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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour in just four minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
President Trump is calling Tuesday a big day for world peace,
posting on social media last night a statement that Iran
has had enough along with everyone else, adding the US
will be helping with the traffic build up in the
strait of horror moves, and that there was a lot
of positive action and big money to be made. As
we hear from Tony Waterman, a two week ceasefire is
(00:30):
now in place.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In a social media post, President Trump said he had
agreed to stop bombing Iran for two weeks as long
as Tehran reopens the Strait of Homus. Iran's foreign minister
Abasarachi confirmed that Tehran will allow vessels safe passage through
the strategic Waterway in coordination with Iran's armed forces. Pakistan,
(00:52):
which has been mediating discussions, said peace talks could start
as soon as Friday in Islamabad. Tony Waterman, Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Pakistan forwarded to Trump on Tuesday at ten point peace
proposal from Iran, the Trump called a workable basis on
which to negotiate. Gas prices will likely keep rising even
after the strait reopens. The US Energy Information Administration says
restoring full flows of oil through the critical waterway will
take months, keeping prices higher until output can return to normal.
(01:24):
A Republican will remain in the seat vacated by former
Congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green. After voters in that
state hit the polls Tuesday, Clay Fuller ended with a
fifty six to forty four margin over Democrat Sean Harris,
with all precincts reporting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms
the release of an American journalist who had been kidnapped
(01:46):
in Iraq. In a social media post, Rubio says Shelley
Kittlesen had been abducted by members of an Iraqi terrorist group.
There's multiple reports the forty nine year old from Wisconsin
was released as part of a prisoner swamp and an
Iranian backed group held Kittlesen for a week after she
was kidnapped in Baghdad. I'm Scott Carr. Delta is raising
(02:07):
its fees for checked bags the airlines, saying the price
for both first and second bags are increasing by ten dollars,
while the cost of a third bag will jump by
fifty dollars. To two hundred dollars. That says the International
Air Transport Association sites at doubling in jet fuel prices
over the past couple of months. The change of Delta
affects domestic and short haul international tickets bought. As of today,
(02:31):
our woman who had just married a US Army soldier
is now out of ICE custody, but as Tammy Trahil reports,
the woman's whoor deal with immigration officers is not over.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Annie Ramos, the wife of Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, was
arrested by ICE agents on April second, when she showed
up at Fort Polk, Louisiana to register as a military
spouse so she could get benefits and begin the process
of obtaining a green card. Ramos was born in Honduras,
but came to the US when she was just twenty
months old. Department of Homeland Security officials say Ramos will
have to wear an ankle ma nature while removal proceedings continue.
(03:02):
In order for Ramos's removal was issued in two thousand
and five when the then toddler failed to show up
for an immigration hearing. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A bright fireball that streaked across skys Tuesday afternoon got
the attention of many in New Jersey and surrounding area states.
Levon Putney, is.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
There a media streaking across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut.
The America Media Society says they got almost two hundred
reports of people seeing it throughout the region around two
thirtieth Tuesday afternoon. The witnesses reported from thirteen of the
Garden States twenty one counties that they saw a bright
ball of light zipping across the sky for several seconds,
while some reported hearing something like thunder as it passed.
(03:39):
I'm Levon Putney.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
A date for the next Oscars has already been set.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday
the awards for the best movies of this year will
be handed out March fourteenth, next year, and the ceremony
will air live over two hundred territories worldwide from the
Dooby Theater in Hollywood. They also announced the date for
the one hundredth Academy Award Words, now set for March
(04:01):
fifth of twenty twenty eight. I'm Scott Carr
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour in just four minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
President Trump is calling Tuesday a big day for world peace,
posting on social media last night a statement that Iran
has had enough along with everyone else, adding the US
will be helping with the traffic build up in the
strait of horror moves, and that there was a lot
of positive action and big money to be made. As
we hear from Tony Waterman, a two week ceasefire is
(00:30):
now in place.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In a social media post, President Trump said he had
agreed to stop bombing Iran for two weeks as long
as Tehran reopens the Strait of Homus. Iran's foreign minister
Abasarachi confirmed that Tehran will allow vessels safe passage through
the strategic Waterway in coordination with Iran's armed forces. Pakistan,
(00:52):
which has been mediating discussions, said peace talks could start
as soon as Friday in Islamabad. Tony Waterman, Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Pakistan forwarded to Trump on Tuesday at ten point peace
proposal from Iran, the Trump called a workable basis on
which to negotiate. Gas prices will likely keep rising even
after the strait reopens. The US Energy Information Administration says
restoring full flows of oil through the critical waterway will
take months, keeping prices higher until output can return to normal.
(01:24):
A Republican will remain in the seat vacated by former
Congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green. After voters in that
state hit the polls Tuesday, Clay Fuller ended with a
fifty six to forty four margin over Democrat Sean Harris,
with all precincts reporting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms
the release of an American journalist who had been kidnapped
(01:46):
in Iraq. In a social media post, Rubio says Shelley
Kittlesen had been abducted by members of an Iraqi terrorist group.
There's multiple reports the forty nine year old from Wisconsin
was released as part of a prisoner swamp and an
Iranian backed group held Kittlesen for a week after she
was kidnapped in Baghdad. I'm Scott Carr. Delta is raising
(02:07):
its fees for checked bags the airlines, saying the price
for both first and second bags are increasing by ten dollars,
while the cost of a third bag will jump by
fifty dollars. To two hundred dollars. That says the International
Air Transport Association sites at doubling in jet fuel prices
over the past couple of months. The change of Delta
affects domestic and short haul international tickets bought. As of today,
(02:31):
our woman who had just married a US Army soldier
is now out of ICE custody, but as Tammy Trahil reports,
the woman's whoor deal with immigration officers is not over.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Annie Ramos, the wife of Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, was
arrested by ICE agents on April second, when she showed
up at Fort Polk, Louisiana to register as a military
spouse so she could get benefits and begin the process
of obtaining a green card. Ramos was born in Honduras,
but came to the US when she was just twenty
months old. Department of Homeland Security officials say Ramos will
have to wear an ankle ma nature while removal proceedings continue.
(03:02):
In order for Ramos's removal was issued in two thousand
and five when the then toddler failed to show up
for an immigration hearing. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A bright fireball that streaked across skys Tuesday afternoon got
the attention of many in New Jersey and surrounding area states.
Levon Putney, is.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
There a media streaking across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut.
The America Media Society says they got almost two hundred
reports of people seeing it throughout the region around two
thirtieth Tuesday afternoon. The witnesses reported from thirteen of the
Garden States twenty one counties that they saw a bright
ball of light zipping across the sky for several seconds,
while some reported hearing something like thunder as it passed.
(03:39):
I'm Levon Putney.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
A date for the next Oscars has already been set.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday
the awards for the best movies of this year will
be handed out March fourteenth, next year, and the ceremony
will air live over two hundred territories worldwide from the
Dooby Theater in Hollywood. They also announced the date for
the one hundredth Academy Award Words, now set for March
(04:01):
fifth of twenty twenty eight. I'm Scott Carr
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