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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
National Guard troops in Washington, d C. Are now armed.
Rob Martyer with more.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
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 carrying weapons, although
Guard members will continue to focus their work on protecting
federal assets and providing a safe environment. Meanwhile, President Trump

(00:34):
is threatening to send troops to Baltimore as part of
his national crackdown on crime. I'm Rob Martyr.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Russia's foreign minister says there is no meeting plan between
President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. In an
interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Sergei Lavrov said while
Russia is prepared to meet, a major obstacle remains.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Putin is ready to meet with Zelenski when the agenda
would be readied for as summit, and this agenda is
not radi at all.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Those
are his words. Trump recently met with Selenski and European
leaders at the White House. The president has been pushing
for a peace deal to end the three and a
half year old war that was started when Russia launched
a massive invasion of its neighbor. Helped officials say. The

(01:33):
first travel associated human case of New World screwworm in
America has been discovered.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Temiterhillo reports the case was reported in Maryland. New World
screw worms are parasitic flies an attack and eat healthy
tissue from livestock and sometimes humans. Multiple reports indicate the
patient traveled to the US from El Salvador, where they're
currently is an outbreak. The case has been examined and
verified by the CDC on Walsh Street.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Before the opening, Bill Stock futures are little changed after
the DAWs record close. I'm Michael Cassner. President Trump's borders
are is defiant after a federal judge ordered the closure
of so called Alligator Alcatraz. Jim Forbes with the latest.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
The federal court order the immigrant detention center at the
Florida Everglades to close within sixty days. Borders are Tom
Holman tells News Nation though the order is not going
to stop the operations of immigration and Customs enforcement and
that federal authorities will continue making arrests. The judge in
the case at state and federal authorities broke several environmental

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laws as they race to build the detention center. State
officials in Florida have appealed the injunction. I'm Scott Carr.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Utility bills are on the rise across the US. More
from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
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

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expects residential electricity rates to increase by a whopping eighteen
percent in the near future. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
The hit horror movie Weapons has reached the one hundred
million dollar mark at the domestic box office. More from
Scott Carr.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
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 4 (03:45):
Only hurts for children.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
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.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm Michael Kastner.