1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: The latest use this hour in just four minutes. 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 3: There's growing uncertainty spreading across the Middle East as the 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 3: United States military continues Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Matt 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 3: Bodner on Capitol Hill. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 4: As we entered day four of the bombing campaign against Iran, 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 4: there are growing concerns that the United States may be 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 4: entangling itself in another long Middle Eastern war. On Monday, 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 4: President Trump said that the military projected a four to 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 4: five week operation, but he did add that the United 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 4: States was committed to its goals, no matter how long 12 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 4: it takes to achieve them. 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 3: Six American service members have been killed since the start 14 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 3: of the operation that took out Iran Supreme leader Ayatola Aljameni. 15 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: After being briefed by the administration, Virginia Democratic Senator Mark 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 3: Warner said this. 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 5: There was no imminent threat to the United States of 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 5: America by the Iranians. A threat to Israel is the 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 5: equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States. Then 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 5: we are in uncharted territory. 21 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: Oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is almost at 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 3: a standstill as Iran threatens to attack any tanker that 23 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: tries to pass through the critical energy corridor. Tony Waterman 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 3: reports consumers will soon feel the effects at the gas pump. 25 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 2: Brin crude oil prices surged as much as twelve percent 26 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: on Monday, pushing the benchmark above eighty dollars a barrel 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: for the first time in more than a year. Strong 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: US supply helped temper the rise, but experts say the 29 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 2: longer the conflict drags on, the more prices will go on. 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: About a fifth of the world's oil typically moves through 31 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: the Strait, but that movement ground to a halt after 32 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: the US and Israeli attacks on Iran. Some one hundred 33 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 3: and fifty tankers have been left stranded. Companies are re 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 3: routing ships around the southern tip of Africa, which is 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 3: greatly increasing. Shipping times and costs have dropped nine hundred 36 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 3: and fifty points as traders fear the US Iran conflict 37 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: could drag on. I'm Michael Kastner, a Tampa, Florida based 38 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 3: nonprofit specializing in getting people out of dangerous situations, is 39 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 3: preparing for the first evacuations of Americans stranded in the 40 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 3: Middle East by the conflict with Iran in Florida, Gordon Byrd. 41 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Great Bull Rescue founder Brian Stern, a veteran of special operations, says, 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: even with leadership, debt, and communications degraded to ron, SIL 43 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: has ways to project power. These are the guys that 44 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: invented the suicide best. These are the guys that invented 45 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: how to take hostages. These are the guys that invented IEDs. 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: Stern's organization is launching rescue operations in the Middle East, 47 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: focusing on Tel Aviv as well as Dubai, where thousands 48 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: of Americans and others are stranded by airspace closures. 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 3: A key gun rights case is now in the hands 50 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 3: of the US Supreme Court. The Justice has heard oral 51 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 3: arguments on whether marijuana users can be prohibited from possess 52 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 3: a pistol. 53 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: Habitual illegal drug users can regain their arms through their 54 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: own voluntary conduct by not using illegal. 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 5: Drugs so often. 56 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: Solicitor General Sarah Harris says that marijuana use should be 57 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: considered different from alcohol or even prescription drugs, because it's 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: illegal at the federal level. The case under review is 59 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: out of Texas. Alihemani was arrested for the possession of 60 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 3: marijuana in his home near Dallas. The FBI also found 61 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 3: a pistol. His lawyers argue that the law violates the 62 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: Second Amendment. Two people are safe with quite a story 63 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 3: to tell after their hot air balloon got stuck on 64 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 3: a cell phone tower in Texas and they had to 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 3: be rescued by firefighters. Rescuers responded to the scene in 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 3: Longview on Saturday morning to find the balloon stuck more 67 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 3: than nine hundred feet off the ground. 68 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 2: It's just a basket that was swinging pretty good in 69 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: the breeze there, and they're just hanging out in that 70 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: basket with a marshy thorn balloon. 71 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: Both occupants in the balloon's basket were conscious and unhurt, 72 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: and the Mega Million's jackpot stands at four hundred seventy 73 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 3: three million dollars ahead of tonight's big drawing. I'm Michael Kassner.