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

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

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Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Time to address not being

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Speaker 1: on time, the Boston City Council holds an emergency meeting

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Speaker 1: to address the issue of late school buses. Wdz's James

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Speaker 1: Rohaus has more from city halls.

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Speaker 2: City councilors and parents of BPS students are looking for

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Speaker 2: answers as school buses are being described as accessively late

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Speaker 2: and reliably unreliable. Counselor Liz Brayden.

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Speaker 3: In our district at Nelson Brighten, we have one school

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Speaker 3: in particular where the buses have been either not come

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Speaker 3: at all or been chronically lived.

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Speaker 2: Marie Francis Rivera of Roslindale is among the parents who

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Speaker 2: either are called in or showed up in person to

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Speaker 2: share their concerns and experiences.

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Speaker 4: I hope to get answers around how widespread, because it

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Speaker 4: could be that our bus route is an outlier, but

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Speaker 4: it could be that we're not an outlier. Would hope

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Speaker 4: to get some proposed solutions.

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Speaker 2: Counselor Breeden says the city pays two hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: for school transportation, yet they get shoddy service at Boston

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Speaker 2: City Hall. James Rojas wb Z Boston Some News Radio.

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Speaker 1: A bus drivers strike hits the brakes the Teamsters, announcing

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Speaker 1: a tentative agreement with First Student and seventeen thousand drivers

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Speaker 1: all across the country. Locally, the company provides bus drivers

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Speaker 1: for Wayland, Duxbury, Plymouth, Sudbury, Fitchburg, lemons Ter and Springfield.

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Speaker 1: The deal coming after eighty eight percent of union members

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Speaker 1: had voted to authorize a strike, but now if the

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Speaker 1: agreement's ratified, that won't be necessary. A national First Student

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Speaker 1: Master agreement was set to expire today. As the straight

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Speaker 1: of Hooor Moves remains closed, President Trump's telling other countries

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Speaker 1: to either purchase US oil or go in and take

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Speaker 1: it themselves.

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Speaker 5: President Trump now says he believes the straight of her

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Speaker 5: moves will quote automatically open when the US ends its

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Speaker 5: military operations against Iran. He told The New York Post

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Speaker 5: in a phone interview Tuesday, the US won't be there

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Speaker 5: too much longer, saying it's quote total obliteration. But when

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Speaker 5: asked about a Wall Street Journal report that he's considering

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Speaker 5: ending the war without the straight reopening. The President sidestepped

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Speaker 5: and said quote, I don't think about it, to be honest.

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Speaker 5: But on Monday, the President threatened to bomb power plants,

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Speaker 5: oil wells, carg Island, and possibly the country's desalination plants

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Speaker 5: if the Strait did not immediately open. Karen Travers ABC News.

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Speaker 5: The White House.

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Speaker 1: Iraqi officials say an American journalists has been kidnapped in Baghdad.

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Speaker 3: The Iraqi Interior Ministry says security forces pursued the kidnappers

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Speaker 3: and arrested one suspect in a vehicle that had overturned

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Speaker 3: in the pursuit, but the journalist was not in that

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Speaker 3: vehicle and the other car got away. Search efforts are ongoing.

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Speaker 3: The US Embassy hasn't commented, but has warned about kidnapping

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Speaker 3: risks to US citizens.

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Speaker 1: That is CBS's Kemmy McCormick. The US Supreme Court rules

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Speaker 1: against a law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids in Colorado.

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Speaker 1: It is one of about two dozen states that have

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Speaker 1: banned the practice, and now the Court majority sides with

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Speaker 1: a Christian unselor who argues the law banning talk therapy

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Speaker 1: violates the first Amendment justices agreed the law raises free

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Speaker 1: speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court.

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Speaker 1: We've had a little lull here in the precipitation. There's

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Speaker 1: a few spritzers or sprinkles around in a couple of spots,

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Speaker 1: but pretty much the radar doesn't show much of any

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Speaker 1: big activity. Late here in the afternoon, we will get

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Speaker 1: some more rain in here, though, and some drizzle and

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Speaker 1: showers and maybe even a rumble of thunder later on Tonight.

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Speaker 1: Temperatures will be in the low forties. Some places are

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Speaker 1: already pretty close to it. Other spots have ways to

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Speaker 1: go because they got into the sixties and seventies today.

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Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy with a passing shower or too tomorrow early,

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Speaker 1: maybe a thunderstorm sixty five in Boston, seventy inland, fifties

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Speaker 1: over the Cape and Islands, and then temperatures are going

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Speaker 1: to fall through the afternoon tomorrow, and we'll be in

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Speaker 1: the thirties tomorrow night, with a passing shower or two early.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise just cloudy and just that chill in the air.

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Speaker 1: Forty for the high on Thursday. There'll be a breeze.

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Speaker 1: It'll feel like it's in the thirties at times, there

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Speaker 1: may be some rain and or drizzle, and then Friday

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Speaker 1: even some breaks of sun in the afternoon. Right now,

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Speaker 1: it is forty nine degrees in Boston. In New Hampshire,

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Speaker 1: the ever turn Fight North is still closed following a

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Speaker 1: fiery crash at the Bedford Tolls. WBC's Brook McCarthy tells

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Speaker 1: us the head of the Granite State helps the injured driver.

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Speaker 6: A member of the security detail for New Hampshire Governor

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Speaker 6: Kelly Ayott is being credited with helping to save a

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Speaker 6: driver after pulling them from a burning vehicle following a

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Speaker 6: crash at the Bedford Toll Plaza. Pictures show the car

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Speaker 6: totally engulfed in flames after striking the tolls. The Governor

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Speaker 6: and her team came across the crash, with one of

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Speaker 6: the state troopers assigned to her rushing to aid the driver.

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Speaker 6: The Governor and other witnesses also provided aid. Please say

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Speaker 6: the driver was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

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Speaker 6: New Hampshire State Police are still investigating the cause of

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Speaker 6: the crash. The Bedford Tolls have been the site of

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Speaker 6: several serious crashes, including a Massachusetts woman who is arrested

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Speaker 6: over the weekend for drunk driving after police say she

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Speaker 6: crashed her car into the tolls. Burke McCarthy w Boston's

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Speaker 6: News Radio.

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Speaker 1: There's more information on last week's Florida car crash involving

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Speaker 1: golfer Tiger Woods. The Sheriff's office report says that Wood's

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Speaker 1: eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his pupils dilated, and he

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Speaker 1: had hydro codone pills in his pocket when he was

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Speaker 1: interviewed after the rollover. Released today, the Martin County Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Office reports as Wood's movements were slow and lethargic, and

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Speaker 1: that he was sweating as he talked to deputies and

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Speaker 1: told them he had taken prescription medication earlier in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Woods telling deputies he had been looking at his phone

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Speaker 1: and fiddling with the radio before he clipped the truck

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Speaker 1: in front of him. So far, so good for Artemis two.

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Speaker 1: The Moon mission could be taken off tomorrow if conditions persist.

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Speaker 7: The crew is preparing for the ten day mission that'll

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Speaker 7: bring them around the Moon, previously set to launch this

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Speaker 7: past February. Astrophysicist doctor Mike Sharer with the American Museum

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Speaker 7: of Natural History says, every detail matter is when it

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Speaker 7: comes to the safety of this mission.

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Speaker 2: If you aren't one hundred percent sure, you just don't launch.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to risk the lives of fool of

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Speaker 1: your brave astronauts and all of these billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: of equipment until you're one hundred percent sure.

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Speaker 7: It's the first time in more than fifty years that

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Speaker 7: humans are leaving.

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Speaker 2: Low Earth or bit in New York.

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Speaker 7: I'm Natalie mcgliori.

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