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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
The death toll from a mass shooting at a Jewish
event in Australia has risen to sixteen. New South Wales
Police Force also say forty others remain hospitalized after gunman
open fire on a crowd at Bondai Beach in Sydney.
Officials say one of the shooters was also killed. An
Australian Police commissioner says the shooting has been declared a
terrorist incident. Today is the first day of the Jewish

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festival Hanukkah, and authority say Jewish families were celebrating on
the beach. President Trump is reflecting on three deadly massed
shootings over the weekend. During an event at the White
House today, Trump offered his condolences to the families of
the victims killed in Australia, Syria and Providence, Rhode Island
and University.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Nine injured and two are looking down on us right
now from heaven.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
And likewise in Australia, as you know, that was a
terrible attack. At least two American soldiers were killed while
on patrol in Syria. The President called it a rough day.
New York City police are on high alert following this
weekend's mass shootings. Larry Kofski reports.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
The NYPD is deploying extra cops to universities in the
city following Saturday shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island
that left two people dead and nine injured. Officials ed
there is no known threat to local schools. The Daily
News reports cops are also deploying extra security to public
Honkkas celebrations around the city after the terrorist attack on

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a Honika celebration in Sydney, Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And the death toll from that mass shooting in Australia
has now risen to sixteen. Another atmospheric river could hit
the Pacific Northwest as early as this evening. Floodwaters are
still receding in Washington State from the last atmospheric river,
but forecastors say another rainy stormfront could start moving in
from the Pacific late today, before peaking on Monday and

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continuing through Tuesday. The storm could bring fida seven inches
of road ran to the Cascades and cause the Scaggett
River to reach moderate to major flood stage again. I'm
Lisa Carton Thailand says its attack on Cambodia will continue
despite President Trump's claims of a ceasefire. Scott Carr has
more from Washington.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Officials with Thailand's Defense ministry save four soldiers were killed
today in a bombing attack along the five hundred mile
border with Cambodia, bringing the death toll up to fourteen
since the fighting resumed on Monday. On Friday night, President
Trump said he had a good talk with the leaders
of both nations and claimed the ceasefire had been agreed upon.
The two Southeast Asian nations are battling over the disputed

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ownership of ancient temples along the border.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
The victims and their families involved in the deadly Sandy
Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut are being remembered today,
the anniversary of the attack. More from Levon Putney.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Governor Lamont ordered all flags in the state lord to
have staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday to honor
the twenty first graders and six educators killed the Simumber fourteenth,
twenty twelve inside the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Congressional
members joined survivors on Capitol Hill Thursday to again call
for federal gun safety measures. That came after Wednesday night's
National Vigil for All Victims of Gun violence, which paid

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respects to Americans killed or hurt by bullets Sins twenty twelve, and.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Last night's drawing. Nobody won the billion dollar power Ball.
Here's Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Saturday night's Powerball drawing was worth a billion dollars, making
it the seventh largest and lottery game's history. The Powerball
website says, however, that nobody matched all six numbers and
Saturdays drawing, so the jackpot will roll over to Monday's drawing,
when it will be worth one point one billion dollars.
But don't throw your ticket out just yet. There were

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seven tickets sold that match five to the six numbers
and could be worth up to two million dollars each.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza has won the Heisman Trophy.
Mendoza is the first Indiana player to win the award.
The red shirt junior transferred last offseason from the University
of California Burke and accounted for thirty nine touchdowns in
thirteen games. I'm Lisa Carton.