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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Well,

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Speaker 1: look who it is who decided to show up today.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday. Get in here, you little devil. Let's hug

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Speaker 1: it out. We're getting started under clear skies but exceptionally

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Speaker 1: cold once again this morning. It's windy and it's twenty

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Speaker 1: three degrees here in Boston. The News at six o'clock

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Speaker 1: Jeff Brown. You know what they say, it's not the heat,

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Speaker 1: it's the humidity. Mostly sunny, blustery and cold today, the

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Speaker 1: high thirty six and it's WBZ Acting weather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Neither,

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Speaker 1: of course, is a problem today as it's going to

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Speaker 1: feel like we're going to be stuck in the teens.

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Speaker 1: High drama on the Tobin Bridge as a Massachusetts State

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Speaker 1: Police trooper literally talks a troubled man off the ledge police.

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Speaker 2: That voice you hear is Massachusetts State Police crisis negotiations

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Speaker 2: Rasan Charles Light. That's young in you right now, we'll

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Speaker 2: go to that.

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Speaker 3: Don't let that go, don't let that go. Nobody wants

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Speaker 3: to win.

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Speaker 1: Don't let that, don't let that change yourself.

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Speaker 2: You can hear Trooper Charles's compassionate approach to this precarious situation,

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Speaker 2: understanding the moment and working to de escalate. You've been

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Speaker 2: through so much. It's still standing strong, man, You're still

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Speaker 2: standing strong exactly. Not a quitter. You're not a quitter,

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Speaker 2: he continues, reassuring the man facing a mental health crisis.

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Speaker 2: He's just there to help.

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Speaker 3: That's what.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry that you guys are here.

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Speaker 2: But Charles proved he was there for a reason, successfully

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Speaker 2: grabbing on and bringing him to safety.

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Speaker 1: Wow. An incredible video. CBS News Boston's Aaron Parsigian with

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Speaker 1: the story. This incident comes as Massachusetts State Police are

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Speaker 1: installing new training policies. This might be an award winning

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Speaker 1: training video. Closing arguments are expected to begin in just

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Speaker 1: a few hours in Norfolk Superior Court as the Brian

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Speaker 1: Walsh murdered gial enters its final phase. This comes following

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Speaker 1: a risky stratug by the defense to rest its case

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Speaker 1: without calling a single witness. The surprise announcement comes as

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Speaker 1: the jury was expecting to hear from the accused killer himself. Instead,

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Speaker 1: Walsh tells the court he did not want to testify.

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Speaker 1: The defense says Walsh did not kill his wife Anna,

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Speaker 1: following a New Year's Eve party almost three years ago. Instead,

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Speaker 1: says Anna died from natural causes while Walsh panicked and

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Speaker 1: covered it up. Bruins pour it on the Blues for

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Speaker 1: their fourth consecutive victory. The Bees are off until Sunday.

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Speaker 1: There in Minnesota. Celtics go cold in the second half

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Speaker 1: they fall to the Bucks. Now they get the entire

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Speaker 1: weekend off, and Week fifteen in the NFL begins with

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Speaker 1: an upsess essons going that way and did He's cut it?

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Speaker 2: Touchdown?

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Speaker 1: A call on Amazon Prime as the Falcons tip the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers to throw more chaos into the playoff picture. Patriots,

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Speaker 1: of course, will host the Bills on Sunday, and more

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Speaker 1: walls in Boston's deep history come tumbling down.

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Speaker 3: Matthew's Arena, which opened two years before Fenway back in

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Speaker 3: nineteen ten, will be closing for good after one more

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Speaker 3: hockey game on Saturday night, the forty five year home

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Speaker 3: to Northeastern hockey. The Huskies will take on bu on

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Speaker 3: Saturday Night. It was a citywide venue for its first

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Speaker 3: seven decades of operation, the original home to the Bruins

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Speaker 3: and Celtics before the original Boston Garden opened up in

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Speaker 3: nineteen twenty eight. Demolition will get underway this winter as

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Speaker 3: Northeastern will completely build a new facility and the historic

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Speaker 3: structure will be torn down. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: What has happened to us here in Greater Boston. We're

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Speaker 1: about to enter the final week of the fall season,

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Speaker 1: and it's just unbelievably cold and windy too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the winds have been howling they continue to do so.

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Speaker 1: This morning we've got gusts in excess of thirty miles

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Speaker 1: the wind, it feels like it's barely above zero, and that, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: is what we're in for again today. Mostly sunny sky,

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Speaker 1: so at least we've got that going for us, which

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Speaker 1: is nice. Going to be very windy. Highs will only

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Speaker 1: be in the mid thirties, but it won't feel that way.

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Speaker 1: In fact, this weekend, we're still dealing with the cold,

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Speaker 1: and to add insult to injury, there's a storm system

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Speaker 1: targeting us However, it does look like it's going to

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Speaker 1: remain mostly south of the area, and any accumulating snow

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Speaker 1: talking maybe a couple of inches at best. That's tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night into Sunday. But here's the thing, the long range

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Speaker 1: outlook looks like it's going to start to warm up

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Speaker 1: just as we flip the calendar to the first day

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Speaker 1: of winter. Wouldn't you know it, It's a topsy turvy

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Speaker 1: World twenty three here in Boston, clear skies at six

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Speaker 1: oh six on this Friday morning. Classes are canceled again

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Speaker 1: this morning as the sick bed calls.

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Speaker 4: No school for a second day at Roberts Elementary School

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Speaker 4: in Medford as suspected cases of neurovirus continued to climb.

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Speaker 4: Over one hundred and thirty students were outsick at the

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Speaker 4: beginning of the week, with that number only growing now.

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Speaker 4: School officials say over twenty staff members are also sick.

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Speaker 4: The city's Board of Health has seemed the building safe

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Speaker 4: after it underwent a deep clean. However, officials say there

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Speaker 4: would not be enough students and staff for a safe

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Speaker 4: learning environment. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston Sneeze Radio Getime.

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Speaker 1: A new report this morning finds coronavirus vaccines are keeping

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Speaker 1: kids and young adults out of the hospital. The latest

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Speaker 1: update from the cdc SO shows children under four who

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Speaker 1: got the shot last year were seventy six percent less

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Speaker 1: likely to need to make a visit to the emergency

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Speaker 1: room or urgent care center, while more than fifty percent

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Speaker 1: in the five to seventeen year old crowd needed medical attention.

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Speaker 1: This update flies directly in the face of Health Secretary

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Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior's claim that COVID shots are the

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Speaker 1: deadliest vaccine in US history. One of the best nighttime

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Speaker 1: shows of the year is about to peak this weekend,

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Speaker 1: the Geminid meteor showers. They're already underway, but experts will

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Speaker 1: tell you the perseods, which get all the headlines mainly

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Speaker 1: because they occur in the summer. They do say that

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Speaker 1: geminids are actually the best, and if you don't mind

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Speaker 1: the cold, it's worth spending some time up late and

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Speaker 1: away from the city lights. The geninids were first discovered

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Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century, and around two am tomorrow morning

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Speaker 1: is when the peak begins, when at least fifty metiears

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Speaker 1: an hour will light up the sky every single hour.

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