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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Police in Providence have identified the person of interest in
connection with Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University that killed
two people and injured nine. Officials told NBC News that
Benjamin Ericsson is currently in custody, with public records showing
his residence as of twenty twenty four as being an
apartment in Washington, d C. Officials are looking into his

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mental health history as well as the connection to Brown.
Other records show he was a former member of the
Army from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four. A
shelter and place order at Brown was lifted this morning.
President Trump is reflecting on three deadly mass shootings over
the weekend. During an event at the White House today,
the President offered his condolences to the families of the
victims killed in Syrium, Australia and Providence. Iowa Governor Kim

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Reynolds and Iowa National Guard Major General Stephen Osborne held
a joint news conference following the ISIS ambush attack in
Syria that killed two Iowa soldiers and left three others wounded.
Major General Osborne on what's next for the injured soldiers.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
First evacuation will be to the US hospital in launch Stool, Germany.
Will they receive more treatment eventually? Yes, they will be
evacuated back to a military treat facility or hospital back
in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
President Trump called it a rough day. TMZ is reporting
that two bodies of a man and a woman have
been found at the West Hollywood home of actor and
director Rob Reiner, and they are that of Reiner and
his wife. A spokesman for the LA Fire Department told
The New York Post that the LAPD's Robbery and Homicide
Division is involved in the investigation. Reiner acted in the

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hit sitcom All in the Family and directed and starred
in the cult film Spinal Tap. He also directed When
Harry Met Sally and Stand By Me. Reiner was seventy eight.
An estimated three million volunteers took part in Wreaths Across
America Day this weekend. Hundreds turned out at Arlington National
Cemetery in d C. On Saturday as volunteers plays to
wreath on all two hundred and sixty five thousand headstones.

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I'm Rob Bartier. A jury has awarded forty million dollars
to two women who said Johnson and Johnson's baby powder
caused their ovarian cancer. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury
awarded eighteen million dollars to Monica Kent and twenty two
million dollars to Debor Schultz and her husband after finding
that Johnson and Johnson knew for years its talent based
products were dangerous. The company's vice president of litigation said

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it plans to immediately appeal this verdict. Court filing say
Jay and Jay is facing lawsuits from over sixty seven
thousand plaintiffs who claim they were diagnosed with cancer after
using its baby powder and other talk products. The company
has said its products are safe and do not contain
asbestos and do not cause cancer. Nobody won the billion
dollar powerball. Jim Forbes has the latest Saturday.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
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 Saturday's 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 seven tickets

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

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Frank Sinatra is scoring his first number one song on
Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart since nineteen sixty seven. Sinatra's cover
of I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm with
Pentatonics this week leaped four spots to reach number one
on the AC charts.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
What Do I Care how much it may start? Love
to Keep Me.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Warm, securing the top spot on the charts as a
first four Pedatonics, but it marks the seventh time for
the late crooner. The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected
to peak tonight. The shooting stars are normally visible in
both the northern and southern hemispheres, but are brighter and
more frequent north of the equator. I'm Rob Martyr.