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

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<v Speaker 2>Sonny and Cole. We're seeing forty degrees feels like twenty

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<v Speaker 2>two degrees in Boston. Nice to be with you on

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<v Speaker 2>this day after the storm, and again a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>you cleaning up and hearted work after yesterday's powerful storm

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<v Speaker 2>left the state with puddles big enough for fish to

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<v Speaker 2>swim around in and tree branches strewn across the roadways.

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<v Speaker 2>Boston saw more than two inches of torrential rain combined

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<v Speaker 2>with the wind, and the Ted Williams Tunnel turned into

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<v Speaker 2>a river after a pump failed and debre clogged a drain,

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<v Speaker 2>a nightmare ride for drivers in Boston. CBS News Boston's

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<v Speaker 2>Brandon Truett now with more than what happened around the area.

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<v Speaker 3>The strong downpours and when Gus caused significant travel troubles

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<v Speaker 3>in our area. Water puddled up on roadways, heavy pockets

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<v Speaker 3>of rain let to several crashes on the Pike. Hundreds

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<v Speaker 3>of Commuterel writers were stranded during the storm due to

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<v Speaker 3>power line issues, and at Boston's Logan Airport, a sea

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<v Speaker 3>of orange and red. The airport reporting roughly four hundred

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<v Speaker 3>delayed and one hundred canceled flights on Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, we're seeing total delays at Logan at seventy

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<v Speaker 2>two six cancelations, and we're whittling down our power outages

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<v Speaker 2>now in the hundreds, not in the thousands. And days

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<v Speaker 2>after he made the controversial decision to let his own

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<v Speaker 2>Sun off the hook, President Biden commutes the sentences of

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen hundred other people. CBS's Lenda Kenyon is at the

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<v Speaker 2>White House.

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<v Speaker 4>The largest single day active clemency in modern history has

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<v Speaker 4>gone to those released from prison and placed in home

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<v Speaker 4>confinement during the COVID pandemic. In addition, the president is

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<v Speaker 4>pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of non violent crimes. Pardons

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<v Speaker 4>are traditional at the end of presidential terms, but some

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<v Speaker 4>can be controversial, like the President's pardon of his son Hunter,

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<v Speaker 4>and Biden has been under pressure to issue preemptive part

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<v Speaker 4>for those who may be targeted for political retribution by

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<v Speaker 4>President elect Donald Trump. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.

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<v Speaker 2>Some colleges are trying to prepare their students for big changes.

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<v Speaker 2>On day one of President elect Donald Trump's second administration.

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<v Speaker 2>Simeus is Debora Ronriguez with that Harvard, Cornell, and USC

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<v Speaker 2>are among schools advising international students to make plans to

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<v Speaker 2>cut short winter breaks and return to campus before President

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<v Speaker 2>elect Trump is sworn in on January twentieth. During his

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<v Speaker 2>last administration, thousands were stranded when mister Trump imposed restrictions

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<v Speaker 2>on entry into the US from seven majority Muslim countries.

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<v Speaker 2>Later in his term, he added more countries to the list.

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<v Speaker 2>Colleges are also warning all students to be prepared for

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<v Speaker 2>possible delays at the border and for processing paperwork. Deborah

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<v Speaker 2>Rodriguez CBS News. Concession workers at TD Garden are planning

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<v Speaker 2>a strike vote this weekend. Some six hundred workers say

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<v Speaker 2>they're really concerned the venue has moved toward more self

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<v Speaker 2>checkout kiosk, and while the prize of a beer cup

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<v Speaker 2>has gone up over the years, their pay hasn't. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>seeing some snow flurries crossing from New Hampshire into Massachusetts

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<v Speaker 2>right now. This is north of Leminster just a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit and this is not the forecast, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's that time of years, very cold out there. It

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<v Speaker 2>feels like we're in the twenties right now. We're really

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<v Speaker 2>seeing forty one degrees in places like Broughton and Boston.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's that win some gus to thirty five miles

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<v Speaker 2>an hour, Starlett Tonight, the real Temp twenty five, the

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<v Speaker 2>real feel well below that Friday, lots of sun High

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<v Speaker 2>thirty four and b s. This is what former US

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<v Speaker 2>attorney Rachel Rawlins calls the corruption charges against Boston City

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<v Speaker 2>Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson. On a live stream with Boston

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<v Speaker 2>City Councilor Julia Mahea, Rawlins criticized the tactics of federal

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<v Speaker 2>prosecutors who brought the corruption charges against the city councilwoman.

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<v Speaker 2>Rawlins believe that prosecutors used questionable legal maneuvers to establish

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<v Speaker 2>federal jurisdiction.

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<v Speaker 4>So because Citizens Bank, even though you came to Citizens

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<v Speaker 4>Bank in Boston, they didn't go to Rhode Island. Citizens

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<v Speaker 4>is based in Rhode Island, so it's federal.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's when she called the maneuver bull expletive. You

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<v Speaker 2>can fill in the blank. Fernandez Anderson is accused of

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<v Speaker 2>giving a staffer a thirteen thousand dollars bonus and a

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<v Speaker 2>kickback scheme in the bathroom. Rollins resigned as US attorney

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty three after two government watchdogs found that

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<v Speaker 2>she violated ethical standards and misused the power of her

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<v Speaker 2>office and updating this story. An American walks free after

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<v Speaker 2>months of captivity under the Assaud regime in Syria, but

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<v Speaker 2>he's not the one that American officials were hoping to

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<v Speaker 2>find or expecting to find. ABC Shannon Kingston.

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<v Speaker 1>Travis P. Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary

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<v Speaker 1>earlier this year, has been identified in Syria. He was

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<v Speaker 1>Officials say they're offering support and that they weren't aware

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<v Speaker 1>he was in the country before now. Videos of Timmerman

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<v Speaker 1>circulating online initially claimed to show another American journalist, Austin Tice,

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<v Speaker 1>who was kidnapped in Syria twelve years ago. Shannon Kingston

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<v Speaker 1>ABC News the State Department.

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<v Speaker 2>In New Hampshire vandals shattered Satanic statue on the state

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<v Speaker 2>House lawn. Authorities tell The Eagle Tribune the Satanic temple

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<v Speaker 2>legally obtained a permit before placing that figure next to

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<v Speaker 2>the Nativity scene. State Rebellen Reed was the one originally

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<v Speaker 2>reached out to the tempile in a move she thought

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<v Speaker 2>would encourage diversity, but the mayor says he opposes the permit.

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<v Speaker 2>He does agree that vandalism has no place in conquered

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