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

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<v Speaker 2>News forty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Change of plans. President

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<v Speaker 2>Trump has withdrawn Representative Elease at stephonics nomination as UN Ambassador.

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<v Speaker 2>CBS is Linda Kenyon explains why.

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<v Speaker 3>In a truth Social post, the President said, quote, it

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<v Speaker 3>is essential that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress,

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<v Speaker 3>adding I have asked Elise as one of my biggest allies,

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<v Speaker 3>to remain in Congress. Idaho Republican Jim Rish heads the

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<v Speaker 3>Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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<v Speaker 1>I have been.

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<v Speaker 4>Notified by the White House she.

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<v Speaker 1>Has been withdrawn.

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<v Speaker 3>Delaware Democrat Chris Coons also serves on the committee.

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<v Speaker 5>It just reflects that the agenda that Republicans are trying

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<v Speaker 5>to move through the House at the behest of Elon

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<v Speaker 5>Musk and Donald Trump, does not have the votes right now.

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<v Speaker 3>It did appear Stephanic would have easily been confirmed by

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<v Speaker 3>the Senate Canyon CBS News The White House.

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<v Speaker 2>Another rally planned this evening in Somerville for a Turkish

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<v Speaker 2>Tufts student detained by federal authorities. The rally is planned

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<v Speaker 2>outside Somerville City Hall for Rumesa os Turk, a doctoral

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<v Speaker 2>student at Tufts who was moved out of Massachusetts by

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<v Speaker 2>the time her lawyer went to court and a judge

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<v Speaker 2>ordered her to be kept in the state. Lawyers say

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<v Speaker 2>oz Turk was detained on Tuesday, shortly after leaving her

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<v Speaker 2>home in Somerville and was moved to an IC detention

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<v Speaker 2>center in Louisiana. Homeland Security says os Turk was detained

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<v Speaker 2>after and her visa revoked after an investigation found that

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<v Speaker 2>she had engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a

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<v Speaker 2>foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A

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<v Speaker 2>DHS spokesperson says glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans

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<v Speaker 2>is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is

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<v Speaker 2>common sense Security continuing the trend and keeping a promise.

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<v Speaker 2>With big cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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<v Speaker 1>The nation's top health agency, says it's eliminating ten thousand

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<v Speaker 1>jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. Health and

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<v Speaker 1>Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior teased the cuts

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<v Speaker 1>earlier this week.

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<v Speaker 4>We're going to go back to providing gold standard science.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to keep the money to the scientists and

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<v Speaker 2>to the patients, other than to the administrators bureaucrats.

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<v Speaker 1>Overall, HHS says it's slashing its workforce by a total

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<v Speaker 1>of twenty thousand through ten thousand layoffs and another ten

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<v Speaker 1>thousand workers taking early retirements or buyouts. Most of the

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<v Speaker 1>cuts will be in the public health agencies, the FDA

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<v Speaker 1>and CDC, which will shed roughly six thousand positions. Sagur

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<v Speaker 1>Magani Washington.

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<v Speaker 2>Hearing today before the Senate Commerce and Aviation Subcommittee on

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<v Speaker 2>the NTSB's preliminary findings on the crash involving an American

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<v Speaker 2>Airlines flight in an Army Blackhawk helicopter in January. A

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<v Speaker 2>crash killed sixty seven people, including half a dozen connected

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<v Speaker 2>to the Boston Skating Club in TSB Chair Jennifer Hammandy

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<v Speaker 2>testified and said the agency will be thorough and it's invested.

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<v Speaker 6>I know we're all searching for answers, the right safety solutions,

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<v Speaker 6>but the NTSB is the gold standard for accident investigations

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<v Speaker 6>for a reason. We are thorough and we're fact based.

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<v Speaker 6>We leave no stone unturned and we let the evidence

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<v Speaker 6>guide us.

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<v Speaker 2>The FAA acted upon an NTSB recommendation and banned non

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<v Speaker 2>essential helicopter travel around Reagan National earlier this month. Last night,

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<v Speaker 2>as the TD Garden a tribute to those killed in

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<v Speaker 2>that crash, the skating world descending on Boston for the

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<v Speaker 2>World Figure Skating Championships. The Championships featured a tribute to

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<v Speaker 2>all twenty eight members of the skating community who were

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<v Speaker 2>killed in that collision. Partly cloudy skies as we head

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<v Speaker 2>into the evening, temperatures the low thirties in some of

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<v Speaker 2>the Northwest suburbs, thirty eight in Boston. A couple of

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<v Speaker 2>spot showers around in a few places. Later tonight could

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<v Speaker 2>be a snowflake mixed in the coldest spots. Breezy with

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<v Speaker 2>some sunshine around Tomorrow, We'll make a run into the

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<v Speaker 2>upper fifties. Clouds move in tomorrow late in the day,

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<v Speaker 2>and we'll have some rain moving in here after midnight

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<v Speaker 2>Tomorrow night with a low near forty, and then Saturday,

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<v Speaker 2>a few showers around. Rather cloudy. Day will be in

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<v Speaker 2>the low forties in Boston, though warming up a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit in lower fifties at least over the South Coast

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<v Speaker 2>Cape Islands. Sunday some rain possible in the morning, most

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<v Speaker 2>of that north of Boston. Otherwise, clouds in Chile high

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<v Speaker 2>forty four. We're at forty seven degrees right now in Boston.

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<v Speaker 2>Mayor Michelle Wo making some new comments today about her

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<v Speaker 2>appearance on The Daily Show.

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<v Speaker 7>She was a New Yorker.

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<v Speaker 4>They're just jealous, Mary, Michelle Wu, using humor to casually

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<v Speaker 4>brush aside the Daily Show host Ronnie Chang's repeated references

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<v Speaker 4>to Boston as a racist city. During her recent appearance

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<v Speaker 4>on the show, broadcast out of New York City, Chang

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<v Speaker 4>asking Wo how traditionally Irish Boston could elect a young

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<v Speaker 4>woman of Asian descent as its mayor.

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<v Speaker 7>We recognize how much work there is still to do.

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<v Speaker 7>Certainly Boston has made a lot of strides, and I

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<v Speaker 7>was very proud in that setting and any setting to

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<v Speaker 7>go and defend our city and represent who we are today,

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<v Speaker 7>how we have learned from our history, and how we

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<v Speaker 7>are still planning to continue with the progress there.

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<v Speaker 4>Woo quick to defend Boston on the program, just as

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<v Speaker 4>she did recently when she appeared before a hostile Republican

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<v Speaker 4>led congressional committee in Washington. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 2>In mere moments, the Boston Red Sox get their twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five campaign underway, taking on the Rangers this afternoon

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<v Speaker 2>in Texas. Meantime, from Brockton to the Bronx. The Brockton

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<v Speaker 2>Rocks announcing this week on Facebook that their catcher John

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<v Speaker 2>Christino was signed by the Yankees. The twenty twenty four

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<v Speaker 2>Frontier League home run leader and catcher of the Year

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<v Speaker 2>posted on Instagram. Since I was a kid, I've had

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<v Speaker 2>the same dream that that was to be a Major

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<v Speaker 2>League Baseball player. He thanked Bose who helped make this

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<v Speaker 2>possible and says, without your endless support, none of this

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<v Speaker 2>could have happened. You might think about old people when

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<v Speaker 2>you think about heart disease. Now a warning for young

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<v Speaker 2>people about the risk factor.

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<v Speaker 5>Many teenagers could already be setting themselves up for heart

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<v Speaker 5>problems later in life. A study by the American Heart

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<v Speaker 5>Association found the time between age eighteen and one's mid

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<v Speaker 5>twenties are crucial to heart health. Many teenagers are developing obesity,

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<v Speaker 5>high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type two diabetes, and

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<v Speaker 5>it's important to address those risk factors at a young age.

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<v Speaker 2>The CBS is Michael George just over two weeks until

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<v Speaker 2>CBS Morning's co host Gail King and five other women

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<v Speaker 2>get to fly into space.

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<v Speaker 8>The eleven minute Blue Origin flight will take off April

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<v Speaker 8>fourteenth at nine to thirty am Eastern. Former passenger William

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<v Speaker 8>Shatner told Gail to embrace the moment.

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<v Speaker 2>The g forces that are going to be on you.

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna feel like I'm gonna die, but You're not

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<v Speaker 2>going to die. Then you are scaring them fish right now.

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<v Speaker 8>The all women crew will include pop star Katie Perry,

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<v Speaker 8>former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bo, civil rights activist Amanda Win,

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<v Speaker 8>film producer Carrie Anne Flynn, and journalist Lauren Sanchez, the

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<v Speaker 8>fiance of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Michael Wallace CBS News.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Ben Parker Gibs, Boston's news radio