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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, the Senate has voted to end
the record breaking government shut down, passing a bipartisan measure
last night after eight Democrats joined Republicans to break the stalemate.
The legislation now heads to the House, which could vote
as soon as Wednesday to approve the package and send

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it to President Trump for his signature. The bill includes
full funding for food assistance benefits through next September and
keeps the government running through January thirtieth. The number of
flight reductions is expected to increase starting today at forty
high traffic airports, including Newark, LaGuardia and JFK in New

(00:46):
York Scott Pringle.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
The FAA reduced flight capacity by four percent starting last Friday,
but now it's at six percent, meaning more cancelations and delays.
This is due to a severe air traffic controller shortage.
Some calling out sick to take other jobs because they're
not getting paid during the shutdown. Meanwhile, President Trump and
he took the social media praising controllers who are working
without pay, recommending a bonus, while criticizing those who have

(01:09):
called out, saying they'll be docked. President of the union
representing air traffic controllers, Nick Daniel, says they're just trying
to make ends meet.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
This is not politics.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Several people are facing charges after demonstrators clashed with attendees
at a Turning Point USA rally at the University of California, Berkeley.
The vice president of Turning Points Chapter at the school,
Maddox Radebah, contends the protest wasn't necessary. You don't need
to fde US, you don't need the yelled standings at US.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
We are willing to have this exchange of ideas with you.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Last night's of andrew hundreds of attendees as dozens of
protesters gathered outside the rally. Today's Veterans Day, and along
with that comes an increase focus on the sensitive topic
of suicide. The most recent data available from the Department
of Veterans Affairs noted an average of seventeen point six
suicides per day among veterans, a rate that's far higher

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than the general non veteran population. I'm Michael Cassner. The
Supreme Court will consider whether or not mail in ballots
received after election day can be counted. More from Tammy Treheo.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
The case involves a Republican let lawsuit over a Mississippi
state law put in place during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
The law let mail in ballots postparked by election day
be received up to five days later. The Republican National Committee,
as well as Mississippi's Republican Party sued, arguing the state
law violates federal law. The Supreme Courts expected to hear
arguments next year and rule by the summer ahead of

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the midterm elections.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm Tammy Triheo. California Governor Gavin Newsom is speaking about
climate change at the Milken Institute's symposium in Brazil. Newsom
says California has been leading the way in climate initiative
since Ronald Reagan was governor in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
That has impacted climate policy disproportionately in the United States
of America. It's been part of our legacy, a bipartisan
legacy going back a half century.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Newsom says California's leaders, regardless of their political party, have
been in support of clean air and improving the climate.
A driver accused in the deadly New Jersey crash that
killed NHL star Johnny Godro and his brother last year,
has lost his battle to keep his confessions to police
under wraps. Rory O'Neill has the latest on suspect John

(03:25):
Higgins's failed attempt to keep key evidence out of his
upcoming trial.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
A New Jersey state police sergeant testified that Higgins told
him quote I hit them, unquote when he responded to
the scene of last summer's crash in Oldsman's Township, New Jersey.
Higgins faces multiple charges and up to seventy years in
prison if convicted. I'm Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Major sports books are putting a two hundred dollars betting
limit on wagers over individual pitches after two pitchers were
indicted in a gambling scheme. Major League Baseball has also
announced pitches will also be kept out of parleys. I'm
Michael Cassner.