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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Several B two stealth bombers are on their way to
Guam as President Trump way's US military options in the
Middle East. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said its fighter jets
struck dozens of targets in southwest Iran today, including missile
and radar sites. The latest attack follows a five point
two magnitude earthquake in central Iran yesterday. The quake was

(00:30):
felt in Tehran, but Iranian medias said no casualties were reported.
A Columbia University graduate student and pro Palestinian activist has
been released from ICEED attention and says he will not
be silenced.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Fact that I amp it tensi, the fact all these
attempt to suppress pro Kaldestein posts has failed.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Mamoud Khalil arrived at Newark International today, one day after
he was released from a detention center in Louisiana following
a federal judge's order. Khalil spoke to reporters and was
joined by his wife and by New York Representative Alexandrio
Ocasio Cortes. Khalil, who helped organize pro Palestinian protests on
the Columbia University campus. Was arrested by Ice agents in

(01:14):
March in New York City. A Trump administration has filed
a notice of appeal against the judges ruling that released Khalil.
More than one hundred and forty million Americans are bracing
for a record heat wave. It's expected to send temperatures
soaring into the triple digits in some regions. More from
Jim Forbes.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
An extreme heat dome will be pushing up temperatures from
Michigan to New Mexico today and tomorrow, with temperatures close
to one hundred degrees possible from Green Bay to Amarillo.
Forecasters warned the heat could be sweltering overnight as well,
raising the risk of heat exhaustion. On Monday, the heat
dome will spread into the mid Atlantic and the Northeast,

(01:53):
with temperatures well into the nineties to as far north
as Montreal.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Luke Christie, who had a number one hit in nineteen
sixty six with lightning strikes, has died at eighty two,
and Lisa Carton another six hundred employees are being fired
from the Voice of America. The Drump administration announced the
mass layoffs Friday, nearly dismantling the international broadcasting service. Senior
White House advisor Carrie Lake said with the layoffs, about

(02:21):
eighty five percent of the staff at the Voice of
America has now been eliminated. She called it quote part
of a long overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy.
The Voice of America was founded in nineteen forty two
to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. The Dodgers
have committed to help immigrant families impacted by the ice raids.

(02:43):
Jordan Christmas has more.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The Los Angeles Dodgers will commit one million dollars toward
direct financial help for families of immigrants impacted by the
recent ice raids in the region. The team posted on
ex Friday that additional community efforts will be announced in
the coming days. The announcement was delayed nearly twenty four
hours after a confrontation between protesters and ice agents happened
outside of Dodger Stadium on Thursday. The team said that

(03:08):
morning that ice agents came to Dodger Stadium and denied
ice entry into the grounds.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Daily heat records could be broken across the Central US
this weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
More from Jim Forbes, an extreme heat dome will be
pushing up temperatures from Michigan to New Mexico today and tomorrow,
with temperatures close to one hundred degrees possible from Green
Bay to Amarillo. Forecasters warned the heat could be sweltering
overnight as well, raising the risk of heat exhaustion. On Monday,
the heat dome will spread into the mid Atlantic and

(03:41):
the Northeast, with temperatures well into the nineties possible from
Virginia Beach to as far north as Montreal.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
July fourth travel is shaping up to be a record breaker.
Triple A is predicting over seventy two million people will
venture at least fifty miles from home over the holiday period,
and five point eight million will be flying to their destination,
also a new record. I'm Lisa Carton.