October 16, 2025 • 7 mins
Police announce the results of their operation against "street takeovers." A stalemate continues between Democrats and Republicans on the 16th day of the government shutdown. President Trump opens up a line of communication and a phone call with Vladimir Putin. 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 fifty
three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Ben Parker. Here's what's happening with the eyes of the
Trump administration on this region. Police announced the results of
a statewide operation against so called street takeovers. WBC's Hyles
(00:25):
Schaffel has details.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Colonel Jeffrey Nobles says this isn't really a new problem.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
To be clear, the mass Date Police has been, along
with our partners, has been tracking street takeovers as an
issue for for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
They came away with seven arrests and gave out more
than two hundred tickets. A giant Boston takeover earlier this
month ended in violence, with a police cruiser being set
on fire. Reporters were quick to ask Governor Morri Healey
if this stepped up enforcement had anything to do with
the President's threats to take away World Cup games from
Massachusetts next year, if the takeovers don't stop, or if
the President even has the authority to do that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh God, come on, you know that's just more political theater.
I don't really pay that too much, mind, I don't know,
I don't think so. I think it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The governor, ending on a rather stern note.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I would like for it to be that we don't
need men and women out on the streets to deal
with this anymore, because people have enough sense to not
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Kyle Shraffel WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
On this the sixteenth day of the federal government shutdown,
A standoff continues between Democrats and Republican.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Democrats demanding protection for
Affordable Care Act tax credits and the Senate Majority leader.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I met with Leader Thun and he offered to Chuck
Schumer a vote on Obamacare subsidies, and Schumer said.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
No, Thun publicly saying the same thing the Democratic Senate leader.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We're not negotiating in public, plane and simple, and Leader
Thun has not come to me with any proposal at
this point.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Democrats also want Medicaid cuts restored.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Night as ABC's Chuck Siebert sit and President Trump's got
a new warning for Hamas.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Posting on social media, President Trump wrote, if fighting to
continues among factions of Hamas quote, we will have no
choice but to go in and kill them. The President
did not elaborate on how that might happen. The comments
come as Hamas says yet to turn over all of
the bodies of the Israeli hostages. White House Press Secretary
of Caroline Levitt reiterated this is no easy task.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
These bodies, unfortunately, are very deep underground, and so it's
going to take some time and some special equipment to
actually retrieve these bodies and bring them back to Israel, adding.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The administration is fully committed to seeing this through. Lynda
Kenyon CBS News the White.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
House ahead of a meeting tomorrow in Washington with the
Ukraine's president, President Trump opens up the lines of communication
today with Russia and a phone call with Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
President Trump's phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted
more than two hours, and he says he believes quote
great progress was made. They agreed there would be high
level US Russia meetings next week. Secretary of State Mark
Rubio will lead the US delegation. The President also said
he and Putin will then meet in Hungary to see
if they can bring the war to an end, but
he doesn't say when that meant eating would take place.
(03:01):
As if the President believes conditions have changed to make
a second meeting with Putin more successful than their Alaska
summit in August. White House pres Secretary Caroline Levitt said,
the President is quote always willing to take a chance
a diplomacy. Karen Traver's ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The evening tonight, we'll have partly cloudy skies, breezy conditions,
and temperatures you're going to start to get pretty chilly, thirties,
low thirties in some of the suburbs where some frost
could be around forty four in Boston. Tomorrow. It's a
good deal of sunshine, still a little breezy, so we
may feel a little chillier, even though we'll be a
little warmer tomorrow, with temperatures near sixty. Mostly clear Tomorrow night,
(03:37):
mid forties, a little cooler in the suburbs, and then
some sunshine around on Saturday, sixty two. More sunshine Sunday
in the mid to upper sixties. Once we get past
the weekend, it looks like we'll bring in some rain
for the start of next week. Right now, it is
fifty three degrees in Boston. Are you looking for a
new home for your next vacation escape. Perhaps, how about
an island home conveniently located in Massa. How about one
(04:01):
that was once visited by Music Royalty. Hey, how about
one that costs a lot of money out of the
Z's Matt Chewer tells us this home checks all those boxes.
Mansion fit for a Queen Anado or at least one
in her inner circle.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And Nantucket estate that was featured on Zillo Gone Wild
this past week is on the market. It can be
yours for just a mere forty million dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Last year, the home hosted the lavish wedding of Beyonce's
former assistant, with Queen Bee, herself, Jay Z, and their
daughter Blue Ivy in attendance. But if that's not enough
to sell you on this place, how about eight bedrooms
and baths, a pool, a spa, even a soft serve machine.
Of course, many on Instagram are mocking the sticker price
of the coastal palace. One common said, the person who
(04:44):
buys this place uses summer as a verb. Matt Shearer, WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A trial date is set, We're less than a year
from now for the case of a former Stotent police
officer accused of killing Sander Birchmore. Matthew Farwell's trials now
scheduled for October fifth of next year, expected to last
four weeks. Farwell faces a charge of killing a witness
or victim. He's pleted not guilty. Farwell was arrested last year,
later indicted in the strangulation death of Birchmore and staging
(05:12):
her death to look like a suicide. The twenty three
year old was three months pregnant at the time. Birchmore
met Farwell when she joined the Stoton Police Explorers Academy
at the age of twelve. The detectives accused of initiating
relationship with her when she was fifteen. Heads up in
the Hoosier State. There's an ancient discovery. It's a skull.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
It's proof people have been walking around Fayette County, Indiana
for millennia. The county coroner has determined part of a
human skull found along the banks of the Whitewater River
in suburban Indianapolis in June dates back to twenty three
hundred BC. He says it belonged to an adult, but
it's unclear if it was a man or a woman.
Also undetermined, the indigenous tribal affiliation. The Miami Tribe of
(05:54):
Oklahoma is working on that one. The coroner says there
are several possibilities, including the Shawnee, poto Wootomi, Delaware, and Cherokee.
Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Three quarters of a century ago, Secrets Get revealed that
a new world explored the Lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe was first published.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Between the dark tree trunks, she could see the open
doorway of the wardrobe.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
A girl called Lucy walks through wardrobe and into another
magical world. There are wizards in talking animals and battles.
But at the heart of the Narnia books by C. S.
Lewis is Oslan, a loving, merciful, all powerful lion willing
to die for his subjects. Sound familiar. This is gearing
up your imagination to think of this as an adventure story.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Into introducers Christianity as a kind of adventure story.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Rowan Williams, a former Archbishop of Canterbury who's seen how
the Narnia books have become a portal for generations to
encounter the Christian faith. Vicky Barker, CBS News, London.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I've Ben Parkner, WBZ Boston's news radio ulti
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty
three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Ben Parker. Here's what's happening with the eyes of the
Trump administration on this region. Police announced the results of
a statewide operation against so called street takeovers. WBC's Hyles
(00:25):
Schaffel has details.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Colonel Jeffrey Nobles says this isn't really a new problem.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
To be clear, the mass Date Police has been, along
with our partners, has been tracking street takeovers as an
issue for for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
They came away with seven arrests and gave out more
than two hundred tickets. A giant Boston takeover earlier this
month ended in violence, with a police cruiser being set
on fire. Reporters were quick to ask Governor Morri Healey
if this stepped up enforcement had anything to do with
the President's threats to take away World Cup games from
Massachusetts next year, if the takeovers don't stop, or if
the President even has the authority to do that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh God, come on, you know that's just more political theater.
I don't really pay that too much, mind, I don't know,
I don't think so. I think it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The governor, ending on a rather stern note.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I would like for it to be that we don't
need men and women out on the streets to deal
with this anymore, because people have enough sense to not
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Kyle Shraffel WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
On this the sixteenth day of the federal government shutdown,
A standoff continues between Democrats and Republican.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Democrats demanding protection for
Affordable Care Act tax credits and the Senate Majority leader.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I met with Leader Thun and he offered to Chuck
Schumer a vote on Obamacare subsidies, and Schumer said.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
No, Thun publicly saying the same thing the Democratic Senate leader.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We're not negotiating in public, plane and simple, and Leader
Thun has not come to me with any proposal at
this point.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Democrats also want Medicaid cuts restored.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Night as ABC's Chuck Siebert sit and President Trump's got
a new warning for Hamas.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Posting on social media, President Trump wrote, if fighting to
continues among factions of Hamas quote, we will have no
choice but to go in and kill them. The President
did not elaborate on how that might happen. The comments
come as Hamas says yet to turn over all of
the bodies of the Israeli hostages. White House Press Secretary
of Caroline Levitt reiterated this is no easy task.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
These bodies, unfortunately, are very deep underground, and so it's
going to take some time and some special equipment to
actually retrieve these bodies and bring them back to Israel, adding.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The administration is fully committed to seeing this through. Lynda
Kenyon CBS News the White.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
House ahead of a meeting tomorrow in Washington with the
Ukraine's president, President Trump opens up the lines of communication
today with Russia and a phone call with Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
President Trump's phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted
more than two hours, and he says he believes quote
great progress was made. They agreed there would be high
level US Russia meetings next week. Secretary of State Mark
Rubio will lead the US delegation. The President also said
he and Putin will then meet in Hungary to see
if they can bring the war to an end, but
he doesn't say when that meant eating would take place.
(03:01):
As if the President believes conditions have changed to make
a second meeting with Putin more successful than their Alaska
summit in August. White House pres Secretary Caroline Levitt said,
the President is quote always willing to take a chance
a diplomacy. Karen Traver's ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The evening tonight, we'll have partly cloudy skies, breezy conditions,
and temperatures you're going to start to get pretty chilly, thirties,
low thirties in some of the suburbs where some frost
could be around forty four in Boston. Tomorrow. It's a
good deal of sunshine, still a little breezy, so we
may feel a little chillier, even though we'll be a
little warmer tomorrow, with temperatures near sixty. Mostly clear Tomorrow night,
(03:37):
mid forties, a little cooler in the suburbs, and then
some sunshine around on Saturday, sixty two. More sunshine Sunday
in the mid to upper sixties. Once we get past
the weekend, it looks like we'll bring in some rain
for the start of next week. Right now, it is
fifty three degrees in Boston. Are you looking for a
new home for your next vacation escape. Perhaps, how about
an island home conveniently located in Massa. How about one
(04:01):
that was once visited by Music Royalty. Hey, how about
one that costs a lot of money out of the
Z's Matt Chewer tells us this home checks all those boxes.
Mansion fit for a Queen Anado or at least one
in her inner circle.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And Nantucket estate that was featured on Zillo Gone Wild
this past week is on the market. It can be
yours for just a mere forty million dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Last year, the home hosted the lavish wedding of Beyonce's
former assistant, with Queen Bee, herself, Jay Z, and their
daughter Blue Ivy in attendance. But if that's not enough
to sell you on this place, how about eight bedrooms
and baths, a pool, a spa, even a soft serve machine.
Of course, many on Instagram are mocking the sticker price
of the coastal palace. One common said, the person who
(04:44):
buys this place uses summer as a verb. Matt Shearer, WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A trial date is set, We're less than a year
from now for the case of a former Stotent police
officer accused of killing Sander Birchmore. Matthew Farwell's trials now
scheduled for October fifth of next year, expected to last
four weeks. Farwell faces a charge of killing a witness
or victim. He's pleted not guilty. Farwell was arrested last year,
later indicted in the strangulation death of Birchmore and staging
(05:12):
her death to look like a suicide. The twenty three
year old was three months pregnant at the time. Birchmore
met Farwell when she joined the Stoton Police Explorers Academy
at the age of twelve. The detectives accused of initiating
relationship with her when she was fifteen. Heads up in
the Hoosier State. There's an ancient discovery. It's a skull.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
It's proof people have been walking around Fayette County, Indiana
for millennia. The county coroner has determined part of a
human skull found along the banks of the Whitewater River
in suburban Indianapolis in June dates back to twenty three
hundred BC. He says it belonged to an adult, but
it's unclear if it was a man or a woman.
Also undetermined, the indigenous tribal affiliation. The Miami Tribe of
(05:54):
Oklahoma is working on that one. The coroner says there
are several possibilities, including the Shawnee, poto Wootomi, Delaware, and Cherokee.
Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Three quarters of a century ago, Secrets Get revealed that
a new world explored the Lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe was first published.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Between the dark tree trunks, she could see the open
doorway of the wardrobe.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
A girl called Lucy walks through wardrobe and into another
magical world. There are wizards in talking animals and battles.
But at the heart of the Narnia books by C. S.
Lewis is Oslan, a loving, merciful, all powerful lion willing
to die for his subjects. Sound familiar. This is gearing
up your imagination to think of this as an adventure story.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Into introducers Christianity as a kind of adventure story.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Rowan Williams, a former Archbishop of Canterbury who's seen how
the Narnia books have become a portal for generations to
encounter the Christian faith. Vicky Barker, CBS News, London.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I've Ben Parkner, WBZ Boston's news radio ulti
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