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U.S.

futures contracts are trading lower at this hour.

Dow futures down about two-tenths of a percent.

NASDAQ futures are down more than a half percent.

And S&P 500 futures also down nearly a half percent.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

The Trump administration says it's deploying federal immigration agents to help speed up long airport security lines starting tomorrow.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports President Trump first announced the idea yesterday and says it's not clear yet exactly what their job will be.

Iran is threatening to escalate strikes on U.S.

and Israeli infrastructure in the region, along with crucial water desalination facilities, if President Trump goes through on his threat last night to, quote, obliterate Iran's power plants if the country doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's effectively blocked the strait since the U.S.

and Israel started a war there, now in its fourth week.

Some 20 percent of the world's oil passes through that critical trade route.

This after Iran targeted a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean yesterday that missed, while nuclear sites in Iran and in Israel were attacked.

With no major economic data coming up this week, Wall Street investors will continue to closely follow the war with Iran.

Empire's Rafael Nam reports investors are bracing for a lot of volatility.

And as oil and gas prices continue to soar because of the war in Iran, which shows no sign of ending, AAA says the average price of a gallon of regular gas nationwide is $3.94.

That's up nearly a dollar from just a month earlier.