April 8, 2026 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This since your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest Use this hour in just four minutes. A two
week ceasefire between the US and Iran is now in place.
NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports the deal calls for a key
shipping channel to be reopened.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All eyes are on the Strait of Horn moves with
that tentative Iranian agreement to coordinate safe passage for oil
and gas tankers through the strait. Damage to the Gulf's
energy infrastructure has already been done after weeks of attacks
from Iran's missiles and drones. Repairing that will take much
more than a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Despite the ceasefire, Iran is apparently still lobbing missiles across
the Persian Gulf, with attacks reported in Kuwait, Cutter and
the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyah, who
has agreed to stop bombing Iran but not against the
Iran backed has bel a militant group in Lebanon. Stocks
are surging on Wall Street due to the ceasefire. The
Dow Jones industrial average has been up over fourteen hundred
(00:55):
points at times today, the SFP five hundred, and the
Nasdaq have been up over two percent as well. Rex
Yuwerman now says he's behind the Long Island murders connected
with Gilgo Beach dating back to the early nineteen nineties.
Natalie Migliori reports.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Rex Ewerman was in court in Suffolk County where he
bleeded guilty to seven counts of murder and admitted publicly
as part of a plea deal to killing Karen Vergata.
Prossecutors say Huerman is expected to get three consecutive life
sentences without the possibility of parole and some of the murders,
and other consecutive life sentences of one hundred years to
life for other murderers. Investigators have been trying to crack
(01:29):
the case for decades, finally getting a lead when the
architect from Massapequa Park discarded pizza crust in a Manhattan trash.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Can, the head coach of the New England Patriots, and
a senior NFL insider at the Athletic or addressing viral
photos that sparks speculation of an affair. It comes after
Page six released photos of the duo Mike Vrabel and
Diana Russini together at a luxury hotel pool in Arizona.
Rabel told Page six, these photos show a completely innocent
interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable, while Rassini said,
(01:59):
like most journalist in the NFL, reporters interact with sources
away from stadiums and other venues. I'm Chris Kraji. NASA
is preparing for the return of the four astronauts aboard
Artemis II. The crew made history by flying deeper into
space than any humans ever before, in becoming the first
to see the entire dark side of the Moon. The
Urgon spacecraft is now headed back to Earth and is
(02:21):
due to splash down in the Pacific near San Diego
early Friday evening. The congressional seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor
Green has been filled by another Republican. Georgia voters elected
Clay Fuller on Tuesday by a fifty six to forty
four percent margin over Democrat Sean Harris in the deeply
read fourteenth Congressional district. The election was a special run
off to a place Green, who resigned at the beginning
(02:42):
of the year after a falling out with President Trump.
A UFO expert known as the real life Fox Molder
has died. Mark Mayfield fills us in.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Nick Pope was often compared to the X Files character
because of his investigations into aerial phenomena, and ran a
classified UFO for Project the UK Ministry of Defense in
the nineteen nineties. Later in life, he became a media
expert on UFOs, appearing frequently on the series Ancient Aliens
and consulting on sci fi films. On Monday, his wife
confirmed that he had passed away at their home in Tucson, Arizona,
(03:13):
after a battle with cancer. Nick Pope was sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
In and Out Burger will not adopt online ordering and
pick up company owner Lindsay Snyder Ellingson made that announcement
during a recent talk at Pepperdine University. Snyder Ellingson was
asked if In and Out ever intends to embrace automation.
She said no, explaining she wants to keep the company
running the way her grandparents founded it. She also says
mobile ordering would take a piece of in and Outs
(03:38):
culture away, mentioning interactions in customer service and could also
jeopardize freshness. Texas has become the national hub for testing
driverless big rigs. Johnasparza who heads up the Texas Trucking Association,
says there's a good reason why. He says there are
plenty of roads to test on where there's no snow
or ice. The autonomous trucks, he says, are safer than
(03:58):
human drivers, who needs sleep and food to stay on track.
I'm Chris Karragio.
This since your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest Use this hour in just four minutes. A two
week ceasefire between the US and Iran is now in place.
NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports the deal calls for a key
shipping channel to be reopened.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All eyes are on the Strait of Horn moves with
that tentative Iranian agreement to coordinate safe passage for oil
and gas tankers through the strait. Damage to the Gulf's
energy infrastructure has already been done after weeks of attacks
from Iran's missiles and drones. Repairing that will take much
more than a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Despite the ceasefire, Iran is apparently still lobbing missiles across
the Persian Gulf, with attacks reported in Kuwait, Cutter and
the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyah, who
has agreed to stop bombing Iran but not against the
Iran backed has bel a militant group in Lebanon. Stocks
are surging on Wall Street due to the ceasefire. The
Dow Jones industrial average has been up over fourteen hundred
(00:55):
points at times today, the SFP five hundred, and the
Nasdaq have been up over two percent as well. Rex
Yuwerman now says he's behind the Long Island murders connected
with Gilgo Beach dating back to the early nineteen nineties.
Natalie Migliori reports.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Rex Ewerman was in court in Suffolk County where he
bleeded guilty to seven counts of murder and admitted publicly
as part of a plea deal to killing Karen Vergata.
Prossecutors say Huerman is expected to get three consecutive life
sentences without the possibility of parole and some of the murders,
and other consecutive life sentences of one hundred years to
life for other murderers. Investigators have been trying to crack
(01:29):
the case for decades, finally getting a lead when the
architect from Massapequa Park discarded pizza crust in a Manhattan trash.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Can, the head coach of the New England Patriots, and
a senior NFL insider at the Athletic or addressing viral
photos that sparks speculation of an affair. It comes after
Page six released photos of the duo Mike Vrabel and
Diana Russini together at a luxury hotel pool in Arizona.
Rabel told Page six, these photos show a completely innocent
interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable, while Rassini said,
(01:59):
like most journalist in the NFL, reporters interact with sources
away from stadiums and other venues. I'm Chris Kraji. NASA
is preparing for the return of the four astronauts aboard
Artemis II. The crew made history by flying deeper into
space than any humans ever before, in becoming the first
to see the entire dark side of the Moon. The
Urgon spacecraft is now headed back to Earth and is
(02:21):
due to splash down in the Pacific near San Diego
early Friday evening. The congressional seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor
Green has been filled by another Republican. Georgia voters elected
Clay Fuller on Tuesday by a fifty six to forty
four percent margin over Democrat Sean Harris in the deeply
read fourteenth Congressional district. The election was a special run
off to a place Green, who resigned at the beginning
(02:42):
of the year after a falling out with President Trump.
A UFO expert known as the real life Fox Molder
has died. Mark Mayfield fills us in.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Nick Pope was often compared to the X Files character
because of his investigations into aerial phenomena, and ran a
classified UFO for Project the UK Ministry of Defense in
the nineteen nineties. Later in life, he became a media
expert on UFOs, appearing frequently on the series Ancient Aliens
and consulting on sci fi films. On Monday, his wife
confirmed that he had passed away at their home in Tucson, Arizona,
(03:13):
after a battle with cancer. Nick Pope was sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
In and Out Burger will not adopt online ordering and
pick up company owner Lindsay Snyder Ellingson made that announcement
during a recent talk at Pepperdine University. Snyder Ellingson was
asked if In and Out ever intends to embrace automation.
She said no, explaining she wants to keep the company
running the way her grandparents founded it. She also says
mobile ordering would take a piece of in and Outs
(03:38):
culture away, mentioning interactions in customer service and could also
jeopardize freshness. Texas has become the national hub for testing
driverless big rigs. Johnasparza who heads up the Texas Trucking Association,
says there's a good reason why. He says there are
plenty of roads to test on where there's no snow
or ice. The autonomous trucks, he says, are safer than
(03:58):
human drivers, who needs sleep and food to stay on track.
I'm Chris Karragio.
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