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 1: Security lines at many airports are still giving travelers headaches 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: as the partial government shutdown drags on. NBC's Priscilla Thompson 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: reports the extended wait times are the result of staffing shortages, 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: as TSA agents continue to go without pay. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: Frustrated flyers waiting on painfully slow security checks even packing 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 3: terminals in New York. As early as four thirty am today, 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 3: at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental, the number of checkpoints has 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 3: been reduced from nine to two, the airport warning wait 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 3: times could be more than four hours. 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: The Department of Homeland Security now says more than four 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: hundred TSA employees have quit. Many others have been calling out. Yesterday, 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: Democrats rejected a Republican proposal to reopen DHS with only 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: partial funding for ICE. Meantime, a House hearing is underway 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: on the impacts of the ongoing shutdown. The House Homeland 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: Security Committee here is examining what it calls the harmful 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: impacts of the DHS shut down on Americans. Those testifying 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: today include officials from the US Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA. 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to send more troops to 22 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: the Middle East as the war with Iran rages on. 23 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, troops with the US Army's eighty 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: second Airborne Division will be deployed to the region to 25 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: support operations against Iran. Around fifteen hundred soldiers from the division, 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: based in Fort Bragg are expected to be deployed. Record 27 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: high temperatures could be felt in at least seventeen different 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: states today. It comes as the heat wave has brought 29 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 1: scorching temperatures to the Southwest and it's now shifting east. 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: Temperatures up to or above ninety degrees may be felt 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: from California to Missouri and up to Minnesota. A Los 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: Angeles jury is deliberating for a ninth day in a 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: social media lawsuit. A young woman is suing Instagram's parent 34 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: company Meta and YouTube's parent company Google. She accuses the 35 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: social media giants of getting her addicted before she was ten, 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: but they deny the allegation. Monday, the jury said a 37 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: note to the judge saying he was having trouble reaching 38 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: a verdict against one of the defendants. I'm Chris Caragio. 39 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Today's show co host Savannah Guthrie says it's been unbearable 40 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: dealing with the disappearance of her mother Nancy. 41 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: I wake up every night, in the mid of the night, 42 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror. 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: She sat down for an interview on Today with HOTECOTPI, 44 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: which will air Thursday and Friday. It's her first interview 45 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: since her eighty four year old mother disappeared from her 46 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: southern Arizona home. She was reported missing on February first. 47 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: No suspects have been identified, and the family is offering 48 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: a one million dollar reward. Guthrie says her family has 49 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: been in agony and someone needs to do the right thing. 50 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: A jury in New Mexico says met A failed to 51 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: safeguard it's Facebook and Instagram apps from online predators targeting kids. 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: Yesterday's ruling follows weeks of testimony that pitted the state 53 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: against the social media giant in the civil case that 54 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: could impact several similar cases across the country. Meta must 55 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 1: now pay three hundred and seventy five million dollars in 56 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: damages for violating New Mexico's Unfair Practices Act. Meta says 57 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: it will appeal the ruling open Ai is shutting down 58 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: the generative AI video creation platform Sora. Jim Roop reports. 59 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 4: The announcement comes just three months after Disney Ain't a 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: lucrative deal with open Ai, allowing users to generate videos 61 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 4: with a set of more than two hundred characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, 62 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 4: and Star Wars films. Disney also planned to make a 63 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 4: one billion dollar equity investment in the company. Open Ai 64 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 4: says more details will come soon, including timelines for the 65 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 4: shutdown of the app. I'm Jim Roop. 66 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: A Democrat, has flipped a Republican district in Florida that 67 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: includes President Trump's mar A Lago resort. Emily Gregory won 68 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: a special election yesterday for District eighty seven's open house 69 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: seat over Republican John Maples. The seat had been held 70 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: by a Republican who resigned last summer. I'm Chris Krashio.