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

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Speaker 1: twenty five degrees see in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. You've been warned, Milk,

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Speaker 1: eggs and bread go. A winter storm has its eyes

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Speaker 1: set on a big swath of the country, including much

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Speaker 1: of New England. CBS News Boston mediologist Jason Michael tells

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Speaker 1: us this storm's looking nasty.

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Speaker 2: Cold air condensing radiating out, but also moist air and

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Speaker 2: also warmer air lodge right in between. So our ice ban,

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Speaker 2: significant ice ban, is going to be stretching across areas

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Speaker 2: where we have major hubs for airlines, so airlines are

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Speaker 2: going to be impacted for this upcoming weekend.

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Speaker 1: It is a biggie and the National Weather Service says

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Speaker 1: it will bring snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the

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Speaker 1: southern Rockies that's way out west, all the way into

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Speaker 1: the mid South before it heads east and up to

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Speaker 1: the north, affecting New England. Stay with WBZ all weekend long.

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Speaker 1: Will be here as this storm develops, both on air

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Speaker 1: and on the iHeartRadio app. And Trump announcing a major

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Speaker 1: step toward a deal for Greenland.

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Speaker 3: After some tough statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,

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Speaker 3: where President Trump reiterated he wants the US to have Greenland,

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Speaker 3: he posted on social media quote we have formed the

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Speaker 3: framework of a future deal. Quote. The President made the

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Speaker 3: statement after a meeting with NATO's Secretary General Mark Ruta,

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Speaker 3: saying quote this solution, if consummated, will be a great

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Speaker 3: one for the United States of America and all NATO

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Speaker 3: nations quote. In response to this framework, the President said

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Speaker 3: he would not be imposing the tariffs that he had

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Speaker 3: scheduled to go into effect February first. Lynday Kenyon CBS

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Speaker 3: News Washington.

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Speaker 1: A federal judge making a decision surrounding the Epstein files,

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Speaker 1: ruling a Congressman who co sponsored the law forcing the

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Speaker 1: lease of the files can file suit seeking a court

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Speaker 1: appointed observer to make sure the Justice Department follows through.

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Speaker 1: The judge also blocking lawmakers from interfering in Delane Maxwell's

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Speaker 1: sex trafficking kseup portion of the millions of documents in

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Speaker 1: the Epstein case have been released so far. The US

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court appears unlikely to allow President Trump to fire

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Speaker 1: a Federal Reserve Board governor who faces allegations of mortgage fraud.

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Speaker 2: The administration argues the president should have full power to

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Speaker 2: decide whether there's cause to fire a FED governor. In

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Speaker 2: the case of Lisa Cook, Solicitor General John Sower says

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Speaker 2: there is.

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Speaker 1: There's the appearance of having played fast and loose, or

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Speaker 1: at least been grossly negligent in getting favorable interst rates

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Speaker 1: for herself.

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Speaker 2: Cook's attorney says she made an inadvertent mistake on a

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Speaker 2: mortgage application. The Justices were skeptical of the administration's argument,

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Speaker 2: with Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh.

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Speaker 1: Warning what goes around comes around.

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Speaker 2: That is, the next president could come up with cause

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Speaker 2: to fire Trump's appointees. Stephen Portnoy ABC News.

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Speaker 1: Washington there's a push underway in Washington by House Republicans

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Speaker 1: to hold the former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary

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Speaker 1: of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress. Both of

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Speaker 1: the Clintons refused to testify about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation

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Speaker 1: before the House Oversight Committee. The chair of that committee,

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Speaker 1: James Comer, says the Clinton's responded to a subpoena with defiance.

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Speaker 1: The Clintons have said the subpoenas are invalid. Deeping an

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Speaker 1: eye on some snow that is often to the western

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Speaker 1: part of the state, but it's gonna make its way

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Speaker 1: across Central Massachusetts. May not make it far enough to

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Speaker 1: Boston to be any bother at all. There could be

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Speaker 1: a light accumulation well out in the suburbs, but even

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Speaker 1: there not a big deal. Could be a slick spot

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Speaker 1: or two where it does stick a little bit. We

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Speaker 1: will have some rain mixing in with this as well,

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Speaker 1: certainly in the warmer spots, and we'll all get warmer

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Speaker 1: as we go through the evening. Temperatures are eventually going

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Speaker 1: to rise through the thirties. Overnight Tomorrow, we're going to

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Speaker 1: land in the low to mid forties with some sunshine.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Winter's over. We're good. No. Twenty three and

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Speaker 1: mostly cloudy tomorrow night thirty one with some sun On

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Speaker 1: Friday and then Saturday and Sunday. You might be warmer

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Speaker 1: getting in the freezer. Fourteen degrees for the high temperature

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Speaker 1: both days with the real fields below zero and well

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Speaker 1: So bundle up if you're heading out more, don't head out.

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Speaker 1: It's up to you late in the day on Saturday

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Speaker 1: or Sunday, I should say late afternoon, into the evening

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Speaker 1: and into Monday. We are watching this snow storm that

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Speaker 1: could put a foot or more of snow down even

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Speaker 1: in our area. They could get a couple of feet

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Speaker 1: of snow in and around Washington, DC. This is a

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Speaker 1: nasty storm stretching all the way from out in the

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Speaker 1: Rockies all the way to the East coast. So lots

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Speaker 1: of action going on. Ice and snow and sleet, just

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Speaker 1: a mess. And we'll keep you covered here on WBC.

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Speaker 1: It's the storm unfold. It's twenty five right now in Boston. Well,

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Speaker 1: I told you it's been cold. It's going to get

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Speaker 1: colder too, and with temperatures set to drop a lot,

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Speaker 1: natural gas prices are rising a lot, about twenty percent

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Speaker 1: higher price like seth Many people thinking about heating alternatives.

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Speaker 4: Can you hear that that's the crackling of a wood

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Speaker 4: snow then potentially the sounds of some serious savings.

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Speaker 1: It's been a huge I don't burn anywhil Eric.

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Speaker 4: From Middleborough says he's never thought about heating his home

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Speaker 4: with anything but a wood stove. More and more these days,

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Speaker 4: people are getting sticker shocked from their gas or oil bills.

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Speaker 4: Even if you have electric, it's still another bill that's

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Speaker 4: going through the roof. Eric gets one delivery of wood

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Speaker 4: each year, and he's good to go.

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Speaker 1: A long truckload of would somewhere between eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Versus that monthly gas and oil delivery.

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Speaker 1: It's a good deal. You're still saving a lot.

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Speaker 4: People are certainly weighing their options. As we can see today,

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Speaker 4: our winter is only just getting started. Jim mckawb Z

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Speaker 1: Prices go up on everything, and a new report now

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Speaker 1: looks at how much people are spending on phone apps.

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Speaker 5: Slobally, people spent about eighty five billion dollars on apps

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Speaker 5: last year, a more than twenty percent increase. That's according

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Speaker 5: to app tracking firm sensor Tower, which is out with

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Speaker 5: its annual State of Mobile report. Normally, spending in apps

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Speaker 5: is concentrated in mobile gaming, but last year, for the

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Speaker 5: first time, it was overtaken by non gaming apps. Sensor

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Speaker 5: Tower says that's driven by generative AI apps, which saw

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Speaker 5: five billion dollars worth of in app purchases in twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty five. Like Debuski, ABC News.

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Speaker 1: A new study in the journal Nature suggests the amount

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Speaker 1: of microplastics in the air is lower than experts thought. Look,

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Speaker 1: there's always a fly in the ointment.

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Speaker 6: The University of Vienna researchers say an exhaustive study of

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Speaker 6: previous measurements suggests airborne concentrations of microplastics maybe one hundred

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Speaker 6: to ten thousand times lower than previously estimated. Good news, right.

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Speaker 5: For inciple, Yes, I think it is good.

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Speaker 6: You, But researcher Andrea Stoor notes microplastics continue to accumulate

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Speaker 6: on land, sea, and air, and that individual regions may

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Speaker 6: vary more widely than these latest global estimates. Vicky Parker,

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Speaker 6: CBS News.

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