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<v Speaker 1>This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>Up to eighty two degrees in Boston right now, it

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<v Speaker 2>feels more like eighty six. Very humid out there today

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<v Speaker 2>as well. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's what's happening. We are in the dog days of summer,

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<v Speaker 2>and yeah, it is feeling like.

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<v Speaker 1>It s turned up to heat for a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>days before we ditted back again for the weekend. We

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<v Speaker 1>have a heat advisory through eight pm, DeMar except on

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<v Speaker 1>the South coast, the Cape in the Islands.

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<v Speaker 2>Man Ezaki Weather's Joe Lundberg. The full four day forecast

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<v Speaker 2>coming up in just a few minutes. A federal judge

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<v Speaker 2>has denied the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury

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<v Speaker 2>transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein investigations in Florida. This comes

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<v Speaker 2>amid reports of Attorney General Pam Bondi a few months

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<v Speaker 2>ago telling President Trump his name was in the Epstein files.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's ABC's Eric Tursky.

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<v Speaker 1>Wall Street Journal reports Bondie and Blanche and formed the

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<v Speaker 1>President in May. His name appears multiple times in the

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein file. The paper reports they told Trump they did

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<v Speaker 1>not plan to release them because they contained child pornography

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<v Speaker 1>and personal information about victims. Trump deferred to their decision.

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<v Speaker 1>Last week, Trump denied Bondie told him his name was

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<v Speaker 1>in the files.

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<v Speaker 2>Meantime, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co conspirator is set to meet

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<v Speaker 2>with the Department of Justice. Today your's ABC's Nicole d' antonio.

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<v Speaker 3>Jeffrey Epstein's former associate, Gallaine Maxwell, is expected to sit

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<v Speaker 3>down with the Justice Department to discuss potential accomplices in

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<v Speaker 3>Epstein's international sex ring. Maxwell is set to meet with

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<v Speaker 3>Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Florida, where she's

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<v Speaker 3>serving a twenty year sentence for child trafficking.

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<v Speaker 2>Maxwell is also now being.

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<v Speaker 3>Subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to testify as part

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<v Speaker 3>of an investigation into how Epstein evaded accountability for decades.

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<v Speaker 2>Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee also voting to subpoena the

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<v Speaker 2>DOJ for files in the Epstein investigation. At eleven oh two.

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<v Speaker 2>Around the Commonwealth this week, assisted living homes and their

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<v Speaker 2>management are pulling together report about their safety plans. This

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<v Speaker 2>is in the wake of that deadly fire at the

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<v Speaker 2>Gabriel House in Fall River. Ten residents were killed. The

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<v Speaker 2>Globe reports a state commission as getting ready to ask

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<v Speaker 2>more questions about just how prepared those facilities are in

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<v Speaker 2>case of emergency, including a fire. Yesterday, the Assisted Living

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<v Speaker 2>Residences Commission meant to talk about this, specifically the potential

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<v Speaker 2>of a new regulatory system that would be better tailored

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<v Speaker 2>to health needs, income levels, and other factors. Now, members

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<v Speaker 2>of the Commission were already supposed to submit new regulations

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<v Speaker 2>for these facilities by August first. Now the paper says

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<v Speaker 2>they're moving that date back another three months, as they

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<v Speaker 2>say they want more time to gather information. And for

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<v Speaker 2>the rest of the afternoon, it is going to be

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<v Speaker 2>very hot out there in many spots, and the humidity

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<v Speaker 2>is getting back up into tropical levels as well. So

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<v Speaker 2>you put the two together and we could have a

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<v Speaker 2>heat index of ninety five plus. We have a heatd

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<v Speaker 2>advisory up through eight o'clock tomorrow night. This excludes the

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<v Speaker 2>south coast Capan Islands and west of nine to ninety

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<v Speaker 2>one in the Berkshire's gonna be warm there, but not

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<v Speaker 2>potentially dangerously hot. We have a high today in the

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<v Speaker 2>nineties and again upper seventies, low eighties if you're on

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<v Speaker 2>the south coast Capan Islands. Also sun and a nice

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<v Speaker 2>breeze as well, up to about fifteen twenty miles an

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<v Speaker 2>hour for tonight, mostly clear, breezy and alone near seventy

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<v Speaker 2>or so. Friday tomorrows of sun and clouds and a

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<v Speaker 2>high in the mid to upper nineties. Could be seeing

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<v Speaker 2>some storms out there late tomorrow or early tomorrow night.

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<v Speaker 2>These storms could be strong to severe with damaging wind, gus, flooding,

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<v Speaker 2>down poores, hail. Definitely keep it here to WBZ News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, we have the traffic every ten minutes and

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<v Speaker 2>the weather, but when severe thunderstorm warnings and things like

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<v Speaker 2>that come down, we will break in and get that

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<v Speaker 2>to you as soon as it happens. Temperatures right now

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<v Speaker 2>seventy eight degrees in Brewster, seeing seventy six in Auburn,

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<v Speaker 2>eighty two right now in Haveril, and in Boston at

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<v Speaker 2>eleven oh five it is partly cloudy and eighty one

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<v Speaker 2>degrees feels more like eighty six. Well, these days, you're

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<v Speaker 2>not going to find a dunken desert in your west anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>That's because after almost three years without one. Duncan is

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<v Speaker 2>returning to Stowe. It's in part thanks to efforts from

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<v Speaker 2>wbz's very own Matt's Sheer. I might remember in twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty two he went to Stow to go do a

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<v Speaker 2>story about the lack of dunks.

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<v Speaker 1>L Rica has three on Boston Road, but further down

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<v Speaker 1>four ninety five, the town of Stowe is a Duncan desert.

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<v Speaker 1>There is no more Dungin Donuts at Stowe.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely none. Yeah, both their dunks had closed within a

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<v Speaker 2>very short time, and after worldwide outcry, with a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of help from local franchisees, Duncan is back the location,

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<v Speaker 2>opening up today at one O eight Great Road, the

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<v Speaker 2>Old Beef and Ale. I'm really proud of everyone in

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<v Speaker 2>Stowe who stayed and like made it through the whole

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<v Speaker 2>Duncan desert situation. They're saving our town and there's a

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<v Speaker 2>whole party going on today. Matt's out there in Stowe

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<v Speaker 2>rather Duncan for the festivities, as the select Port is

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<v Speaker 2>actually voted to change the town's name to Duncan for today.

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<v Speaker 2>So we will keep you posted as that all plays

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<v Speaker 2>out right here on WBZ. The Justice Department, as it

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<v Speaker 2>is investigating the nation's largest private health insurer. Here's CBS

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<v Speaker 2>the Stacy Lynn.

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<v Speaker 4>United Health says it's facing a federal criminal and civil

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<v Speaker 4>investigation over its Medicare billing practices. The company says it

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<v Speaker 4>is complying and has also launched a third party review

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<v Speaker 4>of its business policies and performance metrics. This comes after

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<v Speaker 4>The Wall Street Journal reported in May that federal officials

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<v Speaker 4>had launched an investigation into the healthcare giant over possible

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<v Speaker 4>Medicare fraud.

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<v Speaker 2>And United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death

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<v Speaker 2>outside a hotel in New York last year, as alleged

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<v Speaker 2>killer Luigi Mangioni facing several charges, including murder, and a

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<v Speaker 2>new report says just seven thousand steps a day can

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<v Speaker 2>actually reduce the risk of serious health issues like heart

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<v Speaker 2>disease and cancer. Here's ABC's doctor Tarrat Narula.

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<v Speaker 5>I found that if you walk seven thousand steps per

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<v Speaker 5>day as opposed to two thousand, you decrease your risk

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<v Speaker 5>of a lot of these health outcomes by about six

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<v Speaker 5>to forty seven percent. In addition, if you pushed beyond

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<v Speaker 5>seven thousand steps to ten thousand or twelve US, there

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<v Speaker 5>was really a very small incremental benefit, So maybe seven

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<v Speaker 5>thousand is more of the sweet.

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<v Speaker 2>Spot And is ABC's again doctor Terra Nula there if

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<v Speaker 2>you want to find out more. The study was published

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<v Speaker 2>in the journal Lancet Public Health. You are now in

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<v Speaker 2>the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to

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<v Speaker 2>WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, wb ZE,

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<v Speaker 2>Boston's news radio.