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 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 3: The Pentagon is reportedly planning to send more troops to 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 3: the Middle East. NBC's Richard Engel reports, in spite of 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 3: what President Trump has been saying, the war doesn't appear 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 3: to be winding down. 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: More American troops are coming the US and Israel launching 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: As of this morning, nine thousand attacks so far, according 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: to the Pentagon. New images today from Iran show extensive 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: damage in the city of Isfahan, but peace negotiations may 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: be coming. 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 3: According to multiple outlets, around fifteen hundred troops with the 13 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 3: US Army's eighty second Airborne Division from Fort Bragg will 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: be deployed to the region to support operations against Iran. 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: The ongoing partial government shutdown is allowing long lines at 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: airport TSA security checkpoints to continue to grow around the nation, 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: as well as traveler frustrations. Horrific. 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: I hate it. It's disgusting. 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 3: It's just terrible. I got to do it all over 20 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: again week to come back for work. Agents are going 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 3: without pay, some calling out to do other jobs, some 22 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 3: quitting altogether. Meanwhile, President Trump says he may call up 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: the National Guard for more help after deploying ice agents 24 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 3: to some airports. The heat dome when the Southwest is 25 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 3: spreading into the southern plains Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas bracing for 26 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: record highs this week. Parts of the Midwest also could 27 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 3: be effected. Meanwhile, this heat wave is nowhere near over 28 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 3: in the Southwest, with high tempts expected through the week. 29 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins says increased fertilizer prices will not 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 3: impact the majority of US farmers. She says eighty percent 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 3: of farmers had already purchased their fertilizer by last year 32 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 3: in preparation for the spring planting season, and according to 33 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 3: the Agriculture Secretary, with many farmers already set on fertilizer 34 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: for the spring season, their quote shouldn't be much disruption 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 3: end quote from the increased costs sparked by Iran restricting 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. However, for the twenty 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 3: percent of US farmers that did not purchase fertilizer, highlights 38 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 3: efforts by the Trump administration to address them, such as 39 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: opening lines from Venezuela. I'm Jim Roop, an American man 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: held captive by the Tally ban for more than a year, 41 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 3: is back home. Dennis Cole is reunited with his family now. 42 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 3: It happened this morning at Fort sam Houston in San Antonio, 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 3: and his sister, Molly Long says she's happy he's home 44 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 3: and free. 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: There's been so many people praying and supporting our family, 46 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: and from the bottom of our hearts, we thank everybody 47 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: for this day. 48 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 3: Cole's release was announced on the Muslim holiday that marks 49 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: the end of Ramadan. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry 50 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: said his imprisonment was sufficient, but partisan senators are introducing 51 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 3: legislation to cap the monthly cost of insulin for patients 52 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 3: on private insurance. Democrats Senators Jean Shaheen and Raphael Warnock 53 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 3: joined Republican Senators Susan Collins and John Kennedy in unveiling 54 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 3: the Improving Need Safeguards for Users of Life Saving Insulin 55 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 3: Now Act. The legislation would limit out of pocket costs 56 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 3: for diabetics by waiving any deductibles and limit cost sharing 57 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: to thirty five dollars or twenty five dollars of the 58 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: list price per month. If signed, the bill would go 59 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 3: into effect at the beginning of twenty twenty seven, a 60 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 3: federal judge says he's troubled by the Pentagon's move to 61 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 3: classify American AI company Anthropic as a supply chain risk. 62 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: Anthropic is challenging that designation in court after the War 63 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: Department also ordered that contractors cut ties with the company, 64 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: citing concerns over national security. The Pentagon has argued that 65 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: Anthropic wants a veto over its use of the company's 66 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: clawed AI. Anthropic says that even if the federal government 67 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: doesn't want to work with it, it shouldn't be blacklisted. 68 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: US District Judge Rita Lyn said Tuesday, it looks like 69 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: the government's looking to Crippleanthropic. I'm Tammy Trihio. 70 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 3: A horse is safe after being found running down at 71 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: Kentucky Interstate. Kentucky State Police say that yesterday a horse 72 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: was spotted running down I sixty five near Elizabethtown. Troopers 73 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 3: were able to guide the horse off the interstate. There's 74 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 3: been no word on who the horse belongs to, or 75 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 3: a writer anywhere, or how it ended up on the 76 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: interstate in the first place. I'm Jim Roop