News Wrap: Beryl weakens to tropical storm as it cuts across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, Hurricane Beryl has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it cuts across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. |
| 0:08.0 | Beryl made landfall in Mexico this morning as a category 2 hurricane with winds around 100 miles an hour. |
| 0:14.7 | It's left at least 11 people dead across the Caribbean and it's expected to regain hurricane strength this weekend as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico and heads |
| 0:24.3 | towards Texas. Officials there are urging coastal communities to prepare and have |
| 0:29.1 | issued preemptive disaster declarations for 39 counties. |
| 0:34.0 | The Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed the state's abortion protections today rejecting two |
| 0:39.0 | anti-abortion laws. |
| 0:41.1 | One would have banned a common second trimester procedure, the other would regulate abortion |
| 0:46.0 | providers more strictly than other health care professionals. |
| 0:49.8 | Justice Eric Rosen wrote the state constitution quote protects a fundamental right to |
| 0:54.5 | personal autonomy which includes a pregnant person's right to terminate a pregnancy. |
| 1:00.4 | Donald Trump's lawyers asked a US judge today to pause the classified documents case against him in Florida |
| 1:06.7 | citing the Supreme Court's ruling this week granting President's broad immunity for official acts. |
| 1:12.1 | In their filing they argue that a pause would, quote, |
| 1:15.0 | minimize the adverse consequences to the institution of the presidency |
| 1:19.0 | arising from this unconstitutional investigation and prosecution. |
| 1:24.3 | The request comes days after the judge in his New York hush money trial, agreed to delay |
| 1:29.0 | sentencing as he weighs the potential impact of the court's decision. |
| 1:33.2 | Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban says Russia and Ukraine are still, quote, |
| 1:39.2 | far from each other in ending their war. |
| 1:41.8 | That came during his unannounced visit to Moscow today |
| 1:45.6 | where he became the first European leader to meet with President Vladimir Putin since |
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