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Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty

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

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Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Gambling and sports betting has

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Speaker 1: become more and more popular all across the country the

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Speaker 1: legal time, but illegal betting that's still illegal and Three

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Speaker 1: prominent NBA names, including some former Celtics, were among more

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Speaker 1: than thirty people arrested this morning in two separate gambling investigation.

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Speaker 2: I'm Peter King. The indictments are for allegedly rigged poker

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Speaker 2: games partly run by organized crime. Former athletes were used

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Speaker 2: to attract starstruck but unsuspecting betters. US attorney Joseph Nocella

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Speaker 2: on the big names arrested.

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Speaker 3: Daunce Phillips, who at the time of the scheme was

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Speaker 3: a former NBA player and is currently the head coach

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Speaker 3: of the Portland Trailblazers, and also Damon Jones, a former

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Speaker 3: NBA player and coach.

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Speaker 2: Second probe involves betting out NBA games based on confidentidential information.

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Speaker 2: Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier among those indicted. He was

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Speaker 2: arrested in Orlando this morning. Peter King, CBS News, Orlando.

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Speaker 1: All three of the players mentioned in that report, Jouncey, Billups,

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Speaker 1: Damon Jones, and Rozier were all members of the Boston

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Speaker 1: Celtics at one point in their careers. Lift off for

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Speaker 1: a plan to fire missiles. The White House reportedly is

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Speaker 1: giving Ukraine to go ahead to fire some long range

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Speaker 1: missiles into Russia.

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Speaker 4: On social media, President Trump called the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 4: report fake news, but the journal says his administration is

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Speaker 4: allowing Ukraine to use missiles from its European allies in

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Speaker 4: hopes that will increase pressure on the Kremlin to end

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Speaker 4: the war. Trump had considered giving Ukraine US Tomahawk missiles,

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Speaker 4: but backed off from that idea.

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Speaker 2: It'll take a minimum of six months, usually a year

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Speaker 2: to learn how to use them.

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Speaker 1: They're highly complex.

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Speaker 4: Ukraine used a British supplied missile to strike a Russian

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Speaker 4: explosives plant. Tuesday, Michael Wallace CBS News Vice President JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance criticizing a vote by Israel's parliament on West Bank annexation.

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Speaker 1: The VP calling the move and inns. The Vice President

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Speaker 1: says the vote was a political stunt. Then it is

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Speaker 1: a very stupid political stunt. The harsh words from Vance

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Speaker 1: at the end of his trip to Israel, coming a

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Speaker 1: day after Parliament passed a symbolic preliminary vote on support

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Speaker 1: of annexation that bills unlikely to pass the final vote

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Speaker 1: but was an embarrassment to Prime Minister Neck and Yahoo

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Speaker 1: while Vance was still in the country. After the State

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Speaker 1: Department the state's deadliest fire in decades, assisted living homes

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Speaker 1: all across the Commonwealth have now assessed their own fire

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Speaker 1: safety measures. W thebuz's Madison Rodgers with more on the finding.

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Speaker 5: The States sent out this survey as conversations continue around

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Speaker 5: how to prevent what happened in Full River this summer

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Speaker 5: from happening again. There are two hundred and seventy two

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Speaker 5: assisted living facilities in Massachusetts. The vast majority of them

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Speaker 5: reported strong preparedness measures, but thirteen percent need to do

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Speaker 5: more on things like fire drills and emergency coordination. Those

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Speaker 5: thirty six homes now have forty five days to send

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Speaker 5: the state a corrective action plan. One hundred and eighty

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Speaker 5: nine of the homes, sixty nine percent have what's required

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Speaker 5: but not what's recommended for fire safety, things like fire

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Speaker 5: pumps and fire rained walls. Assisted living homes aren't licensed

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Speaker 5: healthcare facilities and aren't subject to the same requirements that

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Speaker 5: a nursing home would be. There are calls for that

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Speaker 5: to change. The states now telling local fire departments to

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Speaker 5: work together with homes to enhance safety. Madison Rogers WBZ,

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Speaker 5: Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 1: We've got a few clouds that have pushed across the

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Speaker 1: sky here this afternoon. It's been dry, but some of

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Speaker 1: the sun has been blocked out as we head closer

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Speaker 1: to sunset. As we head into the evening tonight, will

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Speaker 1: eventually clear back out the skies. Temperatures will fall into

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Speaker 1: the thirties and some of the coldest spots about forty

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Speaker 1: six downtown, sun and clouds Tomorrow, chance of an afternoon

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Speaker 1: shower in a few spots, temperatures in the upper fifties,

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Speaker 1: and then clear skies tomorrow night, with some chill in

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Speaker 1: the air in the mid thirties and some of the

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Speaker 1: coldest suburbs forty five downtown. Saturday and Sunday both featuring

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Speaker 1: sunshine both days, though only in the fifties. Right now,

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Speaker 1: it is sixty one degrees in Boston. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to meet someone for or coffee or cocktails,

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Speaker 1: hubbub Cannabis. Wbz's Matt Shearer has the tails.

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Speaker 6: Rubber's about to meet the road as Massachusetts plans to

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Speaker 6: bring marijuana cafes to the commonwealth. The Cannabis Control Commission

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Speaker 6: meets today to talk about social consumption sites. So three

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Speaker 6: types are on the table, offering supplemental licenses to existing

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Speaker 6: recreational pot dispensaries to expand, a hospitality license for businesses

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Speaker 6: like theaters and yoga studios, and event organizer licenses for

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Speaker 6: special events. If approved, Massachusetts would become the eleventh state

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Speaker 6: to allow social consumption sites. Matt Shearer WBZ Boston's News

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Speaker 6: Radio at the Louver.

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Speaker 1: A possible break in the jewelry heist this weekend. Investigators

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Speaker 1: have found DNA traces in a helmet and gloves. It's

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Speaker 1: thought to be a big break in the theft of

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Speaker 1: one hundred and two million dollars in jewels, but officials

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Speaker 1: say it's not yet clear if that DNA belongs to

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Speaker 1: one of the suspects. It's music to everyone's ears. A

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Speaker 1: strike on Broadway averted.

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Speaker 7: The Broadway League and union representing musicians have reached a

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Speaker 7: tentative contract deal with the two sides. Hammering out an

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Speaker 7: agreement with musicians threatening to walk off the job. This morning,

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Speaker 7: the union president Bob Subman releasing a statement saying, in part,

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Speaker 7: this three year agreement provides meaningful wage and health benefit

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Speaker 7: increases that will preserve crucial access to healthcare. Broadway would

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Speaker 7: have shut twenty three musicals had there been a strike.

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Speaker 1: That is correspondent Scott Pringle working on the railroad again,

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Speaker 1: more specifically the MBTA, and even more specifically than that,

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Speaker 1: the Green Lines D branch shutdowns begin tomorrow night on

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Speaker 1: the Riverside branch for a week. There will be shuttle

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Speaker 1: buses available between Riverside and ken Moore stations. Now this

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Speaker 1: is far out, both as in groovy cool and otherwise Needo,

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Speaker 1: but also far out as in far out there.

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Speaker 8: Astronomers at Penn State say they've discovered a new super

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Speaker 8: Earth orbiting a star some twenty light years away to

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Speaker 8: Rot Mahadevon, co author of the discovery, says GJ two

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Speaker 8: fifty one C could potentially host extraterrestrial life.

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Speaker 1: This planet kinda lies in that just stried Goldilocks, where

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Speaker 1: given the right atmosphere, you could have a liquid water

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Speaker 1: ocean on it.

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Speaker 8: A super Earth is any planet that is a few

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Speaker 8: times the mass of the Earth. The discovery was published

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Speaker 8: in the Astronomical Journal. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.

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