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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. Texas Governor
Greg Abbott says the FBI is tracking down House Democrats
who fled the state to stop a vote on Republican
led redistricting efforts. Abbot made the comment on AX and
said they will be taken directly to the Texas State Capitol.

(00:24):
The suspect in the attempted assassination of President Trump will
be in court on Friday. Ryan Ruth will attend a
pre trial conference in Florida. The judge in the case
previously granted permission for Ruth to defend himself. President Trump
is using charts put together by a Fox Business analyst
to defend his firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

(00:45):
Commissioner in the Oval Office on Thursday. Stephen Moore told
Trump the fired stats chief overestimated job growth by one
point five million jobs over the last two years of
the Biden administration. I don't know if she's that might not.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Have been an there's an era. It would be one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't think it's an era. Trump fired Erica Macintar
for after the Bureau released the revised May and June
reports downward. A Miami federal judge has ordered a temporary
pause on construction at the immigration detention facility known as
Alligator Alcatraz. Chris Caragio reports.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
The ruling is a victory for the Mikasuki tribe and
the Friends of the Everglades environmental advocacy group, who are
calling for a shutdown of the facility until an environmental
study can be completed. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a
temporary order blocking any construction at the site for two
weeks after hearing two days of testimony. The Trump administration
is still able to house the detainees at the facility

(01:42):
during the construction pause.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington,
d C. Earlier this year is expected in court Friday.
Elias Rodriguez has been indicted on murder and federal hate
crimes charges. Rodriguez allegedly shot and killed Yerra Lischinsky and
Sarah Milgram outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May. I'm

(02:06):
Brian Schuck, the suspected gunman in a mass shooting at
Fort Stewart in Georgia, is believed to have used his
own handgun. Three of the five soldiers shot in the
incident are now out of the hospital. Sergeant Cornelius Radford,
an active duty military member, was taken into custody following
yesterday's attack. UCLA research grants canceled by the federal government

(02:29):
total five hundred eighty four million dollars. Daniel Martindale reports.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
That is according to University of California President James B. Millikan,
it is a much larger amount of lost funds than
projected last week. The Trump administration recently froze medical and
science research grants at UCLA. That was after accusing the
university of violating the rights of Jewish and Israeli students
during last year's pro Palestinian protests on campus. Millican calls

(02:56):
the move a death knell for critical research.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
New York City's mayor and to Harlem Wednesday to try
and ease fears about a growing deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
Andrew Whitman has the details.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Mayor Adams told reporters he was focused on misinformation about
the disease, like you could get it from a handshake
or from someone sneezing. He says all buildings in five
impacted zip codes are to inspect their cooling systems to
check for it, like the city has done with eleven
cooling towers. The bacteria that causes legionnaires grows in warm water.

(03:30):
Three people have died in seventy three sickened from it.
Right now, the focus is on Harlem zip codes one
double oh two seven, three zero three five three seven
and one double oh three nine.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Andrew Whitman reporting a woman will make Major League Baseball
history this weekend as the first to ever be an
umpire in a regular season game. Jen Powell will lumpire
in three of the four games between the Miami Marlins
and Braves in Atlanta. She'll be behind home played for
the series finale on Sunday. I'm Brian Shook.