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

Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump says the nation's capital has become one of
the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world. He's set
to hold a news conference on Monday related to violent
crime in Washington, d C. Trump confirmed the news in
a post on truth Social Saturday. The president says he's
focused on making it one of the safest cities. NATO
Secretary General Mark Ruda said Friday's meeting between President Trump

(00:29):
and Russian leader Vladimir Putin could be an important step
to ending the war in Ukraine. Ruda spoke about the
implications in an interview with ABC's This Week. Next Friday
will be important because it will be about testing Putin
how serious he is on bring this terrible war to
an end. Trump didn't say where in the state the
meeting will be held, but said further details will follow.

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He also has not said if Ukrainian President Zelenski will
be involved or not. Vice President j d Vance is
defending GOP led redistricting efforts and exis, saying they're necessary
to ensure fair representation. In an interview with Fox Sunday morning, futures.
Vance claimed that Democrats have tried to rig the game
in their favor for years, and that Republican efforts to

(01:12):
redraw congressional maps is essential to restore balance.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
We're just trying to rebalance the scales and frankly pushback
against a very unfair system created by the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
His comments come after Texas House Democrats have fled the
Lone Star State to keep the state House from having
the minimum number of members needed to proceed. Officials have
lifted evacuation warnings north of Los Angeles, where crews are
still battling the Canyon Fire. They were lifted early Saturday
after CalFire reported the blaze was twenty eight percent contained.

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By Saturday night, the wildfire was forty seven percent contained.
Around four hundred firefighters are battling the blaze, which began
Thursday afternoon and has currently burned nearly fifty four hundred acres.
The Canyon Fire is burning in a mountainous area north
of La and has been spreading toward the can community
of Castaic in La County, but there's still a potential

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threat to life and property. I'm Lisa Carton. A fourth
and final funeral is being held for the security guard
killed in that mass shooting at a Manhattan office tower
last month. Here's Lisa Taylor.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Forty six year old Alan Etian was hailed as a
hero at his funeral in Brooklyn Saturday. This is what
they do every day.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
They know that they put themselves on the line, and
this is the kind of tragedy you never want to
have happened.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's union president Manny Pastrijik, noting that Etian made the
ultimate sacrifice. He ducked behind the security desk at the
Park Avenue building during the shooting rampage to try to
shut off the elevators when he was gunned down. Etian's
union has set up a GoFundMe for his family, which
is already raised close to two hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
A man who was pushed onto a Manhattan subway track
is lucky to be alive. Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
It happened just before eight pm in Midtown. Police say
the victim was shoved onto the tracks of a Number
one train at fiftieth Street and Seventh Avenue. He suffered
face and leg injuries, but was able to pull himself
onto the platform before a train arrived bystanders came to
his aid. He was badly bloodied, but police say he's
in stable condition. They're searching for a suspect.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
The theft of thousands of dollars worth of the popular
Labooboo dolls is being investigated in California. The heist happened
at the One Stop sales store in La Puente, about
twenty miles east of Los Angeles, in the early hours
of August six. The store posted surveillance video footage on
social media showing masked thieves getting away with several boxes

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of the dolls. Celebrities like Rihanna and Blackpink's Lisa have
been spotted with the dolls, helping their popularity grow. Legendary
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera needs surgery after tearing
his achilles during the Old Timers game at Yankee Stadium.
The New York Daily News says the fifty five year
old Hall of Famer tour and achilles tendon while going

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after a Willie Randolph flyball to center field. Rivera's agent
says he'll have surgery in the coming war week. He
spent his nineteen year career with the New York Yankees.
I'm Lisa Carton,