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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, President Trump is calling Tuesday a
big day for world peace. Mark Mayfield reports Trump took to.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Truth social on Tuesday night, posting a statement that Iran
has had enough along with everyone else, adding that the
US will be helping with the traffic build up in
the Strait of Hormuz. He went on to add that
there was a lot of positive action and big money
to be made. The announcement comes as Trump suspended the
bombing of Iran for two weeks as part of a
two week ceasefire. Pakistan on Tuesday forwarded to Trump a
ten point peace proposal from Iran that Trump called a
(00:37):
workable basis on which to negotiate a Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mayfield, Georgia voters in the deep red district represented by
Marjorie Taylor Green before her departure from Congress, have chosen
her replacement. Republican Clay Fuller is projected to win the seat,
having defeated Democrat Sean Harris, a retired Army officer. Tuesday's
election was a runoff after both candidates came out on
top in a crowded March tenth special election serve out
(01:00):
the remainder of Green's term following her decision to quit
Congress after falling out with President Trump. Bill Gates is
set to be interviewed by the House Oversight Committee on
June tenth about his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
As according to multiple reports, Gates is one of several
people who have agreed to be interviewed by the oversight panel.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is set to appear before the
(01:22):
committee for his own interview about Epstein on May sixth.
Fuel prices aren't the only thing going up. Starting today,
Delta Airlines is increasing checked bag fees. Carrier will charge
forty five dollars for the first checked bag, and that
price continues to go up from there. The second checked
bag will now cost fifty five dollars. The third checked
bag will cost two hundred. Delta joins other airlines, including
(01:44):
Jet Blue and United in raising baggage fees to offset
the financial impact of high fuel costs. The Los Angeles
home owned by the late Ozzy Osbourne's up for sale.
The Mediterranean style mansion has six bedrooms and eleven bathrooms.
It was originally built in nineteen twenty nine. It's listed
for a cool seventeen million dollars. I'm Tammy Trichiello. Health
(02:06):
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, wants to
broaden their criteria for membership on the CDC's Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Jim Roop reports the panel currently has no members after
a federal judge deemed Kennedy's appointees unqualified. However, the HHS
Secretary published an amended charter Monday, and it is likely
to go into effect soon. Eligibility will now involve geographical
balance and a balance of specialty areas that can include toxicology, immunology, pediatrics,
(02:36):
consumer issues, and academic perspective. I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A woman just married to a US Army soldier is
out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. An Eramos, the
wife of Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, was arrested by ICE
agents on April second, as she showed up at Fort PAULK,
Louisiana to register as a military spouse so she could
receive benefits and began the process of obtaining a green card.
Ramos was born in Honduras, but came to the US
(03:00):
when she was just twenty months old. Her detention drew
criticism from groups that support people brought to the US
illegally as children. Department of Homeland Security officials said Ramos
will have to wear an ankle monitor while removal proceedings continue.
She issued a statement saying she wants to live in
dignity and the only country she's ever known while continuing
her education as a biochemistry student. A bright fireball street
(03:21):
across the sky over New Jersey and several other surrounding
states Tuesday afternoon. Levon Putney has more.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Anyone who looked up in the sky saw it was
not a bird or plane, not Superman either, but a
media streaking across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. The
America Media Society says they got almost two hundred reports
of people seeing it throughout the region around two thirty
ish Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses reported from thirteen of the Garden
States twenty one counties that they saw a bright ball
of light zipping across the sky for several seconds, while
(03:50):
some report it hearing something like thunder as it passed.
I'm Levon Putney.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nasau's Artemist two crew is on the way home after
circling the Moon. The Artemist two is set to spot
uh down off the coast of San Diego, California, on Friday.
I'm Tammy Trujillo.
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, President Trump is calling Tuesday a
big day for world peace. Mark Mayfield reports Trump took to.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Truth social on Tuesday night, posting a statement that Iran
has had enough along with everyone else, adding that the
US will be helping with the traffic build up in
the Strait of Hormuz. He went on to add that
there was a lot of positive action and big money
to be made. The announcement comes as Trump suspended the
bombing of Iran for two weeks as part of a
two week ceasefire. Pakistan on Tuesday forwarded to Trump a
ten point peace proposal from Iran that Trump called a
(00:37):
workable basis on which to negotiate a Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mayfield, Georgia voters in the deep red district represented by
Marjorie Taylor Green before her departure from Congress, have chosen
her replacement. Republican Clay Fuller is projected to win the seat,
having defeated Democrat Sean Harris, a retired Army officer. Tuesday's
election was a runoff after both candidates came out on
top in a crowded March tenth special election serve out
(01:00):
the remainder of Green's term following her decision to quit
Congress after falling out with President Trump. Bill Gates is
set to be interviewed by the House Oversight Committee on
June tenth about his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
As according to multiple reports, Gates is one of several
people who have agreed to be interviewed by the oversight panel.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is set to appear before the
(01:22):
committee for his own interview about Epstein on May sixth.
Fuel prices aren't the only thing going up. Starting today,
Delta Airlines is increasing checked bag fees. Carrier will charge
forty five dollars for the first checked bag, and that
price continues to go up from there. The second checked
bag will now cost fifty five dollars. The third checked
bag will cost two hundred. Delta joins other airlines, including
(01:44):
Jet Blue and United in raising baggage fees to offset
the financial impact of high fuel costs. The Los Angeles
home owned by the late Ozzy Osbourne's up for sale.
The Mediterranean style mansion has six bedrooms and eleven bathrooms.
It was originally built in nineteen twenty nine. It's listed
for a cool seventeen million dollars. I'm Tammy Trichiello. Health
(02:06):
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, wants to
broaden their criteria for membership on the CDC's Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Jim Roop reports the panel currently has no members after
a federal judge deemed Kennedy's appointees unqualified. However, the HHS
Secretary published an amended charter Monday, and it is likely
to go into effect soon. Eligibility will now involve geographical
balance and a balance of specialty areas that can include toxicology, immunology, pediatrics,
(02:36):
consumer issues, and academic perspective. I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A woman just married to a US Army soldier is
out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. An Eramos, the
wife of Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, was arrested by ICE
agents on April second, as she showed up at Fort PAULK,
Louisiana to register as a military spouse so she could
receive benefits and began the process of obtaining a green card.
Ramos was born in Honduras, but came to the US
(03:00):
when she was just twenty months old. Her detention drew
criticism from groups that support people brought to the US
illegally as children. Department of Homeland Security officials said Ramos
will have to wear an ankle monitor while removal proceedings continue.
She issued a statement saying she wants to live in
dignity and the only country she's ever known while continuing
her education as a biochemistry student. A bright fireball street
(03:21):
across the sky over New Jersey and several other surrounding
states Tuesday afternoon. Levon Putney has more.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Anyone who looked up in the sky saw it was
not a bird or plane, not Superman either, but a
media streaking across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. The
America Media Society says they got almost two hundred reports
of people seeing it throughout the region around two thirty
ish Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses reported from thirteen of the Garden
States twenty one counties that they saw a bright ball
of light zipping across the sky for several seconds, while
(03:50):
some report it hearing something like thunder as it passed.
I'm Levon Putney.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nasau's Artemist two crew is on the way home after
circling the Moon. The Artemist two is set to spot
uh down off the coast of San Diego, California, on Friday.
I'm Tammy Trujillo.
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