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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour at just four minutes. Delay is
our starting to rack up for travelers still trying to
make it to their holiday destinations. After a relatively smooth
start to the day, According to flight Aware, there have
been more than twelve hundred delays. As for cancelations, there
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have been just over one hundred so far today. According
to the National Weather Service, a storm system is bringing
the Northeast and mid Atlantic a wintery mix of snow, sleet,
and freezing rain, making for hazardous travel. Record number of
people are expected to hit the road this holiday season.
Triple A says about one hundred and twenty million people
will travel fifty miles or more through January first, which
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is back to pre pandemic levels. Police are investigating after
a body was found in the wheelwll of a United
Airlines plane in Hawaii. The body was discovered after the
plane landed in Maui on Christmas Eve. United says it's
unclear how or when the person accessed the wheel well,
but it would have been from outside the aircraft. The
flight took off from Chicago. President elect Trump and his
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wife Malania made a series of Christmas Eve phone calls
to children from their Palm Beach estate, Karen Curtis reports.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
As President in twenty eighteen, Donald Trump made calls to
children from the White House as Santa streaked across this guy,
asking one child if he still believed in the Big Guy?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Are you still because sat?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The calls were made in conjunction with the North American
Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD and the organization's Santa tracker,
Karen Curtis Miami.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
King Charles the Third says twenty twenty four has been
the hardest year of his life. He expressed his thanks
to those who have supported him and Princess Kate during
their cancer scares.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I'm deeply grateful too, to all those who have offered
us their own kind words of sympathy and encouragement.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The monarch and his daughter in law both battled cancer
earlier this year. Kate has since said she is now
cancer free. The royal family attended their Christmas Day service
at Saint Mary Magdalen's Church in Eastern England. I'm rob Martyr.
There's now a billion dollar plus jackpot in the megamillions.
Michael Kasner reports, I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Getting there was no Grand prize winner in the Christmas
Eve Mega Millions drawing, sending the jackpots soaring to one
point one five billion dollars and it keeps climbing. Any
lucky winner or winners choosing the cash option on that
will be in line to take home just over five
hundred and sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And I'm Michael Kasner, please say they've nabbed the Florida
vandals who roughed up neighborhood Christmas inflatables and yard decorations.
Karen Curtis has details.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
One Pembrooke Pines family's camera captured the group pulling up
in a small, dark car, destroying the inflatables and quickly
driving off while one of them was recording from the
back seat. Apparently, police track down the vans and their car,
and at least two of them are underage, so cops
are working with their parents to determine whether or not
they should be charged or cited. Karen Curtis Miami.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Keeping your furry friends is key to having a merry Christmas.
Sherry Walker is with the Humane Society of Broward County, Florida.
She says, keep your pets away from the tree as
much as possible.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Many pets can be very curious, especially kitty cats and
the tinsel, the one that looks like icicles. They are
notorious for chewing on it and ingesting it, which can
cause a lot of issues.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Veterinarians say cats and dogs, especially those accustomed to more
quiet homes, need a safe place to hide when the
house fills up with holiday cheer. One last note, the
confusion and overstimulation of the holidays also makes Christmas a
bad time to introduce a new pet into the household.
New movies hit the theaters today. A Complete Unknown tells
the story of an up and coming musician, Bob Dylan
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as he tries to make it in New York City.
You can also catch A twenty four's Baby Girl with
Nicole Kidman and The Fire Inside, which follows a determined
female boxer from Flint, Michigan. I'm Rob Bartier.