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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio. We defining

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Speaker 1: local news forty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening President Trump

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Speaker 1: with some unkind words for a senior counter terrorism official

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Speaker 1: who resigned in protest over the US led war against Iran.

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Speaker 2: Joseph Kent was the director of the National counter Terrorism Center,

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Speaker 2: who posted, I cannot in good conscience back the war

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Speaker 2: against Iran. He added, Iran posed no imminent threat to

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Speaker 2: our nation. President Trump said he couldn't have been more wrong.

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Speaker 2: When somebody is working with us that says they didn't

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Speaker 2: think Iran was a threat, we don't want those people.

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Speaker 1: And on a personal note, I always thought he.

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Speaker 3: Was weak on security, very weak on security.

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Speaker 2: Kent was known for aligning himself with various far right

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Speaker 2: figures and for supporting President Trump's claims of election fraud.

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Speaker 2: Lynda Kenyon CBS News the White House.

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Speaker 1: Two senior Iranian officials reportedly dead after Israeli strikes overnight.

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Speaker 1: One of those killed was the head of a militia

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Speaker 1: within the Revolutionary Guard. The other one of the highest

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Speaker 1: ranking officials in Iran.

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Speaker 4: Ali Larijani was one of Iran's most powerful surviving officials,

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Speaker 4: head of its Supreme National Security Council. Although Ayatollah Hamani's

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Speaker 4: son had been named leader after his death, it was

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Speaker 4: Larajhani who was believed to be one of the key

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Speaker 4: figures actually running the country. Israel has claimed he is

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Speaker 4: now dead. Iran has not confirmed that yet.

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Speaker 1: Tyes ABC's Patrick reveal it appears help is not coming

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Speaker 1: to assist with safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump's

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Speaker 1: been pressing allies to help, but isn't happy the US

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Speaker 1: isn't getting support. Quote, despite the fact that almost every

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Speaker 1: country strongly agreed with what we're doing. Today. During a

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Speaker 1: meeting at the White House with Ireland's Prime Minister, President

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Speaker 1: Trump commented on NATO allies choosing not to help the

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Speaker 1: US secure the strain.

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Speaker 3: I think Neddo's making a very foolish mistake.

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Speaker 5: And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether

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Speaker 5: or not NATO would ever be there for us.

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Speaker 3: So this is a This was a great test because

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Speaker 3: we don't need him, but they should have been there.

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Speaker 1: President Day also announcing he is postponing his upcoming trip

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Speaker 1: to China because of the War with Iran. Voter eligibility

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Speaker 1: legislation moving forward, as the Senate's expected to begin debating

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Speaker 1: the SAVE Act.

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Speaker 6: The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would require voters to

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Speaker 6: show proof of citizenship. Missouri Republican Senator Josh Holly, this is.

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Speaker 1: What most states do.

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Speaker 3: It's just a few states who don't want to do

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Speaker 3: it because they want illegals voting.

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Speaker 6: President Trump says the SAVE Act would guarantee the mid

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Speaker 6: terms for Republicans.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you want voter ID There's only one reason, ready,

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Speaker 3: because you want to cheat.

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Speaker 6: House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrey says, the Constitution leaves the

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Speaker 6: administration of elections up to the states.

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Speaker 7: This is a.

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Speaker 1: Phony issue that Donald Trump is creating. Michael Wallace, CBS

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Speaker 1: News Things, We're all bad. Plead's not guilty after being

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Speaker 1: charged with murder Sean Sullivan in court today in Lowell

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Speaker 1: faces chargers after the discovery of human remains beneath his garage.

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Speaker 1: Investigators believe the victim is a woman who's been missing

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Speaker 1: for more than a year. In fact, the remains have

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Speaker 1: been identified as Jill Kloppenberg, reported missing by friends in

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Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty five Sullivan order to be held

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Speaker 1: without bail. Tonight will turn on mostly clear, as the

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Speaker 1: clouds will get out of here and leave us with

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Speaker 1: just some chilly temperatures and a diminishing wind. Will be

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Speaker 1: in the mid twenties or so in Boston, but probably

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Speaker 1: near twenty and some of the nearby suburbs. We may

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Speaker 1: even fall back into the teens in some of the

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Speaker 1: distant suburbs. Overnight Tonight, a colder day tomorrow. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we're only in the upper thirties for a high with

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Speaker 1: just a bit of sunshine, mostly cloudy Tomorrow night twenty

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Speaker 1: six Thursday, some clouds, a little bit of sun forty three,

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Speaker 1: and then as spring arrives on Friday, we will be warmer,

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Speaker 1: a mix of sun and clouds in a high of

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Speaker 1: fifty one. Right now it is forty three degrees in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. You know, just because the parades on

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Speaker 1: Sunday doesn't mean you can't celebrate on the day of.

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Speaker 8: It's a great time of year for us.

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Speaker 5: That's Tim Quinn, lead singer and guitarist for the Black

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Speaker 5: Velvet Band, who helped kick off the Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 5: party here at Boston Alehouse.

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Speaker 8: I just like watching the crowd. I get, you know,

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Speaker 8: we pick up the energy from the crowd. When everybody's

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Speaker 8: listening and singing along and clapping along, it makes the

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Speaker 8: day go so much faster and happier and so much

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Speaker 8: more fun for us. I followed this man and fabulous.

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Speaker 5: I'd say Arleen dusted off the old dancing shoes, but

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure she ever put them away in the

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Speaker 5: first place.

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Speaker 7: Got to do.

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Speaker 8: Something today, always all my home life.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, everybody's Irish on Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 2: I was born on April nineteenth, and I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: say to you, okay, but it was the.

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Speaker 1: Sun of the Revolution.

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Speaker 5: This party's not stopping anytime soon. From Western Roxbury, I'm

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Speaker 5: Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thank speaking of the Revolution. It was a battle that

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Speaker 1: sparked a rebel victory in the War for Independence a long,

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Speaker 1: long time ago. It's the twenty and fiftieth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: Evacuation Day.

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Speaker 3: It was the turning boy to the Revolution.

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Speaker 2: War.

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Speaker 3: Colonial troops under General George Washington commondeer Dorchester Heights, with

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Speaker 3: its sweeping tactical views of Boston and its harbor. Its

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Speaker 3: ceremonies marking the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that

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Speaker 3: historic battle, Mayor Michelle will recall the resolve of the

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Speaker 3: colonial volunteers.

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Speaker 7: The people of Boston, battered as they were, had something

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Speaker 7: the British could neither capture nor cut off home field advantage.

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Speaker 7: They had this hill, and they had the heart and

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Speaker 7: determination the courage to use it.

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Speaker 3: Use it they did to drive the Redcoats out of Boston,

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Speaker 3: freeing the city of British rule just months before the

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Speaker 3: declaration of Independence at Dorchester Heights. Mike Macklin, WBZ Boston's

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