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Wildfires In The West Life-Threatening Heat In The East · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: This is what you need to know now. Wildfires burn
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  Speaker 1: in the West, as more than one hundred million faced
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  Speaker 1: life threatening hate in the East, the miraculous rescues still
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  Speaker 1: taking place in Venezuela, and the stars studded send off
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  Speaker 1: for a music legend. We have much more what you
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  Speaker 1: need to know now. I'm Maggie Ruley from ABC News.
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  Speaker 1: It's two day, June thirtieth. This is what you need
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  Speaker 1: to know, and let's get right to the big story.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly forty fires are burning across nine states in the West,
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  Speaker 1: the Gold Mountain Fire forcing evacuations in Colorado and Utah.
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  Speaker 1: The Cottonwood Fire has destroyed much of the Eagle Point
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  Speaker 1: Ski Resort. It's bad. It's like a war zone. One
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty condos and cabins are gone, rubble to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. The feel like temperature topping one hundred degrees
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  Speaker 1: from Kansas City to Chicago, where officials are opening cooling
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  Speaker 1: centers and using robocalls to warn some thirty one thousand
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable seniors to take precautions. That heat spreading east Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: New York, and Boston expecting heat index readings of one
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  Speaker 1: hundred degrees or more for several days, more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million Americans are under heat alerts. The
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  Speaker 1: pilots of a Jet Blue flight landing at JFK say
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  Speaker 1: their plane was hit by a drone at nearly three
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  Speaker 1: thousand feet, that the plane landed safely, and upon inspection,
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  Speaker 1: the airline and the FAA say they found no evidence
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  Speaker 1: a drone actually hit the plane. The FAA and FBI
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  Speaker 1: are investigating. Major rulings from the Supreme Court are set
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  Speaker 1: for release today, including a decision on whether President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: executive order restricting birthright citizenship is constitutional. Trump's order would
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  Speaker 1: deny automatic citizenship did children born in the US to
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  Speaker 1: parents who are undocumented or only in the US temporarily,
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  Speaker 1: but even some of the conservative justices seemed skeptical of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration's case during arguments in the spring. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the justices ruled that mail in ballots arriving after election
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  Speaker 1: day can be counted. It's a stepback for the president's
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  Speaker 1: push to restrict voting by mail, but the Court also
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  Speaker 1: handed Trump a big win, expanding his power to fire
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  Speaker 1: officials at independent regulatory agencies. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing
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  Speaker 1: the President may remove his subordinates at will. The court
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  Speaker 1: carved out an exception for the Federal Reserve, saying officials
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  Speaker 1: may be removed with cause. President Trump is demanding that
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  Speaker 1: gas stations immediately lower prices at the pump to around
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  Speaker 1: two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. If they don't,
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  Speaker 1: he warns that big problems lie ahead. The President says
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  Speaker 1: gas prices are too high as oil prices drop. Last week,
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  Speaker 1: he accused oil companies of price gouging and called on
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department to investigate. Analysts say gas prices naturally
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  Speaker 1: fall slower than oil because the fuel at the pump
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  Speaker 1: right now was bought and refined weeks ago, when oil
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  Speaker 1: costs more. President Trump said as peace talks with Iran
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  Speaker 1: are set for today in Qatar after the US and
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  Speaker 1: Iran agreed to halt attacks. Special Envoys Seed Whitkoff and
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  Speaker 1: Jared Kushner are leading the US delegation to discuss Iran's
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  Speaker 1: nuclear program, but Iranian state media is denying that negotiations
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  Speaker 1: have been scheduled. More stunning rescues from the Venezuela earthquakes,
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  Speaker 1: a man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed
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  Speaker 1: building one hundred and six hours after the quakes hit,
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  Speaker 1: but more than seventeen hundred people are now confirmed dead.
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  Speaker 1: A hotel full of people recently deported from the US
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  Speaker 1: was reportedly among the buildings that is said to have collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: Our James Longman caught up with a woman who was
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  Speaker 1: rescued with their eighteen day old baby from beneath their
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  Speaker 1: apartment building. After thirty hours of being trapped. Rescuers were
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  Speaker 1: able to provide water to her baby by sliding a
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  Speaker 1: straw through a pipe down through the rubble. Alco Moniche
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  Speaker 1: a Camaya, she says, the one who gave me the
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  Speaker 1: strength not to fall in despair was my son. I
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  Speaker 1: kept saying as long as he was alive, I was
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  Speaker 1: going to be alive. They suffered only minor injuries. She
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  Speaker 1: says she fell on top of her bible after the
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  Speaker 1: quakes hit. A manhunt is underway in Monaco after a
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  Speaker 1: booby trapped package exploded injuring three people, including a child.
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  Speaker 1: Authority say the blast went off in an entry way
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  Speaker 1: of a residential building and the suspect fled on foot
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  Speaker 1: to neighboring France. Monico is a haven for billionaires. One
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  Speaker 1: of the victims is reportedly a Ukrainian construction tycoon. Former
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  Speaker 1: NBA player Malik Beasley has been indicted on federal charges,
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  Speaker 1: accused of fixing his own performance so a betting ring
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  Speaker 1: could cash in, A prosecutor say, while he was with
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks in twenty twenty four, Beasley deliberately underperformed
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  Speaker 1: in games, tipping off gamblers who placed hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars in bets and paid him bribes in return.
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  Speaker 1: Beasley's lawyer says he maintains his innocence. We have much
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  Speaker 1: more what you need to know now as some quick hits.
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  Speaker 1: Other stories were following today. Belahedede's recent post about her
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  Speaker 1: line disease flare Up is drawing attention to tickborn illnesses.
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  Speaker 1: The model opened up about the isolation and challenges of
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  Speaker 1: living with chronic illness. Emergency room visits for tick bites
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  Speaker 1: are above normal in many parts of the country. An
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  Speaker 1: expert say this summer is shaping up to be the
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  Speaker 1: worst tick season in a decade. As the Fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July approaches, cities across the country are prepping fireworks displays,
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  Speaker 1: but many are paying a lot more this year. Strong
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  Speaker 1: demand and higher costs have forced some communities to move
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  Speaker 1: their celebrations to different dates or scale them back altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Some shows now cost as much as fifteen hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: per minute. Virginia has approved recreational marijuana sales to begin
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven, making it the first southern state
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  Speaker 1: to launch a legal retail market. More than three hundred
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  Speaker 1: cannabis shops are expected to open July first, twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: New Today, Serena Williams is set to play in her
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  Speaker 1: first singles match in nearly four years. The forty four
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  Speaker 1: year old is set to face twenty year old Maya
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  Speaker 1: Joint on Center Court. You can watch Wimbledon twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six on ESPN and streaming on Disney Plus. And now
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  Speaker 1: one more thing before you go, a final farewell to
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  Speaker 1: music legend Climbe Davis. The famed producer died last week
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  Speaker 1: at ninety four. A memorial service in New York brought
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  Speaker 1: together music powerhouses including Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Keys read a letter to Davis, saying, in a world
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  Speaker 1: that so often reduces art to commerce and genius to product,
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  Speaker 1: you held the line and Jennifer Hudson formed I Will
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  Speaker 1: Always Love You, the signature hit of Whitney Houston, whom
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  Speaker 1: Davis discovered as a teenager. And that's what you need
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