1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. 2 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: Low clouds in Boston. It's eleven o'clock forty nine degrees 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 2: on this Thursday morning. Good to be with you. I'm 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 2: Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening starting in Washington, where 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 2: a long awaited House vote on a release of the 6 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: Epstein files appears to be in the work. A petition 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: to force a roll call on the floor has gotten 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: the necessary amount of signatures. There's ABC Stephen Port nine. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 3: After unsuccessfully applying pressure on a handful of GOP colleagues 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: to keep their names off a petition that would force 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 3: a vote, Speaker Mike Johnson says he'll put the Epstein 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 3: Files bill on the floor next week. It could pass 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 3: the House, but even if it does, there's no guarantee 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 3: it would be put to a vote in the Senate, 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 3: and even if it passed both houses, there's no guarantee 16 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 3: President Trump would sign it. 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: Newly sworn in Democratic Arizona Congressman Atlita Griholva was the 18 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: final signature needed to push that petition forward. Meantime, the 19 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: government shutdown is officially over. Forty three days later. President 20 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: Trump last night signing a funding bill to reopen the government. 21 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: Most Democrats opposed it, though, because it did not address 22 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 2: the key issue for them, the rising cost of health care. 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: Your CBS is Nicole keillyam. 24 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 4: The measure extends government funding through January thirtieth, pays back 25 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 4: federal workers while reinstating those who were fired, and guarantees 26 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 4: snap or food assistant benefits for a full year. 27 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: I will be casting my vote. I say no. In fact, 28 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: there will be a hell though. Vote yes. 29 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 5: If not, you're the ones that are taking money from 30 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 5: needy families. 31 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 4: Democrats largely opposed the legislation, arguing it failed to extend 32 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 4: Affordable Care Act tax credits for twenty million Americans facing 33 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 4: rising health insurance premiums. 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 2: And as the government reopens, the FAA says it will 35 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: hold off on increasing those flight cuts. Wbz's James Rojas 36 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: checkson from Logan. 37 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: It may take some time for flight operations to return 38 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: to normal, but in theory, flight disruptions shouldn't get much worse. 39 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: The FAA has paused its plan to increase air traffic 40 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: reductions at six percent. It means a lot for those 41 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: traveling now and maybe during the holiday season. 42 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: That's good news. 43 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: People need to get back home. Do you have more 44 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: travel do you have more plans to like, I guess 45 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: come back for yes, yes, I was. 46 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 3: I was actually dread and traveling because of you know, 47 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 3: all the interruptions. 48 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: Still, folks can't help but feel uneasy about their flights 49 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: getting delayed or canceled. 50 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 5: We just paid three hundred dollars, so we didn't We 51 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 5: just did a straight roof instead of doing the layover 52 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 5: because I'm like, what if we get there and then 53 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 5: they canceled the layover while. 54 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: We're in the layover, I'm like, hell malicious. 55 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: Go sugar. At Terminal A James Rojas WBZ Boston's News Radio. 56 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: Colbert Logan Airport today, about forty five flights have been canceled, 57 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: just shy of thirty flights have been delayed. Speaking of Logan, 58 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: dozens of vehicles that have been abandoned in the parking 59 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: lots there now up on the auction block end could 60 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: be yours. Massport says it doesn't really know why people 61 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: are leaving these vehicles behind. In all those seventy one 62 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: vehicles are being auctioned off. The auction is being run 63 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 2: by J. J. 64 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 5: Cain. 65 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 2: You want to grab yourself, a Jaguar, a Honda Ford, 66 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 2: many more. The auction ends later on Today. We've got 67 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: some clouds out there today, could see the occasional flurry, 68 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 2: maybe a light shower or two. Looking at the radar 69 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 2: right now, I'm seeing most of those on the Capan Islands, 70 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 2: especially over Nantucket and the Vineyard and really west of 71 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 2: the Quabbin. We're seeing some rain out there along I 72 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: ninety one in the Springfield area. Bit of a mixed 73 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: situation in the Berkshars, but right now here in the 74 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: Boston area, plenty of clouds. We have that breeze as well. 75 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: We've got a hide today about fifty, so a little 76 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: bit warmer than it was yesterday. For tonight breeze, plenty 77 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: of clouds early clearing up late alone near thirty five 78 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: in Boston, thirty off year Inland. Then for tomorrow, times 79 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 2: of sun and clouds. To wrap up the work week. 80 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: We've got a high near forty five that winds sticking 81 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: around as well. Saturday sun gives way to clouds, a 82 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: chili breeze at times, high near forty five. We've got 83 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: rain on Saturday night, and then on Sunday the rain 84 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: moves out in the morning. We've got high in the 85 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 2: mid fifties right now in Chatham, cloudy in forty seven degrees. Marshfield, 86 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 2: we've got clouds in forty eight west of Boston. Right 87 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: now in Lemonster, cloudy in forty five north of Boston, 88 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: Peebd cloudy in forty six. In Boston at eleven oh five, 89 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: partly sunny. We're at forty eight degrees and right now 90 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: the wind is from the northwest at thirteen miles an hour. 91 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,679 Speaker 2: Pats are hosting the Jets in Foxborough tonight for Thursday 92 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: Night football. Here's w bz's Drew o'holland. 93 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: Kickoff eight fifteen. 94 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 6: Nice to have some primetime football in Foxborough right longtime 95 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 6: season ticket holder Richie Eaton from newbury Port. He's a 96 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 6: man who knows his way around the Patriots talegate. What 97 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,559 Speaker 6: are we starting with tonight? Richie? 98 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 5: Nice chili and lightly we get a little lazy. We 99 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 5: do the chef salad boy say I was going to 100 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 5: get the chef salad. 101 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 6: Local showed out, you're going to be man in the grill. 102 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 5: No, it's too by signs. You're to squat a pat 103 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 5: Scott a tam. We'll take turns doing it, but most 104 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 5: of the time's Scot which terms I'll cook anyways, he's 105 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 5: figuring you got. 106 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 6: Enough cooking an actual cook in the family. 107 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. He's been a quick He 108 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 5: went to school for that and be cook now for 109 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 5: about twenty five years. 110 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 6: Richie Eaton the season ticket holder since nineteen sixty eight 111 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 6: for the Patriots. Pats and Jets set to battle in Foxboro, 112 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 6: Drew maholland WBZ Boston's news radio. 113 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: Meantime, Former Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown is out on 114 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: bail today, but he's also under house arrest. His attorney 115 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 2: Mark Eiglars telling reporters that Brown pled not guilty to 116 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 2: attempted murder charges. 117 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 6: The judge granted a bond of twenty five thousand with 118 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 6: house arrests Level three, so he'll be able to come 119 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 6: and go and go to work and abide by the 120 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 6: conditions of the court. 121 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: Brown is accused of grabbing a gun from a security 122 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 2: guard outside a celebrity boxing match in Miami back in 123 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 2: May and firing shots at a man he was fighting with. 124 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 2: He's arrested last week in Dubai. If he's convicted, he 125 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: could spend up to fifteen years in jail. And yesterday 126 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: you might remember we told you about a little alligator, 127 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 2: a baby alligator found swimming in the Charles And we're 128 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 2: not talking about a Charles River in Florida. We're talking 129 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: about the one here in Boston and Cambridge. Good news 130 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 2: that gator has now been rescued. You can imagine it's 131 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 2: a little too cold outside for a baby alligator. Animal 132 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: educator Joseph Kenney of Joe's Crazy Critters saw video of 133 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 2: the gator and drove up from Abington to go find him, 134 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: not because the alligator is dangerous, but because this chilly 135 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: weather is dangerous to the baby alligator. Kenny says he 136 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 2: was able to find the gator within ten fifteen minutes 137 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 2: or so. Now he is keeping him warm and housed, 138 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 2: nursing him until they can figure out what comes next. 139 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: You are now in the league. For news updates throughout 140 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 2: the day, listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. 141 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis w b Z in Boston's news radio