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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hello Friday,

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Speaker 1: a little devil, get in here. Let's hug it out

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Speaker 1: once again. Where your pen. It is six o'clock on

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Speaker 1: this Friday morning, parkly to mostly cloudy skies, fifty four

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Speaker 1: has 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 today.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. Let's all follow the bouncing weather balls.

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Speaker 1: Shall we?

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Speaker 2: Breezy and turning much cooler today with clouds and some

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Speaker 2: sun at times, temperatures mainly in the forties.

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Speaker 1: Is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. A bright but

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Speaker 1: cold start to the weekend coming up, and we also

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Speaker 1: cannot rule out the possibility of seeing some snowflakes on

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Speaker 1: the way and almost all night are on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: Produces the first payday in a month for TSA workers.

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Speaker 2: Those flying in and out of Logan have been experiencing

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Speaker 2: less figurative turbulence when it comes to TSA checkpoints compared

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Speaker 2: to other airports, but well, folks here at Terminal A

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Speaker 2: are happy to hear TSA officers still on the job

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Speaker 2: may be getting paid soon. I was concerned coming in.

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Speaker 2: I came from Florida.

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Speaker 3: I didn't experience anything in.

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Speaker 1: The airport down there, and when I came here.

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Speaker 2: It seemed fine. However, I'm a little surprised at how

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Speaker 2: busy it is this early this morning. Some have been

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Speaker 2: less concerned about disruptions to their own flight and more

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Speaker 2: concern for TSA officers. You know, it's a bit of

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Speaker 2: a struggle for us as travelers, but I'm sure it's

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Speaker 2: worse a struggle for them as people trying to feed

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Speaker 2: their families, pay their bills. So I'm glad to hear

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Speaker 2: that something's finally getting done, he logan James throwhas wb Z,

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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the funding deal passes the Senate around two

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Speaker 1: o'clock this morning. It will end the partial government shutdown. However,

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Speaker 1: the House of Representatives needs to pass it before it

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Speaker 1: ultimately reaches the President's desk. The White House continues to

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Speaker 1: push Iran towards a diplomatic solution to the fighting in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East. Well despite that, the Pentagon is considering

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Speaker 1: sending ten thousand additional troops to the region. In the

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Speaker 1: coming days. This is the latest signal that the White

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Speaker 1: House is also getting serious about the possibility of sending

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Speaker 1: in ground troops. President Trump says the US is talking

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Speaker 1: to Iran, though publicly at least officials in Iran will

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Speaker 1: not acknowledge that any negotiations are taking place. Living the

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Speaker 1: life in Boston apparently comes at a pretty steep cost.

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Speaker 1: The body bzys Drew muholland is here to break it

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Speaker 1: down for us. Good morning, Andrew, Morning Jeff.

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Speaker 4: No surprise here right in new survey fines it is

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Speaker 4: expensive to live here, but a local single can make

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Speaker 4: it look easy with one hundred and forty thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: a year paycheck, well, you know, somewhat easy. That's about

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Speaker 4: six grand more than a similar survey from last year.

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Speaker 4: For families, it may be amounted too high. A combined

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Speaker 4: salary of close to three hundred and seventy thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: help support two kids in a lifestyle. Boston's money, Jeff marks,

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Speaker 4: are the sixth most expensive in the nation. New York

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Speaker 4: City is the most expensive. Probably not a surprise there either.

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Speaker 4: It is dirt cheap San Antonio, that's where you want

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Speaker 4: to go there.

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Speaker 1: It is affordable living, all right, one for a single person.

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Speaker 2: That's the number.

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Speaker 1: Believable. Got to get to that all right, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Nice starts fly ball off the end of the bat.

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Speaker 2: That should do it. Anthony is there and the Red

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Speaker 2: Sox take opening day in Cincinnati ball game.

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Speaker 1: The call on Nessen Red Sox get a much deserved

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Speaker 1: day off following the win against the Reds. Two teams

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Speaker 1: will meet again tomorrow afternoon. Celtics Hawks at the Garden. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: the Bruins are off until tomorrow and college Hockeys road

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Speaker 1: to the Frozen Four. It's one and done for the

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Speaker 1: Merrimack Warriors. They lose and the open to North Dakota.

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Speaker 1: Bentley gets number one. Michigan coming up this afternoon. Decent

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Speaker 1: looking morning here in Boston. We do have some showers

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Speaker 1: moving through the area fifty four right now, under partly

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Speaker 1: to mostly cloudy skies here in the city. Unfortunately, it

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Speaker 1: looks like we'll see just a little bit of sun

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Speaker 1: from time to time today as temperatures are actually going

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Speaker 1: to fall. These are more than likely the high temperatures

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Speaker 1: of the day, as we'll settle in the mid forties

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. A cold front is going to be rushing

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Speaker 1: through and overnight tonight we'll feel it too, with lows

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Speaker 1: dropping into the twenties Tomorrow, despite a return of full sunshine,

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Speaker 1: and there will be some communities along the shoreline that

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Speaker 1: will need to deal with some ocean effect snow throughout

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Speaker 1: the day Tomorrow. It's slightly milder on Sunday, as we

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Speaker 1: finished the weekend under sunny skies with highs around fifty.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back in business on Monday, wouldn't you know it,

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Speaker 1: Right back to work and back to sixty degree temperatures

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Speaker 1: by then. Right now it's fifty four and under some

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Speaker 1: clouds here in Boston at six oh five on this

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Speaker 1: Friday morning. A big victory in court, but a former

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Speaker 1: North Andover police officer says her fight is nowhere near done.

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Speaker 3: Kelsey Fitzimmons beams as she walks out of court a

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Speaker 3: free woman, and my.

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Speaker 2: Verdict is and must be not guilty.

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Speaker 3: After just three hours of deliberation, a single judge found

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Speaker 3: the North Endover police officer not guilty of assault with

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Speaker 3: a dangerous weapon. He said prosecutors failed to prove that

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Speaker 3: Fitzimmons pulled her gun on fellow officer Pat Noonan back

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Speaker 3: in June, as officer served her with a restraining order

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Speaker 3: from her ex and took her four month old sons.

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Speaker 1: CBS News Boston's Christina Rex Fitzimmons says her attention now

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Speaker 1: turns to a reunion with her son. A Massachusetts State

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Speaker 1: Police sergeant has been indicted on drunken driving charges following

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Speaker 1: a head on collision in Lynn in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Forty one year old Sergeant Scott Quigley of Wooburn received

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Speaker 1: only a moving violation at the time following the incident,

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Speaker 1: as fellow troopers tried to bury the case, but a

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Speaker 1: recent investigation by The Boston Herald reveals there was likely

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Speaker 1: more to this story. Quickly faces motor vehicle homicide charges

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Speaker 1: as state police promise a full investigation. As the late

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Speaker 1: Great Yogi Barrow once said, when you come to a

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Speaker 1: fork in the road, take it. The bidding begins for

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Speaker 1: the massive projects to replace and rebuild the bridges to

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Speaker 5: Ass Dodd wants to hear from those interested firms on

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Speaker 5: design and construction before the official bidding process begins to

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Speaker 5: replace the Sagamore and Borne bridges, which are nearly one

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Speaker 5: hundred years old and will be completely torn down with

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Speaker 5: the new modern structures set to replace them. The long discussed,

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Speaker 5: long planned project as entering the official planning stages, and

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Speaker 5: those letters of interest are due on the desk of

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Speaker 5: mass Dot by noon on May twenty seventh. They're hoping

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Speaker 5: to pick a designed build team by late next year,

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Speaker 5: with construction immediately following. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News Radio

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Speaker 5: and this morning we learn that.

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Speaker 1: It takes a village even in the ocean.

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Speaker 6: It's not just a trend among us humans. Mama whales

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Speaker 6: like a lot of help when they give birth. To

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Speaker 6: an analysis of two studies published in the journal's Science

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Speaker 6: and Scientific Reports documents researchers who witnessed a group of

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Speaker 6: ten sperm whales huddled together at the surface of the ocean,

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Speaker 6: protecting another for about an hour as it thrashed and

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Speaker 6: splashed and eventually sent up a plume of red water. Soon,

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Speaker 6: they lifted a twelve much smaller whale a baby, to

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Speaker 6: the top so it could breathe. Lead author says the

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Speaker 6: scientists determined half of the helpers weren't related to the

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Speaker 6: more confirming what we all know, being a parent takes

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Speaker 6: a village. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.

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