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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. There's no
end in sight to the government shut down, which is
now in its twenty ninth day. NBC's Ryan Noblest reports
that thousands of air traffic controllers have now missed their
first full paycheck and some are calling in sick.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The FAA reporting more than three thousand flight delays, some
due to controller shortages. All this as lawmakers on Capitol
Hill continue to hold their ground, rejecting the idea of
a piecemeal approach.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
A thirteenth effort to end the shutdown impass failed yesterday
in the Senate, and there are no plans to vote
on the measure today. Meantime, food assistance benefits from millions
of Americans are set to expire this weekend. Half of
the states are suing the Department of Agriculture over the
impending cutoff, but the department says the money just isn't there.
Democrats are holding firm on demands to save healthcare subsidies

(00:54):
that keep insurance premiums down for millions, while Republicans refuse
to negotiate until the government is reopened. The federal Reserve
is set to make an announcement on interest rates later today.
The FED is widely expected to cut rates by a
quarter percentage. The Fed's cut has a trickle down effect
on consumers, lowering mortgage, credit card, and auto loan interest rates.
President Trump is set to meet with Chinese leader Shijing

(01:15):
Ping today in South Korea. Trump said this meeting is
something very important to the entire world, and he believes
everything will work out very well for everybody. China has
said it's willing to work with the US, as the
two nations have yet to agree on a trade deal.
Trump said the meeting could last for about three to
four hours. Hurricane Melissa is shifting across eastern Cuba. It'll
soon be back in the Atlantic as it heads towards

(01:36):
the Bahamas. Flash flooding has been reported in Cuba, as
video on social media shows floodwaters rushing down the streets
of the island country's second largest city, Santiago to Cuba.
Game five of the World Series is set for tonight
in Los Angeles, the Dodgers once again hosting the Blue
Jays one final time before the series shifts back to
Toronto for Game six. The series is now tied up
two games apiece after the Blue Jays took Game four

(01:59):
last night to Blake Snell. We'll start this evening for
La while Treya Savage will be on the mound for Toronto.
I'm Chris Krajio America is getting skinnier and weight loss
drugs may be a contributing factor. According to a self
reported Gallop pole, for the first time in more than
fifteen years, obesity rates in the US have fallen from
almost forty percent twenty twenty two to thirty seven percent today.

(02:21):
That's an estimated seven point six million fewer obese adults.
The same pole reports fifteen percent of women and just
under ten percent of men are on GLP one drugs
like ozempic, more than double the number who said they
used them last year. Visitors to federal parks might want
to avoid using the public restrooms. Many across the country
haven't been cleaned since the government shutdown began weeks ago,

(02:44):
so the facilities are a little worse for wear. Some parks,
such as Rock Creek and Washington, d C. Have set
up porta John's Sanitation crews from the National Park Service
are among the nine thousand plus of the agency's fourteen thousand,
five hundred employees fur load coast to coast. There's a
problem on the road, and it might be you breed
tennis now with more.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Every state has a key right law for slower traffic.
This is regardless of speed. The problem is the law
has low enforcement and that makes some drivers use risky
behavior and frequently hand gestures to navigate around pokey Joe.
According to the NTSB, the slow poke hardly ever gets
a ticket, even though the behavior is illegal, because impeding

(03:24):
traffic is harder to prove than speeding.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
There was no grand prize winner in last night's Mega
Millions drawing, driving the jackpot up to seven hundred and
fifty four million dollars. The next drawing is Friday, which
is Halloween. With the odds of striking it rich about
one in two hundred and ninety million. Meanwhile, there's a
powerball drawing tonight, which is worth three hundred and seventy
six million bucks. In music history news on this date.

(03:48):
Back in nineteen sixty five, The Who released their single
My Generation. The song was named the eleventh greatest song
by Rolling Stone on their list of the five hundred
greatest songs of all time. And thirteenth on VH one's
list of the one hundred Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll.
I'm Chris Krajio