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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Pentagon says U.S. forces have struck and sunk 16 Iranian vessels that can lay mines near the Strait of Hormuz. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to fire on targets inside Iran. Meanwhile, Iran is continuing to attack commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf. A British maritime tracking agency says that a cargo vessel has been hit by a projectile today. The crew has left the ship and has asked for help. President Trump and his top aides say one of their military goals is to wipe out Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons. But NPR's Greg Myrie reports the progress on this goal is not clear.
We're just not getting information from the Trump administration on whether the military is targeting nuclear sites. And if so, how is it going? And remember, Trump said these facilities were obliterated last summer. Now, I'll note that Israel is doing most of the bombing in northern Iran, and that's where the key nuclear facilities are located. Israel did say a week ago that it struck a covert underground nuclear compound on the edge of Tehran. But aside from that, we've heard very little from Israel.
NPR's Greg Myrie reporting. The U.N. says the war has displaced nearly 700,000 people in Lebanon. 200,000 of them are children. The Israeli army is hitting southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut as it targets Hezbollah strongholds. And Pierre-Cedille Al-Shelchi reports humanitarian groups are alarmed.
At the Sports City football stadium on the outskirts of Beirut, nearly 800 people are now crammed into white tents pitched by volunteers. People haven't had access to clean bathrooms and say they haven't showered for days. Samer Safah is the general manager of Mahzoumi Foundation, a non-profit trying to help equip the stadium to make it more livable. He says resources are very limited.
What we have budgeted for within this year, we cannot cater for half a million displaced.
Safah says organizations like his are feeling the impact of President Trump's cuts to international humanitarian aid, making it difficult to provide essential services to those in need in Lebanon. Hadil Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Beirut.
The war has affected gas prices in the U.S. The motoring club AAA says pump prices increased by another nickel overnight. The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. is $3.58. That's up about 60 cents since the war began less than two weeks ago. Diesel prices have climbed more than a dollar over what they were a month ago. That's important because if diesel prices stay high, they'll drive up transportation costs for everything that goes by truck or train. There's a lot of attention on the International Energy Agency. It could recommend as soon as today that nations start releasing crude oil from their strategic oil reserves. This could be temporarily used to supply countries that need oil from the Persian Gulf.
This is NPR. Two candidates will go to a runoff vote in a Georgia special election. Seventeen candidates competed yesterday to fill the term of former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned in January. But no candidate got 50 percent of the vote to win the Georgia seat outright. The top vote-getter was Democrat Sean Harris.
You would imagine everybody was here as Democrats? No. It's also Republicans here because they want change. So I'm just thankful to have this opportunity.
But right behind him is Republican Clay Fuller. He has been endorsed by President Trump.
If we win each day, they're going to stack up and the victory is going to be there and we'll be up on Capitol Hill being a warrior for Northwest Georgia.
The runoff election is set in four weeks on April 7th. Weather forecasters say this winter has been the warmest ever in several western states. NPR's Lauren Summer reports on concerns about drought and wildfires.
Fourteen states experienced their warmest or second warmest winter in 131 years of record-keeping. That's according to a new assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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