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

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Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. I am your

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Speaker 1: very cold human, Ben Parker, and here's what's happening. Call

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Speaker 1: it the calm before the storm and the cold before

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Speaker 1: the storm. We start with the cold advisory that takes

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Speaker 1: effect at seven o'clock tonight, lasting until eleven o'clock tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 1: with the City of Boston issuing a cold emergency. CBS

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Speaker 1: News Boston media prologist Jason Michael says, Bundle.

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Speaker 2: There's dangerous cold moving into the reasion for the rest

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Speaker 2: of the afternoon and especially overnight Tonight. Air temperatures though,

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Speaker 2: will be below zero here for many areas through Saturday morning.

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Speaker 2: That means a prolonged period around twenty four plus hours

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Speaker 2: of dealing with extremely cold temperatures.

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Speaker 1: And then there's the potential for that big weekend storm,

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Speaker 1: a classic nor'easter. Still looking at the exact track, but

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Speaker 1: as of right now, it looks like a big pounding

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Speaker 1: maybe a foot of snow and blizzard conditions on the Cape,

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Speaker 1: high tides and coastal flooding. Maybe three to six inches

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Speaker 1: of snow around Boston. There is a winter storm watch

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Speaker 1: posted for the Cape and Island starting Saturday night. We

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Speaker 1: also have a coastal floodwatch that goes into effects starting

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock Sunday morning. Keep a tuned to WBZ,

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Speaker 1: we'll be watching the storm and bring you the very latest.

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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats voting unanimously to block a package of six

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Speaker 1: funding bills that would fund large portions of the government

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Speaker 1: through the end of September, meaning a partial government shutdown

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Speaker 1: could still happen in the coming days.

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Speaker 3: President Trump today expressed optimism that a deal can be

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Speaker 3: reached to avert a partial government shutdown.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully we won't have a shutdown. We're working on that

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Speaker 4: right now. I think we're getting close. Democrats, I don't

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Speaker 4: believe want to see it either, so we'll work in

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Speaker 4: a very bipartisan way. I believe not to have a shutdown.

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Speaker 4: We don't want to shut down.

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Speaker 3: There are ongoing talks between the White House and Senate

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Speaker 3: Democrats that we're funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 3: Democrats want to separate out DHS funding from the larger

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Speaker 3: package that includes other federal departments and continue negotiating changes

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Speaker 3: to ice. Karen Travers ABC news the White House.

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Speaker 1: Moore Heelly is announcing that she's taking action to keep

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Speaker 1: ICE out of schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship.

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Speaker 1: The governor's signing an executive order. It bans civil ICE

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Speaker 1: arrests in state facilities and also blocks the use of

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Speaker 1: any state property as a staging location. The governor says

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Speaker 1: this is in direct response to the Trump administration's crack

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Speaker 1: down on immigration. She says it's this order that National

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Speaker 1: Guard troops from other states will also not be allowed

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Speaker 1: to be deployed in Massachusetts as they have in other states.

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Speaker 1: At the State House, activists coming out to speak about ICE.

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Speaker 5: A coalition of activist groups have decriutized hundreds of everyday

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Speaker 5: people at the State House today. They're taking the day

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Speaker 5: off work in school for direct grassroots appeal to limit

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Speaker 5: ICE actions in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 6: They are worried, They are paying attention. They are extremely

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Speaker 6: incensed with what's happened in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 5: Debbie Paul is the chair of Indivisible Massachusetts, one of

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Speaker 5: the organizers. She says the goal is to pass laws

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Speaker 5: that would limit police cooperation with ICE. She also says

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Speaker 5: many of the people packing the Golden Dome today. Have

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Speaker 5: never been here before, but they were moved to come

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Speaker 5: after seeing the videos this week out of Minnesota. Karen

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Speaker 5: from JP is one of those.

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Speaker 7: And I just want to say I'm a mother and

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Speaker 7: a healthcare worker.

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Speaker 1: I work at the.

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Speaker 7: ICU all the time, and I just can't even say

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Speaker 7: this without crying. But I really see myself in Miday Alex.

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Speaker 5: She got emotional right away after I asked her why

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Speaker 5: she's here today.

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Speaker 7: And then there's just the basic human decency that we

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Speaker 7: all have to fight for our neighbors.

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Speaker 5: Kyle SHAFFELDZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: We have a cold weather advisory that goes into effect

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Speaker 1: at seven o'clock this evening, and temperatures in the city

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Speaker 1: you're going to get down close to zero, probably about

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Speaker 1: three or four above in the city with the wind,

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Speaker 1: will feel like we're ten or fifteen below zero. But

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Speaker 1: some of those air temperatures are going to fall below zero,

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Speaker 1: and the real fields perhaps twenty to thirty below zero

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Speaker 1: overnight tonight, mostly Sunday Tomorrow sixteen. That's all we're going

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Speaker 1: to muster for a high real fields will be around zero,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll do it again tomorrow night, bone chilling

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Speaker 1: temperatures mostly clear, close to zero for the low below

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Speaker 1: zero in the suburbs, temperatures again twenty below zero with

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Speaker 1: the real fields. We'll be at about twenty on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: with some sun to starts, some clouds to finish, and

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Speaker 1: then here comes that northeaster. It should get close enough

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Speaker 1: areas of the Cape and Islands, south shore, south coast.

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Speaker 1: There is a winter storm watch that goes into effect

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Speaker 1: late Saturday night over the Cape and Islands, and they'll

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Speaker 1: also be wind and coastal flooding and beach erosen expected

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Speaker 1: from this storm. The exact exact exact track, well, that's

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Speaker 1: still not known, but we'll keep following it for you,

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Speaker 1: bringing the updates as the storm updates. Cambridge is looking

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Speaker 1: for artists who can inspire creativity in local government. More

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Speaker 1: from wbz's Ema Friedman.

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Speaker 6: The new program is called Artists and Government and that's

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Speaker 6: pretty much exactly what it is. Artists are paired up

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Speaker 6: with city departments. It's a learning experience for them and

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Speaker 6: a way to inspire a new creative idea.

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Speaker 8: Bringing that creative practice, that creative perspective and to city

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Speaker 8: work will help city staff learn about new ways of

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Speaker 8: doing their regular job.

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Speaker 6: That's Claudia Zarazua, the Arts and Cultural Planning director for

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Speaker 6: Cambridge Community Development Department.

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Speaker 8: So for example, we're going to be working with the

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Speaker 8: public Health Department, so bringing in a creative perspective into

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Speaker 8: the work they do.

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Speaker 6: That creative perspective could harness innovation and help the public

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Speaker 6: Health department communicate better and demystify what they do.

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Speaker 8: It could be embedding music into the public health events

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Speaker 8: like vaccine clinics.

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Speaker 6: Artists and artists teams can apply for grants to support

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Speaker 6: the year long, possibly longer collaboration in Cambridge. I'm a

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Speaker 6: Freedman w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Going to the dogs vacations This year could be the

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Speaker 1: one where traveling with dogs really takes off.

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Speaker 7: It's just nice to have something there to cuddle with.

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Speaker 9: Lauren from Quinsy is someone who rarely travels without her

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Speaker 9: dog Remmy Karen Terry or she holds near and dear

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Speaker 9: and never not by her side.

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Speaker 7: Just you know, calm you and keep you chill.

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Speaker 9: She's one of the many people looking trips this year

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Speaker 9: that are dog friendly. Trip Advisor already reporting a surgeon

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Speaker 9: a general trend that shows families with four legged friends

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Speaker 9: are no longer booking them a stay at the local kennel.

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Speaker 9: But for others, traveling with their dogs sounds like a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of halfle that sounds like a lot

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Speaker 3: of work.

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Speaker 9: I know my mud Pepper is ready to go at

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Speaker 9: any time, and we may be hitting the holiday road

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Speaker 9: later this year for quite a nice vacation. Jim McKay

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