"Li from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Hundreds of federal immigration officers are deployed to more than a dozen airports across
the U.S. including in Atlanta.
“Amanda Andrews of Georgia Public Broadcast from reports president Trump says he sent in”
ICE agents to help alleviate the long lines at security checkpoints while TSA agents experience severe staffing shortages during the partial government shutdown. Atlanta travelers are being advised to arrive four hours ahead of their flights at Hartzfield Jackson International Airport. Lines have been stretching into the parking lot as TSA officers continue to work without pay.
George Borek is a TSA union leader. He says ICE can't do what security screening agents do. "They're not trained to our level.
They don't know what we do on a day-to-day basis.
And an officer that becomes a TSA agent spends weeks and months trying to get to get certified." The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14th. For NPR News, I'm Amanda Andrews in Atlanta. Pakistan says it is ready to host U.S. Iran peace talks after President Trump announced
“ongoing negotiations to end the conflict that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.”
Yesterday, Trump said senior officials held talks with an Iranian leader over the week. And Iran denied that claim, but there were reports of several countries, including Pakistan, passing messages between the U.S. and Iran to end the war, which has cost thousands of lives, including more than 1,500 deaths in Iran alone.
President Trump said he postponed attacks on Iran's power-planned-siting productive conversations while in this from NPR's rank-ordonias. Trump has made clear he wants to reach a deal, but Emily Harting from the Center for Strategic and International Studies says Trump knows the politics. He knows the midterms are coming and sees the oil market struggling.
He recommended taking Trump's bravada with a grain of salt. It really fits his ML. This is how he prefers to negotiate.
“He makes a real maximalist pressure demand, and then he seems to want to find a way to negotiate”
out of it, so he can take the pressure off and declare victory. But it kind of goes either way, right? I mean, the adversary gets a boat. She points out we've heard these kind of things before, including about reaching a deal
with Russia over the Ukraine War, which never materialized.
Franco, or Doniaz, NPR News. Meanwhile, oil prices are claiming, again, here's NPR Scott Horsesley. Triple A says the average price of retail gasoline has jumped a $3.98-sense gallon. Diesel prices have jumped by nearly $1.60 a gallon. They have the International Energy Agency, says the U.S. is 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, in December. That's NPR Scott Horsesley reporting, you're listening to NPR News.
Former Senator Mark Wade Mullins due to be sworn in today as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. He is replacing Christy Nome, who president Trump fired earlier this month following a 10-year plague by anchor over immigration enforcement tactics and frustrations about her management of DHS, where funding last month.
The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Hammondy, says the LaGuardia Airport runway where Sunday night's coalition occurred will likely be closed for days. She told Fox and friends and investigators have a lot of questions for air-traffing troll after an air-cannot of flight collided with the fire truck on the one-way killing two pilots and entering dozens more people.
In rivers around the world, many types of fish undertake massive migrations. They cross international borders and provide people with food and jobs, present Piers-Nate Rod explain. The new assessment finds many of those migrations are collapsing. The New United Nations letterport offers the most comprehensive look at the world's freshwater
fish migrations ever. Its findings are sober, migratory fish populations have fallen by more than 80% globally since 1970, 325 different species it says should be considered for protection. And protecting those species will require international coordination. The assessments authors say with rivers being treated as connected systems.
A challenge, some scientists say, given the broader state of international affairs. The Dow is up 41 points. This is NPR News.
