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No talks are happening according to Iran, while the U.S. calls the situation productive as
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questions mount about an endgame 25 days now into this war.
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Hi, I'm Maria Kastain in 4 Vergeshtave. This is Big Headlines. Everything you need to know to be
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in the know in just 5 minutes. Despite U.S. President Trump's claim of a possible diplomatic breakthrough
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in the Middle East war, Iranian missiles and drones are continuing to target parts of the Gulf.
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As Tehran maintains its grip on the straight of hormones, claims that Iran recently launched
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seven waves of missiles at Israel, with Israel also striking Iran, hitting some 50 targets overnight.
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All of this happening as Trump heavily hints that an endgame is close, announcing a pause in
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attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure and claiming productive talks are underway.
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But Iran denies any talks are happening. Joel Rubin is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
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State. They may not be talking to anybody quite frankly and just be moving to try to signal to
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markets to calm down. There are reports the U.S. could have a delegation meeting with Iranian officials
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in Pakistan this week. The U.S. is pushing for Iran to stand down on nuclear weapons in the
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straight of hormones, while a senior adviser to the new Supreme Leader says the war will continue
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until Iran receives full compensation for damages.
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As the investigation into the deadly collision on the runway at New York's LaGuardia airport
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continues, we're learning more about the two air-Canada jazz pilots who lost their lives
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in the tragedy. Mackenzie Gunther has been identified as one of the pilots, a statement from
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Toronto's Seneca Polytechnic, says Gunther was a graduate of its aviation program. They say
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Gunther began working for jazz after finishing school. The other pilot was identified by a family
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member as Antoine Foray of Quebec. An investigation is underway at LaGuardia, with early indications
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showing the pilots attempted to avoid the truck as much as possible. CNN's safety analyst David Suci.
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The aircraft ran directly into the middle of this truck with the nose of the airplane.
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Had the truck been 30 feet further or 30 feet before, this could have been much, much worse.
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Investigators say they're being held up by a partial government shutdown in the U.S.
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with some officials stuck in hours long lines unable to get to the scene.
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Well, the crash is bringing up conversations about air traffic control shortages in the U.S.
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I spoke to Aviation expert and associate professor at McGill University, Karl Romore,
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today on the big story to have that conversation. What is the state of air traffic control?
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It's an ongoing long-term problem we've seen. We've talked about this for years.
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Is that there's a shortage of controllers and hence some of the existing ones work extra
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shifts and do things. I'll partly get paid for that, so that's good from a family finance viewpoint.
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But there's threats beyond what they want to do, what they should do, because there's not
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enough of them. And so it's an ongoing existing problem that maybe this will encourage the U.S.
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government and perhaps a little bit in Canada, I don't think it's bad, is in the U.S.
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to hire more people, train more people, maybe pay them better, so that this problem now,
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I think it's exasperated by what's going on in Washington and some employees are not being paid.
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Also making big headlines, TSA security lines, stateside are still long,
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as the partial U.S. government shutdown drags on. TSA officers have gone nearly 40 days without
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getting paid and many are calling out to find other kinds of work to pay the bills.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed ICE agents at airports, but those agents aren't
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trained to screen bags or run the screening equipment. ABC's Steve O'Santhamy is at Atlanta's
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Hartzfield Jackson International Airport. President is also now talking about sending in the
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National Guard to help. It's very hard for people to get a beat on how long these lines are from
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the websites, for example, because the systems, the cameras that they use to measure the lines
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only are designed to measure the lines of people inside the airport and not around the block.
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One piece of advice that we're hearing now is for people to choose to fly at off peak hours.
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TSA set a record for calls out again on Sunday, 40 percent in Atlanta and more than 37 percent
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at New York's JFK. Senators are discussing a proposal to end the Homeland Security budget
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stalemate by funding much of the department, including TSA workers, but excluding ICE's
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enforcement and removal operations, which have been core to the dispute. The potential breakthrough
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came after a group of Republican senators headed to the White House late Monday to meet with Trump.
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They expected negotiators to work through the night, hammer out the details, and present
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written proposals for both parties to discuss today.
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More than six years after the first COVID-19 cases were reported in this country,
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most Canadians say they are satisfied with how the government handled the pandemic.
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A new survey from a research co-finds 56 percent of Canadians would call the federal pandemic
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response a success up 4 percent compared to a year ago. 62 percent of those say they would
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support a public inquiry into the pandemic response down 2 percent from last year.
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Police in Vancouver have ticketed a woman who they say fell asleep while behind the wheel
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of a self-driving vehicle. BC Highway Patrol say it happened last Tuesday during the busy
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morning hour rush. Officers noticed the driver of a Tesla had her eyes closed and arms crossed
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as the vehicle traveled in rainy and slippery conditions. The driver told police she'd zoned out,
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but had her hands on the steering wheel while police say officer video doesn't support her claim.
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