Announcer news4 midday starts now. Good morning, thas for joining us on news4 midday. Im molette green. And im melissa mollet. Kick off with t forecast. Lauryn ricketts has what you need to know into the. Unch hour hello out there. Oh, my goodness, i is so beautiful out there right now. Were lookin at blue skie for the most part. With just very nice conditions. Low humidity, a little bit of a breeze in the air but it is absolutely gorgeous out there and it is going to continue to stay like that through the remainder of the day. Current temperatures out there right now, it is feeling good. Maybe even a little cool with the breeze. Temperatures from the 60s to low 70s. N 64inchester seems to be the cool spot right now. High pressure right over topf us so that is pushing the clouds out. Now we had some rain overnight but you could see the cloud deck, that frontal system is defined right here pushing off into the atlantic. While weke clearing bacff to the west. So again looking beautiful o
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The japan Prime Minister in iran hoping to ease conflict. The mornings incidents coming weeks after saudi arabia accused rifle iran of striking four tankers in the gulf. A preliminary investigation blaming an unidentified state actor. Iran has denied the accusations and at times played down the prospects of war with the west. President trump speaking out about relations with iran earlier this week. When i came here, they were all over the place, causing terror, causing problems. Theyre not doing that right now. Reporter but this morning the region on a knifes edge again, irans Supreme Leader saying why iran does not want an atomic bomb america could do nothing to stop it. This has been a time of escalating tensions in this region, keir. Have we heard from the white house this morning . Reporter nothing yet, savannah, but inevitably there will be reaction. The administration has taken multiple steps going back to last year, pumping out of the Nuclear Agreement with iran, ramping up sanc
The way. Im going to go to school to including the to run to rap his. Securing their 1st n. B. A. Championship in state its on to gain 6 against the Golden State Warriors. Hello we begin with breaking news from sudan where an ethiopian envoy says the Opposition Alliance will suspend the Civil Disobedience Campaign and strike from wednesday in turn the military has reportedly agreed to release some political detainees and the announcement comes on the 1st day of the strike residents stayed indoors and businesses remained shut in much of the capital hard to protest leaders had been promising to continue their campaign until the military gave up power the military crackdown on protesters staging sit in on last week has left at least 129 people dead mohamed valas joining us here on set hes covered the protests in sudan extensively what are you hearing about the suspension. Yes it may look like may sound like a surprise to many but weve been hearing about it in the last couple of days the s
A weekly two hour dose of nature does wonders for our health and wellbeing. I am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The shipping lanes between the arabian peninsular and iran are some of the busiest in the world today they are also some of the most tense. Every day 180 vessels pass through the gulf of oman, most of them carrying oil. Two of those tankers are on fire today, seriously damaged in an attack. Us officials reportedly believe iran is behind the attack and say the crew abandoned one of the vessels after discovering a naval mine on the hull of their ship. These are the pictures from the aftermath of the explosions. The 23 sailors aboard the norwegian owned front altair were taken to iran 21 others on the japanese owned kokuka courageous were rescued by the us navy. A fifth of the worlds oil is transported through these straights and the price of brent crude jumped sharply today. Just a month ago iran was accused of using naval mines to blow holes in two oil