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

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday already, and our back to work journey continues

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Speaker 1: this morning under cloudy skies. It's twenty seven degrees here

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Speaker 1: in Boston and a little bit of slipping and sliding

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Speaker 1: on the roadways also this morning. Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. It is six o'clock and here's what's

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Speaker 1: going on. What's up Boston, by the way, mostly cloudy today,

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Speaker 1: high thirty six. It's WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lungberg.

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Speaker 1: He makes it sound so dull, but in reality, a

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Speaker 1: winter weather advisory with freezing rain is expected overnight. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: Celtics take the Bulls by the Horn at the Garden,

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Speaker 1: Boston's fourth consecutive victory. The Celtics will host the Nuggets

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night. The Bruins wrap up a West Coast swing

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Speaker 1: tonight in Seattle with the Kraken a late night start.

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Speaker 1: Pup Drop is at ten o'clock tonight. Life in a

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn lockup continues for former Venezuelan president Nicholas Duro and

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Speaker 1: his wife after the recently toppled head of state pleads

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Speaker 1: not guilty to federal drug charges in a Manhattan court

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Speaker 1: robe and Dureau's.

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Speaker 2: Attorney calling the US rate a military abduction in claiming

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Speaker 2: because Maduro is head of a sovereign state, he is

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Speaker 2: immune from prosecution, even though more than fifty countries refused

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Speaker 2: to recognize Maduro as the legitimate president. Leaving court, Maduro

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Speaker 2: responded to a heckler, saying, I am the elected president.

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Speaker 2: I am a prisoner of war.

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Speaker 1: I will be free at his ABC's Lionel Moeese left behind.

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Speaker 1: The interim government of Venezuela warns of a looming economic

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Speaker 1: collapse fueled by a naval blockade of the nation's oil

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Speaker 1: tankers by the US, which it says is robbing the

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Speaker 1: country of at least seventy percent of its revenues and

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Speaker 1: threatening a humanitarian crisis. Three weeks after a deadly mass

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Speaker 1: shooting at Rhode Islands Brown University, all of the survivors

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Speaker 1: have now been released from the hospital, the last of

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Speaker 1: nine patients released yesterday, as the campus begins to launch

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Speaker 1: a new safety initiative. The Brown Ever True plan includes

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Speaker 1: expanded mental health support, new security measures, and a timeline

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Speaker 1: to reopen that building targeted by the gunman. In the attack.

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Speaker 1: A memorial will be held for those killed of the gunfire.

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Speaker 1: The spring semester at Brown begins on January twenty first,

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Speaker 1: All right, think about this as you untangle your half

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Speaker 1: working holiday lights and stuff them in a box.

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Speaker 2: This year, those.

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Speaker 3: Broken strings of light are still money to local zoo officials.

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Speaker 3: Zoo New England wants your damaged lights and extension cords.

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Speaker 3: They'll recycle them in an effort to save the world's lions.

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Speaker 3: The Lights for Lions Project will take your discarded lights

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Speaker 3: and sell off the medals inside to raise money for

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Speaker 3: lion conservation efforts. Drop Offs are accepted at the Franklin

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Speaker 3: Park Zoo and Stone Zoo. Last year's zoo officials recycled

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Speaker 3: fifteen hundred pounds of broken lights. JAYWILLLETTBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: This is officially the point in time where I am

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Speaker 1: done with winter. It is twenty seven degrees here in

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Speaker 1: Boston this morning, and of course, as Laurie was saying,

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Speaker 1: some icy roadways to deal with as we get out

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Speaker 1: of the box this morning. But otherwise this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a slightly better day today as we start

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Speaker 1: to see some forward progress in the temperature. Will be

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Speaker 1: above freezing for much of the day today. We're pretty

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Speaker 1: close right now in several areas twenty seven at the

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Speaker 1: moment in Boston, mid thirties for a high temperature today.

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Speaker 1: Here's the big asterisk though. A winter weather advisory kicksy

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Speaker 1: I know, kicks in overnight tonight and it extends through

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. And the reason is we've got another system

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Speaker 1: that is going to hit us mainly with freezing rain

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Speaker 1: overnight tonight, temperatures will be hovering right around the freezing area.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow we could be dealing with some ice on the

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Speaker 1: roadways as well. But tomorrow also begins a several day

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Speaker 1: stretch of a January thaw. Will be mainly in the

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Speaker 1: forties for the next couple of days, possibility of low

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Speaker 1: fifties to wind up the work week and head off

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Right now in Boston twenty seven and cloudy

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Speaker 1: skies six oh five on this Tuesday morning, sleep matters,

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Speaker 1: and as you resolve in twenty twenty six to get

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Speaker 1: more of it this year, experts say you may be

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Speaker 1: counting the wrong sheep. Wbz's Drew Muholland is here to

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Speaker 1: help us out.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Andrew, Good morning, ah, the perfect person to

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Speaker 4: talk about this.

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Speaker 2: I don't get enough of it, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: For you sleep, yeah, alright, please, I didn't even neat

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Speaker 1: that as it's overrated.

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Speaker 4: Health officials say enough sleep measured in hours is important,

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Speaker 4: but it may fall short of another measure many claim

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Speaker 4: is a key to better long term health, and that

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Speaker 4: is sticking to a strict sleep schedule. What you should

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Speaker 4: be striving for, do as I say, not as I do,

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Speaker 4: is designated lights out time and consistent wake up times

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Speaker 4: seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days

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Speaker 4: a year. Ha ha, I laugh again. Recent studies lack these

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Speaker 4: scientific proof, but it is enough to convince many doctors

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Speaker 4: that sleep patterns do indeed matter, and most Americans do not,

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Speaker 4: I repeat, do not have a consistent sleep schedule.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you that is one of the things

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Speaker 1: that I am pretty steady about. Yeah, going to bed

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Speaker 1: at the same time and waking up at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I choke about all of us not getting enough sleep,

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Speaker 4: but you're actually pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, But I still don't get enough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody really does get enough. We're constantly tired, right.

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Speaker 4: And my favorite fun fact of view is that you've

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Speaker 4: never hit the snooze.

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Speaker 1: Will never hit the snooze alarm, and now recently, for

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Speaker 1: some reason, I don't even need the alarm to wake

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Speaker 1: up at two thirty in the morning. It's ridiculous, creature

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Speaker 1: of heaven, all right, thank you, Andrew. A mystery deepens

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Speaker 1: in Wakefield this morning. Friends and family of forty five

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Speaker 1: year old Jason Thomas have no idea where he is.

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Speaker 1: They say he left his home three weeks ago, seemingly vanished.

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Speaker 1: Thomas is a scientist with drug maker Novarties, left his

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Speaker 1: cell phone and wallet at home. Those closest to him

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Speaker 1: are convinced something's wrong here. They say he's a devoted

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Speaker 1: and deeply loved husband and father. Last scene in the

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Speaker 1: corner of Murray and Chestnut Streets in Wakefield on December twelfth.

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Speaker 1: The gofund me page has been set up in hopes

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Speaker 1: of tracking him down. You are now in the loop

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