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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour. In just four minutes, President Trump's
Special envoy to the Middle East is telling the families
of Israeli hostages the US is working on a plan
to end the war in Gaza. Steve Whitcoff told families
in Tel Aviv Saturday, the US is working to bring

(00:22):
home all the remaining captives held by Hamas, though Israeli
officials say they believe out of fifty hostages that remain
in Gaza, only about twenty are believed to still be alive.
The administrations launched a probe against former Special Council at
the DOJ, Jack Smith, who prosecuted two cases against Trump,
one centering around allegations Trump tried to subvert the twenty

(00:44):
twenty election, and another accusing Trump of mishandling classified documents.
Neither case went to trial, and Smith resigned from the
Department of Justice. Shortly before Trump's second inauguration, over a
million young Catholics attended a mass bi Pope Leo this morning,
marking the end of the Jubilee of Youth. The final
mass in Rome, marking the end of a week long

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event attended by young Catholics from over one hundred and
forty countries. Park rangers and Grand Canyon National Park are
asking for the public's help now and trying to find
a missing hiker from New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Family and friends of thirty five year old Thomas Daniel
Gibbs of Freehold, New Jersey, say they last heard from
him on July twenty second. The family reported him missing
on July twenty eighth, and later that day, park rangers
found his Tesla cyber truck in a parking lot on
the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. Rangers have been
using search dogs and drones to search for Gibbs and

(01:40):
are focused on the Grand View Trail. They're asking anyone
who may have been hiking in that area at the
time to contact them. I'm Lisa Selvadi.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Play We'll restart this afternoon for a Major League Baseball
Speedway Classic and had to be suspended in the first
inning last night due to heavy rain. More than eighty
five thousand tickets were so for the inaugural event at
Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. I'm Scott Carr. Police
in Montana say they've found his abandoned vehicle, but a

(02:10):
man hunt continues for a suspect who shot four people
to death inside a bar. Police say forty five year
old Michael Brown is considered armed and dangerous and is
still on the loose near the small mountain town of Anaconda.
Police Saint Brown fled the scene in a white pickup
truck after the shooting at the Owl Bar early Friday.
This as a man hunt continues in Tennessee for a

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man accused of killing four family members and abandoning a
baby inside a car. Authority say Austin Drummond should be
considered armed and dangerous. They say Drummond killed thirty eight
year old Courtney Rose and her two children, twenty year
old Adrianna Williams and fifteen year old Braden Williams, as
well as Adrianna Williams's boyfriend, twenty one year old James

(02:52):
Michael Wilson. Officials in New York City say it wasn't
a subway train making the ground shake last night. The
US Geological Survey says a three point zero magnitude tremor
was centered in northern New Jersey, just west of Manhattan,
and was felt by many across the region. There's no
reports of injuries or damage. Former judge and longtime Fox
News personality Janine Piro has been confirmed now as the

(03:14):
next US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
On Saturday, the Senate voted fifty to forty five to
confirm Piero to the position. Piero was previously serving on
an acting basis since May after President Trump withdrew his
first nominee, Ed Martin, whose nomination faltered amid bipartisan backlash.
She has previously served as both a judge and a
district attorney in New York before co hosting The Five

(03:39):
on Fox News. I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Ford is recalling more than three hundred twelve thousand vehicles
over a problem with their power break Assist the electronic
break booster module that can lose power while driving that
can increase the stopping distance and raises the risk of
a crash. The recall includes new models of Lincoln Navigators
F one fifty, Use Expeditions, Broncos and Rangers vehicles. I'm

(04:03):
Scott Carr