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Good morning, our final days of summer. This is the last best day. But we need the rain and the rain is coming. But this is it eighty and Sonny is our high to day. Enjoy it while you have it. I'm Laurie Kirby. We start in New York a day in court for hip hop legend Sean did He Combs. We're now getting our first look at the federal charges against him. We get more now in the special report from CBS News.
Combs has been indicted on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Corresponded Jureka Duncan from US District Court in New York.
The opening line in this indictment says, for decades, Shawn Combe's abuse threatened, coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.
He's accused of in using female victims and male sex workers into drugged up, sometimes days long sexual performance. It's celebrity attorney Chris Melcher.
It's not just a collection of state crimes that he's being charged with. This is a federal criminal Enterprise.
Holmes is expected to be a reign today.
He's got the.
Full weight of the federal government down on him, and they were patient. They took their time after the raids, so this is going to be extremely difficult for him to defend himself.
So far, no sign of Combs at the courthouse, fans outside playing his music. CBS News special Report, I'm Deborah Rodriguez.
Boston police are investigating a double shooting that left a baby critically injured and sent a woman to the hospital. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox.
This is a pretty heinous act in general, pretty cowardly. I can't think of any reason why somebody would one issue both a female and a young child for any reason. So we really need the public's health and support on this one.
Police found the victims in a driveway late last night, not far from heron b Park. The search goes on for suspects, a motive, and so far no arrest. The apparent attempt on former Trump's President Trump's life over the weekend has some leaders on Capitol Hill today casting new doubts on the Secret Service. ABC's Peter Thomas with that story.
The US government is facing a critical question and perhaps the most dangerous thread environment since nine to eleven?
Does the Secret Service have enough with.
This blunt assessment from President Biden perfectly or help? Biden calling on Congress to do more as the agency deals with the threat of domestic terror, a surge and threats of political violence and a resurgence of ISIS at al Qaeda in the wake of the Israeli Hamas conflict.
The Secret Service open fire, and a man with a gun lurking in the bush's near former President Trump's Palm Beach golf course Sunday. One suspect is currently facing gun charges, though the FBI is investigating the incident as a potential attempt on the President's life and coming up a grim period in the history of the Patriots comes to TV
screens nationwide. Goldielocks. Weather out there seventy four in Beverly right now with low humidity Lauren, seventy six while really getting warm up to eighty today for our high with sunshine, just a few decorative clouds. But tonight we start to see that change. Mostly cloudy. It's still mild. The coolest areas will be mid fifties, so that is pretty mild. But here comes mostly cloudy weather and some rain, rain arriving tomorrow night, especially south of Boston. Thursday Friday, we're
seeing rain possible. We dry out for the weekend, we cool down, and a dark time for a proud dynasty makes its way to primetime television. Details from wbz's Matt.
Phipps, debuting on FX tonight, American Sports Story. Aaron Hernandez, tell me something.
Eric, you love to play football, so I've ever done.
The ten episode series digs into the life and career of the former Patriots tight end, along with his arrest, conviction for murder, and eventual death by suicide at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts.
In all the kind of thoughts that have it, it's like a demon.
The show will also delve into the childhood of Aaron Hernandez and the reported abuse that he and his brother DJ endored. It's the latest installment in Ryan Murphy's American Story franchise. Matt Phipps, WBZ Boston's news radio.
A country music icon, brings more than his Tennessee twang to Massachusetts. It's now coming a light that Kenny Chesney quietly donated more than a million dollars to organizations all around Massachusetts before his concerts at Chalette Stadium last month. Mass Live says Chesney is keeping the whole thing of the down low. Mostly what we do know is at Wooster's Animal Rescue League, Boston Medical Center, and the Foxboro Police and fire departments were all among the the programs
to get some money. IVF takes center stage on Capitol Hill today. ABC's Dave Packer with the previews.
Senate Democrats will push the Right to IVF Act, but it's likely to fall short of the sixty votes needed to advance. Majority leader Chuck Schumer is challenging Republicans to support the bill, which aims to secure nationwide IVF access and expand fertility care. It comes to mid former President Trump's recent endorsements of IVF support, but Republicans are expected to block the bill again while pushing their own IVF
related legislation, which has faced Democratic resistance. Dave Packer, ABC News.
New research shows that being pregnant affects almost every part of the brain. Here's more.
University of California neuroscientist Liz Chastro and her team kicked off the study by studying her before, during, and after pregnancy twenty six brain scans. They discovered the pathways that link areas of the brain were enhanced during pregnancy, then returned to normal. More than eighty percent of the regions they studied where thinking takes place had reductions in gray matter. Those areas are important in social cognition, or how people
interact with others and understand thoughts and feelings. The transition to motherhood, the early research results show, is indeed profound. Michael Toscano, CBS News.
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