This is your twenty four to seven use update the latest use this hour in just four minutes. Search and recovery efforts continue for a third day after catastrophic flooding killed at least seventy eight people in central Texas. At an afternoon news conference, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Letha confirmed sixty eight dead in his county alone. The sheriff said forty of the victims were adults and twenty eight were children. Officials set eleven girls from a summer camp on the
banks of the Guadalupe River remain missing. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the search and recovery efforts will continue around the clock. President Trump says he plans to be in Texas this week to visit areas of the state hardest hit by the flash flooding.
Probably on Friday.
We wanted to leave a little time.
I would have done it today, but would just.
Be in their way.
The President spoke about FEMA after being questioned if he was still planning to phase the organization out.
Well, FEMA is something we could talk about later. Right now, they're busy working, so we'll leave it at that.
Deaths have been reported in six Texas counties, New York Congressman Tom Swazi and Nawsaw, a County Democrat, is taking aim at President Trump's newly signed, Big Beautiful Bill. Sarah Lee Kessler reports.
While Republicans are celebrating President Trump's bill, which will provide four trillion dollars in tax cuts, Democratic lawmakers like Tom Swazi say Medicaid is going to take a major hit.
Medicaid is a lifeline for so many people that are facing such difficult circumstances that we can't even possibly imagine. And why would we be taking health insurance and food benefits away from some of the most needy Americans.
Swaz on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, The Trump administration claims so legislation will benefit working class Americans. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
There's data from an organization based in Washington State showing that sixty six UFOs have been spotted in the skies over New York so far this year. There are reports of everything from zigzagging green orbs and white flying saucers chased by helicopters. I'm Rob Martyer. 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 meat packing district is closing its doors. Larry Koski with the story.
Hector's Cafe and Diner will serve its life. 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 Ozy Journe, who was now seventy six years old. I'm Rob Martyre.