U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran, Plus Chemical Crisis in SoCal & Sonny Rollins Remembered

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The fragile ceasefire between the UniteThe fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran is under new pressure after the U.S. launched what they called ‘defensive’ strikes on southern Iran on Monday, with Tehran condemning the strikes as a sign of "bad faith and unreliability" as the two sides go back and forth on the terms of a long-term peace deal. Meanwhile, a chemical crisis in Southern California is cooling off. Orange County officials raised concerns late last week that a damaged chemical tank in Garden Grove could explode, forcing nearly 50,000 local residents to evacuate. But some of those evacuation orders were lifted after officials deemed the area safe, saying there was no risk of a catastrophic explosion from Garden Grove's GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems plant. And we remember jazz great Sonny Rollins, who passed away at 95 at his home in Woodstock, New York. He was born in Harlem in the 1930s, and became one of the most famous improvisers in jazz and helped transform the genre into its more expressive and free form, recording more than 60 albums as bandleader and playing with legends like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Read more at https://www.latimes.com

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast.
0:09.1	The fragile ceasefire between United States and Iran is under new pressure after the U.S.
0:14.7	launched what they called defensive strikes on southern Iran on Monday.
0:19.2	But as the two sides go back and forth on the terms of a long-term
0:22.7	peace deal, Tehran condemned the strikes as a sign of, quote, bad faith and unreliability.
0:29.0	According to new reporting from Al Jazeera, almost 3,500 Iranians have been killed in roughly
0:34.7	3,000 Lebanese people in U.S. and Israeli attacks on the countries
0:39.1	since the start of the war. Still, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Vubio says negotiators are working
0:45.3	toward a draft agreement.
0:46.5	I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like.
0:51.7	I think like anything with something like this, it's going to take a couple days to settle on even down to the disagreements over a word, sentence. So we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one.
1:10.4	The Pentagon says the defensive strikes targeted missile launch sites and boats, placing
1:14.9	mines near the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway that's become central to the conflict.
1:20.7	Normally, nearly 20% of the world's oil passes through the strait each day, but it's been effectively
1:26.3	shut down since the start of the war nearly three months ago.
1:30.3	The supply chain disruption has already shaken energy markets and disrupted global shipping.
1:35.3	Now, UN officials are warning that the conflict could trigger a global food crisis,
1:40.3	as other exports like fertilizer get squeezed at the street.
1:48.4	Also, a chemical crisis in Southern California is cooling off.
1:54.3	Orange County officials raised concerns late last week that a damaged chemical tank in Garden Grove could explode.
1:55.9	Nearly 50,000 local residents were forced to evacuate over the weekend.
2:00.3	As of Tuesday morning, about two-thirds of those evacuation orders were lifted after officials deemed the area to be safe,
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