October 23, 2025 • 6 mins
NBA’s Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups arrested in alleged nationwide illegal sports betting, the MBTA announce weeklong closures for the green line’s "D" branch, President Trump announces new sanctions on Russia. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Face is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Fifty
four degrees in Boston, partly cloudy at eleven o'clock. It's
Thursday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis and
here's what's happening. Some big names in the NBA are
(00:22):
now facing federal charges. Let's get the very latest. In
a special report from CBS.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
News, a massive illegal betting scheme busted up, involving major
names in the sports world. Today, we're here in New
York to announce the historic arrests across a wide, sweeping
criminal enterprise that enveloped both the NBA and La Cosa
Nostra FBI director Cash Betel naming the Gambino, Genevievez and
Bonano crime families at a news conference in Brooklyn. When
(00:48):
these two collided together, they perpetrated a fraud that is
historic in.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Terms of not just money, but the scheme and the
deceit that they utilize.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Both Trail Blaser's coach Chauncey Billips and Miami Heat guard
Terry Rosier are among the thirty one arrested today. A
second scheme involved rigged poker games. US attorney Joseph Ncella.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
These defendants, which include former professional athletes, use high tech
cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
FBI Director Patel calls the fraud mind bogglings as the
alleged perpetrator's luck has run out. CBS new special report.
I'm Deborah Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And at eleven oh one, Americans who rely on SNAP
benefits are being told to measure their spending very carefully.
That's because if the federal government shutdown continues, the benefits
could vanish come November first.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
This is Jim Ryan. Food prices were rising before the
federal government closed its doors, and now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
This shutdown has really increased the overall level of uncertainty.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Cynthia Kirkhardt heads the Facing Hunger Food Bank, which is
bracing for extreme demand. If SNAP benefits are suspended.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just means that less food goes to many more people.
And that's not a great position to be.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
In right now for agency search, primarily rural areas in
the Ohio Valley, a region already hard hit by inflation.
Jim Ryan, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now Here in Massachusetts, a spokeswoman for Governor Healey told
WBZ News radio this week the state snap benefits are
at risk and they are monitoring for impacts. Meantime, Democrats
on Capitol Hill maintain they will not move to reopen
the government unless Republicans ensure subsidies for people on Obamacare
or the Affordable Care Act plans will stay in place.
With all the uncertainty, the Globe reports of the state
(02:28):
is now sending out notices to people who have insurance
through that exchange. The notices tell them their premiums will
likely go up if the subsidies are allowed to expire.
The notices from the Health Connectors say some residents could
see premiums go up thousands of dollars a year without
those subsidies, and officials say if they don't stay nearly
three hundred thousand people in the Bay State could lose
(02:49):
their insurance over the next decade. And for the rest
of the afternoon, you should have very nice weather. Whatever
it is you've got to do after workers school, maybe
run some errands, go take a nice walk. Temperatures right
now now across the Commonwealth in the fifties, seeing sixty
one actually on Nantucket, so it is starting to warm up.
I love a high about sixty one across the state
today with a breezy afternoon gusting already up into the
(03:12):
mid to upper twenty miles an hour. Range for tonight
partly cloudy early, then mostly clear later on Lowe's range
about thirty seven if you're inland, to forty five or
so on the coast. Then for tomorrow, mix of sunning clouds,
maybe a couple of showers in the afternoon, and a
high year sixty weekend looking dry both days, a mix
of sunning clouds, and we've got highs in the fifties.
(03:32):
Right now in Falmouth. It is fifty nine degrees, partly sunny.
In Beverly at fifty three west of Boston Ian Wooster.
It is sunny in forty nine in Boston. Right now
at Logan Airport, partly cloudy. We're at fifty three degrees.
The wind from the southwest at fifteen miles an hour.
A south shore town is looking to strongly regulate e bikes.
Here's Tobz's Jimmyay.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You've probably seen it in your neighborhood. Teenagers on e bikes,
sometimes traveling in packs out on the road.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Miscrip of kits cames like the side of my car
once and it was just like weird.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Laura lives on Cherry Street, where e bikes are known
to fly by.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
It's like that was annoying Souse.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I was scared that I I was.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Going to turn it and they were going to like
go and like you know, hit them on accent.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
At a recent Plymouth elect Board meeting, town leaders discussed
a proposal on new e bike regulations, such as requiring
registration of e bikes with the town, and operators would
need to be sixteen and a half with a driver's
license or eighteen without one. The days of thirteen and
fourteen year olds riding them around town would be over.
If this moves forward. Laris is good.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
They don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
The discussions in town will continue in Plymouth. Jim mcka WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If you use the MBTA Green Lines D branch, get
ready to spend about a week or so on shuttle buses.
The MBTA says it is closing down the D line
for a week starting at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Offici'll
say they're doing critical work on infrastructure for the train
protection system. Now you'll have a choice between local and
express shuttle buses. The express buses stop in Newton a
few times before going express straight to Copley Square. Eleven
(05:04):
oh six, the White House ramping up pressure on Russia's
President Vladimir Putin to and the war in Ukraine. ABC's
Rachel Scott.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The President announcing he will now impose new sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They're massive sanctions and sanctions and oil the two biggest
soil companies, among the biggest in the world.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Last week, the President, after speaking with Putin, refused Ukraine's
requests for powerful Tomahawk missiles that could fire deep inside Russia.
President Trump saying he would soon meet with Putin again
and hungry, but that meeting is now called off. Russia
saying we cannot postpone what has not been finalized.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The European Union also agreeing to impose new sanctions against Russia,
targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning imports
of liquefied natural gas. And in the Middle East, US
Vice President JD. Van says Israel's parliament vote approving the
annexation of the West Bank is a quote insult, the
Vice President telling reporters before he left Israel, that the
policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank
(06:01):
will not be annexed by Israel. It called the move
in the Kanesset a quote very stupid political stunt. The
bill was mostly sponsored by hardliners, with a member of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo's Liqud party joining them. Much of
Netanyahu's coalition does support annexation of the Palestinian territory, but
they recently backed off since President Trump expressed his disapproval
(06:22):
or the idea. You are now in the Loup. For
news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ Radio on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, w b Z and
Boston's News Radio
Face is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Fifty
four degrees in Boston, partly cloudy at eleven o'clock. It's
Thursday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis and
here's what's happening. Some big names in the NBA are
(00:22):
now facing federal charges. Let's get the very latest. In
a special report from CBS.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
News, a massive illegal betting scheme busted up, involving major
names in the sports world. Today, we're here in New
York to announce the historic arrests across a wide, sweeping
criminal enterprise that enveloped both the NBA and La Cosa
Nostra FBI director Cash Betel naming the Gambino, Genevievez and
Bonano crime families at a news conference in Brooklyn. When
(00:48):
these two collided together, they perpetrated a fraud that is
historic in.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Terms of not just money, but the scheme and the
deceit that they utilize.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Both Trail Blaser's coach Chauncey Billips and Miami Heat guard
Terry Rosier are among the thirty one arrested today. A
second scheme involved rigged poker games. US attorney Joseph Ncella.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
These defendants, which include former professional athletes, use high tech
cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
FBI Director Patel calls the fraud mind bogglings as the
alleged perpetrator's luck has run out. CBS new special report.
I'm Deborah Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And at eleven oh one, Americans who rely on SNAP
benefits are being told to measure their spending very carefully.
That's because if the federal government shutdown continues, the benefits
could vanish come November first.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
This is Jim Ryan. Food prices were rising before the
federal government closed its doors, and now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
This shutdown has really increased the overall level of uncertainty.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Cynthia Kirkhardt heads the Facing Hunger Food Bank, which is
bracing for extreme demand. If SNAP benefits are suspended.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just means that less food goes to many more people.
And that's not a great position to be.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
In right now for agency search, primarily rural areas in
the Ohio Valley, a region already hard hit by inflation.
Jim Ryan, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now Here in Massachusetts, a spokeswoman for Governor Healey told
WBZ News radio this week the state snap benefits are
at risk and they are monitoring for impacts. Meantime, Democrats
on Capitol Hill maintain they will not move to reopen
the government unless Republicans ensure subsidies for people on Obamacare
or the Affordable Care Act plans will stay in place.
With all the uncertainty, the Globe reports of the state
(02:28):
is now sending out notices to people who have insurance
through that exchange. The notices tell them their premiums will
likely go up if the subsidies are allowed to expire.
The notices from the Health Connectors say some residents could
see premiums go up thousands of dollars a year without
those subsidies, and officials say if they don't stay nearly
three hundred thousand people in the Bay State could lose
(02:49):
their insurance over the next decade. And for the rest
of the afternoon, you should have very nice weather. Whatever
it is you've got to do after workers school, maybe
run some errands, go take a nice walk. Temperatures right
now now across the Commonwealth in the fifties, seeing sixty
one actually on Nantucket, so it is starting to warm up.
I love a high about sixty one across the state
today with a breezy afternoon gusting already up into the
(03:12):
mid to upper twenty miles an hour. Range for tonight
partly cloudy early, then mostly clear later on Lowe's range
about thirty seven if you're inland, to forty five or
so on the coast. Then for tomorrow, mix of sunning clouds,
maybe a couple of showers in the afternoon, and a
high year sixty weekend looking dry both days, a mix
of sunning clouds, and we've got highs in the fifties.
(03:32):
Right now in Falmouth. It is fifty nine degrees, partly sunny.
In Beverly at fifty three west of Boston Ian Wooster.
It is sunny in forty nine in Boston. Right now
at Logan Airport, partly cloudy. We're at fifty three degrees.
The wind from the southwest at fifteen miles an hour.
A south shore town is looking to strongly regulate e bikes.
Here's Tobz's Jimmyay.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You've probably seen it in your neighborhood. Teenagers on e bikes,
sometimes traveling in packs out on the road.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Miscrip of kits cames like the side of my car
once and it was just like weird.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Laura lives on Cherry Street, where e bikes are known
to fly by.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
It's like that was annoying Souse.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I was scared that I I was.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Going to turn it and they were going to like
go and like you know, hit them on accent.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
At a recent Plymouth elect Board meeting, town leaders discussed
a proposal on new e bike regulations, such as requiring
registration of e bikes with the town, and operators would
need to be sixteen and a half with a driver's
license or eighteen without one. The days of thirteen and
fourteen year olds riding them around town would be over.
If this moves forward. Laris is good.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
They don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
The discussions in town will continue in Plymouth. Jim mcka WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If you use the MBTA Green Lines D branch, get
ready to spend about a week or so on shuttle buses.
The MBTA says it is closing down the D line
for a week starting at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Offici'll
say they're doing critical work on infrastructure for the train
protection system. Now you'll have a choice between local and
express shuttle buses. The express buses stop in Newton a
few times before going express straight to Copley Square. Eleven
(05:04):
oh six, the White House ramping up pressure on Russia's
President Vladimir Putin to and the war in Ukraine. ABC's
Rachel Scott.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The President announcing he will now impose new sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They're massive sanctions and sanctions and oil the two biggest
soil companies, among the biggest in the world.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Last week, the President, after speaking with Putin, refused Ukraine's
requests for powerful Tomahawk missiles that could fire deep inside Russia.
President Trump saying he would soon meet with Putin again
and hungry, but that meeting is now called off. Russia
saying we cannot postpone what has not been finalized.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The European Union also agreeing to impose new sanctions against Russia,
targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning imports
of liquefied natural gas. And in the Middle East, US
Vice President JD. Van says Israel's parliament vote approving the
annexation of the West Bank is a quote insult, the
Vice President telling reporters before he left Israel, that the
policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank
(06:01):
will not be annexed by Israel. It called the move
in the Kanesset a quote very stupid political stunt. The
bill was mostly sponsored by hardliners, with a member of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo's Liqud party joining them. Much of
Netanyahu's coalition does support annexation of the Palestinian territory, but
they recently backed off since President Trump expressed his disapproval
(06:22):
or the idea. You are now in the Loup. For
news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ Radio on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, w b Z and
Boston's News Radio
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