July 18, 2025 • 6 mins
The death toll in the Fall River assisted living facility fire has dropped to 9. It could take a while forJeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts to come out. We're hearing from a North Andover officer shot by colleagues. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seventy nine degrees in Boston, partly cloudy, much more comfortable today.
It is four o'clock and you know what you made
it to Friday. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis.
Here is what's happening. Investigators satting might have found the
cause of the fire that killed nine people in Fall
River at an assisted living facility back on Sunday. Here
is CBS's Michael Wallace.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Sour to say the fire may have been started by
someone smoking near an oxygen tank.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Will you do out? There's a whole huge fire.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Fall River Police Department has released bodycam videos of
its officers rushing into the burning building to save residents.
They kicked indoors looking for victims and carried some out,
all while not wearing any masks. Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
That was absolutely amazing what I watched them do.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That's not their job, that's not their comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now, the death toll is back to nine after earlier
today the Bristol County DA's office as a victim who
had been reported dead is still alive in critical condition.
They say this was the result of a miscommunication with
a medical facility for one. President Trump says, Attorney General
Pam Bondi will be requesting all grand jury transcripts connected
(01:22):
to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations. ABC's Karen Travers has more
on what that process could look like.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What happens next could be a pretty lengthy process. This
is all subject to that court approval. They'll have to
go to the federal judge in the Southern District of
New York and ask for that review because this grand
jury testimony, of course, had been sealed, and they have
to look at how this potentially could have an impact
on the victims, and how this impacts anybody that had testified,
and the process that played out behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This comes after The Wall Street Journal reported President Trump
sent a crude letter to Epstein as part of his
fiftieth birthday celebrations, among other things, featuring a drawing of
a naked woman. The President threatening to soothe the Wall
Street Journal if this story was published, calling it a fake.
We are now hearing from the Northandover police officers shot
last month by her colleagues as they served her a
(02:10):
restraining order. In her home. Kelsey Fitzsimmons is recovering at
a hospital in Boston after she was shot in the chest.
Court documents show her fiance got the restraining order against
her to take full custody of their child. He says
he was worried that Kelsey Fitzsimmons would harm the boys.
She struggled with postpartum depression now. Fitz Simmons, in a
new statement, says when she was served, in her words,
(02:32):
she didn't want to live after her whole world was
turned upside down. She says she handed over her son
to officers before walking into her bedroom with her gun
to try and take her own life, and that's when
she says she was shot. Fitz Simmons says she's being
made out to seem like a monster by somebody she
thought understood her. She claims she never aimed her gun
at her colleagues, but she is facing several charges, including
(02:54):
armed assault to murder. Fitzimmons has been suspended from the
Northandover Police Force. Looking ahead to the forecast for the
rest of the night, we are in good shape. It's
not nearly as sticky and you know, oppressively humid as
it was the past couple of days. Dew points are
significantly down, so if you've got plans out there tonight, enjoy.
We'll get down to about sixty five in Boston. Nice
(03:15):
and cool for this time of year, fifties if you're
camping north and west of the city, especially in the
mountains and in the Worcester Hills. Now for tomorrow, looking good,
sun and clouds, great beach day, low, humidity high near
eighty five for tomorrow night, the mugginess comes back in
with a couple of showers and storms alone near seventy.
Sunday is humid with a mix of sun and clouds,
(03:36):
a few showers and storms from time to time, and
a high year eighty five eighty one degrees in Taunton
right now, seeing seventy nine in Westborough, north of Boston.
Looking at seventy nine in Lawrence. In Boston right now
at four oh five, it's eighty and partly cloudy. Lawmakers
in East Boston today heard first hand stories about food insecurity.
(03:56):
Here's wbz's Jay will Att. Open up new fridge, say
to that baby that you don't have any actually suck
to Just let her pay whatever she needs to.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Pick around the microphone goes to East Boston residents who
share how they struggle to stalk the fridge.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We have the food, we know what to do, we
have the infrastructure, we have everything, but the political will.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Congressman Jim McGovern and Congresswoman Aana Pressley hold this discussion
with food banks and charities like law Collaborativa, East Farm
and Project Bread. They hope to bring stories heard here
to DC and fight back against cots to snap benefits.
They are not failing. The systems have failed down President
and CEO of Project Bred Aaron McLear.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And that's what we need to do in mathachusentss reverse
those failures.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Trump's big Ugly Bill is a big famible finger to
our constituents and to struggling people all throughout this country.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And we have to fight back.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And East Boston. J Willette WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
This comes as President Trump is set to sign a
bill that takes back nine billion dollars worth of money
that was set for public broadcasting and foreign a The
money had already been set CBS's Lana Zaxis. The cuts
will hit American farmers who provide food for USAID.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
In the budget bill, in particular the inheritance tax, which
is a big issue for farmers who want to pass
on their land to future generations. They were excited about that. However,
they're worried about additional bankruptcies happening as a result of
these cuts to foreign food aid. All those crops coming
from farmers here in the United States. If they aren't
(05:29):
able to turn a profit, and they actually have to
increase the number of farms going into bankruptcy, they won't
be able to exist to pass it on to future generation.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That the Precisions Package rather was narrowly approved by the
House and at four oh seven. Fans of The Late
Show on CBS are not too happy. Today is after
host Stephen Colbert announced he's being taken off the air
in a matter of months.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Stephen Colbert made the announcement during Thursday's live taping.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Next year will be our last season.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It comes days after he spoke out again CBS's parent company,
Paramount settling with President Trump over a sixty minute story.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government
official has a technical name in legal circles.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It's big fat bribe.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No one else is getting the job. The company says
we'll retire the late show franchise and calls it purely
a financial decision. Matt Piper, CBS News New York.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Nicole Davis WBZ in Boston's news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seventy nine degrees in Boston, partly cloudy, much more comfortable today.
It is four o'clock and you know what you made
it to Friday. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis.
Here is what's happening. Investigators satting might have found the
cause of the fire that killed nine people in Fall
River at an assisted living facility back on Sunday. Here
is CBS's Michael Wallace.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Sour to say the fire may have been started by
someone smoking near an oxygen tank.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Will you do out? There's a whole huge fire.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Fall River Police Department has released bodycam videos of
its officers rushing into the burning building to save residents.
They kicked indoors looking for victims and carried some out,
all while not wearing any masks. Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
That was absolutely amazing what I watched them do.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That's not their job, that's not their comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now, the death toll is back to nine after earlier
today the Bristol County DA's office as a victim who
had been reported dead is still alive in critical condition.
They say this was the result of a miscommunication with
a medical facility for one. President Trump says, Attorney General
Pam Bondi will be requesting all grand jury transcripts connected
(01:22):
to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations. ABC's Karen Travers has more
on what that process could look like.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What happens next could be a pretty lengthy process. This
is all subject to that court approval. They'll have to
go to the federal judge in the Southern District of
New York and ask for that review because this grand
jury testimony, of course, had been sealed, and they have
to look at how this potentially could have an impact
on the victims, and how this impacts anybody that had testified,
and the process that played out behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This comes after The Wall Street Journal reported President Trump
sent a crude letter to Epstein as part of his
fiftieth birthday celebrations, among other things, featuring a drawing of
a naked woman. The President threatening to soothe the Wall
Street Journal if this story was published, calling it a fake.
We are now hearing from the Northandover police officers shot
last month by her colleagues as they served her a
(02:10):
restraining order. In her home. Kelsey Fitzsimmons is recovering at
a hospital in Boston after she was shot in the chest.
Court documents show her fiance got the restraining order against
her to take full custody of their child. He says
he was worried that Kelsey Fitzsimmons would harm the boys.
She struggled with postpartum depression now. Fitz Simmons, in a
new statement, says when she was served, in her words,
(02:32):
she didn't want to live after her whole world was
turned upside down. She says she handed over her son
to officers before walking into her bedroom with her gun
to try and take her own life, and that's when
she says she was shot. Fitz Simmons says she's being
made out to seem like a monster by somebody she
thought understood her. She claims she never aimed her gun
at her colleagues, but she is facing several charges, including
(02:54):
armed assault to murder. Fitzimmons has been suspended from the
Northandover Police Force. Looking ahead to the forecast for the
rest of the night, we are in good shape. It's
not nearly as sticky and you know, oppressively humid as
it was the past couple of days. Dew points are
significantly down, so if you've got plans out there tonight, enjoy.
We'll get down to about sixty five in Boston. Nice
(03:15):
and cool for this time of year, fifties if you're
camping north and west of the city, especially in the
mountains and in the Worcester Hills. Now for tomorrow, looking good,
sun and clouds, great beach day, low, humidity high near
eighty five for tomorrow night, the mugginess comes back in
with a couple of showers and storms alone near seventy.
Sunday is humid with a mix of sun and clouds,
(03:36):
a few showers and storms from time to time, and
a high year eighty five eighty one degrees in Taunton
right now, seeing seventy nine in Westborough, north of Boston.
Looking at seventy nine in Lawrence. In Boston right now
at four oh five, it's eighty and partly cloudy. Lawmakers
in East Boston today heard first hand stories about food insecurity.
(03:56):
Here's wbz's Jay will Att. Open up new fridge, say
to that baby that you don't have any actually suck
to Just let her pay whatever she needs to.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Pick around the microphone goes to East Boston residents who
share how they struggle to stalk the fridge.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We have the food, we know what to do, we
have the infrastructure, we have everything, but the political will.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Congressman Jim McGovern and Congresswoman Aana Pressley hold this discussion
with food banks and charities like law Collaborativa, East Farm
and Project Bread. They hope to bring stories heard here
to DC and fight back against cots to snap benefits.
They are not failing. The systems have failed down President
and CEO of Project Bred Aaron McLear.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And that's what we need to do in mathachusentss reverse
those failures.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Trump's big Ugly Bill is a big famible finger to
our constituents and to struggling people all throughout this country.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And we have to fight back.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And East Boston. J Willette WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
This comes as President Trump is set to sign a
bill that takes back nine billion dollars worth of money
that was set for public broadcasting and foreign a The
money had already been set CBS's Lana Zaxis. The cuts
will hit American farmers who provide food for USAID.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
In the budget bill, in particular the inheritance tax, which
is a big issue for farmers who want to pass
on their land to future generations. They were excited about that. However,
they're worried about additional bankruptcies happening as a result of
these cuts to foreign food aid. All those crops coming
from farmers here in the United States. If they aren't
(05:29):
able to turn a profit, and they actually have to
increase the number of farms going into bankruptcy, they won't
be able to exist to pass it on to future generation.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That the Precisions Package rather was narrowly approved by the
House and at four oh seven. Fans of The Late
Show on CBS are not too happy. Today is after
host Stephen Colbert announced he's being taken off the air
in a matter of months.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Stephen Colbert made the announcement during Thursday's live taping.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Next year will be our last season.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It comes days after he spoke out again CBS's parent company,
Paramount settling with President Trump over a sixty minute story.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government
official has a technical name in legal circles.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It's big fat bribe.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No one else is getting the job. The company says
we'll retire the late show franchise and calls it purely
a financial decision. Matt Piper, CBS News New York.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Nicole Davis WBZ in Boston's news radio
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