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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hey, ma,

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Speaker 1: are we there yet? How about now? It's Friday, finally

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Speaker 1: in Boston, and you're welcome to it. Under clear skies.

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Speaker 1: We're getting started at right around freezing in much of

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Speaker 1: the area. In fact, it's thirty degrees in Boston. The

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Speaker 1: news at six o'clock on this Friday morning is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid

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Speaker 1: all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jeff Brown, and get ready for a soft landing. Increasing

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Speaker 1: Claudinus today and becoming breezy with the high of forty

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Speaker 1: seven that it's WBZ Hackey weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Rain however,

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Speaker 1: over much of our weekend as well, a remarkable one

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Speaker 1: to eighty on Capitol Hill, where several House Republicans break

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Speaker 1: ranks to join Democrats in advancing a plan to get

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Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act back on track. Vote, however, is

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Speaker 1: largely symbolic, since the Senate has already rejected it. Does, however,

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Speaker 1: speak volumes with a bill to extend subsidies. In a

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Speaker 1: renegade rebuke to Speaker Mike Johnson, who wanted to send

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Speaker 1: lawmakers home instead of taking that vote. The nonpartisan Congressional

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Speaker 1: Budget Office says the three year extension would increase the

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Speaker 1: nation's deficit by eighty billion dollars over the next decade.

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Speaker 1: A Boston nightclub is about to reopen its doors.

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Speaker 2: The nightclub Icon, which operates in the heart of Boston,

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Speaker 2: not far from the Public Garden, had its license to

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Speaker 2: operate suspended just before Christmas after a woman with a

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Speaker 2: known heart condition collapsed and died while on the dance floor.

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Speaker 2: Back on December twenty first, the city Licensing Board saying

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Speaker 2: it found no safety violations at the club, but they

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Speaker 2: will need to turn in a renewed emergency plan. Friends

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Speaker 2: of the woman who died said she had a heart

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Speaker 2: condition and was drinking and had smoked just before arriving

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Speaker 2: at the Warranted Street nightclub. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: President Trump calls off a second wave of attacks against Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: The move made in a social media post overnight, and

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Speaker 1: the president says he's satisfied with the cooperation level of

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Speaker 1: the interim government.

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Speaker 3: Trump is praising a decision by Venezuela's interim government to

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Speaker 3: release several political prisoners. He says he'll meet with Venezuelan

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Speaker 3: opposition leader Maria Machado next week.

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Speaker 1: At is ABC's Christian Cordero. The US Navy, however, will

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Speaker 1: continue to retain its presence off the coast of Venezuela

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Speaker 1: for safety and security purposes. Ruins put out the fire,

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Speaker 1: They douse the flames at the Garden. The Bees will

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Speaker 1: host the Rangers in a Saturday matinee next Celtics Raptors

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Speaker 1: at the Garden tonight, and for the first time in

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Speaker 1: twenty five years, the Miami Hurricanes will play for a

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Speaker 1: national college football championship. They beat All miss in the

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Speaker 1: College Football semi Finals, Indiana and Oregon in the Peach

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Speaker 1: Bowl tonight. As a broadcasting legend, getst.

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Speaker 4: The ball, yes me, and I know you didn't, But

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Speaker 4: there's no greater big game play by play voice out

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Speaker 4: there than ESPN. Sean McDonough, local guy, of course, was

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Speaker 4: great as the voice of the Reds for so long.

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Speaker 4: He was on fire in the college football quarterfinal, and

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Speaker 4: Sean McDonough will have his next moment tonight for Indiana

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Speaker 4: and Oregon along with his partner color commentator Greg McElroy

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Speaker 4: and the powers that beer making sure Sean McDonough knows

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Speaker 4: how well he is appreciated by the viewers. He was

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Speaker 4: recently named Sportscaster of the Year for twenty twenty five

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Speaker 4: by the National Sports Media Association. McLeroy and the ESPN

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Speaker 4: crew surprise Sean with this NEWSMA Sports. Sean McDonough was

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Speaker 4: touched by that, and I reached out to him about it.

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Speaker 4: This whole stretch here. Life is good right now, right,

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Speaker 4: Sean tells me it was a huge honore getting that

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Speaker 4: award and calling an epic Sugar Bowl game. He added,

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Speaker 4: it's all made better by the kindness of the people

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Speaker 4: out there. Have a great call tonight, Sean Drumahalan w

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Speaker 4: BZ Boston's News.

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Speaker 2: Ready.

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Speaker 1: A beautiful day we had yesterday. Unfortunately we won't repeat

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Speaker 1: that today, although it will be rather mild with high

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Speaker 1: temperatures once again approaching fifty degrees, just not a lot

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Speaker 1: of sunshine and any sun this morning. We'll give way

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Speaker 1: to some clouds this afternoon. It's going to become pretty

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Speaker 1: windy too throughout the day, and even a little rain

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Speaker 1: will be on our doorstep later on this afternoon into

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Speaker 1: the evening. Hours. Highs once again around fifty today, mostly cloudy,

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Speaker 1: continued breezy, some scattered showers overnight tonight low's right around forty, clouds,

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Speaker 1: Additional rain arriving tomorrow morning and throughout the afternoon and

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Speaker 1: at night as well, again in the middle forties Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Sunday looks like we'll start with some lingering rain and

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Speaker 1: drizzle and then mostly cloudy. Patriots Chargers of course, Sunday

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Speaker 1: night at Jillet that looks to be like it's relatively

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Speaker 1: good shape too, as far as the weather is concerned,

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Speaker 1: with high temperatures on Sunday in the forties as well.

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Speaker 1: icy spots out there leftover, especially on your driveway and

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Speaker 1: maybe on your sidewalk. This morning. It's six oh six

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Speaker 1: on this Friday morning. The grass really is greener. In Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: It was a record year for the weat industry, with

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Speaker 5: over one point sixty five billion dollars in sales in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. That's three million more compared to the

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Speaker 5: year before. Not only are sales through the roof, but

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Speaker 5: so is the number of cannabis businesses, reaching the highest

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Speaker 5: points since adult use sales began in twenty eighteen. This

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Speaker 5: year could also be another record breaking year as those

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Speaker 5: who oversee the industry look to cut through red tape

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Speaker 5: and take away more regulatory hurdles in Medford James Rojas

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Speaker 5: WBZ Boston's News Radio. A new public private partnership in

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Speaker 5: Massachusetts hopes to ease the financial pain for families left

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Speaker 5: in the wake of the devastating opioid overdose crisis. This

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Speaker 5: fund has raised more than a million dollars for families

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Speaker 5: of drug overdose victims to help pay for the cost

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Speaker 5: of funerals, behavioral health treatment, and legal fees. The commitment

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Speaker 5: covers three years and is targeting five unnamed communities locally

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Speaker 5: that have been hardest hit by the opioid crisis. It's

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Speaker 5: tough to keep the weight off, even for those using

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Speaker 5: weight loss's best friend, we go, vi ozempic and other

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Speaker 5: GLP one drugs. A new research paper finds that once

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Speaker 5: a year and a half. Those taking other weight loss

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Speaker 5: treatments are found to regain the weight time four times

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Speaker 5: as fast. The doctors say there is a way to

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Speaker 5: keep the new you, a better diet and more exercise.

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Speaker 5: Even not getting an assist from these medications, might be

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Speaker 5: good to take a quick pause before heading home right

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Speaker 3: One in eight people having same day surgery have new

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Speaker 3: or worse chronic pain three months later. A study in

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Speaker 3: the UK found many people who have surgeries where they

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Speaker 3: go home the same day as their procedure end up

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Speaker 3: having pain and needing to be readmitted. The highest readmission

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Speaker 1: And CBS's Michael George and also one in eight patients

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Speaker 1: who do have day surgery develop complications and need a

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Speaker 1: longer hospital stay. Ultimately, you are now in the loop

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