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

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Speaker 2: Light snow in Boston right now. It is eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We're twenty eight degrees in the city. Good morning, I'm

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Speaker 2: Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. We're watching developing news out

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Speaker 2: of Taunton, where a short time ago, a house exploded

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Speaker 2: on Heart Street. Video from the scene shows flames tearing

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Speaker 2: through that building, coming close to nearby homes. Now, fire

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Speaker 2: crews are on scene with the Taunton Fire Department. They're

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Speaker 2: making progress to put this out. The State Fire Marshall's

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Speaker 2: office is on scene as well as other state agencies,

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Speaker 2: reports saying neighbors are now being evacuated from the area

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Speaker 2: and multiple injuries have been reported. According to the State

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Speaker 2: Fire Marshall's office, what we don't know yet is what

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Speaker 2: caused this explosion. So again, this is a developing story,

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Speaker 2: a house explosion on Heart Street in Taunton, that part

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Speaker 2: of the state especially hard hit by this storm. When

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Speaker 2: we get more information, we'll let you know what happened

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Speaker 2: and what is going to happen next here on WBZ. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: cruise from all over the country and Canada are working

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Speaker 2: hard to get the power back on in southeastern mass

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Speaker 2: Latest numbers from the state's Emergency Management Agency say about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two thousand customers remain without power,

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Speaker 2: the major pain point the Cape and South Shore Blow

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Speaker 2: Cruise have been out there too, doing their thing to

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Speaker 2: try to clear side roads in places like Fall River

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Speaker 2: and New Bedford. Both cities say cruise are working day

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Speaker 2: and night to move all this snow, and more equipment

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Speaker 2: is coming in from out of state to help now.

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Speaker 2: The governor's travel ban was lifted yesterday, but there are

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Speaker 2: still driving bands in some cities and towns in that

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Speaker 2: part of the state of more in the storm's aftermath

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Speaker 2: throughout the day here on WBZ in Washington. Last night,

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Speaker 2: President Trump took the podium and delivered his first State

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Speaker 2: of the Union of his second term. The address also

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Speaker 2: became the longest in US history, as it ran for

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Speaker 2: more than an hour and a half.

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Speaker 1: The triumphant President Trump told America last night, the state

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Speaker 1: of the Union is strong.

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Speaker 3: Economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared,

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Speaker 3: our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again,

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Speaker 3: perhaps like never before.

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Speaker 1: Some government statistics paint a different picture of the economy

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Speaker 1: than what the President said is happening. CBS News Business

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Speaker 1: analyst Jills Lessinger Prices.

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Speaker 4: Are still high, so people are really still struggling, and

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Speaker 4: that is why what explains the consumer confidence down.

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Speaker 1: CBS News medical contributor doctor Celine Gounder says she's surprised

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Speaker 1: the President didn't talk about healthcare costs.

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Speaker 4: Healthcare is the number one financial concern for Americans now,

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Speaker 4: ahead of rent, ahead of food, utilities, gas, It's healthcare,

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Speaker 4: and over half of Americans say healthcare costs of increase

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Speaker 4: for them over the past years.

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Speaker 1: CBS News special report, I'm Christopher Cruz.

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Speaker 2: And Marcelo Gomes to Silva, the Milford teen arrested by

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Speaker 2: ice last May while on his way to volleyball practice,

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Speaker 2: was in the Capitol Building last night at the State

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Speaker 2: of the Union, but he left the chamber early. Gomes

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Speaker 2: was a guest of Congressman Seth Moulton, but during this speech,

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Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security singled him out. In a tweet.

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Speaker 2: The DHS post called Gomes an illegal alien who has

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Speaker 2: no right to be in our nation. Moulton's chief of

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Speaker 2: staff saw the post and escorted Gomes out of the chamber,

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Speaker 2: and he walked the rest of the speech from Moulton's office.

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Speaker 2: In response, Moulton pointed out that Gomes has been here

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Speaker 2: since he was six years old and has no criminal record.

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Speaker 2: The congressman accused the Trump administration of terrorizing young people.

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Speaker 2: We have some snow coming down again today, but it

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Speaker 2: will not stick around for too much longer, thankfully. I'd

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Speaker 2: say after lunchtime we'll finally start to see most of

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Speaker 2: this moving out, kind of a couple of flurries left

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Speaker 2: over into the afternoon. Temperatures, though, are on the rise,

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Speaker 2: especially in southeastern Massachusetts where we really could see that

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Speaker 2: snow melting at least some of it here over the

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Speaker 2: next few hours. Temperatures are in the mid to upper

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Speaker 2: thirties a year. On the south coast and the Cape

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Speaker 2: and also the Islands were starting to see the snow

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Speaker 2: switching over to rain and a bit of a sleety

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Speaker 2: mix in those parts of the Stafe. If you're closer

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Speaker 2: toward the south Shore, it is still snowing for most

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Speaker 2: of us, and that snow stretches up through the Boston area,

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Speaker 2: getting into the Merrimack Valley and also into New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: Now again, give this a couple of hours, this will

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Speaker 2: all be out of our hair, and temperatures will actually

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Speaker 2: end up in the upper thirties today for all of us.

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Speaker 2: For tonight, a couple of stray rain or snow showers

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Speaker 2: than partly cloudy, late low, just about thirty. For tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: mix of sunning clouds, warmer still, but we will have

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Speaker 2: a bit of a chilly breeze and a high forty

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Speaker 2: two Friday, mostly sunny and high in the upper thirties. Saturday,

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Speaker 2: let's get that melting going. Mix of sunning, clouds, breezy,

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Speaker 2: a high in the mid forties, and a bit colder

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Speaker 2: on Sunday in the thirties. Twenty four degrees in Nashua

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Speaker 2: right now, thirty two in Bridgewater, twenty nine in Auburn.

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Speaker 2: In Boston at eleven oh six, it's snowing and twenty

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Speaker 2: eight degrees. Well. Cape Cod certainly ground zero for power

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Speaker 2: outages caused by that blizzard. Some are entering date number

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Speaker 2: three without power. W bz's Jim McKay went to Falmouth

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Speaker 2: and found out how people are holding up here.

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Speaker 5: In the neighborhood of Falmouth that is known as Tea ticket.

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Speaker 5: There is one stop and shop in the shopping plaza

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Speaker 5: that does have their lights on. People grateful to not

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Speaker 5: only stock up but also warm up.

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Speaker 3: Thank God that we had a couple of EXI blankets.

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Speaker 1: To keep warm.

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Speaker 5: Mikey, lives in an apartment complex without power, is saying

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Speaker 5: it could still be a few days. Looks like the

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Speaker 5: power is back on in this part of Falmouth, ah

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Speaker 5: isolated area in the backdrop, there are scores of ever

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Speaker 5: source trucks getting a break and a bite to ead,

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Speaker 5: waiting for their next destination. For Bruce, he's out to

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Speaker 5: refill his gas tank.

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Speaker 4: It's a bet enough couple of days.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm fortunate.

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Speaker 1: I've got a full house China right.

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Speaker 5: The blizzard of twenty twenty six may be over for

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Speaker 5: Greater Boston, but for this part of Cape Cod, this

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Speaker 5: storm is leaving quite a lasting impact in Falmouth. Jim

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Speaker 5: McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio, and.

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Speaker 2: The NBTA and Keola say the commuter rail is back

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Speaker 2: to a normal weekday schedule, except for the Fall River

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Speaker 2: and New Bedford lines. Of course, those areas are buried

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Speaker 2: up in three feet of new snow. It's taking a

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Speaker 2: bit longer to get everything done out and taken care of.

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Speaker 2: Service on those lines is running today, but official state

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Speaker 2: is significantly reduced, and three New England states are teaming

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Speaker 2: up with others around the country to sue the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration over federal changes to children's vaccine recommendations.

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Speaker 6: The states are arguing that the CDC put children's lives

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Speaker 6: at risk when it announced it would stop recommending kids

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Speaker 6: get immunized against the flu, rhodavirus, hepatitis A and B,

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Speaker 6: and RSV. The lawsuit says that ignores long standing medical

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Speaker 6: guidance and will make states have to spend more to

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Speaker 6: protect against outbreaks, and.

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Speaker 2: As CBS's Cammy McCormick, the states suing around here in Maine, Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: and Rhode Island. In Massachusetts, state health officials have already

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Speaker 2: said they will not follow those new federal guidelines. You

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