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

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Speaker 2: News mostly sunny skies in Boston. At eleven o'clock, It's

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. Good to have you with us. I'm Nicole Davis,

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Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. Boston area buses are about to

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Speaker 2: get a major boost. Here's wbz's James Rojas with more.

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Speaker 3: In less than two weeks, thirty seven bus routes across

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Speaker 3: the system will see service increase, meaning increased frequency. They

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Speaker 3: include Roots sixteen, twenty four, ninety six, two twenty and

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Speaker 3: four fifty five now here at Forest Hills. That's good

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Speaker 3: news for DJ from Mattapan, who already has positive feelings

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Speaker 3: for the service.

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Speaker 2: It'll be beneficial to a lot of people. So I

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Speaker 2: guess you just kind of have to wait.

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Speaker 3: Untie what happens. General manager Philip Banks says bus service

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Speaker 3: has been restored to pre pandemic levels.

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Speaker 4: Buses are more reliable.

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Speaker 3: Roots nine and SL two will also be getting upgrades,

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Speaker 3: which are expected to have them operating every fifteen minutes

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Speaker 3: are better. The changes will go into effect on April fifth,

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Speaker 3: and JP James Rojas wb Z Boston some news radio

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Speaker 3: This afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Governor Mori Heely is set to hold a press conference

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Speaker 2: to talk about public safety preps for the upcoming World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Seven matches will be played in Foxborough at j Lett

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Speaker 2: later on this year and tomorrow a friendly match between

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Speaker 2: France and Brazil is set to happen at Jellette as well.

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Speaker 2: Transportation officials already warning you it will be very busy

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Speaker 2: around Jillette. The traffic is going to be tough. The

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Speaker 2: governor's presser today at two thirty will update you here

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Speaker 2: on WBZ, streaming always on the iHeartRadio app. The Houseoversight

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Speaker 2: Committee in DC has released videos from the depositions of

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant and lawyer. Here's ABC's Peter harlam Boose.

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Speaker 5: Both men denied being aware of Epstein's crimes, and we're

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Speaker 5: pressed by lawmakers about why they continue to work for

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Speaker 5: Epstein even after his two thousand and eight guilty plea

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Speaker 5: and dozens of civil lawsuits alleging abuse. Epstein's longtime attorney,

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Speaker 5: Darren Endyke, you know, I drank.

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Speaker 6: The cool lad of the cuff.

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Speaker 7: I think that's the answers.

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Speaker 1: I drank the cool lad.

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Speaker 5: At the time. Notably, the men told lawmakers that they

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Speaker 5: were never questioned by federal authorities, raising questions about the

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Speaker 5: lack of scrutiny they seemingly faced from prosecutors investigating Epstein.

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Speaker 5: Peter Harralambu's ABC.

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Speaker 2: News, and open Ai says it's closing down its video generator, Sora.

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Speaker 8: With just a few words, you can create hyper realistic

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Speaker 8: videos of literally anything you can imagine.

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Speaker 9: When the Sora two app launched in September, users made

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Speaker 9: fake videos of themselves, celebrities, their dog driving a car,

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Speaker 9: or the Army drafting their grandma.

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Speaker 3: It's your draft order, need you to sign here?

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Speaker 9: He maw Wecred explasted videos that were racist, violent, or

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Speaker 9: infringed on copyrights. Sora's popularity has since dropped, and open

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Speaker 9: ai is pulling the plug as it focuses more on

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Speaker 9: its business and coding offerings. Michael Wallace, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: For the rest of the afternoon, looking at our forecast,

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Speaker 2: it is going to be a pretty nice day, no

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Speaker 2: problems that I can see. Some in clouds with a

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Speaker 2: gusty breeze and a high in the low fifties. Then

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Speaker 2: for tonight, mostly cloudy. The wind is still going to

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Speaker 2: be picking up here and there, We've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of showers in spots late as well, in a low

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Speaker 2: near forty now for tomorrow, clouds and breaks of sun, breezy,

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Speaker 2: warmer still, we've got a high in the low to

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Speaker 2: mid sixties. There will be a bit of rain tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night into Friday, and then we've got mostly cloudy conditions

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Speaker 2: Friday afternoon, high early fifty and then temps fall into

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Speaker 2: the forties. We're at forty five degrees right now as

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Speaker 2: we make our way into Burlington, south of Boston. In

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Speaker 2: Abington forty four, west of Boston forty four, as well

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Speaker 2: in Ashland and in Boston. At eleven oh five it

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Speaker 2: is partly cloudy and forty three left our tents. Overnight

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Speaker 2: search on the South Shore, a missing boy has been found.

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Speaker 2: Here's wbz's Matt Phipps.

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Speaker 7: Following an extensive search overnight featuring multiple police departments, a

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Speaker 7: missing eight year old boy from Marshfield is found safe

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Speaker 7: four miles away in Duxbury. Neighbors on hounds Ditch Lane

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Speaker 7: were able to coax the boy out of the woods

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Speaker 7: where he'd been all night long by offering him food.

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Speaker 7: Marshall Police Chief Philip Tavarus relieved to say the least.

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Speaker 6: I just want to thank all the agencies that came out.

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Speaker 6: I want to thank all the members of our community

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Speaker 6: in the community of Duxbury for all their assistants, and

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Speaker 6: I want to thank the media for getting his coverage

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Speaker 6: so that everybody was.

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Speaker 3: Aware of it.

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Speaker 7: Chief Deavrus says the boy will be reunited with his

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Speaker 7: folks at the hospital where he's being evaluated for possible hypothermia.

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Speaker 7: Matt phipps WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Now to the war in the Middle East, and while

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Speaker 2: this is not happening directly, there appears to be movement

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Speaker 2: to try to bring an end to the hostilities. ABC's

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Speaker 2: Nicole dey Antonio.

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Speaker 8: Sources say the Trump administration is sent Aron a fifteen

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Speaker 8: point piece plan addressing Iran's ballistic, missile and nuclear programs

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Speaker 8: and maritime roots like the Strait of her Moose. Mediators

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Speaker 8: are said to be pushing for a meeting soon, but

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Speaker 8: The Wall Street Journal reports Iran has its own demands,

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Speaker 8: including no limits on its missile program and the closure

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Speaker 8: of all American bases in the Gulf. I Shall, calling

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Speaker 8: those demands unrealistic. Nicolde Antonio ABC News Washington.

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Speaker 2: Multiple reports of this hour say Iran has now issued

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Speaker 2: its own set of demands. They include a quote complete

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Speaker 2: halt to the aggression and assassinations, international guarantees to their

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Speaker 2: sovereign right to authority over the Strait of Horn moves,

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Speaker 2: and the end of fighting against all resistance groups, including

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Speaker 2: hesper Lah. Here's ABC's Rachel Scott, who reports the violence,

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Speaker 2: though only appears to be escalating.

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Speaker 4: Even as President Trump claims peace talks are underway. The

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Speaker 4: Armies preparing to deploy up to fifteen hundred troops from

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Speaker 4: the elite eighty second Airborne Division to the Middle East

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Speaker 4: to support the war. The President has said he does

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Speaker 4: not plan to put boots on the ground, but the

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Speaker 4: soldiers of the eighty second are trained to parachute behind

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Speaker 4: enemy lines. Their deployment on top of the forty five

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Speaker 4: hundred marines and sailors expected to arrive in the region

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Speaker 4: this week.

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Speaker 2: Public opinion of the war appears to be shifting. A

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Speaker 2: new AP NORC poll shows fifty nine percent of American

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Speaker 2: survey think the military action in the Middle East has

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Speaker 2: been excessive. Many Americans say they're also worried about being

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Speaker 2: able to afford gas in the coming months. And at

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Speaker 2: eleven oh seven on Capitol Hills. Senate Democrats have rejected

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Speaker 2: a Republican proposal to end the partial government shutdown. The

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Speaker 2: Republican deal would have funded all of Homeland Security except

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Speaker 2: for ICE, which is already funded.

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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats are withholding votes to fully fund DHS, demanding

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Speaker 1: reforms to Weiss, and have repeatedly pushed to fund the

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Speaker 1: rest of the department while negotiations play out, But now

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Speaker 1: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying the new GOP proposal

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Speaker 1: doesn't go far enough. We need reforms to ICE, we

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Speaker 1: need to reign in the violence. And President Trump, who

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Speaker 1: demanded any deal with Democrats include his voter ID legislation.

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Speaker 1: I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not

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Speaker 1: happy with it. Now not sold either.

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Speaker 2: ESA workers, of course, have been hit hard by the

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Speaker 2: ongoing shutdown. More than four hundred and fifty agents have

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Speaker 2: quit as they're being asked to work without pay. You

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