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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):
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanisi says the shooting at a
Jewish event in Australia was an act of pure evil.
At least fifteen people are dead and forty others remain
hospitalized after gunmen opened fire on a crowd at Bondi
Beach in Sydney. The victims range in age from ten
to eighty seven years old. Officials also say the shooters
involved were father and son. In an act of heroism,

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a man who owns a fruit stand near where the
shooting occurred, approached one of the gunmen and was able
to wrestle the shotgun away, then pointing the gun at
the man before he eventually ran off. The father was
shot and killed by officers, while the son remains in
the hospital. Today is the first day of the Jewish
festival Hanukkah, with mass shootings at Brown University in Syria,
where two National Guard troops were ambushed and killed, and

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the Sydney, Australia shootings. Police in New York City are
on high alert. Larry Kofski reports.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
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 in nine injured. Official zed
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 honik A celebration in Sydney, Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Another blast of dangerously cold air is spreading across the
central United States. Millions living in the Central Plains, Midwest
and Great Lakes regions we're coping with temperatures thirty degrees
below average this morning. Forecasters say the Arctic air could
spread as far south as Louisiana. Brown's defensive end, Miles Garrett,
is closing in on history. Garrett recorded one and a

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half sacks during Cleveland's thirty one three loss to the Bears,
bringing him just one sax shy of Michael Strahand and TJ.
Watts single season record of twenty two and a half sacks.
Garrett's next opportunity to set the mark will come Sunday
at home against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. Cleveland
is at the bottom of the AFC North at three

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and eleven. I'm Rob Bartier. The FDA has approved in
at home brain stimulation device to treat depression. The CDC
says depression rates in the United States have risen sixty
percent in the last decade, affecting over twenty million adults.
The device, Flow Neurosciences FL one hundred, delivers a gentle
electronic current to the part of the brain that regulates

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mood and is designed for home use under remote supervision.
It is the first of its kind to be approved
in the US. The device is cleared to treat moderate
to severe major depression disorders in those eighteen and older.
John Cenam says he's stepping out of the ring once
and for all. We get more from Scott Carr.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The seventeen time WWE champ thought his last battle Saturday night,
tapping out after being put in a sleeper hole by
three time Austrian champ. Gunther Sina announced his retirement last year,
saying his body herds and was screaming to close the chapter.
The forty eight year old will continue his acting career,
he says, with three Hollywood movies in the pipeline, but

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will stay a part of the wrestling world. Seen Or
recently signed a five year deal to service at WWE Ambassador.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
An estimated three million volunteers took part in Wreaths across
America Day this weekend. They placed holiday wreaths set more
than fifty six hundred military cemeteries nationwide in a tribute
to veterans. Hundreds turned out at Arlington National Cemetery in
DC on Saturday as volunteers placed a wreath on all
two hundred and sixty five thousand headstones. The nonprofit group

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added more than seven hundred new locations to this year's event.
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza has won the Heisman Trophy.
Mendoza is the first Indiana player to win the award.
The redshirt junior transferred last offseason from the University of California,
Berkeley and accounted for thirty nine touchdowns in thirteen games,
leading the Hoosiers to a perfect thirteen and zero regular

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season record and a Big Ten Conference champion. Indiana is
the top ranked school heading into the college football playoffs.
I'm Rob Bartier.