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

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Speaker 2: Sixty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. There's been another US

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Speaker 2: strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs. Two people

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Speaker 2: killed in this attack.

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Speaker 3: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media quote, there

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Speaker 3: were two Narco terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike,

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Speaker 3: which was conducted in international waters. Both terrorists were killed

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Speaker 3: and no US forces were harmed in this strike. This

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Speaker 3: was the eighth strike against boats the administration says were

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Speaker 3: mostly from Venezuela and carrying illegal drugs to the US.

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Speaker 3: This latest attack was in the Pacific, all others were

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Speaker 3: in the Caribbean. In total, at least thirty four people

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Speaker 3: have been killed. Two survivors were sent to their home

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Speaker 3: countries of Columbia and Ecuador.

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Speaker 4: Linda Kenyon CBS News. The White House Vice President J. D.

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Speaker 4: Vancemintime seeking to publicly ease can concerns with Israel that

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Speaker 4: the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally

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Speaker 4: in the region. The Vice President, as well as Israeli

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Speaker 4: Prime Minister Benjamin Neckyahoo expressed sentiments in response to a

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Speaker 4: reporter's question and affirmed that the two countries were allies

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Speaker 4: and partners. Thep acknowledging that the road to a long

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Speaker 4: term piece is strewn with huge hurdles. On Friday, US

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Speaker 4: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet with

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Speaker 4: net Yahoo. Senator Corey Booker broke the modern record for

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Speaker 4: the Senate's longest speech six months ago. Now, another Democrat

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Speaker 4: has been speaking in Washington, launching accusations at the White House.

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Speaker 5: Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon used the National Guard push

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Speaker 5: in Portland as an example of what he called President

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Speaker 5: Trump shredding the Constitution.

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Speaker 6: If he can say to the American people that there

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Speaker 6: are riots, he can say there's a rebellion, and if

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Speaker 6: there's a rebellion, he can use that to strengthen his

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Speaker 6: authoritarian grip on our nation.

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Speaker 5: Fellow Democrats spelled Merkley Wednesday morning by asking their own

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Speaker 5: long questions. All of this is playing out government shutdowns

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Speaker 5: in its twenty second day. Brian Clark ABC News, one

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Speaker 5: of the country's largest retailers, reportedly has stopped hiring certain workers.

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Speaker 5: The Trump administration raised the fee for the H one

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Speaker 5: B visas that allow companies to hire certain skilled foreign workers.

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Speaker 5: Companies now must pay one hundred thousand dollars per visa application.

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Speaker 5: The White House says this is to shore up jobs

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Speaker 5: for Americans. Bloomberg reports that Walmart's now pausing hiring candidates

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Speaker 5: who need H one B visas. Government data in June

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Speaker 5: showed Walmart had more than twenty three hundred employees on

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Speaker 5: H one b's.

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Speaker 2: That's ABC's Brian clark Us think about inc. A Democratic

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Speaker 2: candidate for US Senator in Maine, says a tattoo on

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Speaker 2: his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an

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Speaker 2: image that's widely recognized as a Nazi symbol. Graham Plattner

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Speaker 2: says he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and seven, when he was in his twenties and

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Speaker 2: in the Marine Corps. He says until recently he was

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Speaker 2: unaware of the image had been associated with Nazi Police

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Speaker 2: on his campaign, initially said he would remove the tattoo,

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Speaker 2: He chose to cover it up with another tattoo due

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Speaker 2: to the limited options where he lives in rural Maine.

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Speaker 2: Platner is the first time political candidate and is mounting

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Speaker 2: a progressive campaign against Republican Susan Collins. The sun is

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Speaker 2: back out and the clear skies will be with us

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Speaker 2: as we head into the evening. It will be a

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Speaker 2: little chilly, though coldest inland suburbs into the thirties. Will

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Speaker 2: be in the mid to upper forties. Nearer to the

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Speaker 2: water at fifty or so over the Capan Islands. Sunshine

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Speaker 2: mixes with clouds. Tomorrow breezy sixty one for the high

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Speaker 2: partly cloudy into the thirties in the suburbs. Tomorrow night

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Speaker 2: in mid forties. Downtown. Friday and Saturday and Sunday for

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Speaker 2: that matter, will feature some sunshine, not a lot of warmth,

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Speaker 2: mainly in the fifties. Right now, it is sixty five

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Speaker 2: degrees in Boston. A local nonprofit getting a little more

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Speaker 2: space to save the Whales wbz's Hiles Shaffle has the Tails, a.

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Speaker 7: Group determined to save the whales, turns its eyes to

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Speaker 7: the north.

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Speaker 8: So we are expanding to include an additional around ninety

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Speaker 8: miles of coastline.

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Speaker 7: Caroline Ginther's with Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a group that

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Speaker 7: rescues and tracks whale and dolphins strandings all along the

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Speaker 7: Massachusetts coast. The new area will cover close to three

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Speaker 7: hundred miles of coastline.

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Speaker 8: We have seen an increase in strandings in cases throughout

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Speaker 8: the years.

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Speaker 7: The expansion comes out of perilous time for the ocean mammals.

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Speaker 7: Warming water off our coast is luring them into shipping

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Speaker 7: lanes and tricky shorelines. But there was a spot of

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Speaker 7: good news this week.

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Speaker 8: Any progress for the species is always encouraging and helps

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Speaker 8: us to keep going with a lot of hope.

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Speaker 7: Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales added eight more to

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Speaker 7: their number this last year, bringing the total tally up

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Speaker 7: to three hundred eighty four. Kyle Shaffel WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Taking a walk on a Wednesday. Well, I wasn't wind

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Speaker 2: so much as it was the rain this morning that

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Speaker 2: bet walkers in Mauldon. Wbz's James Rojas tagged along as

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Speaker 2: parents and kids walked to school.

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Speaker 1: When I was told walking Wednesdays would be half rain

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Speaker 1: or shine, I was hoping for the latter.

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Speaker 5: What a day to walk.

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Speaker 1: That's Allie Durak, president of Malden Safe Streets, who, along

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Speaker 1: with the Malden Salem Wood Family Teacher Organization launched this

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Speaker 1: walking school bus program.

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Speaker 8: It will look like a massive children The more the

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Speaker 8: more that people come, the better because safety in groups.

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Speaker 8: We want to make sure everybody feels safe as they're

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Speaker 8: walking together.

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Speaker 1: Our Meat is in the eighth grade and thinks this

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Speaker 1: could make getting to school a lot safer.

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Speaker 8: They could be cars not like waiting for you, so

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Speaker 8: they're just like kind of go that could be unsafe.

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Speaker 1: The hope is to get more parents and students signed up.

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Speaker 1: Not only at Salem would but every school in the

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Speaker 1: city in Maldon. James Rojas WBZ Boston SNOOS Radio.

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Speaker 2: Nothing like starting the day with some coffee. However, that

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Speaker 2: morning ritual of yours might be in danger next time

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Speaker 2: you pour yourself a cup of joe. Consider this.

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Speaker 9: A new report from the nonprofit industry watchdog Coffee Watch

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Speaker 9: underlines and ecological and agricultural irony. The more forests are

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Speaker 9: destroyed to grow coffee, the more the crops long term

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Speaker 9: prospects are jeopardized by changes in rainfall In southern Brazil,

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Speaker 9: Researchers say that has led to crop failures, lower yields,

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Speaker 9: and ultimately higher prices for consumers. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: There are all kinds of food competitions. A couple of

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Speaker 2: New Englanders or champs in one of them. The World

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Speaker 2: Food Championships were held this month in Indianapolis, and your

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Speaker 2: World Sandwich Champion is David Casey from Brockton, Rocky.

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Speaker 2: Jew and L from East Haven, Connecticut won the World

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Speaker 2: Noodle Championship. There were over four hundred teams competing with

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Speaker 2: competitions that also included bacon, barbecue, burgers, and desserts. Each

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Speaker 2: of the ten winning competitors head to the finals in

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