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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. More than
fifty million Americans across the West from under extreme heat warnings.
Forecasts warn of dangerous heat from Phoenix, Arizona, to Seattle, Washington.
In Seattle, above average temperatures are expected through Monday, while

(00:21):
highs in Portland could hit the upper nineties, Spokane and
Boise will hit the mid nineties today, and the extreme
heat will continue to raise wildfire concerns in the Southwest.
The governor of Illinois condemns reports that President Trump's planning
to send federal troops into the streets of Chicago. Reports
in the Washington Posts at Saturday the Pentagon's been planning

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a military deployment to Chicago for weeks and that a
few thousand members of the National Guard could arrive as
soon as next month. In a statement, Governor JB. Pritzker
says Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis and politicize
Americans who serve in uniform. A congress woman in Pennsylvania
is criticized using the recent release of Jeffrey Epstein related

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documents by the US Justice Department.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
In a statement Saturday, US representative sum 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

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to respond to a recent subpoena issued by a House committee.
I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The Trump administration is declining to defend a key federal
funding program for Hispanic serving colleges. That program steers millions
in federal support to institutions with at least twenty five
percent Hispanic enrollment. The state of Tennessee and a group
called Students for Fair Admissions is challenging it in court,
calling it an unconstitutional racial quota. There was no powerball

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jackpod in last night's drawing. It now rolls over to
the tenth largest of all time. Monday's drawing will be
worth about seven hundred and fifty million dollars. I'm Scott Carr.
A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from withholding
funding from so called sanctuary jurisdictions. A judge in California
granted an injunction Friday night, stopping the administration's efforts to

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take away grant funding from cities and counties that don't
cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The order also expands the
list of cities that federal officials can't withhold funding from.
The ruling covers more than thirty cities and hundreds of
millions of dollars in grants. In the Bronx in New York,
one person is dead four wounded after a shooting during

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a basketball tournament in the Bronx Jonathan O'haleran's in New York.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Police say it happened just before seven thirty Saturday evening
inside half In Park in Bichester. The victims range from
seventeen to forty two years old. A thirty two year
old man was struck in the chess and later pronounced dead.
Police a four pa were taken into custody in relation
to the shooting. The circumstances that led to the gunfire
remain unknown, and.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Beyond shootings, reports point to a disturbing trend developing at
professional sports events. Rob Martyr explains.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
During Friday Night's preseason game between the Tennessee Titans and
Minnesota Vikings. It happened again as an adult toy was
thrown onto the field near the six yard line with
just over five minutes left in the game. The teams
were on the field when the object was thrown. Social
media video shows someone on the field pick up the
Neon green toy and hand it to security. The incident
in Nashville follows a string of similar occurrences at WNBA games.

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I'm Rob Bartier and the.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
College football seasons, now officially underway. The first day headlined
by number twenty one Iowa States type victory over number
nineteen Kansas State in Dublin. In another action, UNLV beat
Idaho State in the first game of the Dan Mullen era,
while Kansas took down Fresno State to christen their newly
renovated stadium. Western Kentucky beat up Sam Houston at home,

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and Hawaii beat out Stanford. I'm Scott Carr.