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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Look

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Speaker 1: at the crat the Cats dragged in this morning. It's Friday.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, little buddy, bring it in, let's hug it out,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to winter. By the way, we're waking

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Speaker 1: up under partly cloudy skies in twenty one degree. He's

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Speaker 1: here in Boston. The News at six has brought to

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Speaker 1: us by You're a New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid

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Speaker 1: all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown and the following

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Speaker 1: is a presentation of the National Friday League. Some clouds

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Speaker 1: to start, then becoming mostly sunny today, blustery and cold

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Speaker 1: with a high of thirty four and it's WBZ. ACI

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Speaker 1: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Could be a couple of inches

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Speaker 1: of snow for some of US overnight tonight, the first

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Speaker 1: of two weather makers likely this weekend. More details to come.

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Speaker 1: The Bruins sweep the home stand with a fifth consecutive

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Speaker 1: win at the Garden. This time they top the Kraken.

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Speaker 1: The Bees will take on the Blackhawks in Chicago tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: Celtics rip a victory from the jaws of defeat on

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Speaker 1: the road they cool the heat. Celtics and Hawks go

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Speaker 1: at it in Atlanta tomorrow night. Perfect attendance at Patriots practice.

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Speaker 1: Another home playoff game is just a couple of days away,

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Speaker 1: and believe it or not, there's still a seat for you, as.

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Speaker 2: If we could love the Patriots enough. According to a

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Speaker 2: new survey, tickets for the Pats Texans game at Gillette

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Speaker 2: Stadium are the cheapest for the NFL Divisional Round. The

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Speaker 2: average is less than five hundred bucks, compared to about

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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars for the Bills Broncos game in Denver

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Speaker 2: and eight hundred and fifty smackaroos for the Rams Bears

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Speaker 2: matchup in Chicago this weekend. Kick off for the Patriots

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Speaker 2: three pm Sunday, Matt phipps WBZ, Boston's news.

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Speaker 1: Radio, and again there are still tickets available. College basketball

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Speaker 1: is on the ropes this morning. Division I athletes have

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Speaker 1: been caught up in a point shaving scandal.

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Speaker 3: The average cash bride payment was anywhere from ten to

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Speaker 3: thirty thousand dollars so that they would underperform. Guy averages twelve,

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Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty points a game. In one game, suddenly

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Speaker 3: scores six points on purpose.

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Speaker 1: ABC's Aaron Katirski. The masterminds behind the college con game

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Speaker 1: are the same ones connected to a recent professional sports

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Speaker 1: betting scandal. This scandal started in China, where the bosses

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Speaker 1: claim nothing is certain in life but death, taxes and

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Speaker 1: Chinese basketball. The price of your music is headed higher.

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Speaker 1: Spotify says its raising rates starting next month, a one

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Speaker 1: dollar increase to twelve bucks a month. It translates to

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Speaker 1: an eighteen percent hike. This is the first increase in

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Speaker 1: the United States by the Swedish based company since twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and it's being done, they say, in an

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Speaker 1: effort to sustain its profits. Spotify has close to three

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Speaker 1: hundred million paying subscribers all around the world, and the

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Speaker 1: one where soup becomes candy is playing again.

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Speaker 4: Forget Lollipop's Progresso brings its viral sensation back with its

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Speaker 4: classic soup drops for the tail end of the cold

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Speaker 4: and flu season. So then cans and new flavor is

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Speaker 4: available every Thursday over the coming weeks. The cans are

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Speaker 4: available that Walmart only. The year's first flavor this week

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Speaker 4: sells out in two hours. Variety packs include chicken Noodle,

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Speaker 4: Tomato basil, and beef pot roast. Flavors all in hard

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Speaker 4: candy form. Jay will Let busy Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: And partly cloudy skies as we get going on this

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Speaker 1: Friday morning in Boston, and guess what. Winter is back

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Speaker 1: and hit us like a hammer overnight as the winds

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Speaker 1: picked up late yesterday afternoon, delivering this cold front to

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Speaker 1: us twenty one degrees here in Boston this morning. We'll

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Speaker 1: see some sunshine today, It's going to be breezy, few

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Speaker 1: clouds along the way, but it's a challenge. We'll see

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Speaker 1: high temperatures only right around freezing. And just a reminder

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Speaker 1: as you head out the door this morning, don't forget

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Speaker 1: that winter coat. We've not needed it over the past

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Speaker 1: several days. But the ACI Weather Real field temperature out

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Speaker 1: the door in Boston this morning is one degree above zero.

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Speaker 1: Overnight to night clouds with some precipitation moving in. We

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Speaker 1: could see a couple of inches of snow in some

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Speaker 1: areas north and west of the city overnight tonight and

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Speaker 1: into the early stages of tomorrow. The weekend looks like

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit of a struggle too,

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Speaker 1: with high temperatures both days mainly hanging in the fifties,

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Speaker 1: and it looks like we're going to be targeting be

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Speaker 1: the targets of another snowstorm coming up on Sunday night

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Speaker 1: into the holiday on Monday. It could mount to some

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Speaker 1: plowable snow for much of the area, But then again,

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Speaker 1: it could be a miss. It's still just a little

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Speaker 1: bit too early to tell, and the system seems to

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Speaker 1: be wobbling a little bit, so we'll let you know

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Speaker 1: as we get closer. Right here at WBZ twenty one

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Speaker 1: and partly cloudy here in the city on this Friday morning,

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Speaker 1: at six oh five, President Trump floats a healthcare plan

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Speaker 1: but offers no details.

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Speaker 5: On the last day of enrollment for the Affordable Care Act,

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Speaker 5: President Trump announced his long promised healthcare plan, vowing to

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Speaker 5: pay Americans directly through their health savings accounts.

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Speaker 6: My plan would reduce your insurance premiums by stopping government

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Speaker 6: payoffs to big insurance companies and sending that money directly

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Speaker 6: to the people.

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Speaker 5: So vows to create more transparency by requiring health insurance

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Speaker 5: companies to post their profits from premiums in plain English

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Speaker 5: and the rate at which they deny care. Healthcare providers

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Speaker 5: who accept Medicare and Medicaid would have to post their

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Speaker 5: prices and fees. The plan needs congressional approval.

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Speaker 1: At is ABC's Christian Cordero. The last day for enrollment

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Speaker 1: in the Massachusetts Health Connector plan is a week from

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Speaker 1: today for coverage to kick in on February first. The

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Speaker 1: Harvard Club of Boston is out two and a half

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Speaker 1: million dollars fined in federal court in Boston for ripping

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Speaker 1: off the pandemic era paycheck Protection program. US attorney Leah

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Speaker 1: Foley with the News and says the club in Boston's

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Speaker 1: Back Bay applied for and then received that funding in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, even though private clubs were banned from

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Speaker 1: taking part. The Harvard Club is not affiliated with the

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Speaker 1: university and agrees to settle the fraud charges. A South

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Speaker 1: Shore police officer faces serious charges following ahead on crash.

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Speaker 7: Marshfield Police officer Richard Perry.

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Speaker 6: Was off duty last Sunday night when he was driving

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Speaker 6: a jeep at a high rate of speed along Route

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Speaker 6: one thirty nine and allegedly crossed a double line to

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Speaker 6: pass someone when he struck another car.

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Speaker 7: Head on. That driver that Officer Perry hit needed to

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Speaker 7: be extracted from their car. Using the jaws of life.

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Speaker 7: He is now on leave facing charges of leaving the

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Speaker 7: scene of an accident and operating under the influence Jim

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Speaker 7: McKay w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: The Salem police officer is expected to recover from her

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Speaker 1: injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver

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Speaker 1: while working a criminal investigation in a Pope Street apartment

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Speaker 1: building parking lot in Salem last night. She's expected to

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Speaker 1: be okay, no arrests have been made and laughs on

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Speaker 1: the Cape and waterfront on the way tonight, it's great.

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Speaker 8: Steve Sweeney, a comedy and a local legend around here.

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Speaker 8: He's doing a special screening of his movie Towney tonight

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Speaker 8: at the Cut in Gloucester.

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Speaker 7: Steve, how you doing the man?

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Speaker 9: Well legends, She'll like, I've passed away, But that's okay.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you're you're.

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Speaker 8: Very much with us, and you've got a very big

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Speaker 8: night here.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, Bush, you can go on the well watch

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Speaker 9: and then yeah, so I have this is a film

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Speaker 9: of my one man's show. But and then we cut

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Speaker 9: back to Charlestown and spout growing up in Charlestown. It's

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Speaker 9: kind of a coming of age story and my friend

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Speaker 9: Pete Fairley p Execute have produced it. I'm very proud

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Speaker 9: of it. Film people are going to really enjoy. You know,

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Speaker 9: what else do you have to do with Gloucester except drink? Right,

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Speaker 9: So come on out and fish. Oh yeah, they say, right,

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Speaker 9: it's a drinking town with a little fishing. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Great city though, seven thirty start tonight at the Cut

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Speaker 8: in Gloucester, the great Steve Sweeney. Thank you, Sir Drew

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