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The story. Breaking news around the situation escalating by the minute in the Middle East right now. So where is all this headed. The pentagon has now announced the deployment of a small number of american troops to the region. We already have about 40,000 troops there but they have decided given what is going on that they needed to send more troops to the Middle East. That coming from the pentagon just a Sort While ago. Iran is warning that there will be Quote Dangerous Consequences as Israel And Hezbollah continue to trade fire. Israel says it has hit 800 other targets within lebanon and has intercepted most of what has been incoming missiles, from them. [ speaking alternate language ] for those who have not understood i went to quiet clarify. We do not wait for a threat we anticipated. Everywhere and every arena at anytime. Eliminate senior officials eliminate missiles, and we ....
Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fi ....
with russia. watch. very clear from the very beginning about two things that have been unwaivering. first, the united states is not going to war with russia and the ukraine. second, the united states is not providing weapons to ukraine to attack russia. we do not enable attacks on russia. let s bring in a fox news contributor, brett. great to have you on. i want your thoughts on these clustering munitions once deemed war crime stuff and now they re sending them to ukraine. you agree? trace, look, there s no obvious that this is a very controversial weapon. at the same time, i just returned from ukraine. the russian government is using much more dangerous weapons, this pales in comparison to what they re using against civilians. look at the battlefield right now. it s brutal and horrific. most ideas have know idea the damage that the russian government have done to civilians that have never asked to be a part of this war. you have wagner mercenaries that have alr ....
white house deals with the fallout over that cocaine found inside the west wing on sunday. secret service officials expect to wrap up their investigation in ex week, but are downplaying expectations of those findings. and the white house is trying to pivot attention off the probe and onto today s jobs report with what they say is bidenomics working for the american people. correspondent mark meredith is following it all, joins us live from the north lawn with the latest. good evening mark. reporter: bret, good evening to you. tonight top white house aides say they do not believe national security was compromised after someone brought drugs into the west wing but tonight the white house says they re still looking into this. like the secret service and the rest of us, trying to figure out how those drugs ended up here in the first place. mr. president, any update on the cocaine. president biden once again ignored reporters questions about cocaine found in the white ....