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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Hello Friday, bring it in, let's hug it out. Friday

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Speaker 1: Friday is finally here and it leaves a lot to

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Speaker 1: be desired to. It is a damp start to the day.

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Speaker 1: It's opening day. We've got cloudy skies and a few

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Speaker 1: areas of drizzle this morning, thirty nine here in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. I'm Jeff Brown. Buy me some

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Speaker 1: peanuts and cracker jacks because if we don't win, it's

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Speaker 1: a shame. But does it matter. Clouds may break for

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Speaker 1: a little sun late to this afternoon. It will become

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Speaker 1: breezy at milder our late day high sixty two, that

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Speaker 1: is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Looks like the

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Speaker 1: easter Bunny is going to get wet as well this weekend.

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Speaker 1: This afternoon, it looks like skies will be okay for

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Speaker 1: the first pitch and the Red Sox pandres at Fenway Park.

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Speaker 1: Wbz's Drew Mulholland is here and ready to go. Good morning, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: morning Jeffrey.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm looking at the Fenway Park field right now.

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Speaker 2: There's a tarp on the field. A little bit damp

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Speaker 2: over there right now, but as you said, should be

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Speaker 2: a little clear in skies later on for first pitch,

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Speaker 2: which is a little after two pm today, the Red

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Speaker 2: Sox bringing their underwhelming one in five record back home.

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Speaker 2: But today, Jeffrey, today is a day of optimism. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's a second chance to begin again after that one

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Speaker 2: in five start. If you are going to the game today,

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Speaker 2: you're asked to be in your seats by one thirty pm.

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Speaker 2: Members of the nineteen eighty six team going to be

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Speaker 2: on the field today, that team that went to the

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Speaker 2: World Series. A yes, you remember it. And in fact,

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Speaker 2: let's get right over to Fenway Park right now with

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Speaker 2: wbz's Chris Fama.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Chris, Good morning guys. There's just a palpable,

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Speaker 3: almost unexplainable electricity the air right now here in Lansdown Street,

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Speaker 3: even though the team's not playing all that great. Drew,

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Speaker 3: you know what it's like. You've been the opening day before,

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Speaker 3: jeff You don't know. Having carved out a relatively uneventful

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Speaker 3: life for yourself. But it's real. It's here. Even in

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Speaker 3: these raw conditions, You've got fans gathered outside just waiting

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Speaker 3: to get in. The lights are on inside the park

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Speaker 3: as folks go through those last minute preparations for opening day,

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Speaker 3: and soon enough we'll hear those magical vernal words playball.

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Speaker 4: It's back.

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Speaker 3: Baseball's back. Fenway is back, and it should be bumping

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Speaker 3: today as the twenty twenty six season finally gets under way.

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Speaker 3: Boston Style, live at Fenway, Chris Fauma WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Chris, I will inform you that in a prior life,

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Speaker 1: I went to seven or eight consecutive opening days, and

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Speaker 1: then I discovered that I had a television in my

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Speaker 1: living room. You know, I didn't need to.

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Speaker 4: Be there anymore.

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Speaker 1: Come on, enough's enough here in Boston this morning, it

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Speaker 1: is a damp and drizzly start to the day. We

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Speaker 1: do have some mist and some showers out and about

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Speaker 1: this morning. Bot Acky Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg says things

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Speaker 1: are looking up this afternoon. We might even see some

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Speaker 1: clearing skies and some sunshine later today. Temperature around first

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Speaker 1: Pitch will be around sixty degrees and we'll jump into

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Speaker 1: the mid sixties later on during the ballgame. I remember

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Speaker 1: first pitches right after two o'clock this afternoon. This is

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Speaker 1: going to be a nice field to the air compared

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Speaker 1: to yesterday, and in fact, right now it does. It's

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Speaker 1: far from it. Thirty nine degrees right now in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Looks like we're going to remain partly to mostly cloudy

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Speaker 1: overnight Tonight lows only in the fifties. Tomorrow, we'll make

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Speaker 1: a run into the sixties early and then the backdoor

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Speaker 1: cold front plays a hand at least along the shoreline

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Speaker 1: as we drop back into the forties later on tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Looks like tomorrow is going to be relatively dry as well,

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Speaker 1: but we can't have nice things on Easter Sunday. It

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Speaker 1: looks like the Bunny's going to get wet. We're going

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Speaker 1: to see some showers from time to time. It is

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Speaker 1: going to be breezy two and high temperatures on Sunday

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Speaker 1: right around sixty Right now in Boston thirty nine and

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Speaker 1: still damp here in the city at six oh five

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Speaker 1: on this Friday morning. Critical comments from America's allies as

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Speaker 1: President Trump doubles down on the.

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Speaker 4: War with her an US allies frustrated with the straight

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Speaker 4: off her moves still closed to most ships. French President

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Speaker 4: Emmanuel Macrone warning this is not a show criticizing President Trump,

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Speaker 4: saying if you want to be serious, you don't go

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Speaker 4: around saying the opposite of what you said the day before.

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Speaker 1: It's ABC's Lionel Moees. More meetings are expected next week

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Speaker 1: with dozens of nations in an effort to reopen the

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Speaker 1: Strait of horn Mouz. Meantime, the world's largest aircraft carrier,

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Speaker 1: the USS Gerald ard Ford, is out of maintenance and

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Speaker 1: headed back to the Middle East. Back home, gas prices

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Speaker 1: are still a battle entering today. The national average, according

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Speaker 1: to Triple A, stands at four dollars and nine cents

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Speaker 1: for regular unleaded. Here in Massachusetts the average is three

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Speaker 1: dollars and eighty eight cents. If you want to save

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Speaker 1: a fraction of a penny, drive over the state line

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Speaker 1: into New Hampshire. You'll find it just a little bit

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Speaker 1: cheaper there. Getting out is getting expensive.

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Speaker 5: United Airlines is raising its fees for check bags anywhere

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Speaker 5: from ten to fifty dollars. This follows the same move

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Speaker 5: by Jeff Blue, which is responding to rising field prices

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Speaker 5: a direct result from the CA inflict. With the run,

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Speaker 5: United customers can expect a ten dollars increase on first

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Speaker 5: and second check bags, with the third bag jumping to

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Speaker 5: fifty bucks. All Logan James Rojas wb Z Boson's news Radio.

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Speaker 1: New research says our jobs might be safe after all.

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Speaker 1: A report from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab finds AI will

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Speaker 1: change the way we work, but won't replace humans in

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Speaker 1: a massive wave. Experts describe AI's coming out party as

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Speaker 1: a rising tide rather than a crashing wave, which means

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Speaker 1: work will change gradually and will lack mass layoffs. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: AI is changing the way we think and learn. A

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Speaker 1: new survey finds about half of college students in the

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Speaker 1: US say the technology is giving them second thoughts about

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Speaker 1: their majors. Nearly half say they've given thought to changing

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Speaker 1: the major due to recent trends with artificial intelligence in

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Speaker 1: a working world and Barrista's at Starbucks, say show Medium.

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Speaker 1: The company is making changes to its pay practices, which

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Speaker 1: include payday every week and new ways for us to

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Speaker 1: tip them. Shift supervisors will also be eligible for quarterly

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Speaker 1: bonuses up to twelve hundred dollars a year for hitting

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Speaker 1: sales targets and consistently delivering a positive customer experience. The

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Speaker 1: changes come just as Starbucks renews contract talks. Reading man

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Speaker 1: is sentenced for trafficking more than one hundred endangered and

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Speaker 1: protected animal parts. Adam Bed pleads guilty in January to

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Speaker 1: smuggling illegally imported wildlife parts into the United States. Bed

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Speaker 1: will serve eight months in prison, followed by two years

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Speaker 1: of supervised release. You are now in the loop for

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