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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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump is touting his Big Beautiful Bill, calling it
the most important piece of legislation in US history. At
an event meant to drum up support for the bill,
Trump was flanked by working Americans wearing the uniforms of
their employers. He said his aides initially wanted him to
split the bill up into smaller pieces, and I said, let's.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Make it one big beautiful bill. MI Grant.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Senators are reacting to their first INTEL briefing on the
strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas
said he learned the US air strikes on Iranian nuclear
facilities were an extraordinary success. Meanwhile, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy
said Iran's nuclear program has been damaged, but not obliterated.

(00:56):
As President Trump maintains, severe weather is wreaking havoc on
air travel this evening, the tracking website flight Aware shows
more than eighty five hundred flights have been delayed across
the US, with more than seven hundred canceled suspended. Tampa
Bay Ray's shortstop wander Franco has been found guilty in
a sexual abuse case.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
But no jail time for the twenty four year old Franco,
as he's received only a two year suspended sentence. Franco
was arrested last year on charges that he had a
four month relationship with the girl, who was then just fourteen.
Was also charged with paying off the girl's mother to
keep her quiet. Prosecutors in the Dominican Republic were asking
for a five year prison sentence add a ten year

(01:37):
sentence for the girl's mother. However, it would appear that
Franco's legal troubles aren't over yet. He was arrested on
weapons related charges last November following a fight reach Shepherd, Tampa.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
A vaccine advisory panel appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Junior
is rescinding recommendations for flu vaccines. The board voted Thursday
to walk back recommendations for vaccine that contain an ingredient
that anti vaccine activists claim is linked to autism. I'm
Brian Shook. First time jobless claims were down last week.

(02:09):
According to numbers out today from the Labor Department, some
two hundred thirty six thousand people filed for initial benefits,
down from two hundred forty six thousand the week before,
A federal judge says Los Angeles has been uncooperative, unresponsive,
and unwilling in its side of a settlement to reduce
homelessness in the city. Jim Roup reports.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
The La Alliance for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against
the city five years ago, accusing it of not doing
enough to end homelessness, and twenty twenty three, the city
agreed to a settlement to provide nearly thirteen thousand beds
for the homeless. In twenty twenty four, the Alliance filed
suit saying the city still hadn't done anything. The city said, yes,
it did. The judge said, well, there's no documentation to
prove the city has done anything, and now order is

(02:53):
a monitor to be put in place to oversee compliance
and the city must submit a new plan to create
those thirteen thousand beds. I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Jersey Shore beachgoers are rattled after a lifeguard was impaled
by an umbrella. Kristin Marx has more.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
It happened on Asbury Park Beach Wednesday morning, when a
powerful gust of wind blew the umbrella out of the
lifeguard's grasp and up into the air before it came
back down and pierced through her left shoulder and out
her back.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
We said she was conscious, she was speaking, she was
wanna to where her cell phone and her backpack were.
And like I said, she was a pretty good spirit.
She's a tough little kitch like final destination took.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The worst thing you could think of.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Happened that a six foot aluminum pole had to be
cut into pieces before the young woman could be taken
to the hospital to undergo surgery. She's expected back on
the job and just a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Kristin Marx reporting Kim Kardashian is in talks to starr
in Amazon MGM's Brats movie. Amazon MGM won the rights
to the live action film, which is based on the
Bratz fashion doll toy line launched in two thousand and one.
In addition to acting in the film, Kardashian as well
as Picture Start have been tapped to produce the feature.

(04:03):
I'm Brian Shook