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Speaker 2: Forty one degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. House Democrats on Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill have released a new series of emails from disgraced

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Speaker 2: sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including those that reference President Trump

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Speaker 2: and what the president knew about Epstein's crimes. Here's ABC's

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Speaker 1: Bombshell release of what House Democrats say are emails to

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Speaker 1: and from deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, several referring

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Speaker 1: to President Donald Trump by name. In an April twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven email released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee,

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Speaker 1: lawmakers say Epstein wrote to his now convicted accomplice, Gilenn Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: three years after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving a minor,

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Speaker 1: telling her, I want you to realize that that dog

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Speaker 1: that hasn't barked is Trump.

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Speaker 2: Republic on the House Oversight Committee this morning, saying in

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Speaker 2: a statement that Democrats are cherry picking documents to quote

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Speaker 2: generate clickbait. Meantime, it is a busy day in the

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Speaker 2: House as they get ready to vote this afternoon on

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Speaker 2: a bill that could end the government shutdown. ABC. Stephen

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Speaker 2: Portnoy has more on what's in it.

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Speaker 3: The bill funds all of the federal government through January thirtieth,

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Speaker 3: and select portions of it through the end of September.

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Speaker 3: Those to be fully funded include the Department of Veterans Affairs,

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Speaker 3: military construction projects, the Department of Agriculture, the SNAP Food

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Speaker 3: Assistants program within it, and importantly to those on Capitol Hill,

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Speaker 3: the offices of members of Congress. That means if there

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Speaker 3: were to be another government shutdown at the end of January,

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Speaker 3: congressional aids would keep getting paid.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, the Supreme Court is handing a legal victory to

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Speaker 2: the White House over SNAP.

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Speaker 4: Millions of Americans who rely on the federal Food Assistants

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Speaker 4: Program SNAP had been hanging in limbo during this shutdown.

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Speaker 4: The Supreme Court weighing in as the shutdown is nearing

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Speaker 4: an end, extending an order that allows the Trump administration

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Speaker 4: not to fully or immediately pay out those SNAP benefits

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Speaker 4: for the month of November, but once Congress passes this

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Speaker 4: bill and reopens the government, those benefits will start flowing

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Speaker 4: again to American That is.

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Speaker 2: ABC's Rachel Scott now Here in Massachusetts, Governor more Healy

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Speaker 2: says the state has been paying out full benefits for

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Speaker 2: the past few days after a federal judge in Rhode

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Speaker 2: Island ordered the federal government to fully fund that program.

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Speaker 2: And for the rest of the afternoon, we will see

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Speaker 2: some clouds. There's also a chance you could be seeing

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Speaker 2: some very light showers, more like a drizzle situation, maybe

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Speaker 2: some flurries too. We are seeing that in the radar here,

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Speaker 2: mostly in southeastern New Hampshire on the sea coast cape,

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Speaker 2: and you're seeing a bit of activity, very light again,

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Speaker 2: nothing that's really getting in the way Central Massachusetts, if

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Speaker 2: you're in places like Southbridge and Sturbridge, you're seeing some

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Speaker 2: snow and in the Berkshiars once again today. It was

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Speaker 2: a beautiful day out there yesterday from what I saw.

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Speaker 2: You're seeing some flurries again as well. We have a

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Speaker 2: high in the mid forties today, but with the wind,

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Speaker 2: it's feeling much cooler in the thirties then for tonight,

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Speaker 2: partly to mostly cloudy, breezy. We've got a low in

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Speaker 2: the mid to upper thirties, low forties if you're on

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Speaker 2: the Cape and Islands. Then for tomorrow, clouds and sun,

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Speaker 2: breezy and high just about fifty. Friday, we've got more

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Speaker 2: of the same and we've got a high in the

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Speaker 2: upper forties. Some rain is coming in for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Right now in Framingham we're at forty one degrees. Some

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Speaker 2: light showers in Ipswich forty two soull the Boston, a

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Speaker 2: little bit of rain on the Cape in mash p

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Speaker 2: forty five. In Boston right now at eleven oh five,

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Speaker 2: it is overcast and forty one. Well this afternoon, a

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Speaker 2: legendary NFL tight end is officially coming home to Foxborough

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Speaker 2: and retiring as a Patriot. Wbz's Jim McKay has that story.

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Speaker 5: He broke the news this past Sunday as part of

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Speaker 5: the NFL on Fox pregame show.

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Speaker 2: Here's some news first, everyone, I am signing a one

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Speaker 2: day contract with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: This week, coming up to retire as a Patriot, be

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Speaker 1: a Patriot for life.

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Speaker 5: Rob Gronkowski making it official later today with a press

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Speaker 5: conference and ceremonial one day contract signing to retire as

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Speaker 5: a member of the Patriots Operation for This one day

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Speaker 5: contract signing comes after the death of Susan Hurley, a

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Speaker 5: local philanthropist who worked with Cronkowski over the years and

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Speaker 5: helped open up a new playground at Boston earlier this year.

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Speaker 5: She passed away from cancer back on November first, at

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Speaker 5: the age of sixty two. Kronk is now fulfilling that

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Speaker 5: wished to retire as a Patriot in her honor. Jim

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Speaker 5: McKay w b Z, Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio, speaking of the Pats, former head coach Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 2: of course, now heading up the team at UNC, has

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Speaker 2: heard some rumors. We're talking about rumors about the Giants,

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Speaker 2: and rumors that he Bill Belichick might be wanting to

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Speaker 2: become head coach.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I've been asked about it from time to time,

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Speaker 6: but yeah, look, I've been doing this real before. I'm

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Speaker 6: focused on the way for us. That's it, and that's

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Speaker 6: my commitment of this team, and next week it'll be

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Speaker 6: to our next opponent and so forth.

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Speaker 2: The Giants fired their head coach, Brian Dable back on Monday.

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Speaker 2: We're also learning more today about what led up to

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Speaker 2: that plane crash in dark Myth last month in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the morning Rush hour a small plane crashing

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Speaker 2: on one ninety five. A new report from the NTSB

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Speaker 2: out this week says the pilot was trying to go

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Speaker 2: back to the airport when the plane went down. Shortly

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Speaker 2: after takeoff. Tom and Agatha Perkins, a couple from Rhode Island,

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Speaker 2: were in the plane. They were heading out to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: Tom was flying. He had just taken off from the

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Speaker 2: new Bedford Airport. Just moments after they took off, Tom

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Speaker 2: told air traffic control he had to come back. He

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Speaker 2: said he didn't need assistance, but about a minute later,

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Speaker 2: air traffic control said he was flying too low. Then

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Speaker 2: after what air traffic Control says was a quote unintelligible exclamation,

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Speaker 2: the plane crashed and if at first you don't succeed,

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Speaker 2: try try again. That is what NASA and Blue Origin

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Speaker 2: are doing today. They are trying to send a giant

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Speaker 2: rocket to Mars.

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Speaker 7: The two ash capage spacecraft will study Mars his weather.

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Speaker 7: You see, Berkeley Principal investigator doctor Rob Lillis, the magnetic.

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Speaker 6: Field can get stronger, the speak can get higher, the

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Speaker 6: density can get higher, and all those things have an

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Speaker 6: effect on the Martian atmosphere.

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Speaker 7: Litla says all of that could affect future Mars exploration.

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Speaker 7: The Escapade spacecraft are on top of a powerful Blue

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Speaker 7: Origin New Glen rocket. It's a three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 7: two foot tall launch vehicle making just its second flight.

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Speaker 7: Sunday's launch was scrubbed due to bad weather. Despite restricting

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Speaker 7: most launches to overnight hours during the government shutdown, the

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Speaker 7: FAA is allowing NASA and Blue Origin to try again

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Speaker 7: this afternoon. Peter King's CBS News Orlando.

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