1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update the 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes. 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 2: Long. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 3: Security lines at many airports are still giving travelers headaches 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 3: as the partial government shutdown drags on. NBC's Priscilla Thompson 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 3: reports the extended wait times are the result of staffing shortages, 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 3: as TSA agents continue to go without pay. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 4: Frustrated flyers waiting on painfully slow security checks even packing 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 4: terminals in New York. As early as four thirty am today, 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 4: at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental, the number of checkpoints has 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 4: been reduced from nine to two, the airport warning wait 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 4: times could be more than four hours. 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 3: The Department of Homeland Security now says more than four 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 3: hundred TSA employees have quit. Many others have been calling out. Yesterday, 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 3: Democrats rejected a Republican proposal to reopen DHS with only 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: partial funding for ICE. Meantime, a House hearing is underway 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: on the impacts of the ongoing shutdown. The House Homeland 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: Security Committee here is examining what it calls the harmful 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 3: impacts of the DHS shut down on Americans. Those testifying 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 3: today include officials from the US Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA. 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 3: The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to send more troops to 22 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 3: the Middle East as the war with Iran rages on. 23 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 3: According to multiple reports, troops with the US Army's eighty 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: second Airborne Division will be deployed to the region to 25 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: support operations against Iran. Around fifteen hundred soldiers from the division, 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: based in Fort Bragg are expected to be deployed. Record 27 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 3: high temperatures could be felt in at least seventeen different 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: states today. It comes as the heat wave has brought 29 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 3: scorching temperatures to the Southwest and it's now shifting east. 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 3: Temperatures up to or above ninety degrees may be felt 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 3: from California to Missouri and up to Minnesota. A Los 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 3: Angeles jury is deliberating for a ninth day in a 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: social media lawsuit. A young woman is suing Instagram's parent 34 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: company Meta and YouTube's parent company Google. She accuses the 35 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: social media giants of getting her addicted before she was ten, 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 3: but they deny the allegation. Monday, the jury said a 37 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: note to the judge saying he was having trouble reaching 38 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 3: a verdict against one of the defendants. I'm Chris Karragio. 39 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 5: You could have a huge tax break coming your way. 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 5: If you're financing your car purchase more from Jack Crumley. 41 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: You might be able to deduct the interest if you 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: bought and financed a car for personal use in twenty 43 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: twenty five. Chief tax information officer at Jackson Hewitt, Mark 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: Steber explains. 45 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 6: If you bought an automobile and you financed part of 46 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 6: that purchase in twenty five or later years, because this 47 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 6: is not just a one time deal, the interest can 48 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 6: be tax deductible up to a maximum of ten thousand dollars. 49 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Steber emphasizes, though this deduction is only available if final 50 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: assembly of the auto took place in the US, and 51 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: Steber says there are plenty of ways to find out. 52 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 6: Their tools, their vin lookups, but you kind of know 53 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 6: it if you bought one, if it's a Ford or 54 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 6: a Chevy or a GM, you can almost rest assure 55 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 6: it was assembled in the United States. And if you 56 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 6: bought a loan. Bang. Now some of the other cars, 57 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 6: the Toyotas, the Mercedes, they have plants here. You need 58 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 6: to ask your salesman or your dealer and they can 59 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 6: tell you pretty quick this is final assemble. 60 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: And you get that money. The tax filing deadline is Wednesday, 61 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: April fifteenth, at midnight. 62 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 5: American's outlook on the job market right now is increasingly sour. 63 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 5: More from Matt Mattinson. 64 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: A new Gallup survey shows twenty eight percent of American 65 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 2: workers think right now is a good time to find 66 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: a job, and seventy two percent say it's a bad time. 67 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: The survey falls in line with a Federal Reserves recent 68 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: report showing that while the US economy is in good shape, 69 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: the labor market remains sluggish. The new survey was taken 70 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: during the last three months of twenty twenty five. In 71 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 2: mid twenty twenty two, Gallup reported seventy percent said it 72 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: was a good time to find work. I'm at Mattinson. 73 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 5: Open Ai is discontinuing the AI video creation platform Sora. 74 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 5: Announcement comes just three months after Disney ink to deal 75 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 5: with OpenAI, allowing users to generate videos with a set 76 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 5: of more than two hundred care characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, 77 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 5: and Star Wars films. I'm Michael Kassner.