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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news.

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Speaker 1: We've lost a degree. We're down to forty six degrees

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

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Things are continuing to remain in tense

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis following this week's deadly shooting of a woman

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Speaker 1: by an ICE agent.

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Speaker 3: Dozens of Minneapolis parents, teachers, and school staff gathered in

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Speaker 3: a snowy park to demand that federal immigration agents stay

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Speaker 3: off school property. Amanda Otero's with a group called Take

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Speaker 3: Action Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: We are demanding that every elected official and decision maker

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Speaker 4: use the full extent of their power to get ICE

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Speaker 4: out of Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: The Minneapolis school system is offering families the option of

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Speaker 3: remote learning for a month amid federal immigration enforcement in

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Speaker 3: the city. Jim Chrysula CBS.

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Speaker 1: NEW two people are wounded. They were shot by immigration

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Speaker 1: officers in Portland, Oregon. The pair were inside a car

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Speaker 1: outside of hospital. The Department of Homeland Security described the

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Speaker 1: vehicle's passengers a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with a transnational

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Speaker 1: prostitution ring who'd been involved in a recent shooting in

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Speaker 1: the city. Authorty say what agents identified themselves to the

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Speaker 1: vehicle's occupants. The driver tried to run them over, an

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Speaker 1: agent fired their weapon. The FBI's Portland office as it

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Speaker 1: is investigating President Trump addresses issues of affordability within the

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Speaker 1: housing sector.

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Speaker 2: Bill Poulti heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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Speaker 5: We're looking at everything and anything that can bring down

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Speaker 5: the costs of homes.

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Speaker 2: After meeting with officials at the White House, Polti said

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Speaker 2: that includes President Trump's call for the federal government to

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Speaker 2: purchase two hundred billion dollars in mortgage bonds to decrease

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Speaker 2: the cost of home loans and preventing institutions from buying

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Speaker 2: private homes.

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Speaker 1: Homes should be for places where people live in.

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Speaker 3: They shouldn't be for where homes go to die on

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Speaker 3: corporate balance sheets.

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Speaker 2: Only a fraction of the housing market is owned by

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Speaker 2: large institutional investors. Lindy Kenyon CBS News. The White House got.

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Speaker 1: A job last month. The nation's economy did, and then some.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the Labor Departments report for December the economy

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Speaker 1: added fifty thousand jobs in December. Some sectors, though, did

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Speaker 1: better than others. As we hear from the CBS's Jill Slessinger.

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Speaker 6: The sectors that were expected to produce jobs continued to

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Speaker 6: do so. So healthcare added twenty one thousand jobs. Social

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Speaker 6: assistance jobs seventeen thousand. Those two categories have been consistent

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Speaker 6: performers over the course of twenty twenty five, so too

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Speaker 6: with food and drinking establishments, which added twenty seven thousand.

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Speaker 1: The unemployment rate declined to four point four percent last

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Speaker 1: month from four point five percent in November. In Switzerland,

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Speaker 1: a national day of mourning for the forty people who

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Speaker 1: died on New Year's Eve at an alpine barfire. A

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Speaker 1: memorial service today in a minute of silence marking the

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Speaker 1: national tribute, Church bells across Switzerland rang out for five

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Speaker 1: minutes beginning at two pm local time. This memorial coming

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Speaker 1: as prosecutors requested that one of the bar's managers be

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Speaker 1: placed in pre trial detention. The local prosecutor says the

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Speaker 1: detention is needed to avoid a risk of flight. The

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Speaker 1: fire at the La Constellation Bar New Year's Eve also

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Speaker 1: injured one hundred and sixteen people. Investigators believe sparkling candles

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Speaker 1: ignited it. We're going to have times of some shower

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Speaker 1: activity and times without it. There's a new line that's

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Speaker 1: popped up in western Mass that is marching off toward

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Speaker 1: the east. So bear with us here. We'll get some

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Speaker 1: rain in here sooner or later, and later tonight we

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Speaker 1: may actually clear out a little bit once the rain

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Speaker 1: passes through, so temperatures near forty overnight freezing is not

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Speaker 1: going to be an issue for this precipitation. Turning cloudy

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Speaker 1: tomorrow with more rain arriving late in the day forty

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Speaker 1: six to forty eight for the high, and then periods

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Speaker 1: of rain tomorrow night and you're thirty eight for the low.

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Speaker 1: And then Sunday we'll still have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: drizzle probably in the morning and then just clouds around

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Speaker 1: and even of some brightening of the skies possible with

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Speaker 1: temperatures in the mid forties, mostly sunny. Colder on Monday

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Speaker 1: will be in the upper thirties, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: be windy, so it'll feel even chillier. Right now, it

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Speaker 1: is forty six degrees in Boston. If you'd like to

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Speaker 1: take a pottery and making class, well, good luck, funny

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Speaker 1: one that doesn't have a waiting list. WDBZ. Suzanne Sausville

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Speaker 1: reports from Potter's Place, a nonprofit in Sharon.

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Speaker 7: If you go to the MFA, you'll find pottery that's

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Speaker 7: like eight hundred BC.

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Speaker 8: It's an ancient craft.

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Speaker 7: People dug clay out of the ground and made vessels.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes it was just to carry water.

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Speaker 8: But Lazanne done again at Potter's Place, says making pottery

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Speaker 8: is becoming more and more popular.

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Speaker 7: Years ago, I would mention, oh, I make pottery, and

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Speaker 7: people would smile and nod. Now they're more inclined to go, well,

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Speaker 7: what kind of pottery? So I'm just unwrapping some play

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Speaker 7: there from plastic.

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Speaker 8: She's been doing it for more than thirty years and

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Speaker 8: even loves unwrapping the clay.

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Speaker 7: The first sense is the smell. I recognize that smell

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Speaker 7: of the clay. I can even tell different clay bodies.

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Speaker 8: Their classes and memberships are full right now. But there's

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Speaker 8: also a big pottery sale in May, where much of

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Speaker 8: the money is donated to local charities. In Sharon's Suzanne Song,

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Speaker 8: WBZ Boston's news radio on the Waterfront.

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Speaker 1: Great movie, Great news too. For Newburyport. Their waterfront's getting

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Speaker 1: some Lomon newbury reports waterfront is a key part of

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Speaker 1: its rich history. Man it's also, says Mayor sean key

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Speaker 1: part of its president future.

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Speaker 5: We have people that come from all over the state

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Speaker 5: and all over the country to visit your report and

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Speaker 5: visit our restaurants and shops, but also enjoy our parks

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Speaker 5: and open spaces like our waterfront.

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Speaker 9: And that's why the city's keen on renovating it's Mary

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Speaker 9: Mac River boardwalk, which is deteriorated significantly over the past

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Speaker 9: quarter century. This week, Newburyport got a one and a

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Speaker 9: half million dollar grant from the Seaport Economic Council to

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Speaker 9: do just that. It's a key piece in an overall

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Speaker 9: waterfront renewal.

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Speaker 5: Next year, when we finish the boardwalk, we'll have waterfront

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Speaker 5: completely set for the next decade.

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Speaker 9: Per city is one of twenty three Massachusetts communities receiving

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Speaker 9: the Seaport Economic grants from newberry Port. Kendamule WBZY, Boston's news.

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Speaker 1: Radio a profit warning from one of the big three automakers.

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Speaker 1: CBS's Jennifer Kuiper has more on what's putting a debt

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Speaker 1: in the fender.

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Speaker 4: General Motors says it will book a one time earning

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Speaker 4: s hit of seven point one billion dollars, mostly to

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Speaker 4: its pullback on electric vehicles in light of shifting US policies.

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Speaker 4: According to a securities filing, GM's fourth quarter results will

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Speaker 4: be dented by six billion dollars in charges connected to

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Speaker 4: reversals on EV investments and one point one billion dollars

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Speaker 4: in losses from the company's restructuring of its China operations.

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Speaker 4: Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.

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Speaker 1: The Helly Administration awarding thirteen million dollars to nine state

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Speaker 1: universities in order to support student degree completion services. The

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Speaker 1: funds are aimed at supporting supplemental tutoring for students who

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Speaker 1: are at risk of not completing their degrees, and also

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Speaker 1: to pay case workers to connect high needs students with

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Speaker 1: social service providers and programs. Grant funds will also be

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Speaker 1: used to help students and families with college going costs,

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Speaker 1: which include beyond tuition and fees, things like transportation, childcare,

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Speaker 1: and food needs. You are now in the loop. For

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