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

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Speaker 1: news thirty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Trump firing former

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Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security Christy nom.

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Speaker 2: President Trump announced on social media Christy Nome is out

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Speaker 2: as Homeland Security Secretary, the first major firing of his

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Speaker 2: second term.

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Speaker 3: He says.

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is his pick to now

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Speaker 2: lead DHS. Sources tell ABC the President had privately expressed

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Speaker 2: deep frustration over Nome's testimony this week on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 2: Those sources say the President was upset about Nome while

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Speaker 2: under questioning about a taxpayer funded two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: two million dollar ad campaign repeatedly suggested the President signed

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Speaker 2: off on it. He told Reuters today he never knew

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Speaker 2: anything about it. Karen Travers, ABC News. The White House.

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Speaker 1: Reaction pass have been coming in Massachusetts, political leaders reacting.

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Speaker 1: Senator Elizabeth Warren criticizing the President for his lack of

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Speaker 1: response to two Americans being killed by ice agents, but

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Speaker 1: an immediate reaction to nomes lies about taxpayer money. Senator

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Speaker 1: Red Markey meantime is glad Gnome was fired, but made

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Speaker 1: it clear that ice still needs to be abolished. Stocks

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Speaker 1: on Wall Street falling today, oil prices surging because of

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Speaker 1: the war with Iran.

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Speaker 4: Iran claims to have struck an oil tanker with a missile,

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Speaker 4: and traffic in the straight of four moves has halted

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Speaker 4: due to the conflict. All of that is driving up

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Speaker 4: oil prices. At the UN, Israel's ambassador with urging patients.

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Speaker 3: Give us a few more days.

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Speaker 5: It'll be much much harder for the Iranian to disrupt

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Speaker 5: the vessels coming through this fit of.

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Speaker 4: Almost roughly a fifth of the world's oil sails through

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Speaker 4: that narrow waterway off Iron's coast.

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Speaker 1: Now with CBS's Cammy McCormick, Wall Street ended up down

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Speaker 1: across the board today, although off of the Lows will

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Speaker 1: break things down for you coming up in about six

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Speaker 1: minutes with the report from Bloomberg. A war powers resolution

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Speaker 1: failed in the Senate yesterday. Now the House will vote

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Speaker 1: on an Iranian war powers resolution to offer a snapshot

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Speaker 1: of support or opposition. Today's role call coming as lawmakers

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Speaker 1: confront the reality of representing the nation in wartime and

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Speaker 1: all that entails. As well as alliances tested by the

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Speaker 1: President's decision to go to war. Secretary of War Pete

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Speaker 1: Hegseth says securing America's interests in the Western Hemisphere and

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Speaker 1: keeping the homeland safe for the top priorities under the President.

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Speaker 6: President Trump and his Department of War are ushering in

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Speaker 6: a new era of homeland and hemispheric defense rooted in

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Speaker 6: the unique heritage of our nation and your nations.

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Speaker 1: Heg Seth speaking today at the first ever America's Counter

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Speaker 1: Cartel Conference in Durrell, Florida. The Secretary noting the US

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Speaker 1: went a few weeks last month without targeting alleged drug

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Speaker 1: boats because they couldn't find a whole lot to sink.

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Speaker 1: He also touted a drop in crime in the US

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Speaker 1: as well as crossings at the US border. Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: could be making his season debut as early as tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night against the Dallas Mavericks. He's now listed as questionable

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Speaker 1: on the injury report. It was less than ten months

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Speaker 1: ago we had surgery for the rupture to achilles tendon.

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Speaker 1: ESPN reports that Tatum is ready to go, and we'll

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Speaker 1: let the team know his final decision over the next day.

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Speaker 1: We've got some rain and showers coming across the area,

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Speaker 1: and it has gotten cold enough to bring a little

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Speaker 1: bit of some freezing precipitation. This is as we look

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Speaker 1: at the radar across north central Massachusetts, so around Fitchburg,

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Speaker 1: over toward Grotten and Air back toward Ashburnham, looks like

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Speaker 1: a little bit of sleet and or a freezing rain

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Speaker 1: could be getting into the mix. There another little blob

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Speaker 1: of something doing some freezing stuff just north of the

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Speaker 1: city up into Redding and Stoneham. So there is already

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Speaker 1: some parts of the area that are seeing some frozen precipitation,

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Speaker 1: although most of us are above freezing still. So as

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Speaker 1: we head into the next several hours, rain will overspread

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Speaker 1: the area. But then we have that winter Weather advisory

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Speaker 1: that goes into effect at five o'clock this evening, So

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Speaker 1: as the rain overspreads the area, the temperatures fall a bit,

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Speaker 1: we'll start to introduce some snow, some sleet, and some

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Speaker 1: freezing rain to areas across the region tonight and into

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Snowfall accumulations it could be plowable in a

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Speaker 1: few places three to six inches, perhaps north of Boston

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Speaker 1: and close to the New Hampshire border one to three,

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Speaker 1: mainly over toward the Worcester Hills and such, maybe an

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Speaker 1: inch in the city of Boston before we get change

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Speaker 1: over to sleet and freezing rain. And some of that

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Speaker 1: freezing rain could be enough to gum up the works

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Speaker 1: with the trees and or power line, So if it

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Speaker 1: weighs just enough, it could bring down some of those

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Speaker 1: in the early morning hours tomorrow, So something to bear

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Speaker 1: in mind. But otherwise, careful on the steps if you

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Speaker 1: haven't treated them, they could be slippery as well. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: we'll eventually warm up, and when I say warm up,

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Speaker 1: I don't really mean warm up. We'll get into the

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Speaker 1: mid to upper thirties. It'll be warmer than it will

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Speaker 1: in the morning, but that's not very warm. We will

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Speaker 1: get warmer on Saturday forty seven. We'll get even warmer

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and we may get the sun back here

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Speaker 1: by then in the afternoon with a high of fifty three,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get even warmer as we kick off

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Speaker 1: next week into the sixties. Right now, it is thirty

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Speaker 1: seven to in Boston. Well, it's supposed to be for

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Speaker 1: your retirement, but what if you need the money sooner?

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Speaker 1: That's the issue for a record number of workers who

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Speaker 1: are making hardship withdrawals from their four oh one k's.

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Speaker 1: How are those in Boston doing. Wbz's Jim McKay went

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Speaker 1: to find out.

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Speaker 5: When it comes to retiring, there's usually two scenarios.

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Speaker 1: Either have enough or you've had enough.

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Speaker 5: Mark from West Roxbury explaining you either have saved up

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Speaker 5: or you've had it up from the everyday grind.

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Speaker 1: So me was a little both.

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Speaker 5: But first you've got to save. It looks like right

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Speaker 5: now Americans are pulling more out than they're putting in

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Speaker 5: when it comes to their retirement accounts.

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Speaker 1: And I got my first job when I was fifteen.

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Speaker 5: Linda works along Tremont Street, telling me, you gotta be

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Speaker 5: stubborn with saving for retirement. Just don't touch it, no

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Speaker 5: matter what.

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Speaker 3: Person that hired me said, you're going to save ten

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Speaker 3: percent of everything.

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Speaker 6: Just don't even think about it.

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Speaker 3: And so for fifty years, I saved ten percent of

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Speaker 3: everything and I lived off that.

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Speaker 5: She retired last year, giving her daughter the same advice.

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Speaker 5: Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to

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Speaker 5: those retirement savings. On the common Jim McKay, WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 5: news radio.

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Speaker 1: Despite what you might have heard to the Moon is

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Speaker 1: not made out of cheese. However, if you do things right,

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Speaker 1: and new study finds the moon could grow chickpeas.

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Speaker 3: Lunar soil doesn't support healthy plant growth because it contains

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Speaker 3: high concentrations of metals, including aluminum and zinc, but NASA

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Speaker 3: fellow Jessica Atkins says if it is treated with symbiotic

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Speaker 3: fungi and compost produced by worms, the chickpeas are more

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Speaker 3: likely to grow and reproduce. If we could use.

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Speaker 2: Some of the resources on the Moon and reduce the

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Speaker 2: dependence on sending them from Earth, it would definitely help.

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Speaker 3: She says that would be a moon to help feed

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Speaker 3: any future human colonies on the Moon. Alison Keyes CBS News.

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