Afternoon ReportL Wednesday, November 12, 2025

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says his party will fight to the end for health care. The shutdown puts publication of some government data in doubt. The New England Revolution have a new coach. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
forty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Aiming to shut down
the shutdown. Republicans in the House are trying to pass
a government funding bill tonight, but House Democratic Leader King

(00:22):
Jeffries assists his party will fight to the end.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
One question is how many Democrats in the House will
cross the aisle to end the shutdown. Eight Democrats in
the Senate supported the measure, drawing the ire of progressives
from coast to coast because the bill doesn't include an
extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies. Assuming there's full attendance in
the House tonight, Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to
lose two Republican votes before needing the support of Democrats

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to get the bill onto the President's.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Deskry is ABC Stephen Portnoy. The Trump administration says there
might not be any jobs or inflation data for October
because of the shutdown. That data is used by Federal
Reserve policymakers to compile the monthly consumer price index and
jobs report. The potential disruption coming as the Federal Reserve
is split on whether to cut its key interest rate
at its next meeting in December. Democrats of the House

(01:09):
Overside Committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein releasing a series of email
excerpts that reference President Trump. In one of the emails,
lawmakers say Epstein wrote to his now convicted accomplice, Glaine Maxwell,
I want you to realize that dog that hasn'tbarked is Trump.
Epstein added that an alleged victim whose name was withheld
by House Democrats quote, spent hours at my house with him.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
President Trump says, House Democrats are releasing these Epstein emails
because they're trying to quote deflect on how badly they've
done on the shutdown. The President, in a post on
social media, urges Republicans to not get distracted, writing quote,
only a very bad or stupid Republican would fall into
that trap. The President doesn't address any of the substance
in the emails released today, including Epstein's claim that Trump

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spent hours at his house with an alleged sex trafficking
victim Karen Travers ABC News. The White House.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Venezuela is putting its entire military yet the ready the
preparations commas. The US aircraft carrier group has entered the
waters near Latin America.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
The USS Gerald R. Ford and three destroyers arrived in
the region yesterday as part of the Trump administration's campaign
against drug traffickers. Venezuela is preparing to set a maximum
level of alert and will deploy almost two hundred thousand soldiers.
President Trump has been talking about striking land targets, raising
speculation he wants to remove Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro from power.
On sixty Minutes earlier this month, CBS is Nora O'Donnell

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as Trump.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
R Maduro's days as president numbers.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh se you, I thanks to you, Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Carrying on the Kennedy legacy, John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Slosburg,
is running for the US House next year, the son
of JFK's daughter Carolyn, announcing that he is seeking the
New York seat set to be vacated by longtime Democratic
Representative Jerry Nadler. In a campaign video, Slasburg says the

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district should have a representative who can harness the creativity,
energy and drive in this district translate that into political
power in Washington. Slasburg's drummed up a large following on
social media, with frequent posts swaying in on national issues
that include taking aim at his cousin, Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior. As we take a peek at the forecast,

(03:14):
it's breezy, and then breezy, and breezy and breezy. Yeah,
it's going to stay breezy. We cannot get rid of
this breeze, which is making us feel a little chillier
than whatever the air temperature happens to be Tonight. It'll
be in the thirties, feeling like it's in the twenties
with partly the mostly cloudy skies and a breeze. Intervals
of clouds and sun. Breezy, chilly. Tomorrow fifty for the high.
That's not bad, but it'll feel like it's in the

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forties with the breeze clear to partly cloudy, brisk Tomorrow
night low thirty six, times of sun and clouds, still breezy,
still chilly. Certainly the feel of a chill in the
air with the breeze blown. Around forty seven on Friday
will be in the mid forties with some sunshine, some clouds,
and you guessed at breeze on Saturday with some rain
getting in here into the evening. Right now, we're at

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forty five degrees in Boston. Me to your leader. The
New England Revolution have a new one, a new coach
unveiled this morning. WBC's Kyle Brady tells us he's ready
to get going.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Marco Mitrovich joins the New England Revolution from the US
national team, where he spent time as a youth coach,
serving as a head coach at the Under twenty World
Cup and the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics. Mitrovich was
asked to describe how his team will play.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I will do his one word, it's attack.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
We will attack with the bull, and we will attack
the bull when we don't have the bull, and we
will be very aggressive with that.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Oh, he hasn't been the head coach of a club before.
He does have familiarity with the REV squad, having worked
closely with some of its academy players. Sporting director Kurtinolfo
says that helped them choose him.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I used to pick his brain on certain players when
we were recruiting players into our pro pathway.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Mitrovich says he hasn't spent much time in Boston, but
as a math whiz, his dad dreamed of him going
to MIT. He told a story about a trip he
took to Boston with US soccer.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
He stayed somewhere in the city, I don't remember where,
and I took Uber, went to MIT and called my
dad and just like that, I'm here.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Fronchillette Stadium, Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Radio, shocking, no scary. Perhaps Boston is one of the
most expensive places to live in the country, and it
is getting worse. According to The Globe, rents around here
are among the highest in the US, and home prices
in many places regularly go above a million dollars. According
to the latest edition of the Boston Foundation's annual Greater

(05:20):
Boston Housing Report Card out today, among other things, Boston's
got the highest tightest i should say, rental market in
the US, and the rental vacancy rate was the lowest
for any major metropolitan area at just three percent last year.
The report ranks Boston as the fifth most expensive in
the country. If you are thinking of making a move

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to a new city, you don't have to go very far.
In fact, the best place is still in New England
and just barely out of Massachusetts.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
A new report from MRI Software crowns nashaua New Hampshire
the best city in the US to move to. It
hits all the key quality of life metrics, with plenty
of job opportunities. He's a decent cost of living and safety.
Just an hour from Boston and four from New York City,
Nashua has a little more than ninety one thousand residents.
Second on the best City to Move to list the

(06:11):
Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois, with a glut of jobs
and a low cost of living. Number three Cleveland, cited
for a steady job market, a growing downtown scene, and
its lakefront location. Dover, Delaware, and Salt Lake City round
out the top five. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
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