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December 25, 2024 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Delays continue
to happen 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 fourteen
hundred delays. As for cancelations, there have been just over

(00:23):
one hundred so far. Today. A passenger plane carrying sixty
seven people has crashed in Kazakhstan. Authorities in Moscow say
the flight was en route from Azerbaijan to Russia when
it collided with a flock of birds earlier today and
crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan. Today marks four years since the
Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville, Rob Martyr has more.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
On Christmas Morning in twenty twenty, Nashville resident Anthony Warner
parked an RV full of explosives on Second Avenue and
was killed in a suicide blast that injured eight people
and damaged sixty five buildings. According to an FBI inventstigation,
Warner is believed to have worked alone and was motivated
by paranoia and conspiracy theories.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
King Charles Iid says twenty twenty four has been the
hardest year of his life. He offered thanks to those
who've cared and supported him and Princess Kate during their
health battles in his Christmas message to the United Kingdom.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I offer special heartfelt thanks to the selfless doctors and
nurses who this year have supported me and other members
of my family through the uncertainties and anxieties of illness.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
The monarch and his daughter in law both revealed cancer
diagnoses earlier this year. Kate has since said she is
now cancer free. A gift all the way from the
Netherlands is bringing hope to a North Carolina community devastated
by Hurricane Helene. The company Dutch Grown donated ten thousand
tulip bulbs to Swannanoa outside Asheville after hearing about the

(01:55):
vast impacts of the storm. One man who helped plant
the bulbs told a local news station that the gift
will transform the bare ground at a community park. I'm
Brian Shook. President Elect Trump's incoming borderzar Tom Homan is
slamming Governor Kathy Hokeel for bragging about subway safety on
social media.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Homan's criticism comes after a migrant allegedly set fire to
a passenger aboard an fterin. On Sunday, Holman shamed Governor
Hokeel on Fox and Friends, slamming her for supporting sanctuary
laws and allowing thousands of illegal migrants into New York State. Meantime,
Authority say suspected killer, thirty three year old Sebastian Zabetta Khalil,
was deported back to his native Guatemala in twenty eighteen,

(02:37):
but re entered the country at some point, staying in
a New York City shelter. He charged with first degree
murder and ursin and Natalie mcgleiori.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
A new lawsuit is being filed against actor Justin Baldoni.
Days after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni,
His former publicist is now also suing him and his
pr team. On Tuesday, Stephanie Jones and her agency, Jones Works,
filed the suit in New York, claiming Baldoni's publicity team

(03:05):
conspired to harm her and steal her clients. The bald
Eagle is now America's national bird. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Who became official unter. President Biden signed a bill on Tuesday,
making the eagle the national bird of the US. Although
the bald eagle is on the Great Seal of the
United States, it was never formally recognized, and the country
has been without a national bird since its founding in
seventeen seventy six. Several founding fathers were tasked worth creating
the national Seal, but couldn't come to an agreement, with
Benjamin Franklin even arguing that the bald eagle was a

(03:36):
bird of bad moral character. The bill was one of
fifty that President Biden signed into law on Christmas Eve.
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Ariana Grande is getting into the Christmas spirit by donating
gifts to a charity in the UK that's grown close
to her heart. Earlier this week, the Manchester Foundation Trust
charity revealed on its Instagram page that the singer donated
presence that will be given to baby, children and teens
across its hospital system. I'm Brian Shuck
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