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Speaker 1: I've got some clouds in Boston thirty six degrees at

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Speaker 1: six o'clock. Good morning, Welcome. I'm Charlie Burger on the

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Speaker 1: News at six, brought to you by your New England

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Speaker 1: Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Is what's

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Speaker 1: going on the government releasing more Jeffrey Epstein files and

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Speaker 1: ABC's j O'Brien on material involving the convicted sex offenders

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Speaker 1: associate Elayne Maxwell Palm.

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Speaker 2: Beach police report that shows that West bomb Beach authorities

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Speaker 2: had looked into Glen Maxwell allegedly recruiting college students to

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Speaker 2: work for Epstein from a local college as early as

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Speaker 2: two thousand and one, and in that police report, it

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Speaker 2: says that at least two girls complained about Epstein touching

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Speaker 2: them inappropriately. It says that the girls said that there

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Speaker 2: were strange goings on I'm paraphrasing here at Epstein's home. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: police said that they didn't see anything illegal, but there

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Speaker 2: were some quote unquote strange acts going on there.

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Speaker 1: Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell back in

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Speaker 1: August of twenty nineteen. Maxwell is currently serving a twenty

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Speaker 1: year prison sentence in Texas and other newly released Epstein

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Speaker 1: documents have a local connection.

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Speaker 3: New details in the latest Epstein files connecting Jeffrey Epstein

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Speaker 3: to Harvard University. Documents show that Epstein donated two million

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Speaker 3: dollars to build the school's Hellal Center that still stands today,

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Speaker 3: but declined to put his name on the building. It

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Speaker 3: also details the six point five million dollars in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and three he donated to fund a particular professor's

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Speaker 3: research for evolutionary dynamics, that professor stating in the files

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Speaker 3: that there were no strings attached to this money. Another

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Speaker 3: document nam's former Harvard president Larry Summers as an executor

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Speaker 3: to Jeffrey Epstein's will, though it was later changed Amanda

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Speaker 3: Keen w BZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Another Massachusetts police officer has been decertified, the Massachusetts Peace

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Speaker 1: Officer Standards and Training Commission announcing yesterday former Stoton Deputy

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Speaker 1: police Chief Robert Devine can never work again as an

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Speaker 1: officer in the base day, The commission says Divine lied

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Speaker 1: about having a sexual relationship with Sandra Birchmore, who Divine

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Speaker 1: met when she was a teenager. Investigators say Divine used

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Speaker 1: a Facebook account under an alias to communicate with Birchmore.

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Speaker 1: Former officer Matthew Farwell is charged with killing Birchmore and

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Speaker 1: her unborn child. Divine has thirty days to begin an

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Speaker 1: appeal now to Whitman, where five people are hospitalized following

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Speaker 1: a crash involving a car and an ambulance. This was

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Speaker 1: at about eight o'clock last night at the intersection of

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Speaker 1: Temple and Bulah Streets. Hydraulic tools had to be used

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Speaker 1: to free a man and two children from the badly

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Speaker 1: damaged car. A driver and passenger in the ambulance were

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Speaker 1: heading to Brockton Hospital to return a piece of equipment

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Speaker 1: used during an earlier call. Because of the crash, remains

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Speaker 1: under investigation. Let's check the four day WBZ act You

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Speaker 1: weather forecast and Joe Lonberg says today will be cloudy, wendy,

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Speaker 1: maybe a snow flurry along the shoreline. The further south

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Speaker 1: you go, we'll see a rain snow mix, most notably

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Speaker 1: down on the cape in the Islands. High thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: Cloudy overnight to night. We brought back to twenty seven

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Speaker 1: for Christmas Day, more clouds than sun, a dry day,

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Speaker 1: good travel day, High forty one Friday sun clouds cold

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Speaker 1: on Friday, just twenty three for a high, and then

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Speaker 1: once we get into Friday night we get some snow

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Speaker 1: coming in. It will continue into Saturday morning. We're looking

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Speaker 1: right now in anywhere from one to three inches of

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Speaker 1: precipitation thirty six right now in Boston with clouds at

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Speaker 1: six h five. A theater that's almost one hundred years

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Speaker 1: old being pushed back under the stage lights. Here's wbz's

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Speaker 1: Kyles Schaffeld.

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Speaker 4: The Union Theater in Attleborough has been shuttered for some

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Speaker 4: twenty years, but it's poised for a comeback.

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Speaker 5: It was originally built as a warehouse in nineteen twenty five,

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Speaker 5: but then converted to a theater in nineteen twenty eight.

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Speaker 4: The local organization Illuminate Arts is spearheading the effort to

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Speaker 4: reopen the century old theater, which started out with vaudeville

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Speaker 4: axe and moved on to movies. Jennifer Keating is the

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Speaker 4: executive director. She says, thanks to the owners, the inside

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Speaker 4: of the theater doesn't actually look too bad.

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Speaker 5: So people think that they're coming into a theater that

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Speaker 5: is falling apart, but it's largely intact.

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Speaker 4: Keating says this was a gathering spot for generations abouteborough

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Speaker 4: residents and groups are lining up to perform there once it.

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Speaker 5: Opens, So we envision this space being a place for

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Speaker 5: the performing arts for sure, illuminate. This will be our

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Speaker 5: home base.

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Speaker 4: They've gathered together eight hundred grand, more than half of

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Speaker 4: what they need. Kyle Shaffle, WBS Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: The numbers higher than expected initial figures from the Bureau

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Speaker 1: of Economic Analysis showing gross domestic product rising at an

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Speaker 1: annual rate of four point three percent, but it's still

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Speaker 1: apparently not making most Americans feel any better ABC Selina Wang.

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Speaker 6: The polls show that many Americans do not feel like

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Speaker 6: the economy is in a good place. You know. Economists say, look,

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Speaker 6: there's a sentiment that people feel like if they're working,

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Speaker 6: it's really just going towards paying higher prices. But it's

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Speaker 6: not like they feel like they're getting ahead, you know.

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Speaker 6: Economous we spoke to said, look, there's this feeling that

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Speaker 6: people are spending more, not because they want to, but

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Speaker 6: because everything costs more. And so it's being described as

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Speaker 6: a very unequal economy where the rich are getting richer

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Speaker 6: and the poor are getting poorer. And for a lot

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Speaker 6: of people the sentiment is still in the dumps.

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Speaker 1: Consumer spending credited for much of the GDP increase, as

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Speaker 1: well as government spending and exports of US goods. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you are done with your shopping, good for you.

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Speaker 1: And if you bought toys this season, you paid a

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Speaker 1: pretty price.

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Speaker 7: Many toy wholesalers have raised prices by as much as

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Speaker 7: twenty five percent because of Trump administration tariffs, that in

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Speaker 7: turn has led to higher retail toy prices this holiday season.

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Speaker 7: Sherry Stone manages a toy store in North Carolina.

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Speaker 5: They tried to keep the price increases down if they could.

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Speaker 5: Some could not because some hadn't had price increases in

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Speaker 5: a couple of years, so once they were hit with

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Speaker 5: the tariffs, they had to pass.

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Speaker 4: It on to us.

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Speaker 7: A NERD Wallet survey filed the two thirds of people

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Speaker 7: expected to higher Christmas toy prices because of tariffs. Jim

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Speaker 7: chrys Ula, CBS News, Charlotte, North hero A Loine.

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Speaker 1: A judge on Cape cod denying emotion to dismiss a

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Speaker 1: felony charge in connection with a fire more than a

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Speaker 1: year ago in Yarmouthport. Jacob Ladner and Isabella Rose madeiras

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Speaker 1: facing several charges in connection with a fire that burned

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Speaker 1: Anthony's comequid into the ground. This was back in November

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. Their due back in court in

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Speaker 1: November for jury selection. You are now in the loop

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