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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):
Dozens of people are dead and many remain missing following
catastrophic flooding in central Texas. The dead include twenty eight
adults and fifteen children in Kerr County alone. More bodies
have been found in neighbouring counties as well, with The
New York Times reporting at least fifty two total deaths.
Many of those who are missing our children from a
private Christian camp northwest of San Antonio. Homeland Chief Christy

(00:32):
Nome says the Coastguard will assist in search and recovery efforts.
The thread of heavy rain and dangerous flooding continues in
the area. Tropical Storm schan Tel is approaching the Carolinas.
The storm is packing winds of forty five miles an hour,
with higher gusts less than one hundred miles southeast of Charleston,
South Carolina. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center

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says the storm is slowly tracking to the north and
could make landfalls Sunday morning. It is expected to bring
heavy rain, rip currents, and straw surf to both North
and South Carolina. Kelly Clarkson has pulled the plug on
the weekend opener of her Las Vegas residency. More from
Lisa Carton.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
What Doesn't Kill You makes a Sense?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The show was postponed just hours before the first performance
was scheduled. Clarkson announced the change on Instagram, writing quote,
I am devastated to have to postpone tonight and tomorrow's
opening at Caesar's. A residency titled Kelly Clarkson Studio Sessions,
was originally set for eight pm on July fourth and fifth.
Clarkson's website now shows a date and time to be

(01:37):
announced descriptor on Ticketmaster. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Novak Djokovic is adding to his legendary resume with his
one hundredth career singles win at Wimbledon. Djokovic notched the
win at the All England Club in the third round
against Mio mir Kichmanovich. The milestone win ties Djokovic with
tennis legends Martina navat to Low and Roger Federer as
the only players to have won one hundred singles matches

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at the competition. I'm Rob Martyr. Several were taken into
custody after an ice rate at the Santa Palm car
wash on Friday. A manager at the facility says immigration
enforcement officers storm the facility around eleven o'clock and took
several longtime employees of the business into custody. One of
the employees was tackled in a nearby alley, according to

(02:25):
the manager. The number of people taken into custody by
agents has not been released. Now that the fourth of
July is over, the rush to get home is expected
to hit Sunday. Natalie Migliori has more.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
TSA spokespirst in Jessica Melee says security checkpoints are prepared
for the surge of flyers trying to get home. I
think sometimes the departures are spread out, but that return
is a little more concentrated.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
So if you're flying on Sunday, July six, pretty much
anywhere across the country, make sure you give yourself plenty
of time.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Meantime, Triple A 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 try to return home.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Australian actor Julian McMahon has died at age fifty six
after a battle with cancer. His wife confirmed he died
on Wednesday. McMahon was widely known for his role as
Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom in two thousand and five's
Fantastic four and its sequel. He was also known for
his role as doctor Christian Troy on the show Nip Tuck,
where he was nominated for a Golden Globe. McMahon began

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his career as a model in the late nineteen eighties
before moving into acting. A band called The Velvet Sundown
currently has over nine hundred thousand monthly listeners 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

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all characters, stories, music, voices, and lyrics are original creations
generated with the help of AI. The band's bio also
says they're not quite human, not quite machine. The Velvet
Sundown lives somewhere in between. I Rob Martyr