1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: We defining local news. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Forty seven degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Burgern. Here's what's happening. Two federal judges have 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program notice SNAP using emergency reserve funds 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: during the government shutdown. The rulings yesterday, coming a day 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: before the payments were due to be halted. Republicans on 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill have argued only Congress can keep the programs going. 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: Here's CBS News, Tory and Small. 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 3: They have been maintaining that it should not have been 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 3: in that contingency fund should not be used for anything 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 3: outside of a disaster. They pointed to Hurricane Melissa as 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: potential reason for the need of that. But Democrats aren't 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 3: buying it. We've heard over the past couple of days 16 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 3: that it's unc it's cruel and unfair that the Trump 17 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: administration and their minds are using this as leverage. 18 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: SNAP is used by one in eight Americans to buy 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: groceries and is a major piece of the nation's social 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: safety net. The administration has said it cannot fund SNAP, 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: but the government shuttered. Democratic officials challenge the plan to 22 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: freeze SNAP payments beginning today, saying there's a legal obligation 23 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: to keep providing assistance for low income people, and two 24 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: judges have agreed. Today is also the beginning of open 25 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: enrollment for healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act, and 26 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: some people could be in for a sticker shock. 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 4: Democrats refuse to end the government shut down unless Republicans 28 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 4: agreed to extend healthcare subsidies. Julie Rovner of KFF Health 29 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 4: News says, if Congress lets enhanced premium tax credits expire, you. 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 5: Can certainly say that pretty much everybody is going to 31 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 5: be expected to pay more. 32 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: KFF policy analyst Matt McGoff expects a large portion of 33 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: the twenty four million enrollees under the ACA coverage to 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 4: drop out. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News. 35 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Most Call Thursday in the sky and on the ground 36 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: at Logan Airport, Delta flight with two hundred and ninety 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: five people on board headed to New York was diverted 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: to Boston because of bad weather. As that flight was 39 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: about to land. A Cape Air flight was about to 40 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: take off from an intersecting runway. The Delta flight crew 41 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: instructed by air traffic control to discontinue their landing and 42 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: stay in the sky. Once the Cape airflight cleared their runway. 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: The Delta flight did land safely. The FAA is investigating 44 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: and as the government shutdown has led to increased concerns 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: over air traffic controller staffing levels. A United Airlines plane 46 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: last night clipping the tail of another United plane on 47 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: the taxiway at New York's LaGuardia Airport. CBS News New 48 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: York reporter ad Gajardo in LaGuardia. 49 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 6: The airline says no one was injured and what must 50 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 6: have been a terrifying moment for passengers and crew members 51 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 6: on board. United air Lines releasing a statement saying that 52 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 6: flight five to eighty that was coming in from Chicago 53 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 6: was turning into its arrival gate when innate contact with 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 6: the tail of flight four to thirty four, which was 55 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 6: a stationary plane on the taxiway. 56 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: This is the second recent episode at LaGuardia. It was 57 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: October first to Delta planes were involved in a collision 58 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: on the taxiway at the airport. Let's check the four 59 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: day WDBZ ACHU weather forecast another blustery day today Chili, 60 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: more sun than clouds, though high fifty seven, partly cloudy 61 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: overnight Tonight the wind sticks around will drop back to 62 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: the mid upper thirties and if you are well inland, 63 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: down to about the freezing mark overnight. Tomorrow Chile with 64 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: a good deal of sun again, high fifty two. Monday, 65 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: some sun followed by increasing clouds, maybe some showers later 66 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: in the day. On Monday, high fifty nine, and then 67 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: Tuesday breezy with sunshine and a high fifty seven forty seven. 68 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: Right now in Boston, very windy. That wind out of 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: the west about six sixteen miles per hour, gusting to 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: thirty five. It is six oh five and Halloween is 71 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: over and in its wake, how are the which city 72 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: residents feeling about it being all over? Here's wbz's Jillette. 73 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: She's a local to Salem and she's ready to admit 74 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 2: the whole Halloween thing was fun, but it's time to 75 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 2: move on. 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 7: Usually it was just the weekend where the big pop 77 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 7: would happen, and on Halloween itself, but now lately it's 78 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 7: been a lot more people coming, but all during the week, 79 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 7: every single. 80 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: Day, next to Mercy's tavern. The yard is decorated like 81 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: it's an abandoned pirate ship. We're handy costume makers here 82 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: from Salem. Even approaching Halloween, the City of Salem announced 83 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: it has surpassed a million tourists because a lot of 84 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: the folks think it's more drawn out now, I think. 85 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 7: It always speeds up, and we celebrate longer and longer 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 7: over like maybe a three month period, starting like at 87 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 7: the end of August into the middle of November and Salem. 88 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: Jay Willette WBZ Boston's News Ready. 89 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: Now yesterday at Boston University's Physics Department with some hell 90 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: from the College of Engineering. Oh a pumpkin smash and 91 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: another and another from the rooftop of the Metcalf Science 92 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: Center seventy feet down to Commab. Yesterday's Halloween Drop is 93 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: an annual event for students to prove the laws of 94 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: physics are still working. Good students and faculty dropped all 95 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: kinds of boards and threw in an honorary pamelo for 96 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: a good measure none if it went to waste. All 97 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: the pumpkins were composted by BEU Sustainability. So if you've 98 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: dipped into your kid's Halloween candy yet and you're a 99 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: little disappointed, don't be surprised. 100 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 5: Morning after grab for a candy bar may have a 101 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 5: strange after taste. From Almond Joys to Mister good Bars. 102 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 7: Watch of Things, of Chases, I get twenty five, but 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 7: of peanuts and chocolate, just check the packaging. 104 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 5: He Shes has quietly switched from real chocolate to chocolatey 105 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 5: flavoring in many of its classic favorites, including Rolos, to 106 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 5: blame poor cocoa bean harvests in West Africa and tariffs 107 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 5: that have raised the cost of imports. In this past week, 108 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 5: Journings called Hershey's chief exec reported cocoa prices are seventy 109 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 5: percent above twenty twenty three levels. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News. 110 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: Wow, Stranger Things is about to come to an end. 111 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 8: Netflix just release the trailer for Stranger Things five. The 112 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 8: first four episodes come out November twenty six. Three more 113 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 8: arrive on Christmas, and then the series finale will air 114 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 8: on New Year's Eve. One last card. You can watch 115 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 8: that final episode from your couch at home, or go 116 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 8: check it out on the big screen. It will be 117 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 8: shown in about three hundred and fifty movie theaters all 118 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 8: across the country. It's the first time ever a Netflix 119 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 8: series has gotten a theatrical premiere. 120 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: You are now in the loop news updates throughout the day. 121 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: Listen to WDBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm 122 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio