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

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, of the longest week ever. I know we

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Speaker 1: say that every week, but this time we really mean it.

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Speaker 1: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with

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Speaker 1: us today. I'm Jeff Brown and oh no, not again.

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Speaker 1: Cloudy through midday with a period of snow. That snow

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Speaker 1: will mix with and change terrain along the South coast

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Speaker 1: and on the keep of the Islands, and is WBZ

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Speaker 1: aki weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg maybe a coding to an

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Speaker 1: inch and much of the area, maybe a couple of

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Speaker 1: inches elsewhere before we hit forty this afternoon. Dozens of

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Speaker 1: school districts need one more day off to get their

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Speaker 1: act back together, but it's go time this morning in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Soon as snowblowers will no longer be the only things

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Speaker 1: roaring around Boston, but also school buses. Students in the

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Speaker 1: BPS system are getting back to learning after an extended

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Speaker 1: February vacation. Parents are sure to be happy. The kids

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Speaker 1: may be a bit more mixed, some of them hoping

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Speaker 1: they were probably enrolled in other school districts like in Brockton, Quansey,

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Speaker 1: or Randolph, which are still canceling classes because of the

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Speaker 1: snow and its lingering effects. Meanwhile, Mayor Wu and Superintendent

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Speaker 1: Skipper will be welcoming students back to class today in Mattapan.

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Speaker 1: James Rojas wb Z Boston, some news radio, and a

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Speaker 1: couple of things that we've learned from the blizzard of

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Speaker 1: twenty six. It takes a village and it takes a while.

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Speaker 1: WBZ s Drew moholland is here with progress report. Good morning, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: Morning Jeffery.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and sixty thousand still without power. Ever

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Speaker 2: source in a battle it will take days.

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Speaker 3: It is a multi day restoration, but that is really

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Speaker 3: for the last couple customers.

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Speaker 4: The last couple customers, unfortunately, will be a couple of

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Speaker 4: days out.

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Speaker 2: Eversources Doug Foley National Grid to you know, fighting it

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Speaker 2: out there trying to get the lights back on. Mostly

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Speaker 2: it is eversourced though, just because of where this storm

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Speaker 2: has hit a quarter million at one point there, how to.

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Speaker 1: Power this and most of the Cape still looks like

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Speaker 1: it's affected, and ever source now says they expect all

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Speaker 1: of the electricity to be back on on Friday, which

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Speaker 1: is two days from now. I was hoping that it

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Speaker 1: might be tomorrow Friday, but it's two days.

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Speaker 2: You said something yesterday that really stuck with me. You

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Speaker 2: always say something that sticks. But you know, at one

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Speaker 2: hour without power is tough, you know.

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Speaker 5: That's exactly what I thought. I mean, it is terrible

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Speaker 5: to be without power. I mean, you know, just I'm

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Speaker 5: hoping that they're warm enough. I hope that people in

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Speaker 5: the Cape have found people to stay with and I just,

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Speaker 5: you know, I feel for them.

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Speaker 1: Whether you're without power for one day or one week,

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Speaker 1: I am willing to bet that you are still out

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Speaker 1: of habit flipping on the light switch. Yeah right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it happens, right. Getting ready for another burst of snow,

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Speaker 1: and to look at the radar shows the snow is

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Speaker 1: already widespread in western Massachusetts and it's encroaching on the

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Speaker 1: Worcester County area. So it'll be here in Greater Boston

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Speaker 1: within the next couple of hours, and it will be

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Speaker 1: with us for several hours. It's not going to amount

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Speaker 1: too much. In fact, ACI Weather is expecting maybe a

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Speaker 1: coding to an inch of snow here in Boston and

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Speaker 1: surrounding communities. A little bit further inland, few miles inland

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Speaker 1: might be one two inches and isolated three inches of

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Speaker 1: accumulation possible. But again, where you're going to put it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure for most people at this point

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Speaker 1: in time, we're just going to leave it there, because

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Speaker 1: temperatures this afternoon are going to rise to about forty,

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Speaker 1: all right, So it's going to settle down as we

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Speaker 1: round out the work weekend. Head towards the weekend with

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Speaker 1: daytime highs typically around forty and more sunshine to come

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Speaker 1: both Tomorrow and Friday, and it looks like Saturday might

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Speaker 1: get into the upper forties. We could get very close

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Speaker 1: to fifty degrees Saturday afternoon. Right now in Boston, clouds

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Speaker 1: here in the city, we've got some snow floorries on

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Speaker 1: the way. It is right now in the city are

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Speaker 1: just eighteen degrees here in Boston. It is six oh

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Speaker 1: five on this Wednesday morning, a house divided. President Trump

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Speaker 1: breaks his own record at the State of the Union address,

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Speaker 1: while many Democrats make a break for it.

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Speaker 3: This is a special report for ABC News. I'm Chuck Stevertson.

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Speaker 3: Speaking for an hour and forty eight minutes, President Trump

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Speaker 3: has given the longest State of the Union speech in history.

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Speaker 3: He said America is in a golden age, doing better

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Speaker 3: than ever before, with low inflation, tariffs bringing in money,

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Speaker 3: and stock markets soaring.

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Speaker 4: Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than

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Speaker 4: ever before.

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Speaker 3: ABC News political analyst Steve roberts, if the polling is

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Speaker 3: correct here at ABC and all over the country, he's

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Speaker 3: running a real risk here because.

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Speaker 1: There was no empathy really for the troubles people are

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Speaker 1: going through.

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Speaker 3: That possible reaction among some Americans is what the Democratic

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Speaker 3: response dealt with from Virginia Governor Abigail Spenberger.

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Speaker 4: Is the President working to make life more affordable for

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Speaker 4: you and your family? We all know the answer is no.

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Speaker 5: To the Union.

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Speaker 3: This is ABC News.

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Speaker 1: It is day twelve of a partial government shutdown. The

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Speaker 1: second attempts to advance a deal to revamp ICE and

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Speaker 1: restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security fails again

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Democrats continue to call for dramatic changes

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Speaker 1: in the way immigration agents conduct themselves on America's city streets,

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Speaker 1: but Republicans say the pitch goes too far. Airport TSA

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Speaker 1: agents are among those working without pay currently, but immigration

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Speaker 1: agents will get full pay as part of a funding

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Speaker 1: carve out from last year's Big Beautiful Bill. New survey

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Speaker 1: shows Senator Ed Markey still holds a commanding lead over

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Speaker 1: his challenger, Congressman Seth Moulton. This poll from UNH also

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Speaker 1: finds one of the many potential ballot questions heading to

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Speaker 1: voters on election day picks up some momentum. Most voters

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Speaker 1: are now in favor of a proposed question on a

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Speaker 1: form of rent control. Governor Healy is among the critics

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Speaker 1: who say the KAPAA annual rent increases won't solve the

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Speaker 1: state's affordability crisis. They cover six of the eleven potential

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Speaker 1: questions to find the biggest support from voters comes on

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Speaker 1: same day voter registration, and concerns are growing over teenagers

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Speaker 1: and artificial intelligence use in school.

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Speaker 4: Just over half of US teens say they use AI

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Speaker 4: chatbots to help them with homework, just underhalf for entertainment.

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Speaker 4: That's according to a Cube Research poll, which found that

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Speaker 4: three in ten teens surveyed say they use chatbots daily,

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Speaker 4: and some are turning to them for personal reasons. Sixteen

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Speaker 4: percent say they've had casual conversations with chatbots, twelve percent

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Speaker 4: have sought emotional support or advice from them. Pew notes

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Speaker 4: some parents, advocates, and lawmakers are concerned about that. Overall,

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Speaker 4: the surveyed found more teens think AI will be positive

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Speaker 4: for them than negative. Heather Bosch, Cbsnews.

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