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

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<v Speaker 2>Well, good morning, and this is a switch. We've got

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<v Speaker 2>some rain here in Greater Boston this morning. It is

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<v Speaker 2>forty eight degrees out the door this Thursday. The News

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<v Speaker 2>at six is brought to us by your New England

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<v Speaker 2>Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 2>joining us today. I'm Jeff Brown. It's a super.

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<v Speaker 3>Soaker Friday today and increasingly windy with period the rain.

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<v Speaker 2>It will be steady as from late morning on the

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<v Speaker 2>hindiear fifty or as close as we're gonna get. That's

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<v Speaker 2>WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Showers could hang out with

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<v Speaker 2>us until early Saturday. We've seen fire and we've seen rain,

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<v Speaker 2>and today's rain is going to help, no doubt about that,

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<v Speaker 2>but won't put an end to severe drought in much

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<v Speaker 2>of Massachusetts. WBC's James Rojas is in Saugus.

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<v Speaker 3>The Fern and Castle Rock fires here at break Heart

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<v Speaker 3>have burned over forty acres combined now. Though it's not

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<v Speaker 3>exactly known how these fires started, the DCR Bureau of

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<v Speaker 3>Forest Fire Control says almost all fire activity is human

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<v Speaker 3>cost that being said because of the ongoing drought conditions,

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<v Speaker 3>the chance of lightning cost fires increases if there are

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<v Speaker 3>thunderstorms in the area. At the moment, there are over

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<v Speaker 3>twenty active brush fires and the Commonwealth with the largest

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<v Speaker 3>burning in Great Barrington with over eleven hundred acres scots

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<v Speaker 3>so far in Saugust. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news.

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<v Speaker 2>Radio officials in North Andover and Middleton have also declared

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<v Speaker 2>states of emergency as firefighters there have been working on

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<v Speaker 2>the flames for weeks on end. Again, some six hundred

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<v Speaker 2>brush fires have ignited in this historic drought since just

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<v Speaker 2>last month. In Massachusetts, New this morning, new Russia launches

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<v Speaker 2>an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine. It is the first

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<v Speaker 2>time that Russia has used such a powerful weapon in

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<v Speaker 2>its more than one thousand day war. The strike comes

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<v Speaker 2>after President Biden Grant's authority to use US made long

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<v Speaker 2>range missiles and land mines, and after Ukraine also fires

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<v Speaker 2>British made long range weapons this week as well. The

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<v Speaker 2>battles in the Middle East continue and now come with

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<v Speaker 2>a glimmer of hope.

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<v Speaker 4>US and Lebanese officials say progress has been made during

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<v Speaker 4>a second day of ceasefire talks in Beirut. US Special

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<v Speaker 4>Envoy Almos Holstein says the gaps are narrowing. Lebanon's chief

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<v Speaker 4>negotiators says the sides agree on eighty percent of the

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<v Speaker 4>US ceasefire proposal. Holstein now bringing the latest draft here

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<v Speaker 4>to Israel where home meet Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin

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<v Speaker 4>Natanya who I'm the new Defence Minister Jordana Miller, ABC

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<v Speaker 4>News Jerusalem.

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<v Speaker 2>For the second time this week, New England feels the

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<v Speaker 2>earth move under our feet. This time it's a two

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<v Speaker 2>point three magnitude earthquake. It rattles nerves and moods in Moodis, Connecticut,

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<v Speaker 2>about a half hour southeast of Hartford. This follows a

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<v Speaker 2>similar quake centered in Lunenburg earlier this week. No damage

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<v Speaker 2>reported in either, and it's Saudi Podner.

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<v Speaker 5>In Nashville, the Country Music Awards were headed out in Nashville. Cowboys,

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<v Speaker 5>Weather and that song Leather one Album of the Year

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<v Speaker 5>for Cody Johnson. He accepted the award this way on ABC.

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<v Speaker 6>There's very few.

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<v Speaker 1>Moments when in your career and when your life the

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<v Speaker 1>Rick Flair feels appropriate.

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<v Speaker 5>But Entertainer of the Year went to Morgan Wallen, though

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<v Speaker 5>he was not there. The show was hosted by Luke,

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<v Speaker 5>Brian Peyton Manning and Lady Wilson Matt Piper CBS News.

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<v Speaker 2>So here we go Thursday morning, a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>light rain and greater Boston. This is just the appetizer

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<v Speaker 2>because if you look at the radar, the main event

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<v Speaker 2>is still a couple of hours away, and it includes

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<v Speaker 2>some steadier and heavier rain. And if you scope out

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<v Speaker 2>and look at western New York, we're also seeing some

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<v Speaker 2>snow also, which could make its way into Massachusetts. It

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<v Speaker 2>is doubtful that we'll see manything more than just maybe

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of flakes in some of the elevated areas

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<v Speaker 2>throughout the day today, but this is certainly what we've

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<v Speaker 2>been waiting for. Some more steady rain is on the way.

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<v Speaker 2>Temperatures will struggle to get out of the forties today.

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<v Speaker 2>This will help and will put just a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>of a dent in the ongoing drought situation. Overnight tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>windy rain continues, temperatures will be really pretty steady in

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<v Speaker 2>the forties. Even Tomorrow looks like mostly cloudy with occasional

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<v Speaker 2>showers and some of these lingering showers will extend into

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<v Speaker 2>the early stages of the weekend as well. Next best

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<v Speaker 2>chance to see a return of the sunshine, though, is

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<v Speaker 2>coming up on Sunday. Right now, it's forty eight raining

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<v Speaker 2>lightly in Boston this morning six oh five. On this Thursday,

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<v Speaker 2>it's another date with the xbox for about ten thousand

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<v Speaker 2>students on the North Shore, and quite frankly, a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of them are getting tired of it. As teacher strikes

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<v Speaker 2>continue in three communities. But in Gloucester, if.

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<v Speaker 3>Management were to work with the deal on the table

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<v Speaker 3>and look at the numbers, it could have been struck

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<v Speaker 3>before dinner.

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<v Speaker 2>Teachers in Beverly and Marblehead still have some work to

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<v Speaker 2>do at the bargaining table as the pressure mounts.

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<v Speaker 4>Miss Nice.

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<v Speaker 7>Students in Marblehead February and April vacation are now at risk.

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<v Speaker 7>After the school committee talked about how to make up

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<v Speaker 7>the growing number of canceled school days.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, Queene can make a file of de season.

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<v Speaker 4>Until we know where we are.

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<v Speaker 7>Students never thought they'd be counting the days to go back.

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<v Speaker 3>It's time we go back to school.

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<v Speaker 2>It's time.

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<v Speaker 8>It just comes soon.

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<v Speaker 7>Ends teachers say they're willing to stay for as long

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<v Speaker 7>as it takes until a deal is reached.

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<v Speaker 2>Mis wbztvs Tammy Mutasa. Governor Mara Heally is now calling

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<v Speaker 2>on teachers and the school districts to work with a

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<v Speaker 2>renewed sense of urgency to get back to class. The

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<v Speaker 2>teachers' unions, by the way, continue to be hit with

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<v Speaker 2>daily progressive fines. It's the most wonderful time of the

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<v Speaker 2>year for Massachusetts. Former First Lady.

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<v Speaker 6>Lauren Baker got involved with the Wonderfund as a volunteer

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<v Speaker 6>and a board member when her husband, Charlie Baker was governor.

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<v Speaker 6>Now she's CEO of the private nonprofit that has a

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<v Speaker 6>deep commitment to children involved with the state, a commitment

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<v Speaker 6>that has an intense focus right now during the holiday season.

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<v Speaker 8>The Wonderfund tries to make sure at every single one

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<v Speaker 8>of those fifty thousand children engaged with DCF get a

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<v Speaker 8>holiday gift chosen specifically for them.

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<v Speaker 6>Social workers at DCF collect toy wish lists from thousands

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<v Speaker 6>of children, and that information is put on the Wonderfund website,

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<v Speaker 6>where donors can choose how they want to bring a

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<v Speaker 6>piece of Christmas into the lives of children who've had

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<v Speaker 6>it pretty rough from swampskat Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>And Elvis is back in the building. Costello is coming.

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<v Speaker 6>Soon skill.

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<v Speaker 1>The short run of dates kicks off in eastern Pennsylvania

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<v Speaker 1>on February nineteenth. From there, Costello stops in the Red Bank,

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<v Speaker 1>New Jersey, Fortsmouth in New Hampshire, and Woodstock, New York,

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<v Speaker 1>among other cities. The dates conclude in Chicago on March fourteenth.

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<v Speaker 1>For most of the show's Costello only performs with his

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<v Speaker 1>keyboardist Steve Naive. Tickets go on sale today. I'm Mark Mayfield.

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<v Speaker 2>Elvis Costello will also perform at the Cabinet Theater in

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<v Speaker 2>Beverly on Saturday, March first. You are now in the

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<v Speaker 2>loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ

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<v Speaker 2>News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ

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