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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 3 (00:08):
Last week's tariff announcement by the White House is still
impacting the market. On Wall Street, stocks finished mostly lower
to start the week. Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli
says he's keeping his money in the markets despite the
swings being created by the US tariffs. I, for example,
personally have not sold a share, and I'm staying in
this market because I believe what He's doing over the

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long haul will benefit our country. The major averages swung
between gains and losses and wild trading as investors tried
to gauge when the tariff turmoil will end. President Trump's
threat to impose even higher tariffs on China added to
today's uncertainty. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial
average fell three hundred and forty nine points to thirty
seven nine sixty five. The S and P five hundred

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lost eleven points to fifty sixty two, but the Nasdaq
rose fifteen points to close the day at fifteen six
o three. President Trump says he's communicating directly with Iran,
speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin nettan Yahoo at the
White House. The President said Iranian backed militia groups need
to disarm immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable
to do, and the obvious is not something that I
want to be involved with, or frankly, that Iyer wants
to be involved with if they can avoid it. So
we're going to see if we can avoid it.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Trump has hinted at military action if a deal is
not struck. Trump says there is a big meeting with
Iran set to take place this Saturday. As the twenty
twenty five Masters continues this week, Augusta National announces a
partnership with Tiger Woods. More from Liz Kennedy.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
The collaboration between the Pristine Golf Club and five time
Masters champion will be a project focused on in hintcing
education and golf accessibility in Augusta. It will do so
through the tgr Learning Lab at the former Lamar Elementary School.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
The lab will provide STEM and other educational opportunities to
local kids. The Masters begins Thursday in Augusta. I'm Lisa Carton.
Gas prizes are on the rise again and especially last
week in Oregon Triple A reports the national average increased
nine cents to three dollars and twenty six cents a gallon,
while the statewide average went up nineteen cents a gallon

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to four dollars. Grant's pass has the highest price at
four twenty two, while Pendleton has the lowest price at
three seventy eight. The state of Washington's average jump twenty
cents to four to thirty nine, and California's averaged increased
fifteen cents to four dollars and ninety six cents a gallon.
New York City is suing nine major national distributors for

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illegally selling flavored East cigarettes.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
They have raked in thousands of dollars while putting out
kids on the.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Path to addiction, making them customers and users for a lifetime.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Mayor Eric Adams says. The federal lawsuit alleges the defendants
have been distributing e cigarettes with youth attracting flavors to
subdistributors that then supply retail stores or sell them directly
to consumers, violating laws. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and
to block the distributors from further sales. Maybe the floor
could use a good sweep and mopping. Perhaps the carpet

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needs to be vacuumed. The trash bin is full, and
so is the laundry basket. That's no matter. Today is
National No Housework Day. It can and must wait until tomorrow.
Here's Natalie Migleori.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
The so called holiday was first coined to encourage free
time and wellness, and New Yorkers know the chores they'll
be avoiding to celebrate.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Cleaning up refrigerator, probably because you have to take on
the shelves out and wash everything.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, laundry because it piles up quickly.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Doing the dishes, I don't know. I just hate when
they pile up. I don't like doing dishes. It's nasty
and wet. A survey from Cinch Home Services shows twenty
eight percent of respondents said they don't like folding laundry
will twenty six percent say they don't like doing dishes,
and the most hated chore, according to this survey, cleaning
the toilet.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And I'm in full agreement. I'm Lisa Carton