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

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<v Speaker 1>A little devil get in here. Good morning. It is

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<v Speaker 1>six o'clock, clear skies for the most part. It's forty

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<v Speaker 1>degrees in Boston. The news at six rot to us

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<v Speaker 1>buy your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel

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<v Speaker 1>drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today. I'm Jeff Brown.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't count these spring chickens before they hatch, so it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be mild today. We've got chilly and wet

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<v Speaker 1>weather in store for this weekend. Is WBZ Achi weather

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<v Speaker 1>meteorologist heather Sare Sunshine, mid fifties today, rain tomorrow. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the spirits, Hi fly shut deep into the hell of

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<v Speaker 1>it's way back there. Oh great, I guess so good.

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<v Speaker 1>The call on nesson Red Sox win late on opening

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<v Speaker 1>day in Texas, Socks and Rangers will go again tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>It is opening day for the Woo Socks today. First

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<v Speaker 1>pitch at Polar Park in Wooster just after three o'clock. Alabama,

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<v Speaker 1>Florida Duke and Texas Tech move on to college Basketball's

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<v Speaker 1>Elite eight. Four more games in March Madness scheduleds for

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<v Speaker 1>later today federal Judge James Boseburg launches into another national

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<v Speaker 1>controversy with an order that Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, National

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<v Speaker 1>Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and other top level intelligence officials

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<v Speaker 1>retain the records of the signal messaging exchange, which revealed

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<v Speaker 1>plans of attack on Houthy rebels in Yemen and included

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<v Speaker 1>the editor in chief of The Atlantic. The judge is

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<v Speaker 1>also the center of the Trump administration's decision to deport

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<v Speaker 1>hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members in defiance of the court.

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<v Speaker 1>The administration has a Monday deadline now to show that

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<v Speaker 1>they have saved the signal records. Vice President j. D.

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<v Speaker 1>Vance and his wife Usha are in Greenland today, though

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<v Speaker 1>Greenland doesn't want them. The second family will tour a

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<v Speaker 1>US military base and stay largely out of the public's eye,

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<v Speaker 1>while Greenland's Prime Minister maintains this visit is meant to

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<v Speaker 1>intimidate his people. A majority of Greenlanders say they do

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<v Speaker 1>not want to be annexed by the United States, while

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump says we'll get it one way or another.

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<v Speaker 1>Greenland has long been the fascination of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>for security purposes and Greenland's minerals with at least five

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<v Speaker 1>discussions and attempts to purchase or take over the region

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<v Speaker 1>beginning in the eighteen sixties. Time to move on.

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<v Speaker 2>The old relationship we had with the United States based

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<v Speaker 2>on deepening integration of our economies and type security and

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<v Speaker 2>military cooperations is over.

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<v Speaker 1>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the United States can

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<v Speaker 1>no longer be a reliable partner on trade, and his

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<v Speaker 1>nation is ready to move on. The newly installed prime minister,

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<v Speaker 1>who faces a snap election next month, says Canadian industries

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<v Speaker 1>are looking elsewhere now to blunt the force of twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five percent tariffs President Trump has promised will take place

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<v Speaker 1>next week. Carney, a one time goalie for the Harvard

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<v Speaker 1>hockey team, says his nation plans retaliatory levels next week

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<v Speaker 1>as well. Not a bad start to Friday morning in Boston. This,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, feels like it may be the longest

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<v Speaker 1>week ever, doesn't it? Forty degrees right now in Boston.

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<v Speaker 1>We do have some clouds. Otherwise, well, let's call it

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<v Speaker 1>partly cloudy skies. How about that forty degrees At the moment,

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<v Speaker 1>it's going to be a relatively nice day today with

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<v Speaker 1>a mixture of clouds and sunshine throughout. Highs will be

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<v Speaker 1>in the mid fifties, a bit breezy as well, things

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<v Speaker 1>go downhill. I'm afraid from here overnight tonight the clouds

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<v Speaker 1>are in full force and maybe a couple of showers

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<v Speaker 1>hanging around. This weekend is not a very good one.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to just forget about this in early spring.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not going to be a typical postcard type of

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<v Speaker 1>weather weekend. We're expecting to see clouds both Tomorrow and Sunday,

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<v Speaker 1>chilly air, two highs only in the forties, and some

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<v Speaker 1>rain from time to time in both days as well.

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<v Speaker 1>So if we skip right over that and get back

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<v Speaker 1>to work on Monday, still cloudy and still some rain. However,

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<v Speaker 1>Monday's high temperatures will be in the low sixties. Right

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<v Speaker 1>now in Boston, it's forty degrees, partly cloudy, skies coming

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<v Speaker 1>up on sunrise here in the city six five This Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>Aday morning, Boston drills down on safe Streets.

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<v Speaker 3>The one Downtown Task Force will be focused on all

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<v Speaker 3>of downtown Boston and surrounding neighborhoods with the goal of

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<v Speaker 3>improving public safety. This follows a summit where members of

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<v Speaker 3>the community, city and state officials, and law enforcement agreed

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<v Speaker 3>that more needs to be done to address drug use, crime,

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<v Speaker 3>and homelessness. Now, those who live and work around here

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<v Speaker 3>have some suggestions. Fix the shelters.

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<v Speaker 2>I know a lot of sober homeless people don't go

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<v Speaker 2>to shelters because the shelters have a lot of drug

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<v Speaker 2>use in them.

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<v Speaker 1>So fix up the shelters, make them nicer.

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<v Speaker 3>The shelters that there are aren't particularly safe. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>I've worked in shelters doing like GMT work.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't stay there.

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<v Speaker 3>I would choose to stay outside. The task force is

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<v Speaker 3>expected to operate through the fall in downtown Crossing James

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<v Speaker 3>Rojas w b Z Boston's news.

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<v Speaker 1>Radio Happening right now. Powerful earthquakes hit Southeast Asia, more

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<v Speaker 1>than a dozen believed dead. A seven point seven magnitude

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<v Speaker 1>quake triggers the Temblers. According to the usg allow Logical Survey,

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<v Speaker 1>the shaking centered in me and Marr, but felt as

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<v Speaker 1>far away as the capital city of Thailand. Official say

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<v Speaker 1>evacuations are underway in both cities. Bangkok is home to

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<v Speaker 1>some seventeen million people, many of whom live in high

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<v Speaker 1>rises one of which is believed to have collapsed in Bangkok.

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<v Speaker 1>At least three people are believed dead in that city.

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<v Speaker 1>Survey says Americans are down on their lock. A new

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<v Speaker 1>CBS News Yugov poll finds we're more pessimistic in recent

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<v Speaker 1>days about the US economy, and many of us fear

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<v Speaker 1>the US is headed for an economic slowdown or maybe

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<v Speaker 1>a recession in the next year. Concern of President Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>tariff talk, which even he says will likely be painful,

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<v Speaker 1>gives us a glasses half empty attitude. The survey shows

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<v Speaker 1>many Americans paychecks are not keeping up with inflation now,

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<v Speaker 1>even though at least half say they're doing fairly well

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<v Speaker 1>financially today. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's news radio Hollywood loves

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<v Speaker 1>a comeback story, but its own industry is not delivering.

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<v Speaker 2>The report shows jobs in television and movie production have

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<v Speaker 2>not recovered from last year's entertainment strikes, which at the

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<v Speaker 2>time of the walkouts were struggling to come back following

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<v Speaker 2>the pandemic through in recent wildfires. It is a recipe

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<v Speaker 2>for disaster brewing in Tinseltown. The report from the Otis

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<v Speaker 2>College of Art and Design finds jobs in the industry

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<v Speaker 2>are twenty five percent below a peak three years ago

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<v Speaker 2>as shooting days for projects continued to dwindle. In Los Angeles,

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<v Speaker 2>Strumohall and WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.