Julie Chang

A new study has found that the Los Angeles wildfires from earlier this year took a toll on residents' health.

Researchers looked at data from the emergency department of a local hospital, Cedars-Sinai.

They found that visits for heart attacks rose 46 percent, and visits for pneumonia and other pulmonary illnesses rose 24 percent.

Meanwhile, visits for mysterious symptoms such as chest pain, abdominal pain, and dizziness more than doubled.

The researchers tracked visits from January 7, when the massive Palisades fire erupted, through April 7, and compared the data to past years.

Coming up, Putin says Russia will fulfill its ambitions in Ukraine.

And the Oscars are going digital.

Those stories and more, after the break.

A slump in shares of technology companies like Oracle, Nvidia, and Broadcom dragged stock markets lower today, with the Nasdaq sliding 1.8%.

The S&P also fell more than 1%, while the Dow lost 0.5%.

And you heard about the medical supplies company Medline this morning.

As a reminder, it raised $6.3 billion in the largest U.S.

IPO since 2021.

Today, its shares shot up more than 40% in their trading debut on the Nasdaq.

Some of today's other big gainers include energy companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum, which climbed alongside oil prices.

President Trump has ordered a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, raising the risk of extended supply disruptions.

And in international news, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will achieve its goals in Ukraine through diplomacy or on the battlefield.

Speaking to Russian officials, Putin called European leaders backing Ukraine piglets who want to feast on the collapse of Russia.

Putin's speech signals that the Trump administration's push for a peace deal has not changed the Kremlin's objectives, which include permanently blocking Ukraine's path to NATO and limiting the size of Ukraine's military.

Turning to entertainment, Warner Bros.