraud in the department. Marcus Eddings says

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Speaker 1: he lost his position as deputy superintendent after uncovering hundreds

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Speaker 1: of violations by dozens of officers, and he says Commissioner

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Speaker 1: Cox wanted to bury the investigation instead. Cummings also wants

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Speaker 1: reimbursement after the department refused to pay medical bills he

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Speaker 1: claims after he was run over by a driver during

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Speaker 1: a traffic stop six years ago. Both the Celtics and

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Speaker 1: Bruins will pose a fight for your remote Tonight. Celtics

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Speaker 1: will be at Miami and the Bruins are at home

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Speaker 1: to host the Seattle Kraken at the Garden where former

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Speaker 1: captains the Dano Chara is number thirty three will be

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Speaker 1: sent to the rafters and spring fever this morning. Tickets

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Speaker 1: for Red Sox home Openers home opening game against the

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Speaker 1: San Diego Padres go on sale at ten am. We

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Speaker 1: need to call this a transition day here in Greater Boston.

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Speaker 1: In fact, out the door this morning, it's relatively mild.

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Speaker 1: The winds are calm. It is forty two degrees under

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Speaker 1: cloudy skies. We do see the radar and on that

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Speaker 1: radar some showers making its way or making their way

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Speaker 1: through central Massachusetts and heading towards one twenty eight. This morning,

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Speaker 1: we're expecting to see some scattered showers, maybe a few

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Speaker 1: sprinkles here and there today, Then it's going to become

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Speaker 1: very windy. Later in the day, the clouds will actually

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Speaker 1: break for some sunshine, will reach about fifty degrees once again,

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Speaker 1: but right after sunset tonight that's when we'll notice the

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Speaker 1: temperature start to plummet. Overnight tonight we'll be back in

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Speaker 1: the twenty so by tomorrow morning it's winter coat season

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Speaker 1: once again, as the Actiweather real fieldmperatures will be in

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Speaker 1: the single digits. We'll see plenty of sunshine returning, but

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Speaker 1: windy conditions highs only around freezing tomorrow. We try to

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Speaker 1: make a bit of a comeback this weekend with some

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Speaker 1: temperatures approaching the forty degree mark. But there's also the

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Speaker 1: possibility we might see some rain or some snow showers

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Speaker 1: to kick off the holiday weekend on Saturday. Right now

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Speaker 1: in Boston, cloudy skies and a few rain drops out

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Speaker 1: and about. It is forty two here in the city,

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Speaker 1: six six on this Thursday morning. Keeping the home fires burning.

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Speaker 1: This winter continues to burn a hole in our pockets.

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Speaker 4: It's life as folks know it today.

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Speaker 1: Everything.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you know gas, I mean food.

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Speaker 4: And as Base State residents focus on the former, they've

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Speaker 4: seen a steep increase in their heating bills with the

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Speaker 4: colder than usual month of December leading into a chilly

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Speaker 4: month of January.

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Speaker 2: Definitely a lot, and I'm not happy.

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Speaker 4: Which is like delivery rates for natural gas by double

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Speaker 4: digits alone this fall, this more this year than last year.

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Speaker 4: Chris Valma WBZ, Austin's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be an easier and cheaper path to healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Governor Healey hopes her plan that cuts red tape with

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Speaker 1: insurance companies will allow easier access to patients to routine

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Speaker 1: and essential procedures. The governor outlines plans to eliminate the

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Speaker 1: need for prior approvals from those insurance companies before those

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Speaker 1: tests and procedures take place. The governor says this should

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Speaker 1: lower costs by eliminating the need for administrative interference, while

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Speaker 1: insurance companies say that interference is a review of procedures

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Speaker 1: it's essential and eliminating unnecessary procedures, thereby keeping costs under control.

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Speaker 1: And another more evidence this morning that pets are our

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Speaker 1: best friends.

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Speaker 2: This should come as no surprise to pet owners out there,

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Speaker 2: but our pets aren't just pets, their family, and it

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Speaker 2: turns out the survey agrees. A new poll from the

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Speaker 2: UK finds that the death of a pet can cause

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Speaker 2: prolonged grief disorder in the same way as losing a

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Speaker 2: family member or friend does. Grief, of course, is prolonged

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Speaker 2: grief disorder disrupts life, as the name implies, over a

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Speaker 2: longer period of time, potentially years. Over half the participants

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Speaker 2: in the survey said they withdrew from society. Even more

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Speaker 2: had trouble sleeping, and seventy three percent said they lost

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Speaker 2: their grip on a daily routine because of pet bereavement.

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Speaker 2: Jawill ed WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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