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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Seventy nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Sosville. Here's what's happening right on schedule. The

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Speaker 2: MBTA responds to demands by the Trump administration. WBZ Sherry

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Speaker 2: Small has.

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Speaker 3: That Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that federal funding could

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Speaker 3: be cut if the TEA didn't outline its steps by crime,

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Speaker 3: vagrancy and fare dodgers. This past Thursday was the deadline

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Speaker 3: to respond, and respond they did. In a letter. General

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Speaker 3: Manager Philip Banks cited progress, saying that the TEA is

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Speaker 3: hired more than one thousand workers in a year, increased

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Speaker 3: transit police staffing, and put over a half billion dollars

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Speaker 3: into security infrastructure since twenty twelve, and ang says reported

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Speaker 3: crime is down sixteen percent compared to last year. The

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Speaker 3: Trump administration raised concerns after a recent violent incidence on

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Speaker 3: the TEA. The NBTA says it will keep working with

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Speaker 3: state and federal partners to deliver safe, reliable service. Sherry

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Speaker 3: Small WBC Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: One of the incidents that led to the Trump administration's

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Speaker 2: demands was the case of a woman accused of pushing

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Speaker 2: an elderly woman off an MBTA bus in Roxbury last month.

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Speaker 2: That woman has agreed to a plea deal. CBS News

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Speaker 2: Boston's Lisa Hughes has details.

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Speaker 4: Louis Pineda resolved the case against her chishob the sixty

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Speaker 4: three year old woman after an argument and the woman

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Speaker 4: suffered a concussion. The judge ordered Pinta to serve three

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Speaker 4: months of house arrest and stay off the MBTA. If

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Speaker 4: she stays out of trouble for two years, this case

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Speaker 4: against her will be dropped.

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Speaker 2: Pigneda's attorney says she lost her composure on the way

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Speaker 2: home from a medical appointment for her child and regrets

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Speaker 2: her actions. A stalemate in the Senate means the government

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Speaker 2: shutdown will stretch into next week. CBS's Willie james Inman

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Speaker 2: has more from the White House.

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Speaker 1: Democrats want more healthcare funding, including an extension of Affordable

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Speaker 1: Care Act tax credits. My caucus and Democrats are adamant

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Speaker 1: that we must protect the healthcare of the American people.

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled plans for the Chamber to

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Speaker 1: return to Washington next week, a move that effectively puts

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Speaker 1: pressure on the Senate to act. House will come back

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Speaker 1: into session and do its work as soon as Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer allows us to reopen the government.

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Speaker 4: That's plain and simple.

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Speaker 2: While federal workers remain furloughed the White House's floating possible

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Speaker 2: mass firings. Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker says he received a

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Speaker 2: word today that the Trump administration plans to federalize three

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Speaker 2: hundred members of the Illinois National Guard. He did not

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Speaker 2: specify when or where the troops would be deployed, but

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Speaker 2: President Trump has long threatened to send troops into Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Pritzker is calling the move absolutely outrageous and un American. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration claims the deployment of National Guard troops

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Speaker 2: is necessary to crack down on crime and violence in

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Speaker 2: major cities. Mainly clear skies Tonight, low fifty nine, mostly sunny.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow high seventy six. Monday, again mostly sunny and warm,

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Speaker 2: with a high of eighty. On Tuesday, pretty much the same,

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Speaker 2: mostly sunny with a high near eighty, but clouds do

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Speaker 2: move in later in the day, with showers likely at night.

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Speaker 2: Right now in Boston, it's sunny and seventy nine degrees

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Speaker 2: and Attleborough Food Pantry is making changes amid rising grocery

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Speaker 2: costs and concerns about food assistance programs during the government

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Speaker 2: shut down. CBS News Boston Samantha Cheney has more, we just.

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Speaker 1: Have a high demand here.

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Speaker 5: For years, the Hebron Food Pantry has been serving thousands

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Speaker 5: of families in need.

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Speaker 4: Currently, we serve over eight hundred appointments every single.

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Speaker 5: Week October thirteenth, that's changing.

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Speaker 1: Next week is the.

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Speaker 5: Regular weekly shop, and then on we'll go into every

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Speaker 5: other week. Ladies, take all the red you want today.

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Speaker 5: Heather Parka, the pantry's president, tells me they're switching from

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Speaker 5: weekly to bi weekly appointments with hopes of addressing a

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Speaker 5: rising demand. And we currently have an unprecedented two hundred

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Speaker 5: person strong waitlist, and we need to get those families.

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Speaker 1: In to the pantry and get them.

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Speaker 5: The help that they need. Three days into the government

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Speaker 5: shut down, she says that need has become even more clear.

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Speaker 2: The food pantry is concerned about its USDA sources and

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Speaker 2: being able to get food if the government shut down

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Speaker 2: is prolonged. More than twelve thousand elderly and disabled patients

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Speaker 2: will reportedly experience disruptions in their healthcare starting next year.

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Speaker 2: The Globe says primary care doctors connected to Beth Israel

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Speaker 2: Leahy Health are losing their in network status because of

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Speaker 2: changes in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Medicare Advantage

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Speaker 2: PPO plan. Blue Cross recently informed patients enrolled in the

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Speaker 2: plan that they would need to change insurance plans, find

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Speaker 2: new primary care doctors, or pay higher out of network

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Speaker 2: costs to see doctors who are part of Beth Israel

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Speaker 2: Lahy Health Performance Network. The new policy goes into effect

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Speaker 2: on January first. You are now in the loop for

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