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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
A strong weather system that could become tropical storm in
Melda is expected to bring flooding to the southeast. More
for meteorologists Bill Caarn's.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's going to be heading up through the Bahamas as
we go throughout this upcoming weekend. Should become tropical Stormmelda
by the time we get this Sunday afternoon Sunday evening.
The Hurricane Center even says at day four and five,
these positions just off of Charleston, it's very uncertain where
the storm is going to be at that point. And
here's the reason why. If it moves faster, it could
be out ahead of Umberto and not be influenced. But

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if it's slower, Umberto at its closest point could pull
it back out the seat.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The governor of South Carolina has issued a state of
emergency ahead of the storm. Flooding is being reported in
Phoenix after a severe monsoon storm rolled across the Arizona Desert.
Several Phoenix area roadways were flooded Friday afternoon, and the
National Weather Service says over an inchivering was reported. The
powerful monsoon storms also produced golf ball size hail in
some areas and cause to ground stop at Sky Harbor Airport,

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causing dozens of lights to be canceled. Attorney General Pam
Bondi says she's sending federal agents from the Department of
Justice to ICE facilities to help protect immigration officers. In
a post Friday, Bondi said she's sending the Department agents
wherever ICE comes under siege, and is also instructing the
Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the US to investigate all

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entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including
repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents. The
announcement comes just days after one person was killed and
two were injured in a shooting at a Dallas ICE office.
The Justice Department is reportedly seeking more information about the
Georgia district attorney who prosecuted President Trump. The New York
Times says the Department has subpoenaed travel records for Fawnie Willis.

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She's the prosecutor who charged Trump and his allies with
interfering in the twenty twenty election. The report says federal
investigators want records of trips Willis's believe to have taken
abroad around the time of last year's election. Consumer sent
fell slightly in September. The University of Michigan's final reading
for the month fell about five percent from August. I'm
Mi se Taylor, a woman who tried to assassinate President

(02:09):
Gerald Ford, has passed away. Michael Cassner reports.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Sarah Jane Moore died Wednesday in a Tennessee nursing home
at the age of ninety five. Her death came two
days after the fiftieth anniversary of the attempted assassination in
San Francisco in nineteen seventy five. Moore fired two shots
at Ford from about fifty feet away, missing with her
first shot and the second ricocheng and grazing another man
in the area. Her attempt to kill Ford came seventeen

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days after Lynette Squeaky from, a follower of Charles Manson,
tried to do the same in Sacramento. I'm Michael Cassner.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Convicted cop killer and escapee Joanne Chesimard, who was on
the FBI Most Wanted list, has died in Cuba at
the age of seventy eight. Cuba, the country that provided
a safe haven for Chessimard after she shot and killed
New Jersey State Trooper Werner Forster in cold blood in
nineteen seventy three. Announced her death on Friday from old
age and health complications. They referred to the Black Liberation

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Army member as Asata Shakur. The New York born fugitive
was Tupac shakurs godmother. New York State is now starting
to mail out inflation rebate checks to more than eight
million New Yorkers, more from Scott Pringle.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Checks between one hundred and fifty and four hundred dollars
are being sent out, with the amount determined based on
income brackets and whether you're a single or joint tax filer.
The quator Jones Johnson is the CEO of Trinity Alliance,
which works with low income families.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
The rise and cost of food, utilities, and daily essentials
has weighed heavily on them.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Governor Kathy Hockel says the inflation rebate checks are a
result of the state's sales tax revenue increasing due to inflation.
She says that extra revenue is going back to New Yorkers.
Checks will be mailed out through November. Scot Pringlet to New York.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
The NFL is headed back to Brazil Friday. The league
announced a new commitment to play at least three regular
season games over five years and Rio de Janeiro. The
teams in date for the game will be decided at
a later date. I'm Lisa Taylor.