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

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Speaker 1: degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Day fifteen of the federal government shutdown,

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Speaker 1: and it is already affecting a number of federal program

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Speaker 1: CBS as Linda Kenyon tells us, SNAP benefits could be next.

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Speaker 2: SNAP, which used to be called Food Staffs, as well

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Speaker 2: as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and

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Speaker 2: Children or WICK, will not be immediately impacted. Still, individual

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Speaker 2: states are making preparations if the shutdown continues into November.

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Speaker 2: Some states have stopped or curtailed new applications for food assistance.

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Speaker 2: Others are reviewing eligibility requirements for SNAP recipients. When it

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Speaker 2: comes to WICK, Historically, it has remained operational during a shutdown.

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Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, for example, WICK was able to draw

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Speaker 2: on contingency funding in order to keep running. Linda Keny

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Speaker 2: and CBS News the White.

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Speaker 1: House a federal judge blocking the Trump administration's mass of

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Speaker 1: firings across the federal government for now. US District Judge

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Speaker 1: Susan Ilston issuing an emergency order after federal labor unions

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Speaker 1: pleaded against the layoffs in court. Thousands of federal workers

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Speaker 1: have been laid off during the government shut down as

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Speaker 1: President Trump says he's targeting programs favored by Democrats. The

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Speaker 1: judge says the human cost of the administration's actions cannot

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Speaker 1: be tolerated. Looking to bring a new generation to the

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Speaker 1: US Senate, Massachusetts Congressman set Molton is set to challenge

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Speaker 1: Senator Red Marquee for his seat to shake things up

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 3: I just don't believe Cenator Markie should be running for

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Speaker 3: another six year term at eighty years old. Even More,

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Speaker 3: I don't think someone who's been in Congress for half

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Speaker 3: a century is the right person to meet this moment

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Speaker 3: and win the future.

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Speaker 1: In a video, the forty six year old congressman said

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party was stuck in the status quo and

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Speaker 1: isn't fighting hard enough, saying the next generation will keep

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Speaker 1: paying the cost if we don't change course. Moulton says

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Speaker 1: this isn't a fight we can put off for another

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Speaker 1: six years. The future we all believe in is on

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Speaker 1: the line. Senator Markey's campaign manager, meantime, telling WZ News

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Speaker 1: radio in a statement, while Congressman Moulton is launching a

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Speaker 1: political campaign during a government shutdown, Senator Marky is doing

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Speaker 1: his job, voting against the Trump extreamist agenda and working

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Speaker 1: to stop the MAGA attacks on healthcare so that we

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Speaker 1: can reopen the government. The statement goes on to say,

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Speaker 1: that's what leadership looks like and what the residents of

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts expect from their senator. Los Angeles County declaring a

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Speaker 1: state of emergency over growing ice raids.

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Speaker 4: The one LA County supervisor who opposed declaring a state

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Speaker 4: of emergency and represents more conservative areas of the county

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Speaker 4: says states of emergency should be reserved for times of

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Speaker 4: life and death like wildfires, but the other supervisors voting

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Speaker 4: in favor, saying a state of emergency is warranted. LA

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Speaker 4: County Supervisor Janis Hahn voted in favor.

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Speaker 5: We have residents afraid to leave their homes.

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Speaker 6: I have constituents contacting my office because they're family members

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Speaker 6: never came home.

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Speaker 4: The state of emergency will allow for, among other things,

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Speaker 4: rent relief for those who have fallen behind on rent

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Speaker 4: due to ice raids. Atle like Stone, ABC News, Los

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Speaker 4: Aancheles in Israel.

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Speaker 1: The military says one of the bodies handed over by

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Speaker 1: Hamas as part of the ceasefire deal is not that

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Speaker 1: of a hostage who was held in Gaza. Four bodies

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Speaker 1: were handed over by Hamas on Tuesday, after the last

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Speaker 1: twenty living hostages were released. Checking the four d A wz

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Speaker 1: ACCU weather forecast, we have the sun shining in many spots,

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Speaker 1: but it's been slow to clear at least completely in

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Speaker 1: some places. Part of western Massachusetts still hanging in some clouds.

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Speaker 1: In the Capean Islands have been hanging in some clouds

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Speaker 1: as well today, although the sun's been poking out from

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Speaker 1: time to time just to say hey here, I am

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Speaker 1: turning out clear. Denied forty three for the low temperature

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Speaker 1: in the city, but we'll be back in the thirties

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Speaker 1: as you head into the suburbs. Cool breeze tomorrow fifty five.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it, with a mix of sun

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Speaker 1: and some clouds. Temperatures mid forties or so tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: with mostly clear skies and then some sunshine Friday, a

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Speaker 1: tad warmer. How about sixty how about sixty two on Saturday?

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Speaker 1: And do I hear seventy maybe on Sunday probably won't

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Speaker 1: get two seventy, but I don't make a climb towarded

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Speaker 1: with some sunshine. Right now, it is sixty degrees in Boston.

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Speaker 1: A Massachusetts based retail giant is throwing their support behind

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Speaker 1: Boston's newest sports franchise, w Busy's match surer with details

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Speaker 1: the gear is here.

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Speaker 5: The Boston Legacy FC, our new women's pro soccer team,

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Speaker 5: are officially announcing their main sponsor for the inaugural season.

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Speaker 5: It is TJ Max local company. The team will proudly

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Speaker 5: sport the logo of the department's store chain on their

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Speaker 5: uniforms as part of a multi year agreement. TJ Max

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Speaker 5: says they're proud to take their commitment to women's sports

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Speaker 5: to the next level, at least for next season. Matches

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Speaker 5: for the Legacy will take place at Jillette Stadium. It

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Speaker 5: all kicks off in March. Matt Shearer WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: Some popular instant rice is being recalled Don't Blame.

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Speaker 7: Me, Ben's Original is recalling a number of rice products

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Speaker 7: due to the possible presence of small stones in the rice.

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Speaker 7: The FDA says the stones are naturally occurring and originate

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Speaker 7: from the rice farm, but that they pose possible risk

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Speaker 7: of oral or digestive tract injury if eaten. The recall

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Speaker 7: includes Ben's White, Brown and Wild rice packs with best

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Speaker 7: buy dates of August twenty twenty six. The products were

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Speaker 7: sold to places like Target, United Markets, Amazon, Piggy Wiggly

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Speaker 7: and more.

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Speaker 1: That is CBS's Matt Piper, Hingham Police releasing dashcam footage

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Speaker 1: of a Tesla in self driving mode that ran past

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Speaker 1: the school bus and had its stop sign extended. This

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Speaker 1: incident's renewing debate among drivers and pedestrians about the safety

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Speaker 1: of the new technology.

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Speaker 6: Several car companies are investing millions and taking on this

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Speaker 6: new ambitious self driving technology as a feature in their

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Speaker 6: latest models.

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Speaker 5: It's a great concept.

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Speaker 6: But the more drivers I'm talking to on the self

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Speaker 6: shore there's nothing but questions and concerns.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, the automatically join themselves.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I would be comfortable driving a self.

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Speaker 1: Propelled car at all.

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Speaker 6: Kingham Police is just the latest department to send out

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Speaker 6: reminders to the public just because because you have a

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Speaker 6: self driving option doesn't mean you take your eyes off

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Speaker 6: the road, as witnessed in this latest incident with that

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Speaker 6: Tesla driving past a school bus stop sign. The driver

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Speaker 6: was pulled over and sighted, and people still wonder just

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Speaker 6: how safe is this new technology.

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Speaker 2: There's too many variables that come into play on the road.

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Speaker 6: In Hangem Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio placing a bat

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Speaker 6: on a new Massachusetts casino and an extension of commuter

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Speaker 6: rail service along the Route two corridor.

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Speaker 1: Leminster Representative Natalie Higgins is proposing a bill that would

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Speaker 1: create an inter city Regional Passenger Rail Fund to finance

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Speaker 1: passenger rail projects and a new region to be eligible

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Speaker 1: for a casino gaming license. As proposed, Region D would

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Speaker 1: consist of Lemonster, Fitchburg, and the nearby towns of Ashburnham, Lunenburg,

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Speaker 1: and Westminster, and under the bill, twenty five percent of

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Speaker 1: gaming revenue collected from a possible Region D gaming license

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Speaker 1: would go toward efforts to expand commuter rail service, Higgins

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Speaker 1: told a Beacon Hill committee, at the heart of this

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Speaker 1: bill is opening up an additional region from central Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: for a possible casino and channeling the money into something

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Speaker 1: that we all desperately need. State law allows regulators to

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Speaker 1: issue up the three resort casino licenses. The state so

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Speaker 1: far as issued too, but did not issue a license

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Speaker 1: for an operator in southeastern region. C Leminster, by the way,

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Speaker 1: had originally been in the running for a slots parlor

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Speaker 1: that eventually was awarded to Plainville. You are now in

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