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

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Speaker 2: News twenty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock as

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Speaker 2: the blizzard continues. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's

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Speaker 2: happening tomorrow nights. President Trump will be delivering his State

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Speaker 2: of the Union address. You don't need an address to

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Speaker 2: know that the state of the Commonwealth today is not good.

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Speaker 1: You already have some utility pulls down, so hopefully working

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Speaker 1: with National Grid.

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Speaker 2: More on the power outages coming up. But first, snow

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Speaker 2: has been piling up in some places. How about two

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Speaker 2: or three feet of snow?

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Speaker 1: Mario's Roofie and Pellow Windows and Doors of New England.

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Speaker 2: It has been about two feet of snow in Attleborough.

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Speaker 2: How about thirty four inches in Providence, Rhode Island. And

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Speaker 2: the numbers just keep coming, but the end is near.

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Speaker 2: Thold will take time.

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Speaker 3: We're around six o'clock. Things getting a little bit more

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Speaker 3: manageable across all of the interior at this point, but

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Speaker 3: still very windy. If you're at the coast, still a

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Speaker 3: chance for damaging win gus there. Then we head toward

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Speaker 3: the middle of the night tonight, now we're at one am,

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Speaker 3: much more reasonable, easier for power crews to get outside

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Speaker 3: and get to work.

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Speaker 2: There are almost three hundred thousand power customers in Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: without the juice, and Governor Morehey says, we haven't seen

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Speaker 2: a storm like this in years and with dangerous condition.

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Speaker 2: She's issuing a travel ban for some areas of the

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Speaker 2: buss Brooke Macroti explains.

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Speaker 4: Stay off the road. So that's a message from Governor

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Speaker 4: Mora Heely. She signed an executive order placing an immediate

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Speaker 4: travel ban on the South Coast and parts of the

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Speaker 4: Cell Shore, including Bristol, Plymouth and Barnstable Counties. The governor says,

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Speaker 4: the blizzard is making road conditions extremely dangerous.

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Speaker 5: We needed to.

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Speaker 6: Do this because this is a particularly hard hit area.

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Speaker 6: We need to have the ability for all essential vehicle

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Speaker 6: travel to be able to go through.

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Speaker 4: The governor says, only these vehicles can be on the

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Speaker 4: road in those areas.

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Speaker 6: First responders, public emergency personnel, utility crews, and the private

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Speaker 6: contractors who are supporting those efforts, food and fuel delivery,

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Speaker 6: and medical staff.

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Speaker 4: The speed limit on the Pike has also been reduced

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Speaker 4: to forty miles an hour. Burke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And as we mentioned, lots of power oudites across Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: more than half of them in the middle of the Cape. Today,

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Speaker 2: officials say getting the lights and the heat back on

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Speaker 2: is going to be a multi day long effort.

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Speaker 5: Treacherous conditions are just making it harder to reach the

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Speaker 5: hardest hit areas.

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Speaker 7: We'll still bringing in some damage and it's very difficult

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Speaker 7: for our cruise to get out there and make restoration.

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Speaker 5: Don Foley is the president of Electric Operations Forever Source.

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Speaker 5: With a monster storm like this, he says, they expect

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Speaker 5: restoring power to everyone will take three to five days.

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Speaker 7: I will say since the beginning of the storm, we

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Speaker 7: have restored one hundred and seven thousand customers, and not

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Speaker 7: everybody's going to be out for three or four days.

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Speaker 5: The grid's been especially hard hit for southeastern mass and

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Speaker 5: the Cape or the ninety per cent of places like Pelmouth, Mashpee,

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Speaker 5: and Brewster lost power.

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Speaker 7: So once the winds settle down and the blizzardy conditions improve,

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Speaker 7: that our crews can get out this safely.

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Speaker 5: He says. Eversource is calling an additional cruise from other

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Speaker 5: states to help out. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio mediorroologists Brian Thompson has been watching this mess move

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Speaker 2: across the area, and we still got a little bit,

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Speaker 2: especially south coast and down south of Boston to deal

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Speaker 2: with some heavy bands of.

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Speaker 8: Snow around through the morning into the afternoon hour. Has

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Speaker 8: been through the South Shore and the south coast. That's

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Speaker 8: why these amounts just keep getting higher and higher. We've

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Speaker 8: seen some three foot totals from eastern parts of Rhode Island,

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Speaker 8: and we've also seen some amounts close to even a

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Speaker 8: little over thirty inches as you get over toward Fall

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Speaker 8: heavy snowfalling at the tour it's east up a little

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Speaker 8: around New Bedford, but still around Plymouth and now the

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Speaker 8: Cape it is really picking up again, says. This band

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Speaker 8: slowly shifts to the east, and that'll be the case

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Speaker 8: here over the next few hours. We're going to start

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Speaker 8: to see things gradually shift to the east. The intensity

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Speaker 8: will diminish and eventually the snow altogether will wrap up

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Speaker 8: I probably no later than midnight tonight. The wind will

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Speaker 8: gradually ease up as the storm pulls away as well.

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Speaker 8: Total snowfall one to two feet across much of the area,

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Speaker 8: two to three feet for the south coast over toward

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Speaker 8: the south shore. Some spots north of four ninety five

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Speaker 8: will pick up less than a foot, but there have

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Speaker 8: been places that have seen a little bit more than

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Speaker 8: that depending on where these bands have been setting up.

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Speaker 8: And again, windstill gusting forty to sixty miles per hour

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Speaker 8: into the early part of tonight, so down trees and

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Speaker 8: power lines still a concern. Temperatures drop into the hold

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Speaker 8: in the twenties tonight. Some sun is back for tomorrow

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Speaker 8: I thirty two, and then a little bit of snow

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Speaker 8: to start on Wednesday, could be a fresh coating to

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Speaker 8: an inch. A high close to forty could see some

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Speaker 8: rainder snow late Thursday and Thursday night highs again Thursday

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Speaker 8: not far from forty. I'm acu, but the Beateraatis probably

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Speaker 8: tops a WBZ Boston's news Ready.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty five degrees right now in Boston, and with

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Speaker 2: all this mess pretty much everywhere in eastern Massachusetts. No surprise,

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Speaker 2: schools canceled tomorrow. Some have already called it off. Boston

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Speaker 2: has no school tomorrow, and there's a whole list. You

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Speaker 2: didn't go to our website WBZ NewsRadio dot com, And

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Speaker 2: because we're friends, I will tell you that you should

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Speaker 2: tune into WBZ News Radio tomorrow morning as well. With

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Speaker 2: Jeff Brown. We'll have all the details on the cleanup

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Speaker 2: and the mess we're going through. It was a rush

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Speaker 2: to save a life in the eye of the storm.

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Speaker 2: Wbz's Emma Freeman explains from New Bedford.

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Speaker 9: The South coast has been getting slammed with snow and

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Speaker 9: the powerful wind gus aren't helping people get anywhere fast.

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Speaker 9: Some are seeking refuge in the New Bedford Harbor Hotel,

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Speaker 9: where the phones have been ringing off the hook from

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Speaker 9: people who have lost power. One man came in in

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Speaker 9: a panic, dressed head to toe in snow attire, asking

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Speaker 9: if anybody was headed to Saint Luke's Hospital because he's

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Speaker 9: a surgeon and needs to get there fast for emergency surgery.

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Speaker 9: Nobody was planning on driving anywhere anytime soon, so he

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Speaker 9: ran out, deciding to walk the mile to get through

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Speaker 9: over two feet of snow and white out conditions in

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Speaker 9: New Bedford, Ema Friedman wb Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: A lot of things and a lot of people not

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Speaker 2: going anywhere today. But Boston's trains have been shugging along

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Speaker 2: despite the snow.

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Speaker 10: We're dracking some delays on the tee, but Steven has

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Speaker 10: been riding and he says it's been running pretty smoothly

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Speaker 10: all things considered.

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Speaker 11: So the train, it wasn't that bad. It was actually

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Speaker 11: more gettable after you're in the station. Like the trains

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Speaker 11: obviously are delayed, which is the common thing, but it's

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Speaker 11: mostly like when you leave your house to go towards

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Speaker 11: the station. So yeah, it's not that bad, to be honest.

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Speaker 10: I can attest to that, having just gotten off the

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Speaker 10: Red Line myself. But the buses are a different story.

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Speaker 10: The roads are slick and things are moving slowly.

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Speaker 8: I assume that that's going to be a lot worse.

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Speaker 10: Dan says he's staying away from the buses, but other

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Speaker 10: than that, it's been all right.

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Speaker 8: Honestly, that hasn't been that bad. A little bit of

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Speaker 8: a longer wait for the trains, but otherwise they're coming

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Speaker 8: right through and get me where I need to go.

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