Morning Report: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Giving back to those who served on Veteran's Day, a light at the end of the tunnel for this government shutdown, and ferries on the Merrimack River are going electric. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We defining local news.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well, this is a rude awakening six o'clock in Boston
on this Tuesday morning, and we've got partly cloudy skies.
It is just thirty five here in the city. We're
seeing some readings in the twenties across the board this morning.
Thank you for being with us on this Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
And say will be blustery and cold, with cloudsome sun and.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Even a snowshower or two during the afternoon hours. WBZ
actiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg thirties and low forties the best
we'll do today. Millions of Americans are waking up in
a deep freeze this morning. Here it's not as bad,
but you know what, it's bad enough. It's haatten gloves weather,
just like that overnight something that isn't lost on them.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
It gets real cold, real quick.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm so freezing, you know what I mean. Like yesterday,
it wasn't like that that doesn't just changed.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
A nearly twenty degree difference in just twenty four hours.
And when you add in that wind, well, I'm crying
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Could the winds.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Gossip up to thirty miles per hour today? Which makes
season low temperatures in the thirties feel more like they're
in the twenties, teens and some spots A chilling, clear
cut sign to him.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Just lets you know winter is on its way right
around the corner.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I don't like Winston.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm well of the summer guy, so I'm not looking
forward to it at all.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
And Chris Falm a WBZ Boston's news radio another late
night on Capitol Hill as senators formally okay of plans
that would end the government shutdown. Misery, however, continues at
Logan and airports around the nation as the FAA's grounding
campaign grinds on.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Emma and Octavian from Michigan ended up spending an extra
day and extra money in Boston, so we were supposed
to go home yesterday. Yeah, it did suck. The big
gut canceled. My biggest concern that I had was for
people that you don't have the fine natural capacity to
be able to take the cushion.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Because there was like an extra three hundred dollars essentially
just for us to find a new hotel and scramble.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
And at Logan's terminal A James Rojas wb Z, Boston's
news radio.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
So far this morning, close to eighty cancelations and delays
on the board, according to flight Aware, this before six
o'clock in the morning. Some sixteen hundred flights affected nationwide
already and at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day
of the eleventh month. America celebrates its veterans today.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Petrian William Shuttleworth Air Force, now seventy seven years old,
is not happy and he's calling out his country.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Losing sites and focus and respect for the veterans that
made America what it is today.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Healthcare continues to be a battle for veterans. Suicide rates
are staggering, job opportunity as well, He says, the country
needs to do better.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think every American should sit down with their congressman
of send a letter or talk to the neighbors, say
who in our neighborhood is a veteran? We do to
help them more small act of mercy and gratitude. Can
we extend.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Simple things work too, buy a meal, make sure that
veteran near you has wood to help heat the house.
You can probably think of a bunch of things. Drew
maholland WBZ Boston's News.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Ready several twenty degree readings on the weather map this morning,
but I also see a couple of areas where we're
in the teens, like the Worcester Hills and out in
portions of the Berkshire's very cold this morning. Here in Boston.
It's thirty five degrees and the wind is blowing at
gusts topping twenty miles per hour, So it does feel
like we're in the twenties right now. And we're going

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to see some sunshine today mixing with the clouds, but
it's going to be a windy day. Temperas will struggle
to get into the lower forties, but the ACI Weather
real field temperatures will make it seem like it's right
around the freezing mark for much of the day today.
It's kind of a rude awakening, I realize. But for
the rest of this week, it looks like daytime highs
are expected to only be in the forties. It looks
like it's going to be relatively dry, but we cannot

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rule out a couple of rain dropson, perhaps a couple
of snowflakes later on today, later on this week. It's
not going to be as harsh as we continue on,
but daytime highs will largely be in the forties. Right
now in Boston thirty five and it's a struggle on
this Tuesday morning at six oh five, it is going
to be electric on the Merrimack River.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
The first of the thirty three foot e Fairies will
have pilot runs next year, after Merrimack Valley Transit signed
a three million dollar contract to make it happen. The
ferries will be designed by Lyman Morse Boat Building of Maine,
drifting between haverl and newbury Port, with an in between
an Amesbury and possible stops at Salisbury Beach and Plum Island.
The ferries are one hundred percent electric, zero emission aluminum

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water taxi's looking something like catamarans with space to accommodate
twenty two passengers at a time. They're hoping to have
full service up and running in twenty twenty seven. Jay
Willett WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Once again, no Winter, no Chicken, dinner. Now the Powerball
jackpot will be worth an estimated half a billion dollars
in tomorrow night's drawing all the marbles in Tonight's Mega
Million's top prize top nine hundred million. No one has
hit either in months, and while many Americans say they've
got lottery fatigue over frequent big ticket prizes, someone's got

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to win sometime right. Nurses are making a comeback in Massachusetts.
The mass Nurses Association says the worst of a recent
shortage in hospitals and medical centers appears to be over
under stress and burned out, in a trend that started
during the depths of the pandemic. The Nurses Union says
employment is on the rise again, but there's still a
long way to go. Officials say understaffing is still an

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issue at hospitals and medical centers, but departures are down
close to thirty percent in recent years. Health officials tried
to warn us and now Canada loses its distinction of
being free of measles for the first time in nearly
three decades. Eradicated through vaccinations in the nineties, doctors today
say they had never once treated a patient for the

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illness until now. With slipping vaccination rates, the nation becomes
the first the America since before the pandemic to lose
its standing. The recent outbreak began one year ago with
a single case and has since topped five thousand cases nationwide.
Health officials do warn that the United States could be next,
and your morning cup of coffee may do a heart good.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
More than ten million Americans live with a heart disorder
known as APHIB that could lead to heart failure and
blood clots. The research results of a four year clinical
trial presented at the American Heart Association conference showed drinking
just one cup of coffee per day appeared to have
a protective effect on APHIB recurrence. For a long time,
doctors have tried to understand the impact coffee has on APHIB.

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I'm Monica Nelson.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
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