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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour at just four minutes. The Labor
Day travel period is now underway. NBC's Predistreader reports that
people who are hitting the road or were heading to
the yearport this weekend will have a lot of company.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is expected to be potentially a record breaking Labor
Day holiday travel weekend, and the reason for that is
because domestic airfare, hotel prices, rental car prices, and gas
prices are actually lower this year than they were last year.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Triple A says the best times to drive to and
from your Labor Day destination are Today before noon, Saturday
between six and ten am, Sunday before eleven am, and
Monday before noon. Meantime, The TSA says it'll screen more
than seventeen million people during the holiday period. A lawsuit
regarding the removal of a Federal Reserve governor by President
Trump is being heard in court this morning. It follows
a Justice Department criminal investigation in Alsa Cook after she

(00:56):
was accused of making false statements on home mortgage application.
Cook's lawyer said Trump has no authority to remove her.
Trump has been at odds with the FED cut rates
for months a Deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, will serve as the acting CDC director.
Jim O'Neil was named acting director yesterday, as Kennedy warned
that the CDC is in trouble. Wednesday, the White House

(01:18):
fired Director Susan Manarez less than a month after she
was sworn in. The city of New Orleans is honoring
those who died in Hurricane Katrina, which hit the city
twenty years ago. Today. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the recovery
is a testament to the human spirit. Twenty years later,
New Orleans is still here.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
New Orleans still stands.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The Category three hurricane made landfall on this date back
in two thousand and five, and it submerged eighty percent
of the city, which remained flooded for weeks. Thanks to
a failed levy system, Around fourteen hundred people died in
five states. It remains the costliest storm on record. A
new report shows inflation rose slightly in July. The Personal
Consumption Expenditures Price Index, a key inflation gage used by

(01:59):
the federal resist, rows two tenths of a percent, in
line with expectations. I'm Chris Krajio, We are celebrating a
national day today that may send you on a restaurant mission.
Pre Tennis now with more.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's safe to say no one would go into a
restaurant and order a plate of mixed up scraps, but
today you should, as it's National Chop Suey Day. And
that's the literal translation. It's a plate of meat and
veggies and a light sauce that once dominated American menus
in the twenties, but it's hard to find now, and
you won't find it in China because the dish is American.

(02:33):
So grab a fork, not chopsticks. I'm pre Tennis.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
A longtime cast member of Saturday Night Live is leaving
the show. Heidi Gardner joined SNL back in twenty seventeen
and has been on the comedy program longer than any
other female cast member. Her celebrity impressions include Kim Kardashian,
Christy Noman, Taylor Swift, and her character of the boxer's
wife gained much attention early in her SNL career. Gardner

(03:03):
is the fourth SNL cast member to announce their departure,
following Devon Walker, Emil Wacom, and Michael Longfellow executive producer
Lorne Michaels said last week that these cast changes were
likely ahead of the new season. The fifty first season
of SNL premieres on October fourth. Selena Gomez is welcoming
her bestie Taylor Swift to the fiancee club following the

(03:25):
singer's engagement to football star Travis Kelcey. Gomez reacted to
Swift and Kelsey's engagement by sharing a photo from the
couple's announcement to her Instagram stories, along with the caption
when Bestie's get engaged and Queen's hit You're My Best
Friend added to the post. Swift and Kelsey announced on
Tuesday that they got engaged after two years of dating.
Gomez got her own proposal last year when her now

(03:47):
fiance Benny Blanco popped the question after a year of dating.
Any music history news on this date. Back in nineteen ninety,
Elton John checked himself into a rehab center in Chicago.
He went in for treatment of drug abuse, alcoholism, and
me up. He's been sober ever since. I'm Chris Caraggio