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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 showed up Friday. You're back here, little devil.

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Speaker 1: Bring it in, buddy. Here we go Friday morning here

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Speaker 1: in Boston, and we're looking good at sunrise here in

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Speaker 1: the city. It's mainly clear skies, but it's at chilly

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Speaker 1: thirty four here in Boston. The News at six is

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Speaker 1: brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your

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Speaker 1: hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for tagging along today.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. Weekend incomings.

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Speaker 2: Sunshine will fade me on increasing clouds today, will become

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Speaker 2: increasingly weedy this afternoon with a high about fifty five.

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Speaker 3: I mean we go at the wind again, WBZ akiweather

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Speaker 3: meteorologist Joe Lundberg. But it'll be in the low sixties

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Speaker 3: to kick off the weekend and some sunshine tomorrow. With

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Speaker 3: just six seconds to spare, nessen with the call as

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Speaker 3: the Bruins beat the Senators in overtime at the Garden.

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Speaker 3: The bees will be at the Maple Leafs tomorrow night.

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Speaker 3: The Celtics quest for the NBA Cup continues Tonight. The

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Speaker 3: n Season tournament takes its talents to Orlando, and it's

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Speaker 3: a snoozer on Thursday Night football to kick off Week

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Speaker 3: ten in the NFL as the Broncos top the Raiders

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Speaker 3: in a low scoring game. A cell phone could tip

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Speaker 3: the scales of justice for nearly two dozen murder cases

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Speaker 3: in Massachusetts. Phone records from former Massachusetts State Police trooper

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Speaker 3: Michael Proctor under the microscope, with information discovered that could

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Speaker 3: tie to nineteen murder trials in Norfolk County. The contents

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Speaker 3: of the phone could impact cases as old as eight

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Speaker 3: years ago. Proctor's own testimony in the first Karen Reid

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Speaker 3: murder trial revealed demeaning comments in text messages about Red,

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Speaker 3: which resulted in his suspension and ultimate termination from the force.

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Speaker 3: Proctor recently dropped an appeal to get his job back,

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Speaker 3: reportedly over the information contained in that phone. It's government

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Speaker 3: shutdown day thirty eight, and there are early signs that

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Speaker 3: stubborn Republicans and Democrats are about to crack. Senate Majority

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Speaker 3: leader John Thune says enough's enough.

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Speaker 4: We banks around the country have seen an influx of

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Speaker 4: federal workers who are missing paychecks due to the shutdown.

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Speaker 3: Foon tees up a newly revised spending bill that is

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Speaker 3: said to contain some sweeteners for Democrats prime issue of

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Speaker 3: getting some TLC for the Affordable Care Act, and it's

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Speaker 3: ready for a test vote on Capitol Hill as soon

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Speaker 3: as today. Official say Lawmakers are getting ready for a

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Speaker 3: working weekend as well that could speed things up to

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Speaker 3: end the longest stalemate in American history, and cancelations have

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Speaker 3: already stacked up at Logan Airport and around the country

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Speaker 3: this morning as the FAA cracks down on passenger safety

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Speaker 3: during the government shutdown.

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Speaker 2: Christine and her kids are keeping their fingers crossed that

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Speaker 2: their family trip isn't affected by the FAA reduction of flights.

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Speaker 5: Well, nervous about the whole situation, but we you know,

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Speaker 5: we're optimists. So we're here and we're hopefuing for the best.

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Speaker 5: So but flight home Sunday evening, I'm a little more

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Speaker 5: nervous about.

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Speaker 2: They're looking at the information aboard that is littered with

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Speaker 2: delayed and camp flights. Fortunately for them, theirs is looking good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like it looks like it is from

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Speaker 5: the board here. We'll see once we get to our

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Speaker 5: gate and everything.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, so that's good.

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Speaker 5: I see that there are some delays.

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Speaker 2: Here, air traffic is said to be reduced nationwide by

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Speaker 2: four percent starting today, eventually growing to ten percent at Logan.

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Speaker 2: James Rojas WBZ Boston's NEOWS Radio and right.

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Speaker 3: Now there are thirty eight cancelations on the board at

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Speaker 3: Logan Airport this morning in nationwide. That number is more

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Speaker 3: than eight hundred. Gorgeous morning in Boston, several readings in

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Speaker 3: the twenties on the board. As we get started this

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Speaker 3: Friday morning here in the city, it's thirty four degrees

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Speaker 3: and just a beautiful sunrise in progress right now. We

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Speaker 3: are going to see some sunshine this morning, and the

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Speaker 3: red skies are going to indicate some inclement weather on

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Speaker 3: the way later today. Clouds will be on the increase.

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Speaker 3: We are expecting some showers overnight tonight.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: Daytime highs today will be in the mid fifties and

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Speaker 3: we'll stay pretty steady in the overnight hours. Tomorrow is

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Speaker 3: actually going to be the better of the two weekend days,

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Speaker 3: with highs approaching the low sixties. We'll see some sunshine

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Speaker 3: the afternoon, plenty of clouds, some additional showers elbow in

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Speaker 3: on Sunday, tempts will be in the fifties, and it

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Speaker 3: appears that as we turn the page in a new

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Speaker 3: work week, as we get going next week, some of

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Speaker 3: the coldest air of the season could be pouring in

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Speaker 3: with high temperatures really in many cases not getting out

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Speaker 3: of the forties next week. Right now, it's just thirty

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Speaker 3: is six oh five and bottoms up. Something new is

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Speaker 6: Well, maybe that next can of SuDS in your hand

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Speaker 6: this weekend will be a can of the New Market

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Speaker 6: Basket beer. The supermarket that Demula's family made famous is

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Speaker 6: rolling out their new Market Basket More for your dollar Lagger.

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Speaker 6: It's a light logger that's being made by Zero Gravity

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Speaker 6: Beer in Vermont. It's considered a light taste and also

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Speaker 6: a little hoppy. It's now available at all Market Basket

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Speaker 6: beer and wine locations in Massachusetts, as well as all

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Speaker 6: Market Basket stores in New Hampshire and Maine. Cheers, It's Friday,

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Speaker 6: after all, Jim McKay WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: This holiday shopping season is going to hit a record

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Speaker 3: breaking milestone. The National Retail Federation says shoppers are expected

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Speaker 3: to spend more than one trillion dollars for the first

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Speaker 3: time ever this year. The expectation comes despite sagging consumer

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Speaker 3: confidence as concerns over tariffs and inflation continue to power

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Speaker 3: the mood. The totals work out to nearly nine hundred

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Speaker 3: bucks per person on gifts, food, and decorations this holiday.

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Speaker 3: That would be the second highest personal total since the

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Speaker 3: organization started keeping score almost twenty five years ago. A

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Speaker 3: driver faces a citation this morning after leaving his vehicle

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Speaker 3: on the tracks of an MBTA commuter rail train. Official

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Speaker 3: say the Fitchburg Line train slammed into the car last night.

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Speaker 3: The driver had exited the vehicle. More than forty people

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Speaker 3: on that train evaluated for medical injuries, but no injuries

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Speaker 3: have been reported. The crash results in delays on the

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Speaker 3: Fitchburg Line late last night. An annual Boston College tradition

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Speaker 3: returns to the Heights this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Red Bandana Game is a game each year where nine

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Speaker 4: to eleven hero, the late Wells Crowther, is honored. It

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Speaker 4: is a noontime Saturday start this time around smu in

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Speaker 4: Town to play the Eagles. Wells Crowther showed his love

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Speaker 4: for helping people as a junior firefighter in his late

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Speaker 4: high school years. He went on to college and played

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Speaker 4: lacrosse for BC and when he graduated, he took a

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Speaker 4: job as an equities trader on the one hundred and

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Speaker 4: fourth floor of the Self Tower of the World Trade

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Speaker 4: Center in New York City. He's credited with leading as

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Speaker 4: many as eighteen people to safety after United Airlines Flight

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Speaker 4: one seventy five flew into the Self Tower. Ling Young

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Speaker 4: was in the Self Tower with Wells and remembers being

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Speaker 4: hurt from the blasts.

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Speaker 1: We'll to a young man come out of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: You heard this man's voice say I found this day.

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Speaker 2: Follow me.

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Speaker 1: Only help the one that you can help.

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Speaker 3: It's the way he said it.

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Speaker 2: And we just got up.

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Speaker 4: We follow that from the man in the red bandana.

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Speaker 4: The ESPN mini film witnesses like ling Young say Wells

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Speaker 4: Crowther went back up into the South Tower to help

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Speaker 4: more people before the tower collapsed. Wells Crowther died on

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Speaker 4: September eleventh, two thousand and one. He died a hero,

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Speaker 4: something Boston College and the whole nation pays tribute to

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Speaker 4: with this Red Bandana game. Drew moholland WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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