3PM ET 03/22/2026 Newscast

2.714 - 18.765 Carmen Roberts

Iran responds with its own ultimatum. I'm Carmen Roberts, Fox News. Iran says it will completely close the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. follows through with President Trump's threat to attack its power plants unless Iran opens the strait. Last night, the president gave Iran just 48 hours to comply.

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The president posted this warning, threatening to obliterate Iran's power plants within 48 hours from this exact time point. Now, Trump posted that at 7.45 Eastern time last night, so the countdown continues to tick towards Monday night. Now, the Strait of Hormuz supplies roughly one-fifth of the world's crude oil.

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Now, the president has called NATO allies cowards for not sending warships to help defend the strait. He claims because the U.S. doesn't use the strait, this should be a global effort. Now, this morning, the NATO Secretary General said countries support the U.S., but are still in the planning phase of sending help. Fox's Dana Murray McNichol in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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ICE agents will start showing up at U.S. airports tomorrow as TSA struggles with a staffing shortage due to the DHS shutdown in funding. And that's leaving travelers standing in very long security lines. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on ABC's This Week.

82.778 - 93.252 Sean Duffy

If we can bring in other assets and tools to assist TSA to get rid of these lines, yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. And the president's looking around every corner to make sure the American people don't suffer during the shutdown.

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Democrats say they are willing to fund TSA separately as they push for changes in ICE operations, but Republicans are refusing. And the Senate just advanced Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security in a test vote of 54 to 37. A full vote confirmation is expected at the start of the week. America's listening to Fox News.

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Rising waters forced thousands to evacuate with more than 200 people needing rescue. Fox meteorologist Adam Klotz.

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Over the last three days. You're looking on the high end, anywhere from 15 inches of rain to 22 inches of rain. If I take you back a week ago, there were some areas that saw several feet of rain. So all of this is just adding up week after week after week. And we've really seen it kind of peak as we've moved into the weekend here. Where's all the moisture right now?

167.159 - 182.439 Adam Klotz

The heavier rain has moved to some of the southern islands. You're seeing fairly large showers moving across the big island of Hawaii to the south as well. But because of the location of this low pressure system sitting just to the north of the island's We're continuing to pick up moisture and just pump it over the islands. That is not going to change for the next couple of days.

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So it might not be a nonstop rain, but there is rain in the forecast Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

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And Governor Josh Green says the storm may cause more than $1 billion in damage. The Postmaster General tells lawmakers that the U.S. Postal Service is in more financial trouble than previously thought. Fox's Mike Emanuel has more from Washington, D.C.

202.531 - 222.854 David Steiner

The U.S. Postal Service is on track to run out of money in about a year if Congress doesn't act. In about a year from now, the Postal Service would be unable to deliver the mail if we continue the status quo. Postmaster General David Steiner Tuesday called on lawmakers to lift a decades-old cap and allow the agency to borrow more cash.