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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Police in Canada say nine people are dead after a
car plowed into a crowded street festival in Vancouver. Police
say a black SUV sped into a packed celebration last
night at a Filipino block party. A reporter told the
CBC the driver slammed the pedal down and rammed into
the crowd. Vancouver Police say many others were injured and

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that a thirty year old Vancouver man is under arrest.
Police in Texas say a mother and her infant are
both dead after their car plunged into a river near Houston.
Police say that happened Friday near the Houston Shipping Channel.
The woman and child pronounced dead at the scene. Official
say two other small children were standing on the roof
of the car when a witness rescued them. A new

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poll shows nearly two thirds of Americans say they disapprove
of President Trump's new tariffs. Jim Forbes has the numbers.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
A new ABC News Washington Posts IPSIS poll released on
Friday reveals seven and ten think the tariffs will increase
US inflation. Nearly half of Republicans polled think the tariffs
will have a negative impact on inflation. The number rises
to seventy five percent. Among independents, fifty nine percent think
President Trump's tariffs will have a positive impact on creating

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manufacturing jobs in the US. That includes ninety percent of
Republicans and sixty percent of independence A final.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Reading of consumers sentiment in the US for the month
of April fell for the fourth straight month from the
University of Michigan.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
They say consumer sentiment.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Plunged by eight percent from March, with across the board
declines among all.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Age and income groups.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Expectations for inflation for the year ahead surge to their
highest level since nineteen eighty one. NASCAR's Cup Series returns
from Easter break for the Jacklinks five hundred today at Talladega.
William Byron's on top of the standings, followed by Denny
Hamlin and Christopher Bell, who leads all drivers with three
wins this year.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'm Scott Carr.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
One person is dead after they were hit by the
Purdue University mascot train on Thursday. The Boilermakers Special, the
official mascot of the university, was headed north on US
fifty two near Lafayette, Indiana, when it apparently blew a
tire and hit a southbound car. Local sheriff say the
driver of a southbound vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.

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A Princeton University student who went missing last weekend was
found dead not far from campus Friday. Andrew Whitman has
more from New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Lauren Blackburn, a twenty three year old undergraduate student from Indiana,
was last seen Saturday at the school's Firestone Library. Princeton's
Department of Public Safety began a search of late Carnegie
Tuesday morning after a missing person's phone pinged in the area.
That's where Blackburn's body was found Friday morning. That according
to a letter to students from the Dean of Undergraduate Students,

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Reagan Croate.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
A new report from realtor dot Com says affordable housing
and home building is hard to come by these days
in the US, grading all fifty states on criteria including
housing affordability.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
And new construction.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
The five states with the highest grades were South Carolina, Iowa, Texas, Indiana,
and North Carolina. A majority of state's got a letter
grade of C for affordable housing. Tops of the Box
Office again this weekend is the vampire horror flick Sinners.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Who Were Gonna Kill Every Last Morning I Know.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
The film starring Michael B.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Jordan's expected to make another thirty million dollars and could
help bring in more total dollars for any final weekend
in April since the end of the pandemic. While the
accounts in two and the twentieth anniversary re release of
Star Wars Episode three Revenge of the Sith, are each
expected to bring in anywhere between eighteen and twenty three
million dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Fall you shall be known as off FETA.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Industry experts expect the top five movies alone to take
in at least one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm Scott Carr.