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

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Speaker 1: hashtag longest week ever is about to come to a

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Speaker 1: close at six o'clock and a Friday morning, finally here

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Speaker 1: in Boston at a beautiful sunrise to get us started.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us live on the radio

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Speaker 1: or on the iHeartRadio app this morning. I'm Jeff Brown.

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Speaker 1: The News at six is brought to us by your

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Speaker 1: new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.

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Speaker 1: And here we go, Boston. You're looking good, kid, Plenty

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Speaker 1: of sunshine today.

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Speaker 2: Are high forty to forty.

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Speaker 1: Four, Short and sweet. WBZ Achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg.

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Speaker 1: How about fifty degrees coming up tomorrow? Well, Governor Healy

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Speaker 1: says we're not out of the woods just yet. Clean

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Speaker 1: Up is likely to take a few more days for

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Speaker 1: cities in town south of Boston buried under at least

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Speaker 1: three feet of snow, but more lights are coming back on.

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Speaker 3: One of our focus has been over the last couple

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Speaker 3: of days is identifying any critical infrastructures other shelter water treatment,

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Speaker 3: well water infrastructure, and also any communities that want to

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Speaker 3: open up the school.

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Speaker 1: The zever source Operations President Doug Foley, who says power

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Speaker 1: will be restored to most customers by tonight, but for

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Speaker 1: some five thousand still left in the dark, flipping that

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Speaker 1: switch cannot come soon enough. The kids are safe, but

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Speaker 1: the elementary school in Hingham is not.

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Speaker 2: Stivenson's staff evacuated from Plymouth River Elementary School were transferred

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Speaker 2: to Hingham High School for class after the school's superintendent

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Speaker 2: says there were signs of structural stress on its roof,

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Speaker 2: now packed with snow from the blizzard.

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Speaker 1: The building inspectors probably know that they're getting close to

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Speaker 1: their weight limits.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Spolt called the decision to clear out the school wise.

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Speaker 1: If the roof fails and something like that, that could

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Speaker 1: be catastrophic.

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Speaker 2: Because he understands the risk that heavy snow brings. For

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Speaker 2: forty years, he's built a business dedicated to removing it.

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Speaker 1: A CBS News Boston Samantha Cheney, the students are going

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Speaker 1: to learn elsewhere today. Of course. Earlier this week, the

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Speaker 1: roof of a vacant high school in Kingston collapsed due

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Speaker 1: to all that snow. A former President Bill Clinton is

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Speaker 1: now up. Mister Clinton will offer his testimony to a

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Speaker 1: House committee looking into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. This

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Speaker 1: will happen in Chappaqua, New York. This comes a day

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Speaker 1: after former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: spoke to the panel for six hours, and she tells

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Speaker 1: reporters that she repeatedly told them she doesn't know Epstein

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Speaker 1: and has never spent time with him. Missus Clinton did

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Speaker 1: acknowledge a casual relationship with Epstein's girlfriend, Gillane Maxwell. Conflicting

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Speaker 1: reports this morning from a violent clash between Cuba and

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Speaker 1: a stolen American speed boast.

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Speaker 4: Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the US is investigating

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Speaker 4: the incident, while Havana's deputy foreign minister also says US

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Speaker 4: government authorities have expressed their willingness to cooperate and clarifying

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Speaker 4: what he called these regrettable events. Cuba says the boat

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Speaker 4: intercepted off its north coast was carrying ten armed passengers

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Speaker 4: and that they intended to carry out an incursion for

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Speaker 4: the purposes of terrorism. One of the four people killed

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Speaker 4: was a US citizen. Another citizen was among the injured.

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Speaker 4: The boat's owners, as he suspected it was stolen by

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Speaker 4: an employee with family in Cuba, Lindy Kenyon, CBS News,

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Speaker 4: the White House.

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Speaker 1: It is a beautiful morning in Boston, sunrise here in

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Speaker 1: the city, and it looks like mainly clear skies. Right

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Speaker 1: now it's twenty six in town. We're going to see

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Speaker 1: another day of melting underway under mostly sunny skies. Highs

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Speaker 1: will approach the lower forties. Mainly clear overnight tonight, not

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Speaker 1: as cold. Tomorrow, looks like a mix of sun and clouds.

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Speaker 1: We could get into the lower fifties by tomorrow afternoon.

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Speaker 1: But enjoy it because it's gone in a flash on

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Speaker 1: Sunday as a cold blast of air comes back at us,

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Speaker 1: possibility of some flurries coating to maybe an inch or

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Speaker 1: two of accumulation, and throughout the day on Sunday, as

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Speaker 1: temperatures struggled to get out of the mid thirties. And

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Speaker 1: it looks like that cold air is going to be

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Speaker 1: with us as we begin our new work week next week.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's twenty six and looking good under mainly

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Speaker 1: clear skies on this Friday morning in Boston at six

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Speaker 1: oh five. Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here

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Speaker 1: to stay, and Governor Healy gives it a big old hug.

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Speaker 5: The governor launching a new state wide mission to provide

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Speaker 5: free access to Google's Chat GPT training classes with the

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Speaker 5: Growth Google Program, cybersecurity, digital marketing, data analytics, and more

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Speaker 5: among the offerings. It's the latest partnership with the tech

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Speaker 5: giant that will help in workforce development and comes days

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Speaker 5: after announcing that all executive branch employees would gain access

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Speaker 5: to Chat GPT to make work faster and more efficient

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Speaker 5: at the State House. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News radio.

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Speaker 1: To members of Venezuela's vaunted trend Diiragua gang are now

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Speaker 1: in custody and face charges of what the US Attorney's

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Speaker 1: Office in Boston calls ATM jackpotting. Prosecutors say a pair

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Speaker 1: of twenty nine year olds ran a scheme to set

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Speaker 1: up skimming devices on ATMs in Braintree and other locations

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Speaker 1: throughout New England, and were successful enough to make off

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Speaker 1: with one hundred seventy thousand dollars until getting arrested in

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Speaker 1: AUGUSTA Maine official say Moise's Martinez Gutierrez and Lester Guerrero

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Speaker 1: are now in the United States illegally Netflix out after

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Speaker 1: being the longtime front runner to buy Warner Brothers Discovery.

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Speaker 1: The target now says an offer from Paramount sky Dance

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Speaker 1: is better. Most recent deal is worth an estimated one

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Speaker 1: hundred eight billion dollars and includes all of Warner Brothers' assets.

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Speaker 1: The agreement comes hours after Netflix had ted Sarandos meets

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Speaker 1: with President Trump at the White House, but the new

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Speaker 1: arrangement with Paramount still needs regulatory approval. Thirty years in

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Speaker 1: and fans of Pokemon still try to catch them all.

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Speaker 6: In nineteen ninety six, we were introduced to the world

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Speaker 6: of pocket monsters like Pikachu, We've Got It and Chara's

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Speaker 6: Ard Well began as two simple game boy cartridges sparked

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Speaker 6: a global craze. Since then, the franchise has sold more

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Speaker 6: than three hundred and fifty million video games thirty billion

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Speaker 6: trading cards worldwide. Three decades later, Pokemon still has fans

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Speaker 6: everywhere trying to catch them all. Stacy Lame CBS.

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