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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, an atmospheric river continues to dump
ring on Washington State and record flooding is possible. Meteorologist
Bill Carron's has the latest on the biggest concerns threatening
the area.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
In the next twenty four hours, We're going to see
many of the rivers cresting. I'm mostly concerned with areas
on the Skaggett River, Snowhomish, and also snow Qualmie Rivers.
Those are the three big rivers that we're going to
be watching. Still raining in the area.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
One hundred thousand people who live near the Scadget River
are being warned they might need to evacuate. All residents
in the city of Sumus, near the border with Canada
are being told to evacuate. There have been rescues by
boat and helicopter. A landslide trapped three vehicles on Interstate
ninety east of Seattle. No one was hurt. The National

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Guard is being activated to help. The Trump administration is
creating a militarized zone at the Mexican border in California.
Rory O'Neil reports.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
The Interior Department is transferring about seven hundred and sixty
acres of public land in San Diego and Imperial Counties
to the Navy to support ongoing border security operations in
a new zone that will stretch from the Arizona border
to the Otai Mountains near San Diego. The statement claims
the area is quote one of the highest traffic regions

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for unlawful crossings along the southern border. Critics of the
zone say it will turn the US military into border police.
I'm Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the oil tanker seized by
the United States off the coast of Venezuela was used
to transport sanctioned oil to Iran. Alice Bar reports the
seizure comes as the United States has been striking alleged
drug boats in the region.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
The Venezuelan government now claiming President Trump's ramped up pressure
campaign against authoritarian leader Nicholas Maduro is about the country's
rich oil reserves instead of drug trafficking.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
The move comes as tensions have escalated between President Trump
and Venezuelan President Maduro. I'm Michael Cassner that Jair Jerome
Powell is in tipping his hand about another interest rate
cut after Wednesday's quarter percentage point reduction.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Mark Mayfield with more.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
After the cut was announced. Powell'e old reporters. President Trump's
tariffs have, in his words, elevated inflation.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
These readings are higher than earlier in the year, as
inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
But Powell added that the inflation rise will likely be
short lived and the Central Bank will be re evaluating
its policy with regards to interest rates and wait and
see how the economy evolves.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
As we wind down the final weeks of twenty twenty five,
look back at some of the top business stories of
this year. Here's Monica Nelson.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Twenty twenty five was the year of AI.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
President Trump in July talking about his plan for the
US's dominance in the artificial intelligence race. As AI giant
Nvidia became the first company to surpass the five trillion
dollar market value mark in twenty twenty five. Several studies
show AI's potential to take and eliminate jobs. President Trump
stuck to his promise and imposed new tariffs on dozens

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of countries, including many of our Allies.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Historic Executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Reciprocal that means they do it to us and we
do it to them.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Affordability emerged as the go to issue in politics, with
Democrats socialist Mamdani winning the New York City's mayor's race
on a platform of making the most expensive US city
affordable for a city uniform.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
In the Monnay, We're in the Monnay.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
And the US stock market was gangbusters in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Two division rivals square off to begin Week fifteen, when
the Buccaneers host the Falcons on Thursday Night Football. The
Bucks are tied atop the NFC South at seven and six,
despite dropping four of their last five games. Meanwhile, Atlanta
is third in the division at four and nine and
has already been eliminated from the playoffs. I'm Michael Kassner.