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

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Speaker 1: three degrees right now in Boston in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a blizzard. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis.

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Speaker 1: Here is what's happening. It has been about four years

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Speaker 1: since we've seen a storm like this, and greater Boston.

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Speaker 1: It's not going away anytime soon. Your most reliable news

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Speaker 1: source for severe weather coverage is the WBZ Storm Center,

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Speaker 1: sponsored by Commonwealth Motors, McFarland Energy, Mario's Roofi, and Pellow

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Speaker 1: Windows and Doors of New England. More than two feet

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Speaker 1: of snow has come down on parts of the South

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Speaker 1: coast and your Providence, Rhode Island. We have been dealing

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Speaker 1: with hurricane force wind gusts on the south shore the

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Speaker 1: Capean Islands. Let's go to Marshfield now, CBS News Boston

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Speaker 1: meteorologist Jacob Blikoff is there.

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Speaker 2: This may be the.

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Speaker 3: Most intense storm that I've been a part of. Been

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Speaker 3: a meteorologists now for over twelve years, and I've been

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Speaker 3: in hurricanes, I've been in blizzards, you know, just having

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Speaker 3: this wind just continue to batter you like it is

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Speaker 3: and then the snow, the way it's piling up. It's

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Speaker 3: just a really impressive store, being in one of those

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Speaker 3: just mega bands that has set up from the south

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Speaker 3: Snore all the way to Providence.

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Speaker 1: And the resounding advice from officials park it on the couch.

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Speaker 1: If you can, please.

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Speaker 2: Find roadways across the state right now and in pretty

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Speaker 2: tough condition, It's going to take some time to catch up.

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Speaker 1: That is mascot's Jonathan Gulliver. He says, the plow drivers

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Speaker 1: are doing their thing, but this snow is coming down

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Speaker 1: in some parts of the state from three to five

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Speaker 1: inches an hour. There is only so much they can

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Speaker 1: do to keep up. A statewide travel ban in effect

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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island as well, so be sure to keep

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Speaker 1: that in mind if you're listening in the Ocean State.

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Speaker 1: So far, the jackpop for the storm is indeed southeastern Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing more than two feet in New Bedford and Somerset,

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Speaker 1: but you don't have to venture that far to find

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Speaker 1: a mess. Wbz's Jeremy Russ checkson from Brighton.

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Speaker 4: The roads are rough, a parking band is ineffected. People

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Speaker 4: here are just trying to make the best of it.

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Speaker 4: Patrick just grabbed a coffee at seven eleven. One business

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Speaker 4: that's still open.

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Speaker 2: Already had to push someone out of the snow trying

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Speaker 2: to get in here, and it's snowing like.

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Speaker 5: Cat and doggs.

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Speaker 4: Driving is tough today. I spoke to one man who

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Speaker 4: is desperately trying to get his car to move, but

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Speaker 4: the road was just too slick. Some people aren't pleased

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Speaker 4: with how the city has handled the snow this winter.

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Speaker 4: But Tommy, who's walking to work, thinks they're doing okay.

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Speaker 1: I think so well.

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Speaker 2: This is tough. This is definitely the worst sofa I've

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Speaker 2: seen in the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Walking out to see I'm in the heady.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of dangerous, but some people got to get out.

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Speaker 4: The NBTA is still an option today, though it's operating

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Speaker 4: on a reduced schedule. In Brighton Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 4: news radio, and.

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Speaker 1: Again, we are in the middle of an official blizzard here.

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Speaker 1: The National Weather Service now saying we have met the

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Speaker 1: criteria across much of the area and just most recently

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Speaker 1: in New Bedford. That criteria visibility of a quarter mile

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Speaker 1: or less. Wind speed sustained our frequent gusts of thirty

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Speaker 1: five miles an hour or higher, and this has to

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Speaker 1: last for more than three hours, so it's going to

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Speaker 1: be some time before all this lets up. And let's

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Speaker 1: get a closer look and see what's happening with this

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Speaker 1: storm or timeline just how much snow has come down.

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Speaker 1: Bill Digger's over at ACI Weather and Bill, it is

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Speaker 1: really one of those days where you look outside, I

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Speaker 1: just can't see anything out the window right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the combination of the heavy snowfall rates nicoal and

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Speaker 2: these wind gusts over fifty miles an hour frequently is

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Speaker 2: certainly leading to these white out conditions. And we've seen

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Speaker 2: some eye popping snowfall reports so far in that corridor

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Speaker 2: from southern Rhode Island through the south Shore South Coast

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Speaker 2: twenty six and a half inches in Swansea right now,

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Speaker 2: that's the highest amount. I would expect to see some

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Speaker 2: three foot totals in that corridor here when all is

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Speaker 2: sudden done later today again, the heaviest snow from now

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Speaker 2: through late afternoon. After three or four pm, the snowfall

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Speaker 2: rates begin to drop off. We have a blizzard warning

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Speaker 2: up through tonight, so even after the snow is over,

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Speaker 2: continues to blow around and lead to dangerous travel, but

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden done once again, one to two

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Speaker 2: feet around Boston into the south, locally three feet from

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Speaker 2: foot if you're north of four ninety five. That's the latest.

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Speaker 2: I'm ak you weather mediagarologists Bill Deaker WBZY, Boston's news radio,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: Back to you in under ten minutes. But right now

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Speaker 1: it's twenty seven degrees in Brompton, twenty four in Denvers,

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Speaker 1: We're twenty four in Sudbury. And in Boston at eleven

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Speaker 1: oh six. That driving snow, and right now it is

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Speaker 1: twenty four degrees. Well, so far, as Bill just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the jackpot area for the storm seems to be the

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Speaker 1: south coast. Wbz's Emma Friedman is in downtown New Bedford, AM.

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Speaker 1: I just got a video from near where you are,

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Speaker 1: and that is a lot of snow outside.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Nicole, We're getting dumped with snow over here.

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Speaker 5: It is still coming down pretty consistently, over two feet

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Speaker 5: on the ground, and it does not look like it's

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Speaker 5: stopping anytime soon. The town over right next to us,

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Speaker 5: town of Fairhaven here in Massachusetts, they just declared their

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Speaker 5: own state of emergency saying that thirty three percent of

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Speaker 5: people in the town do not have power at the moment,

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Speaker 5: and it is too cold to send eversource cruise out

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Speaker 5: to or not too cold, it's too windy to actually

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Speaker 5: send eversource crews out and try and restore the power

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Speaker 5: at this time, so they're just tracking who doesn't have power,

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Speaker 5: and later they are going to try and work through

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Speaker 5: all the people. But yes, definitely it is a blizzard

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Speaker 5: out here. Nicole in New Bedford, i'ma Friedman w EZ

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Speaker 5: Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: South Coast really getting hit hard. South Shore as well.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing some pretty tough conditions, of course, anywhere on

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Speaker 1: the coast North Shore. Let's not leave you out of

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Speaker 1: this too. In Essex County right now, about twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: customers without power. We have seen a lot of heavy

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Speaker 1: wind and just driving snow. In Plymouth County, especially on

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Speaker 1: the south shore. Just looking at your latest power outages,

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Speaker 1: about sixty five thousand customers in the dark. But really

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of these outages are on the Cape.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty five thousand outages in Barnstable County

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Speaker 1: now all Amtrak service is suspended now between New York

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Speaker 1: City and South Station and Boston. We also have Tfgreen

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Speaker 1: Airport closed for the next few hours as they tried

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Speaker 1: to wait this out and get flights going again. Almost

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Speaker 1: a thousand flights canceled at Logan Airport MBTA. Running on

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Speaker 1: a storm schedule, you might have to wait a while

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Speaker 1: between trains. There is a potential for some commuter rail

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Speaker 1: trains or buses to be canceled. There's no ferry service

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Speaker 1: today or Mattapan Line service either. You are now in

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