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

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Speaker 2: Hartley, cloudy, a bit breezy in Boston, thirty five degrees,

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Speaker 2: it feels like the mid twenties. At eleven o'clock. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. The cost of

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Speaker 2: owning a home in Boston is about to go up.

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Speaker 2: Here's wbz's Kyle Gray with the details.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 4: Michelle Wu is warning that homeowners in Boston are going

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Speaker 4: to see a big hike in their property taxes next year.

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Speaker 4: The mayor says taxes on the average single family home

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Speaker 4: will go up about thirteen percent, hitting hardest in the

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Speaker 4: third quarter next year. Wu says the city is raising

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Speaker 4: the taxes to make up for a deficit of commercial

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Speaker 4: taxes after the pandemic, as office buildings haven't been able

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Speaker 4: to bounce back from remote work. The mayor says she

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Speaker 4: understands that housing is the single biggest liability for competitiveness

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Speaker 4: and the biggest cost for residents struggling to get buy

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Speaker 4: in Boston. She called on block makers to reconsider her

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Speaker 4: home rule petition, which would hight commercial property taxes for

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Speaker 4: a short time to help ease the burden on homeowners.

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Speaker 4: So far, that petition hasn't been able to get much

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Speaker 4: traction on Beacon Hill Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Flu related hospitalizations are on the rise here in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Wbz's James rojasa's health officials are encouraging you to get

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Speaker 2: the latest flu shot.

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Speaker 5: By mid November, point four percent of those in base

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Speaker 5: state hospitals were there for flu related illnesses. That was

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Speaker 5: more than double from the beginning of the month. That's

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Speaker 5: why health officials are urging folks to get vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: Definitely take the I got the flu shot.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready, I prepare, and hopefully I don't get sick.

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Speaker 2: That's why I hope I.

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Speaker 1: Don't take I don't take a flu shot.

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Speaker 6: I don't take any of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, flu shot once every two years, Ormyre.

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Speaker 5: So it was my annual check up and she gave

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Speaker 5: me the clue shot. Meanwhile, the rise and flu cases

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Speaker 5: comes as we're gearing up for another holiday travel period

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Speaker 5: in Dewey Square James Rojas, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: This comes as a new study suggests the shingles shot

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Speaker 2: could slow the progression of dementia for some patients.

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Speaker 1: Researchers of the study published in the journal cell I'll

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Speaker 1: say the findings apply specifically to an older live vaccine

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Speaker 1: called zostavax that uses a weakened form of the shingles virus.

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Speaker 1: That specific version may slow the progression of dementia for

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Speaker 1: those already diagnosed with the disease. The vaccine was discontinued

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Speaker 1: in the US in twenty twenty and replaced with a

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Speaker 1: version that better combat shingles, but researchers say those who

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Speaker 1: had the previous vaccine before twenty twenty may have a benefit,

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Speaker 1: but more studies are needed, doctor say on the vaccines.

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Speaker 1: Michelle Franz and ABC News.

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Speaker 2: And Boston Police s amm was shot and killed last

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Speaker 2: night in East Boston. This happened just before six o'clock.

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Speaker 2: First responders getting to the scene on Hovers Street pronouncing

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Speaker 2: the man dead at the hospital. So far, no word

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Speaker 2: on a motive or any suspects. Once get a look

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Speaker 2: at the forecast now and for the rest of the day,

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Speaker 2: we should have a couple of clouds. It's really about it.

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Speaker 2: Much drier and a little easier to get around than

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Speaker 2: it was yesterday. For sure. We've got temperatures in the

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Speaker 2: upper twenties, low thirties, and we'll see a high today

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Speaker 2: of just about forty with a mix of sun and clouds.

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Speaker 2: A bit of a breeze out there is making it

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Speaker 2: feel certainly cooler, and that is going to stick around

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Speaker 2: through tonight. Partly cloudy early more cloud's moving in overnight

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Speaker 2: alone near thirty two in Boston, close to twenty if

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Speaker 2: you're in the northern and western suburbs. Then for tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: we have some afternoon sun, the wind will really start

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Speaker 2: the afternoon. Hi just about forty, and then some more

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Speaker 2: polar air comes in on Thursday night. Lots of sun

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Speaker 2: on Friday, but a high only twenty eight degrees. Right now,

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Speaker 2: we're at thirty one in Southbridge, thirty one in nashaua

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Speaker 2: south of Boston, thirty five in Brockton. In Boston at

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Speaker 2: eleven oh five, it is partly cloudy and worth thirty

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Speaker 2: four degrees. Well, today's a day that some music lovers

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Speaker 2: wait all year for. Spotify Rapped has arrived.

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Speaker 6: Of course, you get the usuals like your top song's

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Speaker 6: artists and podcasts, but new this year, Spotify also gives

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Speaker 6: you a listening age based on what artists and genres

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Speaker 6: are in your rotation. For example, I'm twenty five years old,

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Speaker 6: but according to Spotify, my listening age is forty eight,

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Speaker 6: probably because I'm also in the top one percent of

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Speaker 6: Oasis fans around the world. But if your rotation is

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Speaker 6: mainly artists from the sixties, seventies, or eighties, expect to

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Speaker 6: hire listening age. Another edition this year is Rapped Party,

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Speaker 6: a feature that lets you compare top songs with your

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Speaker 6: friends to see you as the preferred music taste. Spotify

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Speaker 6: caught some flak last year for using AI to narrate

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Speaker 6: each individual Rapped, and that's been scrapped this year. Instead,

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Speaker 6: they created the Future Archive, which uses AI to break

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Speaker 6: down what you listen to on individual days. Jared Brosnan WBZ,

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Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Governor Morey Healy says she's appalled at the Trump administration's

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Speaker 2: threat to cut SNAP benefits for democratic states if they

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Speaker 2: don't hand over sensitive personal information about who's getting the assistance.

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Speaker 2: In a statement, the governor calls it cruel, saying that

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Speaker 2: President Trump is quote playing politics with kids and seniors

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Speaker 2: who need to eat. Boston Maryor Michelle Wu says the

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Speaker 2: city is involved in many lawsuits against the administration. They

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Speaker 2: will keep fighting to protect Bostonians. She told reporters she

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Speaker 2: wishes President Trump would spend his time quote fixing real

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Speaker 2: problems now. Landlords in Boston could find themselves a bit

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Speaker 2: short on rent this month. That's because the city's housing

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Speaker 2: authority doesn't have the cash to make Section eight payments. WBZ.

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Speaker 2: Sherry Small has more and why.

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Speaker 3: The housing authority blames it on the federal government shut down.

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Speaker 3: Boston pays around forty million dollars to landlords each month,

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Speaker 3: but thirty million dollars from the Feds hasn't arrived. They

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Speaker 3: say they plan to provide twenty five percent payments to

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Speaker 3: landlords now and the rest when the Feds pay up.

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Speaker 3: Sherry Small WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And the battle continues between the state and so called

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Speaker 2: bar advocates over pay now. Hundreds of those attorneys have

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Speaker 2: come together to form a new advocacy group of their own.

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Speaker 2: The Massachusetts Association of Private Appointed council says it represents

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Speaker 2: private attorneys who accept these cases to represent indigent clients.

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Speaker 2: Its mission, according to their website, is to use all

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Speaker 2: available lawful methods to, among other things, improve working conditions

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Speaker 2: and pay rates for these members of council. Our advocates

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Speaker 2: earlier this year largely walked off the job in Massachuset

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Speaker 2: thats demanding better pay and benefits. Judges then had to

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Speaker 2: dismiss hundreds of cases as defendants could not get any representation.

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Speaker 2: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout

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