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

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Speaker 2: Thirty seven degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: I'm Charlie Burdjerhon. Here's what's happening and we begin this

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Speaker 2: hour with the latest on the war in Iran, now

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Speaker 2: into week four. In the social media post, President Trump

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Speaker 2: threatening to destroy power plant in Iran, his words starting

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Speaker 2: with the biggest one. First, if the country does not

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Speaker 2: open the Strait of Horror Moves without threat within forty

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Speaker 2: eight hours.

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Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the global oil supply goes through the

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Speaker 1: Strait of horm Moves, which remains effectively paralyzed over the war.

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Speaker 1: The President said it would need to be guarded and

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Speaker 1: policed by the countries who use it. A British official

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Speaker 1: tell CBS that the UK is now working to bring

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Speaker 1: together European allies to assemble a military coalition with equipment

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Speaker 1: aimed at safeguarding the Strait. Could he stand an Avida's

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Speaker 1: CBS News West Ponum.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration is reportedly sending more than two thousand

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Speaker 2: marines to the region, along with additional amphibious assault ships.

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Speaker 2: Fighting in the Strait has driven gas prices up significantly.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Paul Burton, speaking with drivers in naticks.

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Speaker 3: Well, last time I got gas, it was three oh

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Speaker 3: seven or eight. Now it looks like it's three ninety.

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Speaker 4: It's up there. It's definitely up there.

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Speaker 5: As gas prices continue to rise, commuters are figuring out

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Speaker 5: ways to cut back on spending in order to save.

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Speaker 3: The first I'm worried about them going up, trying to

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Speaker 3: think maybe getting a different vehicle.

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Speaker 5: Triple A says, right now, the average price of gasoline

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Speaker 5: in the US is nearing four dollars a gallon, up

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Speaker 5: a dollar thirty since the war in Iran began. Leslie

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Speaker 5: Wells is on her way to work and tries to

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Speaker 5: find a shorter route every day to cut back on

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Speaker 5: the painful prices she's experiencing at the pump.

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Speaker 3: It impacts it quite a bit, right, trying to think

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Speaker 3: of maybe being able to work from home a couple

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Speaker 3: of days.

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Speaker 5: Eric Howland is a courier and says there's no way

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Speaker 5: for him to save on gas.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 5: He spent ten dolls more than last week to fill

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Speaker 5: up his tank.

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Speaker 4: It costing me more to make deliveries and I'm not

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Speaker 4: making more so all right, hopefully they'll stop going down.

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Speaker 2: Sir, and TRIPAA reports the average price for a gallon

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Speaker 2: of regular unleaded gas in Massachusetts. Three seventy one. Former

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Speaker 2: FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Muller the Third has

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Speaker 2: died at the age of eighty one. He led the

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Speaker 2: FBI for twelve years and repeatedly found himself in the crossroads,

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Speaker 2: including the investigation into Russia's interference in the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: election and its links to President Trump's campaign. In twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: maybe c's Olivia Rubin.

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Speaker 6: Muller's team coming under constant attack by President Trump, the

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Speaker 6: President saying Robert Muller just died.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.

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Speaker 6: Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle condemning the remark.

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Speaker 6: Muller a career civil servant, serving multiple presidents in both parties.

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Speaker 2: Uller was the second longest serving director in FBA history.

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Speaker 2: Six people hospitalized in Tamworth, New Hampshire Lake yesterday after

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Speaker 2: a floor collapsed at a wedding venue. The Fire Marshall's

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Speaker 2: officees there were more than one hundred people at the

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Speaker 2: preserve of cho Kora when twenty by twenty foot section

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Speaker 2: of the floor in a room known as the Sap

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Speaker 2: House gave way, seventy people falling into the basement of

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Speaker 2: the building. Four of the six cent to area hospitals

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Speaker 2: were treated and released. Let's check the four day WDBZ

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Speaker 2: ACU weather Forecastle Troy Thornton says Today will be cloudy, breezy,

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Speaker 2: some morning sprinkles could get into some more steady rain

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Speaker 2: and drizzle this afternoon high forty eight. Overcast, breezy overnight

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Speaker 2: tonight with some rain, we drop into the thirties. Could

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Speaker 2: be some wet snow toward daybreak. Tomorrow, maybe some wet

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Speaker 2: snow to start the day, and then a cloudy, blustery,

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Speaker 2: cold day, maybe some snow floweries later in the day.

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Speaker 2: Again not any accumulation expected. Temperatures will stay cold tomorrow

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Speaker 2: in the mid and upper thirties. Tuesday partly sunny, brisk,

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Speaker 2: forty three. Wednesday a little better with sun and clouds

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Speaker 2: and a high fifty two thirty seven degrees. Right now

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Speaker 2: in Boston at six oh five, a Boston hotel putting

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Speaker 2: women's sports in the spotlight. Here's wbz's Emma Friedman.

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Speaker 7: In the seaport. A hotel bar is now a pop

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Speaker 7: up sports bar.

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Speaker 4: If you think about where you can go and watch

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Speaker 4: the Celtics, you can probably name five bars right now

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Speaker 4: where you can go watch it. But if you think

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Speaker 4: about where can I go watch the Legacy FC game

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Speaker 4: or the Boston Fleet, you don't know where to go.

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Speaker 4: We want to beat that spot.

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Speaker 7: Christ Amilia is the general manager of the Envoy Hotel.

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Speaker 7: For the hotel, restaurant and bar is now being called

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Speaker 7: two six one at Para Maria after the legendary Catherine Switzer,

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Speaker 7: the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon, whose

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Speaker 7: BIB number was two six one.

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Speaker 4: Well have the games on this perfect time. Also, NCAA

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Speaker 4: March Madness will be showing the woman's bracket as well,

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Speaker 4: so of course we'll have the games on. You want

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Speaker 4: to be able to watch the games. That's what it's

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Speaker 4: all about. That's the essence of it all. But it's

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Speaker 4: also the decoration.

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Speaker 7: They've got large photos spanning the walls of female athletes

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Speaker 7: on the court, on the ice and running the marat

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Speaker 7: on the pop up we'll be showing women's sports on

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Speaker 7: the screens through April thirtieth and the seaport I'm a Freedman.

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Speaker 7: W b Z, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts will be receiving a significant infusion of cash to

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Speaker 2: ensure that all goes well for the World Cup.

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Speaker 8: The Governor's office says the Commonwealth has received more than

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Speaker 8: forty six million in federal funding to support public safety

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Speaker 8: and security for the FIFA World Cup at Gillette. Five

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Speaker 8: state agencies, four cities and towns, and the event's host

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Speaker 8: committee are splitting those funds funneled through the FIFA of

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Speaker 8: World Cup Grant program. State officials say it's a good

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Speaker 8: thing too. This summer's endeavor behind the World Cup security

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Speaker 8: is turning out to be one of the most extensive

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Speaker 8: in the Commonwealth's history. FIFA only recently obtained the entertainment

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Speaker 8: license from Foxborough to hold the matches after a long

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Speaker 8: stale made on local funding. Jawilllett WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Draftking's sports book is being accused by the NCAA of

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Speaker 2: trademark infringement. The NCAA, in a complaint filed in federal court,

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Speaker 2: request Draftkins refrain from using registered trademarks such as March Madness,

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Speaker 2: Final four, Sweet sixteen in their promotional campaigns. In a statement,

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Speaker 2: DraftKings denies the charges, stating, in part, DraftKings does not

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Speaker 2: use the term March Madness as a trademark, but to

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Speaker 2: accurately identify the different tournaments and their respective games. This

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