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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. As the
fight for peace continues with the White House in the
Middle East. On Friday, Israel declared Gaza City a dangerous
combat zone as it prepares for an all out offensive.
Blake Sifton is in the region with more.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The Israeli military says it is halting daily pauses in
fighting in Gaza City and has declared it a dangerous
combat zone as operations to seize the city intensify. The
pauses were put in place by the Israeli military in
recent weeks following pressure by the international community to get
more food into Gaza and saft fighting stop for ten
hours daily to allow for the distribution of aid. Meanwhile,

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the Israeli government has announced that the bodies of two
hostages held in Gaza have been recovered by the military.
There are now forty eight Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza,
twenty of whom are believed to be alive. Blake Sifton,
Tel Aviv.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
There's no ruling from a federal judge on whether Federal
Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can stay on the job while
her lawsuit against President Trump plays out in court. A
hearing was held Friday on Cook's challenge to her firing,
which Trump said is based on allegations of mortgage fraud.
Cook's lawyers have argued Trump doesn't have the authority to

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remove her. They also called the allegations a smear campaign.
The judge is asking both sides to file additional briefs
by Tuesday. Police have found bones near the Washington campground
where Travis Decker is suspected of murdering his three daughters
earlier this year. Decker's daughters were found dead at the
campground in the Cascade Mountains on June second. Decker's pickup

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truck was found nearby, and authorities have been looking for
him ever since. On Friday, the FBI said bones were
found near the campground and investigators are currently trying to
determine if they're human. And millions from the Southwest into
the Southeast are bracing for a rainy Labor Day weekend.
Flash flood warnings were put in place in areas of
Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday, with millions under a flash

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flood watch. I'm Jim Forbes. 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 killed were
in New Orleans, particularly in low lying areas like the

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Lower ninth Ward, after the city's levy system failed. Images
of thousands of stranded residents living in squalor for days
waiting for basic supplies stunned the nation. The George W.
Bush administration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan, and Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco were all blamed for the lack of preparedness

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and a slow response. Someone has been posing as a
plastic surgeon in Colorado and medical leaders want him to stop.
Keenan Dixon has more.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
The Colorado Medical Board is issued to cease and desist
order to go Carlos Hernandez Fernandez and Bare Beauty Esthetic
Care in Lakewood. The board says quote, he is not
and has never been licensed to practice medicine in the
state of Colorado. The Medical Board says Hernandez Fernandez was
licensed as a surgical assistant until it was revoked in
September of twenty sixteen. I'm Keenan Dixon.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Police have found bones near the Washington campground where Travis
Decker is suspected of murdering his three daughters earlier this year.
Decker's daughters were found dead at the campground in the
Cascade Mountains on June second. Decker's pickup truck was found nearby,
and authorities have been looking for him ever since. On Friday,
the FBI said bones were found near the campground and

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investigators are currently trying to determine if they're human. And
Doja Cat will no longer headline Austin City Limits Music
festival this year. In a social media post, the rapper
said when she made the commitment, she didn't know when
her album would be released, and it's become clear she
can't give fans the show they deserve within that timeframe.

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Ydosia has been set to headline both nights of the
two weekend festival. I'm Jim Forbes