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New wave of strikes pound Iran as President Trump now considers ground troops · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: More waves of US and Israeli military strikes against Iran tonight,
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  Speaker 1: including fifty Israeli fighter jets targeting a secret bunker under
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  Speaker 1: the late Ayatolahamanes compound. The Israeli military says it was
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  Speaker 1: being used by Iranian officials and US forces, destroying a
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  Speaker 1: large Iranian drone carrying ship. The Pentagon says Iranian drone
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  Speaker 1: attacks have plummeted. President Trump posted there will be no
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  Speaker 1: deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. As we have new reporting,
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  Speaker 1: The President has privately expressed interest in the idea of
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  Speaker 1: a small contingent of US troops that would be used
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  Speaker 1: for specific strategic purposes inside Iran, according to two US officials,
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  Speaker 1: a former US official, and another person with knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the conversations. In a phone call with NBC's Garrett Haik,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump said he's not considering a US ground invasion
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  Speaker 1: of Iran at this time, dismissing it as a waste
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  Speaker 1: of time, saying they've lost everything, They've lost their navy,
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  Speaker 1: they've lost everything they could lose, and the White House
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  Speaker 1: seems to be rubbing it in posting memes overnight on
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  Speaker 1: x do It Again, mixing combat footage with action movie clips.
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  Speaker 1: Several former senior US military officials expressing outrage to NBC News,
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  Speaker 1: calling the posts undignified and disrespectful to everyone involved in
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  Speaker 1: the war.
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  Speaker 2: All as Iran is still unleashing attacks.
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  Speaker 1: In Bahrain, the government says Iran struck a hotel and
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  Speaker 1: two residential buildings, no injuries, and the president of Azerbaijan
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  Speaker 1: is now threatening to respond to what he called an
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  Speaker 1: Iranian terror attack. Thursday, drone strikes on an airport and
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  Speaker 1: near a school while in Israel, high school volunteers this
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  Speaker 1: morning were cleaning up debris after this building was hit.
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  Speaker 3: But if it's meaningful round here, years, I'm not sitting,
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  Speaker 3: you know, at house.
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  Speaker 1: Without doing any Kingdom, though Iran still has a major ally,
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on the
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  Speaker 1: location of US forces in the Middle East, which could
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  Speaker 1: help locate American targets to hit. According to four sources
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  Speaker 1: with knowledge of the matter, Tom pressing Iran's foreign minister
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  Speaker 1: about Russia on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: And they are actively helping you in this war.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they are, They have always helped us.
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  Speaker 1: All as Americans stuck in the Middle East are returning home.
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  Speaker 1: The State Department sending in charter planes as several airports
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  Speaker 1: are resuming commercial flights.
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  Speaker 5: He books like three flights trying to get out of Dubai.
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  Speaker 5: This one's stuck and so I'm finally home.
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  Speaker 2: Richard joins US.
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  Speaker 6: Now Live, Richard, Let's go back to that new reporting
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  Speaker 6: from NBC News about the possibility of a potential small
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  Speaker 6: ground unit inside of Iran of US troops.
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  Speaker 2: The White House is responding tonight. They are, and our.
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  Speaker 5: Reporting is that no final decision has been made. In
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  Speaker 5: a statement, the White House said that the story is
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  Speaker 5: based on assumptions from anonymous sources who are not part
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  Speaker 5: of the President's National security team and not read into
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  Speaker 5: these discussions.
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  Speaker 2: Top Richard Engel, First, Richard, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: There's a new front in the war tonight, Lebanon, with
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  Speaker 6: Israel targeting Iranian backed Hezbollah. There Israel sending on evacuation
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  Speaker 6: lurks to civilians before strikes, sparking a chaotic mass exodus.
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  Speaker 2: Danielle Hamamjin is there.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight devastating explosions in a Bayrout suburb as Israel targets Hesbola,
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  Speaker 3: a paramilitary group backed by Iran. The US labels a
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  Speaker 3: terror organization.
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  Speaker 4: So we are getting a first hand look of the
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  Speaker 4: aftermath of one of the Israeli strikes on Beirut's Inn,
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  Speaker 4: a densely populated area. It's part of a bombing campaign
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  Speaker 4: that is for now only escalating.
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  Speaker 3: Half a million people already uprooted across the country of
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  Speaker 3: just six million trying to escape the violence, fleeing has
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  Speaker 3: Bulah strongholds in the southern suburbs, seeking refuge in central
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  Speaker 3: Beirut with not much more than the clothes on their back.
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  Speaker 3: Israeli forces send out evacuation alerts online with no timeline
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  Speaker 3: before a strike, a moment captured by Leila Sharrul, who
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  Speaker 3: has thirty displaced relatives now crammed into her three bedroom home.
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  Speaker 3: We met Leila and her granddaughter in central Beirut.
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  Speaker 2: When when when we Tennis? When we want that we
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  Speaker 2: want peace? Of course, of course, on peace.
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  Speaker 3: The new round of clashes began earlier this week when
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  Speaker 3: Hasblah began firing rockets into Israel following the killing of
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  Speaker 3: Iran supreme leader. Now the fighting is intensifying far beyond
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  Speaker 3: the capital to southern Lebanon, and their growing fears of
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  Speaker 3: this war will drag on no matter what happens in Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Daniel joins US Now Live. Danielle, you heard explosions earlier.
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  Speaker 4: What's happening there tonight, Yeah, Tom, And just in the
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  Speaker 4: past few minutes we started hearing gunfire, possibly a warning
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  Speaker 4: that strikes could be coming soon.
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  Speaker 6: Tom, Danielle Hama Jin for US tonight, Danielle, thank you
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  Speaker 6: that or NBC News investigation. It may be the most
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  Speaker 6: horrific incident of this war so far, a strike on
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  Speaker 6: an Iranian elementary school. No one has claimed responsibility. The
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  Speaker 6: Pentagon says it's investigating, but we have new reporting tonight
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  Speaker 6: suggesting the US maybe behind the attack.
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  Speaker 2: Molly Hunter has the details.
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  Speaker 7: Tonight. It looks increasingly likely that a US munition was
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  Speaker 7: responsible for striking an Iranian elementary school, according to a
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  Speaker 7: US official and another person familiar with the preliminary findings
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  Speaker 7: of the US investigation. Iranian officials say the strikes killed
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  Speaker 7: more than one hundred and seventy people, mostly children. Sources
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  Speaker 7: to NBC News, the US is still looking into whether
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  Speaker 7: the strike could have been the result of bad intelligence
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  Speaker 7: or poor targeting. NBC News has geolocated and verified a
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  Speaker 7: new satellite image that shows at least seven impacts direct
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  Speaker 7: hits on the school and a medical clinic on the
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  Speaker 7: same compound. In the first hours of US Israeli operations
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  Speaker 7: Saturday morning, airstrikes had the Chandre Taybe Elementary School in
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  Speaker 7: Minaba ran. NBC News spoke with a mother on the
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  Speaker 7: phone who said her seven year old son, so Hell,
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  Speaker 7: was killed in.
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  Speaker 2: The strikesies.
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  Speaker 8: On daughter.
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  Speaker 7: By the time we arrived, she said, the entire school
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  Speaker 7: had collapsed on top of the children. People were pulling
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  Speaker 7: out children's arms and legs. The school was built by
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  Speaker 7: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Court on a compound once home
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  Speaker 7: to a military base, but multiple people on the ground,
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  Speaker 7: including a former principal, tell NBC News it hadn't been
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  Speaker 7: an active military base in more than a decade. Weapons
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  Speaker 7: expert Jeffrey Lewis says this statle imagery shows the strikes
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  Speaker 7: were deliberate. When you look at these buildings that have
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  Speaker 7: been destroyed, do they look targeted to you?
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  Speaker 6: The buildings on site were targeted individually and with incredible precision.
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  Speaker 7: Also tonight, Human Rights Watch concludes the weapons used were
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  Speaker 7: highly accurate guided munitions. The Pentagon says it's investigating and
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  Speaker 7: at a briefing this week, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Kine
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  Speaker 7: pointed to the area where the school is located, a
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  Speaker 7: strike symbol near the city of monob now down the
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  Speaker 7: road from the school, rows and rows of tiny graves
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  Speaker 7: and no official claim of responsibility. Molly Hunter, NBC News.
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  Speaker 2: A tough image to see there. Back here at home,
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  Speaker 2: the impact of.
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  Speaker 6: The war with Iran is taking a toll across markets
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  Speaker 6: and at the gas pump. The biggest rise in oil
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  Speaker 6: prices ever in a single week.
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  Speaker 2: Christine Romans has that part of the story.
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  Speaker 8: One week into the United States war with Iran, and
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  Speaker 8: the cost to the average American is sky rocketing. US
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  Speaker 8: crude oil prices topping ninety dollars a barrel today, surging
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  Speaker 8: thirty five percent this week, the biggest weekly jump on record.
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  Speaker 8: Gas prices up thirty four cents a gallon since the
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  Speaker 8: war began. Drivers feeling it across the country.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to fill it up because I
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  Speaker 3: know it's probably going to be in the nineties.
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  Speaker 8: Markets today down again, the Dow Jones Industrial average above
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  Speaker 8: fifty thousand just one month ago, now down more than
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  Speaker 8: three thousand points since it's high and more pain is expected.
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  Speaker 8: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby today telling CNBC that higher
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  Speaker 8: airfares because of fuel prices will quote probably start quick.
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  Speaker 8: The Trump administration asking for patients, Energy Secretary Chris Wright
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  Speaker 8: saying the surgeon prices will be short lived.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's of order.
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  Speaker 6: Weeks, I would say, in the worst case, but it's weeks,
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  Speaker 6: not months for now.
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  Speaker 8: The critical Straight of Horn Moves, where twenty percent of
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  Speaker 8: the world's oil moves through, is practically empty. This animation
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  Speaker 8: showing how active the Strait was before the war and
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  Speaker 8: what it looked like today, ships anchored outside the strait
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  Speaker 8: refusing to pass through. Also today a shocking jobs report
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  Speaker 8: showing a loss of ninety two thousand jobs in February,
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  Speaker 8: unemployment ticking up to four point four percent.
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  Speaker 6: All right with that, Christine joins us now live in studio, Christine.
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  Speaker 6: The big question, how high will prices go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: One industry analyst, a veteran, told me that if you've
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  Speaker 9: got crude oil prices staying here, you're talking about three
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  Speaker 9: ninety next week for gas, And if crude oil prices
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  Speaker 9: keep rising, you're talking about four dollars a gallon pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Quick, close to four dollars.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Christine, We thank you for that, We thank
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  Speaker 6: you for watching, and remember stay updated on breaking news
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