Morning Report: Monday, November 10, 2025

More than forty days into a government shutdown there may be an end in sight, Bristol County Jail announces an inside-job drug bust, and the Mayor of Boston visits Canada. 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. You're
ready for this? Didn't think so. It's Monday already six
o'clock here in Boston. We're waking up under cloudy skies
and damp conditions, some drizzle out and about, and some
heavier showers on the way. It is, however, fifty five

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degrees at six o'clock this Monday morning. The News at
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your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with
us today. I'm Jeff Brown. It's just another manic Monday
body with periods of rain along with areas of fog
today and highs the Midwebber fifties.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Much colder tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
At is WBZ acky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. In fact,
the cold blast will start to arrive overnight tonight. Government
shutdown day number forty one.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
On this vote, the yays are sixty and the nayser forty.
The motion upon reconsideration is agreed to.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
A working weekend in Washington ends late, but it may
have worked.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Late night Sunday session on Capitol Hill. Just enough Democrats
voted to advance a Republican bill that would extend funding
for the government through the end of January. Eight senators
breaking with their party to vote for the compromise, which
does not include Democrats' key demand to extend Obamacare subsidies
and prevent premiums from skyrocketing, the very demand that led

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to the government shut down in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's ABC's Allison Kosik. The deal brokered by New Hampshire
Democratic Senators Jean Shaheen and Maggie Hassen, along with Maine
Independent Angus King. A formal vote is expected in the
Senate today. Interesting to note that both Senators Elizabeth Warren
and Ed Markey vote no. For More on that, we
check in with WBC's Drew mo'hollands. Good morning, Andrew.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Morning. Jeffrey Yes, Senator at Marqui with an overnight statement,
it reads the government will reopen one step forward, twenty
two million steps back. It's a massive mistake, he says,
to strip tens of millions of people of their health
insurance and outright betrayal of what families needed. He adds,
a better future is still possible, but only if we
turn our anger into action.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
There's a lot of confusion over where things stand today.
In fact, the snap benefit payments, which have already begun
arriving in Massachusetts, will continue to do so this week,
even though the President of the White House says stop
those payments or else a lot of unanswered questions, lots unpacked.
We hope we'll have some answers early this week, and

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as soon as we know, you'll know here at WBZ,
Thank you, Andrew. Frustrated travelers at the nation's airports brace
themselves for more delays and more cancelations today as the
FAA continues its flight grounding campaign. The current four percent
reduction is expected to incrementally increase this week until ten
percent of flights are affected in an effort to bring

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safety to the skies and overloaded air traffic controllers, who,
by the way, will go without a second paycheck as
of tomorrow. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says if the shutdown continues,
travelers can expect flights to be reduced to a trickle
by Thanksgiving week, and already on the board at Logan
Airport this morning fifty plus cancelations cross country. That number

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is standing at fifteen hundred cancelations this morning and road
Warriors might not be caught beside the twenty to ten
and the rookie takes it.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Home for the touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
CBS Sports with the call as the Patriots pick up
their seventh victory in a row short turnaround week. The
Patriots will kick off Week eleven in the NFL on
Thursday night against the Jets at Gillette. It is drizzly
conditions this morning and otherwise cloudy skies. There is a
damp feel. It's fifty five though right now in Boston.
We'll see temperatures relatively steady throughout the day or perhaps

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up towards sixty degrees, and the rain is going to
become a little bit steadier and heavier as the day
progresses as well. Now overnight tonight some clearing skies. It's
going to get cold as this trough of cold air
dips down from the Arctic and will be right around
freezing overnight in Boston. Many airs will be in the
twenties as we get started tomorrow. It could be a
killing frost for many of many of additional communities this time.

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Tomorrow and tomorrow as a whole is going to see
mainly cloudy skies, maybe some sunshine, though going to be
breezy conditions. Highs will barely get into the lower forties,
but with the wind, it'll make it feel like we're
stuck around freezing all day. It's some of the coldest
air that we've seen this year, and that continues on
Wednesday as well, before we start to moderate a little
bit towards the end of the week with a return

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of fifty degree temperatures some Thursday and Friday. Right now,
it's already fifty five and a damp field to the
air this Monday morning at six oh five.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
This is being called possibly the largest employee drug bust
in the history of the Bristol County Jail.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
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 sting operation nicknamed Operation fish Hook, centered around
Ginger Hook of New Bedford, who worked in the jail's
library services. Officials say she resid in July of this
year when confronted with accusations that she had been working

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

Speaker 1 (05:21):
State of emergency has been lifted in Amherst following a
massive weekend fire that flattened an off campus apartment building
at the University of Massachusetts. More than two hundred people
displaced by that blaze, which took an assist from several
local fire departments, needing more than a million gallons of
water to douse the flames, hence the state of emergency.
No injuries are reported. The fire on Olympia Drive is

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pretty much out. Many of those without homes are students
at UMass and so the school says it is assisting
with shelter and will provide meal services free of charge,
at least for now. Boston Mayor Michelle wou heads north.
The mayor is in the woods of Nova Scotia these
days in an effort to help pick Boston's official Christmas tree.
The annual gift is from a forever grateful Province of

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Canada for Boston's help following a massive explosion in Halifax
more than one hundred years ago that killed nearly two
thousand and left some nine thousand wounded. Mayor Wu will
be the first Boston mayor to attend and take part
in the tree cutting ceremony. Her husband and three kids
are tagging along for the ride through Wednesday. In the meantime,
City Council President Rutzi Louis June will be acting mayor.

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Well amateur chefs, The rubber is about to meet the roads.
Turkey Day is coming and help is also on the way.
Turkey talk line experts from Butterball are back to answer
Thanksgiving host questions. Questions like preparation.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
It takes twenty four hours for every four pounds of
turkey meat is baying your fridge?

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Butterballs Nicole Johnson says a cooking bag is a great option.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
It's more of a moistya cook method, so you may
not get that very golden brown, but it's tender and juicy.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
And finally, thank food Safety.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
After the tree turkey he's been sitting, you do want
to make sure that it's in the refrigerator after it
left the oven within two hours of.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Stephen Kauffman, CBS News. You are now in the loop
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