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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 3 (00:05):
In just four minutes. The Secretary of War is defending
the recent actions taken against alleged drug votes. Pete Hegseth
is defending US military strikes against the boats in the Caribbean.
President Trump's war secretary gave a speech Saturday at an
event in California and claimed the eighty people who have

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been killed in the strikes since September were considered terrorists
and that the President can take military action quote as
he sees fit. West Virginia officials say the National Guard
member who survived last month's deadly attack near the White
House is quote slowly healing. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey
gave an update Friday on staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf. The
twenty four year old guardsman is expected to spend another

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two to three weeks in intensive care as he recovers
from a head wound. The suspected gumman is also recovering
from a gunshot wound and made a virtual court appearance
Tuesday from his hospital bed. Star Wars will celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary in twenty twenty seven, with the original version
of the film returning to the theaters details from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Lucasfilm announced Friday that a newly restored version of the
classic nineteen seventy seven Star Wars theatrical release will hit
theaters on February nineteenth, twenty twenty seven. Fans have long
asked for a return of the original, unaltered version of
the film to be released. George Lucas first made changes
to the film with the nineteen ninety seventh twentieth Anniversary

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Special Edition re release, with numerous other changes being made
since then. I'm Lisa Carton.

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And Championship Weekend has wrapped up for college football with
major postseason ramifications. Texas Tech started Saturday with a huge
thirty four to seven win over BYU to clinch the
Big Twelve. Georgia took down Alabama twenty eight seven to
win the SEC, and Indiana upset the defending national champions
and beat Ale Ohio State thirteen ten to earn its

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first Big Ten championship since nineteen forty five. I'm Jim Forbes.
The Trump administration said it will waive an eleven million
dollar fine on Southwest Airlines. The Saturday announcement focuses on
a one hundred and forty million dollar settlement over the
Texas based carrier's meltdown in December during a holiday travel
period back in twenty twenty two. In December twenty twenty three,

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Southwest agreed to provide over three years to pay a
thirty five million dollar cash fine and provide ninety million
dollars in travel vouchers of seventy five dollars or more
to delayed passengers. The Transportation Department order cited Southwest decision
to invest over a billion dollars in its operations to
improve performance and reliability since the twenty twenty two incident.

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An iconic Brooklyn diner is heading for a new chapter
on the big screen. Larry Kofski explains.

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The Wife Diner has been a fixture in Willilliamsberg 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's 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.
I'm Larry Kowski, and.

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The California Department of Health has issued an urgent advisory
to avoid eating wild mushrooms. Public health officials have reported
an outbreak of amatoxin poisoning caused by consuming wild mushrooms.
Amatoxins are highly toxic and can lead to severe liver
damage or death. Toxic mushrooms, such as the Death Cap,

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can easily be mistaken for the safe and edible type.
Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain. So far, twenty
one cases have been identified by the California poison Control System,
with significant clusters reported in San Francisco. I'm Jim Forbes.