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

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Speaker 2: News fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Oh, some major issues

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Speaker 2: on the south bound Expressway the Sac to Do and

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Speaker 2: there's a multi vehicle crash that's taking out the two

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Speaker 2: left hand lanes near Columbia Road. It's caused on all

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Speaker 2: kinds of problems. I want to get to the heads

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Speaker 2: up on this a little early. We'll have a full

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Speaker 2: report from Gina ted Pesta coming up in three minutes.

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Speaker 2: With traffic on the threes. President Trump's done messing around.

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Speaker 2: He is on the verge of ordering the response to

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Speaker 2: violence and protests in Minnesota and taking that response to

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Speaker 2: the next level. The President's threatening to invoke the Insurrection

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Speaker 2: Act and slams protesters and Minnesota politicians who he claims

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Speaker 2: are causing a travesty.

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Speaker 3: President Trump said on social media, how institute the Insurrection

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Speaker 3: Act to quote quickly put an end to what he

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Speaker 3: calls a travesty in Minnesota. The Insurrection Act gives the

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Speaker 3: president the power to deploy the military and federalized National

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Speaker 3: Guard troops. It hasn't been used since nineteen ninety two

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Speaker 3: in response to the riots in la following the acquittal

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Speaker 3: of police officers in the beating of Rodney King, but

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Speaker 3: that was at the request of the California governor. The

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Speaker 3: president last year threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in

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Speaker 3: response to protests over immigration and pushback from Democratic state officials.

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Speaker 3: Karen Travers ABC News the White House President.

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Speaker 2: Trump meeting with the Venezuelan opposition leader of this afternoon,

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Speaker 2: Maria Karna Maduro, was widely believed to have won the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four election before being rejected by then President

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Speaker 2: Nicholas Maduro. He was captured by the United States military

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Speaker 2: earlier this month. Gera was meeting with Trump this afternoon,

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Speaker 2: despite the fact that he signaled that he is willing

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Speaker 2: to work with the acting president. Aram's crackdown on anti

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Speaker 2: government protesters is still a top concern for the president.

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Speaker 4: White House Press Secretary of Caroline Lovettz says President trumple

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Speaker 4: Leif's diplomacy is still the first option with Iran, much

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Speaker 4: she says he doesn't rule out US military intervention.

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Speaker 5: One thing President and Trump is very good at is

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Speaker 5: always keeping all of his options on the table and

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Speaker 5: air stripes.

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Speaker 6: Would be one of the many, many options that are

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Speaker 6: on the table for the commander in chief.

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Speaker 4: Levitt Spokamid reports Iran has halted its threat to execute

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Speaker 4: protesters through hangings, although it is estimated in Ron's crackdown

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Speaker 4: on anti government demonstrations has killed more than two thousand protesters.

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Speaker 4: Linda Kenyon, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: The White House with no clear cut answers to the

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Speaker 2: Greenland issue. There's now action by Europe in the Danish territory.

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Speaker 7: Denmark, at at least four of its European allies are

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Speaker 7: scrambling troops to Greenland in what for now is a

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Speaker 7: largely symbolic gesture. They're deploying ahead of a joint exercise

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Speaker 7: that'll involve small numbers of unarmed or lightly armed personnel

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Speaker 7: from Germany, Norway, Sweden, and France. Canada and the Netherlands

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Speaker 7: may also participate. Russia has already expressed its concern about

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Speaker 7: these deployments of NATO members. Vicki Barker CBS News.

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Speaker 2: Before to a WS active weather forecast, the cold air

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Speaker 2: is coming. It is already in Massachusetts. It's just hanging

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Speaker 2: out in western mass in the Berkshires. I don't know

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Speaker 2: maybe skiing, who knows, but nonetheless it's heading in our direction,

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Speaker 2: and by later tonight we're going to be the twenties

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Speaker 2: even in Boston, probably twenty three downtown, but perhaps some

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Speaker 2: upper teens in some of the very coldest spots. The

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Speaker 2: wind will get you too, as we'll have real field

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Speaker 2: temperatures in the teens and single digits. Sunshine mixing with

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Speaker 2: clouds Tomorrow with a breeze will be colder than thirty four,

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Speaker 2: will feel like we're in the twenties. Some clouds around

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow night. There'll be a little bit of light snow

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Speaker 2: that may get in here overnight and toward dawn Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Not much in the way of accumulations, though there could

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Speaker 2: be just enough of a coating because some slippery spots

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Speaker 2: loast Tomorrow night in the upper twenties, cloudy, not as

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Speaker 2: cold on Saturday, with a bit of wet snow mixing

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Speaker 2: with or changing to some rain. Temperatures in the low forties.

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Speaker 2: The clouds around on Sunday will be near forty. A

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Speaker 2: coastal storm's passing out to sea, but it could get

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Speaker 2: close enough to throw back a little bit of snow

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Speaker 2: in our direction. Sunday night right now, we're at fifty degrees.

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Speaker 2: See in Boston, sometimes when you fly places there are

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Speaker 2: no frills on the airline. In the future, a Boston

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Speaker 2: aviation company thinks there might be no pilots.

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Speaker 1: A Boston AI aviation startup is soon going public. Merlin

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Speaker 1: Labs is developing software to fly planes with less and

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Speaker 1: eventually no human input.

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Speaker 6: The best way to think about what we're building is

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Speaker 6: a pilot, just not a human one. So taking everything

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Speaker 6: that's happening in a pilot's brain putting that into software.

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Speaker 1: Matthew George is the CEO. He says the early application

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Speaker 1: is to help fly US Air Force planes with fewer pilots,

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Speaker 1: but eventually the goal is to be flying cargo and

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Speaker 1: then commercial jets with no human pilot at all. He

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Speaker 1: acknowledged that last possibility was not going to happen anytime soon,

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Speaker 1: but I asked him, if we really thought people would

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Speaker 1: be comfortable flying on a fully automated plane, we had.

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Speaker 6: To elevator operators for a very, very long time until

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Speaker 6: people got comfortable with the technology.

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Speaker 1: He says. Part of why they're developing this tech is

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Speaker 1: the higher modern demand for travel and instant online commerce.

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Speaker 6: We need to be able to move more things by air,

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Speaker 6: and we're not producing more pilots.

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Speaker 1: The industry is facing a shortage right now. Kyle Schaffel,

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Speaker 1: Busy Boston's News Radio, time to fast your vote. Not

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Speaker 1: for any leader, it's but for signs leading folks around

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Speaker 1: Logan Airport. Overhead signage needs an upgrade in Massport wants

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Speaker 1: the public's help picking some new layouts. Rich Davy, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Massport, says we're continuing to roll out improvements

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Speaker 1: across Boston Logan and new fresher signage will make it

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Speaker 1: easier than ever for travelers to find their way and

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Speaker 1: enjoy a comfortable, more seamless airport experience. Way finding signage

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Speaker 1: is being voted on at fly Logan on Instagrams, where

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Speaker 1: you can vote in the survey for the traveling public.

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Speaker 1: Starting January twentieth, staff will be in the terminals with

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Speaker 1: tablets to get thoughts on signs.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get away from it all, this

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Speaker 2: could be for you. And when I say it all,

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Speaker 2: I mean get away from Earth. Perhaps a chance for

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Speaker 2: an out of this world vacation.

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Speaker 5: No dates yet, but you can plunk down a depositive

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Speaker 5: between two hundred and fifty thousand and a million bucks

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Speaker 5: to secure a spot in the first Space hotel sounds

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Speaker 5: crazy for the company, called grow Space Projects.

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Speaker 8: It could be built in the next six years. They

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Speaker 8: say the first rooms will be inflatable and sleep four guests. Eventually,

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Speaker 8: they say they want to replace it with something made

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Speaker 8: out of lunar bricks and modeled after the fancy San

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Speaker 8: Francisco Palace of Fine Arts Chris Mavrudi's CBS News.

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Speaker 2: For that price, I better get free breakfast. You are

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