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This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Current and former NBA players and coaches are facing charges
in connection with federal investigations into gambling. Scott Davidson has more.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
FBI Director Cash Mattel announced investigators uncovered and a legal
gambling operation as well as a sports betting rigging scheme.
US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph Masella,
My message to.
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The defendants who've been rounded up today is this, your
winning streak has ended. Your luck has run out. Violating
the law is a losing proposition, and you can bet
on that.
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Miami Heat players Terry Rozier and former coach and player
Damon Jones are accused of using inside info to make
wagers on games, while Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups he
was arrested in connection with a pokers game. I'm Scott david.
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Sat and the NBA has announced that Rosier and Billups
have been placed on leave from their teams and the
league is reviewing the indictments. The Senatives planning to vote
later on a Republican back measure that would pay some
federal workers who stayed on the job during this government shutdown.
The bill is known as the Shutdown Fairness Act and
would pay air traffic controllers, military members, border patrol agents,
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and other essential workers. Democrats are expected to block the bill,
as some have said that the White House shouldn't get
to choose which employees are considered essential and which aren't.
A strike that would have shut down many Broadway musicals
has been averted. NBC's Emily Akda reports musicians had been
threatening to walk off the job.
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Today, the union representing Broadway musicians announcing that they have
reached a tentative deal with the Broadway League, which is
the union that represents theater owners and producers, and truly
the eleventh hour, therefore averting a strike.
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The deal includes wage hikes and contribution increases to musicians
health funds. Union president Bob Suttman released a statement saying,
in part, this three year agreement provides meaningful wage and
health benefit increases that will preserve crucial access to healthcare.
Twenty three musicals would have gone dark had their been
as st and Week eight of the NFL season kicks
off tonight with the Chargers hosting the Vikings. I'm Chris Krajia.
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You're going to have to get your.
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Face scanned if you want to use one of the
biggest dating apps on the planet, Tinder, has announced a
first of its kind facial verification feature that helps confirm
users are real and match their profile photos. Match Group,
which owns Tender, says the policy will apply to all
new users in the US. Research shows safety and privacy
issues contributed to a recent seven percent drop in paying
users on Tender. If you like to pay money and
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be scared, today's your day rere tennis with more.
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We've traced a call. It's coming from inside the house.
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Here's Johnny. I see that people. Those lines from famous
scary movies either get your running or asking for more.
Today maybe a day of more is It's National Horror
Movie Day? You got polls twenty five percent of us
love them, more men than women. Psychologists say freight triggers
a release of adrenaline, and some people crave that they must.
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The horror industry generates about a billion dollars every year.
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Today's also National TV talk show host Day. It's observed
annually on Johnny Carson's birthday. Who died in two thousand
and five at the age of seventy nine. Bon Jovi
will hit the road next year for the first time
since twenty twenty two. Here's Mark Mayfield.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will kick off
the Forever Tour with four shows at New York's Medicine
Square Garden in July. They then head overseas fare shows
in Scotland, Ireland and England in August and September. The
band has only played a handful of one off concerts
since twenty twenty two, as John bon Jovi has been
recovering from vocal cord surgery. The frontman says he's deeply
grateful fans and the band have been patient and allowed
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him the time he needed to get healthy and prepare
for touring. Ticket pre sales begin October the twenty seventh,
with general on sales set for October thirty first.
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And on this date.
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In nineteen eighty, Mark David Chapman quit his security job
and signed out for the last time. Instead of the
usual Chappie, he wrote John Lennon. Chapman would murder lenin
than two months later, on December eighth, outside his New
York City home. I'm Chris Kragio,