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The Trump administration is planning to send ICE officers to airports tomorrow to help
“the transportation security administration.”
The TSA agents have been working without pay for weeks because of the partial government shutdown, which began last month. Democrats want restrictions on how ICE carries out immigration enforcement. Here's our Tom Homan told CNN, ICE agents will not screen baggage or people but will have a limited role.
We're simply there to help TSA do their job in areas that don't need their specialized expertise such as screening through the X-ray machine. Not training that, we won't do that. But there are roles we can play to release TSA officers from the non-significant role, such as guarding an exit, so they can get back to the scanning machine to move people quicker.
Homan said he's talking to the TSA Administrator and the ICE Director today to discuss how the ICE agents will fit in and which airports need the most help.
“Iran launched a new wave of air strikes in Israel last night with missile striking two cities”
near Israel's nuclear research center. More than 100 people were wounded. NPR's carry-con is in the Israeli city of R-Aud, where one of the Iranian missiles hit. Here in Iran the missile fell between several apartment buildings in this huge apartment complex and it didn't hit an apartment directly, but the blast of it blew out walls,
windows. There isn't a window around, and the car's parked all around, there's a large bus with all its windows blown out, and you can see directly into people's homes and their apartments. There are closets that were just ripped open. There is at one glass window still in act.
You see furniture strewn about, clothes everywhere, and people are just looking around seeing if they can recognize anything of what these apartment buildings look like. NPR's carry-con reporting from Israel.
“People who are self-employed and make too much money for federal help with health insurance”
premiums are facing tough choices. Premium costs for affordable carac plans have doubled this year. NPR's Simmons of Insolience Up Devons reports. 10 Warner and Pervine Vora are in their mid-50s and live in Manchester, Connecticut. They're self-employed and used the ACA for health coverage.
Last year they had to drain one of their two small retirement accounts. It's a pay for the hip surgery and the eye surgery and the roof went. We need to get a new roof and a new boiler at the same year at the surgery so yeah. Now they're wondering how they can pay for surgery on Vora's other eye and Warner's other hip and eyeing the retirement account that's left.
And this is supposed to be meant for our 60s or 70s or 80s. They say they feel stuck in a broken system with healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket costs only getting more expensive each year. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News. This is NPR News.
Much of Hawaii is under a floodwatch through this afternoon. The island chain has seen its worst flooding in 20 years, destroying homes and cars and damaging a hospital in Maui, displacing nearly 100 patients. Duke and Michigan advanced in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament yesterday. But the day's most dramatic finish happened in Oklahoma City where Nebraska moved on to the
sweet 16 for the first time in school history.
Greg Ekland reports. Lega Nebraska native, Braden Frager scored on a lab with two seconds left in the game for the 74 72 victory, but the vocal Huskers fans held their collective breath on a half-court shot by Vanderbilt Guard Tyler Tanner. "It was electric the whole time through, be crowd presence, and yeah, it hurts that the
season's over." The Corn Huskers, meanwhile, are in the midst of their most successful season and heading to Houston for the South Regional Semai Final. The biggest upset of the day was the elimination of Gonzaga, a number three seed after a 74 to 68 lost to the Texas Longhorns.
For NPR News, I'm Greg Ekland.
In the women's tournament the second round opens today with 32 teams down from 64, the first
game starts in about an hour, with Maryland and the University of North Carolina. In professional basketball, LeBron James said another record last night for the most games played in a regular season, 1600 and 12. He helped Los Angeles Lakers beat the Orlando Magic by one point. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News, in Washington.
