Afternoon Report: Thursday, November 27, 2025

State rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante has passed away at 53-years old. An investigation is underway in our Nation's Capitol …after two National Guard troops were shot and critically injured. Rescue efforts continue in the deadly Hong Kong apartment fire. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
A couple of clouds that rolled in still mostly clear
skies in Boston four o'clock. Happy Thanksgiving. As always, thanks
for tuning in. I'm Sherry small as forty six degrees
in the city all right now to news, State Representative
Anne Margaret Ferrante has passed away at the age of
fifty three. According to her office, the Democratic lawmaker had

(00:25):
been battling pancreatic cancer for five years. She represented the
fifth Essex District since two thousand and nine, and was
just re elected to her ninth term earlier this month.
Governor Mara Heally, in a statement, calls Ferrante one of
the most selfless people that she knew, adding that there
was no one more loyal to her friend's family and
the constituents that she served. Heally has also ordered flags

(00:49):
to be lowered to half staff at all state buildings.
An investigation underway in our nation's capital after two National
Guard troops were shot and critically injured CBS's MICHAELJ. Tessel.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
The ambush style attack on the two National Guard members,
both from West Virginia, happened shortly after two pm, just
blocks away from the White House, outside of a metro
train station.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
A suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with
a firearm and discharge it at the National Guard.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Members, multiple sources tell CBS News. A third uninjured National
Guard member shot back at the gunman, hitting him and
ending the attack.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And Afghan national is in custody accused of carrying out
that shooting, which is now being investigated by the FBI
as an act of terrorism. CBS's Nancy Cortis says reaction
from President Trump, who says that they will pause all
immigration applications from the country last night.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
In a social media post, President Trump says that he
wants to re examine every single person who came to
the US from Afghanistan during the Biden administration. He also
said that he is requesting that an additional five hundred
National Guard members be deployed to the nation's capital in
the wake of this shooting.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And Senator Ed Markey is pushing back on the president's response.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Senator Ed Markeye voicing support for the two guardsmen shot
in Washington, saying he was walking out of the US
capital just blocks away when the shots rang out. Marquie
criticized President Trump's order to put another five hundred National
Guard troops on the streets of the nation's capital.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Donald Trump is of course going to try to use
this to further reinforce his authoritarian instincts, and we cannot
allow that to happen, and we cannot allow for a
continuation of the escalation of the militarization of the streets
of our country.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Markey is saying it would be wrong to punish Afghans
now living in the US who served the US during
the war in Afghanistan. Mike Macklan WBZ Boston's News Radio.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Steve and now the FORDWBZ ach You weather forecast media
Rolgers Matt Ben's tell us Tonight is going to be
breezy and cold. We'll see early some clouds and then
mainly clear skies later a low of thirty four in
the city for those interior suburbs upper twenties, and then
tomorrow we'll see some sun mixing with clouds. It's going
to be a chilly day, especially if you're going to

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be out and about doing some Black Friday shopping and
want to bundle up. It's going to be windy, feeling
very cold, a snowshower around in the afternoon as well.
High swooll bump to forty four, but with the wind
chill ACTU weather real field tempts will make it feel
like it's in the twenties. Saturday, mostly sunny, breezy and
cold to high forty two. Sunday high of forty six,

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warming up just a little bit, but cloudy, becoming breezy
in the afternoon. Some rain late on Sunday and into
the evening hours. A couple clouds out, but still mostly
clear skies forty six degrees in Boston at four oh five.
Before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, many high school football

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players are settling the score with their rivals.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Beneath the son of a breezy Thanksgiving morning, it's Winthrop
versus Revere, and across the Commonwealth, it's one rivalry after
another as these young football players give thanks for the
ability to hit each other. And for fans in the stands,
it's a great place to start this special day. It's
a placeful of memories for people like this Revere fan.
What sort of memories does this bring back?

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Ah, it brings back all the good memories, you know,
being a lifelong Revere resident and you know, being very
involved in the sports it's it's nice to see community around.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Us against from here after all the cheering and running
the touchdowns. In another memory, it's home, sweet Home for
Thanksgiving dinner from Revere Carl Stevens WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right as you cook your Thanksgiving dinner, keep this in mind.
The FDA is expanding its warning about aluminum and brass
cookware that may contain less.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
List now includes nineteen types of cookware the test found
can leach lead into food. They include the brand name Sonics,
ikm Craftwears, Lotus Mom, Silver Horse, Chef, Milk, Dolphin, and
Royal Kitchen. All of the suspect Cookwaar is made outside
the US, mostly in India. They were sold by retailers
in California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Washington,

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d C. The FDA says people who have the cookwaar
should throw it out, not donate it. Michael Wallace, CBS News.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
The Thanksgiving travel rush is expected to shift back into
high year after today. The DSA says that Sunday could
set a new record throughout the nation's airports, as the
agency is planning to screen more than three million travelers
and if you're hitting the roads to travel back home.
Triple A says traffic is expected to peak on Sunday,

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so you may want to consider leaving on Saturday. Rescue
efforts continue in the deadly Hong Kong apartment fire. CBS
is Nicole D'Antonio with a very late.

Speaker 8 (05:51):
Flames quickly spread between seven different apartment buildings, spreading across
the bamboo scaffolding and the green construction netting that covers
those buildings. Now, the alls of this fire remains unknown
this morning, but officials say it started on the scaffolding
of residency. It was common to find cigarette butts near
the windows, left behind by some of the construction workers there.
Hong Kong is one of the last places in the

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world where bamboo is still widely used for construction.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And the death toll has risen to at least eighty three.
Hundreds remain missing. You are now in the loop for
news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio
on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's
news radio