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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, i'mde kutleggy.

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Speaker 1: Teams of engineers are working on the intricate process of

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Speaker 1: cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from

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Speaker 1: the collapse Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland. The bridge

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Speaker 1: crumpled into the Patapsco River Tuesday after a massive cargo

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Speaker 1: ship crashed into one of its main supports. Sparks could

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Speaker 1: be seen flying from a section of bent and crumpled steel.

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, the US Coast Guard confirmed that work has

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Speaker 1: started to remove a section of the toppled structure. Coastguard

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Speaker 1: Rear Admiral Shennon Gilraith said Saturday that crews are carefully

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Speaker 1: measuring and cutting the steel from the broken bridge before

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Speaker 1: attaching straps so it can be lifted onto a barge

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Speaker 1: and floated away. Seven floating cranes, including a massive one

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Speaker 1: capable of lifting one thousand tons, as well as ten tugboats,

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Speaker 1: nine barches, eight salvage vessels, and five Coastguard boats are

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Speaker 1: on site in the water southeast of Baltimore, Maryland. Governor

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Speaker 1: Westmore said each movement affects what happens next and ultimately

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Speaker 1: how long it will take to remove all the debris

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Speaker 1: and reopen the ship channel on the blocked port of Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: The anti climactic presidential primary season continues. President Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: has won North Dakota's Democratic presidential primary. The state party

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Speaker 1: on Saturday announced the results of the mostly mail in primary.

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Speaker 1: The party began circulating ballots in February to voters who

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Speaker 1: asked for them. Biden's victory was virtually assured, though seven

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Speaker 1: other candidates were on the primary ballot. Former President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump won the North Dakota Republican Party's March fourth presidential caucuses,

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Speaker 1: taking all twenty nine delegates. Biden and Trump have already

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Speaker 1: secured enough delegates for their party's nominations, lining up the

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Speaker 1: first presidential rematch election since nineteen fifty six. And international

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Speaker 1: charity says a three ship convoy has left a port

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Speaker 1: in Cyprus to deliver four hundred tons of food and

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Speaker 1: other supplies to Gaza as concerns about hunger sore. World

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Speaker 1: Central Kitchen said. The vessels and a barge are carrying

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Speaker 1: ready to eat items like rice, pasta, flour, leagomes, canned

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Speaker 1: vegetables and proteins. The charity said that's enough to prepare

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Speaker 1: more than one million meals. It also has a ship

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Speaker 1: mint of dates provided by the United Arab Emirates. Dates

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Speaker 1: are traditionally eaten to break the daily fast during the

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Speaker 1: holy month of Ramadan. A ship inaugurated the direct sea

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Speaker 1: route to the Palestinian territory earlier this month with two

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Speaker 1: hundred tons of food, water, and other aid. The United

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Speaker 1: Nations and partners have warned that famine could occur and

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Speaker 1: devastated largely isolated northern Gaza as early as this month.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a busy week for economic data ahead, combinating

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Speaker 1: with the March jobs report. Bloomberg's Karen Moscow has more.

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Speaker 2: The employment report for March is out on Friday, and

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Speaker 2: it could show non farm payrolls fell to two hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixteen thousand, as well as a slight decline in

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Speaker 2: the unemployment rate to three point eight percent. We begin

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Speaker 2: the week with a look at ISM manufacturing on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Tuesday is a jul jobs report, as well as factory

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Speaker 2: orders and durable goods orders. Wednesday we get a look

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Speaker 2: at private pay rolls from ADP Research Institute, as well

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Speaker 2: as the ISM Services Index, and Thursday it's the trade

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Speaker 2: balance and the weekly report on initial jobless claims. Karen

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Speaker 2: Moscow Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Crypto's social media firm is getting some attention this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini explains why.

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Speaker 3: We're hearing that a developer of software for decentralized social

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Speaker 3: media networks, founded by two former coinbased global execs, is

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Speaker 3: now close to completing a funding round valuing the company

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Speaker 3: at about a billion dollars. And sources say the crypto

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Speaker 3: investment firm Paradigm is leading the investment into Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: based Merkele Manufactory, and they say mercle software underpins the

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Speaker 3: Parcasters social media network. Merkel has two main products, the

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Speaker 3: Farcaster protocol with a blockchain component and Warpcast that's an

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Speaker 3: app built on top of Farcaster similar to the social

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Speaker 3: media platform x and the Farcaster ecosystem is also introduced

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Speaker 3: a feature called frames. It gives developers a window to

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Speaker 3: display functionality of a external apps without forcing users to

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Speaker 3: click away from warpcasts. Interestingly, developers are using the frames

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Speaker 3: feature to run poles, play chests, and even to mint

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Speaker 3: non fungible tokens. The block Research says the number of

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Speaker 3: daily active users on the Forcaster network jumped after that introduction.

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Speaker 3: Denise Pelgrity Bloomberg Radio and.

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Speaker 1: More accusations are being leveled against the largest social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Nazy Lions reports.

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Speaker 4: Schools in some of Canada's largest cities are the latest

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Speaker 4: to file suit against the companies behind Facebook, TikTok, and Snapchat,

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Speaker 4: saying the platforms are harming children. The suit claims the

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Speaker 4: companies deliberately target children with products designed to create compulsive behavior,

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Speaker 4: causing disruption in the classroom and making kids more vulnerable

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Speaker 4: to sexual abuse and exploitation. Similar claims have been made

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Speaker 4: by hundreds of US school districts. I'm Nancy Lions Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And that's news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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