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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, President Trump is meeting with South
Korea's president for the first time. He spoke with President
Lee Jamong from the Oval Office about North Korea before
their meeting over trade and security.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Kim Jonglin and I had a very good relationship, as
you remember and still do. And when I came in,
I didn't know him. We had two summits, but we
became very friendly.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Jamie Young said today that he wants to hear about
Trump's plans to bring peace to the Korean peninsula. Lawyers
for Kilmar Brego Garcia are trying to block his deportation
for a second time. He was mistakenly deported and later
returned to the US, but the Trump administration is now
seeking to deport him to Uganda. His legal team filed
a petition seeking to block his immediate deportation, arguing that

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he's not a flight risk and was not informed of
the matter as a judge previously ordered. The southwest region
of the country's brace for flooding as heavy rain is
expected to move through the area this week.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Forecasts indicate a surge of monsoonal moisture will push westward
after a ridge of high pressure shifted toward the central planes.
Over the weekend, thunderstorms may become more widespread across the
Southwest due to increased moisture in the atmosphere, and rainfall
rates may approach one to one point five inches per hour.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Officials encourage flood prone areas to remain on alert to
flood threats. American Airlines as a plane had to make
an emergency landing over the weekend after a passenger's device
caught on fire. According to the FAA, Flight three point
fifty seven was destined for Phoenix but forced to land
at Washington Dulles when the crew reported a fire and
one of the passenger rose. The airline didn't specify what

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kind of device the customer had or what caused it
to begin to smoke. Passengers were deplaned per standard procedure,
with the airline said they were accommodated on alternative flights.
And the first round of the US Open in New
York is in full swing. On the men's side, America
and Francis Tiafo is in action today. Meantime, number two
ranked Carlos Alcarez will play later tonight. On the women's side,

(02:01):
American and Madison Keys is taking on Renada Zarazua in
a first round match. I'm Chris Karragio. Tonight's powerball jackpot
will be the tenth largest in the lottery's history. Nobody
matched all six numbers on Saturday, so the already eye
popping seven hundred million dollar jackpot has now jumped to
an estimated seven hundred and fifty million. The cash option
on that works out to a little less than three

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hundred and thirty nine million bucks. Sods of winning grand
prize are roughly one and two hundred and ninety two million,
But as the saying goes, you can't win if you
don't play. A one of a kind Michael Jordan and
Kobe Bryant basketball card that was expected to sell for
more than six million dollars broke all expectations over the weekend,
going for a record twelve point nine million dollars at auction.
The card is from the two thousand and seven to

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two thousand and eight Upper Deck Exquisite Collection and features
autographs from both basketball legends next to different NBA logo patches.
The final winning bid was placed Saturday, which would have
been Kobe Bryant's forty seventh birthday. The hit horror movie
Weapons has reached the one hundred million dollar mark at
the domestic box office. Scott Carr has more.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
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. I don't understand at all,
why just her classroom white.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Only her stream for children.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
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 (03:34):
New York University is making use of thousands of items
left behind by students. The school opened up an NYU
swap shop this past weekend, where hundreds of students showed
up to shop. The students were allowed to take home
new and gently used items that had been left behind
by former students, official Saint microwaves and books, were among
the top most wanted items and in music history news

(03:55):
on this date. Back in nineteen seventy five, Bruce Springsteen
released his third studio album. It was called Born to Run.
I'm Chris Gracio