The Latest: 08/11/2025 10:06am ET

All the latest national and international news. Topics also include finance, weather and entertainment.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

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):
President Trump is holding a ten am Eastern news conference
to discuss crime and beautification in Washington. D. C. Ryan
Nobles with more in the nation's capital.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is something that President Trump has been a borderline
obsessed with since he took office once again for a
second term. He feels that there's a serious crime and
blight problem in Washington, DC, and he believes that the
federal government should do something about it now. DC leaders
have said that it's just not the case. There had
been some issues with crime, but crime is actually on
the way down in Washington and that they're working to

(00:41):
make the situation better.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
The President is demanding that homeless people move out of
the city. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who is defending Israel's
plan to take over Gaza City. Members of the UN
Security Council met yesterday in an emergency meeting where several
nations condemned the new offensive.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Expanding villet for operations will do nothing to bring an
end to this conflict. It will not secure the release
of the hostages. It will only deepen the suffering of
Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's the UK's Deputy ambassador to the United Nations. In
addition to a news conference yesterday Netnyah who also spoke
to President Trump. The two discuss the Gaza Plan and Netnya,
who is said to have thanked Trump for his support
of Israel during the war with Hamas. Severe weather took
a toll on the Midwest and Central Plains over the weekend,

(01:35):
with at least one person dead. Jean Krajuski says heavy
rain damage the foundation of her Milwaukee area house, flooding
the newly renovated basement.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well we pulled out. My husband's was in tears because
it's his childhood.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Borne heavy rains also forced the Wisconsin State Fair to
close early and to cancel a Leonard Skynyrd concert over
safety concerns. In nebra Zsco. One woman was killed and
a man suffered life threatening injuries after a tree fell
onto a car. I'm Michael Cassner. The official portraits of
former President Obama and both Bushes are now reportedly out

(02:11):
of view from thousands of White House visitors. Lisa Carton
with Moore.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's according to CNN, which obtained a photo of the
Obama portrait now hanging in a corner at the top
of the stairwell of the Grand Staircase. The portraits of
former President George W. Bush and former President George H. W.
Bush have also been moved. CNN also reports sources said
the moves were directed by President Trump. The area where
the portraits are now displayed is heavily restricted to the

(02:38):
First Family, secret Service agents and a limited number of
White House staff.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Thousands of dollars worth of the viral lo Booboo toys
have been stolen from a store in California. More from
Rob Martyr.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Dozens of boxes of the viral dolls were taken from
a store in Lapuente, with the owner saying the thieves
got away with about seven thousand dollars worth of items.
Deputies told ABC News the suspects remain at large, but
they have recovered these stolen white Toyota Tacoma used in
the crime. The booboos, which debuted in China in twenty fifteen,
have become all the rage recently, with the doll retailing

(03:14):
at around thirty dollars and sometimes reselling in the thousands.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bobby Whitlock, co founder of the nineteen seventies blues band
Derek and the Dominoes has passed away, as family announced.
He died Sunday at his home in Texas at the
age of seventy seven after a brief illness. Whitlock formed
Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton in nineteen seventy,
releasing the album Leila and Other Assorted love Songs. He
also played piano on George Harrison's classic album All Things

(03:42):
Must Pass, including one of its classic songs, Beware of Darkness,
which can be heard in this weekend's number one movie
Weapons and A California pup has been named the world's
Ugliest dog. Hairless English French bulldog mix named Petunia took
the title in the World's Ugliest Dog contest at the
Sonoma County Fair this past Friday, and Michael Cassner