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Episode Transcript

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. National
Guard troops in Washington, d C. Are set to begin
carrying firearms tonight. NBC News is reporting the Guard members
will carry service issue M seventeen pistols, with a small
number armed with M four rifles. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
on Friday authorized two thousand troops in DC to begin

(00:25):
carrying weapons, although Guard members will continue to focus their
work on protecting federal assets and providing a safe environment.
Vice President JD Vance is defending the new congressional map
recently approved by the Texas Senate. Appearing on NBC's Meet
the Press, Vance noted Republicans are simply doing what Democrats
have done.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
All we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation
a little bit more fair on a national scale. The
Democrats have jerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there
are opportunities to push back against that, and that's really
all we're doing.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
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. Sopranos actor Jerry
Adler has passed away at the age of ninety six.
Before his death, he spoke with NBC News how his
role in The Sopranos came abouts.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
He had this point that he wanted me to do
if I was available. I happened to be in New
York that week on a bit between the sitcoms, and
he said, you're gonna love it. It's called The Sopranos.
I said, I'd love to do it. I got to
warn you, Evans, I don't thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
According to an obituary from the Riverside Memorial Chapel in
New York, Nadler died on Saturday, but no other details
were given. The FDA says an independent bottler voluntarily recalled
certain sugar free seven up sodas after thousands of cans
were mislabeled. Buffalo Rock Company Incorporated issued the recall for
over twenty thousand aluminum cans of seven up zero sugar

(01:51):
Tropical soda on July thirty first. The recalled sodas were
found to mistakenly contain a full sugar product. The FDA
said the soda was distributed in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
The FDA suggests that for most recalled products, consumers check
the recall notice. I'm Rob Bartier. Utility bills are on
the rise across the United States. More from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
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
over fifty seven million Americans. The US Energy Information Administration

(02:35):
expects residential electricity rates to increase by outwhopping eighteen percent
in the near future. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Postal services around the world are halting some deliveries to
the United States over confusion about new import duties on parcels.
Global mail carriers based in Britain, France, and Germany are
among those temporarily suspending shipments to the US starting this week.
President Trump sign and executive order last month abolishing the
TRAEID loophole, which had allowed goods valued at less than
eight hundred dollars to enter the US duty free. Under

(03:05):
the new rules, personal gifts worth less than one hundred
dollars will be exempt, but all other packages will face
the same tariffs as imports from their country of origin.
The hit horror movie Weapons has reached the one hundred
million dollar mark at the domestic box office. Scott Carr
has more.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
The thriller from Warner Brothers has been the number one
movie in US theaters for the past two weeks, already
earning more than one hundred million dollars in the US
over seventy two million internationally.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
I don't understand at all.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Why just her classroom? Why only Hurree kill?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Warner Brothers officials say they're thrilled since the picture only
cost about thirty eight million dollars to make. It continues
a string of hits for the studio, which is still
making money off the film Superman and f One, both
of which have made nearly six hundred million dollars. I'm
Scott Carr.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
The Powerball jackpot is now a whopping seven hundred and
fifty million dollars for Monday nights. Drawing the grand prize
will be the tenth largest of all time. After no
one matched all six numbers in last night's drawing. I'm
Rob Martyr