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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio readfining local news.

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Speaker 2: Forty one degrees in Boston. We've got plenty of sun

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Speaker 2: out there, a bit of a breeze. At eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis and here's what's happening topping

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Speaker 2: our news this half hour. A judge is now granted

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Speaker 2: the Justice Department's request to unsealed grand jury records from

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Speaker 2: the investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. US District Court

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Speaker 2: Judge Richard Berman, citing a new law called the Epstein

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Speaker 2: Files Transparency Act, which contains a narrow legal pathway through

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Speaker 2: which grand jury records can be unsealed. This comes a

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Speaker 2: day after another judge made similar decisions regarding Epstein's closest confidant,

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Speaker 2: Glaine Maxwell. She is currently serving twenty years in prison

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Speaker 2: for sex trafficking. Recently, she said she would ask for

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Speaker 2: a pardon or a commutation. Last night, President Trump and

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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania speaking about affordability and what his administration is doing.

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Speaker 2: Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.

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Speaker 3: President's ending by his tariffs while saying Americans may have

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Speaker 3: to make some sacrifices. You don't need thirty seven dollars

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Speaker 3: for your daughter two or three is nice, but you

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Speaker 3: don't need thirty seven dollars.

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Speaker 4: So we're doing things right. We're running this country.

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Speaker 3: Right, but most polls show voters don't agree. A new

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Speaker 3: Reuter's IPSOS poll shows fifty six percent of Americans disapprove

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Speaker 3: of how the president is handling the cost of living.

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Speaker 3: Only thirty one percent approved.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Inflation spiked up to more than nine percent in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, but came back down to more typical levels

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Speaker 2: by the summer of twenty twenty three. It is still

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Speaker 2: higher than the Federal Reserve's target, but this afternoon, the

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Speaker 2: FED is nonetheless expected to cut interest rates again when

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Speaker 2: it wraps up its latest two day meeting.

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Speaker 1: If the central Bank does what the analysts expect, it

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Speaker 1: would bring rates to their lowest level in almost three years.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Kates is a financial analyst for Bank Rate. The

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Speaker 1: data that we have.

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Speaker 3: Available is demonstrating that the labor market not only has cooled,

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Speaker 3: but is continuing to cool.

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Speaker 1: The Fed governors will be making their decisions without some

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Speaker 1: key government data because of the government shutdown. Christopher Cruz,

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Speaker 1: CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: We'll get you the Fed's decision as soon as it

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Speaker 2: comes down at two o'clock on WBZ, streaming always on

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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app and millions of student loan borrowers whose

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Speaker 2: payments were paused by a Biden era plan may soon

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Speaker 2: be forced back into making those payments.

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Speaker 5: The Department of Education announced plans to lift a pause

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Speaker 5: on certain student loan repayment plans. The deal is part

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Speaker 5: of a proposed settlement with Missouri, which sued the government

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Speaker 5: over the Safe Plan that was launched by former President

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Speaker 5: Biden in twenty twenty three. The program reduced interest and

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Speaker 5: provided a path for loan forgiveness after ten years of repayment.

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Speaker 5: If approved, millions of borrowers will be left scrambling to

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Speaker 5: find another option to repay their debt. Stacy Lynn, CBS

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Speaker 5: News Washington.

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Speaker 2: In the forecast, we are looking at a pretty nice

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Speaker 2: day overall here in the Boston area. We have been

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Speaker 2: watching a few snowshowers to the north and west, mostly

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Speaker 2: in southern New hemp sure in from Monten I'd say,

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Speaker 2: west of the Quabbin and along the route to Corridor.

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Speaker 2: Those are essentially flurries, maybe nuisance snow showers at the worst,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of drizzle right now in southeastern Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: We could see a bit more rain come through later on.

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Speaker 2: Certainly mild out there today. We've got a high in

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Speaker 2: the mid to upper forties, and yeah, that's pretty mild

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Speaker 2: for this time of year. It's been a pretty cold

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Speaker 2: end of fall so far. For tonight, more rain coming

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Speaker 2: through early, maybe a bit of wet snow north and

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Speaker 2: west of four ninety five. Otherwise, it's just going to

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Speaker 2: be windy out there and a few clouds could come through,

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Speaker 2: and we've got a low about freezing thirty two or

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Speaker 2: thirty three now. For tomorrow, we could have some spotty

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Speaker 2: afternoon snow showers. We get right back into that winter

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Speaker 2: like weather. High only in the mid thirties, but feeling

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Speaker 2: like the teens. Winds are going to pick up yet again,

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Speaker 2: gusting to about forty miles an hour. It's forty two

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Speaker 2: in Brockton right now, thirty seven in Lowell, west of Boston,

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Speaker 2: thirty seven in Worcester. In Boston right now at eleven

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Speaker 2: oh five, it's partly cloudy. We're at forty one degrees

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Speaker 2: and it feels more like thirty two. State regulators seem

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Speaker 2: to be ready to pass regulations to get cannabis cafes

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Speaker 2: and other social consumption sites open in Massachusetts. Your CBS

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Speaker 2: News Boston's Luisa Muller I.

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Speaker 5: Am pleased, as promised, we're going to be able to

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Speaker 5: get this finished.

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Speaker 4: An exclusive interview with WBZ, the chair of the Cannabis

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Speaker 4: Control Commission, the regulatory body which oversees the cannabis industry,

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Speaker 4: told us social consumption regulations should be approved this coming Thursday.

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Speaker 4: The first licenses will only be available for members of

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Speaker 4: the CCC's Social Equity Program, those persons who've been disproportionately

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Speaker 4: impacted by the War on drugs. After that, each municipality

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Speaker 4: can decide if they want pot cafes, lounges, or even

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Speaker 4: yoga studios held in Safety Commissioner Kimberly Roy says the

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Speaker 4: regulations will include safeguards. We mandated that licensees must have

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Speaker 4: a ride share plan on that they cannot collmingle alcohol

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Speaker 4: with cannabis.

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Speaker 2: And the vote is expected to take place tomorrow at

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Speaker 2: levenoh six. The Connecticut man arrested in connection with that

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Speaker 2: street takeover in the South End a couple months back

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Speaker 2: is being held on two thousand dollars bail nineteen year

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Speaker 2: old David morn Chavez waived his extradition during his hearing

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Speaker 2: in Roxbury District Court. During that hearing, he pled not

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Speaker 2: guilty to the charges against him. He's accused of helping

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Speaker 2: to tor to a Boston police cruiser and disturb the peace,

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Speaker 2: among other charges. During that pre dawn takeover has happened

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Speaker 2: at massav and Tremont Street, Dozens of people blocking the

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Speaker 2: street doing donuts, causing chaos. Two others have pled not

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Speaker 2: guilty in connection with that event. If he has released,

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Speaker 2: Moron Chavez will be monitored by GPS and he'll have

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Speaker 2: to stay out of the city of Boston. Some developing

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Speaker 2: news this morning at eleven oh seven, we have learned

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Speaker 2: Boston Medical Center employee was stabbed outside of the hospital

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Speaker 2: early this morning. BMC says an employee was stabbed right

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Speaker 2: by their campus and was able to get inside to

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Speaker 2: get treatment. They are right now dealing with life threatening injuries.

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Speaker 2: Boston Police say a suspect was also arrested and taken

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Speaker 2: to the hospital. For years, she told the story of

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Speaker 2: a financial journalist who miserably struggled with managing her own cash,

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Speaker 2: a story that became wildly popular all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Sophie Kinsella, whose real name was Madeline Wickham, has passed

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Speaker 2: away from brain cancer. Her first hit book, Confessions of

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Speaker 2: a Shopaholic, came out in two thousand. She says she

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Speaker 2: was inspired by this build that she got for her

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Speaker 2: credit card and made a story out of it. Nine

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Speaker 2: other novels in that series followed. She sold tens of

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Speaker 2: millions of copies. Kincello was diagnosed with the glioblastoma three

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Speaker 2: years ago, but announced it only back in April of

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Speaker 2: last year. Sophie Kinsella was fifty five. You are now

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

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