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

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Speaker 2: Fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm

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Speaker 2: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening, but heard in. General Andre

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Speaker 2: Campbell says it's illegal for the Trump administration to cut

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Speaker 2: off SNAP funding during the government's shutdown, and she is

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Speaker 2: making a federal case out of it. She's co leading

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Speaker 2: a coalition of nearly two dozen ages and three governors

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Speaker 2: who are suing the Agriculture Department and Secretary Brook Rawlins.

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Speaker 2: Campbell says the USDA has got billions of dollars in

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Speaker 2: SNAP specific contingency funds that's been appropriated by Congress just

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Speaker 2: for this purpose.

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Speaker 1: When we do this work, we don't see a D

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Speaker 1: and R I by name. You see a human being.

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Speaker 1: We see a family that is in desperate need of

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Speaker 1: support from their government. And here in.

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Speaker 3: Massachusetts we will always lead.

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Speaker 4: Ensuring that government is positive and not harming are people.

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Speaker 2: When the Attorney General says in Massachusetts alone, more than

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Speaker 2: a million people will lose benefits this week because of

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Speaker 2: the us DA's decision. As part of his trip to Asia,

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Speaker 2: President Trump holds a get together with business leaders in Tokyo.

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Speaker 4: The President praise the strategic and business relationship between the

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Speaker 4: US and Japan.

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Speaker 5: Japan's going to be investing five hundred and fifty billion

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Speaker 5: dollars into the United States.

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Speaker 4: In addition, Trump says Japan has agreed to buy US

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Speaker 4: agricultural products and manufactured goods rice.

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Speaker 5: Which is actually a big deal because as you know,

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Speaker 5: they wouldn't do that, and taking corn, and they're taking

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Speaker 5: the Ford one fifty here the big thing, some of

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Speaker 5: our cars.

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Speaker 4: The President also announced an agreement with Japan to begin

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Speaker 4: shipbuilding operations. Linda Kenyon, CBS News Washington.

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Speaker 2: Another chapter in the legal saga involving the Karen Reid case.

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Speaker 2: Reads legal team accusing Boston's top cop, Commissioner Michael Cox

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Speaker 2: of being caught in a lie over comments he made

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Speaker 2: about the case. In a letter to Boston Mayor Michelle

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Speaker 2: Wu and the Massachusetts Post Commission. Attorney Allen Jackson says

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Speaker 2: Cox lied about his knowledge concerning a witness in the case,

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Speaker 2: former Boston police officer Kelly Dever. Attorney Jackson alleges that

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Speaker 2: Cox publicly denied knowing anything about dev or the Read case.

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Speaker 2: In July of twenty twenty five, despite being informed of

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Speaker 2: his officer's connection as early as twenty twenty four. WBZ

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Speaker 2: has reached out to the Mayor's office as well as

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Speaker 2: Boston Police for comment. A former Stoughton police officer facing

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Speaker 2: a second charge in the death of Sandra Birchmore.

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Speaker 3: Wbz's Brook McCarthy has the tails.

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Speaker 6: According to court documents, Sandra Burchmore was eight to ten

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Speaker 6: weeks pregnant with a son when she was allegedly murdered

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Speaker 6: by Matthew Farwell in a new indictment now charges him

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Speaker 6: with the death of her unborn child. The former Stoughton

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Speaker 6: police officer was arrested last year in charge with Birchmore's death.

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Speaker 6: He's accused of strangling her and using his police knowledge

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Speaker 6: to make it look like a suicide back in twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty one. This came after Birchmore told him he was

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Speaker 6: the father of her unborn child. The two met when

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Speaker 6: Birchmore was a teen and joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program. Farwell,

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Speaker 6: his twin brother, and another officer are accused of grooming

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Speaker 6: and having inapprob free it sexual relations with her for years.

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Speaker 6: Farwell's trial is set to be in October of next year.

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Speaker 6: Both of these federal charges can carry the death penalty.

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Speaker 6: Work McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Three more strikes on alleged drug running boats. Defense Secretary

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth announcing the latest US military action in the

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Speaker 2: Eastern Pacific. Fourteen people are reported dead Monday strikes. For

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Speaker 2: the first time multiple strikes has been announced in a

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Speaker 2: single day. A statement provided by the Pentagon says the

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Speaker 2: strikes were conducted off the coast of Columbia. Clouds around,

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Speaker 2: mainly closer to the coast. Sunshine's been out today as

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Speaker 2: you head west and north of the city. As we

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Speaker 2: head into the evening, there will be clouds around. They

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Speaker 2: may start to thicken up in some of the places

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Speaker 2: that saw sun today as well. A little breezy two tonight,

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Speaker 2: temperatures forty six in Boston, forty in the suburbs, and

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Speaker 2: we'll have a little drizzle, perhaps mainly from the city

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Speaker 2: on south. Mainly cloudy Tomorrow, breezy, chili, some drizzle around,

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Speaker 2: Temperatures in the low fifties, and then some clouds in

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Speaker 2: a breeze tomorrow night forty seven, and then the real

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Speaker 2: fun starts on Thursday. We'll have windy conditions, The winds

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Speaker 2: will get stronger, the rain will pick up, and we'll

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Speaker 2: have some pretty heavy rain as we had later on

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Speaker 2: into the day and into Thursday night.

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Speaker 3: Could be some.

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Speaker 2: Ponding and flooding and low lying areas, things like that.

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Speaker 2: Fifty five the high on Thursday, in the forties Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: and then sixty two on Friday, with variably cloudy skies.

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Speaker 2: It will be windy, a couple of showers linger. But

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Speaker 2: then we kick that out of here, and we may

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Speaker 2: get into some okay weather, chilly and windy, but okay

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Speaker 2: weather for trick or treating Friday night. Right now, we're

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Speaker 2: at fifty degrees in Boston. New rules on e bikes

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Speaker 2: are coming up fast and furious.

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Speaker 6: How did I forget to mention the bison looks well?

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Speaker 3: I just mentioned it.

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Speaker 2: Now, with New York City launching a fifteen mile an

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Speaker 2: hour speed limit for e bikes in the Big Apple,

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Speaker 2: should that happen in Boston and could it even work?

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Speaker 3: WBC's Kyle Bray went to find out.

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Speaker 1: Elaine has had her fair share of run ins with

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Speaker 1: e bikes as she walks her dog throughout the city.

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Speaker 6: I see them racing all around, and you know, as

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Speaker 6: I think, I walk around everywhere in the city and I,

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Speaker 6: you know, feel like I've gotten almost hit many times.

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Speaker 6: So if they had to go slower, that would be better.

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Speaker 1: That's why she would be in favor of Boston adopting

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Speaker 1: a similar speed limit of fifteen miles per hour for

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Speaker 1: e bikes like they have in New York. Here are

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Speaker 1: the Blue Bike. E bike motors go up to eighteen

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Speaker 1: miles per hour, but there's no speed limit and it

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Speaker 1: uses e bikes to get to work pretty much every day.

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Speaker 3: They do go fast.

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Speaker 6: I always warn people who haven't ridden them before that

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Speaker 6: there's some power underneath of you, which scared me the

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Speaker 6: first time. But I appreciate the extra speed.

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Speaker 1: And that's the main appeal for dedicated e bike riders.

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Speaker 4: I'm usually going about twenty to twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen wouldn't cut it, No, definitely not. From downtown. Kyle

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Speaker 1: pra AWBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The Bristol County Sheriff's Office celebrating the first inmates that

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Speaker 2: have graduated from its commercial Driver's License program. The jail's

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Speaker 2: been working to ensure inmates have a CDL after being released.

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Speaker 2: The jail has a CDL simulator and offers training for

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Speaker 2: the CDL permit test and road test. In Mates who

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Speaker 2: go through the training are placed at a job that

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Speaker 2: requires a CDL before they're released. But wait, there's more

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Speaker 2: about your weight.

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Speaker 3: This time, it's actually good news.

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Speaker 7: The US adult obesity rate has dropped to thirty seven

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Speaker 7: percent from a record high nearly forty percent in twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty two, according to the ongoing Gallup National Health and

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Speaker 7: well Being Index, and estimated seven point six million fewer

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Speaker 7: Americans are considered obese compared to three years ago. Gallup

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Speaker 7: calculates obesity using the federal standard of having a BMI

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Speaker 7: of thirty or higher. Jim Chrysilli, CBS News.

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