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President Trump's five-day deadline for a run to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
may be giving him time to decide whether to deploy ground troops.
Richard Engel reports that in the meantime, back channel diplomacy appears to be taking place with Pakistan offering to mediate.
Two sources telling NBC News in-person negotiations could happen in the coming days.
But not everyone wants a quick exit.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel will keep attacking Iran and Lebanon until Israel's aims are achieved.
On Monday, Trump announced a five-day pause on strikes targeting Iran's power plants after what he called a productive conversation with officials in Tehran.
Iran continues to say that no talks are happening.
The deadline falls on the same day that thousands of U.S. Marines are expected to arrive in the Middle East.
Trump told reporters that if a deal isn't reached by Friday, in his words,
we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out.
Having Marines in the area will give Trump the option of putting boots on the ground.
The price of oil is still going up.
Triple A puts a national average for a gallon of regular, unletted at $3.98 a gallon.
Flashback to a month ago, just before the start of the war in Iran, national average was $2.97.
Drivers in California are paying the most at $5.83 on average.
The NTSB will be interviewing the two air traffic controllers on duty when an air-Canada regional jets smashed into an airport fire truck at New York's LaGuardia airport on Sunday killing the two pilots.
The NTSB says one of the controllers was busy with several jobs at the time.
A passenger who was on board the jet is describing his ordeal.
Jack Cabot said he was on the flight to return to school after spring break.
It was utter terror. It felt very surreal.
It felt like there was people crying. There was people bleeding.
The whole front of the plane had been ripped apart.
He says passengers worked together to ensure they all got off the plane. I'm Michael Casner.
A federal judge says she's troubled by the Pentagon's moves to classify American AI company Anthropic as a supply chain risk, more from Tammy Trehio.
Anthropic is challenging that designation in court.
After the war department also ordered that contractors cut ties with the company, citing concerns over national security.
The Pentagon has argued that Anthropic wants a veto over its use of the company's clawed AI.
Anthropic says that even if the federal government doesn't want to work with it, it shouldn't be blacklisted.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lynn said Tuesday it looks like the government's looking to cripple Anthropic.
I'm Tammy Trehio.
Today is the start of the major league baseball season in New York, Scott Pringle.
The New York Yankees will take on the giant tonight in San Francisco to open the season.
That is the only game tomorrow. The Metz hosts the pirates for a one o'clock match up at City Field to kick off their season.
New this season an automated ball strike challenge system where players can appeal pitch calls made by the home plate umpire.
Each team gets two challenges per game. I'm Scott Pringle.
The company behind Fortnite is planning to lay off 1000 employees more from Matt Matinson.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney made the announcement to employees in a memo Tuesday.
He said a downturn in Fortnite engagement that started last year means the company is spending significantly more than it's making.
Sweeney went on to say the layoffs are part of a plan to cut $500 million in cost.
Epic Games previously cut more than 800 jobs in 2023. I'm at Matt and Zen.
Phoenix Arizona broke another heat record on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service says it hit 100 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport,
shattering the previous record from March 24th is also the seventh consecutive record high temperature for Phoenix,
which is in the grip of a historic heat wave. I'm Michael Casner.
