- Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
President Trump is praising what he calls early signs of success from a new tentative agreement with Iran. Speaking of joint base Andrews last night, Trump pointed to increase shipping traffic
“through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil trade.”
- The ships are flowing out of the Hormuz Strait, like nobody's ever seen before actually. There were a lot of 700 of them that pouring out, the oil is all over the place. - The agreement signed this week, reopen the Strait and Gibbs Washington and Tehran is 60-day window for further negotiations, but those talks are on hold as diplomats try to preserve a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The two sides agreed to oppose and heavy fighting and southern Lebanon, but there have been reports of continued violence overnight. In P.R.s, Jawag, his collar reports before the latest ceasefire took effect Friday in his rarely air-strike killed two paramedics in the region. - Jamil Bithar, a paramedic, said he arrived at the site of an earlier strike in Haboosh on Friday
morning. After an earlier team at Rescue 3 survivors, a second strike than hit the area, killing his two colleagues.
“Rescue operations were halted due to continuing air strikes and the bodies of the two paramedics”
were later recovered. We thought also said the family of six, including three children and an infant, remain trapped under the rubble. The UN says Israeli air strikes in March 2 have killed at least 130 refers to responders. Israel had no immediate comment on the deaths.
Jawagar's collar and piranha's bay root. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool remains covered in algae after the water turned a deep
shade of green just days after a more than $14 million renovation.
The Bloom has drawn attention as events marking America's 250th anniversary prepared to get underway on the National Mall, and PR's Rachel Treesman reports the cleanup effort includes tiny bubbles and industrial vacuums designed to remove the algae. - Experts say algae growth is not unexpected in the stagnant, shadeless waters of the reflecting pool.
It was likely helped by the recent renovations that turned the pool American-flat blue. Here's swimming pool specialist Steve Goodale. The new darker interior surface is going to absorb more sunlight. It is going to result in water that's warmer, and that ultimately is going to lead to more prolific algae growth.
- The National Park Service is using hydrogen peroxide and what it calls nanobubbles to oxidize the algae, which workers are vacuuming up. In the meantime, observers have noticed pieces of the new blue paint peeling off and floating to the surface. Rachel Treesman and PR News.
- Gas prices in the U.S. are starting to ease AAA says the average price of a gallon of
regular is now 395, it's the first time since March the prices have been that low.
This is MPR. - Award winning TV comedy director James Burroughs has signed at the age of 85. Steve Futterman reports he directed some of the country's most iconic sitcoms. - If you are someone who reads television credits, James Burroughs was a familiar name. He got his start on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
- He directed four episodes of the legendary comedy that was the story of a remarkable career. After that we come to Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frazier, Friends, Willon Grace and many others. He was most closely associated with Cheers. - Making you in the world today takes everything.
- He co-created the series and directed 237 episodes.
“He also played a key role on friends directing the pilot episode and directed all 246 episodes”
of Willon Grace. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. - President Trump has unveiled a Boeing 747 donated by Qatar that's expected to serve as the next Air Force One. The aircraft arrived at Joint Base Andrews this week and will undergo extensive security
and communications upgrades before entering service. The gift has drawn criticism from some lawmakers who question whether a firing government should provide an aircraft for presidential use. President Trump has defended the arrangement, calling it a "cost saving measure." I'm Mr. Johnston and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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