Israel's Three Fronts, Maui Fire Probe, Inflation and Rents
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning A. I was left through two alarms. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh man. |
| 0:05.0 | So this really could have been a A only host by himself day, |
| 0:09.0 | which, I know is your dream because you think this is the AMRTino show. |
| 0:12.0 | But that's also the listener's dream too, you know, this is the AMRTino show. You know, but that's also the listener's dream too, you know. |
| 0:16.2 | They'd love for that to happen one day. |
| 0:19.0 | It's interesting the way you walk in the world. Israel's military is splitting its focus on three fronts against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. |
| 0:29.4 | As pressure mounts to keep all three from escalating how will Israel respond. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Leila Falden, that's A Martinez and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:37.6 | Maui's deadly wildfire last year moved incredibly fast. |
| 0:45.0 | We saw spot fires at the ocean front within about 90 minutes. |
| 0:51.0 | A new timeline lays out how fire crews and local officials responded. |
| 0:55.7 | And inflation hasn't dropped this year as much as the Fed hoped it would. |
| 0:59.6 | The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence. |
| 1:03.2 | A big reason why, housing costs. |
| 1:05.3 | The rents are too darn high. |
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