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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: The conflict in Iran is escalating as it approaches one week.

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Speaker 2: Israel has ramped up strikes that have targeted Lemandan and Tehran,

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Speaker 2: while Iran has returned strikes, with some targeting Tel Aviv.

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Speaker 2: Last weekend, the initial strikes killed Iran's Ayatola, leaving the

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Speaker 2: country to face a power void. President Trump is now

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Speaker 2: saying he wants to personally play a role in the

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Speaker 2: selection of Iran's next supreme leader, and President Trump says

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Speaker 2: there will be no deal struck with Iran unless it

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Speaker 2: includes an unconditional surrender. In a post on truth Social

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Speaker 2: he said they will work tirelessly to bring Iran back

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Speaker 2: from the brink of destruction. He concluded by saying make

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Speaker 2: a Ran great again. And when asked about a potential

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Speaker 2: strike from Iran on the US, Trump said, we planned

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Speaker 2: for it and we expect some things. And due to

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Speaker 2: the Middle East conflict, stocks are again way down on

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Speaker 2: Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been down

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Speaker 2: over nine hundred points at times today, The S and

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Speaker 2: P five hundred and the Nasdaq have been down over

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Speaker 2: one percent as well, and gas prices are up once again. Today.

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Speaker 2: Triple A reports the national average cost for a gallon

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Speaker 2: of regular is now at three dollars and thirty two cents.

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Speaker 2: That's a jump of seven cents from yesterday and thirty

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Speaker 2: four cents from a week ago. The US economy lost

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Speaker 2: more jobs than expected in February. Mitch McCahon reports.

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Speaker 3: Economists head forecast that the UIs would gain fifty thousand

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Speaker 3: jobs in February, but friday's data from the Bureau of

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Speaker 3: Labor Statistics showed it actually lost ninety two thousand, another

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Speaker 3: sign the job market is struggling. At the same time,

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Speaker 3: the country's unemployment right rose to four point four percent.

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Speaker 2: Analysts say severe winter weather coupled with the strike at

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Speaker 2: Kaiser Permanente, drove the larger than expected decline. Healthcare saw

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Speaker 2: the biggest loss in payrolls, with information services right behind.

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Speaker 2: That sector was hit by artificial intelligence related cuts last month.

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Speaker 2: A severe weather thread is ramping up today for millions

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Speaker 2: across Texas the plains in Midwest. Thunderstorms are bringing damaging

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Speaker 2: winds and flood risk projected to last in the next week.

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Speaker 2: Large hail pot simbly the size of baseballs is possible

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Speaker 2: for the region moving into early tomorrow morning. I'm Chris Karraggio.

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Speaker 2: The military conflict with Iran is likely already cost taxpayers

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Speaker 2: more than five billion dollars, according to an analysis from

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Speaker 2: one think tank. Elaine McCusker is a senior fellow at

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Speaker 2: the American Enterprise and a former budget official with the Pentagon.

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Speaker 2: She notes that it's hard to come up with an

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Speaker 2: exact cost because all the details are in public. One

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Speaker 2: big expense came before the attacks even started, had likely

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Speaker 2: cost and estimated six hundred and thirty million dollars to

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Speaker 2: move US warships, warplanes, and military personnel into the region.

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Speaker 2: The cost of expensive weapons systems used against Iran also

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Speaker 2: adds up daily US ally. Kuwait accidentally shot down three

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Speaker 2: American F fifteen jets, each one costing about ninety million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Nasdak opened its new Texas Exchange yesterday in a special

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Speaker 2: bell ringing ceremony at the Alamo on the one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninetieth anniversary of the famous Texan defeat at the

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Speaker 2: hands of the Mexican Army. Nasdak Texas allows publicly traded

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Speaker 2: companies to align with Texas corporate rules while assessing nasdaq's

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Speaker 2: trading platform and investor base. More than two hundred Texas

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Speaker 2: based companies are already listed on NASDAK. Wendy's is launching

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Speaker 2: an effort to hire a chief Tasting Officer. Tasty details

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Speaker 2: now from Mark Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: The fast food chain is looking to find someone to

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Speaker 1: share content about its food online. Wendy's officials say they

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Speaker 1: want someone with a human mouth, a pulse, opinions, creativity,

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Speaker 1: and taste to share videos and posts on social media

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Speaker 1: related to the company. They say the gig will pay

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars. Details are posted at Wendy's Chief

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Speaker 1: Tasting Officer dot com. I'm Marknyphew. It's Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live is bringing back Ryan Gosling. The actor

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Speaker 2: is hosting this weekend with Gorillas as the musical guest.

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Speaker 2: It's the band's first appearance on the show and a

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Speaker 2: music history news On this date. In nineteen sixty seven,

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Speaker 2: the Beatles finished recording and mixing the title track for

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Speaker 2: the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band. I'm Chris Karagio