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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: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran is run by lunatics.

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Speaker 2: He made those comments to reporters today before he updated

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Speaker 2: the Senate on Operation Epic Fury against Iran. This is

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Speaker 2: an action by the President to address a real threat,

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Speaker 2: a real threat. This is hostilities designed to eliminate a threat,

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Speaker 2: he said. President Trump determined we would not be hit

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Speaker 2: first by Iran and again insisted Iran was working to

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Speaker 2: acquire nuclear weapons. As for the briefing, Rubio predicted Democrats

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Speaker 2: will come out of it afterwards, saying we didn't hear

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Speaker 2: anything and we have more questions than answers. He also

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Speaker 2: criticized Democratic efforts to pass the War Powers Act against Trump. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: US targets are facing more retaliatory strikes from Iran in

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Speaker 2: response to Operation Epic Fury, including the US consulate in Dubai.

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Speaker 2: Rubio said the drone struck an adjacent parking lot and

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Speaker 2: the fire spread. He added that most of the staff

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Speaker 2: was evacuated there days ago. Earlier today, President Trump posted

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Speaker 2: on truth Social Now that Iran's Air Defense Air Force

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Speaker 2: Navy and leadership are gone. They want to talk, but

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Speaker 2: it's too late. This all comes as six US service

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Speaker 2: members have been killed so far in the fighting. Oil

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Speaker 2: tankers may start being escorted by the US Navy as

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Speaker 2: gas prices start to rise in the US. Today, President

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Speaker 2: Trump posted that the Navy may join the tankers through

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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horror Moves if necessary. Nearly a fifth

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Speaker 2: of the world's oil travels through the Strait, and Iran

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Speaker 2: says it will target any vessel using the narrow waterway.

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Speaker 2: Stocks are way down on Wall Street as the conflict

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Speaker 2: between the US and Iran heats up. Stocks fell sharply today,

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Speaker 2: then significantly trimmed losses in volatile trading at the closing bell.

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Speaker 2: The Dow Jones lost four hundred and three points to

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Speaker 2: forty eighty five hundred and one, the SAP five hundred

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Speaker 2: fell sixty four points, and the NASDAK dropped two hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty two points. Midterm election season is getting underway

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Speaker 2: today with primaries in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas. The

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six midterms could shift the bounce of in

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Speaker 2: both the House and Senate. The races in Texas are

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Speaker 2: getting the most attention. I'm Chris Karacio. A federal appeals

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Speaker 2: court is rejecting a Trump administration request to delay issuing

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Speaker 2: tariff refunds after the Supreme Court rule last month that

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Speaker 2: most of President Trump's global tariffs are illegal. The administration

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Speaker 2: had asked for ninety days to try and find a

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Speaker 2: political solution. The Supreme Court decision ushered in numerous lawsuits

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Speaker 2: seeking refunds from companies, including FedEx and Costco. Monday's ruling

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Speaker 2: lets the process begin now. Severe weather is targeting millions

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Speaker 2: across the South, with the potential to bring thunderstorms, hail,

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Speaker 2: and tornadoes. The severe weather season is beginning right on

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Speaker 2: q as the calendar flips to March, and NOAA's Storm

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Speaker 2: Prediction Center has issued severe weather threats beginning today. The

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Speaker 2: storms will be primarily focused across the Central and Southern Plains,

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Speaker 2: as well as the Arkansas Louisiana, Texas region. Conditions are

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Speaker 2: expected to persist through the weekend. The NFL franchise tag

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Speaker 2: window closes today. It opened on February seventeenth, allowing each

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Speaker 2: team to pick one play who's set to become an

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Speaker 2: unrestricted free agent and keep them on the roster for

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Speaker 2: next season. It costs quite a bit, though, a number

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Speaker 2: based on the top five annual salaries at each position.

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Speaker 2: Only two players were tagged last year, Bengals Wide receiver

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Speaker 2: T Higgins and Chiefs card Tray Smith. Paramount is set

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Speaker 2: to release thirty films a year in theaters once it

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Speaker 2: merges with Warner Brothers Discovery. Jim Roop has more.

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Speaker 1: When news comes after Warner Brothers Discovery has agreed to

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Speaker 1: be acquired by Paramount Skydance for one hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: billion dollars. Paramount CEO David Ellison tells Infestos that they

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Speaker 1: are committed to delivering a broad pipeline of high quality storytelling,

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Speaker 1: including fifteen theatrical films per year per studio. Ellison's also

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Speaker 1: reassuring that the studios will honor a forty five day

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Speaker 1: theatrical window before their film's debut on the streaming services.

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Speaker 1: There is skepticism surrounding the development of enough films, as

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Speaker 1: there is more than seventy eight billion dollars in combined

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Speaker 1: debt between both companies. I'm Jim roop.

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Speaker 2: Ani Music history News on this date. In nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 2: Led Zeppelin released their album Physical graffiti. I'm Chris Karragio.