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