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News Wrap: Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana

Season 2024 Episode 256 | 6m 51s

In our news wrap Wednesday, Hurricane Francine strengthened to a Category 2 storm before landfall in Louisiana, the U.S. is sending $700 million in aid to Ukraine to help the country's battered energy grid, a group of state and local election officials are warning of problems with the U.S. Postal Service could disrupt voting in the upcoming election and inflation reached a three year-low.

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