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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Biya newsis hour. Am Andrea Coleman coming up strong reaction
from a senator who was handcuffed during a press conference
for a Trump official and a friend of Annando Luis
encourages women to learn from her journey. But first, here's
bin news. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
About seven hundred Marines have been sent to Los Angeles
to support the National Guard, but are not on the
streets yet. They're expected to join by tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I pause it that maybe we are part of a
national experiment to determine how far the federal government can
go in reaching in and taking over power from a governor,
power from a local jurisdiction.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Black Mayor Karen Bass reported two hundred arrest overnight and
says the White House is out of line. R Kelly's
lawyers are asking President Trump to free him, claiming a
neo Nazi gang member trying to kill him in prison.
They say his life is in danger and want him
moved to home detention. Kelly is serving thirty years for
racketeering and sex trafficking, and starting January, first, Organ Health

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Planned patients with severe illnesses like sickle cell disease will
get access to gene therapies. The state joined a federal
effort to lower calls. Sickle cell mostly affects black and
Hispanic people, with over half on medicaid. I'm Amber Payton
with bi In News. Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Thanks Amber a Los Angeles mayor Karen Bassis slamming Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Nome after US Senator Alex Padilla was
handcuffed while the secretary was giving a press briefing. Bi
In was on the press call. Senator by Dia held
after the incident.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I
was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The senator had questions afterward.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
If this is how that Apartment of Homeland Security responds
to a senator with a question, you can only imagine
what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to daily
avers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California

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and throughout the country.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Padilla says the Trump administration will be held accountable for
their actions and a press conference earlier today, Bass questioned
how authorities did not recognize one of California's sitting senators.
She went on to criticize Noome, pushing back on her
claims that Los Angeles is a war zone. Bass, who
has black said the protests are confined to a small
area of LA and that the city has a situation

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under control.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Fans of Annanda Lewis have taken to social media to
express their condolences in her passing. The fifty two year
old television host and model died yesterday after a battle
with breast cancer. CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam was a good
friend of hers, and in an interview on the network,
she spoke of seeing Louis a day before she died.
She also encouraged viewers and fans of Lewis to learn

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from her experience.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Because she agreed to be a part of that conversation
with us in October, and because we see what has happened.
I truly believe that both of you have helped save lives.
And I'm so proud of her for being open and
honest and couragious and had this conversation. Because if she
has encouraged anyone to go out there and to get
their mammograms to test, get all the testing done. I

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know it's scary and uncomfortable, but.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Please do it.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Save a life. Be here thrive. That's what she wanted
people to know, and that's what I want people to
know to And it's difficult in these days without her,
but I do think that that is her lasting legacy,
besides all of the other wonderful things she did as
an awesome mom, auntie and friend. She was an awesome
auntie to my daughter too.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Lowis reportedly had concerns about radiation and did not get
regular mammograms, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
recommend women between the ages of forty and seventy four
get every two years. While a highly lauded gymnastics program
at historically Blackfisk University is coming to an end, and
a press release, school officials say the program will run

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through the end of the twenty twenty five twenty six
academic school year. The program launched in January of twenty
twenty three. According to Essence, the program struggled with training
and scheduling meets because gymnastics is not a sanctioned sport
under the HBCU Athletic Conference, to which Fisk belongs. A
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