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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news twenty six degrees in Boston at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Suzanne Softville. Here is what's happening.

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Speaker 2: The post holiday travel rush is underway. WBZ. Shay Vilette

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Speaker 2: is at Logan Airport where travelers are battling this weekend's

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Speaker 2: weather to get back before New Year's We're going back

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Speaker 2: to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: Yet, going back to Los Angeles, do you enjoy the

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Speaker 3: little bit of snowfall you had here? It was very

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Speaker 3: nice white Christmas.

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Speaker 4: You know it's cold for us, but it was very nice.

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Speaker 3: Didn't make any delays for it.

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Speaker 5: Not yet.

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Speaker 3: There's fresh snow on the ground here at Terminal A,

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Speaker 3: slowing the roll of passengers that are heading out for

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Speaker 3: home or a new vacation destination. Like them, We'll going

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Speaker 3: on vacation.

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Speaker 1: They're relaxing. After we get to New Orleans.

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Speaker 3: TSA expects to break records with more than forty four

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Speaker 3: million passengers screen this holiday season, which we're now smack

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Speaker 3: dab in the middle of. In fact, the agency says

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Speaker 3: December twenty seventh was their busiest day last year, checking

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Speaker 3: the bags of just under three million travelers. He's got

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Speaker 3: advice with the stress heads that do nothing but complain

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Speaker 3: at the airport.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just got to kind of roll with

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Speaker 1: it and take your time and it is what it is,

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Speaker 1: and get through it, you know.

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Speaker 3: A terminal aj Willet WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And right now at Logan Airport, according to flight Aware,

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Speaker 2: there are three hundred and fifty three delays and sixty

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Speaker 2: two cancelations. A four hundred thousand dollars shipment of lobsters

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Speaker 2: has disappeared. CBS's Michael Wallace has the story.

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Speaker 4: Police say a truck picked up the live lobsters in Taunton, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 4: and was supposed to take them to Costco locations in

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Speaker 4: Illinois and Minnesota, but never arrived. The same Massachusetts facility

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Speaker 4: had another lobster shipment stolen earlier this month. The Federal

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Speaker 4: Department of Transportation as warren law enforcement agencies and freight

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Speaker 4: carriers nationwide about the crimes. It says cargo theft cost

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Speaker 4: the economy billions of dollars a year. Michael Wallace CBS News.

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Speaker 2: An annual brunch celebrates Kwanza in Boston's Southend. Wbz's Mike

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Speaker 2: Macklin has details.

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Speaker 6: The atmosphere in the Piano Craft Gallery was celebratory as

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Speaker 6: the community gathered to honor the legacy of Mel King,

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Speaker 6: the late civil rights activist who held a Klonsa brunch

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Speaker 6: in his home for more than fifty years.

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Speaker 5: Chance to just get together, gather to break bread and

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Speaker 5: really get a fail of what community's really about.

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Speaker 7: Us being there for one another, us being able to

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Speaker 7: support one another.

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Speaker 6: Bless Robinson is one of the organizers of the King

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Speaker 6: Brunch Club that carries on King's legacy. The DJ for

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Speaker 6: the event Mel's son, Jobo.

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Speaker 8: King, right now today seeing all the young people the

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Speaker 8: held is here, and that's one of the things that

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Speaker 8: we wanted to make sure that the younger people are

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Speaker 8: being included. People have been praising my dad for so long,

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Speaker 8: it's like, Okay, well who's next.

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 8: Who's next next?

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Speaker 6: To carry on a proud legacy of love and concern

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Speaker 6: for the community that Mel King served in the South End.

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Speaker 6: Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The forecast mainly clear skies tonight and cold, with a

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Speaker 2: low of seventeen in Boston closer to ten in some

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Speaker 2: Inland suburbs. It starts off sunny Tomorrow, then gets cloudier

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Speaker 2: as the day goes on, not quite as cold, with

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Speaker 2: a high of thirty five. On Monday, cloudy and much

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Speaker 2: warmer with periods of rain. We'll see a high near

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Speaker 2: fifty On Tuesday, gets cold again. It'll be mostly cloudy

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Speaker 2: and windy, with a high of twenty eight, but real

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Speaker 2: field tempts in the teens. Right now in Boston, we

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Speaker 2: have mostly clear skies and twenty six degrees. One local

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Speaker 2: farm is giving Christmas trees a new life. Wbz's Emma

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Speaker 2: Friedman explains.

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Speaker 6: Hy, you're beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: I'm hanging out with Bonnie the pig while the goats

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Speaker 5: are busy munching on a Christmas tree.

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Speaker 7: Furs are top their favorite among all of the animals here.

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Speaker 7: Spruces are a little bit too prickly. They're hard to handle,

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Speaker 7: even for the humans.

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Speaker 5: I'm a Unity Farm sanctuary and sherborn talking with the

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Speaker 5: farm's executive director and co founder, Kathy Halamka. Instead of

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Speaker 5: throwing out your Christmas trees if they're free of any

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Speaker 5: preservatives and fire retardant sprays, she says her goats and

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Speaker 5: other animals would be happy to accept them as a

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Speaker 5: post holiday snap.

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Speaker 7: It is a healthy snack if again, it doesn't have

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Speaker 7: any sprays on it, because it has a lot of vitamins,

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Speaker 7: things like vitamins see in there.

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Speaker 5: It is an.

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Speaker 7: Actual natural dewarmer. Believe it or not.

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Speaker 5: They've already gotten some trees donated from the City of Boston,

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Speaker 5: and soon the whole meadow you see driving into the

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Speaker 5: animal Sanctuary will be covered in trees. They're expecting over

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Speaker 5: a thousand, which will keep the four legged friends content.

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Speaker 7: So our favorite are these trees that will come really quickly,

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Speaker 7: like they haven't been in people's houses that long.

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Speaker 5: That's when the trees are still green and not too dry.

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Speaker 5: In Sherborn Emma Friedman WDAS Boston to news radio.

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Speaker 2: Check your Junk Drawer, a Massachusetts lottery winner has less

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Speaker 2: than a month to come forward and claim their one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars prize. Mass Live says the prize was

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Speaker 2: from a mass cash drawing held on January twentieth. The

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Speaker 2: winning numbers were ten, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and thirty one.

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Speaker 2: A winning ticket matching all five numbers was sold at

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Speaker 2: West Main Gas and Diesel in Hyannas. The final day

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Speaker 2: for the winner to claim their prize is January twenty first,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. A new study show's teens who use

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Speaker 2: marijuana are more likely to engage in bad habits.

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Speaker 1: Researchers report in the journal Pediatrics that they talked to

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Speaker 1: more than one hundred and sixty thousand eight through twelfth

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Speaker 1: graders from twenty eighteen through twenty twenty two. They found

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Speaker 1: that those who said they use weed monthly or more

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Speaker 1: than twice as likely to skip classes and have bad

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Speaker 1: grades compared to those who don't use it at all.

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Speaker 1: They are also twice as likely to get into fights.

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Speaker 1: About twenty percent of those surveyed say they use marijuana,

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Speaker 1: and about six percent of high school seniors say they

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Speaker 1: use it daily. I'm Rob Bart here.

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