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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, President Trump's tariffs have gone into effect.
Import taxes will reach levels not seen in the country
in almost one hundred years, with over sixty countries and
the European Union facing rates of fifteen percent or more.
A wide variety of products will be hit, ranging from appliances, cars, food,

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and furniture. Two people have been killed after a helicopter
crashed on a barge on the Mississippi River. It happened
near Alton, about twenty five miles north of Saint Louis.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the helicopter hit power
lines before crashing into the barge. The Lewis and Clark
Bridge that connects Missouri and Illinois is shut down due

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to the crash. President Trump is honoring nearly one hundred
past Purple Heart recipients today. We give our everlasting thanks
to you and yourunbelievable families.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We want to thank you very much for being here.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Some recipients and attendance at the White House included three
veterans who gave their Purple Heart metals to the President
following the assassination attempt on his life last year. Authorities
are investigating a bomb threat at a Saint Charles, Illinois
hotel where Texas Democrats are staying. Tammy Treheo reports.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Lease eight hundreds of people were evacuated yesterday from the
Q Center following the bomb threat. No explosive devices were found.
The lawmakers fled to Illinois to stop Republicans from voting
to redraw the map that would give them five more
pickup opportunities ahead of twenty twenty six. Democrats have blasted
the move, which they say could suppress the votes of
people of color.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
A lawyer for Sean Diddy Combe says the rap mogul
is plotting a career comeback once he's freed. Combs was
found guilty last month on two prostitution related charges and
could get up to five years in prison when he's
sentenced on Wednesday. A lawyer for the fifty five year
old rapper told CBS News Diddy has been planning a
comeback concert at Madison Square Garden when he gets out.

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I'm Brian Shook. A new study suggests that palisades and
eaten fires in California may be linked with hundreds of deaths.
Daniel Martindale explains.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
The massive fires in January kill to confirmed thirty one
people in Los Angeles County. On Wednesday. Research letter was
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It
says La County experienced four hundred and forty more deaths
than typically expected between January fifth and February first. The
fires fall within that time period. The study says the
higher number of deaths likely reflects increased exposure to poor

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air quality or delays and interruptions in health services caused
by the fires. I'm Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
A new COVID variant is making the rounds across the
US this summer, known as variant XFG or stratus. The
variant first popped up in Southeast Asia this January. It's
now responsible for about fourteen percent of us KA. Two
illegal immigrants, both Dominican nationals, are indicted on state charges

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in New York City, in addition to federal charges in
the shooting of a border patrol officer last month. Sarah
Lee Kessler has the details.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Miguel Mora has been hit with first degree attempted murder
and other charges for allegedly shooting the off duty Border
agent in the face in an Upper Manhattan park. His partner,
Christian Abart, has been indicted on robbery and other charges.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
We allege that the shooting of this off duty officer
was part of a violent robberies free that the defendants
plan via text messages in advance.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The agent was sitting in
the park with a female friend when the duo tried
to rob him and gunfire was exchanged. He's recovering. I'm
Sarah le Kessler.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Uber is talking with banks and private equity firms to
get the cash at once to expand its robotaxi business.
The company has been making partnerships with automakers to build
its footprint in the self driving taxi industry. I'm Brian Shuck.