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