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

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Speaker 2: News forty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Sausville. Here's what's going on. It's do or

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Speaker 2: die for the New England Patriots as they take on

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Speaker 2: the LA Chargers tonight in Foxborough. Wbz's James Rojas spoke

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Speaker 2: with fans.

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Speaker 3: The only thing hotter than the griddle here at South

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Speaker 3: Street Diner is the passion of Patriots fans going into

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Speaker 3: tonight's wild Card game. Go Patriots, I think we're gonna

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Speaker 3: win it. New England is favored by three and a

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Speaker 3: half points over the LA Chargers. I think the Patriots

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Speaker 3: are gonna win by at least two scores, maybe like

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Speaker 3: ten to fourteen. I think they're rocket. They're at home.

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Speaker 3: It's going well, and Drake Evy is the truth. Now,

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Speaker 3: Drake may may be the truth, but it's also his

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Speaker 3: playoff debut. Fans, however, are sure he'll be able to

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Speaker 3: shake off any nerves. I think he just keeps doing

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Speaker 3: what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: He's got He's got the talent and the ability and

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Speaker 1: the team support around him, So just keep doing what

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Speaker 1: he's doing.

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Speaker 3: At South Street diner James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: One man is in the hospital and another is arrested

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Speaker 2: after a fight during yesterday's Bruins game. Boston Police responded

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Speaker 2: at around three o'clock to a report of a man

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Speaker 2: who had fallen in the balcony level. The victim was

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Speaker 2: taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. Police

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Speaker 2: say his injury stemmed from an altercation with another person

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Speaker 2: who was taken into custody. It's unclear what led to

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Speaker 2: the fight or what charges the suspect faces. With massive

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Speaker 2: protests happening right now in Iran, we asked a local

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Speaker 2: politics professor to weigh in. Wbz's Hyles Schaffel reports.

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Speaker 4: Civil unrest in Iran has gripped the world's attention, especially

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Speaker 4: on reports that the rule and powers there have begne

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Speaker 4: firing live rounds on protesters. BC political science professor Ali

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Speaker 4: Banuazizi says it boils down to economics.

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Speaker 3: And it began in a relatively conservative part of the

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Speaker 3: Iranian society named the markets.

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Speaker 4: Over the years, the US and other sanctions have crippled

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Speaker 4: the Iranian economy. That monetary uncertainty is finally boiled over

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Speaker 4: sending people out into the streets. As an example, before

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Speaker 4: the revolution in nineteen seventy nine, one US dollar was

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Speaker 4: worth around seventy Iranian reals, and now one dollar is

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Speaker 4: worth almost one point five million reals. What happens next

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Speaker 4: is anyone's guest.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe that the regime is about to collapse.

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Speaker 5: No that, he says.

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Speaker 4: The situation is made significantly more volatile by the brutal

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Speaker 4: government response, the current telecom blackout, and the fact that

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Speaker 4: the opposition movement has no specific leader. Kyle Schaffel WZ

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Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Tayron is warning the US that it will target American

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Speaker 2: military bases and Israel if it intervenes to protect demonstrators.

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Speaker 2: According to the Human rights activist News Agency, the death

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Speaker 2: toll has surpassed five hundred people, with more than ten

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Speaker 2: thousand others detained. The forecast a rain or snowshower in

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Speaker 2: spots tonight, especially well inland, otherwise partly cloudy and windy,

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Speaker 2: with a low of twenty eight, mostly sunny Tomorrow, windy

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Speaker 2: with a high of thirty nine. Partly sunny on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: with the high of forty four. On Wednesday, mostly cloudy,

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Speaker 2: high near fifty degrees looking ahead. A rain or snowshower

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Speaker 2: possible on Thursday, with highs in the mid forties. Right

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Speaker 2: now in Boston, it's partly cloudy and forty three degrees.

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Speaker 2: Public schools in the Bay State continue to experience a

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Speaker 2: significant decline in student enrollment. Wbz's Charlie burs are on

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Speaker 2: with details.

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Speaker 5: Schools across Massachusetts have seen the decrease of more than

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Speaker 5: fifteen thousand students in just twenty twenty four and twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty five alone. The state's nine largest districts all losing students.

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Speaker 5: The globe reporting overall enrollment is at its lowest level

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Speaker 5: now in thirty years. As an example, sixty three thousand

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Speaker 5: students attended Boston public schools in two thousand. In spite

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Speaker 5: of the population of the city increasing, the number of

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Speaker 5: students has dwindled down to about forty six thousand this year.

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Speaker 5: Fewer students also means fewer dollars in state assistants. The

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Speaker 5: decline blamed in part on the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown.

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Speaker 5: In Massachusetts, lower birth rates than the cost of living

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Speaker 5: in the Bay State also contributors. Fall river among the

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Speaker 5: few school districts reporting an increase in student enrollment. Charlie

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Speaker 5: Birger on WBZ Boston's news.

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Speaker 2: Radio, Wilmingham police make an arrest in a fake gold scam.

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Speaker 2: WBZ Sherry Small has details.

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Speaker 6: Last year, the price of gold rose by around sixty

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Speaker 6: five percent, making it an attractive investment and apparently also

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Speaker 6: making it attractive to scammers. Dracott Mann was arrested in

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Speaker 6: alleged social media scam where he sold fake gold. Investigators

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Speaker 6: say a victim responded to a Facebook marketplace listing for

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Speaker 6: what was claimed to be an authentic one ounce gold bar.

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Speaker 6: The victim paid over four thousand dollars for it. From

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Speaker 6: the picture police posted, it looks authentic with all the

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Speaker 6: official looking markings and precise measurements you would expect. The

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Speaker 6: victim later learned that the bar was a fake. Following

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Speaker 6: an investigation, police arrested a twenty one year old Keano

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Speaker 6: Ashtarzada of Draca. He's been arranged on larceny, identity fraud,

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Speaker 6: and witness intimidation charges. Sherry Small WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: A five year old girl has died from injuries suffered

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Speaker 2: in a New Year's Day fire in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 2: State Fire officials say the child was found in a

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Speaker 2: fourth floor bedroom in an apartment on Union Street. She

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Speaker 2: was hospitalized in critical condition for about a week, but

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Speaker 2: was pronounced dead on Wednesday. A seventy year old man

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Speaker 2: also died in the fire, and six other people were injured.

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Speaker 2: The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation, but

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Speaker 2: officials don't believe it to be suspicious. Many victims of

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Speaker 2: the southern California wildfires are still trying to cope with

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Speaker 2: the grief. A year later.

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Speaker 1: Donnie Kinsey says he has struggled mentally since losing his

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Speaker 1: home in Altadena.

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Speaker 7: I've seen too much. That night was just way too much.

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Speaker 7: I don't really have any hopes for things anymore. This

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Speaker 7: has kind of driven it out of me, from insurance

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Speaker 7: issues to price gouging.

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Speaker 1: Trauma therapist Melissa Lopez also lost her home to the

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Speaker 1: Eden fire.

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Speaker 7: A year for a tragedy of this level, like people

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Speaker 7: are just supposed to be okay, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: She's been reaching out to Altadena's community of color, where

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Speaker 1: she says mental health challenges haven't always been openly discussed

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Speaker 1: or treated. Michael Wallace CBS News.

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

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