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Speaker 1: This is wb Z Boston's news radio way defining local news.

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Speaker 2: Forty two degrees in Boston. Right now, it's eleven o'clock

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Speaker 2: on your Monday morning, partly cloudy in the city. We've

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Speaker 2: got a storm on the way. We'll get the forecast

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Speaker 2: coming up. I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. A

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Speaker 2: year after voters in Massachusetts decided to scrap the m cast,

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Speaker 2: the state is out today with some recommendations for new

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Speaker 2: high school graduation requirements. These recommendations have two core components.

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Speaker 2: One is an end of course exam administered by this state,

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Speaker 2: and second is portfolios that students complete to demonstrate mastery

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Speaker 2: of the subjects. These capstones or portfolios would be designed

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Speaker 2: and scored at the local level. Governor morri Heely says

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Speaker 2: this new model will set high school students up for success,

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Speaker 2: but there's already pushback. The state's largest teachers union, the

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Speaker 2: mass Teachers Association, says this is essentially the MCST, just

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Speaker 2: under a different name. They say, since it relies on

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Speaker 2: standardized testing, it defies the will of the voters. These

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Speaker 2: are just a framework, and the council working on these

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Speaker 2: guidelines will have more details in their final report, which

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Speaker 2: is due in June. Meantime, in New York at eleven

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Speaker 2: oh one, a hearing is underway that could determine what

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Speaker 2: jurors get to see in the upcoming trial of Luigi Mangioni.

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Speaker 2: Here's ABC's Peter harlamboos.

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Speaker 3: One year after prosecutors say Luigi Mangioni brazenly assassinated the

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Speaker 3: CEO of United Healthcare in Midtown Manhattan, a multi day

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Speaker 3: hearing that could determine the balance of evidence in a

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Speaker 3: state murder trial. Mangioni's attorneys are trying to limit prosecutors

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Speaker 3: from using key evidence, including a three D printed gun

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Speaker 3: and purported journal writings they say police illegally obtained last

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Speaker 3: year when they searched Mangoni's backpack during his arrest without

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Speaker 3: a warrant. Peter Harralambus, ABC News New York.

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Speaker 2: Follow continues this morning from both sides of the political

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Speaker 2: aisle over a report in the Washington Post on US

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Speaker 2: air strikes against a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 2: The report says forces hit the same boat twice in

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Speaker 2: order to comply with orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 2: to kill all passengers. Here's ABC's Perry Russell.

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Speaker 4: Allmakers on both sides of the isle say Hegseeth may

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Speaker 4: have violated international law. Heg Seth defending his orders, saying

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Speaker 4: the intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy Narco boats,

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Speaker 4: and kill the Narco terrorists who are poisoning the American people.

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Speaker 4: Biden Cado terrorists, We kill them. Some experts argue, even

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Speaker 4: if Hegseth did not order that second strike, it may

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Speaker 4: still be a violation of the laws of war.

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Speaker 2: Heg Seth denied that report in the Post, calling it

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Speaker 2: fake news. And over the weekend, lawmakers were angry after

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Speaker 2: President Trump announced he will pardon former Honduran President Juan Hernandez.

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Speaker 2: Here's ABC's j O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: Democrats slamming this move, calling it part of a string

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Speaker 1: of controversial pardons issued by President Trump. Even Republican Senator

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Speaker 1: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana questioning why the administration would pardon

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Speaker 1: Hernandez and then go after Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro on

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Speaker 1: similar accusations of drug traffic.

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Speaker 2: And this pardon comes after the leader was sentenced to

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Speaker 2: forty five years in prison last year for weapons and

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Speaker 2: drug trafficking charges. For the rest of the afternoon, we

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Speaker 2: are looking at pretty calm conditions, no problems that I

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Speaker 2: can see a bit of a breeze really, and we'll

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Speaker 2: have a very chilly afternoon at the high only in

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Speaker 2: the mid forties. Then for tonight, we have clear skies early,

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Speaker 2: but you'll notice some clouds moving in through the overnight

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Speaker 2: lo about twenty five in Boston, upper teens if you're

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Speaker 2: north and west. We have a winter storm watch for

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Speaker 2: northern and western suburbs of Boston that starts tomorrow at

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Speaker 2: seven am, last through the day and too Wednesday early morning.

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Speaker 2: That's because our next storm here is going to bring

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Speaker 2: a little bit of everything, depending on where you are.

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Speaker 2: You could see some snow, could see some freezing rain,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of just plain cold rain as well,

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Speaker 2: and again you're gonna see most of the snow here

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Speaker 2: north and west of Boston. Looks like the models are

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Speaker 2: coming together on this, so for tomorrow afternoon, that's when

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Speaker 2: the snow and rain are going to start. Storm moves in,

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Speaker 2: and we've got a high tomorrow if you're in the

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Speaker 2: northwest suburbs about thirty five forty in Boston, warmer on

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Speaker 2: the Capan Islands. Then tomorrow night, as the storm makes

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Speaker 2: So we've got a storm total snowfall about maybe an

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Speaker 2: We've got a high in the upper thirties right now,

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Speaker 2: forty one in Westborough, where at forty one is well

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Speaker 2: in Ipswich, forty two in Brockton. In Boston at eleven

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Speaker 2: Developing news and DEBTAM this hour is opening. Statements are

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Speaker 2: officially underway in the murder trial of Brian Walsh. This

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Speaker 2: is a case that has been getting national attention. This

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Speaker 2: trial starts almost three years after Walsh allegedly killed his

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Speaker 2: wife Anna, dismembered her body, and disposed of it. Now

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Speaker 2: last month, you might remember that Walsh changed his plea

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Speaker 2: on two of the three charges against him is including

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Speaker 2: Line two investigators and the disposal of Anna's body. It

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Speaker 2: maintains his innocence though on that charge of first degree murder.

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Speaker 2: Once it gets going. The trial is expected to last

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Speaker 2: about two or three weeks, so we'll keep you posted

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Speaker 2: throughout the day on WBZ and streaming on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: A new flag for the state of Massachusetts might be

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Speaker 2: on the way, but not anytime soon.

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Speaker 5: Time's just about up for a commission hired to come

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Speaker 5: up with a new flag, seal, and motto for Massachusetts,

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Speaker 5: and once again, it's crickets. The panel winds down an

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Speaker 5: extension filled with a one hundred thousand dollars budget to

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Speaker 5: come up with an alternate to the current seal, which

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Speaker 5: features a disembodied arm holding a sword above the depiction

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Speaker 5: of a Native American. It's been the angst of the

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Speaker 5: Native American population for decades. The most recent push came

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Speaker 5: following the Black Lives Matter movement, and while the public

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Speaker 5: has submitted dozens of recommendations that are deemed worthy of

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Speaker 5: further consideration, nothing's come of the effort, and it appears

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Speaker 5: another extension is on the way. Matt Shearer, WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 2: Well, Today, December first, is World Aid's Day, and for

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Speaker 2: the first time since the nineteen eighties, the United States

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Speaker 2: is not formally commemorating it.

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Speaker 6: Today has been observed on December first of each year

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Speaker 6: since nineteen eighty eight to raise awareness of the AIDS

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Speaker 6: pandemic and to mourn those who've died. This year, The

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Speaker 6: New York Times is reporting that the US State Department

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Speaker 6: has instructed its employees not to use federal funding to

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Speaker 6: commemorate the occasion. It's part of the new federal policy

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Speaker 6: to refrain from messaging on commemorative days, which includes publicly

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Speaker 6: promoting World Aid's Day. I'm Michael Kassner.

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Speaker 2: You are now in malup for news updates throughout the day.

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