October 20, 2025 • 6 mins
Fire officials release a report on a deadly fire in Fall River, apps flicker back to life after a web outage, and does the early bird really get the worm? 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.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's raining sixty seven degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Love more in the storm coming up in about three minutes.
I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening, and outage at
Amazon Web services that had ripple effects around the Internet
has now been fixed. ABC's Rhanna and Ally has more
on what happened here.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
According to the.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
App that tracks problems like these, down Detector, some of
the sites affected were Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, which
is owned by the parent company of ABC, it Lift
McDonald's Snapchat, United Airlines, Venmo, and Verizon, and some United
and Delta customers even reported on social media that they
couldn't find the reservations online, they couldn't check in, they
couldn't drop their bags off.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now again, Amazon says the issue has been fixed, but
they do warn there might still be some lingering effects
like lagging as things get back up to speed. At
eleven oh one on the South Coast, learning lessons from
tragedy as new details emerge about the deadliest fire Massachusetts
has seen in more than four decades. He's wbz's Jills.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The Gabriel House assisted living facility fire took the lives
of ten residents in July, and now the Fall River
Fire Department releases a report to unpack what went wrong.
In the twenty seven page after action report, fire officials
say oxygen tanks for medical use were almost certainly accelerants
in this case. The three story building has no hallway,
fire doors, or ways to mitigate smoke. Also, the report
(01:32):
says what made it difficult for rescuers was the fact
that there was only one elevator and that ac units
in Plywood, we're covering a lot of the windows, which
left smaller bathroom windows is the only viable escape route
for many. The report also recommends better staffing, more training,
and legislative action that enforces fire code changes for assisted
living or high risk facilities like this. Jawill ed WBZ
(01:53):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Now to Vermont, where state senator has resigned after a
request from the governor and other political leaders on both
sides of the aisle. The pressure on Samuel Douglas to
step down came after he took part in a hateful
group chat with other young Republicans from all over the country.
It made headlines the messages, including praise for Adolf Hitler,
slurs against black and Latino people, and references to sending
(02:16):
people to gas chambers. He says his comments were taken
out of context, He's deeply sorry for the offense they caused,
and he says he and his family have received death
threats since the story broke. It may be one of
the biggest single day protests in American history. Millions turned
out to those No King's rallies over the weekend, including
about one hundred thousand on Boston Common alone.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Organizers say nearly seven million people took to the streets
for the No Kings protests to protest what they call
an abuse of power by President Trump. The demonstrations happening
in more than two thousand cities in towns, two hundred
thousand people showing up in the president's own backyard in Washington,
d C. The protests are saying they were fueled by
the president's sweeping cuts to the federal government, has cracked
down in immigration, and his decision to send the National
(02:59):
Guarden Democratic States that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is ABC's Rachel Scott. President Trump saying he was not
impressed with the rallies going on on truth social to
post an AI generated video of himself as a fighter
pilot dumping raw sewage onto the protesters at eleven oh five.
It is very rainy out there, and it's going to
be rainy for the next few hours at least. Also
very gusty too, as we see this storm system scoot
(03:23):
through our neck of the woods. Again, this is not
going to stick around for much more than a few
hours at this point. By dinner time, we should see
the most of the bulk of this storm out of
our neck of the woods, but we are dealing with
very heavy downpours in spots, some embedded thunderstorms. Not seeing
too much in the way of lightning, but we could
certainly again be dealing with those heavy wind gusts as
(03:44):
we make our way through the worst of this storm,
which right now appears to be a big line of
downpours and thunderstorms stretching from Manchester, New Hampshire, down through
nashaua Lubbell and Lawrence, getting over toward Boston and Quinsy
down the south shore and heading over down toward Taunton
in the south coast New Bedford Fall River. You're getting
poured on as well. Later on tonight we clear out
and we've got a loan near fifty, but forties if
(04:06):
you're in the suburbs. For tomorrow, mostly sunny, a high
in the mid sixties and then some showers on Wednesday
in a high year sixty five. Right now, temperature wise,
we're at sixty one in Worcester, sixty four on the
Cape and Falmouth north of Boston, sixty two in Beverly
and in Boston raining and sixty six. Do you burn
the midnight oil or are you more of the early
(04:28):
to bed, early to rise type.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There's no shortage of studies looking at whether we perform
better as night owls or as early risers. For Jordan
and Seth, they're up before the sun is. I'm an
early riser for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I like it en up in the morning and get
anything's done, getting work out, so I can have the
rest of my days just to like hang out, you know,
the way I was raised, and then joining the military
right after, and then just.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The job I work. It's always early and it's just
how I've been. But for guys like Terry, he's been
up all night long and it's thriving.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I think you're supposed to spread out your sleep at
like Dowaggon ho here a few hours and three hours,
three four hours is like what you I think three
four hours is what you should get a day, honestly,
but he knows being a night owl isn't for everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Do what you do.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's really all it is.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's really all there is to it. Don't try and
be like me. Don't do this at home. Kids at
South Street Diner. James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Raymond Today for two teenagers accused and a weekend shooting
on Cape Cod Please say. A woman was shot in
the chest just after four am Saturday on Main Street.
She was taken to Cape Cod Hospital airlifted to a
hospital in Boston. She is expected to make it. Eighteen
year old Evan Rojo nineteen year old Jacob Winbush, both
of Hyannas, were arrested and now face charges including assault
(05:41):
to murder. Please say the shooting likely was not random,
but they're still trying to figure out how they're all connected.
Now on Capitol Hill, concern on both sides of the
aisle now over attacks by the Trump administration on boats
in the Caribbean. Thirty two people have been killed so far.
The latest strike targeted a boat the administration says was
connected to Colombian cartels. That is something the Colombian president
(06:03):
is pushing back on.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Returning to Washington last night, President Trump said that new
tariffs would soon be announced against Columbia.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
They are a drug manufacturing machine, Columbia, and we're.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Not going to be part of it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
This weekend, Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed a US strike
on a boat last month killed a fisherman, accusing the
American government of murder. In response, President Trump called Petro
an ilegal drug leader and said he'd be cutting off
all US financial support.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That is CBS's Caitlin Hughey Burns reporting there from Washington.
You are now in Malup for news updates throughout the day.
Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis,
w b lead Boston's news radio
This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's raining sixty seven degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Love more in the storm coming up in about three minutes.
I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening, and outage at
Amazon Web services that had ripple effects around the Internet
has now been fixed. ABC's Rhanna and Ally has more
on what happened here.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
According to the.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
App that tracks problems like these, down Detector, some of
the sites affected were Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, which
is owned by the parent company of ABC, it Lift
McDonald's Snapchat, United Airlines, Venmo, and Verizon, and some United
and Delta customers even reported on social media that they
couldn't find the reservations online, they couldn't check in, they
couldn't drop their bags off.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now again, Amazon says the issue has been fixed, but
they do warn there might still be some lingering effects
like lagging as things get back up to speed. At
eleven oh one on the South Coast, learning lessons from
tragedy as new details emerge about the deadliest fire Massachusetts
has seen in more than four decades. He's wbz's Jills.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The Gabriel House assisted living facility fire took the lives
of ten residents in July, and now the Fall River
Fire Department releases a report to unpack what went wrong.
In the twenty seven page after action report, fire officials
say oxygen tanks for medical use were almost certainly accelerants
in this case. The three story building has no hallway,
fire doors, or ways to mitigate smoke. Also, the report
(01:32):
says what made it difficult for rescuers was the fact
that there was only one elevator and that ac units
in Plywood, we're covering a lot of the windows, which
left smaller bathroom windows is the only viable escape route
for many. The report also recommends better staffing, more training,
and legislative action that enforces fire code changes for assisted
living or high risk facilities like this. Jawill ed WBZ
(01:53):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Now to Vermont, where state senator has resigned after a
request from the governor and other political leaders on both
sides of the aisle. The pressure on Samuel Douglas to
step down came after he took part in a hateful
group chat with other young Republicans from all over the country.
It made headlines the messages, including praise for Adolf Hitler,
slurs against black and Latino people, and references to sending
(02:16):
people to gas chambers. He says his comments were taken
out of context, He's deeply sorry for the offense they caused,
and he says he and his family have received death
threats since the story broke. It may be one of
the biggest single day protests in American history. Millions turned
out to those No King's rallies over the weekend, including
about one hundred thousand on Boston Common alone.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Organizers say nearly seven million people took to the streets
for the No Kings protests to protest what they call
an abuse of power by President Trump. The demonstrations happening
in more than two thousand cities in towns, two hundred
thousand people showing up in the president's own backyard in Washington,
d C. The protests are saying they were fueled by
the president's sweeping cuts to the federal government, has cracked
down in immigration, and his decision to send the National
(02:59):
Guarden Democratic States that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is ABC's Rachel Scott. President Trump saying he was not
impressed with the rallies going on on truth social to
post an AI generated video of himself as a fighter
pilot dumping raw sewage onto the protesters at eleven oh five.
It is very rainy out there, and it's going to
be rainy for the next few hours at least. Also
very gusty too, as we see this storm system scoot
(03:23):
through our neck of the woods. Again, this is not
going to stick around for much more than a few
hours at this point. By dinner time, we should see
the most of the bulk of this storm out of
our neck of the woods, but we are dealing with
very heavy downpours in spots, some embedded thunderstorms. Not seeing
too much in the way of lightning, but we could
certainly again be dealing with those heavy wind gusts as
(03:44):
we make our way through the worst of this storm,
which right now appears to be a big line of
downpours and thunderstorms stretching from Manchester, New Hampshire, down through
nashaua Lubbell and Lawrence, getting over toward Boston and Quinsy
down the south shore and heading over down toward Taunton
in the south coast New Bedford Fall River. You're getting
poured on as well. Later on tonight we clear out
and we've got a loan near fifty, but forties if
(04:06):
you're in the suburbs. For tomorrow, mostly sunny, a high
in the mid sixties and then some showers on Wednesday
in a high year sixty five. Right now, temperature wise,
we're at sixty one in Worcester, sixty four on the
Cape and Falmouth north of Boston, sixty two in Beverly
and in Boston raining and sixty six. Do you burn
the midnight oil or are you more of the early
(04:28):
to bed, early to rise type.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There's no shortage of studies looking at whether we perform
better as night owls or as early risers. For Jordan
and Seth, they're up before the sun is. I'm an
early riser for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I like it en up in the morning and get
anything's done, getting work out, so I can have the
rest of my days just to like hang out, you know,
the way I was raised, and then joining the military
right after, and then just.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The job I work. It's always early and it's just
how I've been. But for guys like Terry, he's been
up all night long and it's thriving.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I think you're supposed to spread out your sleep at
like Dowaggon ho here a few hours and three hours,
three four hours is like what you I think three
four hours is what you should get a day, honestly,
but he knows being a night owl isn't for everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Do what you do.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's really all it is.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's really all there is to it. Don't try and
be like me. Don't do this at home. Kids at
South Street Diner. James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Raymond Today for two teenagers accused and a weekend shooting
on Cape Cod Please say. A woman was shot in
the chest just after four am Saturday on Main Street.
She was taken to Cape Cod Hospital airlifted to a
hospital in Boston. She is expected to make it. Eighteen
year old Evan Rojo nineteen year old Jacob Winbush, both
of Hyannas, were arrested and now face charges including assault
(05:41):
to murder. Please say the shooting likely was not random,
but they're still trying to figure out how they're all connected.
Now on Capitol Hill, concern on both sides of the
aisle now over attacks by the Trump administration on boats
in the Caribbean. Thirty two people have been killed so far.
The latest strike targeted a boat the administration says was
connected to Colombian cartels. That is something the Colombian president
(06:03):
is pushing back on.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Returning to Washington last night, President Trump said that new
tariffs would soon be announced against Columbia.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
They are a drug manufacturing machine, Columbia, and we're.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Not going to be part of it.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
This weekend, Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed a US strike
on a boat last month killed a fisherman, accusing the
American government of murder. In response, President Trump called Petro
an ilegal drug leader and said he'd be cutting off
all US financial support.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That is CBS's Caitlin Hughey Burns reporting there from Washington.
You are now in Malup for news updates throughout the day.
Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis,
w b lead Boston's news radio
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