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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Millions are under flood watches in southern California as an
atmospheric river slams into the West Coast. Reports a more
than twenty million living in the LA area are bracing
for torrential downpours, flash flooding, and mudslides, especially in areas
recently burned by wildfires. Evacuation orders are in place in
several communities around LA County. President Trump is pulling his

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support of a former maggot darling Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green,
whom Trump called Friday a ranting lunatic, claiming the Taylor
Green has gone far left. Trump says he'd support a
primary challenger and criticized Green for her appearance on the View.
The President's now directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate
Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Democrats, in particular, posting Friday that

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he's asking the Justice Department to investigate the late sex offenders'
connections to former President Bill Clinton and other Democrats believed
to be mentioned in the Epstein files. This says Trump's
name has recently appeared in emails connected to the files.
In New York State, as Scott Pringle reports for US,
they're holding off on a ban on gas stoves that
was supposed to take effect in January.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
The implementation of the All Electric Buildings Act as on
hold because it's tied up in court following a challenge
by groups in the construction industry. That's the decision the
state has made. The law would ban gas stoves and
new buildings up to seven stories high starting in January,
and then this would apply to all other new residential
and commercial buildings a few years later. It's one of
the moves the state is made to comply with its

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own mandate to drastically reduced fossil fuelly missions.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
More than two dozen people have been arrested after protests
broke out at an ICED detention facility near Chicago. Reports
say several police officers were injured during a clash outside
the building Friday. That complex in the village of Broadviews
been ground zero for Chicago demonstrators since the Trump administration's
immigration crackdown in the region and a lawsuits alleging the

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immigrants inside are being held in inhumane conditions. I'm Scott Carr,
a college football coach featured on the Netflix docu series
Last Chance You, has died after being shot on Thursday.
Police in Oakland, California say John Beam died Friday morning.
He was shot on the Laney College campus following an
overnight manhunt. A suspect was arrested in connection twenty seven

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year old Sedwick, Irving Junior. Police a Irving new Beam
and believe the shooting was a targeted incident. More arrests
are being made in connection with an alleged mafia backed
multimillion dollar illegal sports betting ring. Chris Carrazio has the latest.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Authorities in New Jersey announced the arrest of fourteen more people.
Joseph Little Joe Perna and other members of the Lukzy
crime family are accused of running a nationwide network of
bookmakers who used offshore websites to obtain two million dollars
in bets during a scheme that ran between twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty four. Authorities also say several college
athletes operated sports books under Perna's direction. I'm Chris Krasio.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Target stores say they'll be cutting prices on thousands of
food beverage and essential items heading into the holiday season.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
The price reduction started earlier this month and include items
like Kraft mac and Cheese, Gerbert kid snacks, and Pillsbury
pine crust. The retailer also said it's Thanksgiving meal for
four costs less than twenty dollars this year. Among the
items included in the meal are a good and gathered,
premium based young turkey, up to ten pounds, stovetop stuffing mix,
and favorite Day Soft French bread. I'm at Mattinsen.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Longtime frontman for the band Whitesnake, David Coverdale says he's retiring.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
The last few years has been very evident to me
that it's time reading for me to hang up my
rock and roll platform shoes and my skin tight genies.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
On Thursday, in a YouTube video of the seventy four
year old thanks everyone who assisted him as he puts
it on his incredible.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Journey once again, I love you with all my heart
fairly well.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Coverdale started his career in nineteen sixty six as the
singer for Vintage sixty seven. I'm Scott Carr