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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
are dead with seventeen more people injured after a gunman
opened fire through the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic school
on Wednesday morning. Senator Amy Klobashar expressed condolences for the victims.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
These are innocent kids. These are six year olds praying in.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
A church, just gunned down through the windows. Eight and
ten year old dead.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Their families will never be the same.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
The FBI identified the shooter as twenty three year old
Robin Westman and are investigating the shooting as an act
of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics. Police
Westman died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. Fired CDC
director Susan Manarrez is refusing to leave her post. Manaras

(00:52):
had been on the job for two weeks when HHS
posted on x that she was no longer the CDC's director.
Hours later, attorneys for Minaris said she has neither resigned
nor been told by the White House that she's been fired.
India is being hit with fifty percent tariffs from the
US as punishment for buying oil from Russia.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Attacks on imports from India went into effect on Wednesday.
The US and India have yet to reach a trade agreement,
and President Trump has been insisting that India stopped buying
Russian oil while negotiations are underway to end the war
in Ukraine. Vice President JD Vance told Meet the Press
on Sunday that the US was applying aggressive economic leverage
on India to try to make it harder for the

(01:34):
Russians to get rich from their oil economy. I'm Tammy Trhio.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The New York Knicks had the chance to make history
this offseason. South Carolina women's basketball coach Don Staley said
on the Post Moves podcast that she had a formal
interview for the head coaching job with the Knicks. Staley
said if she had been offered the opportunity that she
would have taken the job. New York hired Mike Brown

(01:58):
to take over for Tom I'm Thibodeaux, who was fired
after leading the team to the Eastern Conference finals. I'm
Brian Schuck. President Trump is appealing a recent court ruling
that tossed out a five hundred million dollar fraud penalty
against him. Jonathan o'haleran reports.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Last week, the New York Appeals Court wipes the penalty,
but upheld the finding that Trump was liable for civil fraud.
It also left in place of penalty, barring Trump or
his sons from serving in executive roles at New York
companies in the near future. Lawyers for the president filing
a notice of appeal Tuesday, announcing their intention to challenge
that ruling.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Jonathan o'haleran reporting, Bruce Willis's wife says her husband's brain
is failing him. Emmaheming Willis tells ABC News the Die
Hard Stars language is going as he battles dementia. The
seventy year old Willis was diagnosed in twenty twenty three
with fronto temporal dementia or FTD. Ultrasonic flood sensors are

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being installed on street corners across New York City as
part of the FloodNet initiative. Sarah Lee Kessler has the details.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So far, two hundred and fifty censors are being used
that provide real time information about flash flooding. The data
is transmitted to an interactive map posted by the Department
of Environmental Protection. Until New York launched this seven million
dollar project four years ago. Following Hurricane Ida, the city
had to rely on nine one one calls, news reports,

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and social media to determine what was happening in various neighborhoods.
The city, in cooperation with NYU and CUNEY, plans to
double the number of street corner censors by twenty twenty seven.
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
The twenty twenty six Major League Baseball season will open
in San Francisco next March. The season will get underway
on March twenty fifth, when the Giants hosts the New
York Yankees in a standalone opening night matchup. Traditional opening
Day will follow on March twenty sixth, the earlyest in
Major League history, with a fourteen game slate. I'm Brian Shook.