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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good

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<v Speaker 1>morning Friday. Finally it is six o'clock here in Boston

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<v Speaker 1>and we're starting to see these overnight clouds break up.

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<v Speaker 1>The showers now largely out of the way for us,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're getting started this Friday at sixty three degrees.

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<v Speaker 1>The News at six brought to us by You're a

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<v Speaker 1>New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, I'm Jeff Brown's gonna kind of feel like

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<v Speaker 1>summer today, well Ham dinnibals of clowns and sunshine with

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<v Speaker 1>a high of seventy six, and it is WBZ Achi

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<v Speaker 1>weather meteorologist Heather's are beautiful weekend on the way as well. Meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>a monster on the move. Reality is a storm of

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<v Speaker 1>this magnitude. You know, it leaves a lot of damage

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<v Speaker 1>in its way. That is Florida Governor Ron de Santa says.

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<v Speaker 1>Hurricane Helene becomes the first Category four storm to hit

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<v Speaker 1>Florida's Big Bend region. Ever, it's now been downgraded to

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<v Speaker 1>tropical storm status. Is it barrels through Georgia. Search and

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<v Speaker 1>rescue teams, including from Massachusetts, are starting to fan out.

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<v Speaker 2>They're on the ground in North Carolina waiting for commands

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<v Speaker 2>from local officials to head south or help out there.

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<v Speaker 3>The team is capable of doing heavy rescue, swift water rescue,

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<v Speaker 3>stillwater rescue search.

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<v Speaker 2>That's po Thomas Kazunis. He says his team got activated

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<v Speaker 2>this week and forty five members from across New England

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<v Speaker 2>left from Beverly in a matter of hours. With heavy wins,

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<v Speaker 2>flash floods and over a foot of rain in the forecast.

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<v Speaker 2>They're ready to go no matter the situation.

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<v Speaker 3>The level of knowledge and expertise not only from the

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<v Speaker 3>Massachusetts team, but really from all of the FREEMA teams,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, it goes into the hundreds of thousands of

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<v Speaker 3>hours of training.

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<v Speaker 2>Thomas says, the team could be gone for two weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe more. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 1>And they've got their work cut out for them too.

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<v Speaker 1>Some two and a half million people are without electricity

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<v Speaker 1>throughout the southeast this morning. Well, this is being called

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<v Speaker 1>a game change, or even by medical professionals. The FDA

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<v Speaker 1>grants approval to the first medicine to treat schizophrenia in

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<v Speaker 1>forty years. Koebenfe is unique in that it treats the

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<v Speaker 1>paranoia and hallucination symptoms without the worst of the side

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<v Speaker 1>effects like weight gain. Experts say they hope this new

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<v Speaker 1>drug from Bristol Meyers Squib will address some of the

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<v Speaker 1>most harmful aspects of the condition, like the lack of

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<v Speaker 1>motivation and the inability to feel joy. It's the Red

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<v Speaker 1>Sox final homestand this weekend they finish up the regular

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<v Speaker 1>season with a three game series at Fenway against the

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<v Speaker 1>Rays for the twenty first time. The New York Yankees

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<v Speaker 1>clinch the American League East, and Week four in the

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<v Speaker 1>NFL is underway. Here goes Lamb. You get spring only

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<v Speaker 1>inside see Lamb. That's out. Al Michael's the call on

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<v Speaker 1>Amazon Primes, the Cowboys beat the Giants. The Patriots will

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<v Speaker 1>be in San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. The power of

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<v Speaker 1>the power nap comes with a word of warning, Oh great, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you're still VC strew moh good morning.

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<v Speaker 3>And good morning.

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<v Speaker 4>Jeffy has good news for the health. One third of

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<v Speaker 4>us will nap during our time off. That helps the mood,

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<v Speaker 4>the attitude, and the creativity. Job site Monster does say, though,

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<v Speaker 4>all that napping cuts into our fun. That's obvious, right,

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<v Speaker 4>But because we don't have enough fun on the weekends,

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<v Speaker 4>that's what leads to the Sunday scaries. I quit no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 4>I quit no, nope, I quit no, I don't. It's

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<v Speaker 4>not so much the monday work. The researchers founded is

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<v Speaker 4>the reality that sleep is more important than having a blast.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 1>I love the nap, a daily nap. It's good for

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<v Speaker 1>eat it. Waking up under partly cloudy skies this morning

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<v Speaker 1>in Boston. It is sixty three degrees right now here

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<v Speaker 1>in the city. It's going to be a nice day today.

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<v Speaker 1>The overnight showers and clouds have started to break up.

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<v Speaker 1>They'll be out of the way for us throughout the

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<v Speaker 1>day today, mix of clouds and sun let's call it.

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<v Speaker 1>Temperature is going to be well into the seventy so

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<v Speaker 1>finally we take a little bit of return back to

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<v Speaker 1>summer today. It's gonna feel that warm, nice this afternoon.

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<v Speaker 1>Some clouds on the increase overnight tonight. Low's dropping back

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<v Speaker 1>into the fifties. Typical pattern where we have warm sunshine

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<v Speaker 1>during the day and cool, comfortable nights. A weekend looks

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<v Speaker 1>like it's going to be great mixture of clouds and

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<v Speaker 1>sun both Tomorrow and Sunday daytime highs in the sixties

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<v Speaker 1>and lower seventies, and it looks like a great stretch

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<v Speaker 1>of weather is going to continue into the new work

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<v Speaker 1>week next week. Right now, it's sixty three partly cloudy

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<v Speaker 1>in Boston six oh five on this Friday morning. More

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<v Speaker 1>no smoking signs are starting to go up, this time

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<v Speaker 1>on the North Shore.

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<v Speaker 5>It started with Brooklines, spread to other towns, and now

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<v Speaker 5>Peabody is the latest looking at a potential generational tobacco ban.

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<v Speaker 5>Simply put, it would ban people born after a certain

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<v Speaker 5>date from buying tobacco within the city limits. For Peabody,

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<v Speaker 5>that date would be January first, two thousand and four. Now,

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<v Speaker 5>while this policy is catching on with local boards of health,

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<v Speaker 5>has an idea to stomp out smoking habits, convenience stores

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<v Speaker 5>and other retailer saying it does nothing but hurt their

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<v Speaker 5>businesses and people will just hop over to another town

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<v Speaker 5>to buy their smokes. Also, not every city in town

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<v Speaker 5>proposing the ideas rubber stamping it. Medford recently decided to

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<v Speaker 5>shelve the idea. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been said that drastic times, call for drastic measures.

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<v Speaker 1>The leaders of America's shipping ports are calling on the

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<v Speaker 1>NLRB to force the Longshoreman's Union to go back to

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<v Speaker 1>the bargaining table as workers at dozens of ports from

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<v Speaker 1>Boston to the Gulf of Mexico threatened to go on strike.

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<v Speaker 1>They are accused of bad faith bargaining. The union and

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<v Speaker 1>the US Maritime Alliance have not discussed a contract for months.

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<v Speaker 1>The union says it wants an eighty percent increase and

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<v Speaker 1>if they don't get what they want, some forty five

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<v Speaker 1>thousand are threatening to walk off the job just after

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<v Speaker 1>midnight on Tuesday morning. This is an apology centuries in

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<v Speaker 1>the making. California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that

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<v Speaker 1>formally acknowledges the state was complicit in slavery in the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteenth century by enforcing segregationist policies against the black population.

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<v Speaker 1>While the new law atones for or past sins, it

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<v Speaker 1>stops short of lawmakers' plans to pay restitution. California, by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, was the first state in the nation to

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<v Speaker 1>explore the payment of reparations. New York City Mayor Eric

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<v Speaker 1>Adams is headed to federal court in Manhattan today, New

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<v Speaker 1>York City's first mayor to ever face a federal indictment

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<v Speaker 1>while in office. He is accused of taking bribes, mainly

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<v Speaker 1>in the form of luxury vacations from the Turkish government,

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<v Speaker 1>in exchange for access to his political influence. Adam says

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<v Speaker 1>he's innocent and begs of his constituents to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>his side of the story. Prosecutors say he not only

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<v Speaker 1>accepted the bribes, but then tried to cover them up

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<v Speaker 1>by hiding the gifts or making it look like he

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<v Speaker 1>paid for them. Adam says he will not resign. Governor

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<v Speaker 1>Kathy Hochel is the only one who has the power

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<v Speaker 1>to remove him from office. You are now in the loop.

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