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Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy

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Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm

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Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. But Pentagonten now says about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty US troops have been wounded in

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Speaker 1: the Iran War, eight of them severely. This comes as

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Speaker 1: President Trump says the war in Iran may soon come

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Speaker 1: to an end as US firepower ramps it.

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Speaker 2: Defense secretary describes this as the most intense day Iron

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Speaker 2: has faced in the war, the.

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Speaker 3: Most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth says it'll be President Trump who decides when

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Speaker 2: the war is over, so it's not.

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Speaker 1: For me to deposit.

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Speaker 4: Whether it's the beginning, the middle, or the end.

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Speaker 5: That's his.

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Speaker 2: But Hegseth insists this is not endless, it's not protracted.

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Speaker 2: The President has spoken of the need for Iran's unconditional surrender,

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Speaker 2: but he's also indicated the war might end very soon.

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Speaker 2: Stephen Portnoy ABC News.

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Speaker 1: Washington there are growing concerns in Washington about the war.

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Speaker 1: Top Senate democrats raising red flags, including worries about the economy.

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Speaker 6: There seems to be no endgame.

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Speaker 5: That's Democratic Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, who says conflicting messages

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Speaker 5: from President Trump are making the war deeply unpopular. Americans

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Speaker 5: are sick and tired of forever wars. Democratic Arizona Senator

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Speaker 5: Mark Kelly is worried about how much the war is

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Speaker 5: costing the nation on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: We've seen estimates of, you know, one of two billion

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Speaker 2: dollars a.

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Speaker 5: Day, Allison Key, CBS News, Washington. Economic repercussions from the war,

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Speaker 5: with the rent echoing across the world. The conflict's been

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Speaker 5: driving up energy, grain and fertilizer prices, and some poor

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Speaker 5: countries may face food shortages. It's also adding a burden

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Speaker 5: to the cost of living and especially the cost of driving.

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Speaker 5: Part of the problem, and effective closure of the Strait

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Speaker 5: of Horror Moves, which carries a fifth of the world's

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Speaker 5: oil gas, continues to climb. The average price in Massachusetts

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Speaker 5: now three dollars and forty cents a gallon.

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Speaker 1: For air travelers, it's been a hurry up and.

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Speaker 4: Waits, a partial government shut down, and staffing issues with

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Speaker 4: security agents causing slow moving lines at some airports.

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Speaker 1: Across the nation. There is some good news though. In Houston,

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Speaker 1: some major reshuffling of resources, and the security line there

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Speaker 1: has finally been shortened.

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Speaker 7: Through the weekend and into Monday, Passengers were standing in

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Speaker 7: line for up to three hours just to get through

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Speaker 7: security at Houston's Hobby Airport. The partial government shutdown has

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Speaker 7: created a severe shortage of TSA agents, so the Transportation

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Speaker 7: Security Administration has shifted personnel from Dallas, two hundred and

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Speaker 7: fifty miles away to help out. Hobby Security lines today

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Speaker 7: are down to about twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: That's ABC's Jim Ryan. Spring Breakers are trying to get

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Speaker 1: away and will be over the next several weeks, So

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Speaker 1: where's everybody going? Triple A is out with the list

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Speaker 1: of the top spring break travel destinations. Florida is hot

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Speaker 1: in more ways than one. Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and

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Speaker 1: Tampa among the top ten most popular domestic spring break destinations.

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Speaker 1: Cruising is a big deal. Triple A expects record twenty

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Speaker 1: one point seven million Americans will be taking cruise vacations

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Speaker 1: this year. Top international destinations include Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, London,

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Speaker 1: and Barcelona. Check of the fourt AWBC act you weather forecast.

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Speaker 1: We've got a record everybody seventy four degrees at Logan

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Speaker 1: Airport this afternoon, and that is a brand new record.

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Speaker 1: The old record was seventy one. We still could squeeze

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Speaker 1: out another degree, but let's not get reedy, shall we

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Speaker 1: this time to get there later in the year. Seventy

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Speaker 1: three in Beverly, right now, seventy three and Lawrence, it's

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Speaker 1: seventy three in Marshfield, seventy one degrees in worcesters So

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Speaker 1: we're sprinkling the seventies all around today for everybody. Cooler

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Speaker 1: over the Capean Island, sorry, they're not involved in this.

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Speaker 1: Forties and fifties pretty much the highs today there. We

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Speaker 1: will get into some clouds later tonight, the shower in

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Speaker 1: a few spots. Late temperatures low forties in Boston, but

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Speaker 1: we'll probably fall back into the upper thirties and some

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Speaker 1: of the distant suburbs clouds. Tomorrow cooler, a couple of

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Speaker 1: showers high near fifty along the coast, mid fifties inland,

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Speaker 1: and then a rather cloudy night tomorrow night with a

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Speaker 1: couple of show in the forties early in the fifties.

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Speaker 1: Later on. The warm up will be fairly short lived though.

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Speaker 1: Thursday's high will be fifty seven. We'll bring in some

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Speaker 1: showers and it'll continue into the afternoon, then temperatures fall

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Speaker 1: into the forties. Friday's high only in the mid forties

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Speaker 1: with sun followed by clouds and forties. Look like what

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Speaker 1: we're going to be stuck in for the weekend right now.

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Speaker 1: Seventy four degrees in Boston. Did I mention it's a record?

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Speaker 1: A new place to load up on pricey protein now

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Speaker 1: in the Seaport wz's Hiles Shaffle as the story.

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Speaker 3: Savager's butcher Shop and Wolf's Fish, two of the city's

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Speaker 3: premiere protein proprietors, have teamed up to form a swanky

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Speaker 3: new joint in the Seaport called Boston Provisions Market.

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Speaker 5: So what I here have.

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Speaker 6: Here is meat salm, and I'm cutting through splitting a marrawbone.

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Speaker 3: Judy Ad was a butcher at Savagers before becoming the

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Speaker 3: head of e commerce here. The plan is to sell

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Speaker 3: things you can't really get anywhere else in the city,

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Speaker 3: like this huge golden tilefish with slightly unnerving eyes.

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Speaker 5: You know, ironically with seafood you can't. There's nowhere to

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Speaker 5: shop around seaport.

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Speaker 3: She says, as with all things seaport, people here were

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Speaker 3: looking for meat and fish a cut above the rest,

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Speaker 3: which is what they'll find here.

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Speaker 8: We have the say, exact same fish that perhaps you

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Speaker 8: had at the restaurant recently, right here in the.

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Speaker 3: Case Kyle Shaffle WZ Boston's NEOs.

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Speaker 1: Radio, Immigrants advocacy groups have some new help coming from

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Speaker 1: the City of Boston. W thebc's Madison Rogers with the Tails.

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Speaker 6: Calling in a moment of crisis and intense need, Mayor

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Speaker 6: Michelle will announce several million dollars in funding for local.

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Speaker 8: Nonprofits organizations that are helping immigrant residents access legal services

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Speaker 8: and navigate the immigration and naturalization process. Organizing to provide

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Speaker 8: residents with basic resources like groceries and diapers, helping residents

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Speaker 8: prepare for emergencies and know their rights.

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Speaker 6: One point three million comes from the city, another three

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Speaker 6: million through a partnership with philanthropies United Way, the Boston Foundation,

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Speaker 6: and the Bar Foundation. With Homeland security funding and LIMBO

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Speaker 6: and promises of a change in nationwide tactics from top

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Speaker 6: White House officials. It's not clear where a deportation surge

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Speaker 6: will go from here. The Mayor working to reassure neighbors.

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Speaker 8: We will not let anyone storm into Boston and disrupt

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Speaker 8: our community.

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Speaker 6: Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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