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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
In just four minutes, famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner man
his wife Michelle are dead. The Reiner family releasing a
statement of variety saying it's with profound sorrow we announced
the tragic passing of Michelle and Rob Reiner. Multiple reports
indicate the couple with stabbed to death in their home
in LA's Brentwood neighborhood. Their bodies found Sunday. The La

(00:27):
Times reports detectives have been questioning a family member in connection,
though LAPD Deputy Chief Allan Hamilton told reporters last night
no one's been detained and no one's being questioned as
a suspect. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanisi saying the shooting
at a Jewish event in Australia marking the start of
Hanukkah was an act of pure evil. At least sixteen

(00:49):
people are dead, forty remain in the hospital after gunman
opened fire on a crowd at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Official say the shooters, one of which is counted among
the sixteen dead, were father and the Sun. The Sun
remains in the hospital. After this weekend's deadly mass shooting
at Brown University in Rhode Island, all remaining classes are
canceled at the university.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Jennifer PAULSNI with the latest Brown canceling all remaining exams, classes,
papers and projects undergraduate, graduate and medical for the fall semester.
The Provost of Brown noting they recognize that learning and
assessment are significantly hindered in the short term. It all
follows a person taken into custody at a Hampton in
Sunday morning and Coventry, about twenty one miles from the campus.

(01:32):
The man in his thirties, hours after two people were
killed nine others injured when a gunman opened fire in
a first floor classroom in an engineering building Saturday afternoon
as students were preparing for finals. I'm Jennifer Bulsony.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
A federal trial starts today for the Milwaukee judge accused
of helping a defendant evade arrest by Ice agents inside
her courthouse. The incident involving Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan,
took place at the county courthouse last April, and a
grand indicted Duke in the following month. She faces felony,
obstruction and other charges. I'm Scott Carr. The entire state

(02:08):
of Arkansas's cutting ties with PBS. The commission that oversees
public TV in the state voted to and its contract
with the Public Broadcast Company. The eight member Arkansas Educational
Television Commission said last week it plans to disaffiliate from
PBS this coming July First, LA's Rams will play for
the Lombardi. The team clinched a playoff berth Sunday after

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taking down Detroit's Lions forty one to thirty four from Inglewood.
Matthew Stafford threw for almost three hundred and seventy yards
to go with two touchdowns and a pick. Rams coach
Sean McVay says his team did a great job bouncing
back from a bad start. I was proud of the
way that we just responded.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
We always talk about, you know, let's not react, let's respond,
and we don't have much time to be able to
enjoy it. You know, it's great to be able to
punch a ticket to the playoffs. That's obviously always a goal.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Jared Goff tossed three tds for Detroit, which has failed
to win back to back games since Week five, while
Minnesota's Vikings push the Cowboys closer to playoff elimination with
a thirty four to twenty six win on Sunday Night Football.
CJ hamm scored to go ahead touchdown in the third
quarter before JJ McCarthy tossed a touchdown pass to Jalen
Naylor in the fourth. McCarthy says their defense was tough

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all game.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It makes it really easy when the defense plays the
way they do and apply that pressure as well as
you know that bend, don't break mentality.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Cowboys dropped to six seven and one and can
be eliminated from postseason play if the Eagles win against
the Commanders on Saturday. Police in Miami are investigating after
a woman was found dead inside a Dollar Tree store
freezer Sunday morning. Police say a worker at the store
made the discovery. The victims believed to be a thirty
two year old woman. The circumstances surrounding her death are

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not clear, ben investigation continues. The parent company behind rumbub
is filing for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. Massachusetts based I Robot
made the announcement Sunday that it'll be bought up by
Its main manufacturer, vacuum cleaner maker Shinsend. Pissiup I Robot
has sold millions of meaning robots since the room bo
was introduced in two thousand and two. I'm Scott Carr.