Walz Pardons Abuser, Planned Parenthood Detransition Investigation, NYC AC Crackdown： AM Update 7⧸3
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Summary
Minnesota officials pardon an immigrant convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, potentially allowing him to avoid deportation. We only have gender-affirming care services like for hormones, but not to de-transition. A new investigation exposes Planned Parenthood s so-called gender affirming care as a one-way body destruction pipeline. A miracle recovery in Venezuela as a man is pulled alive from nearly 30 feet of rubble 8 days after that country s devastating earthquakes, and New Yorkers pushing back after their socialist mayor asks them to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Minnesota officials pardon an immigrant convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl,
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We only have gender-affirming care services, like for hormones, but not to de-transition.
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A new investigation exposing Planned Parenthood's so-called gender-affirming care
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A miracle recovery in Venezuela as a man is pulled alive from nearly 30 feet of rubble
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eight days after that country's devastating earthquakes.
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and New Yorkers pushing back after their socialist mayor asks them to set their air
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conditioners to 78 degrees. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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General Keith Ellison, both Democrats, and the Walz-appointed state chief justice, granting a
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pardon to an immigrant from Laos convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl,
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clearing the conviction that placed him on the verge of deportation. 42-year-old Thulu Vang was
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after his family fled Laos, entering the U.S. as a child in 1994,
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receiving legal status under the Clinton administration.
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According to the criminal complaint shared on X by Fox News' Bill Malugin,
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Vang was around 18 when he began abusing the unnamed victim in 2002.
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The complaint describing repeated assaults in graphic detail,
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Vang meeting the victim through her older sister,
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whom he later married, making the victim his sister-in-law.
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The abuse beginning before that marriage and continuing afterward for several years.
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When questioned by a detective following his 2005 arrest,
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Vang acknowledging the sexual contact but dismissing it as a, quote, minor thing.
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Vang claiming it was, quote, a cultural thing in Thailand for men to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.
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Vang then blaming the victim, telling investigators she should be arrested too because she was, quote, as much at fault.
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According to DHS, Vang at one point offering his victim $10 to stay quiet about the assaults.
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Vang later pleading guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct under an agreement
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that spared him from prison, instead receiving 30 years of probation.
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The Ramsey County Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the case,
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telling the New York Times that the lenient sentence was partly the result of pressure
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the victim was facing from her own family not to cooperate.
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Vang's legal status revoked following the conviction,
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with an immigration judge issuing a final order for his removal in 2006.
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Vang nevertheless remaining in the U.S. for nearly two decades
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because Laos largely refused to accept deportees,
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leaving many immigrants with old removal orders stuck in the United States as our problem.
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That reality beginning to change after President Trump returned to office,
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and the administration carrying out hundreds of removals involving people with decades-old
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orders. Federal immigration authorities detaining Vang in December as part of Operation Metro Surge
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in Minnesota. With his deportation imminent, Vang then applying for a pardon from the state
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of Minnesota, citing his rehabilitation, his wife and six children, and arguing that he had taken
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full responsibility for his actions according to his application, reviewed by the Times.
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The nine-member Minnesota Clemency Review Commission, considering his application in
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April, four members voting to recommend the pardon, two voting against it, three absent.
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The final decision resting with the three-member Minnesota Board of Pardons made up of Governor
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Walsh, A.G. Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson.
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The board informing him in a letter that receiving a pardon was, quote,
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a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you've done since your conviction.
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The pardon, supported by a statement from the victim, reading in part, quote,
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What happened to me was wrong, but I have had many years to think about this.
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Governor Walsh and A.G. Ellison's offices defending the pardon decision to the Times by
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pointing to the Clemency Commission's recommendation and the victim's support statement,
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The pardon removing the conviction that had served as the basis for Vang's removal case,
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potentially allowing him to remain here, along the rest of us in the U.S.
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The Department of Homeland Security accusing Minnesota officials of
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protecting a dangerous foreign criminal from removal.
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DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Biss releasing a statement,
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Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist
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so he can remain in our country is disgusting.
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These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.
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A new investigation conducted by the pro-life advocacy group Live Action and detransitioner
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Chloe Cole testing whether Planned Parenthood, one of the nation's largest providers of so-called
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gender-affirming hormone therapy, is as prepared to help patients detransition as it is to help
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them transition. The organization enthusiastically offering hormones and other transition-related
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services through clinics across the country. Its website listing estrogen, testosterone,
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puberty blockers, assistance with the social and legal aspects of transitioning, and even
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referrals for surgery among the services offered through its network of clinics. Cole knows
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firsthand how devastating this so-called care can be. She was placed on testosterone as a young
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teenager undergoing surgery to remove both of her breasts at just 15 years old before eventually
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rejecting the transgender identity she had been pushed into adopting. Now she wants to know
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whether Planned Parenthood's extensive system of transition-related care also includes any
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meaningful support for patients trying to detransition, contacting Planned Parenthood
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clinics across the country, and posing as a patient seeking help. Again and again, she
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encountered confusion, uncertainty, and dead ends.
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We'd only have gender-affirming care services, like for hormones, but not to de-transition.
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We here in the scheduling center don't necessarily have those resources, and we most definitely
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can't answer those clinical questions like that.
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Ooh, that one's a hard one, because they know we just do gender-referring.
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So as far as I know, we usually don't see patients for that.
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We usually see patients to get started on gender-affirming care.
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Why don't you offer detransition services? Is that just something that's not listed?
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Have you heard of somebody who's been able to fully come back from transitioning?
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I had surgery, I've been on the drugs, and I need help recovering the things I've lost.
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It looks like the only thing we could do is schedule an appointment with one of our providers.
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As in right now, as I know, I don't think we do that type of help here.
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The calls exposing what Cole and Live Action describe as a, quote, one-way body destruction pipeline.
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We spoke with Chloe Cole about why she joined the investigation.
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She tells us it's because she believes Planned Parenthood has found yet another vulnerable population to exploit.
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So they called me in April asking me to be part of this investigation of Planned Parenthood.
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and influencing them to kill their unborn children,
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they found a new demographic to make money off of,
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for the most obvious outcome of transgender procedures,
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which would be regretting them and seeking to reverse them.
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And as it turned out, that they had very little to say.
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They actually had told me that there was no help,
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that they had no resources for people like me who choose to detransition.
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As Cole knows all too well, detransitioning or embracing biological reality
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Cole warns that many detransitioners are already struggling to find doctors
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equipped to treat damage, the medical establishment is only beginning to understand.
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The kind of medical support that a detransitioner would need would depend case by case and by how
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far they go into the process. If you've already had the sexual surgeries that remove the genitalia,
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you are not going to be capable of producing your own hormones for life. So I have friends,
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I have many friends who are dependent on the usage of sex hormones for the rest of their life.
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having to do with our reproductive, our sexual health,
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what the consequences of these treatments are long-term.
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that these providers like Planned Parenthood
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start providing care for detransitioners now,
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of people who regret these procedures and need to get help immediately.
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Cole argues that Planned Parenthood's inability to offer meaningful help is not an oversight,
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but the inevitable result of a system built to affirm every request to transition and question almost none of them.
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It absolutely is a one-way pipeline of destruction.
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There is nothing about this that is even remotely cared.
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It's not affirming anything but the delusion of the patient.
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And it's really the only instance in medicine where the whims of the patient are what the treatment is solely focused on.
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And so we are leading young people, including children, down a path that for many of them leads to sterilization, that leads to adult sexual dysfunction, and so many different parts of your health being disrupted with no way out.
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They have decided to go all out on the destruction of life, not just before it's born, but they also are getting the young souls who are able to make it out of the womb.
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For those already trying to reverse course, finding knowledgeable doctors can require months or even years of searching.
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Cole points to the first signs that a medical network dedicated specifically to detransitioners may finally be taking shape.
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For many of us, there isn't really just one place that we can look at to find care for ourselves.
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It often takes a series of going through different doctors, going through different clinics, even for some of us, even months to years, in order to find a team that we can work with.
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But recently, there have been two clinics that are set to open up to help patients detransition, one in Texas and one, I believe, in the Midwest.
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And I think that that's going to create a massive precedent for those of us who are seeking to reverse this and are seeking to treat the trauma, both physically and psychologically, from it.
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Coming up, rescuers reaching a survivor buried nearly 30 feet beneath a collapsed shopping center, eight days after Venezuela's devastating earthquakes.
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to turn up their thermostats during a heat wave,
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Eight days after two devastating earthquakes reduced areas of northern Venezuela to rubble,
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rescuers pulling off a miracle. Hernan Gil emerging alive yesterday from the ruins of a
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nine-story shopping center in coastal city La Guaida after spending more than a week trapped
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beneath roughly 29 feet of concrete and debris. The extraordinary rescue providing a rare moment
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of celebration as the confirmed death toll reaches at least 2,295 and is expected to climb
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far higher. The earthquakes striking northern Venezuela on June 24, a magnitude 7.2 shock
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followed, just 39 seconds later, by an even stronger magnitude 7.5 quake. La Guaida suffering
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some of the country's worst destruction, leaving tens of thousands of buildings damaged or
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destroyed. Yet amid the widespread death and destruction, some moments of hope. The Costa
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Rican Red Cross on Sunday detecting signs that someone might still be alive deep beneath a
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collapsed shopping center. The Chilean Fire Department, one of several international teams
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assisting with the operation, telling CNN that specialized radar, sonar, and sound detection
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equipment confirmed a survivor was trapped inside the wreckage. Then, after several days,
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visual confirmation of life. A search camera carefully threaded into the collapsed basement,
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capturing Gil's fingers waving through a tiny opening between enormous layers of concrete and
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debris. The Chilean team describing the operation as highly complex, with the collapsed structure
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still unstable and pieces of debris continuing to fall around the rescuers. Crews from roughly
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half a dozen countries spending three days slowly cutting and clearing a safe passage toward Gil.
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CNN reporting rescuers remained in contact with Gil throughout the operation,
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passing him water, food, medicine, and fluids through a hose and syringe.
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Video posted by El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, showing one of those exchanges.
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Gil peering through the wreckage with one eye badly bloodshot as a rescuer asks whether he is hurt.
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Gil replying, quote, no, I'm not hurt. I'm just uncomfortable because of the rocks.
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After roughly 70 hours of painstaking work, rescuers finally breaking through.
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Gil's wife waiting nearby the rescue scene, telling CNN she felt, quote,
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days of great sorrow, thinking her husband must have died,
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describing the moment she learned he was still alive as, quote, a ray of sunshine.
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Gonzalez describing her husband as a hero, saying their children were waiting for him at home.
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A CNN reporter at the scene describing the moment after Gil's release.
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He is clearly affected. He is clearly affected.
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His wife was here as well, waiting for him to come out.
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He was receiving a restoration, but just him being able to move,
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we could see him moving and trying to lift his arm.
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He's going to make it out, and this is the best and most possible welcome news.
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Yet even as crews increasingly shift from rescue to recovery,
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Venezuela continuing to produce remarkable signs of life.
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NPR reporting a three-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble in La Guaida
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The international recovery effort involving 27 countries,
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more than 2,200 rescuers, and 140 search dogs, according to the UN.
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Roughly 2,000 American service members contributing to the effort,
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with the U.S. committing at least $300 million to the response.
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New York City's socialist mayor discovering this week that 78 degrees may be the precise
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temperature at which collectivism becomes a little too warm. Mayor Zoram Mamdani urging
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New Yorkers to raise their thermostats as a punishing heat wave places heavy strain on
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the city's electrical grid. Temperature's expected to reach as high as 102 degrees,
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with a feel-like temperature as high as 112 through the holiday weekend,
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prompting the city to expand cooling centers, keep public pools open longer,
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and increase outreach to elderly and vulnerable residents.
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Mayor Mamdani posting to X on Wednesday, quote,
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New York, it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.
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Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights and electronics you're not using,
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The city promising to make the same sacrifices inside government buildings.
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Many New Yorkers appearing considerably less enthusiastic about surrendering control of
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their thermostats. One local posting, quote, as a New Yorker, I'll be setting my AC to
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62 degrees for the foreseeable future as a direct retaliation to your authority.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, also joining the replies,
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asking whether Mamdani's thermostat directive was what he had in mind during his inaugural
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address. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
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Mayor Mamdani defending the recommendation as longstanding city policy, though Democrat
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Governor Kathy Hochul giving New Yorkers a little more room to breathe, recommending thermostats be
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set anywhere between 75 and 78 degrees. No word on what the temperature inside Madison Square Garden
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