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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news thirty four degrees add some clouds

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Speaker 2: in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning and welcome. I'm

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Speaker 2: Charlie bergeron. Here's what's happening. Iran's Revolutionary Guard is vowing

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Speaker 2: to hunt down and kill Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.

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Speaker 2: In the statement released to Iran's state run news agency,

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Speaker 2: the Revolutionary Guard says, if the criminal Zionist prime minister

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Speaker 2: is still alive, we will continue to pursue and kill

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Speaker 2: him end quote. As the war stretches into week three,

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Speaker 2: US forces have struck Carg Island, hitting dozens of military targets.

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Speaker 2: Cargo is a small, heavily fortified island off Iran's northern

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Speaker 2: Gulf coast that serves as Iran's male main oil export

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Speaker 2: terminal cbs is mts tie up now from Doha in cutter.

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Speaker 3: Carg Island is essentially the jugular vein of Iran's oil exports,

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Speaker 3: with ninety percent of its crew passing through there. So

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Speaker 3: the targeting of it by the President has sent a

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Speaker 3: very powerful message to Tehran. Tehran's response appears to be

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Speaker 3: designed to do the same Just hours after the US strikes,

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Speaker 3: Iranian drone attacks not only hit here in Doha, but

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Speaker 3: also energy infrastructure in the UAE, sparking a huge fire

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Speaker 3: in pejira.

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Speaker 2: Iran has retaliated against the US and Israeli strikes by

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Speaker 2: blocking the Strait of hor Moves. Tankers have virtually stopped

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Speaker 2: traveling through the straight over fears of attacks, which has

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Speaker 2: driven global oil prices up significantly. President Trump yesterday posting

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Speaker 2: a message on his social media platform Truth Social urging

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Speaker 2: other countries to join the US in sending warships to

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Speaker 2: help secure the strait. The Pentagon yesterday identified the six

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Speaker 2: United States service members who died this week when a

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Speaker 2: refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq. The four men and two

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Speaker 2: women ranged in age from twenty eight to thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: Two of them victims were from Ohio, the others from Alabama, Washington, Kentucky,

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Speaker 2: and Indiana. A bomb threat reported yesterday on a Jet

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Speaker 2: Blue flight out of Logan Airport to Vero Beach, Florida.

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Speaker 2: After flight twelve thirty one landed safely at about noon.

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Speaker 2: The plane and its passengers were taken to a remote

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Speaker 2: area away from the terminal, where they sat for more

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Speaker 2: than two hours while FBI agents, firefighters and search dogs

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Speaker 2: went through the plane and passenger's luggage, also looking for

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Speaker 2: anything suspicious. The all clear was given once the search

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Speaker 2: was completed. Let's check the four day wbz ach you

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Speaker 2: weather Forecastle Troy Thornton tells us today will be cloudy,

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Speaker 2: it will be chilly for the Saint Patty's Day parade.

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Speaker 2: High only forty today, clouds and got some showers maybe

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Speaker 2: late tonight, low thirty seven. Tomorrow, cloudy, windy, much warmer,

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Speaker 2: and we will have some rain. We could get an

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Speaker 2: injured rain out of all this. Tomorrow into Tuesday. Temperature

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Speaker 2: just tomorrow though climb into the low sixties. Might even

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Speaker 2: see a thunderstorm Tomorrow night. And then Tuesday. For Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's Day itself, it's colder with sun and clouds. A

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Speaker 2: high forty five and even chillier Wednesday. How about just

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Speaker 2: thirty six for a high on Wednesday? Well still about

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Speaker 2: what six more days of winter and right now thirty

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Speaker 2: four degrees with clouds in Boston at six oh five.

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Speaker 2: Residents of Dorchester say they look forward to Saint Patrick's

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Speaker 2: Day every year, and it's not just because of the

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Speaker 2: parade or the celebrations. Here's w'z's Mike Macklin.

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Speaker 4: Jim Brett saying you wal Saint Patrick's Day Breakfast in

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Speaker 4: Dorchester raised some serious money for the Merry and Brett

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Speaker 4: Food Pantry, named in memory of the mother of a

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Speaker 4: long time former Dorchester State breat.

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Speaker 2: Church's full clothing, toys, diapers to some two hundred families

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Speaker 2: in the area of Dodge just to Mattapan, Roxbury.

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Speaker 4: Most recently, the Brett Food Pantry was there to fill

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Speaker 4: the gap with the federal government cut funds to support

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Speaker 4: Snapped if It's Needy families in georg Chester. Mike mcluth

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Speaker 4: w EZ Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: The South Boston Saint Patrick's Day Parade steps off later

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Speaker 2: this morning at eleven thirty am. The parade begins in

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Speaker 2: Andrews Square and about two and a half miles later

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Speaker 2: we'll wrap up on a street. As many as one

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Speaker 2: million people expected to line the route. Authorities say there

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Speaker 2: will be a zero tolerance for bad behavior, and they

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Speaker 2: are also encouraging everyone to report any suspicious activity and

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Speaker 2: to avoid bringing any large bags or backpacks. The oscars

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Speaker 2: will be awarded tonight and some of the nominees will

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Speaker 2: walk away with some big money.

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Speaker 3: This year, it's valued at just over two hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirty thousand dollars per bag.

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Speaker 5: That bag goes to the nominees and the Best Actor

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Speaker 5: and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Director categories.

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Speaker 5: Last Ferry is the founder of Distinctive Assets, the company

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Speaker 5: that has put together the bags for two dozen years.

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Speaker 3: Only twenty five people in in the world will get

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Speaker 3: this gift back.

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Speaker 5: It's not affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

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Speaker 5: and Sciences, but still gives nominees lots of swag.

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Speaker 3: The most expensive item this year is one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars interier design package from ce Bespoke.

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Speaker 5: Other items include trips worth five figures, handbags, and products,

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Speaker 5: so even Oscar Losers win. Wendy July, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: A federal judge in Washington is ruled in favor of

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Speaker 2: a congresswoman who is suing to stop the planned closing

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Speaker 2: and renovation of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Speaker 2: Here's ABC Chuck severertson.

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Speaker 1: The judge Saturday order. The Trump administration to ensure a Congresswoman,

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Speaker 1: Joyce Batty is provided with the crucial information about the

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Speaker 1: Trump plans and that she can take part in this

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Speaker 1: Monday's Kennedy Center board meeting. The order stopped short of

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Speaker 1: ruling on whether the Ohio Democrat can vote at the meeting,

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Speaker 1: but she must be allowed to speak. The court says

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Speaker 1: Baty must be provided info about the one year review

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Speaker 1: Trump claimed he conducted. If the documents don't exist, the

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Speaker 1: government must state so in writing.

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Speaker 2: The judge did not rule on Beatty's request to stop

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Speaker 2: the temporary closure and renovation of the Kennedy Center. You

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