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More reaction concerning the Epstein files from the Trump administration.
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to unseal
grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case. In Friday's filing,
the DOJ said releasing the evidence was a quote matter
of public interest. This comes a day after President Trump
directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to have quote pertinent grand

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jury testimony released. Friday's request was filed in a federal
court in Manhattan. It could take months for the records
to be released. Authorities are investigating an apartment complex in
Santa Monica in connection to the explosion that killed three
La County Sheriff's deputies Friday morning. The explosion happened at
a training facility and rocked the surrounding East La neighborhood.

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The La Times reports the deputies were handling a device
that had been picked up Thursday in Santa Monica. The
explosion is currently being investigated as a negligent homicide. County
Sheriff Robert Luna says it's the department's largest loss of
life since eighteen fifty seven, the White House is confirming
it's looking to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. Brian

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Shook has more.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Attorney General Pam Bondy and Interior Secretary Doug Bergham toured
the viacility.

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Alcatraz could hold the worst of the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It could hold middle class violent prisoners.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It could hold it could hold illegal aliens.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It could hold anything.

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Bondy 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 Schuk.

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And millions are under the threat of potential floods on
the Gulf Coast and in the mid Atlantic this weekend. Arkansas, Florida,
and Louisiana up to areas in the Midwest were hit
overnight with heavy rains from tropical moisture. Will impact parts
of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. I'm Jim Forbes. The
Corn Refiners Association says thousands of jobs are at risk

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as Coca Cola may plan to switch to cane sugar
from high fruittose corn syrup. The association claims the change
in sweetener is likely to devastate American farmers, primarily in
the Midwest. Although Coca Cola has not officially confirmed the change,
it has reignited a decades long food fight between the
two sweeteners and resulted in dramatic drops and share prices

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for some major corn syrup companies. New York is agreeing
to a nearly half million dollars settlement with a woman
who accused former Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. Kristen
Marx has More.

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Former executive assistant Brittany Comisso, 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 call the settlement
complete vindication of her allegations, while Cuomo's lawyer slamm it
because it does not include any admission of liability at Cuomo,

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who's 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.

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A man is dead after he was pulled into an
MRI machine on Long Island, New York. Police say the
sixty one year old went into the MRI room at
Nassau Open MRI in Westbury Wednesday afternoon without permission. He
had a large metal chain around his neck, causing him
to be sucked into the machine while a scan was underway.
He then suffered a medical episode, was taken to the

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hospital in critical condition, and died the next day. Police
said the man wasn't being treated at the hospital and
the iconic sled from the nineteen forty one film Citizen
Kane has been sold at auction for nearly fifteen million dollars.
Several Rosebud sleds were made for the classic Orsonwales film.
The last known sled was sold in Austin, Texas for

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fourteen point seven million dollars. I'm Jim Forbes.