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

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo was thanking President Trump
for the US's attack on Iran. Earlier this evening, Trump
announced the US struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, including the
fortified ford Ale facility.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
History will record that President Trump acted to deny the
world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
In a recorded address that Yaho said, Trump's decision to
strike Iran will change history. The move to strike comes
as Israel and Iran have been going back and forth
for more than a week. In a post on truth Social,
Trump said Iran must now agree to end this war.
Earlier this week, Trump said he would decide within two
weeks if the US would get directly involved, repeatedly saying

(00:48):
that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and the President
is warning Iran against retaliating against the US. In a
truth Social post tonight, Trump said any retaliation by Iran
against the United States of America will be met with
force far greater than what was witnessed tonight. The president's
post came shortly after he addressed the nation from the
White House. In those remarks, he called the strikes a

(01:10):
spectacular military success and set Iran's nuclear enrichment sites had
been completely and totally obliterated. A Columbia University graduate student
and pro Palestinian activist released from ICE detention says he
will not be silenced. Macmood Khalil arrived at Newark International
Airport today, one day after he was released from a
detention center in Louisiana following a federal judge's order. Khalil

(01:33):
spoke to reporters saying his message will not be suppressed.
He helped organize pro Palestinian protests on the Columbia University
campus and was arrested by ICE agents in New York
City in March. The Trump administration has filed a notice
of appeal against the judges ruling that released Khalil. LSUS
won Game one of the College World Series. They beat
Coastal Carolina one nothing today in Omaha. Game two is

(01:55):
scheduled for two thirty pm Eastern tomorrow. A win would
give the Tigers their eighth national title. Coastal Carolina needs
to win two in a row now to win their
second championship. I'm Chris Krajio 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 Independence Day holiday period from Saturday,

(02:18):
June twenty eighth to Sunday, July sixth. That's an additional
one point three million road travelers compared to a year ago.
It also says five point eight four million will be
flying to their destination, also a new record. With the
holiday falling on a Friday, Triple A says travelers have
the option of making it a long weekend or taking
the entire week off. Doctor Seuss Enterprises has launched Seus's

(02:40):
Circle Time, an eight part YouTube summer series. The show
will be hosted by presenters Ziggi and Tizzy and Doctor
Seuss's characters. Each thirty minute episode will feature music, games,
and learning activities in creative settings like the Circle Time
House and Truthful of Forest. Hour long episodes will be
released in September. Is announcing an expanded super deluxe box

(03:02):
set of their early seventies live album made in Japan.
Mark Mayfield has details a.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Five hundred Guy. The five CD set includes remixes from
their three shows in Japan in August of nineteen seventy two.
The album was released in the US and early nineteen
seventy three and reached number six on the Billboard two
hundred album chart. A reissue of the album without the remixes,
was previously released in twenty fourteen. The new box set

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is due out August fifteenth. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
How to Train Your Dragon is still number one at
the box office. The Universal DreamWorks film made another ten
million dollars Friday and is expected to make thirty five
million dollars this weekend, for a total of about one
hundred and sixty million so far. Coming in second is
the new Zombie sequel twenty eight Years Later, which made
fourteen million yesterday and is on its way to a
thirty million dollar weekend. Coming in third is the new

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Pixar film Elio, which is expected to make twenty four
million dollars over the weekend. I'm Chris Karragio