Morning Report: Friday, November 28, 2025

Federal officials continue to piece together the events surrounding a deadly attack on two West Virginia national guard members, President Trump vows to “permanently pause migrations” from poorer nations after an attack on two members of the national guard, Black Friday shopping might be fun...but you gotta do your homework. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Claire Skys in Boston, thirty six degrees at six o'clock.
Good morning, Welcome, I'm Charlie Berger on Here's what's happening.
Federal officials continue to piece together the events surrounding a
deadly attack on two West Virginia National Guard members the
day before Thanksgiving. Is they patrolled near the White House.
ABC's Christian Cardero today.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
A West Virginia family and the military community more in
the loss of twenty year old US Army specialist Sarah Beckstrom.
Her father Gary, writing on social media, quote, my baby
girl has passed to glory, calling it a horrible tragedy.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Twenty four year old Air Force staff Sergeant Andrew Woolf
remains in critical condition, and in one of his latest
posts on social media, President Trump vows to permanently pause
migrations from poorer nations after the attack on those two
members of the National Guard. CBS's Natalie Brand reports at

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least one government agent and he is already taking some action.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
The Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services says he
is ordered, at the direction of President Trump, a full scale,
rigorous re examination of all green cards for every immigrant
from more than a dozen countries. Of concern, including Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
The suspect in the shooting is an Afghan and national
who worked for the CIA during the war in Afghanistan.
In a post on his Truth social platform, the President stated,
quoting here, I will permanently pause migration from all third
world countries to allow the US system to fully recover,
terminate all of the millions of biden illegal admissions, and

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remove anyone who is not a net asset to the
United States end quote. A long time Massachusetts state representative
has passed away. Here's wbz's Jared Brosman.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
After a five year battle with pancreatic cancer, Massachusetts State
rep and Margaret Ferrante passed away Thanksgiving morning. According to
her office, She's represented the fifth Essex District Sinceda, than
and nine, which covers Gloucester Essex, Rockport, and Manchester by
the Sea, and she was just re elected to her
ninth term earlier this month. Governor Moore Heally, in a statement,
calls Ferrante one of the most selfless people she knew,

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and is ordering flags to be lowered to half staff
at all state buildings. Ferrante was just fifty three years old.
Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's snows Radio.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
A single car crash en Route ninety three in Stoneham
Thanksgiving night hospitalizes three people, one of them is in
critical condition. State police responding just before seven o'clock last night.
Those three victims rushed to Leahy Hospital in Burlington. All
are expected to survive. The crash temporarily closing all three

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lanes on the highway, with traffic redirected into the breakdown
lane until the road was reopened. The cause of the
crash remains under investigation. Let's check the four day WBZ
achy weather forecast, and Joe Lenberg tells us today we'll
have some sons, some clouds. It will be windy, can't
rule out passing snow shower this afternoon. High to about

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forty five, but it will feel a good ten degrees
colder than that. Tonight it's clear, it's breezy. We drop
back to about thirty three in Boston twenties suburbs. Tomorrow,
breezy with sunshine, high forty two. Sunday, cloud he gets
some rain moving through on Sunday, probably in the afternoon
and into the night. Well warmer on Sunday, get to
about fifty and then Monday, breezy with sun and cloud's

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high forty four and looking ahead to Tuesday, the potential
for a significant coastal storm. And again, you know how
this goes depending on the track. Could be rain, could
be snow. It could be also very windy, so we
could see a mess on Tuesday. But it's just to maybe.
Right now, thirty six degrees and clear skys in Boston

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at six oh five. Black Friday shopping might be fun,
but got to do your homework.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
If you don't, you might be stuck with this.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
Getting a low price on a lousy product is no bargain.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
That's Edgar Dwarski from Consumer World. Online shopping season is
already underway, and Amazon's artificial intelligence is here to help you.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Click on rufus. It will give you the price history
right there at the Amazon.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Website, but it's best to apply yourself first.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
If you can find a good sale price, apply a
coupon to it, and if you're lucky enough to find
a rebate on top of it, that's a triple play.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Secret tip from Edgar says sometimes if you leave something
in your shopping cart for a long time, you'll get
an added discount to convince you to check out Happy
Shopping Jeff Brown WBZ, Boston's news radio and the.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
News at six, brought to you by You're a New
England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters and
speaking of Toyota, malls are not the only places that'll
be crowded today, so will car dealers.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
Cash Back, low interest financing and low cost lisas are
among the top Black Friday carnals. Edmunds dot Com analyst
Jessica Coldwell says they're promoted heavily.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
There's the creation of.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
The idea that the deals are available, and I think
that's as powerful as the deals themselves.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
December is also a big car shopping month with holiday
promotions and year in deals. Jeff Gilbert, CBS News Detroit.
Are you young.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
And looking for a date, A new reality TV dating
game show just might be for you. The working title
is Social Experiments or Dating Series and is looking for
people eighteen year older anywhere from Boston to Lowell. A
job posting says it's a three hour commitment, with filming

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taking place Sunday, December seventh in Lowell on a rented
sound stage. You can find more information and apply on
the website. Backstage Zuotopia too. After a huge start at
the box office over the holiday weekend.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
No snake has set foot in Zootopia in Forever.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
The Disney animated film brought in a near record thirty
nine and a half million dollars in its opening day
on Wednesday, trailing only Frozen two for best opening day
ever by a Disney animated film. So Toopia two is
expected to rake in more than one hundred and forty
million dollars over its first five days. Wicked for Good

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is also still soaring and expected to earn another ninety
three million dollars over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. You are
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