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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Hollywood director
Rob Reiner is dead at the age of seventy eight.
Reiner and his wife Michelle were found dead inside their
home in the Brentwood neighborhood of La Sunday from an
apparent stabbing. The New York Post reports the couple's thirty

(00:21):
two year old son, Nick, is being eyed as a
possible suspect, though LAPD Deputy Chief Allan Hamilton told reporters
last night no one's been detained and no one's being
questioned as a suspect.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
There's been no reports for the neighbors regarding hearing anything
or seeing anything that we can release to the public.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Reiner directed The Princess Bride and The Spinal Tap movies.
After a deadly mass shooting over the weekend on campus,
all remaining classes are canceled at Rhode Islands Brown University.
A man in his thirties was taken into custody at
a Hampton in early Sunday in Coventry, Rhode Island, about
twenty miles from the Brown campus, hours after two people
were killed nine others injured when a gunman opened fire

(00:59):
in a first floor class room in an engineering building
Saturday afternoon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's blaming the Australian
government for encouraging anti Semitism after a shooting at a
Jewish celebration at a Sydney beach. Netnahou set Australian Prime
Minister Anthony Albanizi's policies, including the recognition of a Palestinian

(01:19):
state in September, had encouraged jew hatred.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I sent Prime Minister Albanize of Australia a letter in
which I gave him warning that the Australian government's policy
was promoting an encouraging anti Semitism in Australia.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
The attack left at least fifteen people dead dozens more wounded.
Easily Topping the domestic box office over the weekend was
z Utopia two.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
No snake has set foot in Utopia in Forever.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Here's the sequel, made over twenty six million dollars domestically,
coming in ahead of five Nights at Freddie's two and
Wicked for Good. I'm Scott Carr. The Trump administration has
until Friday to release the so called Jeffrey Epstein Files.
The deadline set under the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed

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by Congress last month to make public the records of
the late sex offender who allegedly trafficked in underage girls.
In Sunday football, LA's Chargers skimmed past the Chiefs with
a sixteen to thirteen victory at Arrowhead. Justin Herbert threw
for two hundred and ten yards, a touchdown and a pick.
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert says, they managed to get through

(02:36):
some adversity.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
We know that we got a job to do and
you know, no one else is coming to save us.
So those guys that have stepped in on the offensive line,
running backs, you know, they're playing for each other, They're
playing for the group, and you know, I think it's
really cool to see.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Patrick Mahomes scored the Chiefs loan touchdown of the game
with a twelve yard run. Now, Kansas City has been
officially eliminated from the postseason after falling to six and eight. Meantime,
Pittsburgh Steelers will try to keep their modest AFC North
lead than a Monday night football clash tonight against the
Dolphins from Pittsburgh. A new report is claiming there's not

(03:10):
much evidence to support the benefits of medical cannabis, and
it says, as Tammy Trichello tells us, there could be
hidden risks.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
The study you published this month in the journal JAMMA
found that some FDA approved drugs containing marijuana's active ingredient
THHC do provide benefits for things like chemotherapy, induce nausea
and boosting weight in HIV patients. Use of cannabis for
pain management, however, didn't have any solid clinical evidence of effectiveness.
The researchers say there are real dangers, citing evidence at

(03:38):
adolescents using high potency cannabis have a higher chance of
developing psychotic symptoms. I'm Tammy Tricho.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
The Monday Night powerball drawing will be worth more than
a billion dollars after no one matched all six numbers
in Saturday night's drawing and already massive jackpot jumped again,
now standing at one point one billion dollars. The odds
of winning the grand Prime are about one in two
hundred ninety two million. I'm Scott Carr.