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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. Vice President
Vance says that Mike Waltz is not being fired from
his role as National Security Advisor. Vans spoke Thursday on
Fox News, where he said the decision for Waltz to
leave his position is in fact a promotion, as President

(00:23):
Trump has nominated him to become the US ambassador to
the United Nations. Waltz faced scrutiny for mistakenly adding a
reporter to a signal group chat that discussed plans for
a military strike. The White House says if the policies
of former President Biden and Vice President Harris continued, it
would have ended the American Republic. That's what Deputy Chief

(00:45):
of Staff Stephen Millers said during a press briefing this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
And the only thing Americans want to hear from Kamala
Harris is an apology for joining Joe Biden. Remember she
was the bordersar joining Joe Biden in aiding in a
bed the invasion of our country.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
He criticized the previous administration's border and economic policies. The
murder retrial of Karen Reid resumes Friday. In Massachusetts. She's
accused of killing her boyfriend John O'Keeffe by hitting him
with a car after a night of drinking. The jury
we'll hear more testimony from Jennifer mckabe, a family friend
of O'Keeffe, who was with Reed when his body was found.

(01:23):
A settlement is reached between the City of Chicago and
actor Jussi Smollette. Lisa Taylor reports.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
The former Empire star was convicted in twenty twenty one
for staging a racist and homophobic attack and then lying
to police. Smollett's conviction was overturned by the Illinois Supreme
Court in November. The City of Chicago filed a civil
lawsuit in twenty nineteen against the actor, claiming they spent
one hundred thirty thousand dollars on overtime during the initial investigation.
I'm the Tailor.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Rapid melts across the western US are causing snowpack to
disappear up to four weeks early in some areas. Federal
meteorologists are now warning of the potential havoc this could
bring on the region's water supply. 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

(02:14):
Mayfield reports.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
On Wednesday, a judge ordered twenty two year old freezer
Michael Bohm to stand trial on four counts each a
murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Boehm is accused
of speeding along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and crashing
into three parked vehicles. Wore 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. Is
the subject of the sixty minute musical called Luigi now
in rehearsals, whose wise creator say the musical will follow
Mangioni's time at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with

(03:10):
real life cell mate Sam Benkman, Freed and p Diddy
by a 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 luigiimusical 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 Shuck.