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Search and recovery efforts are underway for a third day after catastrophic flooding killed at least seventy people in central Texas. Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha revised the death toll to fifty nine this morning in his county alone. The sheriff said thirty eight of the victims were adults and twenty one were children.
We continue to work around the clock and reunite these families.
We will continue to search until everybody is found. Official said. Eleven girls from a summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River remain missing. Deaths have been reported in six counties in Texas. President Trump announced he signed a major Disaster declaration for Kirk County. In a post on truth social Trump said the declaration will allow first responders to have access to resources they need as recovery efforts continue.
Trump called it an unimaginable tragedy. Republican lawmakers are celebrating the signing of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. In an interview with Fox New Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, said the bill will be a step up for everyday Americans.
The average American, the typical American household will have thirteen thousand dollars more in take home pay. This is a great thing for people who go to work every day.
They're going to feel that.
Johnson added that the legislation will deliver on the administration's America First agenda. Meanwhile, Democratic Congressman Tom Swazi is warning the effects of President Trump's newly signed bill. Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, Swazi says he's concerned what this legislation could mean for the American people.
It just doesn't make sense that you're reducing taxes for some of the wealthiest people, hurting some of the lowest income people, while blowing the biggest deficit in the budget that we've had in the history of the country. Those things just don't add up.
The bill includes over four trillion dollars in tax reductions, which the administration claims will benefit working class Americans. Today is expected to be the busiest travel day of the long fourth of July Hollyayday weekend triple A expecting more than seventy two million folks will be on the move during the holiday period. I'm Lisa Carton. Elon Musk says he's forming a new political party. Rob Martyr explains.
He announced the creation of the America Party on x a day after posting a poll asking users if they support making a new party. Musk said the party will give Americans quote back your freedom the world's richest man. Went on to say the party would caucus independently and could focus on just a few seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives. It's unclear if the party has been officially registered. I'm Rob Bartier.
Musk was a vocal critic of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law Friday. The twenty twenty five measles outbreak, which began in a mostly unvaccinated community in West Texas, is turning out to be the worst since the disease was declared eradicated twenty five years ago. Data from the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University shows there have been twelve hundred than seventy
seven confirmed cases so far this year. That exceeds the previous peak of twelve hundred seventy four for all of twenty nineteen. This year's measles outbreak has led to one hundred and fifty five hospitalizations and three confirmed deaths. Governor Kathy Hogel is declaring congestion pricing a huge success and says it's creating a better life for New Yorkers. Lisa Salvati with more.
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 driver as a toll to enter Manhattan below sixtieth Street.
Scary Spice is now married. Melby walked down the aisle this weekend marrying hairstylist Rory McPhee. The two tied the knot in London on Saturday. I'm Lisa Carton