Big Headlines: Conflicting reports on efforts to end Iran war and investigators on the ground after Air Canada crash at LaGuardia

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Iran now claims the U.S. is negotiating with itself, amid conflicting reports of a cease

fire plan, and more American troops are being sent to the Middle East.

Hi, I'm Vergeshtave.

This is Big Headlines, everything you need to know to be in the know in just five minutes.

There are conflicting reports now about the efforts to end the war in Iran.

There's word Tehran has received a cease fire proposal from the U.S., despite its denial

that talks are even taking place.

Almost a month into this war, and apparently Iran has received a 15-point U.S. ceasefire

proposal that's according to Pakistani officials who are acting as intermediaries.

That plan is set to include a rolling back the nuclear program, missile limits, and opening

the strait of Hormuz.

President Trump claims Iran wants to deal so badly that it gave the U.S. a mystery present

oil and gas-related.

It was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us, and they said they were going

to give it, so that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people.

Iran claims the U.S. is just negotiating with itself as spokesperson with the foreign

ministry.

And you see, we have a very catastrophe experience, I should say, of the United States

diplomacy.

The U.S. military is also sending 1,000 Army paratroopers to the Middle East, triggering

questions about why that would even be happening if ceasefire talks are progressing.

From Tehran to Toronto, how is the war in Iran influencing Canada's energy prices?

Karen C. Olin speaks to Heather Exner-Piro, the director of Energy and Natural Resources

and Environment at the McDonald-Lorrier Institute today on the big story.

That is the Strait of Hormuz, and are we dependent at all on the Strait?

So we won't be getting a lot of our oil in Canada, even Tatlantic Canada, which are

small amounts from the Strait.

But it doesn't matter because the market is so liquid, I think it's named after oil,

you know, to have liquidity.

But so the Strait of Hormuz is the biggest producing region in the world.

So you got Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar on the natural gas side.

The just phenomenal amounts, about 20 million barrels get smooth through there.

Overall in the whole world, you got about 105 million barrels if you're including NGLs.

And so it's a very significant amount.

And so when those aren't coming out and right now you're down about 15 million barrels

a day.

So a little bit has been diverted, but a lot has just been shut in and it's just not

going to come out.

So we're running, we're, you know, we're spending on the credit card of, you know, all the

savings we had, we're now drawing that down.

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Also making big headlines, a federal investigator's state side are sharing some early findings

from their probe into the deadly air Canada crash at New York's LaGuardia airport.

They say one of only two air traffic controllers on duty cleared a fire truck to cross a runway,

just 12 seconds before the air Canada Jazz Flight touchdown, leaving little time to avoid

the collision that killed both pilots and injured a few dozen passengers and two firefighters.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says its full team of investigators is now

on site in New York and they learned there were two controllers doing the work of four in

the tower at the time of the incident.

What we do know is that, that is in the standard operating procedures for LaGuardia.

It's for the midnight shift.

It's also common practice across the national air space.

The U.S. is currently facing a severe shortage of air traffic controllers, but the FAA maintains

LaGuardia as well staffed with 33 certified air traffic controllers, which is just under

its 37 person target and seven more controllers are in the process of training.

Officials are working to determine which of the airport's layers of safety precautions

failed and allowed the truck onto the runway as it was tending to another emergency.

The air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport has caused a language commotion here in the nation's

capital. The airline CEO has been summoned to Ottawa to explain why he only spoke English when

he offered his condolences to the families of those killed or injured in the crash on Sunday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the issue on his way to a caucus meeting.

I'm very disappointed as others are, rightly so.

In this unilingual message of the CEO of Air Canada.

As a former Crown Corporation, Air Canada is subject to the Official Languages Act,

which states the public must be able to receive support in both official languages.

Air Canada says the message was delivered in English to ensure it was received as

clearly as possible given the emotional circumstances.

In the U.S., there's new urgency to reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security

and pay transportation security administration workers.

TSA agents have gone 40 days without a paycheck now and more are calling out sick or quitting,

leading to hours-long lineups for travelers. ABC's Lionel Voice has the latest.

In Washington, there appears to be new momentum for a deal to end the standoff.

Senate Republicans have now agreed to fund the TSA and every agency inside Homeland Security

except for immigration enforcement. Democrats pitched a plan suggesting they're

willing to fight separately for immigration policing reforms. President Trump saying this yesterday.

I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it.

Any Senate deal could still face an uphill battle in the House.

Democrats have refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless it makes changes

to its immigration and deportation operations.

Open AI is shutting down its social media app Sora over rising concerns about deep fakes and

consent. The app went viral last fall as a place to share short form video generated by artificial

intelligence. In an online message Tuesday, the company said it was saying goodbye to the Sora

app and it would soon share more about how to preserve user creations. Sora was released in September

as an attempt to capture the attention and potential advertising dollars that followed short

form videos on TikTok, YouTube, and meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.

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