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

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Speaker 2: See it's Tuesday already. This is easy right six o'clock

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Speaker 2: on this Tuesday morning, and we're waking up under mostly

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Speaker 2: cloudy skies. It is forty eight degrees right now in

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Speaker 2: the city. The News at six brought to us by

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Speaker 2: your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown.

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Speaker 2: As spring stubs its toe cloudy today. Well, I've rained

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Speaker 2: times this morning that a leftover shower.

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Speaker 1: This afternoon, it'll be breezy at mild high sixty two

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Speaker 1: to sixty six is.

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Speaker 2: WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Will be in the seventies,

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Speaker 2: but maybe a couple of showers tomorrow. President Trump continues

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Speaker 2: to insist that the United States is making good progress

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Speaker 2: in talks to end the war with Iran. The President

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Speaker 2: considers sending in ground troops to disable Iran's oil production

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Speaker 2: capacity on carg Island, though experts advise that strategy will

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Speaker 2: cost American lives and may not end the war. Iran

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Speaker 2: has already rejected a fifteen point US plan for peace

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Speaker 2: and says it is not talking to the US, but

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Speaker 2: confirms US overtures are a negotiation request. The President renews

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Speaker 2: threats to obliterate the Republic's oil industry and infrastructure if

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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horn Moves has not reopened immediately. Gas

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Speaker 2: prices have hit four dollars a gallon for the first

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Speaker 2: time in four years. Triple A says the nationwide average

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Speaker 2: of a gallon of regular unleaded stands at four to

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Speaker 2: ZHO two this morning, up three cents overnight, and this

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Speaker 2: is discouraging lesson until we get more energy product coming

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Speaker 2: out of the straight our moves. We're about twenty percent

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Speaker 2: of the global energy supply flows. Prices aren't going to

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Speaker 2: come back, that is Art Hogan, chief market strategist at

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Speaker 2: b Riley Wealth Management in Massachusetts. The average price is

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Speaker 2: three eighty two a gallon. That's adding two cents overnight

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Speaker 2: and up almost a dollar compared to last month. These

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Speaker 2: are some of the most aggressive price hikes in America

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Speaker 2: since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. The all time high for gas prices

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Speaker 2: in the US top five dollars a gallon that very

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Speaker 2: same year, as the war in Iran continues. US airlines

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Speaker 2: continue to pile on.

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Speaker 3: Jet Blue is raising chet bag fees in an effort

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Speaker 3: to offset higher jet fuel prices. It'll now cost you

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Speaker 3: thirty nine bucks a bag. That's an increase of four dollars.

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Speaker 3: A second check bag is up nine dollars, and the

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Speaker 3: longer you wait to check a bag online, the price

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Speaker 3: only goes up from there. United Airlines also announcing higher

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Speaker 3: airfares to cover the rising costs. Jet fuel itself makes

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Speaker 3: up one fifth of airlines operating expenses. Matt Phipps WBZ,

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Speaker 3: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Celtics and Red Sox both lose last night and relax

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Speaker 2: Red Sox fans. Music keeps your blood from boiling, WBZ

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Speaker 2: s Drew mohollands. Here with some insight, help us out here, Drew.

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Speaker 2: It's early, I know, but you're losing already.

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Speaker 4: Is it possible to be this frustrated this early?

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Speaker 2: Yes? It is all right. Ready, here's a little fix.

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Speaker 4: Winding down with music may help ease anxiety. She's not

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Speaker 4: doing it, you're not researchers, And there it is. There,

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Speaker 4: It is all that part, okay. Researchers in Canada say,

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Speaker 4: listening to music with an auditory beat stimulation ABS, which

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Speaker 4: is rhythmic sound patterns like this can influence brain activity. Now,

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Speaker 4: twenty four minutes of listening to this is the sweet

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Speaker 4: spot to reduce anxiety. The study out of Toronto Metropolitan

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Speaker 4: University included more than one hundred adults with moderate anxiety.

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Speaker 4: People reported feeling less negative after listening to this. Researchers

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Speaker 4: call it a bit of a quick fix. You know,

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Speaker 4: you don't have to sit down for hours and listen

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Speaker 4: to a bunch of music. It's just twenty what I say,

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Speaker 4: twenty four minutes. Yeah, of listening to that and you

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Speaker 4: get into a relaxed state.

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Speaker 2: That's good stuff. I'm very relaxed right now. Then, sun

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Speaker 2: is going to be up before six point thirty this morning.

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Speaker 2: We do have some showers out and about, primarily Boston

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Speaker 2: South Shore and portions of central and western Massachusetts. So

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Speaker 2: it's headed this way. Looks like it's going to be

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Speaker 2: an unsettled day today under mostly cloudy skies. Otherwise, right

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Speaker 2: now it is we're in the forties by and large

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Speaker 2: for the most part here in Boston forty eight degrees.

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Speaker 2: We're going to see temperatures rise into the sixties early today,

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Speaker 2: but this afternoon, especially in communities along the shoreline, temperature

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Speaker 2: is going to drop like a rock. We'll be in

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Speaker 2: the forties later on this afternoon, partly to mostly cloudy overnight.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's daying in the forties. Tomorrow, we'll make a run

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Speaker 2: at the mid seventies and again start to cool off

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Speaker 2: later in the day. We'll feature some showers in the

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Speaker 2: morning and the possibility of a thunderstorm in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: This cold front will be with us everywhere on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We barely get into the forties then and back into

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Speaker 2: the sixties as we bounce around to wrap up the

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Speaker 2: work week on Friday. Right now in Boston forty eight

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Speaker 2: degrees and if it's not raining where you are, it

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Speaker 2: soon will be. This morning. It's six oh six on

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Speaker 2: this Tuesday. That's springtime after all, and your morning coffee

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Speaker 2: is about to get a new lease on life.

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Speaker 5: Orchid's daffodils are flying off the shelves here at Pemberton

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Speaker 5: Farms and Porter Square. Though it's a late start to

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Speaker 5: the gardening season, but boy is Gardening Center manager Jo

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Speaker 5: Roar ready for it.

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Speaker 1: We had light snow, yeah, ground was still cold, so

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Speaker 1: we're just starting to see perennailes.

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Speaker 5: And you may not know this, but used up coffee

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Speaker 5: grounds do wonders for your plants.

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Speaker 1: So there are three elements in fertilizing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium,

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Speaker 1: and coffee grounds add nitrogen to the soil.

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Speaker 5: Pemberton Garden Services owner Mark Sedden away, so look.

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Speaker 1: At it as a home remedy way to add nitrogen

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Speaker 1: to the soil which encourages nice, lush green growth of

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Speaker 1: the plants.

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Speaker 5: Starbucks is once again leaving bags of used coffee grounds

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Speaker 5: for free. All you have to do is ask and

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Speaker 5: Cambridge j will end WBZ Boston's news ready.

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Speaker 2: And today is decision day for bus drivers to strike

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Speaker 2: a new contract deal with their bosses or they're ready

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Speaker 2: to go on strike starting tomorrow. Drivers continue their talks

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Speaker 2: with First Student Bus Company for better pay and better

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Speaker 2: benefits for starters, but they have come up empty so far. Now,

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Speaker 2: absent a deal, parents in communities such as Leminster, Fitchburg,

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Speaker 2: Wayland and other cities and towns will be left holding

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Speaker 2: the bag with a possible strike tomorrow the school affected

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Speaker 2: by the work stoppage. You're stuck between a rock and

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Speaker 2: a hard place too. They've got no seat or say

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Speaker 2: at the bargaining table, and Boston's got some budget problems.

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Speaker 6: Dipping into the savings to cover expenses, the City of

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Speaker 6: Boston signaling they could be grabbing at reserve funds to

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Speaker 6: help close a fifty million dollar budget deficit when the

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Speaker 6: upcoming fiscal year ends in June. City's chief financial officer

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Speaker 6: providing an update this week explaining the financial stressors, which

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Speaker 6: include snow removal, police over time, and employee health insurance.

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Speaker 6: The city has an operating budget of roughly four point

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Speaker 6: eight billion dollars with just over one billion dollars in

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Speaker 6: reserve funds. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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