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

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Speaker 2: Mostly cloudy and twenty seven degrees with a real feel

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Speaker 2: of eight in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm

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Speaker 2: Kyle Bray. Thank you for joining us, and here's what's

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Speaker 2: happening far evaders beware. South Station's new fairgates are officially

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Speaker 2: being activated today. Wbz's James Rojas is on the platform

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Speaker 2: with more.

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Speaker 3: The installation of forty new fairgates here at South Station

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Speaker 3: is complete, which means from now on passengers will need

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Speaker 3: to scan or tap their ticket to both enter and

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Speaker 3: exit the platform.

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Speaker 4: Gonna be helpful for the people they won't get the ticket,

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Speaker 4: get into it, and they know where.

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Speaker 3: They have to get off, and would be all to

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Speaker 3: Conductors will still be checking tickets. But some writers think

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Speaker 3: the gates will help them do their jobs better.

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Speaker 1: They give them more time to take care of the

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Speaker 1: train than dealing with us, you know, so I think

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Speaker 1: it's faster for them and better for us.

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Speaker 3: The NBTA and Kaleless say the gates will improve fair collection,

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Speaker 3: replace platform ticket checks, and create a more consistent fair

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Speaker 3: paying experience at South Station. James Rojas w b Z,

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Speaker 3: Boston snows Radio.

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Speaker 2: The town of Merrimack, New Hampshire, was recently camped by

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Speaker 2: surprise after it was reported that it would be selected

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Speaker 2: by the Trump administration as a location for deportation processing.

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Speaker 2: A renovated industrial warehouse that's currently vacant would be used

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Speaker 2: to house and process up to fifteen hundred iced detainees.

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Speaker 2: Local lawmakers in the Granite State have been saying it's

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Speaker 2: a surprise to them and they were not made aware

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Speaker 2: of the plan. Democratic Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander echoed a similar

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Speaker 2: response and also released the statement condemning the plan, saying

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Speaker 2: she would work to put a stop to it. President

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Speaker 2: Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho did discuss

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Speaker 2: a way forward in the Middle East. CBS's Aaron Navarro

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Speaker 2: with more.

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Speaker 5: President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who held talks

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Speaker 5: Monday at the President's Mar A Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Speaker 5: Well Natiyahu thanked President Trump for his support for Israel.

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Speaker 5: President Trump signaled that the Abraham Accords reached during his

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Speaker 5: first administration could widen. They'll be expanded.

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Speaker 1: Countries were already talking about expanding it, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: expanded fairly quickly.

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Speaker 5: The set of agreements established diplomatic relations between Israel and

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Speaker 5: several Arab nations, but Saudi Arabia remains a key holdout.

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Speaker 5: The second phase of the Gaza Seas Fire would also

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Speaker 5: require Hamas to hand over the remains of the final

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Speaker 5: Israeli hostage. Visitors to a US military cemetery in the

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Speaker 5: Netherlands are upset after the Trump administration remove displays that

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Speaker 5: recognized black troops.

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Speaker 4: Visitors to the cemetery where eighty three hundred US troops

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Speaker 4: who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis or buried, have

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Speaker 4: filled the guest book with complaints. Dutch Senator Theo Bovin

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Speaker 4: says people in the Netherlands knew President Trump was ending

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Speaker 4: DEI policies.

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Speaker 6: But never wethold that that could be also happening here

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Speaker 6: in the Netherlands.

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Speaker 5: That's why everybody is very disappointed and sad about that.

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Speaker 4: Boven's chairs the Black Liberators Foundation, which is looking for

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Speaker 4: a new location to honor the Black soldiers. Michael Wallace, CBS.

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Speaker 2: News, it's time now for the four dawbz ACU weather forecast.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be very windy with times of sun

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Speaker 2: and clouds. Today there's a wind advisory in effect through

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Speaker 2: one of the morning. Tomorrow, we'll have high wind warnings

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Speaker 2: for northern Worcester and Middlesex counties. We could see some

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Speaker 2: gusts up to fifty miles per hour at times. We'll

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Speaker 2: have a high of twenty seven with real field tempts

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Speaker 2: in these single digits. Tonight it will stay windy, will

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Speaker 2: be partly cloudy early, then becoming mostly cloudy late. Will

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Speaker 2: have a low of twenty one and real fields near

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Speaker 2: zero at times. Tomorrow New Year's Eve will have clouds

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Speaker 2: breaking forth, some sun will be breezy. We'll have a

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Speaker 2: high of thirty one, and then as we get closer

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Speaker 2: to the clock striking midnight, it will be cloudy with

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Speaker 2: a period of snow. Later on. We'll have snow that

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Speaker 2: can accumulate a coding to an inch, with one to

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Speaker 2: three inches towards the Capan Islands. Just keep an eye

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Speaker 2: out for some slippery spots if you're betting on driving

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Speaker 2: home from any events. Tomorrow nights will have a low

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Speaker 2: of twenty four. Thursday, New Year's Day, the first day

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six, will be cloudy, giving way to

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Speaker 2: a little bit more of sunshine throughout the day. We'll

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Speaker 2: have a breeze and it will be a chilly start

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Speaker 2: to the year. While I'm a high of twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: times of sun and clowns on Friday, staying cold with

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Speaker 2: a high of twenty eight and looking ahead will have

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Speaker 2: more sun than clowns on Saturday, but highs still only

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Speaker 2: close to thirty. Right now in Boston it is mostly cloudy,

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Speaker 2: twenty seven degrees with a real feel of eight to

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Speaker 2: Milestone year four, Boston's famed First Night celebration. Wbz's Hyle

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Speaker 2: Shaffle has more. Consider it a warning from Boston may

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Speaker 2: Or Michelle Woo Bonda up. First Night Boston is going

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Speaker 2: to get chilly.

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Speaker 7: There are places to duck into like the Library and

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Speaker 7: Copley Mall and other places nearby.

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Speaker 1: The forecast is calling for tempts in the low twenties.

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Speaker 1: This is First Night's fiftieth year. It started on New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve nineteen seventy six as a small arts festival.

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Speaker 7: Some of the children who first saught back then have

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Speaker 7: now taken multiple generations of their family to experience this,

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Speaker 7: and you want to keep that going.

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Speaker 1: Wow It's packed with live music to fireworks shows, ice skating,

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Speaker 1: and new this year, archery, Somewhat to the Mayor's chagrin.

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Speaker 7: I don't know how Commissioner cock let that one, y,

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Speaker 7: but come on down.

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Speaker 1: The festivities begin an earnest around two o'clock on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 1: spread around the city, with City Hall as a vocal port.

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Speaker 1: The mayor says that'll be good for local businesses. Officials

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Speaker 1: are asking people not to drive. All moods of the

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Speaker 1: tea will be free starting at eight pm Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schaffel WBS Boston's news radio. Google is out with

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Speaker 1: its list of the top searches for this year.

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Speaker 6: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was the highest trending search of

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Speaker 6: the year. He was shot and killed while speaking at

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Speaker 6: Utah Valley University in September. Meanwhile, the hit Netflix animated

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Speaker 6: movie K Pop Demon Hunters came in second, followed by

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Speaker 6: the hot collectible La Boom Boo Dolls in third. Other

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Speaker 6: hot search topics for twenty twenty five included the government

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Speaker 6: shutdown in tariffs. Google compiled the list from data between

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Speaker 6: January first and November twenty fifth. I'm Wurkneyfield.

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Speaker 2: The last thing a ski area wants to say right

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Speaker 2: now is sorry the sharelifts are broken. But that's the

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Speaker 2: case for Black Mountain and Jackson, New Hampshire. After reporting

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Speaker 2: a record setting weekend on Saturday, they were telling potential

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Speaker 2: skiers and snowboarders this week to come back another time.

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Speaker 2: Because of component failures, their ski lifts broke down within

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Speaker 2: ninety minutes of each other. As a result, they're now

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Speaker 2: out of operation until further notice, the resort saying they're

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Speaker 2: hoping to provide an update at some point today. You

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

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Speaker 2: Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm

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Speaker 2: Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's news radio