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

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Speaker 2: We defining local.

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Speaker 3: News forty four degrees and rainy in Boston at four

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Speaker 3: o'clock in afternoon. I'm Kyle Bray. Thank you for joining us,

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Speaker 3: and here's what's happening. As war in the Middle East

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Speaker 3: rages on, President Trump vows to hit and obliterate Iranian

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Speaker 3: power plants if Iran doesn't open the strait of horror moves.

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Speaker 3: ABC's Patrick Reevel has more from Qatar.

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Speaker 4: We have countries bracing for President Trump's ultimatum threatening to

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Speaker 4: target Iran's power stations, its civilian power stations. The reason

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Speaker 4: countries are bracing here is because that will almost certainly

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Speaker 4: trigger a dramatic escalation in the energy crisis that is

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Speaker 4: already obviously very severe, because we will see we've already

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Speaker 4: seen Iran vow that if its power plants are struck,

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Speaker 4: it will attack energy facilities across the Gulf.

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Speaker 3: Here in the US, many people are looking for creative

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Speaker 3: ways to say that at the gas pump as the

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Speaker 3: war drives gas prices up. CBS News Boston's Paul Burton

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Speaker 3: spoke with drivers in Natick.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's up there, it's definitely up there.

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Speaker 6: Gas prices continue to rise, commuters are figuring out ways

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Speaker 6: to cut back on spending in order to save the course.

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Speaker 3: I'm worried about them going up, trying to think maybe

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Speaker 3: getting a different vehicle.

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Speaker 6: Triple A says, right now, the average price of gasoline

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Speaker 6: in the US is nearing four dollars a gallon, up

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Speaker 6: a dollar thirty since the war in Iran began. Leslie

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Speaker 6: Welch is on her way to work and tries to

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Speaker 6: find a shorter route every day to cut back on

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Speaker 6: the painful prices she's experiencing at the pump.

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Speaker 1: It impacts it quite a bit, right, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: think of maybe being able to work from home a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of days.

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Speaker 6: Eric Howland is a courier and says there's no way

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Speaker 6: for him to save on gas, costing me more.

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Speaker 5: To make deliveries and I'm not making more, so all right,

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Speaker 5: Hopefully it'll stop going down soon.

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Speaker 3: Triple A spokesperson Mark shield Drop says it's not just

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Speaker 3: the drivers that are seeing these problems. Service stations are

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Speaker 3: also fueling the pinch since the cost of fuel they're

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Speaker 3: buying has skyrocketed their suppliers. The trial of a Natic

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Speaker 3: engineer has been pushed back because of the war with Ron.

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Speaker 3: Mahdi Mohammed Sadigi is an Iranian national and naturalized US

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Speaker 3: citizen accused of plotting to illegally export sensitive technology to

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Speaker 3: an Iranian company. That company then made a navigation system

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Speaker 3: used in a deadly drone attack that killed three US

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Speaker 3: service members at a base in Jordan in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: The Globe reports that Sagadi's lawyers argued it would be

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Speaker 3: difficult to select an impartial jury for the trial because

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Speaker 3: of the ongoing conflict. The judge agreed and pushed the

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Speaker 3: trial back from next week to late June. It's time

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Speaker 3: now for a check of the four day WBZ ACI

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Speaker 3: weather forecast. Right now, we're seeing plenty of rain throughout

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Speaker 3: the state. Right now, the heaviest rain is making its

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Speaker 3: way closer and closer to four ninety five right now,

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Speaker 3: another patch is heading out to the ocean. Tonight, it'll

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Speaker 3: be overcast and breezy, with periods of rain changing to

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Speaker 3: a bit of wet snow towards daybreak. We'll have a

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Speaker 3: low of thirty three. Tomorrow, We'll have some wet snow

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Speaker 3: into mid morning with little or no accumulation. It'll be cloudy, blustery,

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Speaker 3: and colder, with an afternoon and even an evening snow

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Speaker 3: shower that can reduce visibility, but roads will remain mainly wet.

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Speaker 3: I have just thirty seven Tomorrow night, rather cloudy low

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Speaker 3: of thirty one. Tuesday, partly to mostly cloudy. It will

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Speaker 3: be brisk and chilly, with a high of forty three

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Speaker 3: before we warm up. On Wednesday, it'll be mostly cloudy

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Speaker 3: with a high of forty two. Right now in Boston,

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Speaker 3: we're seeing light rain and it is forty four degrees.

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Speaker 3: Women's sports is having its moment in Boston right now,

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Speaker 3: and a hotel bar is looking to capitalize on that.

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Speaker 3: Wbz's Emma Friedman has more.

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Speaker 1: Between Boston being home to the Fleet and recently welcoming

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Speaker 1: Boston Legacy FC. There's plenty of women's sports to catch

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Speaker 1: on TV, but it's not always the go to game

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Speaker 1: put on at the bar. So the Envoy Hotel in

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Speaker 1: Seaport wants to change that.

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Speaker 5: You can't understand what it's like to go watch women's

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Speaker 5: sports came until you realize that, wow, there is really nowhere.

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Speaker 5: So I do hope we see a lot of folks

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Speaker 5: coming to par Maria two six one at par Maria,

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Speaker 5: I should say to really take in the games, because

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Speaker 5: if you haven't watched a woman's sports game in the past,

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Speaker 5: they're great.

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Speaker 1: That's christ Amilia, the general manager here. He says the

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Speaker 1: hotel is turning its restaurant and bar into a pop

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Speaker 1: up sports bar concept where it's all about women's sports

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Speaker 1: on the screens. It's been temporarily renamed two six one

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Speaker 1: at Para Maria after the BIB number of an iconic

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Speaker 1: local legend, Katherine Switzer, whose photo is draped on the

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Speaker 1: wall thanks to the Boston Globe Archives.

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Speaker 5: Two six one at par Maria is the name of

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Speaker 5: the pop up really because of her. She's a first

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Speaker 5: femi athlete, being in Boston, the most well known marathon ever.

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Speaker 5: She has quite the story behind that experience.

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Speaker 1: I'll call it in the seaport. I'm a freedman. W

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Speaker 2: Stacy Line CBS.

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Speaker 3: News A longtime mysterious and famous street artist may have

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Speaker 3: been unmasked.

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Speaker 2: Banksy's mystique takes a hit after a report about his

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Speaker 2: real name. Now fans and experts are debating what that means.

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Speaker 2: Art dealers in London predict that demand for his work

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Speaker 2: and its top shelf prices will survive the unmasking. Some

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Speaker 2: fans say the reveal ruins the magic. Others say the

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Speaker 2: graffiti work still carries power, writers ties, its reporting to

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Speaker 2: pass clues and court records, and said naming Banksy, long

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Speaker 2: thought to have been born in England, Robin Gunningham, the

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Speaker 2: news agency says, changed his legal name to David Jones

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Speaker 2: is in the public interest. I'm Julie Walker.

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