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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>It's fifty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock good Wednesday

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<v Speaker 2>morning on Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour

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<v Speaker 2>with some breaking news. A shooting suspect in Attleborough the

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<v Speaker 2>police considered armed and dangerous is now in custody. Police

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<v Speaker 2>say they located Jacob Lecourse at a home in Attleborough

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<v Speaker 2>yesterday and took him into custody without incident. La Course

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<v Speaker 2>is wanted on charges or was wanted on charges related

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<v Speaker 2>to a shooting in Attleborough this past weekend. He's charged

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<v Speaker 2>with a sultan battery with a firearm and has been

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<v Speaker 2>ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. At the

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<v Speaker 2>same time, police also arrested another person, Alexandra Elliott, is

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<v Speaker 2>charged with intimidating a witness. The sky is finally about

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<v Speaker 2>to open up. Rain will soon break through critical drought

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<v Speaker 2>conditions across much of the state, and wbz's James Rojas

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<v Speaker 2>says it is a very welcome change of pace.

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<v Speaker 1>The rain forecasted for Thursday and Friday cannot come at

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<v Speaker 1>a more crucial time, as we are experiencing an unprecedented

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<v Speaker 1>low amount of precipitation. We're also experiencing longer lasting wildfires,

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<v Speaker 1>with over three dozen active fires burning across the Commonwealth.

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<v Speaker 1>This frequent Fowls Reservation visitor is looking forward to the rain.

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<v Speaker 3>I actually like the rain. I'm shooting it from macgrass

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<v Speaker 3>and let's good for everything once in a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we definitely knew it.

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<v Speaker 1>However, even with rain this week, we still run the

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<v Speaker 1>chance of finishing this season as the driest meteorological autumn

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<v Speaker 1>on record at the Fowls Reservation. James Rojas WBZ Boston's

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<v Speaker 1>News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Today is a day of vigils for the local LGBTQ community,

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<v Speaker 2>the Transgender Day of Remembrance that serves as a moment

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<v Speaker 2>to more and trans people lost to violence. It was

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<v Speaker 2>founded in honor of a trans woman murdered in Boston

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen ninety eight, Rita Hester. Among the local events,

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<v Speaker 2>there is a vigil tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church

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<v Speaker 2>in Quincy Center and name reading un Dartmouth. More than

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<v Speaker 2>three hundred names were read at a vigil in Boston

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<v Speaker 2>over the weekend. The Speaker of the House moves to

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<v Speaker 2>keep the first transgender member of US Congress from using

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<v Speaker 2>women's restrooms on Capitol Hill. CBS is Alison Keys.

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<v Speaker 4>House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing as Christian faith, says, we're

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<v Speaker 4>not going to have men in women's bathrooms, but ads.

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<v Speaker 5>I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and

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<v Speaker 5>so what we can do and believe all those things.

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<v Speaker 4>At the same time, House Minority Leader HACKEM. Jeffrey says,

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<v Speaker 4>the Republicans want to bully a member of Congress. Are

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<v Speaker 4>you really focused on housing prices? Apparently not, Alison Keys,

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<v Speaker 4>CBS News Washington.

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<v Speaker 2>Incoming Representative Sarah McBride is calling the resolution a blatant

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<v Speaker 2>attempt to distract from the issues Americans actually face. This

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<v Speaker 2>just into our newsroom. President elect Donald Trump has chosen

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<v Speaker 2>former acting Attorney General Matt Whittaker as the country's next

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<v Speaker 2>NATO ambassador. Meantime, the bipartisan how the House Ethics Committee

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<v Speaker 2>could decide to day whether to release findings from its

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<v Speaker 2>investigation into former Rep. Matt Gates. It comes as more

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<v Speaker 2>controversy swirls around Gates, who President elect Trump has picked

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<v Speaker 2>to be the next Attorney General.

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<v Speaker 5>One woman told the committee she allegedly saw Gates having

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<v Speaker 5>sex with her seventeen year old friend. Sources now say

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<v Speaker 5>a hacker obtained documents from a civil case involving a

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<v Speaker 5>friend of Gates and that seventeen year old girl. Senators

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<v Speaker 5>are conflicted over whether the ethics reports should be made

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<v Speaker 5>public before Gates' nomination hearing. The Justice Department separately investigated

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<v Speaker 5>sex trafficking allegations against Gates without bringing charges.

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<v Speaker 4>Gates has denied all wrongdoing.

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<v Speaker 2>Meantime, the former president has tapped longtime ally Linda McMahon

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<v Speaker 2>to lead the Education Department and doctor mehmet Oz to

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<v Speaker 2>oversee Medicare and Medicaid. Looking at the four to a

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<v Speaker 2>wbz ACU weather forecast will top out in the mid

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<v Speaker 2>upper fifties this afternoon with times of sun and clouds.

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<v Speaker 2>More clouds move in tonight with a breeze picking up

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<v Speaker 2>late forty one to forty eight degrees for the low,

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<v Speaker 2>and then tomorrow it is some long awaited rain, arriving

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<v Speaker 2>mostly in the late morning hours and then through the

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<v Speaker 2>rest of the day. It's also increasingly windy as the

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<v Speaker 2>day goes on, and we'll see a hinh near fifty

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<v Speaker 2>low fifties, mostly cloudy and breezy, with a couple more

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<v Speaker 2>showers around for Friday, and we can't rule out a

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<v Speaker 2>shower for Saturday as well. Otherwise, that's another mostly cloudy

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<v Speaker 2>day in the low fifties. Right now in Boston, it's

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<v Speaker 2>fifty degrees and mostly sunny at eleven oh six. Schools

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<v Speaker 2>on the North Shore still look like ghost towns. We

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<v Speaker 2>get an update on the teacher strikes from wbz's Jay

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<v Speaker 2>will Lette.

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<v Speaker 3>While Glosster teachers say they're narrowing down on a deal

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<v Speaker 3>with its school committee for better paying working conditions. It's

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<v Speaker 3>been over a week of no school there. The district

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<v Speaker 3>is holding a vigil tonight in gratitude for those who

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<v Speaker 3>are withstanding the picket lines. Marble Head and Beverly remain

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<v Speaker 3>a whizz off from a handshake for every day students

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<v Speaker 3>aren't sitting in desks. Teacher unions are being fined ten

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<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars. School committee says they're finding common ground on

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<v Speaker 3>personal days and missed prep period demands, not so much

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<v Speaker 3>on wage proposals. Teachers have been calling on Governor Heally

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<v Speaker 3>to stand out for them, and while she empathizes, her

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<v Speaker 3>focus is getting kids back to class, urging both sides

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<v Speaker 3>to reach a deal asap. J Willlett WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>A class in the which city is coaching the Stephen

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<v Speaker 2>Kings of Tomorrow. The BBC's Hyle Shaffle explains.

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<v Speaker 6>Horror isn't often thought of as a kid friendly genre,

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<v Speaker 6>but these kids at Collins Middle School and Salem are

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<v Speaker 6>trying to master it.

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<v Speaker 1>They're trying to write the scariest story. Like they're almost

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<v Speaker 1>like competing against each other to write the scariest story.

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<v Speaker 6>That's their teacher, Mike. This horror writing class is a

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<v Speaker 6>volunteer after school lesson taught the semester to help the

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<v Speaker 6>kids own their skills. Madison says one of her stories

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<v Speaker 6>was so scary she was able to spook her horror

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<v Speaker 6>Officionado sister Satira, and the fact that I.

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<v Speaker 7>Was able to scare her in four sentences, I was so.

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<v Speaker 6>Crad Shatira says she's excited for the final class project.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm really excited to have it done because I really

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<v Speaker 7>want to see how like all the perspectives, because me

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<v Speaker 7>and me, Mary and Maddie were all doing different perspectives

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<v Speaker 7>on one story.

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<v Speaker 6>The class is hosted by Leap for Education and north

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<v Speaker 6>Shore nonprofit that runs after school programs. The kids I

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<v Speaker 6>talked to so they might try to make writing into

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<v Speaker 6>a career. Kyle Shaffele to be busy, Boston's News Radio.

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