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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour. In just four minutes, the Commander
in Chief takes decisive action against Iran on Saturday, President
Trump says strikes on Iran were a quote spectacular military success.
He addressed the nation just hours after the US attacked

(00:21):
three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Our objective was the destruction of orange nuclear andrichment capacity
and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
world's number one state sponsor.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Of Terra, Trump said, quote, the bully of the Middle
East must now make peace. The attack came after Israel
and Iran had been trading air strikes for more than
a week. Earlier this week, Trump had said he would
decide within two weeks if the US would get directly
involved in the conflict. California Governor Gavin Newsom is responding
to President Trump's decision to bomb nuclear sites in Iran.

(00:57):
Phil Farrar has more.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on on x California State Threat
Assessment Center is actively monitoring for any potential impacts in California.
In that statement, Newsome finished by informing the state, while
there are no specific or credible counter threats, we are
aware of at this time. We urge everyone to stay
vigilant and report suspicious activity. I'm Phil Farrar, and.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
One of President Trump's most vocal critics is outraged after
the US strikes on Iran. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders was
at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he shared the
news of the military strike. And I want to tell
you something. Not only is this news that I've just
heard the second alarming that all of you have just heard,

(01:42):
but it is so grossly unconstitutional. All of you know.
Sanders told the crowd only Congress as the power to
do what Trump did. Meanwhile, Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace from
North Carolina said Trump is the quote greatest president in
American history. Democratic Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs from California called the

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move quote unconstitutional. I'm Jim Forbes, a Columbia University graduate
student and pro Palestinian activist released from Ice detention, says
he will not be silenced. Mahmood 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

(02:24):
order Khalil spoke to reporters saying his message quote will
not be suppressed. A man is dead after he was
shot at the neck during a fight inside the lobby
of an apartment building in the Bronx. Lisa Salvadi has
the latest.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Please say it happens at around nine thirty in the
morning at the Victims Building on East one hundred and
seventy fourth Street near West Farms Road in Krotona Park. East.
Cops got a call of an assault and when they
arrived they found the victim bleeding from the neck. He
was taken to the hospital where he died. Police are
looking at surveillance video of the area that could help
them identify the gunman who ran out of the building.

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I'm Lisa Salvadi.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
A Virginia woman is pleading not guilty in the hit
and run death of a former Hampton's real estate agent
turned reality TV star. The New York Post report's thirty
two year old Amanda Kempton was arraigned in Southampton and
released after her family in nearby Manorville helped her mcbail.
Prosecutors say forty year old Sarah Barak, who appeared in
the Netflix series million dollar beach house was struck and

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killed by Kempton as she was walking on the road
with a pink suitcase on wheels. Her attorney claims she
didn't see her thought she hit a traffic cone and
later found the pink suitcase lodged underneath her car. And
Senator Alex Padilla says Vice President j. D. Vance quote
knows my name. Padilla's comments come one day after Vance
visited Los Angeles and referred to the Senator as Jose Padilla,

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which is the name of a convicted American terrorist with
ties to Al Qaeda. Padilla said Vance's comments are quote
just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is.
Padilla added that Vance could have made better use of
his time during his visit to La I'm Jim Forbes.