Mid Day Report: Monday, November 10, 2025

The government is one step closer to reopening, the Trump administration orders Massachusetts to undo SNAP payments, and cannabis cafes are up for discussion in the Commonwealth. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right now in Boston. It's raining, it's foggy at eleven
o'clock where at fifty three degrees. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis.
Here is what's happening at eleven o'clock starting this hour
of the Supreme Court. They have just rejected a call
to overturn their landmark decision legalizing same sex marriage. The
case was brought by Kim Davis, a former county clerk

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in Kentucky. Years ago, she was fined for refusing to
issue marriage licenses after the Obergefel v. Hodges case was
first decided. Meantime, the Supreme Court also saying today it
will consider a case revolving around whether or not mail
in ballots that arrive after election day can actually be counted.
That case will be argued early next year. A ruling

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could come down early enough to apply to the twenty
twenty six midterms. Speaking of Washington, the government is one
step close to reopening this morning. Last night, the Senate
voting to start debate on a funding bill that, if passed,
would end the shutdown, which is the longest ever in
American history. Here's ABC Stephen Portnite.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
A lot still has to happen before the shutdown ends.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
The Senate has to take several more votes to assert
new language, and a House passed bill to restore funding
to agencies through the end of January. That new language
would also require the reversal of any layoffs conducted by
the administration through the shutdown. Once that bill passes the Senate,
the House would have to come back to DC to
vote on it to send it to the President's desk.
His signature would end the shutdown.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Now, a group of more moderate Democrats, including New Hampshire
and Main Democrats, made some concessions to make that vote
happen last night. That has been upsetting two more progressive Democrats.
We're still holding up for discussions on expiring health insurance subsidies.
At eleven oh one. Massachusetts and almost two dozen other
states have now filed for a brand new restraining order
against the Trump administration. This after the White House demanded

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some states undue SNAP payments that went out over the weekend.
The Trump administration has been pushing back against fully funding
SNAP during the shutdown. Just this morning, it has once
again asked the Supreme court to keep those payments on hold,
and on Saturday, Massachusetts and some other states announced SNAP
recipients had received their funds. The Trump administration ordered states

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to claw those funds back. This new motion for a
restraining order says that demand puts an impossible burden on states.
And in other news, Glaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and
co conspirator to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is
apparently planning moves to try to get out of prison early.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
An investigation by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats says Glaine Maxwell,
Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co conspirator, is planning to apply
for a commutation of her federal prison term, which is
set to run through twenty thirty seven. That same investigation
by the Judiciary Committee Democrats is questioning whether federal law
enforcement is also giving Maxwell preferred treatment in her federal

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lock up.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Not update. They're from CBS's Scott MacFarlane in Washington. A
lot of fog out there, especially right there in southeastern Massachusetts,
and many areas of visibility down to about a half
to even a quarter of a mile in some spots.
Pretty humid and sticky in parts of the state, and
we are seeing temperatures in the fifties if you're in
southeastern Massachusetts, forties for the rest of us, a couple

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of fifties in the Springfield area getting up to about
the mid to upper fifties today with again periods of rain.
Some fog will be out there for much of the day,
and then for tonight we wrap up the showers early
we should have some clearing. Thing is with this storm
system that's coming through right now, this cold front, we've
got a lot of really chilly air behind it. We're

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talking kind of winter like feel. So we have a
load tonight about thirty two thirty three degrees right on
the coast, and we've got the upper twenties for a
low inland for tomorrow, blustery mix of sunning clouds. Make
sure you know where your ice scraper is tonight for
the morning tomorrow, hein you're forty or so, and we've
got real field tenths closer to thirty for pretty much
the entire day. When day more of the same, mostly cloudy, breezy,

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and we've got a high in the mid forties right now,
seeing some rain in Marlborough forty seven degrees north of Boston.
It's reigning in Amesbury forty six south of Boston right now,
we've got clouds in New Bedford, fifty nine in Boston
at eleven oh five foggy and rainy, and we're at
fifty three to the south coast now where we have
learned about a massive drug bust at the Bristol County

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Jail in North Dartmouth. Wbz's Jabilllette reports this could be
the biggest alleged employee bust in the jail's history.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
A former employee at the Bristol County Jail is charged
and accused of working with at least four co conspirators
in a drug smuggling ring at the jail in House
of Correction. The sting operation, nicknamed Operation fish Hook, centered
around Ginger Hook of New Bedford, who worked in the
jail's library services. Officials say she resigned in July of
this year when confronted with accusations that she had been

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working with an inmate and two former prisoners to smuggle
in synthetic marijuana or K two by infusing the substance
with pay and disguising it as legal work. Prosecutors say
they raided Hook's desk and found sixty five thousand dollars
worth of drug infused paper. Jawill ed WBZ, Boston's news radio, and.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
The state's governing board on cannabis could take a vote
before Christmas when it comes to new regulations for social consumption.
Back in July, the Cannabis Control Commission laid out three
different types of these licenses. One would be for occasional
events like parties or weddings, another for existing marijuana shops
and facilities that want to open up areas for customers
to take part on site. And then a third would

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be a hospitality category imagine taking partaking in places like
yoga studios or at a festival. The concept of social
consumption sites was part of the original law legalizing recreational
pot in twenty sixteen. Getting those sites going, though, has
stalled out several times over the past few years, and
Boston Mayor Michelle wou is over the northern border today

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in Canada. She's the first sitting Boston mayor to go
to Nova Scotia to take part in the tree cut
ceremony for the Tree for Boston. You know, each year
Nova Scotia sends Boston a tree for Christmas. It's a
thank you gift for Boston's help after the devastating nineteen
seventeen explosion in Halifax. While she's there, Mayor Wu is
said to meet with the Mayor of Halifax. She'll tour

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the city's health innovation Hub and meet with other business
leaders as well. Mayor Wu is going to be in
Canada till Wednesday with her family. Acting Mayor is City
Council President Ruth zie Luis. Jane, you are now in
the league. For news updates throughout the day, listen to
wb Z Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis,
w b Z and Boston's News Radio