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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news.

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Speaker 1: Zeory are already hitting our groove and suddenly it's Thursday

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Speaker 1: here in Boston under clear skies. It is freezing exactly

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Speaker 1: here in the city thirty two degrees and much colder

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Speaker 1: elsewhere today. Thanks for being with us at six o'clock.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. This sounds delightful.

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Speaker 3: Intervals of clouds and sunshine today becoming increasingly windy.

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Speaker 1: There could be a brief snow shower in places later

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Speaker 1: to seth Dune High forty two. That is WBZ AKI

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Speaker 1: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Don't rule out the possibility of

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Speaker 1: some snow squalls as well. A bitter blast of Arctic

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Speaker 1: air is pouring in overnight tonight. Celtics and Bruins are

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Speaker 1: both back in action tonight. Celtics off to see the

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Speaker 1: Wizards in Washington, while the Bruins will host the Saint

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Speaker 1: Louis Blues Teenage Dreams Underway this afternoon as high school

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Speaker 1: super All season begins at Jillette Stadium, and Week fourteen

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Speaker 1: of the NFL kicks off tonight Lions and Cowboys on

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. All this money and no one can

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Speaker 1: crack the powerball code. No winners again last night, which

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Speaker 1: means eight hundred and twenty million at least up for grabs.

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Speaker 1: In Saturday night's drawing, Mega Millions starts all over again

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Speaker 1: again after someone hit for ninety million this week. Tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: prize is an estimated fifty million dollars. An Inspector General's

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Speaker 1: report on the Pentagon finds careless group text messages put

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Speaker 1: American service members lives on the line.

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Speaker 4: This pass spring, hegsats and detailed plans about airstrikes in

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Speaker 4: Yemen to top national security officials on signal, including the

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Speaker 4: times F eighteen's would launch and when the first bombs

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Speaker 4: will definitely drop. Hegseets vehemently denied any disclosure of classified

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Speaker 4: information at the time.

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Speaker 1: CBS's Charlie Daggata meantime, as the walls close in on

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Speaker 1: Defense and Secretary Pete hegseth for a recent attack on

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Speaker 1: suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean, Massachusetts Congressman Bill Keating

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Speaker 1: is calling for the Pentagon to release the video of

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Speaker 1: the second strike. That request comes in an off ed

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Speaker 1: in the globe. Hundreds will help light up the holidays

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Speaker 1: and the nation's capital. Tonight, President Trump and the First

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Speaker 1: Lady will flip the switch on the National Christmas Tree

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Speaker 1: on the Ellipse. Later today, the one hundred and third

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Speaker 1: National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will grace a thirty five

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Speaker 1: foot tall tree decorated with ornaments from all over the

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Speaker 1: United States. And we find out this morning that more

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Speaker 1: Americans will grow alligator arms this holiday season. A new

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Speaker 1: survey finds fewer of us are planning on giving big

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Speaker 1: tips this year. What bz's Drew moholland is se here

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Speaker 1: to explain, Morning Andrew.

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Speaker 5: Morning Jeffrey. And new poll finds even the Grinch invades

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Speaker 5: our wallets. Here's the deal. Overall spending on tips going

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Speaker 5: to remain about the same, but median tips on six

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Speaker 5: service providers is where the stiffing begins. Specifically, childcare provider

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Speaker 5: is going to get hit the most. Parents know that

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Speaker 5: we're already a very expensive thing. Right Landscapers are still

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Speaker 5: getting big tips as we close out the year. Housekeepers, teachers,

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Speaker 5: and trash collectors all getting tipped about the same compared

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Speaker 5: to last year. That old adage still applies. Most Americans

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Speaker 5: feel they'll give better.

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Speaker 1: Tips when they get better service. That's exactly correct, all right, true,

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Speaker 1: thank you. We need to get ready for midwinter form

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Speaker 1: in the final days of fall, all right. Starting today,

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Speaker 1: we're under clear skies as we walk out the door.

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Speaker 1: It is freezing thirty two in Boston right now, in

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Speaker 1: the twenties in a lot of cities and towns this morning.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to see a mix of clouds and

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Speaker 1: sun today, and we're going to tilt towards the clouds

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Speaker 1: as the favorite to win out. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: increasingly windy as the day goes on, and there is

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Speaker 1: also the possibility of a stray snow shower and perhaps

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Speaker 1: a snow squall in your neighborhood this afternoon, which means

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Speaker 1: you get several inches of snow and very poor visibility

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Speaker 1: over a very short period of time. Temperatures will be

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Speaker 1: only in the lower forties, but it will actually feel

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Speaker 1: like we're stuck in the twenties now. A bitter blast

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Speaker 1: of Arctic air is moving in overnight tonight. We're talking

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Speaker 1: single digits for many areas as we kick off tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and despite a lot of sunshine tomorrow to help us

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Speaker 1: wrap up the work week, tempts do not get out

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Speaker 1: of the twenties.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: It starts to get a little bit more comfortable on

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday this week, but it's still below average

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Speaker 1: temperatures this time of year, with highs in the thirties

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Speaker 1: and low forties. Right now, it's thirty two clear skies

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Speaker 1: six oh five on this Thursday morning in Boston. This

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Speaker 1: season of giving continues.

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Speaker 6: The Wonderfund is a private nonprofit that serves every child

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Speaker 6: engaged with the Department of Children and Families here in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 6: which is our child welfare system.

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Speaker 2: The Wonderfund's goal this time of year is to give

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Speaker 2: thousands of children some holiday magic.

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Speaker 6: The Wonderfun Holiday Gift Drive has the goal of getting

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Speaker 6: holiday gifts chosen specifically for thirty thousand kids in every

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Speaker 6: city in town across Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: She's encouraging people to go to the Wonderfund website and

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Speaker 2: sponsor the wish list of a child or teenager who

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Speaker 2: might otherwise not see much under the tree. Carl Stevens WBG,

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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio mystery and bill Ricka.

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Speaker 1: Dozens of abandoned Amazon packages are found left on the road.

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Speaker 7: John Thomas was watching a football game last week when

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Speaker 7: he heard a knock at the door. Bill Rica police

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Speaker 7: officers were there with the delivery for his wife.

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Speaker 2: She came down.

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Speaker 4: I said, the police are here for you, and I

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Speaker 4: made a joke of it, you know, and but she

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Speaker 4: came down and no, that's definitely fine.

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Speaker 7: And it turns out the Thomases are one of several

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Speaker 7: households who's abandoned Amazon packages were found by the bill

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Speaker 7: Rica Police Department as they.

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Speaker 8: Were in the middle of the road, got out of

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Speaker 8: thinking they were trashed, just pushing them closer to the

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Speaker 8: dumpsters there found there were full packages with orders inside.

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Speaker 7: Officer Sam Hawks has been on the job for less

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Speaker 7: than a year. Last week, he stumbled upon his first

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Speaker 7: round of packages while making rounds behind market Basket. He

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Speaker 7: knew exactly what he needed to do.

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Speaker 8: I didn't want to just leave him. There was nobody

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Speaker 8: around camp to help see what happened back there, so

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Speaker 8: that was the first thing we were looking for.

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Speaker 1: CBS News Boston's Brandon Trua tells us that Amazon is

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Speaker 1: working with local police on the investigation and to get

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Speaker 1: those packages where they need to be. New study finds

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Speaker 1: more people are feeling lonely.

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Speaker 4: Alone time, that's his time, it's my piece to tell

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Speaker 4: you the truth.

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Speaker 5: I'm content.

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Speaker 3: Yet a growing number of Americans feel differently, citing feelings

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Speaker 3: of loneliness even when they're with other people, particularly folks

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Speaker 3: in their forties and fifties, with more men like him

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Speaker 3: feeling isolated than women.

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Speaker 5: I am a little big.

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Speaker 3: It's part of a phenomenon called the U shape happiness curve,

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Speaker 3: with people happiest when they're young and as they age,

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Speaker 3: with time to invest in relationships rather than spending it caregiving,

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Speaker 3: on careers, and in changing social networks.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree.

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Speaker 5: I think that you know change that causes problems.

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Speaker 3: Chris Fom and WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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