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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, the first retaliatory strike after US
attacks has taken place. Iran is launching the first wave
of missiles at Israel since the US strikes on its
nuclear facilities. That's according to the Israel Defense Forces. The
IDEAF said Iran launched ballistic missiles early Sunday. It added

(00:26):
that its defensive systems are quote operating to intercept the threat.
The two countries have been attacking back and forth for
more than a week. Hesbala says it isn't getting involved
in the conflict between Iran and the US. A spokesperson
for the Lebanese militant group told Newsweek it didn't have
immediate plans to launch retaliatory attacks against the US or

(00:49):
Israel following President Trump's decision to launch attacks on Iranian
nuclear facilities. The Iran back Group signed a ceasefire deal
with Israel last year after roughly a year of back
and forth strikes. In the aftermath of the October seventh attack.
At least one House Democrat believes President Trump's decision to

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strike Iran could lead to impeachment. Jonathan O'Halloran explains.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
In a post on as Congresswoman Alexandria Acasio Cortes says,
the president's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is
a grave violation of the Constitution and congressional war powers.
She went on to say he has impulsively risked launching
a war that may ensnare US for generations. Acasio Cortes
ended her posts with its absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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Other Democrats have also criticized Trump's decision, including House Minority
Leader Hakim Jeffreys and California Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And more than one hundred and forty million Americans are
bracing for a record heat wave. It's expected to send
temperature soaring into the triple digits in some regions. Several
states are sending up cooling centers for the public, and
officials in Chicago were opening up swimming pools seven days
a week for the first time in five years. I'm
Jim Forbes, the US Ambassador to Israel, said on x Saturday,

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the State Department has begun assisted departure flights from Israel.
Mike Huckabee asked US citizens and lawful permanent residents in
Israel or the West Bank seeking US government assistants to
depart to complete a form. The US State Department has
also placed Israel under a Level four travel advisory, telling
Americans not to travel there due to quote, armed conflict, terrorism,

(02:33):
and civil unrest. A Virginia woman is pleading not guilty
in Soffolk County, New York in the hit and run
death of a former Hampton's real estate agent turn reality
TV star Lisa Salvadi has more.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Thirty two year old Amanda Kempton was arraigned and released
after her family in nearby Manorville helped her make bail.
Prosecutor say forty year old Sarah Burek, who appeared in
the Netflix series Million Dollar Beach House, was struck and
killed by Kempton on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays as
she was walking on the road with a pink suitcase
on wheels. The New York Post reports Kempton's lawyer claims

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she didn't see her thought she hit a traffic cone
and later found the suitcase lodged underneath her car. Cops
use a license plate reader to track down Kempton, who,
if convicted, could face seven years in prison.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I'm Lisa Salvadi, a Columbia University graduate student in pro
Palestinian activists released from ICE detention, says he will not
be silenced. Mahmoud Khalil arrived at Newark International Airport on Saturday,
one day after he was released from a detention center
in Louisiana following a federal judge's order. Khalil spoke to
reporters saying his message quote will not be suppressed, and

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a record number of Americans will be on the move
this fourth of July. Triple A is predicting over seventy
two million people will venture at least fifty miles from
home over the holiday period from Saturday, June twenty eighth
to Sunday, July sixth. That's an additional one point thio
three million road travelers compared to twenty twenty four. I'm

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Jim Forbes