Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 1: three of search and recovery efforts after catastrophic flooding killed
Speaker 1: at least seventy people in central Texas. At a news
Speaker 1: conference earlier today, Kirk County Sheriff Larry Leitha revised the
Speaker 1: death toll to fifty nine this morning in his county alone.
Speaker 1: The sheriff said thirty eight of the victims were adults
Speaker 1: and twenty one were children. Texas Governor Greg Abbott we
Speaker 1: continue twenty four to seven operations to search for anybody
Speaker 1: who was affected by that deadly storm. Official set. Eleven
Speaker 1: girls from a summer camp on the banks of the
Speaker 1: Guadalupe River remain missing. Deaths have been reported in six
Speaker 1: Texas counties. Never shy, President Trump is letting his true
Speaker 1: feelings known about Elon Musk's announcement that he's starting a
Speaker 1: third party.
Speaker 2: And I think starting a third party just heads to confusion.
Speaker 1: It really seems to have been.
Speaker 2: Developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked, so
Speaker 2: he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Musk announced the America Party on x Saturday, and claimed quotes,
Speaker 1: when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft,
Speaker 1: we live in a one party system, not a democracy.
Speaker 1: Musk was a vocal critic of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill,
Speaker 1: which was signed into law Friday. Crews are slowly making
Speaker 1: progress in battling California's largest wildfire of the year. The
Speaker 1: Madre Fire started on Wednesday afternoon and has burned nearly
Speaker 1: eighty thousand acres and is about thirty percent contained. The
Speaker 1: fire has prompted highway closures in San Luis Obispo County,
Speaker 1: along with evacuation orders and warnings. CalFire says that more
Speaker 1: than six hundred personnel are fighting the blaze. Video of
Speaker 1: a crack in the Space Needle's glass floor went viral.
Speaker 1: Operators of the Space Needle say it's not a problem.
Speaker 1: The part with an apparent crack is called the scuff plate.
Speaker 1: It's the layer of glass that's on top of ten
Speaker 1: layers of glass that provide the floor's strength. The scuff
Speaker 1: plate is replaced twice a year. If they compare it
Speaker 1: to a glass screen protector you would use on your
Speaker 1: cell phone to protect the phone's main screen. I'm rob martyr.
Speaker 1: The remains of seven bodies have been recovered from the
Speaker 1: debris of a fireworks warehouse that exploded in northern California.
Speaker 1: The blast happened on Tuesday, about forty miles west of Sacramento,
Speaker 1: sending clouds of smoke billowing thousands of feet into the air.
Speaker 1: Yolo County officials say the warehouse was not permitted to
Speaker 1: house fireworks. The twenty twenty five measles outbreak, which began
Speaker 1: in a mostly unvaccinated community in West Texas, is turning
Speaker 1: out to be the worst since the disease was declared
Speaker 1: eradicated twenty five years ago. Data from the Center for
Speaker 1: Outbreak Response Innovation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University shows there
Speaker 1: have been one thousand, two hundred and seventy seven confirmed
Speaker 1: cases so far this year. That exceeds the previous peak
Speaker 1: of one thousand, two hundred and seventy four for all
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. After seventy six years in business, a
Speaker 1: mainstay of Manhattan's meatpacking district is closing its doors. Larry
Speaker 1: Koski with the story.
Speaker 2: Hector's Cafe and Diner will serve its last meal on
Speaker 2: July eighteenth. It announced its closure with a sign on
Speaker 2: the door Friday. It reads, in part, thank you for
Speaker 2: your support over the years. It's been a joy to
Speaker 2: serve you and we're proud of the memories we've created together.
Speaker 2: ABC seven reports The owners say they're making way for
Speaker 2: a new housing development, which will also displace the last
Speaker 2: meat packing business still remaining in the district.
Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of heavy metal fans showed up Saturday
Speaker 1: nights for the final performance of Ozzy Osbourne, rock legend,
Speaker 1: reunited with his band Black Sabbath at a packed soccer
Speaker 1: stadium in Birmingham, England, Saturday for a day long heavy
Speaker 1: metal festival called Back to the Beginning. It featured a
Speaker 1: lineup of rock luminaries playing tribute to the band Metallica.
Speaker 1: Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Stephen Tyler and The Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1: Ronnie Wood were among the stars performing at the events.
Speaker 1: The concert ended with a final performance by Black Sabbath
Speaker 1: and a solo performance by Osborne, who is now seventy
Speaker 1: six years old. I'm Rob Martyre.