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Speaker 1: This is w BZY, Boston's news radio redefining local news

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Speaker 1: thirty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Some constricting information today

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Speaker 1: out of the White House, as Saranian state media reported

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Speaker 1: that they are again closing the straight of horn moves.

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Speaker 1: It came just hours after US and Iranian officials agreed

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Speaker 1: to a two week cease fire last night, Iranian media

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Speaker 1: saying this is because of Israeli strikes on Lebanon. At

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Speaker 1: today's White House briefing, the Press Secretary pressed back on

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Speaker 1: questions about the president's comments on destroying an entire civilization.

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Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt repeatedly defending the president's rhetoric the threat of

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Speaker 2: the death of a civilization by saying it was a

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Speaker 2: very very strong threat that led to results. The Press

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Speaker 2: Secretary said, the Iranian regime, in her words, recognized reality

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Speaker 2: and yesterday put forward a plan that was more reasonable

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Speaker 2: than previous offers, and now the cease fire that's a

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Speaker 2: result have been announced. Yesterday sets the table for talks

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Speaker 2: on Saturday in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Speaker 1: That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy, where learning some new details

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Speaker 1: about the accident at the Massachusetts Fire Academy yesterday. According

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Speaker 1: to the Chelmsford Firefighters Union, firefighter Nick Spinale, who also

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Speaker 1: works at the academy part time, had been prepping for

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Speaker 1: a training exercise when he fell forty feet from a

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Speaker 1: window to the concrete below. They say he faces life

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Speaker 1: threatening injuries, including internal and external injuries that landed him

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Speaker 1: in the ICU at New mass Memorial and Worcester. The

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Speaker 1: twenty eight year old fell on solid concrete and was

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Speaker 1: immediately life flighted to Worcester. The union has opened a

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Speaker 1: donation page to help support the long road to recovery.

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Speaker 1: His injuries are expected to require a number of surgeries

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Speaker 1: and significant physical therapy. More Karen Reid wc's Matt Phipps

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Speaker 1: with more on her upcoming civil trial.

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Speaker 3: Defense lawyers in an upcoming civil suit want what it

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Speaker 3: claims are shockingly troubling messages from the smartphone of a

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Speaker 3: former Massachusetts State Police trooper. Attorneys for the forty six

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Speaker 3: six year old read want the messages that Michael Procter

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Speaker 3: was forced to read aloud during Reid's first murder trial

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Speaker 3: to be used in the dueling and pending Norfolk Superior

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Speaker 3: Court cases. Karon Reid has been sued by the family

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Speaker 3: of John o'keef for her late boyfriend on wrongful death charges. Reid,

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Speaker 3: in turn, has filed a federal suit against Procter State

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Speaker 3: Police and others who conspired against her. Matt Phipps w

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Speaker 3: b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: And What's a few billion dollars among friends, Boston Vary

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Speaker 1: and Michelle wou rolling out her budget plan for the

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Speaker 1: next fiscal year. CBS News Boston's Petty Commits says the

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Speaker 1: mayor's warning that this is a challenging time for the city.

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Speaker 4: Four point nine billion dollars. That's what it will cost

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Speaker 4: to keep the City of Boston running next fiscal year.

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Speaker 4: It's an increase of just two point one percent, the

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Speaker 4: smallest budget growth since twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: This is a tough budget in a tough environment.

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Speaker 4: Boston's chief financial Officer, Ashley Groffenberger, says the budget will

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Speaker 4: grow by ninety nine point four million dollars, with rough

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Speaker 4: fe ninety eight percent of that going towards growing employee

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Speaker 4: healthcare costs, specifically surrounding GLP ones led to spike and

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Speaker 4: costs because the pricing of those medications has been so

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Speaker 4: high the city is also facing a nearly fifty million

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Speaker 4: dollar budget deficit after spending more than expected on snow

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Speaker 4: removal and police overtime.

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Speaker 1: Grofenberger says Boston is relying on its financial reserves to

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Speaker 1: avoid cutting programs. To four D a WBC active weather forecast.

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Speaker 1: Coming off a pretty cool day, we'll have a chilly

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Speaker 1: night to night, not as chili as last night, but

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Speaker 1: twenties in the suburbs, thirty two downtown under clear skies,

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Speaker 1: mostly sunny. Tomorrow will gain a few degrees as we

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Speaker 1: get into the low to mid fifties with mostly sunny

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Speaker 1: skies and a bit of a breeze in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Partly cloudy Tomorrow night low thirty six where warmer. Still

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Speaker 1: on Friday will be in the low sixties in Boston,

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Speaker 1: but as you get away from the coast, mid sixties,

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Speaker 1: maybe even some places getting to seventy degrees. Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: cooler over the Cape and islands on Friday, and then Saturday,

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Speaker 1: still cooler over the capeon islands. The temperatures from most

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Speaker 1: of us within a few degrees of sixty and a

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Speaker 1: big warm up maybe in store for us as we

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Speaker 1: get into next week. Right now, it is thirty nine

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Speaker 1: degrees in Boston. The Boston Marathon is getting ever closer.

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Speaker 1: For those running, it is down to the wire for

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Speaker 1: their training. How our runners faring in the days leading

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Speaker 1: up to the race. We send wz's Jay will Lett

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Speaker 1: to find out.

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Speaker 5: We're just under two weeks away from the Boston Marathon,

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Speaker 5: and so I thought it'd come out to the Esplanaut

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Speaker 5: in Boston and see how runners are training. The only

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Speaker 5: problem is the only way to track down runners is

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Speaker 5: by cornering them at the water stops or running with them.

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Speaker 6: Can I ask you some questions while we run?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 6: How has the training season been for you so far?

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Speaker 1: Very cold?

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Speaker 6: Here we go train for Boston. Are you tapering yet?

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Speaker 6: Type of stots this weekend? What pace are we running

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Speaker 6: right now? Just about six minutes to klometer? Or what's that? No,

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Speaker 6: I'm else tell me about that.

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Speaker 5: How's it been like running in terms of the weather, Like,

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Speaker 5: it's just it's been on and off.

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Speaker 1: Right bit or rough water? It's been Yeah, what is that?

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Speaker 5: Thirty five degrees today and then this week it to

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Speaker 5: be like sixty cold all.

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Speaker 2: Winter and by the time you hit the marathon and

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Speaker 2: always wring the South at the parts of the country

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Speaker 2: here flying through as we struggle.

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Speaker 6: Running on the espanage. Jawill at WBZ, Boston's news.

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Speaker 1: Radio unfounded bomb threats at some local schools, leading to

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Speaker 1: an increased police presence today. The threats were received in Tingsboro,

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Speaker 1: as well as at schools in Nashua, Hudson, and Litchfield,

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Several schools in Tingsboro received robo call threats

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Speaker 1: to commit violence, and the police chief, after speaking with

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Speaker 1: other law enforcement leaders, determined similar robotic phone call threats

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Speaker 1: had been made to many other schools across the Northeast.

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Speaker 1: Raising kids in America that's getting more expensive down American kings. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the American kids are costing about thirty four thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: a year in Massachusetts. Well, in fairness, that figure includes

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Speaker 1: things like infant daycare, which of course do go away,

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Speaker 1: but still seventeen thousand dollars a year for everything else

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Speaker 1: and more than three hundred thousand dollars in the first

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Speaker 1: eighteen years of life. This is a new study from

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Speaker 1: lending Tree. It puts Hawaii as the costliest place. Maryland

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Speaker 1: is second. Population growth has been slowing across the country,

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Speaker 1: and the latest US Census shows the slowdown includes the

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Speaker 1: once popular South Florida.

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Speaker 7: The Census Bureau found a decline in domestic migration in

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Speaker 7: the Tri County area, with more people leaving than arriving.

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Speaker 7: Realtor and former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristin Rosen Gonzalez attributes

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Speaker 7: the shift in part to a decline in affordable housing.

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Speaker 8: The working class neighborhood set are three four hundred dollars

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Speaker 8: per squarefoot. Those are definitely suffering, whereas we have as

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Speaker 8: high as eight thousand dollars per scuffot on the market,

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Speaker 8: and that market seems to be driving.

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Speaker 7: She says. As more high income residents move in, less

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Speaker 7: wealthy residents move out and shop for more affordable housing

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Speaker 7: up north. Karen Curtis Miami.

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