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

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Speaker 1: twenty seven degrees Seeing Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Well, it is December

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Speaker 1: after all, but still real winter is stu a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks away? What is the caplingern Bill bell yours

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Speaker 1: cold ice? Bring on the chill. Yeah, it's been even

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Speaker 1: colder than ice around here lately. As we get to the.

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Speaker 2: Weekend, we're looking at a few flurries here and there.

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Speaker 2: Possible another cold shot of air coming up on Monday.

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Speaker 2: But good news is no major storms that we're tracking

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Speaker 2: into next week.

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Speaker 1: We could just have a flake or a flurry denied,

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Speaker 1: maybe even a couple of flurries around Tomorrow. Temperatures are

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Speaker 1: going to hang in the thirties for the most part,

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Speaker 1: forties over the Cape and Islands tomorrow if you want

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Speaker 1: to go to the beach. The Supreme Court agrees to

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Speaker 1: hear arguments in a case challenging President Trump's executive order

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Speaker 1: on birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 3: To take the case, the High Court signals it's ready

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Speaker 3: to decide whether the President can, by executive order, determine

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Speaker 3: that children born to parents here illegally or on temporary

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Speaker 3: visas aren't citizens. Lower courts have resoundingly rejected the White

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Speaker 3: House's view, citing the Fourteenth Amendment and prior Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: rulings on birthright citizenship that date back more than a century. Now,

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Speaker 3: the justices will hear arguments on both sides of the issue,

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Speaker 3: likely next spring.

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Speaker 1: That is, ABC Stephen Portoy, there should be a decision

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Speaker 1: by June. Another strike against the suspected drug trafficking boat.

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Speaker 1: US Southern Command says it's conducted to strike against a

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Speaker 1: small boat in the Eastern Pacific, following a pause of

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Speaker 1: almost three weeks. It marks the twenty second strike the

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Speaker 1: US military has carried out on such boats. There were

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Speaker 1: four casualties in the latest strike, bringing the death toll

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Speaker 1: in this campaign to at least eighty seven people. Court's

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Speaker 1: over for the week at a shortened day five of

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Speaker 1: testimony at Brian Walsh's murder trial. Today. Walsh is accused

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Speaker 1: of killing his wife Ona on New Year's Day twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Today, text messages and phone calls between Brian

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Speaker 1: his wife were looked at Walsh's attorney, Larry Tipton, cross

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Speaker 1: examining the State Police digital cell phone analyst Color Keith.

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Speaker 4: Record number one twelve, We see a thirty six minute

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Speaker 4: phone call between the phones assigned to Anna Walsh and

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Speaker 4: Brian Wah correct.

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Speaker 1: Correct. The defense has tried to undermine the evidence involving

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Speaker 1: these cell phones and believes the searchers lack context. Whiston

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Speaker 1: Placer sharing information regarding credit cards skimming devices after a

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Speaker 1: recent incident in Brighton. It was Wednesday night a little

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Speaker 1: after seven when a device was found at a store

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Speaker 1: on Market Street. The incident's still under investigation, please say

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Speaker 1: it serves as a reminder of the methods that criminals

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Speaker 1: use to obtain financial information from unsuspecting victims. Among the

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Speaker 1: tips for staying safe, use ATMs located inside financial institutions

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Speaker 1: or near visible security cameras. Look for any loose parts

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Speaker 1: on said ATMs whenever possible. Use a credit card instead

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Speaker 1: of a debit card, and sign up for text or

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Speaker 1: email alerts to monitor your card's usage to detect unauthorized

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Speaker 1: transactions quickly. You know, can dampen the holiday spirit pretty quickly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when the Christmas tree doesn't made.

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Speaker 3: At home, dig out of Christmas tree top hal.

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Speaker 1: Triple A is out of The warning for folks who

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Speaker 1: are taking home a tree on top of the car

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Speaker 1: Triple A Northeast, reminding drivers with a little preparation, the

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Speaker 1: right tools and the right vehicle, transporting a tree is easy. First,

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Speaker 1: they say it improperly secured Christmas tree can scratch your

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Speaker 1: vehicle's paint and tear door seals from bend window frames.

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Speaker 1: Even worse, that tree could fly off the car or

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Speaker 1: out of the vehicle and cause a traffic crash. From

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, road debris was a

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Speaker 1: factor in more than three hundred and nineteen thousand crashes nationwide.

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Speaker 1: In Massachusetts, road debris contributed to roughly two hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty crashes in twenty twenty four. The four d a

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Speaker 1: WBZ actual weather forecast Yep, we've still got the cold

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Speaker 1: there around. Stick your head out the window, you'll see

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Speaker 1: it's in the twenties mainly across the region right now.

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Speaker 1: Teams will be r low in most of the suburbs.

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Speaker 1: Tonight about twenty five Downtown, watch out for a few flurries,

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Speaker 1: and toward the south coast there could be some spotty

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Speaker 1: freezing drizzle. To maneuver through clouding not so cold. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: thirty seven in Boston, forties over the Capean Islands, which

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Speaker 1: isn't shabby. Could be some light rain or drizzle. There

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Speaker 1: could be some flourries around in the chillier suburbs, which

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Speaker 1: will probably hang out in the load to mid thirties.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some clouds around Tomorrow and Ilo thirty one,

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Speaker 1: but twenties in the burbs, and then Sunday early sun

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Speaker 1: will give way to some clouds. Temperatures mid maybe upper thirties,

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Speaker 1: blustering and colder again on Monday, temperatures near thirty. There'll

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Speaker 1: be some sunshine that breeze will make it feel like

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Speaker 1: it's in the twenties, though right now it is twenty

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Speaker 1: seven degrees see in Boston. A delayed vote today as

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Speaker 1: a federal vaccine advisory committee decides to end a long

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Speaker 1: standing recommendation regarding the hepatitis B vaccine.

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Speaker 3: Eight votes yes and three votes no, the motion passes.

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Speaker 4: A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a

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Speaker 4: long standing recommendation that all US babies get the hepatitis

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Speaker 4: B vaccine on the day they're born. Doctor Cody Meisner

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Speaker 4: voted no, and.

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Speaker 1: I will just say we've heard do no harm is

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Speaker 1: a moral imperative. We are doing harm.

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Speaker 4: For decades, the government has advised that all babies we

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Speaker 4: vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots

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Speaker 4: are widely considered to be a public health success for

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Speaker 4: preventing thousands of illnesses. Today's recommendation, which has to be

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Speaker 4: accepted by the Director of the CDC, would overturn a

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Speaker 4: thirty year old policy. Sabre gonna cup it for CBS

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Speaker 4: News Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: All Right, haven't been in the car and feel like

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Speaker 1: you're going nowhere fast? It turns out maybe you are

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Speaker 1: driving your life away, or at least setting your life away,

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Speaker 1: such as the world of driving in Boston. Wbz's Drew

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Speaker 1: Maholland with details on traffic.

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Speaker 2: Wos an annual report finds drivers spent eighty three hours

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Speaker 2: stuck in traffic this year. Yeah, to put that in perspective,

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Speaker 2: that's more than two full time work weeks in traffic,

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Speaker 2: two full time work weeks. Analytics company inrixes behind this ranking,

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Speaker 2: which never fails to deliver the not so shocking news,

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Speaker 2: and things.

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Speaker 1: Are actually getting worse.

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 2: We actually spent four hours more time in traffic compared

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Speaker 2: to last year. Now Boston traffic ranks fifth worst in

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Speaker 2: the nation, down one thanks to Philadelphia's issues. Chicago takes

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Speaker 2: the cake and steals the show from New York City

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Speaker 2: as number one. DRU maholland WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and a movie. Netflix is

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Speaker 1: acquiring one of the most prominent movie studios in the world.

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Speaker 5: Richardson Meet the Gilded Age. Netflix Now says they've struck

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Speaker 5: a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery, the home

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Speaker 5: to hit TV shows like The Sopranos, Game of Thrones,

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Speaker 5: and The White Lotus. The deal also includes Warner Brothers

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Speaker 5: extensive collection of movies, ranging from modern hits like Sinners

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Speaker 5: to classics like The Wizard of Oz. As part of

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Speaker 5: the deal, Netflix has committed to putting new wb movies

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Speaker 5: in theaters, something it's resisted with its own library of content,

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Speaker 5: like Debuski.

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Speaker 1: ABC News Massachusetts Sentator Elizabeth Warren unliked the deal at all.

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Speaker 1: She calls it an anti monopoly nightmare. The senator says

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Speaker 1: the merger would create one massive media giant with control

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Speaker 1: of close to half the streaming market, threatening to force

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Speaker 1: Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices. You are

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