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

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Speaker 2: News mostly clowney and thirty eight degrees in Boston at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock in afternoon. I'm Kyle Bray. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us, and here's what's happening. A young mother and

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Speaker 2: toddler are hospitalized and a home in Taunton has been

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Speaker 2: completely destroyed. At wbz's Madison Rogers has the latest onny

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Speaker 2: fiery explosion.

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Speaker 3: Tons and Fire Chief Stephen Levine says there's nothing left

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Speaker 3: of a three family home on Plain Street.

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Speaker 4: The two Blite boys standing, but nothing left at the property.

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Speaker 3: It's around nine forty five am and explosion and fire

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Speaker 3: were first reported and as of now it appears only

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Speaker 3: two people had been at the home, which Cruis arrived

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Speaker 3: to find fully engulfed. Investigators believe a twenty five year

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Speaker 3: old woman got out on her own, then went back

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Speaker 3: in for her two year old daughter, both left severely hurt.

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Speaker 4: Bros and Origin is under investigation by both taunt and

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Speaker 4: police Antonton by investigators and they're being assisted by the

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Speaker 4: State Biomachi's office. Right now, we do have ever source

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Speaker 4: on scene. They have shut the gas off in the area.

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Speaker 3: Two neighboring homes are heavily damaged. The response was hampered

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Speaker 3: by twenty nine inches of snow in taunted.

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Speaker 4: To our neighborhood. Even in July. It's a tough neighborhood

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Speaker 4: to drive down the shroads.

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Speaker 3: And there's word neighbors helped cruise shovel out hydrants. Madison

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Speaker 3: Rogers w b Z, Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio, Well, Mother Nature gave us some dessert today after

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Speaker 2: we got a full helping of snow over the last

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Speaker 2: few days. Didn't amount to much here in Boston. The

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Speaker 2: cleanup and power restoration is still a big effort in

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Speaker 2: south of the city and down on the Cape. Doug

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Speaker 2: Foley is the president of electric Operations Forever Source, and

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Speaker 2: he spoke about what's causing these outages.

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Speaker 5: The primary driver of the overhead lines coming down to trees.

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Speaker 5: That's number one driver outages in New England has tribulated

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Speaker 5: outages as a result of wind or the snow.

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Speaker 2: And with thousands still without power on the Cape, more

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Speaker 2: warming centers are opening to help people out of the

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Speaker 2: cold right now. Warming centers can be found at the

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Speaker 2: Barnsball Intermediate School, Dennis Yarmouth Regional High School, Cape cod

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Speaker 2: Regional Technical High School in Harwich and the Nantucket Intermediate

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Speaker 2: School on the island right now across Massachusetts. According to

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Speaker 2: the Meme of Power Outage Map, one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: six thousand customers are without power, the majority of those

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Speaker 2: being on the Cape. Lawmakers are gearing up for this

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Speaker 2: week's House Oversight Committee testimony from Bill and Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 2: and it's probe of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 6: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifies tomorrow at former

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Speaker 6: President Bill Clinton appears Friday. They aren't accused of wrongdoing.

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Speaker 6: The Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett says, I think they're guilty

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Speaker 6: of sin of a lot of things. California Democratic Representative

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Speaker 6: Robert Garcia wants to hear from the former president.

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Speaker 5: I think that anyone that has information about Jeffrey Efstein

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Speaker 5: or spend any time with him, I think it's important

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Speaker 5: ask questions.

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Speaker 6: Alison Keys, CBS News Washington, it's.

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Speaker 2: Time now for a check of the four d A

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Speaker 2: WBZ thank you weather forecast. Tonight. We could see a

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Speaker 2: rain or snow shower in places early on, then we'll

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Speaker 2: be partly cloudy and brisk later in the evening, we'll

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Speaker 2: have lows close to thirty. Tomorrow will have times of

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Speaker 2: sun and clouds with a chilly breeze at times. We'll

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Speaker 2: have a high of forty two. Tomorrow night will have

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Speaker 2: patchy clowns and it will be colder. We'll have a

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Speaker 2: low of nineteen in Boston. That'll be closer to ten

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Speaker 2: if you're out in the inland suburbs. Friday mostly sunny,

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Speaker 2: a high thirty seven. Saturday will have sunshine mixing with clowns.

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Speaker 2: It will be rather breezy, with a warmer high of

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Speaker 2: forty four. Right now in Boston it is mostly cloudy

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Speaker 2: and thirty eight degrees. BPS students wrap up their first

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Speaker 2: day back at school after an extended February break. WBC's

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Speaker 2: James Rojas was in Mattapan, where the mayor and superintendent

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Speaker 2: welcome them back.

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Speaker 7: Gay Many students here at the Mildred Avenue School had

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Speaker 7: a big smile on their face walking back to class,

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Speaker 7: but not as big as their parents.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad the kids are back in school.

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Speaker 1: They need the education.

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Speaker 6: So a little more quessing, I mean, I can go

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Speaker 6: and get some piece of quiet, I guess.

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Speaker 7: BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper and Mayor Michelle Wu greeted students

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Speaker 7: with open arms.

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Speaker 2: They're excited to be back.

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Speaker 4: Parents are very excited that the students are back in school.

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Speaker 3: It's exciting for multiple reasons. The school's back open, so

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Speaker 3: my kids are to later start school, but I'm going

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Speaker 3: to get home, get them out the door. And it's

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Speaker 3: taken a ton of work.

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Speaker 7: As you heard, Skipper and Wu thanks school leaders, DPW

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Speaker 7: and other city workers for getting school reopened in Mattapan.

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Speaker 7: James Rojas WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: We now know whose medical problem forced the return of

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Speaker 2: four International Space Station astronauts more than two months ago.

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Speaker 1: When returning Space Station commander Mike Fink greeted reporters in

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Speaker 1: Houston January twenty first, here we.

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Speaker 7: Are back on the most beautiful planet in the Solar System.

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Speaker 1: He never let on that he was the one, and

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Speaker 1: while he's not saying exactly what his issue was, he says,

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Speaker 1: whatever it was happened January seventh, and at a written

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Speaker 1: statement released by NASHA, he says he got immediate attention

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Speaker 1: from his crewmates in quick response and guidance from NASA

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Speaker 1: flight surgeons all helped stabilize his condition. Fink says coming

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Speaker 1: back early was the safest thing to do. He says

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Speaker 1: he's doing fine in his postflight recovery. Peter King's CBS News.

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Speaker 2: A Native couple who were stocked and harassed by eBay

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Speaker 2: employees over their coverage of the e commerce gain are

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Speaker 2: settling a civil suit against the company and its former CEO.

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Speaker 2: The Globe says David and hein Steiner, publishers of the

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Speaker 2: website e commerce Bites, had been seeking almost a half

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Speaker 2: a billion dollars in damages. eBay employees threatened them on

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Speaker 2: social media, sending them packages of things like live spiders

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Speaker 2: and a bloody pig mask. The couple was even followed

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Speaker 2: around Natick in the August of twenty nineteen. Details of

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Speaker 2: the settlement have not yet been revealed. You are now

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Speaker 2: in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen

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Speaker 2: to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Kyle Bray,

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