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Israel defends forces as it has carried out fresh attacks on military targets in Iran.
“And U.S. Central Command says the U.S. has retaliated against the revolutionary guard over”
the attacks on a base in Jordan, Friday, that left to U.S. Service members a dead, and another one missing. In Piersquill Lawon's reports, 16 troops have died in the war since February. The U.S. has been bombarding infrastructure in military targets in Iran for a full week. And Iran's state media says scores have been killed, both military and civilian.
Iran has also claimed to have hit tankers in the Gulf and several U.S. bases in the region with drones and rockets. That included Moffuk Salti Air Base, a joint U.S. Jordanian facility. Trump has denied most of these claims, but has now confirmed that U.S. troops on a base in Jordan died after an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack.
Several service members were medivac to Jordanian hospitals, others returned to duty with minor injuries. President Trump has said that negotiations to end the war continue, but also that the ceasefire declared in April is over. Quill Lawrence and Piers News.
“Very unhealthy air quality remains in parts of the United States, because talks”
six smoke continues to travel down from Canada. That's where more than 900 active wildfires are burning. In northern Minnesota, hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain at least a dozen wildfires. There, Phil Manuel is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Minnesota. He says rain from Friday may have worsened conditions because of lightning strikes.
Weather dictates everything that happens and dictates the start of these fires and dictates how we suppress these fires and how the team reacts and manages what's on the ground out there. An estimated 77,000 acres have burned in Minnesota. In comparison in Canada, the Canadian Interagency Force Fire Center, there says more than
1.7 million acres have burned.
On Saturday during a briefing with reporters on terror premier Doug Ford called comments by American politicians threatening new tariffs shameful. Flood waters that ravage cities in south central Texas this week have begun to receive,
“but Dylan Duke with member station KRA reports communities are still recovering.”
Local officials say that hundreds of homes in the city of Uvalde have been destroyed or damaged by the floods. Some roads and highways around the city are still blocked due to damage and flooding. The residents have come together. We vigh its here as handed out free clothes at a church to victims.
The scope of the communities that were affected and how bad they were affected, yeah, this is very unique. They hasn't happened like this in a long long time. The damage comes just over a year since deadly flooding in Texas killed more than 130 people.
This is NPR. After 103 matches, more than month of games and too many weather disruptions to count including heavy thunderstorms that cancel training for Spain and delayed Argentina's training last night. This year's World Cup final takes place this afternoon at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey,
even with Spain in Argentina squaring off. And Perez John Stonis has this preview. Argentina is the defending champion and looking for its fourth World Cup title. All eyes will be on superstar Lionel Messi who has tallyed 8 goals so far in this tournament and at age 39 will play in what most believe will be his final World Cup match.
Spain is looking for its second title, they last 1 in 2010.
They're led by teenage star Lamin Yamal, and are backed by a fierce defense that has seen them allow only one goal in the entire tournament. According to FIFA's rankings, these were the two best teams entering the tournament with Argentina 1 and Spain 2. It's the first time FIFA's top two teams have met in the final since the implementation
of rankings in 1992. John Stonis and PR news. Just outside the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, rescuers there are using excavators to dig through rubble for signs of life, following a Friday landslide that killed at least 8 people and buried more than 10 residential buildings under massive rocks in
soil. media said an estimated 34 people are still missing, "I'm Duahli Psych outtown and PR news in New York City."
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