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

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Speaker 2: Thirty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon night,

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Sausville, Here's what's happening. Defend Secretary Pete Hegseth is

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Speaker 2: defending military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 2: Jim Forbes as the latest.

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Speaker 3: President Trump's war secretary, gave a speech Saturday at an

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Speaker 3: event in California and claimed the eighty people who have

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Speaker 3: been killed in the strikes since September were considered terrorists

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Speaker 3: and that the president can take military action quote as

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Speaker 3: he sees fit. When asked about the strike on September

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Speaker 3: Tewod that killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage from

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Speaker 3: a previous attack, Hegsas said he would have made the

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Speaker 3: same call himself. He did not say, however, if the

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Speaker 3: video of the attack would be released. I'm Jim Forbes.

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Speaker 2: The larger question circling the boat strike is their legality.

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Speaker 2: ABC Selena Wang has that.

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Speaker 4: The concerns from some lawmakers and legal experts go way

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Speaker 4: beyond what happened on September second. They question whether this

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Speaker 4: entire operation is even legal, since the start of September,

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Speaker 4: the US has hit more than twenty suspected drug boats,

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Speaker 4: killing more than eighty people, but the administration has yet

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Speaker 4: to provide any public evidence to prove that those who

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Speaker 4: were killed were actually smuggling drugs.

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Speaker 2: Navy Admiral Frank Bradley, who was in charge of the

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Speaker 2: September second boat strike, showed video of the attack to

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Speaker 2: lawmakers behind closed doors. Some lawmakers want that video made public.

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Speaker 2: Bradley also denied receiving a kill them all order from

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Speaker 2: heg Seth. A new report finds the average rent in

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Speaker 2: Boston actually went down for the first time since twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one. Wbz's Kyle Bray has more.

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Speaker 1: When I asked folks in Alston whether they think their

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Speaker 1: rent is reasonable or not, I noticed a cam and

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Speaker 1: theme for Boston.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's probably average.

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Speaker 6: I think relative to the rest of the city.

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Speaker 1: I've got a bargain.

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Speaker 5: I would say it's average with what the area considers

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Speaker 5: to be average.

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Speaker 1: So even a good deal doesn't really feel like one.

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Speaker 1: The average rent in Boston, according to a Bloomberg report,

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Speaker 1: is just over three thousand dollars, but it's actually gone

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Speaker 1: down for the first time since twenty twenty one, Many units,

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Speaker 1: particularly in neighborhoods like Austin, are sitting vacant rates not

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Speaker 1: seen since the pandemic, as landlords deal with less students

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Speaker 1: looking for apartments for renters. I spoke to. This was

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Speaker 1: welcomed news. I think it's a step in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it can get lower because it's still really high.

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Speaker 5: As a student, your cost of living is very important,

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Speaker 5: and the fact that's gone down you signals good things.

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Speaker 1: From Austin, Kyle Pray WBZ, Boston's news radio, A.

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Speaker 2: Large portion of the Green Line is temporarily shutting down

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Speaker 2: tomorrow for infrastructure work on all four branches. The TEA

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Speaker 2: says from December eighth to the twenty second, green Line

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Speaker 2: service will be suspended from North Station to Abcock Street

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Speaker 2: on the B branch, to ken Moore on the C

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Speaker 2: and D branches, and to heath Street on the E branch.

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Speaker 2: Free shuttle buses will run on the BC and D branches,

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Speaker 2: and all surface level stops west of Kenmore will be

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Speaker 2: fair free. The forecast a possible floory or two tonight

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Speaker 2: mainly north of Boston, Otherwise mostly clear skies over night,

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Speaker 2: brazy and cold with a low of twenty three. Partly sunny.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow blustery and cold with a high of twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Those real field tempts in the single digits and teens.

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday, not quite as cold, sunny early, then cloudy

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Speaker 2: in the afternoon, high thirty five. On Wednesday, even less

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Speaker 2: cold with a bit of rain late in the day

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Speaker 2: or evening high forty five. Right now in Boston, it's

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Speaker 2: partly cloudy and thirty eight degrees. Some Patriots fan favorites

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Speaker 2: are spending to some of their weekend off playing ball

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Speaker 2: with local kids. W b z's Kyle Schaffle has details.

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Speaker 7: Drake may is generally a stoic, unflappable presence on the sidelines.

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Speaker 7: The exception may be when he's on the sidelines of

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Speaker 7: a flag football game for children.

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Speaker 3: Why You Got.

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Speaker 1: He and wide receiver.

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Speaker 7: Pop Douglas came out to play some ball with dozens

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Speaker 7: of kids at Gillette Stadium as part of an event

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Speaker 7: by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern mass. Pop says

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Speaker 7: he's looking to inspire kids around here towards the kind

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Speaker 7: of example he had from his family as a kid.

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Speaker 4: It means a lot to them, you know, just to

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Speaker 4: see the next generation, you thrive and you know see

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Speaker 4: the potential.

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Speaker 7: Big brothers, big sisters. Regional president Mark O'Donnell said, the

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Speaker 7: fact that these players are choosing to use some of

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Speaker 7: their precious bye week like this says a lot.

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Speaker 3: Pop Douglas, Rob Nikay.

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Speaker 6: So many players were giving out turkeys at Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: They're here today in a cold day when they could

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Speaker 1: be someplace warm. It choose a testament to who they are.

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Speaker 7: Kyle Shaffle to b BS Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The Massachusetts high school football season wrapped up at Jillette's

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Speaker 2: Stadium this weekend. The The eight teams that won their

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Speaker 2: divisions are Cohassett, fair Haven, Shaucheen, Tech, King Philip Randolph, Situate,

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Speaker 2: Catholic Memorial, and Severian. A state operated golf course is

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Speaker 2: getting a makeover months after it was named the worst

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Speaker 2: course in the country. Wbz's Emma Friedman has details.

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Speaker 8: The Department of Conservation and Recreation has plans in the

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Speaker 8: works to spend five million dollars improving the Leo. J.

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Speaker 8: Martin Golf Course in Weston. The Globe reports that proposed

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Speaker 8: upgrades include a new irrigation system, landscaping, green and path

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Speaker 8: improvements as well as tree planting to address course concerns.

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Speaker 8: DCR says the course would be closed for the twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty sixth season to make the improvements and is expected

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Speaker 8: to be back open in April twenty twenty seven. Earlier

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Speaker 8: this year, DCR hired a new director of golf course Management.

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Speaker 8: The leoj Martin course was named the worst golf course

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Speaker 8: in America in August on a website called my golf Spy,

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Speaker 8: where two other courses in Canton and Norwood were also

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Speaker 8: named among the worst. DCR is accepting public comment until

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Speaker 8: the December nineteenth deadline. I'm a Freeman WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: There's another economic concern this holiday season, and this one

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Speaker 2: is being felt by nonprofits.

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Speaker 6: Many nonprofits that provide goods and food to the less

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Speaker 6: fortunate fear of drop in donations this holiday season, with

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Speaker 6: many Americans struggling financially like never before. We are hopeful

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Speaker 6: that people will still be able to meet the needs

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Speaker 6: and the demands of our nonprofits, but we also realize

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Speaker 6: that at any given time we.

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Speaker 7: May have to adjust, We may have to adjust how

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Speaker 7: we serve, how many.

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Speaker 6: Were able to serve. Darlee Thomas as executive director of

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Speaker 6: Breedhouse seventeen, a nonprofit women's shelter, and Lexington, Kentucky. Jim

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Speaker 6: Chrysili cibesners.

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