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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: Thirty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A significant twist in

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Speaker 1: the case of a North Andover police officer who was

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Speaker 1: shot by a fellow officer last summer. Wdz's Madison Rodgers

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Speaker 1: has the tail.

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Speaker 3: Kelsey Fitzimmons just forfeited her right to a trial by

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Speaker 3: jury just days before it's said to start. She's put

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Speaker 3: her verdict solely in the hands of Judge Jeffrey carp.

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Speaker 4: You understand that by waving your right the jury trial,

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Speaker 4: the judge will be me.

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Speaker 5: I will be deciding.

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Speaker 6: Whether it's the Comwook has proven the charges. Do you

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Speaker 6: understand that?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jenny Okay.

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Speaker 3: The judge going over a list of questions and laying

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Speaker 3: out implications. It allow be a bench trial starting Monday,

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Speaker 3: as prosecutors look to prove f Simmons is guilty of

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Speaker 3: assault that she pointed a gun at fellow officers who

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Speaker 3: came to her North end Over home to serve her

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Speaker 3: with a restraining order before they shot her. The confrontation

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Speaker 3: happened as Fitzimmons was on leave, and she says in

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Speaker 3: a postpartum crisis. She says she'd pointed her gun only

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Speaker 3: at herself. Madison Rodgers WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: There was a new study. It says the COVID pandemic's

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Speaker 1: early death toll in the US was much higher than

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Speaker 1: the official count. About eight hundred and forty thousand COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen deaths were reported between twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: The researchers estimate as many as one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: five thousand unrecognized additional deaths likely occurred in that time

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Speaker 1: outside hospitals. They say the undiagnosed dead were more likely

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Speaker 1: to be Hispanic and other people of color who had

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Speaker 1: died in the first few months of the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: had been in certain states in the South and Southwest,

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Speaker 1: including Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Researchers linked the gap

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Speaker 1: to limited testing and on even death investigations. The study

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Speaker 1: was published in the journal Science Advances. President Trump's pick

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Speaker 1: to lead the Department of Homeland Security, facing tough questions

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Speaker 1: from the Senate Homeland Security Committee Today Committee Chase Republican

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Speaker 1: Ran Paul opened the hearing, saying Senator Mark Wayne Mullen

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Speaker 1: of Oklahoma doesn't have the temperament to run d HS,

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Speaker 1: recounting comments Mullet had made after Paul was assaulted at

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Speaker 1: his home in Kentucky, and he also mentioned the conduct

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Speaker 1: of Mullen during a hearing a few years ago, when

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Speaker 1: Mullen challenged a witness to a fistfight in the hallway.

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Speaker 7: You know where to find me, any place, anytime, cowboy, sir,

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Speaker 7: this is a time. This is a place. If you

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Speaker 7: want to run your mouth, we can be too, consenting adults.

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Speaker 7: We can finish it here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Mullen today did not apologize for any of it, but

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Speaker 1: did respond I won't.

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Speaker 7: Back down from a challenge, and I'll also admit when

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Speaker 7: I'm wrong. I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect.

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Speaker 7: I make mistakes just like anybody else. But mistakes, if

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Speaker 7: you own them, you can learn from them, and you

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Speaker 7: can move ahead.

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Speaker 1: Mullen is widely expected to get the support of a

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Speaker 1: simple majority in the full Senate vote. After the hearing,

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Speaker 1: President Trump lashing out on social media after most atal

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Speaker 1: allies have declined to intervene to help open the straight

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Speaker 1: of Horn moves.

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Speaker 5: President has criticized NATO allies, suggesting the relationship with the

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Speaker 5: member nations was one sided. Later, he said the US

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Speaker 5: didn't need their help anyway. But posting on social media today,

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Speaker 5: the President stated, quoting here, I wonder what would happen

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Speaker 5: if we'd finished off what's left of the Iranian terror

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Speaker 5: state and let the countries that use it. We don't

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Speaker 5: be responsible for the so called straight that would get

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Speaker 5: some of our non responsive allies in gear and fast.

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Speaker 5: The President reposted that statement after his initial post misspelled

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Speaker 5: the word straight. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News, the White House.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, we're going to fall back into the twenties again,

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Speaker 1: a lot like last night, partly cloudy skies near twenty

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Speaker 1: the coldest inland suburbs, go far enough out you make

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Speaker 1: it into the upper twenties, upper teens. I should say

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Speaker 1: once again, intervals of clouds and sun. Tomorrow. We're not

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Speaker 1: quite as cold in the afternoon forty to forty four

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Speaker 1: for the high mid thirties tomorrow night with partly cloudy skies,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll welcome in spring with open arms. On

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Speaker 1: Friday and with temperatures in the fifties load to mid

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Speaker 1: fifties with some sunshine to start, clouds later in the day,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of showers likely Friday night into early Saturday,

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Speaker 1: but Saturday still turns out to be fairly mild, fifty

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Speaker 1: to fifty four with some clouds around. Right now, it

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Speaker 1: is thirty two degrees in Boston. Don't come on in.

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Speaker 1: The water is not fine. In Jamaica, plane a water

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Speaker 1: main break around Jackson Square has been having lasting impacts

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Speaker 1: to traffic and businesses of the Vizast. James Rojas is

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Speaker 1: on Columbus Avenue.

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Speaker 2: It's an all team effort here on Columbus Ave where

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Speaker 2: a large water main break happened yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Right now, we have a front end loader is moving

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Speaker 4: the pavement from the street here on Columbus av inbound.

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Speaker 2: Boston Water and Sewer spokesperson see the maloney. He says

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Speaker 2: that's helping their crews get to the broken water main

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Speaker 2: here between Ritchie and Center Streets.

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Speaker 4: This is a major route here in Boston. The patch work,

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Speaker 4: even if it's a patch, will take some doing, so

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Speaker 4: I think we're looking at a full day's work here.

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Speaker 2: A building superintendent says four inches of water rushed inside

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Speaker 2: their space, damaging property, and preventing people from coming into

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Speaker 2: work on Columbus f James Rojas wb Z, Boston News Radio.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to eat a lot of alter processed foods,

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Speaker 1: researchers say you likely have a much higher chance of

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Speaker 1: dealing with serious health issues. Study published in the Journal

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Speaker 1: of the American College of Cardiology shows those who eat

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Speaker 1: nine servings of ulti processed foods a day have a

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Speaker 1: sixty seven percent higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and

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Speaker 1: dying from heart disease compared to those who ea just

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Speaker 1: one serving. The risk gradually rose with each additional serving.

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Speaker 1: A new study finds fifty five percent of American teens

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Speaker 1: have used AI to create sexualized images.

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Speaker 8: Digital forensics professor Chad Steele at George Mason University says

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Speaker 8: girls do it almost as much as moys.

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Speaker 6: They will take pictures of themselves, use JENAI to make

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Speaker 6: it appear that they are not wearing any clothing, and

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Speaker 6: share it with others.

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Speaker 8: One third of teens that a sexualized image of themselves

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Speaker 8: had been distributed without their consent.

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Speaker 6: Parents should be aware and should be talking to their

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Speaker 6: kids about and better educating them of the risks and

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Speaker 6: harms of amund.

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Speaker 8: Behaviors Michael Wallace, CBS News.

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