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

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Speaker 1: five degrees in Boston, Fair Skies, very windy from the west,

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Speaker 1: gusting to about thirty five to forty miles an hour,

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Speaker 1: feeling more like the low twenties when you walk outside

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Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here is

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Speaker 1: what's happening. Big developments this morning and the Brian Walsh

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Speaker 1: murder trial. The jury sent home just minutes after testimony

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Speaker 1: was set to start. Wbz's Amanda Keane tells us why.

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Speaker 2: Despite the defense suggesting that they would be bringing witnesses

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Speaker 2: to the stand in the Brian Walsh murder trial, a

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Speaker 2: bombshell in court this morning, the.

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Speaker 3: Defense pushed to call any witnesses in this case.

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Speaker 1: We do not kid defense ress Defense bress.

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Speaker 2: This coming after Brian Walsh started the day by telling

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Speaker 2: the judge he would not testify in his own defense

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Speaker 2: and what is your decision? I will not testify. Walsh

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Speaker 2: has maintained that he did not kill his wife Anna

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Speaker 2: on New Year's in twenty twenty three, instead panicked when

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Speaker 2: he realized.

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Speaker 1: She had died.

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Speaker 2: Her body has never been found. Amanda Keen w b

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Speaker 2: Z Boston's.

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Speaker 1: News radio at eleven oh one. A federal judge in

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Speaker 1: Maryland this hour now ordering immigration officials to immediately release

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Speaker 1: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He is the man who made headlines

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Speaker 1: when he was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvadorian

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Speaker 1: prison by the Trump administration. Garcia is originally from El Salvador,

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Speaker 1: but was granted legal status here in the US after

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Speaker 1: proving if he was sent home he would be targeted

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Speaker 1: by gangs. In the order today, the judge noted that

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Speaker 1: federal immigration authorities do not have a proper removal order

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Speaker 1: for him and therefore cannot hold him the White House,

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Speaker 1: but husband trying to reapport Garcia to other countries, most

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Speaker 1: have agreed or not agreed to take him, or have

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Speaker 1: not been able to guarantee that eventually he would not

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Speaker 1: be passed on to El Salvador. Venezuelan officials calling the

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Speaker 1: US pirates and murderers after the Coastguard and Navy yesterday

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Speaker 1: seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast tier CBS's

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Speaker 1: Erica Brown.

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Speaker 4: The operation began Wednesday in the early morning hours. Helicopters

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Speaker 4: approached an oil tanker called the Skipper off the coast

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Speaker 4: of Venezuela. Special Operations forces repelling onto the ship seizing control.

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Speaker 4: President Trump shared the news hours later.

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Speaker 2: As you probably know, We've just seized a tanker on

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Speaker 2: the coast of Venezuela large tanker.

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Speaker 4: Very large.

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Speaker 1: The seizure comes after weeks of US led airstrikes on

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Speaker 1: alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, including one that some

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Speaker 1: members of Congress say could be a war crime. And

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Speaker 1: the owner of a bowling alley in Milford is now

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Speaker 1: accused of spending more than a million dollars in pandemic

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Speaker 1: relief money on himself instead of what it was intended

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Speaker 1: for his business. Federal prosecutors say David Breen took the

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Speaker 1: money and built a mansion in South Carolina and bought

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Speaker 1: luxury vehicles rather than using it for its intended purpose,

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Speaker 1: which was helping employee at the PINNs bowling Alley. If convicted,

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Speaker 1: the fraud charges carry a maximum prison sentence of ten years.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to the forecast, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: another windy day out there today. Expect to see wind

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Speaker 1: gus up to about forty, if not fifty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: And we've got plenty of sun, but it's still not

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Speaker 1: going to warm us up that much. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: have chillier air moving in many of us in the

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Speaker 1: thirties if not seeing a couple of forties right now

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Speaker 1: in southeastern Mass, getting down into the upper twenties low

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Speaker 1: thirties for the rest of the afternoon, and again the

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Speaker 1: real field tempts in the teens. We could see a

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Speaker 1: couple of stray snow showers right now, only really seeing

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Speaker 1: that in parts of the Berkshars, I'd say west of

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Speaker 1: ninety one. For tonight, mostly clear, windy again, lonear twenty

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Speaker 1: real feels in the single digits if not close to zero.

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Speaker 1: If you are in western Mass. For tomorrow, mostly sunny,

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Speaker 1: we've got a hine year thirty five real feels in

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Speaker 1: the teens. Looking ahead to the weekend, we could be

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Speaker 1: seeing a snowstorm coming in late at night on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: continuing into Sunday. Best chance of accumulable snow about one

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Speaker 1: to three inches towards the south coast in Cape right

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Speaker 1: now thirty one in Natick, we're at thirty five, in

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Speaker 1: Gloucester thirty six, and Taunton in Boston right now at

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Speaker 1: eleven oh six. It is thirty five and it feels

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Speaker 1: like twenty one. The Senate now set to vote on

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Speaker 1: competing bills today that would address expiring subsidies for health

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Speaker 1: insurance market plans. Here's ABC's Ali picorin This.

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Speaker 3: Is a little bit more of a complicated solution. It's

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Speaker 3: being put forward by Senators Bill Cassany and Mike Crapo,

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Speaker 3: And without getting too deep into the weeds, what this

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Speaker 3: legislation essentially does is repeal those tax credits and instead

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Speaker 3: take the money that was being used to subsidize those

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Speaker 3: enhanced tax credits and put it into health savings accounts

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Speaker 3: for individuals who are purchasing their healthcare through Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: Democrats, for their part, want to extend those subsidies. Neither

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Speaker 1: plan is expected to pass now Here. In Massachusetts, we're

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Speaker 1: seeing the growing price pinch when it comes to people

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Speaker 1: using the state's Health Connector to go buy those ACA plans.

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Speaker 1: It's currently open enrollment, and now the premiums are spiking

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Speaker 1: because of those expiring subsidies. Reports say more than ten

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Speaker 1: thousand Massachusetts residents have already dropped health plans they got

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Speaker 1: through the Connector. The Connector's Executive director Audrey Gasteier says

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Speaker 1: that's double the amount of people dropping coverage from last year.

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Speaker 1: She says it's a sign that people are deeply concerned

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Speaker 1: about price increases on those plans. Open enrollment on Connector

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Speaker 1: plans runs through the twenty third and happening now, the

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Speaker 1: state's Cannabis Control Commission is holding a hybrid public meeting

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Speaker 1: in Worcester. This is a meeting that a lot of

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Speaker 1: cannabis users in Massachusetts and dispensary owners have been excited about,

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Speaker 1: as the commissioners today are expected to pass social consumption regulations.

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Speaker 1: If they're approved, that means dispensaries, yoga studios, cafes, lounges,

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Speaker 1: other venues like that can all start offering places for

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Speaker 1: people to imbibe in cannabis products. You are now in

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