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16 Iranian vessels today.
“The Pentagon says these were capable of placing mines in the state of Hormuz.”
That very narrow body of water is effectively closed by the conflict. It's cut off oil shipments to the world from Persian Gulf countries. A British maritime organization says three ships have been hit in the region today. It appears air Batrawi reports the U.S. and Israel continue to hit sites within Iran as well. People who've left Tehran through the Turkish border have been telling NPR their fleeing
because the sky is red from bombings and they have also reported multi-story residential buildings being flattened in Tehran. In addition to homes, we've also seen damage emerging from centuries-old landmarks and palaces in Tehran and cities south like Ishvahan, 300 miles south of Tehran.
It appears air Batrawi reporting.
Stocks open mix this morning as investors digest a fairly mild report on inflation. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average slipped about 80 points in early trading.
“A new report from the Labor Department shows annual inflation in February was 2.4 percent”
about what forecasters had expected and similar to the previous month. The March cost of living index could be a lot uglier now the U.S. war with Iran is triggered despite in gasoline prices. Triple A says gas prices have jumped about 60 cents a gallon since the war began. Gas prices were already creeping up last month along with rent and grocery prices, falling
prices for use cars and auto insurance to help keep the February inflation rate in check.
The Campbell Soup Company is forecasting a drop in sales this year as it says lower income
shoppers are cutting back. The soup maker also says "terrorists are raising costs." Scott Horsley and Pianu is Washington. A special congressional election in Georgia yesterday will go to a runoff in April. Democrats Sean Harris will face Republican Clay Fuller who was endorsed by President Trump
“that running to fill the sea to form a Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.”
A new survey shows nearly half of all Americans say they'd support the idea of national guard members patrolling polling places in the U.S. in the November elections. The survey finds Republicans are especially open to the move, but as NPR's Miles Parks reports, such action is not legal. President Trump has an explicitly said he wants to use the National Guard to monitor
this year's elections, but it's something voting officials have been worried about. Since Trump did say he wished he had deployed the guard in 2020. A new MPR PBS News Marist poll finds such unprecedented action would be supported by 46% of Americans and roughly three in four Republicans. Experts MP are spoke with said those numbers could indicate that many people do not know
it's illegal for federal government's deployed troops to monitor voting, and that Trump has falsely but effectively convinced many that voter fraud is a widespread problem in American elections. Miles Parks and PR News Washington. On Wall Street, the Dow is now down about 100 points.
This is NPR. Officials in Northern Indiana say a tornado there yesterday killed two people in Lake Township. That's about 50 miles southeast of Chicago, Lake Township Fire Chief Rob Churchill says that tornado wreckage is extensive.
Total devastation there were houses that were collapsed, there were people trapped in houses, there's livestock loose. There were tornadoes in southern Illinois yesterday as well, and the National Weather Service says the storms dropped exceptionally large, hail up to five inches wide in some cases. This morning four casters have posted fresh tornado watches for parts of Indiana and
Eastern Ohio. Washington stayed in Oregon have passed new restrictions on the use of masks by law enforcement. As NPR's Martin Costi reports, the states are trying to rain in federal officers. Oregon passed its bill last week, Washington on Monday. The bill's restrict masks for all law enforcement, local state and federal, but legislators
are primarily concerned with federal immigration officers. The sponsor of the Washington bill is Democratic State Senator Javier Valdez. He says last year's surge in masking by those immigration officers inspired the legislation. No one should have to live in fear when they are dealing with all law enforcement officials. We need to work with them and they need to know who they are and can't hide the identity.
A similar law passed in California last year, but it was blocked by a federal judge because it had a carve out for state police. The Oregon and Washington bills now await the signatures of the state's governors. Martin Costi and PR News.
