Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update.
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Speaker 1: Sunday was day three of search and rescue operations after
Speaker 1: flash flooding killed at least eighty people in central Texas,
Speaker 1: including at least twenty eight children in Kerr County, where
Speaker 1: ten girls and one counselor from Camp Mystic are still
Speaker 1: unaccounted for. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday that search
Speaker 1: and rescue efforts will continue around the clock.
Speaker 3: We will remain one hundred percent dedicated searching for every
Speaker 3: single one of the children who were at Camp Mystic,
Speaker 3: as well as anybody else in the entire river bed,
Speaker 3: to make sure that they're going to be recovered.
Speaker 1: He added that flash flooding is still a danger as
Speaker 1: more rain is in the forecast. President Trump announced he
Speaker 1: signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County, where most
Speaker 1: of the deaths happened. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is
Speaker 1: taking aim at President Trump's newly signed A Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 1: Appearing on ABC's This Week, Summers said the GOP megabill
Speaker 1: is a step in the wrong direction for the country.
Speaker 1: This is a shameful act by our Congress and by
Speaker 1: our president, that is going to set our country back.
Speaker 1: The legislation includes over four trillion dollars in tax reductions,
Speaker 1: which the administration claims will benefit working class Americans. Top
Speaker 1: Democrats posted their reactions on social media, with Senator Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer claiming the new bill was a betrayal of US citizens.
Speaker 1: Today was expected to be the busiest travel day of
Speaker 1: the long fourth of July holiday weekend. Triple A expected
Speaker 1: more than seventy two million people were on the move
Speaker 1: during the holiday period that started on June twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: That's an additional one point three million road travelers as
Speaker 1: compared to twenty twenty four. It also says five point
Speaker 1: eighty four million people flew to their destinations, a new record.
Speaker 1: Mexico has won its record tenth CONCACAF Gold Cup title,
Speaker 1: defeating the US two to one on Sunday in Houston.
Speaker 1: Mexico scored a tie breaking goal in the seventy seventh
Speaker 1: minute after a video review reversed an offside call. It
Speaker 1: was the last competitive match for both country before co
Speaker 1: hosting next year's World Cup with Canada. I'm Tammy trheo
Speaker 1: elon Musk says he's forming a new political party. Rob
Speaker 1: Martyr explains.
Speaker 2: He announced the creation of the America Party on x
Speaker 2: a day after posting a poll asking users if they
Speaker 2: support making a new party. Musk said the party will
Speaker 2: give Americans quote back your freedom the world's richest man.
Speaker 2: Went on to say the party would caucus independently and
Speaker 2: could focus on just a few seats in the Senate
Speaker 2: and the House of Representatives. It's unclear if the party
Speaker 2: has been officially registered. I'm Rob Martyer.
Speaker 1: The measles outbreak that began earlier this year in an
Speaker 1: unvaccinated community in West Texas has become the worst since
Speaker 1: the disease was declared eradicated twenty five years ago. Data
Speaker 1: from the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at John Hopkins
Speaker 1: University shows there have been nearly thirteen hundred confirmed cases
Speaker 1: of measles so far this year, that exceeds the previous
Speaker 1: peak for all of twenty nineteen. The outbreak has led
Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty five people being hospitalized, with
Speaker 1: three con frons deaths. There's data from an organization based
Speaker 1: in Washington State showing that sixty six UFOs have been
Speaker 1: spotted in the skies over New York. So far this year,
Speaker 1: Sarah le Kessler reports.
Speaker 4: There are reports of everything from zigzag and green orbs
Speaker 4: and white flying saucers chased by helicopters. The reports include
Speaker 4: sightings filed by people looking skyward in New York City,
Speaker 4: Long Island, and in upstate towns. They're documented by the
Speaker 4: National UFO Reporting Council, not independently verified. The council says
Speaker 4: over the past thirty years, there have been sixty two
Speaker 4: hundred UFO sightings in New York. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 1: The Louisville Zoo is losing one of its longtime family members,
Speaker 1: Cecil the Gorilla is moving out west to a one
Speaker 1: acre habitat at the San Francisco Zoo. Cecil has called
Speaker 1: Kentucky home for the past twenty one years, but this
Speaker 1: move will give him a chance to lead his own
Speaker 1: gorilla group. The move is part of the Gorilla species
Speaker 1: Survival Plan, which identified Cecil as a candidate for a leadership.
Speaker 1: A farewell celebrations planned for July twelfth. I'm Tammy for
Speaker 1: Hyo