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

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Speaker 2: Forty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. As expected, the Federal

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Speaker 2: Reserve today lowering interest rates once again.

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Speaker 3: For the second consecutive meeting. The Central Band cut the

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Speaker 3: federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point, down to

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Speaker 3: a range of three and three quarters to four percent.

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Speaker 3: The Fed made the decision without the aid of government

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Speaker 3: reports on the labor market and inflation due to the shutdown,

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Speaker 3: but it says that available indicators point to rising unemployment,

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Speaker 3: although remaining low through August, and inflation being somewhat elevated

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Speaker 3: from earlier in the year. The vote wasn't unanimous, with

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Speaker 3: recent FED appointee Stephen Miron voting for a bigger half

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Speaker 3: percentage point cut and Kansas City FED President Jeffrey Schmid

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Speaker 3: voting for a pause.

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Speaker 2: That was CBS's Jason Brooks. The market had already figured

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Speaker 2: in this half point cut or this quarter point cut,

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Speaker 2: and had been a soaring of life to record numbers,

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Speaker 2: and then Fed Chief Powell signaled today that the Fed

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Speaker 2: might not cut interest rates again this year. And that

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Speaker 2: caused the markets to split in half. Nasdak up now

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Speaker 2: an S and B five hundred down. We'll get you

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Speaker 2: caught up on all the business details with Bloomberg in

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Speaker 2: just about seven minutes. Another day still closed for some

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Speaker 2: business twenty nine days accounting for the federal government shutdown.

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Speaker 4: Now Speaker Mike Johnson points at struggling unpaid air traffic

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Speaker 4: controllers and tens of millions on the brink of losing

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Speaker 4: federal food benefits and says.

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Speaker 3: Democrats are still out trying to convince you that this

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Speaker 3: is somehow Republican's fault.

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Speaker 4: But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the president is

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Speaker 4: withholding money for the food program.

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Speaker 2: The money is there, and this.

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Speaker 4: Texas resident says people need support, we need help. Allison Keyes,

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Speaker 4: CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: President Trump's in South Korea, meeting with the Prime minister

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Speaker 2: there ahead of tomorrow's trade talks with the President of China.

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Speaker 5: President Trump, touching down in South Korea, agreed with the

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Speaker 5: YMCA on the tarmac, Korean President Lee lavishing Trump with gifts,

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Speaker 5: including a replica of a golden crown and awarding him

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Speaker 5: with the Grand Order of mungumwis South Korea's highest honor.

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Speaker 5: This is the president's final stop in Asia ahead of

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Speaker 5: his high stakes meeting with Chinese president's sheep.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a deal. I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be a good deal for both.

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Speaker 5: If no deal has reached, the President warned he would

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Speaker 5: slap an additional one hundred percent tariff on Chinese imports

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Speaker 5: by Saturday.

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Speaker 2: That's ABC's Rachel Scott. Legal troubles for a staffer of

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts Governor Mara Heally in Western Massachusetts. The Hampden County

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Speaker 2: District Attorney's offices Lamar Cook's charged with cocaine trafficking and

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Speaker 2: other violations. The Governor's office is they've been made aware

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Speaker 2: of the arrest and say the conduct's unacceptable and that

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Speaker 2: Cook has been terminated. Cook served as the Governor's Western

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts Deputy Director in Springfield, and, according to the state website,

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Speaker 2: served in that role since April of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Dozens of people are dead in Haiti in the wake

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Speaker 2: of Hurricane Melissa. It caused widespread damage in Haiti as

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Speaker 2: well as Cuba and Jamaica. Officials say a river burst

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Speaker 2: its banks in southern Haiti, leading to fatalities and trapping

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Speaker 2: people under rubble. Meantime, in Jamaica, the storm hit with

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Speaker 2: winds of one hundred and eighty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 2: There's been extensive damage. More than half a million people

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Speaker 2: are without power. Officials reporting collapsed houses, blocked mountain roads,

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Speaker 2: and roofs blown off homes. We have had some drizzle

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Speaker 2: around through much of the day, mainly off to the south.

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Speaker 2: It's not a big deal, but making the roads a

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Speaker 2: little wet in some places. As we deal with this

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Speaker 2: precursor to our bigger storm tomorrow. It looks like we're

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Speaker 2: getting a little bit of shower activity up toward the

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Speaker 2: Lin and Swampskin area as well, so this leading edge

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Speaker 2: is putting down a little drizzle. That'll be the deal

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Speaker 2: as we go through the night. Nothing significant but spotty drizzle.

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Speaker 2: Forty seven for the low Tomorrow, a little more in

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Speaker 2: the drizzle department and we'll kick that up a notch

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Speaker 2: to some rain. With windy conditions developing too, especially in

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Speaker 2: the afternoon. We'll get some heavier rains coming in here

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Speaker 2: late in the day and into the evening. Temperatures upper

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Speaker 2: fifties tomorrow, hanging in the fifties Tomorrow night with that

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Speaker 2: heavy rain that could cause some ponding and flooding, and

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Speaker 2: the poor drainage areas will eventually start to let up

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Speaker 2: the rain wheel by Friday morning, and then variably cloudy

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Speaker 2: on Friday, a lingering shower, lingering wind, temperatures in the

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Speaker 2: low sixties, with some peaks of sunshine getting out here.

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Speaker 2: We should end up in pretty decent shape for trick

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Speaker 2: or treating Friday night, though it may be windy and

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Speaker 2: feeling chilly. Windy and cooler on Saturday, only in the

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Speaker 2: upper fifties with more sun than clouds. Right now forty

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Speaker 2: eight degrees in Boston, a local retail worker basking in

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Speaker 2: the glow of the spotlight after going viral wbz's Matt

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Speaker 2: Shearer with the story.

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Speaker 1: Inside this old church called Sanctuary and Maynard, the stained

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Speaker 1: glass remains, but instead of a priest, it's a drag queen.

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Speaker 1: Read Christina all that she does. That name sound familiar.

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Speaker 1: It's the alter ego of this guy, Richard, who I

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Speaker 1: found working at the South Shore Plaza over the summertly destroyed.

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Speaker 1: That's where I learned that he used to do drag

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Speaker 1: back in the Philippines. But had to give it all

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Speaker 1: up to work three jobs to put his niece and

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Speaker 1: nephew through school. So, with the help of local drag icon,

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Speaker 1: is he ready, you should come and performed for us.

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Speaker 1: We packed not one but two brunches at Sanctuary for

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Speaker 1: the grand return of Maria Christina false eye lashes and

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, the waterworks were flowing from the crowd.

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Speaker 1: You're crying. Yeah, here's a joy.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank god.

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Speaker 1: You watch the video on our Instagram or TikTok, but

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Speaker 1: have the tissues ready? Matt Shearer WDZ, Boston's news Radio,

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Speaker 1: What's real.

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Speaker 2: Is not always the road to happiness sort of. A

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Speaker 2: new University of Massachusetts AMOR study found college students allowed

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Speaker 2: to use artificial intelligence for a course we're happier than

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Speaker 2: those who couldn't. However, it didn't necessarily lead to better grades.

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Speaker 2: This study involved a pair of economics classes with the

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Speaker 2: same assignments, same lectures, same exams. One class was encouraged

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Speaker 2: to use AI, the other couldn't. The study found no

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Speaker 2: measurable effect on test scores, but those who used the

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Speaker 2: AI consistently reported a higher level of satisfaction. Hey, when

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Speaker 2: is a word not a word? Well, when it's the

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Speaker 2: word year, I guess yeah. Many probably hadn't heard of it.

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Speaker 2: Others have heard it too much.

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Speaker 6: Chances are if you have a young teenager in the

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Speaker 6: house or are a middle school teacher, you might be

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Speaker 6: tired of hearing now. Dictionary dot Com has chosen six

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Speaker 6: seven as it's twenty twenty five word of the Year.

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Speaker 6: It's an ambiguous slang term made popular by Jen Elfha

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Speaker 6: on social media and in schools and in friends groups

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Speaker 6: across the country. It's become so pervasive and perhaps bothers him,

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Speaker 6: that some schools are now banning it. Jim Chrysul CBS News.

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Speaker 2: Two numbers has a word okay, I can play that

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Speaker 2: game ten four. You are now in the loop for

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