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

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Speaker 2: Some cloud cover in the city of Boston this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock, fifty degrees in the Hub. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. Some new developments

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Speaker 2: coming out of Capitol Hill this morning, as we have

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Speaker 2: now learned that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not

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Speaker 2: be returning to Washington after this term. The California Democrat

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Speaker 2: broke the glass ceiling on the Hill is the first

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Speaker 2: woman to hold the speakership. Many pondits call her one

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Speaker 2: of the most powerful speakers in American history. Congresswoman Pelosi

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Speaker 2: has represented San Francisco for almost forty years. She stepped

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Speaker 2: aside from leadership three years ago and is now known

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Speaker 2: as Speaker Amereda. The government shutdown is about to have

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Speaker 2: a greater impact on air travel. Starting tomorrow. The Trump

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Speaker 2: administration says it will reduce air traffic at dozens of

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Speaker 2: US airports, including Logan in Boston. Lers are bracing for

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Speaker 2: major flight disruptions. Here's wbz's James Rojas.

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Speaker 1: Logan is among the forty major airports across the nation

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Speaker 1: that will start to experience flight reductions starting tomorrow. The

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Speaker 1: timing can not be worse for these folks heading.

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Speaker 2: Out nervous to get stuck out there because we're only

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Speaker 2: going for the weekend for a wedding, so it's very

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Speaker 2: possible we're gonna end out not being able to get back.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I've been avoiding air travel with everything until you

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Speaker 3: know we have a better sense of what the government

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Speaker 3: shutdown is going to look like. Well, I worry about

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Speaker 3: getting back, but on the other hand, I want it

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Speaker 3: to be safe.

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Speaker 1: Air traffic will first be cut by four percent, so

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Speaker 1: then eventually ten percent at Logan James Rojas w b

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Speaker 1: Z BOSTON'SNOWS Radio.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, the President keeps pushing Senate Republicans to get rid

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Speaker 2: of the filibuster and end the shutdown, which is now

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Speaker 2: on day thirty seven. Senate Majority Leader John Thune maintains

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Speaker 2: there is not enough support among fellow Republicans to change

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Speaker 2: the procedural tactic. He's saying, let's just throw out the

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Speaker 2: rule book.

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Speaker 4: The problem with that is a lot of Senate Republicans

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Speaker 4: don't support that move. And this is one of the

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Speaker 4: few instances where we see Senate Republicans breaking quite publicly

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Speaker 4: from President Trump on something, including the majority leader. There

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Speaker 4: are not enough votes in the Senate right now to

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Speaker 4: do the rule overturn the President Trump is continuing to

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Speaker 4: push for, but it is leading to this sort of

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Speaker 4: more public tension between Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill and

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Speaker 4: President Trump.

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Speaker 2: That is ABC's Ali Pacorin now. There have been a

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Speaker 2: lot of talks going on behind the scenes. New Hampshire's

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Speaker 2: Maggie Hassen and Jean Shaheen, two Democratic senators seen as

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Speaker 2: big players in those talks. And while the President maintains

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Speaker 2: SNAP assistants will not be coming out until the government

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Speaker 2: reopens new court documents show there is indeed movement behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes. Reports say the Agriculture Department is told a

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Speaker 2: federal court that November SNAP assistants will be paid for

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Speaker 2: with more than four billion dollars in contingency funds, and

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Speaker 2: those on SNAP will get sixty five percent of their

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Speaker 2: normal benefit, not just fifty is first reported. The Agriculture

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Speaker 2: Department says this change is the fix to a quote

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Speaker 2: error that they discovered. It is still not clear when

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Speaker 2: the Assistan since will be released. Governor Healey says the

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Speaker 2: state is ready to get it out there, disperse it

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Speaker 2: as soon as it arrives. We have some cloud cover

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Speaker 2: out there over the city of Boston right now. We

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Speaker 2: have some showers if you're north of the city, But

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Speaker 2: right now we're looking actually a little bit better out

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Speaker 2: there on the Capan Islands. Plenty of sun poking through

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Speaker 2: the clouds. We are definitely dealing with another windy day

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Speaker 2: out there. Certainly not as intense as it was overnight,

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Speaker 2: but many of us are dealing with wind gus up

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Speaker 2: to about twenty five thirty miles an hour, especially on

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Speaker 2: the coast. Later on today, we'll start to see the

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Speaker 2: wind calm down a bit. Tonight, mostly clear. We have

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Speaker 2: alone near thirty five or so in Boston, twenties if

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Speaker 2: you're inland. Then for tomorrow, any sun that we see

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Speaker 2: early will be enveloped by increasing clouds, windy in the afternoon,

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Speaker 2: the high in the mid fifties, couple of showers on

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Speaker 2: Friday night weekend. Saturday is the pick of the weekend

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Speaker 2: for sure. We've got plenty of sun, nice and mile

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Speaker 2: be high year sixty two sixty three. Plenty of clouds,

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Speaker 2: though on Sunday afternoon, rain and We've got a high

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Speaker 2: in the mid fifties in Marshfield. Right now, it's mostly

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Speaker 2: sonny in fifty degrees west of Boston and Worcester, partly

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Speaker 2: sonny in forty three north of Boston. I methuin, cloudy

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Speaker 2: in forty six in Boston. Right now at Logan Airport,

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Speaker 2: it's cloudy and forty nine degrees. A surprise budget shortfall

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the school years going to lead

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Speaker 2: to twenty five job cuts to educators in a school

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Speaker 2: district south of Boston. WBC's Jim McKay reports, parents want answers.

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Speaker 5: And we need these teachers. Terrese has a daughter in

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Speaker 5: the Witmen Hanson school system, and she is part of

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Speaker 5: a chorus of parents who are sounding off, feeling they've

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Speaker 5: been blindsided by a one point four million dollar budget

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Speaker 5: shortfall that was just made public and will now lead

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Speaker 5: to some two dozen teachers and staffers getting pink slips

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Speaker 5: just before the holidays.

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Speaker 4: If we had cuts to our school, our children would suffer.

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Speaker 5: There was a town hall style meeting this week confirming

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Speaker 5: the cuts. Now parents are demanding total budgetary transparency.

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Speaker 4: We need to protect our funding for our school.

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Speaker 5: In the future. That's the hope, but for now the

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Speaker 5: damage has been done at.

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Speaker 4: The services that they desperately need.

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Speaker 5: In Whitman, Jim acatably vs.

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Speaker 2: Boston's News Radio, and in Boston, the School Committee has

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Speaker 2: given the thumbs up to some new admissions policies for

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Speaker 2: exam schools. Globe reports the points based system that was

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Speaker 2: designed to add weight to students coming in from underserved

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Speaker 2: neighborhoods has now been cut. The new plans also include

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Speaker 2: a move to make twenty percent of available seats open

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Speaker 2: to any student who wants to try for them. Critics

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Speaker 2: say these moves will wipe out twenty years of advance

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Speaker 2: advances to get disadvantaged students better access to these exam schools.

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Speaker 2: There's three in all, Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School,

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Speaker 2: and the O'Brien School of Math and Science. Days before

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Speaker 2: world leaders meet in Brazil to talk about climate change,

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Speaker 2: a brand new study finds the world's temperature is on

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Speaker 2: an upward trend.

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Speaker 3: Last year was ranked as the planet's warmest on record.

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Speaker 3: The World Meteorological Organization says that this year is on

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Speaker 3: track to be the second or third warmest, partly because

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Speaker 3: of the climate pattern known as lun ninia, which typically

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Speaker 3: causes a temporary dip in average global temperature. The mwol

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Speaker 3: Place is blamed for the rising temperatures over the past

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Speaker 3: century and a half on what it calls human amplified

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Speaker 3: climate change. Jim Riyan ABC News.

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Speaker 2: And rally is planned today in Harvard Square. Is the

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Speaker 2: union representing custodians and security officers at Harvard Demand a

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Speaker 2: Better Contract Union thirty two BJSCIU says the school has

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Speaker 2: not offered any sort of wage increase for the workers,

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Speaker 2: and with ten days till that contract expires, they're trying

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Speaker 2: to show support and solidarity to say more than a

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Speaker 2: thousand workers are impacted here. That rally set for just

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Speaker 2: afternoon on Cambridge Common. You are now in the loop

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