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

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Speaker 2: Mostly sunny, nineteen degrees but real field tense, remaining in

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Speaker 2: the single digits in Boston right now. Hello, and thanks

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Speaker 2: for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. It's December fifteenth.

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Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. We start this hour off in Los Angeles, California,

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Speaker 2: where the legendary film director Rob Reiner and his wife,

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Speaker 2: photographer Michelle Singer Reiner, were found dead inside their home yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Jail records show that their son, Nick Reiner, has been

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Speaker 2: arrested and is being held on four million dollars bail. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: reaction is pouring in, including from President Trump posting.

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Speaker 3: On truth social President Trump calls the deaths of Rob

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Speaker 3: Reiner and his wife quote very sad, but suggests the

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Speaker 3: deaths were quote reportedly due to the anger he caused

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Speaker 3: others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a

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Speaker 3: mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement syndrome, adding, may

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Speaker 3: Robin Michelle rest in peace.

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Speaker 2: CBS's Vicki Barker reporting Reiner was an outspoken supporter of

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Speaker 2: liberal causes Democratic leaders, including former President Barack Obama and

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Speaker 2: California Governor Gavin Newsom are among those who have offered

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Speaker 2: their sympathies. All right now to Providence, Rhode Island, where

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Speaker 2: a suspect is still on the loose at Brown End

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Speaker 2: and Brown University that is is gripped in mourning and

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Speaker 2: fear after the deadly mass shooting on campus this Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday morning, police said they had taken a person of

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Speaker 2: interest into custody. Wbz's James Rojas says the situation has changed.

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Speaker 4: The initial person of interest is no longer in custody,

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Speaker 4: though Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says nothing is off the table.

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Speaker 5: We're not making a further comment right now about final

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Speaker 5: status until such time as we have a person that

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Speaker 5: we've believed to be responsible, that we can charge and

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Speaker 5: that we will prosecute.

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Speaker 4: He says, evidence dictated the release of the original suspect,

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Speaker 4: So as of right now, the search continues for the

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Speaker 4: person responsible for fatally shooting two and injuring nine others

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Speaker 4: here inside the university's engineering building, and.

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Speaker 5: We continue to work tirelessly, and detectives are now starting

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Speaker 5: day three and will be redoubling their efforts.

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Speaker 4: Though all classes have been canceled at Brown University. The

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Speaker 4: mayor says they don't believe there are specific or credible

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Speaker 4: threats to the community in Providence, Rhode Island. James Rojas

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Speaker 4: WBZ Boston's News Radio and.

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Speaker 2: Happening now at Norfolk Superior Court in Denham. Jury deliberations

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Speaker 2: just got back underway in the Brian Walsh murder trial.

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Speaker 2: Now we heard closing arguments on Friday. The jury then

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Speaker 2: deliberated for a few hours before being sent home for

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Speaker 2: the weekend. Walsh accused of murdering and dismembering his wife

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Speaker 2: Anna on New Year's Day in twenty twenty three. His

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Speaker 2: argument is that he found her day and disposed of

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Speaker 2: her body in a state of panic. We're keeping a

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Speaker 2: close eye on these deliberations and we'll bring you all

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Speaker 2: the latest throughout the day right here on WBC News

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Speaker 2: Radio and also streaming on the iHeartRadio app and now

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Speaker 2: the FORTYWBZ ACU weather forecasts. Hang in there just a

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Speaker 2: little bit longer. There is some relief on the way,

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Speaker 2: but today is going to be frigid coal to hive

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Speaker 2: twenty eight, but those real field temps will mainly be

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Speaker 2: in the single digits tonight partly cloudy. Twenty three is

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Speaker 2: the low in the city, teens in most suburbs. Overnight Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: more sun than clouds will start a slight warm up

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Speaker 2: to thirty four degrees Wednesday. To listen to this, we

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Speaker 2: have highs near forty five in the city, near fifty

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Speaker 2: for the Cape and the Islands Thursday. A little bit

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Speaker 2: of rain likely late Thursday night, but the high forty

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Speaker 2: six degrees. Looking ahead Friday, it looks like we'll see

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Speaker 2: hi's in the fifties. Right now in Boston, it's a

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Speaker 2: chilly nineteen degrees, but feels like it's seven degrees out there.

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Speaker 2: In Boston, it's eleven o five. After a pair of

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Speaker 2: high profile mass shootings, Mayor Michelle Who says Boston isn't

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Speaker 2: taking its eye off the ball. Here's WBC's Kennel Bule

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Speaker 2: with more as.

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Speaker 1: She began a plan press conference focusing on public safety

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Speaker 1: in Boston. Mayor Who noted the mass shootings in the

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Speaker 1: past day in Australia and at Brown University.

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Speaker 2: It is unthinkable that we live in a world where

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Speaker 2: you don't even have time to process one major horrific

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Speaker 2: incident of violence before the next takes place.

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Speaker 1: At the event with who was Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox,

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Speaker 1: who says the VPD is taking measures here at home

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Speaker 1: in response to the Australian shooting targeting Honakah celebrants.

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Speaker 6: We've increased our certainly visibility around the Jewish institutions around

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Speaker 6: our city. We will continue to do that as the

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Speaker 6: circumstances dictate.

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Speaker 1: Both the mayor and the police Commissioner stressed good news

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Speaker 1: regarding violence here in Boston, Cox noting that while homicides

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Speaker 1: in the city are up from last year, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four and twenty five are seeing the lowest number of

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Speaker 1: murders in nearly six decades. Kendel Bule toll You're busy

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Speaker 1: Boston Radio.

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Speaker 2: New research is casting doubt on the benefits of medical cannabis.

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Speaker 7: The study, published this month in the journal JAMMA found

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Speaker 7: that some FDA approved drugs containing marijuana's active ingredient THHC

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Speaker 7: do provide benefits for things like chemotherapy, induce nausea and

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Speaker 7: boosting weight and HIV patients. Use of cannabis for pain management, however,

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Speaker 7: didn't have any solid clinical evidence of effectiveness. The researchers

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Speaker 7: say there are real dangers, citing up at ins at

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Speaker 7: Adolescents using high potency cannabis have a higher chance of

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Speaker 7: developing psychotic symptoms. I'm Tammy Tricho.

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Speaker 2: A Quincy man is said to be arranged on murder

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Speaker 2: charges today. Late Saturday night, police were called to a

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Speaker 2: Quincy apartment complex on Falls Boulevard. Once on seeing Police

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Speaker 2: say they found a man and woman seriously injured. The

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Speaker 2: woman pronounced dead at the scene. The man, thirty four

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Speaker 2: year old Giovanni Garcia, suffered stab wounds himself, but is

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Speaker 2: being charged with the woman's murder. Her name has not

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Speaker 2: yet been released. A dirty word is headlines. Merriam Webster's

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Speaker 2: word of the Year is slop. But it's not the

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Speaker 2: stuff pigs gobble up for dinner. It's the creepy, zany

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Speaker 2: fake videos, ads, and propaganda that's blown up online courtesy

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Speaker 2: of artificial intelligence. The dictionary people call slop an illustrative

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Speaker 2: word that's part of the transformative technology people are finding fascinating, annoying,

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Speaker 2: and a.

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Speaker 4: Little bit ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Slop was first used in the seventeen hundreds to mean

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Speaker 2: soft mud that caked pigs around a dirty trough. Deborah

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Speaker 2: Rodriguez CBS News. You are now in the loop for

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Speaker 2: news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio

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Speaker 2: on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's

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