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

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Speaker 2: Cloudy sky's forty five degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Hello,

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Speaker 2: and thanks for being with us on this Monday. It

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Speaker 2: is December twenty ninth. I'ks Sherry Small. Here's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: After an icy start to the day for many, things

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Speaker 2: are warming up.

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Speaker 3: Areas of dense fog for a while this morning.

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Speaker 1: Of the wise, cloudy today, becoming breezy and warmer with

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Speaker 1: periods of rain.

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Speaker 2: The high fifty and that's Acky weather meteorologist. The full

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Speaker 2: forecast coming up, all right, happening now in Boston. The

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Speaker 2: left lane in the Ted Williams Tunnel eastbound is closed

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Speaker 2: because of a tractor trailer crash and fuel spill earlier

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Speaker 2: this morning. Offici'll say it will remain closed until Cruise

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Speaker 2: can get out there and clean up everything. Drivers being

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Speaker 2: asked to avoid the area if at all possible. Anyone

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Speaker 2: heading that way should expect alaze well the very latest

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Speaker 2: with traffic and weather coming up. A handshake over the

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Speaker 2: concession stands at Fenway Park.

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Speaker 3: They're the ones serving up Fenway Frank's crackerjacks or some

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Speaker 3: good old fashioned summer, Logger and now the concession workers

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Speaker 3: at Fenway ratify a new contract with food service company

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Speaker 3: ara Mark. Unionized workers with Unite Here Local twenty six

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Speaker 3: say the new deal sets a standard for staffing, better pay,

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Speaker 3: and technology improvements while securing their jobs amid a self

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Speaker 3: checkout line. The contract dictates there should be one ID

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Speaker 3: checker for every two self service machines on the salary front.

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Speaker 3: Now tipped Aramark staff will get a ten dollar raise

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Speaker 3: over five years, and the gratuity for catering is also increased,

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Speaker 3: up two percent over last summer at the height of

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Speaker 3: the Red Sox season. These employees went on a three

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Speaker 3: day strike for these changes. Jay Will led WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 3: news radio.

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Speaker 2: The victim who died during a house fire in need

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Speaker 2: Among Christmas Eve has been identified as twenty one year

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Speaker 2: old Kayla Corrigan. Mccorgan was a senior at Syracuse University's

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Speaker 2: Whitman School of Management and was preparing to graduate this spring.

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Speaker 2: Investigators believe the fire on Woodward Road likely began in

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Speaker 2: the rear of an attached garage. A GoFundMe campaign has

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Speaker 2: been launched to support Corgan's mother and sister. The US

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Speaker 2: announces a two billion dollar pledge for you and humanitarian aid.

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Speaker 4: The funding is a sharp drop from previous years, when

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Speaker 4: US contributions reached a hias seventeen billion dollars annually, but

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Speaker 4: the Trump administration insists it's a generous amount that will

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Speaker 4: maintain the United States status as the world's largest humanitarian donor.

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Speaker 4: Critics say the steep cuts have already forced major reductions

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Speaker 4: in aid programs, worsening hunger, displacement, and disease worldwide. Stacy Lynn,

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Speaker 4: CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, is prepared to meet

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Speaker 2: with President Trump in Florida.

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Speaker 5: Tresan Pazeshkian says his country is in a full scale

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Speaker 5: war with the US, Israel, and Europe, saying the West

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Speaker 5: does not want Iran to stand on its feet. He

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Speaker 5: also claimed the military is stronger than it was when

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Speaker 5: the US and Israel targeted Iran's nuclear sides over the summer.

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Speaker 5: You remember, back in June, President Trump ordered an attack

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Speaker 5: on three of Aram's and nuclear facilities using bunker buster

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Speaker 5: bombs and cruise miss up.

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Speaker 2: And that's ABC's James Longman. Now the four AWBC ACU

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Speaker 2: Weather forecast. It looks like we're seeing areas of dense

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Speaker 2: fog into the early afternoon, otherwise cloudy, becoming breezy, intermittent

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Speaker 2: rain and drizzle. Highs near fifty, Partly cloudy and windy

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Speaker 2: tonight and overnight low of twenty four. Tuesday, it's going

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Speaker 2: to be very windy at times. We'll see sun and clouds.

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Speaker 2: Highs only reaching twenty seven, but with winds gusting to

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Speaker 2: forty miles per hour at times, those real field tempts,

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Speaker 2: they'll feel like they're in the single digits. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, clouds and some sun. It'll be breezy

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Speaker 2: with a high thirty four. New Year's Day. On Thursday,

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Speaker 2: we'll only reach a high twenty nine, sun and some clouds.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be breezy again, and as we look ahead,

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Speaker 2: some sun for Friday with highs in the mid to

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Speaker 2: upper twenties. It's cloudy right now in Austin forty five

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Speaker 2: degrees at ten oh five, all right out of winter

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Speaker 2: storm to an already busy holiday travel time, and you

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Speaker 2: get a lot of disruptions. Wbz's James Rojas is at

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Speaker 2: Logan Airport with more.

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Speaker 1: What's up in the air. For many travelers is their

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Speaker 1: flight status. As folks navigate a busy Logan.

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Speaker 4: I found out I was canceled at the big o'clock

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Speaker 4: this morning, got delayed an hour today. Hopefully I didn't

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Minnesota, so there's actually like a storm

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Speaker 2: happening there, so I was a little worried, but I

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Speaker 2: think should be good.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully hours is on time as of now, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: to days that way. The lines are long, surprising folks

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Speaker 1: who are expecting or hoping it wouldn't be this busy

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Speaker 1: until after New Year's coming here.

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Speaker 3: And on Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: After the holidays, I was I was kind of hoping

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Speaker 1: everyone had already traveled on like Saturday. I was a

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Speaker 1: little shocked at Logan. James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 2: All Right, checking the flight board. So far today over

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Speaker 2: at Logan, there have been eighty nine flights delayed thirty

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Speaker 2: nine flights canceled, according to flight aware all Right. Even

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Speaker 2: though voters in Massachusetts recently rejected a plan to legalize

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Speaker 2: magic mushrooms, advocates are back on Beacon Hill pushing for

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Speaker 2: the healthcare benefits of psychedelics. The Joint Committee on Public

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Speaker 2: Health is set to vote to decriminalize the drug for

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Speaker 2: those twenty one and over for treatment of post traumatic

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Speaker 2: stress disorder and other illnesses. If approved, the measure would

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Speaker 2: authorize a pilot program with five sites across the state.

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Speaker 2: A regretful thief who stole two Mandolins from a music

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Speaker 2: store in New Jersey returned them with an apology.

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Speaker 6: He opened the door at Mark Street Music and Teeneck

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Speaker 6: Friday afternoon just wide enough to slip the two purloined

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Speaker 6: instruments inside, with a handwritten note attached that said sorry,

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Speaker 6: I've been drunk. Merry Christmas. His repentance comes after being

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Speaker 6: shamed on Buzzy Levine's social media account. He posted surveillance

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Speaker 6: video of the tip thief plucking the Mandolins from the

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Speaker 6: wall and tucking them inside his winter jacket before taking off.

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Speaker 6: No word yet and whether there's been an arrest. I'm

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Speaker 6: Sarah Lee Kessler.

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Speaker 2: A number of ducks and chickens find their way to

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Speaker 2: safety as flames ripped through a barn in winchingdon No

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Speaker 2: humans were hurt in that fire, which required assistance from

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Speaker 2: surrounding towns to help put it out. No word on

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Speaker 2: the cause of that lace either. You are now in

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