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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This sin is your twenty four to seven use update
the latest use this hour in just four minutes. President
Trump will be placing severe tariffs on Russia if there's
no peace steal in Ukraine in fifty days. While meeting
with NATO Secretary Mark Ruda, Trump also announced a new
deal to sell top of the line weaponry to NATO,
meant for distribution in Ukraine. He's expressed his unhappiness with
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President Putin over the last few days, marking somewhat of
a turning point in his relationship with him. Trump had
been blaming both sides for the continued war, but lately
has been putting most of it on Putin. Central Texas
has been hit again with intense rains and flooding after
the deadly fourth of July weekend floods that killed about
one hundred and thirty people. Governor Greg Abbott said water
rescues were carried out yesterday in three counties and some
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communities were under evacuation orders. In Kerville, which saw a
massive devastation in the earlier flooding, water was seen rushing
over city streets and Kerville Assistant city Manager Michael Hornez
says they're still searching. Ten days after the flood hit.
More than one hundred and sixty people remain missing, and
there is now a focused downstream in Lake Nimitz.
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They have a hard time searching in there because that
water is you can't see.
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Through it, he says. The city is working with the
state to release water over a dam to help lower
the lake level. Massachusetts officials say at least nine people
have died and dozens more injured after a fire at
a nursing home and Fall River. That's according to the
city's fire chief. The blaze was reported last night at
the Gabriel House assisted living facility. A mass casualty event
was called soon after, as arriving crews found people hanging
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from windows screaming for help. Nearly a half dozen firefighters
were reported to be among the injured. Hall of Fame
quarterback John Elway will not face criminal charges in connection
with the death of his business partner. Riverside County, California
Sheriff Chad Bianco says investigators found nothing criminal and he
considers the death a tragic accident. Elway's longtime friend and
business partner, Jeffrey Spurbeck, died in April after falling out
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of a golf cart that Elway was driving. Spurbek hit
his head on the asphalt and died a few days later.
It happened and while Elway and Spurbeck were in Coachella
Valley for the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. I'm Chris Gracio.
The late televangelist Jimmy Swaggert is being remembered following his
death earlier this month at the age of ninety. Thousands
filled the pews of the Family Worship Center in Baton
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Rouge Sunday to give Swaggart a huge sendoff. He still
has one more honor awaiting him. Swaggert was recently made
a member of the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
His Sundanni is expected to accept the honor on Swagert's
behalf during the formal induction ceremony in September. A new
study reveals the most financially responsible cities in the US.
The study by lending Tree looked at the one hundred
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largest metro areas in the nation. The study factored debt
to income ratios, credit inquiries, maxed out credit cards, spending
on housing costs, and low credit utilization rates. Des Moines, Iowa,
and San Jose, California were tied as the most financially responsible.
Des Moines was found to have the lowest spending on housing,
with nineteen percent of households shilling out about a third
of their income on housing costs. Meta has acquired artificial
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intelligence startup play Ai. As spokesperson for the Facebook parent
company confirmed the acquisition to Bloomberg over the weekend. Meta
was reportedly attracted to play AI's work in creating natural
voices and its easy voice creation. For an internal memo,
the entire play ai team will be joining Meadow within
a week. Customers spent just over twenty four billion during
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Amazon's Prime Day event. Details now from Lisa.
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Carton Deoby Analytics says that's about nine point six billion
dollars more than last year. Prime Day started out as
a one day event, might became a four day sales extravaganza.
This year, Amazon is hailing it as the biggest Prime
Day shopping event.
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Yet some fans are upset after Drake only performed for
forty minutes Sunday night at London's Wireless Festival. It was
his third night in a row headlining the Canadian entertainer
came out just before nine pm and said he'd perform
until the event strict nine to thirty pm curfew. He
gave a performance some fans called rushed any music history
news on this date. Back in nineteen eighty eight, at
the height of Elvis's Alive mania, at Nashville Radio station
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offered one million dollars to anybody who showed up at
the studio with the King. I'm Chris Garancio.