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