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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven Use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest Use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
More unrest in parts of Minnesota after the death of
a woman. It's another night of loud protests in Minneapolis
after the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent.
What looks to be hundreds of protesters have gathered in
the city's downtown area. They're carrying signs, blowing whistles, banging drums,
and some have set off fireworks. There are reports some

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protesters have gathered at a hotel where they believe ICE
agents are staying. President Trump met with US oil executives
at the White House to discuss next steps involving Venezuela's
oil infrastructure. Trump said Venezuela has been working with the
US and a decision will be made soon on which
oil companies will take part in the project. The meeting

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comes after the US military captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
Trump said getting drilling back underway in Venezuela will benefit
both countries. After Manhattan's iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree goes
dark this weekend, it moves on to an even loftier purpose.
Liz Warner explains.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
In early December, fifty thousand led lights come to life
atop the seventy five foot Norway spruce, kicking off the
holiday season and dazzling hundreds of thousands of guests from
around the globe. But once those lights go out, the
tree takes part, and yet another special tradition, the tree
is cut down. It's lumber milled in New Jersey into
two by four and two by six beams, all branded

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with the Rockefeller Center stamp Tishman Spire. Rockefeller Center's parent
company then donates the lumber two Habitat for Humanity. Those
beams soon become part of habitat family homes built everywhere
from New York to Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And Pope Leo says, quote war is back in vogue
and a zeal for war is spreading. The first American
pontiff to cried the use of military force. In his
annual foreign policy speech on Friday, the VP called on
quote nations to safeguard the human and civil rights of Venezuelans.
I'm Jim Forbes. A judge says Jerry selection in Luigi

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Mangiani's federal trial could start in September. The accused United
Healthcare CEO killer was in a Manhattan courtroom Friday, where
the judge said a tentative date of September eighth to
start choosing jors. The judge said, shall consider whether to
dismiss one counter of murder through use of a firearm,
which carries a possible death sentence and a firearms charge.

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Mangioni's attorneys want both counts tossed out. Mangioni is accused
of assassinating CEO Brian Thompson in December of twenty twenty four.
On a midtown Manhattan street. Skiers and snowboarders are rejoicing
over the recent snowfall over the Denver metro area. They're
planning to take advantage of it this weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
It hasn't been great.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Definitely slow stars this season, not nearly enough snow.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
So snowfall is a welcome site, people taking the day
to hit the slopes.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
We plan and that we saw forecast coming in a
few days away and said, yeah, we're going.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
So I'm even saying it's been one of the worst
starts to the ski season in years.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's so weird. I've lived here since nineteen eighty and
this is the worst well, the slowest I heard twenty
seventeen was about the same. But yeah, it's making us wait.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
But it won't last with warmer weather into the fifties.
Returning to the Metro soon in Golden I'm Keenan Dixon and.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
The Rams and Chargers start their playoff runs this weekend.
The Rams are on the road in Carolina Saturday afternoon,
facing a Panthers team that beat them by a field
goal at the end of November, ending what was a
six game winning streak. The twelve and five Rams are
still considered heavy favorites against the eight and nine Panthers.
The Chargers faced the AFC East champion Patriots in New

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England on Sunday night. The Chargers have not made it
out of the first round of the playoffs since twenty
nineteen and have never won the Super Bowl. In the meantime,
the Rams are looking for their third World Old title
and first since twenty twenty two. I'm Jim Forbes