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Speaker 1: Well, this is w BZY, Boston's news radio Rea defining local.

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Speaker 2: News, sun and clouds in Boston. It's forty degrees on

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Speaker 2: Friday afternoon at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Nicole Davis.

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Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. In a matter of hours. The Department

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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security is set to shut down as Congress

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Speaker 2: was not able to come to an agreement on keeping

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Speaker 2: it funded. Congress has gone for the holiday weekend, so

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Speaker 2: nothing will be done until after the holiday. Senate Democrats

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Speaker 2: voting earlier this week to block a funding bill, saying

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Speaker 2: it did not meet their demands, which include, among other things,

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Speaker 2: stronger warrants for an arrest and a ban on agents

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Speaker 2: wearing a mask.

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Speaker 3: President Trump indicated he will get involved in negotiations over

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Speaker 3: funding for the Department of Homeland Security, but he wouldn't

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Speaker 3: say specifically where he sees room for compromise. Instead, the

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Speaker 3: President touted his support for law enforcement.

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Speaker 4: You always have to protect our law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: They've done a great job.

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Speaker 3: Earlier Friday, pre Secretary Caroline Levitt said the White House

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Speaker 3: has been engaged in negotiations with Democrats over immigration enforcement,

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Speaker 3: including sending counter proposals and legislative text to Capitol Hill,

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Speaker 3: Karen Travers, ABC News the White House.

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Speaker 2: Days after walking off the Super Bowl field in California,

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Speaker 2: Patriots wide receiver Stefan Diggs walked into the Dedham Courthouse

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Speaker 2: this morning to answer to serious charges.

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Speaker 4: A day in court for Stefan Diggs is over and

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Speaker 4: done in less than a minute. The Patriots wide receiver

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Speaker 4: pleads not guilty to domestic violence charges during a fight

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Speaker 4: with his personal chef over pay back in December. Diggs,

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Speaker 4: who's now free on his own recognissance, is ordered to

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Speaker 4: stay away from the woman and told to come back

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Speaker 4: to court for a pre trial hearing that's scheduled for April.

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Speaker 1: First.

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Speaker 4: Matt Phipps w BZ Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: And right now we're watching developing news as the State

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Speaker 2: Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries around the country to

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Speaker 2: stop taking passport applications. The agency started to send out

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Speaker 2: cease and desist order's late last fall, but those orders

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Speaker 2: are officially going into effect as of today. He orders

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Speaker 2: say these nonprofit libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing

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Speaker 2: fees under federal rules. Several members of Congress are pushing

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Speaker 2: back in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Speaker 2: They call the change abrupt. This does not impact government

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Speaker 2: run libraries. State officials in Massachusetts condemning the move yesterday

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Speaker 2: by the Trump administration to deregulate greenhouse gases. They say

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Speaker 2: this will undo a major tool that protects public health. Now,

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Speaker 2: the state of California is teaming up with environmental groups

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Speaker 2: to sue.

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Speaker 5: President Trump says the rollback will save Americans money.

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Speaker 6: This action will eliminate over one point three trillion dollars

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Speaker 6: of regulatory costs and help bring cough prices tumbling down dramatically.

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Speaker 5: California Governor Gavin Newsom is promising a legal challenge, as

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Speaker 5: is the environmental group Earth Justice, whose senior attorney Marvin

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Speaker 5: Brown says the repeal will increase pollution from cars and trucks.

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly dangerous.

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Speaker 5: We're talking about people's lives here, Michael Wallace, CBS News.

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Speaker 2: And right now, looking at the forecast, looking like a

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Speaker 2: phenomenal weekend, stellar, whatever you want to say. We have

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Speaker 2: a long weekend. Of course, we've got school vacation week

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Speaker 2: coming up, and Valentine's Day is starting it all off tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: But for tonight, we're gonna have a couple of flurries late,

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Speaker 2: especially well Inland, but here in the Boston area, just

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Speaker 2: some starlit skies and a couple of clouds from time

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Speaker 2: to time. Alone near twenty for Tomorrow, partly to mostly

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Speaker 2: sunny and a high year forty. Mostly clear Tomorrow night

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Speaker 2: low near twenty, and then a mix of sun and

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Speaker 2: clouds on Sunday, a high in the mid thirties. We

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Speaker 2: were watching a storm to potentially come in late on

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Speaker 2: Sunday through Monday that will likely be missing us. We

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Speaker 2: will see plenty of clouds in the morning on Monday,

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Speaker 2: but then we'll see late day sun and a high

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Speaker 2: in the mid to upper thirties. Our temperature's out there

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Speaker 2: right now, relatively mild. If you're by the coast right

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Speaker 2: now in Marshfield, it's thirty nine north of Boston. In Gloucester,

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Speaker 2: we're at thirty eight west of the city. In Auburn,

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Speaker 2: it's thirty six in Boston right now at four oh five,

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Speaker 2: it's mostly sunny and forty one degrees well. The Boston

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Speaker 2: Public Library is featuring an interactive exhibit for Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 2: If you go in the library, there's a red phone

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Speaker 2: booth there where lovers and the lonely alike can leave

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Speaker 2: messages and questions for a popular newspaper advice columnist. It's

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Speaker 2: on wbz's Mike Maclin to go check it out.

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Speaker 6: Coarina Davis entered the red frame glass and closed booth

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Speaker 6: in the lobby of the library and left a message

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Speaker 6: for Globe Advice column its membered of the Goldstein Reli.

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Speaker 7: I just asked like a question about like being young

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Speaker 7: and in a city. So we'll see what she has

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Speaker 6: Some advice, ask a question, voice, aggrievance, whatever, you.

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Speaker 7: Could just talk about yourself, your feelings, and it's really

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Speaker 7: just like a one end line for you to get

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Speaker 7: out whatever you're thinking about.

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Speaker 6: Karina had a question about what's next for her.

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Speaker 7: I'm leaving Boston, which is what I'm stepping into like

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Speaker 7: a new experience in my life.

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Speaker 6: Did you get any advice about that?

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Speaker 7: Well, I think I have to go back to the

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Speaker 7: column to see what she has to say.

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Speaker 6: Time will tell if love awaits, Carina will spend this

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Speaker 6: Valentine's Day her sister. Mike Macklin w Z Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Now, of course it's Friday, the thirteenth. Then you don't

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Speaker 2: usually think of lovey dovey snugly vibes on a day

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Speaker 2: like this, but this year is it's the lead up

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Speaker 2: to Valentine's Day. Tattoo lovers have a very unique opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Each Friday the thirteenth, most tattoo shops will offer what's

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Speaker 1: called flash tattoos, basically simple, less expensive tattoos, usually related

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Speaker 1: to the spooky date, but this year it falls just

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Speaker 1: before Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 8: This is the first time it's ever happened that I've

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Speaker 8: worked in the tattoo industry.

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Speaker 1: That's Corney Warnick, manager at Boston Barber and Tattoo Company

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Speaker 1: in the North End. This rare alignment creates a unique

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Speaker 1: opportunity for those wanting fresh ink.

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Speaker 8: We have some lockets that you're able to customize the

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Speaker 8: initials in, so if there's a specific somebody that you

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Speaker 8: want to get the design for, you can put their

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Speaker 8: initial in hearts. We tried to think about everything that

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Speaker 8: we could.

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Speaker 1: There are also blends of spooky and lovey dovey. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: that love last rever too, yes, hopefully In the North End.

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Speaker 1: James Oha WBZ, Boston's News Radio, Other news.

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Speaker 2: At four o seven. Harvard says a new lawsuit filed

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Speaker 2: against it by the Justice Department is retaliatory. In this

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Speaker 2: new suit, the DOJ claims the school is holding back

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Speaker 2: in missions data from the FEDS as it tries to

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Speaker 2: carry out a civil rights probe. The lawsuit says the

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Speaker 2: government must see the data to find out if Harvard

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Speaker 2: is still using race as a factor in admissions, which

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Speaker 2: they say would violate a Supreme Court decision that removed

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Speaker 2: affirmative action in college admissions. Harvard telling WBZ it's committed

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Speaker 2: to following the law, it has been responding to inquiries

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Speaker 2: in good faith, and the school will continue to defend

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Speaker 2: itself as it refuses to surrender its independence in response

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Speaker 2: to what it calls unlawful government overreach. You are now

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Speaker 2: in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen

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Speaker 2: to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis,

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