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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news thirty four degrees in Boston at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: We are following some breaking news out of Nashua, New

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Speaker 2: Hampshire this afternoon. Emergency crews are responding to a reported

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Speaker 2: gas explosion and a large fire on Amherst Street and

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Speaker 2: that's Root one one A in Nashua. According to police,

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Speaker 2: it's set four forty Mmer Street, the address of the

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Speaker 2: Greater Nashua Mental Health An emergency alert was sent to

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Speaker 2: people in the nearby area, asking them to immediately extinguish

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Speaker 2: any burners or other flames and to prepare to evacuate.

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Speaker 2: People are being asked to avoid the area and to

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Speaker 2: seek alternate roots. WBZ will continue to follow developments out

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Speaker 2: of Nashua, and we will have the very latest here

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Speaker 2: and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Last week, more than

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Speaker 2: three million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files were released by

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Speaker 2: the Justice Department. Now, the DOJ says it likely made

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Speaker 2: mistakes in failing to properly redact victims' names, and will

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Speaker 2: now seek to quickly correct those mistakes. However, lawyers for

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Speaker 2: some women say real damage's already been done.

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Speaker 3: In an urgent letter addressed to two federal judges, attorneys

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Speaker 3: for alleged Epstein victims say the Justice Department has released

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Speaker 3: files that include their client's full names, even dates of birth,

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Speaker 3: home addresses, and bank information.

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Speaker 4: Eight women pointed to anonymously in the letter say their

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Speaker 4: lives have suddenly been turned upside down. Their attorneys are

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Speaker 4: now asking the judges to order the immediate takedown of

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Speaker 4: all the Epstein files and to appoint an independent special

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Speaker 4: master to oversee proper redaction.

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Speaker 2: O is ABC Stephen Portnoy. In response, several thousand pages

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Speaker 2: of Epstein files have already been taken down. A partial

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Speaker 2: federal government shutdowns not expected to latch.

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Speaker 1: Long.

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Speaker 2: House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will hold a

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Speaker 2: vote on funding legislation by tomorrow, and the House Rules

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Speaker 2: committees meeting today they're discussing setting up a floor vote.

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Speaker 2: Looking to stockpile rare earth minerals, President Trump launching a

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Speaker 2: twelve billion dollar plan.

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Speaker 5: The White House says. The initiative is called Project Vault.

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Speaker 5: It's designed to counter China's dominance of key minerals. Used

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Speaker 5: in defense, clean energy, and advanced technology, and to limit

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Speaker 5: Beijing's leverage in trade negotiations. The stockpile would be financed

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Speaker 5: by a ten billion dollar loan from the Export Import Bank,

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Speaker 5: along with more than a billion dollars in private investment.

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Speaker 5: Stacy Lynn, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: The White House recently renamed It's now closing for a

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Speaker 2: couple of years. President Trump says the Trump Kennedy Center

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Speaker 2: will undergo renovations. This comes at a time when there

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Speaker 2: have been a wave of cancelations by performers and groups

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Speaker 2: since the president ouncet did the previous leadership and added

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Speaker 2: his name to the building.

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Speaker 1: The President made the announcement on social media. He said

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Speaker 1: the performing arts center would be revitalized and completely rebuilt.

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Speaker 1: He said his decision was based on input from many

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Speaker 1: highly respected experts. He called the center tired, broken, and dilapidated,

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Speaker 1: and claimed it has been in bad condition, both financially

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Speaker 1: and structurally for many years. He said the decision to

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Speaker 1: close the center is subject to the approval of its

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Speaker 1: board of trustees, which has been stocked with his handpick

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Speaker 1: allies and which Trump himself chairs. Christopher Cruz CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 1: The four d a wbz ACU weather forecast. We've had

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Speaker 1: a I won't say mild day, but I won't say

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Speaker 1: really cold day either. We've been kind of in the middle,

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Speaker 1: certainly for winter. We've had the bitterly cold weather. We've

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Speaker 1: put that behind us a little bit, and we're in

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Speaker 1: the mid thirties today. That's not terrible. Some of the

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Speaker 1: real feels, though, in the twenties. Turning out clear and cold.

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Speaker 1: Tonight we will fall back to about twelve in Boston,

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Speaker 1: near below zero in some of the inland suburbs, and

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Speaker 1: then lots of sunshine tomorrow, temperatures maybe even a few

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Speaker 1: degrees milder than today there. We say thirty six for

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Speaker 1: the high, partly to mostly cloudy tomorrow night low of

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Speaker 1: seventeen in the city, single digits in the suburbs, and

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Speaker 1: then low thirties with some sun and clouds on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: thirty or so, with some sun and clouds on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Right now, thirty four degrees in Boston. Tied to winter.

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Speaker 2: No punksatani Field's got some bad news for you.

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Speaker 6: There is a shadow here on my ground.

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Speaker 7: Six more weeks of winter.

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Speaker 6: Abom sheers and booze from the crowd braving freezing temperatures

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Speaker 6: across the country. Predictions pour in in the more winter

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Speaker 6: camp New York, Staten Island Chuck, George's General Beauregard Lee,

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Speaker 6: and an opossum in Alabama Birmingham Jill. That's right, it's

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Speaker 6: not just groundhogs. All kinds of animals getting into the

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Speaker 6: weather forecasting business. Those predicting an early spring groundhogs Buckeye

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Speaker 6: Chuck and Ohio, Big Newton in North Carolina, along with

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Speaker 6: Benny the bass of Fish in Ohio. I'm Julie Walker.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I want a second opinion. How about if we

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Speaker 2: go to Lincoln and find out what the local groundhog

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Speaker 2: has to say.

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Speaker 8: We have the word from our four legged forecaster.

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Speaker 3: So I think we can make our official prognostication for

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: For Miss G, which is that we are in for

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Speaker 6: six more weeks of winter.

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Speaker 8: Miss G, the state groundhog at mass Audubun's drumlind Forms

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Speaker 8: has more winter. If you're disappointed, you can tell from

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Speaker 8: the scattered gri owns in the crowd that feelings about

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Speaker 8: that were mixed. We're not a Pomponi's the mass Audubon

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Speaker 8: chief of staff and says, Northern Europeans did this ceremony

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Speaker 8: with badgers.

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Speaker 1: We don't really have those in the US.

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Speaker 7: And so the tradition when it came over to the

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Speaker 7: United States was to have the groundhog be our weather prognosticator.

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Speaker 8: Interestingly enough, Miss g has a sixty percent success rate,

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Speaker 8: about twice as accurate as cousin Phil in Pennsylvania. Pomponi says,

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Speaker 8: this is a way to remind us that it's not

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Speaker 8: going to be ice and snow forever.

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Speaker 7: The days are going to be a little warmer. The

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Speaker 7: maple sugaring SAP is going to start flowing.

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Speaker 8: Ryles Schaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: I don't like her prediction either. All eyes on the

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Speaker 2: Bay Area this week. The New England Patriots and Seattle

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Speaker 2: Seahawks will be facing off in Super Bowl sixty on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: but eyes will also be on seismographs, says several earthquakes

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Speaker 2: have hit that area recently. There have been about twenty

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Speaker 2: earthquakes recorded in San Ramon, a city about forty minutes

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Speaker 2: away from Levi Stadium, where the game will be held,

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Speaker 2: and that's right now. There hasn't been any reports of

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Speaker 2: damage or injuries, but certainly a number of earthquakes to

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