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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This since your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
At just four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Dangerous storms are hitting northern Texas and Oklahoma for the
tenth day in a row, and other regions could see
severe weather today golf ball size hail sixty mile an
hour win gus Some possible scattered tornadoes could also hit
the Tennessee Valley in southern Appalachians. Around one hundred million
people as far north as New York could see severe
weather today. Wall Street's closing sharply higher to cap a

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strong week. Stocks jumped following a better than expected monthly
jobs report, which helped ease recession fears. At the closing bell,
the dal Jones industrial average gained five hundred sixty four points,
the S and P five hundred rows eighty two, and
the Nastak climb two hundred sixty six points. A key
witness and the murder re trial of Karen Reid is
being questioned about being coached. Reid is accused of killing

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her boyfriend Boston Copp John O'Keefe by hitting him with
a car, and the defense claims a family friend of O'Keefe,
Jennifer McCabe, is not as combative as she was while
on the stand during the first trial, or.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Any discussion about crafting your testimony in any way to
suggest a softer approach now.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
On Wednesday, Reid told reporters mckabe lied on the stand
when she testified about Reed's reaction to finding O'Keefe's body.
Reid's defense team claims she's the victim of a cover
up and is being framed for the murder of O'Keefe.
The legal team for a leg United Healthcare CEO shooter
Luigi Mangioni is trying to have New York State drop
murder charges against him. Natalie Migliori reports.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Mangioni's team filed e motion arguing the state case and
federal charges violate the double jeopardy clause in the fourteenth
Amendment do process clause. It's the latest development after a
judge granted Mangioni a laptop to review his case while
in jail, which New Yorkers are weighing in on. Why
would you give him a laptop?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I mean that just shows unless everybody do what they
want to do and then they give you ward for it,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not a good thing. That's a broader issue. People do
have needs when they're in jail, but not There's still people.
Mangioni is due back in court on June twenty sixth
for hearing in the state case, while he faces the
death if convicted in his federal trials, set to start
in December. I'm Natalie mcgliori.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'mly S Taylor. President Trump will host a military parade
to mark the U. S. Army's two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
The White House confirmed plans for the event to Fox News.
The parade will take place June fourteenth, which is also
Trump's birthday. It will feature active duty service members and
military academy students, along with re enactors and equipment from
several wars, including the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and World

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War One. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsas says will throw the
biggest and most beautiful military parade in our nation's history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is launching a new Air Traffic
Controller recruitment and retention program. The FAA will give five
thousand dollars bonuses to all academy graduates and new hires
that complete initial qualification training. Academy graduates assigned to thirteen

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facilities that have faced additional hiring struggles will receive ten
thousand dollars bonuses. New incentives are being offered for a
limited time. However, a formal deadline has not been set.
The nearly two dozen new cases of the measles being
reported in Texas. It's linked to an outbreak among members
of a Mennonite church which refuse vaccinations. There are no
new cases where they live in Gaines County, but there

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are cases in three New counties. This week, the Department
of Health and Human Services says that eighty nine patients
have been hospitalized in neighboring New Mexico. There are now
sixty seven cases linked to the outbreak and sixteen in Oklahoma.
Russell Brand has been released on conditional bail after appearing
in court in London, where he faces charges of rape
and sexual assault. Molly Hunter reports today's court proceedings were

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largely procedural.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yet to show up, provide his name, confirmed his name
and his addresses both in the US and the UK,
and that was basically the sum total of what we
heard from him. He didn't enter a plea deal today.
We didn't hear that much necessarily about his denial of
the charges, or even addressing the charges from him or
his lawyer.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The forty nine year old British actor and comedian is
due back in court May thirtieth. Four women accused brand
of crimes that allegedly occurred between nineteen ninety nine and
two thousand and five. He denies all of the Alleghi nations.
I'mly S Taylor