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Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio Rea defining local.

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Speaker 2: News right now in Boston. Forty one degrees at eleven o'clock,

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Speaker 2: but it feels more like twenty eight when you walk outside,

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Speaker 2: nice and sunny on this Tuesday morning. Good to be

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Speaker 2: with you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Watching major

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Speaker 2: developments in the Brian Walsh case this morning. The Copacate

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Speaker 2: man is accused of killing his wife Anna, and now

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Speaker 2: he says he is pleading guilty to two out of

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Speaker 2: the three charges against him. Walsh now admits to line

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Speaker 2: to investigators and disintermine of a body, but is still

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Speaker 2: pleading not guilty to murder. Walsh is accused of killing

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Speaker 2: his wife on New Year's Day in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: and then dismembering her body, which has never been found. Recently,

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Speaker 2: after spending weeks at Bridgewater State Hospital, he was found

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Speaker 2: competent to stand trial. Opening statements are expected in early

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Speaker 2: December after Thanksgiving. Jury selections starts today. Meantime, it is

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Speaker 2: a critical day for lawmakers in the House on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 2: They are voting on whether to compel the Justice Department

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Speaker 2: to release the Epstein files. Now If this passes the

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Speaker 2: House and Senate, Resident Trump has said he would sign

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Speaker 2: the bill into law.

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Speaker 1: Trump last week directed the Justice Department to investigate Epstein's

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Speaker 1: ties to high profile Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton

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Speaker 1: and Larry Summers, Clinton's former Treasury secretary and former president

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Speaker 1: of Harvard, whose conversations with Epstein were part of that release,

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Speaker 1: announced he's now stepping back from public life, saying I

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Speaker 1: am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain

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Speaker 1: they have caused.

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Speaker 2: That is ABC's Lionel Moyees. Now, even if this bill

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Speaker 2: ultimately becomes laws, not clear just how much the public

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Speaker 2: is going to see. Some lawmakers say they're concerned the

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Speaker 2: President is going to cite his recently ordered investigations as

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Speaker 2: a reason to keep some of the files hidden. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: this hour in Washington, the controversial Crown Prince of Saudi

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Speaker 2: Arabia set to visit the White House. ABC's Mary Bruce how.

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Speaker 3: More on that today's visit a remarkable return for the

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Speaker 3: Crown Prince, who was own overwhelmingly condemned and shunned on

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Speaker 3: the global stage after US intelligence concluded Ben Solomon orchestrated

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Speaker 3: the twenty eighteen murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kushogi.

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Speaker 2: An arrival ceremony is getting underway right now, with the

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Speaker 2: White House decorated with both Saudi and American flags. Black

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Speaker 2: tie dinner is planned for the First Lady, the President,

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Speaker 2: and members from the Saudi delegation later on now, despite

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Speaker 2: objections from the Pentagon, the President now says the US

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Speaker 2: will sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 4: An intelligence report warrened China could steal the F thirty

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Speaker 4: five's technology. Since the Saudis and Chinese have a security partnership,

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Speaker 4: some Republican lawmakers say the sales should not go through

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Speaker 4: unless Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel. The President plans

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Speaker 4: to sell forty eight jets to the Saudis.

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Speaker 1: Right, a great la. They've got to like us very much.

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Speaker 4: During a meeting at the White House today, Trump and

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Speaker 4: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will discuss the jet

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Speaker 4: deal and a potential mutual defense agreement. Michael Wallace CBS News.

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Speaker 2: So the afternoon we will stay dry out there, So

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Speaker 2: that's certainly good news. But it's another day where the

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Speaker 2: wind is just going to howl outside and right now.

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Speaker 2: It's coming in from the west about fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 2: miles an hour, gusting to about thirty or so later

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Speaker 2: on this afternoon, we get a high just about forty

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Speaker 2: eight degrees, but it's going to feel more like the

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Speaker 2: thirties for tonight, clear to partly cloudy, low thirty four

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Speaker 2: in Boston, just above freezing, mid to upper twenties. So

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Speaker 2: if you're inland away from the coast, then for tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: looking good, sun in some clouds, not as breezy. We've

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Speaker 2: got a high in the mid forties, clouds and a

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Speaker 2: few breaks of sun on Thursday as well, in a

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Speaker 2: high near forty five. Could have some showers on Friday afternoon. Okay,

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Speaker 2: our temperatures out there right now looking nice across the board,

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Speaker 2: really seeing plenty of sun in Beverly right now. It's

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Speaker 2: forty one degrees in Norwood, forty three west of Boston.

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Speaker 2: In Fitchburg, it's forty one in Boston at eleven oh five.

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Speaker 2: It is partly cloudy where it forty two, and it

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Speaker 2: feels more like thirty one. A wave of hate for

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Speaker 2: a member of a low key state commission after people

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Speaker 2: online learn she's trans your wbz's Hyle.

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Speaker 5: Shaffle, one of the members of the state's Commission on

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Speaker 5: the Status of Women, says she has received a hal

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Speaker 5: of hateful messages in the last couple of days.

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Speaker 6: We are living in a time in which hate speech

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Speaker 6: and hate crimes are being excused.

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Speaker 5: Jaselle Bird, who is transgender, is a longtime presence in

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Speaker 5: the local arts scene, she says. Word of her appointment

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Speaker 5: to the Commission made the rounds on right wing media

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Speaker 5: outlets over the weekend. She gave some examples to.

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Speaker 6: Look at an entire community and verbatim say that they

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Speaker 6: will leave this country in a pine box.

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Speaker 5: She said. She said death threats and threats of violence,

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Speaker 5: and that there's been a noticeable uptick of comments during

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Speaker 5: the second Trump administration.

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Speaker 6: All we are simply wanting to do is exist and

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Speaker 6: thrive in a world that does not want us.

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Speaker 5: This all comes in the middle of transgender Awareness Week,

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shaffle WBZ, Boston's news radio, and.

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Speaker 2: In response, the Commission says it will not stand for

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Speaker 2: any hatred or violence directed at one of its own members.

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Speaker 2: It goes on to note that Byrd is not the

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Speaker 2: first transgender member of the council. Former Governor Charlie Baker

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Speaker 2: appointed Sarah Schnor to the Commission back in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: at eleven of six. A lot of apps and services

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Speaker 2: we use every day, we're struggling or even down completely

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Speaker 2: this morning thanks to a tech company that you may

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Speaker 2: not know that well. Cloud Flare provides security services for websites,

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Speaker 2: routing all the sites traffic through its own network through

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Speaker 2: tech cyber attacks, we now can tell you that cloud

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Speaker 2: Flare services are coming back up. They say they have

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Speaker 2: fixed the problem. So those apps and services you use

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Speaker 2: should be on the mend. And it is sniffle season,

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Speaker 2: but public health experts say over the next few weeks

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Speaker 2: we could really start to get hit hard by the flu.

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Speaker 2: The Globe reports the strain of concern here is one

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Speaker 2: that's been surging in the United Kingdom. It's a subtype

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Speaker 2: of influenza A, which has been going around for quite

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Speaker 2: a long time. Doctor Dan Baruch, a Bethisrael Deaconess Medical

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Speaker 2: Center tells The Globe that what plays out in the

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Speaker 2: UK usually comes to pass here in Massachusetts about a

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Speaker 2: month later. Doctors over there calling this a once in

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Speaker 2: a decade surge. They say young people are especially getting

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Speaker 2: hit hard. Of now, the state's Public Health Department reports

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Speaker 2: flucases are on the low side, and tomorrow NASA is

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Speaker 2: holding a live event to share new images of that

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Speaker 2: gorgeous interstellar comment that's been making its way through our

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Speaker 2: Solar System. Discovered in July. The comet is the third

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Speaker 2: object in the Solar System that's been confirmed to be

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Speaker 2: from somewhere else in our galaxy. The event, set for

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Speaker 2: three pm Eastern, will be cast on NASA Plus, the

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Speaker 2: NASA App, the NASA website, YouTube channel, and Amazon Prime.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tammy Trihio. You are now in the loop for

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