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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Twenty six degrees, mostly clear skies in Boston, feeling like

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Speaker 2: twelve at six o'clock on this New Year's Eve, Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 2: December thirty. First, This hour of news brought to you

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Speaker 2: by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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Speaker 2: drive headquarters. Good morning, Happy New Year. I'm Jim McKay,

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Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. Yeah, we're still trying to thiw

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Speaker 2: out from Tuesday's deep freeze. And oh yeah, by the way,

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Speaker 2: the rest of New Year's Eve and the rest of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, we're gonna be freezing our butts off.

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Speaker 3: We'll see clouds and some sunshine today with behind the

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Speaker 3: mid thirty some snow later tonight. Canicula it colding you

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Speaker 3: an inch around the area.

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Speaker 2: And that is WBZ acur weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg once

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Speaker 2: again freezing cold as we head off into the overnight hours,

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Speaker 2: and we could have a couple of inches of snow

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Speaker 2: on the ground by tomorrow morning. Meantime, those New Year's

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Speaker 2: Eve cell rations Boston set to go big. Wbz's James

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Speaker 2: Rojas talking to people this morning to see what they're

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Speaker 2: up to later on.

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Speaker 3: Ringing in the new year with a bang. First night,

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Speaker 3: Boston is bringing out all the stops, including fireworks, a parade,

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Speaker 3: and music. Now those spirits will be high, temperatures will

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Speaker 3: be low.

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Speaker 4: So bring either hot hands or if you're a woman,

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Speaker 4: those fast flats they kind of like fold in half

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Speaker 4: because then they're easy to switch in and out of

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Speaker 4: on your if you go out if you want to

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Speaker 4: wear heels, and it's.

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Speaker 3: Called the bars and nightclubs will also be packed. So

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Speaker 3: for these guys, their best advice.

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Speaker 5: Soldick and John ao Uber will always save you more

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Speaker 5: in the.

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Speaker 3: Long run literally, or take public transportation, which the MBTA

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Speaker 3: is making easier by going fair free after a PM

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Speaker 3: for the T bus, ferry, shuttle service and commuter rail

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Speaker 3: in Chinatown. James Rojas WBZ Boston's News radio.

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Speaker 2: And we continue now at six. So two Patriots fans

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Speaker 2: weren't expecting a controversy, but they certainly have got one.

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Speaker 2: The reaction continues to pour in as Wide receiver Stefan

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Speaker 2: Diggs facing felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault and battery charges

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Speaker 2: stemming from an incident in Denham earlier this month. Patriots

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Speaker 2: fans are reacting to the news as star player and

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Speaker 2: team leader for the surging division champs finds himself in

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Speaker 2: legal hot water just ahead of.

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Speaker 3: A playoff push.

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Speaker 5: I think it's something you're concerned about, but I think

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Speaker 5: the Patriots are skinning by him, so off skinned by

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Speaker 5: him until otherwise obviously disappointed, frustrated.

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Speaker 3: It's not all you want to see from a human standpoint,

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Speaker 3: and also so late in the season's not good for

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Speaker 3: the team.

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Speaker 4: Diggs is scheduled to be arraigned on these charges on Friday,

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Speaker 4: January twenty third, just two days before the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Aaron Parsigian reporting now, the Patriots say

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Speaker 2: the support Diggs and are cooperating with the investigation. His

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Speaker 2: attorney out with a very strong statement denying all the

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Speaker 2: allegation against Diggs, and again we are expected to hear

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Speaker 2: from Patriots head coach Mike Rabel later today. Should be

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Speaker 2: interesting to see how he answers to some of those questions.

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Speaker 2: As we continue to track all this cold weather, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be much like it was yesterday out there,

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Speaker 2: gusty wins and temperatures feeling like the single digits. The

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Speaker 2: only real change in the forecast. We've got a little

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Speaker 2: bit of snowfall in the overnight hours, could have a

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Speaker 2: bit of a dusting to potentially one to two inches

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Speaker 2: in greater Boston points south. That actually looks like is

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Speaker 2: where we're going to get the most snowfall. It's not

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Speaker 2: going to be a significant amount, but there is the

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Speaker 2: potential of one to three maybe even two to four

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Speaker 2: on different parts of the Cape and the islands later tonight.

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Speaker 2: So that snow, by the way, is most likely going

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Speaker 2: to be taking place in the early morning hours tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: so it'll be after the midnight hour, and then for

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Speaker 2: the rest of the week, maybe that snow will stay

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Speaker 2: on the ground. Because we're in the twenties and thirties,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be awfully cold all the way through

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Speaker 2: the first weekend of twenty twenty six. We're at twenty

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Speaker 2: six right now in Boston, feeling like twelve that six

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Speaker 2: oh six. And speaking of that cold weather, how much

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Speaker 2: you like to ride your bike in what we're feeling

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Speaker 2: right now, Well, a lot of us do, those of

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Speaker 2: us who get around on two wheels.

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Speaker 6: The twenties with the brutal Cross when isn't exactly what

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Speaker 6: most people consider prime biking weather. But Pierre Payette is

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Speaker 6: still bike seven miles to work today.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So it's basically hands, feet and the head. I

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Speaker 5: like the real troublesome areas.

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Speaker 6: The owner of Ferris Wheels bike shop in JP says

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Speaker 6: the key is to come prepared. There's a small but

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Speaker 6: dedicated community of bikers that take to the streets in

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Speaker 6: all weather in Boston, and he says the key on

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Speaker 6: ds like this is to wear layers. For him, that's

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Speaker 6: two pairs of gloves, of bottaclava and a neck warmer.

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Speaker 6: He says, road treatments can really mess up your ride.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so is pretty rough. It'll you know, take the

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Speaker 5: paint off, It'll corrode things, It'll rust them.

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Speaker 6: Which is why he recommends having a cheap second bike

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Speaker 6: you don't care much about for bad weather. I asked

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Speaker 6: what made him ride today?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think the best motivation is like not

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Speaker 5: having like in traffic.

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Speaker 6: Kyles Schaffle WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: We continue now at six to ZHO seven more potential

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Speaker 2: ballot questions for next year's election certified by Secretary of

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Speaker 2: State Bill Galvin's office, bringing the total number to nine

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Speaker 2: thus far, with two more still being processed by the

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Speaker 2: January seventh deadline.

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Speaker 1: It looks at this point it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: very full ballot in twenty twenty six, with many questions

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Speaker 1: before the voters, unless the legislature takes action well.

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Speaker 2: If lawmakers vote on a particular question themselves, it will

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Speaker 2: not appear on the ballot. FIFA president is continuing to

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Speaker 2: defend the high cost of next year's World Cup tickets,

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Speaker 2: arguing demand far how weighs the supply.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six World Cup will be hosted by

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Speaker 1: the United States, Canada and Mexico, and group stage tickets

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Speaker 1: are three times the cost of the twenty twenty two tournament.

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Speaker 1: In cutter In, Fantino said on Monday that there are

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Speaker 1: six to seven million tickets for sale and that one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million requests were made in the first

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Speaker 1: fifteen days. In an effort to address prices, FIFAZ made

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Speaker 1: a small number of cheaper tickets available for all one

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Speaker 1: hundred and four matches. I'm Marknefield.

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