The Latest: 05/02/2025 09:59pm ET

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This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Just four minutes. Severe weather is bearing down on one
hundred million people across the country tonight. Northern Texas and
Oklahoma were hit with severe storms this morning for a
tenth straight day. The mayor of Inglewood says the suspect
in a shooting at a Los Angeles area college is

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in custody. Mayor James Buds told reporters the shooter is
no longer at large. The shooting happened late Friday afternoon
at Spartan College, a small aeronautics and technology campus not
far from lax A key witness in the murder retrial
of Karen Reid is being questioned about being coached. Reid
is accused of killing her boyfriend Boston Copp John O'Keefe

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by hitting him with the 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 discussion about crafting your testimony in any way
to suggest a softer approach now On Wednesday, Reid told

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reporters McKay blyde on the stand when she testified about
Reed's reaction to finding O'Keefe's body. Rapid melts across the
western US are causing snowpack to disappear up to four
weeks early in some areas. Tammy Treheo has more.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Federal meteorologists are now warning of the potential havoc this
could have on the region's water supply. According to an
update from the National Integrated Drought Information System, conditions have
particularly affected parts of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, causing
some basins to shift from above average snowpack to snow drought.
Washington State and Utah have already declared drought emergencies due

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to a low snowpack. I'm Tammy Trheo.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
A federal judge says President Trump's executive order targeting a
law firm is unconstitutional. The Obama appointed judge ruled Trump's order,
labeling the firm Perkins Cooey a national security risk, violates
the first, fifth and sixth Amendments to the Constitution. I'm
Brian Shook. A memorial to those killed in the Uvalde

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school shooting has been vandalized. The town's police chief called
it senseless and cruel, and said it has inflicted more
pain in the Texas town west of San Antonio. Uvaldi.
Police say they're working to identify the individuals responsible. A
total of nineteen students and two teachers were killed in
the twenty twenty two attack. Scammers are targeting residents in

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South Carolina. Katie Gray has the story.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Residents in the hilton Head Island area are being targeted
by a scam involving fake text messages claiming unpaid told
balances and threatening consequences. The Viewforda County Sheriff's Office warns
against clicking on any links or responding to the messages,
which request payment through a fraudulent link containing scdmv WC
and C reports that the scam falsely claims the failure

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to pay a small balance will result in late fees
and vehicle registration suspension. The Southern Connector Toll Service has
confirmed that payment notices are only since via mail, and
Buford County roadways have been toll free since twenty twenty one.
I'm Katie Gray.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Microsoft has announced significant price increases for the Xbox.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
The company says market conditions are causing the increase. The
consoles are made in China and tarras for making the
parts more expensive. Some of the price increases include an
eighty dollars increase in the Xbox Series X and a
one hundred dollars increase in the price of an Xbox
Series X. Some controllers will increase five dollars. First party
games will increase by ten dollars, but the prices on

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other games will remain unchanged. I'm brad Ford.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Millions of consumers will be spending money on Sinco Demio
this year. The annual Mexican holiday is this Monday, and
market researchers say about seventeen percent of US consumers will
spend at least twenty five dollars on supplies Forcinco Demayo,
with some spending up to one hundred dollars. I'm Brian Shook.