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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour at just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Texas is ground zero in the battle of for congressional
House seats. House Democrats are leaving the lone Star state
in a bid to stop Republicans from advancing maps that
would give the GOP five more pickup opportunities ahead of
twenty twenty six. The move denies Republicans the minimum number
of lawmakers needed present in order to be able to
conduct legislation. Stocks are surging on Wall Street. It comes

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after a selloff on Friday related to tariffs and a
worse than expected July jobs report. The Dow Jones has
been trading five hundred points higher at times today. President
Trump says the lackluster July jobs report is a scam.
The report said the US economy added just seventy three
thousand jobs last month, well below estimates. It also revised
the May and June numbers downward by more than two

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hundred thousand jobs combined. Trump fired the head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her of being politically motivated,
and called the numbers rugged. He said he will pick
an exceptional replacement for the job heavy rain and flood
threats have millions in the Southeast on alert. It comes
after Alabama was hit with deadly flooding yesterday that killed
one person. The same cold front that helped develop tropical

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Storm Dexter off the coast of the mid Atlantic will
bring a separate threat to some Southeastern states throughout the
week and could stretch into the weekend. It's been one
month since a deadly flood swept across the Texas Hill Country.
An organization supporting ongoing relief efforts is shifting to a
long term focus dedicated to helping residents return home. And
we're going to do it with hope and resilience and

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responsiveness and a steady hand for the long term. Austin
Dixon heads the Community Foundation, which has raised over one
hundred million dollars in flood relief. COVID nineteen cases are
rising in the US, but still remain relatively low. CDC
data based on emergency department visits as of July twenty ninth,
found that the virus is trending up in many mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southern,

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and West Coast states. Emergency department visits were highest for
children younger than four years of age, which experts said
makes sense because many remain unvaccinated. I'm Chris Crash you.
Today we're celebrating National Coast Guard Day and it's more
than fifty one thousand members nationwide. Pre Tennis now with more.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
The Coast Guard was commissioned in seventeen ninety by President
George Washington with ten high speed at the time, sailing
ships with armed personnel to infest tariffs and stop smuggling
along our coasts. Today there's more than two hundred and
fifty super high speed vessels on the water, and there
is a Hollywood connection. They count Humphrey Bogart, Walter Cronkite,

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and Lloyd and Jeff Bridges as past members.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm pre Tennis and it's not only National Coast Guard Day,
it's also National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. A recent survey
conducted by One poll on behalf of Crumble cookies found
chocolate chip ranked as America's favorite cookie, with over sixty
percent of respondents saying enjoying a cookie can actually turn
a bad day into a good one. The same survey
also found adults savored an average of twenty one cookies

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a month. Family, friends, and community leaders are remembering Raman Ali,
Muhammad Ali's younger brother who passed away Friday night after
a long illness. Raman Ali was eighty two. They were
born only eighteen months apart and were described as inseparable.
He was Mohammad's sparring partner and joined his older brother's
community activism in Louisville. His nephew, Sean Ali Waddell says

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Raman and Muhammad were unbreakable as a team, and Raman
was known for providing Mohammed with inspiration during his fights.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is under way in South Dakota.
Thousands of bikers have already arrived in the city for
the eighty fifth annual rally, with Sturgis officials projecting over
seven hundred thousand guests will attend. Police are urging attendees

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to be safe on the roads and avoid drinking and riding.
The rally runs through August tenth, and in music history
news on this date. Back in nineteen seventy, the doors
Jim Morrison was arrested and charged with public drunkenness in
Los Angeles. He'd fallen asleep on a woman's porch. This
was his final arrest before his death on July third,
nineteen seventy one. I'm Chris Caragio.