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I'm Megan Kelly.

It's Monday, March 23, 2026.

And this is your AM update.

I think you're going to see more TSA agents.

They're going to quit or they're not going to show up.

With the fight over DHS funding dragging on, TSA agents miss paychecks and call out of work

as the White House prepares to send in ICE to assist at overwhelmed airports.

An illegal immigrant from Venezuela now in custody after allegedly gunning down a young

college student in Chicago.

The president will take whatever steps it takes to achieve those goals.

A new escalation threat from President Trump against Iran amid a deadline tonight, as new

polling shows Americans growing increasingly uneasy about the war.

And the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches into its seventh week as the Guthrie family

delivers a pleading new public message.

All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.

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A mid-a continued impasse on Capitol Hill over DHS funding, a partial shutdown now dramatically

impacting airports across the country.

TSA agents are currently not being paid, leading some to call out sick to take other jobs,

others outright quitting.

The result chaos at airports during a busy spring break with several major airports facing

hours long security lines.

Funding for the Department Lapsing in mid-February thanks to Democrats demanding reforms to

ICE and Border Patrol before they will agree to a full funding package.

Ironically, ICE and other immigration enforcement is still being funded thanks to the big

beautiful bill signed by President Trump last summer, but DHS as a whole is not, including

other divisions like the TSA.

Democrats pushing to finance some DHS departments like TSA and the Coast Guard until an agreement

can be reached on ICE and CBP reforms.

Republicans so far insisting on full funding for the entire department, triggering another

failed Senate vote last week.

Sixty votes are required to advance the legislation requiring at least some Democrat support.

Under John Federman of Pennsylvania, so far, the only dem to cross party lines and vote

to fund DHS.

President Trump on Saturday floating a unique potential solution, posting to Truth Social

Quote, if the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our

country in particular, our airports be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant

and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever

seen before.

Rosar Tom Homan yesterday on CNN confirming plans are underway.

Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports?

ICE agents receive high level training and you know the ICE agents are signed up many

airports across the country already.

They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigations on smog and airports, but you know

there's I mean there's got TSA agents covering exits, you know, certainly a highly trained

ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit makes people they'll go to those exits.

It's tough like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines.

So wherever we can provide extra security, I don't see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray

machine because you're not trained in that.

There are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs

and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines.

Travelers facing mounting delays at airports across the country here reporting from Atlanta

news first Fox 26 in Houston and picks 11 in New York City.

There's another morning of very long lines for travelers trying to get through security

at Hartfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Yesterday at this exact same time, the security checkpoint was sneaking through baggage

claim for right now.

It is all the way through baggage claim nine from one side of the airport to the other

TSA waitlines a terminal ea bush airport still say over three hours this morning.

Here LaGuardia we saw the lines stretching through the parking lot just yesterday right

now about 50,000 TSA agents are still working with other paychecks.

Democrats criticizing the move House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries yesterday on CNN.

The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed

at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them.

We've already seen how ICE conducts itself.

These are untrained individuals when it comes to doing the current job that they have for

the most part, let alone deploying them in close exposure and highly sensitive situations

at airports across the country.

Back on the hill, home in this past Friday meeting with lawmakers discussing the nature

of those talks yesterday on CNN.

I'm invited there just to explain operations and how we conduct business within ICE and

CBP.

I mean we have the same policies in place we had during Obama and Biden and Clinton and

Bush one and Bush two so the policies really hasn't changed is the execution of those

policies that we're talking about.

We certainly can't surrender ICE's authorities and they're congressionally mandated jobs.

So we're having no discussions.

Well, but as you know they want it to be codified things like agents wearing masks, the ability

or the requirement to say who they are and things of that nature.

So you're saying that the White House is not open to changing any of that?

No, no.

I'm saying the majority of this policy is choosing.

We're talking about identification, you know, badge number, name either or it because

no board has name under uniform, I doesn't have a name on uniforms, we're talking about

clearer identification, we're talking about, you know, access to the tension and things

like that.

Meanwhile, transportation secretary Sean Duffy warning yesterday on ABC the situation

could get much worse.

So I think as we look forward to Friday, that's when the next paycheck should come and

if this, if this Homeland Security funding isn't resolved, I think you're going to see

more TSA agents, they're going to quit or they're not going to show up.

It's hard for these individuals already to make their ends meet, but with out getting

paychecks, it's even that much more challenging.

And so they're going to take other jobs to put food in the table and pay the rent.

So I do think it's going to get much worse.

More than 400 agents so far quitting since the shutdown began Elon Musk on Saturday posting

to X quote, I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding

impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout

the country.

It is unclear if the White House has responded to the extraordinary offer.

A 25 year old man identified by Fox News as an illegal immigrant from Venezuela arrested

in connection with the fatal shooting of 18 year old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago.

A first year student from New York walking with friends near Loyola Beach around 1 a.m. Thursday.

That's about eight miles north of the famous Oak Street Beach near Chicago's Michigan

Mile in a much quieter, more residential area when a masked gunman approached the group firing

a single shot, striking her in the back for no apparent reason.

Gorman, a first year business student at Loyola University, Chicago, pronounced dead at the

scene.

Her family releasing a statement calling her the heart of the family, writing in part

quote, what happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being in the

wrong place at the wrong time.

This is not an abstraction.

This is the loss of a daughter, the loss of a sister, the family urging anyone with

information to come forward.

Fellow classmates of Gorman's speaking out to ABC 7, she was really sweet and it just

makes me really sad because with everything that's going on, it does make you wonder like

how safe can you be at night.

She had a lot of friends.

She was always smiling.

It just reflects a lot about that person specifically.

So knowing that, this is horrible.

You come here for an education.

Gun violence should not be something that you should be worried about or if you should

not be worried about walking to the beach and not expect to just get killed like that.

DHS identifying the suspect as Jose Medina Medina.

Fox News reporting he was caught and released at the border in May of 2023 under the Biden

administration.

Police arresting Medina Friday night while executing a search warrant at an apartment just

blocks away from the beach, according to CWB Chicago.

Investigators reportedly recovering a firearm inside the apartment now undergoing

ballistics testing to determine whether it was used in the shooting.

According to the Chicago Tribune surveillance footage tracking Medina from the scene to

the building, police identifying him in part due to what they describe as a distinct

limp.

DHS revealing he was arrested just one month after entering this country illegally,

for alleged shoplifting and released on his own reconnaissance.

He later failed to appear in court leading to an arrest warrant but was never re-arrested.

Did they even try?

DHS yesterday lodging a detainer request for Medina requesting that Chicago officials

not release him.

The Sanctuary City bars cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, specifically

barring officials from honoring ICE detainers without a court order, as of now authorities

have not confirmed any motive here and the investigation remains ongoing.

Coming up, President Trump threatening a major escalation in Iran and the search for Nancy

Guthrie now entering its seventh week as the Guthrie family speaks out in a new statement.

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As Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth week, President Trump over the weekend saying

the U.S. is, quote, very close to meeting its objectives, including degrading Iran's

missile capabilities, destroying its defense industrial base, eliminating its navy and

air force, preventing any path to a nuclear weapon and protecting key U.S. allies in the

region.

The following day, however, President Trump issuing a stark ultimatum on true social,

warning that if Iran does not fully reopen the state of Hormuz within 48 hours, the

U.S. will quote, hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest

one first.

That deadline set to expire at 7.44 pm tonight.

The threat marking a notable shift, the President previously emphasizing that the U.S. was

avoiding strikes on civilian infrastructure like power plants and oil facilities.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besen yesterday on NBC pressed on the apparent change in strategy.

This seems to be an escalation, a threat of escalation, and it seems to run counter to

his statement that he, in fact, wants to wind up the war.

Again, Kristen, the President has been very clear from the beginning that the goals are

destroy the Iranian air force and the navy to the completely demolished their missile

capabilities, demolish their ability to replenish those capabilities, make sure the Iranians

cannot have a nuclear weapon and stop their ability to project power internationally.

And the President will take whatever steps it takes to achieve those goals.

Secretary Besen asked whether the administration would consider boots on the ground to seize

Kharag Island, the hub for roughly 90 percent of Iran's oil exports, which the U.S. has

already attacked and which President Trump says he will hit harder if Iran continues to

block shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Secretary Besen responding on ground troops that quote, all options are on the table.

Iran responding with threats of its own, a spokesman for Iran's Supreme Military Command

headquarters warning quote, if Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, then

fuel energy information technology systems and desalination infrastructure used by America

and the regime in the region will be struck.

The facilities are essential in the Middle East, Al Jazeera reporting the six Gulf states

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, among the most water scarce countries

in the world, relying heavily on desalination to meet the needs of their people.

About 80 percent of Israel's drinking water coming through five desalination plants along

the Mediterranean, according to Ben Gurion University, in Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Abu Dhabi

some 90 percent of the drinking water depends on desalination plants.

Iran continues to drop missiles in the fight, on Saturday a pair of Iranian ballistic missiles

striking southern Israel, injuring at least 115 people.

The Israeli Defense Force reportedly investigating how the Iron Dome failed to intercept them.

Meantime, Iran reportedly firing to intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, an

island located 2500 miles away, housing a joint US-UK military base.

One missile reportedly failing mid-flight, another targeted by a US interceptor, though

officials say it's unclear if our interceptor was successful, according to the Wall Street

Journal.

The attempted strike suggesting Iran's missile range may extend far beyond what it has

publicly acknowledged, potentially expanding the threat well outside of the Middle East,

possibly potentially putting European targets within the Iranian regime's range.

With neither missile hitting the base, however, it's unclear if they were capable of reaching

their intended target.

Al Jazeera reports that the Iranians deny that Iran was behind this particular launch.

Here at home, the National Gas Average rising to 394 per gallon, according to AAA, up

from 293 one month ago.

Diesel is averaging just over $5 a gallon.

One month ago, it was between $3.65 and $3.81.

And new polling from CBS showing growing pessimism about the economy.

32% of Americans now expect a recession within the next year that's up from 26% before

the start of Operation Epic Fury.

In terms of the war, 57% say the conflict is going very or somewhat badly, 43% say it's

going well, as confidence in the administration's messaging appears to be slipping.

68% now say the administration has not clearly explained its goals, that's up from 62% earlier

this month.

Overall, approval of the conflict also slipping, on March 4th, 44% supporting military

action against Iran, that number now down to 40.

66% of respondents agree this is a war of choice, 34% say it's a war of necessity, breaking

down approval by party, 84% of Republicans approve of the war, 16% disapprove, 8% of

Dems in favor, 92% oppose, just 31% of independence support the war compared to 69% who oppose it.

The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie,

now entering its seventh week, with investigators still without a suspect or clear answers.

News Nation correspondent Brian Enten, who has been closely following the investigation,

reporting the FBI is intensifying its focus inside Guthrie's Tucson, Arizona neighborhood,

including on one home, which was vacant at the time of her disappearance, here from

Brian Enten investigates last week.

I have confirmed through sources that the FBI has been back in Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood

over the last 24 hours or so, going back to neighbor's houses and asking more questions.

Some of the things that I know that they're talking about is there's one neighbor that

moved out before Nancy disappeared, and they have been asking more questions about that

situation, not to say that that has anything to do with what happened, but that is something

that the FBI agents are asking about.

And then also, in this I found to be particularly interesting, they are asking about, there's

several houses that are under construction in the neighborhood, and they are asking specifically

for names of contractors and workers who were working in the neighborhood on those

houses, on those construction projects.

And I'm talking about specifics, like they want the names of all the contractors and

workers who are working on those houses.

Retired Pima County SWAT commander Bob Krieger telling Parade magazine that vacant houses

can serve as staging locations for bad actors needing to scout an area, allowing them

to blend into neighborhoods.

In a separate report, Pima County homicide detective Kurt DAB telling Parade magazine,

he believes there may be as many as four accomplices in this case, aiding the masked figure captured

on security footage outside of Guthrie's door on the night of the abduction.

Meanwhile, the Guthrie family issuing a renewed plea to the community Saturday night, as

part of a bring her home special airing on local station KVOA.

The statement reading in park quote, someone knows something.

It's possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize

is significant.

We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31

in the early morning hours of February 1st, as well as the late evening of January 11th.

January 11th being a possible date of one of those images of the perpetrator on Nancy

Guthrie's porch, and also a date on which neighbors spotted a mysterious white van in

the neighborhood.

The statement urging community members to check everything from camera footage to journal

entries and text messages from the statement quote, no detail is too small.

Yesterday, Savannah sharing an image on Instagram featuring Jesus with two angels, and the

caption quote, I believe, I believe.

And that'll do it for your AM update.

I'm Megan Kelly.

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