August 20, 2025 • 4 mins
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hurricane and Aaron won't make landfall on the US mainland.
The center of Erin is forecast to move between the
US East Coast and Bermuda on Wednesday and Thursday, with
high surf and rip currents expected from Massachusetts to the Carolinas.
Some residents in the mid Atlantic have already evacuated, including
along parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, which is under
a coastal flooding threat. Erin will be closest to the
(00:30):
Outer Banks Thursday morning. The White House is tounting hundreds
of arrests made during President Trump's crime crackdown in Washington,
d C. Bryan Shuk reports.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt highlighted what's been done so far.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
August seventh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Several Republican led states have sent hundreds of National Guard
troops to d C to assist. I'm Brian Schuck.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The White House says. Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed
to begin the next phase of the peace process. Press
Secretary of Caroline Levitt said that includes a possible meeting
between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Selenski that could lead
to a trilateral with President Trump. She sent Vince, President
j d Vance and other US officials will continue to
coordinate with Russia and Ukraine. Levin also reiterated Trump's assurance
(01:23):
that he will not put American troops on the ground
in Ukraine. Scientists have found another moon orbiting Uranus, Tammy Trujillo.
As details, the.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
New moon was found by a team from Colorado using
NASA's James Webb's based telescope. They say the tiny moon
is only about six miles in diameter, which made it
undetectable by other telescopes. It's the twenty ninth moon discovered
orbiting Uranus and it doesn't have a name yet, so
for now it's being called S twenty twenty five U one.
I'm Tammy Trirhio.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And crews are working to save one of the tallest
trees in the world, The Derner fur and Cousgunny organ,
stands at three hundred and twenty five feet among the
tallest known of its species. It caught fire over the weekend,
and firefighters have been working around the clock to prevent
it from being lost. A Mark Neefield, Nearly a third
of businesses are likely to increase prices by the end
of the year. Chris Garagio fills us in.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
A new report by lending Tree found that more than
thirty percent of businesses surveyed said they expect their prices
will be higher in six months than they are now,
while only five percent said that their prices will go
down and sixty five percent said their prices will remain steady.
Lending Tree's report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont were most likely
(02:35):
to say they expect to increase prices in the coming months.
Survey results come during a period of uncertainty over President
Trump's tariff rollout and continued pressure from inflation. I'm Chris Krasiow.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The Trump administration is now on TikTok. On Tuesday, the
White House posted its first video featuring President Trump promising
to deliver a better life for the people all across
this nation. The videos caption reads America, we aren't back.
This comes as TikTok's future in the US remains uncertain.
Trump is extended a deadline for TikTok's Chinese parent company
Byte Dance to divest or sell the app, pushing it
(03:09):
to September seventeenth. The prices of some popular weight loss
drugs are being slashed for cash paying patients. Sarah Lee
Kessler explains.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is offering ozampic and Wagovi for
half price four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month
for those who pay for the drugs out of pocket.
Eli Lilly, the maker of Munjaro and zep Found, has
been doing the same for months. The cash payoffer will
expand access to eligible type two diabetes patients who don't
(03:39):
have insurance coverage for the weekly injections. The move comes
as drug makers face pressure from the Trump administration to
lower drug costs in the US. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler, and.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Forty pounds of Rimi steakes went up in flames on
a Missouri highway. Smoke could be seen billowing from the
burning tractor trailer on Interstate seventy four. It led to
the highway's eastbound lanes being temporarily closed to traffic. A
marked mayfield
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hurricane and Aaron won't make landfall on the US mainland.
The center of Erin is forecast to move between the
US East Coast and Bermuda on Wednesday and Thursday, with
high surf and rip currents expected from Massachusetts to the Carolinas.
Some residents in the mid Atlantic have already evacuated, including
along parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, which is under
a coastal flooding threat. Erin will be closest to the
(00:30):
Outer Banks Thursday morning. The White House is tounting hundreds
of arrests made during President Trump's crime crackdown in Washington,
d C. Bryan Shuk reports.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt highlighted what's been done so far.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
August seventh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Several Republican led states have sent hundreds of National Guard
troops to d C to assist. I'm Brian Schuck.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The White House says. Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed
to begin the next phase of the peace process. Press
Secretary of Caroline Levitt said that includes a possible meeting
between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Selenski that could lead
to a trilateral with President Trump. She sent Vince, President
j d Vance and other US officials will continue to
coordinate with Russia and Ukraine. Levin also reiterated Trump's assurance
(01:23):
that he will not put American troops on the ground
in Ukraine. Scientists have found another moon orbiting Uranus, Tammy Trujillo.
As details, the.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
New moon was found by a team from Colorado using
NASA's James Webb's based telescope. They say the tiny moon
is only about six miles in diameter, which made it
undetectable by other telescopes. It's the twenty ninth moon discovered
orbiting Uranus and it doesn't have a name yet, so
for now it's being called S twenty twenty five U one.
I'm Tammy Trirhio.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And crews are working to save one of the tallest
trees in the world, The Derner fur and Cousgunny organ,
stands at three hundred and twenty five feet among the
tallest known of its species. It caught fire over the weekend,
and firefighters have been working around the clock to prevent
it from being lost. A Mark Neefield, Nearly a third
of businesses are likely to increase prices by the end
of the year. Chris Garagio fills us in.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
A new report by lending Tree found that more than
thirty percent of businesses surveyed said they expect their prices
will be higher in six months than they are now,
while only five percent said that their prices will go
down and sixty five percent said their prices will remain steady.
Lending Tree's report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont were most likely
(02:35):
to say they expect to increase prices in the coming months.
Survey results come during a period of uncertainty over President
Trump's tariff rollout and continued pressure from inflation. I'm Chris Krasiow.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The Trump administration is now on TikTok. On Tuesday, the
White House posted its first video featuring President Trump promising
to deliver a better life for the people all across
this nation. The videos caption reads America, we aren't back.
This comes as TikTok's future in the US remains uncertain.
Trump is extended a deadline for TikTok's Chinese parent company
Byte Dance to divest or sell the app, pushing it
(03:09):
to September seventeenth. The prices of some popular weight loss
drugs are being slashed for cash paying patients. Sarah Lee
Kessler explains.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is offering ozampic and Wagovi for
half price four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month
for those who pay for the drugs out of pocket.
Eli Lilly, the maker of Munjaro and zep Found, has
been doing the same for months. The cash payoffer will
expand access to eligible type two diabetes patients who don't
(03:39):
have insurance coverage for the weekly injections. The move comes
as drug makers face pressure from the Trump administration to
lower drug costs in the US. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler, and.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Forty pounds of Rimi steakes went up in flames on
a Missouri highway. Smoke could be seen billowing from the
burning tractor trailer on Interstate seventy four. It led to
the highway's eastbound lanes being temporarily closed to traffic. A
marked mayfield
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