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Morning Newscast 08-04-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: the plan the White House unveiled yesterday to reduce carbon dioxide emissions nationwide is meeting with strong and broad criticism in Montana.

Firefighters have recovered the bodies of a woman and a boy from a home that burned down west of Columbia Falls. Fire Chief Rick Hagen says firefighters found the 30-year-old woman and the 3-year-old boy after yesterday morning's fire.

Jurors began deliberations yesterday afternoon in the case of a registered sex offender who is charged with trying to rape a woman and later escaping from police custody.

A fire that has burned 6 square miles of land in Glacier National Park is 67 percent contained, but fire managers expect unburned fuels within the fire's perimeter to continue burning due to warm temperatures and low humidity.

The Billings Gazette reports that meanwhile that the process of taking down the J.E. Corette plant is expected to take four or more months.

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