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

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<v Speaker 2>News forty two 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. White House Special Envoy

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<v Speaker 2>Steve Witkoff is in Moscow today talking with Russian President

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<v Speaker 2>Vladimir Putin. This is the first todd the US is

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<v Speaker 2>talking with Russia sent Ukraine agreed to a thirty day

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<v Speaker 2>cease fire proposal. More in the latest from ABC's Karen Trappers.

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<v Speaker 3>Russian President Vladimir Putin has put out a quote very

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<v Speaker 3>promising statement on a ceasefire with Ukraine, but he said

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<v Speaker 3>it was incomplete.

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<v Speaker 4>We're getting words that things are going okay in Russia

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<v Speaker 4>and doesn't mean anything until we hear what the final

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<v Speaker 4>outcome is. But they have very serious discussions going on

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<v Speaker 4>right now with President Putin and others.

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<v Speaker 3>Putin said Thursday Russia is for the proposed thirty day ceasefire,

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<v Speaker 3>but has concerns. President Trump said there's not much time

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<v Speaker 3>to reach deal given the ongoing fighting and casualties. Karen

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<v Speaker 3>Travers ABC News. The White House.

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<v Speaker 2>Federal judge in California ordering the Trump administration to reinstate

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<v Speaker 2>thousands of probationary workers let go in mass firings across

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<v Speaker 2>multiple agencies. The judge found the firings didn't follow federal

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<v Speaker 2>law and required immediate offers of reinstatement to be sent.

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<v Speaker 2>The agencies include the Department of Veterans, Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy,

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<v Speaker 2>and the Interior and Treasury. The order from the San

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<v Speaker 2>Francisco based judge came in a lawsuit filed by a

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<v Speaker 2>coalition of labor unions and organization as the administration moves

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<v Speaker 2>to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. Efforts by the Trump

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<v Speaker 2>administration to change up and reduce the Department of Education

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<v Speaker 2>has been met with pushback across the country. Now, a

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<v Speaker 2>group of attorneys general, including Massachusetts ag Andrea Campbell, have sued.

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<v Speaker 5>On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced it would be

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<v Speaker 5>eliminating nearly half of its workforce, terminating nearly two thousand employees.

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<v Speaker 5>The Trump administration has made it crystal clear that its

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<v Speaker 5>in goal is to dismantle the department and that these

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<v Speaker 5>terminations will help do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Through a lawsuit filed in the U. S. District Court

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<v Speaker 2>from Massachusetts, the coalition sieks a court order to stop

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<v Speaker 2>the Trump Administration's policies when it comes to DOE and

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<v Speaker 2>the cutting of workforce and programs. The coalition argues that

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<v Speaker 2>by drastically reducing its workforce, the department will be unable

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<v Speaker 2>to perform functions mandated by statute. The Trump administration has

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<v Speaker 2>said in the past it recognizes that parents, not the government,

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<v Speaker 2>play a fundamental role in choosing and directing the upbringing

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<v Speaker 2>and education of their children. The colin A Mulligan for

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<v Speaker 2>the Trump administration, they have pulled their nominee to lead

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<v Speaker 2>the CDC.

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<v Speaker 3>The White House has pulled the nomination of Dave Weldon,

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<v Speaker 3>a former Florida congressman who was President Trump's pick to

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<v Speaker 3>lead the Centers for Disease Control, just hours before his

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<v Speaker 3>scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. That's according to multiple sources familiar

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<v Speaker 3>with the decision. When he was nominated last year, Weldon,

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<v Speaker 3>a longtime vaccine skeptic, was championed by allies of Health

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<v Speaker 3>and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior Karen Travers

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<v Speaker 3>ab See News the White House.

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<v Speaker 2>Coming up on WBZ. Lots of birds across the United

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<v Speaker 2>States aren't doing that well. We've got some clouds around

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<v Speaker 2>as we head into the evening, so we'll be partly

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<v Speaker 2>to mostly cloudy tonight. You may have to do a

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<v Speaker 2>little ducking and dodging to try to find that lunar eclipse.

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<v Speaker 2>Later on, we'll see if maybe a few open spots

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<v Speaker 2>in the sky pop up. Temperatures tonight about thirty in

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<v Speaker 2>areas north and west of town, thirty seven at the coast.

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<v Speaker 2>Clouds break for sun tomorrow forty six. In Boston we'll

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<v Speaker 2>get into the low fifties, though well inland. By Saturday

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<v Speaker 2>we're near sixty degrees with mostly cloudy skies and a

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<v Speaker 2>bit of a breeze. On Sunday we'll be into the sixties,

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<v Speaker 2>low sixties, at least there will be a wind around.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of the gusts could be forty miles an hour.

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<v Speaker 2>And then we get some rain in here later on

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<v Speaker 2>in the day and into Sunday night, and at some

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<v Speaker 2>point Sunday night overnight into Monday, that rain could become

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<v Speaker 2>pretty heavy and even a few thunderstorms mixed. In forty

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<v Speaker 2>two degrees right now in Boston, there's a new report

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<v Speaker 2>and it's for the birds, Oh really it is, And

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<v Speaker 2>a consortium of scientific and conservation organizations have worries about

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<v Speaker 2>the decline of the nation's bird populations.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the song of the Salt Marsh sparrow, one of

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<v Speaker 1>forty two Red alert species facing dangerously low populations. According

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<v Speaker 1>to the twenty twenty five State of the Birds Report.

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<v Speaker 1>Experts like Commanda Rotawalald at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology say

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<v Speaker 1>it and others are at risk without immediate intervention. She

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<v Speaker 1>says grasslands birds have.

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<v Speaker 3>Declined by forty three percent since nineteen seventy.

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<v Speaker 1>Rohotawalld says habitat loss is partly to blame, and humans

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<v Speaker 1>need to remember if conditions are healthy for birds, they're

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<v Speaker 1>unlikely to be healthy for US. Allison Key CBS News.

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<v Speaker 2>The twenty twenty five State of the Birds Report was

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<v Speaker 2>produced by entities led by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative.

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<v Speaker 2>The US Department of Agricultures announced plants to spend one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred million dollars to study bird flu and consider vaccines

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<v Speaker 2>and other strategies to fight the disease in concert with meat, chicken,

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<v Speaker 2>and egg and turkey groups. Chicken meat producers remain the

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<v Speaker 2>most resistant to fact scenes. Officials say it could mean

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<v Speaker 2>suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens,

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<v Speaker 2>which has ledisroaring egg prices. A move to Vaccin eight

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<v Speaker 2>has been delayed in part because of those concerns. Chicken

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<v Speaker 2>exporters are worried it could jeopardize the exports that totaled

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<v Speaker 2>nearly four point seven billion dollars last year. Wheeling out

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<v Speaker 2>the classics, several dozen cars and trucks that are part

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<v Speaker 2>of Ford's rarely seen heritage fleet are going on display.

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<v Speaker 6>Some employees in the media have gotten a sneak peak,

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<v Speaker 6>but come bring your child a workday at Ford's Dearborn,

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<v Speaker 6>Michigan headquarters, on full display vehicles including a series of

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<v Speaker 6>Mustang performance vehicles, a nineteen thirty eight V eight ambulance,

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<v Speaker 6>and a twenty oh three Model T one hundred that

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<v Speaker 6>is a replica of a nineteen fourteen model Te Ted Ryan,

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<v Speaker 6>Ford's heritage brand manager, says this is the first time

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<v Speaker 6>these vehicles have been assembled and shown like this.

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<v Speaker 2>About as CBS's Jennifer Kuiper, nearly three decades after she

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<v Speaker 2>took the reins of the fashion label founded by her

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<v Speaker 2>late brother, Honatella Versace, is moving aside Madame.

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<v Speaker 7>There had been speculation after last month's fall Winter fashion

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<v Speaker 7>show in Milan that this would be Dona Tella Versaci's

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<v Speaker 7>last collection. Its skin tight, wildly colored leggings and structured

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<v Speaker 7>jackets liberally quoted her beloved brother Johnny, and now she's

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<v Speaker 7>confirmed it herself. The sixty nine year old who took

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<v Speaker 7>over the label after Johnny's nineteen ninety seven murder, is

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<v Speaker 7>stepping down to focus on philanthropic interests and to promote

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<v Speaker 7>the brand in different ways. Vicki Barker, CBS News London.

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