Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Thursday, March 12th. Here are the five things you need to know to start your day.

Number one, the Lebanon front. As President Trump sends somewhat conflicting messages still about when the war in Iran could end, attacks between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are only escalating.

Lebanese officials say 8 people were killed and 31 injured when an airstrike hit a Beirut

suburb today, a beach area where some of the 800,000 people displaced by, the war had taken shelter.

Israel says the attack as part of a wider wave of strikes targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard carried out joint attacks with Hezbollah Wednesday,

striking more than 50 targets inside Israel.

None of this giving the impression of a war nearing an end, for sure.

Here's the latest from President Trump on the timeline. The main thing is we have to win this. They win it quickly, but win it.

And there are many people, I'm just watching some of the news.

Most people say it's already been won. It's just a question of when. When do we stop?

The President also claimed that he wasn't aware of the findings from the U.S. investigation

into the strike on a girls' school in Iran. The strike killed at least 168 children.

Two sources briefed on the Pentagon investigation tell CNN it was the U.S.

the mistakenly hit the school based on outdated intelligence about a nearby Iranian naval base.

Both the Defense Intelligence Agency and US CENTCOM declined to comment.

Number two, the oil emergency.

The price of crude oil shot back up to over $100 a barrel overnight because of this war,

and the fact that Iran is now focusing more of its attacks on tankers and fuel depots across the region.

New video shows a huge fire at a fuel depot in Bahrain after an Iranian strike.

Iran has also claimed responsibility for strikes on two foreign fuel tankers off the coast of Iraq.

At least one person was killed, but Iraqi authorities were able to rescue 38 others.

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