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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news, thirty

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Speaker 1: degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Turns out at least twenty four Venezuelan

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Speaker 1: security officers were killed in the US operation that captured

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro and his wife over the weekend. The country's

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Speaker 1: attorney general says dozens of officials and civilians were killed

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Speaker 1: and they would investigate the incident as a war crid.

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Speaker 1: The depth toll for security officials comes after Cuba's government

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Speaker 1: announced that thirty two military and police officers working in

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Speaker 1: the country also died in the operation. President Trump mean

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Speaker 1: timas touting the US military action. Speaking to Republican lawmakers

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Speaker 1: at the annual GOP retreat at the Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 2: President Trump applauded the complex operation.

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Speaker 1: It was brilliant tactically, it was an incredible thing.

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Speaker 2: He said. It was amazing. No American troops were killed, and.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, a lot of people were killed.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately last day that soldiers, he.

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Speaker 2: Said, the United States proved once again we have the.

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Speaker 3: Most powerful, most lethal, most sophisticated, and most fearsome.

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Speaker 1: It's a fearsome military one planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: Stacey Lenz, CBS News, Washington.

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Speaker 1: In Ukraine, European allies are guaranteeing security for that country.

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Speaker 4: The meeting in Paris was also attended by President Trump's envoy,

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Speaker 4: Steve Whitcoff, and the French president called it a significant

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Speaker 4: step towards guaranteeing Ukraine's security after a peace agreement is

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Speaker 4: reached with Russia. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

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Speaker 1: It's important that we're starting the year like this, European

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Speaker 1: and American allies side by side, with Presidence Lenski standing

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Speaker 1: for peace. Whitkoff said afterwards.

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Speaker 4: The territorial issues are the most problematic going forward, but

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Speaker 4: the security protocols, he said, are important for the people

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Speaker 4: of Ukraine to know that when this ends, it ends forever.

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Speaker 1: That is CBS's Kemmy McCormick. Some Democratic run states are

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Speaker 1: not our seeing freeze by the Health Department ten billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in social service funding.

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Speaker 5: The Department of Health and Human Services says it is

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Speaker 5: freezing billions and federal funding for social service programs in Minnesota,

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Speaker 5: New York, Illinois, California, and Colorado. AHHS says democratic led

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Speaker 5: states and governors have been complicit and allowing massive amounts

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Speaker 5: of fraud to occur under their watch, but offered no evidence.

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Speaker 1: Is CBS's Allison Keys. The number of ballot questions moving

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Speaker 1: closer to being put before voters in Massachusetts has now

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Speaker 1: hit double digits. Secretary of State Bill Galvin's office has

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Speaker 1: now certified eleven initiative petitions, one of them dealing with

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Speaker 1: conservation efforts, the other with starter homes. More than eighty

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Speaker 1: four thousand signatures were certified for an initiative to ease

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Speaker 1: zoning rules by allowing for single family homes on smaller lots.

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Speaker 1: The other petition got more than eighty nine thousand signatures

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Speaker 1: and were certified. The supporters aimed to steer up to

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars annually toward land conservation and restoration work.

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Speaker 1: The measures will now be transmitted, all eleven of them,

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Speaker 1: to the legislature, which faces a May fifth deadline to

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Speaker 1: consider and potentially act on the proposals. Bit of a

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Speaker 1: mess setting our way for the evening and the precipitation

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Speaker 1: still out in New York State, so we got a

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Speaker 1: little bit of time, but we are going to get

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Speaker 1: on in some mixed precipitation, some icing situations perhaps as

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Speaker 1: we head through the evening. A winter weather advisory goes

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Speaker 1: into effect at seven o'clock tonight, and then some rain

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Speaker 1: and drizzle push in here as we go into the evening,

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Speaker 1: and where temperatures stay at or below freezing, we'll be

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Speaker 1: dealing with some icy spots for sure, especially north and

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Speaker 1: west one twenty eight. Even in Boston, we could pick

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Speaker 1: up some slickery conditions on some of the roadways and

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Speaker 1: certainly untreated surfaces. Temperatures will rise to about thirty four

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Speaker 1: round daybreak in the city, but stay below freezing for

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Speaker 1: a time north and west of the city. Therefore, over

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Speaker 1: the interior some slick spots even in the morning Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: will eventually become breezing. In the afternoon, clouds break for

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Speaker 1: some sun Temperatures get to around forty, and then Thursday

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Speaker 1: plenty of sunshine, temperatures in the mid forties upper forties.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, we'll have some clouds, a bit of a breeze,

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Speaker 1: and some rain around in the afternoon. There'll be some

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Speaker 1: rain on Saturday, it appears, but also temperatures getting into

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Speaker 1: the low fifties. Right now, it is thirty degrees in Boston. Hardy.

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Speaker 1: Lifelong New Englanders have more than enough winter stories to

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Speaker 1: fill a book, but every so often there are storms

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Speaker 1: that get their own chapter. If you were living here

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, on this day, a storm for

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Speaker 1: the storybook.

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Speaker 6: Thirty years ago today, it started snowing in Boston and

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Speaker 6: other major cities on the East Coast, and it didn't

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Speaker 6: stop until more than twenty four hours later. What would

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Speaker 6: be known as the Blizzard of ninety six very much

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Speaker 6: of Massachusetts and under more than two and a half

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Speaker 6: feet of snow, smashing records from the better known Blizzard

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Speaker 6: of seventy eight. The storm left more than one hundred

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Speaker 6: and fifty people dead and caused more than one billion

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Speaker 6: dollars in damages. It would also close schools for days

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Speaker 6: in the federal government for a week. Matt Shearer WBZ,

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Speaker 6: Boston's news radio. A deal for a bigger footprint. The

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Speaker 6: owner of a fond Boston Harbor Casinos reached an agreement

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Speaker 6: to spread its wings in every a memorandum allowing for

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Speaker 6: up to two new hotels on Lower Broadway on land

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Speaker 6: owned by wind Resorts announced by the outgoing Mayor Carlo

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Speaker 6: Di Maria. In the eleventh hour, CBS News Boston reports

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Speaker 6: they'll not be any gambling at the new hotels under

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Speaker 6: the deal, which also calls for WIN to pay for

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Speaker 6: up to twenty five million dollars for a potential new

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Speaker 6: commuter rail stop in the area, Big d and the

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Speaker 6: Big Apple walking horns.

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Speaker 7: And an interview with The New York Post, Conservative Dallas

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Speaker 7: Mayor Eric Johnson says he's ready to welcome what he

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Speaker 7: calls a flood of Wall Street firms to his city

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Speaker 7: if New York's new mayor store on Mom Donnie follows

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Speaker 7: through on his socialist agenda. But while Dallas has been

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Speaker 7: able to attract some important corporate relocations, it's also losing

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Speaker 7: a major player. At and T is moving its world

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Speaker 7: headquarters from downtown Dallas up to the suburb of Plano

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Speaker 7: and taking ten thousand employees with it. Jim Ryan ABC

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Speaker 7: News Dallas.

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Speaker 1: The head of a scheduled arraignment on murder chargers, Nick Reiner,

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Speaker 1: reportedly is no longer on suicide watch.

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Speaker 3: Setting law enforcement sources. TMZ reports Reiner no longer has

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Speaker 3: to wear a suicide vention smock at a jail in

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Speaker 3: downtown Los Angeles, removing this smock as reportedly standard operating

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Speaker 3: procedure when an inmate does not attempt suicide for two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Ryner is doing court for his arraignment tomorrow. He's accused

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Speaker 3: of stabbing his father, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner, and his mother,

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Speaker 3: photographer Michelle Singer Reiner, to death in their Brentwood home

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Speaker 3: on December fourteenth. I'm Daniel Martindale.

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