Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Seventy two degrees in Boston right now, lots of sun
Speaker 2: out there. At eleven o'clock, It's Tuesday. Good morning. I'm
Speaker 2: Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. Governor Marrichilly is in
Speaker 2: Fall River this morning on the South Coast, meeting Mayor
Speaker 2: Paul Coogan and other first responders. She's there to talk
Speaker 2: with them about the city's response to the deadly fire
Speaker 2: at the Gabriel House assisted living home. We are now
Speaker 2: hearing directly for the first time from the facility's owner.
Speaker 2: In a statement, a spokesman for Dennis Etscorn says fire
Speaker 2: suppression systems were inspected frequently, with the sprinklers being checked
Speaker 2: out as early as five days before that fatal fire.
Speaker 2: We do expect to get more information today. The governor
Speaker 2: has a press conference set for this hour. The district
Speaker 2: attorney giving an update at two o'clock meantime at eleven
Speaker 2: ozho One House Democrats say they want the Trump administration
Speaker 2: to release files on conveyted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: Trump and some of his top allies like FBI Director
Speaker 1: Cash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, spent years stoking
Speaker 1: shadowy conspiracy theories about Epstein, but now Trump attacking his
Speaker 1: own supporters for wanting more information the stupid people. The
Speaker 1: president's reversal has amped up scrutiny of his own relationship
Speaker 1: with Epstein. The two men were friendly for more than
Speaker 1: a decade, socializing in New York and Palm.
Speaker 2: Beach manas ABC's Mary Bruce for also learning this morning,
Speaker 2: a top official in the Justice Department wants to meet
Speaker 2: with Epstein's imprisoned co conspirator, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
Speaker 2: Now saying he hopes to meet with Gallaine Maxwell to
Speaker 2: see what else she might know about the sex trafficking operation.
Speaker 2: This comes as The Wall Street Journal says the removal
Speaker 2: of one of its reporters from the White House press
Speaker 2: pool on an upcoming trip to Scotland violates its First
Speaker 2: Amendment rights. Here CBS's Stacy Lynn.
Speaker 3: The White House Correspondence Association calls the move unacceptable and says, quote,
Speaker 3: this attempt by the White House to punish a media
Speaker 3: outlet who's coverage it does not like is deeply troubling,
Speaker 3: and it defies the First Amendment. Government retaliation against news
Speaker 3: outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern
Speaker 3: all who value free speech and an independent media.
Speaker 2: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt in a statement saying, quote,
Speaker 2: due to the Wall Street Journal's fake and defamatory conduct,
Speaker 2: they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on
Speaker 2: board end quote. Vice President j. D. Vance coming to
Speaker 2: Nantucket today for a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee.
Speaker 2: When he arrives on the island, he'll have a group
Speaker 2: of protesters meeting him there. Organizers from groups including Indivisible
Speaker 2: Nantucket say they're calling it a day of grassroots activism
Speaker 2: protesting Vance, naming it Meowtucket. The protest kicking off about
Speaker 2: two o'clock at Children's Beach. The Nantucket Current says the
Speaker 2: VP will be at a private home for the fundraiser today.
Speaker 2: Couple shelling out a minimum of one hundred grand to
Speaker 2: join him for a meal and for the rest of
Speaker 2: the afternoon. It is going to be a beautiful day
Speaker 2: once again. Get outside, not that hot, not too sticky
Speaker 2: and kind of breezy out there too, Just comfortable, and
Speaker 2: we'll take that right. Many of us in the upper
Speaker 2: sixties low seventies right now, getting up to about the
Speaker 2: mid to upper seventies, especially if you're north and west.
Speaker 2: Could see temperatures pushing eighty for tonight, mostly clear, low
Speaker 2: just about sixty five in Boston, back in the fifties
Speaker 2: if you're inland. And then for tomorrow we start to
Speaker 2: see that warmth coming back in and feel it with
Speaker 2: a high between eighty and eighty four again a little
Speaker 2: bit warmer if you're away from the water. Mix of
Speaker 2: patchy clouds and sun Tomorrow, and then Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: that summer weather really kicks back into high gear hies
Speaker 2: in the nineties for the end of the week, and
Speaker 2: high humidity as well, So it's going to be feeling
Speaker 2: like about one hundred plus in many spots. Seventy one
Speaker 2: degrees right now in Weymouth, where seventy two in Needham
Speaker 2: north of Boston, seventy two in Danvers. In Boston right
Speaker 2: now at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy, and
Speaker 2: seventy two Mayflower too. Getting ready for a brief closing
Speaker 2: down in early August. It's all in preparation for a
Speaker 2: very important high seas journey celebrating America's two hundred and
Speaker 2: fiftieth birthday. Here's wbz's jimmckay.
Speaker 1: My family has been here forever, messages its.
Speaker 4: Lynn is a proud Plymouth native in America's hometown is
Speaker 4: the only hometown she knows. Her family's been here for
Speaker 4: two and a half centuries.
Speaker 5: I had at least seven members that are on the Mayflower.
Speaker 4: She can't wait to watch the Mayflower too. Replica ship
Speaker 4: head out on the water on August ninth, a public
Speaker 4: sale to help celebrate the nation's two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 2: Very proud of our heritage.
Speaker 4: But for four days from August fourth to the eighth,
Speaker 4: this popular replica pilgrimage ship will shut down as the
Speaker 4: Coastguard will perform sea training exercises. Lynn says it's all
Speaker 4: for a good cause and supports all of the celebrations
Speaker 4: of our nation's heritage.
Speaker 1: And it's nice to see the history of our country
Speaker 1: is still maintained and people come and explore.
Speaker 3: It in Plymouth.
Speaker 4: JIMMIKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: You can infuse THHC into all kinds of different food,
Speaker 2: but a man from Maine is now admitting to lacing
Speaker 2: it into ice cream, which then led it to be
Speaker 2: sold to people who didn't know what was tainted, the
Speaker 2: Union Leader reporting. Mark Floory of Portland, Maine, pluged guilty
Speaker 2: yesterday in federal court to a charge of tampering with
Speaker 2: a consumer product.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors say back in twenty twenty two, he mixed THHC
Speaker 2: into cookies and cream ice cream and stored it in
Speaker 2: a freezer in Newmarket, New Hampshire that he shared with
Speaker 2: the catering company. The paper reports. Eventually the catering company
Speaker 2: bought the ice cream, took over the business, and unknowingly
Speaker 2: sold the ice cream that had THHC in it with
Speaker 2: their regular stock. Several customers were taken to the hospital
Speaker 2: for their symptoms. The owners of the cafe apologized, said
Speaker 2: they were saddened and outraged when they realized what happened.
Speaker 2: What a refreshing way to start the day today. Temperatures
Speaker 2: dropping nicely here in New England after that sweltering weather,
Speaker 2: but millions of people were talking about seventy million or
Speaker 2: under heat alerts through the middle of the country and
Speaker 2: that is the case until Thursday.
Speaker 5: It will feel like one hundred ten degrees in places
Speaker 5: from Cat's City northeast to Milwaukee and south to the
Speaker 5: Upper Gulf Coast. Skyler Moss manages landscape crews and Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 5: Extreme heat may prompt her to change schedules.
Speaker 4: I try to encourage my guys to take as many
Speaker 4: breaks as they feel that they need, you know, and
Speaker 4: if it's just like absurd, ridiculous, then quick can move
Speaker 4: things around.
Speaker 5: Midweek, temperatures across the middle of the country will be
Speaker 5: ten to fifteen degrees above normal for this time of year.
Speaker 5: Jim Chrisula, CBS News, and of course we.
Speaker 2: Have much more scorching weather on the way here at
Speaker 2: the end of the week, So keep those AC's in
Speaker 2: the windows these days. You got to do that till
Speaker 2: like October. At this point, you are now in the
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