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

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Speaker 2: Right now in Boston. It's raining, it's foggy at eleven

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Speaker 2: o'clock where at fifty three degrees. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis.

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Speaker 2: Here is what's happening at eleven o'clock starting this hour

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Speaker 2: of the Supreme Court. They have just rejected a call

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Speaker 2: to overturn their landmark decision legalizing same sex marriage. The

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Speaker 2: case was brought by Kim Davis, a former county clerk

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Speaker 2: in Kentucky. Years ago, she was fined for refusing to

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Speaker 2: issue marriage licenses after the Obergefel v. Hodges case was

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Speaker 2: first decided. Meantime, the Supreme Court also saying today it

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Speaker 2: will consider a case revolving around whether or not mail

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Speaker 2: in ballots that arrive after election day can actually be counted.

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Speaker 2: That case will be argued early next year. A ruling

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Speaker 2: could come down early enough to apply to the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six midterms. Speaking of Washington, the government is one

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Speaker 2: step close to reopening this morning. Last night, the Senate

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Speaker 2: voting to start debate on a funding bill that, if passed,

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Speaker 2: would end the shutdown, which is the longest ever in

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Speaker 2: American history. Here's ABC Stephen Portnite.

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Speaker 1: A lot still has to happen before the shutdown ends.

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Speaker 3: The Senate has to take several more votes to assert

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Speaker 3: new language, and a House passed bill to restore funding

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Speaker 3: to agencies through the end of January. That new language

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Speaker 3: would also require the reversal of any layoffs conducted by

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Speaker 3: the administration through the shutdown. Once that bill passes the Senate,

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Speaker 3: the House would have to come back to DC to

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Speaker 3: vote on it to send it to the President's desk.

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Speaker 3: His signature would end the shutdown.

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Speaker 2: Now, a group of more moderate Democrats, including New Hampshire

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Speaker 2: and Main Democrats, made some concessions to make that vote

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Speaker 2: happen last night. That has been upsetting two more progressive Democrats.

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Speaker 2: We're still holding up for discussions on expiring health insurance subsidies.

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Speaker 2: At eleven oh one. Massachusetts and almost two dozen other

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Speaker 2: states have now filed for a brand new restraining order

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Speaker 2: against the Trump administration. This after the White House demanded

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Speaker 2: some states undue SNAP payments that went out over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration has been pushing back against fully funding

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Speaker 2: SNAP during the shutdown. Just this morning, it has once

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Speaker 2: again asked the Supreme court to keep those payments on hold,

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Speaker 2: and on Saturday, Massachusetts and some other states announced SNAP

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Speaker 2: recipients had received their funds. The Trump administration ordered states

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Speaker 2: to claw those funds back. This new motion for a

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Speaker 2: restraining order says that demand puts an impossible burden on states.

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Speaker 2: And in other news, Glaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and

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Speaker 2: co conspirator to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is

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Speaker 2: apparently planning moves to try to get out of prison early.

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Speaker 1: An investigation by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats says Glaine Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co conspirator, is planning to apply

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Speaker 1: for a commutation of her federal prison term, which is

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Speaker 1: set to run through twenty thirty seven. That same investigation

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Speaker 1: by the Judiciary Committee Democrats is questioning whether federal law

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Speaker 1: enforcement is also giving Maxwell preferred treatment in her federal

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Speaker 1: lock up.

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Speaker 2: Not update. They're from CBS's Scott MacFarlane in Washington. A

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Speaker 2: lot of fog out there, especially right there in southeastern Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: and many areas of visibility down to about a half

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Speaker 2: to even a quarter of a mile in some spots.

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Speaker 2: Pretty humid and sticky in parts of the state, and

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Speaker 2: we are seeing temperatures in the fifties if you're in

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Speaker 2: southeastern Massachusetts, forties for the rest of us, a couple

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Speaker 2: of fifties in the Springfield area getting up to about

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Speaker 2: the mid to upper fifties today with again periods of rain.

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Speaker 2: Some fog will be out there for much of the day,

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Speaker 2: and then for tonight we wrap up the showers early

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Speaker 2: we should have some clearing. Thing is with this storm

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Speaker 2: system that's coming through right now, this cold front, we've

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Speaker 2: got a lot of really chilly air behind it. We're

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Speaker 2: talking kind of winter like feel. So we have a

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Speaker 2: load tonight about thirty two thirty three degrees right on

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Speaker 2: the coast, and we've got the upper twenties for a

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Speaker 2: low inland for tomorrow, blustery mix of sunning clouds. Make

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Speaker 2: sure you know where your ice scraper is tonight for

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Speaker 2: the morning tomorrow, hein you're forty or so, and we've

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Speaker 2: got real field tenths closer to thirty for pretty much

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Speaker 2: the entire day. When day more of the same, mostly cloudy, breezy,

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Speaker 2: and we've got a high in the mid forties right now,

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Speaker 2: seeing some rain in Marlborough forty seven degrees north of Boston.

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Speaker 2: It's reigning in Amesbury forty six south of Boston right now,

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Speaker 2: we've got clouds in New Bedford, fifty nine in Boston

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Speaker 2: at eleven oh five foggy and rainy, and we're at

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Speaker 2: fifty three to the south coast now where we have

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Speaker 2: learned about a massive drug bust at the Bristol County

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Speaker 2: Jail in North Dartmouth. Wbz's Jabilllette reports this could be

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Speaker 2: the biggest alleged employee bust in the jail's history.

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Speaker 4: A former employee at the Bristol County Jail is charged

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Speaker 4: and accused of working with at least four co conspirators

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Speaker 4: in a drug smuggling ring at the jail in House

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Speaker 4: of Correction. The sting operation, nicknamed Operation fish Hook, centered

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Speaker 4: around Ginger Hook of New Bedford, who worked in the

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Speaker 4: jail's library services. Officials say she resigned in July of

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Speaker 4: this year when confronted with accusations that she had been

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Speaker 4: working with an inmate and two former prisoners to smuggle

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Speaker 4: in synthetic marijuana or K two by infusing the substance

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Speaker 4: with pay and disguising it as legal work. Prosecutors say

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Speaker 4: they raided Hook's desk and found sixty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: worth of drug infused paper. Jawill ed WBZ, Boston's news radio, and.

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Speaker 2: The state's governing board on cannabis could take a vote

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Speaker 2: before Christmas when it comes to new regulations for social consumption.

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Speaker 2: Back in July, the Cannabis Control Commission laid out three

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Speaker 2: different types of these licenses. One would be for occasional

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Speaker 2: events like parties or weddings, another for existing marijuana shops

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Speaker 2: and facilities that want to open up areas for customers

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Speaker 2: to take part on site. And then a third would

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Speaker 2: be a hospitality category imagine taking partaking in places like

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Speaker 2: yoga studios or at a festival. The concept of social

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Speaker 2: consumption sites was part of the original law legalizing recreational

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Speaker 2: pot in twenty sixteen. Getting those sites going, though, has

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Speaker 2: stalled out several times over the past few years, and

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Speaker 2: Boston Mayor Michelle wou is over the northern border today

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Speaker 2: in Canada. She's the first sitting Boston mayor to go

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Speaker 2: to Nova Scotia to take part in the tree cut

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Speaker 2: ceremony for the Tree for Boston. You know, each year

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Speaker 2: Nova Scotia sends Boston a tree for Christmas. It's a

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Speaker 2: thank you gift for Boston's help after the devastating nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventeen explosion in Halifax. While she's there, Mayor Wu is

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Speaker 2: said to meet with the Mayor of Halifax. She'll tour

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Speaker 2: the city's health innovation Hub and meet with other business

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Speaker 2: leaders as well. Mayor Wu is going to be in

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Speaker 2: Canada till Wednesday with her family. Acting Mayor is City

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Speaker 2: Council President Ruth zie Luis. Jane, you are now in

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Speaker 2: the league. For news updates throughout the day, listen to

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