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

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<v Speaker 1>sixty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.

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<v Speaker 2>It was expected, but what wasn't known is how far

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<v Speaker 2>the Fed would go in terms of cutting interest rates. Today,

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<v Speaker 2>well now we know a half point ABC's Derek Dennis

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<v Speaker 2>has the tails.

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<v Speaker 3>The half point cut is larger than a quarter point

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<v Speaker 3>cut many analysts had expected, and it signals an aggressive

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<v Speaker 3>move by the Fed and its ongoing effort to tamp

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<v Speaker 3>down on inflation. Many say it's a real milestone for

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<v Speaker 3>the US economy, of victory in a sense because it

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<v Speaker 3>could start a trend by the Fed to gradually lower

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<v Speaker 3>interest rates over the next year. Car and mortgage loans,

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<v Speaker 3>credit card interest all expected to get cheaper with this

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<v Speaker 3>Federal Reserve rate cut, Derek Dennis, ABC News.

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<v Speaker 2>Right after the rate cut was announced this afternoon at

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<v Speaker 2>two o'clock, the stock market took off. In fact that

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<v Speaker 2>that was up well over three hundred points for a time,

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<v Speaker 2>and then somebody turned things around and hit the brakes

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<v Speaker 2>and by the time the thing was all over today

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<v Speaker 2>just two hours later, all of the major indexes were lower.

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<v Speaker 2>The Dow in fact lost one hundred and three points today.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll get details coming up with Bloomberg introw oday watching

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<v Speaker 2>all of it for you and don't forget you can

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<v Speaker 2>Lebanon remains under fire, not for missiles or tanks, but

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<v Speaker 2>from electronic devices. Multiple explosions hit different parts of the

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<v Speaker 2>country today.

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<v Speaker 4>Nervous people milling around on the streets of a route

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<v Speaker 4>after another wave of text, this time targeting walkie talkies.

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<v Speaker 4>One of the detonations at the site of a funeral

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<v Speaker 4>for three HESBELA members and a child killed by exploding

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<v Speaker 4>pagers the day before.

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<v Speaker 2>Devices hit today were part.

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<v Speaker 4>Of the group's emergency communication system, which was supposed to

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<v Speaker 4>be used during a war with Israel. Tom rivers ABC

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<v Speaker 4>News at the Foreign Desk.

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<v Speaker 2>As the Karen Reid legal saga continues, the Commonwealth is

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<v Speaker 2>adding to its team. Details from wbz's Brooke McCarthy.

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<v Speaker 5>The retrial of Karen Reid is set for January of

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<v Speaker 5>next year, and the Commonwealth is adding another attorney to

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<v Speaker 5>their team. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey says special Assistant

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<v Speaker 5>DA Hank Brennan will lead the Commonwealth's case against Karen Reid.

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<v Speaker 5>He will join Adya Adam Lally, who was the lead

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<v Speaker 5>prosecutor for the first trial, and the rest of their team.

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<v Speaker 5>The DA's office says Attorney Brennan has over twenty five

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<v Speaker 5>years of experience in an expertise in handling complex law

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<v Speaker 5>enforcement matters. In a statement, Brennan says he aims to

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<v Speaker 5>make sure the facts surrounding John O'Keefe's death are fully

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<v Speaker 5>and fairly aired in the courtroom. This comes as lawyers

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<v Speaker 5>for Reid are appealing to the state's highest court to

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<v Speaker 5>get two of the three charges against her dropped on

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<v Speaker 5>the grounds of double jeopardy. As of right now, she

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<v Speaker 5>will face a second trial on all three charges. Brooke

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<v Speaker 5>McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Gas in brocktonner looking for the man responsible for sexually

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<v Speaker 2>assaulting a thirteen year old girl. Please say that girl

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<v Speaker 2>was walking home home from West Middle School yesterday. That's

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<v Speaker 2>when a man approached her on West Elm Street, nearly

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<v Speaker 2>a mile from the school. Rockton's Public Schools interim superintendent

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<v Speaker 2>says schools aren't working closely with police and they're asking

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<v Speaker 2>students to remain vigilant and report anything concerning to an adult. Tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll start it off with some rain and showers. A

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<v Speaker 2>little bit later on south coast Capean Islands, we'll get

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<v Speaker 2>in on a little bit of rain. Closer to Boston.

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<v Speaker 2>It appears late tonight, so we could get some wetness

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<v Speaker 2>in the city, but a lot of it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be off toward our south, and then a cloudy, breezy

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<v Speaker 2>day tomorrow, occasional rain, steadiest south of the mass Pike,

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<v Speaker 2>temperatures close to seventy more rain, a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>a wind around Tomorrow night as well, a low of

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<v Speaker 2>sixty two, and then some more rain for Friday, with

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<v Speaker 2>clouds and windy conditions. Temperatures in the upper sixties, probably

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<v Speaker 2>mid sixties is going to do it for most of us.

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<v Speaker 2>On Saturday. We'll still have clouds of breeze and a

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<v Speaker 2>few showers around. Right now, it is sixty seven degrees

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<v Speaker 2>in Boston. The big EA is back in West Springfield,

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<v Speaker 2>and few are happier than the guy who has to

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<v Speaker 2>clean the toilets. Yeah, the toilet guy with the busy

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<v Speaker 2>is Matt Sure as his story so.

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<v Speaker 6>You're walking around the Biggie. You just put back a

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<v Speaker 6>bacon cheeseburger with waffles for buns, and now you need

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<v Speaker 6>to make a pit stop. You walk into the bathroom

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<v Speaker 6>and there's a dude with a microphone singing his heart out.

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<v Speaker 2>You see, my name is Chris, is my bathroom, and

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<v Speaker 2>I make using a bathroom a pleasant experience.

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<v Speaker 6>As a bathroom attendant, all Chris really has to do

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<v Speaker 6>is keep an eye on it, but he goes above

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<v Speaker 6>and beyond.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody decorates the bathrooms like I do. I put flowers

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<v Speaker 2>in the.

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<v Speaker 6>Air, also lights, streamers, plastic butterflies, and of course his

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<v Speaker 6>signature karaoke machine. Unusual maybe, but to Chris, it's about

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<v Speaker 6>making the most of a stinky situation.

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<v Speaker 3>No matter what job you get in life, get a

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<v Speaker 3>job that you enjoy and in the long run, it.

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<v Speaker 6>Pays off from the best bathroom at the Biggie. Matt

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<v Speaker 6>Shearer WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to check out more of Matt's adventures,

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<v Speaker 2>including his bathroom adventures, check out our TikTok after with

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<v Speaker 2>the BZ News Radio. A new feature is being rolled

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<v Speaker 2>out by Uber. This one. They say we'll make drivers Safe.

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<v Speaker 7>For Kuber is out with a new rider verification system.

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<v Speaker 7>It works by having users take a photo of their

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<v Speaker 7>ID and then a selfie. After that, the app will

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<v Speaker 7>match the two pictures and assign a blue check mark

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<v Speaker 7>to the profile. CEO Dara Kosvershahi tells ABC News it's

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<v Speaker 7>designed to boost safety on the app amid several recent

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<v Speaker 7>attacks on drivers.

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<v Speaker 6>Late night, et cetera. If you have a verified badge,

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<v Speaker 6>you have an advantage over someone who might not be verified.

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<v Speaker 2>Mike Debaski, ABC News. You see him everywhere when you're driving. Guardrails,

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<v Speaker 2>turns out many of them may not guard enough depending

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<v Speaker 2>on your vehicle. New crash tests of electric vehicles point

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<v Speaker 2>to guardrails on America's roads that are typically tested against

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<v Speaker 2>vehicles weighing up to five thousand pounds, but many electric

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<v Speaker 2>vehicles weigh up to thirty percent more, and some of

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<v Speaker 2>the guardrails may not hold.

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<v Speaker 8>Up, University of Nebraska professor Cody Stoley.

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<v Speaker 9>Unfortunately, these guardrail systems, which have performed very well with

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<v Speaker 9>gasoline vehicles historically, do not appear to be containing electric

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<v Speaker 9>vehicles when impacting with similar types of conditions.

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<v Speaker 8>In July, Shuley's team ran this seven thousand pound electric

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<v Speaker 8>pickup into concrete barriers commonly used as freeway medians at

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<v Speaker 8>sixty two miles an hour, Weighing two thousand pounds more

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<v Speaker 8>than a gas powered pickup. The barriers contain the collision,

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<v Speaker 8>but chunks of concrete were sent flying.

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<v Speaker 2>That is CBS's Chris Van Cleeve. You are now in

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<v Speaker 2>the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to

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<v Speaker 2>WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ,

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