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<v Speaker 1>Thirty five degrees in Boston at three thirty good afternoon.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The snow is here.

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<v Speaker 1>The Great Holiday Escape is underway, and the weather's been

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<v Speaker 1>leading to some major problems on the highways. We have

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<v Speaker 1>a crash on the Turnpike in Auburn. We have traffic

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<v Speaker 1>everywhere and it's going pretty slowly. It'll get you caught

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<v Speaker 1>up on traffic and weather together in just a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of minutes. And there's going to be a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>traffic through the holiday season as Triple A is expecting

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<v Speaker 1>record travelers, projecting one hundred and nineteen million people will

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<v Speaker 1>travel fifty miles or more from home tomorrow and until

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<v Speaker 1>New Year's Day. Over seven million people will be flying,

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<v Speaker 1>but most travelers will be driving. They'll be treated to

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<v Speaker 1>the lower gas prices this year compared to last and

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<v Speaker 1>Triple as as those hitting the road should follow the

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<v Speaker 1>speed limit, void overnight drives, and expect some delays. If

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<v Speaker 1>you're flying today out of Boston, yeah, there are delays.

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<v Speaker 1>According to Flight to Where, there have been four hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and sixty four delayed flights over at Logan Airport today

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty six cancelations. The weather, of course not helping.

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year, so W The

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<v Speaker 1>bz's Kendall Bule last locals what days they're getting off.

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<v Speaker 2>With Chipley saying this weekend begins a record travel period.

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<v Speaker 2>I think everyone's on the cosp of a holiday break.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not what I found though, when I asked people

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<v Speaker 2>about it.

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<v Speaker 3>I do have to work next week.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't start Tell Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 2>You have working next week?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, I have to work next week.

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<v Speaker 5>For sure.

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<v Speaker 3>We got Christmas off, we celebrate Baby Jesus, and back

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<v Speaker 3>to reality we go.

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<v Speaker 2>And those aren't even the essential workers. I talked to

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<v Speaker 2>the first responders, hospital staff and others who work at jobs.

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<v Speaker 2>Were the doors never ever closed? Now, I will say this,

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<v Speaker 2>while the few people I spoke to for whom the

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<v Speaker 2>weekend is indeed the start of their holiday seemed extra giddy,

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<v Speaker 2>the ones who will be working don't seem to have

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<v Speaker 2>lost any of their Christmas time goodwill.

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<v Speaker 1>The holiday for me is what I make of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Kendall Bull WBSY Boston's news Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>My makers making a mad dash to try to put

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<v Speaker 1>together a government spending bill to pass the House following

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<v Speaker 1>yesterday's that was voted down.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, there is apparently a planned c in the works.

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<v Speaker 3>Democratic lawmakers like Representative Promila Jayapaul are pushing for the

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<v Speaker 3>House Speaker to put the original bipartisan stopgap funding deal

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<v Speaker 3>up for another vote.

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<v Speaker 2>He could grow a spine right now, ignore his puppeteers,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he could put this negotiated bill on the floor.

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<v Speaker 3>But Republican Anna Paulina Luna says, I'm not cutting.

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<v Speaker 6>Gild of Democrats.

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<v Speaker 3>We're going to work it out here. I do not

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<v Speaker 3>believe the government is going to be shutting down. Stacey Lynn,

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<v Speaker 3>CBS News Washington.

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<v Speaker 1>Number of Amazon delivery drivers are off the job right

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<v Speaker 1>now during the busiest time of the year.

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<v Speaker 6>Thousands of Amazon workers who belong to the Teamsters union.

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<v Speaker 6>They're on strike for a second day at seven of

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<v Speaker 6>the company's delivery hubs in New York, Georgia, Illinois, and California.

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<v Speaker 6>Justin Sharer is president of Teamster's Local seven eighty three

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<v Speaker 6>in Louisville, Kentucky.

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<v Speaker 7>It's about our workforce, and it's about improving this workforce.

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<v Speaker 3>This corporation has made billions, if not trillions, of dollars

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<v Speaker 3>on the backs of Labor.

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<v Speaker 6>Says the striking workers who are delivery drivers actually work

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<v Speaker 6>for a third party company. Jim Chrysilli Cibesta.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got these snow around. We have a winter weather

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<v Speaker 1>advisor until four o'clock in the morning, and we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to get varying amounts of snow falling and various amounts

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<v Speaker 1>of snow on the ground. By the time all this

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<v Speaker 1>said and done, one to three inches on average, but

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<v Speaker 1>there could be some locally higher amounts as this coastal

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<v Speaker 1>storm kind of gets revved up. It's not going to

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<v Speaker 1>hit us directly, but as you can see, it is

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<v Speaker 1>giving us a little wake up call. We'll have some

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<v Speaker 1>slippery conditions on the roads already due and that'll continue

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<v Speaker 1>into the evening. The snow will come to an end

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<v Speaker 1>and we'll just linger with some flurries tomorrow morning, and

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<v Speaker 1>then we'll get some sunshine to come through, but it

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<v Speaker 1>won't warm us some much. Thirty two is going to

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<v Speaker 1>do it for the high tomorrow real field temperatures with

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<v Speaker 1>the wind around mainly in the teens. Tomorrow night, it'll

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<v Speaker 1>be clear. It'll be cold fifteen in the city. Colder

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<v Speaker 1>than that maybe single digits in the suburbs and the

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<v Speaker 1>real fields below zero at times. Sunday, real fields in

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<v Speaker 1>the single digits. The sunshine will be out, but we'll

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<v Speaker 1>have blustery conditions. Temperatures load mid twenties downtown but probably

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<v Speaker 1>not getting out of the teens in many of the

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<v Speaker 1>coldest suburbs will be in the upper twenties with some sunshine. Monday.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, it's thirty five degrees in Boston. If you

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<v Speaker 1>haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, well you're certainly not

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<v Speaker 1>alan WBZ Sheerry Small as more.

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<v Speaker 4>Checking over that shopping list twice. If there are still

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<v Speaker 4>gifts to be bought, no sweat. You have this weekend

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<v Speaker 4>to get that done, but get ready for some big crowds.

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<v Speaker 4>This weekend is expected to be one of the busiest

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<v Speaker 4>times of the holiday shopping season, and there's no shortage

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<v Speaker 4>of spending this season. We're talking online and in stores.

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<v Speaker 4>In fact, the National Retail Federation predicting records spending, with

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<v Speaker 4>people on average spending more than nine hundred dollars on

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<v Speaker 4>holiday gifts. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>If you procrastinated then are scrambling to buy holiday presents,

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<v Speaker 1>There is still time to make those last minute purchases,

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<v Speaker 1>topping some gift lists this year, gifts that were also

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<v Speaker 1>popular decades ago. Rabbly Blackburn with more on how our

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<v Speaker 1>digital world has some staying power in the analog world.

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<v Speaker 5>Over the last eight years, vinyl album sales have grown

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<v Speaker 5>nearly three hundred percent, with nearly fifty million new records

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<v Speaker 5>sold in twenty twenty three.

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<v Speaker 1>CDs and even.

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<v Speaker 5>Cassettes are making a modest comeback as physical gifts you

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<v Speaker 5>can touch, and here.

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<v Speaker 6>We're hitting that point where people want to break from

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<v Speaker 6>just staring at the screen.

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<v Speaker 5>It's not just analog audio. At one of New York's

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<v Speaker 5>oldest toy shops, Mary Arnold Toys, many customers come in

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<v Speaker 5>asking for low tech gifts.

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<v Speaker 1>And according to Research and Markets, dot com board game

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<v Speaker 1>sales are expected to double in the coming years, reaching

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<v Speaker 1>more than forty billion dollars by twenty twenty nine. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you have a real Christmas tree? How's it holding up?

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<v Speaker 1>Bring Tennis tells us how to spruce it up?

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<v Speaker 7>Yarden Garden says, even if you do everything right, your

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<v Speaker 7>tree can stop drinking water and die. Experts say there's

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<v Speaker 7>hope to bring it back, but it's going to take

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<v Speaker 7>a bit of work because when the tree stops drinking water,

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<v Speaker 7>it's usually because sap is covering the bottom of the trunk.

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<v Speaker 7>They say, you need to pull that tree from its base,

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<v Speaker 7>give it a fresh cut, then back into the water.

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<v Speaker 7>Then you can clean up all the ornaments that dropped

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<v Speaker 7>on the floor. I'm Bree Tennis.

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