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

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Speaker 1: Well that's more like it. It is six o'clock on

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Speaker 1: this Friday morning, and welcome back, you little devil. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being with us on this Friday. It is mainly

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Speaker 1: clear skies at sunrise in the city and thirty four degrees.

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Speaker 1: The News at six has brought to us by your

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Speaker 1: new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. We're rounding third. We're heading for home

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Speaker 1: on war clouds and sun Today.

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Speaker 2: It'll become breezy with highs close to fifty.

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Speaker 1: At is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lumberg. Some of

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Speaker 1: us are going to get some rain tonight. It will

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Speaker 1: clear out this weekend, though, There is an effort to

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Speaker 1: bring civility back to our airlines just ahead of holiday

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Speaker 1: travel season.

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Speaker 3: The Golden Age of travel starts with you. That's what

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Speaker 3: the Department of Transportation is telling passengers as it launches

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Speaker 3: a campaign to inspire a return to civility and address

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Speaker 3: record surge and unruly passing. It's something folks are mixed on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how human beings sleeve, right. You got to

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Speaker 4: be able to be nice and kind to other people

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Speaker 4: and expect the same time.

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Speaker 5: Buck.

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Speaker 6: It's not needed and it's absolutely common silence.

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Speaker 3: The dot says. We should be asking ourselves questions, including

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Speaker 3: if we're helping pregnant women or the elderly by placing

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Speaker 3: bags in the overhead bin, are we saying thank you

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Speaker 3: to flight attendants? And if we're addressing with respect?

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Speaker 4: I think they should dress because I am public and

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Speaker 4: naturally small.

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Speaker 3: Good too, right, The Dot says, since twenty nineteen, the

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Speaker 3: FAA has seen a four hundred percent increase of in

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Speaker 3: flight outbursts. L Logan James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Back in action. The Bruins West Coast swing continues there

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Speaker 1: at the Kings in LA. Late night tonight, Celtics are

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Speaker 1: back in Boston. They will host the Nets of the Garden.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the NBA's Cup in Season tournament. What's

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Speaker 1: up with Buffalo? Of late? The Bills lose to the

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Speaker 1: Texans on Thursday Night Football. It kicks off Week twelve

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Speaker 1: of the NFL and now that means the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: a two game lead in the AFC East. Well, they've

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Speaker 1: been attacking each other from a distance, and now the

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Speaker 1: President of New York Cities mayor elect are about to

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Speaker 1: meet face to face.

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Speaker 6: Ron Mom Donnie calls himself a democratic socialist. President Trump

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Speaker 6: and White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called him something else.

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Speaker 7: We have a communist coming to the White House.

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Speaker 6: This follows the President's threat to hold back federal funding

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Speaker 6: if mon Nanni won the election. Secretary Levitt seemed to

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Speaker 6: pull back on that threat.

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Speaker 7: President Trump is willing to meet with anyone and talk

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Speaker 7: to anyone and to try to do what's right on

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Speaker 7: behalf of the American people, whether they live in blue

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Speaker 7: states or red states or Blue cities.

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Speaker 6: Mom Donnie says he plans to discuss ways to make

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Speaker 6: New York City more affordable. Linda Canyon, CBS News. The

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Speaker 6: White House Coffee is on hold hunt or cold A.

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Speaker 1: Dozens of additional Starbucks shops they're on strike, and that

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Speaker 1: includes Newton, as baristas expand to strike to include thirty

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Speaker 1: more locations and cities nationwide. They're upset over pay and

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Speaker 1: new policies at Starbucks. The company says, try as they might,

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Speaker 1: the strike has been hardly noticeable. Frost on your rotting

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Speaker 1: pumpkins this morning certainly on your windshield too, a scraping

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Speaker 1: action going on this morning. We've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: areas waking up in the twenties this morning. Here in Boston.

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Speaker 1: It is thirty four degrees as we get started under

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Speaker 1: partly cloudy skies. We'll see a relatively decent start to

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Speaker 1: the day today before it becomes mostly cloudy and the

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Speaker 1: breezes are going to kick back in. Temperatures will be

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Speaker 1: closer to normal this time of year today, with highs

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Speaker 1: around fifty. We're watching a system that is expected to

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Speaker 1: arrive overnight tonight. Some of us are going to get

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Speaker 1: some rain, others will stay mainly dry. But this rainfall

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Speaker 1: that will begin overnight tonight is expected to extend into

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Speaker 1: the early morning hours tomorrow before we quickly clear out.

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Speaker 1: We'll see some sunshine in the afternoon. Temperatures this weekend

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Speaker 1: over a pretty dry weekend overall, expected to be mainly

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Speaker 1: in the upper forties. Right now in Boston thirty four

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Speaker 1: and we've got hartly cloudy skies. At six oh five

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Speaker 1: on this Friday morning in Boston, Governor mar Healey says,

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Speaker 1: it's getting cold in here.

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Speaker 6: My message to.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump is get that money out the door and

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Speaker 4: get that money out the door today.

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Speaker 2: Governor Morriheeley demanding President Donald Trump release federal funds for

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Speaker 2: home heating assistants to Massachusetts families as seasonal temperatures drop

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Speaker 2: and heating bills climb for consumers.

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Speaker 6: The Trump administration has said they will not be releasing

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Speaker 6: these funds until the end of the month.

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Speaker 2: It's unacceptable.

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Speaker 6: People need heating assistance, and they need it now.

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Speaker 2: The heat assistants funding, like snapped food assistants benefits, stopped

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Speaker 2: when the federal government shut down. The government is now

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Speaker 2: back in business, but so far, the weight continues for

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Speaker 2: the heating assistance needed by three hundred thousand households in

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts at the State House. Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: US military veteran is keeping warm by chopping wood.

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Speaker 8: This is a name you might remember. The Lake Region

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Speaker 8: Woodbank was started by veteran William Shuttleworth. We talked to

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Speaker 8: him a lot here on WBZ about veterans' rights. William

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Speaker 8: even walked across the country when he lived in Newburyport

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Speaker 8: a few years back to raise awareness for veterans issues.

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Speaker 8: Now he lives up in Bridgton, Maine. And the wood

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Speaker 8: Bank is his project. The guy can't sit still. He's

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Speaker 8: seventy seven years old, but has to be of service.

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Speaker 8: I went up to Bridgeton, Maine to talk with William

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Speaker 8: about it.

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Speaker 9: We have delivered fifty truckloads of wood so far, so

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Speaker 9: nobody should go cold in this area. When I delivered

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Speaker 9: the wood, you just can't believe the gratitude that people have.

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Speaker 8: And I mean it's hard work back here. You guys

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Speaker 8: are getting after it.

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Speaker 9: It is hard work. I put about forty to forty

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Speaker 9: five hours into it every week. My mission for the community.

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Speaker 8: Williams Shuttleworth bouncing around Bridgeton, Maine, helping people out in

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Speaker 8: the Lake region. Woodbank the effort to keep people warm

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Speaker 8: this winter. It's more than just delivering wood, william says,

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Speaker 8: this project builds community, people coming together from all walks

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Speaker 8: of life. Drew mamholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: It's all going to be downhill this winter in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: Oles are scary, the speed is daunting, but you can

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Speaker 5: do it. A new fold by USA Today finds Massachusetts

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Speaker 5: is one of the best places to learn how to ski,

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Speaker 5: specifically what Choosett Mountain in Princeton and at Ski School

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Speaker 5: cracked the top ten of the annual Reader's Choice Awards.

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Speaker 5: The group private and adaptive lessons were cited as top notch,

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Speaker 5: helping skiers conquer the twenty seven trails in over one

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Speaker 5: hundred acres of terrain and by the way. The ski

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Speaker 5: reports here on WBZ kickoff on Friday, December fifth, Matt Shearer,

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