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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news

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Speaker 1: forty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A fundamental disagreement remains.

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Speaker 1: That is the message from Danish officials. Following a meeting

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Speaker 1: with Vice President jd Vance and the Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio today at the White House, the TUSSAD did

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Speaker 1: agree to create a working group to discuss ways to

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Speaker 1: work through differences. As President Trump continues to call for

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Speaker 1: a US takeover of Denmark's Arctic territory, the Danish Foreign

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Speaker 1: Minister says Greenland's not for sale.

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Speaker 2: It's clear that the President has this wish of conquering

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Speaker 2: over Greenland, and we made it very rare clear that

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Speaker 2: this is not in the interest of the Kingdom.

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Speaker 3: President Trump has said that the Greenland is essential for

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Speaker 3: ux national security in Denmark. Meantime, announced plans to boost

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Speaker 3: the country's military presidence in Greenland, with Sweden and Norway

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Speaker 3: also sending in troops. I said in vote coming today

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Speaker 3: on a War Powers Actor resolution preventing the President from

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Speaker 3: carrying out further military action in Venezuela without congressional approval.

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Speaker 3: Senate Republicans, facing pressure from the President to vote the

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Speaker 3: measure down. Five Republicans joined Democrats last week to advance

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Speaker 3: the resolution, But even with a Senate okay, the legislation

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Speaker 3: virtually has no chance of becoming law because it would

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Speaker 3: eventually need to be signed by the President himself. Defying

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Speaker 3: congressional subpoenas. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of

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Speaker 3: State Hillary Clinton called the investigation partisan. As the House

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Speaker 3: Oversight Committee looks into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Committee chair

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Speaker 3: James Comer says the Clintons aren't being accused of any wrongdoing,

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Speaker 3: but wants them to testify before the committee about what

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Speaker 3: they may have known about Epstein.

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Speaker 4: We're going to vote own it in committee Wednesday, so

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Speaker 4: we're giving plenty of notice. We're having a mark up,

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Speaker 4: a regularly scheduled markup for the House overst Committee. We

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Speaker 4: will mark up criminal can tip of Congress chargers for

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Speaker 4: both Clintons for defying a legal subpoena.

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Speaker 3: When Comatri says Wednesday is next Wednesday. The Clinton's meantime,

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Speaker 3: in a letter, say they have already tried to tell

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Speaker 3: the committee what they knew, and also They say they

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Speaker 3: had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes. President Trump, following some

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Speaker 3: new action against nearly a dozen states identified as sanctuary jurisdictions.

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Speaker 5: Stepping up his immigration crackdown, President Trump says Washington will

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Speaker 5: cease federal payments to sanctuary cities and states come the

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Speaker 5: first of next month. Reaction from New York City mayors

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Speaker 5: or en mum Donnie.

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Speaker 6: Our values and our laws cannot be bargaining chips. I

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Speaker 6: will always defend the city and every single person who

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Speaker 6: calls the city home, even in the face of threats

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Speaker 6: from the federal administration to withhold funds.

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Speaker 5: It's a move that will likely end up in court.

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Speaker 5: Steve Kith and CBS News temperature check.

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Speaker 3: While Earth is getting warmer, if that is, scientists calculate

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Speaker 3: last year was one of the three hottest on record.

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Speaker 3: Several climate monitoring teams to say the last three years

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Speaker 3: approach the warming limits set by the twenty fifteen Paris

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Speaker 3: Climate Agreement. The scientists call the warming weather a warning

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Speaker 3: shot about the world's shifting climate, and say rising temperatures

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Speaker 3: have intensified heat waves and extreme weather events impacting millions

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Speaker 3: of people. Do have a little rain off to our west.

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Speaker 3: It's moving more to the north than anything else, but

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Speaker 3: it's pushing across parts of central and western Massachusetts. And

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Speaker 3: as we head into the evening, some places we'll get

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Speaker 3: some rain. Any place that does probably won't get a

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Speaker 3: ton of rain, but nonetheless you may get wet. The

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Speaker 3: umbrella may be handy to have on you. Tonight, cloudy

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Speaker 3: early Tomorrow morning with a bit of rain possible. Then

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Speaker 3: will be come windy. It's going to turn colder as

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Speaker 3: the clouds give way to some sunshine. You'd think, hey,

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Speaker 3: we're going to warm up, and then no front comes

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Speaker 3: through forty seven Early temperatures fall into the thirties and

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Speaker 3: eventually into the twenties late tomorrow and into tomorrow night

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Speaker 3: will land close to twenty Tomorrow evening, mostly clear and blustery,

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Speaker 3: so real feels, and probably in the team, the sunshine

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Speaker 3: mixing with clouds. Breezy On Friday, highs in the low thirties,

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Speaker 3: feeling like the twenties, and then Saturday, low forties, so

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Speaker 3: a little bit milder. There'll be clouds and there will

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Speaker 3: be some rain or wet snow possible in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Right now, it is forty eight degrees in Boston. Two

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Speaker 3: decades of sweetness. A local chocolate factory hits a milestone

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Speaker 3: Wz'shileshaffle pulling back the cocoa curtain.

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Speaker 7: Tis of Chocolate in Summerville has now been pushing out artisan,

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Speaker 7: great chocolate for twenty years. They sell their stuff across

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Speaker 7: the country, packaged in iconic thick paper discs.

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Speaker 1: I'd say each day we're producing about twenty thousand wrapped

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Speaker 1: chocolate bars.

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Speaker 7: CEO Alex Whitmore gave me a look behind the scenes

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Speaker 7: of their.

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Speaker 3: Plant and Union Square.

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Speaker 7: He founded the company after seeing how they grind chocolate

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Speaker 7: in Mexico, using big, heavy millstones to do the work.

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Speaker 8: These mills here are traditional Mexican rotary stone mills.

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Speaker 7: The rough edges give chocolate a gritty texture that Alex

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Speaker 7: says is part of the experience and basically impossible to

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Speaker 7: find on shelves else He says the key to staying

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Speaker 7: in business was keeping the same style of chocolate and

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Speaker 7: not compromising on quality.

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Speaker 1: We aren't trying to compete with Hershey or any of

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Speaker 1: the big companies.

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Speaker 8: We really just wanted to make something that we really

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Speaker 8: believed in.

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Speaker 7: File Shaffle could be Busy Boss's news radio Today, forget

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Speaker 7: the elevator.

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Speaker 8: Stay.

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Speaker 3: Whether you're on that stairway to heaven or you're going

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Speaker 3: somewhere else wherever, you go, step it up today and

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Speaker 3: take the steps.

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Speaker 8: And I think we were going to let you quit

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Speaker 8: on your New Year's resolutions, yet did you?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 8: Today is National Take the Stairs Day, So even if

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Speaker 8: you've already given up on the gym, you can still

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Speaker 8: get your steps in. It's in support of the American

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Speaker 8: Lung Association, who says it's a fun way to build

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Speaker 8: healthy habits, burn calories, and raise awareness for cardiovascular health.

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Speaker 8: This is the tenth year they've done it, partially to

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Speaker 8: raise money for their Fight for Air Climb. Some in

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Speaker 8: New York City will take today to commit to the

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Speaker 8: Empire State Building run up featuring eighty six flights and

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Speaker 8: one thousand and seventy six steps later this year. Matt

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