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

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Speaker 2: Wea defining local news.

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Speaker 3: Forty three degrees in Boston, plenty of clouds at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. You have made it to Friday.

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Speaker 3: Here's what's happening. Relief could soon be coming to airport's

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Speaker 3: security lines around the country. The Senate overnight passing a

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Speaker 3: bill to fund most of homeland security, including TSA, after

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Speaker 3: a week's long shutdown. Funding has been held up over

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Speaker 3: democrats demands for ICE reforms. Here's ABC's Ali Picorn.

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Speaker 4: The Senate acted on an agreement that is a little

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Speaker 4: bit of a win for both sides of the aisle,

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Speaker 4: but still leaves some pretty big glaring areas. They passed

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Speaker 4: a bill that would fund TSA, but a few other

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Speaker 4: areas too, including the Coast Guard, FEMA that's emergency response,

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Speaker 4: and SISA, which is the organization that does cyber infrastructure securities. However,

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Speaker 4: it very critically left out one big area, which is

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Speaker 4: funding for ICE.

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Speaker 3: As well as some aspects of customs and border patrol,

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Speaker 3: and Republicans say they plan to get that funding for

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Speaker 3: ICE through reconciliation, which Democrats will likely not be able

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Speaker 3: to stop. It is now up to the House to

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Speaker 3: move this measure for funding forward. How Speaker Mike Johnson

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Speaker 3: has not announced any plans to bring a vote, saying

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Speaker 3: only that he will meet with fellow Republicans to talk

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Speaker 3: about it. Now to the war in the Middle East,

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Speaker 3: where Israel says it will quote escalate and expand their

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Speaker 3: attacks against Iran as they've been intercepting Iranian missiles daily.

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Speaker 3: President Trump once again pushing back the deadline he set

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Speaker 3: for Iran to reopen the Straight of Horn moves or

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Speaker 3: face American bombing of Iranian power plants ABC Sophie flag.

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Speaker 5: The President appears hopeful a deal to end the war

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Speaker 5: is possible. He's now extended the deadline for Iran to

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Speaker 5: reopen the Strait of Hermus by ten days, threatening to

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Speaker 5: bomb crucial power plants if Iran doesn't comply.

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Speaker 3: They want to make a deal.

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Speaker 1: The reason they want to make a deal is they

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Speaker 1: have been just fete.

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Speaker 5: Iran denies any talks have been held, but acknowledges trading

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Speaker 5: messages with the US through Pakistan.

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Speaker 3: Meantime, an American fighter jet involved in the war with

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Speaker 3: Iran had a close call in the air this morning.

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Speaker 1: Dramatic new video appears to show the moment in Iranian

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Speaker 1: missile came dangerously close to striking an American F eighteen

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Speaker 1: fighter jet. US Central Command posting on x Thursday, no

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Speaker 1: US fighter aircraft have been shot down by Iran, but

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Speaker 1: one source telling ABC News an faighteen operating in the

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Speaker 1: region did narrowly dodge in Iranian missile over Southern Iran

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Speaker 1: in recent days.

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Speaker 3: That's ABC's Matt Rivers and some more developments today in

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Speaker 3: the Sandra Birchmore case. Hours after defense attorneys from Matthew

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Speaker 3: Farwell seemingly identified as twin brothers the father of Birchmore's

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Speaker 3: unborn son, the defense has now amended that filing. The

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Speaker 3: original motion seemed to refer to Farwell's brother, William, as

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Speaker 3: the confirmed biological father. This amended filing, though, refers to

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Speaker 3: them as separate people. The amendment puts in Oxford Comma

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Speaker 3: between Farwell's brother and the confirmed biological father those two phrases,

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Speaker 3: and refers to the there is another individual to remove

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Speaker 3: all ambiguity. Prosecutor say Matthew Farwell started sexually grooming birch

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Speaker 3: More when she was only fifteen. They claim he killed

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Speaker 3: her once she became pregnant, trying to stage it as

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Speaker 3: a suicide. Let's go take a look at the forecast

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Speaker 3: for the weekend. It is looking okay, up and down

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Speaker 3: a little bit. For the rest of the day. We'll

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Speaker 3: see plenty of clouds, some sun will break through at times,

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Speaker 3: and it will stay windy out there, temperatures holding in

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Speaker 3: the forties after they fell over the evening hours and

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Speaker 3: into today. For tonight, partly cloudy alone near twenty five

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Speaker 3: in Boston twenty if you're north and west. And then

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Speaker 3: for tomorrow, times of sun and clouds, breezy and a

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Speaker 3: high year thirty eight. Real field tempts mostly in the twenties,

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Speaker 3: so if you've got plans outside tomorrow, it is definitely

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Speaker 3: going to be chilly. Now for your Sunday, we start

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Speaker 3: to warm up a little bit, more mix of sun

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Speaker 3: and clouds, breezy and high in the upper forties. Then

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Speaker 3: on Monday we get back to about sixty with more

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Speaker 3: clouds than the sun. This wind, though, sticks around with

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Speaker 3: us for the next few days. Our temperatures right now

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Speaker 3: we're at forty one in Chelmsford forty two. As we

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Speaker 3: make our way toward Braintree west to Boston thirty nine

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Speaker 3: in Auburn, and in Boston at eleven oh five it

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Speaker 3: is cloudy and forty two degrees. School year calendars are

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Speaker 3: running long for local districts that ran out of snow

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Speaker 3: days thanks to the blizzard and other storms. Some parents

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Speaker 3: they'll want to change that because it was like every

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Speaker 3: few years we have this problem.

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Speaker 2: Parents in town and are trying to draft another attempt

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Speaker 2: to have their school district make it appeal to the

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Speaker 2: state to get a one hundred and eighty day school

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Speaker 2: calendar waiver so they're not ending school almost in July,

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Speaker 2: even though the school board recently shot down the idea,

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Speaker 2: it would.

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Speaker 3: Be helpful to have that plant arn't in place before

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Speaker 3: we get to this point.

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Speaker 2: School districts like Dighton, Rehoboth and Freetown Lakeville recently god

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Speaker 2: waivers approved. Other parents tell me it's just one of

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Speaker 2: those years. It comes with the territory.

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Speaker 6: I always wanted them to close when that was dangerous

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Speaker 6: to be.

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Speaker 3: On the roads.

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Speaker 2: Safety always coming.

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Speaker 3: First and that was always my main concern.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes that summer of ACA just has to suffer

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Speaker 2: from a late start. In taunt and jimmyca AWBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 3: Well, the kids are all right. They're back on track

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Speaker 3: in class.

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Speaker 7: A new report indicates more than eighty percent of high

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Speaker 7: school students in Boston will graduate under the first year

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Speaker 7: of the mass CORE requirement for a diploma, a dramatic

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Speaker 7: improvement from rates just a couple of months ago. Masscore

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Speaker 7: consists of four years of English and math and other

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Speaker 7: course requirements, and is currently the standard ticket to graduation

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Speaker 7: in place of the now voter sidelined MCAST exam. Officials, though,

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Speaker 7: are a bit concerned that little progress has been made

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Speaker 7: in passing foreign language scores. Matt Phipps WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: Healthcare workers over at two Boston medical centers that used

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Speaker 3: to be owned by Stewart Healthcare have authorized a one

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Speaker 3: day strike. The workers' union eleven ninety nine SIU says

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Speaker 3: they're doing this because they're dealing with a growing staffing

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Speaker 3: crisis driven by low pay, burnout in high turnover. The

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Speaker 3: union says workers at Boston Medical Center Brighton and in

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Speaker 3: Brockton Boston Medical Center South dealt with years of mismanagement

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Speaker 3: under Stewart, and they say they're still struggling to improve

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Speaker 3: recruitment under BMC. Because of these ongoing issues, bargaining on

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Speaker 3: a new contract has been going on since September. Their

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Speaker 3: next bargaining session is set from Monday. No date has

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Speaker 3: been set for any potential strike. And violence broke out

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati after the Red Sox beat the Reds on

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Speaker 3: opening Day.

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Speaker 6: The Cincinnati Reds opening day baseball game turned into a

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Speaker 6: brawl game. Several people were arrested after disorder and violence

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Speaker 6: broke out outside the team's ballpark after the game. It's

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Speaker 6: unclear whether anyone was hurt of the chaos. The Reds

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Speaker 6: lost their opening day game, shut out by the Boston

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Speaker 6: Red Sox three to nothing. Jim Chrysila CBS News.

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Speaker 3: You are now in the Leap for news updates throughout

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