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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):
All eyes are on Washington, DC today concerning the Jeffrey
Epstein files. The House is expected to pass a measure
calling for the release of the files today. Over the weekend,
President Trump reversed his position and urged Republicans to vote
in favor of the legislation that came after the measure
received enough support to be brought to the House floor.

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Republican Congressman Thomas Massey, who has pushed for the release
of the files, has warned that the new investigations ordered
by Trump could get in the way of the files
being released. Several popular websites and apps are down as
web security firm cloudfair is experiencing an outage. Chat GBT
and X, and the video game League of Legends are

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all seeing issues reported this morning. Cloudfair says it's seeing
services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher than
normal error rates. Down Detector says it received more than
eleven thousand reports of X outages as of six forty
am Eastern time. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is

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investigating new allegations against Sean Diddy Combs. Daniel Martindale has
this story.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
A record producer tells investigators Combs sexually assaulted him on
two occasions in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. The
music producer reported the alleged incidents to police in Largo, Florida.
One of the alleged sexual assaults happened in East LA.
The producer, who has not been identified by law enforcement,
says it happened while he was working on a remix
project of music by Biggie Smalls that connected him with

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Bad Boy Records and Colmbs, a company executive. Combs is
currently serving four years in federal prison for using prostitutes
and so called frea coughs.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And Saudi Arabia's crown Prince is set to visit the
White House today for talks with President Trump. Prince Mohammed
ben Salmon last visited Washington in twenty eighteen. The two
are expected to discuss a number of issues, from aa
ichips to nuclear technology to the potential normalization of ties
with israel I'm Jim Forbes, more than half of consumers

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say they won't make changes to Thanksgiving this year to
try to save money. That's according to Butterball's annual Thanksgiving Outlook.
The survey found eighty nine percent of consumers planned to
celebrate the holiday and eighty four percent will do so
with a turkey. Consumers express concern about inflation, but most
said they would not compromise when it comes to Thanksgiving.

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Some said they would do things like change to non
food items such as paper goods and decorps, or ask
guests to bring part of the meal to help control costs.
LA's Fire Justice is filing another lawsuit in connection with
the Eaton fire. Tammy Torchillo explains.

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It calls out the La Counties evacuation notification system. Eighteen
of the nineteen people who died in the fire lived
west of Lake Avenue. The loss. It was filed on
behalf of a woman whose sister died in her home
as the fire raged in the early morning hours of
January eighth. LA Fire Justice says the fire moved from
east to west mean the people who died should have
had more time to evacuate than most of the people

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who survived. I'm Tammy Trujillo.

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President Trump says he's not ruling out anything when it
comes to Venezuela. The US has killed several people and
destroyed several boats that the administration says were connected to
the country's drug trade. There are reports Trump may be
weighing more military options against the country. A US Navy
carrier strike group is now in the Caribbean as tensions

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deepen in the region, and the Australian man who rushed
Ariana Grande at the Wicked for Good Premier in Singapore
is spending time behind bars. Johnson Wynn received a sentence
of nine days for the incident. The twenty six year
old pleated guilty to a charge of being a public nuisance.
Video of the incident showed when jumping and barricade at

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the premiere, then running to Grande and putting his arms
around her. Grande's co stars then stepped in to get
the man away from from her before security escorted him
out of the event. I'm Jim Forbes.