Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Up to eighty two degrees in Boston right now, it
Speaker 2: feels more like eighty six. Very humid out there today
Speaker 2: as well. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. We are in the dog days of summer,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it is feeling like.
Speaker 1: It s turned up to heat for a couple of
Speaker 1: days before we ditted back again for the weekend. We
Speaker 1: have a heat advisory through eight pm, DeMar except on
Speaker 1: the South coast, the Cape in the Islands.
Speaker 2: Man Ezaki Weather's Joe Lundberg. The full four day forecast
Speaker 2: coming up in just a few minutes. A federal judge
Speaker 2: has denied the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury
Speaker 2: transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein investigations in Florida. This comes
Speaker 2: amid reports of Attorney General Pam Bondi a few months
Speaker 2: ago telling President Trump his name was in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: Here's ABC's Eric Tursky.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal reports Bondie and Blanche and formed the
Speaker 1: President in May. His name appears multiple times in the
Speaker 1: Epstein file. The paper reports they told Trump they did
Speaker 1: not plan to release them because they contained child pornography
Speaker 1: and personal information about victims. Trump deferred to their decision.
Speaker 1: Last week, Trump denied Bondie told him his name was
Speaker 1: in the files.
Speaker 2: Meantime, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co conspirator is set to meet
Speaker 2: with the Department of Justice. Today your's ABC's Nicole d' antonio.
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein's former associate, Gallaine Maxwell, is expected to sit
Speaker 3: down with the Justice Department to discuss potential accomplices in
Speaker 3: Epstein's international sex ring. Maxwell is set to meet with
Speaker 3: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Florida, where she's
Speaker 3: serving a twenty year sentence for child trafficking.
Speaker 2: Maxwell is also now being.
Speaker 3: Subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to testify as part
Speaker 3: of an investigation into how Epstein evaded accountability for decades.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee also voting to subpoena the
Speaker 2: DOJ for files in the Epstein investigation. At eleven oh two.
Speaker 2: Around the Commonwealth this week, assisted living homes and their
Speaker 2: management are pulling together report about their safety plans. This
Speaker 2: is in the wake of that deadly fire at the
Speaker 2: Gabriel House in Fall River. Ten residents were killed. The
Speaker 2: Globe reports a state commission as getting ready to ask
Speaker 2: more questions about just how prepared those facilities are in
Speaker 2: case of emergency, including a fire. Yesterday, the Assisted Living
Speaker 2: Residences Commission meant to talk about this, specifically the potential
Speaker 2: of a new regulatory system that would be better tailored
Speaker 2: to health needs, income levels, and other factors. Now, members
Speaker 2: of the Commission were already supposed to submit new regulations
Speaker 2: for these facilities by August first. Now the paper says
Speaker 2: they're moving that date back another three months, as they
Speaker 2: say they want more time to gather information. And for
Speaker 2: the rest of the afternoon, it is going to be
Speaker 2: very hot out there in many spots, and the humidity
Speaker 2: is getting back up into tropical levels as well. So
Speaker 2: you put the two together and we could have a
Speaker 2: heat index of ninety five plus. We have a heatd
Speaker 2: advisory up through eight o'clock tomorrow night. This excludes the
Speaker 2: south coast Capan Islands and west of nine to ninety
Speaker 2: one in the Berkshire's gonna be warm there, but not
Speaker 2: potentially dangerously hot. We have a high today in the
Speaker 2: nineties and again upper seventies, low eighties if you're on
Speaker 2: the south coast Capan Islands. Also sun and a nice
Speaker 2: breeze as well, up to about fifteen twenty miles an
Speaker 2: hour for tonight, mostly clear, breezy and alone near seventy
Speaker 2: or so. Friday tomorrows of sun and clouds and a
Speaker 2: high in the mid to upper nineties. Could be seeing
Speaker 2: some storms out there late tomorrow or early tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: These storms could be strong to severe with damaging wind, gus, flooding,
Speaker 2: down poores, hail. Definitely keep it here to WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Of course, we have the traffic every ten minutes and
Speaker 2: the weather, but when severe thunderstorm warnings and things like
Speaker 2: that come down, we will break in and get that
Speaker 2: to you as soon as it happens. Temperatures right now
Speaker 2: seventy eight degrees in Brewster, seeing seventy six in Auburn,
Speaker 2: eighty two right now in Haveril, and in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven oh five it is partly cloudy and eighty one
Speaker 2: degrees feels more like eighty six. Well, these days, you're
Speaker 2: not going to find a dunken desert in your west anymore.
Speaker 2: That's because after almost three years without one. Duncan is
Speaker 2: returning to Stowe. It's in part thanks to efforts from
Speaker 2: wbz's very own Matt's Sheer. I might remember in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two he went to Stow to go do a
Speaker 2: story about the lack of dunks.
Speaker 1: L Rica has three on Boston Road, but further down
Speaker 1: four ninety five, the town of Stowe is a Duncan desert.
Speaker 1: There is no more Dungin Donuts at Stowe.
Speaker 2: Absolutely none. Yeah, both their dunks had closed within a
Speaker 2: very short time, and after worldwide outcry, with a lot
Speaker 2: of help from local franchisees, Duncan is back the location,
Speaker 2: opening up today at one O eight Great Road, the
Speaker 2: Old Beef and Ale. I'm really proud of everyone in
Speaker 2: Stowe who stayed and like made it through the whole
Speaker 2: Duncan desert situation. They're saving our town and there's a
Speaker 2: whole party going on today. Matt's out there in Stowe
Speaker 2: rather Duncan for the festivities, as the select Port is
Speaker 2: actually voted to change the town's name to Duncan for today.
Speaker 2: So we will keep you posted as that all plays
Speaker 2: out right here on WBZ. The Justice Department, as it
Speaker 2: is investigating the nation's largest private health insurer. Here's CBS
Speaker 2: the Stacy Lynn.
Speaker 4: United Health says it's facing a federal criminal and civil
Speaker 4: investigation over its Medicare billing practices. The company says it
Speaker 4: is complying and has also launched a third party review
Speaker 4: of its business policies and performance metrics. This comes after
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal reported in May that federal officials
Speaker 4: had launched an investigation into the healthcare giant over possible
Speaker 4: Medicare fraud.
Speaker 2: And United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death
Speaker 2: outside a hotel in New York last year, as alleged
Speaker 2: killer Luigi Mangioni facing several charges, including murder, and a
Speaker 2: new report says just seven thousand steps a day can
Speaker 2: actually reduce the risk of serious health issues like heart
Speaker 2: disease and cancer. Here's ABC's doctor Tarrat Narula.
Speaker 5: I found that if you walk seven thousand steps per
Speaker 5: day as opposed to two thousand, you decrease your risk
Speaker 5: of a lot of these health outcomes by about six
Speaker 5: to forty seven percent. In addition, if you pushed beyond
Speaker 5: seven thousand steps to ten thousand or twelve US, there
Speaker 5: was really a very small incremental benefit, So maybe seven
Speaker 5: thousand is more of the sweet.
Speaker 2: Spot And is ABC's again doctor Terra Nula there if
Speaker 2: you want to find out more. The study was published
Speaker 2: in the journal Lancet Public Health. You are now in
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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio.