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operations are underway, following a massive tornado. Rescuers are searching for people
“who may be trapped in debris. Mayor David Mason says police have been able to get some”
people out of homes as sustained heavy damage.
They were doing search and rescue. We have now backed them out so that always speaking come
into a secondary search and doing quadris. Mason spoke to KOCO TV, video posted online shows a rapidly moving twister touching down. The Garfield County Sheriff's Office says there are no immediate reports of fatalities and that injuries are minor in it is a city of about 50,000 people about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City. President Trump has ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran speaking in the Oval Office. Trump also said
he has plenty of time to reach a peace deal and stress at his top priority is making sure that Iran never possesses nuclear weapons in purest annual curtslapin reports. Trump was testy responding to a report his question as to whether he'd use a nuclear
“weapon against Iran. Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we've totally in a very conventional”
way decimated them without it? Now I would use a nuclear weapon you'd never be allowed
to be used by anybody. Earlier this month, Trump threatened Iran on social media saying quote, "a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again." Trump also tells reporters now that he is not in a hurry to come to a peace deal with Iran saying quote, "I don't want to rush it. I want to take by time. We have plenty of time." Danielle Kurtz-Lavin and Pierre News, the White House. President Trump says Israel
and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire by three weeks. He announced when came at the White House Thursday following a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors. Trump says he expects to meet at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph O'Hoon in the next couple of weeks. Federal safety investigators say a
“series of communication failures contributed to last month's deadly crash at New York's”
LaGuardia Airport impures. Joel Rose reports on the National Transportation Safety Board's pre-livenary report. The firefighter who's truck collided with an air Canada jet on a runway at New York's LaGuardia airport told investigators he heard an air traffic controller repeatedly saying stop, stop, stop. But the firefighter said he didn't know that those instructions were intended for his truck until it was already on the runway. That's not the only communication
failure detailed in the preliminary report from the NTSB. Investigators also say a crash prevention alert system did not work as intended because the fire truck and other emergency vehicles were not outfitted with transponders. The two pilots of the air Canada jet were killed in the
collision. The first deadly crash at LaGuardia in more than 30 years. Joel Rose and PR News.
This is NPR News. Federal authorities have charged a special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro. NPR's Bobby Allen reports a prosecutor say the Army official profited on the prediction market site Polly Market. prosecutors have unsealed an indictment against Ganon Ken Van Dyke, a US special forces soldier who helped plan and carry out the arrest of Maduro. Under the username burdened some mix,
Van Dyke allegedly placed $32,000 in bets on Polly Market that Maduro would soon be out of power. Those wagers netted him more than $400,000 in profit. Polly Market is an overseas unregulated exchange where traders are anonymous and bet with cryptocurrency. But federal investigators worked with Polly Market to identify Van Dyke. He's the first person criminally charged in the US over trades on prediction markets, which have seen massive growth in Trump's second term.
Donald Trump Jr. is an investor and advisor to Polly Market. Bobby Allen and PR News. Trump administration is reclassifying medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The move Thursday does not legalize marijuana under federal law, but it does put licensed medical marijuana on par with drugs that are less strictly regulated. It marks a first step toward broader federal acceptance and it could boost research. The proposed merger between paramount and Warner
Brothers Discovery has received shareholder approval. Warner Brothers said Thursday that preliminary results show an overwhelming majority, voted to support selling the entire business to paramount for $31 a share. The deal not quite done at Paces regulatory review on the merger's impact on competition. I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, for decades the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked and even infiltrated hate groups.
But the Justice Department now alleges the way they funded that work amounted to bank fraud. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the President's political opponents? Listen this week to the NPR Politics podcast.
