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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):
President Trump says the United States will be sending Patriot
missiles to Ukraine. Trump expressed disappointment with Russian President Putin,
saying he's surprised a lot of people by talking nice
and then bombing everyone at night. He went on to
add that an exact number has not been agreed to,
but that Ukraine needs it for protection and that the
European Union is paying for it. Trump is set to

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meet with NATO's Secretary General at the White House on Monday.
Crews in central Texas have suspended the search for flood
victims as heavy rain continues to pound the region. The
National Weather Service as heavy thunderstorms we're moving through the
Hill Country region devastated by catastrophic flooding last week. City
officials in Kerville issued evacuation orders for some areas near

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the Guadalupe River, calling it a dangerous and life threatening situation.
Democrats are condemning Florida's controversial alligator Alcatraz. After touring the
U S detention facility on Saturday, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
called the conditions inhumane. She said. Detainees are packed into cages,
sometimes nearly three dozen per cage. Florida Representative Maxwell Frost

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said one detainee yelled out to the group of lawmakers
that he was an American citizen. A Time Square ad
spotted by The New York Post takes aim at Zoorn Mamdani.
Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
The ad calls the Democratic Socialist a radical socialist and
urges New York City voters to move to Ohio. Mam Donnie,
a thirty three year old state assemblyman, is way ahead
in the polls for New York City Mayor. And Rick Scott,
a GOP senator from Florida, says New York City politicians
who are backing mum Donnie are just recruiting people to

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move to the Sunshine State.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
The New York Post report continues that the digital billboard
is paid for by vi VIC superPAC Visitors, not victims,
which supports Vivek Ramaswami's Republican gubernatorial candidacy in the Buckeye State.
The ad states, quote worried about Zron, Ohio is waiting
for you. I'm Rob Martyr. Homeland Security Secretary Christinomes says

(02:09):
President Trump does not want to dismantle FEMA, but rather
rework it. In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press,
Nomes says the president wants the agency to be better managed.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
The President recognizes that FEMA should not exist the way
that it always has been.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It needs to be redeployed in a new way. Trump
has been critical of FEMA in the past, but has
praised the agency's efforts amid devastating floods in central Texas.
Noome also dismissed claims that a rule change delayed FEMA's
response in Texas is absolutely false. Health officials in Arizona
say a person died from the plague this past Thursday.
Mark Mayfield with details.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The unidentified patient came into the emergency room at the
hospital and Flagstaff and died the same day. Testing results
confirmed on Friday that the person died from pneumonic plague,
caused by the same bacterium as the bubonic plague that
devastated Europe in the fourteenth century. Mnemonic plague affects the lungs,
whereas bubonic plague affects the lymph nodes. It was the
first death from mnemonic plague recorded in the region since

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two thousand and seven.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science announced this week
that its scientists found a dinosaur fossil deep below one
of its parking lots. The fossil is estimated to be
about seventy million years old and was buried seven hundred
and sixty three feet below the surface. The discovery was
made during a museum project to better understand the geology

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of the Denver Basin. After two drilling rigs bore test
holes under one of the museum's paved parking lots, and
museum geologists going through the extracted materials noticed the dinosaur bone.
Sweet There is a musical genre for everyone's taste, and

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today is National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day. National Barbershop Music
Appreciation Day was started in two thousand and five by
Sweet Outlines International to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the
group's founding in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I'm Rob Martyr