An escalation in the U.S. military position in the Caribbean.

I'm Lisa Salasara, Fox News.

The Pentagon says an aircraft carrier strike group is heading to the waters off South America.

The Pentagon announced that it is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to the Southern Command region to help with counter-narcotics

efforts. The Ford strike group right now is currently in the Mediterranean and will take at

least two weeks to get there. This is the first time that the U.S. military will not have a carrier

in the Middle East. Fox is Jennifer Griffin. President Trump said yesterday, if the U.S.

begins striking targets on land, Congress would be briefed on them.

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the military had conducted a 10th strike against a suspected drug boat, killing six people.

This as the U.S. sanctions the President of Columbia and his wife and son.

Relations between the U.S. and Colombia have deteriorated over the past several months.

President Trump says Petro has ties to drug cartels, warning he better watch it or will take serious action.

Petro, the first leftist leader of Colombia in decades, has criticized U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in Latin America,

and earlier this year refused to accept U.S. flights of deported migrants triggering tariff threats

by the Trump administration.

Fox is Jared Halpern at the White House. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffaid trying to reassure

travelers as air traffic controllers are not being paid during the government

shutdown. There'll be a question about, is the system safe? Now, to say yes, it is safe. But Duffy

admits there are delays in cancellations due to lack of staffing, and he says when there are

staffing issues, there will be fewer planes taking off and landing, and there will be cancellations.

Wall Street, all three

indexes hit records. The Dow added 472, closing above 47,000 for the first time. The NASDAG up

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