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

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Speaker 2: Fifty three degrees in Boston right now, heavy fog and

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Speaker 2: some drizzle in the city. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Tens of millions of

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Speaker 2: Americans are set to lose food assistants at the end

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Speaker 2: of the week. President Trump has set his administration would

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Speaker 2: figure out a way to keep food benefits flowing. I'm

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Speaker 2: in the government shutdown, which is in day thirty, but

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Speaker 2: so far no concrete details have come to light. Here's

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Speaker 2: ABC's j O'Brien.

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Speaker 3: The White House has now announced a plan to cover

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Speaker 3: paychecks for US troops coming due tomorrow, but tensions still

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Speaker 3: flaring on the Senate floor over that critical federal food

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Speaker 3: assistance that's set to expire in just two days. John Thune,

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Speaker 3: the top Republican in the Senate, shouting at Democrats as

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Speaker 3: he blocked a bill that would fund SNAP food assistants

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Speaker 3: during the shutdown. Instead, Thoon calling on Democrats to vote

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Speaker 3: to reopen the government.

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Speaker 2: Here in Massachusetts, reports say one point one million people

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Speaker 2: are currently enrolled in SNAP the states, saying it just

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Speaker 2: cannot cover the two hundred twelve million dollars those federal

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Speaker 2: benefits cost each and every month. At eleven oh one.

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Speaker 2: Developing news this morning, the Pentagon is getting thousands of

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Speaker 2: specialized National Guards Guard troops ready to complete civil unrest

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Speaker 2: mission training over the next several months. That is according

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Speaker 2: to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The documents

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Speaker 2: say the National Guards of all fifty states, Washington, d

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Speaker 2: C and three territories must form what they're calling quick

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Speaker 2: reaction forces. They say those forces must be trained, equipped

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Speaker 2: with riot control gear, and ready to be deployed by

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Speaker 2: New Year's Day. President Trump is already mobilized thousands of

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Speaker 2: Guard troops to d C, Los Angeles, and Memphis, the

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Speaker 2: mandates suggesting further deployments within the country could grow in

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Speaker 2: scope and size. This comes as a three day trial

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Speaker 2: is underway in Portland, Oregon, over the president's attempt to

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Speaker 2: deploy troops to that city. Here's ABC's Alex Stone.

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Speaker 1: In front of the same judge who temporary early halted

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Speaker 1: troop deployment in Portland and then was at least partially

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Speaker 1: overruled by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is now

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Speaker 1: presiding over the trial on the topic. She will decide

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Speaker 1: if President Trump can legally deploy National Guard troops to Portland.

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Speaker 1: The trial is expected to last through the end of

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Speaker 1: the week, with Oregon fighting deployment and the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: arguing for deployment. Whichever side loses is expected to take

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Speaker 1: the topic right back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Speaker 1: Alex Stone Ebcinas.

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Speaker 2: And President Trump is back on his way to the

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Speaker 2: United States after meeting earlier today with the Chinese president

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Speaker 2: she Jimping. After the meeting, he called it a twelve

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Speaker 2: on a scale of one to ten. He says some

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Speaker 2: deals were made and the US will be lowering tariffs

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Speaker 2: implemented earlier this year as a punishment, down to ten percent.

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Speaker 2: That means the total combined import tax on Chinese goods

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Speaker 2: is now forty seven percent. China's Commerce Ministry says both

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Speaker 2: countries will pause port fees on maritime and shipbuilding industries

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Speaker 2: for a year. China says it will quote properly resolve

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Speaker 2: issues connected to TikTok and looking at our forecast for

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Speaker 2: the rest of the day, it is going to be

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Speaker 2: a wet one, a foggy one for many of us

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Speaker 2: and it's certainly blustery out there as well, many of

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Speaker 2: us seeing winds from the east coming in at about

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Speaker 2: fifteen twenty miles an hour, gusting to about thirty if

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Speaker 2: you're right on the coast, and that wind is just

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Speaker 2: going to ramp up throughout the day as we make

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Speaker 2: in our way into the next storm, which is coming

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Speaker 2: in from the south and west, so again through the afternoon,

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Speaker 2: getting over toward the afternoon. Commute, Hea, your steadier rain

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Speaker 2: and a high in the mid fifties today, then tonight

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Speaker 2: that rain really pours down, the wind is going to

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Speaker 2: whip up, and we've got temperatures holding in the fifties.

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Speaker 2: The good news is that this storm will be moving

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Speaker 2: out before trick or treating tomorrow night, so hooray, that

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Speaker 2: is good news. The costumes will not get soaked. It'll

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Speaker 2: be gray and kind of gloomy, a little bit windy,

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Speaker 2: but it's Halloween, so that's not a bad thing. I

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Speaker 2: guess we have behind here. Sixty weekend is staying dry

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Speaker 2: as well, windy, more sun than clouds, and we've got

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Speaker 2: a high in the mid fifties in Bedford right now.

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Speaker 2: We're at forty seven degrees. Some light rain in Norwood

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Speaker 2: fifty two getting over north of Boston seeing forty nine

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Speaker 2: degrees as you make your way toward Boxford. And in

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Speaker 2: Boston right now at eleven oh six, it's foggy and drizzly,

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Speaker 2: and where at fifty three.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: Tonight, a task force created to tackle problems in downtown

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Speaker 2: Boston is meeting, and residents and business owners are going

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Speaker 2: to have a chance to sound off.

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Speaker 4: When you talk to people who live around the downtown

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Speaker 4: area about how the wu administration has been handling certain

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Speaker 4: aspects of downtown Boston.

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Speaker 1: I think she's making some good first steps.

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Speaker 4: Sonia lives along Tremont Street, and we'll be attending tonight's

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Speaker 4: meeting with the task Force and the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association.

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Speaker 1: There is a lot more to be done.

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Speaker 4: Many still feel there's a popery of problems, whether it's

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Speaker 4: random crime, too much loidering, or rowdy college students on

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Speaker 4: the weekends. You take the good with the bad. Sonia

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Speaker 4: tells me she does feel that more community events on

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Speaker 4: the common have had a more family vibe in recent years.

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Speaker 2: Which is also a good thing. I think that's as

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Speaker 2: a result of the increased police presence being around and

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Speaker 2: residents feeling safer.

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Speaker 4: Tonight's meeting is RSVP only at emor since Cutler Majestic

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Speaker 4: Theater in downtown Boston. Jim ACKATAWBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Eversource wanted to high energy bills during the Toss four,

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Speaker 2: then have their customers. In Massachusetts now the state is

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Speaker 2: saying no. The Department of Public Utilities ruling against the

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Speaker 2: thirteen percent increase on gas prices this week, saying Eversource

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Speaker 2: has not hit certain performance metrics, including customer satisfaction. DPU

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Speaker 2: says the denial will save customers about forty five million

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Speaker 2: dollars this year alone. And in France, more arrests have

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Speaker 2: been made over the heist at the louse.

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Speaker 5: I'm Vicky Barker at the Foreign Desk in London. Perrosecutors

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Speaker 5: in Paris say five more people have been arrested over

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Speaker 5: the theft of the French Crown jewels, making seven suspects

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Speaker 5: and custody so far. Police acted fast after learning what

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Speaker 5: of the suspects had booked a one way flight to Algeria.

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Speaker 5: The stolen jewels have not been recovered, and it's feared

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Speaker 5: they may have been stolen to order or even melted down.

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Speaker 2: The jewels are estimated to be worth more than one

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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. If you are now in the loop

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