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

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Speaker 2: Forty four degrees in Boston, lots of sun, a couple

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Speaker 2: of clouds out there. At eleven o'clock. This portion of

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Speaker 2: the news is brought to us by Window Nation. Good Morning,

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Brian Walsh's

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Speaker 2: back in court this morning for a competency hearing. He's

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Speaker 2: the copacit man accused of murdering his wife Anna back

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three and dismembering her body, which has

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Speaker 2: never been found. For the past twenty days, he's been

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Speaker 2: held at Bridgewater State Hospital determining if he's competent to

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Speaker 2: stand trial. Today's hearing, which is set to start now

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Speaker 2: in a matter of moments, is all about that decision.

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Speaker 2: If Walsh is found to be competent, jury selection could

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Speaker 2: start as early as next week eleven oh one. The

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Speaker 2: Smithsonian Museums and other institutions are welcoming back visitors now

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Speaker 2: that the government shutdown is over. Here CBS's Lynda Kenyon.

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Speaker 3: The museums are reopening on a rolling basis over the

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Speaker 3: next few starting today with the National Museum of American History,

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Speaker 3: the National Air and Space Museum, and the Stephen f

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Speaker 3: Udvar Hazy Center. Saturday, the National Museum of African American

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Speaker 3: History and Culture, the National Museum of African Art, the

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Speaker 3: National Museum of Asian Art, and the National Zoo will

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Speaker 3: open at their regular times, while the National Museum of

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Speaker 3: Natural History will open at noon Eastern Time. All other

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Speaker 3: Smithsonian facilities, including research centers, will open gradually by Monday.

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Speaker 3: Linday Kenyon, CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: And visitors to local sites like the Freedom Trail, Old

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Speaker 2: Ironsides the Bunker Hill Monument. They are also being welcomed

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Speaker 2: back as well. The number of Canadians coming into the

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Speaker 2: United States is nearing record lows. Here's WBC's Jim McKay.

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Speaker 4: That holiday road has been cut short when it comes

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Speaker 4: to Canadians visiting the US October, making it ten months

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Speaker 4: in a row of declining travel by Canadians to the state.

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Speaker 4: The new numbers just released by the Canadian government October

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Speaker 4: saw air travel to the US from our northern neighbors

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Speaker 4: declining by twenty four percent and car travel declined by

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Speaker 4: more than thirty percent compared to the same time last year.

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Speaker 4: Many are porting towards a sentiment from Canadians upset with

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Speaker 4: President Trump's rhetoric on trade with Canada and imposing sweeping tariffs.

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Speaker 4: Some Canadians have chosen to boycott US products and trips

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Speaker 4: to the US altogether. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And that little American alligator rescued from the Charles River

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Speaker 2: this week is officially on the mend. The New England

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Speaker 2: Wildlife Center has been helping to care for the gator,

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Speaker 2: who's been named Charles. Thing is they don't know yet

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Speaker 2: if Charles is a boy or a girl. They say

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Speaker 2: it's just too early to tell, but they do say

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Speaker 2: that Charles is dealing with an upper respiratory infection maybe

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Speaker 2: pneumonia as well. The tiny gator is getting antibiotics, has

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Speaker 2: a warm, safe place to recover. It's not clear how

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Speaker 2: Charles got into the river, but the center says it's

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Speaker 2: likely it was released by somebody who just couldn't care

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Speaker 2: for it. They reminding people never release a pet into

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Speaker 2: the wild. Call them in order to find a more

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Speaker 2: humane solution. We are looking at plenty of sun. We

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Speaker 2: have not really seen a lot of sun over the

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Speaker 2: past few days, so you know what will take it.

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Speaker 2: We have some clouds as well. Temperatures right now in

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Speaker 2: the upper thirties, low forties will be getting up to

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Speaker 2: about forty five forty seven today, but with that wind

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Speaker 2: still howling from the northwest, it's only gonna feel like

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Speaker 2: the thirties today for tonight, mostly clear, low just about

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Speaker 2: thirty two freezing in Boston, midt to upper twenties if

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Speaker 2: you're inland. Then for the weekend it's unsettled for sure.

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Speaker 2: We have a dry day for most of the day

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Speaker 2: tomorrow with the high year forty five again, that chili

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Speaker 2: breeze sticks around, and then on Saturday night Tomorrow night

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Speaker 2: periods of rain from time to time could be heavy

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Speaker 2: and that should wrap up by Sunday mid morning. We

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Speaker 2: will see a couple of showers maybe in the afternoon

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Speaker 2: with the high year fifty three. Temps in the afternoon though,

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Speaker 2: will fall into the forties. Forty two degrees in Mathuin

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Speaker 2: right now seeing forty four in Sudbury forty four as

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Speaker 2: well in Rockland and in Boston. At eleven oh five

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Speaker 2: it is partly cloudy and right now we're at forty four.

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Speaker 2: Over to Watertown, where authorities have shut down several spas

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Speaker 2: for failing certain inspections. Your CBS News Boston's Tammy Mutasa,

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Speaker 2: what is.

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Speaker 5: Going on this day in the age with all his

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Speaker 5: scandals as happening to certain business I felt concerned.

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Speaker 1: It's dark inside six Watertown bodywork spas. After inspectors say

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Speaker 1: what happened behind closed doors came to light, surprising neighboring

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Speaker 1: business owners le Kasio Buccierro when police, the FEDS and

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Speaker 1: health officials showed up to the Sunrise Spa and Bodywork

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Speaker 1: shutting it down.

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Speaker 5: Then all of a sudden, I see the FBI vest

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Speaker 5: and I said, oh, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: According to suspension letters posted from the Watertown Health Department,

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Speaker 1: Healthhall Bodywork Spa was also among the six businesses shut

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Speaker 1: down because they filed the city inspections under a new ordinance.

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Speaker 1: Investigators say the operation was to make sure businesses were

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Speaker 1: complying with updated standards to prevent human trafficking and keep

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Speaker 2: So far, no arrests. Eleven oh six. This just into

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Speaker 2: the WBZ newsroom. We have learned a shooting investigation is

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Speaker 2: now under way in Boston's Beacon Hill. Police say they

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Speaker 2: responded to thirty nine Bowden Street. This morning they found

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Speaker 2: somebody shot there. The victim's injuries are considered to be

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Speaker 2: life threatening. The word on a motive what led up

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Speaker 2: to the shooting. No word on suspects or arrests. Details

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Speaker 2: very slim, but as we find out more will update

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Speaker 2: you here on WBZ and streaming on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: A parent is suing Lexington Public Schools to have his

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Speaker 2: child excused from LGBTQ plus themed instruction and readings, claiming

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Speaker 2: they violate his religious beliefs. The Globe says the suit

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Speaker 2: was filed last monthly in federal court. It comes after

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Speaker 2: a recent Supreme Court decision that held parents have the

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Speaker 2: right to opt their children out of lessons with LGBTQ

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Speaker 2: plus the VS books if they go against their religious beliefs.

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Speaker 2: A lawyer representing the parents said their surprise the school

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Speaker 2: district hasn't been more accommodating in light of the Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court's precedent as the cases are so similar. A lawyer

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Speaker 2: for the schools tells The Globe the decision from the

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court creates a new obligation for public schools that

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Speaker 2: officials are still figuring out how to implement and they've

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Speaker 2: been working diligently to address the parents' concerns. And officials

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Speaker 2: in Brockton investigating a deadly overnight crash involving a car

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Speaker 2: in a box truck. Please say they were called to

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Speaker 2: the intersection of Center in Quincy Streets about one thirty

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Speaker 2: in the morning. Please say one person in the car

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Speaker 2: died of his injuries. Three other people inside were seriously hurt.

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Speaker 2: No word on the condition of the box truck driver

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Speaker 2: or what led to that crash. You are now in

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Speaker 2: the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to

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