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

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Speaker 2: Forty nine degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock, a mix

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Speaker 2: of sun and clouds out there on this Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 2: Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's

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Speaker 2: what's happening. Day twenty eight of the government shutdown, and

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Speaker 2: food aid for tens of millions of Americans, including about

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Speaker 2: a million here in Massachusetts, is hanging in the balance.

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Speaker 2: USDA confirming SNAP benefits are not coming out on November first.

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Speaker 2: Here's ABC Stephen Portnit.

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Speaker 3: Members of both parties have proposed what have been called

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Speaker 3: rifle shot bills to pay specific groups of federal workers

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Speaker 3: or fund certain programs like SNAP food assistants, but Senate

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Speaker 3: Majority Leader John Thune says he's not interested, pointing to

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Speaker 3: the need for all government agencies to be funded and

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Speaker 3: a House past mechanism that would do it. Democrats, who

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Speaker 3: are focused on increasing costs in the healthcare exchanges, have

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Speaker 3: shown no signs of caving, even as the largest government

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Speaker 3: workers union urges an mediate in the shutdown.

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Speaker 2: Now, the lapse in SNAP assistance is expected to affect

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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people again right here in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: including in Mathuin, where wbz's James Rojas reports people are

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Speaker 2: getting ready.

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Speaker 1: The Mathuin Central fire Station is one of eight locations

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Speaker 1: around the city collecting food. Already, two large cardboard boxes

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Speaker 1: contain food like dry mac and cheese, baking, mixed apple, juice,

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Speaker 1: and other non perishables. Jason lives in Methuen and as

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Speaker 1: glad the city is stepping up as it looks like

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Speaker 1: SNAP assistants will be cut off soon. I did not

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Speaker 1: know that they were doing that.

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Speaker 2: That actually makes me a lot happier knowing that my

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Speaker 2: at least the community I live in, somebody is stepping

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Speaker 2: up and doing the job that they're supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: The donated food will be distributed starting November first to

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Speaker 1: anyone who can show they were receiving SNAP assistants or

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Speaker 1: veterans benefits. The city says over ten thousand residents depend

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Speaker 1: on SNAP, nearly twenty percents of its population. In Methwin.

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Speaker 1: James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: New information is out today about what was discovered on

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Speaker 2: former state police and investigator Michael Procter's personal cell phone.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors with the Norfolk County DA's office say they found

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Speaker 2: images of quote intimate body parts as part of a chat,

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Speaker 2: including highly sensitive information. The filing says the chat also

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Speaker 2: included the name of someone who had been sexually assaulted,

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Speaker 2: Facebook screenshots, and other personal info of people not in

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Speaker 2: the chat. Lawyers for defendants in cases connected to Proctor

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Speaker 2: will get a copy of everything on the phone. They

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Speaker 2: will not, though be able to share it with their clients.

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Speaker 2: Those lawyers have demanded access to Procter's phone and other

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Speaker 2: devices in the wake of the Karen Reid case, in

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Speaker 2: which Proctor was forced to read derogatory texte sent about

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Speaker 2: her on the stand. And before we take a look

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Speaker 2: at traffic, the US has carried out three more strikes

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Speaker 2: on suspected drug boats. Defend Secretary Pete Hegsath says the

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Speaker 2: latest strikes were carried out in the Eastern Pacific. Fourteen

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Speaker 2: people were killed, only one person survived. The US has

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Speaker 2: been striking alleged drug boats for weeks now, but this

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Speaker 2: is the first time that multiple strikes have been announced

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Speaker 2: in one day. The Trump administration is just buying the

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Speaker 2: strikes by declaring drug cartels to be unlawful combatants. Critics

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Speaker 2: say the strikes are extra judicial murders. It's going to

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Speaker 2: be one of those days where we could have some

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Speaker 2: showers out there again today if you're in southeastern Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: I expected on the Cape and Islands, getting toward the

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Speaker 2: south coast south shore, you could see occasional sprinkles and showers,

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Speaker 2: but nothing too intensive. Right now, we have some clouds

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Speaker 2: and a bit of sun peeking through in Boston and

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Speaker 2: some sunny skies. As you make your way further to

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Speaker 2: the west, looking at Springfield and getting out there toward

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Speaker 2: Orange and North Adams, you're seeing more sun than we

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Speaker 2: are here on the coast now. For today, we have

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Speaker 2: a high in the mid fifties, and the breeze will

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Speaker 2: stick around as well, gusting on the coast up to

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Speaker 2: about twenty five miles an hour. For tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy,

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Speaker 2: little bit of drizzle overnight, mostly from the city on

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Speaker 2: south toward the Cape. Low just about forty five in Boston,

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Speaker 2: forty inland. Than for tomorrow, mostly cloudy, breezy, occasional drizzle,

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Speaker 2: much like today, with a high near fifty five. Thursday, cloudy, windy,

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Speaker 2: occasional rain and drizzle, high in the mid fifties, then

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Speaker 2: we're watching a coastal storm that could come in on

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Speaker 2: Thursday night, heavy rain, at times very windy, and it

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Speaker 2: will likely move out before trick or treating on Fridays.

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Speaker 2: That is, of course what we want to know. Will

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Speaker 2: the candy get soggy? We can't have that, so we'll

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Speaker 2: keep you posted on WBZ. Right now, in Beverly, cloudy

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Speaker 2: in forty six degrees fifty one and cloudy in Marshfield,

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Speaker 2: west of Boston forty seven. In Lemonster, mostly sunny, and

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Speaker 2: in Boston right now it is mostly cloudy at eleven

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Speaker 2: oh six and forty seven degrees. A bill regarding early

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Speaker 2: elementary school literacy is off to a full House vote

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Speaker 2: on Beacon Hill.

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Speaker 4: I am thrilled I came and spoke before the Education

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Speaker 4: Committee because this is such an important topic.

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Speaker 5: Donnoughayer is a second grade teacher at Newton Center. She's

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Speaker 5: happy to see that the House bill on early Literacy

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Speaker 5: Education and teacher Preparation is expected to go up for

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Speaker 5: a vote in the full House on Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: I happen to work in a district where we have

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Speaker 4: embraced the science of reading.

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Speaker 5: The bill would return reading education statewide to evidence based

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Speaker 5: phonics learning instead of memorization and picture word Association. State

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Speaker 5: Representative Ken Gordon.

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Speaker 6: States, like Mississippi and Louisiana their scores of reason by

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Speaker 6: about ten or eleven percent as ours have fault. So

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Speaker 6: what they did was they adopted the science of reading.

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Speaker 6: They adopted this literacy program that we believe is best

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Speaker 6: suited for our students.

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Speaker 5: From the State House, Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: And for the first time in Boston history, tonight, the

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Speaker 2: mayor is giving a state of the school's address. Mayor

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Speaker 2: Michelle Woo's office says she'll deliver the speech at the

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Speaker 2: Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown starting at seven o'clock tonight.

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Speaker 2: She'll use the speech to talk about ambitious goals for

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Speaker 2: the district, plans for progress, and kudos for the city's educators.

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Speaker 2: She's also getting ready to set high standards for academics,

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Speaker 2: and that is noteworthy as the district's recent standardized testing

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Speaker 2: results show that students are still struggling to recover from

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Speaker 2: COVID learning loss. And before we go, take a look

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Speaker 2: at Bloomberg business, The state of Texas is suing the

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Speaker 2: makers of Thailand all over the drug supposed autism risk.

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Speaker 2: Texas Attorney General Ken Pexton accusing Johnson and Johnson and

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Speaker 2: ken View of hiding a link between tailan al and

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Speaker 2: autism and ADHD. This comes weeks after the President went

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Speaker 2: on national TV and claimed taking a seat of minafine

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Speaker 2: during pregnancy could cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Medical groups around the

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Speaker 2: country have broadly rejected the claim, as have the companies

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Speaker 2: behind that drug. You are now in the loop. For

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