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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. It's a
late night in the halls of Congress as the Senate
is debating key legislation. The Senate is voting begin debate
on President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Hours after Majority Leader
John Thune called up a procedural vote, lawmakers approved emotion

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to open debate on the legislation. It's unclear if Senate
Republicans have enough votes to pass the bill ahead of
their self imposed July fourth deadline, as the vote to
begin debate only passed fifty one to forty nine. Meanwhile,
in an effort to delay proceedings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer has said he will force the reading of the
entire nearly one thousand page bill on the Senate floor.

(00:46):
More flight cancelations are expected after severe weather caused hundreds
of flights in and out of Atlanta to be delayed.
According to a statement from Delta Airlines, travelers will likely
face quote several hundred more cancelations this weekend. Several thousand
passengers are already finding themselves stuck at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta
International Airport President Trump is pushing back on claims Iran

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moved its uranium stockpile ahead of US strikes on its
nuclear facilities. In an interview with Fox News Sunday Morning Futures,
Trump said it would have been difficult for Iran to
transport its uranium out of the site struck by American
bunker buster bombs last week.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a very hard thing to do. Plus, we didn't
give much notice because they didn't know we were coming
until just you know then, And nobody thought we'd go
after that site because everybody said that site is impenetrable.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Trump's comments come as his administration denies reports that Iran's
nuclear program was only set back months as a result
of the recent strikes, and Americans on the job hunter
being influenced by their debt when it comes to their
career choices. A report by resume site Zetti says thirty
eight percent of survey respondents said they took a second
job to pay their debts. Thirty seven percent said they

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took a job outside their industry or took positions they
had no interest in just to pay debts. I'm Jim Forbes.
Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman is being laid to
rest alongside her husband. Today, private funeral services were held
for the couple in Minneapolis, two weeks after they were
shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park home. Former President

(02:21):
Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined Minnesota Governor
Tim Walls for services at the Basilica of Saint Mary
in Minneapolis. This morning. Democratic and Republican leaders, including President Trump,
condemned the shootings in a rare moment of unity between
the political parties. And aggressive, swift moving brushfire has broken
out near Silverwood Lake in San Bernardino County, prompting evacuations.

(02:45):
Phil Ferrar has more.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
This happened late Saturday afternoon near a recreation area in
the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains that's close to
the town of Esparia, which is eighty miles north and
east of downtown Los Angeles. Cal Fire says the flames
are burning the dangerous rate of spread. So far, one
hundred and fifty acres have been scorched, and that number
is expected to rise. There is no containment. San Bernardino

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firefighters say those flames have jumped both Highway one seventy
three and Highway one thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm Phil Farrar, the president of the University of Virginia,
stepping down after pressure from the Trump administration over the
school's DEI efforts. The New York Times says Virginia President
James E. Ryan has told the university's board that he
will resign after demands by the Trump administration to step
aside to help resolve an inquiry by the Justice Department.

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And one of Major League Baseball's greatest outfielders, Dave Parker,
is dead at the age of seventy four, the Pittsburgh
Pirates announced on social media today. Parker died following a
long battle with Parkinson's disease. The seven time All Star
played nineteen seasons in the majors with six teams, including
eleven years with Pittsburgh, where his career began. Parker won

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World Series titles with the Pirates in nineteen seventy nine
and the Oakland A's in nineteen eighty nine. I'm Jim
Forbes