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Speaker 1: This is Bellbzy, Boston's news radio re defining local.

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Speaker 2: News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. After our meeting between

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Speaker 2: President Trump and China's president later this month seemingly fell through,

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Speaker 2: President Trump is now threatening higher tariffs on Chinese's goods.

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Speaker 3: In a post on social media, President Trump says, quote,

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Speaker 3: there seems to be no reason to meet with China's

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Speaker 3: president g in South Korea later this month, pointing to

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Speaker 3: what he calls China's quote trade hostility. The President says

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Speaker 3: he's considering a massive increase on tariff's on Chinese products

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Speaker 3: coming into the US. The president's comments come a day

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Speaker 3: after China imposed new restrictions on rare earth minerals critical

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Speaker 3: in the production of semiconductors. A trade truce between the

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Speaker 3: US and China is set to expire in less than

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Speaker 3: a month. Tariffs on Chinese imports into the US are

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Speaker 3: currently at thirty percent, down from the high point of

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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty five. Karen Traver's ABC News The

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Speaker 3: White House and.

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Speaker 2: That tariff threat from President Trump sent the market into

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Speaker 2: a tizzy. A sell off of pretty bad proportions. We've

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Speaker 2: got Andrew O'Day at Bloomberg trying to settle down his

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Speaker 2: stomach after today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really worst day for Wall Street since half a

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Speaker 4: year ago. That was during the immediate aftermath of President

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Speaker 4: Trump's global tariff announcement, starting with what he called Liberation

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Speaker 4: Day back on April second, after a higher start today,

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Speaker 4: can you believe we had a higher start today? The

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Speaker 4: Dow's unsettled close is an unsettling down eight hundred and

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Speaker 4: seventy nine points, just shy of two percent, Nazack down

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Speaker 4: three and a half percent, eight hundred and twenty points,

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Speaker 4: S and P five hundred down nearly three percent, one

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Speaker 4: hundred eighty three points, more than four times as many

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Speaker 4: stocks down as up. And as you just heard, today's

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Speaker 4: unabashed retreat follows that threat from President Trump of a

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Speaker 4: massive increase in tariff's on China, although we should continue

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Speaker 4: to keep in mind that threat did not come out

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Speaker 4: of nowhere. The US and China both ratcheting up threats

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Speaker 4: in recent days on one another. Once again, the Dow

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Speaker 4: down eight seventy nine ben all right.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully things will be better next week. We'll see they'll

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Speaker 2: have to be waiting until at least next week, and

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Speaker 2: the government shutdown. It is day ten today. Nothing's going

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Speaker 2: to happen over the weekend, as senators left Washington until

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Speaker 2: next week. The Senate is scheduled to return on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Speaker that Ows Mike Johnson promising to keep his chamber

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Speaker 2: closed until the Senate passes the Republican spending bill to

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Speaker 2: end the shutdown. President Trump earlier this week said federal

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Speaker 2: workers might not get back pay for working during the shutdown.

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Speaker 2: The Viz Suzanne Salzville spoke with Governor more Heally about

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Speaker 2: it at Logan Air Force.

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Speaker 5: I ask Governor Heally if there's any guarantee that federal

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Speaker 5: workers here at Logan will get back pay. Not up

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Speaker 5: to me, she says, it's up to Congress and President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Get it done.

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Speaker 6: Reopen government, and absolutely federal workers have got to get paid.

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Speaker 5: There are more than nineteen hundred federal workers at Logan

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Speaker 5: and Massport. Ce Rich Davy says they're all showing up

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Speaker 5: to work despite not being paid.

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Speaker 7: These federal workers are showing up every day, notwithstanding all

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Speaker 7: the nonsense that's going around them.

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Speaker 4: And we thanked them very much.

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Speaker 5: At Logan Suzanne Saulsville WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Multiple people believed to be dead after a massive explosion

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Speaker 2: at a military grenade factory in Tennessee. This is about

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Speaker 2: fifty miles west of Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen people who were at the manufacturing plant when it

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Speaker 1: exploded are now missing. Humphreyes County Sheriff Chris Davis says

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Speaker 1: there are people who are dead. The building they were

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Speaker 1: in was destroyed. The building ripped into chunks of debris

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Speaker 1: in the blast.

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Speaker 2: It's probably been one of the.

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Speaker 5: Most devastating situations that.

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Speaker 2: I've been on in my career.

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Speaker 1: He says they have no idea what exploded or why.

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Speaker 1: The ATF and FBI will work to better understand that,

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Speaker 1: which he says will likely take a long time. Alex

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Speaker 1: Stone EBC News are.

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Speaker 2: In a drought situation around here, and we certainly could

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Speaker 2: use the rain, and we're certainly going to get a

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Speaker 2: big chunk of it over the weekend. Later in the weekend,

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Speaker 2: though mainly clear skies to night temperatures forties in the suburbs,

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Speaker 2: fifty downtown, partial sunshine tomorrow, It'll be a pretty nice

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Speaker 2: day for whatever it is you're doing. Sixty four for

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Speaker 2: the high temperature and then clouds in here tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Those clouds on Sunday will start to push in some

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Speaker 2: rain from south to north through the day. Our coastal

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Speaker 2: storm really starts picking up in intensity and banging us

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Speaker 2: around starting Sunday night with some of that heavier rain

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Speaker 2: and wind, and then Monday very windy periods of rain.

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Speaker 2: Some of it will be heavy. There'll be some flooding,

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Speaker 2: perhaps on roadways, poor drainage areas, you know, the drill,

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Speaker 2: and also coastal flooding and beach erosion. The wind whipping

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Speaker 2: around maybe sixty miles an hour, could cause some wind

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Speaker 2: damage to temperatures on Monday around sixty before this all

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Speaker 2: moves out. Right now, fifty nine degrees in Boston. The

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Speaker 2: head of the Charles regattas a week away, and there's

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Speaker 2: something in the water. It's small but causing a big problem.

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Speaker 7: The world's largest three day rowing event kicks off next Friday,

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Speaker 7: but toxic blooms of bacteria are still in the water.

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Speaker 7: A map from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health shows

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Speaker 7: that the Regatta starting point towards Back Bay and Kendall

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Speaker 7: Square has had elevated levels for ten weeks. Though cooler

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Speaker 7: weather tends to end the blooms, this is super long lasting.

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Speaker 7: The Charles River Watershed Association says this year's bloom is

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Speaker 7: just about twice the average length of those seen in

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Speaker 7: the last decade. Now, it's true with rowing, the goal

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Speaker 7: isn't to swim in the water, but you have to

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Speaker 7: think about pulling the boats out, handling the ores. There's

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Speaker 7: some contact with the water somewhere. Bacteria like this can

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Speaker 7: cause gastro intestinal problems, liver damage, and or respiratory irritation.

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Speaker 7: The Head of the Charles is in full setup mode

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Speaker 7: now by Soldiersfield Road in Brighton. Jay Willett WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 7: news Radio.

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Speaker 2: At Bunny will be the halftime show this year at

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. You know that some people aren't impressed,

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Speaker 2: and for them, they'll be an alternative halftime show.

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Speaker 1: Bust Up Well.

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Speaker 6: Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 6: says it will host its own halftime show for anyone

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Speaker 6: offended by the NFL selection of bats. Add Bunny to

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Speaker 6: entertain Super Bowl fans in February. Conservatives have been critical

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Speaker 6: of the Puerto Rican reggaeton star who sings in Spanish,

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Speaker 6: for not touring in the US over fears of ice

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Speaker 6: raids at his concerts. In an ex post, Turning Point

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Speaker 6: says it's production, the All American Halftime Show will celebrate faith, family,

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Speaker 6: and freedom. Names of performers and events to come. Deborah Rodriguez,

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Speaker 6: CBS News.

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