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

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Speaker 2: We have cloud eas skies in thirty six degrees in Boston,

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Speaker 2: but a widespread snow across the region right now, light

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Speaker 2: snow for areas west and north of four ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Hello and thanks for being with us. It's Saturday, January seventeenth.

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Speaker 2: To news. Let's get you caught up Blue. Deaths continue

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Speaker 2: to rise across much of the country, with Massachusetts being

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Speaker 2: one of thirty three states reporting higher than normal cases

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Speaker 2: Mammy rise.

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Speaker 1: And flu cases across the country, with the CDC estimating

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Speaker 1: at least eighteen million illnesses, two hundred and thirty thousand hospitalizations,

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Speaker 1: and ninety three hundred deaths so far this season. Children

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Speaker 1: being hit especially hard, with fifteen reported pediatric flu deaths

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Speaker 1: this week alone, bringing the total this season to twenty

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Speaker 1: two children lost. New Jersey now reporting its first pediatric

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Speaker 1: flu death.

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Speaker 2: And that's ABC's Morgan Norwood reporting. The Massachusetts Department of

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Speaker 2: Public Health reports a fifth child related flu deaths. At

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Speaker 2: least two of the children lived in Boston and were

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Speaker 2: under the age of two, the first reported deaths from

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Speaker 2: the flu in the city since twenty thirteen. The Health

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Speaker 2: experts urging people to get vaccinated, saying it's not too late.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots got some good news about Christian Gonzales ahead

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Speaker 2: of tomorrow's playoff game against the Texans. Here's CBS News

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Speaker 2: BOS since Nick Giovanni.

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Speaker 3: Well, now we know, Gonzo is officially a go. The

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Speaker 3: Patriots getting their all pro corner back, while the Texans

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Speaker 3: just ruled out their top receiver Nico Collins still in

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Speaker 3: concussion protocol. Gonzalez met with an independent neurologist yesterday afternoon

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Speaker 3: and was then cleared to play. You've been on the

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Speaker 3: practice field all week, just spent Wednesday in the red

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Speaker 3: non contact jersey while going through the protocol after going

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Speaker 3: down with a head injury Sunday against the Chargers, So

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Speaker 3: the Pat's get a key piece of their defense back

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Speaker 3: in place. As for their offense, Drake May and company, well,

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Speaker 3: Mike Vrabel was asked if they need to be perfect

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Speaker 3: Sunday in terms of not turning the ball over against

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Speaker 3: this team.

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Speaker 2: Framing for success and not perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect.

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Speaker 2: We're going to needs to be precise.

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Speaker 3: The final injury report is near perfect for the Pats.

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Speaker 3: Only two players listed as questionable going into this one

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Speaker 3: linebacker Harold Landry and running back Torell Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Kickoff is at three VM tomorrow in Foxborough. Now a

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Speaker 2: win puts the Pats one victory away from the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Two divisional playoff games Today, Buffalo plays at Denver at

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Speaker 2: four thirty, followed by San Francisco at Seattle at eight o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Messages as begins tapping a new source of clean energy

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Speaker 2: from Canada.

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Speaker 4: Gona, Healy hosted Quebec officials at the State House to

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Speaker 4: announce that hydro power from the Canadian province is now

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Speaker 4: being transmitted to Massachusetts along lines running through the state

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Speaker 4: of Maine.

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Speaker 5: This project alone, I'll tell you, is going to lower

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Speaker 5: energy electricity bills by fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 4: Every single the projected savings to consumers three billion dollars

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Speaker 4: over the next twenty years.

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Speaker 5: This power is clean, consistent and affordable.

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Speaker 4: Hydro power considered a clean energy that will reduce carbon

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Speaker 4: emissions the equivalent of removing seven hundred thousand cars.

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Speaker 2: And that's WBC's Mike Macklin reporting quick look at the weather.

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Speaker 2: We're seeing a mixed bag occasional rain mixing with a

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Speaker 2: bit of wet snow today before it ends this evening.

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Speaker 2: Now for the south coast cape in the Islands, just

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Speaker 2: a brief shower or two closer and beyond four ninety

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Speaker 2: five they could see maybe one to three inches slippery travel.

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Speaker 2: This is going on right now, all right. There are

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Speaker 2: some dry patches in some spots west of four ninety five,

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Speaker 2: but those dry patches are spotty for the most part.

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Speaker 2: Primarily we're dealing with some light snow. The high today

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Speaker 2: in the city forty three. Tonight dropping to twenty seven

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Speaker 2: to thirty one is the low in the city. Mostly

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Speaker 2: cloudy overnight tomorrow once again, this time snow will overspread

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Speaker 2: during the late morning early afternoon continuing into tomorrow night,

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Speaker 2: which could before ending late I should say, in the day.

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Speaker 2: But where we're going to see one to three inches

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Speaker 2: and three to six inches towards the south coast cape

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Speaker 2: in the island. So this one, it looks like it's

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Speaker 2: focusing quite a bit on the south of the city.

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Speaker 2: Higher amounts possible depending on the exact track of this

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Speaker 2: coastal storm. All right, on Monday, Martin Luther King Junior

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Speaker 2: Day is just going to be breezy and cloudy, a

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Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds, a high of thirty five

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Speaker 2: and very chilly as we head back to work on

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Speaker 2: Tuesday after a long weekend. Despite sunshine, we're only going

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Speaker 2: to warm up to twenty six in the city. Right now,

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Speaker 2: it's cloudy in thirty six degrees. A local distillery transforms

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Speaker 2: its barrel house into a winter hangout with a special menu.

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Speaker 6: Rid For a while now, they've been transforming the area

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Speaker 6: where they store barrels of booze in the back. Their

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Speaker 6: first theme was Whiskey Wonderland and it was a hit,

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Speaker 6: so that got them itching for more.

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Speaker 7: And then we were kind of just brainstorming ideas for

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Speaker 7: January and one of someone on our staff had the

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Speaker 7: idea of a praise ski and we were like, that's brilliant.

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Speaker 6: I walk through it and it really has the European

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Speaker 6: APPRAISKI feel.

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Speaker 7: So we decorate the space with obviously a ton of

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Speaker 7: fake snow. It's super cozy, so it's heated back there,

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Speaker 7: even though it is not normally since it is our

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Speaker 7: barrel house.

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Speaker 6: And Everett I'm a Breedman w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady's Health and Wellness brand TB twelve is coming

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Speaker 2: to an end. It's being folded into another brand called

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Speaker 2: Nobull Fitness, which was founded in Boston in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Now back in twenty twenty four, Brady announced the TV

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Speaker 2: twelve and Nobule were merging, saying that the goal was

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Speaker 5: possible experience and benefit.

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Speaker 2: Artists that CBS is Jesse Mitchell, you are now and

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