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Hey, everybody, and welcome to Here's a scoop from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Desugin. Well, you guys, it is official. This is the second longest shutdown in U.S. history, 22 days and counting. And Democrats are calling on President Trump to get more involved in the talks, even some Republicans telling NBC News that it wouldn't hurt if he stepped up. But in the interim, nothing. It is still a stalemate. Instead, all eyes are on Ukraine, where Russia carried out intense strikes overnight, killing more than a dozen people, including one person at a kindergarten. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky calling the attacks a spit in the face of peace. And in fact, the strikes came just hours after Trump said peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin were on hold. Now, an important piece of context here as to why Trump pumped the brakes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia's foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov got on the phone earlier this week to lay the groundwork for a possible summit between Trump and Putin in Budapest. And things got incredibly tense, to say the least. Want to bring in chief international correspondent Keir Simmons for more on this. He's in Moscow for us. Hi, Kir.
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Hey, Yasmin. How you doing?
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I'm good. Let's take a step back for a moment. This call between Foreign Minister Lavrov and Secretary of State Rubio seemed to be a pivot point with what would be this summit that was supposed to happen in Hungary. Remind us how we actually got here.
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To map out the timeline. Let's go back to the meeting in Alaska, the face to face meeting between President Trump and President Putin. We now know that President Trump got quite frustrated with Putin, raised his voice, threatened to walk away, and actually they canceled the lunch and that appears to be because President Putin talked for a long time and really stuck to his basic demands and did not agree to simply stop fighting. After that. There is a call between President Trump and President Putin, we're fast forwarding quite quickly, in which President Trump clearly thinks that he's managed to shift Putin again and announces that they will have another face to face meeting. He then meets with President Zelenskyy, President Trump, and according to reports, citing sources in, for example, the Financial Times, gives Zelenskyy quite a tough time to try and push him to compromise and agree to some of the Russian demands. But then finally, there is this call between the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.
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Which initially the White House had come away saying it was, quote, unquote, productive. And now we're hearing this word exercise, right, that Lavrov was exercised. First off, I don't necessarily know what exercised means in terms of.
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Well, I can tell you what it means.
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Yes, please do.
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He means he wasn't happy.
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Okay.
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He was, yes.
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I was like, was he running? Was he jogging? What was he doing?
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Exercised. Was told to me by a Trump administration official that Lavrov was exercised on the call. I think that's diplomatic speak for strident in his language. I have asked a former Russian minister here exactly how the call went to and whether Lavrov actually even raised his voice on the call with Rubio. He says he didn't, but certainly that call was a little bit fraught.
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What is it that the Russians are refusing to back down on?
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Well, look, here it is in simple terms. So the Ukrainians and the Europeans and the Trump administration, as far as we can tell, say that the Russians should stop fighting, there should be a ceasefire, a cessation, and then they can negotiate, really much like the ceasefire in the Middle east that President Trump just managed to achieve. The Russian view, expressed by Foreign Minister Lavrov openly at a news conference just in the past few days after that call, is that they want to negotiate, they want to agree terms, and then they'll stop fighting. And even more than that, that the terms they want to agree with Ukraine are things like that Ukraine should be neutral, that there should be a limit on the size of their army, their military, as well as territory. I mean, other terms. So on that phone call between Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio, what I am told by a former Russian minister, Andrei Fedorov, who we spoke to just today, that's the point at which Sergei Lavrov was frustrated and suggested that that wasn't what President Trump had agreed to in Alaska when he met with President Putin. And that was where the conversation stopped. And from there we've learned that the meeting between President Trump and President Putin is on ice.
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Do we know where the truth is as to what President Trump agreed to in, in Alaska? I mean, the fighting was ongoing as President Putin set foot in Alaska.
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Yeah, I mean, that's a great question. I think there continues to be misunderstandings between the Trump administration and the Kremlin where one side thinks one thing has been agreed, another side thinks another thing has been agreed. I mean, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's envoy, we have reported, has gone into meetings with the Russians without a note taker in even without a US Translator.
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So relying on their translations.
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Well, yes, but also just the note taker is crucial because when you're dealing with the Russians who talk in riddles at times and are quite adept at making you think they've given you something when they haven't. There's definitely an issue here we've seen consistently, which is moments when you think when the Trump administration clearly thinks that they've got a breakthrough with the Kremlin only to find that they haven't quite got, had managed to make that breakthrough.
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What message is being sent from this latest strike overnight in the last 24 hours, 400 drones, 20 plus missiles, 13 people killed, a kindergarten being struck. What message is is Russia sending to the world, the US To Ukraine?
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Well, I think the message that the Russians continue to try to send to the Ukrainian people is that they are going to keep fighting and they are attempting to demoralize the Ukrainian people. I mean, that's what those strikes are about, I think. And we've seen today President Putin oversee a nuclear exercise. What President Putin and the Russian government is trying message they're trying to send to the US to the Trump administration, is don't escalate this, stop this, because this is going to get out of control. I think there's another part to this too, which is that I think the Russians want to be clear that they will just keep fighting. And in fact, I just came back from a war museum here in Moscow. And in that museum now there's an exhibition of fighting equipment, including US Equipment, Bradley fighting vehicles, an Abram tank are US Made obviously that have been brought from the front line in Ukraine, burnt out, wrecked. And, and what's that museum all about? That's about continuing to persuade the Russian people that this war is worth pursuing. But I also walked away from that and just thought, you know, this is not a country preparing for peace. This is a country Russia preparing to keep fighting.
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Have you ever seen Lavrov exercised, Kier?
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I have. I've seen Lavrov exercised with me, actually.
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Oh, really?
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Oh, I've been told off by Sergei Lavrov for trying to ask him a question while he was walking from a.
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Oh, I remember this.
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He's a tough character, Sergei Lavrov.
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Well, Keir Simmons, who has not been exercised on this phone call and been quite kind with his time. Thank you, Keir.
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You bet.
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All right. We are going to take a quick break. When we're back, immigration raids here in the US from coast to coast. Stay with us.
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Who's ready for some football all season?
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We are going to get this party started.
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From stadium lights to game day bites, the TODAY show is your home for all things football every morning on NBC. This week on MEET THE press. After meeting with President Trump about more military support for Ukraine, President Zelensky sits down with Kristen Welker for an exclusive interview. Plus, Senators Rand Paul and Tim Kaine on the government shutdown this week only on MEET THE press. Listen to the full episode now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome back to here's the scoop from NBC News. Coast to coast, ICE is conducting sweeping operations in the nation's two largest cities, Los Angeles and New York. In downtown Los Angeles, two people were shot during what the Department of Homeland Security described as a targeted traffic enforcement stop. Federal authorities were trying to arrest an undocumented immigrant that previously escaped police custody, according to DHS and the U.S. attorney's office. They say the migrant then rammed law enforcement vehicles with his car. Authorities saying the federal officers opened fire, injuring the immigrant and a U.S. marshal. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, dozens of agents wearing ICE, Homeland Security and FBI vests conducted an operation on New York's famed Canal Street, a popular shopping area. The agents were searching for undocumented immigrants who may be connected to illegal street vending. That is according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter. Several people were detained this sparking protests outside of a nearby federal immigration court. In this tale of two cos, we are bringing in reporters on the ground in Los Angeles and New York City. We want to start with Morgan Chesky, my here's the scoop co host and NBC News correspondent. Hey, Morgan.
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Yeah, it's good to be with you.
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Glad to have you. What happened here?
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Yeah, this is something that we're still learning more about today. And originally, according to federal authorities here, Yaz and I say according to because there are disputed facts in this case. But the majority of the story we've heard has come from DHS spokesmen. They had an outstanding immigration warrant for 44 year old Carlito Ricardo Parias. And agents observed him get into his Toyota camera yesterday morning and then begin driving. And it was around 8:50am in the fashion District when these agents began to do this targeted traffic stop. And in order to achieve it, they used what they're calling kind of standard maneuvers to essentially pin or box his car in with multiple law enforcement vehicles. Now at this point, according to dhs, they say Parias began going back and forth, essentially trying to flee. And that was when one of the agents got outside of his vehicle and then at some point a shot was fired. Now the circumstances around how that shot was fired we're trying to really dig into. But once that shot was fired, it struck the 44 year old price in the elbow. And then the ricochet struck a deputy U.S. marshal in his hand who was nearby trying to assist ICE agents in this arrest. That was how they were able to take this 44 year old again, Carlito Ricardo Parias, into custody and to a nearby hospital where he remains as of right now.
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Morgan, for folks that have not been to Los Angeles and don't necessarily know what the fashion district is, describe for us what exactly is there?
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This is an area that's immediately adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. You'll find kind of tailors and textile manufacturing right alongside bars and restaurants. Incredibly tough to find a parking space because it is such a popular spot. And according to authorities, that really was the area where around 8:50 yesterday morning they tried to pull off this maneuver. And that's when everything kind of broke down.
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What do we know about why they were targeting Parias, who he is, what he was doing in downtown La in the Fashion District.
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DHS says that they were targeting him because he had previously avoided capture by immigration authorities and that a, quote, administrative immigration arrest warrant was outstanding. So that was the catalyst, according to federal officials, for them to have his residence under surveillance and for them to make that traffic stop. He is not a stranger to anyone in this neighborhood by Richard LA on TikTok. And that's where he's amassed like 130,000 followers. Here's what he posts though, and this is what's so interesting. Videos of immigration and enforcement activity in the Los Angeles area whenever ICE agents will move in. And so that certainly changes the lens with which we're viewing this a little bit here. And not only that, but a city council member of Los Angeles put out a statement last night, really one of the first to identify who was taken into custody. And he said, richard L A is a, quote, pillar of our community and he is known as a citizen journalist for his work on TikTok.
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Is he confirmed to be an undocumented immigrant?
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According to federal officials, he is in the country illegally, according to his attorney who spoke to the LA Times. Price's attorney said that he is a calm man with no prior criminal record. Two US born children, and he says that he was performing his citizen journalism.
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Have we heard at all from him as to whether or not he was worried about being targeted considering he was such a public individual on TikTok?
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Our team is going through his videos. We have not seen anything as of right now where he's expressing fears in that sense. And we have not heard from him officially since he's been taken into custody or taken to this hospital. We do know a small protest formed outside the hospital where he was being treated. And I should note that both Parias and the Deputy U.S. marshal are expected to recover. These are not life threatening injuries here. Parias was supposed to be in district Court today for his initial appearance, but that is not happening because he is still recovering in an LA hospital.
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What's interesting about all of this, Morgan, and we kind of frame this as coast to coast. What is happening with these immigration raises. It really began in, I would say Los Angeles with those ICE raids. What are folks saying now about this most recent incident in the city?
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Well, from what we've seen, there were several people who took social media videos and multiple individuals recognized exactly who this person was. They were referring to him as Richard, his TikTok handle. But there's certainly only added tension here. And that tension, as you mentioned, stems back to when we saw these massive protests in Los Angeles back in June. Everyone still knows that these ICE arrests are ongoing and they'll move in and they'll move out. But the one thing we haven't seen that we're seeing here, Yaz, is the fact that some of it was caught on video or in photographs. And the person targeted in this case is somewhat a public figure. And so it's gonna be interesting to see what comes to light today because we have asks out to federal officials to clarify how exactly did this handgun go off? DHS says they fired defensively because of the way in which Perez was operating his vehicle. But there's some conflicting reporting there from witnesses. So we're trying to really dig into that to see what exactly happened in LA's fashion district in broad daylight yesterday.
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Morgan Chesky, thank you.
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Always a pleasure.
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So let's turn now to NBC News reporter and producer Adam Reese, who was on the ground yesterday in New York City during this operation and subsequent protests. Hi, Adam.
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Hi. Thanks for having me.
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Great to have you in studio. You got there before the raids actually took place?
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We did. We got a tip that the raid would take place at 2 o'. Clock. I got there around 1:30 with a camera crew and we waited. And a lot of the street vendors were out. Their wares were on the street. They had watches, they had purses, they had scarves, and it was pretty open.
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I just want to describe for folks what you would normally see on Canal street for folks that are listening that haven't necessarily been there. Right. It is the place that folks go, especially tourists visiting New York City if they're looking to see kind of the real gritty New York and wanting to get, for instance, a fake designer bag.
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Right? Yeah. While I was standing there, I saw people from out of town, people from overseas spending real money for some of these items, for belts and watches and you name it being hawked down there.
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Where are these vendors typically from that are down there?
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Most of the ones we saw yesterday were from different parts of Africa. One was from Senegal. And as we waited, I was very curious as to how it was all gonna go down. And sure enough, out of nowhere, around 3:20, a swarm of law enforcement agents just flooded onto the streets ar masked, all wearing vests. You had ice, you had jttf, you had, you know, Special Federal Agent. They had all kinds of insignias. And the first thing we saw is like a dozen of them went for this one guy and they threw him up against the wall. He's screaming, I'm American. You've Got nothing on me. They cuffed him, and eventually he's screaming obscenities. And eventually they took the cuffs off. I followed him, I interviewed him and said, I'm American. And he was out of. Out. Really outraged at what they were doing.
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Why did they target him?
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I did see that he had in his hand, which I saw a lot of these vendors have, were pages of images of watches they showed all the tourists here are the watches we have. What do you want? You wait here on the corner. I'll go get it. You know, a whole kind of scenario where they sell these fake watches.
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Are these vendors doing illegal things?
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It's illegal. It's a billion dollar business what they're doing. And the stores like Dior and Gucci and Louis Vuitton and Apple, they're losing billions of dollars due to this illegal vending on Canal Street.
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What was the ultimate objective of these ICE agents of FBI in this raid on Canal Street?
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Their stated purpose was to arrest illegal vendors who they believe are illegal immigrants. And in the end, dozens of these agents ended up. As far as we could see, they put a handful, and that means five to six people in the van. We don't know if those people are illegal immigrants, whether they're American citizens. They might not have had their proper paperwork. And they were thrown into the van and the vans took off and they made their way back to 26 Federal Plaza. And that brings up another part of this story, which is, is a lot of the public started to see what was happening, and they started gathering and they were very upset. These are real New Yorkers who do not want ICE in their streets. And they were screaming at them, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Get out of here. And they actually forced them back to 26 Federal Plaza, where they're headquartered. They made them walk all the way back. They were surrounded. And another big rally sort of reconstituted itself in Foley Square, which is right next to their headquarters.
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And were there any arrests made from the protesters?
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There were. I did see a couple others.
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You can't help but think about the timing of this whole thing, right, because just weeks before the New York City mayoral election in which Zohar Mamdani is leading in the polls and appears to be the front runner, ahead of former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, the current mayor, Eric Adams, has dropped out. But Mamdani and Adams, both of them coming out and saying, we don't support this.
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You can be sure that this will be a topic of the debate tonight. And Cuomo is saying that if you elect Mamdani, it's going to be Trump City and you are going to see these ICE law enforcement agents more and more. If you elect Mamdani, Cuomo is saying not only will you not see that I'll work with President Trump, but I'll add more police to the nypd.
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Has Eric Adams, though the current mayor, ever allowed this type of federal action on the streets of New York City?
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He doesn't approve of it and he said last night that he had no knowledge of what was happening. And the police commissioner also says she will not support any ICE enforcement actions.
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Adam Reese, thank you.
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Thank you.
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All right, let's get to some headlines. President Donald Trump is seeking compensation from the Justice Department. It is to resolve administrative claims related to federal investigations carried out during his previous term and under the Biden administration, according to reporting from the New York Times. When asked about the specific sum that the New York Times reported of $230 million, Trump said it could be the claims filed under the Federal Tort Claims act, alleged damages from the probe into his 2016 campaign, ties to Russia, and the FBI's 2022 search of his Mar A Lago estate. The unprecedented situation presents a significant ethical dilemma. While the DOJ has to sign off on any settlement, the president has exercised significant influence over the department and he said any decision would, quote, have to go across my desk. Trump stated he was not seeking the money for personal use, saying any compensation would be donated to charity. Paul Ingrazia, President Trump's embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, has withdrawn his nomination after a wave of bipartisan backlash over POLITICO's reporting about offensive text messages. The messages, which included racist remarks and a self description of having a, quote, Nazi streak, prompted several Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to publicly oppose his confirmation, effectively sealing his fate in Gracia, who currently serves as a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, said he was pulling out of his Senate hearing because he, quote, does not have enough Republican votes at this time. A White House official confirming to NBC News that Ingrazia is no longer the nominee for the job and Gracia's lawyer, suggesting the text messages may not be authentic and added that, quote, even if the texts are authentic, they clearly read as self deprecating and satirical humor. We have a Louvre heist update. If you're a Paris tourist who accidentally timed their trip to the Louvre at the same time as one of the buzziest heists in the last 20 years, you are in luck. The museum reopens today for the first time since Sunday's heist. NBC News Danielle Hamamjian has the latest from London.
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It was surprising to a lot of people that the Louvre would open so quickly after the heist. But worth reminding people, the museum is massive, 400 rooms, 30,000 artifacts on display. And they were able to close off the Apollo Gallery, which is where the jewels were kept, and keep the other sections open without compromising the investigation. Now, the president of the museum appeared before a Senate hearing today and she insists the alarm system worked. The security system that's in place worked. She said the protective glass covering the jewels was installed back in 2019, so not that long ago and designed based on the biggest threat at the time, bullets, firearms, and over the past few years, protesters throwing paint and soup. She said the biggest weakness in the security system is the perimeter around the museum. And she said the camera outside overlooking the area where the vehicle was parked was pointing in another direction, which means that security teams only realized something was wrong when the thieves had already climbed up and broken the window, which is what triggered the alarm.
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A Paris prosecutor revealed that rare jewels stolen on Sunday were worth over $100 million, not including historical value. Local police are still hunting for the four thieves involved. And French President Emmanuel Macron has called for, quote, acceleration in security measures at the museum. Iceland can no longer brag about being mosquito free. For the first time ever, scientists have found the buzzing pest in the land of ice and fire, a side effect, they say, of record breaking heat this spring. It is a small but striking reminder that even a place famous for glaciers and geysers is not immune to the world's changing climate. Until now, Iceland was one of only two mosquito free havens on Earth. The other Antarctica, still holding strong.
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I seen the lights go out on Broadway.
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Billy Joel may not be the only one who saw the lights go out on Broadway. The theater district in the city that never sleeps could go dark tomorrow. The union representing more than 1,000 professional musicians across New York, including those who play on Broadway, has posted a intent to strike immediately. If contract talks collapse tomorrow morning, the Walkout could silence 23 shows from Wicked and a Lion King to Hamilton. Let's face it, Broadway without musicians is like Times Square without power. Here's hoping the show still goes on. Otherwise tomorrow's curtain might not rise at all and will be the day the music.
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Died.
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And that's going to do it for us at here's the scoop from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Bisugin we'll be back tomorrow with whatever the day may bring. And if you like what you heard, then like us, back wherever you get your podcasts. We'll see you tomorrow.
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