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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour at just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Evacuations have been ordered in North Carolina's outer banks as
Hurricane Aaron moves through the Atlantic Ocean. A state of
emergency has been declared as the storm's outer bands are
expected to bring storms urge flooding to the region. Tropical
storm conditions are forecast in Virginia starting Thursday. Aaron has
maximum sustained winds of one hundred and ten miles an
hour and is about three hundred miles southeast of North Carolina.

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The Texas Senate could vote on a congressional redistricting plan
as soon as Thursday. This after Texas House Republicans passed
the plan to redraw congressional maps in their favor. The
state House reconvened Wednesday after protests from Democrats that saw
them leave the state to break quorum and delay a vote.
The new congressional maps would create five more Republican leaning
districts and is expected to be approved by the Senate. Meanwhile,

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Democrats in California say they'll push to redraw their maps
to add five more Democratic seats if Texas does the same.
Mangioni's lawyers are accusing New York prosecutors of reviewing the
accused murderers medical records improperly. Sarah Le Kessler.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Reports Mangioni, who's pleaded not guilty to gunning down United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad daylight last December and
Midtown Manhattan, is getting a boost from his legal team.
They're now demanding a hearing into how the Manhattan DA
obtained and accessed Mangioni's medical records ETNA turn them over

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after being hit with a subpoena, and now the accused
gunman's lawyers are claiming ETNA provided too much info, including
diagnoses and statements Manchioni made to healthcare providers. I'm Sarah
Lee Kessler.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
A yeah. Seventy National Park Rangers out of a job
allegedly for hanging a transgender flag from El Capitan. Shannon
Jocelyn took to social media to say they'd received a
letter saying they were fired for failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct.
Jocelyn and others hung a sixty six foot transgender flag
on El Capitan for several hours on May twe twentieth.
They say they're hoping to appeal the termination and get

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their job back. I'm Tammy Triheo. The Jeffrey Epstein grand
jury records will not be unsealed. Mark Mayfield has the story.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
A judge on Wednesday denied the Justice Department's bid to
get the records unsealed that led to Epstein being indicted
on sex trafficking charges. Public interests in the case reignited
after the Justice Department announced that Epstein did not have
a client list and confirm the sex offender's death was
a suicide. Evidence that was seen and heard by grand
juries is not allowed to be released without approval from

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a judge. Last month, President Trump ordered Attorney General Pam
Bondy to get court approval to release the grand jury material.
I'm Mark Neefield.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
A California parole board will consider the fate of the
Menendez brothers on Thursday and Friday. Lyle and Derek have
spent the past thirty years behind bars for the highly
publicized murders of their parents in nineteen eighty nine. They
were resentenced earlier this year to allow for the possibility
of parole. In a statement Wednesday, LA County District Attorney
Nathan hu Aakman said his office has consistently opposed their

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release and will evaluate a final position based on the
evidence presented at the hearings. The Parole Board will make
a recommendation that the ultimate authority rests in the hands
of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Hurts is partnering with Amazon
to sell used cars that story from Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
The car rental company announced on Wednesday its pre owned
vehicles sales will be hosted on the Amazon Auto website.
Customers seventy five miles within Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and
Seattle can start shopping now. Amazon Auto has been selling
Hondai vehicles online since twenty twenty four. Hertz's stock has

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jumped higher since the announcement. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Cracker Barrels rolling out a new logo, Gone is the Barrel,
and for the first time in forty eight years, the
logo is text only as part of the company's All
the More campaign. The rebrands designed to enhance the look
of the stores along with improved lighting. The rebrand comes
after the chain had received some negative feedback from its
previous reading designs. I'm Tammy Truhio