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

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<v Speaker 2>A beautiful sunny sky and fifty three degrees in the

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<v Speaker 2>city at eleven o'clock. It's Tuesday, November nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for being with us. Here's what's happening. Striking teachers

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<v Speaker 2>are taking their fight from the North Shore to the

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<v Speaker 2>State House. In just about fifteen minutes, Marblehead, Beverly, and

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<v Speaker 2>Gloucester will hold a rally on the State House steps.

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<v Speaker 2>Their strike now in its second week. Negotiations with school

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<v Speaker 2>committees in each districts are stalled on several sticking points.

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<v Speaker 2>Some include paid parental leave and also paraprofessionals salaries. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the Beverly School Committee says if the strike there doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>end soon, they may have to cancel spring vacation. The

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<v Speaker 2>Gloucester School committee says mis days will be added to

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<v Speaker 2>the end of their school year to Revere, where teachers

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<v Speaker 2>and the school committee strike a deal. After a marathon

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<v Speaker 2>bargaining session held last night, lasting more than seven hours,

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<v Speaker 2>a tentative deal was struck just after midnight. The new

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<v Speaker 2>deal offers wage increases, paid parental and family leave, school

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<v Speaker 2>safety reforms, and agreements on other issues Revere educators they

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<v Speaker 2>have been working one hundred and twenty days without a contract.

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<v Speaker 2>Firefighter is battling a brush blaze in the Blue Hills

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<v Speaker 2>Reservation in Milton, and WBC S James Rojas says this

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<v Speaker 2>comes as much of the state as dealing with red

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<v Speaker 2>flag warnings.

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<v Speaker 1>A dozen counties in the Commonwealth are at high risk

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<v Speaker 1>of wildfires, including Norfolk County. That is evident here at

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Hills Reservation, where conditions are very dry and firefighters

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<v Speaker 1>are busy keeping a forty plus acre brush fire under control.

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<v Speaker 3>Pretty crazy again, I've been here for twenty four years,

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<v Speaker 3>never seen anything like it.

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<v Speaker 2>We need rain, We need rain badly.

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<v Speaker 1>The brushfire erupted yesterday afternoon and has since led to

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<v Speaker 1>road closures, including here at Hillside Street and Blue Hill

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<v Speaker 1>River Road, affecting many people's commute. So what's the d

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<v Speaker 1>plan like that to go the long way or what's the.

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<v Speaker 2>Moving I just have to go to the highway.

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<v Speaker 1>There doesn't add much more time to your community.

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<v Speaker 2>Probably fifteen minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Fifteen minutes. Nothing was season yeah. Meanwhile, additional fire task

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<v Speaker 1>forces have been dispatched to how Milton and Canton firefighters

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<v Speaker 1>at Blue Hills Reservation. James Rojas w b Z Boston

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<v Speaker 1>Snooth Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>President elect Trump says he elected on a controversial campaign promise.

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<v Speaker 2>As soon as he takes off on the.

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<v Speaker 4>Campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to carry out the largest

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<v Speaker 4>deportation program in American history, and in a social media post,

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<v Speaker 4>he confirmed yesterday that he's planning to declare a state

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<v Speaker 4>of national emergency and use military assets to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now.

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<v Speaker 4>By declaring national emergency, that would allow Trump to tap

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<v Speaker 4>into national additional resources and funding needed to carry out

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<v Speaker 4>a program of this scale.

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<v Speaker 2>And the CBS is Huey Burns reporting there. Now, let's

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<v Speaker 2>check the weather. It's going to be mostly sunny today,

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<v Speaker 2>a high fifty seven, breezy as well, so we do

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<v Speaker 2>have a red flag warning in effect until six pm

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<v Speaker 2>tonight for a high fire threat. That's due to the

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<v Speaker 2>gusty breeze, the low humidity, the dry brush, the drought

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<v Speaker 2>conditions that we've been seeing. Clear to partly cloudy tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>cooling down to about thirty nine in the city in

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<v Speaker 2>many of those inland suburbs, it'll be closer to thirty

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<v Speaker 2>tomorrow midweek, more sun than cloud's highs rolled back a

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<v Speaker 2>bit in the low to mid fifties. It'll become cloudy

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<v Speaker 2>at night and then rain arriving toward dawn, so factor

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<v Speaker 2>that into your morning commute. Thursday, rain much of the time,

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<v Speaker 2>increasingly windy, a high near just fifty degrees. Even cooler

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<v Speaker 2>come Friday. Highs in the high forties to low fifties,

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<v Speaker 2>mostly cloudy, breezy again with a couple of showers around.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, it's sunny and fifty three in Boston at

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<v Speaker 2>eleven oh five. Dozens of police officers here in Massachusetts

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<v Speaker 2>are accused of not completing mandatory training. WBZTV's Luisa Muller

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<v Speaker 2>has to tail Ever.

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<v Speaker 3>The sworn police officer in Massachusetts is required to do

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<v Speaker 3>forty hours of training a year, much of it online

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<v Speaker 3>through a portal called acatus. But WBZ obtained this letter

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<v Speaker 3>sent to every police chief in the state. It says

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<v Speaker 3>the Municipal Police Training Committee, or MPTC, found officers skirting

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<v Speaker 3>the system. The letter states, quote, we have discovered instances

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<v Speaker 3>where trainings that should take hours to complete are finish

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<v Speaker 3>in a matter of minutes using techniques that override controls

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<v Speaker 3>meant to prevent fast forwarding through the training sources tel WBZ.

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<v Speaker 3>As of last week, EMPTC identified seventy officers in eleven

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<v Speaker 3>departments who had bypassed a CAADUS training. EMPTC is now

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<v Speaker 3>shut down the ACATUS portal while it investigates requiring all

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<v Speaker 3>training to be in person.

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<v Speaker 2>And the updated trainings for the police officers. They can

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<v Speaker 2>contain anything from new laws and guidelines to CPR training.

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<v Speaker 2>Abington Police chief meanwhile wants a former police officer with

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<v Speaker 2>his department meant desertified amid fallout from the Sandra Birchmore case.

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<v Speaker 2>This according to the Broughton Enterprise. Ex police officer Joshua

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<v Speaker 2>Heel resigned from Abington Police back in twenty twenty three.

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<v Speaker 2>Desertification would mean that he would be prohibited from working

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<v Speaker 2>in law enforcement. Three Stoton police officers are accused of

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<v Speaker 2>grooming Sandra Birchmore for sex when she was a minor.

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<v Speaker 2>One is accused of staging her alleged twenty twenty one

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<v Speaker 2>murder to look like a suicide. Heel's attorney claims that

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<v Speaker 2>his client was initially wrongfully implicated. Heel was dropped from

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<v Speaker 2>the case. President elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk

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<v Speaker 2>take their a fledgling partnership to new heights. Today, ABC's

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<v Speaker 2>Jim Ryan says, mister Trump will be on hand when

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<v Speaker 2>SpaceX launches a new rocket.

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<v Speaker 5>Donald Trump has made no secret of his admiration for

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<v Speaker 5>Elon Musk, is, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Characters, especially Guy as a super genius. We have to

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<v Speaker 1>protect geniuses. We don't have that many of them.

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<v Speaker 5>The weather and technology permitting, Trump plans to be in

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<v Speaker 5>Boca Chica, Texas for today's test launch of SpaceX Super

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<v Speaker 5>Heavy Booster from Elon Musk's starbase.

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<v Speaker 2>The President LEC has selected Musk to co lead a

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<v Speaker 2>new Department of Government Efficiency, along with businessmen Vivek Ramaswami.

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<v Speaker 2>You are now in the loop for news updates throughout

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio