good morning to all of you. welcome to way too early. on this friday, july 1st. i m alex witt in for jonathan lemire. there are new legal and ethical questions being raised about whether former president trump may be trying to influence witness testimony related to the house select committee s january 6th investigation. so according to the new york times, trump s save america pac and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen in to testify. financial disclosures show that in may alone, trump s save america pac paid about $200,000 to different law firm, the times notes that a dozen witnesses have received free legal advice and had attorney s fees paid for by the american conservative union s first amendment fund which consults with mr. trump s team about who s fees to cover. that is according to the organization chairman. the house select committee is known to ask witnesses whether anyone has tried to influence their testimony, it
pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in th
this is all courtesy of this area of high pressure, this big heat dome that s going to continue to make its way on towards the east. this will continue to expand. before it s said and done on your monday we are looking at 178 million people above 90 degrees and heading into wednesday, 224 million people will be above 90 degrees. with all that heat, the thunderstorms will be firing, too, working towards this evening and several areas. back to you, adriana. lynette charles of the weather channel. the heat in phoenix is unrelenting. today was the 23rd straight day that temperatures were 110 degrees or higher. the city s located in what s called the valley of the sun. emma lockhart of our affiliate kpho takes us up close on a ride along with first responders. reporter: as temperatures heat up throughout the day, phoenix fire crews get more calls for people who can t escape the elements.
it turns out the entire premise by the most commonly prescribed antidepressant drug appears to be completely wrong. these drugs are known as, they are between 1991-2019 the prescriptions in the u.s. rose by 3000%. the number of prescriptions for most common hit 224 million last year. 224 million prescriptions in a country of 330 million people. in other words dozens of people for taking it. you might be taken right now. and for decades there ve been strong indications that there is a problem with these drugs and the most obvious is this. antidepressants are supposed to cure depression that s why they are prescribed. in it over the same. prescriptions have risen 3000%? the suicide rate may be the most reliable indicator of all of
$303 million. nice work if you can get it. devin booker has a four year $224 million amount to the phoenix suns. and drama before free agent negotiations even start, with reports kevin durant has requested a trade from the brooklyn nets. the 12-time all-star, four-time league-scoring champion, would be available to teams for four years, and $200 million left on his contract. turning now to major league baseball, and home run history pittsburgh, one day after pittsburgh s brian reynolds hit three homeruns, michael perez had a trio of his own in an 8-7 win over the milwaukee brewers. with jack with the same feat on father s day, the first team ever with three different players, three different homer games in the same month. let s get a check of weather as we head to meteorologist michelle grossman for the forecast.