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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update the

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Speaker 1: latest views this hour in just four minutes.

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Speaker 2: Travelers at airports nationwide are getting hit with long lines

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Speaker 2: in bad weather. Delays and cancelations are starting to pile

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Speaker 2: up as a line of thunderstorms hit the East Coast

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Speaker 2: as far south as Florida. Flight Aware reports over eleven

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Speaker 2: hundred flights have been canceled with seventy four hundred delays,

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Speaker 2: and major airports are reporting long security lines due to

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Speaker 2: the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. TSA

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Speaker 2: says its agents are fully stretched as they work without pay.

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Speaker 2: President Trump is taking part in the annual Shamrock Bowl

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Speaker 2: presentation at the White House. Prime Minister Miehl Martin presented

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Speaker 2: Trump with the bowl as a gift to highlight the

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Speaker 2: importance of the US Ireland relationship.

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Speaker 3: The special day we gather here to celebrate an incredible

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Speaker 3: feed of friendship between Ireland and the wonderful place that

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Speaker 3: we call the United States.

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Speaker 2: The event began during the President Truman administration in nineteen

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Speaker 2: fifty two. It caps a day full of Irish themed

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Speaker 2: events for the President on this Saint Patrick's Day, including

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Speaker 2: a one on one meeting with Martin earlier in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office. The FED is set to announce its second

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Speaker 2: interest rate decision of this year tomorrow. Here's Tammy Trehiel.

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Speaker 1: The Central Bank is widely expected to hold its benchmark

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Speaker 1: interest rate unchanged when it wraps up a two day

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Speaker 1: meeting on Wednesday. FED Chair Jerome Powell will hold a

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Speaker 1: press conference following the announcement. His remarks will be coming

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Speaker 1: just days after a federal judge block subpoenas served against

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Speaker 1: him by the Justice Department related to a renovation management probe.

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Speaker 1: This all comes as President Trump has continued to pressure

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Speaker 1: Powell to more aggressively lower interest rates.

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Speaker 2: Voters are casting ballots in Illinois's primary election ahead of

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Speaker 2: the fall midterms. That election will include an open US

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Speaker 2: Senate seat. That race has three front runner candidates, Illinois

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton and US Representatives Rajah Krishna Mordi

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Speaker 2: and Robin Kelly. The candidates are looking to replace retiring

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Speaker 2: Democratic Senator Dick Durbin. There are also multiple open congressional

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Speaker 2: seats up for grabs. I'm Melissa Carton. In Colorado, workers

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Speaker 2: are on strike at one of the country's largest meat

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Speaker 2: packing companies. Thousands of union workers took to the picket

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Speaker 2: lines at the JBS owned Swift Beef Plant and Greeley yesterday,

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Speaker 2: demanding better wages and safer working conditions.

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Speaker 1: We need a.

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Speaker 2: Good contract for our people, and I hope this shows

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Speaker 2: them listen, we're serious. Pay attention. The walkout of about

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Speaker 2: thirty eight hundred workers began after their previous contract expired,

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Speaker 2: as union officials accused JBS of unfair labor practices and retaliation.

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Speaker 2: According to JBS, the union walked away from negotiations, while

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Speaker 2: the company stands by its contract offer and calls it fair.

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Speaker 2: Nearly all unionized workers at the plant voted in favor

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Speaker 2: of the strike when it was authorized in early February.

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Speaker 2: JBS as it's ramping up beef processing at other locations

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Speaker 2: to satisfy the beef demand in the country. Monetary donations

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Speaker 2: are being accepted to the Nebraska Cattleman to Disaster Relief Fund,

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Speaker 2: and they're also accepting relief applications to assist beef cattle

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Speaker 2: producers who are being impacted by wildfires.

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Speaker 3: I think initially, you know, the shock of a seven

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand plus acre impacted area by these multiple fires

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Speaker 3: has been something that's been really challenging to deal with,

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Speaker 3: and yet we've seen the resilience of the ad community

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Speaker 3: coming together to support each other.

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Speaker 2: Nebraska Cattleman Executive vice president Laura Field. She says one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent of the monetary donations to the five oh

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Speaker 2: one to three c are paid back to those who

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Speaker 2: are affected, and they do not have to be members

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Speaker 2: of Nebraska Cattlemen.

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Speaker 3: Gay Swell, Younglin Ready fans like Top Penny, y'all, just.

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Speaker 2: Petty eighty Lil Wayne is hitting the road this summer.

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Speaker 2: The rapper announced an extension of his The Carter twentieth

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Speaker 2: Anniversary Tour. Weezy will start in Banger, Maine, on June thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: and he'll wrap up in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October twenty third.

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Speaker 2: He'll be joined by two Chains and the Game on

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Speaker 2: select dates. Tickets go on sale Friday. I'm me Lissa

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Speaker 2: Carton