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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. Another shaky starts to our Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 1: This time around.

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Speaker 2: It is, however, above freezing here in Boston and still

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Speaker 2: raining thirty five degrees. The News at six is brought

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Speaker 2: to us by You're New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid

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Speaker 2: all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jeff Brown. So what is this winter or something?

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Speaker 3: Still some icy spots through the morning commute, with fit

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Speaker 3: of rain, in drizzle of times in the midday.

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Speaker 1: It'll dry out this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: As WBZ aky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg, we will see

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Speaker 2: some sunshine eventually. Today temperatures will be around forty degrees.

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Speaker 2: There are, however, dozens of school delays on the board,

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Speaker 2: particularly in central mass and southern New Hampshire. Ruins get

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Speaker 2: smoked in the Pacific Northwest, unleashed by the Kraken wrap

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Speaker 2: up the road trip with a big loss. Bees will

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Speaker 2: host the Flames tomorrow night. Celtics look to extend a

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Speaker 2: four game winning streak tonight at the Garden, Denver comes

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Speaker 2: to town. Massachusetts Health officials are reeling this morning with

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Speaker 2: the news of the death of a fourth child from

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Speaker 2: the flu. Two of the recent deaths involve kids in Boston,

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Speaker 2: and both under the age of two. City health officials

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Speaker 2: say these are the first flu virus fatalities seen in

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Speaker 2: the city of Boston in a decade. In fact, a

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Speaker 2: local restaurant and pub in Franklin has been forced to

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Speaker 2: close as workers there come down with flu. Flu clinics

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Speaker 2: are starting to pop up in more local cities and towns.

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Speaker 2: In fact, at least six of them will be available

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Speaker 2: for free in Boston today. President Trump says he has

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Speaker 2: struck a deal with Venezuela that will give the United

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Speaker 2: States up to fifty million barrels of oil, which will

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Speaker 2: be sold at market prices that could bring three billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: The proceeds are said to be on the way to

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Speaker 2: benefit both Venezuela and the United States. Cuba is now

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Speaker 2: in economic freefall. That is the opinion of some economists,

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Speaker 2: who seem to echo President Trump's declaration that the island

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Speaker 2: communist nation is about to fall. The analysts say Cuba

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Speaker 2: is met with a deadly combination of rising food prices

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Speaker 2: and poor availability of medicines, and now this a looming

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Speaker 2: shortage of Venezuelan oil. Experts say flirting with economic disaster

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Speaker 2: is nothing new for the sixty seven year old nation,

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Speaker 2: but this, they say, is pushing it to the brink.

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Speaker 2: Red flags are flying in the nation's capital, where President

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Speaker 2: Trump tells a private gathering of Republican lawmakers that the

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Speaker 2: GOP better not lose seats to Democrats in the midterm

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Speaker 2: elections or else. The president says he's sure to be

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Speaker 2: impeached a third time if that happens, and says his

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Speaker 2: economic and other policies are best for Americans and are

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Speaker 2: essentially the GOPS roadmap to victory. Beacon Hill lawmakers start

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Speaker 2: kicking the tires on an environmental plan aimed to cut

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Speaker 2: down on how much we drive.

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Speaker 4: It's called the Freedom to Move Act, which looks to

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Speaker 4: expand accessibility to public transportation options. The hope is to

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Speaker 4: encourage people to get out of their cars and drive less.

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Speaker 4: The proposed bill would require mass dot to set goals

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Speaker 4: for reducing my state wide, as well us create a

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Speaker 4: council to find how trains, ferries, buses, and bypaths could help.

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Speaker 4: What the law would not do is impose fines, penalties,

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Speaker 4: or taxes on drivers at South Station James Rojas WBZ,

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Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Certainly a messy start to the day, and in fact,

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Speaker 2: there is a clear dividing line between the rain and

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Speaker 2: the snow lines, and it appears that it bisects Boston

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Speaker 2: this morning. So to the north of the city we've

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Speaker 2: got some freezing precipitation, and just to the south it's

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Speaker 2: coming down as rain. There is a large swath of

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Speaker 2: clearings or at least I wouldn't say clearing skies, but

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Speaker 2: at least some better conditions out through the central portion

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Speaker 2: of the state. But another round of this weather is

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Speaker 2: making its way through Western Mass, so you get the

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Speaker 2: idea that this is going to be an inclement morning

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Speaker 2: at least here in Boston. As temperatures eventually will rise

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Speaker 2: into the mid to upper thirties today, we will eventually

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Speaker 2: see some sunshine later on. Looks like tomorrow is going

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Speaker 2: to be the pick of the week with plenty of

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Speaker 2: sunshine and high temperatures in the mid forties. But we

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Speaker 2: still have a rocky road to drive through here as

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Speaker 2: more storm systems will deliver the form of rain as

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Speaker 2: precipitation coming up towards the end of the week, but

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Speaker 2: by then tempts should be approaching fifty degrees. Right now

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Speaker 2: in Boston is thirty five and we've got some precipitation

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Speaker 2: coming down. Really depends where you are what kind it is.

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Speaker 2: It's six oh six on this Wednesday morning. This winter

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Speaker 2: is looking like it's going to take it a little

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Speaker 2: bit easy on us.

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Speaker 3: A new report suggests heating costs for most of us

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Speaker 3: in Massachusetts will go down this season compared to last.

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Speaker 3: Officials say milder weather and lower heating costs could result

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Speaker 3: in an up to nine percent savings this time around,

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Speaker 3: although those who heat with electricity will see another increase.

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Speaker 3: The DPU is currently pouring through your energy bill line

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Speaker 3: by line to tease out some permanent savings. Jawill at WBZ,

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Speaker 3: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts officials admit they goofed when giving a recently fired

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Speaker 2: and criminally charged former aid to Governor Healy a thirty

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Speaker 2: one thousand dollars parting gift of a check for unused

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Speaker 2: personal time off. Mr Cook faces drug charges for smuggling

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Speaker 2: cocaine to his office in Springfield and to a hotel

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Speaker 2: on the campus of U mass Amherst. The state says

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Speaker 2: it is going to take legal action in an effort

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Speaker 2: to get all of that money back. Chilling details this

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Speaker 2: morning from the mind of a killer. CBS News Boston's

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Speaker 2: Julie McDonald has details on the last words of Claudio

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Speaker 2: Nevis Valente, the suspect in the Brown University and MIT killings.

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Speaker 5: Nevis Valente did not reveal a motive for the campus shooting,

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Speaker 5: nor for the murder of the Brookline MIT professor, with

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Speaker 5: whom he'd attended school in Portugal, but he did mention

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Speaker 5: his interaction with a witness, which ultimately led to police

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Speaker 5: identifying him, saying, I was almost confronted by a guy

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Speaker 5: there that day. Not almost, I actually was confronted and

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Speaker 5: he knew my license plate. I honestly never thought it

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Speaker 5: would take them so long to find me.

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Speaker 2: The investigation into that violence continues and happening right now.

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Speaker 2: Central Massachusetts police officer has been killed while working a

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Speaker 2: crash scene on Route one forty six in Uxbridge. We

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Speaker 2: have details now from wbz's Drew moholland Good Morning, Drew.

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Speaker 6: Morning jeffya. Uxbridge police confirming to us making the announcement

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Speaker 6: a short time ago. It happened on Route one forty

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Speaker 6: six northbound near Route sixteen around one am, so about

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Speaker 6: five hours ago. The roadway remained shut down at this

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Speaker 6: time will likely remain that way for several hours. Investigation ongoing.

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Speaker 6: The name of that fallen Uxbridge Police officer has not

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Speaker 6: been released. Of course, we will be following this throughout

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Speaker 6: the rest of the morning.

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Speaker 2: Here, Jeff, very busy and suddenly disturbing day. You are

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Speaker 2: now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio