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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):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking the state Supreme Court
to remove a Democratic state lawmaker from office. Abbot filed
a lawsuit Tuesday targeting state Representative Jen wu calling him
the ringleader of the Democrats who left the state. More
than fifty Democratic lawmakers fled to block a Republican led
congressional redistricting plan. Meanwhile, Texas Republicans are defending a redrawing

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of the state's congressional boundaries. State Representative Katrina Pearson says
it's needed to keep up with voting trends. Minorities in
the state of Texas have been trending Republican. She points
to the border with Mexico, Hispanics have increasingly been voting
for President Trump. The Clintons are being subpoenaed in the
congressional investigation into late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The

(00:57):
House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to six four former attorneys general,
two former FBI directors, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
and former President Bill Clinton. The subpoena calls for the
DOJ to provide Congress any Epstein files in its possession
with victim's names redacted. Four people are dead after a
plane crash in northeast Arizona Tuesday afternoon. Brad Siegel reports.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
The Navajo Police Department says the medical transport plane crashed
and burned near Chinley Municipal Airport. All four people on
board that plane died in the crash. Police say they
were not from Arizona. The aircraft was registered to CSI
Aviation and Albuquerque, New Mexico based medical flight Service. The
plane was reportedly on the way to pick up a
patient at a local hospital. The National Transportation Safety Board

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is now investigating the cause of that crash.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
The Department of Health and Human Services is canceling nearly
two dozen vaccine development projects targeting viruses like COVID nineteen
and the flu. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior announced
too Tuesday he's halting five hundred million dollars in funding
for mRNA based vaccines. I'm Brian Shook. A petition is

(02:08):
calling for changes to Washington's Amber alert system following the
murders of three Winatchi girls. Brad Ford reports.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Travis Decker's accused of killing his daughters during a scheduled visit.
Law enforcement issued an endangered missing person's advisory, but not
an AMBER alert, which would have sent a message to
cell phones across the state. The petition calls for the
lot to be changed so an AMBER alert can be
issued regardless of whether a parent is an abductor I'm
brad Ford.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
A man is dead after trying to set a new
land speed record on Utah's Boniville Salt Flats. Sixty year
old Chris Rashki died after crashing Sunday afternoon. He was
taking part in the annual speed Week event when he
lost control of his vehicle and crashed. Rashke was treated
at the scene, but authorities say his injuries proved fatal.

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Following this summer's issues at Newark, New Jersey, Airport, the
Department of Transportation is now looking into a decision made
last summer to move airspace control for Newark from the
New York base to the Philadelphia Control Center. Jonathan O'Halleran
reports the.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
FAA's decision to move control of the airspace to Philadelphia
was made due to staffing issues. Now after multiple incidents
over the last few months, some lawmakers are calling for
control to return to the New York Control Tower.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Moving N ninety was the wrong decision. I'm confident that
this audit will show just that. And again, we need
to get more people hired so there's not overtime and
there's less burnout.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
That's New York Congresswoman Lauren Gillen. The audit, now being
performed by the DOTS Inspector General, is expected to take
two months to complete.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Jonathan O'Halleran reporting Texas is the number one ranked team
heading into the college football season. That's according to the
first USA Today Coaches Poll released on Monday. Ohio State
follows the Longhorns in second. Penn State is ranked thread heard,
while Georgia and Notre Dame round out the top five.

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I'm Brian Shook.