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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.

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Speaker 2: News fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Sasville. Here's what's happening. We start in the

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Speaker 2: Middle East, where the US and Israel have launched a

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Speaker 2: joint attack on Iran. We get the very latest now

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Speaker 2: from ABC News.

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Speaker 1: This is a special report for ABC News. I'm Chuck Siebertson.

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Speaker 1: It's late night in Iran. After a day of air

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Speaker 1: attacks by the US and Israel, partly targeting Iran's top leaders,

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Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netta Yahu in his speech to

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Speaker 1: Israeli citizens saying the signs are growing that the dictator

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Speaker 1: is no longer here. That's denied by Iran's Foreign ministry

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Speaker 1: spokesman to ABC's With Johnson.

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Speaker 3: Can you confirm that the Ayatola is still the leader

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Speaker 3: and in power of Iran right now?

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Speaker 4: Thanks to God, they are all safe and sound.

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Speaker 1: ABC News contributor retired US Army Lieutenant General Doug Lutz.

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Speaker 5: I don't know this single historical case where we've pulled

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Speaker 5: off regime change successfully from the air alone.

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Speaker 1: President Trump spoke with ABC's Jonathan Carl.

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Speaker 6: He said that it's very well, very strong, great unity

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Speaker 6: to lead. A lot of the leadership, he said, is gone.

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Speaker 1: Trump did not confirm that Iran's supreme leader was killed.

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Speaker 1: This is ABC News.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Seth Molton is among those slamming the Trump administration's

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Speaker 2: decision to strike Iran. Wbz's Mike Macklin with that.

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Speaker 3: I don't like the Iranian regime. I wish the Iranian

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Speaker 3: people would rise up and change that regime. But to

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Speaker 3: say that it's the good idea to risk American lives

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Speaker 3: for uncertain aims, that's a big question.

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Speaker 5: Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton among the first to speak out

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Speaker 5: against the US missile to Jack on Iran, calling the

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Speaker 5: move irresponsible.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is a recipe for a rock war two

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Speaker 3: point zero. I mean, if you think about it, the

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Speaker 3: two fundamental problems with the Iraq war. Where number one,

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Speaker 3: it was all based on a lie about nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 3: and number two, there was no plan for the day after. Well,

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Speaker 3: here we are clearly Trump lied about obliterating their nuclear

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Speaker 3: weapons program, and number two, there's clearly no plan for

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Speaker 3: the day after. He doesn't even seem to have a

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Speaker 3: strategy for what he's trying to achieve right now.

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Speaker 5: Moulton says he's concerned President Trump's decision to attack Iran

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Speaker 5: will likely cost American lives. Mike Macklin WZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Senator Ed Markey condemned the strikes as a legal and unconstitutional,

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Speaker 2: calling the situation a crisis of Trump's creation. A long

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Speaker 2: day on Capitol Hill for former President Bill Clinton, Clinton

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Speaker 2: testified behind closed doors as part of the investigation into

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. ABC's Olivia Rubin has more.

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Speaker 4: The marathon testimony, coming one day after Hillary Clinton went

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Speaker 4: before the same committee.

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Speaker 7: I don't know how many times I had to say

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Speaker 7: I did not know Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 4: Her husband firing back including her was simply not right.

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Speaker 4: And back at the White House. President Trump, who was

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Speaker 4: friends with Epstein for nearly two decades before, he says

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Speaker 4: he ended the relationship, now expressing support for Clinton despite

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Speaker 4: publicly ordering his Justice Department to investigate him.

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Speaker 2: Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton have been accused of any wrongdoing.

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Speaker 2: The forecast partly to mostly cloudy overnight with a low

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Speaker 2: near thirty, brisk and colder tomorrow, with some snow around midday.

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Speaker 2: I can't even say the word I'm so tired of it.

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Speaker 2: Snow around midday, not much though, just acoding to an inch.

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Speaker 2: Partly cloudy after that, with a high of thirty six.

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Speaker 2: A mix of sun and clouds on Monday, with a

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Speaker 2: high of just twenty five On Tuesday, increase in clouds

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Speaker 2: and some snow or rain later in the day, high

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Speaker 2: near forty. Right now in Boston, it's sunny and fifty degrees.

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Speaker 2: Measles returns to the Commonwealth for the first time this year.

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Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett reports it's.

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Speaker 8: Not too surprising that eventually we would see a case

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Speaker 8: of measles here in the Commonwealth.

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Speaker 6: It has been spreading across the United States, and now

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Speaker 6: it's arrived right here at home. The Massachusetts Department of

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Speaker 6: Health announcing the first two measle cases of the year.

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Speaker 6: One a child who contracted it while out of state

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Speaker 6: and remains out of state. The second is an adult

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Speaker 6: who lives in Greater Boston and picked it up while

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Speaker 6: traveling internationally.

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Speaker 8: Measles is highly contagious, and so whenever there is a

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Speaker 8: case of measles, we're concerned about people who have been in.

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Speaker 6: Contact Traditionally, families vaccinate their children with the Tudo shots

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Speaker 6: starting at year one. The vaccine doctor c remains more

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Speaker 6: than ninety seven percent effective throughout your adult life, but

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Speaker 6: doctors tell us recent changes to vaccine recommendations at the

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Speaker 6: federal level have more patients coming in with questions and hesitancy.

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Speaker 2: According to state data, the last confirmed measles case in

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts was in twenty twenty four. The Veterans Boston Healthcare

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Speaker 2: System is getting some upgrades wbz's Emma Friedman.

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Speaker 7: It's part of a multi billion dollar investment to improve

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Speaker 7: healthcare infrastructure. Some projects set for this year include upgrading

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Speaker 7: the electronic health record system on the Brockton campus, replacing pipes,

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Speaker 7: updating fire alarms, and an Office of Information and Technology

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Speaker 7: Data Center edition At the Jamaica Plan campus and on

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Speaker 7: the West Roxbury campus, they plan to repave the patient

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Speaker 2: The US Naval Academy Glee Club is performing on board

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Speaker 2: the USS Constitution next Saturday. The event is free and

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Speaker 2: open to the public. Boarding of old ironsides will start

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