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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. President Trump
is pledging federal help in response to deadly flash flooding
in Texas. Trump said his administration is working with Texas
state and local officials as the death toll has risen
to twenty seven. In a post on truth Social Today,

(00:22):
Trump said the Homeland Security Secretary is on her way
to Texas. She'll join Governor Greg Abbott for an afternoon
news conference in Kerrville to provide an update on the
severe flooding. Meanwhile, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says rescues
are still taking place hours after the flooding began. We
have fourteen choppers of twelve drones, nine rescue teams, swimmers

(00:42):
in the water. Meanwhile, authorities are still searching for more
than twenty missing campers after Friday's catastrophic flooding in the
Texas Hill Country northwest of San Antonio. Officials in Alaska
are floating the idea of a bear alcatraz to house
migrants in the northern state. Michael Cassner reports Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Has been getting a lot of media attention for opening
a migrant detention center in the Everglades. They call it
Alligator Alcatraz. White House Policy Advisor Stephen Miller has called
on Republican governors to work with the administration to build
migrant facilities in all Red States. Earlier this week, in Alaska,
official responded by telling Fox News, we don't have alligators,

(01:21):
but we have lots of bears. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy
has not commented on Bear Alcatraz.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
California's largest wildfire of the year continues to burn. The
Madre Fire started on Wednesday afternoon and has now burned
nearly eighty thousand acres and is only ten percent contained.
The fire has prompted highway closures in San Louis Obispo County,
along with evacuation orders and warnings. Cal Fire says more
than six hundred personnel are fighting the blaze, with numerous

(01:49):
air tankers from throughout the state flying fire suppression missions.
Tropical Storm Chantal is getting stronger as it nears the Carolinas.
The storm now packing top winds of forty five miles
an hour with higher gusts of about one hundred and
five miles southeast of Charleston. I'm Lisa Carton planned sea
section berths can raise the risk of some childhood cancers.

(02:11):
That's according to a study out of Sweden, which found
that children from cesarean bursts before labor begins have a
twenty one percent higher risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia,
a blood and bone marrow cancer. Children born in an
emergency sea section didn't show the same risk. Researchers think
it's because emergency deliveries exposed the child to stress hormones

(02:34):
and bacteria that affect immune system development. A member of
the Philadelphia Eagles first Super Bowl championship team is battling
a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Brian Brahman played
seven seasons in the NFL from twenty eleven to twenty seventeen.
The linebacker spent his first three seasons with the Houston
Texans before finishing his career with the Eagles. Brayman has

(02:56):
undergone multiple surgeries. His agent says he's in the fight
of his life. Now that the fourth of July is over,
the rush to get home is expected to hit Sunday.
Natalie Migliori has more tsa.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Spokes first in Jessica Melee says security checkpoints are prepared
for the surge of flyers trying to get home.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
As the departures are spread out, but that return is
a little more concentrated.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
So if you're flying on Sunday, July six, pretty much.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Anywhere across the country, make sure you give yourself plenty
of time. Meantime, Triple E spokesman Robert Sinclair says noon
to six pm is going to be the worst time
to be on the roads, as a majority of the
sixty one million people driving.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Try to return home. The NBA Summer League begins this weekend.
The Heat, Lakers, Spurs, and Warriors will take part in
the California Classics starting today until July eighth. The Grizzlies,
Jazz seventy six Ers in Thunder, meanwhile will participate in
the Salt Lake City Summer League. All thirty teams will
descend on Las Vegas for the NBA two K twenty

(03:53):
sixth Summer League, which begins July tenth and runs through
July twentieth, with all seventy six games airing live on
ESPN or n b A t V. I'm Lisa Carton