The Latest: 12/06/2025 11:59pm ET

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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest Use this hour.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
In just four minutes.

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President Trump is handing out the medals to this year's
Kennedy Center honorees. In an Oval Office presentation, Trump awarded
medals to actors Sylvester Stallone, singer Gloria Gaynor, and the
rock band Kiss.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
These are among.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
The greatest artists, actors and performers of their generation, the greatest,
the greatest that we've seen.

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Also among the honorees are singer George Strait and actor
Michael Crawford. Tonight, Trump is attending a dinner at the
State Department alongside the honorees ahead of the awards ceremony Sunday.
Nearly nineteen million people across the West and Midwest are
under winter weather alerts as heavy snow and strong winds
sweep across the regions. Snow is falling over parts of
the northern plains and rockies from Montana to the Dakotas today,

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a wintery mix will spread into Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin
this evening. Forecasters say the snow will extend into Michigan, Indiana,
and Ohio into Sunday morning, with accumulations of anywhere between
two to six inches possible. In Chicago, an iconic Brooklyn
Diner is heading for a new chapter on the big screen.
Larry Kofsky has that story.

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The Wife Diner has been a fixture in Williamsburg since
nineteen sixty eight. Now, the property of two twenty five
Wife Avenue is slated to become a new apartment complex.
On Saturday, at Giant Crane hoisted the fifty ton diner
onto a flatbed so it could be moved about a
mile away to Steiner Studios in the Navy Yard to
become a movie set. The diner is no stranger to

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the silver screen. It's been seen over the years in
movies including The Good Shepherd and Men in Black three.

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A seven point zero magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska. The
US Geological Survey says the quake struck near the town
of Yakutat in southern Alaska this morning. It was reportedly
felt in both Anchorage and Juno. A new study says
air pollution could be contributing to clogged arteries. Researchers reported
at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North

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America Thursday Day that people exposed long term to common
air pollutants have a higher risk of advanced heart disease.
I'm Rob Martyr. The Trump Administration is changing the days
Americans can visit national parks for free. The changes take
effect next year and remove Martin Luther King Junior Day
and Juneteenth, while adding President Trump's birthday, which falls on

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Flag Day. In announcing the changes, Department of the Interior
called those twenty twenty six dates resident only Patriotic fee
free days. Other changes include adding the fourth of July
weekend and President Theodore Roosevelt's birthday to the list, while
removing the anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act. In August,
the Trump administration said it will waive an eleven million

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dollars fine on Southwest Airlines. The announcement focuses on a
one hundred and forty million dollars settlement over the Texas
based carrier's meltdown in December of twenty twenty two during
a holiday travel period. Southwest in December twenty twenty three
agreed to over three years pay a thirty five million
dollar cash fine and ninety million dollars in travel vouchers

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of seventy five dollars or more two delayed passengers. An
eighty eight year old grocery store employee in Michigan has
received a check for nearly two million dollars after his
story went viral on social media. Scott Carr has that.

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Ed Bambas of Brighton, Michigan, met Australian social media influencer
Sam Wiedenhoffer during his grocery store shift about two weeks
ago and told Weedenhoffer how he couldn't retire because his
General Motors pension had been wiped out in twenty twelve,
following the company's bankruptcy. Reports say Bambis wiped tears from
his eyes as on Saturday, the twenty two year old

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influencer presented Bambis with a check for one point seven
million dollars.

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Federal health officials say a man died of rabies after
getting an organ transplant from someone who also died from
the virus. According to the CDC, in Idaho, man was
scratched by a skunk in twenty twenty four and later
died from a heart attack triggered by Raybe's symptoms. A
Michigan man received his donated kidney, and five weeks later
he began experiencing Rabie's symptoms. He died a week later

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in the hospital. I'm Rob Martyr