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

Jul 07, 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 the latest use this hour.

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In just four minutes, flash floods of devastated central Texas, leaving at least eighty people dead and dozens still missing. Rescuers continue searching, including at a girls camp along the Guadalupe River where ten children remain unaccounted for. Ryan Chandler in Texas.

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We're desperate at this point. Alison Edwards rushed here from Austin to find her father, Steve, who she says was swept away while saving.

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Her mother from their RV.

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What keeps you holding on to hope that you'll find your dad.

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Our dad's a fighter.

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He's always been a fighter, and I know he has a strong will and he do everything he could to get back to us.

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In Kirk County alone, cruise recover the bodies of forty adults and twenty eight children. Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro toll CNN State of the Union. The focus remains on finding the missing victims.

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The priority is on making sure that those girls found at are saved and anybody else who may be missing at this point, and then I think after that we have to figure out in the future how we make sure that it doesn't happen again.

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President Trump assigned a major disaster declaration, and he says he plans to be in Texas this week to visit areas of the state hit hardest by the flooding. Mark Mayfield with more.

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Trump told reporters of the Timeline on Sunday.

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Probably on Friday, we wanted to leave a little time.

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I would have done it today, but.

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Would just be in the way. Search and recovery efforts continue after catastrophic flooding killed at least eighty people in central Texas.

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Depths have been reported in six counties.

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I'm Mark Mayfield.

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Heavy rain from tropical depression chan TAL has slammed central North Carolina, causing flash floods and major damage. In the Moore County town of Southern Pines, the long Leaf Dam broke, forcing evacuations and vehicle rescues. A tornado also touched down near Sandford, damaging planes and hangars at the Rawleigh Executive Jetport. Flash flood warnings hit at least six counties in rip currents led to dozens of rescues along the coast. I'm

Michael Kassner. Seven people in Georgia were hurt on the fourth of July after a boat exploded on Lake Lanier north of Atlanta. More from Lisa Taylor.

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With flames of up to five feet tall caught on camera. Witnesses tile Atlanta News first.

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They were crying, screaming, and you could see that.

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They had been burnt.

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According to authorities, the twenty three foot cabin cruiser was being towed at the time when it blew up around seven pm. Five of the seven victims had to be taken to nearby hospitals. Officials also confirmed those injured suffered second and third degree burns. There's no word on what caused the explosion. I'm Lisa Taylor.

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The rapper known as Young Noble has died. Lisa Carton with details.

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We go back to l Side Elementary. Really think.

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Young Noble was part of Tupac Shakurs hip hop group Outlaws. PMZ reported the forty seven year old Wrapper born Ruflessly Cooper I reportedly died by suicide from an apparent self inflicted gunshot on Friday morning at Atlanta. Outlaws. Alum Edi Mean shared the news on Instagram, writing, quote, my brother and partner for over thirty years took his life this morning. Mean also wrote in his post brest in Power, Rufus Young, Noble Cooper, I'm Lisa Carton.

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At Sharon the Weekend and Drake for just a few of the artists topping Apple Music's Top five hundred stream Songs list. The list, which honors ten years of the streaming service, rank Shape of You by Sheeran as the most streamed song with over one thousand days, where the song reached number one on the all Genre Top Songs chart in at least one country. Blinding Lights by the Weekend took the number two spot, with God's Planned by Drake coming in third. Drake also had the most entries

overall on the list with twenty seven. I'm Michael Cassner

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