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

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Speaker 2: Partly sunny skies. We have twenty six degrees, but the

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Speaker 2: real field tent much colder. It feels like it's twelve degrees. Hello,

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Speaker 2: and thanks for being with us on this Saturday, January third.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up with news.

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Speaker 2: At eleven o'clock, President Trump is set to hold a

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Speaker 2: news conference to discuss an overnight operation in Venezuela, US

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Speaker 2: special forces staging a number of stripes in the Caracas

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Speaker 2: area and ending with the capture of President Nicholas Maduro

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Speaker 2: and his wife. Here's ABC's Martha Ratis.

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Speaker 3: Delsa forts had a successful mission. They went in, they

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Speaker 3: grabbed Maduro. Whether he surrendered or not, we do not know,

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Speaker 3: but it certainly did seem a great surprise. And with

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Speaker 3: those military assets, it tells you that Meduro did not

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Speaker 3: know what was coming, and he was flown out of

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Speaker 3: the country. I think it's highly unlikely there are still

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Speaker 3: forces on the ground. Generally these missions are done and

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Speaker 3: the Delta Force and the others are out of there.

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Speaker 2: The President tells Fox News that the couple now being

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Speaker 2: held on a US warship and will be brought to

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Speaker 2: New York to face charges. This morning, the Justice Department

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Speaker 2: releasing a new indictment of the Maduros for their alleged

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Speaker 2: role in a narco terrorism conspiracy. Here at home, two

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Speaker 2: Patriots players facing serious charges break their silence but not

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Speaker 2: saying much.

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Speaker 4: Defensive star Christian Barmore faces an assault and battery charge

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Speaker 4: after his on and off again girlfriend told police he

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Speaker 4: threw her to the ground in an altercation at his

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Speaker 4: Mansfield home in August.

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Speaker 5: Would you like a chance now to deny what you're

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Speaker 5: acused of?

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Speaker 6: Playing football?

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Speaker 4: Barmore answering every question in the locker room Friday, just

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Speaker 4: like that.

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Speaker 7: Where folks on Miami has to play football.

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Speaker 4: At the same time, Pats fans are hoping the team's

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Speaker 4: focus remains on football, sympathetic.

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Speaker 5: To anybody's experiences by we're talking football today with.

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Speaker 4: High hopes for the playoffs after an incredible turnaround season.

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Speaker 2: And that CBS News Boston's Aaron Parsigian reporting Patriots receiver

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Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs also not saying much. He's accused in an

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Speaker 2: incident involving a paid dispute with his personal chef. Both

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Speaker 2: Digs and Barmore are expected to play in tomorrow's season

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Speaker 2: finale against the Dolphins in Foxborough. An avian mystery following

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Speaker 2: a grizzly discovery.

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Speaker 8: There are more questions than answers after Dutaim officials say

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Speaker 8: a variety of domestic birds were found on the ice

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Speaker 8: of Mother Brook, dumped off the bridge on Sawmill Lane.

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Speaker 8: They were all dead and beheaded. Animal Control getting the

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Speaker 8: word out and looking for answers, says investigators think the

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Speaker 8: birds were dumped at the reservation between the twenty seventh

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Speaker 8: and twenty eighth last weekend. They're trying to identify who

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Speaker 8: may have been responsible and linked to state law that

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Speaker 8: deals with littering. They did not say how many birds

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Speaker 8: were found or what kind other than domestic. Anyone with

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Speaker 8: information is asked to con tack Dunham Police Madison Rogers

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Speaker 8: WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're learning a sixteen year old from Dartmouth

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Speaker 2: has been charged in a fatal hit and run in

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Speaker 2: New Bedford this week. Thirty three year old nicolasa Ventura

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Speaker 2: Collage was crossing the street after attending a church event

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Speaker 2: with her family when she was struck by an suv.

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Speaker 2: The driver did not stop. The victim, a mother of three,

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Speaker 2: later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Now the four

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Speaker 2: d awbz ACU weather forecast some sun giving way to clouds.

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Speaker 6: Today.

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Speaker 2: It is going to be brisk and cold, with highs

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Speaker 2: around thirty two, but the ACU weather Real Feel high

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Speaker 2: temperature will have her around twenty Tonight, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be cloudy, some snow around late. We could see a

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Speaker 2: slippery coating to an inch of accumulation Lowe's overnight twenty

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Speaker 2: four degrees. Tomorrow, a morning flurry or two to deal with,

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Speaker 2: most likely toward the south coast Capean Islands. Otherwise, for

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Speaker 2: the rest of day, cold with clouds and some sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Highs again close to the free Monday back to work holder.

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Speaker 2: Despite partial sunshine, We're only going to reach a high

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Speaker 2: of twenty three and there could be a period of

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Speaker 2: snow or flurries at night. And then looks like on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: not as cold, plenty of clouds, the high thirty five,

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Speaker 2: some rain and drizzle possible Tuesday night, with temperatures steady

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Speaker 2: or slowly rising at night. And right now, taking a

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Speaker 2: look at Boston where you have warmed up to twenty

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Speaker 2: six degrees under a mostly sunny sky, but the real

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Speaker 2: field temp is closer to twelve degrees. All right, back

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Speaker 2: to our top story that we've been following, Venezuelan leader

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Speaker 2: Nicholas Maduro and his wife captured during an overnight operation

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Speaker 2: by US special forces, now facing criminal charges in New

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Speaker 2: York under a twenty twenty indictment. The action carried out

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Speaker 2: apparently without Congress voting to authorize it.

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Speaker 7: Congressional reaction so far has run predictably along partisan lines,

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Speaker 7: with Democrats calling the military action unjustified and illegal, and

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Speaker 7: Republicans praising the zuo's capture as an example of the

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Speaker 7: President's decisive leadership. Quinnipiac University poll last month had sixty

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Speaker 7: three percent of respondent saying they'd oppose US military action

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Speaker 7: inside Venezuela, with just twenty five percent saying they'd support it.

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Speaker 2: And that's ABC. Stephen Portnoy reporting Locally, the group Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: Peace Action is condemning what it calls illegal regime change

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Speaker 2: in Venezuela, scheduling a rally at three pm today outside

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Speaker 2: Park Street Station. All Right, we're out of the holidays

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Speaker 2: and into a concerning flu season. The Massachusetts Public Health

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Speaker 2: Department lists flu activity is very high here in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Doctor j Sure is chief of Emergency Medicine for Merrimack Health.

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Speaker 9: You've released seen a rapid rise over the last couple

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Speaker 9: of weeks and now we're seeing about ten percent of

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Speaker 9: hospital admissions are associated with the flu, which is about

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Speaker 9: where the peak was last year.

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Speaker 2: And last year was a pretty bad flu year. There

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Speaker 2: is added concern this year about a new variant, but

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Speaker 2: doctor Schure says the best bet for protection is still

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Speaker 2: the current vaccine. If you do still get the flu

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Speaker 2: after being vaccinated, it will likely reduce the severity and

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Speaker 2: keep you out of the hospital.

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Speaker 4: Likely.

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Speaker 2: So far this season, there have been at least thirty

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Speaker 2: confirmed flu desks here in the state. Authorities in Boxford

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Speaker 2: putting out the word about a possible rabid coyote in

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Speaker 2: the area of Washington Street near the Groveland town line.

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Speaker 2: They're advising residents to keep animals indoors and not to

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Speaker 2: approach if they see the coyote. The city of Medford

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Speaker 2: switches ambulance services for the first time in twenty five years,

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Speaker 2: sudden change, causing confusion.

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Speaker 5: The mayor and Armstrong had been able to sit down

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Speaker 5: and work it out. Then we wouldn't be in this

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Speaker 5: position of trying to transition very quickly to a new provider.

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Speaker 6: Medford Mayor Brianna Lungo current says the city is switching

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Speaker 6: from Armstrong Ambulance services to Cataldo.

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Speaker 1: We had a negotiation team, myself, chief of Police, the

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Speaker 1: chief of the Fire department, and the dispatch supervisor, and

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Speaker 1: we were unanimous and making the switch a.

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Speaker 6: Decision that's left City Council President Zach Behar's concern for

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Speaker 6: public safety during the transition. The mayor says it came

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Speaker 6: down to the fine print, saying that when requesting funds

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Speaker 6: to upgrade Medford's dispatch center, they were denied, but city

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Speaker 6: councilors tell me it's an issue that can be resolved

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Speaker 6: during a public sit down with all parties involved.

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Speaker 5: The city didn't ask for payments for many years. The

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Speaker 5: city's supposed to request the payment and provide documentation that

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Speaker 5: the payment is going towards the services that the contract

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Speaker 5: says the payment is for, and I don't think that

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Speaker 5: the city not being on top of that is a

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Speaker 5: reason to move on.

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Speaker 6: City officials are discussing the change on Tuesday in Medford

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