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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, six US service members are dead.
As Operation Epic Fury continues against Iran, Secretary of War
Pete Heggs has said Monday the conflict will not be endless.
More from Kate Fisher.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
In offering objectives for the military action, Secretary Hegzev said
Iran's nuclear ambitions had to be addressed, saying they haven't
ceased since the US's strikes against its nuclear facilities last June.
He and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
reiterated what President Trump has already said that more US
casualties should be expected as the operation continues.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Congress will receive a full briefing from the Trump administration today.
Days after the US and Israel launched that massive attack
on Iran. The attacks continue and retaliatory strikes from Iran
have spilled over into the wider Middle East. Junior Democratic
Senator Mark Warner was among the lawmakers who got an
early briefing.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
There was no imminent threat to the United States of
America by the Iranians. But if we equate a threat
to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to
the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
A third victim died following the deadly shooting in Austin,
Texas over the weekend. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
A gunman opened fire outside a bar in Austin's Sixth
Street district early Sunday morning, killing two people and injuring
fourteen more before he was killed by police. A third
victim was taken off life support on Monday. Images show
the suspect wearing a hoodie with the words property of
a Law and an Iranian flag on his undershirt, with
police saying they are looking into a potential connection with
the Iran military operation. The suspect was a Senegalese native

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and a naturalized US citizen.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
On Mark Mayfield after the opening bell, the Dow is
down nine hundred points over worries about surging oil prices
as the Iran conflict deepens. I'm Michael Kassner, a Tampa,
Florida based nonprofit specializing in getting people out of dangerous situations,
is preparing for the first evacuations of Americans stranded in

(02:18):
the Middle East by the conflict with Iran. In Florida,
Gordon byrd.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Great Bull Rescue founder Brian Stern, a veteran of special operations, says,
even with leadership, debt, and communications degraded, Iransil has ways
to project power.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
These are the guys that invented the suicide best.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
These are the guys that invented how to take hostages.
These are the guys that invented IEDs. Stern's organization is
launching rescue operations in the Middle East, focusing on Tel
Aviv as well as Dubai, where thousands of Americans and
others are stranded by airspace closures.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
A key gun rights case is now in the hands
of the US Supreme Court. The Justice has heard oral
arguments on whether marijuana users can be prohibited from possessing
a pistol.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Habitual illegal drug users can regain their arms through their.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Own voluntary conduct by not using illegal drugs so often.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Solicitor General Sarah Harris says that marijuana use should be
considered different from alcohol or even prescription drugs, because it's
illegal at the federal level. The case under review is
out of Texas. Alihemani was arrested for the possession of
marijuana in his home near Dallas. The FBI also found
a pistol. His lawyers argue that the law violates the

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Second Amendment. Two people are safe with quite a story
to tell after their hot air balloon got stuck on
a cell phone tower in Texas and they had to
be rescued by firefighters. Rescuers responded to the scene in
Longview on Saturday morning to find the balloon stuck more
than nine hundred feet off the ground.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's just a basket that was swinging pretty good in
the breeze there, and they're just hanging out in that
basket with a Marshy Thorne balloon.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Both occupants in the balloon's basket were conscious and unhurt,
and the Mega Millions jackpot stands at four hundred and
seventy three million dollars ahead of tonight's big drawing. I'm
Michael Kassner.