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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Exploding Wildfires, Heightened Tensions, Canada 'Sucks'

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds of people race away from flames in Georgia and Florida, and smoke now blankets much of the Southeast. Officials are warning the fires may not be contained for a month ... The US releases video of service members landing on another sanctioned ship, this one in the Indian Ocean ... US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick criticizes Canada's trade strategy as "the worst I've ever heard, adding, "they suck."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now breaking news, exploding wildfires.

0:05.0

Hundreds of people race away from flames in Georgia and Florida and smoke now blankets much of the southeast.

0:11.0

Officials are warning the fires may not be contained for a month.

0:15.0

And heightened tensions, the U.S. is boarding another sanctioned ship in the Indian Ocean,

0:20.0

releasing this video showing

0:21.8

service members landing on its deck.

0:25.0

And ship seized.

0:26.0

Iranian state media released this video, it says, shows the Revolutionary Guard storming

0:30.9

a ship and a critical waterway.

0:34.0

And breaking news, reclassifying weed, how a new order will change how the federal government treats marijuana.

0:41.3

Plus, quote, they suck. Those were Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik's very unflattering words about Canada.

0:49.3

The Ontario Premier Doug Ford is here to respond. And later later the Stanley Cup also here in the

0:55.7

Situation Room the iconic trophy will be here as my Buffalo Sabres look to go all

1:01.7

the way welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world

1:07.3

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room.

1:18.5

This is CNN breaking news. We begin with the breaking news. The U.S. military has boarded a

1:24.6

second vessel linked to Iran more than 2,000 miles away from that nation.

1:30.3

The Pentagon released this video from the scene in the Indian Ocean, officials saying the ship was carrying Iranian oil.

1:37.3

This comes as Iranian state media airs this video. It purportedly shows Iranian soldiers

1:43.3

seizing container ships in the Strait of

1:46.5

Hormuz. Given the glossy production values, it's not clear if these images were reenacted

1:52.4

for the camera after the actual event. Meanwhile, the Pentagon tells lawmakers it could take

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