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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

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

Speaker 3 (00:08):
President Trump is said to meet with top national security
advisors as he considers a possible military strike on Iran.
Trump says he'll make that decision within two weeks. The
first B two stealth bombers are being deployed as the
Israel Iran conflict rages for a ninth day. Six of
the long range warplanes reportedly departed Whiteman Air Force Base
in Missouri this morning, headed for the US military base

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on Guam. Meanwhile, Israel and Iran traded more strikes overnight.
California Senator Alex Badia is slamming Vice President j D.
Vance for referring to him as Jose. He's the Vice
president of the United States.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Do you think he'd take the situation? In Los Angeles
morse hears.

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Padia drew attention last week when he was put in
handcuffs and forcibly removed from Department of Homeland Security Chair
CHRISTINOMES press conference in Los Angeles Friday. Vance called the
Senator Jose Padia and accused him of trying to create
theater at NOMES presser. Padilla said today that DVANCEE knows
my name and said it's just an indicator of how

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petty and unseerious this administration is. Jose Padia is the
name of a convicted American terrorist with ties to Al Qaeda.
Former Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold has died. Farenthold served eight
years representing the twenty seventh district, which includes Corpus Christi.
The Republican beat out fourteen term Democrat Solomon or Tees

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in the twenty ten midterms and what many political analysts
called the biggest upset in the nation. Farenhold died on Friday.
He was sixty three. With the Independence Day holiday falling
on a Friday this year, a record breaking number of
Americans will be taking vacations. More from Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
A record seventy two point two million Americans will travel
for Independence Day week. Car travels should be up two
point two percent topping sixty one point six million passengers.

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Triple A also says the cruise business is booming. Orlando, Seattle,
and the Big Apple are the top destinations over the
Fourth of July. I'm Lisa Carton, realtor and reality show
frequent Sarah Burrick is dead killed in a mysterious hit
and run in the Hamptons. Andrew Whitman reports.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Burick, best known for her appearances on Netflix's Million Dollar
Beach House, was found dead in the middle of Montauk
Highway in Hampton Bays around three am Thursday. Police say
she was hit by a car that fled the scene.
Close friends report she dined from traumatic brain injuries. It's
not clear why Burke was walking there at the time.
Locals report nothing close to the spot would have been

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opened then.

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Officers from Palm Beach to Miami Dade Counties, along with
state and federal partners, will be at Sunday's Florida Panthers
Stanley Cup Championship noon parade and Raleigh on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
You will see many hundreds of officers, both uniformed and
non uniformed undercover. Police Chief Bill Schultz says the Florida
Guard will also provide traffic and crowd control. Wristbands will

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be distributed to kids to make reunification easier. The fire
chief asks the potentially hundreds of thousands of revelers to
arrive early with lots of water and sunscreen, but if
someone needs medical help. A field hospital is being constructed
in the area, and it's a big day for a
famous Los Angeles native. Here's Jim Roup.

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The LA City Council is honoring actor, comedian, director, and
art collector Chiech Marin with the Declaration of Cheech Marin
Day in La. Responsibility is a heavy responsibility man known
by many as part of the comic duo chiech In Chong.
Councilmember Hugo Soto Martinez calls Maren a cultural icon whose
work has inspired generations on screen, in music, and through

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his unwavering commitment to the arts. The honor coincides with
the third anniversary of the Chiech Marin Center for Chicano
Art and Culture in Riverside. I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
At the box office, How to Train Your Dragon is
still the number one movie in the US. The Universal
DreamWorks film made another ten million dollars on Friday and
is expected to make thirty five million bucks this weekend.
I'm Lisa Carton.