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

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Speaker 2: A little bit chilly out there, twenty six degrees. We've

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Speaker 2: got clear skies in Boston. Six o'clock here on this

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, March eighteenth, twenty twenty six. And this hour

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Speaker 2: of news brought to you by your New England Toyota dealer,

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Speaker 2: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Good morning, I'm Jim

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Speaker 2: McKay and here's what's happening. Well, we're gonna like that

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Speaker 2: sun later on today. However, the front tour this morning,

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Speaker 2: if it address cold the whole.

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Speaker 3: Day today with sun and clouds on a hydas thirty

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Speaker 3: six at a warm past forty tomorrow, that.

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Speaker 2: Is wbz acuweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg as. We are seeing

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Speaker 2: some very cold conditions today and it certainly has been

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Speaker 2: a cold night thus far. But a beautiful sunrise we're

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Speaker 2: expecting this morning at six oh one, a chance to

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Speaker 2: see the northern lights tonight. Space Weather Prediction Center saying

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Speaker 2: magnetic storm this week could give New England a solid

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Speaker 2: chance to be able to catch the wonder that is

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Speaker 2: the Awara Borealis. Right now, it looks like northern New

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Speaker 2: England has a real solid chance of seeing it. However,

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Speaker 2: if you're up towards a Merrimac Valley or Central Mass

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Speaker 2: different parts of that New Hampshire Vermont state border, you've

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Speaker 2: got a potential viewing line there. Between ten pm and

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Speaker 2: two am, the best chances of seeing it. At the

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic Final Best col on Fox Sports has

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Speaker 2: Venezuela beats Team USA three to two, Crown Baseball's best

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Speaker 2: their first ever World Baseball Classic title. Two straight games

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Speaker 2: of losing in overtime in the last twenty five seconds

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Speaker 2: for the Bruins, they lose a heartbreaker, this time to

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Speaker 2: the Canadians three to two last night in Montreal. Celtics

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Speaker 2: tonight hosting Golden State and March Madness. Texas and Howard

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Speaker 2: are the first two winners into the first four, and

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Speaker 2: there are two more games slate at four tonight meantime

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Speaker 2: at six ZHO two. It is finally a fish show.

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Speaker 2: Last night at the Foxborough select Board meeting a unanimous

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Speaker 2: vote to grant FIFA and the Craft Group the entertainment

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Speaker 2: license needed for the World Cup matches, which are now

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Speaker 2: just a few months away. There was a long running

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Speaker 2: refusal by the town to grant that license over a

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Speaker 2: security payment from the World Cup Organizing Group Boston twenty six.

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Speaker 2: It was all hashed out over the past couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks with the help of the Crafts also several politicians,

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Speaker 2: including Governor Healey and a local delegation. Well, if you

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Speaker 2: think your commute through Massachusetts is bad, don't worry. You're

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Speaker 2: not alone. I think we all know we got plenty

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Speaker 2: of company in that regard. Wbz's James Rojas is in

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Speaker 2: Boston's West End with a brand new survey.

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Speaker 1: There's no shortage of commute roots that are anger inducing,

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Speaker 1: but none take the cake like taking the ZACM Bridge

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Speaker 1: and ninety three North in Boston, according to a new survey.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not surrizing. It's been like that for a

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Speaker 4: long time.

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Speaker 1: Lewis makes deliveries here, there and everywhere, but he agrees

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Speaker 1: ninety three is the worst.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're like best buy that plauzo there around

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Speaker 4: like two thirty three o'clock and everybody's getting out of work.

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Speaker 4: That's why the way I stready to be through.

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Speaker 1: Is it the in for so sure that the driver

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Speaker 1: to make it the work part of it.

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Speaker 4: It's the drivers, especially with the rain snow. Nobody pays attention.

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Speaker 4: They all drive from these They don't think about anybody

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Speaker 4: else on the side of them.

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Speaker 1: One way to make his another drivers work easier is

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Speaker 1: to give them space.

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Speaker 4: So you know, when you guys stop short because you

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Speaker 4: have textan on the phone, we don't rear into you guy.

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Speaker 4: We want to both get home.

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Speaker 1: Safety things in the West End. James Rojas WBZ, Boston

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Speaker 1: some news radio, And we.

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Speaker 2: Are certainly feeling like winter here this morning. We are

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Speaker 2: just over forty eight hours here from the official beginning

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Speaker 2: of spring in the northern Hemisphere. However, we're certainly not

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Speaker 2: feeling like it today. It is a winter morning out there,

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Speaker 2: for sure. We are at twenty six degrees here in Boston.

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Speaker 2: Real feels in the teens with that wind that is

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Speaker 2: really whipping around, that's still lingering here. One good thing

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Speaker 2: we got ourselves a beautiful sunshine this morning. And eventually

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Speaker 2: we will get up too highs into the mid thirties,

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Speaker 2: but the will stay closer towards the upper twenties. Pretty

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Speaker 2: chilly then once again tonight for tomorrow, bit warmer, high

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Speaker 2: round forty one with clouds and sunshine. Friday, we're up

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Speaker 2: around fifty could see a few showers heading into Saturday,

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Speaker 2: where we will see similar conditions. But if you take

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Speaker 2: a look at the long term trends in terms of

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Speaker 2: our forecasting heading into the spring and even into really

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Speaker 2: mid April, a whole lot of forties and fifties and

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Speaker 2: not a whole lot of sixty degree days. At the

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Speaker 2: moment twenty six with clear skies in Boston at six

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Speaker 2: oh six. Remember I'm just the messenger ran in Israel

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Speaker 2: ramping up retaliatory strikes after the deaths of two top

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Speaker 2: Islamic Republic leaders, As Iran's Foreign minister says, at least

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Speaker 2: ten people have been killed in attacks on Central Bay

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Speaker 2: Roads I'm.

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Speaker 5: Del Gavlack and Iman Jordan. Israeli strikes targeted Central Bay

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Speaker 5: Route and the city's southern suburbs, hitting areas near Lebanese

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Speaker 5: government buildings, including the Finance Ministry and the Prime Minister's headquarters.

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Speaker 5: The attacks followed the Iran backed Lebanese Husbolla militia's launch

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Speaker 5: of dozens of rockets into northern Israel.

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Speaker 2: And President Trump slams is now former Director of National

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Speaker 2: counter Terrorism Joe Kent. He announced his resignation this week

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Speaker 2: over the war in Iran, saying he cannot in good

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Speaker 2: conscience support the ongoing war, that Iran posed no imminent

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Speaker 2: threat to the US, and blamed Israel for starting the war.

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Speaker 2: The President telling reporters it's good that he left and

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Speaker 2: that quote. Everyone agrees Iran is a threat and one

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Speaker 2: thing this war is certainly having an effect on No

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Speaker 2: matter where you stand on what's going on, gas prices

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Speaker 2: they continue their tick up board. The national average is

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Speaker 2: now three dollars in eighty four cents according to Triple

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Speaker 2: A's latest figures. Massachusetts is at three dollars and fifty

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Speaker 2: nine cents. You can add Hopkinson to the latest list

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Speaker 2: of towns putting into place new water restrictions as they

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Speaker 2: need to control the town's water supply. Is there one

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Speaker 2: of the many areas right now of eastern mass that

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Speaker 2: is in critical drought status? Use restriction is going to

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Speaker 2: be in effect until further notice? And of course, we

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Speaker 2: are just around one month outside of the starts of

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Speaker 2: the Boston Marathon, which of course attracts big crowds in Hopkinson.

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Speaker 2: Some neighbors in Chelmsford are sharing their disappointment and how

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Speaker 2: the community is tackling invasive lake weeds.

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Speaker 3: Lake Freeman in Chelmsford is a site to behold, crystal

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Speaker 3: clear water teeming with fish that he likes to haul.

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Speaker 3: We ice fish out here.

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Speaker 1: We fished on the spring the sum of the fall.

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Speaker 3: But because of invasive plant species like Eurasian milfoil and

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Speaker 3: fan war tangling waters for kayakers and such, the town

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Speaker 3: and now mass dep has opted to treat the lake

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Speaker 3: with herbicide. Freeman Lake has never been treated and I

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Speaker 3: just never wanted to see it happen. That's against the

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Speaker 3: wishes of longtime lake neighbor Wanda Done. Together with Alan

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Speaker 3: Severan's proposed an alternative.

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Speaker 1: One was using a eco harvester. Yes, it was going

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Speaker 1: to be more on the expensive side, but we were

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Speaker 1: looking more long term it.

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Speaker 3: Town says herbicide has cost effective dune fears we'll risk

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Speaker 3: bacteria balloons in the future and Chelmsford Ja Willett WVZ

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