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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine degrees. It's overcast in Boston at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening, watching developing news.

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Speaker 2: As we have learned, Governor Heally has fired one of

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Speaker 2: her staffers after learning he had been arrested the Governor's

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Speaker 2: office as The staffer's name is Lamar Cook. He was

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Speaker 2: the deputy director of the Governor's Western Massachusetts office, the

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Speaker 2: Hampden County DA's office. As Cook was arrested after authorities

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Speaker 2: seized cocaine at the Springfield State Office building. Now Cook

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Speaker 2: is facing several charges, including cocaine trafficking. The governor calls

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Speaker 2: this all unacceptable and a major breach of public trust.

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Speaker 2: We're keeping a close eye on the Federal Reserve, which

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Speaker 2: is expected to cut interest rates again today. Here's CBS's

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Speaker 2: Kelly O. Grady.

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Speaker 3: The Founder Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by

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Speaker 3: a quarter of a point. Now it would be the

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Speaker 3: second cut this and bring the benchmark rate down to

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Speaker 3: the lowest level since twenty twenty two. How this decision

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Speaker 3: comes in the middle of a government shutdown, which has

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Speaker 3: delayed key economic reports that the FED normally depends on.

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Speaker 3: Policymakers are instead relying more on private sector data and

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Speaker 3: market signals. With a little fresh data, there's no real

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Speaker 3: reason for the fend to shift course here.

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Speaker 2: We'll bring you that decision when it comes down around

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Speaker 2: two o'clock right here on WBZ streaming on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app at eleven oh one. South Korea has announced a

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Speaker 2: major new trade deal with the United States. Under the

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Speaker 2: terms of this new agreement, Soul will invest hundreds of

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars in the US, and in exchange, Washington

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Speaker 2: will lower auto tariffs on South Korea to fifteen percent.

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Speaker 2: It all comes as President Trump continues his trip through Asia.

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Speaker 2: He is expected to meet tomorrow with the Chinese president

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Speaker 2: Xi Jinping.

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Speaker 4: President Trump's confident of a deal with China making the

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Speaker 4: summit with Xi Jinping a potentially vital turning point for

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Speaker 4: key US economic interests, from computer chips and aerospace to

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Speaker 4: soybe farming. Failure to get this right sets up a

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Speaker 4: trade war escalation with America's most potent adversary right now.

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Speaker 4: Although it's understood Trump's threat of additional one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: tariffs is off the table.

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Speaker 2: For now, CBS is Alex Jensen in Seoul. Now the

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Speaker 2: US and China have been locked in a trade war

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Speaker 2: for months. Both the White House and Beijing have been

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Speaker 2: expressing optimism about the upcoming meeting. And in the Middle East,

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Speaker 2: health officials in Gaza say more than one hundred people

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Speaker 2: were killed by Israeli air strikes across the region. Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin netanyahuo ordering the strikes after Hamas allegedly handed

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Speaker 2: over what Israel says are the partial remains of a

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Speaker 2: hostage recovered earlier in the war, not one of the

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Speaker 2: remaining hostages as promised. Israeli soldiers also say they had

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Speaker 2: been attacked by Hamas in Rafa. One soldier was killed.

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Speaker 2: The IDF says now that the strikes are over, the

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Speaker 2: ceasefire is back on. Looking at the forecast, it's going

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Speaker 2: to stay gray out there and dreary for the next

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Speaker 2: couple days or so. We've got plenty of rain coming

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Speaker 2: through the region, and it's not heavy rain. It's more

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Speaker 2: of a sprinkle situation. So mostly in southeastern Massachusetts is

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Speaker 2: where this is popping up and expected to stay that

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Speaker 2: way for the rest of the afternoon, We've got a

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Speaker 2: high in the mid fifties. For tonight, cloudy, breezy, spotty,

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Speaker 2: drizzle alow in the mid forties. Then for tomorrow, cloudy

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Speaker 2: and windy, occasional rain and drizzle, especially in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Got a high in the mid fifties. But then tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night the rain gets really heavy. Got a storm moving

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Speaker 2: through and we could see some windy conditions ponding on

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Speaker 2: roadways and temps holding in the fifties. Now, of course

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Speaker 2: we're watching for trick or treating on Friday. We've got

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Speaker 2: the storm moving out in the morning, variable clouds, maybe

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Speaker 2: a couple of lingering showers, and we have a high

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Speaker 2: year sixty right now, temperatures forty seven in Lawrence, forty

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Speaker 2: eight degrees in Southbridge, where at fifty one in New Bedford.

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Speaker 2: In Boston at eleven oh five, it is overcast and

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Speaker 2: forty nine Beacon Hill. Lawmakers are trying to make free

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Speaker 2: heart screenings mandatory for high school athletes. Wbz's Kyle Bray

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Speaker 2: reports it's following the death of a teen from PbD.

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Speaker 5: Freddy Espinhall's family says he was a light in the

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Speaker 5: world and loved being a wrestler. It's now been over

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Speaker 5: a year since he died after he went into sudden

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Speaker 5: cardiac arrest during a practice, something his family believes could

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Speaker 5: have been prevented if he had an EKG on his heart.

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Speaker 5: That's why his mom, adel Labonte and his sister Alexis

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Speaker 5: are taking action.

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Speaker 2: We need to turn this grief into something that's positive,

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Speaker 2: because who knows how many other families out there are

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Speaker 2: going through this.

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Speaker 5: They partnered with State Rep. Tom Walsh to create Freddy's

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Speaker 5: Law that would require high school athletes get a free

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Speaker 5: EKG as a part of their sports. Physical Representative Walsh says,

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Speaker 5: it's a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me that it would be far less

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Speaker 1: expensive to have everyone have an EKG who's playing sports,

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Speaker 1: then wait until an unfortunate incident occurs, and then be

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Speaker 1: looking for go fund me money when we can save lives.

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Speaker 5: The bill has a hearing next month from PbD Kyle Bray,

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Speaker 5: WBZ Boston's News.

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Speaker 2: Radio eleven oh six. We're now getting the latest update

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Speaker 2: from Hurricane Melissa from the National hur Cane Center As

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Speaker 2: of just a few minutes ago eleven o'clock. The center

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Speaker 2: now says the hurricane has moved offshore, of East Cuba

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Speaker 2: and is making its way toward the Bahamas, but still

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Speaker 2: damaging winds and flooding rains continue for that whole region today.

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Speaker 2: Storm surge still a big issue as well. It is

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Speaker 2: still a powerful Category two right about one hundred miles

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Speaker 2: an hour for sustained winds, and it's sitting right now

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Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty miles south of the central Bahamas. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the storm made landfall in Jamaica as a Category five,

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Speaker 2: one of the strongest storms ever on record. Here's ABC's

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Speaker 2: Lionel Noise.

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Speaker 6: Jamaica's Prime Minister, declaring the entire island a disaster area.

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Speaker 6: Most of the island left without power, only about fifteen

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Speaker 6: thousand Jamaicans hunkering down in shelters. Most of the population

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Speaker 6: reluctant to leave their homes, hotels using ballrooms and auditoriums

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Speaker 6: to keep tourists and staff safe. Disaster response teams in

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Speaker 6: Miami gathering food, water and generators to send one's conditions improved.

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Speaker 6: Royal crib Be promising the ship to help transport aid.

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Speaker 2: We've also learned in Haiti at least twenty five people

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Speaker 2: are dead after a river flooded by the hurricane burst

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Speaker 2: its banks in Boston, City officials say residents are getting

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Speaker 2: another lifeline to help those sky high energy bills. This afternoon,

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Speaker 2: Mayor Michelle wou Is said to roll out a brand

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Speaker 2: new partnership with energy companies like Eversource and National Grid,

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Speaker 2: and local nonprofits. It's called the Boston Energy Saver Program,

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Speaker 2: and the city says this will help renters, homeowners, and

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Speaker 2: small businesses alike take advantage of deep discounts to upgrade

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Speaker 2: their buildings and their heating systems. Through the plan and

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Speaker 2: other resources, the city says by twenty twenty seven, it

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Speaker 2: wants to install five thousand heat pumps and weatherized ten

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Speaker 2: thousand local buildings. You are now in the loop for

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