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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. The Texas
State House is set to vote on a gop led
redistricting plan soon. The state House reconvened today after protests
from Democrats that saw them leave the state to break quorum.
The plan could be voted on today and by the

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state Senate as early as tomorrow. The new congressional map
would create five more Republican leaning districts. Hurricane Aeron is
expected to impact millions, even though it's not expected to
make landfall on the US mainland. These New Yorkers didn't know.
Swimming and surfing are now banned at many tri state beaches.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It is pretty wild out there. We were wondering why
the parking lot wasn't as fill as normal. Totally forgot
about Hurricane Aeron. I'm a pretty swamps, but less of
the ocean then, and I think that if they say
stay out, it is just stay out.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The outer bands of the storm are expected to bring
poor weather conditions to the North Carolina coast by this evening,
where a state of emergency has been declared. Swimming at
most East Coast beaches is being advised against due to
the life threatening surf and rip currents. Aaron has maximum
sustained winds of one hundred miles an hour and is
currently four hundred miles southeast of North Carolina. The parents
of the twenty seven girls who died at Camp Mystic

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Or urging Texas lawmakers to support a new bill to
make summer camp safer. Michael McCown, who lost his eight
year old daughter in the July flooding, says there needs
to be more protections in place.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We did not send Lenny to a warzone.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
We send her to camp.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
We trust that she would be safe. No parents should
ever again face what we are living through now.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
State lawmakers are taking up a package of bills to
address the disaster. If passed, they would keep summer camps
out of flood zones, require them to have emergency plans,
and mandate both weather radios and warning sirens. And A
federal judge is temporary blocking a new Texas state law
requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
The judge agreed with opponents, saying it was plainly unconstitutional.

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Judge Fred Bery wrote that couposing kids to a state
approved Christian version of the biblical document was coercive. I'm
Chris Carracio. Google will be debuting its latest smartphone today.
The tech company is set to take the wraps off
its new Pixel ten on its Made by Google YouTube channel.
The event will be hosted by comedian Jimmy Fallon and
may also include updates on Google's Pixel Watch four, as

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well as its new earbuds and ai features. A group
of rescued Mexican spider monkeys now called the Saint Louis
Zoo Home. Official say the endangered animals were seized from
illegal traders last year. The three females and one male
were likely poached from the wild to be sold as
exotic pets. They arrived at the zoo in April and
made their public debut in the Primate Canopy Trails area

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last month. Because of their upbringing, they still need specialized care.
John Fogerty is celebrating his new album with an iHeart
or Radio Icon's performance. Michael Kastner reports.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
The Creighton's Clearwater Revival co founder releasing re recorded versions
of his classic songs Legacy that Creeden's Clearwater Revival years.
John's version will give Fogerty full rights to his old
songs for the first time. The twenty track album features
newly recorded versions of Up Around the Ben, Have You
Seen the Rain, Low Die, Long, As I Can See,

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the Light, Traveling Band, and many more. I'm Michael Cassner.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Me Too, What You Me? Me Too?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
What You Do?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Look You. Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl,
comes out next month. Then, in addition to streaming and vinyl,
it'll also be available on cassette. The cassette tape as
a medium has fallen by the wayside from its heyday
in the nineteen eighties, but has been making somewhat of
a comeback recently. Any music history news on this date.
Back in nineteen sixty nine, the Beatles were recording what

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was to be their final album, Abbey Road. It would
be the last time all four Beatles were together in
the recording studio. The band's final session was spent working
on John Lennon's love song for Yoko Ono, i Want You.
She's So Heavy. I'm Chris Karashio