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>> 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 dif...

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 particu...

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 deg...

>> i want you to set the scene for us. because we look at some of the numbers here. i can put up a full screen, when you look at the prescription are thatting going, and just to west virginia, from between 2007 and 2012, oxycodone dosages up to $224 million, hydrocodone 555 million. more than 1,700 fatalities related to overdose. can you set the scene in your investigation on how much medication is going to a small state, as far as population is concerned? >> it amounts to about 430 tablets to opioids that you just described for every man, woman and child in west virginia. and what was most in...

Barra promises to fix the company culture that allowed the problem to happen. lottery officials tell us at least two winning tickets were sold in last night's mega millions drawing. the jackpot was worth an announced value of $400 million. and we understand they were sold in meritt island, florida, and in maryland. the winning numbers, check those tickets, 11, 19, 24, 33, 5 1 and mega ball was 7. a single winner could have taken the cash option of $224 million. >> marci, i know you have relatives in florida. meritt island? >> i know meritt island very well, but -- >> no? >> no such luck. no ...