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

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Speaker 1: look who decided to show up? Finally it's Friday. Came here,

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Speaker 1: you little devil. Let's hug it out. Welcome to Friday morning,

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Speaker 1: six o'clock and clear skies at sunrise looking good Boston

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Speaker 1: thirty seven degrees though, as we get started, the news

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Speaker 1: at six is brought to us by your New England

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Speaker 1: Toyota Dealer, your Hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us today. I'm Jeff Brown. Not much to

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Speaker 1: see here.

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Speaker 2: Though, on Friday today, with a mix of sun and

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Speaker 2: clouds at chilly breeze in a high up to forty

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Speaker 3: Is WBZ ackyweather meteorologist Joe lumberd rain is likely to

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Speaker 3: ruin part of our weekend beginning Tomorrow night. Patriots in

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Speaker 3: prime time bake throws open up the hat trick forra Henderson.

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Speaker 3: That's to call on prime video as New England runs

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Speaker 3: away with its eighth straight victory, this time over the

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Speaker 3: Jets on Thursday Night Football. Now it's truly on to Cincinnati,

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Speaker 3: Patriots and Bengals a week from Sunday, Rapper Cardi b

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Speaker 3: and Patriots star Stiff on Diggs become the first family

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Speaker 3: of Foxborough with the announcement of a new baby boy.

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Speaker 3: The couple confirms the latest addition to the family, which

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Speaker 3: arrived last week. Mom has been seen of late and

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Speaker 3: Patriots owner Robert Craft's box. Diggs has recently been spotted

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Speaker 3: in the end zone. This is Cardi B's fourth child,

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Speaker 3: the third for Diggs. Mom and baby are listed as

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Speaker 3: active for the Patriots next game one week from Sunday

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati. Lawmakers on Beacon Hill take a bite out

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Speaker 3: of MBTA crimes Soffic.

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Speaker 4: Democrat Nick Collins calls the statistics collected by the Teas

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Speaker 4: Transit Worker Assault Task Force startling.

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Speaker 5: Show that attacks against transit employees have tripled since two

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Speaker 5: thousand and eight, with six hundred and thirty four incidents

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Speaker 5: reported in twenty twenty four alone.

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Speaker 4: This is a bill that brings harsher punishments in line

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Speaker 4: with heightened protections for other public workers.

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Speaker 5: Defenders may face jail time ranging from ninety days to

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Speaker 5: two and a half years, be fine between five hundred

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Speaker 5: dollars in five thousand due.

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Speaker 4: To amendments, The bill goes back to the House now,

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Speaker 4: but lawmakers there have already passed a version of this unanimously,

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Speaker 4: so it's likely to make it to the Governor's desk.

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Speaker 4: Most research does show that harsher sentences do little to

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Speaker 4: deter crime. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's a decent chance this morning that your pickup

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Speaker 3: truck or your SUV is headed back to the shop.

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Speaker 2: Toyota is recalling certain twenty twenty two to twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four Tondra LEXISRX and GX models equipped with a certain

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Speaker 2: type of engine is. Debris from the manufacturing process may

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Speaker 2: contaminate the engine and causemine bearings to fail. It could

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Speaker 2: result in an engine stall or a loss of drive power.

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Speaker 2: The recall says at higher speeds, it could increase the

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Speaker 2: risk of a crash. A remedy has not yet been developed,

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Speaker 2: and Toyota says a repair will be available when a

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Speaker 2: fix is determined. Owners will be mailed letters and then

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Speaker 2: mailed again once there's a fix. Alex Stone EBC.

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Speaker 3: New mainly clear skies as we get started together on

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Speaker 3: this Friday morning, and most of us are waking up

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Speaker 3: with temperatures in the thirties. Some of us are a

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Speaker 3: little bit below freezing, but others above. Here in Boston,

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Speaker 3: it's thirty seven degrees and the winds are still a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a challenge. This morning, we've got gusts

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Speaker 3: about fifteen miles per hour. It's going to be sunshine

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Speaker 3: featuring some clouds along the way today and breezy conditions

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Speaker 3: as well. High temperatures will be in the mid to

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Speaker 3: upper forties, but with that wind factor, it'll feel like

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Speaker 3: we're stuck in the thirties. At least. Most of us

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Speaker 3: will mainly clear overnight. Tonight, it's going to be cold

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Speaker 3: twenties and thirties. Tomorrow we'll get into the forties again

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Speaker 3: with sunshine giving way to clouds. Tomorrow night, some shower

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Speaker 3: activity expected to move into the region and that could

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Speaker 3: start us some mixed precipitation, but as the temperatures rise,

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Speaker 3: it'll change to wall rain and will be out of

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Speaker 3: the way sometime on Sunday morning. As Sunday's highs will

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Speaker 3: wrap up the weekend in the fifties under mostly cloudy skies.

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Speaker 3: Right now in Boston is looking good coming up on

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Speaker 3: sunrise and thirty seven here in the city on this

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Speaker 3: Friday morning, it is six oh five. A new look

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Speaker 3: at Karen Reid from the jurors box.

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Speaker 6: This is a shoddy true crime. Author of Helltown and

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Speaker 6: Patriots Day Casey Sherman sits down with the four person

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Speaker 6: in the Karen Reid murder trial, Charlie Deluche at Fisher College.

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Speaker 7: It's my opinion that she was completely overcharged.

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Speaker 3: Had she been charged with manslaughter, nobody would even know

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Speaker 3: the name Karen Reid from the jump.

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Speaker 6: He says, the evidence and testimony from the prosecution smelt fishing.

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Speaker 8: First witness when he recanted several times, he didn't know

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Speaker 8: In your emt.

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Speaker 6: Karen Reid ultimately found not guilty of murder manslaughter, but

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Speaker 6: guilty on an OUI, which the jury was actually split

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Speaker 6: on for a while. Charlie didn't want to convict read

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Speaker 6: of it, but feared to hung jury and went with it.

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Speaker 8: I caun't say who's lying, who's going along with the

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Speaker 8: lie in a certain aspect, So dislike anybody you know,

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Speaker 8: you don't want your family member in jail.

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Speaker 6: At Fisher College. J Willet WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: Wrong Way crash claims the life of a Rhode Island woman.

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Speaker 3: Police say sixty nine year old Gay Lopes of Tiverton

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Speaker 3: was behind the wheel headed the wrong direction on I

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Speaker 3: one ninety five around seven thirty last night. This three

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Speaker 3: car crash also sends two others to a local hospital.

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Speaker 3: Another New England college is about to be shown, the door.

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Speaker 9: Sterling College in Vermont, announcing they will be shutting down

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Speaker 9: for good after the spring twenty twenty sixth semester, citing

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Speaker 9: declining enrollment and a budget shortfall. The small agricultural college

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Speaker 9: in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom has been in operation for sixty

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Speaker 9: five years. It's enrollment, though plummeted since the COVID nineteen

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Speaker 9: pandemic and has never fully recovered. Small colleges closing across

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Speaker 9: New England has been a growing trend. In Vermont in particular,

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Speaker 9: has been hit hard several colleges closing over the past decade,

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Speaker 9: including Burlington College, Green Mountains, Southern Vermont, and Goddard College.

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Speaker 9: Jim McKay w b Z Boston's news radio Morning's Worst

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Speaker 9: Enemy is back. A strike at Starbucks continues.

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Speaker 10: Started on starbucks annual Red Cup Day, more than a

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Speaker 10: thousand workers picketing unionized Starbucks locations, calling for better benefits

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Speaker 10: and pay. Sylvia Baldwin on the picket line in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 7: Not a living wage. You know, it might have been

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Speaker 7: a living wage dock ago, but it's not anymore.

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Speaker 10: Michelle Asson, a barista and spokesperson.

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Speaker 3: For the union.

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Speaker 6: Many Starbucks workers have to rely on snap and medicaid.

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Speaker 10: To get by, a Starbucks spokesperson saying, quote, when they're

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Speaker 10: ready to come back, we're ready to talk. Dave Packer,

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Speaker 10: ABC News.

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Speaker 3: A trip to the candy jar may work wonders for

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Speaker 3: your mind.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, hold on, okay. Scientists in Japan say eating dark

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Speaker 7: chocolate can sharpen your memory in less than an hour.

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Speaker 7: It seems when mice chomped on the stuff, their brains

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Speaker 7: released a chemical linked to focus, and they performed about

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Speaker 7: thirty percent better on memory tests compared to those who

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Speaker 7: were chocolate deprived. Now, researchers also believe the chemical and

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Speaker 7: dark chocolate may help the brain turn short term memories

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Speaker 7: into long term ones. That part is still far from

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Speaker 7: scientifically proven. But if you're looking for a reason to

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Speaker 7: eat that extra candy bar today, you're welcome. Matt Shearer,

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