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

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Speaker 2: We defining local news.

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Speaker 3: And it's a rainy day in Boston right now at

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Speaker 3: eleven o'clock where at fifty five degrees, it's Tuesday. Good

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Speaker 3: to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis and here's what's happening.

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Speaker 3: Contract negotiations keep going on this morning as bus drivers

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Speaker 3: in many school districts prepare for a possible strike. WBC's

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Speaker 3: James Rohas checkson from Wayland.

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Speaker 1: Ready to strike.

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Speaker 2: That's the message from the union representing thousands of bus

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Speaker 2: drivers nationwide, including those in Massachusetts and here in Whayelan.

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Speaker 2: These Metco Middle school students are just learning about it.

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Speaker 2: Do you have friends and may be impacting?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm that don't have any walse yet to school.

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Speaker 4: The MECO students would be very impacted by this because

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Speaker 4: it would be a lot harder to get to school

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Speaker 4: in the morning and after school.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, the team serves union says if a fair contract

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Speaker 2: isn't reached with first student transportation by tomorrow, drivers, monitors,

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Speaker 2: attendance and mechanics are hitting the picket line as they

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Speaker 2: demand better pay and benefits. In Whyland, James Rojas WBZ

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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: Anytime leaders in Boston or meeting today to talk about

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Speaker 3: late school buses.

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Speaker 5: Boston City councilors call an emergency meeting to discuss what

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Speaker 5: they say are excessive bus delays that the district has

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Speaker 5: seen this academic year. Officials say reports and complaints of

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Speaker 5: late buses have only persisted on one occasion. A bus

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Speaker 5: reportedly arrived more than an hour late multiple days each week.

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Speaker 5: The city council is responsible, in part to fund Boston

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Speaker 5: Public schools. The district spends nearly one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 5: million each year on student transportation. Jay Willett WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 5: News Radio at.

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Speaker 3: Eleven oh one. President Trump on social media today telling

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Speaker 3: other countries to quote go get their own oil from

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Speaker 3: the strait of horror moves. The President lashing out at

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Speaker 3: countries like the UK that haven't been willing to help

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Speaker 3: with the US and Israel's military mission, saying their allies

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Speaker 3: will have to learn how to fight for themselves. They

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Speaker 3: were not there for the United States. The impacts of

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Speaker 3: the war are growing here stateside. At the pump here.

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Speaker 4: In Massachusetts, the average price for a gallon of regular

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Speaker 4: went up two cents overnight, averaging out at three eighty

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Speaker 4: two a gallon. The most expensive average price in Massachusetts

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Speaker 4: you will find on Nantucket just shy of five bucks

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Speaker 4: for a gallon of regular settled down Whoa. The average

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Speaker 4: price at the pump nationwide stands at four dollars and

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Speaker 4: two cents. Art Hogan, chief market strategist at b Riley

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Speaker 4: Wealth Management, lesson.

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Speaker 6: Until we get more energy product coming out of the

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Speaker 6: straight our moves, we're about twenty percent of the global

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Speaker 6: energy supply flows, prices aren't going to come back there.

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Speaker 4: Simple as that long road ahead. Drew Maahall and WBZ,

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Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: And today is the Transgender Day of Visibility. It's a

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Speaker 3: day dedicated to raising awareness about discrimination and violence against

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Speaker 3: transgender people while highlighting their accomplishments and joy. Happening now

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Speaker 3: on Beacon Hill, members of the state's LGBTQ plus Legislative

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Speaker 3: Caucus are hosting a celebration This is over at the

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Speaker 3: State House with allies and advocacy groups. The Boston City

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Speaker 3: Council also opting a resolution saying they quote affirm the

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Speaker 3: right of all gender, queer, non binary, and transgender people

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Speaker 3: to live openly and express their gender freely without persecution.

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Speaker 3: A flag raising and speaking program is set for noon

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Speaker 3: in Salem at City Hall. Let's go take a look

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Speaker 3: at the forecast for the rest of the morning and afternoon.

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Speaker 3: It's been very soggy. That is an understatement out there.

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Speaker 3: We've seen quite a bit of rain today, even some

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Speaker 3: thunderstorms and downpours. We are looking at temperatures in the fifties,

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Speaker 3: if not closer to sixty in some parts of the

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Speaker 3: area that are inland, and you are still seeing some

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Speaker 3: heavy rain out there in parts of southeastern Massachusetts, I'd

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Speaker 3: say through Greater Boston as well north Shore. You're also

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Speaker 3: getting poured on in places like Saugus and over toward

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Speaker 3: Lynn and Peebety and Salem, Beverly, you're also getting heavy rain.

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Speaker 3: One of those days where we will see this subside

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Speaker 3: for a little while, but then more heavy, steady rain

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Speaker 3: will make its way in at times throughout the night.

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Speaker 3: We have a high today between sixty and sixty five.

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Speaker 3: Temperatures will fall in to the forties later on this

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Speaker 3: afternoon in the city and right along the coast for tonight, cloudy, breezy,

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Speaker 3: couple of showers and storms, a low forty and then

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Speaker 3: for tomorrow mostly cloudy, can have a couple of passing showers,

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Speaker 3: high near sixty five in Boston's seventy inland, fifties for

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Speaker 3: the capin islands, and temperatures will fall in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Then Thursday cloudy, breezy with a bit of rain in drizzle,

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Speaker 3: and we've got a high only forty fifty three and

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Speaker 3: raining right now in Danvers south of Boston, heavy rain

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Speaker 3: and Whitman fifty five west of the city, some clouds

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Speaker 3: in Hopkinton fifty eight. In Boston at eleven oh six,

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Speaker 3: it's raining and fifty five. Well, sometimes local school kids

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Speaker 3: need a lift and don't have anywhere to get it.

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Speaker 3: Wbz's Hile Shaffle reports that's where a legacy program in

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Speaker 3: Boston comes in.

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Speaker 1: Former teacher and current author Dana Royster Buffort doesn't claim

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Speaker 1: to be an expert on everything, not even close.

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Speaker 7: And the way the kids do math today is not

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Speaker 7: the way that they did math when I was growing up,

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Speaker 7: so it requires you too.

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Speaker 1: And every Monday evening she shows up at the Common

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Speaker 1: Square Library in Dorchester and helps kids who need to

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Speaker 1: hand with their homework for free. She's done this every

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Speaker 1: week for most of the last decade. It's part of

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Speaker 1: a program by the Boston Teachers Union called Homework Health,

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Speaker 1: brand of Cheney, started more than twenty years ago.

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Speaker 7: I had just been hired in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 7: and they decided in two thousand and four that maybe

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Speaker 7: I could go have people go into.

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Speaker 1: The different libraries in Boston. The program's growing to include

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Speaker 1: most of the library system. Dina says. The teachers get

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Speaker 1: paid for their time, but they're satisfaction in helping the

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Speaker 1: kids learn something and watching them grow up.

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Speaker 7: And then there's a couple that are here now who

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Speaker 7: have been coming here since pre kindergarten.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffeld b Busy Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 3: Watching developing news from the Supreme Court today at eleven

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Speaker 3: oh seven, the High Court ruling in favor of a

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Speaker 3: Christian counselor who offers conversion therapy services in Colorado. This

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Speaker 3: is all about conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth. The majority,

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Speaker 3: ruling eight to one, claimed that Colorado's ban on conversion

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Speaker 3: therapy violated the therapist free speech rights. HER's ABC's Devin Dwyer.

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Speaker 6: Wrong almost unanimous ruling by this very conservative Supreme Court,

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Speaker 6: drawing support from Justices Sonya so To Mayor and Elena

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Speaker 6: Kigan that in fact, Colorado's law, which was enacted several

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Speaker 6: years ago to protect minors from the forcible efforts of

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Speaker 6: therapists to try to change their sexual orientation and gender identity,

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Speaker 6: does infringe on the free speech rights of those providers.

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Speaker 3: The loan disenter Justice Kotanji Brown Jackson. Conversion therapy has

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Speaker 3: largely been rejected by the scientific community and has been

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Speaker 3: connected to harmful outcomes from those who have undergone the practice.

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Speaker 3: You are now in Malie. For news updates throughout the day,

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Speaker 3: listen to WBZS Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole

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