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

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Speaker 1: All right, this is a little bit ridiculous, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Cloudy sky's thirty six degrees as we get started. It is, however, Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and we are halfway home. Thanks for being with us

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Speaker 1: as we get started today, the News at six 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. Thanks for being here. I'm Jeff Brown.

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Speaker 2: It seems like we might pass ball and go directly

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Speaker 2: to winter.

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Speaker 3: Mostly cloudy, breezy at Chile today. Be a couple of

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Speaker 3: showers toward the Cape and the islands later today. The

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Speaker 3: high forty six.

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Speaker 2: Is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. And don't be

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Speaker 2: surprised to see some snowflakes flying around early this morning.

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Speaker 2: The white hot Bruins strike early and often to make

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Speaker 2: it a seven game winning streak. This time they beat

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Speaker 2: the maple leafs of the Garden. David Pasternox scores his

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Speaker 2: four hundredth career goal for the Bruins. The Bees are

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Speaker 2: in Ottawa tomorrow night. Celtics are this again, but the

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Speaker 2: Sixers have their number again. Celtics will host the Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: right back at it tonight at the garden and a

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Speaker 2: short turnaround to Waits. It's just like the old days,

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Speaker 2: come to think of it. As the Patriots gets set

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Speaker 2: to kick off Week eleven in the NFL, it happens

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night against the Jets at Gillettes. And on the

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Speaker 2: forty third day of the historic government shutdown, the House

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Speaker 2: of Representatives gets ready to vote to end it.

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Speaker 3: AA's four days for the objection the committee is a churn.

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Speaker 2: The bill is now out of a House committee in planes, trains,

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Speaker 2: and automobiles are all needed to get the House back

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Speaker 2: to Capitol Hill. It'll be a close call with a

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Speaker 2: vote today. A GOP majority holds just two seats in

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Speaker 2: the House of Representatives. The bill, agreed to by the

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Speaker 2: Senate on Monday says absolutely nothing about an extension of

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Speaker 2: the Affordable Care Act, a hill that Democrats had been

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Speaker 2: willing to die on for weeks, only a promise by

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Speaker 2: Republicans to negotiate the matter next month. President Trump says

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Speaker 2: the shutdown should never have happened, and he supports this

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Speaker 2: bill and dis expected to sign it if passed to

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Speaker 2: end it. A big loss on late night television hits

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Speaker 2: Too Close to.

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Speaker 4: All ABC's Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears.

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Speaker 3: There was a boy who lived across the street and

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Speaker 4: Broke the news his best friend from childhood lives. Bandleader

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Speaker 4: and sax player, Cleto Escobato, had died at the age

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Speaker 4: of fifty nine. They lived on the same Las Vegas

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Speaker 4: block and were inseparable since Jimmy was nine years old.

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Speaker 1: We would stay up all night ordering pizzas to our neighbors' houses,

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Speaker 1: and we'd make crank calls.

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Speaker 4: He didn't mention a cause of death, but Kimmel thanked

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Speaker 4: Escabato's doctors.

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Speaker 1: Cherish your friends.

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Speaker 4: We're not here forever, yeah. Bra Rodriguez, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: The insect world is buzzin this morning with the discovery

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Speaker 2: of what's being called the lucifer bee. A scientist on

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Speaker 2: a mission to learn more about an endangered wildflower in

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Speaker 2: Australia stumbles across this critter instead, which features a pair

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Speaker 2: of demon like horns. Discovered first six years ago. The

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Speaker 2: cat is out of the bag now about the new bee.

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Speaker 2: Experts say they have no idea what the purpose of

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Speaker 2: the horns might be, and wild Kingdom loves that dirty

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Speaker 2: water too. WBCs Drew Mulholland is here with a story.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Andrew Morny.

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Speaker 5: Jeffrey video shows a small alligator going in and out

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Speaker 5: of the Charles Robert What, Yeah, you're right here in

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Speaker 5: Boston an alligator. The video has since gone viral, but

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Speaker 5: the animal remains elusive. Spotted first over the weekend by

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Speaker 5: a couple just passing by, Witnesses say it's real, despite

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Speaker 5: social media cries up AI, I feel.

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Speaker 3: Like my dad here, Drew?

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Speaker 1: Is this ai?

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Speaker 2: Or is this real?

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Speaker 5: Seen not far from Mit, animal control is called In

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Speaker 5: fun fact, alligators are illegal to own in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's important to know. Sure, thank you, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: Won't be surprised to see a couple of snowfloweries this

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Speaker 2: morning here in Greater Boston. It is a possibility some

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Speaker 2: of us saw them yesterday, just a couple here and there.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't really count though, because you need about one

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Speaker 2: tenth of an inch of snow accumulation for it to

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Speaker 2: be considered the first snowfall. But still it's cold. It's

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Speaker 2: early for it to be this cold too, thirty six

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Speaker 2: right now in Boston, and it actually feels like we're

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Speaker 2: stuck in the twenties. We again do have some twenties

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Speaker 2: on the board this morning, and we're going to be

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Speaker 2: seeing mostly cloudy skies today, a couple of showers along

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Speaker 2: mid forties, so slightly warmer than yesterday, but it'll be

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Speaker 2: hard to tell. Cloudy cold thirties overnight tonight, breezy with

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Speaker 2: a mix of clouds and sun tomorrow, and we may

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Speaker 2: hit fifty degrees tomorrow afternoon, and to wrap up the

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Speaker 2: work week on Friday, looks like a mixture of sun

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Speaker 2: and clouds. Continued, breezy in highs once again below average,

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Speaker 2: only in the forties right now thirty six and mostly

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Speaker 2: cloudy coming up on sunrise here in the city at

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Speaker 2: six oh six on this Wednesday morning. Despite hopes for

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Speaker 2: an end to the government shutdown, the misery continues at

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Speaker 2: airports nationwide, and that includes logan.

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Speaker 3: As the number of flights getting delayed and canceled increases,

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Speaker 3: so do anxiety levels.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to just say positive about it, but I

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Speaker 6: have been checking constantly for the last week and hoping

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Speaker 6: that nothing changed. But yeah, it's been a daily thing

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Speaker 6: making sure that my flights are on time.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever looked at the flight of

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Speaker 3: probation as much as I have. To add to the uncertainty.

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving is just over two weeks away, and at the

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Speaker 3: moment there's no telling how current disruptions will affect future flights.

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Speaker 3: We have backup plans, on backup plan, Hellogan James Rojas

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Speaker 2: Race for US Senator is on in Massachusetts, and Republicans

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Speaker 2: are ready to throw their support to a new old

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Speaker 2: name in the race. The strategy behind John Deaton's early

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Speaker 2: entry into the race to unset longtime Senator Ed Markey

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Speaker 2: appears to be working. Dozens in the state Republican Party

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Speaker 2: are on board and say they will support an official

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Speaker 2: endorsement of Deaton during his upcoming party meeting this month.

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Speaker 2: This is Deeton's second attempt at the US Senate in

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Speaker 2: as many years. He tried to unseat Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Speaker 2: last year. The Massachusetts State Lottery is paying it forward

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Speaker 2: this holiday.

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Speaker 7: The mass Lottery is hosting a holiday toy drive at

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Speaker 7: claim centers across the state. Your kindness will help out

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Speaker 7: organizers like toys for Tots and other local efforts, and

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Speaker 7: it's also a time to raise awareness that lottery tickets

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Speaker 7: are not a suitable holiday gift for those under eighteen.

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Speaker 7: Toys can be dropped off between now and December tenth

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Speaker 7: at the Lottery's headquarters in Dorchester and at locations in Braintree, Lawrence,

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Speaker 7: New Bedford, West Springfield and Worcester. Matt Sheer WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 2: This diamond shines bright, but not as bright as it

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Speaker 2: could have been.

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Speaker 1: Where's the caboo?

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Speaker 2: Experts are frankly a little disappointed with the sale price

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Speaker 2: of a blue diamond, checking in at ten carrots, the

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Speaker 2: price tag twenty five point six million dollars at auction.

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Speaker 2: Officials with Christie's in Switzerland say they expected someone would

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Speaker 2: be willing to pay more for the Melon blue diamond.

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Speaker 2: Worldwide economic concerns the reason for the reality check for

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Speaker 2: the gem, named in honor of the late American arts

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Speaker 2: patron Rachel Bunny Mellon. The disappointment is justified. The last

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Speaker 2: time the blue Melon Diamond changed hands, more than a

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Speaker 2: decade ago, it went for more than thirty two million dollars.

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