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The Latest: 07/06/2025 08:59am 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. The search is intensifying for over two dozen children who went missing after raging floodwaters swept through a Texas youth camp. Ryan Chandler reports from Kerrville.

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In the Texas Hill Country. Families hold on to hope as heartbreak overflows on the broken banks of the Guadaloupe River, a trail of death and debris. Trees leveled and shreaded, families destroyed. I've never seen tragedy on this level, the destruction that this flood has caused. The death toll rising with every update. Our first look at Camp Mystic, the Christian Old Girls Retreat, devastated inside one cabin, bunks and bedding caked in mud.

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The flash flood killed over fifty people early Friday. Weather dot Com says the river rose more than twenty six feet in just forty five minutes after Central Texas was deluge by up to fifteen inches of rain. More heavy rain as possible in Texas today. Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding along the Carolina coasts this morning as

Tropical Storm Chantala moves inland. The National Hurricane Center says Shantala is expected to weaken to a tropical depression later today, though it's expected to drop heavy rainfall along the way, potentially leading to flash floods. The blustery storm is also expected to create life threatening surf and rip currents. Israel has sent a team of negotiators to Cutter for talks

with Hamas about a Gaza ceasefire. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Ettanyahu says a team was sent Saturday to negotiate a truce proposal with Hamas, though they found changes in the proposal requested by Hamas were unacceptable to Israel. Daniel Hamamjen reports from Tel Aviv.

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Forty five miles north of Gaza. In Tel Aviv, a message from many Israelis. So far, it's been proven that only President Trump is capable of making things move in a serious way. They have more faith in the US president than they do their own Prime Minister.

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The announcement came after Hamas said it had a positive response to a US back proposal that would involve the sixty day truce in Gaza. Nearly eighty people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in the past twenty four hours ainly Sid Taylor. Elon Musk is creating his own political party after his fallout with President Trump. Yami shal Sendor reports.

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Musk, the world's richest person, taking to his social media site Acts to say, we live in a one party system, not a democracy. Today. The America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. Musk, who is President Trump's top campaign donor, has been feuding with a president over the so called One Big Beautiful Bill.

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In his post Saturday, Musks didn't say what the party's platform would be. Novak Djokovic is adding to his legendary resume with his one hundredth career singles win at Wimbledon. Djokovic notch the win at the All England Club in the third round against Miyamir Kichmanovich. The milestone wind ties Djokovic with tennis legends Martina Nabertalova and Roger Federer. They're the only players to have won one hundred singles matches

at the competition. The thirty eight year old Serbian is set to face Australian Alex de mi Unure in the fourth round as he aims to break the record. Sue Byrd's legacy and Seattle will soon be cemented. ESPN reported the retired WNBA star will be the first player in the league to get a statue made in her honor. Bird's statue will be unveiled on Sunday, August seventeenth, the same day as the Storm's match against the Phoenix Mercury. The game is being called the franchise's Forever Sue Game.

The Storm's president and CEO said, Sue's legacy isn't just written in championships, It's woven into the fabric of Seattle. Tens of thousands of heavy metal fans showed up Saturday night for the final performance of Ozzy Osbourne. The rock legend reunited with this band Black Sabbath at a packed soccer stadium in Birmingham, England, Saturday for a day long heavy metal festival called Back to Beginning, which featured a lineup of rock luminaries paying tribute to the band Metallica.

Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Stephen Tyler and The Rolling Stones. Ronnie Wood were among the stars performing at the event, which ended with a final performance by Block Sabbath and a solo performance by Osborne. Who's now seventy six years old, Ainley Staylor

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