Tuesday, January 30, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
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Tuesday briefing: Jordan drone attack; Charles Littlejohn; Neuralink brain implant; Biden’s stove rules; Toyota recall; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Elon Musk says his company implanted a chip in someone's brain. |
| 0:06.5 | New rules will make kitchen stoves more efficient and we may have gotten a glimpse |
| 0:11.2 | of a newborn great white shark. |
| 0:13.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Tuesday, January 30th. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:27.0 | Number one, the U.S. mixed up enemy and friendly drones in an attack that killed three American troops. |
| 0:35.2 | More details are emerging about the deadly drone attack on a US military base in Jordan |
| 0:39.7 | on Sunday. |
| 0:41.1 | That attack killed three members of an Army reserve unit from Georgia and injured more than 40 others. |
| 0:46.0 | Yesterday, officials said that American air defenses failed to intercept an attack drone because there was confusion about the identity of the aircraft. |
| 0:54.9 | An initial assessment suggested that the weaponized drone may have been mistaken for an American |
| 0:59.6 | aircraft returning to the base. |
| 1:02.1 | The incident has put pressure on President Biden to respond. |
| 1:05.0 | He blamed Iran-backed militias for the attack. These groups have launched |
| 1:09.0 | near daily assaults on U.S. forces in the region since the war in Gaza began in October. Yesterday |
| 1:15.2 | Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin spoke to the press about the risk of a |
| 1:19.0 | wider conflict in the Middle East. I think it's very important to note that this is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East. |
| 1:30.1 | I would argue that we've not seen a situation as as dangerous as the one we're facing now across the region since at least 1973 and arguably even even before that. |
| 1:44.0 | The year 1973 was the Arab-Israeli War, |
| 1:47.2 | also known as the Yom Kupur War, |
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