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Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio re defining local news.

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Speaker 2: Thirty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon night,

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Sausville, here's what's happening. Today marks the Winter Solstice,

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Speaker 2: the first day of winter and the shortest day of

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Speaker 2: the year. But it's also a data remember those who

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Speaker 2: have no place to call home. Wbz's Hyle Schaffel explains.

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Speaker 1: We're staring down the heart of winter in Boston.

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Speaker 3: You know, those of us that live in this area

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Speaker 3: know that this time of year is marked by seasonal

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Speaker 3: depression and lack of sunlight and particularly cold weather. We've

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Speaker 3: had a colder month than we've had in a long time,

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Speaker 3: by no coincidence.

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Speaker 1: The Winter Solstice is also National Homeless Person's Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: now and it's thirty fifth year. It's a day to

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Speaker 1: remember homeless members of the community lost to the elements

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Speaker 1: or other causes. Carrie Cofflin of Friends of Boston's Homeless

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Speaker 1: says this helps humanize those who live on the street

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Speaker 1: and struggle often goes ignored.

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Speaker 3: You know, particularly that maybe happened quite a bit during

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Speaker 3: the encampments, right that people could just drive by and

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Speaker 3: just you know, almost feel revulsion for what they were seeing.

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Speaker 1: She says checking on your neighbors and calling three one

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Speaker 1: one if you're concerned is critical this time of year. Socks, underwear,

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Speaker 1: and war enclosure always needed. She also says there's a

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Speaker 1: quickly increasing population of vulnerable elderly women losing a safe

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Speaker 1: place to live.

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Speaker 3: And so they are entering the shelter system for the

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Speaker 3: very first time in their lives.

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Speaker 1: Something to watch for, Kyle Schaffel WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The Department of Justice continues facing backlash for its partial

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Speaker 2: release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports.

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Speaker 4: Friday was a congressionally mandated deadline for the Justice Department

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Speaker 4: to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, yet only a fraction

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Speaker 4: have been released. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche tells NBC's

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Speaker 4: Meet the Press on Sunday that it takes time to

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Speaker 4: redact information that could identify Epstein's victims.

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Speaker 5: The reason why we are still reviewing documents and still

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Speaker 5: containing our process is simply that to protect victims. So

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Speaker 5: the same individuals that are out there complaining about the

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Speaker 5: lack of documents that were produced on Friday are the

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Speaker 5: same individuals who apparently don't want us to protect victims.

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Speaker 4: But Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland tells CNN's State

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Speaker 4: of the Union that the Justice Department is obstructing the

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Speaker 4: implementation of the law mandating the release of those documents,

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Speaker 4: not because it wants to protect victims, but because quote,

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Speaker 4: it's all about covering up things in quote donnad Wood

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Speaker 4: or Washington.

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Speaker 2: The police chief in Totowa, New Jersey, is facing several

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Speaker 2: charges in connection with an alleged assault at a Boston hotel.

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Speaker 2: Wbz's Jared Brosnin has details.

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Speaker 6: Forty seven year old Carmen Veniciano is accused of kidnapping

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Speaker 6: and assaulting a woman in a hotel room in the

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Speaker 6: Back Bay back on September fourteenth, According to the Suffer

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Speaker 6: County District Attorney's Office, New Jersey police arrested Veniciano on

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Speaker 6: Friday without incident, and he's been suspended without pay. According

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Speaker 6: to a statement from the mayor of Totawa. He's expected

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Speaker 6: in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday, where he'll be arraigned

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Speaker 6: on kidnapping and assault and battery charges. Jared Brosn the WBZ,

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Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: The forecast mainly clear skies overnight. We'll see a low

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Speaker 2: of twenty three mostly Sunday tomorrow, but a cool breeze

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Speaker 2: with a high of thirty five. Some snow early Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: One to three inches are possible. High thirty four, but

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Speaker 2: closer to forty for the South coast Capean Islands on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve, breezy with some sun, high thirty six, and

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Speaker 2: looking ahead to Christmas more clouds than sun, with highs

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Speaker 2: in the upper thirties. Right now in Boston, it's mostly

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Speaker 2: clear skies and thirty nine degrees. A Milton teen and

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Speaker 2: her family spend their Sunday morning dropping off thousands of

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Speaker 2: socks at the Saint Francis House in Chinatown, w Kyle

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Speaker 2: Bray has more.

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Speaker 7: Plenty of people will be getting socks for the holidays,

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Speaker 7: but here at the Saint Francis House, they're more than

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Speaker 7: just a stocking stuffer.

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Speaker 4: It was one of the most needed things in the

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Speaker 4: shelter that kept people warm and just comfortable.

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Speaker 7: That's Sophia Cassini, a fourteen year old from Milton, who's

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Speaker 7: been donating socks to the Saint Francis house for eleven

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Speaker 7: years now. It all started when she did a sock

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Speaker 7: drive in kindergarten and she wanted to keep that momentum going.

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Speaker 7: Now she's donated over thirty one thousand pairs of socks,

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Speaker 7: including forty eight hundred this year alone. Aisha Stringland as

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Speaker 7: a donation processor here who has busy few days ahead

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Speaker 7: of her.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a little busy, but that's what we do.

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Speaker 4: So it's to night we've been playing about.

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Speaker 6: We just buckle down and we get it through for

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Speaker 6: our clients.

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Speaker 7: Her dad, Michael, says this year's batch also features some

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Speaker 7: handnitted hats, scarves more for his mom in Connecticut.

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Speaker 5: You volunteers at the Senior Center down there, and they

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Speaker 5: had volunteers so on, an army of knitters and crochetkers.

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Speaker 7: Adding a personal touch for the holidays. From Chinatown, Kyle

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Speaker 7: Bray WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: If you're scrambling to do some last minute holiday shopping,

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Speaker 2: you're not alone. CBS News Boston's Paul Burton reports from

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Speaker 2: the south Shore Plaza in Braintree, which was packed with

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Speaker 2: shoppers yesterday.

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Speaker 8: The holiday shopping spirit was in full forest in the

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Speaker 8: south Shore plaza and grain Tree.

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Speaker 4: We're very excited.

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Speaker 8: The parking lot was packed as shoppers scrambled to find

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Speaker 8: a space.

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Speaker 6: I'm very excited for the holiday season.

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Speaker 2: It's very I.

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Speaker 1: Love Festive season.

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Speaker 8: Shoppers hands were full of bags with toys and gifts

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Speaker 8: as Santa Claus worked overtime taking in requests.

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Speaker 2: I love it, you got it.

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Speaker 7: I love it.

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Speaker 8: What's your message is Christmas season?

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Speaker 2: Be safe out there and have a happy Christmas. Well,

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Speaker 2: not a good look for a duncan. In Roxbury, health

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Speaker 2: officials find rodent droppings on a doughnut rack at the

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Speaker 2: four forty mass Ave location on December ninth. They were

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Speaker 2: also found along the floor runner and the ledges of

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Speaker 2: the basement storage area leading to the rolling rack in

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Speaker 2: the prep kitchen. According to the inspection, the person in

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Speaker 2: charge at that duncan cleaned and sanitized the rack and

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Speaker 2: were told to contact a licensed pest control expert for

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Speaker 2: more services. Rodent issues were last reported at this Duncan

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Speaker 2: location in twenty twenty two. You are now in the

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