"Live from NPR news in Washington, on Corva Coleman, this is day 13 of the U.
war in Iran. Israel is also battling Iran's proxy militia, has below militants in Lebanon.
“As below, has launched its biggest rocket attack against Israel since the current conflict”
started, and appears Daniel Esteran reports from Tel Aviv. The Israeli military reports the Iranian-backed Hezbollah launched heavy rocket fire toward Israel's north throughout the night. Israel launched attacks and Lebanon against Hezbollah sites. Lebanon, which does not have diplomatic ties with Israel, has unusually called for direct talks with Israel to end the escalating fighting with Hezbollah. Israel has not officially
responded. Israeli strikes on Iran continue, as Iran fires missiles at Israel intermittently every day and overnight. Israeli military officials say about half of the missiles Iran has launched at Israel, have had cluster warheads that spread out into smaller bombs in the air with a wide impact radius. Daniel Esteran NPR news Tel Aviv. "Stalk markets remain uneasy over the conflict, part of that is because Iran has effectively
cut off oil shipments from Persian Gulf nations. Iran controls the state of Hormuz, at least six ships, including oil tankers, have been attacked in the region in the past two days.
President Trump says the U.S. will release 172 million barrels of oil from the strategic
petroleum reserve. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN this morning he expects that release will help calm oil markets. "The disruption of oil, temporary disruption of oil through
“the streets of Hormuz, that's what the strategic petroleum reserve is for. So as we have a shortage”
of market coming through that avenue, we're going to bring oil to market through other avenues to get through a few weeks of a short-term dislocation to get to a much better place on the other side." But that confidence is not being reflected in oil markets. The benchmark cost for crude oil has risen close to $100 per barrel. President Trump is continuing to tell the success of the U.S. military and visit yesterday to Kentucky. From Kentucky Public Radio,
Sylvia Goodman has more. "To a cheering crowd, Trump proclaimed the ongoing war in Iran
a success. He said the conflict was essentially decided in the first hour, but warned he didn't
want to leave too soon." As we end this threat to America and this threat to the world, we don't want to leave early, do we? Uh, we got to finish the job, right?
“According to a new NPRPBS marist poll, 36% approve of Trump's handling of the war.”
While more than half of the nearly 1,600 respondents opposed it, Trump also used the rally as a chance to rail against Republican congressman Thomas Massey, who has been a frequent thorn in the president's side. Massey sponsored a failed war power's resolution to end U.S. military action in Iran. For MPR News, I'm Sylvia Goodman, in Hebrew in Kentucky. "This is NPR." The Trump administration is launching new trade investigations.
One of them will look at what's called excess industrial capacity in 16 major trading partners.
These include China and the European Union. The second pro will examine other country's regulations
on forced labor. The Trump administration's efforts here come after the Supreme Court overturned some of Trump's signature tariffs last month. A strong El Nino weather pattern could be on the way this summer, and appears Rebecca Hershey reports that would drive up global temperatures in the second half of this year. El Nino happens when the water in the eastern Pacific is warmer than usual. It causes global average temperatures to rise slightly. When you combine that with
the much larger warming effects of humans burning fossil fuels, you often get record-breaking heat. A long, strong El Nino in 2023 and 2024 led both of those years to shatter global temperature records. Now, federal forecasters say it's likely El Nino will return between June and August. That would also affect regional weather patterns in the US. The South generally sees more rain and lower temperatures in years when El Nino is active, and El Nino also makes it more difficult
for hurricanes to form an Atlantic. Rebecca Hershey and Pierre News. A significant storm is plowing across the southeast in the US this morning. There are tornado watches up in South Carolina and Georgia. The storms come as parts of southern Illinois and Indiana clear wreckage from deadly tornadoes this week, two people were killed in Indiana. This is NPR News.
