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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. President
Trump is meeting with South Korea's president for the first time.
President Lee j myong said today that he wants to
hear about Trump's plans to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.
Trump said that he has a good relationship with North
Korea's Kim Jong un and that they can make big

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progress towards peace. President Trump was once again taking shots
at California Governor Gavin Newsom. This was from a morning
press conference where he defended the use of the National
Guard in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
We saved Los Angeles, and all we did is get
criticized by this idiot that's running the state into the ground.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
The comment came as part of a larger discussion about
the use of military force to crack down on crime.
Trump said it's been enormously successful in Washington, d C.
And he vowed to use similar tactics in democratic cities
across the country. Kilmar Abrigo Garcia is challenging the Trump
administration's efforts to deport him for his second time. He
was mistakenly to imparted and later returned to the US,

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but the Trump administration is now seeking to deport him
to Uganda, which is a country that he has no
known ties to. His legal team has filed a petition
seeking to block his immediate deportation, arguing that Abrego Garcia
was not informed of the matter as a judge previously ordered.
Friday marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It made
landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August twenty ninth,

(01:25):
two thousand and five.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Katrina remains one of the most devastating natural disasters in
US history, killing over eighteen hundred people. Most of those
deaths were in New Orleans, particularly in low lying areas
like the Lower ninth Ward, after the city's levee system failed.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Images of thousands of stranded residents living in squalor for
days waiting for basic supplies stunned the nation. The George W.
Bush administration, the New Orleans mayor, and Louisiana governor were
all blamed for a lack of preparedness and a slow response,
and gas prices are expected to remain low for Labor
Day weekend travelers. Triple A says the national average for
a gallon of regular should stay below last year's average

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of three point thirty three a gallon. I'm Chris Caragio,
Walking Dead star Norman Ritas's son has been charged in
New York with assaulting his girlfriend. Michael Kashner reports.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Twenty five year old Mingus Ritas was arraigned in Manhattan
criminal Court Saturday night on charges that he beat, kicked,
and choked his thirty three year old girlfriend. Police arrested
the model term musician at the couple's Chelsea apartment after
Mingus called nine one one claiming his girlfriend had taken
a number of pills in a suicide attempt after he
broke up with her. This is not Mingus's first run

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in with the law. He was charged with punching a
woman at the twenty twenty two San Gennaro Festival in
Little Italy, later copping to a plea deal. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Utility bills are going up across the country. Federal data
shows electricity costs are up by more than five percent
and natural gas is risen by nearly fourteen percent. The
son of former UFC champion Quinin Rampage Jackson, is accused
of violently assaulting a pro wrestler in California, San Fernando Valley,
Daniel Martindale has details.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
It happened on Saturday night during an event in Sun Valley.
Rajah Jackson, also a pro MMA fighter, is accused of
attacking wrestler Siko Stu, whose real name is Stuart Smith.
Video shows Jackson throwing Smith to the match, straddling him,
and punching him repeatedly in the face in sight of
the head, even as he lied motionless. Jackson was then
restrained by other wrestlers. The organizers of the event say

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it happened during the scripted part of the show, but
the violence went way too far. In an expost rampage,
Jackson says he does not condone his son's actions.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Sales of new single family homes slowed more than expected
in July. Figure show sales fell to a seasonally adjusted
annual right of six hundred and fifty two thousand units
last month. And Starbucks fans will be able to get
their hands on a Pumpkin spice latte this week. The
coffee giant says the drink will be available starting tomorrow.
That's the latest the popular fall drink has gone on

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sale since twenty twenty two. I'm Chris Caraccio