October 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Today marks day 23 in the government shutdown, the US launches a second attack against suspected drug vessels in the pacific ocean, for the first time scientists say mosquitoes have been found in Iceland. 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):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is fun, isn't it. It's only Thursday here in Boston,
but you know what, we're getting there and the weather
of late has been pretty good. Despite some downpours, we're
through that and we're in good shape. This morning. It's
cold though, just forty nine degrees here in Boston. The
News at six o'clock is brought to you by your
New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.
Thanks for being with us on this Thursday morning. I'm
(00:33):
Jeff Brown. As October starts to act its age, sunshine
mixing with clouds today, breezy and cooler than yesterday. Are
high today sixty one at is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg really only in the fifties pretty much heading
into the weekend. Visiting nurses at Cape Con Healthcare are
in the middle of a three day strike as we speak.
They claim their bosses are refusing to offer them pay
(00:55):
raises that will bring them in line with hospital unionized
nurses at both can Ape Cod and Foulmouth Hospitals, where
nineteen percent increases are in writing. Visiting nurses earn roughly
twenty percent less than that. The hospital says it continues
to bargain in good faith. The new Look Celtics come
up a dollar short on opening night at the Garden.
They lose to the Sixers. Celtics will be at Madison
(01:18):
Square Garden. They get the Knicks next. Bruins hope to
end a five game losing streak tonight at the Garden.
The Ducks are in Town seven thirty puck drop and
Week eight in the NFL kicks off tonight Vikings Chargers
on Thursday night. Football Government shutdown day number twenty three.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No progress and negotiations on Capitol Hill. Democratic Senator John
Fetterman is breaking with his party in hopes of reopening
the government. He says Republicans should invote what's called the
nuclear option. It would allow the government spending bill to
pass the Senate by simple majority instead of a sixty
vote threshold. Warning federal food assistants or SNAP benefits are
(01:55):
about to run out for forty two million Americans.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
In the ZBC's Perry Ross. In fact, Governor Mara Healy
says there's no way that the Commonwealth can replace the
nearly quarter billion dollars every month that the government provides
to put food on people's tables through the SNAP benefit program.
The US launches another attack in the Eastern Pacific against
suspected drug running vessels that makes eight deadly strikes as
(02:21):
the White House war on drug cartels continues and brings
the death toll since the September strikes began to thirty seven,
and until this week, all prior attacks have hit what
the White House describes as narco terrorists operating in the Caribbean.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will only say one of the
recent strikes hit a boat off the coast of Columbia.
The rubber is about to meet the road. On massachusetts
(02:43):
plans to bring marijuana cafes to the Commonwealth. The Cannabis
Control Commission will meet today to talk about social consumption sites,
of which three types are on the table, offering supplemental
licenses to existing recreational pot dispensaries, a hospital or rather
a hospitality life since for certain businesses like theaters and
yoga studios, and event organizer licenses for special events. Now
(03:06):
if approved, Massachusetts would become the eleventh state to allow
social consumption sites and a Miss USA contestant gets a
second chance to make a first impression. I am so happy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Months after she was crowned Miss Nevada, Mary Sickler ditched
her wig on stage during the Miss USA pageant preliminaries
in Reno, Nevada. She wore a bejeweled head covering instead
that matched her sparkling silver gown. Sickler was diagnosed with
alopecia universalis in December after she started losing patches of hair,
her eyelashes, and eyebrows. She says it took her a
(03:41):
while to finally be able to see herself as beautiful.
The new Miss USA will be crowned tomorrow. Deborah Rodriguez
CBS News.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's going to be a beautiful day in Boston, and
it's a little chilly as we get started this morning.
It's is forty nine here in the city. But it's
going to be mostly sunny all day today. A little
bit of a breezy condition. Will see some clouds from
time to time, but highs will be in the lower sixties. Overnight,
partly cloudy, lows in the thirties and forties Tonight Tomorrow,
(04:10):
mixture sun and clouds, high temperatures right around sixty. But
as we head towards the weekend, October finally begins to
feel like it as tempts will top out in the fifties.
And it looked like it looks like the long term forecast.
It's it looks like these warm days are pretty much
over for the time being, will be mainly in the
fifties coming up next week. Right now in Boston, it's
forty nine and clear skies. Sunrise awaits at six oh
(04:33):
six on this Thursday morning. Normally people hate to see
the end of vacation, but several dozen on board a
cruise ship can't wait for this vacation to be over.
Wbzas Drew moholland is here with the details. Good morning, Andrew,
Good morning, you big cruise guy. You like the cruise.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I do like the cruises, all right, pat you might
not like this one. Passengers on board the Oceana Insignia
are about to pull into port in Boston, with dozens
of them recovering from neuro virus. The CDC says the
outbreak forced the ship into a deep clean mode. Some
eighty passengers and crew are forced to look at vacation
from the inside out. They have been put in isolation
(05:11):
over the past several days. The ship departed Montreal for
its two week voyage, with stops elsewhere in Canada and Maine.
It arrives in Boston Jeffrey Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This reminds me of that remember when coronavirus. In the
peak of coronavirus, there was a cruise ship that no
port would accept. That's right, yeah, and people were stranded
for weeks on that ship.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Can I tell you this is one of my worst tonightmares?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, yeah, I can understand why. It's It's just it's
not a good way. It's not a good way to
end a vacation, not.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
A good way to cruise.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, not at all, Thank you, Drew. A Cambridge condominium
that has been teetering on the edge of collapse for
months is about to be torn down. Demolition of the
sixty year old Riverview Condos will begin, piece by painstaking
peace in December. Raising comes after all residents are forced
to evacuate last year over concerns of failing concrete. Not
(06:02):
only that, people in a smaller condo building next door
will be shown the door as well, this time temporarily.
Next month, the city will pay for short term housing,
but expects to be reimbursed by the owners of the
Riverview Complex. Well, today's the day to celebrate a good jump.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Scare nothing, he says, like a scary movie. We need
settles for the night in front of the Telly.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know the scary levent, especially around nine o'clock at
night when there's no noise.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know, you stop watching them, you start looking around.
You hear a crack or something, you know, a creep
or something.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
And this guy knows eerie work at.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
A cemetery, you know. Oh yeah, you gotta hear some
of the stories.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I'll take a pass, thank you very much. But today
is the perfect day to spin yarns of fright as
its National Horror Movie Day, something this Brocktonian and his
family are prepared for.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You have to go to a dollar tree and get
the snacks, corn curls, popcorn and chocolate bars.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Chris Mama, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is fun, isn't it. It's only Thursday here in Boston,
but you know what, we're getting there and the weather
of late has been pretty good. Despite some downpours, we're
through that and we're in good shape. This morning. It's
cold though, just forty nine degrees here in Boston. The
News at six o'clock is brought to you by your
New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.
Thanks for being with us on this Thursday morning. I'm
(00:33):
Jeff Brown. As October starts to act its age, sunshine
mixing with clouds today, breezy and cooler than yesterday. Are
high today sixty one at is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg really only in the fifties pretty much heading
into the weekend. Visiting nurses at Cape Con Healthcare are
in the middle of a three day strike as we speak.
They claim their bosses are refusing to offer them pay
(00:55):
raises that will bring them in line with hospital unionized
nurses at both can Ape Cod and Foulmouth Hospitals, where
nineteen percent increases are in writing. Visiting nurses earn roughly
twenty percent less than that. The hospital says it continues
to bargain in good faith. The new Look Celtics come
up a dollar short on opening night at the Garden.
They lose to the Sixers. Celtics will be at Madison
(01:18):
Square Garden. They get the Knicks next. Bruins hope to
end a five game losing streak tonight at the Garden.
The Ducks are in Town seven thirty puck drop and
Week eight in the NFL kicks off tonight Vikings Chargers
on Thursday night. Football Government shutdown day number twenty three.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No progress and negotiations on Capitol Hill. Democratic Senator John
Fetterman is breaking with his party in hopes of reopening
the government. He says Republicans should invote what's called the
nuclear option. It would allow the government spending bill to
pass the Senate by simple majority instead of a sixty
vote threshold. Warning federal food assistants or SNAP benefits are
(01:55):
about to run out for forty two million Americans.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
In the ZBC's Perry Ross. In fact, Governor Mara Healy
says there's no way that the Commonwealth can replace the
nearly quarter billion dollars every month that the government provides
to put food on people's tables through the SNAP benefit program.
The US launches another attack in the Eastern Pacific against
suspected drug running vessels that makes eight deadly strikes as
(02:21):
the White House war on drug cartels continues and brings
the death toll since the September strikes began to thirty seven,
and until this week, all prior attacks have hit what
the White House describes as narco terrorists operating in the Caribbean.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will only say one of the
recent strikes hit a boat off the coast of Columbia.
The rubber is about to meet the road. On massachusetts
(02:43):
plans to bring marijuana cafes to the Commonwealth. The Cannabis
Control Commission will meet today to talk about social consumption sites,
of which three types are on the table, offering supplemental
licenses to existing recreational pot dispensaries, a hospital or rather
a hospitality life since for certain businesses like theaters and
yoga studios, and event organizer licenses for special events. Now
(03:06):
if approved, Massachusetts would become the eleventh state to allow
social consumption sites and a Miss USA contestant gets a
second chance to make a first impression. I am so happy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Months after she was crowned Miss Nevada, Mary Sickler ditched
her wig on stage during the Miss USA pageant preliminaries
in Reno, Nevada. She wore a bejeweled head covering instead
that matched her sparkling silver gown. Sickler was diagnosed with
alopecia universalis in December after she started losing patches of hair,
her eyelashes, and eyebrows. She says it took her a
(03:41):
while to finally be able to see herself as beautiful.
The new Miss USA will be crowned tomorrow. Deborah Rodriguez
CBS News.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's going to be a beautiful day in Boston, and
it's a little chilly as we get started this morning.
It's is forty nine here in the city. But it's
going to be mostly sunny all day today. A little
bit of a breezy condition. Will see some clouds from
time to time, but highs will be in the lower sixties. Overnight,
partly cloudy, lows in the thirties and forties Tonight Tomorrow,
(04:10):
mixture sun and clouds, high temperatures right around sixty. But
as we head towards the weekend, October finally begins to
feel like it as tempts will top out in the fifties.
And it looked like it looks like the long term forecast.
It's it looks like these warm days are pretty much
over for the time being, will be mainly in the
fifties coming up next week. Right now in Boston, it's
forty nine and clear skies. Sunrise awaits at six oh
(04:33):
six on this Thursday morning. Normally people hate to see
the end of vacation, but several dozen on board a
cruise ship can't wait for this vacation to be over.
Wbzas Drew moholland is here with the details. Good morning, Andrew,
Good morning, you big cruise guy. You like the cruise.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I do like the cruises, all right, pat you might
not like this one. Passengers on board the Oceana Insignia
are about to pull into port in Boston, with dozens
of them recovering from neuro virus. The CDC says the
outbreak forced the ship into a deep clean mode. Some
eighty passengers and crew are forced to look at vacation
from the inside out. They have been put in isolation
(05:11):
over the past several days. The ship departed Montreal for
its two week voyage, with stops elsewhere in Canada and Maine.
It arrives in Boston Jeffrey Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This reminds me of that remember when coronavirus. In the
peak of coronavirus, there was a cruise ship that no
port would accept. That's right, yeah, and people were stranded
for weeks on that ship.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Can I tell you this is one of my worst tonightmares?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, yeah, I can understand why. It's It's just it's
not a good way. It's not a good way to
end a vacation, not.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
A good way to cruise.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, not at all, Thank you, Drew. A Cambridge condominium
that has been teetering on the edge of collapse for
months is about to be torn down. Demolition of the
sixty year old Riverview Condos will begin, piece by painstaking
peace in December. Raising comes after all residents are forced
to evacuate last year over concerns of failing concrete. Not
(06:02):
only that, people in a smaller condo building next door
will be shown the door as well, this time temporarily.
Next month, the city will pay for short term housing,
but expects to be reimbursed by the owners of the
Riverview Complex. Well, today's the day to celebrate a good jump.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Scare nothing, he says, like a scary movie. We need
settles for the night in front of the Telly.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know the scary levent, especially around nine o'clock at
night when there's no noise.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know, you stop watching them, you start looking around.
You hear a crack or something, you know, a creep
or something.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
And this guy knows eerie work at.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
A cemetery, you know. Oh yeah, you gotta hear some
of the stories.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I'll take a pass, thank you very much. But today
is the perfect day to spin yarns of fright as
its National Horror Movie Day, something this Brocktonian and his
family are prepared for.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You have to go to a dollar tree and get
the snacks, corn curls, popcorn and chocolate bars.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Chris Mama, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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