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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Texas Democrats who fled the state are being ordered by
Governor Greg Abbott to be arrested in New York. Texas
state representative and lawyer Jolanda Jones says, good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Subpoenas from Texas don't work in New York, so he
gonna come get us.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
How subpoenas in Texas don't work in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
He's gonna come get us. How so, let me be clear,
he's putting up smoke and mirrors.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
More than fifty Democrats fled to Illinois, New York, and
Massachusetts to prevent Republicans from advancing redistricting maps aimed at
adding up to five GOP seats ahead of the twenty
twenty six mid terms. State Representative Ron Reynolds in Warrenville, Illinois.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Here we are on the right side of history, trying
to stop the.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Texas steal by Abbot and Trump.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
The arrest warrant supply only within Texas state lines. The
manhunt for the suspect in last week's deadly shooting at
a Montana bar is now in its fifth day. Please
say Army veteran Michael Brown is armed and extremely dangerous,
and they believe he has since stolen a truck with
camping gear and close The shooting that left four people
dead happened in the southwest town of Anaconda last Friday.

(01:22):
The acting head of NASA is calling for a nuclear
reactor on the Moon. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent out a directive last Thursday
saying it's imperative to get it done quickly. Duffy says
a nuclear reactor on the Moon would support a future
lunary economy and strengthen America's national security in space. Duffy
said China and Russia are plaiming to put a reactor
on the Moon by the mid twenty thirties, and they
could declare a keep out zone. He wants proposals from

(01:49):
commercial companies within sixty days.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
A former Atlanta police officer is not being indicted on
involuntary manslaughter charges for now. It was two years ago
when sixty two year old Johnny Holman died during a
confrontation with officer Kiaran Kimbro, who has since been fired.
I'm Michael Kassner. The Kiffert fire on California Central Coast
has burned more than seventy two thousand acres of land

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and remains three percent contained. More from Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
The fire has been burning since Friday afternoon in the
Los Padres National Forest northeast of Santa Maria. Evacuation orders
were expanded on Monday as the fire continues to grow.
Highway one sixty six is shut down between Highway one
oh one and the southern junction of Highway thirty three.
At least three people have been injured as a result
of the fire.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Firefighters continued to battle growing wildfires in the West to
Smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires wafts over parts of
the Midwest and east Shaquille Brewster with more.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Today actually marking one month since the start of the
Dragon Bravo fire that's closed down the northern rim of
the Grand Canyon and has now become the largest fire
in the United States.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Updated figures this morning show the Dragon Bravo Fire has
now burned more than one hundred twenty three thousand acres.
The Boeing Machinist's strike is in day two, with neither
side ready to resume negotiations. The Machinist Union says there
are no talks currently scheduled between Boeing and the union,
which represents over three thousand workers at three facilities in

(03:16):
the Saint Louis area. Boeing says its facilities are still
open but will not be building products at normal rates.
A new Colorado State University study shows children may sleep
less and experience worse sleep quality when their parents are
under increased stress temi trichio at details.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Researchers found the more stress parents carried over time, the
more it affected their children's rest and hormone regulation. In
some cases, kids begin sleeping more to adapt, though experts
say that also comes with negative side effects. The study
track daily patterns and found the most impact when parental
stress levels rose day by day.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
And The National Zoo in DC is celebrating the birthday
of Chinese panda Boo Lee. The zoo gave the four
year old panda frozen fruit birthday cake to mark the occasion. Yesterday.
I'm Michael Kassner