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

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Speaker 2: News, twenty nine degrees and partly Sonny in Boston at

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Kyle Bray. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us, and here's what's happening. The countdown to midnight

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Speaker 2: and the new year is on. What are your plans

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Speaker 2: for the big night?

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Speaker 3: There's no rough way to ring in the new year,

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Speaker 3: whether it's hitting up local bars and nightclubs or just

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Speaker 3: keeping it simple.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow, May spends out with my family right head too, family,

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Speaker 4: family bro just head man, softly diner.

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Speaker 3: I'll probably hang out with some friends.

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Speaker 5: Most likely I will be a prisoner at my mom's

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Speaker 5: house and then I'll be free by twelve o one.

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Speaker 3: For those not held captive and are running loose out

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Speaker 3: on the town and getting home safe at the end

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Speaker 3: of the night is a top priority.

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Speaker 4: And make sure you take care of yourself, you know,

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Speaker 4: make sure you got you got a family will go

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Speaker 4: home too.

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Speaker 3: The MVTA will be fair free after eight pm for

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Speaker 3: the Tea, Fairy Bus and Rights and the Commuter Rail

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Speaker 3: will also be free for trains that arrive or depart

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Speaker 3: from North and South stations in Chinatown. James Rojas w

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Speaker 3: b Z Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Patriots wide receiver Stefan Diggs is in some hot water

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Speaker 2: as he's facing strangulation and assault charges. A woman claims

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Speaker 2: the NFL star slapped and tried to strangle her. ABC's

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Speaker 2: Hannah Battah.

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Speaker 6: With more authorities now pursuing felony strangulation or suffocation and

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Speaker 6: misdemeanor assault in battery charges. His attorney says Diggs categorically

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Speaker 6: denies these allegations because they did not occur, and he

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Speaker 6: looks forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.

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Speaker 6: The Patriots, who signed Digs to a three year, sixty

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Speaker 6: nine million dollar contract, saying we support Steffon and will

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Speaker 6: cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities and the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Patriots head coach Mike vrabel Is said to speak to

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Speaker 2: media later this afternoon. We'll bring you the latest when

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Speaker 2: it becomes available. A Methuin man is ordered held after

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Speaker 2: being a rank for the murder of his mother. Anthony

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Speaker 2: Nunia's Romano is charged with killing Dominga Romano in their

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Speaker 2: home on Wendale Avenue. CBS News Boston's Penny commit with.

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Speaker 7: More officer say a close friend requested the original welfare

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Speaker 7: check after communication with Dominga abruptly stopped at eight am,

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Speaker 7: the day before her body was found.

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Speaker 5: Officers immediately observed science consistent with ridor Mortis fingered that

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Speaker 5: the admin area appeared to have some sort of bandaging

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Speaker 5: applied to it, and she was pronounced to ceased at

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Speaker 5: that time.

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Speaker 3: That's what I want, life and do.

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Speaker 7: Diminga's family appeared devastated inside the courtroom. Interviews with loved

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Speaker 7: ones outlined in court paperwork states Diminga seemed scared of

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Speaker 7: her son and that he had a history of delinquent

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Speaker 7: behavior and was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia and autism. I

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Speaker 7: was able to speak with the son of Dominga's friend

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Speaker 7: who originally called in that welfare check. He said what

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Speaker 7: his mother would like everyone to know about Dominga was

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Speaker 7: that she was loving, she was happy, and she was

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Speaker 7: always trying to help people.

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Speaker 2: Nuniez Romano is due back in court in late February.

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Speaker 2: It's time now for the four d a WBZ achu weather forecast.

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Speaker 2: Should have intervals of clouds and sun today and will

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Speaker 2: be breezy with a high of thirty four tonight. As

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Speaker 2: we ring in the New Year will be cloudy with

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Speaker 2: periods of snow overnight. That snow can accumulate a coating

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Speaker 2: to an inch, with one to three inches towards the

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Speaker 2: Cape and Islands will have a low of twenty seven. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: New Year's Day, for the first day of the new year,

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Speaker 2: will be cloudy to start with a couple lingering snow

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Speaker 2: showers around. It will be mainly towards the South Coast

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Speaker 2: and the Cape and Islands. For those snow showers, We'll

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Speaker 2: see increasing wind later on in the day with clouds

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Speaker 2: giving way to sunshine. We'll have a high of thirty

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Speaker 2: one early, then tames will fall to the mid twenties.

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Speaker 2: Those real field temes will tumble once again, back down

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Speaker 2: to these single digits. Friday will have more sun than clouds.

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Speaker 2: It'll be breezy with a high of twenty eight. Saturday,

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Speaker 2: sun mixing with clouds will have a high of thirty

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Speaker 2: and looking ahead, it will be partly sunny on Saturday

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Speaker 2: with a high near thirty. Right now in Boston it

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Speaker 2: is partly sunny twenty nine degrees with a real feel

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Speaker 2: of fifteen. The Justice Department has another five point two

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Speaker 2: million pages of Epstein files to review. CBS's Michael Wallace

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Speaker 2: has more.

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Speaker 8: Sources tell The New York Times the Department is looking

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Speaker 8: to enlist about four hundred lawyers to help sift through

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Speaker 8: all the documents. Since late November, two hundred lawyers from

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Speaker 8: the National Security Division have been reviewing the files and

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Speaker 8: redacting any information about Epstein's victims or anything that would

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Speaker 8: compromise continuing investigations or national security.

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Speaker 2: The review is expected to take until January twentieth. Congress

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Speaker 2: had required the Justice Department to release all as Epstein's

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Speaker 2: files by December nineteenth. More questions that could be on

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Speaker 2: next year's ballot have been certified by the Secretary of

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Speaker 2: State Bill Galvin's office, brings the total to nine so far,

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Speaker 2: with two more still to be processed by the January

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Speaker 2: seventh deadline.

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Speaker 3: It looks at this point it's going to be a

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Speaker 3: very full ballot in twenty twenty six, with many questions

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Speaker 3: before the voters.

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Speaker 7: Unless the legislature takes action.

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Speaker 2: If lawmaker's voter a particular question themselves, it will not

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Speaker 2: appear on the ballot. The oldest living cat just celebrated

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Speaker 2: another birthday.

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Speaker 9: Flossi the cat just turned thirty. That's like one hundred

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Speaker 9: and thirty six in human years. The rescue cat from

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Speaker 9: England is the world's longest living feeline right now, extending

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Speaker 9: her Guinness World record. Despite her advanced age, Flossi is

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Speaker 9: not the oldest cat ever. That title goes to a

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Speaker 9: tabby from Texas named cream Puff, who lived to thirty eight.

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Speaker 9: Stacy Lynn CBS News.

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Speaker 2: Good for her. What does twenty twenty six have in

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Speaker 2: store for the electric vehicle market?

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Speaker 1: Domestic sales of evs fell sharply in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: when federal tax credits ended. Former Ford CEO Mark Field says,

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Speaker 1: automakers see that demand for evs isn't there.

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Speaker 3: They're starting to get realistic.

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Speaker 2: They got to head of their skis in terms of

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Speaker 2: the demand.

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Speaker 5: On top of that, obviously you had the changes from

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Speaker 5: the administration.

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Speaker 1: Fields tell CNBC he thinks hybrids are the better option

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Speaker 1: for America drivers. He says he has long term concerns

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Speaker 1: about US car manufacturers and their ability to compete against

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Speaker 1: the cheaper, high quality evs being exported by China around

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Speaker 1: the world. Rory O'Neil WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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