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

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Speaker 2: Thirty four degrees. We've got clear skies in Boston. It

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Speaker 2: is Wednesday morning, March twenty fifth, twenty twenty six, at

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Speaker 2: six o'clock. Thank you so much for joining us this

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Speaker 2: hour of news brought to you by your new England

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Speaker 2: toyot to Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here.

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Speaker 3: Is what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Oh we're a bit chilly out there as we're getting

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Speaker 2: started here on this Wednesday morning, but don't worry. We've

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Speaker 2: got to warm up in store for you.

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Speaker 3: Blend of sun and clowns today with the nef Dune

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Speaker 3: high fifty two, even warmer tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: That is WBZAKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. We had plenty

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Speaker 2: of great sunshine yesterday and that will continue off and

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Speaker 2: on today with those clouds and some really nice conditions

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Speaker 2: in store for tomorrow. How does the mid sixties sound.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it coming up in just a few moments.

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Speaker 2: But first, Celtics hosting Oklahoma City tonight. The Bruins fall

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Speaker 2: to the may Beliefs four to two as they take

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Speaker 2: on Buffalo tonight Major League Baseball Opening Day, the Giants

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Speaker 2: hosting the Yankees, and from San Francisco. The Red Sox

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Speaker 2: take to the field tomorrow and Cincinnati they get that

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Speaker 2: first pitch scheduled at four to ten, shifting into a

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Speaker 2: higher gear. The MBTA is saying it's increasing its bus

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Speaker 2: service and also reducing way time.

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Speaker 3: In less than two weeks, thirty seven bus routes across

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Speaker 3: the system will see service increase. Two routs will also

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Speaker 3: be getting an upgrade, which is expected to have them

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Speaker 3: operating every fifteen minutes or better. General Manager Philip Banks

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Speaker 3: says bus service has been restored to pre pandemic levels,

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Speaker 3: adding their continuing to make the MBTA system something people

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Speaker 3: can rely on and want to use. The changes will

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Speaker 3: go into effect on April fifth. M JP James Rojas WBZ,

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Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Boston teachers rallying at City Hall Plaza over the proposed

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Speaker 2: staff and cuts at Boston Public schools that could wipe

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Speaker 2: out nearly four hundred jobs across the city. Protesters attended

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Speaker 2: a city Council budget hearing demanding the Woo administration invests

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Speaker 2: in additional one percent of the city's budget, roughly fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars into Boston Public schools. City could be slashing

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Speaker 2: two hundred teaching jobs, one hundred classroom aids, and other

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Speaker 2: support and administrative roles. Slow and steady winning the space race.

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Speaker 4: NASA announces long term plans this week to spend twenty

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Speaker 4: billion over the next seven years and build a moon

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Speaker 4: base near the lunar South Pole. The goal is to

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Speaker 4: give the moon based habitats, pressurized rovers, and a nuclear

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Speaker 4: power system. CBS space consultant Bill Harwood.

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Speaker 1: He says it can be done by reducing bureaucracy, waste,

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Speaker 1: and inefficiency, while at the same time taking hardware plans

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Speaker 1: for other programs and focusing it on the Moon.

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Speaker 4: Referencing NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says he envisions launching two

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Speaker 4: rockets for moon landing missions every year. Jay will Let WBZ,

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Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: We are starting off today hovering around the freezing mark

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Speaker 2: for a lot of us, so it feels like just

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Speaker 2: another cold morning on what could be another cold day,

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Speaker 2: but that is not going to be the case. This afternoon,

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Speaker 2: nice and warm out there, hies into the fifties with

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Speaker 2: sunshine and clouds. We could see a spotty shower. We're

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Speaker 2: not as cold to night lows down around forty your Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow it'll be cloudy and breezy, highs entering the sixties.

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Speaker 2: We could see some rain showers on Thursday night, and

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Speaker 2: then for Friday, a lingering shower or two, and then

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Speaker 2: hies into the mid forties on Friday. Right now, we

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Speaker 2: are looking at thirty four degrees here in Boston, and

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Speaker 2: again we've got mostly clear skies, and once that sunrise

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Speaker 2: hits it all, we feel a little bit warmer at

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Speaker 2: six oh five. As we continue, we head now to

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Speaker 2: the very latest from Operation to Epic Fury in Iran.

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Speaker 5: Sources say the Trump administration is senteran a fifteen point

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Speaker 5: piece plan addressing Iran's ballistic, missile and nuclear programs and

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Speaker 5: maritime roots like the Strait of Hormuse. Mediators are said

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Speaker 5: to be pushing for a meeting soon, but the Wall

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Speaker 5: Street Journal shorts Aaron has its own demands, including no

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Speaker 5: limits on its missile program and the closure of all

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Speaker 5: American bases in the golf, US official calling those demands unrealistic.

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Speaker 5: Nicoldy Antonio, ABC News Washington and.

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Speaker 2: As a result of pain at the pump here at

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Speaker 2: home continues.

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Speaker 1: Oh baby.

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Speaker 6: Gas prices are on the verge of four dollars per

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Speaker 6: gallon nationally yep. Triple A's latest national average for gas

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Speaker 6: stands at three dollars and ninety eight cents.

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Speaker 1: Yikes.

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Speaker 6: Here in Massachusetts the price of regular unlined is up

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Speaker 6: to three dollars and seventy seven cents on average, and

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Speaker 6: a lot of prices in your town and areas around

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Speaker 6: you might be pushing that four dollar mark as well.

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Speaker 6: Tough times on the road, Drew maholland WZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Six oh seven. Now anxiety in our nation's airports. Still

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Speaker 2: no deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security and

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Speaker 2: TSA ICE agents supplanting some TSA agents at over a

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Speaker 2: dozen airports as more and more TSA workers walk off

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Speaker 2: the job because they're not getting paid. No report yet

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Speaker 2: of ICE agents at Logan, how however, they are seeing

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Speaker 2: TSA workers call out and walk off the job this morning,

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Speaker 2: just over twenty delays and cancelations over at Logan, and

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Speaker 2: the boss is backing a court fights against Trump administration

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Speaker 2: policy supre pre written here.

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Speaker 3: Jason challenging birthrights PSI.

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Speaker 7: Bruce Springsteen is lending his voice to the American Civil

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Speaker 7: Liberties Union a week before the Supreme Court is scheduled

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Speaker 7: to hear arguments in a landmark birthright citizenship case. A

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Speaker 7: one minute video features footage of a variety of Americans

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Speaker 7: of different cultural backgrounds. The ACLU is challenging President Trump's

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty five order to end birthright citizenship for children

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Speaker 7: of undocumented immigrants. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's news radio, and