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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: We defining local news. Well, good morning, it is six

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Speaker 2: o'clock on this Monday, and I have some good news

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Speaker 2: and some bad news for you today. And first we

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Speaker 2: started the bad news. Vacation for many of us is over.

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Speaker 2: The good news is it's going to be just like

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Speaker 2: riding a bike. I think you'll agree. Six o'clock in Boston,

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Speaker 2: seventeen degrees under clear skies. Welcome aboard this morning. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jeff Brown. New Year and a familiar field.

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Speaker 3: Today will be cold with some sun followed by clouds,

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Speaker 3: and I have twenty five to twenty nine.

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Speaker 2: That is WBZ actuweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. There is some

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Speaker 2: chatter though, of a January thaw coming up later this week,

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Speaker 2: with temperatures nearing fifty degrees. The celticswell ride a three

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Speaker 2: game winning streak into the Garden. Tonight the Bulls come

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Speaker 2: to town. The Bruins are off until tomorrow. They'll wrap

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Speaker 2: up a West Coast swing with the Kraken in Seattle,

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Speaker 2: and I feel like I've buried the lead already. The

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Speaker 2: playoff bound Patriots post for the first time in six years.

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Speaker 2: They get prime time with the Los Angeles Chargers Sunday

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Speaker 2: night at Gillette in the AFC Wildcard Round. Venezuela's housted

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Speaker 2: president Nicolas Madoro and his wife will both appear in

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Speaker 2: a federal courtroom in Manhattan today. They'll face charges connected

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Speaker 2: to the White House's recent narco terrorism strategy. Meantime, vacationers

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Speaker 2: in the Caribbean finally get to come home.

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Speaker 4: Thousands of Americans have been stranded across the Caribbean after

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Speaker 4: the airspace was closed during the US raid in Venezuela.

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Speaker 4: Danny Cabrera was stranded in Saint Croix trying to get

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Speaker 4: back to Chicago to see his dying grandmother.

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Speaker 5: My sister was telling her cousin, Annette, and I think

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Speaker 5: she's holding on for him to come home because she

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Speaker 5: knows I'm coming home. And I told her yesterday it's okay,

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Speaker 5: it's okay to not wait.

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Speaker 4: He was able to get on a standby flight to

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Speaker 4: see his family today.

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Speaker 2: Let's ABC Sophie Flay. Later on today, the White House

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Speaker 2: will tell Capitol Hill leaders all about Operation Absolute Resolve

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Speaker 2: in a classified debriefing concerning the weekend raid in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Well today is Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green's last official

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Speaker 2: day on Capitol Hill. She steps down from her seat

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Speaker 2: after a very public falling out with President Trump and

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Speaker 2: major disagreements with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. A congresswoman,

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Speaker 2: says she's still a true blood Republican, but will not

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Speaker 2: commit to her future political plans. She is among a

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Speaker 2: castcade of elected officials who've had enough of Washington politics

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Speaker 2: and will not be in the running on election Day

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Speaker 2: this year. Prior to her departure, some parting words of

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Speaker 2: criticism for the President and his recent overthrow of the

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Speaker 2: Maduro regime in Venezuela. Pomp and circumstance will dominate Boston

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 6: It's another inauguration day for Boston Mayor Michelle wu Ceremonies

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Speaker 6: this morning underway at Symphony Hall for the soon to

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Speaker 6: be two term mayor, who won a second stint in

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Speaker 6: City Hall after her top challenger, Josh Kraft, dropped out

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Speaker 6: of the race soon after the primary. Governor Healey will

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Speaker 6: be there. It's the beginning of a week long celebration

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Speaker 6: that has designed to spark belonging and civic pride in

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Speaker 6: the city whose homeowners are about to feel the burn

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Speaker 6: of a second year of double digit real estate tax increases.

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Speaker 6: The event is already underway, with free skating across the

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Speaker 6: city this weekend and family free days at the city's museums.

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Speaker 6: It's Inauguration Day and several other communities including Everett, Marlborough,

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Speaker 6: newbury Port, Quincy, and Brockton. Jaywillett WBZ, Boston's News.

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Speaker 2: Radio, Monday morning, and we are I don't know, about

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Speaker 2: ten to fifteen degrees colder as we get started this

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Speaker 2: morning than we were at this time yesterday. And that

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Speaker 2: means it's bitter cold here in Boston. Seventeen degrees at

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Speaker 2: the moment. AKI Weather real field temperature is just slightly

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Speaker 2: above zero this morning. It is going to be another

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Speaker 2: cold day today, with sunshine this morning giving way to

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Speaker 2: clouds this afternoon. High temperatures will only be in the

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Speaker 2: mid twenties. Now, we are looking at temperatures on the

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Speaker 2: rise overnight tonight. There might be some snow along the

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Speaker 2: way later on today into the overnight hours as well,

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Speaker 2: might be a coding to an inch of snow here

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Speaker 2: in the Greater Boston area. That's about it. Plenty of

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Speaker 2: clouds again tomorrow or another cold day, but slightly milder

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Speaker 2: maybe some rain on our parade as well. But starting

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday, it looks like the January thaw is about

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Speaker 2: to descend upon us, with high temperatures approaching the low

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Speaker 2: to mid forties on Wednesday, slightly milder on Thursday, and

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Speaker 2: we could be very close to fifty on Friday afternoon

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Speaker 2: here in Boston. Something to look forward to as we

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Speaker 2: get started back on the old grind today at seventeen

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Speaker 2: degrees under clear skies at six oh six on this

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, Yes Boston, in January, it's typically the coldest

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Speaker 2: month of the year, and it continues to deliver.

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Speaker 3: We're only two weeks out of the winter season, but

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Speaker 3: it feels like the Old Man has been freezing us

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Speaker 3: over for the past two months.

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Speaker 1: It's insane.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I woke up by one in the car.

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Speaker 5: I'm almost gonna even turn the car on.

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Speaker 3: Those of us who wanted an icy, cold winter, your

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Speaker 3: wish has been granted.

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Speaker 5: It was absolutely cold.

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Speaker 3: We've got some flurries in our forecast, and many are

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Speaker 3: hoping a calm past few days could lead to some

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Speaker 3: mild strides later in the week.

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Speaker 2: The next two days have been great, though the last

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Speaker 2: two days it's been wonderful.

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Speaker 3: For now, it's a pretty brutal start to the first

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Speaker 3: full week of twenty twenty six. And remember to keep

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Speaker 3: that winter jacket ready and bundling up always your safe bed.

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Speaker 2: Tricky is making sure everything he's tucked into the air

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Speaker 2: hanging in.

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Speaker 3: Here's to the new year, and remember those warm thoughts

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Speaker 3: always help. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And then there's this new year, new concerns with the flu.

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Speaker 2: Bez's Drew m'holland is yere, I understand you know all

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Speaker 2: about this. Unfortunately I do. How are you? By the way,

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling great.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you, Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be back, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, the CDC says this is already the worst outbreak

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Speaker 1: of the flu virus in this nation since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And what's driving people to their six sick beds is

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Speaker 1: influenza A along with the substrain which we are calling

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Speaker 1: the superflu. All you need to know is when you

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Speaker 1: get it, you feel terrible. Trust me, yes, I've been

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Speaker 1: there and its latest report helped experts say flu levels

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Speaker 1: are high or very high and nearly three dozen states, Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: including Massachusett.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here to be a Monday morning quarterback. But

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Speaker 2: did you get your flu vaccine?

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Speaker 5: I did not?

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Speaker 2: All right, yeah, well there you go. And I mean,

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Speaker 2: I listen, there's a lot of there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: controversy over vaccines, as you know.

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Speaker 1: And if you know, jeff he let me hear about

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Speaker 1: that vacation long.

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Speaker 3: I know, I would like to have my vaccine, but

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Speaker 3: I can't get it because as you well know, I

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Speaker 3: have MS, and because I have to lower my immune system,

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Speaker 3: I can't get any vaccines.

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Speaker 2: And I would love to. I would get them all man,

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Speaker 2: even for you for Rebella. It's just it's just gonna

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Speaker 2: run rampant.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 5: It was nasty.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you. I haven't had the flu in

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Speaker 1: a long time.

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Speaker 2: And well, the flu strain this year came early, and

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Speaker 2: it's only the first stages of winter, so we got

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Speaker 2: a long way to go. All right, Well, thank you,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you're feeling better.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you both.

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful, right you are now in the loop. For

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