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Speaker 1: Twenty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock on this

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Speaker 1: first day of twenty twenty six. Happy New Year, and

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Sausville. Here's what's going

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Speaker 1: on ahead of a playoff bush. Two members of the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots are now facing allegations of violence. W

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Speaker 1: b z's Hyle Schaffel reports from Gillette.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots are suddenly dealing with serious off the field

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Speaker 2: charges for two players, Stefan Diggs and Christian Barmore, both

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Speaker 2: accused of violent altercations with women. Head coach Mike Rabel

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Speaker 2: spoke to the press for the first time since the

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Speaker 2: news broke and was asked if he was disappointed.

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say not disappointing at all. I think

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Speaker 3: that these are allegations, you know, I'm confident that, you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll focus on the Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: Diggs is accused of strangling his personal chef over a

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Speaker 2: financial disagreement, and Barmore is charged with throwing the mother

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Speaker 2: of his child to the ground in August. It a

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Speaker 2: similar situation last year, safety Jabrill Peppers was placed on

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Speaker 2: the league's exempt list, I allowed to play for several games.

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Speaker 3: The NFL hasn't told me anything, so I don't want

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Speaker 3: to waste your time on that. I haven't had a

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Speaker 3: call with the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Diggs has denied the allegations well. Balmboer's lawyer says he's

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Speaker 2: confident no criminal conduct took place in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: Teammates reacting to the allegations mostly with support, including rookie

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Speaker 2: Kyle Williams. For Diggs, he does have a huge impact

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Speaker 2: on just the rookies. I think just a whole locker

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Speaker 2: room as a whole. Kyle Schaffel WZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: New York City has a new mayor, zororun Mumdannie took

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Speaker 1: the oath of office just after midnight. The first Muslim

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Speaker 1: leader of America's biggest city placed his hand on a

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Speaker 1: Kuran as he took his oath. The private ceremony, administered

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Speaker 1: by New York Attorney General Letitia James, took place at

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Speaker 1: the old City Hall station, one of the city's original

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Speaker 1: subway stops. Mam Donnie will be sworn in again in

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Speaker 1: a public ceremony at City Hall at one pm by

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Speaker 1: Senator Bernie Sanders. That will be followed by what my

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Speaker 1: Donnie's office is billing a public block party on a

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Speaker 1: stretch of Broadway. The City of Boston reaches an agreement

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Speaker 1: with the Craft Group in efforts to construct a new

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Speaker 1: soccer stadium in Everett. Wbz's Mike Macklin reports.

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Speaker 4: It's a fifteen year, forty eight million dollar deal between

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Speaker 4: Boston and the Craft Group related to the Everett Soccer Stadium,

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Speaker 4: the Craft's plan to build as the new home of

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Speaker 4: the New England Revolution. The agreement gives Boston thirteen million

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Speaker 4: dollars in direct payments and ensures the city will receive

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Speaker 4: thirty four million dollars from stadium event ticket sales over

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Speaker 4: the first fifteen years, along with a permanent revenue stream

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Speaker 4: from ticket sales. Charlestown, the Boston neighborhood that will be

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Speaker 4: impacted most by the stadium and related traffic, will get

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Speaker 4: three million dollars over six years, along with half the

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Speaker 4: anticipated ticket revenue of two million dollars per year. Mayor

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Speaker 4: Wu called the agreement a fear deal for Boston. It's

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Speaker 4: far more lucrative than the seven hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 4: dollars one time payment that the Crafts initially offered the city.

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Speaker 4: Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Now the forecast. The sun peaks out at times later Today, windy,

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Speaker 1: though with a high of thirty two real field temps

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Speaker 1: in the single digits. Clear to partly cloudy. Tonight, brisk

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Speaker 1: and cold, low ten to fifteen, real field temps near zero,

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Speaker 1: mostly sunny. Tomorrow, blustery and cold, with a high of

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. On Saturday, a mix of sun and clouds,

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Speaker 1: brisk and cold again with a high of thirty. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: partly sunny with a high of twenty nine. Right now

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Speaker 1: in Boston, we have partly cloudy skies and twenty four degrees.

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Speaker 1: Flucases are surging nationwide. CBS's Michael George has warnings from

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Speaker 1: health officials.

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Speaker 5: The US is in the midst of a particularly bad

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Speaker 5: flu season. The CDC estimates eighty one thousand peace have

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Speaker 5: been hospitalized from the illness so far, and thirty one

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Speaker 5: hundred have died, including at least eight children. Health experts

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Speaker 5: say it's still not too late to get a flu shot,

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Speaker 5: which can help prevent severe illness and protect others. Only

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Speaker 5: about forty two percent of adults and children have gotten

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Speaker 5: their flu vaccination this year.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Public Health lists flu activity in Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: as very high. There have been thirty flu deaths in

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts this season. A parent in Lexington who accuses the

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Speaker 1: school district of violating his religious beliefs has won a

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Speaker 1: preliminary injunction. The Globe reports. The judge's order follows a

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Speaker 1: recent Supreme Court decision which supports a parent's right to

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Speaker 1: take a child out of classes related to sexual orientation

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Speaker 1: and gender identity. The parent of a five year old

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Speaker 1: in kindergarten at Estabrook Elementary when to court accusing the

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Speaker 1: school district of lating his constitutional rights by sharing materials

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Speaker 1: in class with an LGBTQ subject matter. The preliminary injunction

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Speaker 1: prohibits Lexington schools from sharing LGBTQ plus educational material with

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Speaker 1: the boy during the current academic year. Are you making

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Speaker 1: any New Year's resolutions? CBS's Stacy Lynne on how the

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Speaker 1: tradition started.

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Speaker 6: You counted down blue and oise maker sipsom champagne, hugged

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Speaker 6: your friends and announced your resolution for the year. Maybe

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Speaker 6: your goal is to exercise more, eat healthier, scroll less,

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Speaker 6: or to not sweat the small stuff. Making new Year's

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Speaker 6: Resolutions is a tradition that goes back several thousand years.

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Speaker 6: The word resolution entered English from Latin in the late

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Speaker 6: fourteenth century, originally defined as the process of reducing things

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Speaker 6: into simpler forms. It wasn't until the twentieth century, though,

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Speaker 6: that Americans in mass began celebrating New two Years as

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Speaker 6: a holiday. That's when making secular resolutions fully became part

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Speaker 6: of it. Stecy Lynn CBS News.

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Speaker 1: Gospel singer Richard Smallwood has died at the age of

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Speaker 1: seventy seven.

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Speaker 7: Richard Smallwood's Total Praise was one of his biggest hits,

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Speaker 7: but his music was recorded by artists ranging from Stevie

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Speaker 7: Wonder to Destiny's Child to Whitney Houston, who performed the

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Speaker 7: classic I Love the Lord in the nineteen ninety six

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Speaker 7: movie The Preacher's Wife. Smallwood began playing piano at age five,

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Speaker 7: and it formed his first gospel group by the age

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Speaker 7: of eleven. Singer and songwriter sha Ka Khan paid tribute

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Speaker 7: to him on social media, saying his music transformed her.

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Speaker 7: Richard Smallwood died of complications from kidney failure. Alison Keys

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Speaker 7: CBS News.

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Speaker 1: Smallwood was nominated for eight Grammys. You are now in

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Speaker 1: the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listened to

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Speaker 1: WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Sasville.

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