November 6, 2025 • 6 mins
Neither side appears to be budging on Day 37 of the government shutdown. Travelers at Logan Airport are concerned now that flights will be reduced there and at 39 other airports. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement. 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 forty
eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It is day thirty seven
of the government shutdown and a promise from Democrats to
keep the government closed if Republicans won't negotiate on healthcare.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This health Democrats remains the same. We will not support
a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the
healthcare of the American people.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
House Speaker Mike Johnson, meantime, is calling on Democrats to
end the shutdown, since he says they're the only ones
who can do it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Republicans feel very helpless about the situation because, as we've noted,
there is really nothing for us to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And as the shutdown continues, troubles at the airport. Massport
Confirming Logan is one of the forty airports having their
flight schedules reduced beginning tomorrow. Some of the cancelations already
have started, according to the agency, and the FAA says
it is necessary to to deal with air traffic controller
shortages related to the federal government shutout. Cuts will be gradual,
(01:06):
but as we hear from CBS News Boston's Penny commit,
travelers are wondering what it's all going to mean for them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Boston's Logan Airport is filled with anxious travelers after the
FAA announced that airlines must slash flights by ten percent
in forty high value markets. Logan joins Phoenix, Atlanta, and
all three major New York City airports all expected to
see hundreds of delays and cancelations throughout the coming days.
(01:32):
According to the FAA, the reductions would start tomorrow at
four percent and raise to ten percent by next week.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We are starting to see some evidence that fatigue is
building in the system and ways that we feel we
need to work towards relieving some of that pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's FAA Administrator Brian Bedford. Shaky day at Logan Airport. Anyway,
four hundred and thirty eight flights delayed Logan today, there
were thirty six cancels. She's come to the end of
the road. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says she won't seek reelection
to the House. The announcement setting the stage for a
new rep for San Francisco for the first time in
nearly four decades. Pelosi's decision coming after she helped to
(02:12):
lead California's Prop fifty redistricting effort. She was the first
female speaker. The House had already relinquished her leadership position
becoming speaker. A meriti say lawmakers have only a couple
of weeks before they break for the holidays, but there
are some bills that could make it to the Governor's desk.
As we hear from WBC's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wearing committee hurdles, bills related to book bands and to
assault on transit workers will now be considered by the
Senate in one week's time. The latter passed the House unanimously,
as lawmakers say they need to respond to concerns from
transit agencies and unions about a rising number of attacks
on workers the build up. The penalties for assaulting a
transit worker on the job with a sentence range from
(02:51):
ninety days to two and a half years. The other,
an Act regarding free expression, looks to lay out a
process for decisions on what books can't go in school libraries,
prohibiting the consideration of politics and religion, and requiring public hearings.
Senate sponsored Julian sears sites threats against librarians, and says
Massachusetts is an immune from a national wave of censorship.
(03:12):
Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Check of the four DAWBZ active weather forecast. Now, the
precipitation that was spitting down on us in some spots
this afternoon has gone now, so we're just waiting for
the skies to clear, which they will do tonight in
the winds. Diminish temperatures with the clear skies fall back
into the mid thirties in Boston, mid twenties in the
colder suburbs. Early sun tomorrow will be followed by some
(03:36):
clouds in the afternoon in little breezy two fifty five.
Some showers push through here tomorrow night with a low
near fifty, and then on Saturday, clouds give way to
some sunshine. Eventually we'll get into the low sixties. Not
a bad afternoon. It will be chilly on Sunday, clouds
and some rain perhaps in the afternoon high of fifty four.
Right now, it is forty eight degrees in Boston. A
(03:57):
former pro basketball players pushing for psychoactive changes in Massachusetts.
Wbz's Hiles Shaffle hows the tales.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
What do a former NBA player and a West African
psychedelic plant have in common? Well, in this case, it
comes down to roots.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And in Gabone we use eboga the plant in traditional
settings like the right of passage for boys or the
same for women.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Former Miami Heat Center Stefan Lastmi is originally from Gabon,
where people make and use the compound i'm a gain
regularly as a treatment for mental and physical illness. He
started a biotech company called Reset Health that wants to
bring the drug to the US by way of Massachusetts.
Here's CEO Bryce Klantz.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
You're also seeing early studies in Parkinson's Alzheimer's lime disease.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
One tiny problem though the drug isn't actually legal in
Massachusetts or any other US date. A bill on Beacon
Hill this session could open the door to small scale research.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
There's a big need to offer iby gain internationally right now.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Last Me thinks that it'll take at least a decade
for the drug to come to market. Here Kyle Schaffel
WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A not Guilty play from a Boston youth spall coach
who allegedly was trafficking drugs. Ryan Maheere allegedly was selling
fentanyl to an undercovered Boston police officer last month. The
police identified Mahea as a runner with an unnamed drug
trafficking organization. According to The Globe, maheas a coach with
Boston Athletic Academy at Hyde Park and Mahia was released
(05:18):
on personal recognisances due back in court on December first.
It's been a go to for many breast cancer patients,
but now a new study suggests radiation may not be
necessary for everyone.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The study in the New England Journal of Medicine followed
sixteen hundred women for almost ten years. They were at
intermediate risk with the early stage two breast cancer. It
found radiation in the chestwall made no difference in survival
rates among those who had been treated with mastectomy, lymph
node surgery, and advanced anti cancer drugs. Patients who had
radiation and those who didn't both had survival rates of
(05:50):
just over eighty one percent. The women who were treated
with radiation were at a lower risk of having their
cancer return. Michael Wallace CBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It is day thirty seven
of the government shutdown and a promise from Democrats to
keep the government closed if Republicans won't negotiate on healthcare.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This health Democrats remains the same. We will not support
a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the
healthcare of the American people.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
House Speaker Mike Johnson, meantime, is calling on Democrats to
end the shutdown, since he says they're the only ones
who can do it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Republicans feel very helpless about the situation because, as we've noted,
there is really nothing for us to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And as the shutdown continues, troubles at the airport. Massport
Confirming Logan is one of the forty airports having their
flight schedules reduced beginning tomorrow. Some of the cancelations already
have started, according to the agency, and the FAA says
it is necessary to to deal with air traffic controller
shortages related to the federal government shutout. Cuts will be gradual,
(01:06):
but as we hear from CBS News Boston's Penny commit,
travelers are wondering what it's all going to mean for them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Boston's Logan Airport is filled with anxious travelers after the
FAA announced that airlines must slash flights by ten percent
in forty high value markets. Logan joins Phoenix, Atlanta, and
all three major New York City airports all expected to
see hundreds of delays and cancelations throughout the coming days.
(01:32):
According to the FAA, the reductions would start tomorrow at
four percent and raise to ten percent by next week.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We are starting to see some evidence that fatigue is
building in the system and ways that we feel we
need to work towards relieving some of that pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's FAA Administrator Brian Bedford. Shaky day at Logan Airport. Anyway,
four hundred and thirty eight flights delayed Logan today, there
were thirty six cancels. She's come to the end of
the road. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says she won't seek reelection
to the House. The announcement setting the stage for a
new rep for San Francisco for the first time in
nearly four decades. Pelosi's decision coming after she helped to
(02:12):
lead California's Prop fifty redistricting effort. She was the first
female speaker. The House had already relinquished her leadership position
becoming speaker. A meriti say lawmakers have only a couple
of weeks before they break for the holidays, but there
are some bills that could make it to the Governor's desk.
As we hear from WBC's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wearing committee hurdles, bills related to book bands and to
assault on transit workers will now be considered by the
Senate in one week's time. The latter passed the House unanimously,
as lawmakers say they need to respond to concerns from
transit agencies and unions about a rising number of attacks
on workers the build up. The penalties for assaulting a
transit worker on the job with a sentence range from
(02:51):
ninety days to two and a half years. The other,
an Act regarding free expression, looks to lay out a
process for decisions on what books can't go in school libraries,
prohibiting the consideration of politics and religion, and requiring public hearings.
Senate sponsored Julian sears sites threats against librarians, and says
Massachusetts is an immune from a national wave of censorship.
(03:12):
Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Check of the four DAWBZ active weather forecast. Now, the
precipitation that was spitting down on us in some spots
this afternoon has gone now, so we're just waiting for
the skies to clear, which they will do tonight in
the winds. Diminish temperatures with the clear skies fall back
into the mid thirties in Boston, mid twenties in the
colder suburbs. Early sun tomorrow will be followed by some
(03:36):
clouds in the afternoon in little breezy two fifty five.
Some showers push through here tomorrow night with a low
near fifty, and then on Saturday, clouds give way to
some sunshine. Eventually we'll get into the low sixties. Not
a bad afternoon. It will be chilly on Sunday, clouds
and some rain perhaps in the afternoon high of fifty four.
Right now, it is forty eight degrees in Boston. A
(03:57):
former pro basketball players pushing for psychoactive changes in Massachusetts.
Wbz's Hiles Shaffle hows the tales.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
What do a former NBA player and a West African
psychedelic plant have in common? Well, in this case, it
comes down to roots.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And in Gabone we use eboga the plant in traditional
settings like the right of passage for boys or the
same for women.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Former Miami Heat Center Stefan Lastmi is originally from Gabon,
where people make and use the compound i'm a gain
regularly as a treatment for mental and physical illness. He
started a biotech company called Reset Health that wants to
bring the drug to the US by way of Massachusetts.
Here's CEO Bryce Klantz.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
You're also seeing early studies in Parkinson's Alzheimer's lime disease.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
One tiny problem though the drug isn't actually legal in
Massachusetts or any other US date. A bill on Beacon
Hill this session could open the door to small scale research.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
There's a big need to offer iby gain internationally right now.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Last Me thinks that it'll take at least a decade
for the drug to come to market. Here Kyle Schaffel
WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A not Guilty play from a Boston youth spall coach
who allegedly was trafficking drugs. Ryan Maheere allegedly was selling
fentanyl to an undercovered Boston police officer last month. The
police identified Mahea as a runner with an unnamed drug
trafficking organization. According to The Globe, maheas a coach with
Boston Athletic Academy at Hyde Park and Mahia was released
(05:18):
on personal recognisances due back in court on December first.
It's been a go to for many breast cancer patients,
but now a new study suggests radiation may not be
necessary for everyone.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The study in the New England Journal of Medicine followed
sixteen hundred women for almost ten years. They were at
intermediate risk with the early stage two breast cancer. It
found radiation in the chestwall made no difference in survival
rates among those who had been treated with mastectomy, lymph
node surgery, and advanced anti cancer drugs. Patients who had
radiation and those who didn't both had survival rates of
(05:50):
just over eighty one percent. The women who were treated
with radiation were at a lower risk of having their
cancer return. Michael Wallace CBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio
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