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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:32.700 It's Friday, December 19th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:37.480 Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier.

00:00:41.940 The suspect in the Brown University shooting found dead

00:00:44.960 as authorities connect him to a second murder taking place days later and miles away.

00:00:51.140 This is not medicine. It is malpractice.

00:00:54.240 We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits.

00:00:58.860 HHS officials announcing a set of proposals in an effort to prevent so-called gender-affirming care

00:01:05.880 for minors. Retired NASCAR driver and humanitarian Greg Biffle tragically killed in a plane crash

00:01:13.340 with his family. The inflation report beats expectations as the White House touts a strengthening

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00:02:36.640 gone. They found him. Late yesterday, authorities locating the man suspected of the Brown University

00:02:45.300 shooting. 48-year-old former Brown University physics PhD candidate Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,

00:02:53.540 dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, New Hampshire, at a storage unit about 90 miles away

00:02:59.860 from the university. Authorities say Valente was a Portuguese national, and his last known address

00:03:05.760 was in Miami, Florida. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona saying Valente originally came into

00:03:12.060 the United States on a student visa back in 2000, receiving lawful permanent resident status in

00:03:18.500 September 2017. Providence, Rhode Island police chief Oscar Perez describing the police work leading to

00:03:25.680 the storage unit. The police were trying to find a man, reportedly homeless, seen on videotape,

00:03:31.800 who had apparently seen the suspect prior to the shooting. That man, it turns out, took down the

00:03:38.180 suspect's license plate and later provided it to police. Listen. All the new images that we received of this

00:03:45.400 person of interest were shared with the media continuously over the past six days. We looked at

00:03:51.360 financial records, we looked at video footages, and in the specific incident, it was actually a video that

00:03:59.380 provided us with a description of a vehicle. That was corroborated to a tip that was received to the tip

00:04:05.920 center. Then Flock and the LPR was able to provide us with this description of this vehicle. That vehicle

00:04:14.240 was picked up by Flock, which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts. Through that, the agents and

00:04:21.520 their work as well were able to get us footage of this individual, as well as a copy of the agreement,

00:04:28.640 which provided his real name. The video of that subject matched the description of that person

00:04:35.580 of interest that this police department was desperate to put handcuffs on. An individual was

00:04:41.620 identified as Claudio Neves Valenti. Brown University President Christina Paxson saying Valenti was enrolled

00:04:49.940 at the university from fall 2000 to spring 2001 to study in the physics PhD program. Valenti taking a

00:04:58.200 leave of absence in spring 2001, then formally withdrawing in July 2003. More here from Paxson.

00:05:05.420 During his time at Brown, Nueves Valenti was enrolled only in physics classes. The majority of physics

00:05:13.300 classes at Brown have always been held within the Barris and Hawley classrooms and labs. He has no

00:05:20.620 current active affiliation with the university or campus presence.

00:05:24.360 The press briefing beginning shortly after confirmation of Valenti's death, leaving authorities

00:05:29.740 with limited information about the shooter. FBI special agent in charge of Boston Ted Dox saying

00:05:36.240 much of the investigative work remains in determining a motive and that the body was discovered near a

00:05:41.800 satchel, two firearms, and evidence matching the crime scene. Chief Perez saying investigators are not

00:05:48.020 yet sure how long Valenti had been dead when they arrived at the storage unit. Authorities saying they

00:05:53.740 believe he acted alone. Yesterday afternoon, reports surfacing of a link between the Brown University

00:06:00.560 shooting and the murder of MIT physics professor Nuno Lorero, age 47, a husband and father of three,

00:06:09.460 who was shot at his Brookline, Massachusetts apartment building Monday night. U.S. Attorney for the

00:06:15.400 District of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, in a separate press conference saying the suspect and the

00:06:20.980 professor attended the same academic program in Portugal years ago. There is no indication,

00:06:27.200 Foley added, that the gunman knew any of the victims at Brown University. Foley detailing how authorities

00:06:33.560 were able to connect the cases. So investigators identified the vehicle that he had rented in Boston

00:06:40.940 and then drove to Rhode Island. And he was seen, the vehicle was seen outside of Brown and there was

00:06:48.480 security footage that showed a person who resembled him. There was online, there was financial

00:06:54.480 investigations that were going on in the background that linked him not only to that car, but also to

00:07:00.460 the hotels that he had rented and the cars, the car that he had used to not only drive to Rhode Island,

00:07:07.080 but then back to Boston. And then there was the security footage that captured him within a half mile

00:07:13.260 of the professor's residence in Brookline. And there is a video footage of him entering an apartment building

00:07:22.560 in the location of the professor's apartment. And then later that evening, he is seen about an hour later

00:07:29.640 entering the storage unit, wearing the same clothes that he had been seen wearing right after the murder.

00:07:36.020 Foley saying Valenti went to significant lengths to avoid detection, switching license plates and

00:07:42.140 potentially using European SIM cards in his phone to avoid geolocation. She also said she was not aware

00:07:48.800 of Valenti having any criminal record in the United States. Investigators promising more information to be

00:07:55.140 revealed in the days to come. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday

00:08:02.240 unveiling six proposals to prevent so-called gender-affirming care for minors. HHS opting to

00:08:09.160 refer to these treatments more accurately as sex-rejecting procedures. Secretary Kennedy on the

00:08:15.040 administration's goals with these policy changes. Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect

00:08:20.600 children. Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures

00:08:27.580 that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to

00:08:34.500 safeguard. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, peddled the lie

00:08:41.300 that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender

00:08:47.900 dysphoria. This is not medicine. It is malpractice. We're done with junk science driven by ideological

00:08:56.500 pursuits, not the well-being of children. Under the HHS proposals, hospitals performing these procedures

00:09:03.580 on children under 18 would be banned from participating in Medicare, a government insurance program for the

00:09:09.860 elderly and disabled, and also Medicaid, which is a need-based government insurance program. HHS says

00:09:16.680 nearly all hospitals in America participate in these programs. The proposals would not have any effect

00:09:22.460 on hospitals and clinics that do not participate in these taxpayer-funded programs. Chloe Cole, a girl

00:09:28.340 who underwent this life-altering treatment as a minor before coming to terms with the reality that she

00:09:33.960 could not be a boy, at the conference yesterday describing the lifelong impacts that a few short

00:09:39.600 years of this treatment will have on her. For me, it started with being lied to about who I was.

00:09:45.620 By adults outside of my family, my doctors, rather than guiding me, they affirmed my childish misgivings

00:09:52.820 about my developing body. At 13 years old, I was administered puberty blockers and testosterone in high

00:09:59.900 doses. And when I was only 15, they removed my breasts. But that mastectomy ensured that I am never going to be

00:10:08.460 able to nourish whatever children I may have. And this happened before I was even mature enough to understand that one

00:10:14.060 day I would aspire to become a mother. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program would be

00:10:20.460 prohibited from funding sex-rejecting procedures for patients under 18 and 19 years old, respectively.

00:10:27.200 Secretary Kennedy also signing a declaration stating these procedures do not meet professionally

00:10:32.380 recognized standards of health care. Additionally, the FDA is sending warnings to 12 manufacturers and

00:10:38.600 retailers over marketing breast binders to little girls who are distressed by puberty and want to

00:10:44.040 suppress natural growth to appear more male. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary with more

00:10:50.340 information on the harms these things can inflict. Breast binders are a class one medical device with 0.96

00:10:56.500 legitimate medical users, such as being used by women after breast cancer surgery. And these binders

00:11:03.120 are not benign. Long-term usage has been associated with pain, compromised lung function from

00:11:09.100 atelectasis collapse, and even difficulty breastfeeding later in life. The warning letters will formally

00:11:17.800 notify the companies of their significant regulatory violations and require prompt corrective action.

00:11:25.080 HHS will also move to reverse the Biden-era inclusion of gender dysphoria as a disability.

00:11:30.980 Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on these sinister political

00:11:37.160 forces driving this twisted ideology. We are in a weird place in America where we have mixed politics

00:11:44.360 and medicine. And you know what you get when you mix politics and medicine? Politics. There is no

00:11:50.460 medicine left. We witness that with bizarre statements, predatory actions, and many other activities that I think

00:11:58.160 have forced children to the tip of the spear where they have brunt the burden of this toxic combination.

00:12:04.320 We've been told that permanently altering bodies of children, and the children are told this as well,

00:12:09.060 will bring them lasting peace. But few have achieved the inner peace promised by these charlatans

00:12:14.540 and the talking heads, the media personalities, the social media posts. All these have created a

00:12:20.560 dishonest narrative. And of course, many of these children are left with the most tragic parts of all the

00:12:27.260 treatments that they've succumbed themselves to. The American Civil Liberties Union saying it will take the

00:12:32.580 administration to court. What else is new? Secretary Kennedy saying he is confident the administration will

00:12:38.960 succeed. The number of lawsuits with my name on it right now is almost beyond counting. So we have, you know, we got

00:12:48.360 everything that we do here. We have an excellent, excellent general counsel. We know what we do. What

00:12:56.520 we're doing is legal. And if people sue us, they're welcome to, but we're going to win the losses.

00:13:02.420 The administration's confidence likely buoyed by the fact that the high court in June upheld a Tennessee

00:13:07.920 law that prohibits medical professionals from prescribing or administering puberty blockers and hormones

00:13:13.820 to minors seeking to, quote, transition. The justices in that case declining to declare transgender

00:13:19.680 individuals a constitutionally protected class that would trigger heightened judicial scrutiny of any law

00:13:26.660 affecting them. Coming up, a celebrated former NASCAR driver and his family killed in a plane crash in

00:13:34.740 North Carolina. And as the White House promotes a rebounding economy, the inflation report surpasses

00:13:40.880 expectations. As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in

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00:14:20.840 government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle,

00:14:28.900 his wife Christina, and two children, 14-year-old Emma and five-year-old Ryder, killed in a plane crash

00:14:35.340 just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Three other people aboard the plane also killed in the

00:14:40.640 accident. The Cessna C-550 jet crashing while landing at Statesville Regional Airport. Shortly

00:14:47.840 after 10 a.m., flight trackers showing the Florida-bound plane taking off, then quickly circling back to the

00:14:53.860 airport. Christina Biffle's mother, Kathy Grossu, revealing on Thursday that those on board appeared to

00:15:00.800 know the plane was in trouble. Telling People magazine her daughter sent her a three-word text

00:15:06.120 just before the crash. We're in trouble. Video of the crash site showing the small jet plane

00:15:12.780 fully engulfed in flames. Authorities have not yet identified the cause of the crash.

00:15:18.060 North Carolina State Highway Patrol spokesman Christopher Knox delivering an update on the investigation.

00:15:24.260 The FAA has been on the scene this afternoon and working through their initial phases of an

00:15:29.820 investigation. We spoke with the NTSB. They will be arriving early in the morning, and then they will

00:15:35.440 pick up the investigation taken from there. The State Highway Patrol will remain throughout the night

00:15:39.980 and as long as it's needed to preserve the evidence in this case. As you can see, or as you might have

00:15:47.220 heard, that the evidence does span throughout airport property and off-airport property, so we'll be

00:15:52.080 working to secure that evidence and being in place as long as those federal authorities need us.

00:15:57.620 But as follow-up details specific to why the crash happened and those details that are compiled

00:16:04.100 a part of that investigation, that will come from the NTSB in the days and weeks and months that

00:16:08.880 follow. So that's all the details really that I have for you. That's all we're able to put out this

00:16:14.040 time. Biffle winning 19 races at the Cup Series level across his career, including the Trucks Series

00:16:20.740 Championship in 2000 and the Xfinity Series title in 2002. In 2023, Biffle named one of NASCAR's 75

00:16:29.360 greatest drivers. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last September, Biffle flying his personal

00:16:35.820 helicopter to deliver aid and rescue stranded victims. Congressman Richard Hudson of North Carolina,

00:16:42.060 writing in a statement, quote,

00:16:43.300 I'm devastated by the loss of Greg, Christina, and their children, and my heart is with all who

00:16:48.660 loved them. They were friends who lived their lives focused on helping others. The Biffles flew

00:16:54.040 hundreds of rescue missions in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. The last time I spoke with

00:16:59.380 Christina, just a couple of weeks ago, she reached out to ask how she could help with relief efforts in

00:17:04.960 Jamaica. That's who the Biffles were. Our prayers are with their family, friends, and everyone grieving this

00:17:11.040 unimaginable loss. After 11 months, our border is secure. Inflation has stopped. Wages are up. Prices

00:17:21.340 are down. Our nation is strong. America is respected. And our country is back stronger than ever before.

00:17:30.660 We're poised for an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen. Just a few hours after

00:17:37.080 President Trump's primetime address on Wednesday, the November Consumer Price Index, or CPI, the government's

00:17:43.240 key measure of inflation, showing prices rising at just 2.7 percent year over year, dropping to its lowest

00:17:49.900 level in months. November's report reflects inflation cooling from September's 3 percent reading and beating

00:17:56.160 analysts' expectations of an increase to 3.1 percent. Harvard economist Ken Rogoff reacting yesterday morning

00:18:04.120 on CNN. I mean, I was surprised it was a better number than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation's

00:18:11.380 been very high. It's stayed high. It has not been coming down. But, you know, people were expecting it

00:18:18.300 to be above 3 percent. It was well below 3 percent. I mean, I think the president will take this as good

00:18:25.340 news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, you know, it was it was a

00:18:31.240 positive news. There's no other way to spin it. November's report marking the lowest inflation

00:18:35.860 reading since July, following months of gradual increases after the administration's April

00:18:40.960 Liberation Day tariffs announcement. While the overall rate of inflation is decreasing, some

00:18:46.580 everyday consumer prices remain high, including beef, coffee, electricity, and used cars. The October

00:18:53.240 report was skipped entirely due to the government shutdown, markets rising slightly on news of the report

00:18:59.500 after a recent slump. Let's hope this trend continues.

00:19:06.220 And that'll do it for your AM update. We'll be back after the Christmas break with new live

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