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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news thirty eight degrees in Boston at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock at afternoon, and thanks for joining us. I'm

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Sasville. Here's what's going on. Boston comes together for

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Speaker 2: one of its largest events of the year, the Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's Day Parade. W b z's Hyle Shaffle has more

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Speaker 2: from Southee.

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Speaker 1: The crowd of the Saint Patti's Day Parade is a

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Speaker 1: minefield for a broadcaster. Even asking someone where they're from

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Speaker 1: is risky.

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Speaker 3: I can't swear no all right, Broxton, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Drunk people get really chatty when they see a microphone.

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Speaker 1: And I've been mobbed more than once, which generally happens

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Speaker 1: like this news.

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Speaker 4: What's up, guys ahead.

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Speaker 1: Officials were prepared for about a million people on the

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Speaker 1: parade route and things have been wild. Parade is running

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Speaker 1: in reverse this year, but Broadway was still absolutely jammed.

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Speaker 1: When they weren't screaming, I asked people in the crowd

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Speaker 1: what they were hoping to do today with our friends. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some people had time to get all their answers straight. Hello, Hi, Hi,

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Speaker 1: drinking the entire time or no? No, of course, Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: what's the goal for the day? What do you guys

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Speaker 1: want to do?

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Speaker 2: Five?

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Speaker 1: Everybody has the same Kyle Shaffle WZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: As the cleanup crews work their way through the Southeast streets,

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Speaker 2: businesses are starting to close up shop. Package stores are

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Speaker 2: done for the day, and bars can cannot let new

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Speaker 2: customers in after six thirty pm. All bars need to

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Speaker 2: be cleared out by seven point thirty. The MBTA taking

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Speaker 2: several steps to handle the increased ridership for today's parade.

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Speaker 2: Free shuttle bus service from South Station to South Boston

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Speaker 2: ends at five pm, but the Red Line will continue

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Speaker 2: operating on rush hour service until six pm. Gulf States

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Speaker 2: intercept new air attacks as Iran threatens to widen the

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Speaker 2: war in the Middle East. The apie's Julie Walker has

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Speaker 2: the latest.

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Speaker 5: Gulf States are reporting new missile and drone attacks after

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Speaker 5: Tehran threatened to wide in its campaign and called for

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Speaker 5: the evacuation of three major ports in the UAE. Iran

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Speaker 5: says the US is attacking from the UAE. The country

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Speaker 5: also continues launching missiles and drones at Israel, as Israel

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Speaker 5: and the US keep up the assault on Iran. On Saturday,

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Speaker 5: a missile struck a helipad inside the US embassy compound

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Speaker 5: in Baghdad. President Trump has said the US destroyed military

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Speaker 5: sites on carg Island and warned that its oil infrastructure

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Speaker 5: could be next. I'm Julie Walker.

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Speaker 2: President Trump has called on other nations to help secure

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Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz, the key shipping lane for much

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Speaker 2: of the world's oil. ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge has more.

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Speaker 4: In Some countries which have friendly relationships with the uranium

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Speaker 4: regime have actually been allowed by the Uranians to pass

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Speaker 4: specific ships through the Strait of Hormos at India, Turkey.

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Speaker 4: So you know, at the moment, Iran is only closing

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Speaker 4: that Strait of Hormuz to the US and its allies.

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Speaker 2: The war in the Middle East has caused gas prices

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Speaker 2: to spike. At Triple A says the national average for

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Speaker 2: a gallon of regular gas is three sixty nine. In Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: the average is three fifty three. The forecast cloudy with

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Speaker 2: rain overnight, will see a low of thirty seven, cloudy, windy,

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Speaker 2: an occasional rain tomorrow, but much warmer with the high

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Speaker 2: of sixty two, more rain and even a thunderstorm Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's day partly sunny but turning colder again with

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Speaker 2: a higher forty five and done. Wednesday even colder with

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Speaker 2: increasing clouds, high just thirty six. Right now in Boston,

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Speaker 2: it's mostly cloudy and thirty eight degrees. A flight out

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Speaker 2: of Logan gets us scare while on the way to Florida.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Julie McDonald has that.

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Speaker 6: Spartan sura for you. Saint Lucient County Sheriff offs understand

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Speaker 6: that we're in Via Beach.

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Speaker 4: There is a law enforcement issue.

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Speaker 6: We were going to bring a canine on board.

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Speaker 7: After an uneventful flight from Boston, Jet Blue passengers landing

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Speaker 7: in Vero Beach, Florida became confused and concerned. They could

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Speaker 7: see the airport, but they weren't allowed to get off.

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Speaker 2: We noticed they had pulled the plane felt way far

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Speaker 2: away from the terminal.

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Speaker 7: His father and son from the South End told WBZ.

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Speaker 7: Increasingly panicked passengers sat on the tarmac for two hours

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Speaker 7: while the FBI police with dogs and firefighters investigated a

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Speaker 7: possible bomb threat.

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Speaker 3: And I was scared out of my mind, like I

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Speaker 3: you know, I thought like, yeah, this this could be

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Speaker 3: it like I didn't know what was going on, so

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Speaker 3: it was a very scary experience, like one of us,

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Speaker 3: one of the scariest experience in my life.

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Speaker 2: Officials determined the bomb was not credible. Two men are

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Speaker 2: arrested for allegedly supplying cocaine that led to a deadly

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Speaker 2: overdose in Barnstable County last November. Andre Silvia of Wareham

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Speaker 2: and William Sarney of Nantucket are charged with cocaine trafficking

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Speaker 2: and conspiracy. They were arrested on Thursday after a string

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Speaker 2: of drug bus on the Cape over the past year

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Speaker 2: and a spike in cocaine levels in Nantucket's wastewater Court

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Speaker 2: record show. Sylvia and Sarney are accused of conspiring with

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Speaker 2: a third person who was arrested in January as he

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Speaker 2: allegedly was preparing to transport a kilogram of cocaine from

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Speaker 2: Hyannis to Nantucket. The two men were arraigned separately on

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Speaker 2: Friday and both held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.

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Speaker 2: Hollywood's biggest stars hit the Red Carpet Tonight.

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Speaker 6: The ninety eighth Academy Awards, celebrating a wide genre of films.

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Speaker 6: A drama centered around ping pong with Marty Supreme You,

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Speaker 6: blues music, and vampires in the horror film Sinners, Put

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Speaker 6: Chance to Dream and the Life of William Shakespeare in

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Speaker 6: Hamnett all among the nominees for Best Picture. The show's

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Speaker 6: producers promising entertainment, fun and plenty of surprises.

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Speaker 7: What are we doing for the Bachelorette party.

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Speaker 6: Confirming a reunion of the cast from the twenty eleven

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Speaker 6: movie Bridesmaids.

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Speaker 2: Security is beefed up for tonight's Oscars. Officials say they're

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Speaker 2: working with the LAPD and the FBI to make security tight.

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Speaker 2: Police strones and bomb sniffing dogs will be at the scene,

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Speaker 2: and police say a one mile security perimeter will be

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Speaker 2: put in place around the Dolby Theater. You are now

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Speaker 2: in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen

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Speaker 2: to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Soasville, WBZ,

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