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

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Speaker 2: News mostly Sunday. Fifteen degrees, but it feels like two degrees. Hello,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us on this Friday. It's December

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Is going

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Speaker 2: to be another cold one out there today, very cold.

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Speaker 3: And drive today.

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Speaker 4: Sunshine gives way to increasing clouds with highs and the

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Speaker 4: not to mid twenty some snow later tonight.

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Speaker 2: That's actly weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Not a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of snow to speak of in Greater Boston. Points south

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Speaker 2: could get a few inches mid morning on Saturday. New

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Speaker 2: York and part of western Connecticut could be seeing up

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Speaker 2: to a foot of snow, but most of it is

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Speaker 2: going to miss Greater Boston. But the cold will certainly

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Speaker 2: be with us through the weekend, all right. Ukrainian President

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Zelenski says he will travel to Florida to meet

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Speaker 2: with President Trump on Sunday. He says they will be

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Speaker 2: focusing on peace talks with Russia, Zelensky telling reporters they'll

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Speaker 2: be discussing security guarantees for Ukraine. He also says the

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Speaker 2: twenty point plan backed by the President is about ninety

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Speaker 2: percent ready. It's unclear if conflicting demands between Moscow and

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Speaker 2: Kiev have been resolved. And it's eleven oh one. President

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Speaker 2: Trump announcing on Christmas night he ordered a deadly strike

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Speaker 2: on ISIS terrorists in Nigeria. The President has accused the

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Speaker 2: group of persecuting Christians over the past few months, and

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Speaker 2: last night and a true social post, the President said

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Speaker 2: he directed a powerful and deadly strike against quote ISIS

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Speaker 2: terrorists scum in northwest Nigeria, claiming that they had been

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Speaker 2: killing innocent Christians. Millions of Americans starting to head home

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Speaker 2: from the holidays. ABC's Faith of Bubay offers up the

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Speaker 2: best times to travel today.

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Speaker 5: You're headed out this weekend, Transportation Research Group in Rick

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Speaker 5: says you will have to leave before eleven am to

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Speaker 5: miss most of that traffic. The worst time to drive

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Speaker 5: will be around eleven am to eight pm. Cities like Chicago, Denver,

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Tampa are expected to have their

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Speaker 5: worst traffic day of the season today.

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Speaker 2: And add to that affront that is bringing possible heavy

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Speaker 2: weather stretching from the Upper Midwest into the mid Atlantic

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Speaker 2: and Northeast. Heavy snow expected to hit from Syracuse, New

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Speaker 2: York to New York City. The big winner in the

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve powerball hailed from Arkansas, a one point eight

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Speaker 2: billion dollar winning tickets sold at a gas station just

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Speaker 2: outside of Little Rock.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: There were a host of smaller winners locally. Eight fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars tickets sold here in Massachusetts across a number

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Speaker 2: of communities including Attleborough, dedham Essex, Mathuen, Rockland, Peabody, Salem,

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Speaker 2: and Provincetown. The fot A WBZ aqu weather forecast will

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Speaker 2: reach mid twenties today as the highs, and then tonight

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Speaker 2: we'll see some snow. That's from late evening on tonight,

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Speaker 2: we'll see accumulations of about one to three inches, especially

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Speaker 2: from Boston south and west, lesser amounts this time north

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Speaker 2: of the city, and then before tapering off to flurries

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Speaker 2: early tomorrow. You want to expect some slow and slippery travel.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's lows near twenty degrees. Overnight tomorrow, for the rest

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Speaker 2: of the day, we're just going to be dealing with

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Speaker 2: clouds breaking for some afternoon sunshine, but highs remaining in

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Speaker 2: the mid twenties once again a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: warm up on Sunday, mix of sun and clouds but

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Speaker 2: a high of thirty five, and then warming up even

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Speaker 2: more On Monday. We will see some rain but highs

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Speaker 2: reaching maybe just below fifty degrees. It's mostly sunny right

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Speaker 2: now in the city and a chilly fifteen degrees at

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Speaker 2: eleven oh five. The day after Christmas can be a

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Speaker 2: day of reflection, especially when looking at our bank accounts.

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Speaker 2: Our WBC's James Rojas is checking if we state within

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Speaker 2: our shopping budget.

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Speaker 1: There are those with the mindset of spend now, regret later,

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Speaker 1: but there are also those who do their best to

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Speaker 1: shop within their Christmas gift budget.

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Speaker 7: I give a lot of gift cards pretty much show

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Speaker 7: so I know what I'm gonna give. I've already calculated,

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Speaker 7: you know what I mean, like budgeted the amount and

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna give.

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Speaker 1: So Helen from Boston was able to spend what she

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Speaker 1: was expecting to, not something many others could say. As

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Speaker 1: MasterCard says shoppers spend nearly four percent more this year

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Speaker 1: between November one and December twenty first compared to last.

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Speaker 7: Pretty Much, I budgeted out and this is what I'm

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Speaker 7: gonna give. Maybe one hundred dollars for this verson, maybe

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Speaker 7: fifty for that person. So pretty much. Yeah, then it

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Speaker 7: doesn't leave you stranded in all stressed.

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Speaker 1: Though, after all, there was a lot to stress over

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Speaker 1: this year, including tariffs and inflation and Dewey Square James

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Speaker 1: Rojas WBZ, Boston's News Radio, and now.

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Speaker 2: The mad dash begins to get rid of what you

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Speaker 2: didn't want for career.

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Speaker 3: Well, we learned this year that the more things change,

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Speaker 3: the more they stay the same.

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Speaker 6: Surprisingly, not an awful lot is new. Retailers pretty much

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Speaker 6: have kept the return policies the same as last year.

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Speaker 3: That is consumer advocate Edgar Dwarski of Consumerworld dot org.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're tweaking it a little bit here and there,

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Speaker 6: but we're not seeing a whole bunch of companies adding

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Speaker 6: new return fees.

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Speaker 3: But Edgar says, if your product is broke.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't matter. The sign on the wall says all

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Speaker 6: sales final.

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Speaker 3: And you have a decision to make your choice of

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Speaker 3: one of the three yrs, repair, replacement or refund. Choose

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Speaker 3: wisely Jeff Brown WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And it was certainly a busy holiday season for Salvation

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Speaker 2: Army workers just north of Boston.

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Speaker 4: In the days leading up to Christmas, folks at the

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Speaker 4: Lynn Salvation Army were pretty busy distributing toys purchased with donations,

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Speaker 4: and those toys went to a lot of children. According

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Speaker 4: to Lynn's Salvation Army Commanding Officer Emmanuel Viegos.

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Speaker 8: The amount of children we are looking at over three

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Speaker 8: thousand and just here in the Lynn office, but across

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Speaker 8: the state we have seen an increase of twenty five

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Speaker 8: percents in Holidays requests for assistance, whether it's toys or

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Speaker 8: food across the commonwealth.

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Speaker 4: He says, for children whose parents are having trouble paying

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Speaker 4: the bills, it's important for the Salvation or having to

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Speaker 4: step up and, in his words, make Christmas come alive

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Speaker 4: for those kids. Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio and the Department of Public Health is reminding people

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Speaker 2: in Massachusetts about a recent potential exposure to measles. Has

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Speaker 2: happened earlier this month. A visitor from Texas walked through

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Speaker 2: Logan after arriving on a flight back on December eleventh,

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Speaker 2: and then departed from Logan the next day. It's believed

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Speaker 2: the infected traveler moved through the terminal B gates on

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Speaker 2: arrival and then left through terminal c measles has a

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Speaker 2: vaccination but is highly contagious, or if anyone for anyone

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Speaker 2: who is not vaccinated. Now and balloop for news updates

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