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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour. In just four minutes, two children,
ages eight and ten are dead and seventeen others are
wounded after a Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis. Minneapolis Police
Chief Brian O'Hara identified the shooter as twenty three year

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old Robin Westman, who shot through the church stained glass
windows of the Annunciation Church before dying from a self
inflicted gunshot wound. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls said there are
no words to describe what happened, and.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We often come to these and say, these unspeakable tragedies
are there's no words for this. There shouldn't be words
for these types of instance, because they should not happen.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Wall said he has spoken with President Trump, who offered
full federal assistance. Democrats hope a win in a special
state election in Iowa is a sign for the twenty
twenty six midterms. Unofficial results show that Caitlin dre defeated
her Republican opponent to break the GOP's super majority in
the Senate. A judge is keeping a man in the

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US who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration. Chris
Keragio has more.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
A district judge has ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia must
remain in the nation until after an evidentiary hearing scheduled
for October sixth, with testimony from Trump Administration officials. Abrego
Garcia is expected to remain in nice custody until his
upcoming hearing, and he's also separately seeking to renew his
bid for asylum. The Trump Administration is moving to quickly

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redeport Abrigo Garcia as he faces human smuggling charges, and
it comes after the administration deported him to l Salvador
earlier this year. I'm Chris Cragio.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
New COVID shots for the fall are being approved by
the FDA, but the go ahead comes with some restrictions.
Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy Junior says only seniors sixty
five and up and people with underlying health conditions are eligible.
At the closing bell, the DOW gained one hundred and
forty seven seven points, the S and P rows by
fifteen points, and the NASDAK gained forty five points. I'm

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Brian Shook. Friday marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
It made landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August
twenty ninth, two thousand and five. 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,

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particularly in low lying areas like the Lower ninth Ward.
Charges are being filed against alleged members of a retail
crime ring that targeted home Depot stores across southern California.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
On Tuesday, the Ventura County District Attorneys Office fell to
forty eight count criminal complaint against nine suspects. They are
accused of stealing from seventy one home Depot stores in Ventura,
Los Angeles, Orange Riverside in San Bernardino Counties during the
course of several years. Prosecutors say they sometimes rubbed the
same stores multiple times in a day. In all, an

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estimated ten million dollar and merchandise was stolen and then resold.
Home Depot says this is the largest single targeted theft
ring in the company's history. I'm Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Cracker Barrel is doing a one eighty and ditching its
new logo. Tammy Treheo has more.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Cracker Barrel unveiled its new text only logo last week,
ditching the restaurant's iconic image of an older man leaning
against a barrel. The response was mostly negative, and late Tuesday,
the company said in a statement, the new logo is
going away and the old timer will remain even President
Trump weighed in on the controversy, advising the restaurant chain
should ed amit a mistake Based on customer response, I'm

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Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Florida is now home to the nation's most expensive zip code.
Three three one oh nine. Fisher Island, only accessible by
boat or ferry in Miami Beach, tops US zip codes
with the median listing price of properties at eleven point
nine million dollars. Newport Beach, California, and Bridgehampton, New York,

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come in so second and third place on the realtor
dot com list. I'm Brian Shook.