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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.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
President Trump's Borders are is confirming that talks are underway
to possibly use a naval base near North Chicago as
a hub for a post Labor Day deportation campaign in Chicago.
Tom Homan told reporters yesterday that a large contingent of
ICE agents could potentially be housed at Naval Station Great Lakes.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
Operations of ramp romp across the country, but you can
see a ramp up for operations in Chicago.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Absolutely. Homan said Chicago is specifically being targeted because it
still has a crime problem and because of its sanctuary
city status. The father of one of two children killed
in the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting is remembering his son, Fletcher.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Loved his family, friends, fishing, cooking, and any sport that
she was allowed to play.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Jesse Merkle's son, eight year old Fletcher Merkele, was killed
inside an Denunciation Catholic church. Merkle is asking for his
son to be remembered for who he was and not
as the victim of a mass shooting. Two other children
and the family were not harmed in the attack. Today
marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, making landfall in Louisiana.

(01:18):
More from Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Two decades later. Hurricane Katrina remains one of the most
devastating natural disasters in American 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 levy system collapsed. All told, Katrina caused and estimated
one hundred and twenty five billion dollars in damage in

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two thousand and five dollars. The government's poor response led
to a shakeup at FEMA, an agency still under scrutiny today.
I'm Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
The Atlanta Journal Constitution will be ending its print edition
after more than one hundred fifty years in the business.
Publisher Andrew Morris announced that the publication will embrace its
digital future. Before the opening bell stock futures are in
the red. I'm Michael Kassner. The US global tariff exemption
for low cost goods is now over, Tammy Treheo with

(02:13):
the latest It's.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The nearly century old deminimous exemption, which allowed items worth
less than eight hundred dollars to be shipped to America
duty free or without having to pay any tariffs. Japan, India,
and many European nations already announced suspensions of US bound
shipman's Shoppers in the US who order goods from overseas
may soon start seeing cancelation notices. I'm Tammy tricheo.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
A late summer surge of COVID nineteen cases is underway
in the US. Chris Caragio with.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
More tracking from the CDC found Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
and Texas have reported that fifteen percent of COVID tests
are turning up positive. Texas was also one of the
five states where wastewater data found very high virus activity levels.
Despite the surge, reporting from the New York Times suggests
the rise in cases is not surprising. Rather, it's a

(03:02):
pattern that has occurred every summer since the beginning of
the pandemic. I'm Chris Kraji.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Artificial intelligence is posing a threat to entry level jobs.
Brian Shook with more.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
A Stanford University study found entry level jobs for workers
between twenty two and twenty five years old have declined
by thirteen percent since the widespread adoption of the technology.
According to researchers, declines in employment are happening in jobs
that are most exposed to AI, which can include software developers,
customer service representatives, computer programmers, receptionists, and others. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
A long time cast member of Saturday Night Live, is
leaving the show. Haidi Gardner joined SNL in twenty seventeen
and has been on the comedy show longer than any
other cast member. Her celebrity impersonations have included Kim Kardashian, Christynaum,
and Taylor Swift. The fifty first season of SNL premiers
October fourth, A Michael Cassner