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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
At least forty three people are dead and many remain
missing following catastrophic flooding in central Texas. The dead include
twenty eight adults and fifteen children. Many of those who
are missing are children from a private Christian camp in
Kirk County, northwest of San Antonio. Texas Governor Greg Abbott
says eight hundred and fifty people have been rescued and
every missing person will be found.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
My instruction to every state agency involved in this is
to assume everybody who is missing is alive. And there's
a need for speed, not just every hour, every minute counts,
which is why there's people in the air, of people
and the water, people on the ground right now, because
they're looking to save every last lib.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Abbot was joined by DHS Secretary Christinome and state and
local officials at a news conference this afternoon in Kerrville.
The rushing water destroyed homes, campsites, and RV parks. Homeland
Chief Christy Nomes says the Coast Guard willis assist in
search and recovery efforts. Heavy rain and the thread of
flash flooding continues for the area. Today, President Trump assigned

(01:07):
as massive spending bill into law. The signing took place
during a Fourth of July ceremony at the White House,
where Trump thanked Republican leaders who got the spending measure
over the finish line by a razor thin margin. The
new law includes nearly a trillion dollars and cuts to
medicate over the next ten years. AMAS appears to be
edging closer to a ceasefire deal with Israel. A Palestinian

(01:27):
official on Friday described to Maas's reaction to the deal
as positive. The Gaza Deal, which includes a sixty day
ceasefire on the Gaza Strip, is being brokered by the
United States. President Trump says Israel has already agreed to
the deal and claims an agreement could be reached by
next week. Archaeologists have discovered some unusually large two thousand
year old shoes in northern England. The discovery, at a

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site used by the Roman Empire, included eight large shoes,
including one that measured almost thirteen inches long that's equivalent
to assize fifteen in the United State dates. The shoes
were found in a defensive ditch. The Romans used as
a rubbish dump in Northumberland. I'm Rob Martyr. Seven people
are injured after a boat exploded on a Georgia lake.

(02:11):
Jim Forbes has more.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
According to the Hull County Sheriff's Office, that Cavin Cruiser
was being towed on Lake Lanier when it suddenly caught
fire and exploded. Seven people suffered serious burns and were
taken to the hospital. There's no word yet on what
caused the explosion.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Officials in Alaska are floating the idea of bear Alcatraz
to house migrants in the northern state. Florida has been
getting a lot of media attention for opening a migrant
detention center in the Everglades, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. White House
Policy Advisor Stephen Miller has called on Republican governors to
work with the administration to build migrant facilities in all

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Red states. Earlier this week, in alaskan official responded by
telling Fox News, we don't have alligators, but we have
lots of bears. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy had no immediate comments.
Kelly Clarkson has pulled the plug on the weekend opener
of her Las Vegas residency started up. The show was

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postponed just hours before the first performance was scheduled. Clarkson
announced the change on Instagram, writing quote, I'm devastated to
have to postpone tonight and tomorrow's opening at Caesar's. The residency,
titled Kelly Clarkson Studio Sessions, was originally set for eight
pm on July fourth and fifth. A band called The
Velvet Sundown currently has over nine hundred thousand monthly listeners

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on Spotify and is speculated to be AI. The group
has officially admitted in a revision to their Spotify bio
that their music is AI generated. The band went viral
after popping up in June on Spotify playlists. The Spotify
bio says all characters, stories, music, voices, and lyrics are
original creations generated with the help of AI. The band

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also says they're not quite human, not quite machine. The
Velvet's Sundown lives somewhere in between. I'm Rob Martyr