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

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Speaker 1: are we there yet? How about now we're there yet?

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Speaker 1: Six o'clock on this Tuesday morning, and it's still raining

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Speaker 1: here in Boston. It's fifty three degrees. We'll eventually see

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Speaker 1: the sunshine again. This doesn't look like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be today. The News at six is brought to us

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Speaker 1: by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Welcome aboard on this Tuesday morning, I'm Jeff Brown.

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Speaker 1: We are not out of the woods yet.

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Speaker 2: Slingering rain and drizzle, most widespread early in the day,

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Speaker 2: high fifty seven degrees.

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Speaker 1: This WBZ Hocky weather meteorologist Heather's are sunshine returns tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: The last thing.

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Speaker 1: We need, the first thing in the morning is a

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Speaker 1: major traffic problem in the Southeast Expressway. But that's the

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Speaker 1: hand we've been dealt to. WBC's Laurie Grandias here with details.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Laurie, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: You know what helped us out yesterday was the fact

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Speaker 2: that it was a holiday, so we had lighter volume.

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Speaker 2: But today we're dealing with this wacky weather and now

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Speaker 2: this situation on the Expressway south on. Another tractor trailer

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Speaker 2: crash on the Expressway south on, just after mass Aff.

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Speaker 2: The two left hand lanes are blocked off. Their traffic

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Speaker 2: is jammed coming out of the O'Neal tunnel, and there's

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Speaker 2: a fuel spill involved as well. We'll have more coming

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Speaker 2: up with traffic on the three.

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Speaker 1: All right, Laurie, thank you. The Nor'eastern continues to do

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Speaker 1: damage at Logan Airport.

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Speaker 4: It's day three of travel troubles here at Logan Airport.

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Speaker 1: Really bad, very crowded.

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Speaker 5: Doug is from Marshfield and just got back from Montana

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Speaker 5: and he's sick of sitting here in the airport.

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Speaker 1: Big delay for the storm.

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Speaker 4: Here, just when he thought he was home free, and

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Speaker 4: then that canceled my.

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Speaker 1: Uber for this morning. So I'm waiting for the Logan Express.

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Speaker 5: Marina is on standby to get on a flight to Argentina,

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Speaker 5: but hopes they're fleeting.

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Speaker 4: Theswani the Bible. I'm the number nine on the knee,

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Speaker 4: so it's Nunnak Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 1: Nearly three dozen flights already affected at the airport this morning,

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Speaker 1: according to Flight aware and MIMA is reporting about fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred customers remain without power on this Tuesday morning. Well

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Speaker 1: for the first time in four years. The Patriots wake

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Speaker 1: up in first place in the AFC East after Buffalo

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Speaker 1: loses a stunner to the Falcons. In Monday night football,

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Speaker 1: NFL doubleheader in fact wraps up Week six as the

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Speaker 1: Bears beat Washington, the Dodgers beat the Brewers to take

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Speaker 1: a one game to none lead to the National League

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Speaker 1: Championship Series, while the Mariners dominate the Blue Jays to

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Speaker 1: go up two games to none in the American League.

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Speaker 1: When is the cost of eating out too much for

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Speaker 1: your pocket?

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Speaker 3: According to a new survey, menu prices at nearly half

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Speaker 3: of all restaurants in the US are currently or are

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Speaker 3: about to raise prices as owners and operators pass the

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Speaker 3: cost of rising inflation onto you, the customer and hold

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Speaker 3: on to your walla because the new price tags ain't cheap.

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Speaker 3: Many say they'll need to raise prices by some thirty

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Speaker 3: percent just to make a buck. Management software company toasts

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Speaker 3: as many other restaurants say they plan to raise their

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Speaker 3: prices if inflation, labor costs, and tariffs continue to take

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Speaker 3: a bite out of the Cash Register. Jaywill ed WBZ,

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Speaker 3: Boston's news radio, and.

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Speaker 1: It's another day and another record smashed by Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: WBC's Drew moholland is here with the numbers. Good morning, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Jeffrey.

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Speaker 5: Stop me if you think I'm wrong, but I think

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Speaker 5: this Taylor Swift has real potential. The numbers are in

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Speaker 5: for the first week of sales of her new album,

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Speaker 5: The Life of the Showgirl, and they are impressive. More

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Speaker 5: than four million physical or digital copies of her latest

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Speaker 5: work obliterates the prior record, which was held by Adel's

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Speaker 5: twenty five that Mark Jeffrey stood for a decade.

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Speaker 1: How impressive, very impressive. Crazy all right, Drew, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's much better conditions comparatively speaking to yesterday at this time,

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Speaker 1: although it's still raining here in much of eastern Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Looks like we're starting to dry out in the central

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Speaker 1: and western portions of the state this morning. But this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a damp day overall today with

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Speaker 1: periods of drizzle into the afternoon as well as this

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Speaker 1: nor'easter finally begins to wind down. It's fifty three right

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Speaker 1: now in the city and temperatures only in the fifties today,

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Speaker 1: clearing out overnight Tonight Tomorrow looks like the return of

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Speaker 1: sunshine and a little bit milder air, high in the

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Speaker 1: lower sixties. It looks like the rest of this work

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Speaker 1: week is going to be in relatively decent shape, with

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Speaker 1: highs in the sixties and a mix of sun and

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Speaker 1: clouds pretty much every day that extends into the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and we cannot rule out the possibility of seventy degree

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Speaker 1: temperatures once again. This weekend long range forecast looks like

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Speaker 1: we could be hit with another storm coming up at

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Speaker 1: the start of next week. Right now in Boston, we're

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Speaker 1: wrapping up this storm here in the city with still

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Speaker 1: some rain and drizzle and fifty three in the city

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Speaker 1: on this Tuesday morning. It is six oh five. SpaceX

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Speaker 1: does it again.

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Speaker 4: SpaceX launched its super heavy Starship rocket for the eleventh time,

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Speaker 4: marking another successful test flight that built upon previous launches

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Speaker 4: three two one. At four hundred and three feet, it

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Speaker 4: is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. The

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Speaker 4: booster peeled away and made a controlled entry into the

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Speaker 4: Gulf as planned, with the spacecraft skimming space before descending

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Speaker 4: into the Indian Ocean. Matt Piper, CBS news.

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Speaker 1: Man overboard the frightening call from passengers on a Steamship

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Speaker 1: Authority ferry on its way to Woods Hole. The US

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Speaker 1: Coastguard says it got the distress call after witnesses say

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Speaker 1: someone was seen bobbing in the water in the middle

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Speaker 1: of a nor'easter. Rescue workers using a Coastguard helicopter. We're

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Speaker 1: able to pull the victim on board, and he's since

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Speaker 1: been taken to Falmouth Hospital for treatment of exposure and

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Speaker 1: a mental health evaluation. It is not clear how the

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Speaker 1: man ended up in the water. Let them eat cake

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Speaker 1: or in this case, pie for two.

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Speaker 6: Geez rolling out the Reaper Pizza challenge right now at

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Speaker 6: all locations in Massachusetts. The slice feature sauce made with

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Speaker 6: Carolina reapert chilis, and if that wasn't enough to make

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Speaker 6: your stomach hurt, its top with a sensible blend of

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Speaker 6: Calabrian Fresno, habanero, hot cherry, Jalapino serrano, and Thai chili peppers.

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Speaker 6: Here's the deal. If you managed to down two slices

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Speaker 6: in fifteen minutes with only water to drink, you get

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Speaker 6: three free monthly pizzas. Show up with three masochistic friends

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Speaker 6: and eat the whole pizza in fifteen minutes. You get

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Speaker 6: free weekly pizzas for a whole year, plus an exclusive shirt,

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Speaker 6: plus up to a full day of probable agony. You

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Speaker 6: do have to sign a waiver and it's no kids allowed.

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Speaker 6: Bertuccies is running the challenge through the end of next month.

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Speaker 6: Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Lawmakers on Beacon Hill get to work on your vehicle today.

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Speaker 1: A committee will kick the tires on about three dozen

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Speaker 1: bills related to your car. Trucker SUV with a measure

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Speaker 1: that strengthens the state's lemon laws with timely inspections, adds

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Speaker 1: miles to your warranty as well, and another bill that

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Speaker 1: provides support for car owners who have a legal beef

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Speaker 1: with auto dealerships. Other bills up for debate at the

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Speaker 1: state House today deal with domestic assault, workplace training, and

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Speaker 1: local alcohol petitions in several cities and towns. You are

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