03/19/2026 | World News Roundup

Energy sites attacked in the Gulf.

The world's largest liquid gas plant inflames after Iranian strikes on the facility.

National Intelligence Director's heated hearing.

The only person who can determine and what isn't is not an imminent threat is the president.

Fault.

Warm-up on the West Coast.

Triple digit heat is expected across parts of the West.

Good morning, I'm Cammy McCormick with the CBS World News Roundup.

There has been a major escalation in the Iran War.

Oil prices are surging and gas prices getting closer to the $4 mark here in the U.S.

It's led to a warning from President Trump.

Charlie Daghada has more from Tel Aviv.

The world's largest liquid gas plant, Ras Lafon, in Qatar, inflames after Iranian strikes

on the facility.

The world's largest gas field southpars in Iran among multiple sites attacked by Israel.

President Trump angrily berating both sides on social media.

No more attacks will be made by Israel.

Warning if Iran strikes Qatar again, the U.S. will massively blow up the entirety of the

southpars gas field and an amount of strength and power Iran has never seen or witnessed before.

Iran's attacks are still getting through with more civilian casualties, night and day.

Over the course of the past few days and nights, we've seen an increase in the frequency

and intensity of these cluster bomb attacks.

They are hard to defend against because there's lots of them and they can fall anywhere.

There was a heated hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday focusing on threats to this country,

including Iran, director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was among those testifying

as Nancy Cortez reports from the White House.

Speaking to the Senate Wednesday, the director of national intelligence tried to explain

why the White House claimed at the start of the war that Iran posed an imminent nuclear

threat when the official U.S. intel assessment states the opposite that Iran's nuclear

enrichment program was obliterated in U.S. strikes last summer.

It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.

Okay.

Here's the problem.

No, it is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat to the

United States.

This is the worldwide threats hearing.

It's not the first time senior administration officials have been at odds over the state

of Iran's nuclear enrichment program.

The mixed messages are drawing new scrutiny after President Trump's top counterterrorism

advisor, Joe Kent, resigned this week over the justification for war.

With the partial government shutdown continuing to travel nightmare at airports across the country

is getting worse.

Screening lines are long and TSA employees who haven't been paid are getting harder to

find.

Henry reports from Atlanta's Hart's Field Jackson Airport.

More long lines on the way to the gate and still no pay for TSA officers in Philadelphia

flyers found three of six TSA checkpoints closed at Houston's Bush Airport.

It was a waiting game for passengers.

I'm here three hours early, so let's hope that I get through.

And in Atlanta, Reggie Monsanto says he got there with five hours to spare.

It's a 45 minute flight and we got up at six to get on the flight at two.

On Tuesday, Atlanta was one of three major airports were more than one third of TSA officers

called out of work.

Cameron Cochems is a union steward and lead TSA officer in Boise, Idaho.

The morale is getting worse by the day because no one knows when this is going to end.

There was more dangerous heat in the West yesterday.

Records were shattered in dozens of cities.

Our Chris Van Cleve is in Phoenix, which just set a new record for March.

Phoenix is under its earliest extreme heat warning on record.

This is the last week of winter usher in summer like temperatures.

It's not just the triple digit air temperature.

It's the heat radiating off the ground that feels closer to 130 that is first responders

concerned.

Fire crews have been busy already rescuing multiple overheated hikers since Monday.

Fire Captain Adam Skiver expects the week to only get busier.

It really makes jokes like it's a dry heat, but it's just a different type of heat.

And if you don't know that, it can put you in a bad spot.

The dangerous heat comes at the peak of tourist season at the height of spring break

and spring training.

A group of house Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General

Pam Bondy.

They're angry about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Republican representative James Comer subpoenaed Bondy to testify next month.

Bondy and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill yesterday to meet with

members of the House Oversight Committee less than an hour later Democrats left the room,

saying Bondy would not commit to honoring the panel subpoena, representative Robert Garcia

of California.

I mean, she has to comply with the subpoena.

Chairman Comer has put the subpoena out.

Remember, there was a United Democratic Committee that voted for that, as well as several Republicans

that actually joined, well joined together in that.

Public health experts in Britain say they've never seen anything like the explosive outbreak

of potentially lethal meningitis in one university town, which has already killed

two young people.

Vicki Barker reports from London, a bacterial, perfect storm, someone carrying a particularly

infectious strain of invasive meningitis must have visited a Canterbury nightclub packed

with high school and university students earlier this month.

A close environment and a microbe that can spread quickly, I think, creates this explosive

circumstance.

Epidemiologist Simon Kroll says the outbreak likely still hasn't peaked.

I imagine there will be more cases.

Sadly, there may be more deaths.

But with social distancing rules now in place and with thousands of vaccines being distributed,

he's confident the outbreak will soon be contained.

The annual Global Terrorism Index has been released, researcher Thomas Morgan of the Institute

for Economics and Peace, says he worries the war on Iran will spark more attacks in

the future and the radicalization of young men in the West is a rapidly growing concern.

If you go back and look at the mid-2000s, the average time for somebody to become radicalized

was around 16 months.

I've dropped now down to less than a year.

It can take place in months in some extreme cases, even weeks.

Jennifer Kuiper reports an AI-rendered star will posthumously appear in a new film.

Before his death last April at age 65, Val Kilmer appeared in movies including Tombstone,

The Doors and Top Gun.

You can be my wingman anytime.

Now First Line film says a generative AI version of Val Kilmer will co-star in a film called

as Deep as the Grave.

The producers say that before his death Kilmer signed on to perform in the movie but was

unable to do so due to his health.

They say his estate has given permission for his digital replication and is being compensated

for it.

Feeling blue?

A move to an Nordic country may be just what the doctor ordered, CBS's Deborah Rodriguez

report.

Finnland where you can let off steam in public sawnas so can geothermal hot springs take

in the northern lights and even dine on reindeer could cure a case of the blues.

It tops Oxford's new list of the world's happiest countries for the 9th year in a row.

Iceland is number two, the world happiness report says Denmark is third.

Costa Rica at 4th scores the highest ranking ever for a Latin American country, Sweden

rounds out the top five Norway and the Netherlands follow.

A new survey from fidelity investments finds almost one in three Americans don't know

win or even if they can retire.

Some say they work to keep busy others say they can't afford to stop.

And that's the world news round up for Thursday, March 19th, I'm Cammy McCormick, CBS News.

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