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

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Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock in Boston on this Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: and we're getting started with some leftovers today as the

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Speaker 1: storm system finally pulls off. We've got some cold air

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Speaker 1: and thirty four degrees. The six o'clock News is brought

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

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Speaker 1: all wheel drive headquarters. And we start to clear on

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Speaker 1: out in the wake of our.

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Speaker 2: Storm yesterday and last night.

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Speaker 3: Things will dry out today with clouds and some sunshine

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Speaker 3: and highs the upper thirties to low forty.

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Speaker 1: WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lumberg going to continue to

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Speaker 1: be cold for much of the rest of this week.

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Speaker 1: Some school cancelations again this morning. A normal start at

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Speaker 1: Logan Airport, though however it's touch and go for a

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Speaker 1: key roads to and from Boston.

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Speaker 2: Officials call it a wait and see scenario whether or

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Speaker 2: not to close Marcy Boulevard during the height of this

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Speaker 2: morning's commute.

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Speaker 4: Plugs every time you go down there, especially after nice

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Speaker 4: rainstorm like this.

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Speaker 2: The larger problem, according to the DCR, is the potential

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Speaker 2: of high tides, which can cause portions of the road

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Speaker 2: to flood That in turn necessitates lay enclosures, which the

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Speaker 2: agency may need to implement today when high tide arrives

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Speaker 2: around nine and through next Monday.

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Speaker 1: No easy development to maneuver.

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Speaker 3: I would say that it becomes a hassle for workers

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Speaker 3: and travelers.

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Speaker 2: Makes a tough community even more difficulty.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it does.

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Speaker 2: Chris fom a WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Celtics beat the Knicks at the Garden, Bruins stumble in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: they lose to the Red Wings. Both are back in

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Speaker 1: action tomorrow night. Busy day at the Heights for BC basketball.

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Speaker 1: Women will go at one o'clock this afternoon versus Quinnipiac.

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Speaker 1: The men get undefeated LSU tonight at seven point fifteen.

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Speaker 1: In basketball, flu season kicks in and doctors wait with

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Speaker 1: baited breath after families gather in close quarters for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 5: This Here's flu strain variant is believed to be the

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Speaker 5: driving force find the rising number of cases in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: Folks who do a lot of traveling, like David, are

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Speaker 5: noticing more people sneezing and coughing.

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Speaker 4: It seems like they are, but I don't. I guess

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Speaker 4: I'm focused on doing my thing, and I don't really.

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Speaker 5: Worry about it. The flu vaccine is recommended as the

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Speaker 5: most effective way to avoid serious illness, though not everyone

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Speaker 5: is planning to get one.

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Speaker 4: I don't take any flu shots. I don't take any

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Speaker 4: necessary precautions. I've been very fortunate. I think in the

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Speaker 4: last ten years, I might have had one day or

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Speaker 4: two days where I didn't feel well.

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Speaker 5: The twenty twenty four flu season was also a tough one,

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Speaker 5: with four hundred and sixty five flu related deaths in

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Speaker 5: Dewey Square. James Rojas WVZ Boston's news radio, and to.

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Speaker 1: Add insult to injury, doctors at the CDC are warning

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Speaker 1: the cases of neuro virus have doubled in the past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. That is a nasty illness that is

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Speaker 1: expected to explode this winter.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: More shopping numbers are in this morning, and they continue

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Speaker 1: to impress. Wbz's Rumholland is here with details. Good morning, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: Morning Jeffrey.

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Speaker 6: The National Retail Federations as a record two hundred and

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Speaker 6: three million shoppers shopped over the five day Thanksgiving kickoff

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Speaker 6: to the holiday season. That is up some five million

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Speaker 6: shoppers from last year, the top the previous all time

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Speaker 6: high set two years ago. That also means Jeff has

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Speaker 6: all of our gifts very excited about that. Retailers expect

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Speaker 6: this to be the first one trillion dollar end of

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Speaker 6: the year blowout, though even experts aren't sure how much

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Speaker 6: the increased costs will be to inflation and or global tariffs.

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Speaker 6: The big one here twenty one shopping days to go.

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Speaker 1: I better get started. Thanks for the warning I heard

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Speaker 1: you were done pretty impressive late fall and first winter

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Speaker 1: storm of the season, and some of the totals that

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Speaker 1: we've seen puts the Jackpot area in portions of western

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Speaker 1: Mass with as much as seven inches of snow seeing

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Speaker 1: that and slightly more in portions of southern Vermont and

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire as well. But of course, the closer we

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Speaker 1: did get to Boston it was mostly rain, a few

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Speaker 1: snowflakes begin the day this morning, but now it looks

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Speaker 1: like all but the final remnants are pulling away from

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Speaker 1: the outer cape at this point in time. In its

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Speaker 1: rain this morning, there right now in Boston thirty four

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Speaker 1: degrees under otherwise cloudy skies as we start to shake

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Speaker 1: the cobwebs off today, any lingering snow will be moving

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Speaker 1: on out and the cleanup is underway. For some of

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Speaker 1: us in interior locations. It's going to be another cold

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Speaker 1: one today. Sunshine does make an attempt to return, with

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Speaker 1: highs approaching forty degrees, partly to mostly cloudy again overnight

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Speaker 1: tonight in cold, continued cold for the balance of this week.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow looks like we'll be in the forties, but we

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Speaker 1: may not get out of the twenties all day on Friday,

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Speaker 1: despite a lot of sunshine right now in Boston, cloudy skies.

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Speaker 1: Here in the city, it is thirty four degrees on

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday morning. At six oh six. A key pivot

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Speaker 1: point arrives today on Beacon Hill for would be ballot

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Speaker 1: questions to take another step closer to voters. Today, supporters

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Speaker 1: of bringing back rent control are bursting with optimism.

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Speaker 3: For rent control advocates, it's a big step forward. They

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Speaker 3: delivered a dozen boxes filled with petition signatures calling for

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Speaker 3: rent increases in Massachusetts to be capped at five percent

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Speaker 3: per year.

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Speaker 6: We collect at one hundred and twenty four thousand signatures

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Speaker 6: for this campaign.

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Speaker 3: State lawmakers have twice refused to approve rent control. Mimi

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Speaker 3: Ramos is with New England Community Project.

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Speaker 7: For far too long, we have been waiting for the

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Speaker 7: state legislature to step up to the plate and pass

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Speaker 7: our legislation. Now we're thankful for the elected officials that

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Speaker 7: did sign in support of our bill, but our communities

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Speaker 7: can't wait anymore.

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Speaker 3: The petition signatures now need to be certified by Secretary

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Speaker 3: of the Commonwealth William Galvin, clearing the way for rent

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Speaker 3: control to be put before the voters next November at

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Speaker 3: the State House. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's a no go for Congresswoman Ayana Presley, who says

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Speaker 1: she will not primary Senator Ed Markey in next year's

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Speaker 1: mid term elections. Instead, the four term representative will run

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Speaker 1: for reelection. Presley says she did give a run for

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Speaker 1: Marquee seat some serious consideration, but now is not the time,

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Speaker 1: although she says she will not rule it out in

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Speaker 1: the future. A recent poll suggests Presley would have been

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Speaker 1: a formidable challenge to Senator Markey, who's now battling Congressman

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Speaker 1: Seth Moulton, but retains a large lead in recent polls.

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Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to distance himself from a

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Speaker 1: deadly attack on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean. Many

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Speaker 1: lawmakers on Capitol Hill say that attack may have amounted

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Speaker 1: to a war crime.

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Speaker 5: The legality of the September second attack is in question

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Speaker 5: after The Washington Post reported Defense Secretary Pte Hegseth allegedly

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Speaker 5: issued an order to kill everybody, and that Navy Admiral

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Speaker 5: Mitch Bradley apparently ordered the second strike to take out

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Speaker 5: two survivors, fulfilling Hegseth's directive, which many legal experts describe

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Speaker 5: as a war crime. Heg Seth said he only saw

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Speaker 1: Strike at CBS's Uija Jang. Admiral Bradley, by the way,

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Speaker 1: is expected to provide a classified briefing to Senate in

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Speaker 1: House lawmakers tomorrow. You are now in the loop for

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