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

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<v Speaker 2>We defining local news fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock.

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<v Speaker 2>Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The Federal

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<v Speaker 2>Reserve lowers interest rates today by a quarter point. That

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<v Speaker 2>should be good news, but they also said a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit about what might be coming up next year that

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<v Speaker 2>didn't amount to good news. In fact, really bad news.

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<v Speaker 2>Tracy Jonki joins us from Bloomberg. The market's just closed

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<v Speaker 2>and not a moment too soon.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the bolster really took his reaction to the Fed

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<v Speaker 3>to extremes. Here band the Dow dropping one thousand, one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and twenty three points two and a half percent,

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<v Speaker 3>the NASDAK sank seven hundred and sixteen points, the SMP

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<v Speaker 3>down one seventy nine. And as you said, it's not

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<v Speaker 3>the quarter percent rate cut today that investors objected to,

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<v Speaker 3>but a new FED inflation prediction two point five percent

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<v Speaker 3>next year, which would give the Fed cover for not

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<v Speaker 3>cutting much in twenty twenty five. His own forecast says

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<v Speaker 3>perhaps only two cuts all year.

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<v Speaker 2>Ben, all right, something to watch, and we of course

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<v Speaker 2>will be doing that here on WBZ. Keep it tuned.

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<v Speaker 2>Here for the latest updates on your money and also

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<v Speaker 2>streaming on the iHeartRadio app. We are following some breaking

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<v Speaker 2>news out of Pennsylvania right now. Luigi Mangioni has waived

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<v Speaker 2>extradition and could be returned to New York to face

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<v Speaker 2>charges as early as tomorrow. He is accused of gunning

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<v Speaker 2>down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a sidewalk in

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<v Speaker 2>Manhattan earlier this month. A judge in Pennsylvania must accept

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<v Speaker 2>the waiver. Mangioni also has a hearing set for tomorrow

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<v Speaker 2>on the charges that he faces in Pennsylvania after he

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<v Speaker 2>was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona. Yesterday. Grand Jury

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<v Speaker 2>and New York upgraded charges against Mangoni to include first

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<v Speaker 2>green murder as an act of terrorism. He's facing a

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<v Speaker 2>number of other charges in New York as well. TikTok

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<v Speaker 2>will get a day in court the US Supreme Court.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of a

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<v Speaker 2>federal law that could ban TikTok in the un US

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<v Speaker 2>if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. Arguments will

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<v Speaker 2>be heard on January tenth about whether the law restricts

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<v Speaker 2>speech in violation of the First Amendment. The law was

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<v Speaker 2>enacted in April. It's set for a deadline of January nineteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>It is unclear how quickly, though, the High Court might

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<v Speaker 2>issue a decision on this. House Ethics Committee reportedly voting

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<v Speaker 2>to release a report on former Florida Congressman Matt Gates.

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<v Speaker 2>ABC's Stephen Portnoy with more.

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<v Speaker 4>The decision is a reversal for the Ethics Panel, which

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<v Speaker 4>last month voted not to release the report since Matt

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<v Speaker 4>Gates is no longer a member of Congress. The Florida

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<v Speaker 4>Republican blasted the move online, saying he's been given no

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<v Speaker 4>opportunity to debate or rebut the report's conclusions. Gates resigned

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<v Speaker 4>to pursue a post as Attorney General in the next

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<v Speaker 4>Trump administration, but his nomination was sunk amid word that

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<v Speaker 4>the Ethics Committee found credible the allegations that Gates attended

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<v Speaker 4>drug fueled parties and had sex with minors.

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<v Speaker 2>The Gates has denied the allegations against him, and today responded.

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<v Speaker 2>He says I was charged with nothing fully exonerated, not

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<v Speaker 2>even a campaign finance violation. The people investigating me hated me.

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<v Speaker 2>Congressional leaders have released a short term government funding bill

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<v Speaker 2>to avert a shutdown at the end of the week.

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<v Speaker 5>The White House is urging Congress to pass the short

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<v Speaker 5>term funding bill, known as a Continuing Resolution or CR,

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<v Speaker 5>to keep the government open. The measure would fund the

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<v Speaker 5>government through March fourteenth, twenty twenty five, at current spending

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<v Speaker 5>levels and avert a shutdown at the end of Friday.

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<v Speaker 5>A White House budget spokesperson says the bill also delivers

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<v Speaker 5>urgently needed disaster relief one hundred billion dollars and fulfills

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<v Speaker 5>the administration's request from November. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.

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<v Speaker 2>Clouds tonight, rain tonight and then ending by sometime early

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<v Speaker 2>tomorrow morning. So we'll say in the early morning hours

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<v Speaker 2>the rain pushes out, the skies eventually start to clear tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 2>Temperatures overnight in the upper thirties, mid forties. Tomorrow we

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<v Speaker 2>will break out some sunshine. Once we push out the clouds,

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<v Speaker 2>it will become cloudy again though. Tomorrow night a low

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<v Speaker 2>of twenty nine and then clouds. On Friday, a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of snow showers around the south coast k Islands could

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<v Speaker 2>get in on. A couple of rain showers temperatures primarily

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<v Speaker 2>in the mid to upper thirties, maybe a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>forties around, and then on Saturday, no forties around will

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<v Speaker 2>be thirty for the high temperature, with a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>lingering flurries and some peaks of sunshine. Sunday really cold.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll struggle to get out of the teens in some places,

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<v Speaker 2>low twenties downtown for high temperatures fifty degrees Right now

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<v Speaker 2>in Boston, is it Christmas season or growing season? The

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<v Speaker 2>answer is yes. Wbc'shileshaffle tells us despite being almost winter,

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<v Speaker 2>some local farms are still growing crops.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a week till Christmas and fresh fields of green

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<v Speaker 1>might be farm from your mind, but the people at

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<v Speaker 1>Langwater Farm are still picking things even in winter. Greenhouse

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<v Speaker 1>manager Jake drove me out to see what's still in season.

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<v Speaker 6>And this is just a late kale planting that we're

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<v Speaker 6>still harvesting from.

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<v Speaker 1>As it turns out, with a little assistance, kale can

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<v Speaker 1>live out here all winter. A couple hundred feet away,

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<v Speaker 1>they're racing to pick the last of the spinach before

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<v Speaker 1>a brutal round of cold weather.

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<v Speaker 6>I mean, we've wailed on this pretty hard already, but

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<v Speaker 6>there's still plenty of good leads.

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<v Speaker 1>The winter crops here get put in storage and help

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<v Speaker 1>keep the farm afloat throughout the winter. He says these

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<v Speaker 1>crops actually taste sweeter after the cold, and growing at

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<v Speaker 1>this time of year is also partly ideology.

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<v Speaker 6>Philosophically, it's kind of important. I mean, we try to

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<v Speaker 6>promote local food systems, and so we want to be

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<v Speaker 6>able to provide people with food year round.

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<v Speaker 1>Kyle Schaffel to be Busy Boston's News Radio from Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>Trees to the Ocean State.

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<v Speaker 2>Ocean State job Lot announces it's taking over a third

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<v Speaker 2>former Christmas Tree shops in Massachusetts. CBS News Boston reports

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<v Speaker 2>the Rhode Island based discount retail chain will open its

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<v Speaker 2>fifty third Massachusetts store in North Attleborough after they bought

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<v Speaker 2>the Cumberland Crossing shopping center. A promitting Boston official the

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<v Speaker 2>latest critic of a proposal to renovate White Stadium more

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<v Speaker 2>from WBC's James Rohasta.

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<v Speaker 7>Counselor Ed Flynn says the proposal needs to be canceled.

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<v Speaker 7>He cites the growing costs of the White Stadium renovation project,

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<v Speaker 7>currently sitting at ninety one million dollars BPS. Superintendent Mary

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<v Speaker 7>Skipper hasn't seen Flynn's steainmen, but says the current proposal

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<v Speaker 7>offers women and young athletes a unique opportunity to.

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<v Speaker 8>Know that we're going to have a state of the

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<v Speaker 8>art pro soccer stadium in that they are going to

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<v Speaker 8>stay invested with us in the BPS for our athletes.

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<v Speaker 6>Those are just all.

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<v Speaker 8>Things that our kids need and they've needed for a

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<v Speaker 8>long time, and so we really welcome that opportunity and

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<v Speaker 8>hope that fundamentally we can all support it so that

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<v Speaker 8>our kids get what they need.

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<v Speaker 7>Counselor Flynn says the city should work together with residents

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<v Speaker 7>and stakeholders to provide the best option. JP James Rojas,

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<v Speaker 7>WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio