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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes. The
death toll in Texas from the flooding stands at over
one hundred, but there are growing fears that number could
rise dramatically. That's because Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed there's
many more still missing as well. Abbot pushback when asked

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about reports questioning the warning systems.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
My focus isn't on time to say, oh, you did
wrong or you should have done better there.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
My job is to bring Texas and Texans together.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Abbot took a helicopter tour of the hardest hit areas
and was struck by the widespread devast station. President Trump
and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo our meeting
again tonight. Speaking during a cabinet meeting earlier today, Trump
said they are going to talk exclusively about the warring Gaza.
Wall Street is closing with stocks mixed. Brad Siegel has

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the details.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
It comes after President Trump said there will be no
extensions granted for his August first tariff deadline. Yesterday, investors
engaged in a selloff due to Trump announcing the tariffs
against countries like South Korea and Japan. At the closing bell,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by one hundred sixty
five points to forty four to two forty, the S
and P five hundred fell by four points to sixty

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two to twenty five, and the Nasdaq rose by five
points to twenty thousand, four hundred eighteen. I'm Brad Segel.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
A flash flood emergency is in effect in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
The National Weather Service issued the emergency after heavy rain
caused flooding in burn scars caused by a recent wildfire.
The Rio Ruidoso overfloated its banks and caused flooding in
the town's Hollywood neighborhood. Some Amazon sellers are scaling back

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Prime Day discounts, blaming tight margins and rising costs from
President Trump's tariffs. Bloomberg reports third party sellers, who awn
for about sixty percent of Amazon's inventory, are offering fewer discounts.
I'm Brian Shook. Columbia University and the Trump administration are
reportedly in talks to restore some of the school's federal funding.

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Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
It was back in March that President Trump canceled four
hundred million dollars in grants in federal contracts to the
Ivy League school, citing illegal protests and a spike in
anti semitism on campus. But the Wall Street Journal is
now reporting the two sides are talking again about possible
options to restore some of the money that would not
include a consent decree, a potential agreement that includes a

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monitor or outside observer, or reportedly possibilities. But just last month,
Columbia's acting president said the school will not give up
its autonomy and independent governance. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Emergency room visits for tick bites are nearing record levels
this summer across the US. The CDC says July has
already seen the highest number of tick related er visits
in over eight years. People under ten and over seventy
years old have the highest rates of er visits. Stress

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is high in Detroit. Tammy Triheo explains.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
The motor City is ranked as the most stressed city
in America according to the personal finance website wallet hub.
In putting the results of their survey together, wil at
Hub compared numbers from one hundred and eighty cities and
over three dozen key metrics including average weekly work hours,
median credit scores, food insecurity, and divorce rates. I'm Tammy Tricheo,

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one of.

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The biggest names in Hollywood, is coming to the US
Military Academy at West Point. Tom Hanks will appear September
twenty fifth and receive the twenty twenty five sylvanis theor award.
That honor is handed out each year to an American
whose accomplishments reflect the values of duty, honor country. Hanks

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was a star of the hit movie Saving Private Ryan
and produced multiple military themed miniseries. I'm Brian Shook