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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):
In Just Release transcripts of her interview with the Justice Department,
Geelane Maxwell says there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list.
She also says she never saw President Trump get a
massage from Epstein's young female victims or do anything inappropriate.
Vice President JD. Van says FBI raids targeting former Trump

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National security advisor John Bolton were not conducted because of
Bolton's criticism of the President. In an interview with NBC's
Meet the Press, Vance said the investigation of Bolton is
in the early stages. What I can't tell you is
an unlike the Biden dooja and the Biden FBI, our
law enforcement agencies are going to be driven by law

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and not by politics. He also said, while classified records
are part of the investigation, there's a broad concern about Bolton.
Five people are confirmed dead following a tour bus crash
in western New York Friday. Police say the bus overturned
on the eastbound side of the New York State Thruway
in the town of Pembrooke after the driver lost control.

(01:12):
Erin is no longer a hurricane and well out into
the Atlantic, but the storm will continue to affect New
York and New Jersey beaches through the weekend. Kristin Marx reports.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
A high risk of rip currents remains through Sunday evening
for the Jersey Shore, New York City beaches, and the
south shore of Long Island. So if you want to
get into the water, the Long Island Sound is probably
the way to go. Meanwhile, the massive waves and flooding
from Erin left many communities along the Jersey Shore dealing
with cleanup. They include Wildwood, which just saw the completion

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of a beach replenishment project.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Just in complete shock of what happens. That's only two
weeks after they finished the project. To me, it's a
gigantic waste of money.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Some say the flooding was the worst they had seen
since Sandy.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
The twenty twenty six World Cup draw will take place
at the Kennedy in Washington, d C. President Trump made
the announcement from the Oval Office today. I'm Brian Schuk,
a key Global Hunger monitor, says the northern Gaza Strip
is experiencing famine and that it will spread to the
rest of the region by the end of September. The

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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Organization announced today that after
nearly two years of war with Israel, more than half
a million Palestinians in the Northern Strip are facing starvation
and malnutrition. The death toll in the Legionnaire's disease outbreak
in Harlem, New York, is now up to six. Kristen

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Marx reports there.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Are more than one hundred confirmed cases, including seven hospitalizations,
linked to the outbreak in central Harlem that started late
last month. Health Department officials said earlier this week that
the rate of infection is dropping following successful remediation efforts
to cooling towers on buildings connected to the cluster. Meanwhile,
a lawsuit has been filed against two construction companies and

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now New York City. It claims that cooling towers at
Harlem Hospital were filled with rainwater and left untreated, and
that the companies did not provide a safe work environment.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Most school districts in Washington State have policies now banning
cell phones. Brad Ford reports.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
The Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction as districts earlier this
year to develop policies, they surveyed all school districts and
found seventy five percent will have a policy in place
by the start of school. Fifty three percent of those
districts have a policy banning phones during instructional time. Only
thirty one percent banned phones all day. I'm brad Ford.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Art made of Snoop dogs left over blunts is selling
four thousands of dollars, Vibe reports. Artist Erica Covitz used
countless blunts to create fine art in her collection titled
Ashes to Art. Covids collaborated with Snoop to get the
used unfinished blunts wrapped. Since the collection debuted on August fifteenth,

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Covits has sold out of pieces. The seven works of
art were sold in the rain of ten thousand to
seventy thousand dollars. I'm Brian Shuck.