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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. President Trump
wants Mike Waltz to become the US Ambassador to the
United Nations. Trump announced the nomination on the same day
reports surface that Waltz would resign as his national security advisor.

(00:21):
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine reacted.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm not surprised that there is turmoil after the signal
date fiasco in words of the late from Greg John
mccaman's warn't choose to drop off this centipee.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Waltz faced scrutiny for mistakenly adding a reporter to a
signal group chat that discussed plans for a military strike.
Another round of severe weather is on tap from Texas
up to Pennsylvania today. A storm system may bring heavy winds, hail,
and possible tornadoes to several states. The strongest possibility of
storms will be in western Kentucky and the southern parts

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of Ohio and Indiana. A federal judge is barring the
deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under an eighteenth century
wartime law. The Trump appointed judge says members of the
violent Venezuelan street gang trend de Aragua are not invading
the country, and the administration's recent swift deportations, he ruled

(01:19):
under the Alien Enemies Act violate due process rights. Wall
Street is closing with stocks Hire to start the month
of May. Kristin Marx reports.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Hey comes after positive quarterly earnings results from two major
tech companies. Metta posted stronger than expected revenue and Microsoft
also posted better than expected results. At the closing bell,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained eighty three points, the
S and P five hundred gained thirty five points. The
Nasdaq rose by two hundred and sixty four points. I'm

(01:50):
Kristin Marx Sean.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Diddy Combs will stand trial after officially rejecting a plea
deal in his federal sex trafficking case. A pre trial
conference with the judge, federal prosecutors, and Comb's lawyers was
held Thursday in New York. I'm Brian Schuck, a man
will stand trial for a crash that killed four Pepperdine
University students in October of twenty twenty three. Mark Mayfield reports.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
On Wednesday, a judge ordered twenty two year old freezer
Michael Bohm to stand twil on four counts each a
murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Bohm is accused
of speeding along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and crashing
into three parked vehicles where sorority sisters between the ages
of twenty and twenty one were walking along the highway

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were hit and killed. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangioni is at this
center of a new musical in San Francisco. Michael Cassner has.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
More twenty six year old accused of shooting United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan late last year, as
the subject of the sixty minute musical called Luigi, now
in rehearsals. Wise creator say the musical will follow Mangioni's

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time at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with real
life cell mate Sam bankman Fried and p Diddy bia side.
For anyone who likes comedy and show tunes, they say,
Luigi will be your new favorite Felony. Luigi, A true
story of love, murder, and hash Brown's runs from June
thirteenth to the twenty eighth. More information is available at
Luigi themusical dot info.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
A man who was airlifted from Mount Fuji last week
was rescued a second time over the weekend when he
went back to get his phone. The man from China
was rescued from Japan's most iconic peak April twenty second
after getting altitude sickness. Four days later, rescuers had to
go get the man again after he went back up

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to find his phone. Another climber called police after finding
him unable to move. The rescue led to outrage on
social media, with calls for the man to have to
pay for the cost to bring him back down. I'm
Brian Shook.