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Speaker 1: We've got some clouds in Boston twenty nine degrees at

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Speaker 1: six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Bridger and here's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: A twenty one year old woman dead after a massive

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Speaker 1: house fire yesterday morning in Needham. CBS News Boston's Logan

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Speaker 1: Hall from the scene.

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Speaker 2: Members of the Needham community have this family on their mind.

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Speaker 2: Definitely very sad. I'm sure that's extremely traumatic, extra on

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve, but just you know, my heart goes out

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Speaker 2: to the family, and you know, I'm praying for those people.

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Speaker 3: Billyotocouple Bianco lives in Needham and says it's a close community.

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Speaker 2: We're always you know, I'm in like the Facebook group

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Speaker 2: and there's always fundraisers and groups and stuff going on.

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Speaker 2: So it's just a really nice community to be around.

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Speaker 1: Two other people did escape the blaze. The person who

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Speaker 1: died has not been identified. Once again, Massachusetts Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Andrea Campbell joins eighteen other states ensuing the Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: Here's wbz's Sherry Small.

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Speaker 4: Massachusetts included in the coalition of states suing the Trump

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Speaker 4: administration over gender affirming care for young people. Earlier this month,

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Speaker 4: HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Junior made the claim that certain

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Speaker 4: forms of gender affirming care are quote unsafe and ineffective,

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Speaker 4: and threatened to punish doctors, hospitals, and clinics that continue

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Speaker 4: to provide such care by excluding them from federal Medicare

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Speaker 4: and Medicaid programs. The lawsuit claims Secretary Kennedy doesn't have

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Speaker 4: the authority to make that threat, and that his declaration

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Speaker 4: violates federal law by changing medical standards and healthcare policies

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Speaker 4: without going through the proper procedures. Campbell saying it would

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Speaker 4: limit access to medically necessary in life saving care for

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Speaker 4: trans youth and threaten access to healthcare for millions who

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Speaker 4: rely on Medicaid. The coalition is asking the court to

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Speaker 4: set aside the declaration. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio, it.

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Speaker 1: Most certainly will be a merry Christmas for fur or

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Speaker 1: someone in Arkansas who has the winning ticket from last

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Speaker 1: night's Powerball jackpot.

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Speaker 2: We have another live changing jack cut for you.

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Speaker 5: It's worth an estimated one point eight one seven billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yes it was, and the winning numbers were four twenty five,

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Speaker 1: thirty one, fifty two fifty nine. The Powerball nineteen game

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Speaker 1: had gone three months without a top prize winner, pushing

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Speaker 1: the jackpot to its largest prize of the year and

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Speaker 1: the second largest in US history. The jackpot has a

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Speaker 1: lump sum payment option of eight hundred and thirty four

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Speaker 1: million dollars. The Archbishop but Boston will meet sometime next

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Speaker 1: month with the head of Saint Susanna's parish and debt

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Speaker 1: him to discuss the church's controversial display. The Globe reports

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Speaker 1: the Nativity scene has a sign which states Ice was here,

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Speaker 1: replacing images of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Father Steven Jessoma

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Speaker 1: of Saint Susanna's church says he won't remove the display

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Speaker 1: until he speaks with Archbishop Richard Henning. The archdioces had

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Speaker 1: requested the display be removed, calling the scene divisive political messaging.

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Speaker 1: Many parishioners at Saint Susanna say they support the display

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Speaker 1: and the message it delivers. Let's check the four day

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Speaker 1: WBZ ach you weather forecast. Joe Lundberg tells us today,

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Speaker 1: if you're traveling, the weather will be just fine. It's dry,

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Speaker 1: we have some clouds and some sun, and it will

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Speaker 1: be breezy, a high to about forty It's clear. It's

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Speaker 1: very cold tonight. We drop all the way down to

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Speaker 1: about twelve you factor in the wind, it's going to

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Speaker 1: feel like it's below zero at times. Tonight, Tomorrow, some sun,

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Speaker 1: some clouds, cold day, just twenty three for a high,

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Speaker 1: and it will set up. Snow coming in Friday night

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Speaker 1: into Saturday. Not a big deal. The snow an inch

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Speaker 1: or two. Most of it will be to the south

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Speaker 1: and to the west of Boston, and temperatures on Saturday

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Speaker 1: will be in the mid twenties. It stays cold, and

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Speaker 1: then Sunday warms up a little bit with clouds and

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Speaker 1: sun and high thirty eight six five right now and

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Speaker 1: twenty nine degrees in Boston. The news brought to you

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Speaker 1: by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Boston's Roman Catholic Spiritual Leader. Reflecting on the

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Speaker 1: life of the faithful in Venezuela. Wbz's Mike Macklin spoke

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Speaker 1: with Archbishop Richard Henning.

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Speaker 3: Faithful in Venezuela have been experiencing a good deal of

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Speaker 3: persecution from their government, but the government there is quite oppressive.

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Speaker 6: Archbishop Richard Heading reflects on the plight of Venezuela's Roman

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Speaker 6: Catholics living in a nation of political upheaval and economic crisis,

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Speaker 6: facing an uncertain future.

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Speaker 3: It's always better when we can find to move away

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Speaker 3: from violence in any kind, and I think the Holy

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Speaker 3: Father's been asking us to do that, to pray for that,

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Speaker 3: But I certainly pray for the liberation of the people

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Speaker 3: that are suffering there the oppression of their government.

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Speaker 6: I asked the archbishop if he would support the overthrow

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Speaker 6: of Venezuela strong man Nicholas Baduro.

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Speaker 3: Overthrows a strong word. I think there was an election.

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Speaker 3: It'd be nice to see the results of that election.

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Speaker 6: Honored in Georchester. Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: For the past twenty five years, one man in Boston

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Speaker 1: has spent his Christmas Eve behind the grill on Beacon Hill.

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Speaker 1: There's wbz's I'm a friedman.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't smell like pine cookies are a fireplace here,

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Speaker 5: Christmas smells a lot like hot dogs.

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Speaker 7: My wife made me do it. She says you have

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Speaker 7: to do it this year, so I'm doing it.

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Speaker 5: That's Jack Gurnan. He's the grill master, running this operation

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Speaker 5: right outside his store. Charles Street's apply in Beacon Hill.

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Speaker 5: For him, grilling up dogs and giving them out for

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Speaker 5: free is the true spirit of Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 7: And we sell out every year.

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Speaker 6: So and I usually get about a couple hundred hot

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Speaker 6: dogs and it's fun, it's free, and people are really

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Speaker 6: happy to get a free hot dog.

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Speaker 5: Call it Christmas magic if you will. But these hot

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Speaker 5: dogs are making the adults giddy like a kid seeing

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Speaker 5: snow for the first time.

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Speaker 2: I work next door.

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Speaker 7: I own Hi Cassie, I own the shop next door.

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Speaker 2: It's called Women's on the Hill. May we do this

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Speaker 2: every year.

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Speaker 5: So you came back out, you just get your your

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Speaker 5: hot dog on your break or.

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Speaker 7: Oh there's no break, you just come out when you

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Speaker 7: have a lull and traffic.

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Speaker 5: It works and Beacon Hill I'm a freedman WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 5: news radio.

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Speaker 1: Now it's not just the holiday season, it's also engagement season.

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Speaker 7: According to the not dot Com, engagement season runs from

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Speaker 7: Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day, with forty percent of the nearly

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Speaker 7: three million engagements every year happening during that time. But

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Speaker 7: there is something about Christmas that makes twenty six percent

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Speaker 7: of us pop the question, But before you propose, find

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Speaker 7: out if your state considers a Christmas proposal an implied

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Speaker 7: gift that means, if the wedding doesn't happen, the ring

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Speaker 7: does not have to be returned. I'm pre Tennis.

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