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Seventy two degrees in Boston right now, lots of sun out there. At eleven o'clock, It's Tuesday. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. Governor Marrichilly is in Fall River this morning on the South Coast, meeting Mayor Paul Coogan and other first responders. She's there to talk with them about the city's response to the deadly fire at the Gabriel House assisted living home. We are now hearing directly for the first time from the facility's owner.
In a statement, a spokesman for Dennis Etscorn says fire suppression systems were inspected frequently, with the sprinklers being checked out as early as five days before that fatal fire. We do expect to get more information today. The governor has a press conference set for this hour. The district attorney giving an update at two o'clock meantime at eleven ozho One House Democrats say they want the Trump administration to release files on conveyted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump and some of his top allies like FBI Director Cash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, spent years stoking shadowy conspiracy theories about Epstein, but now Trump attacking his own supporters for wanting more information the stupid people. The president's reversal has amped up scrutiny of his own relationship with Epstein. The two men were friendly for more than a decade, socializing in New York and Palm.
Beach manas ABC's Mary Bruce for also learning this morning, a top official in the Justice Department wants to meet with Epstein's imprisoned co conspirator, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Now saying he hopes to meet with Gallaine Maxwell to see what else she might know about the sex trafficking operation. This comes as The Wall Street Journal says the removal of one of its reporters from the White House press pool on an upcoming trip to Scotland violates its First
Amendment rights. Here CBS's Stacy Lynn.
The White House Correspondence Association calls the move unacceptable and says, quote, this attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet who's coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment. Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt in a statement saying, quote, due to the Wall Street Journal's fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board end quote. Vice President j. D. Vance coming to Nantucket today for a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee. When he arrives on the island, he'll have a group of protesters meeting him there. Organizers from groups including Indivisible Nantucket say they're calling it a day of grassroots activism
protesting Vance, naming it Meowtucket. The protest kicking off about two o'clock at Children's Beach. The Nantucket Current says the VP will be at a private home for the fundraiser today. Couple shelling out a minimum of one hundred grand to join him for a meal and for the rest of the afternoon. It is going to be a beautiful day once again. Get outside, not that hot, not too sticky and kind of breezy out there too, Just comfortable, and
we'll take that right. Many of us in the upper sixties low seventies right now, getting up to about the mid to upper seventies, especially if you're north and west. Could see temperatures pushing eighty for tonight, mostly clear, low just about sixty five in Boston, back in the fifties if you're inland. And then for tomorrow we start to see that warmth coming back in and feel it with a high between eighty and eighty four again a little
bit warmer if you're away from the water. Mix of patchy clouds and sun Tomorrow, and then Thursday and Friday, that summer weather really kicks back into high gear hies in the nineties for the end of the week, and high humidity as well, So it's going to be feeling like about one hundred plus in many spots. Seventy one degrees right now in Weymouth, where seventy two in Needham north of Boston, seventy two in Danvers. In Boston right now at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy, and
seventy two Mayflower too. Getting ready for a brief closing down in early August. It's all in preparation for a very important high seas journey celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Here's wbz's jimmckay.
My family has been here forever, messages its.
Lynn is a proud Plymouth native in America's hometown is the only hometown she knows. Her family's been here for two and a half centuries.
I had at least seven members that are on the Mayflower.
She can't wait to watch the Mayflower too. Replica ship head out on the water on August ninth, a public sale to help celebrate the nation's two hundred and fiftieth.
Very proud of our heritage.
But for four days from August fourth to the eighth, this popular replica pilgrimage ship will shut down as the Coastguard will perform sea training exercises. Lynn says it's all for a good cause and supports all of the celebrations of our nation's heritage.
And it's nice to see the history of our country is still maintained and people come and explore.
It in Plymouth.
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You can infuse THHC into all kinds of different food, but a man from Maine is now admitting to lacing it into ice cream, which then led it to be sold to people who didn't know what was tainted, the Union Leader reporting. Mark Floory of Portland, Maine, pluged guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of tampering with a consumer product.
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Prosecutors say back in twenty twenty two, he mixed THHC into cookies and cream ice cream and stored it in a freezer in Newmarket, New Hampshire that he shared with the catering company. The paper reports. Eventually the catering company bought the ice cream, took over the business, and unknowingly sold the ice cream that had THHC in it with their regular stock. Several customers were taken to the hospital
for their symptoms. The owners of the cafe apologized, said they were saddened and outraged when they realized what happened. What a refreshing way to start the day today. Temperatures dropping nicely here in New England after that sweltering weather, but millions of people were talking about seventy million or under heat alerts through the middle of the country and that is the case until Thursday.
It will feel like one hundred ten degrees in places from Cat's City northeast to Milwaukee and south to the Upper Gulf Coast. Skyler Moss manages landscape crews and Memphis, Tennessee. Extreme heat may prompt her to change schedules.
I try to encourage my guys to take as many breaks as they feel that they need, you know, and if it's just like absurd, ridiculous, then quick can move things around.
Midweek, temperatures across the middle of the country will be ten to fifteen degrees above normal for this time of year. Jim Chrisula, CBS News, and of course we.
Have much more scorching weather on the way here at the end of the week, So keep those AC's in the windows these days. You got to do that till like October. At this point, you are now in the league for news updates throughout the day. And listen to wb ZIS Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis wb Lean to Boston's news radio.