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

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Speaker 2: Thirty six degrees and sunny in Boston at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Thank you for joining us. I'm Kyle Bray

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Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. We start on Capitol Hill, where

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Speaker 2: Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing lawmakers at a House

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Speaker 2: Judiciary hearing. In her opening statement, Bondi defended her department's

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Speaker 2: handling of the Epstein files.

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Speaker 3: More than five hundred attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of

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Speaker 3: hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress's law.

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Speaker 3: We've released more than three million pages, including one hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty thousand images, all to the public while doing

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Speaker 3: our very best in the timeframe allotted by the legislation

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Speaker 3: to protect victims. And you brought us a victim's name

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Speaker 3: that was inadvertently released. We immediately redacted it. All members

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Speaker 3: of Congress, as you know, are invited to visit DOJ

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Speaker 3: to see for yourself.

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Speaker 2: And one of the lawmakers who has taken the Justice

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Speaker 2: Department up on that offer is at today's hearing. Rory

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Speaker 2: O'Neal has more.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Jamie Raskin has seen some of the unredacted Epstein

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Speaker 1: files and tells Axios that when he searched for Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's name, it came up more than one million times.

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Speaker 1: Raskin said he couldn't confirm that every search result was

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Speaker 1: about Trump specifically. He added that the three million documents

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Speaker 1: the administration has not publicly released are the ones he'd

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Speaker 1: like to see. President Trump has denied any wrongdoing in

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Speaker 1: his association with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm Rory O'Neil.

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Speaker 2: We're getting more details about why the airspace over l

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Speaker 2: Passo was abruptly closed last night and just as quickly

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Speaker 2: reopened this morning. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA

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Speaker 2: in Defense Department acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion,

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Speaker 2: and adds that this thread has now been neutralized. There

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Speaker 2: are still a lot of questions here. Duffy didn't give

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Speaker 2: any details on how many drones were involved or how

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Speaker 2: they were specifically neutralized. Last night, the FAA said the

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Speaker 2: airspace would be closed for ten days, but flights have

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Speaker 2: now resumed this morning. A new report is showing that

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Speaker 2: many Americans are still struggling when it comes to paying

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Speaker 2: the bills. The New York Fed says that the debt

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Speaker 2: level has reached record amounts, as US household debt reaches

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Speaker 2: a total of eighteen point eight trillion dollars. ABC's Rebecca

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Speaker 2: Jarvis with the latest.

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Speaker 4: Credit card debt alone, and this is the tough one

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Speaker 4: because it has such a huge APR is now at

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Speaker 4: one point three trillion dollars, and it's a warning sign

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Speaker 4: that more borrowers are now late on making their payments.

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Speaker 4: Bank of America data shows a widening gap in card spending.

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Speaker 4: Higher income households are spending a lot more than lower

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Speaker 4: income households on non essential categories beyond grow tries and gas,

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Speaker 4: and more young Americans are also following, falling behind on

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Speaker 4: student loan payments.

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Speaker 2: The report shows that student loan delinquencies have risen to

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Speaker 2: a rate of nine point six percent, while mortgage delinquencies

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Speaker 2: have also grown in lower income areas. It's time now

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Speaker 2: for the four day wbz ACU weather forecast. Today, we're

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Speaker 2: going to see intervals of sun and clouds. It will

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Speaker 2: be breezy, will have a high close to forty. Today

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Speaker 2: will be partly to mostly cloudy. We'll have a low

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Speaker 2: of twenty seven. Tomorrow, breezy with intervals of clouds and

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Speaker 2: sun again, we'll have a high of thirty seven, warming

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Speaker 2: up a little bit. On Friday, we'll have a high

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Speaker 2: of thirty nine, getting really close to forty. We'll have

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Speaker 2: more sun than clouds throughout Friday, though, and as we

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Speaker 2: start the weekend on Saturday, it will be mostly sunny,

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Speaker 2: will have highs near forty on Sunday. Will be watching

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Speaker 2: a storm to our south that may come close enough

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Speaker 2: to us to give us some snow or mixed precipitation

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night and potentially on Monday. Right now in Boston,

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Speaker 2: it is mostly sunny with some clouds and thirty six degrees.

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Speaker 2: Road safety and privacy bump up against each other in

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Speaker 2: a bill to introduce traffic cameras in Massachusetts. Wbz's Hyle

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Speaker 2: Shaffle as more.

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Speaker 5: State Senator Will Brownsburger says, famously aggressive Massachusetts drivers need

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Speaker 5: to be kept in check.

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Speaker 2: And that's a traffic houser for everybody, for drivers, for pedestrians,

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Speaker 2: for cyclists.

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Speaker 5: His bill to let towns and cities install speed and

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Speaker 5: red light cams and give out tickets is getting traction

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Speaker 5: pedestrian groups are strongly in favor, and he says this

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Speaker 5: will save lives, but some are also concerned about constant

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Speaker 5: surveillance and cameras taking over all public spaces.

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Speaker 2: There's cameras all over the place, and I do understand

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Speaker 2: people's concern about that, but this really doesn't make much difference.

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Speaker 5: He says. These cameras will only capture the rear of

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Speaker 5: cars and can only be used for this specific purpose.

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Speaker 2: These cameras are only going to take a picture when

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Speaker 2: there's a violation.

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Speaker 5: Cities, towns, and vendors are prohibited from using the photos

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Speaker 5: for anything else, but there's no enforcement mechanism in the law.

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Speaker 5: Camera signs will also be required.

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Speaker 2: We want people to know that the camera's there.

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shaffle, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: The Senator says the bill will also prevent towns from

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Speaker 2: abusing the cameras to get more revenue from tickets. The

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Speaker 2: FDA is refusing to review a new flu vaccine created

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Speaker 2: by Cambridge based Maderna. The decision came down last week

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Speaker 2: after regulators objected to how the company conducted its clinical trial.

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Speaker 2: The trial compared the shot to a standard dose of

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Speaker 2: the seasonal flu shot. The FDA says that it should

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Speaker 2: have been compared against a high dose version instead. Maderna

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Speaker 2: called the decision surprising, saying that the FDA had already

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Speaker 2: allowed them to conduct the study that way. The decision

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Speaker 2: comes at a time when federal regulators have shown skepticism

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Speaker 2: and rolled back recommendations on mRNA vaccines. A meeting is

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Speaker 2: about to get underway at the White House between President

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Speaker 2: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netsanyahu. CBS's Lynda Kenyon

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Speaker 2: has more.

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Speaker 6: White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt says the two will

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Speaker 6: discuss a range of issues, while the Prime Minister says

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Speaker 6: first and foremost, he plans to focus on Iran. The

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Speaker 6: meeting comes days after Iran and the US held talks

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Speaker 6: in Oman to discuss Iran's nuclear program, with more talks expected.

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Speaker 6: At the same time, President Trump is ordered a US

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Speaker 6: military build up in the region, while Iran continues its

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Speaker 6: crackdown on anti government protesters. Linda Kenyon CBS News the

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Speaker 6: White House.

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Speaker 2: You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout

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