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

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Speaker 1: eyed and bushy tailed this Tuesday morning in Boston. We're

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Speaker 1: getting started under partly to mostly cloudy skies here in

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Speaker 1: the city. It is thirty three degrees. The News at

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Speaker 1: six brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer,

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Speaker 1: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. This is kind

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Speaker 1: of like football playoff weather.

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Speaker 2: It'll turn out mostly Sunday this morning, then cloud will

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Speaker 2: start to increase again this afternoon. The breeze will pick

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Speaker 2: up our high forty six.

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Speaker 1: It is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Some rain, however,

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Speaker 1: is going to move in overnight tonight, and here comes Houston.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots meet their next opponent, the Texans in the

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Speaker 1: NFL playoffs coming up Sunday afternoon in Foxborough at Gillette.

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Speaker 1: Celtics missed it by that much. Frustration over runs the

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Speaker 1: team with a two point loss to the Pacers in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Up's next the up next to Miami Heat at the

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Speaker 1: Garden on Thurdyesday night. Bruins will host the Red Wings tonight. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of like hitting the lottery. But you're

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Speaker 1: telling me there's a chance. WBC's Drew m'holland with thoughts

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Speaker 1: of summer creeping in. Good morning. Andrew feels good, doesn't it?

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Jeffrey, Final day to win big in score

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Speaker 3: a FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament ticket for this summer.

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Speaker 3: Fans have until eleven this morning to enter.

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Speaker 1: Us.

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Speaker 3: You know, the soccer announcers, they really have it down

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Speaker 3: pretty good, don't It's very excited live for those moments.

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Speaker 3: It's been a bit of a mystery about the process

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Speaker 3: with the tickets, but several matches are scheduled for Fowkexborough

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Speaker 3: and the World Cup named Boston Stadium.

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Speaker 2: It's all going to begin in June.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't really flow off the tongue, but we're going

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Speaker 1: to need to get used to it, all right, Drew.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. The future of a long shuttered hospital, Norwood Hospital,

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Speaker 1: may soon be in the hands of the state.

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Speaker 4: A couple of Beacon Hill lawmakers file a bill that

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Speaker 4: would allow the Commonwealth to seize the property under eminent

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Speaker 4: don't in an effort to speed the process along to

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Speaker 4: find a buyer to put that hospital back on the map.

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Speaker 4: This is sort of a last ditch effort negotiations between

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Speaker 4: the site's owner and several unnamed parties continue. Destroyed by

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Speaker 4: a flood from a massive storm more than five years ago.

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Speaker 4: This is Massachusetts' final ties to bankrupt Stewart Healthcare. Jay Willett,

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Speaker 4: WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Millions of Americans are being given medications for dementia that

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Speaker 1: experts say shouldn't be prescribed. A new report shows that

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Speaker 1: one in four dementia patients with Medicare health coverage are

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Speaker 1: getting the harmful drugs. UCLA researchers find that many dementia

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Speaker 1: patients are being given antidepressants linked to falls, confusion, and

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Speaker 1: hospital stays, and now these researchers are putting it on

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Speaker 1: the doctors to find alternative and safer treatments. An annual

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Speaker 1: survey finds Massachusetts again near the top of the list

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Speaker 1: for those who think the grass is greener on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the fence. Commonwealth is top ten, number

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Speaker 1: seven in fact, on United van Lines top destinations list

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Speaker 1: for disgruntled Americans. The moving company says more than half

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Speaker 1: its business last year was for those who wanted out

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Speaker 1: of Massachusetts, outpacing newcomers to the state. Only five other

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Speaker 1: states in the nation with a higher hit the road

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Speaker 1: mentality in twenty twenty five. This Tuesday morning in Boston

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Speaker 1: under partly cloudy skies. It's thirty three here in the city.

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Speaker 1: The winds have calmed down considerably since yesterday, and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: or fortunately depending on how you want to look at it,

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Speaker 1: today is going to be the pick of the week,

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Speaker 1: and being Tuesday, that of course doesn't say so much

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Speaker 1: for the week's standards coming up. But we will see

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Speaker 1: some morning sunshine today, followed by clouds this afternoon, and

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Speaker 1: the pick of the week actually contained some rain. It's

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Speaker 1: the way these things work winter in Greater Boston, rain

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Speaker 1: likely after sunset and overnight tonight here in the city. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: daytime eyes will be in the mid forty so our

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Speaker 1: January thaw continues and rain will continue overnight tonight and

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Speaker 1: into much of the day. Wednesday, which tomorrow, features mostly

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Speaker 1: cloudy skies but hies right around fifty. Thursday continued warm

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Speaker 1: some snowshowers some areas in this region. We'll see a

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Speaker 1: temperature drop during the day and that could make for

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Speaker 1: some dicey travel late in the day on Thursday. Right

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Speaker 1: now in Boston, it's thirty three partly cloudy here in

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Speaker 1: the city, six oh five this Tuesday morning, a little

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Speaker 1: more than a week after holiday break. If you're anything

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Speaker 1: like me, you kind of need a vacation all over again.

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Speaker 2: It is National Shop for Travel Day the second Tuesday

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Speaker 2: of January. That encourages you to start getting all your

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Speaker 2: ducks in a row now for trips later. Busy travel

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Speaker 2: year for us. That's Matt from Boston, who is well

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Speaker 2: into organizing his upcoming travel plans.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm getting married in May, so thank you. So

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Speaker 5: we're planning our honeymoon, trying to go to Japan probably

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Speaker 5: in June, and then I'm going on a trip with

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Speaker 5: my in laws in in December of next year. Actually

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Speaker 5: it was just a Christmas present, and we're going to

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Speaker 5: be going to New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Those are some pretty long flights which will be here

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Speaker 2: before he knows it.

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Speaker 5: You could say that I'm starting to feel that pressure.

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Speaker 2: At Logan James Rojas WBZ Boston'snoos Radio, President.

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Speaker 1: Trump calls, but Senator Elizabeth Warren almost doesn't pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone, saying she didn't recognize the number. Hours after

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Speaker 1: slamming the President in a speech and in a TV

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Speaker 1: news interview, Senator Warren talks to the President about lowering

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Speaker 1: costs and affordability. No details about the conversation, even the

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Speaker 1: length of the call, have been released, but White House

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Speaker 1: officials say that discussion was productive. Senator Warren does say

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Speaker 1: that if the President is serious about lowering costs, he

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Speaker 1: would do well to get on board with her support

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Speaker 1: for lowering credit card rates and ways to make housing

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Speaker 1: in America more affordable as well. New report this morning

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Speaker 1: indicates the United States military used an aircraft designed and

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Speaker 1: disguised to look like a billion plane to take out

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Speaker 1: suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean during a September attack

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Speaker 1: that left eleven dead. Military and league analysts say this

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Speaker 1: has the makings of a war crime, even as the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration maintains its position that the military is in

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Speaker 1: an armed conflict with drug cartels. So far, it's been

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Speaker 1: crickets from a former president in Washington. In the silence

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Speaker 1: about Bill Clinton's expected testimony to a House committee looking

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Speaker 1: at the Jeffrey Epstein affair could wind up with contempt

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Speaker 1: of Congress charges. The former president has been tied to

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Speaker 1: Epstein with photos and information in the court ordered document dump.

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Speaker 1: He has been subpoenaed to appear today former Senator Hillary

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Speaker 1: Clinton tomorrow. Neither have indicated if they will show up

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Speaker 1: or not, and a new poll this morning indicates Americans

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Speaker 1: have had it up to here with Washington politics.

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Speaker 6: A Gallup poll finds just under half of US adults

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Speaker 6: now identify as independent. Twenty years ago, just a third

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Speaker 6: of Americans believe that way, but now more Americans appear

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Speaker 6: to be unhappy with both political parties. Gallups analysis found

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Speaker 6: that could help the Democrats in the midterms because more

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Speaker 6: independence lean that way, but that may not be long lasting.

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Speaker 6: The independence attitudes toward that party haven't gotten any warmer.

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Speaker 1: CBS's Cammy McCormick age is a big factor as well.

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Speaker 1: More than half of Gen Z and millennials identify as independents,

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Speaker 1: while a majority of older generations do side with the

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Speaker 1: traditional Republican or Democratic party. You are now in the loop.

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