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

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Speaker 2: Cloudy in thirty four degrees in Boston, it feels like

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Speaker 2: it's twenty three with a real field tamp. Hello and

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. Merry Christmas. I'm Sherry Small

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Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. At eleven o'clock, a young woman

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Speaker 2: was killed in a house fire in need Him on

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. CBS EUSt Boston's Logan Hall reports from.

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Speaker 3: The sea massive flames engulfing a three story house and

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Speaker 3: neet them early Wednesday morning. Officials say one person, a

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Speaker 3: twenty one year old woman, died in the fire.

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Speaker 4: It's a tough day for everybody, especially family.

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Speaker 3: Crews from multiple fire departments responded at around five am.

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Speaker 5: Meet Him.

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Speaker 3: Fire Chief Tom Conroy says there were three people inside

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Speaker 3: the home at the time of the fire. Two of

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Speaker 3: those people were able to escape uninjured.

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Speaker 4: When they pulled up. It was just it was a heavy,

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Speaker 4: heavy fire, and like I said, they made an aggressive attack,

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Speaker 4: struck multiple alarms. We had city cities and towns from

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Speaker 4: at least seven departments here, so they made a very

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Speaker 4: valiant effort.

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Speaker 2: Two other people escaped the blaze. A person who died

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Speaker 2: has not been publicly identified. Pope Leo, celebrating his first

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Speaker 2: Christmas is Pontiff, the American pope, residing over a Christmas

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Speaker 2: Day Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica today, the.

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Speaker 6: Pope writing through Saint Peter Swuegg, reading a massive crowd,

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Speaker 6: young and old, then addressing the more than twenty six

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Speaker 6: thousand of the faithful from the balcony overlooking Saint Peter

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Speaker 6: Squag delivering the orbf orb blessing which means to the

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Speaker 6: city and the world in his gentle, steady way. The

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Speaker 6: Chicago native calling for peace and unity. Last night, celebrating

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Speaker 6: Christmas Eve Mass from the majestic Papal Chapel in Saint

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Speaker 6: Peter's Basilica.

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Speaker 2: And that's ABC's Lamma Hassan reporting. Meanwhile, here at home,

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Speaker 2: a little more than one year into his term as

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Speaker 2: a spiritual leader of the Catholic Church in Boston, Archbishop

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Speaker 2: Richard Henning is celebrating Christmas.

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Speaker 5: Auction's Archbishop says he's been particularly focused on the spiritual

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Speaker 5: needs of the immigrant community in the archdiocese, who have

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Speaker 5: told him they feel under attack by ice.

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Speaker 3: I had a chance to visit with many of our

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Speaker 3: immigrant communities.

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Speaker 4: It was just deeply moving to me, but also a

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Speaker 4: time for them of a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

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Speaker 5: The archbishop says the Church stands ready to help the

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Speaker 5: immigrant community with both their spiritual and temporal needs into

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Speaker 5: a Chester Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Signs of progress. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he would

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Speaker 2: be willing to withdraw troops from the country's eastern industrial

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Speaker 2: heartland as part of a plan to end Russia's war

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Speaker 2: if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a

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Speaker 2: demilitarized zone monitored by international forces. Zelensky making the proposal

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Speaker 2: and conversations with reporters offering another potential compromise on control

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Speaker 2: of the dawn Bus region, which has been a major

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Speaker 2: sticking point in peace negotiations and now the fort a

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Speaker 2: WBZ achu weather forecast looking at highs of forty one today,

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Speaker 2: though temps will begin to fall through the day, clouds

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Speaker 2: breaking for some sunshine. It's breezy as well, and we're

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Speaker 2: dealing with that real field temps feeling like it's at

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Speaker 2: least ten degrees, are so cooler than what it actually

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Speaker 2: is mainly clear skies tonight and brace yourself. Is going

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Speaker 2: to be a cold one. We'll see lows ten to

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Speaker 2: fourteen degrees, real field temps dropping below zero at times.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow Friday sun followed by increasing cloud is going to

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Speaker 2: be a cold one. I have just twenty three real fields,

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Speaker 2: no better than the teens. And then we have all

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Speaker 2: eyes on Friday night into Saturday, with a period of

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Speaker 2: snow arriving late in the night Friday into early Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Accumulations could be one to three inches. And this time

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Speaker 2: we're talking especially from Boston south and west, lesser amounts

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Speaker 2: north of the city. This time around, there could be

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Speaker 2: some travel disruptions into Saturday mornings, so factor that in

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Speaker 2: if is part of your commute, maybe on your way

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Speaker 2: home after the holiday. For the rest of Saturday, just

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Speaker 2: cloudy and breezy, high of a chilly twenty six, a

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Speaker 2: warm up just a bit on Sunday, a high of

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Speaker 2: thirty eight. Right now, it's cloudy and thirty four degrees

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Speaker 2: in Boston. All right, this has a Fourth of July feel,

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Speaker 2: but it's actually a Christmas Eve tradition in Boston.

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Speaker 7: Right off the side of Charles Street and Beacon Hill.

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Speaker 7: You can find Jack celebrating the holidays with tongs in

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Speaker 7: one hand and a whole bunch of hot dogs in

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Speaker 7: the other.

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Speaker 8: How much more fun than a grill in the snow

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Speaker 8: with you know, Christmas Carol's on.

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Speaker 7: Jack Gernon owns Charles Street Supply and twenty five years

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Speaker 7: ago it was a slow day and the weather wasn't great,

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Speaker 7: so he decided to cook for his crew. Then this happened.

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Speaker 8: This woman, a good customer of ours, full mink coat

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Speaker 8: head to toe, came by and said, oh, Jack, do

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Speaker 8: you mind if I have.

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Speaker 9: A hot dog?

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Speaker 1: And I said now please?

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Speaker 8: As so people started lyne up. So ever since then,

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Speaker 8: I've been giving away hot dogs every Christmas.

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Speaker 7: He took a couple of years off because of COVID

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Speaker 7: and this is his first year back. So how do

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Speaker 7: you prepare your hot dog? What do you like on

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Speaker 7: your hot dog?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 8: Ketchup, mustard, mustard and ralished.

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Speaker 7: That's it, Beacon Hill. I'm a Friedman w b Z,

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Speaker 7: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: It's eleven ozho six. Actor Pat Finn, best known for

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Speaker 2: roles on The Middle Seinfeld and Friends, has died at

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Speaker 2: the age of sixty following a battle with cancer.

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Speaker 3: Gee, Mike, sorry, I forgot to bring my dump truck

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Speaker 3: full of road salt.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm lashing out.

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Speaker 4: I am so hungry.

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Speaker 1: A representative confirmed who's passing in a statement on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Finn appeared on the ABC series The Middle and the

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Speaker 1: recurring role of Bill Norwood for twenty three episodes from

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven to twenty eighteen, The Illinois Navy. Have also

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Speaker 1: appeared on Murphy brown seinfilm, The Drew Carey Show, That

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Speaker 1: seventy Show, Curby Your Enthusiasm, and many more. He was

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Speaker 1: also known as Pat from Toyota's Cramp TV campaign. I'm

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Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield.

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Speaker 2: Disney celebrating a magical year at the box office. Here's

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Speaker 2: Tammy Triheo without Reports Studios.

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Speaker 9: Twenty twenty five global box office total has surpassed the

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Speaker 9: six billion dollar mark. It's the first time Disney's hit

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Speaker 9: that milestone since the COVID nineteen pandemic. Blockbuster films like

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Speaker 9: Lelo and Stitch, Zootopia two, Avatar, Fire, and Ash helped

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Speaker 9: Disney reach the six billion dollar total. Disney could be

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Speaker 9: in for another big year in twenty twenty six with

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Speaker 9: movies such as Avengers Doomsday Toy Story five and The

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Speaker 9: devilwares Prada two on its release schedule. I'm Tammy Trio.

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