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

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Speaker 1: one below zero in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening in this brutally

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Speaker 1: cold winter weather. It continues all weekend. Today brings another

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Speaker 1: cold day with increasing clouds in a high of twenty

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Speaker 1: four ahead of a cloudy and cold night's night with

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Speaker 1: a bit of snow tour dawn well to the south

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Speaker 1: of Boston Attechi weather is LaTroy Thornton. A coastal flood

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Speaker 1: advisory goes into effect tomorrow morning eight am for most

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Speaker 1: of the Massachusetts coastline at the full forecast in just

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, and amid these freezing temperatures. To

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Speaker 1: Coastguard searching for survivors after a fishing vessel sinks off

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Speaker 1: the coast of Gloucester. Here's wbz's I'm a Friedman.

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Speaker 2: The Coastguard says they found one person dead. On Friday,

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Speaker 2: there were seven people on board. Here's Coastguard Captain Jamie Frederick.

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Speaker 2: So we are on search and rescue mot orright now.

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Speaker 2: He gave an update alongside Governor Morri Heally Friday evening

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Speaker 2: but I want.

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Speaker 3: To acknowledge this sacrifice of fishing families, and in particular

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Speaker 3: fishing families of the Gloucester community. I'm not from a

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Speaker 3: fishing family, but I want all of us to think

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Speaker 3: about the sacrifice of those families.

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Speaker 2: The seventy two foot vessel Lily Jean went missing twenty

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Speaker 2: five miles off the coast Friday morning. The Coastguard says

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Speaker 2: the vessel was on its way back to Gloucester because

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Speaker 2: of an equipment issue when something happened about twenty miles offshore.

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Speaker 2: They received a distress begon around seven am, and once

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Speaker 2: the Coastguard got to the sunken fishing vessel, they deployed

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Speaker 2: votes and helicopters. I'm a freedman, w b Z, Boston's

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Speaker 2: news Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Senate voting yesterday to fund most of the government

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Speaker 1: through the end of September, while carving out a temporary

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Speaker 1: extension for homeland security funding, giving Congress two weeks to

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Speaker 1: debate new restrictions on federal immigration rates across the country.

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Speaker 1: President Trump structed spending deal with Senate Democrats on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats had said they would not vote for a

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Speaker 1: larger spending bill unless Congress considers legislation to unmass ask agents,

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Speaker 1: require more warrants, and allow local authorities to help investigate

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Speaker 1: any incidents. The bill passed seventy one to twenty nine

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Speaker 1: and will now head to the House, which is not

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Speaker 1: due back until Monday, which means the government could be

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Speaker 1: an a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until that

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Speaker 1: gets passed. The Justice Department releasing more than three million

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Speaker 1: pages of documents from the FBI's investigation into sex offender

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. The newly released files includes the names of

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Speaker 1: some rich and powerful men, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik.

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Speaker 1: ABC News Chief Justice corresponding Pierre Thomas.

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Speaker 4: It recently said that in two thousand and five he

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Speaker 4: decided he did not want anything to do with Epstein,

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Speaker 4: but the newly released documents indicate that seven years later,

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Speaker 4: when Lutnik was visiting the Caribbean with his wife and

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Speaker 4: other friends and family, he apparently emailed looking this set

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Speaker 4: up a dinner on Epstein's island, writing the Sunday evenings

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Speaker 4: sound good. A few days later, Epstein's assistant sending Jeffrey

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Speaker 4: wished me to pass along the below to you.

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Speaker 1: Nice seeing it Jeffrey Epstein also appears to have tried

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Speaker 1: to connect New York Giants co owner Steve Tish with

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Speaker 1: other women. Tish said in a statement he had a

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Speaker 1: brief association with Epstein where they emailed about adult women

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Speaker 1: and other topics. He said he never went to his island.

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Speaker 1: He regrets his association. Let's check the four day wbz

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Speaker 1: AC you weather Forecastle Troy Thornton tells us Today will

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Speaker 1: be very cold, with sunshine, some clouds, low twenties for

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Speaker 1: highs today, cold overnight tonight, maybe some snow flourries toward daybreak.

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Speaker 1: Well to the south of Boston will be in the

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Speaker 1: single digits again overnight tonight now tomorrow. That snow from

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Speaker 1: a nor'easter which is passing well to our south and east,

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Speaker 1: will give us a coding to an inch around Boston,

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Speaker 1: one to three inches for the south coast, the south Shore,

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Speaker 1: through the Cape and the islands. Could be some blizzard

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Speaker 1: conditions on the Cape at times of some strong strong winds.

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Speaker 1: Temperatures only in the twenties Tomorrow Monday, not quite as cold,

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Speaker 1: sun clouds high thirty two, more of the same on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: brutally brutally cold, this morning. It is seven below in Brockton.

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Speaker 1: It is zero in Framingham, two below in Lowell, one

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Speaker 1: below here in Boston at six oh five. Situate Harbor

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Speaker 1: has escaped flooding for the most part this winter, but

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Speaker 1: that could change this weekend. Here's wbz's at Jared Brosman.

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Speaker 5: After a two foot walloping of snow and no warm

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Speaker 5: weather to melt it away, Situate Harbor looks unrecognizable.

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Speaker 6: To be honest with you, in my experience, I don't

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Speaker 6: think I've ever seen this much amount of snow in

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Speaker 6: situate within the past, you know, ten to fifteen years.

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Speaker 5: While this weekend storm certainly looks like a reprieve on

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Speaker 5: the snow front. Milwarf general manager Nick is on high

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Speaker 5: alert for the rising tides.

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Speaker 6: I think our main concern around here is flooding and

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Speaker 6: losing power, of course, especially with our parking lot.

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Speaker 5: Flooding in the Millwarf Plaza parking lot has been a

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Speaker 5: common occurrence in recent years. Just last winter, Georgiane of

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Speaker 5: Cloud nine Massage had to save her car from the

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Speaker 5: saltwater just made it so we had to park down

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Speaker 5: the street and that was like waves in the parking lot.

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Speaker 5: There's a chance that happens again Sunday with a coastal

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Speaker 5: floodwatching effect, but she'll be long gone.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm just going to be home, hunkering down

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Speaker 2: and praying we're.

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Speaker 5: Good from Situate Harbor. I'm jer Brosnan, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: A forty one year old pabady man arrested Thursday facing

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Speaker 1: charges which include theft of government money. Prosecutors say Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Carpenter secured a COVID nineteen stimulus loan back in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: which total more than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: The Globe reports. Carpenter claimed in his application he was

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Speaker 1: the owner of Homeland Electric LLC. Documents showed that business

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Speaker 1: had been closed down by Carpenter five years earlier. Carpenter's

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Speaker 1: next court hearing schedule for March twelfth. The end of

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Speaker 1: dry January is a welcome sign for local liquor and

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Speaker 1: package stores, but has the rise in non alcoholic drinks

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Speaker 1: helped lessen the blow Who's wbz's Kyle Bray.

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Speaker 7: Whether it's na beer, wine, or mocktails, The non alcoholic

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Speaker 7: drink market has been booming in the last few years,

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Speaker 7: Regardless if it's dry January or not, but in what's

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Speaker 7: usually the slowest month for sales in the liquor industry,

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Speaker 7: the rise of NA drinks has become a nice way

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Speaker 7: to offset that. Jonas Atwood is with Inman Square Wine

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Speaker 7: and Spirits in Cambridge and he says they sell as

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Speaker 7: many NA drinks in January as they do in December,

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Speaker 7: which is the busiest month for sales.

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Speaker 8: I think, out of the non alcoholic options, beer is

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Speaker 8: definitely the biggest driver in that a lot of well

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Speaker 8: regarded breweries are now making non alcoholic options.

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Speaker 7: Looking through the aisles you can find big names like

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Speaker 7: Guinness and Heineken, and even local craft brewers joining the fray.

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Speaker 7: But the trend goes far beyond just dry January.

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Speaker 8: There are people that might just kind of reduce their

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Speaker 8: consumption of beer by offsetting it with some non alcoholic options.

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