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

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Speaker 1: party people. It is six o'clock and a Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: Get in here, you little devil Friday. You've been away

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Speaker 1: for too long. Let's hug it out. It is a

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Speaker 1: long holiday weekend for a lot of us, and we're

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Speaker 1: getting started with the shivers this morning. It's forty two

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Speaker 1: in Boston. We've seen some readings in the twenties as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown. As we try to shake the frost,

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Speaker 2: say mostly Sunday with cool breeze. I sixty one. That

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Speaker 2: is WBZ Achu with a meteorologist Joe Lundberg. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be a nice start to the holiday weekend. However,

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Speaker 2: not a nice finish happening right now.

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Speaker 1: The Nobel Peace Prize goes to a Venezuelan opposition leader.

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Speaker 1: Activist Maria Coorina Machado wins for being a unifying figure

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Speaker 1: in that nation's presidential politics, or move meant ultimately found

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Speaker 1: common ground for free elections and democracy. President Trump had

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Speaker 1: lobbied hard for the Peace Prize and was nominated several times,

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Speaker 1: most notably by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo. And it

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Speaker 1: was eleven years ago today that seventeen year old Malala

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Speaker 1: Yusufsi becomes the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Speaker 1: She found out during high school physics and after getting

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Speaker 1: the call, went right back to class. Its government shutdown

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Speaker 1: day number ten, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill once again

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Speaker 1: failed to break the stalemate in a seventh bid to

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Speaker 1: end it. Now they break for the holiday weekend, which

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Speaker 1: all but ensures the stoppage will extend into a third week. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: Senators pass a nearly trillion dollar defense spending bill in

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Speaker 1: bipartisan fashion. The measure provides new weapons and an annual

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Speaker 1: pay raise to the troops. It's off to the house next.

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Speaker 1: The biggest fan of Chicago's Loyola Ramblers Final four college

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Speaker 1: basketball Cinderella team, sister Jean, has died, the team chap

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Speaker 1: and just retired for health reasons after serving more than

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Speaker 1: sixty years at the school. She became a viral sensation

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Speaker 1: during the ramblers unexpected run in college basketball's March Madness

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Speaker 1: Tournament in twenty eighteen. Sister Jean stepped down in August,

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Speaker 1: but remained an advisor. Sister Jean Delora Schmidt was one

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Speaker 1: hundred and six. Talk of the Bruins demise has been

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Speaker 1: greatly exaggerated. The Bees are off to a two and

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Speaker 1: zero start after an overtime win beating Chicago at the Garden.

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Speaker 1: What's up with this? The lowly Giants beat the defending

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Eagles on Thursday Night football and baseball.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers walk off the Phillies and extra innings, while

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Speaker 1: the Cubs force a winner take all Game five with

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers and a barnstorming baseball team says save

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Speaker 1: the date.

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Speaker 3: The Savannah Bananas sold out Famway three times in the

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Speaker 3: last two years, so now it's time for an upgrade

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Speaker 3: Gillette Stadium. They'll play two games here in Foxborough is

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Speaker 3: part of their twenty twenty six Banana Ball Tour, which

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Speaker 3: is far from your average baseball game, with some players

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Speaker 3: doing backflips as they can catch pop flies and others

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Speaker 3: stepping up to the playton stilts. Does it really matter

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Speaker 3: if you're playing on a baseball field? They don't seem

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Speaker 3: to think so. Fans looking to attend can enter the

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Speaker 3: Banana Ball ticket lottery through the end of the month

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Speaker 3: and they'll take the field here in Foxboro on August

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Speaker 3: twenty eighth and twenty ninth. From outside the stadium, I'm

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Speaker 3: Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 1: All things considered, here in Boston this morning, it's not

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Speaker 1: all that bad. It is forty two degrees here in

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Speaker 1: the city. However, this is the coldest air that we've

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Speaker 1: experienced in many areas since April of this year. We've

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Speaker 1: got a number of twenties on the board. We've seen

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Speaker 1: the lowest in the Greater Boston area and the Metro

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Speaker 1: West region of Acton at about twenty seven this morning,

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Speaker 1: but air portions out in western mass That are even

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Speaker 1: colder than that. So this means that the frost advisory,

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Speaker 1: which might impact your golf game. If you're taking a

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Speaker 1: four day weekend and getting an early round this morning,

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Speaker 1: it might be a little bit later today. Frost advisories

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Speaker 1: remained in effect until nine o'clock this morning near the coast,

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Speaker 1: and the coastal flood watch has expected this weekend. More

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Speaker 1: on that in a moment, but in the meantime, it's

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Speaker 1: clear skies, very cold air this morning. We'll rebound nicely

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Speaker 1: today into the lower sixties, mainly clear, not as cold.

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Speaker 1: Tonight will drop to about fifty and then tomorrow some

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Speaker 1: sunshine begins, followed by increasing cloudiness. And unfortunately that's a

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Speaker 1: sign of things to come, because on Sunday and Monday

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Speaker 1: this week, a coastal storm which threatens to develop into

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Speaker 1: a northeaster, will deliver some high winds and heavy rain,

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Speaker 1: hence the flood advisories coming up for the latter part

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Speaker 1: of the weekend. Right now in Boston, it's forty two

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Speaker 1: here in the city, much colder elsewhere. At six oh

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Speaker 1: six this Friday morning, on the cusp of a holiday weekend,

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Speaker 1: it's time maybe to reboot the mind. Many of us

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Speaker 1: have those days that just feel like a grind and

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Speaker 1: take its mental toll. So on World Mental Health Day,

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Speaker 1: it's a good reminder to focus on the things that

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Speaker 1: keep our emotional well being in check.

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Speaker 4: It's definitely coffee coffee. In trying to find hobbies to

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Speaker 4: keep my self amuse hobby hobby, I play a lot

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Speaker 4: of disc golf. Talking yourself's the best thing I think.

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Speaker 4: So do you have to chalk use.

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Speaker 5: Out all the time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good. And you know, I w with

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Speaker 4: all men. So that's why mental health over there, you.

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Speaker 5: Know today is also a day to break the stigma

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Speaker 5: around mental health issues. Meanwhile, Matt over here thinks one

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Speaker 5: mental health day isn't enough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you should be born today. How should

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Speaker 4: be a week or a month?

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Speaker 5: In Medford? James Rojas w b Z bosson Snooze Radio.

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Speaker 1: Despite threats from the President that backpay for furloughed government

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Speaker 1: employees is not guaranteed, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says,

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Speaker 1: of course it is. Johnson says Congress will ensure that

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Speaker 1: when the shutdown is over, hundreds of thousands of employees

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Speaker 1: will get what's coming to them. Meantime, flight delays build

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Speaker 1: at airports across the country. Is more unpaid air traffic

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Speaker 1: controllers call out sick. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says, if

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Speaker 1: these workers don't want to work, they'll be fired. The

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Speaker 1: Make America Great movement is so ticked off by bad

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Speaker 1: bunnies upcoming performance at the Super Bowl, Turning Point USA

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Speaker 1: will stage its own show. The right wing movement, founded

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Speaker 1: by the late Charlie Kirk will hold its own all

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Speaker 1: American halftime show during the Big Game on February eighth

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Speaker 1: that will celebrate faith, family, and freedom. Bad Money comes

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Speaker 1: under fire for accepting the invite, even though he left

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Speaker 1: US stops off the list of his world tour due

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Speaker 1: to concerns that immigration officials would be trolling as fans.

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Speaker 1: I says it will be there for the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco this winter final weekend, last call for

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Speaker 1: the oldest fair in the US, The tops Field Fair,

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Speaker 1: wraps up its two hundred and seventh run. Wbz's Drew mo'hollands,

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Speaker 1: Have you been yet to the fair?

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Speaker 6: On my weekend plans?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Okay, I tend to wait till the During the coastal storm,

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Speaker 6: I would imagine, have you been you entray?

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Speaker 1: I did? I was there for the hot dog eating

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Speaker 1: contest a week ago. It was absolutely packed, very popular, right,

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Speaker 6: The ten day fall tradition has felt like summer for

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Speaker 6: much of the time. But yeah, this nor'easter barges in

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Speaker 6: likely to put a damper on the final couple days.

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Speaker 6: This year's festivities feature a record setting great pumpkin, the

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Speaker 6: first ever grown that weighs more than one ton. Free

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Speaker 6: performances by Frankie Avalon and country great Sammy Kershaw also

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Speaker 6: on the bill. The fair is going to wrap up Monday, Jeffrey.

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Speaker 6: The hope is when it's all said and done, half

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Speaker 6: a million will be able to say I was there

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Speaker 6: at the fair, the tops Field Fairy.

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Speaker 1: That's just you know, it's a bittersweet time. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to an end. It's over in a flash.

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Speaker 5: Well said.

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