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

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Speaker 2: The light clouds have moved out. Now we have beautiful

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Speaker 2: sunny skies forty eight degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock

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Speaker 2: on this Saturday morning. It's October twenty fifth. As always,

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Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you

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Speaker 2: caught up with news. Here's what's happening. A work site

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Speaker 2: tragedy kills two workers in a crane collapse in Everett.

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Speaker 2: The accident being called part of a national wake up call.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Brandon Brewitt has to tail.

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Speaker 3: The crane was doing work here at the old X

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Speaker 3: on site and Effett where ships used to come in

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Speaker 3: and offload the work. To dismantle it is phase one

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Speaker 3: of a year's long, multimillion dollar renovation to the waterfront.

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Speaker 3: They're going to have to bring in another crane company,

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Speaker 3: most likely to lift the crane up and get it

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Speaker 3: onto another bodge and then check it out to be investigated.

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Speaker 1: It's a booked at and checked out.

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Speaker 3: The state agency that oversees workplace safety put out a

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Speaker 3: statement calling on the governor and other leaders to beef

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Speaker 3: up regulations, citing other crane collapses across the country when writing,

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Speaker 3: this is not just an Everett issue, It's a national

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Speaker 3: wake up call.

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Speaker 4: It's a very unfortunate accident. How to go out, of course,

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Speaker 4: to their families and those that work with them, that

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Speaker 4: know them very well.

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Speaker 3: We reached out to OSHA, it's the federal organization that

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Speaker 3: typically investigates workplace tragedies such as this one. But when

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Speaker 3: we reached out, we've got an automatic reply saying they

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Speaker 3: couldn't respond to our request due to the government shut down.

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Speaker 2: And the two victims have not been identified. Firefighter from

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Speaker 2: Ireland is found guilty of raping a woman in Boston

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Speaker 2: last year. Terence Crosby arrested back in March of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four on suspicion of assaulting a woman at the

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Speaker 2: Omni Parker House hotel while in Boston for Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 2: This was the second trial in the case. The first

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Speaker 2: ended in a mistrial. Crosby is scheduled to be sentenced

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Speaker 2: on Thursday. Tropical Storm Melissa now expected to strengthen into

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Speaker 2: a hurricane, threatening the Northern Caribbean with massive rainfall and

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Speaker 2: life threatening flooding. Slow moving system could dump two to

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Speaker 2: three feet of rain on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.

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Speaker 2: Get the very latest from CBS's Jason Allen in Kingston.

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Speaker 5: Here in Jamaica, officials are very concerned about landslides, and

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Speaker 5: they're especially warning people who live near the goalies the

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Speaker 5: rivers any of the flood prone areas to be ready

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Speaker 5: to evacuate.

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Speaker 2: Mellis is expected to intensify over the weekend, potentially reaching

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Speaker 2: category four status by Monday. The tensions are continuing to

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Speaker 2: build off the South American coast, CBS's Charlie Daggatta reporting

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Speaker 2: the US is increasing its military presence there.

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Speaker 1: The deployment of the Ford aircraft carrier and its escorting

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Speaker 1: warships to the Caribbean is the strongest signaled yet. The

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Speaker 1: US is preparing to widen its air strike campaign in

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Speaker 1: the region, with ten strikes on suspected drug boats already,

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Speaker 1: including one that allegedly killed six Narco terrorists. The Trump

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Speaker 1: administration has worn Venezuela and it's cartels that striking Land

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Speaker 1: is next.

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Speaker 2: And the aircraft carrier carrier being repositioned from off the

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Speaker 2: coast of Croatia to the Caribbean. The fur d a

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Speaker 2: wbzaku weather forecas is going to be a cool day

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Speaker 2: today with the high of fifty seven, breezy at times,

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Speaker 2: a mix of sun and clouds. Tonight, partly mostly cloudy.

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Speaker 2: Skies will drop down to a low of about forty

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Speaker 2: three in Boston, ranging from thirty six degrees in some

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Speaker 2: of the coldest inland suburbs. Tomorrow a little cooler than today,

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Speaker 2: even a high of fifty four, mix of sun and clouds. Monday,

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Speaker 2: same deal, iive fifty three. It'll be breezy, Chile, a

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Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds. Tuesday, again a high of

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Speaker 2: fifty three. Chili. We will add into that augusty wind

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Speaker 2: and there could be some sprinkles on Tuesday towards the

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Speaker 2: south coast, the Cape and the Islands, and then again

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Speaker 2: another chili day midweek on Wednesday. We're also looking at

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Speaker 2: the extended fur cast for a possible coastal storm that

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Speaker 2: could bring some rain and gusty winds to the area

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Speaker 2: Wednesday night and Thursday. Right now in Boston, it's a

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Speaker 2: sunny and forty eight degrees at eleven oh six. Back

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Speaker 2: to News Now. A block party in Mattapan celebrating the

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Speaker 2: completion of a three year project to restore the Matda

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Speaker 2: Hunt Woods Urban wild My family's lived here forty seven.

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Speaker 4: Years Sydney and lives just a few blocks from here

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Speaker 4: and can't wait to walk or dog through the woods.

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Speaker 2: This is exciting to have this space, to have another

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Speaker 2: alternative to bring him to walk.

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Speaker 4: Katherine McCandless with the city's Environment Department, says, the nearly

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Speaker 4: nine acres of city owned conservation land was filled with

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Speaker 4: trash and invasive plants and had no trails.

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Speaker 5: We have done a lot of work to remove all

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Speaker 5: of that trash and debris, treat invasive plants, add native plants,

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Speaker 5: filled an accessible or wheelchair accessible trail network through the property.

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Speaker 4: Mayor Woo says everyone in the city needs access to

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Speaker 4: nature and as.

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Speaker 2: Much as I love City Hall, I think it's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful building no matter what anyone else. As much as

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Speaker 2: the concrete has grown on me, it is the green

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Speaker 2: space as that truly make your heart saying and bring

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Speaker 2: our city to.

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Speaker 4: Life in Mattapan. Suzanne Sausville WBZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Right heads up for Tea riders. The MBTA continuing track

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Speaker 2: and infrastructure projects this weekend. Shuttle buses both local and

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Speaker 2: Express are replacing service on the Green Lines D branch

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Speaker 2: between Riverside and Kenmore through October thirty. First, the Tea

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Speaker 2: advises shuttle riders traveling to Government Center to allow at

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Speaker 2: least thirty to forty five minutes travel time, and the

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Speaker 2: city is also offering a promotion code for up to

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Speaker 2: five free blue bikes. The unlocked code is MBTA Green

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

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