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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news.

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Speaker 3: Twenty six degrees feeling like single digits, six o'clock here

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Speaker 3: on this Tuesday morning. This hour of news brought to

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Speaker 3: you by your new England Toyota dealer. You're a hybrid

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Speaker 3: all wheel drive headquarters. Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Very cold out

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Speaker 3: the front door this morning. In fact, we are frigid,

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Speaker 3: gusty wins with those windshills going to keep things brutally

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Speaker 3: cold today on the end of the single digits, very

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Speaker 3: cold off into the new year. Far evaders beware South

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Speaker 3: Station's new faregates. Officially launching this morning.

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Speaker 2: The installation of forty new fairgates here at South Station

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Speaker 2: is complete, which means from now on passengers will need

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Speaker 2: to scan or tap their ticket to both enter and

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Speaker 2: exit the platform.

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Speaker 4: Gonna be helpful for the people that won't get getting

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Speaker 4: the ticket, get into it and they know where they

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Speaker 4: have to get off and would be all said.

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Speaker 2: Conductors will still be checking tickets, but some writers think

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Speaker 2: the gates will help them do their jobs better. It

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Speaker 2: gives them more time to take care of the train

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Speaker 2: than dealing with us, you know, so, I think it's

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Speaker 2: faster for them and better for us. The MBTA and

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Speaker 2: Kenless say the gates will improve fair collection, replace platform

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Speaker 2: ticket checks, and create a more consistent, fair paying experience

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Speaker 2: at South Station. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: Town of Merrimacnew Hampshire scratching their heads caught by surprise

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Speaker 3: after it was recently reported that they are being selected

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Speaker 3: by the Trump administration as a location for deportation processing.

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Speaker 3: A renovated industrial warehouse that's currently vacant could be used

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Speaker 3: to house and process up to fifteen hundred ice detainees.

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Speaker 3: Local lawmakers and the Granite State have been saying it's

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Speaker 3: a surprise to them. Democratic Congresswoman Maggie Goodland are echoing

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Speaker 3: a similar response. Also released a statement condemning the plan,

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Speaker 3: saying she is going to work to put a stop

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Speaker 3: to it. Meantime, the President meeting with Israeli Prime Minister

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Speaker 3: Benjamin nets in Yahoo discussing a way forward in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East.

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Speaker 5: Sessident Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netan Yaho held talks

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Speaker 5: Monday at the President's mar A Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Speaker 5: Well Netsan Yahoo thanked President Trump for his support for Israel.

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Speaker 5: President Trump signaled that the Abraham Accords reached during his

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Speaker 5: first administration could widen. They'll be expanded.

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Speaker 1: Countries are already talking about expanding it, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: expanded fairly quickly.

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Speaker 5: The set of agreements established diplomatic relations between Israel and

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Speaker 5: several Arab nations, but Saudi Arabia remains a key holdout.

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Speaker 5: That is.

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Speaker 3: CBS's Aaron Navarro reporting, as we take a look outside

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Speaker 3: the window this morning, still pretty dark out there before

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Speaker 3: we hit daybreak, and very cold. I'd like to say

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Speaker 3: we're warming up today, not at all. In fact, we're

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Speaker 3: going to stay right around where we're at single digits

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Speaker 3: here in Boston. Some immediate Boston suburbs feeling like they're

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Speaker 3: around two to three degrees this morning. And in Boston

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Speaker 3: at the moment, we're at eight the outside temperature twenty

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Speaker 3: six degrees and again really not changing a whole lot

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Speaker 3: win US forty to fifty miles prior today. We're going

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Speaker 3: to keep a watch out for power outages. There are

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Speaker 3: still some lingering ones in New Hampshire beginning this morning

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Speaker 3: after they had some stormy weather over the past few days.

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Speaker 3: Now four tonight, very chilly out there. New Year's Eve

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Speaker 3: tomorrow really basically the same kind of weather, just blustery winter,

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Speaker 3: bitterly cold, and bundle up. If you're headed out for

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Speaker 3: New Year's Eve celebrations on Wednesday night, your New Year's

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Speaker 3: Day sunshine, it'll be cloudy and brazy again, only getting

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Speaker 3: into the mid to upper twenties. Feeling a whole lot

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Speaker 3: colder than that. At the moment. In Boston, we're feeling

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Speaker 3: like eight at six oh six. Well, speaking of New Years,

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Speaker 3: a milestone for Boston's First Night celebrations, wbz's Yles Schaffl explained.

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Speaker 1: Said, there is a warning from Boston may Or Michelle

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Speaker 1: Woo bundle up. First night Boston is going to get chilly.

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Speaker 4: There are places to duck into like the Library and

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Speaker 4: Copley mal and other nearby.

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Speaker 1: The forecast is calling for tempts in the low twenties.

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Speaker 1: This is First Night's fiftieth years. It started on New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve nineteen seventy six as a small arts festival.

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Speaker 4: Some of the children who first saw it back then

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Speaker 4: have now taken multiple generations of their family to experience

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Speaker 4: this and you want to keep that going now.

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Speaker 1: It's packed with live music, to fireworks shows, ice skating

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Speaker 1: and new this year archery, somewhat to the Mayor's chagrin.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how Commissioner Cox let that one by,

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Speaker 4: but come on down.

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Speaker 1: The festivities begin an earnest around two o'clock on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 1: spread around the city, with City Hall as a focal point.

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Speaker 1: The mayor says that'll be good for local businesses. Officials

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Speaker 1: are asking people not to drive. All moods of the

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Speaker 1: tea will be free starting at eight pm Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Kyle schaffleld to b BS Boston's news radio well on.

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Speaker 3: Six so seven as we continue the last thing a

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Speaker 3: ski area wants to say right now, sorry, our chair

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Speaker 3: lifts are broken. That's a case for Black Mountain and Jackson,

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Speaker 3: New Hampshire. After reporting a record setting weekend on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: they were telling potential skiers and snowboarders this week, come

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Speaker 3: back another time, because chair lifts are busted. They both

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Speaker 3: broke down within ninety minutes of each other due to

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Speaker 3: component failures. As a result, they're out of operation until

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Speaker 3: for their notice