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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Krisner. The Islamic State has claimed a responsibility for

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's attack in Iran that killed dozens. Two explosions took

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Speaker 1: place within fifteen minutes of each other outside a graveyard

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Speaker 1: where a crowd gathered to commemorate the death of Cassem

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Speaker 1: SOLMANI here is Bloomberg's Daniel Flatley.

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Speaker 2: There was a long standing grudge, as I said, between

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Speaker 2: the two and this is just a very dramatic chapter

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Speaker 2: in this sort of ongoing saga. Various groups sort of

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Speaker 2: buying for power in the Middle East, and very much unexpected.

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Speaker 2: And of course initially Iran was looking to the US

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Speaker 2: and to Israel for responsibility, but the Islamic State has

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Speaker 2: claimed that. So we are where we are now.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Daniel Flatley. Meantime, Secretary of State Anthony

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Speaker 1: Blinken is headed to the Midiast to meet with officials

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Speaker 1: in Israel and other countries. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller

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Speaker 1: says one of Blenken's objected is to address concerns about

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Speaker 1: the war between Israel and Thomas spreading in the region.

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Speaker 3: He will discuss specific steps parties can take, including how

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Speaker 3: they can use their influence with others in the region

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Speaker 3: to avoid escalation. It is in no one's interest, not Israel's,

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Speaker 3: not the regions, not the worlds, for this conflict to

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Speaker 3: spread beyond Gaza.

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Speaker 1: That is State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. He also said

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Speaker 1: that Blincoln will press the Israeli government to do more

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Speaker 1: to protect innocent civilians in Gaza. There's been another school

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Speaker 1: shooting in the US, this time in Perry, Iowa. The

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Speaker 1: gunman was identified as a seventeen year old. He was

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Speaker 1: found dead with a self inflicted gunshot wound. Mitch Mortvett

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Speaker 1: is assistant director of Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation.

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Speaker 4: There are six victims, one of them who is deceased.

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Speaker 4: That individual was a sixth grade student at Perry Middle School.

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Speaker 4: The other five are being treated at area hospitals. Before

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Speaker 4: the victims surviving victims are students, and the fifth is

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Speaker 4: a school administrator.

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Speaker 1: That is Mitch Mortfett of Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation.

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Speaker 1: New York City is suing seventeen charter bus companies for

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Speaker 1: the cost involved in transporting migrants. Now since the spring

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has given

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Speaker 1: bus tickets to tens of thousands of migrants as part

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Speaker 1: of a program to relocate them out of his state

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Speaker 1: to cities like New York. New York City said the

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Speaker 1: bus companies violated state restrictions on abandoning needy persons in

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Speaker 1: New York and they should pay seven hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: to cover the cost of caring for an estimated thirty

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Speaker 1: three thousand migrants. North Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic

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Speaker 1: missile launchers and several ballistic missiles. US National Security Council

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Speaker 1: spokesman John Kirby says these.

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Speaker 5: North Korean ballistic missiles are capable ranges of approximately nine

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Speaker 5: hundred kilometers. It's about five hundred and fifty miles. This

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Speaker 5: is a significant and concerning escalation in the DPRK support

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Speaker 5: for Russia.

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Speaker 1: Herbie went on to say the US also believes Russia

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Speaker 1: is trying to secure weapons from Iran. Japan is making

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Speaker 1: a last ditch effort to find survivors from the earthquake,

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Speaker 1: which struck on New Year's Day. Authorities have released a

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Speaker 1: list of more than fifty people whose whereabouts are still unknown.

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Speaker 1: About forty six hundred personnel and sniffer dogs have been

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Speaker 1: deployed to help in the rescue and relief efforts. The

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Speaker 1: latest death toll is now up to at least eighty

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Speaker 1: four in the States. The employment report for the month

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Speaker 1: of December is due in less than ten hours at

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Speaker 1: eight thirty am Wall Street Time. Bloomberg's Michael McKee has

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Speaker 1: a preview.

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Speaker 6: The central bankers want job growth of about one hundred

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Speaker 6: thousand a month and unemployment in the fours to signal

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Speaker 6: an easing of labor market inflation pressures. Instead, they're likely

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Speaker 6: to get a continuing conundrum, a strong labor market but

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Speaker 6: falling inflation, making it hard to know the best path

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Speaker 6: for interest rates. They will probably focus on the composition

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Speaker 6: of jobs. Some analysts say job growth should be concentrated

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Speaker 6: in low wage sectors like healthcare, assistants and restaurants, and

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Speaker 6: that will be the sign the Fed wants that the

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Speaker 6: economy is slowing. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Krisner, and this is Bloomberg