Afternoon Report: Sunday, November 9, 2025

Senators on Capitol Hill are back in session again in hopes to end the impasse, President Trump promises to give American citizens a tariff dividend, and a massive fire does some serious damage near U-Mass Amherst Friday night. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
News fifty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon.
I'm Suzanne Sosville. Here's what's happening. It's day forty of
the record long government shut down. It's disrupting thousands of
flights nationwide as airlines comply with a federal mandate to

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reduce flights amid an air traffic controller shortage. Checking the
numbers at Logan Airport right now, according to flight Aware,
there are two hundred forty six cancelations and eighty no
two hundred and forty six delays excuse me, and eighty
two cancelations. Meantime, Senators on Capitol Hill are back in

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session again today in hopes of finding a way to
end the impasse.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
The Senate convened for a rare Saturday session, and Majority
Leader John Thune took aim at the democrats proposal of
extending healthcare tax credits. Republicans are not about to further
burden taxpayers by blindly extending a flawed program. The Senator
journed Saturday evening with no vote taken. Earlier in the day,
Thune told reporters the Senate will remain in session until

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a deal is reached to reopen the government. He said
lawmakers will work through the Veterans Day recess if that's
what it takes to end the shutdown. I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
The Trump administration is telling states they must immediately undo
any work to provide a food stamp benefits to families
during the shutdown. The memo, issued overnight threatens financial penalties
on states that don't comply. Families in some states began
receiving their full SNAP benefits on Friday after a Rhode

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Island federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund
the program for November, but soon after the Supreme Court
temporarily paused the judge's order, leaving the SNAP program in
legal limbo. Governor More Healy has released a statement responding
to the administration's threat saying Massachusetts residents with funds on

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their cards should continue to spend it on food and
that our office will work with Attorney General Andrea Campbell
to make sure everyone gets the full benefits they are owed.
As President Trump demands money back from states on SNAP,
He's promising to give American citizens a tariff dividend of

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at least two thousand dollars as.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
The US Supreme Court weighs the legality of President Trump's
sweeping tariffs. In his social media post, the president says
the payments would be for everyone, accept high income people.
The High Court heard arguments last week after agreeing to
fast track the case, and his post, Trump also took
aim at those who are against the tariffs, calling them fools.

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The tariffs will stay in place until the Court makes
a decision. I'm Scott Carr in Washington.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Mostly cloudy overnight with a drizzle or rain at times,
low fifty degrees. Mostly cloudy tomorrow with a couple of showers,
high fifty eight. Now on Tuesday, partly sunny, breezy, and
much colder, with a high of just forty two degrees.
Real field tempts closer to thirty on Wednesday, a mix

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of sun and clouds with a high of forty eight.
Right now in Boston we have mostly cloudy skies and
fifty six degrees. A massive fire collapses a construction site
and destroys an apartment building near U mass Amherst Friday night.
CBS News Boston's Paul Burton has.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
More The school says the fire was not on campus,
nor is it on the university owned property. Approximate two
hunt of thirty residents have been displaced, most of them
you mass Amherst students. Junior Ibrahamson here says he lived
on the first floor.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm an international shore I'm from Pakistan, so I kind
of need my passports.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
So that's why I asked them.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
But they're like, I don't think we can do that
because we're going to demolish a whole place.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Now, many students now trying to figure out where to
live next.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
I don't know. I feel bad for everybody who has
lost like really important valuables. And I mean I had
a lot of clothes and all my stuff for school
is just gone. The school's helping. Red Cross is helping
their on campus. They're providing some emergency resources.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Everybody was evacuated safely. The cause of that fire is
under investigation. A vigil was held in Fitchburg last night
to support a woman detained by Ice. Carlos Sapata says
he and his wife, Juliana Ojey the Montoya, were driving
with their infant daughter Thursday when Ice agents surrounded the

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car and began banging on their windows. Zapanta says he
fell unconscious after an agent hit him and pressed on
his neck with what he believes was a stun glove.
Bystanders captured the incident on video, which went viral on
social media. Immigration officials say oh hey, the Montoya was
arrested for allegedly stabbing a coworker in the hand with

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scissors and throwing a trash can at her. She and
her husband are from Ecuador and currently have pending asylum cases.
At last night's Ralli, Zapota thank the crowd for their
support and says his wife is thankful too. A new
study finds a link between e scooters and crime.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Chicago rolled out electric scooter rentals in twenty nineteen. University
of Illinois researcher Whundding in the Wrong looked at the
forty one weeks after that rollout and found street crimes
like perse snatchings and car break ins rows eighteen percent.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
EA scooters provide a wheel of an easy escape because
they're much more faster and difficult to catch.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
The Wrong also found the scooters led to a sixteen
percent increase in ride share trips, adding to emissions for instance,
people will take a scooter to the grocery store, but
then order a ride share to get their groceries home.
Still in the wrong. Is not giving up on e scooters.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
We could potentially see more of the benefits at play
compared to their costs.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Michael Wallace, CBS News.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
A quick update on the Patriots game. They did it again.
They beat Tampa Bay twenty eight to twenty three. The
Patriots are now eight and two. A Rhode Island woman
wakes up to find a slithering intruder in her home.
Nicole Jones says she went into the kitchen of her
new apartment in East Providence and found a pet snake

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of a previous tenant. Police removed the snake from the home,
while Jones tracked down its owner, who told her they
had lost it months earlier. The owner plans to pick
up the snake next week. You are now in the loop.
For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Sosville, WBZ Boston's

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