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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Actor and director Rob Reiner is dead at the age
of seventy eight. Reiner and his wife were found dead
inside his home in the Brentwood part of Los Angeles today.
The incident is currently under investigation. Reiner directed films such
as This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride,
and A Few Good Men. He first came to national
prominence as an actor in the role of Mike Meadhead

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Stivik on the CBS sitcom All in the Family, You
Are at Meete and Meete Dead from the Neck of Time.
Films Reiner directed earned eleven Academy Award nominations and nineteen
Golden Globe nominations. Police in Providence are releasing from custody

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the person of interest in connection with Saturday's mass shooting
at Brown University that killed two people and injured nine at.
Smiley of Providence, in a late night news conference, said
that the man was being released with an investigation into
the shooting ongoing, but we.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Want to inform the community that that individual will shortly
be released from Providence police.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Smiley added that While it would likely cause anxiety, the
belief is that everyone remains safe. Another blast of dangerously
cold airs spreading across the central United States. Millions living
in the Central Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes region were
coping with temperatures thirty degrees below average this morning. Forecasters
say the Arctic air mass could spread as far south

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as Louisiana and could keep high temperatures well below freezing
from Indiana to Minnesota. The Packers may have lost more
than their game today, according to multiple reports. Green Bay
Edge rusher Micah Parsons tour as ACL during the team's
thirty four to twenty six loss to the Denver Broncos,
and for the first time since twenty fourteen, the Kansas
City Chiefs will miss the playoffs. The Chiefs loss sixteen

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thirteen to the Los Angeles Chargers today, and they also
lost their star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who tore his ACL
I'm rob Martyr. The FDA has approved an 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

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Flow Neuroscience as FL one hundred delivers a gentle electrical
current to the part of the brain that regulates 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 depressive disorders in adults aged eighteen and older.
An estimated three million volunteers took part in Wreaths across

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America Day this weekend. They placed holiday wreaths at more
than fifty six hundred military cemeteries nationwide in tribute to veterans.
Hundreds turned out at Arlington National Cemetery in DC on
Saturday as volunteers placed wreaths on all two hundred and
sixty five thousand headstones. The nonprofit group added more than
seven hundred new locations to this year's event. John Cena

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says he's stepping out of the ring once and for all.
We get more from Scott Carr.

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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 hurts 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.
I'm Scott Carr.

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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 off season from the
University of California, Berkeley and accounted for thirty nine touchdowns
and thirteen games, leading the Hoosiers to a perfect thirteen
to zero regular season record and a Big Ten Conference

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championship in Vienna. Is the top ranked school heading into
the college football playoffs. I'm Rob Martyr.