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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our area was battered by thunderstorms last night, and according
to AEP, there are still over nine hundred customers in
Island County without power. It is expected that electricity will
be restored by four o'clock this afternoon. Over one thousand
customers in van Ward are still without power this morning,
plus over six hundred more in Hardin County. In the
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city of Lima, they have a phone number to call
if you need help with down trees and other issues.
The trouble truck number is two two one fifty one
sixty five. Also to report down power lines, you should
contact AEP. Ohio eight hundred six seven to two two
two three one that storm sent power lines onto IS
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seventy five near Vandalia last night. The Highway Patrol says
a high voltage line came down during a thunderstorm just
before seven o'clock. It closed IE seventy five for hours
in both directions at US forty design plans for adding
a bridge span to one major connection between Ohio and
Kentucky have been made public. The one ends. Jared Allen
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reports with comments from Governor Mike Dwine.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Photos and video renderings of the future addition to the
Princepn's bridge are now public. The bridge carries I seventy
one and seventy five over the Ohio River between Cincinnati
and northern Kentucky. Governor Dwine and Kentucky's Governor made the
announcement Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
One of this bridge could be cost effective to work
for motorists going back and forth, be functional, but we
also wanted to look good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The new bridge span is scheduled for completion in twenty
thirty two.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's the oen n's Jared Allen reporting. As the fighting
in the Middle East continues between Iran and Israel, President
Trump has weighed in on US involvement in the conflict.
Fox says Lucas Tomlinson has the details from the White
House as the President prepares to receive and intelligence briefing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
The US Embassy and Jerusalem remains closed. Through Friday's President
Trump continues to weigh whether or not to launch airstrikes
against Iran. Here's the President yesterday, they should have looked.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
They should have made the deal. I had a great
deal for them. They should have made that deal. Sixty
days we talked about it, and in the end they
decided not to do it. And now they wish they
did it, and they want to meet, but it's late
to meet. But they want to meet, and they want
to come to the White House. I'll even come to
the White House, so we'll see. I may do that.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
The Iranians rejected that, saying they will not be coming
to Washington his mission. The un posting no Iranian official
has ever asked to grovel with the gates of the
White House. The only thing more despicable than his lies
is his cowardly threat to take out around Supreme Leader.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's fox as Lucas Tomlinson. With that report, missile exchanges
between Israel and Iran have been going on for nearly
a week now. At least three Ohio lawmakers were on
the alleged hit list created by Vance Bolter. He's the
man accused of killing Minnesota State rep. Melissa Hartman and
her husband Mark and wounding a second legislator and his wife.
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Cincinnati area Congressman Greg Landsman, Toledo area Congresswoman Marcie Chapter
In Columbus area congress Woman Joyce Beatty were reportedly found
on a list of forty five state man federal elected
officials who were being targeted by Bolter. Who was arrested
following a massive manhunt. Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld a
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ban on so called gender affirming care in Tennessee. Fox's
Shannon breem As details.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the six to three majority,
said Tennessee's law passes constitutional muster quote. Our role is
not to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic of the
law before us, but only to ensure that it does
not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its
policy to the people. They're elected representatives and the democratic process.
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But writing the primary dissent in this case, Justice Sotomayer
said today's decision does irrevocable damage to the equal protection clause.
She adds it also authorizes, without second thought, untold arm
to transgendered children and the parents and families who love them.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's Fox's Shannon Bram reporting in Washington. Tennessee's Republican officials,
including the state's attorney general, called the opinion a landmark victory,
and a bill that would ban police ticket quotas is
on its way to Governor Dwin's desk. Senate Bill one
fourteen would create a reporting system for officials to use
to report their departments if they don't comply. Supporters say
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the bill would eliminate unnecessary tickets handed out to increase
the bottom lines of local governments. The bill awaits the
governor's signature after it made it through the State House
without a single vote in opposition. For the latest news
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