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

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Speaker 2: All right, we're seeing snow flurries along the north shore

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Speaker 2: and some spots along the south shore as well. Hello,

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Speaker 2: and thanks for being with us in the city. It's

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Speaker 2: cloudy in thirty seven degrees at eleven o'clock on this Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. The Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: Department of Public Health is out with an alert for

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Speaker 2: residents about a potential exposure to measles. Here's wvz's Charlie bergeron.

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Speaker 3: State health officials confirming an out of state adult visitor

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Speaker 3: who spent time in Boston and Westborough earlier this month

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Speaker 3: was diagnosed with measles and was present in a number

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Speaker 3: of locations. December eleventh, about two point forty the visitor

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Speaker 3: arrived at Logan on an American Airlines flight from Dallas

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Speaker 3: Fort Worth, Texas. The visitor stayed at the Double Tree

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Speaker 3: by Hilton Hotel in Westborough and then left the state

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Speaker 3: the following day, December twelfth, leaving Logan on a nine

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Speaker 3: to twenty pm flight on JetBlue to Las Vegas. The

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Speaker 3: Department of Public Health is working with the Centers for

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Speaker 3: Disease Control and Prevention and local partners to identify and

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Speaker 3: notify those who may have been exposed to measles from

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Speaker 3: this individual. Measles very contagious. However, the risk to most

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Speaker 3: people in Massachusetts is low because the vaccination rate in

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Speaker 3: the state is high. Those who could have been exposed

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Speaker 3: and begin to develop symptoms of measles should call their

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Speaker 3: healthcare provider before visiting an office, clinic, or emergency department.

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Speaker 3: Charlie Burger on WBZ Boston's.

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Speaker 2: News radio, the DOJ trying to tamp down a potential

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Speaker 2: problem after President Trump is mentioned by name in the

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Speaker 2: latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein file.

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Speaker 4: The Department of Justice on the defense. After releasing more

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Speaker 4: of the Jeffrey Epstein files early Tuesday morning, DOJ officials

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Speaker 4: saying in a statement that some of the latest documents

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Speaker 4: in this batch contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against

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Speaker 4: President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before

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Speaker 4: the twenty two on the election. The DOJ did not

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Speaker 4: specify which documents is referring to, and.

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Speaker 2: That's ABC's Rena Roy reporting among the files, a letter

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Speaker 2: supposedly sent from Epstein when he was in a Manhattan

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Speaker 2: jail to Larry Nasser, the former US women's gymnastics team

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Speaker 2: doctor now serving time for sexual abuse. Epstein writing that

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Speaker 2: President Trump shared a mutual interest in young girls, the

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Speaker 2: doj issuing a statement calling the letter fake now. The

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Speaker 2: latest files also show millions in donations by Epstein to

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Speaker 2: Harvard University. President Trump taking a victory lap after a

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Speaker 2: new report show the economy grew rapidly over the summer.

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Speaker 5: President Trump is taking credit after a new report showed

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Speaker 5: the US economy beat expectations, growing at an annual rate

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Speaker 5: of four point three percent from July through September. But

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Speaker 5: polls show fifty seven percent of registered voters disapprove of

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Speaker 5: Trump's handling of the economy, and consumer confidence is at

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Speaker 5: the lowest it's been since the US ruled out tariffs

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Speaker 5: in April. Experts Warren, spending by wealthier Americans is offsetting

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Speaker 5: the reality of a four year high in unemployments.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: The fort A WBZ achu weather forecast windy and chilly today.

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Speaker 2: We'll see a mix of sun and clouds, but a

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Speaker 2: snow shower early this morning along the coast. We are

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Speaker 2: seeing that mainly on the north shore right now, a

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Speaker 2: couple spots getting eclipped, with some snow flurries on the

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Speaker 2: south shore, some rain and snow at times on the

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Speaker 2: cape in the Islands. Temperature steady or slowly falling today Tonight,

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Speaker 2: partly cloudy early, then the clouds really move in later.

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Speaker 2: Overnight low of twenty seven in Boston. For some of

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Speaker 2: those inland suburbs, it'll be as low as in the twenties,

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Speaker 2: all right, low twenties. Thursday, Christmas, we're going to see

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Speaker 2: clouds breaking for some sunshine, fairly mild. It will be breezy,

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Speaker 2: but high's near forty. Friday quite the turnaround, sun followed

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Speaker 2: by clouds and we'll only reach a high of twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Then Friday night into Saturday, it's looking like snow returning.

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Speaker 2: We could see the potential for one to three inches

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Speaker 2: of accumulation, so we'll be watching that of course. Right

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Speaker 2: now again we are seeing some snow flurries in far

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Speaker 2: western Mass and again Lynn Salem, Danvers. Let's see Gloucester,

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Speaker 2: Ipswich the north shore getting clipped, as well as along

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Speaker 2: the coast in New Hampshire, and then a couple spots

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Speaker 2: of snow flurries on the south Shore. It's eleven oh five.

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Speaker 2: Back to news. A popular theater in Addleborough is post

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Speaker 2: poised for comeback. That is wbc' s Hyles Shaffel has

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Speaker 2: that for us.

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Speaker 6: Sitting next to a train station at a barbecue spot,

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Speaker 6: the Union Theater in Addleborough is lying in wait for

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Speaker 6: its curtain call.

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Speaker 7: I've lived here for twenty three years now and it's

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Speaker 7: been a mystery. Everybody drives by this building. They don't

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Speaker 7: know what's in it.

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Speaker 6: Jennifer Keating runs Illuminate Arts, the organization spearheading the revival campaign.

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Speaker 6: The massive space started out as a vaudeville theater about

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Speaker 6: one hundred years ago, before being converted into a movie

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Speaker 6: cinema and finally lying vacant for twenty years. Keating says

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Speaker 6: this was a gathering spot for generations.

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Speaker 7: This building wasn't just a movie theater. It was a

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Speaker 7: place where people came. They just wanted to be here.

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Speaker 6: They've raised close to eight hundred thousand dollars, more than

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Speaker 6: half of what they need to reopen thanks to the

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Speaker 6: efforts of the longtime current owners. There's actually not that

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Speaker 6: much work to do. Just as once they have the money,

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Speaker 6: the theater could reopen in four months.

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Speaker 2: Right away.

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Speaker 7: As soon as we open the doors, we will already

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Speaker 7: have They're lining up groups that want to use the space.

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Speaker 6: Kyle Schaffle to be busy Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: After more than seventy years in business, furniture retailer Circle

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Speaker 2: Furniture has closed. The Globe reporting the company, based in Acton,

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Speaker 2: employed sixty five workers and operated eight stores and a

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Speaker 2: warehouse outlet in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company informing

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Speaker 2: their employees is past Friday that stores were being closed

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Speaker 2: until further notice than On Tuesday, workers were informed that

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Speaker 2: they were being laid off. All right, if you're going

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Speaker 2: to dream, dream big. Tonight's Christmas Eve powerball drawing worth

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Speaker 2: one point seven billion rids.

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Speaker 1: Of winning the Big Powerball jackpod one in two hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety two million, But people still playing.

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Speaker 8: Once the lottery tops a billion dollars, people come out

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Speaker 8: of the woodwork to start buying those tickets.

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Speaker 1: Math professor Tim Chartier with Davidson College. So could we

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Speaker 1: improve the odds by buying more tickets like one hundred?

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Speaker 8: Buying one hundred tickets is like having just one hundred

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Speaker 8: guesses to guess that one second in a nine year span,

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Speaker 8: so it's still not terribly likely.

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Speaker 1: But even the math professor admits, in the end, it's

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Speaker 1: not about the odds, It's about the dream. Dave Packer

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Speaker 1: ADC needs.

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