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Speaker 1: This is wb Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news

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Speaker 1: twenty seven degree you' say in Boston at four o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon on Ben Parker. Here's what's happening out of

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Speaker 1: the key moment in the Brian Walsh murdered trial in

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Speaker 1: Norfolk Superior Court. Jurors learning the results of DNA testing.

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Speaker 1: Wbz's Madison Rodgers has details.

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Speaker 2: Spurt's now testified. The traces of Anna Walsh have an

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Speaker 2: all likelihood been found.

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Speaker 3: The DNA profile from this item is at least two

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Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million times more likely if it originated

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Speaker 3: from Anna Walsh in two unknown individuals than if it

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Speaker 3: originated from three unrelated individuals.

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Speaker 2: Samon Slim is a state police crime lab expert who

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Speaker 2: analyzed samples from multiple locations. She's talking there about a

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Speaker 2: bloody slipper investigators say was found in a swamps Good dumpster.

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Speaker 2: The mix of three people's DNA also implicates the alleged

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Speaker 2: killer who's pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's body.

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Speaker 2: O'Brian Walsh says she died suddenly and he panicked. Saline

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Speaker 2: went over a list of other samples DNA from a

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Speaker 2: tivex suit stain on a floor again and again, pointing

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Speaker 2: to an overwhelming chance that it came from one or

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Speaker 2: both of the Walshes. Madison Rogers w b Z, Boston's

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Speaker 1: It's a big day tomorrow for interest rates. The Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserves expected to lower interest rates one more time this year.

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Speaker 1: A Central bank holding its last policy meeting of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five and will announce its decision around two o'clock

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Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon. Many believe the Fed will cut the interest

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Speaker 1: rates by a quarter point, which would be the third

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Speaker 1: straight cut. Credit Card rates are at their lowest levels

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Speaker 1: since April of twenty twenty three. The Justice Department can

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Speaker 1: unseal records from a sex trafficking case against Glaine Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: so says a judge when it comes to information pertaining

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Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant.

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Speaker 4: The ruling means those records could be made public within

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Speaker 4: ten days. They include reports, photos, videos, and other materials

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Speaker 4: gathered by local police and federal prosecutors in palmed Each,

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Speaker 4: Florida in the mid two thousands. Maxwell's lawyer had argued

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Speaker 4: the release of those files would create undue prejudice should

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Speaker 4: she be granted her request for a retrial. Maxwell is

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Speaker 4: serving a twenty year sentence for sex trafficking at a

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Speaker 4: prison camp in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Now, as CBS is Michael Wallace, just about time to

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Speaker 1: pay the piper, millions of student loan borrowers might have

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Speaker 1: to start making payments again soon. The Trump administration's announced

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Speaker 1: a proposed settlement with Missouri to end a Biden error

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Speaker 1: program that had paused the payments. Borrowers enrolled in the

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Speaker 1: Saving on a Valuable Education plan will have to choose

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Speaker 1: a new repayment plan. In appeals court had sided with

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Speaker 1: Republican led states blocking the SAVE plan. In February, a

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Speaker 1: Revere woman with ties to the White House has been

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Speaker 1: released from ICE custody. The story from WBC's Jeremy Russ Bruna.

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Speaker 5: Caroline Ferreira has been released on fifteen hundred dollars bond

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Speaker 5: after being detained by Ice and take into Louisiana almost

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Speaker 5: a month ago. Ferrera has been in the US as

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Speaker 5: she was a child, and at one point how DACA status.

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Speaker 5: She shares a son with the brother of White House

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Speaker 5: Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. Department of Homeland Security says Ferrera

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Speaker 5: first entered the entry on a tourist visa, which expired

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Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety nine. DHS has characterized Ferreira as quote

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Speaker 5: a criminal illegal alien, but our attorney says that's inaccurate.

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Speaker 5: That Ferreira was in the process of applying for a

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Speaker 5: green cart at the time of the arrest. Jeremy Russ WBZ,

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Speaker 5: Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're going to change things up a little bit around

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Speaker 1: here and kick out the cold weather for a day

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Speaker 1: or so, a snowshower or two around this evening. It'll

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Speaker 1: be chilly to start. We'll be in the twenties. That's

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Speaker 1: where we are right now, and then eventually as we

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Speaker 1: head through the evening, we will start to see temperature

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Speaker 1: slowly rise through the thirties. It'll eventually land in Boston

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Speaker 1: at forty six degrees Tomorrow, give or take a degree.

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Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy as well, with some rain in the afternoon

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Speaker 1: or evening. Still could be some lingering snowflakes in the

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Speaker 1: distant northern and western suburbs. Mostly cloudy, brisk tomorrow night,

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Speaker 1: right around the freezing mark thirty six. That's going to

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Speaker 1: do it for the eye. On Thursday, as the cold

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Speaker 1: weather comes back in the wind comes back in, so

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Speaker 1: it'll feel even chillier on Thursday. Same deal on Friday,

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Speaker 1: mid thirties, but with a breeze and some sunshine. Right

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Speaker 1: now it is twenty seven degrees in Boston. They say

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Speaker 1: a rising tide lifts all boats. In this case, a

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Speaker 1: rising tide of bookstores lifts all books w The BC's

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Speaker 1: hile Shaffle is in at.

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Speaker 6: The cavernous space underneath a bunch of labs. Might not

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Speaker 6: be a natural fit for a cozy bookstore, but Molly's

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Speaker 6: in Alston is giving it a go.

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Speaker 7: They reach out to me and they told me we

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Speaker 7: want your brand here, and I'm like, it's like, you, like.

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Speaker 6: Really do it what? Andrea Ariante Dent is the owner.

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Speaker 6: She's branching out from her first location in Melrose. She

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Speaker 6: says she wasn't really looking to expand, but there wasn't

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Speaker 6: much infrastructure for families along the sterile office towers and

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Speaker 6: wide streets on Western Half.

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Speaker 7: So the whole idea behind the design and modest bookstore

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Speaker 7: is that it has to be very family friendly.

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Speaker 6: The new store is part of a move back toward

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Speaker 6: independent bookstores in Greater Boston. Three or four more of

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Speaker 7: People are tired of sitting in front of our computer

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Speaker 7: all day. People are tired of getting all of the

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Speaker 7: entertainment from their phones. People want the physical again.

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Speaker 6: Kyle Shaffle to be busy, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: In lex voters give a thumbs up to a six

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million dollars high school construction project. That

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Speaker 1: project would replace a seventy year old school campus with

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Speaker 1: a new building that would become one of the most

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Speaker 1: expensive public school projects in Massachusetts. Taylor Singh, chair of

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Speaker 1: the Yes for Lexington campaign, told The Boston Globe, we

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Speaker 1: are thrilled and believed it's the school our students deserve

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Speaker 1: for a twenty first century education. School leaders and many

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Speaker 1: parents and educators say the project is long overdue. The

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Speaker 1: current school's campus was designed to accommodate eighteen hundred students

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Speaker 1: and currently has about twenty four hundred students. Social media

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Speaker 1: is officially being banned for kids in Australia.

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Speaker 8: It's the first of its kind in the world. The

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Speaker 8: nation is restricting social media accounts for children younger than sixteen.

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Speaker 8: The band covers platforms from meta like Facebook and Instagram,

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Speaker 8: as well as apps like Snapchat, TikTok x formerly Twitter,

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Speaker 8: YouTube and others. The Australian government says it's protecting children

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Speaker 8: from predatory algorithms. I'm Michael Kassner. Amidst all the fun

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Speaker 8: and frivolity of the holidays comes hidden dangers, and safety

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Speaker 8: advocates say some of those dangers aren't even all that hidden.

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Speaker 9: The holidays are filled with potential dangers, from cooking fires

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Speaker 9: to toys that pose a choking hazard. Falls from ladders

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Speaker 9: while stringing Christmas lights or cleaning gutters account for seventeen

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Speaker 9: percent of holiday hospital visits, according to the Consumer Product

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Speaker 9: Safety Commission. The agency recommends using a ladder that's in

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Speaker 9: good condition on ground that's flat and stable, with a

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Speaker 9: spotter present to watch for trouble. Better yet, says the Commission,

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Speaker 9: hiring a pro to do the job. Jim Royan ABYC newers.

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Speaker 1: You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout

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Speaker 1: I've Ben Tarker, WBZ Boston's news radio