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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Jeffrey Epstein case has yet another development this weekend.
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to unseal
grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case. In Friday's filing,
the Department said releasing the evidence was quote a matter
of public interest. The request comes a day after President

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Trump directed Attorney General Pambondi to have quote pertinent grand
jury testimony in the Epstein case released. California authorities are
investigating an apartment complex in Santa Monica connected to an
explosion that killed three La Sheriff's deputies. The explosion happened
Friday morning at a Sheriff's Department training facility and shook

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the surrounding East LA neighborhood. The Los Angeles Time says
the deputies were handling a device that had been picked
up the day before and so Antamonica. The blast is
being investigated as a negligent homicide. The White House is
confirming it's looking to reopen Alcatraz in San Francisco as

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a federal prison. Brian Shook has this story.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Bergham toured
the facility. Alcatraz could hold the worst of the worst.
It could hold middle.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Class, violent prisoners.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It could hold it could hold illegal aliens.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
It could hold anything.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Bondi says the facility needs a lot of work, but
no one has been known to escape the island and survive.
Estimates to shift it back into a prison range from
the hundreds of millions to four billion dollars. I'm Brian Shook, and.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
The Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its research department.
The agency announced Friday it is firing hundreds of biologists, toxicologists, chemists,
and other scientists. This will culminate in the shuttering of
the EPA's Office of Research and Development. The move is
the latest effort by the Trump administration to reduce the

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federal workforce. I'm Jim Forbes. New York is agreeing to
a nearly half a million dollar settlement with a woman
who accused former Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. Christ
And Marx has this story.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Former Executive assistant Brittany Commisso filed the lawsuit in twenty
twenty three, accusing Cuomo of groping her and subjecting her
to continuous sexual harassment. The state will now pay four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Commisso. Her lawyers call
the settlement complete vindication of her allegations, while Cuomo's lawyers
slamm it because it does not include any admission of

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liability at Cuomo, who is now running for New York
City mayor, resigned as governor in twenty twenty one as
he faced sexual misconduct allegations from a slew of women.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
A man is dead after he was pulled into an
MRI machine on Long Island, New York. The least said.
The sixty one year old went into an MRI room
at Nasau Open MRI in Westbury Wednesday afternoon without permission,
a large metal chain around his neck, causing him to
be sucked into the machine while a scan was underway.

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Trash continues to pile up in California as trash pickup
grinds to a halt during a growing nationwide strike. Restaurant
owners say the piles of trash aren't the only challenge.
Then a Kodiak explains.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's costing them more money with some hiring hauling companies
to take it away because it's a stressful rights to
have a restaurant, not to add things like this, I
know what is on ending about it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Literally, it's been almost two weeks.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Francisco Flores owns a restaurant in the Bay Area. Residents
across the state are raising health concerns as garbage overflows
and vermin become more visible in neighborhoods. Over two thousand
Republic Services workers are protesting over wages and benefits, with
the strike starting in Boston and spreading west.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And tech company Astronomer is launching an investigation after its
CEO was caught on camera snuggling up with the head
of human resources. Andy Byron and Christy Cabot were shown
on the jumbo tron at a Coldplay concert Boston, and
they immediately tried to hide their faces from the camera.
I'm Jim Forbes.