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

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

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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Soasville. Here's what's happening. The FBI is unseen

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Speaker 2: at Harvard University after an explosion at a medical school

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Speaker 2: building overnight that police say appears to be intentional. Harvard

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Speaker 2: police say it happened at around two point fifty am

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Speaker 2: at the Goldenson Building on Longwood Ave in Boston. According

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Speaker 2: to police, an officer was responding to the scene for

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Speaker 2: a fire alarm and saw two people running from the building.

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Speaker 2: It's not clear what kind of device went off in

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Speaker 2: the building, but police say no other devices were found

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Speaker 2: and no one was hurt. Anyone with information is asked

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Speaker 2: to call Harvard University Police. It's day thirty two of

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Speaker 2: the government and shut down, close to becoming the longest

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Speaker 2: in US history. The longest on record was thirty five days.

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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill remain at an impasse

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Speaker 2: as the impacts of the shutdown keep piling up.

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Speaker 3: A Rhode Island judge saying without the snap federal food program,

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Speaker 3: some forty two million of the country's most vulnerable would

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Speaker 3: face a reparable harm and terror over the availability of

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Speaker 3: funding for food for their family. President Trump saying he's

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Speaker 3: instructing the government lawyers to ask the judge how we

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Speaker 3: can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible, saying, if

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Speaker 3: the court gives direction, it will be my honor to

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Speaker 3: provide the funding.

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Speaker 4: Anything with government or state, or anything above my head

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Speaker 4: that I don't have eyes on directly, believe it when

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Speaker 4: you see it.

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Speaker 3: Jenna Jackson, a mother of four who runs a tree

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Speaker 3: farm in Oklahoma, says without medicated SNAP, she would have

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Speaker 3: to make tough choices.

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Speaker 2: The US Department of Agriculture has until Monday to come

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Speaker 2: up with a plan to keep SNAP benefits alive during

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Speaker 2: the shutdown. Wbz's Emma Friedman has reaction from Attorney General

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Speaker 2: Andrea Campbell.

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Speaker 5: Attorney General Andrea Campbell showing support for a federal judge

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Speaker 5: in Boston and another one in Rhode Island's ruling that

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Speaker 5: President Trump's decision to withhold SNAP benefits is unlawful.

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Speaker 4: It's pastime for this federal government to help people rather

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Speaker 4: than to harm them. And if that takes a court order,

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Speaker 4: so be it. And I'm sure certainly here to get one.

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Speaker 5: She says, the court has made it clear that the

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Speaker 5: Trump administration cannot choose not to spend the contingency funds

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Speaker 5: that have been set aside for this reason, and that

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Speaker 5: Congress put appropriated money into a snap reserve fund to

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Speaker 5: keep food assistants coming even during a government shutdown.

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Speaker 4: If they choose not to fully fund this program or

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Speaker 4: don't act quick enough, the health and well being of

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Speaker 4: millions of Americans who will go hungry will be on

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Speaker 4: their hands. A. G.

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Speaker 5: Campbell co led a coalition of more than twenty states

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Speaker 5: ensuing the USDA in Boston Federal Court. Or Judge India

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Speaker 5: tel Wani ruled in their favor on Friday. The government

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Speaker 5: has argued it can't tap into contingency funds and is

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Speaker 5: likely to appeal. I'm a Friedman WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: The forecast s partly cloudy and cold overnight, with a

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Speaker 2: low of thirty eight, closer to freezing inland. Mostly sunny

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Speaker 2: with less wind tomorrow, high fifty two On Monday. We'll

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Speaker 2: start off with some sun, but then it gets cloudy.

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Speaker 2: A couple of showers possible late in the day and

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Speaker 2: in the evening. High fifty nine on Tuesday, breezy with

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Speaker 2: lots of sun, high fifty seven. Right now in Boston,

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Speaker 2: it's sunny and fifty seven degrees. The Post Office will

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Speaker 2: be expanding their service as the holiday season approaches. Wbz's

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Speaker 2: Charlie bergeron with details.

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Speaker 6: According to a recent statement, the Postal Service will add

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Speaker 6: hundreds of packaged sorting machines, as well as hiring temporary

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Speaker 6: workers and adding twenty four thousand new vehicles to delivery routes.

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Speaker 6: USPS will have a two to three day turnaround for

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Speaker 6: any mail or packages which are to be delivered in

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Speaker 6: the same region as they are mailed. Office has spent

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Speaker 6: almost twenty billion dollars to meet the needs of customers

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Speaker 6: over the past four years, and they're offering some tips

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Speaker 6: on making sure packages make it to a destination on time,

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Speaker 6: including mailing by December seventeenth for first class mail, by

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Speaker 6: December eighteenth for priority mail, and customers should check the

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Speaker 6: website for mail dates for international shipments. Charlie Burger on

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Speaker 6: WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: A federal judge blocks part of President Trump's executive order

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Speaker 2: mandating voters to prove proof of citizenship, provide proof of citizenship.

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Speaker 1: Reuters is reporting the judge ruled the president is not

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Speaker 1: allowed to require voters to show their passports or other

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Speaker 1: documents before casting their ballots. The ACLU had argued Americans

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Speaker 1: who don't have up to date passports should not be

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Speaker 1: forced to purchase new documents in order to vote. In

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Speaker 1: the decision, the judge cites the US Constitution, which gives

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Speaker 1: states the authority to oversee elections, not the president. Voting

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Speaker 1: by nonsense remains illegal in the US. I'm Jim Roop.

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Speaker 2: Officials in Wayland are investigating what they call a racist

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Speaker 2: incident at the high school. Whalan High's principle says a

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Speaker 2: student found a yellow plastic children at Play sign figure

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Speaker 2: hanging with a belt around its neck in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: The figure was wearing a football jersey that belongs to

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Speaker 2: a black student. She said they've identified the students responsible

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Speaker 2: and that counselors will be available for those who need them.

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Speaker 2: Wayland police say they're working with the Middlesex DA's office

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Speaker 2: to review all the information and determine the facts of

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Speaker 2: the case. You are now in the loop. For news

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