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

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Speaker 2: Seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon. I'm

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Sausville. Here's what's happening. US forces have stopped a

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Speaker 2: second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters.

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Speaker 2: Two American officials confirmed the news to the Associated Press

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Speaker 2: on the condition of anonymity, with one saying the tanker

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Speaker 2: stopped voluntarily and allowed US forces to board. The move

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Speaker 2: comes days after President Trump announced a blockade of all

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Speaker 2: sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of the South

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Speaker 2: American country. It also follows the seizure of an oil

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Speaker 2: tanker off Venezuela's coast. On December tenth, the US retaliates

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Speaker 2: for last weekend's deadly ambush attack and Syria launching a

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Speaker 2: massive aerial attack on Islamic state targets there. Two US

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Speaker 2: service members were killed in an ambush attack, as well

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Speaker 2: as an American interpreter. ABC Selina Wang has more.

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Speaker 3: President Trump announcing all terrorists who are evil enough to

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Speaker 3: attack Americans are hereby warned. You will be hit harder

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Speaker 3: than you have ever been hit before. If you in

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Speaker 3: any way attack or threaten the USA. The strikes are

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Speaker 3: in response to what officials say is a lone Isis

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Speaker 3: gunman killing those two American soldiers, both from Iowa, and

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Speaker 3: their civilian interpreter, marking the first American combat deaths in

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Speaker 3: Syria since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: The US did not act alone. Jordan confirmed its air

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Speaker 2: force joined in the strikes on Islamic State targets in

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Speaker 2: southern Syria. Meantime, US Central Commands says the strikes hit

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Speaker 2: more than seventy targets across central Syria. The Syrian Observatory

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Speaker 2: for or Human Rights reports at least five people were killed,

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Speaker 2: including an Islamic State cell leader. Pro Palestinian demonstrators gather

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Speaker 2: outside of a Capital One cafe on Boylston Street to

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Speaker 2: call on the bank to stop its support of an

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Speaker 2: Israeli weapons company. Wbz's Kyle Bray has more.

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Speaker 4: The Good Trouble Brass Band plays a rendition of popular

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Speaker 4: protest anthem which side are you on? As dozens gather

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Speaker 4: outside of a Capital One cafe. The pro Palestinian protesters

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Speaker 4: with BDS Boston are calling on the bank to end

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Speaker 4: its loan and credit line to Elbot Systems, Israel's largest

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Speaker 4: weapons manufacturer. BDS Boston has been protesting against Albott for

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Speaker 4: years now. Liza barn says the action has led to

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Speaker 4: some progress.

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Speaker 5: A little over a year ago, they were forced out

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Speaker 5: of their office in Central Square, Cambridge, and this past spring,

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Speaker 5: MIT ended their partnership with them.

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Speaker 4: Capital Ones funding deals are set to expire next year.

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Speaker 4: Their hope is that the bank will not renew them.

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Speaker 4: Yes Boston protests at different branches each weekend. David Perkinski

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Speaker 4: says they want to make sure people don't forget about Gaza.

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Speaker 6: We have to keep making sure that people are paying attention.

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Speaker 6: As soon as we stop paying attention, more lives are

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Speaker 6: lost and people aren't held accountable.

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Speaker 4: From back Bay, Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The forecast mostly cloudy and brisk overnight with a low

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Speaker 2: of thirty four, Mostly cloudy and windy tomorrow, with a

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Speaker 2: high of forty five On Monday, mostly sunny, but much

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Speaker 2: colder and breezy, with a high of thirty five On Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: cloudy with some snow mixing with rain. Around the Cape

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Speaker 2: and Islands. We'll see a high of thirty seven, but

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Speaker 2: in the forties for the South Coast Cape and Islands.

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Speaker 2: Right now, in Boston, it's partly cloudy and thirty seven degrees.

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Speaker 2: A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the US

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Speaker 2: Department of Housing an Urban Development to stop changes to

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Speaker 2: its Continuum of Care program. Wb easy's Charlie Bergeron has that.

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Speaker 6: This grant program is the largest resource for federal funding

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Speaker 6: to assist the homeless. A coalition of twenty two states,

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Speaker 6: including Massachusetts, argued the changes were illegal and would leave

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Speaker 6: tens of thousands of people around country without a place

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Speaker 6: to live. So the ruling buzz HUD from implementing the

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Speaker 6: proposed changes to the program and directed HUD to process

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Speaker 6: applications under the terms that existed prior to the program changes.

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Speaker 6: There are eleven Continuum of Care programs in Massachusetts that

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Speaker 6: receive over one hundred and thirty six million dollars in

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Speaker 6: funding each year from HUD to support housing and supportive

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Speaker 6: service programs for nearly four thousand chronically homeless and disabled

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Speaker 6: families and individuals in a state. In Massachusetts, Attorney General

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Speaker 6: Andrea Campbell says the court order ensures that the federal

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Speaker 6: government cannot stand in the way of helping US address

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Speaker 6: our critical housing crisis. Charlie Burger on WVZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Flu cases are rising across the US this holiday season.

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Speaker 2: ABC's Andrew Dimberd explains how to keep safe.

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Speaker 7: CDC still recommends everyone six months and older get a

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Speaker 7: flu shot to help reduce the risk severe illnesses like

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Speaker 7: hospitalization and even death, and they say it's not too

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Speaker 7: late to get vaccinated. If you're traveling's holiday experts say

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Speaker 7: take extra precautions, use touch free security lines when possible,

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Speaker 7: pack disinfecting or alcohol wipes, and wash wash wash your

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Speaker 7: hands frequently and thoroughly because this season's flu is moving

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Speaker 7: fast and every precaution counts.

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Speaker 2: According to the mass Department of Public Health, influenza like

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Speaker 2: illness reporting in Massachusetts increased by more than four percent

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Speaker 2: last week. A thresher shark washes up on Cape Cod.

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Speaker 2: The Cape Cod Time says the thirteen foot shark was

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Speaker 2: found on the shore at Great Island and Wealthleet on

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Speaker 2: December fourteenth. It's a third time a thresher shark has

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Speaker 2: washed ashore on Cape Cod this month. Marine scientists say

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Speaker 2: it's part of a seasonal pattern caused by quickly cooling waters.

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Speaker 2: And the Cape's unique geography. Shark biology John Grisham told

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Speaker 2: the Cape Cod Times that there were no signs of

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Speaker 2: trauma found on the sharks and that they're nearly making

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Speaker 2: navigational errors when traveling south. You are now in the

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