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Speaker 2: for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's the final day of the Panmass Challenge, with sixty
Speaker 2: five hundred bicyclists making the track across the Straight State
Speaker 2: over the weekend in order to raise money for cancer research.
Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Paul Burton reports from bourn where riders
Speaker 2: an overnight pitstock.
Speaker 3: A community of champions came together this weekend to take
Speaker 3: part in the Panmass Challenge, peddling with passion and riding
Speaker 3: their hearts out to find a cure for cancer.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a doctor, so I can't cure cancer,
Speaker 1: but this is my way of doing something for those
Speaker 1: who can.
Speaker 3: From Sturbers to Provincetown and all cities and towns in between,
Speaker 3: more than sixty five hundred riders peddled with purpose for
Speaker 3: the two day event. One hundred percent of every rider
Speaker 3: goes to Data Probert Cancer Institute to accelerate research and treatment.
Speaker 4: Okay, good guys, looking.
Speaker 2: Good and writers will finish the challenge today in Provincetown.
Speaker 2: The special investigator named by former Attorney General Merrick Garland
Speaker 2: to investigate Donald Trump is now under probe himself. We
Speaker 2: get details from CBS's Christian Benavidez.
Speaker 1: Former Special counsel Jack Smith, who was tasked with investigating
Speaker 1: President Trump, is now under investigation himself by the Office
Speaker 1: of the Special Council, a federal launchdog agency separate from
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. It's unclear what prompted the probe,
Speaker 1: but the investigation followed a complaint by Republican Arkansas Senator
Speaker 1: Tom Cotton, who wrote on x that Smith's investigations were
Speaker 1: politically motivated.
Speaker 2: Cotton claiming that Smith was trying to help then President
Speaker 2: Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The Senate shoots
Speaker 2: down some of President Trump's nominees to key positions if
Speaker 2: you did get through, though, including former Fox television host
Speaker 2: Janine Piro as US Attorney in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: One of the main things that Republicans wanted to get
Speaker 5: settled before they would leave for recess, and that's something
Speaker 5: that President Trump had emphasized, is that they wanted to
Speaker 5: confirm as many nominees they could. Some of the notable
Speaker 5: nominees that we did not see in this final round
Speaker 5: of votes on Saturday night was Mike Walt's nomination of
Speaker 5: the US Ambassador.
Speaker 2: To the UN and that CBS is Christina Carujo reporting
Speaker 2: the Senate. It is now off on its month long
Speaker 2: August recess, returning on September second. President Trump lashing out
Speaker 2: at Democrats on social media for blocking approval of some
Speaker 2: of his nominees. And now here's the four da WBZ
Speaker 2: ach you weather forecast, Buddy.
Speaker 6: If hazy sunshine this afternoon, It'll be warm with low
Speaker 6: humidity in a high about eighty in Boston, mid eighties inland.
Speaker 6: Will be clear with light winds. Low sixty five for
Speaker 6: the city, but mid fifties and the coolest inland spots.
Speaker 6: Easy sunshine and a bit warmer Tomorrow, but not all
Speaker 6: that humid, the high eighty five near ninety inland. Partly
Speaker 6: sunny and not as warm Tuesday, with the highest seventy
Speaker 6: seven in Boston. Eighty three will Inland for Wednesday, a
Speaker 6: mix of sun and cloud's high seventy six in Boston,
Speaker 6: low eighties inland. I'm acub with the media, Ronald just
Speaker 6: Joe Lunberg, DOUBDBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Right now at seventy degrees in Pittsfield, seventy two in Springfield,
Speaker 2: seventy seven in Fitchburg, seventy seven in Danvers, seventy four
Speaker 2: in Falmouth, seventy eight in Worcester. We have seventy five
Speaker 2: in Brockton, and up in Provincetown where the Panmass Challenge
Speaker 2: is ending seventy three degrees in the city right now,
Speaker 2: sunny and seventy four.
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Speaker 2: A five foot water monitor that had escaped in Webster
Speaker 2: two weeks ago has been recaptured. Police say the lizard
Speaker 2: will now live with Rainforest Reptile Shows and rrs Oasis
Speaker 2: that's a nonprofit animals sanctuary for abused and confiscated animals
Speaker 2: in Beverly. It's illegal to possess water monitor lizards here
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts without a permit and authority say this animal
Speaker 2: was being kept without proper authorization when it escaped custody.
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