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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 in just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
The governor of Illinois is slamming a report that President
Trump is planning to send federal troops to the streets
of Chicago. The Washington Post reported Saturday that the Pentagon
has been planning a military deployment to Chicago for weeks,
and that a few thousand National Guard members could arrive
as soon as next month.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
When we're ready, we'll.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Go in a world straight down Chicago, just like we
did DC.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker responded with a statement saying that
Trump is quote attempting to manufacture a crisis and politicize
Americans who serve in uniform. Vice President JD. Vance is
defending the new congressional map recently approved by the Texas Senate.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Vance claim that democratic
jerrymandering has made these redistricting efforts necessary.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
What we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation
a little bit more fair on a national scale. The
Democrats of jerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there
are opportunities to push back against that and that's really
all we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
The Texas Tribune says the map was adopted early Saturday
on a party line vote over fierce Democratic opposition. President
Trump had called for the new map to increase the
House majority ahead of the midterm elections. The National Transportation
Safety Board says a tour bus driver is the focus
in that deadly rollover crash in western New York on Friday.

(01:27):
Here Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
The NTSB says it's ruled out driver impairment and is
looking at other factors that cost an M and Y
tour bus returning from Niagara Falls to New York City
to hit an I ninety media near Pembroke swerve into
a ditch and flip over.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are you an in performance investigator is going to look
at the driver, particularly fatigue distraction.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Five passengers were killed, Dozens of the fifty four people
on board were hospitalized.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
The passengers ranged in age from one to seventy four.
And the hit horror movie Weapons has now topped the
one hundred million dollar mark at the domestic box office.
I'm Lisa Carton, a Democratic congresswoman, is criticizing the recent
release of Jeffrey Epstein related documents by the Justice Department.
Here's Jim Forbes.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
In a statement Saturday, US representative Some Release said just
three percent of the more than thirty three thousand pages
of documents given to Congress contain new information. She says
the remaining ninety seven percent was previously released by the DOJ,
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, or Palm Beach County
State Attorney's Office. Lee accuses the DOJ of only pretending

(02:38):
to respond to a recent subpoena issued by a House committee.
I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Utility bills are on the rise across the US. Federal
data shows electricity costs are up by more than five
percent and natural gas has risen by nearly fourteen percent.
An analysis from the Center for American Progress shows nearly
sixty utility companies will soon increase electricity rates this year
by more than thirty eight billion dollars, and that's affecting

(03:05):
over fifty seven million Americans. The US Energy Information Administration
expects residential electricity rates to increase by at whopping eighteen
percent in the near future. Monday's powerball jackpot will be
the tenth largest of all time. Nobody matched all six
numbers and Saturday's drawing of the nationwide lottery, including myself,

(03:26):
so the seven hundred million dollar jackpot will now roll
over to Monday's drawing, when the grand prize will be
worth an estimated seven hundred and fifty million bucks. Lottery
players are still being urged to check their powerball tickets.
Someone in New York matched five numbers to win a
million dollars, two people in Maine won a million bucks,
and someone in South Dakota won two million dollars because

(03:47):
they paid a dollar more for the power Play option.
Just in case you were wondering about your chances of winning,
the odds of matching all five numbers and the powerball
number is one in two hundred and ninety two point
two million. Good luck. I'm Lisa Carton.