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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This since your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Clean Up and the recovery efforts are continuing today after
powerful storms marched across parts of the South and Midwest,
killing dozens over the weekend. Preliminary reports indicate the majority
of deaths occurred in Missouri, where we find Adrian brought us.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We are in a neighborhood where homes are barely standing.
This house was once home to a family of six.
The roof is missing, the walls are gone, and vehicles
in the driveway have been crushed. This after that EF
two tornado ripped through this neighborhood, carrying wind speeds of
up to one hundred thirty miles per hour. Across the

(00:44):
state of Missouri. At least twelve people have been killed.
But it's not just the physical damage that people are
dealing with. There are also power outages across the region.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
The National Weather Service has at least thirty four of
the storm seen on Saturday tornadoes. The Canadian ambassador to
the US is insisting the two countries are still close
allies despite recent disagreements over trade. Kirsten Hillman told Fox
New Sunday that after recent meetings between officials from both countries,
to expect some big announcements that will impact the terriffs.

(01:18):
President Trump plans to impose on Canada next month, and.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
We understood from them his whole global agenda in this respect,
and we talked about how Canada can fit into that.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
She said the meetings regarding trade have been productive and
insisted Canadian officials want to accommodate President Trump's economic plan.
Hilman also rejected the idea that Canada would become the
fifty first state, saying over ninety one percent of Canadians
don't want to join the US. US Department of Agriculture
says the national average wholesale price of a dozen eggs

(01:50):
dropped two dollars and seventy cents last week, planning at
four point fifteen. That marks three weeks of declining prices,
according to the USDA. Stock futures are falling after the
Dow posted its worst week since twenty twenty three. I'm
Michael Kasner. Another hot beverage payout. In nineteen ninety two,

(02:11):
a woman in Texas spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee
in her lap and suffered third degree burns. She was
awarded nearly three million dollars, and now Starbucks has been
ordered to pay up in another hot beverage incident. Read
tennis with more.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
This latest hot beverage scalding happened in Los Angeles at
a Starbucks. A delivery driver says he was scalded and
suffered permanent disfigurement to his lap area, including his groin
and thighs, when a tray of hot teas he bought
at the drive through collapsed in his lap. Michael Garcia sued,
saying he suffered permanent catastrophic harm. His attorney says storre

(02:45):
surveillance showed the employee failed to properly secure the drink
in the cardboard carrier. It then fell directly into Garcia's lap,
and la jury awarded him fifty million dollars. Starbucks says
they're going to appeal.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
There are some things to keep in mind when deducting
charitable contributions when you're doing your taxes, Kristen Marx reports.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Mark Stieber, the chief tax officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services,
says you can only get a charitable donation if you're
able to itemize your deductions, and.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
That means you have a larger number of total deductible
expenses than your standard deduction, which everybody gets. So there's
a twofold test. Do you have enough itemized deductions to
get into the club? To be able to take all
the itemized.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Deductions, donations must be to a qualified organization, and there
must be records of them.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Keep up with those records. And again I go back
to the if you're an itemizer with that home, you're
probably automatically in the itemizer club. You've got to keep
up with that record and all the stuff you did
during the year, not just on April fifteenth, because that
really cheats yourself when.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
You hurry up.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Cash contributions can't be more than sixty percent of your
adjusted gross income and less for non cash donations. As
for determining the value of those non cash gifts, there's.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Many apps out there. There's many websites that tell you
this is what these articles of clothing or this television
or this computer, this video game is worth in the
resell market or the vintage market.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
O'h. Michael Kassner