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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update the

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Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes.

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Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury is entering its twentieth day, with the

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Speaker 2: Warren Iran showing no signs of winding down. President Trump

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Speaker 2: says Israel attacked a major Iranian gas field yesterday out

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Speaker 2: of anger without letting the US know in advance. That

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Speaker 2: has sent oil prices up further, as well as gas

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Speaker 2: climbing right along with it. Speaking of that, Triple A

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Speaker 2: says the national average for a gallon of regular jumped

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Speaker 2: overnight to three dollars and eighty eight cents. In California,

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Speaker 2: where prices are the highest in the country, drivers are

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Speaker 2: paying five sixty one a gallon on average. Travelers at

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Speaker 2: many airports across the country are continuing to experience long

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Speaker 2: security lines and extended wait times as they try to

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Speaker 2: travel to their spring break destinations. In BC's Tom Costello

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Speaker 2: reports it's the result of continuing TSA staffing shortages brought

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Speaker 2: on by the partial government shutdown we're.

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Speaker 3: Talking too, and three hour waits at key airports, including

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Speaker 3: for example, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Hobby Houston Intercontinental, Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Newark has been bad at times, JFK has been bad.

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Speaker 2: The TSA acting Deputy Administrator has said that some airports

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Speaker 2: might have to be closed altogether due to the shortages. Also,

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Speaker 2: three terminal security checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport have been

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Speaker 2: temporarily closed. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is one step closer

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Speaker 2: to becoming the next head of Homeland Security. The Senate

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Speaker 2: Homeland Committee advanced his nomination with an eight to seven

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Speaker 2: vote today. Mullen's nomination is now heading to the full Senate,

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Speaker 2: where he'll need a simple majority to be confirmed. Cities

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Speaker 2: and states across the country are starting to distance themselves

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Speaker 2: from the Caesarshava's name. A bombshell New York Times report

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Speaker 2: says the late civil rights icon and leader of the

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Speaker 2: United farm Workers Union sexually assaulted several women decades ago.

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Speaker 2: His birthday is a state holiday in California, and Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she's changing Caesar Chavez Day

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Speaker 2: to farm Workers' Day. In Arizona, Governor Katie Hobbs's office

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Speaker 2: announced the state will not recognize Caesarshavazd Day and March

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Speaker 2: thirty first. Dozens of US street, schools and parks bear

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Speaker 2: his name. I'm Chris Krachio. Actor Sean Penn is being

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Speaker 2: hailed as a great friend of Ukraine for his decision

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Speaker 2: to skip the twenty twenty six Oscars Award ceremony and

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Speaker 2: proceed with his trip to the war torn country. More

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Speaker 2: from Mark Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Pen One is third Oscar for his supporting role as

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Speaker 1: Colonel Lockshaw in the film One Battle after Another. The

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Speaker 1: actor was not present to collect his trophy, but the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Ukrainian Railways resented Ben with an iron oscar

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Speaker 1: crafted from railcar medal that survived a Russian missile attack.

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Speaker 1: Penn also gathered praise from Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski for

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Speaker 1: his activism efforts.

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Speaker 2: The US Postal Service is warning that it may be

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Speaker 2: unable to pay its workers and vendors by February of

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Speaker 2: next year. Postmaster General David Steiner appeared before a House

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Speaker 2: Oversight subcommittee and shared that at its current run rate,

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Speaker 2: the Postal Service will be out of cash in less

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Speaker 2: than twelve months. Steiner is pushing for Congress to act

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Speaker 2: quickly to lift borrowing limits and reform outdated regulars. However,

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Speaker 2: lawmakers at the hearings signaled a mix of urgency and caution.

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Speaker 2: California is recording the hottest winter day in US history.

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Speaker 2: A weather station in the Coachella Valley yesterday recorded a

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Speaker 2: temperature of one hundred eight degrees that ties a record

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Speaker 2: set in Texas in nineteen oh two for the hottest

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Speaker 2: winter day ever. The National Weather Service says the measurement

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Speaker 2: is still preliminary. Heat records were also set in other

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Speaker 2: parts of the Southwest. Las Vegas recorded an all time

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Speaker 2: March high of ninety four degrees. Phoenix hit one hundred

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Speaker 2: and two degrees yesterday, which was the earliest day in

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Speaker 2: the year that the famously hot city has ever reached

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Speaker 2: one hundred. Finland is still the world's happiest country. The

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Speaker 2: World Happiness Report is out with its annual list of

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Speaker 2: the happiest countries on Earth, and for the ninth year

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Speaker 2: in a row of Finland is ranked number one. Iceland

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Speaker 2: claimed second place, followed by Denmark and third. The US

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Speaker 2: once again failed to crack the top ten, coming in

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Speaker 2: twenty third this year. Ani Music History News on this date.

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Speaker 2: Back in two thousand and one, Aerosmith Steely, Dan Queen,

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Speaker 2: and Paul Simon were among the inductees into the Rock

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Speaker 2: and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm Chris Kragio,