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

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Speaker 2: Thirty nine degrees in Boston. It's raining right now. At

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis and here's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: This justin to the WBZ newsroom. President Trump now says

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Speaker 2: he will sign an executive order to resume pay for

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Speaker 2: Homeland Security workers. This includes the Coastguard and FEMA. This

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Speaker 2: move bypasses Congress, just like a similar order he did

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Speaker 2: recently to pay TSA workers. Now, Congress is still working

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Speaker 2: to pass a bill to partially reopen the department and

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Speaker 2: end the government shutdown that's been in place for almost

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Speaker 2: fifty days. The Senate today in a pro forma session,

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Speaker 2: passing another bill to reopen all of the agency except

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Speaker 2: for ICE and Border Patrol. The House rejected a similar

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Speaker 2: bill that was passed last week by the Senate when

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Speaker 2: it briefly gaffled into session today. House leaders did not

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Speaker 2: take up that bill meantime. Now to the war in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. At eleven oh one, President Trump saying

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Speaker 2: US forces will soon finish the job in Iran, as

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Speaker 2: he says core strategic objectives are nearing completion. However, when

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Speaker 2: it comes to a specific time frame on when the

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Speaker 2: war would end. He did not include that in that

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Speaker 2: address last night that you heard here on WBZ your

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Speaker 2: CBS's Weijajang.

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Speaker 3: Trump acknowledged many Americans are concerned about the recent rise

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Speaker 3: in gas prices here at home. They have risen by

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Speaker 3: thirty six percent since the war started.

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Speaker 4: The short term increase has been entirely the result of

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Speaker 4: the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil

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Speaker 4: tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with

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Speaker 4: the conflict.

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Speaker 2: Now state side and new survey of business forecasters has

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Speaker 2: found the wars raising a lot of concerns about the economy.

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Speaker 2: Here CBS's Cammi McCormick.

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Speaker 5: The war has business forecasters lowering their estimates for economic

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Speaker 5: growth and raising their worries about inflation.

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Speaker 6: Geopolitical risk has gone from a background concern to being

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Speaker 6: the dominant force shaping the US economic outlook.

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Speaker 5: Elena Malaya of the National Association for Business Economics.

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Speaker 6: Forty three percent of panelists put the odds of a

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Speaker 6: recession over the next twelve months somewhere between thirty five

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Speaker 6: and fifty percent.

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Speaker 5: Survey also found many believe the Fed is in a

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Speaker 5: difficult position and may not cut interest rates this year.

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Speaker 6: And all of that just feeds into the uncertainty that

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Speaker 6: the average listener is probably feeling right now when it

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Speaker 6: comes to the econic.

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Speaker 2: It has been a very volatile day on Wall Street.

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Speaker 2: The Dow was down almost six hundred points at one point.

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Speaker 2: Now it's down about one hundred points after it turned

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Speaker 2: positive for a time. SMP five hundred down about ten points.

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Speaker 2: Nastack down about a quarter percent. Checking out the forecast

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Speaker 2: will have some occasional rain for the rest of the day.

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Speaker 2: It's been a wet one here in eastern Massachusetts, seeing

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Speaker 2: a little bit of mix and even some freezing brain

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Speaker 2: in the higher elevations. Throughout the Commonwealth, we have a

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Speaker 2: high year forty today, definitely much chillier than yesterday. For tonight,

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Speaker 2: a bit of rain and drizzle, some fog in spots,

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Speaker 2: low in the mid thirties, and then for tomorrow much

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Speaker 2: warmer as we continue on this spring roller coaster of

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Speaker 2: weather around here. A bit of drizzle and some fog.

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Speaker 2: We could see sun in the afternoon, a high in

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Speaker 2: the low to mid sixties. Weekend, clouds and sun on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: becoming breezy, high in the upper fifties before tempts fall

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Speaker 2: into the forties in the afternoon, rain at times on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and we've got a high year sixty thirty seven in Framingham,

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Speaker 2: thirty nine at the Cape cog Canal, thirty five at

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Speaker 2: Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. In Boston at eleven oh six,

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Speaker 2: it's raining and thirty eight. The future of the Capron

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Speaker 2: Park Zoo in Attleborough has been up in the air

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Speaker 2: for the past few weeks, but now it appears the

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Speaker 2: zoo is getting a reprieve. Mayor Kathleen de Simone had

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Speaker 2: proposed turning it into a nature preserve, but residents and

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Speaker 2: politicians and business owners alike all pushed back. Desimo now

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Speaker 2: says the city will fund the zoo for another year

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Speaker 2: using free cash. But on the flip side, she says

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Speaker 2: the city has been dealing with a two and a

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Speaker 2: half million dollar budget deficit and by putting this money

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Speaker 2: toward funding the zoo, she says more city employees than

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Speaker 2: previously planned will likely have to lose their jobs.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: The president is reportedly considering a big change in his cabinet.

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Speaker 2: Here is ABC Stave.

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Speaker 1: Packer tel ABC News that President Trump has raised the

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Speaker 1: idea of removing Attorney General Pam Bondy in talks with

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Speaker 1: Senior AIDS. Bondi's already reshaped the department, aligning it closely

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Speaker 1: with Trump's agenda and breaking from long standing norms of independence. Still,

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Speaker 1: Trump is express frustration that the Justice Department isn't doing

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Speaker 1: enough to target his political opponents for prosecution. Potential replacements

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Speaker 1: said to be considered include EPA administrator Lee Zeldon and

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Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Dave Packer ABC News.

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Speaker 2: Peter is calling on the White House to call in

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Speaker 2: a substitution for the annual Easter egg role.

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Speaker 7: While most people at the handover market basket laughed in

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Speaker 7: my face at the idea, I didn't get some people

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Speaker 7: who would consider it.

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Speaker 6: I don't like putting hard boiled eggs out.

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Speaker 7: Moms who don't want to waste some eggs or see

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Speaker 7: the forgotten ones, spoil.

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Speaker 5: The rod or the dog will get done.

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Speaker 7: Joyce is a grandmother of three. She's also been on

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Speaker 7: Easter egg cleanup duty before.

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Speaker 5: Clearly the kids will miss out, you know, miss half

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Speaker 5: of them.

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Speaker 7: Wouldn't have to worry about that too much with potatoes. However,

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Speaker 7: those who consider it do tell me it would change

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Speaker 7: the vibe quite a bit. Even Joyce would agree the

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Speaker 7: Easter Potatoes doesn't exactly have the same Easter egg as

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Speaker 7: Jenna si Qua exactly, but maybe outside the comfort zone

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Speaker 7: there's room for a fantastic Easter celebration. Something to chew

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Speaker 7: on with the Easter Bunny. As you head into the

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Speaker 7: weekend and handover Jim McKay w b Z, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And next time you had to Polar Park in Wooster,

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Speaker 2: you might do a double take and wonder if you

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Speaker 2: took a wrong turn on the pike and ended up

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Speaker 2: over at Fenway. That's because the Telegram reports a mini

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Speaker 2: version of the iconic Sicko sign has been put up

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Speaker 2: at the ballpark in Wooster. Of course, the original is

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Speaker 2: not far away from Fenway Park in Kenmore Square. The

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Speaker 2: little Sitko sign was installed because Sicco has now become

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