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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: For degrees in Boston. Right now, it is four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We've got cloudy skies and we're getting down tonight to

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Speaker 2: about the mid twenties. More on the forecast coming up

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Speaker 2: in just a few minutes. Good afternoon, I'm Nicole Davis.

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Speaker 2: Here is what's happening on Capitol Hill today. Today's hearing

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Speaker 2: of the House Judiciary Committee, at times devolved into shouting

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Speaker 2: matches between Democratic lawmakers and Attorney General Pam Bondi. She

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Speaker 2: was there to testify in part about the Justice Department's

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Speaker 2: handling of the Epstein files.

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Speaker 3: I am deeply sorry for what any victim, any victim

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Speaker 3: has been through, especially as a result of that monster.

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Speaker 2: Democratic lawmakers pressing her to apologize to the late sex

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Speaker 2: offenders victims, some of which were sat in the audience

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Speaker 2: behind her. She refused, but said she is fighting for

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Speaker 2: them all. As the meeting progressed, she was questioned about

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Speaker 2: the president's potential connection Tepstein.

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Speaker 3: This is it's so ridiculous, and that they are trying

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Speaker 3: to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump is done.

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Speaker 3: There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.

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Speaker 3: Everyone knows that.

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Speaker 2: Several of the victim's names and personal information were left

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Speaker 2: unredacted in the latest release of the files. Bondi set

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Speaker 2: her staff to the best they could in the time

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Speaker 2: they had under the law, and have made it a

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Speaker 2: point to redact names they learn about. Still plenty of

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Speaker 2: questions today about the FAA's abrupt closure of the airspace

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Speaker 2: over El Paso, Texas. CBS's Cammy McCormick says the closure

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Speaker 2: has since been revoked.

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Speaker 4: Multiple sources tell CBS News the closure stemmed from disagreements

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Speaker 4: between the FAA and the Pentagon overdrone related tests. The

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Speaker 4: Pentagon had been testing technology at Fort Bliss by the

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Speaker 4: airport that uses a high energy laser. It was used

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Speaker 4: earlier this week to shoot down what turned out to

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Speaker 4: be a party balloon, but there were differences over whether

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Speaker 4: the test met safety requirements. The FAA administrator closed the

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Speaker 4: airspace with out alerting the White House, Pentagon, or Homeland

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Speaker 4: Security officials until safety issues could be resolved.

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Speaker 2: Now, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says her government is now

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Speaker 2: looking into what happened. Local mayors telling The New York

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Speaker 2: Times they were never told this would happen either, which

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Speaker 2: led to some medical evacuation flights having to be diverted

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Speaker 2: and scared residents asking for answers. Meantime, in Arizona, setback

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Speaker 2: for investigators searching for the mother of Today's Show host

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Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie, a man who was detained last night for

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Speaker 2: questioning has been released. That man, named Carlos, telling reporters

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Speaker 2: he was detained in a traffic stop while his home

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Speaker 2: was searched Polease apparently getting a tip that Guthrie was

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Speaker 2: there searched happening hours after the FBI released videos and

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Speaker 2: images of a potential suspect. And at four h two

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Speaker 2: we are watching developing news out of Hollywood this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We have learned after James Van Derbeek has died. The

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Speaker 2: Connecticut native was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: went public with his diagnosis the year after. Who is

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Speaker 2: best known for his role as teen idol Dawson Leary

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Speaker 2: in the hit series Dawson's Creek. He also had roles

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Speaker 2: in Varsity Blues and other movies. His family announcing his

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Speaker 2: death in a statement on Instagram, saying he met his

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Speaker 2: final days with courage, faith and grace. Vanderbeek was forty

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Speaker 2: eight years old. The forecast not too bad for the

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Speaker 2: rest of the night. We've got a partly to mostly

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Speaker 2: plenty of snow that's melting out there today. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, if you happen to have some melting at

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Speaker 2: your house, might want to grab some ice melt. If

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Speaker 2: brisk and cold. Seventeen in Boston, close to ten Inland.

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Speaker 2: now at Beverly Airport, thirty nine south of Boston on

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Speaker 2: the Vineyard, forty one in Aston at four oh five

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Speaker 2: of talk going on about possibly building a brand new

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Speaker 2: farm in Boston. Here's WBC's Jeremy Russ.

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Speaker 5: The idea would be to grow crops at the Boston

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Speaker 5: Public Health Commissions Madipan Heights campus as a means of

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Speaker 5: combating food insecurity. Shannie Fletcher is the director of the

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Speaker 5: city's Office of Urban Agriculture.

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Speaker 6: We are in early stages, but we're really optimistic that

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Speaker 6: this is going to be a project that will increase

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Speaker 6: food security in Matapan and the surrounding neighborhoods.

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Speaker 5: Fletcher says, a lot of the details, including funding, are

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Speaker 5: still up in the air.

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Speaker 6: This is about a half acre site and that's about

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Speaker 6: just over twenty thousand square feet, and generally a farm

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Speaker 6: that's maybe around ten thousand square feet is probably something

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Speaker 6: like three hundred thousand dollars, maybe more, maybe closer.

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Speaker 1: To five hundred thousand.

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Speaker 6: It really depends, and it's hard to give an exact number.

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Speaker 5: Fletcher says the proposal probably won't come to fruition until

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty seven at the earliest. Jeremy Russ WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 5: News radio, and.

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Speaker 2: It's four six and that's the demand grows for energy

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Speaker 2: to power our devices, artificial intelligence, and much more. Some

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Speaker 2: Merrimack Valley residents say they're nervous about a battery storage

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Speaker 1: The plan to build a new lithium battery storage site

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Speaker 1: in Tewksbury has drawn widespread anger from townsfolk here. John

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Speaker 1: Kerrn is the town manager.

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Speaker 7: If there's an event at a plant like this, it

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Speaker 7: tends to burn very hot and for a longer period

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Speaker 1: He says the proposed site on Hillman Street would have

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Speaker 1: serious safety features to prevent a runaway reaction. Neighbors and

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Speaker 1: folks of the nearby Assistant Living Home are nervous about

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Speaker 1: the potential for a fire and any toxic effect that

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Speaker 1: can have on them. John says the state has control

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Speaker 1: of the site, meaning the town can't stop it even

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Speaker 7: This is unusual for a local community because most things

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Speaker 7: both through the local permitting process is viewed as not

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Speaker 7: much more transparent.

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Speaker 1: So instead they've drafted a host community agreement, which John

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Speaker 1: says pays out at least two million a year, plus

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Speaker 1: funding for emergency response, water treatment, and local parks, among

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Speaker 1: many other things. He's thineking if it's going to happen anyway.

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Speaker 1: The town's got to milk it. Kyle Shaffle w BZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio, the.

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Speaker 2: Company building the side, East Point Energy, telling WBZ news

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Speaker 2: radio safety is its number one priority. A state board

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Speaker 2: says the proposal is under review and has not been decided.

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Speaker 2: Radio heads Johnny Greenwood says he wants one of his

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Speaker 2: songs pulled from the new film about First Lady Malania Trump.

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Speaker 8: Greenwood claims his song Barbara Rose, which he composed for

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Speaker 8: the twenty seventeen movie Phantom Thread, is being used without

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Speaker 8: his permission. His attorneys say, well, he doesn't own the

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Speaker 8: copyright to the score. The film distributor Universal failed to

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Speaker 8: consult him on its third party use, which is a

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Speaker 8: breach of his composer agreement. Malania's producer has denied the breech,

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Speaker 8: claiming they followed all the protocols and owned the rights

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Speaker 8: to the music.

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Speaker 2: Stacy Lynn CBS News and It's a typical afternoon in

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Speaker 2: the back bay of Boston, but across the country it's

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Speaker 2: party time. I know in Seattle, the Seahawks today celebrating

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Speaker 2: their Super Bowl win over your New England Patriots, a

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Speaker 2: victory parade starting at lumen Field after the presentation of

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Speaker 2: the Lombardi Trophy, wrapping up the street party Buy the

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Speaker 2: Space Needle. By the way, this is only the second

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl title in franchise history for the Seahawks, so

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Speaker 2: that's something you are now in the Loup. For news

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