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

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Speaker 2: Thirteen degrees. We've got clear skies in Boston. It is

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Speaker 2: six o'clock here on this Friday after Christmas, December twenty sixth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. This hour of news brought to you

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Speaker 2: by You're New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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Speaker 2: drive headquarters. I'm Jim McKay. Thanks for joining us, and

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Speaker 2: here's what's happening. Yeah, you're gonna want to grab that

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Speaker 2: winter jacket out there this morning. In fact, grab the gloves,

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Speaker 2: the hat and everything to keep yourself warm. Very cold.

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Speaker 2: Star to the post holiday weekend Russian. Although it's a

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Speaker 2: holiday week, we've still got a celebratory day of the

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Speaker 2: week on our hands. Oh yeah, baby, it's Friday, and

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Speaker 2: we're expecting a little light snow heading our way tonight

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Speaker 2: into sat morning. For a Greater Boston. Best chance of

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Speaker 2: a few inches is going to be south of Town,

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Speaker 2: New York City and western Connecticut expecting forty eight inches

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Speaker 2: potentially some spots even more. It's going to largely miss us,

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Speaker 2: but we could get around around the dusting maybe an

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Speaker 2: inch or two. In Greater Boston. We continue now at

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Speaker 2: six oh one, making sure you have those receipts and

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Speaker 2: you're checking them twice. Shoppers flooding back into the stores

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Speaker 2: to find out who's been naughty and nice headed back.

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Speaker 1: To them all right after you open some unwanted gifts,

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Speaker 1: comes with some good news.

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Speaker 3: Well, the day after the holidays the great time to

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Speaker 3: get those fifty percent off bargain.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately it comes with bad news too.

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Speaker 3: That's the great time to wait in line with all

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Speaker 3: the other crazy people.

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Speaker 1: You ought to know. That is consumer advocate Edgar Dwarski,

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Speaker 1: who says returner beware.

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Speaker 3: Retailers generally have tightened policies around electronic goods, for example.

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Speaker 1: But many retailers are good about taking back their stuff.

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Speaker 1: Better if you follow this rule, don't.

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Speaker 3: Break the factory seal on the product, Christine condition, and

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Speaker 3: then hopefully you'll have many happy returns.

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Speaker 1: And go get them. Jeff Brown WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And it's now six to oh two. President Trump announcing

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Speaker 2: a deadly US strike against Islamic state forces in Nigeria

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Speaker 2: on social media, the President calling them terrorists scum, accusing

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Speaker 2: them of targeting primarily innocent Christians.

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Speaker 4: US Africa, Command revealed it conducted strikes in Sikoto State,

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Speaker 4: killing what it called multiple Islamic State terrorists its head.

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Speaker 4: The attack was launched in coordination with the Nigerian authorities.

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Speaker 4: The strikes follow a pledge by President Trump last month

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Speaker 4: to send troops guns are blazing, as he put it,

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Speaker 4: if Christians continued to be killed. The Nigerian government says

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Speaker 4: that no religion is being explicitly targeted, and monitoring groups

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Speaker 4: say Christians and Muslims are being killed in roughly equal numbers.

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Speaker 2: And that is BBC correspondent David Waddell. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to Ukraine and Russia, still no peace deal.

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Speaker 5: President Zelensky says he spoke with President Trump's envoys, Steve

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Speaker 5: Whitcoff and the president's son in law Jared Kushner about

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Speaker 5: ending what he called the brutal Russian war. Posting on

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Speaker 5: social media, as Lensky thanked the envoys for what he

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Speaker 5: called their constructive approach, the intensive work, and the kind words. Earlier,

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Speaker 5: he referenced a willingness to withdraw troops from the country's

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Speaker 5: eastern Denesque region. If Russia did the same, that area

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Speaker 5: could possibly become a demilitarized zone. Monitored by international forces.

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Speaker 5: Lindy Kenyon, CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're hovering around zero at the moment in terms

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Speaker 2: of our real fields in Greater Boston, and we are

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Speaker 2: at fourteen degrees. We're in the mid twenties by this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We do have some snow that's going to be headed

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Speaker 2: our way tonight. It's not going to be doing all

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Speaker 2: that much here in Greater Boston. The best chance of

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Speaker 2: getting a few inches is going to be south of town.

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Speaker 2: Close we get towards the South Coast Cape and the Islands,

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Speaker 2: and then off towards Rhode Island. It's Connecticut certainly higher

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Speaker 2: amount as well as Western Mass. New York City four

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Speaker 2: to eight inches they're expecting overnight, possibly even more in

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Speaker 2: some spots. So certainly going to hit New York City

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Speaker 2: with a direct bullseye in terms of this snow event,

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Speaker 2: it's just going to miss us here in Greater Boston.

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Speaker 2: But we're clear for Saturday, outside of that light snowfall

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Speaker 2: that we're going to get mid twenties, very cold, bit

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Speaker 2: warmer on Sunday with sunshine into the thirties. We're going

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Speaker 2: to see some rain showers.

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Speaker 6: On Monday.

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Speaker 2: We kick things off before the new year. Pretty warm

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Speaker 2: mid forties as we head into next week at the moment,

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Speaker 2: fourteen degrees feeling like zero in Boston at six oh five. Well,

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Speaker 2: many of us dug deep into our wallets for the

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Speaker 2: holiday season. Wbz's James Rojas is seeing how everyone's keeping

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Speaker 2: track of those budgets post Christmas. As he reports from.

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Speaker 6: Dewey Square, tariff's and inflation did a stop many people

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Speaker 6: from spending this year.

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Speaker 4: I didn't notice many tariff prices and anything really, Honestly,

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Speaker 4: it's all been a bunch of smoking mirrors.

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Speaker 6: Dominic from Medford may not have noticed higher prices, but

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Speaker 6: it is something others took into account when budgeting Christmas gifts.

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Speaker 7: They planned ahead and I knew who I was going

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Speaker 7: to give gifts to, so that's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 6: You can just like go easily exceed your budget, like overbuying,

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Speaker 6: like stuff that.

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Speaker 5: May be never been used.

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Speaker 4: Is it really necessary?

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Speaker 6: Is that person like could use this? And yeah, I'm

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Speaker 6: just like thinking all this stuff. MasterCard says folks spend

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Speaker 6: nearly four percent more during this year's holiday shopping period

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Speaker 6: compared to last In Dewey Square, James Rojas WBZ Boston

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Speaker 6: Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 2: And for some who don't sell lebrate Christmas, there's another

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Speaker 2: tradition at play that keeps one restaurant live and well.

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Speaker 6: Each year.

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Speaker 7: At the Kosher Walk in Brookline, it's a revolving door

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Speaker 7: of takeout orders on Christmas Day, and this year it's

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Speaker 7: no different. He's a very crazy easy we knew, owns

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Speaker 7: the place and tells me busy is good for business,

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Speaker 7: of course, but in years past it's gotten so busy

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Speaker 7: on Christmas Day that he had to make some changes.

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Speaker 5: So that's why year I Gi Sai Katan the dining

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Speaker 5: and Deniberi.

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Speaker 7: You can only dine in during certain hours because at

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Speaker 7: dinner time the orders start piling up and the people

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Speaker 7: looking for tables is overwhelming. A reason for that is

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Speaker 7: the longtime tradition for Jewish people to eat Chinese food

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Speaker 7: on Christmas, and this place has the only kosher Chinese

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Speaker 7: food around. Dolly and her family drove here from Newton.

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Speaker 4: Well it's like fifteen minutes, but yeah, yes, every year, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and we came for lunch because it was so crowded

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Speaker 4: at dinner time.

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Speaker 7: They come back year after year to enjoy a nice

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Speaker 7: kosher meal when most places are closed. In Brookline, I'm

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Speaker 7: a Friedman, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's News Radio,