"Li from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, federal investigators are ...
flight data recorders from the air-candidate jet that collided with the fire tuck
“and the rather truck at LaGuardia airport Sunday night.”
Two pilots were killed dozens of people were injured. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Hammondy tells Fox News that they want to know more about how the fire truck was directed onto the runway. "They have a lot of questions for air traffic control, everything from workload at the time who was communicating, who was in the tower cab, who was in the facility, what the change
over was like for the new shift, which is the midnight shift. We have questions about communications that will be revealed on the cockpit voice recorder, which we were able to recover in the flight data recorder." LaGuardia Airport has reopened a traffic, but it is very slow.
The federal aviation administration is warning airline passengers their flights could
be delayed by well over four hours. Lebanon's health ministry says, "And Israeli air strike has killed at least three people southeast of Beirut.
“Israel says it's targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, but human rights groups say the”
response is disproportionate and Beirut's lawyer reports from Beirut." Israel has ordered evacuation orders for huge swaths of Lebanon and about a fifth of the population has been displaced. But this strike southeast of the capital came without warning, footage shows flames and smoke billowing from a residential building.
This week Israel's defense minister threatened to use on Lebanon the "gaza model," which raised many residential areas, and said he's accelerating the destruction of Lebanese homes in border villages, from which Hezbollah has fired rockets. Human rights watch says "forceable displacement and attacks deliberately targeting civilians are war crimes.
Israel has also struck gas stations across Lebanon that are known to have business ties with Hezbollah, Lauren Freyer and PR News, Beirut." Stocks open lower this morning as oil prices have rebounded, and Beirut's got horsely
“reports, the Dow Jones industrial average slid about 280 points in early trading.”
Oil prices are climbing again as intense bombardment continues from Tehran to Tel Aviv. Triple A says the average price of retail gasoline has jumped to $3.98 a gallon, that's up a dollar since the war began, diesel prices have jumped by nearly $1.60 a gallon. They have the International Energy Agency, says the U.S. has rarely war with Iran, poses a "major, major threat" to the global economy.
The Labor Department says U.S. workers were not as productive in the fourth quarter as initially reported, productivity rose at an annual rate of 1.8% during October, November, and December, that's down from an earlier estimate of 2.8%. It's got horsely MPR News. Washington.
On Wall Street, the Dow is now down 270 points, the Nasdaq is down 160. This is NPR. Officials with the Taliban say they are releasing U.S. citizen Dennis Coil from custody. He's been detained in Afghanistan for more than a year. The Afghan Foreign Ministry says it is acting on a request from Coil's family and in honor
of the Edofiter holiday. This celebration marks the end of Ramadan. There's a new tax deduction available this filing season.
For the first time some taxpayers will be able to deduct the interest they pay on their
car loans. The deduction is only available for new cars bought last year, and only if those cars were assembled in the U.S., and PR's Camillette Dominoski explains. In addition to being restricted to new cars built in the U.S., there's also an income limit.
Some faces out above $100,000 of modified adjusted gross income or 200 grand for married couples. It's available whether you itemize or not. Mark Gallegos, a tax guy in Chicago, has had to explain to his clients that they won't get any paperwork in the mail about it.
For 2025, there is no tax form that gets sent to you that says, "Hey, here's your portion of our loan interest that you paid." The tax change came in last year as one big beautiful bill act, so there hasn't been time to set up that kind of a process. Camillette Dominoski and PR News.
Officials in Port Arthur, Texas, have lifted a shelter in place order for part of the city. Officials declared that last night after an explosion out of a narrow oil refinery in the city, it's on the Gulf, close to the Louisiana border. Port Arthur's mayor says no one was hurt in the explosion. I'm Corva Coleman and PR News.
