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- 0:04Speaker 1: This is what you need to know now.
- 0:08Speaker 2: The Senate approved to build a fund most of homeland security,
- 0:10Speaker 2: including TSA paychecks. What comes next is reel warning and
- 0:15Speaker 2: could escalate and expand its attacks on Iran, even as
- 0:18Speaker 2: President Trump claims the peace talks are going well. Plus
- 0:21Speaker 2: what we're learning about a flight attendant going missing during
- 0:24Speaker 2: a layover. This can be true. New images scientists diving
- 0:29Speaker 2: beneath the polar ice to study climate change up close,
- 0:32Speaker 2: observing marine life in ways robots still can't, And a
- 0:36Speaker 2: whale stranded for days is finally set free, but it
- 0:39Speaker 2: still faces a long, dangerous journey ahead.
- 0:42Speaker 1: We have much more of what you need to know now.
- 0:44Speaker 2: I'm Rachel Scott from ABC News. It is Friday, March
- 0:47Speaker 2: twenty seven. This is what you need to know. I'll
- 0:49Speaker 2: show you the perfect March Madness bracket and the Major
- 0:52Speaker 2: League Baseball player suing his parents.
- 0:55Speaker 1: But first, the big story.
- 0:57Speaker 2: After weeks of airport chaos and a government sale mat,
- 1:00Speaker 2: the Senate approving a deal to fun TSA and most
- 1:03Speaker 2: of homeland security. But the fight over immigration enforcement is
- 1:06Speaker 2: far from over. Karen Travers explains Rachel.
- 1:09Speaker 3: After more than six weeks of disruptions, there is a
- 1:13Speaker 3: breakthrough in the homeland security funding fight. The Senate voted
- 1:16Speaker 3: to fund TSA and most DHS agencies after a forty
- 1:20Speaker 3: two day stalemate that left airports struggling and workers unpaid.
- 1:24Speaker 3: That impact was felt nationwide, with hours long security lines,
- 1:28Speaker 3: high absenteeism, and hundreds of TSA officers quitting their jobs.
- 1:33Speaker 3: President Trump also moving to pay TSA officers through executive action,
- 1:37Speaker 3: calling the situation chaos at the airports. The deal leaves
- 1:41Speaker 3: out funding for immigration enforcement, the key issue driving this
- 1:44Speaker 3: political standoff, and it is not a.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Done deal yet. It must be passed by the House.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Switch is scheduled to leave for a two week recess
- 1:52Speaker 3: today and then signed by President Trump.
- 1:55Speaker 2: The US Israeli war with Iran is now entering one month.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Foreign ministers from the G seven met in France amid
- 2:01Speaker 2: sharp divisions over the conflict. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
- 2:04Speaker 2: joined his counterparts today, trying to rally support for America's strategy.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Rubio's trip comes as the.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Pentagon reportedly considers deploying ten thousand more ground troops to
- 2:14Speaker 2: the Middle East. That's according to The Wall Street Journal
- 2:17Speaker 2: and Axios. Meanwhile, Israel has launched a new wave of
- 2:21Speaker 2: strikes on Iran. Matt Rivers is in Doha.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Rachel Iran once again lashing out overnight and attack thwarted
- 2:27Speaker 4: here in Doha where we are, Israel receiving more missile fire,
- 2:30Speaker 4: and just this morning Israel saying it will expand and
- 2:33Speaker 4: escalate its attacks inside of Iran. That is the backdrop
- 2:36Speaker 4: for these ongoing negotiations. And this is dramatic new video
- 2:40Speaker 4: that appears to show the moment and Iranian missile came
- 2:42Speaker 4: dangerously close to striking an American F eighteen fighter jet.
- 2:46Speaker 4: No US Central Command saying that no US fighter aircraft
- 2:49Speaker 4: have been shot down by Iran, but one source telling
- 2:52Speaker 4: ABC News in F eighteen operating in the region did
- 2:56Speaker 4: narrowly dodge in Iranian missile over southern Iran in recent
- 3:00Speaker 4: So that is the backdrop for these ongoing negotiations with
- 3:03Speaker 4: the president says is going well. He pointed to the
- 3:05Speaker 4: fact that Iran has recently let ten ships up to
- 3:08Speaker 4: ten ships through the Strait of Horne moves as sign
- 3:10Speaker 4: that he says there is progress being made. But just
- 3:13Speaker 4: this morning, the Iran Revolutionary Guard coming out and saying
- 3:17Speaker 4: that the Strait of horror moves remains closed and that
- 3:19Speaker 4: they just blocked this morning three more tankers from.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Transitting back here in Washington, President Trump is expected to
- 3:26Speaker 2: announce a plan to provide financial relief for American farmers.
- 3:30Speaker 2: The war has caused diesel and fertilizer prices to soar,
- 3:33Speaker 2: driving of costs across the farming sector. Of fish Will
- 3:36Speaker 2: say the aid is aimed at stabilizing farms and preventing
- 3:39Speaker 2: further strain on the food supply chain. We're learning more
- 3:43Speaker 2: about the helicopter crash that killed at least three people
- 3:45Speaker 2: in Hawaii. Official say a helicopter crashed into the ocean
- 3:49Speaker 2: about one hundred yards off of Kawaii. We're told at
- 3:52Speaker 2: least five people were on board, the pilot and four passengers.
- 3:56Speaker 2: They say three people have died and the remaining two
- 3:58Speaker 2: were taken to the hospital. There's no word yet on
- 4:01Speaker 2: their conditions that She'll say. The chopper was operated by
- 4:04Speaker 2: Airborne Aviation, which is a tour agency in Hawaii that
- 4:07Speaker 2: specializes in doors off helicopter tours.
- 4:11Speaker 1: At this point, it's not clear what led up to
- 4:13Speaker 1: this crash.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Family members are searching for answers after an American Airlines
- 4:17Speaker 2: flight attendant went missing in Colombia. Thirty two year old
- 4:20Speaker 2: Eric Molina arrived at Mediine last Saturday for a layover.
- 4:24Speaker 2: He was last seen the next morning with a man
- 4:26Speaker 2: and a woman after visiting a club. Authorities say they're
- 4:29Speaker 2: investigating whether he may have been drugged. He's an amazing guy, charismatic.
- 4:34Speaker 2: We just want that is person to come back. The
- 4:37Speaker 2: State Department recently urged Americans to reconsider travel to Colombia
- 4:41Speaker 2: due to an increased risk of crime, including kidnapping. Pope
- 4:45Speaker 2: Leo will visit Monaco Saturday, the first pope to do
- 4:47Speaker 2: so in nearly five hundred years. Monaco is also one
- 4:51Speaker 2: of the few European countries where Catholicism is the official
- 4:54Speaker 2: state religion. The visit includes a private meeting with Prince
- 4:57Speaker 2: Albert and Princess Charlene at the Palace and mass in
- 5:01Speaker 2: the country's main sports stadium. Back here in the US,
- 5:04Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament is heating up with big wins and
- 5:07Speaker 2: a perfect bracket is still alive.
- 5:10Speaker 1: ESPN's Michelle Smallman has.
- 5:11Speaker 5: More thanks Rachel Arizona, Iowa, and Illinois all advancing last
- 5:17Speaker 5: night in the NCAA Men's tournament. The Purdue boiler Makers
- 5:20Speaker 5: also getting there thanks to a tip in basket with
- 5:23Speaker 5: less than a second to play. They beat Texas seventy
- 5:26Speaker 5: nine to seventy seven. The Women's Sweet sixteen begins tonight
- 5:29Speaker 5: and fourteen year old Otto Shellhammer is the only person
- 5:33Speaker 5: left with a perfect bracket. He's picked forty eight straight
- 5:37Speaker 5: winners and has Texas winning the title, and Auto says
- 5:40Speaker 5: he knows nothing about women's basketball. The first round, like
- 5:43Speaker 5: you said, was mainly just picked the higher seed, and
- 5:46Speaker 5: then the second round.
- 5:49Speaker 2: It was all random.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I just wanted everybody to know this was all luck.
- 5:53Speaker 5: The record for correct picks and a single bracket is
- 5:56Speaker 5: fifty seven. To break the record, Auto needs a perfect
- 5:59Speaker 5: Sweet sixty plus two wins on Sunday as for those
- 6:02Speaker 5: games this weekend on ABC and the ESPN app the
- 6:05Speaker 5: NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament continues, first Louisville taking on Michigan,
- 6:09Speaker 5: followed by Kentucky taking on the number one seated Texas Longhorns.
- 6:13Speaker 5: Coverage starts at two pm Eastern with NCAA Women's Championship Live.
- 6:18Speaker 1: And here's more of what to watch on twenty twenty.
- 6:21Speaker 2: A devoted husband in Minnesota goes from seeming victim to
- 6:24Speaker 2: the prime suspect in his wife's murder. Now twenty twenty
- 6:27Speaker 2: is revealing how a secret recording changed everything in this case.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Watch Stranger in the House on Disney Plus and not
- 6:34Speaker 2: Hulu and we have much more of what you need
- 6:36Speaker 2: to know.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Here's your daily briefing.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Other big stories we were following On ABC News, a
- 6:51Speaker 2: House ethics panel found a Florida congress woman committed numerous
- 6:54Speaker 2: ethics violations after a rare public hearing. Sheila Schirfluss McCormick
- 6:59Speaker 2: was accused of stealing five million dollars in pandemic relief funds.
- 7:03Speaker 2: She has denied any wrongdoing. The panel said it is
- 7:06Speaker 2: considering the punishment. She could be expelled from the house.
- 7:10Speaker 1: After nearly thirty six years.
- 7:11Speaker 2: And arrest has been made in the so called Lover's
- 7:13Speaker 2: Lane murders in Houston. Authority say a young couple found
- 7:16Speaker 2: dead after at date night in nineteen ninety had been
- 7:19Speaker 2: fatally attacked. Now messigators have charged sixty four year old
- 7:23Speaker 2: Floyd William Parrott with murder and connection to the killings
- 7:26Speaker 2: that She'll say advances in forensic evidence helped finally break
- 7:29Speaker 2: the case, and a Major League Baseball player is suing
- 7:33Speaker 2: his own parents. Philadelphia Phillies' third baseman Alec Boehm, claims
- 7:37Speaker 2: his parents have been stealing money from the accounts they
- 7:40Speaker 2: manage for him and using it to pay for their
- 7:42Speaker 2: own expenses. His parents and I any wrongdoing. BOM is
- 7:46Speaker 2: set to make ten million dollars this season. And today's
- 7:50Speaker 2: scientists are training to dive beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice
- 7:54Speaker 2: to study how climate change is transforming polar ecosystems. The
- 7:58Speaker 2: Finish Scientific Diving Academy program pushes divers into freezing waters
- 8:03Speaker 2: under thick ice to observe marine life firsthand. With the
- 8:06Speaker 2: Arctic warming about four times faster than the rest of
- 8:09Speaker 2: the planet, researchers say human dives offer insides robots cannot
- 8:14Speaker 2: yet match. And finally, before you go, a whale stranded
- 8:18Speaker 2: for days at a Baltic sea in Germany is finally
- 8:21Speaker 2: free after rescuers.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Dug an escape channel.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Marine biologists caution it is still in danger and must
- 8:26Speaker 2: reach the Atlantic to be truly safe.
- 8:29Speaker 1: This will, say the.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Young male humpback faces a long journey through German and
- 8:32Speaker 2: Danish waters to get home and that's what you need
- 8:35Speaker 2: to know. For breaking news and live updates throughout the day,
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