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The Latest: 07/06/2025 04:59am ET

Jul 06, 20254 min
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All the latest national and international news. Topics also include finance, weather and entertainment.

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This is your twenty four to seven use update.

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The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

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Many residents along the Atlantic Coast will soon face a new threat as South Carolina is bracing for tropical Storm Chantal. The storm now has sustained winds of sixty miles per hour and is about seventy miles east of Charlestown. The center of the storm is expected to make landfall in the next few hours and is expected to create storm force winds in a one hundred and forty mile radius.

Chantal is creating hazardous conditions along the coast, including heavy rain that could cause flash flooding, rip current and life threatening serf The search continues through the night for those still missing from the deadly flooding in central Texas. Over fifty people were killed in Friday's catastrophic flooding northwest of San Antonio, including twenty eight adults and fifteen children. Homeland Security Chief Christy Nomes says the Coast Guard is assisting

in search and recovery efforts. Heavy rain and the threat of dangerous flash flooding continues through Sunday. The remains of seven bodies had been recovered after an explosion at a California fireworks warehouse. Phil Farrar has the latest.

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Yolo County sheriffs and fire departments say arsen experts used a series of detonations to clear the way to search for those seven who were missing. Officials are confirming three of the bodies inside were brothers. That fatal explosion happened if the devastating pyrotechnic swarehouse. Authority say it was not permitted to house fireworks inside that structure. Investigators say that property was owned by a Yolo County Lieutenant sheriff.

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I'm Phil Farrar, and two people are dead after multiple shootings in downtown Indianapolis. Police say gunfire erupted just before one thirty Saturday morning and found one person was dead at the scene. Six others, including three adults and three juveniles, were taken to the hospital, where one of them later died. Seven people were detained for questioning. And that's the very latest. I'm Jim Forbes. Kelly Clarkson has pulled the plug on

the weekend opener of her Las Vegas residency. Lisa Carton has more What Doesn't Kill You Makes a Side?

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The show was postponed just hours before the first performance was scheduled. Clarkson announced the change on Instagram, writing quote, I am devastated to have to postpone tonight and tomorrow's opening at Caesar's The Residency, titled Kelly Clarkson Studio Sessions, was originally set for eight pm on July fourth and fifth. Clarkson's website now shows a date in time to be announced descriptor on Ticketmaster, I'm Lisa Carton.

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Officials in Alaska are floating the idea of a bear Alcatraz to house migrants in the northern state. Florida has been getting a lot of media attention for opening a migrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. White House Policy Advisor Stephen Miller has called on Republican governors to work with the administration to build migrant facilities in all red states. New York Governor Kathy hoche was declaring congestion pricing a huge success and says it's creating a

better life for New Yorkers. Lisa Salvadi has this story.

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Hochel says that in its first six months, congestion pricing has reduced traffic, boosted business, and increased ridership on mass transit. She added. It has also raised revenues to allow for critical capital improvements to subways, buses, the Long Island Railroad, and Metro North commuter lines, and is on track to reach the forecast at five hundred million dollar mark by

the year's end. Congestion pricing went into effect January fifth, and charges drivers a toll to enter Manhattan below sixtieth Street. I'm Lisa Selvadi.

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And a five year old boy was among the seven people who suffered severe burns after a boat exploded on a Georgia lake. The Hill County Sheriff's Office says a cabin cruiser was being towed on Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta. I'm Jim Forbes

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