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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.

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Speaker 1: See it's Tuesday already.

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Speaker 2: Week seems to fly by when the weather has been spectacular. Right,

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Speaker 2: We're getting started under clear skies and forty seven degrees

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Speaker 2: here in Boston on this Tuesday morning. Welcome aboard. We're

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Speaker 2: The News at six is brought to us by your

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being here today. I'm Jeff Brown. So nice.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it twice.

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Speaker 4: Another warm day today with sunshinees of clouds are hi today,

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Speaker 4: sixty six to seventy, but much colder with eyes and

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Speaker 4: the forties to low fifties across the cape in the island.

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Speaker 2: That is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Much colder

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Speaker 2: though for the rest of us later this week as well.

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Speaker 2: It is winter, but spring fever sure is here. It's

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Speaker 2: not just the weather he's looking to celebrate. Today is

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Speaker 2: my birthday and what he's wanted most for months to

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Speaker 2: mark the after a laborious winter, he's finally got.

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Speaker 1: I have no more snow on my front line.

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Speaker 2: That which remains for others is likely to dissipate today

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Speaker 2: as temperatures rise again nearer beyond seventy degrees in some communities.

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Speaker 2: Giving hope to this co ed who's stuck at home

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Speaker 2: for spring.

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Speaker 1: Break, Being here and seeing the snow melting is just awesome.

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Speaker 2: Is he to be a little bit more excited about

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Speaker 2: your spring breakdon if you came back to three feet

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Speaker 2: of snow piles?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Chris Faumer WBZ, Boston's news radio Red Sox stars shine

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Speaker 2: at the World Baseball Classic as Team USA beats Mexico.

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Speaker 2: The USA takes on Italy and a chance to advance

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Speaker 2: to this weekend's quarterfinals Tonight in Houston, Celtics and Bruins

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Speaker 2: are both back in action tonight. The Celtics take their

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Speaker 2: show to San Antonio, while the Bruins host the Kings

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Speaker 2: at the Garden. It's tough for TSA agents to make

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Speaker 2: a buck these days, and frustration extends to hours long

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Speaker 2: security checkpoint lines at the nation's airports.

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Speaker 4: Some airports are telling flyers to get here at least

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Speaker 4: three hours before their flights. This surge in wave times

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Speaker 4: comes as the airlines are preparing to fly one hundred

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Speaker 4: and seventy one million people for spring break, and as

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Speaker 4: a partial government shutdown over the Trump administration's immigration policies enters.

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Speaker 2: Its fourth week. CBS News corresponded Chris Van Cleeve Massport

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Speaker 2: says no serious delays have been reported so far at Logan,

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Speaker 2: but Friday will mark the first full payday the TSA

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Speaker 2: agents will get no paycheck due to the government's shutdown.

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Speaker 2: New survey finds most Americans do not want boots on

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Speaker 2: the ground in Iran. The poll from Quinavac University finds

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Speaker 2: nearly three quarters opposed to move. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 2: won't rule it out in a weekend interview on CBS's

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Speaker 2: sixty Minutes. Meantime, a separate poll from NBC News finds

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Speaker 2: President Trump's approval rating sinks to forty four percent who

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Speaker 2: give him the thumbs up. More than half say they

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Speaker 2: remain strongly or somewhat opposed to his work in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office. You're going to need a Brinks truck if

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Speaker 2: you hit the lottery tonight, well, this would be nice.

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Speaker 5: Five hundred and thirty three million on the line in

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Speaker 5: tonight's Mega Million's jackpot. The treasure Chest overflowing, since no

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Speaker 5: one has hit the whole thing since just after Thanksgiving. Meantime,

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Speaker 5: it's slow, steady and much smaller at Powerball, which just

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Speaker 5: had a winner a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow's big

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Speaker 5: prize about sixty million dollars. Matt Phipps WBZ, Boston's news radio,

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Speaker 5: it's hard.

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Speaker 2: To believe that technically it's still winter. In fact, the

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Speaker 2: first day of spring is a little more than a

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Speaker 2: week away. But we'll basket and we'll soak it in

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Speaker 2: right now, as temperatures once again are going to rise

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Speaker 2: at least to the upper sixties. The record high temperature

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Speaker 2: in Boston, set more than one hundred years ago, is

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Speaker 2: seventy one degrees on this date, and there is a

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Speaker 2: pretty decent expectation that we'll break that record today. We

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Speaker 2: weren't so sure yesterday, but it looks increasingly so that

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Speaker 2: could be the case today. Even Wooster could see their

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Speaker 2: record high temperature of sixty seven set just six years ago,

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Speaker 2: fall in numbers later today. So it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a beautiful day pretty much everywhere, with the exception being

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Speaker 2: the cape and islands, which we'll have that sea breeze

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Speaker 2: off the water and that's going to keep temps in

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Speaker 2: the fifties, but still a nice day with plenty of sunshine,

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Speaker 2: increasing clouds on the way overnight Tonight will drop into

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Speaker 2: the forties. We start on a warm note tomorrow, but

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Speaker 2: temperatures will hover only around fifty degrees, so significantly cooler

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Speaker 2: tomorrow with clouds and a couple of showers around and

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Speaker 2: continued cloudy, breezy with more rain on Thursday, as temps

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Speaker 2: will eventually scale back into the forties. So winter is

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Speaker 2: not done with us yet, as the cold air is

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Speaker 2: going to be with us on Friday and into the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Right now in Boston it's forty seven clear skies here

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Speaker 2: in the city. It's Tuesday morning at six oh five.

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Speaker 2: Even with at least five feet of snow on the ground.

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Speaker 2: This winter, Massachusetts we have a problem.

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Speaker 3: Drought conditions have only gone worse than the Commonwealth, with

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Speaker 3: state officials saying the central and Northeast regions are now

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Speaker 3: in a Level three critical drought. Snow and nice weren't

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Speaker 3: the only things that stayed frozen last month, so did

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Speaker 3: the ground on top of that. Quite literally, three feet

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Speaker 3: of snow only equates to about two and a half

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Speaker 3: inches of water, which is not enough to fully reach

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Speaker 3: arge rivers, lakes, ponds, and groundwater. Folks are encouraged to

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Speaker 3: minimize their overall water use and follow state and local

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Speaker 3: water conservation restrictions. In Breakheart, James Rohof's WBZ Boston some

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Speaker 3: News radio, it's.

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Speaker 2: A victory lap for a Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu and

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Speaker 2: school Superintendent Mary Skipper, who show off the city's highest

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Speaker 2: graduation levels in the history of Boston expected this spring.

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Speaker 2: Even though eighty one percent of high school seniors are

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Speaker 2: expected to get their diploma this year, the city average

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Speaker 2: still trails the statewide mark of ninety percent. The mayor

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Speaker 2: gives credit to an increase in AP exam passing grades

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Speaker 2: for the rise in graduation rates, which also hits every

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Speaker 2: demographic in city schools. Officials also tout success in a

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Speaker 2: falling dropout rate of now three point six percent. Cock

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Speaker 2: with his hands in the cookie jar, a former city

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Speaker 2: official in Quincy, pleads guilty to fraud charges in federal Corps.

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Speaker 2: Sixty one year old Thomas Clasby of Fitchburg, a one

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Speaker 2: time director of elder Services in the city, a job

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Speaker 2: he held for twenty five years, admits to pocketing city

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Speaker 2: funds and spending the money on himself. Placed on leave

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Speaker 2: two years ago as the investigation began to begin, as

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Speaker 2: prosecutors say, Clasby used the money to book a music studio,

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Speaker 2: buy thousands of dollars in Bourbon state tips and put

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Speaker 2: a good chunk of that down payment on a car.

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Speaker 2: Clasby faces decades in prison at his sentencing in federal

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Speaker 2: court coming up in June. Karen Reid can get her

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Speaker 2: cell phones back eventually. A judge in Norfolk Superior Courts

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Speaker 2: say the phones, which are still in the possession of

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Speaker 2: the Norfolk County DA's office, can be used for evidence

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Speaker 2: in a witness tampering case against longtime Reed supporter Aiden Kearney,

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Speaker 2: who's also known as the blogger Turtle Boy. The judge

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Speaker 2: says the prosecution can retain the phones originally taken during

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Speaker 2: the investigation into the death of her boyfriend John O'Keefe,

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Speaker 2: pending appeal. You are now in the loop. For new

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