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Speaker 1: This is w BZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news,

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Speaker 1: four o'clock and it is a damp forty four degrees

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Speaker 1: in Boston right now. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kendall Bull. Always starts on some very busy roads.

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Speaker 1: There's millions of people head home from their Thanksgiving trips.

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Speaker 1: WBC's Kyle Bray jacks in from a rest stop on

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Speaker 1: the Pike.

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Speaker 2: The early bird gets the worm, and the early riser

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Speaker 2: beats the traffic on one of the busiest travel days of

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Speaker 2: the year. John is heading home to Medford from Springfield,

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Speaker 2: but he's not taking any chances.

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Speaker 3: We got up early so that we could beat the

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Speaker 3: traffic because we figured they'd be traffic later today and

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Speaker 3: been a smooth drive ever since.

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Speaker 4: So this morning.

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Speaker 2: So you think you made the right call.

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Speaker 1: I think so.

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Speaker 2: My wife made the call.

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Speaker 3: I just follow instructions.

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Speaker 2: Bill has been on the road since four in the

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Speaker 2: morning as he drives his daughter back to college from

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Speaker 2: New Jersey.

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Speaker 5: I don't mind the trip, you know, I get to

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Speaker 5: hang out with her.

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Speaker 2: The worst time travel today is well pretty much all day.

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Speaker 2: Drivers should expect heavy traffic all the way through the

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Speaker 2: evening hours. On major highways. But how do people keep

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Speaker 2: themselves sane when they're stuck in traffic?

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Speaker 4: My dog, you know, keep my company, you know, because

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Speaker 4: some sign kind to buy it.

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Speaker 6: Sawts That's why I saw it so right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's Christmas time, so it's good to listen

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Speaker 1: to some Christmas music.

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Speaker 2: It's too bad, I'll stop in the rest area or

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Speaker 2: something like that and just let it die down. I'm

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Speaker 2: never in a rush. From Natick Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 2: news radio.

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Speaker 1: Those travels have not been made any easier by Mother Nature.

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Speaker 1: Winter weather causing delays on highways and at airports. ABC's

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Speaker 1: Morgan Norwood's at Newark Airport in Jersey.

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Speaker 6: Chicago walloped, more than one thousand flights canceled and hundreds

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Speaker 6: more delayed. At O'Hare during the height of the storm,

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Speaker 6: the Felt family from New Orleans stranded for nearly twelve hours.

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Speaker 5: So we've been getting one hour increment delays.

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Speaker 6: Snowcovered tarmacs and icy planes. Crew scrambling to keep up.

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Speaker 7: I'm in the machine right now, getting the snow, putting

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Speaker 7: it down, laying it down, trying to keep you all sick.

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Speaker 6: That storm system stretching from the plains to the Great Lakes.

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Speaker 6: Eight inches in Rochester, Minnesota, lake effect band slamming the region.

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Speaker 1: Checking the numbers the logan, there are more than two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty delays over sixty canceled flights, according to

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Speaker 1: flight Aware. Very high speed chase nine ninety five this

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Speaker 1: morning started near Exit seventeen, sharing with state police stopping

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Speaker 1: a car with bullet holes in one of the doors

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Speaker 1: and learning the driver head and outstanding warrants. The driver

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Speaker 1: then fled its speeds in excess of one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: an hour. At one point that vehicle lost a tire

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Speaker 1: but was still able to go a bit further until crashing.

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Speaker 1: The unidentified suspect was taken into custody and to South

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Speaker 1: Shore Hospital for an evaluation. We're gonna see tampatures drop

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Speaker 1: down into the upper thirties overnights with the skies is

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Speaker 1: starting to clear. We will get some sunshine tomorrow before

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Speaker 1: the clouds rolled back in, Temperatures peaking in the low forties,

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Speaker 1: and then we've got a well winter storm coming our

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Speaker 1: way on Tuesday. Not much in the city or the

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Speaker 1: south for that matter, maybe some slashing coating an inch

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Speaker 1: in the city about one to three inches nearby to

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Speaker 1: the northwest, and then you get outside of four ninety

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Speaker 1: five and you could see up to six inches. Right

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Speaker 1: now in Boston, it is a gray and damp forty

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Speaker 1: five degrees Dancer, Prancer and the rest set this one

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Speaker 1: out to Santa Claus flew into Boston COmON to kickoff

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Speaker 1: the holiday season. Today. Wz's Kyle Shaffle was there.

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Speaker 3: The sleigh is in dry Dog. The rangeer are on vacation,

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Speaker 3: so Santa's ride looks a little unorthodox. Boston Nedflight has

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Speaker 3: been doing their Santa flying with a helicopter for decades.

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Speaker 3: These days they land on Boston Common.

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Speaker 7: Today is my favorite day of the year. We are

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Speaker 7: just out here to celebrate health and happiness, and it's

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Speaker 7: the best day of the year.

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Speaker 3: Christine Mazowski's a critical care nurse who started the tradition

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Speaker 3: twenty three years ago to do something nice for the

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Speaker 3: localist and is also with Boston Met Fight and says

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Speaker 3: the crew here, caught up with life and death every day,

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Speaker 3: appreciates the chance to cut loose a little.

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Speaker 2: And their work is so serious all the time, they

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Speaker 2: get to have a little bit more fun.

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Speaker 3: Judging by the size of the crowd. Santa is well received.

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Speaker 4: Santa Claus coming out of a helicopter like bric Flair,

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Speaker 4: It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: Kyle straffled to be busy, Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 1: The City of Boston is hosting the annual Copley Square

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Speaker 1: Tree Lighting tomorrow from four to six, marking not just

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Speaker 1: the start of the holiday season, but also the grand

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Speaker 1: reopening of the newly renovated Copley Square Park. Visitors can

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Speaker 1: enjoy live music performances, holiday arts and crafts, and a

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Speaker 1: visit from Santa Claus and Rudolph. Later this week, the

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Speaker 1: city will celebrate the lighting of Boston's official twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five Christmas Tree. Heading our way right now from Nova

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Speaker 1: Scotia that will be on the common. President Trump says

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Speaker 1: the airspace over Venezuela is closed due to drug trafficking.

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Speaker 4: In a social media post Saturday, President Trump issued a

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Speaker 4: message to all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers

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Speaker 4: please consider, He writes the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela

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Speaker 4: to be closed in its entirety. In remarks to military

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Speaker 4: personnel on Thanksgiving, the President said the US will take

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Speaker 4: action on land very soon. In Venezuela to deter drug traffickers.

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Speaker 4: The US has built up a large military force in

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Speaker 4: the region amid growing tensions, including fighter jets and a

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Speaker 4: Navy aircraft carrier strike group. I'm Scott Carr in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseith is accusing the Washington Posts

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Speaker 1: of derogatory reporting against the military. In a recent report,

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Speaker 1: the Post cited sources said Hexath ordered US forces to

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Speaker 1: kill survivors of a strike on an alleged drug vote

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Speaker 1: in the Caribbean. Democrats and some Republicans accused Exeth of

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Speaker 1: giving an order that counters international laws of war. On

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Speaker 1: ABC's This Week, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam defended the

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Speaker 1: administration's aerial attacks.

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Speaker 5: I would not put any credibility to that story, to

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Speaker 5: what was said. I have full faith and trust in

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Speaker 5: this president and in this government to do the right

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Speaker 5: thing to keep the American people safe, and I'm so

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Speaker 5: grateful at the amount of work that has been done

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Speaker 5: to stop those deadly drugs from getting into our country.

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Speaker 1: Leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee issued to a

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Speaker 1: joint statement yesterday vowing to conduct vigorous oversight on the strikes.

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Speaker 1: Following that, Washington Post reports stabbing and Lawrence under investigation today.

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Speaker 1: Police said this morning that's the stabbing took place in

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Speaker 1: the area of South Union and Kent Streets. The victim

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Speaker 1: taken to the hospital is expected to survive. No other

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