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Speaker 1: Hello, Monday. Good morning, six o'clock here on this Monday morning,

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Speaker 1: and we're right back at it all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: and this might be the high temperature of the day

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Speaker 1: at twenty five degrees. In fact, we were likely a

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Speaker 1: few degrees higher overnight as a bitter blast continues to

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Speaker 1: settle in the News at six has brought to us

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Speaker 1: by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Welcome aboard. I'm Jeff Brown and now back

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Speaker 1: to your regularly scheduled bowler plug.

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Speaker 2: Coulder weather is back in the area today with highs

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Speaker 2: only in the.

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Speaker 1: Twentieth is WBZ hou weather Meteorologist Teather's are single digits

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Speaker 1: on the way again tonight, and the shuttle shuffle is

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Speaker 1: already underway on the MBTA's Green line.

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Speaker 3: A fleet of yellow Yankee Shuttle buses started their day

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Speaker 3: off here at Commonwealth, Dave and Babcott Street. It's going

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Speaker 3: to be a familiar site over the next two weeks

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Speaker 3: as no trains will be running between here and North Station,

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Speaker 3: as well as from ken Moore on the C and

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Speaker 3: D branches and Heath Street on the E branch. According

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Speaker 3: to Transit Matters, around fifty thousand writers use the green

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Speaker 3: line on a weekly basis. Writers are encouraged to plan

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Speaker 3: accordingly to give themselves extra time in case of delays.

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Speaker 3: In Alston James Rojas w b Z, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: A second week of testimony begins this morning and the

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Speaker 1: Brian Walsh murder child in Norfolk Superior Court. The jury

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Speaker 1: is coming off a week which revealed some gruesome for

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Speaker 1: prosecution evidence and juicy details about an affair Walsh's wife, Anna,

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Speaker 1: was having with a Washington, d C. Real estate broker,

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Speaker 1: and Walsh has denied killing his wife following a New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve party almost three years ago, instead insisting that

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Speaker 1: she died of natural causes. The judge tells jurors to

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Speaker 1: expect about two more weeks of testimony. Another word of

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Speaker 1: warning this morning to watch your wallet this holiday.

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Speaker 4: EAMs and frauds are on the rhymes. We're in the holidays.

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Speaker 2: Teneka Ricard is with Chase Bank, which is holding free

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Speaker 2: education events across the country on how to avoid becoming

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Speaker 2: a victim by recognizing phishing emails and texts about miss

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Speaker 2: deliveries and fraudsters who pressure you to make payments using

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Speaker 2: gift cards.

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Speaker 5: It's our responsibility to make sure that the communities that

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Speaker 5: we serve are protected.

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Speaker 2: At an event in Philadelphia, Luela Williams explained how a

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Speaker 2: scammer called her pretending he was her grandson.

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Speaker 1: We need to get the message out more to sing this.

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Speaker 1: Michael Wallace, CBS News and Boston is still buzzing over

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Speaker 1: soccer's local picks for the World Cup. Haiti Haiti have

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Speaker 1: appeared at the World Cup once before, fifty two years

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Speaker 1: ago in nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 4: Norway versus France, Scotland versus Haiti, Scotland versus Morocco, and

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Speaker 4: England versus Ghana are coming to the pitch at Gillette

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Speaker 4: in Foxborough what's soon to be called Boston Stadium for

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Speaker 4: the FIFA World Cup. The US is playing on the

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Speaker 4: West Coast in La against Paraguay. Now that the matches

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Speaker 4: are out, its all eyes on how to score some tickets.

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Speaker 4: The window for the next random selection draw begins on

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Speaker 4: Thursday and last until January thirteenth. Because it's a random draw,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't matter when you sign up, so getting in

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Speaker 4: early does help your odds. If you are one of

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Speaker 4: the lucky ones, FIFA will send details straight to you,

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Speaker 4: Jay will Lett WBZ Bouston's News Ready, Yo.

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Speaker 1: You remember it was just before Thanksgiving that we were

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Speaker 1: talking about a cold stretch of weather that was going

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Speaker 1: to be here right after the holiday. It was called

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Speaker 1: the polar Vortex, and it would last until mid December,

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Speaker 1: and it seems to be playing out according to plan,

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Speaker 1: as we are well aware. Walking out the door this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty five right now in the city and these

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Speaker 1: are some of the highest temperatures we'll see for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the morning. In fact, the higher of the

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Speaker 1: temperatures occurred just after midnight. It's been dropping ever since

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Speaker 1: and we'll be steadily falling. We'll settle in the twenties

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Speaker 1: through much of the day today, but this morning we

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Speaker 1: might get a little bit colder in some areas as

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Speaker 1: the sun comes up. But this is certainly going to

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Speaker 1: be another blustery day with some mix of sun and clouds,

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Speaker 1: and again, highs will be in the twenties today, act

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Speaker 1: you weather real fields and the single digits and teens

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Speaker 1: throughout the day. It's going to continue to be cold,

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Speaker 1: with the air temperature in the single digits overnight. Tonight

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Speaker 1: and tomorrow will be a struggle to get to the

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Speaker 1: freezing mark. So the cold weather is actually going to

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Speaker 1: continue into Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as well all this week.

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Speaker 1: In other words, we're looking attempts mainly in the thirties.

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Speaker 1: We might hit forty a day or two, but that's

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Speaker 1: just about it, and that is well below average for

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Speaker 1: this time of year. Right now in Boston twenty five

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Speaker 1: and let's call it partly cloudy skies here in the

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Speaker 1: city six oh five this Monday morning. A new survey

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Speaker 1: finds one in three of us in Massachusetts has at

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Speaker 1: least thought about leaving the Commonwealth in the last year.

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Speaker 1: Many say it's simply too expensive to live here.

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Speaker 6: When I asked folks in Alston whether they think their

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Speaker 6: rent is reasonable or not, I noticed a common theme

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Speaker 6: for Boston.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's probably average, I think relative to the rest of

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Speaker 4: the city. I've got a bergain. I would say it's

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Speaker 4: average with what the area considers to be average.

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Speaker 6: So even a good deal doesn't really feel like one.

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Speaker 6: The average rent in Boston, according to a Bloomberg report,

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Speaker 6: is just over three thousand dollars, but it's actually gone

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Speaker 6: down for the first time since twenty twenty one. Many units,

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Speaker 6: particularly in neighborhoods like Austin, are sitting vacant rates not

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Speaker 6: seen since the PAN. I think it's a step in

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Speaker 6: the right direction.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully it can get lower because it's still really high.

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Speaker 5: As a student, cost of living is very important and

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Speaker 5: the fact that's gone down signals good things.

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Speaker 6: From Alston Kyle Pray, WBC Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Frustration likely awaits Boston Mayor Michelle Wu again today, when

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Speaker 1: state Senators will meet in an informal and session session

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Speaker 1: on Beacon Hill. Mayor would love for them to entertain

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Speaker 1: another home rule petition to bring some property tax relief

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Speaker 1: to city homeowners. The Senate leadership has given City Hall

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Speaker 1: the cold shoulder. It's not even on the agenda today.

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Speaker 1: The city's homeowners face another double digit property tax increase

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Speaker 1: next year, which on average means about a nine hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars bump. The Mayor's bid to shift some of the

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Speaker 1: burden to the city's business base failed last year, and

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Speaker 1: so far this year has zero traction. On Beacon Hill,

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Speaker 1: a gigantic merger, and the entertainment world remains in limbo.

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Speaker 1: This morning, after President Trump casts doubt on the more

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Speaker 1: than seventy billion dollar deal by Netflix. Should they be allowed.

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Speaker 6: To buy Warner Brothers.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a question. They have a very big market share,

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Speaker 1: and when they have Warner Brothers, you know that chair

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Speaker 1: goes up a lot. So I don't know that's going

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Speaker 1: to be here for some economists to tell. And also,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be involved in that decision too. President, speaking

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Speaker 1: on the red carpet ahead of the Kennedy Center honor as,

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Speaker 1: he stops short of an endorsement of the deal and

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Speaker 1: says the mega merger has a long way to go

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Speaker 1: to get regulatory approval from US officials and become a

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Speaker 1: done deal. And television gets ready to honor itself again.

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Speaker 1: The Golden Globe nominations are about to be announced.

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Speaker 4: For TV the studio ahead of Cottinental.

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Speaker 2: It's the only job I've ever wanted, and the.

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Speaker 5: Pit are heavily favored again. On the big screen, critics

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Speaker 5: like Comedy's Marty Supreme and One Battle after Another is

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Speaker 5: Bob First. For dramas, they expect to see Hamnet.

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Speaker 4: You're looking for William Shakespeare and centers.

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Speaker 5: It is the Golden Globes there on CBS and Paramount

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Speaker 5: plus January. I love Stacy LINNZ CBS News.

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