Speaker 1: This is WBZ in Boston's news radio. We defining local
Speaker 1: news seventeenth degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. They're getting the band
Speaker 1: back together. Alan Jackson is rejoining Karen Read's legal team
Speaker 1: for the civil case against her. Jackson tells WVZ News
Speaker 1: Radio Hell will join reads legal team to defend her
Speaker 1: against a wrongful death suit filed by John O'Keefe's family.
Speaker 1: In a statement, Jackson says Karen's courage in confronting abuse
Speaker 1: of power and demanding the truth is unwavering, and so
Speaker 1: are we. He says, this fight isn't over, not until
Speaker 1: every lie is exposed and every wrong is made right.
Speaker 1: Though we was quitted criminally in O'Keefe's death, his family
Speaker 1: filed the civil suit against Reed and two bars in Canton.
Speaker 1: Jackson was part of the defense in both of Reed's
Speaker 1: criminal trials. Date hasn't been set yet for the civil
Speaker 1: proceedings to begin. The House Oversight Committee is issuing a series
Speaker 1: of subpoenas for information about Jeffrey Epstein and the government's
Speaker 1: investigations of him over a span of two decades. The
Speaker 1: subpoenas from the Republican led committee have gone to many
Speaker 1: high profile people.
Speaker 2: The House Oversight chair says, in addition to demanding the
Speaker 2: Epstein files from the Justice Department, his committee has issued
Speaker 2: subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton, former FBI directors James
Speaker 2: Comby and Robert Muller, and six of the last seven
Speaker 2: attorneys general. Letters from the chairmen say the Clintons have
Speaker 2: been subpoena because the former president repeatedly flew on Jeffrey
Speaker 2: Epstein's plane, and the former Secretary of State is not
Speaker 2: only married to Bill Clinton, she also oversaw efforts to
Speaker 2: combat international sex trafficking.
Speaker 1: That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy up on the roof. That
Speaker 1: was the President today taking a walk atop the White
Speaker 1: House roof. He walked for nearly twenty minutes of the
Speaker 1: on the West wing. Earlier today, he was checking out
Speaker 1: a space for his incoming two hundred million dollar ballroom.
Speaker 1: The President says, it's just another way to spend my
Speaker 1: money for this country. His outdoor stroll followed a talk
Speaker 1: with Ukrainian President Zelensky as the president's cease fired deadline
Speaker 1: for Russia draws nearer. Two years ago, a deep sea
Speaker 1: trip to the wreck of the Titanic ended in an implosion.
Speaker 1: Now some more information about what went wrong.
Speaker 3: The US Coast Guard report revealed the twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: titan submersible disaster was a result of preventable safety failures
Speaker 3: and deliberate efforts to avoid oversight. The crew was descending
Speaker 3: to the wreck of the Titanic off Canada before it imploded.
Speaker 3: All five people aboard the titan died, including the CEO
Speaker 3: of Oceangate. The investigation found the company ignored safety warnings
Speaker 3: and the submersible's inadequate design and maintenance. The disaster has
Speaker 3: led to lawsuits and calls for tighter regulation in private
Speaker 3: deep sea tourism. Oceangate suspended its operations in July of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, weeks after the disaster. A spokesperson for
Speaker 3: the company said it was fully cooperating with the investigation.
Speaker 3: I'm Marcella Sanchez.
Speaker 1: Smokey still sings due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection extended in air quality advisory
Speaker 1: for today for the four westernmost counties in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1: Air quality in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties is
Speaker 1: expected to be unhealthy for sensitive groups. There is still
Speaker 1: some haze in the rest of the state and as
Speaker 1: we head deeper into the week that Hayes should leave us.
Speaker 1: Coming up on WBZ, some teenage chefs are hoping to
Speaker 1: serve up success at a limited time restaurant Hayes around
Speaker 1: this afternoon. The most unhealthy airs out to the west,
Speaker 1: and as we head through the rest of the week,
Speaker 1: certainly into Wednesday, Wednesday night, first part of Thursday, the
Speaker 1: Hayes will be dissipating for us, so we'll have a
Speaker 1: little bit better look at the skies. But for now,
Speaker 1: a little bit of haze around and a little bit
Speaker 1: of sunshine for us this afternoon, though it's been hiding
Speaker 1: behind the Hayes. We are looking at a couple of
Speaker 1: pop up showers here now at southern Vermont. There's one
Speaker 1: cell between about Bennington and Brattleborough that's moving off to
Speaker 1: the east fairly slowly, could end up in Kendo, Hampshire
Speaker 1: in short order. So we'll see nothing on the radar
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts, but there are some pop up showers a
Speaker 1: little bit further to the north for something to be
Speaker 1: aware of if you're heading out, mid to upper fifties
Speaker 1: for the lows in the suburbs. Tonight sixty two in
Speaker 1: the city, interitals of clouds and some hazy sunshine. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: seventy four in Boston, approaching eighty Inland Thursday, pretty much
Speaker 1: the same deal, and as mentioned, the Hayes is going
Speaker 1: to start to dissipate a bit for us from those
Speaker 1: Canadian wildfires. Temperature's Thursday get close to eighty. Temperatures Friday
Speaker 1: get into the mid eighties, maybe even some upper eighties,
Speaker 1: cooler near the water, and we could get to ninety
Speaker 1: over the weekend. We'll have to wait and see. It
Speaker 1: is still August, after all. Seventy degrees right now in Boston.
Speaker 1: Now we're cooking well. Some teenagers are wbss Jable let
Speaker 1: tells us they're taking over the kitchen and showing off
Speaker 1: their culinary chops.
Speaker 4: I'm making some very pretty packaging for our bisk Off
Speaker 4: cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 5: Student chefs like Jace Vickers take a turn at being
Speaker 5: the real thing for this week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 5: at the Future Chef's Kitchen in Roxbury.
Speaker 4: I've been cooking ever since I was little. My mom's cuban,
Speaker 4: so you know, food is a big.
Speaker 5: Cart of our life. This is an after school program
Speaker 5: that challenges chefs to be to come up with new
Speaker 5: menu items, taste test them all summer, and culminate a
Speaker 5: culinary experience every year.
Speaker 1: This is the fourth pop up.
Speaker 5: Executive director Mark Dacruz tells me everything from some spring
Speaker 5: rolls to Barry Hovnarow chicken sandwich to leachy lemonade.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, some fresh salad, berry salads. Really
Speaker 1: global summerfusion is inspiration.
Speaker 5: The kitchen also takes pre orders online and.
Speaker 4: It gives you an insight at how it would need
Speaker 4: to work in an actual restaurant.
Speaker 5: It's really cool from Roxbury. J Willett WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: If the weather cooperates, We're a week away now from
Speaker 1: the peak of the percy At meteor Shower. The annual
Speaker 1: shower started last month and continues until August twenty third peak,
Speaker 1: though according to the folks at NASA, August twelfth into
Speaker 1: the thirteenth, the person had frequently leave long wakes of
Speaker 1: light and colored behind them as they streak through the
Speaker 1: Earth's atmosphere. Of course, no clouds is a good thing,
Speaker 1: and the darker the better if you can find it.
Speaker 1: You can still see them now brightest in a week gone.
Speaker 1: But not forgotten are days on the Moon. Oh and Aussie,
Speaker 1: as you know, a trip back to the Moon for
Speaker 1: mankind has been planned. Perhaps a base there too someday.
Speaker 1: But there's a big question. Where would the power come from.
Speaker 1: NASA appears to have found an atomic answer.
Speaker 6: Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy is set to announce the
Speaker 6: agency as fast tracking plans to build a nuclear reactor
Speaker 6: on the Moon. Documents obtained by Politico reveal NASA will
Speaker 6: solicit proposals for a one hundred kilowatt nuclear reactor that
Speaker 6: would launch to the lunar surface by twenty thirty. NASA
Speaker 6: has made returning to the Moon and establishing a lasting
Speaker 6: human presence there a top priority. Power is key to
Speaker 6: building bases, supporting crews, and staying long term, And with
Speaker 6: fourteen days of darkness on the Moon each month, solar
Speaker 6: power won't cut it.
Speaker 1: That is ABC's Andrew Dimbert. You are now in the loop.
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