October 24, 2025 • 6 mins
There's been a deadly crane collapse in Everett. Local aid groups are scrambling, with the threat of a halt to SNAP benefits. Treasury workers are asked not to take photos of the White House ballroom project. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. I'll already say one
person has died after a crane collapses into the water
in Everett. Another person also injured in the incident about
two thirty this afternoon by Rover Street. Police said earlier
(00:28):
one person had been taken to the hospital the city's
fire chiefs as a rescue operation was underway and the
cause of the collapses under investigation. Police say osha has
been reported this incident to them. We're hearing from groups
fighting hunger in Massachusetts. Federal food benefits threatened to halt
(00:48):
those benefits.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Jhn Lemmerman with Project Bread says every day they get
calls on their hotline from people struggling to buy food,
and this week in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Particular, where you're hearing something.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
New, fear, fear, with no clear answer as to whether
snap funds will keep going out next month. Nonprofit leaders
stood alongside Senator Markey and Congresswoman Presley as they call
on Republicans to budge on a spending bill. A call
echoed right back at them.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So let's sea clear.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is not an inevitable consequence of the shutdown. It
is a political choice and one that's to be reversed today.
If the agg Department releases contingency funds. The Trump administration
says they can't afford it. Beacon Hill says they can't
afford it, but Governor Healey now says she is working
with food banks to try and find a way to
meet the need. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No pictures please, that's the call from the Trump administration
when it comes to photos of the demolition of the
White House East Wing.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The Treasury Department is next door to the White House,
and the people who work there have a good view
of the demolition side, which is part of President Trump's
White House Ballroom project. A fresh email to the Treasury
staff has once again urged them to refrain from taking pictures.
It says photos might inadvertently reveal sensitives security information. The
email also urged staff to ask guests not to take
(02:04):
pictures either.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Matters CBS is Linda Kenyon trade talks terminated. Canada's Prime minister,
though says his country stands ready to resume talks with
the US after President Trump shut things down.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
As fate would have it, Prime Minister Mark Karney spoke
just before boarding a plane for his first official visit
to Asia, where he hopes to deepen trade ties. Carney
says Canada and the US have made a lot of
progress on trade regarding steel, aluminum, and energy, and his
country is ready to build on that progress when the
US is ready to talk again. President Trump cut off
the talks after the government of Ontario released an ad
(02:35):
featuring former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Only work for a little while and hurt every American.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
In the meantime, Ontario's Premier Doug Ford says he'll pull
that tariff's ad that caused the rift. The US is
sending a military aircraft carrier to the waters off South America.
The pedagone says the USS Gerald R. Ford and its
Strike Group would be ready to deploy to the US
South Command region in order to bolster US capacity to detect, monitor,
(03:03):
and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety
and prosperity of the United States. All this comes after
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military had carried out
a tenth strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs.
That strike in the Caribbean killed six. We've had a
couple of showers around, not in the Boston area, but
off to the west, out into central and western Massachusetts.
(03:25):
They're very widely scattered, but they're still there showing up
on the radar, and as we head through the rest
of the afternoon and into the evening, we could still
pick up a stray shower in a couple of spots.
Later on we clear out and it'll be on the
cooler side. Thirties in the suburbs, forty four in Boston tonight,
more some than clouds. Tomorrow will stay dry though, fifty
six for the high. Some clouds tomorrow night, a low
(03:47):
forty five down to the thirties in the suburbs, and
then a rather chilly day, just the shade under what
it should feel like this time of year. Fifty four
for the high on Sunday, with a couple of sunny
breaks and some sun did on Monday, more clouds around
and maybe a shower. Fifty three. Right now it is
fifty nine degrees in Boston. In the good old days,
(04:08):
there were lots of things that were different, but one
thing remains the same, the good old cold. On the Common,
a colonial era apothecary shop is set up to help
the colonists serve ball.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It serves as an in your face reminder that yes,
the common cold season is here.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Colder outside, everyone's staying inside more passing those colds around.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Emily Martin Enter team at Zycam set up this apothecary
shop fit with free samples and hot ciders served by
bartenders dressed in Patriot guards.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Were all here giving samples of our short cough remedy.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
There was also a horse. It's pairing with the company's
new power of your themed marketing that indeed from the
common jwell at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You can see more on our Instagram and TikTok always
at WBZ News Radio. I guess you could call them
the first Americans, sort of. There's a new report on
dinosaur fossils found in what is now the western US.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Your research on fossils in northern New Mexico suggests that
dinosaurs worth thriving in North America before the asteroid strike
sixty six million years ago that caused mass extinction. The
fossils date the dinosaurs four hundred thousand years before the asteroid,
and differences between species found in New Mexico and Montana
suggest diverse dinosaur communities existed. Scientists have long debated whether
(05:33):
dinosaurs were in decline long before the ultimate end. The
new findings are in the journal Science. Steve Kaithan, CBS
News Get ready for a little extra dancing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Turns out the little asteroid that's become a moonlet to
our moon's going to be sticking around, perhaps until after
you're long gone. The asteroid twenty twenty five P seven's
been hanging out with our planet and the Moon for
the past several decades. It did, however, manage to avoid
detection for a while. When it comes to our little friend,
the Globe reports fear not. John g And forty, director
(06:10):
of the University of New Hampshire Observatory, says they hang
relatively close to us, but there's no chance of it
colliding with us or the Moon. Astronomers do estimate that
PN seven will stick around until twenty eighty three. Good
luck seeing it then. You are now in the loop
(06:30):
for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WDZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's
news radio
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. I'll already say one
person has died after a crane collapses into the water
in Everett. Another person also injured in the incident about
two thirty this afternoon by Rover Street. Police said earlier
(00:28):
one person had been taken to the hospital the city's
fire chiefs as a rescue operation was underway and the
cause of the collapses under investigation. Police say osha has
been reported this incident to them. We're hearing from groups
fighting hunger in Massachusetts. Federal food benefits threatened to halt
(00:48):
those benefits.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Jhn Lemmerman with Project Bread says every day they get
calls on their hotline from people struggling to buy food,
and this week in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Particular, where you're hearing something.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
New, fear, fear, with no clear answer as to whether
snap funds will keep going out next month. Nonprofit leaders
stood alongside Senator Markey and Congresswoman Presley as they call
on Republicans to budge on a spending bill. A call
echoed right back at them.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So let's sea clear.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is not an inevitable consequence of the shutdown. It
is a political choice and one that's to be reversed today.
If the agg Department releases contingency funds. The Trump administration
says they can't afford it. Beacon Hill says they can't
afford it, but Governor Healey now says she is working
with food banks to try and find a way to
meet the need. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No pictures please, that's the call from the Trump administration
when it comes to photos of the demolition of the
White House East Wing.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The Treasury Department is next door to the White House,
and the people who work there have a good view
of the demolition side, which is part of President Trump's
White House Ballroom project. A fresh email to the Treasury
staff has once again urged them to refrain from taking pictures.
It says photos might inadvertently reveal sensitives security information. The
email also urged staff to ask guests not to take
(02:04):
pictures either.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Matters CBS is Linda Kenyon trade talks terminated. Canada's Prime minister,
though says his country stands ready to resume talks with
the US after President Trump shut things down.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
As fate would have it, Prime Minister Mark Karney spoke
just before boarding a plane for his first official visit
to Asia, where he hopes to deepen trade ties. Carney
says Canada and the US have made a lot of
progress on trade regarding steel, aluminum, and energy, and his
country is ready to build on that progress when the
US is ready to talk again. President Trump cut off
the talks after the government of Ontario released an ad
(02:35):
featuring former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Only work for a little while and hurt every American.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
In the meantime, Ontario's Premier Doug Ford says he'll pull
that tariff's ad that caused the rift. The US is
sending a military aircraft carrier to the waters off South America.
The pedagone says the USS Gerald R. Ford and its
Strike Group would be ready to deploy to the US
South Command region in order to bolster US capacity to detect, monitor,
(03:03):
and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety
and prosperity of the United States. All this comes after
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military had carried out
a tenth strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs.
That strike in the Caribbean killed six. We've had a
couple of showers around, not in the Boston area, but
off to the west, out into central and western Massachusetts.
(03:25):
They're very widely scattered, but they're still there showing up
on the radar, and as we head through the rest
of the afternoon and into the evening, we could still
pick up a stray shower in a couple of spots.
Later on we clear out and it'll be on the
cooler side. Thirties in the suburbs, forty four in Boston tonight,
more some than clouds. Tomorrow will stay dry though, fifty
six for the high. Some clouds tomorrow night, a low
(03:47):
forty five down to the thirties in the suburbs, and
then a rather chilly day, just the shade under what
it should feel like this time of year. Fifty four
for the high on Sunday, with a couple of sunny
breaks and some sun did on Monday, more clouds around
and maybe a shower. Fifty three. Right now it is
fifty nine degrees in Boston. In the good old days,
(04:08):
there were lots of things that were different, but one
thing remains the same, the good old cold. On the Common,
a colonial era apothecary shop is set up to help
the colonists serve ball.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It serves as an in your face reminder that yes,
the common cold season is here.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Colder outside, everyone's staying inside more passing those colds around.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Emily Martin Enter team at Zycam set up this apothecary
shop fit with free samples and hot ciders served by
bartenders dressed in Patriot guards.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Were all here giving samples of our short cough remedy.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
There was also a horse. It's pairing with the company's
new power of your themed marketing that indeed from the
common jwell at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You can see more on our Instagram and TikTok always
at WBZ News Radio. I guess you could call them
the first Americans, sort of. There's a new report on
dinosaur fossils found in what is now the western US.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Your research on fossils in northern New Mexico suggests that
dinosaurs worth thriving in North America before the asteroid strike
sixty six million years ago that caused mass extinction. The
fossils date the dinosaurs four hundred thousand years before the asteroid,
and differences between species found in New Mexico and Montana
suggest diverse dinosaur communities existed. Scientists have long debated whether
(05:33):
dinosaurs were in decline long before the ultimate end. The
new findings are in the journal Science. Steve Kaithan, CBS
News Get ready for a little extra dancing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Turns out the little asteroid that's become a moonlet to
our moon's going to be sticking around, perhaps until after
you're long gone. The asteroid twenty twenty five P seven's
been hanging out with our planet and the Moon for
the past several decades. It did, however, manage to avoid
detection for a while. When it comes to our little friend,
the Globe reports fear not. John g And forty, director
(06:10):
of the University of New Hampshire Observatory, says they hang
relatively close to us, but there's no chance of it
colliding with us or the Moon. Astronomers do estimate that
PN seven will stick around until twenty eighty three. Good
luck seeing it then. You are now in the loop
(06:30):
for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WDZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's
news radio
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