00:01War in the Middle East is expanding.
00:03Iran's supreme leader dead.
00:06Retaliatory strikes underway and now a scramble to decide who runs Iran next.
00:11Also, oil prices are surging.
00:13Ships are halting in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:15And Iran is warning tankers to stay out.
00:18And a deadly shooting outside a bar in Austin.
00:21Police now looking at whether the gunman was motivated by the Iran strikes
00:25and whether this could be terrorism.
00:30The stories that matter, clear and credible.
00:33From across the country to around the world.
00:35These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News.
00:41Good morning, I'm Craig Grelly.
00:43This morning, the war in the Middle East is expanding
00:45after American and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend
00:49killed the country's supreme leader.
00:51We expect an update later today from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
00:54and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane.
00:57Here's the latest.
00:59Kuwait's Ministry of Defense says several U.S. military aircraft
01:02crashed inside its borders this morning, but, quote,
01:06all crews survived.
01:07At least one of the crashes was caught on camera.
01:10Video appears to show a pilot ejecting before impact.
01:13Another clip shows Kuwaitis surrounding a pilot
01:15who had ejected while waiting for authorities.
01:18It is not clear whether the videos show the same incident,
01:21but U.S. Central Command says three U.S. fighter jets were shot down by Kuwait in a friendly fire
01:27incident.
01:28They say it was a mistake during active combat.
01:31Iranian state television claims Iran targeted at least one of the U.S. aircraft that went down.
01:37So far, three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on
01:43Iran.
01:43President Donald Trump said there are likely to be more losses in the coming weeks.
01:48When asked by NBC News why he ordered the strike, Trump said it was very simple,
01:54saying Iran, quote, wasn't willing to say they will not have a nuclear weapon.
01:58He says the war with Iran could take four weeks or less.
02:02Iran's ambassador to the U.N.'s nuclear agency says U.S. and Israeli airstrikes
02:06targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility,
02:09a site the U.S. bombed last June during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel.
02:14After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons,
02:20and we sought repeatedly to make a deal.
02:25We tried. They wanted to do it. They didn't want to do it.
02:29Again, they wanted to do it. They didn't want to do it.
02:32They didn't know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil.
02:37But Iran refused, just as it has for decades and decades.
02:42They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions,
02:47and we can't take it anymore.
02:49In a social media post Sunday night, the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said
02:56Tehran will not negotiate with the United States.
03:00The conflict is also spreading beyond Iran.
03:02Israel struck dozens of targets in Beirut and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah
03:07launched missiles and drones toward Israel overnight,
03:10calling it retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader.
03:13Lebanon's health ministry says those strikes killed at least 31 people and wounded 149 others.
03:20In a related topic, we're already seeing the economic fallout.
03:23Oil prices are spiking after the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran's retaliation in the Strait of Hormuz.
03:31U.S. crude jumped roughly 12% in early trading Sunday night.
03:35Brent crude oil surged even more, up by 14%, pushing prices near $80 a barrel.
03:42That's an $8 move in a matter of hours.
03:45Stock futures are lower this morning ahead of the opening bell.
03:48Dow futures are down more than 500 points.
03:51S&P and NASDAQ futures are both off by about 1%.
03:54The flashpoint right now is the Strait of Hormuz,
03:58the narrow waterway that carries more than 20% of the world's oil supply.
04:02Missiles and explosives have struck at least two vessels near the strait.
04:07Shipping firms are now diverting tankers.
04:09Dozens of ships are anchored outside the passage rather than risk entering.
04:14Overnight, the conflict widened.
04:16Saudi Arabia says an Iranian drone struck an oil storage facility at the Ras Tanurah Refinery,
04:22one of the kingdom's major export hubs.
04:24Operations were halted as a precaution after a small fire broke out.
04:28Officials say the fire was brought under control.
04:31Iran has warned ships not to pass through the strait.
04:34If traffic slows or stops, energy analysts say prices could rise quickly
04:39and that would show up at American gas stations within days.
04:43Every dollar move in crude typically adds about 2.5 cents to a gallon of gasoline.
04:49At current levels, that could mean a 20-cent jump if this holds.
04:52There is mounting outrage this morning over the apparent strike on a girls' elementary school in southern Iran.
04:59Video from Manab shows rescue workers and families searching through rubble.
05:04Backpacks and school books scattered amid collapsed walls and smoke.
05:08Iranian officials say the missile hit the Shahara Tayaba girls' school on Saturday morning
05:14at the start of the school week as children were in class.
05:18State media reports say at least 175 people, most of them believed to be young school girls, were killed.
05:24Though exact figures are still coming in and independent verification remains limited.
05:29Iran has condemned the strike as an atrocity.
05:32The head of Iran's Red Crescent called the scale of the killings unmatched.
05:36Even in recent conflicts, writing on X,
05:39no such crime has ever taken place in history to date, not even in Gaza.
05:44UNESCO, the U.N. Education Agency, said in a statement,
05:48the killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning
05:51constitutes a grave violation of the protection afforded to schools under international humanitarian law.
05:57Nobel laureate Malal Youssef Azai called the deaths unconscionable
06:02and urged the protection of civilians under the law.
06:04U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it is aware of reports of civilian harm
06:10and is reviewing them, but so far has not confirmed responsibility.
06:14The Israeli military says it's not aware of strikes in that specific area.
06:19Iran has now set its succession plan in motion after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the strikes.
06:26Iran invoked Article 111 of its constitution and installed a temporary three-member leadership council.
06:32President Massoud Pazeshkian, who reappeared on Iranian state television Sunday
06:37after ABC reported he was also targeted in Saturday's strikes, has joined the Interim Council.
06:44The other members are the head of the Iran judiciary and a senior cleric.
06:49Israel's military says 40 Iranian commanders died in Saturday's attacks,
06:53including the Armed Forces Chief of Staff.
06:56Under Iran's constitution, the 88-member assembly of experts must select a new supreme leader in the shortest possible time.
07:04The loss of senior commanders could shift additional influence to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,
07:10which has long served as the system's power center.
07:13From exile in Paris, Iranian opposition figure Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called the strikes a humanitarian intervention
07:21and said Iranians now have a chance to reclaim their country.
07:25He told CBS News he wants to help lead a transition to democracy, not restore the monarchy.
07:32This morning, police in Austin, Texas, are investigating whether the man who opened fire outside a bar early Sunday
07:38had any connection to the weekend strikes on Iran.
07:42The shooting left two people dead and 14 others injured.
07:46Authorities have identified the suspect as 53-year-old Andiaga Junya, a U.S. citizen originally from Senegal.
07:52Police say Junya was wearing clothing displaying an Iranian flag and the phrase property of Allah.
07:59The shooting happened outside Buford's backyard beer garden in Austin's entertainment district,
08:05just a few miles from the University of Texas.
08:07Investigators say Junya drove past the bar multiple times before stopping and firing from his SUV into a crowd on
08:14the patio.
08:15Police say he then exited the vehicle with a rifle and continued shooting along the street.
08:20Officers responded and shot him. He died at the scene.
08:23The FBI says the motive remains under investigation and that terrorism has not been ruled out.
08:29NBC News reports that sources close to the investigation say Junya had a history of mental illness.
08:35Finally this morning, call it a course correction.
08:38NASA is revamping its plan to return astronauts to the moon.
08:43Administrator Jared Isaacman says the updated architecture targets a lunar landing in 2028,
08:49with at least one surface mission every year after that.
08:54The new plan follows a series of technical setbacks.
08:57Earlier this year, hydrogen fuel leaks.
09:00And just last week, helium flow issues forced NASA to roll the Artemis II rocket off the pad
09:05and back into the hangar at Cape Canaveral for repairs.
09:09Artemis II, a mission that will send four astronauts around the moon,
09:13is now targeting a launch no earlier than April.
09:15Under the revised strategy, NASA will insert an additional mission before a lunar landing.
09:21In 2027, two astronauts would fly in an Orion capsule as a practice run,
09:27testing systems and operations ahead of a crewed moon landing.
09:32Isaacman says the goal is a faster, more reliable cadence, modeled after the Apollo program,
09:38which landed a dozen astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972.
09:44Should be interesting to watch, that's for sure.
09:46All right, before we head out, here's what we're tracking today.
09:48This morning, President Trump will award the Medal of Honor to three U.S. Army soldiers,
09:53two posthumously, for actions in World War II and Vietnam.
09:57At 1215 Eastern, the class action trial against Elon Musk gets underway.
10:03He's accused of making misleading statements that depressed Twitter's stock price before his purchase.
10:09It's expected to last two to three weeks.
10:11Later this afternoon, First Lady Melania Trump will preside over a meeting of the U.N. Security Council,
10:18a first at the United Nations.
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10:28Those are your Unbiased Updates for this Monday.
10:30We'll see you back here tomorrow.
10:31For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrelly.
10:33Have a great day.
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