From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Tuesday, March 10th.

Here's what we're covering.

Mr. President, you've said the war is, quote, very complete, but your defense secretary says this is just the beginning.

So which is it? And how long should Americans be prepared for this war to last for? Well, I think you could say it's the beginning. It's the beginning of building a new country. President Trump offered contradictory messaging yesterday on how long the war with Iran could last. Are you thinking this week it will be over? No, but soon. I think so. Okay, and with respect to...

Earlier in the day, when he said the war was pretty much done, markets rebounded, and the price of oil dropped.

But he seemed to switch gears later, leaving the timing open-ended. To date, at least 1,300 people

have been killed in Iran, according to the Iranian ambassador to the UN.

Iran's retaliatory strikes across the Middle East have killed seven U.S. service members and more than 30 others.

My colleague Eric Schmidt, who covers the Pentagon, says one key question at the moment is how much of an arsenal Iran still has.

In confidential briefings to Congress late last week, Pentagon officials told lawmakers

that the Iranians still have as much as 50 percent of their overall missile fleet still intact.

Now, that's getting hammered away every day.

But more important is the drones are probably

even more than that. They can still manufacture these drones at this point. They still have huge stockpows.

So even though the United States and Israel pose significant damage on these stockpiles,

the Iranians still have a fair amount left. And that's the race that

we're in here. Between Iran's ability to fire off as many of these missiles and drones as possible,

to inflict as much pain as possible, physical pain, economic pain, political pain, versus the United

States and Israel's ability to knock out that ability to fight back.

That's the race that's underway.

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