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Speaker 1: Sunshine but chili twenty one degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Good Tuesday morning is always thanks for tuning in. I'm

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Speaker 1: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right topping the news

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Speaker 1: this morning, a federal judge grants the Justice Department's motion

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Speaker 1: to unseal grand jury records from the investigation into Gallaine Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: Maxwell serving a twenty year prison sentence for acting as

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Speaker 1: an accomplice to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi has also asked for grand jury records relating

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Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein, but a judge has yet to rule

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Speaker 1: on that motion. A new law requires a Justice Department

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Speaker 1: to make public many records regarding Epstein by December nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: We're keiving a close eye on the Federal Reserve, which

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Speaker 1: starts its last meeting of the year today.

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Speaker 2: FED members are gathering today and Wednesday to debate whether

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Speaker 2: a third consecutive rate cut is appropriate, and recent public

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Speaker 2: speeches from members on the voting committee suggest that another

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Speaker 2: quarter point cut is on the way, with worries over

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Speaker 2: a weakening labor market outweighing concerns over inflation which according

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Speaker 2: to the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, rose two point eight

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Speaker 2: percent year over year in September. Another quarter point cut

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Speaker 2: would lower the federal funds rate to a range of

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Speaker 2: three and a half to three and three quarters percent

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Speaker 2: and could spark homeowner refinancing activity after three years of

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Speaker 2: elevated interest rates.

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Speaker 1: And that CBS is Jason Brooks reporting there will of

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Speaker 1: course have that decision as soon as it comes down

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Speaker 1: tomorrow here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Eversource will

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Speaker 1: return forty five million dollars to its customers as part

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Speaker 1: of a new settlement with Attorney General Andrea Campbell. This

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Speaker 1: ends a year's long battle over merger costs and disputed charges.

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Speaker 1: In total, end Star Electric will return twenty million in

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Speaker 1: credits to customers starting the first of the year. Eversource

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Speaker 1: Gas customers will see twenty five million in savings once reach.

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Speaker 1: It's a reset. This coming as customers struggle with rising

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Speaker 1: energy costs. Rate changes will be seen in statements over

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Speaker 1: the next few years as more cases are settled. The

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Speaker 1: federal government is looking to make airports more family friendly,

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Speaker 1: and they're putting up the cash to do it.

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Speaker 3: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the government is putting up

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Speaker 3: a billion dollars for airports to add more family friendly areas,

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Speaker 3: things like children's play areas, nursing pods, family screening lanes,

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Speaker 3: and sensory rooms for children with special needs. Duffy says

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Speaker 3: he's also looking for other ideas. There's other options that

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Speaker 3: I might not have thought about that airports might present

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Speaker 3: to us that will go for Duffy says, the notice

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Speaker 3: of funding is gone out and he's looking forward to

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Speaker 3: hearing from airport officials, essentially competing for a piece of

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Speaker 3: that one billion dollar pie. Peter King's CBS News.

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Speaker 1: Hanover residents vote to bring their town into compliance with

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Speaker 1: the MBTA Communities Act. That law requires communities long MBTA

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Speaker 1: routes to create at least one zone that allows for

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Speaker 1: multi family housing. The South Shore Times reporting Hanover's new

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Speaker 1: district will be at the same location as the recently

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Speaker 1: rebuilt Hanover Crossing shopping center. Residents voted to approve the

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Speaker 1: new district after the town was notified that it would

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Speaker 1: face consequences for not complying with the law. And now

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Speaker 1: let's check the weather. Sun will give way to some clouds. Today,

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a chili day. We'll only reach

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Speaker 1: a high of thirty one, and then a snowshower or

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Speaker 1: two around this evening north and west of the city.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise just mostly cloudy, tamp slowly rising tonight through the

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Speaker 1: thirties and then Wednesday Tomorrow much warmer. It'll be mostly cloudy.

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Speaker 1: We will see some rain in the afternoon and evening,

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Speaker 1: but highs will reach forty five, and then Thursday, mix

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Speaker 1: of sun and clouds, cooler, a hiveh just thirty six,

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Speaker 1: sunny and breezy, with high thirty five on Friday, and

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Speaker 1: we are keeping watch for a potential storm over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Saturday will be dry starting out, hies back into the thirties,

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Speaker 1: but a possible storm Saturday night into Sunday. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're just seeing sunny skies and twenty one degrees in Boston.

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Speaker 1: It's eleven oh five. Back to news noow Plymouth is

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Speaker 1: on the verge of implementing new restrictions on e bikes.

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Speaker 1: This after a string of recent accidents, but the e

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Speaker 1: bike community and town is speaking out.

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Speaker 4: You talk to people who e bike around America's hometown

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Speaker 4: and it's their official new mode of transportation.

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Speaker 5: And they help you.

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Speaker 3: Say you're going up a hill for e.

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Speaker 4: Bike riders like one, regardless of cold or conditions, He's

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Speaker 4: riding that e.

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Speaker 5: Bike assist you in every way.

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Speaker 4: He's part of a growing chorus of riders upset with

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Speaker 4: new wide ranging restrictions the town is considering, which could

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Speaker 4: regulate everything from age limits, speed and equipment requirements. Some

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Speaker 4: riders do agree that the young'ins have become a problem

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Speaker 4: riding around town.

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Speaker 3: The kids on the electric bikes, and that's that's really.

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Speaker 4: What we think is the problem is kids acting like maniacs.

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Speaker 4: Riders packed a recent select board meeting to express irustrations,

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Speaker 4: and the town select Board will be meeting again to

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Speaker 4: discuss the regulations next week. Employmouth Jim McKay wb Z,

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Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: A judge orders Ice to release a Revere woman who

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Speaker 1: has family ties to White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt.

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Speaker 1: Here's Rory O'Neill with the tails.

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Speaker 5: A judge's ordering Bruno Ferrera be released on bond from

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Speaker 5: an ICE processing facility in Louisiana following her arrest last month.

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Speaker 5: Ferrera shares custody of an eleven year old with Michael Levitt,

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Speaker 5: the brother of White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. The

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Speaker 5: judges ruling allows Ferrera to return to Massachusetts for her

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Speaker 5: case in Boston's immigration court. Homeland Security calls Ferreira a

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Speaker 5: criminal illegal alien from Brazil who overstayed a tourist visa.

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Speaker 5: I'm rory O'Neil.

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Speaker 1: The federal judge orders the government to restore Remesa oster

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Speaker 1: school records to a national database that determines if she

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Speaker 1: can participate in college and work programs now. Osturk is

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Speaker 1: a tough graduate student who was detained by Ice earlier

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Speaker 1: this year. Despite returning to campus in May, she still

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Speaker 1: hasn't been allowed to participate in teaching and research. That's

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Speaker 1: because her information wasn't in the proper database. This ruling

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Speaker 1: requires a government to restore her information to the database

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Speaker 1: and give Osterk a chance to argue if it decides

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Speaker 1: to purge her records once again. A study in New

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Speaker 1: Hampshire looks at a link between forever chemicals and infant desks.

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Speaker 6: Researchers found mothers in New Hampshire who lived downstream from

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Speaker 6: sites contaminated with Forever chemicals or pfas experienced triple the

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Speaker 6: rate of infant deaths and had more premature births or

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Speaker 6: babies with low birth weights. Many of the mothers were

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Speaker 6: from higher income households, suggesting they didn't lack medical care

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Speaker 6: or filtered water. Pfas are found in nonstick cookware, food packaging,

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Speaker 6: and certain clothing. They've been detected in half the nation's

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Speaker 6: drinking water and have been linked to cancer's, birth defects

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Speaker 6: and liver damage.

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Speaker 2: Michael Wallace, CBS News.

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