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

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Speaker 2: News twenty six degrees in Boston. Right now, Blue Sky's

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Speaker 2: a couple of stray clouds. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. We're just trying

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Speaker 2: to get back up and running today. But in the

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Speaker 2: words of George Harrison, it's gonna take patients and time.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we are looking at two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: one thousand customers without power here in Massachusetts, most of

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Speaker 2: them in southeastern mass especially on the Cape and Islands

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Speaker 2: and South Shore. Eversource says they have more than a

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Speaker 2: thousand crews out there doing their thing, trying to get

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Speaker 2: your heat and lights back on. National Grid tells us

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Speaker 2: about six hundred of their crews are out there doing

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Speaker 2: the same cloud drivers. As you can imagine, they are

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Speaker 2: hitting the coffee hard today. They are working very hard

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Speaker 2: to clear the highways and again, especially south of Boston,

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Speaker 2: the focus here. Jonathan Gulliver from MASTOT says they're especially

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Speaker 2: focusing on those ramps. A lot of cleanup still left

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Speaker 2: to do on the Cape him South Shore.

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Speaker 3: How they really just took a.

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Speaker 2: While Amtrak still dealing with some canceled trains along the

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Speaker 2: Northeast Corridor. The MBTA today on a reduced schedule. Again,

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Speaker 2: we did learn last hour that over at Tfgreen Airport

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Speaker 2: outside Providence now they are staying closed through at least

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Speaker 2: the afternoon as they try to clean up the runways.

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Speaker 2: Of course, they got record breaking snow at that airport

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Speaker 2: yesterday and over at Logan about four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: flights have already been canceled today about sixty are delayed.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: We're of course watching the storm clean up and everything

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Speaker 2: you need to know about the forecast, with more on

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Speaker 2: that coming up in just a couple of minutes. Meantime, Tonight,

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Speaker 2: it is a very big night for President Trumps. He

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Speaker 2: is set to give the first State of the Union

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Speaker 2: speech of his second term. Let's get a preview from

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Speaker 2: ABC's Karen Travers.

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Speaker 4: The White House, says President Trump, and who stated the

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Speaker 4: Union Address while outlining quote ambitious agenda on the economy,

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Speaker 4: Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 5: The President will lay out the case for why he

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Speaker 5: and Republicans are better suited to tackle continue tackling the

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Speaker 5: affordability crisis that was created by the Biden administration. In

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Speaker 5: Democrats on Capitol.

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Speaker 4: Hill, Levitt said the President will highlight a waitress from

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Speaker 4: Pennsylvania who has benefited from the President's policy of no

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Speaker 4: tax on tips. The President Monday said it will be

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Speaker 4: a long speech because he has so much to talk about.

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Speaker 4: Karen Travers, ABC News The White.

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Speaker 2: House now some congressional Democrats, including many from Massachusetts, so

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Speaker 2: they won't be there at the Capitol for the speech. Instead,

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Speaker 2: they're holding an alternative event on the National Mall called

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Speaker 2: the People State of the Union. CBS the Stacy Lynne

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Speaker 2: has more on the Democratic rebuttal.

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Speaker 1: The party has tapped two of its rising stars to

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Speaker 1: deliver the official rebuttals. Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, who recently

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Speaker 1: helped flip her state back to Democratic control, will give

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Speaker 1: the primary response, and Senator Alex Badia will do the

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Speaker 1: Spanish language rebuttal. In a statement, he said, quote, Americans

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Speaker 1: don't need another speech from Donald Trump pretending everything's fine, adding,

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Speaker 1: Americans demand and deserve accountability, stability, and a government that

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Speaker 1: works for them. Lynn CBS News the White House.

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Speaker 2: We will carry the full speech from the President and

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Speaker 2: the entire Democratic rebuttal right here on WBZ. Our coverage

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Speaker 2: starts at nine o'clock tonight, so be sure to tune

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Speaker 2: Getting a look at the forecast now for the rest

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Speaker 2: of today, if you've got to get outside and do

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Speaker 2: some digging, it's going to be a really nice day

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Speaker 2: to do that. We've got blue skies out there. I'm

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Speaker 2: seeing maybe one stray cloud over the city of Boston.

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Speaker 2: That's really about it, and that will help as we

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Speaker 2: try to get things back to good from all this snow.

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Speaker 2: We've got a high today just about freezing, maybe a

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Speaker 2: little bit higher than freezing, and that will help with

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Speaker 2: the melting for tonight, increasing clouds. We've got a loan

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Speaker 2: near fifteen. So again, if you've got refreezing concerns, definitely,

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Speaker 2: if you've got some rock salts and whatever, kitty litter,

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Speaker 2: your steps, your driveway, your sidewalks, just to make sure

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Speaker 2: that if it does refreeze in the morning, it's not

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Speaker 2: so bad. Now. Unfortunately, I hate to be the of

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Speaker 2: bad news but more snow is coming tomorrow. But thankfully

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Speaker 2: we are certainly not looking at blizzard conditions. We are

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Speaker 2: not even looking at a bunch of snow. It's just

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Speaker 2: more of a nuisance than anything, kind of Mother Nature's

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Speaker 2: a high year forty then for your Thursday, mix of

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Speaker 2: sun and clouds and a high near forty. At eleven

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Speaker 2: oh six in Boston right now it is twenty seven

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Speaker 2: degrees under plenty of sun. And you know, we just

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Speaker 2: keep digging and digging with all kinds of shovels and

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Speaker 2: things to push the snow around wbz's Jim McKay's and

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Speaker 2: Plymouth where they're really having a tough time trying to

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Speaker 2: get back to good.

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Speaker 3: The stories are trickling in, one nightmare after another.

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Speaker 5: You see, it been home in two days, roughly.

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Speaker 2: I left Sunday Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Who's going on today.

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Speaker 3: Whether you're Dennis from Plymouth snowed out of his house

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Speaker 3: or Matt who's a plow driver just trying to get.

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Speaker 4: Home they're at a power pretty much all town.

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Speaker 3: This storm was an absolute bee's.

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Speaker 5: Just nobody knew how to be prepared for a storm

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Speaker 5: like this anymore. It's been so long since we've had one.

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Speaker 3: And that's why CRUs from out of state are still

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Speaker 3: here helping us as we're desperately in need. I'm meeting

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Speaker 3: up with the crew guys that traveled in from Detroit, Michigan.

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Speaker 3: The travel ban for the South Coast and parts of

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Speaker 3: the South Shore remains in effect until the State Highway Administrator,

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Gulliver says otherwise. So for now, let the digging

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Speaker 3: out begin. Employmouth Jim McKay wb Z, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Eleven oh seven. I'm just just into the WBZ news room.

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Speaker 2: New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayot Now says a controversial planned

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Speaker 2: ice facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire, is not going to happen.

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Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security was eyeing a three hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand square foot building for a detention facility with six

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Speaker 2: hundred beds. Now Governor Aot says she met with Christy Nolme,

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Speaker 2: the DHS secretary, and has been told directly that the

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Speaker 2: agency will not move forward with that for post facility

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Speaker 2: in Merrimack. The The plans were met with protests from

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Speaker 2: immigration advocates, especially in the wake of ICE violent crackdown

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota that left two US citizens dead. So again

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Speaker 2: he planned ICE facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire. It is

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Speaker 2: not going to happen, that is according to the New

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Speaker 2: Hampshire Governor, Kelly Ayott. You are now in the loop

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