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This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
President Trump won't share information on any possible deals he
may have in mind when he meets with Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Alaska Friday. Mark Mayfield has details.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Trump spoke at the White House.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think it's going to be a good meeting.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
But the more important meeting will be the second meeting
that we're having.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President
Zelenski myself.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Reports have been rampant regarding Russia Ukraine landswaps and the
possibility of the US offering Russia a rare earth mineral
deal if it leads to peace. When asked, Trump would
only say we'll see what happens. Again, said this wasn't
his war, faulting former President Biden, but added he wants
to see the Russia Ukraine war end. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Tropical Storm ran is close to becoming hurricane. Maximum sustained
wins hit seventy miles per hour as of the last update,
with the storm expected to become the first hurricane of
the twenty twenty five Atlantic season. The National Hurricane Center
expects Aaron to reach hurricane strength within hours. The National
Hurricane Center says the storm is less than eight hundred
miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Heavy rainfall's forecasts

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throughout the weekend in the Virgin Islands and parts of
Puerto Rico. It's still not clear affair and will have
an impact on the US East Coast. The man accused
of the murder of Minnesota law maker Melissa Hortman has
been indicted on state charges. A grand jury indicted Vance
Belter on first degree murder charges Thursday. Belter's accused of
shooting and killing Hortman and her husband at their home

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on June fourteenth. He's also accused of shooting State Senator
John Hoffman and his wife, who both survived the attack.
Last month, Belter was indicted on several federal charges, including murder,
which he could face the death penalty if convicted. Airic
Canada is grounding flights ahead of a potential flight attendant
strike this weekend. The airline's ten thousand flight attendants are

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pushing for higher wages in better compensation. A total shutdown
of flights operated by Air Canada is expected to affecked
roughly one hundred and thirty thousand passengers each day. I'm
Tammy trheo. Building a wall on the southern border with
Mexico continues to be a priority for the Trump administration.
Brian Shook reports.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
He announced this week that the administration is clawing back
some of the panels that had been discarded under the
Biden administration, which were being sold as scrap.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Reached a settlement where we're taking the wall back, but
they stole the wall from us. That wall is so expensive.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
The wall panels were sitting at construction staging areas until
Texas stepped in. President Trump said this week that they'll
put it up, but did not give a timeline. I'm
Brian Shook.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
New details are out about payments from an AT and
T settlement. Earlier this year, the company agreed to a
one hundred and seventy seven million dollar settlement after two
lawsuits were brought against it for a pair of massive
data breaches targeting customers. According to reports from USA Today
and Cnet, the payouts will range from twenty five hundred
two five thousand dollars. Customers have until November eighteenth to

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submit claim online or by mail. A fourth person has
died from Legionnaire's disease in New York's Harlem. That story
from Andrew Whitman.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
City Health officials making that grim update Thursday. They also
up the count of reported cases to ninety nine. This
hours after Mayor Adams went to Harlem looking to ease worries.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Want to reassure everyone the air is safe to breathe
and there's no risk to our drinking wid.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
A dozen cooling towers testing positive for Leigionaire's bacteria, including
a Cuney Science building and the NYC Health and Hospital's
Harlem location on Lenox Avenue eleven, have been scrubbed. The
final one set for cleaning Friday.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Andrew Whitman, New York naming rights to venues used in
the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles Summer Olympics are being sold.
It marks the first time naming rights have been solicited
in Olympic history. Officials for LA twenty eight say the
pilot program will create new revenue streams. Under the program,
existing corporate partners will keep their venue naming rights, while
international partners can purchase naming rights fro up to nineteen

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in temporary venues I'm tammied for HEO