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

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine degrees clouds in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: I'm Charlie Berdjohn. Here's what's happening. At least ten US

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Speaker 2: troops have been wounded at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Air Base,

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Speaker 2: two of those troops said to be in serious condition.

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Speaker 2: Iran firing six ballistic missiles and twenty nine drones at

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Speaker 2: the base, which has come under attack twice earlier this week,

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Speaker 2: including another attack that injured fourteen US troops. As the

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Speaker 2: US and Israeli offensive against Iran moves into a fifth week,

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Speaker 2: Israel under fire from Houthy rebels.

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Speaker 3: I'm del Gavlack and Iman Jordan. Israel's military reports that

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Speaker 3: Yemen launched a missile toward Israel early Saturday morning, the

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Speaker 3: first time it faced fire from that country. Sirens were

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Speaker 3: heard near Beesheba and the area close to Israel's main

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Speaker 3: nuclear research center for the third time overnight Friday into Saturday.

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Speaker 3: The launch comes hours after the Huthi said they were

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Speaker 3: prepared to act if what they called an escalation against

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Speaker 3: Iran and the access of resistance continued who.

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Speaker 2: The rebels have stated in the past they were prepared

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Speaker 2: to support the Iranians if the US and Israel continued

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Speaker 2: their attacks on Iran. President Trump has signed off on

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Speaker 2: restoring pay for TSA officers and employees who have continued

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Speaker 2: to work without a paycheck during the current lapse in

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Speaker 2: DHS funding. TSA employees yesterday missed their third paycheck. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: In a two thirteen to two oh three vote, the

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Speaker 2: House passed legislation that will fund all of DHS for

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Speaker 2: sixty days. Once the House adopted the rule for the bill,

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Speaker 2: it was automatically deemed as past. So what does this

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Speaker 2: all mean? Here's Grissa Lawson.

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Speaker 3: That means the.

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Speaker 4: Bill now returns to the Senate, which is left for

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Speaker 4: a two week recess, meaning the fate of TSA and

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Speaker 4: other Department of Homeland agencies remains up in the air,

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Speaker 4: and so does air travel from.

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Speaker 3: Coast to coast.

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Speaker 4: Long security lines at US airports continue. This comes as

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Speaker 4: how Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday dashed hopes the partial

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Speaker 4: shutdown could soon be over, and it is unconscionable to

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Speaker 4: me that the Democrats would force some sort of negotiation

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Speaker 4: at three o'clock in the morning and try to hoist

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Speaker 4: this upon the American people and then get on their

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Speaker 4: jets and go home for their holiday.

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Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security says the daily absentee rate

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Speaker 2: for TSA officers scheduled to work on Thursday was close

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Speaker 2: to twelve percent. That's the highest level since the DHS

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Speaker 2: shutdown began on February fourteenth. One in three scheduled officers

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Speaker 2: missed work at JFK in New York. A No King's

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Speaker 2: Rally protesting the Trump administration's immigration policies and the war

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Speaker 2: in Iran scheduled for later today two o'clock at Boston.

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Speaker 2: Common speaker at the rally expected to include Governor Morraheely,

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Speaker 2: Senator Ed Markey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, and Congresswoman Ayana Presley.

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Speaker 2: Other demonstrations are scheduled in a number of cities and towns,

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Speaker 2: including Pittsfield, Worcester, Framingham, Thu and Lexington, parts of southeastern

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts and the Cape. Tens of thousands of protesters are

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Speaker 2: expected to attend. WBZ News Radio will be there as well.

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Speaker 2: Check the four day WBZ ach you weather forcast. LaTroy

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Speaker 2: Thornton tells us today some clouds from sun, breezy, cold.

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Speaker 2: I just thirty seven today, partly cloudy, back to thirty

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Speaker 2: overnight tonight, Tomorrow sun and clouds, little warmer. Get to

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Speaker 2: forty nine Monday, more clouds than sun, breezy and warmer.

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Speaker 2: How about sixty three that's more like it on Monday.

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Speaker 2: And then Tuesday warm with clouds and a high sixty one.

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Speaker 2: So it's a chilly start to this Saturday morning. Right

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Speaker 2: now in Attleborough, just twenty eight degrees, twenty five degrees

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Speaker 2: in Hudson, twenty eight in Danvers. Here in Boston right

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Speaker 2: now clouds twenty nine degrees. But the issue again, we've

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Speaker 2: talked about it a lot. The wind out of the

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Speaker 2: north about ten miles per hour, makes it feel like

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Speaker 2: nineteen at six five. Going old school just got a

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Speaker 2: little easier. In Stoton, here's WBC's Jared Prosnan.

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Speaker 5: That's the sound of a not so distant past when

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Speaker 5: video games and movies were all inside DVD cases. The manager,

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Speaker 5: Megan Lobbard tells me it's still the present here at

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Speaker 5: the geek boutique, so we.

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Speaker 6: Sell everything from games to comics, DVDs, blu rays, manga,

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Speaker 6: We also do repairs, so if you've got a system

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Speaker 6: controller broke and bring it in and we can fix

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Speaker 6: it for you, and you can also still sell us

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Speaker 6: thing similar to game Stop.

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Speaker 5: In fact, this new location just replaced the old game

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Speaker 5: Stop here in Stoton, and geek Boutique is opening another

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Speaker 5: location soon in Littleton. While Megan admits it's more convenient

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Speaker 5: to just download games in this digital world, she believes

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Speaker 5: getting a physical copy is much safer on the finances.

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Speaker 6: The one downside about digital is once you buy it,

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Speaker 6: you're stuck with it, So if you don't like the game,

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Speaker 6: you can you can't like reseally, you can't do a

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Speaker 6: return for it compared to what we can.

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Speaker 5: Do from Stoton of Jerre Bros. And WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The Croft School in Jamaica Plane will remain open through

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Speaker 2: the end of the school year, the Globe reporting parents

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Speaker 2: have raised the money necessary to keep the doors open

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Speaker 2: for the next few months. Parents of students at the

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Speaker 2: Cross School in the South End are working toward keeping

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Speaker 2: their school open as well. The fundraising coming two weeks

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Speaker 2: after Scott Gibbon, the school's executive director, admitted he had

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Speaker 2: been keeping two sets of books, hiding as much as

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Speaker 2: thirteen million dollars in debt. The Croft School in Providence

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Speaker 2: is continuing their push to raise a million dollars by

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Speaker 2: the middle of next month to keep that school open

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Speaker 2: through the end of the academic year. Graduates in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six facing the grimmest job market in years.

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Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence could reshape work, but for now, a low, higher,

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Speaker 1: low fire job market is the main obstacle for young

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Speaker 1: people seeking employment.

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Speaker 7: Companies are being more cautious about the amount of hires.

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Speaker 7: They're also taking longer to hire.

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Speaker 1: Robert Half employment expert Ken Garstein had some positive news

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Speaker 1: for young graduates.

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Speaker 7: We're seeing a lot of hiring with professional services firms, finance,

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Speaker 7: real estate, law.

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Speaker 1: And regarding AI. So far, so good.

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Speaker 7: We're just not seeing AI impacting these entry level jobs,

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Speaker 7: just quite yet.

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Speaker 1: Stephan Kaufman CBS News.

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Speaker 2: There's a new national survey out and it shows a

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Speaker 2: lot of us here in Massachusetts are boards.

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Speaker 8: Massachusetts ranked six in the nation for the most residents

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Speaker 8: feeling stuck in a boredom loop. What do you think?

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Speaker 7: I don't think so, No, not bord.

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Speaker 6: Does that surprise you.

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Speaker 5: SA, Yeah, I can't figure it. Out because they're not

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Speaker 5: looking around.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's plenty to do.

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Speaker 8: To escape the boredom, people are turning to their cell phones,

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Speaker 8: Massachusetts ranking number two in the nation for that, with

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Speaker 8: seventy percent of those surveys saying they scroll on their

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Speaker 8: phone set several times a day. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of.

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Speaker 2: People are on their phones. Yeah, definitely. We have two.

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Speaker 7: Teenagers and that's what they do.

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Speaker 2: They're always on the phone and then get outside.

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Speaker 7: I mean, look, how wonderful this is.

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Speaker 8: And sixty percent of Massachusetts residencey life feels repetitive. That

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Speaker 8: ranks fourth highest in the nation. From Newbury Ports Sherry

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