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Speaker 1: This is WBZ in Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. It feels

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Speaker 2: more like twelve outside. Very windy out there too, under

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Speaker 2: a sunny sky. We'll get the forecast coming up in

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Speaker 2: just a few minutes. I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Later today, around four o'clock, Congresswoman Iana Presley says she'll

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Speaker 2: be spending a bit of time in Allston meeting with

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Speaker 2: local officials and formerly detained employees of the Alston car Wash.

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Speaker 2: That car wash was the site of a recent ice

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Speaker 2: ray that's made national headlines. Advocates for the employees say

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Speaker 2: they were taken by IS despite having more clearances, and

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Speaker 2: a Boston University student has claimed to be the one

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Speaker 2: who called ice on them multiple times, and most of

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Speaker 2: the employees are out on bond. The congresswoman says today's

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Speaker 2: event is a quote solidarity roundtable, with immigration advocacy groups

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Speaker 2: also in attendance. At eleven oh one. More pressure today

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Speaker 2: on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to put out the full

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Speaker 2: video of air strikes on a suspected drug boat in

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Speaker 2: the Caribbean the attacking question included a second strike that

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Speaker 2: killed survivors of the first. It's a move the White

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Speaker 2: House has defended, but critics call a war crime. So far,

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Speaker 2: Hegseth has not publicly said if he will support that release.

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Speaker 3: Democrats who have seen the video demanding it be made public.

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Speaker 3: A source who has reviewed the footage tells ABC News

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Speaker 3: that after the initial strike, the video shows the survivors

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Speaker 3: clinging for their lives to the wreckage of the overturned boat,

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Speaker 3: appearing incapacitated and waving to something overhead. Another source says,

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Speaker 3: roughly forty minutes after that first attack, the military struck again,

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Speaker 3: killing those survivors.

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Speaker 2: Not is ABC's Mary Bruce. We're getting some developing news

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Speaker 2: this hour, as President Trump is reportedly planning a new

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Speaker 2: twelve billion dollar aid package for American farmers, who lately

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Speaker 2: have struggled to sell their crops, largely due to terrace

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Speaker 2: on China. A White House official now says the new

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Speaker 2: plan will be unbuiled at some point this afternoon. Overall,

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Speaker 2: farmers have backed the president politically, but his rest of

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Speaker 2: trade policies and changing teriff rates have caused some to

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Speaker 2: question his tactics and his motives being Tom on Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill later on this week. Democrats will get the vote

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Speaker 2: they were promised on Affordable Care Act to tax credits.

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Speaker 1: Tax credits were the key issue that led to the

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Speaker 1: longest government shutdown in US history, which ended after Republican

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Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader John Thunne promised Democrats would get a

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Speaker 1: vote on the issue. Since then, Republicans admit they've been

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Speaker 1: struggling to craft legislation that would get enough votes to

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Speaker 1: fix the core issue of rising medical costs. A vote

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Speaker 1: in the Senate's expected on Thursday. It's unlikely a proposal

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Speaker 1: from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will get enough Republican support,

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Speaker 1: but it will force an uncomfortable vote for the Senators.

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Carr in Washington.

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Speaker 2: And Massachusetts residents apparently have eyes elsewhere. A new survey

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Speaker 2: from The Globe in Suffolk University shows one out of

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Speaker 2: every three residents of Massachusetts surveyed have at least considered

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Speaker 2: packing up and taking off leaving the state over the

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Speaker 2: past year. Major reason here, they say it's just too

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Speaker 2: expensive to pay for housing and pay the bills, especially utilities.

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Speaker 2: Many polled also say they expect their financial situation to

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Speaker 2: either stay in bad shape or get worse over the

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Speaker 2: next year. We've reached out to the Governor's office for comment.

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Speaker 2: Lots of sun out there today, but we are looking

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Speaker 2: at a very chilly afternoon in the forecast, many of

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Speaker 2: us seeing a high of only about twenty five or so.

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Speaker 2: But we've got the winds right now blowing from the

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Speaker 2: northwest at just about fifteen twenty miles an hour, gusting

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Speaker 2: to about thirty plus. So you put the math together

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Speaker 2: with that, and you've got real field tempts in the

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Speaker 2: single digits and low teens. Mostly seeing those single digit

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Speaker 2: real fields if you're i'd say west of four ninety

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Speaker 2: five and into southern New Hampshire and Vermont. But still

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Speaker 2: one of those days, even though it looks really nice outside,

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Speaker 2: it got a bundle up. We have a load tonight

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Speaker 2: about sixteen clear skies, not as windy, and we could

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Speaker 2: get down to about the upper single digits if you're

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Speaker 2: outside four ninety five. For tomorrow, sun giving way to clouds.

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Speaker 2: We have a high in the low, timid thirties and

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Speaker 2: then warmer still on Wednesday, I could see a bit

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Speaker 2: of rain in the evening hours and a high in

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Speaker 2: the mid forties right now temperature wise twenty two in Southbridge,

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Speaker 2: where twenty eight at the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich,

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Speaker 2: north of Boston, twenty four in Denvers. In Boston right

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Speaker 2: now at eleven o five partly cloudy, twenty five degrees

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Speaker 2: and it feels more like twelve. You could call it

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Speaker 2: a holiday miracle here. But a new report is finding

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Speaker 2: the average rent in Boston it's actually going down for

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Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 4: When I asked folks in Alston whether they think their

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Speaker 4: rent is reasonable or not, I noticed a common theme

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Speaker 4: for Boston. I don't know, it's probably average, I think

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Speaker 4: relative to the rest of the city.

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Speaker 2: I've got a bargain.

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Speaker 1: I would say it's average with what the area considers

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Speaker 1: to be average.

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Speaker 4: So even a good deal doesn't really feel like one.

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Speaker 4: The average rent in Boston, according to a Bloomberg report,

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Speaker 4: is just over three thousand dollars, but it's actually gone

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Speaker 4: down for the first time since twenty twenty one. Many units,

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Speaker 4: particularly in neighborhoods like Austin, are sitting vacant at rates

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Speaker 4: not seen since the pandemic. I think it's a step

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Speaker 4: in the right direction. Hopefully it can get lower because

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Speaker 4: it's still really high.

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Speaker 1: As a student, your cost of living is very important,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that's gone down signals good things.

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

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Speaker 2: Just about two weeks from now, people here in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Hemisphere will experience the shortest day and therefore the

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Speaker 2: longest night of the year. The wintertimes, increasing darkness and

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Speaker 2: decreasing tempts can have a big influence on your mood.

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Speaker 5: The American Psychiatric Association estimates that nearly forty percent of

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Speaker 5: US experienced seasonal effective disorder, with its difficulty.

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Speaker 3: Sleeping, losing interest in the things that they normally enjoy

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Speaker 3: doing DT's energy.

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Speaker 5: Doctor kowshil Natavodi, Assistant Dean of Wellness at Upstate University

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Speaker 5: Hospital in New York, recommends vitamin D to people suffering

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Speaker 5: seasonal depression.

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Speaker 3: Because it affects energy, mood, muscle, aches and pains.

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Speaker 5: And exposure to very bright light in the morning can

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Speaker 5: trick your body into thinking the sun is up long

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Speaker 5: before it rises. Jim Ryan abcos.

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