Latest / THE DAILY BRIEF / Gas Prices Surge to $4 Per Gallon
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- 0:04Speaker 1: This is what you need to know now.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Gas price is now above four dollars a gallon as
- 0:09Speaker 2: the economic fallout from.
- 0:10Speaker 1: The war and ironic spands.
- 0:12Speaker 2: New strikes on an oil tanker off the coast of
- 0:14Speaker 2: Dubai as the US.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Pounds are round with bunker busting bombs.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Our strikes are damaging the morale of the Iranian military.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Terror in the skies over Brazil as passengers a board
- 0:26Speaker 2: a flight bound for Atlanta see the engine bursting into flames.
- 0:31Speaker 2: New details in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation regarding emails the
- 0:34Speaker 2: FBI believed to be between his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell
- 0:38Speaker 2: and Britain's former Prince Andrew. The Army now reviewing why
- 0:43Speaker 2: military helicopters did a flyby at singer Kid Rock's home.
- 0:46Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be all right. My buddy's commander chief.
- 0:50Speaker 2: And we have much more of what you need to
- 0:52Speaker 2: know now. I'm Rachel Scott from ABC News. It is Tuesday,
- 0:55Speaker 2: March thirty. First, this is what you need to know.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Let's get right to the big story. Americans across the
- 1:01Speaker 2: country are starting to feel the economic impact of the
- 1:03Speaker 2: war in Iran. Gas price is now hitting four dollars
- 1:07Speaker 2: a gallon for the first time since twenty twenty two.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Elizabeth Scholzie has the latest.
- 1:11Speaker 5: This is the first time that gas prices are above
- 1:13Speaker 5: four dollars a gallon on average in more than three years.
- 1:16Speaker 5: According to Gas Buddy, the national average this morning stands
- 1:19Speaker 5: at four dollars one cent. It's up a dollar seven
- 1:22Speaker 5: cents now since the start of the Iran war, marking
- 1:25Speaker 5: the biggest monthly increase on record. Diesel is up a
- 1:29Speaker 5: dollar seventy cents a gallon. It's also the biggest spike
- 1:32Speaker 5: ever in one month. So as long as the critical
- 1:34Speaker 5: straight of Horr moves, we know that's where one fifth of.
- 1:36Speaker 1: The world's oil would flow before the war.
- 1:39Speaker 5: As long as that's virtually closed, oil and gas prices
- 1:42Speaker 5: could keep going up from here. Moody's Analytics says that
- 1:45Speaker 5: oil at this level for one year will cost the
- 1:48Speaker 5: typical household about twelve hundred dollars in higher gas and
- 1:51Speaker 5: diesel costs. These costs are already getting passed down. Jet
- 1:54Speaker 5: Blue is now raising baggage fees to help pay for
- 1:57Speaker 5: surging jet fuel. Many companies are paying shipping surcharges to
- 2:02Speaker 5: transport their goods right now, and that can translate into
- 2:05Speaker 5: higher prices for consumers for everything from food to the
- 2:08Speaker 5: products that you buy online.
- 2:09Speaker 2: This morning, the Pentagon confirming the US had a large
- 2:12Speaker 2: ammunition depot in the Iranian city of Isfahan with two thousand.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Pound bunker buster bombs.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Defense Secretary Pete Hegsev saying the US has the upper
- 2:20Speaker 2: hand against Iran, that the campaign is impacting Irani and
- 2:24Speaker 2: morale and leading to personnel shortages and frustrations among senior leaders.
- 2:29Speaker 3: American firepower is only increasing, Iran's decreasing. We have more
- 2:36Speaker 3: and more options and they have less. The upcoming days
- 2:39Speaker 3: will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there's almost nothing
- 2:42Speaker 3: they can militarily do about it. Of note, the last
- 2:46Speaker 3: twenty four hours saw the lowest number of enemy missiles
- 2:49Speaker 3: and drones fired by Iran. We recently destroyed another one
- 2:53Speaker 3: of their command bunkers. Leaders forced to flee. No water,
- 2:57Speaker 3: no power, no oxygen, no command. But if Iran is wise,
- 3:03Speaker 3: they'll cut a deal.
- 3:04Speaker 2: This as Kuwait says one of their oil tankers was
- 3:06Speaker 2: struck by an Iranian drone off.
- 3:08Speaker 1: The coast of Dubai.
- 3:09Speaker 2: It was reportedly carrying two million barrels of crude oil.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Matt Rivers has more from Doha.
- 3:14Speaker 6: Fire breaking out on the vessel docked in a UAE port.
- 3:18Speaker 6: It is a clear reminder the strait of horror moves
- 3:20Speaker 6: remains effectively closed to Iran also sending a wave of
- 3:23Speaker 6: missiles to Israel a day after this strike on this
- 3:27Speaker 6: oil refinery in the northern part of that country, of
- 3:30Speaker 6: fireball erupting from the site, and now with the prolonged
- 3:33Speaker 6: war hitting the global economy, pressure is mounting on the
- 3:36Speaker 6: Trump administration as American service members become targets. These new
- 3:40Speaker 6: images show a US radar jet destroyed by an Iranian attack,
- 3:44Speaker 6: pieces of that US Air Force E three century scattered
- 3:48Speaker 6: among debris at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
- 3:51Speaker 6: That attack injuring fifteen American soldiers with five and serious condition. Clearly,
- 3:55Speaker 6: this war shows no signs of slowing down.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Today, Israel says it will lablished a security zone inside
- 4:01Speaker 2: southern Lebanon, with the military controlling the area, prohibiting hundreds
- 4:05Speaker 2: of thousands of residents to return even after the operation ends.
- 4:09Speaker 2: This is according to remarks released by Israel's Ministry of Defense.
- 4:12Speaker 2: The mo would displace over six hundred thousand residents of
- 4:16Speaker 2: southern Lebanon, many who evacuated north after Israel's operation began.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Passengers on a Delta flight say there was panic on
- 4:24Speaker 2: board when one of the engines.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Caught fire after takeoff.
- 4:27Speaker 2: The flight had just left Sal Paulo, Brazil, with two
- 4:30Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six passengers and crew on board. It
- 4:33Speaker 2: was bound for Atlanta when flames started shooting out of
- 4:37Speaker 2: the left engine. The pilot declared an emergency and turned
- 4:40Speaker 2: back to the airport, landing safely.
- 4:43Speaker 7: This is an engine disintegrating internally. Why perhaps it picked
- 4:47Speaker 7: up something off the runway, a rock, a piece of
- 4:50Speaker 7: metal that caused this internal disintegration. In what you see
- 4:53Speaker 7: coming out the back, those sparks are actual pieces of
- 4:56Speaker 7: the engine as it falls apart.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Delta Airline Signe says so far that this was not
- 5:02Speaker 2: caused by a bird strike. They are investigating, as are
- 5:05Speaker 2: Brazilian authorities. Delta has apologized for the incident and says
- 5:08Speaker 2: the safety of their passengers and crew is their top priority.
- 5:12Speaker 2: The US Supreme Court handing down a consequential ruling today.
- 5:16Speaker 2: In an eight to one decision, the justices struck down
- 5:18Speaker 2: Colorado's ban on so called conversion therapy as a violation
- 5:22Speaker 2: of counselor's free speech protected under the First Amendment. Justice
- 5:27Speaker 2: Neil Borsich said the law, enacted to protect miners from
- 5:29Speaker 2: efforts by mental health providers to change their sexual orientation
- 5:33Speaker 2: or gender identity, censor speech based on viewpoint. Justice Katanji
- 5:37Speaker 2: Brown Jackson was the loan To Center. The decision means
- 5:40Speaker 2: Colorado will no longer be able to forbid state licensed
- 5:43Speaker 2: providers from attempting to change a patient's orientation through talk therapy.
- 5:48Speaker 2: LGBTQ groups who have hailed conversion therapy bans as critical
- 5:52Speaker 2: to the mental health of miners figuring out their identities
- 5:54Speaker 2: during adolescents say the decision will mean more kids will
- 5:57Speaker 2: be traumatized going forward. And there are new details emerging
- 6:01Speaker 2: on the FBI's probe and see emails between Jeffrey Epstein's
- 6:04Speaker 2: convicted co conspirator Glenn Maxwell and Britain's former Prince Andrew.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Eric Gaturski has the details Rachel.
- 6:10Speaker 8: As the FEDS were building a case against Jeffrey Epstein's
- 6:13Speaker 8: co conspirator Glenn Maxwell, they discovered emails that they said
- 6:17Speaker 8: suggested Maxwell may have been arranging young women to have
- 6:20Speaker 8: sex with Prince Andrew Before a two thousand and two
- 6:23Speaker 8: visit to South America. An e mail believed to have
- 6:26Speaker 8: been sent by then Prince Andrew asked Maxwell, have you
- 6:29Speaker 8: found me some new inappropriate friends. She wrote that she
- 6:33Speaker 8: told an acquaintance in Peru to find Andrew friends who
- 6:35Speaker 8: are intelligent, pretty fun, and who know how to be
- 6:39Speaker 8: friendly and discreet. Now, a document released as part of
- 6:43Speaker 8: the Epstein file shows the FBI believe those emails were
- 6:46Speaker 8: Andrew and Maxwell discussing her attempts to arrange young females
- 6:51Speaker 8: to engage in sex acts with him. They cited those
- 6:54Speaker 8: messages while asking a judge for permission to search dozens
- 6:57Speaker 8: of electronic devices seized from Stein's properties. They showed the
- 7:01Speaker 8: judge this email days before Andrew toward Peru, in which
- 7:05Speaker 8: he told Maxwell, as for the girls, well, I leave
- 7:08Speaker 8: that entirely to you. Prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to interview Andrew
- 7:13Speaker 8: in twenty twenty. He has long denied wrongdoing, and Maxwell
- 7:18Speaker 8: was never charged with procuring women for Andrew.
- 7:22Speaker 1: And we have much more of what you need to know.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Stay with us. Here's your daily briefing. Other big stories
- 7:37Speaker 1: we are following.
- 7:38Speaker 2: On ABC News, musician Kid Rock is speaking out after
- 7:42Speaker 2: posting videos the military helicopters hovering near his Tennessee home
- 7:46Speaker 2: on Saturday. Kid Rock, a staunch MAGA supporter of President Trump,
- 7:51Speaker 2: is seen standing next to a replica of the Statue
- 7:53Speaker 2: of Liberty, clapping and saluting the crew of the Apache
- 7:56Speaker 2: Attack helicopter before it flies away.
- 7:59Speaker 4: They stopped for I don't know seconds, a minute, you know,
- 8:03Speaker 4: maybe they were here three four minutes, you know, Just
- 8:06Speaker 4: say what's up? Went on? I see them when they
- 8:08Speaker 4: fly the snooks and they go to Nissan Stadium for
- 8:11Speaker 4: the football games. They come right over and if I'm here,
- 8:14Speaker 4: I usually make a point. Come out, Michael, you'll give
- 8:17Speaker 4: them what's up.
- 8:17Speaker 2: The Army says the helicopters were in the Nashville area
- 8:20Speaker 2: for a training exercise and they are reviewing the incident.
- 8:23Speaker 2: The Apaches are part of the one hundred and first
- 8:26Speaker 2: Airborne which said Army aviators must adhere to strict safety standards, professionalism,
- 8:31Speaker 2: and establish flight regulations. Appropriate action will be taken if
- 8:35Speaker 2: any violations are found. The final four now set for
- 8:39Speaker 2: the ncuba's women's basketball tournament. The University of Texas CRUs
- 8:44Speaker 2: to a seventy seven to forty one win over Michigan,
- 8:47Speaker 2: and South Carolina blew out Texas Christian University by twenty
- 8:50Speaker 2: six points. The final four now a repeat of last
- 8:53Speaker 2: year's matchups, and they're all one seats. South Carolina plays
- 8:57Speaker 2: national champions Yukon and Texas takes on UCLA. Those games
- 9:01Speaker 2: this Friday night, only on ESPN. And finally, before you go,
- 9:06Speaker 2: first responders in Fairbanks, Alaska jumped into action and into
- 9:10Speaker 2: a frigid river to save a woman who fell through
- 9:13Speaker 2: the ice. To firefighters working to lift that woman to safety,
- 9:16Speaker 2: she was transported to a local hospital. Fairbanks firefighters reminding
- 9:20Speaker 2: the public to exercise extreme caution during the spring months
- 9:24Speaker 2: when ice can melt rapidly.
- 9:26Speaker 1: And that's what you need to know.
- 9:27Speaker 2: For breaking news and live updates throughout the day, check
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