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Gideon Resnick
Good morning. After just a day, President Trump reverses course on a plan to help ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz. How this latest move could impact a potential peace deal. Passengers on the cruise ship struck by a hantavirus outbreak are facing uncertainty as the Canary Islands president imposes new plans to let it dock there.
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Cecilia Ley
And the Wall street journal explains how
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Narrator/Reporter
YouTube took over the American classroom.
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Teacher/Parent (Amy Warren)
More than 88% of public schools today one to one devices. And more than 94% of teachers surveyed said that they've used YouTube in their roles.
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Cecilia Ley
It's Wednesday, May 6th. I'm Cecilia Ley.
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Gideon Resnick
And I'm Gideon Resnick. This is Apple News.
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Political Scientist (Jaehyun Chong)
Today.
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Cecilia Ley
After a whiplash day of briefings from administration officials outlining a new plan to
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Narrator/Reporter
steer ships out of the Strait of
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Cecilia Ley
Hormuz, President Trump announced last night on
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Truth Social that those plans were off.
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Cecilia Ley
The social media post brought the day old operation to an end, arriving just
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hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that combat operations were effectively over in Iran.
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Cecilia Ley
He had said this plan would be the new focus.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio
The operation is over. Epic fury is the president notified Congress we're done with that stage of it.
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Cecilia Ley
But the President said that the so called Project Freedom was being paused so
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Narrator/Reporter
that the US could focus on an elusive longer term deal to end the war.
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Cecilia Ley
That was echoed earlier in the day by Rubio.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio
We're not cheering for an additional situation to occur. We would prefer the path of peace. What the President would prefer is a deal. He would prefer to sit down, work out a memorandum of understanding for future negotiations that touches on all the key topics that have to be addressed. A full opening of the strait so the world can get back to normal.
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Cecilia Ley
Whether this short lived operation moved the needle remains to be seen. Only three ships in total had successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night. As this latest operation is put on pause, Trump said that the US Blockade would remain in place and it's unclear if additional face to face conversations might emerge. Even as ships came under attack in the Strait over the past 48 hours,
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Narrator/Reporter
Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Kaine indicated that
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Cecilia Ley
there wasn't an appetite for the US to escalate.
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Military Analyst
Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships. And they've attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations. At this point.
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Cecilia Ley
All of this has taken place just days ahead of a planned summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump. A prior meeting had been delayed due
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to the war in Iran.
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Cecilia Ley
And notably it comes as Iran's foreign
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minister traveled to China yesterday.
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Cecilia Ley
Beijing recently accelerated its diplomatic efforts to help end the war. Last month, Xi issued a four point
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plan for Iran that called for upholding peace, national sovereignty, security and international law.
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Cecilia Ley
Jaehyun Chong, a political scientist at the
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Narrator/Reporter
National University of Singapore, recently spoke to
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Cecilia Ley
France24 about Beijing's calculations in the matter and why it's now becoming more vocal.
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Political Scientist (Jaehyun Chong)
So the speculation is that things seem to have come to a bit of a lull. The PRC may be in a position to sort of push forward in terms of trying to broker a more lasting peace. So the risks of failure may be a little bit lower and the opportunities for success may be a bit higher. Beijing has a, a pretty tough relationship with the US it wants to get its trade and tariff negotiations done, but it also doesn't want to escalate unnecessarily.
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Cecilia Ley
Meanwhile, Trump himself has said he would discuss the war with Iran during his trip to China and that Xi has been, quote, very respectful despite China being
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a large importer of Iranian oil.
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Cecilia Ley
Trump's visit is set for May 14th and 15th. Gideon has another story next.
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Gideon Resnick
It's become the cruise ship that no one wants near their shores. Yesterday, the World Health Organization announced that the ship struck by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, would sail to the Canary Islands several days after being stranded off the African coast of Cape Verde. But this morning, the island's president said he couldn't allow the vessel to enter. He told local radio that the decision was not based on any technical criteria and that there wasn't sufficient information to reassure the public or guarantee their safety. That pits him against the Spanish government, which ultimately controls the islands and agreed to the plan. The fate of MV Hondias is now seemingly up in the air again. It's been in quarantine with about 150 passengers aboard, including 17Americans. The outbreak has now killed three people and several others are ill or showing symptoms. This morning, the Swiss government announced that one man was in the hospital there after traveling on the ship, adding that at present there is no danger to the public. Yesterday, the WHO's Dr. Maria Van Kerkove said the risk to the general public was low and stressed that it was not a virus that spreads like Covid. Hantavirus infections typically come from exposure to rodents, but in rare cases, the virus can pass between people. That's something she thinks might have happened aboard the ship.
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Dr. Maria Van Kerkove
We do believe that there may be some human to human transmission that's happening among the really close contacts the husband and wife, people who've shared cabins, et cetera. So, again, our assumption is that has happened, and that's why we are operating and working with the ship to make sure that anyone who is symptomatic, anyone caring for patients, is wearing full personal protective equipment.
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Gideon Resnick
So far, a Dutch couple and a German national have died. For those that are on the ship, it's a terrifying situation. The CDC says hantavirus kills nearly 40% of those showing respiratory symptoms. One American passenger on the cruise, Jake Rosmarin, posted a tearful update on Monday.
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Jake Rosmarin
What's happening right now is very real for all of us here. We're not just a story. We're not just headlines. We're people, people with families, with lives, with people waiting for us at home.
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Gideon Resnick
The MV Hondius originally set sail from Argentina on a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean about a month ago. It was near the African coast when the outbreak was discovered. At first, officials at nearby Cape Verde refused to let the ship dock as the sparsely populated island looked for support in managing such a complex problem.
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Tim Cox
Their initial reaction was just to try and keep people out.
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Gideon Resnick
Tim Cox is Reuters chief South Africa correspondent and has been following the fate of the ship. He says there's been a lot of uncertainty about where the ship would end up since the news of the virus broke.
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Tim Cox
It's notable that obviously no one is being evacuated into West Africa, which is the nearest place, because there just isn't much. The health infrastructure there is not of the kind that you need to be able to cope with something like this. And so people are being shipped out either to Europe, to the Netherlands, or the first cases were sent to South Africa.
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Gideon Resnick
Medical teams in hazmat suits have now boarded the vessel to help test for cases and support those who are getting sick. Meanwhile, efforts are underway to track those who might have shared a flight with the Dutch woman who later died.
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Tim Cox
They are actually doing quite a comprehensive contact tracing of everyone who's been exposed to these people in South Africa. So anyone who's had any kind of contact with the cases is being evaluated. It is something that the World Health Organization is taking very seriously.
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Gideon Resnick
Hantavirus symptoms can range from fever to headaches and dizziness, as well as gastrointestinal problems like vomiting. There's no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment, but the earlier it's caught, the better. Cecilia returns next with more news.
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Cecilia Ley
When Google rolled out its low cost chromebooks in the 2000 and tens, it
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saw a win win with schools. Teachers needed affordable devices, especially for kids without access at home. And Google saw a chance to reach a whole new generation of users. It helped transform the modern American classroom. Today, close to 90% of public schools have incorporated one to one tech for students, often with Chromebooks or devices like iPad, as the Wall Street Journal reports. That change has led teachers to turn to one of Google's most important YouTube.
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Teacher/Parent (Amy Warren)
It's replaced the old overhead projector where the math teacher would write out the equation or something. There's a YouTube video that they throw on that's more whiz bang and shows things in a produced way.
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Shalini Ramachandaran is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal who recently published an investigation looking at how YouTube has essentially taken over American classrooms. The Journal spoke to more than 45 families, school administrators, clinicians and educators across the country and found a growing reliance on the video site. Parents shared data with the Journal that showed just how consuming YouTube can be for students. A second grader in New York watched more than 700 videos in two months during school hours, and a 10th grader in Oregon watched more than 200 videos in less than three hours on a school day. Ramachandaran spoke to Amy Warren, a mom in Wichita whose son Ben was using YouTube regularly to learn.
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Teacher/Parent (Amy Warren)
In Ben Warren's science class, nearly all educational content has been on the iPad, and he said that instead of live science experiments, the teacher shows a YouTube video and he said everything is a simulated experience. I would rather use paper and pencil. It's easier to focus.
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As math and reading scores for American children have hit record lows, learning experts and parents have started questioning the role of tech in YouTube in the classroom. Many believed that the learning loss during the pandemic era was to blame. But the trend has continued even as kids are now in classrooms full time.
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Teacher/Parent (Amy Warren)
Learning scientists and educators and families are kind of pointing to is it the screens? Is it the fact that there's a screen overload that has happened where after the pandemic, A lot of the kind of move to digital learning has stuck around.
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In a social media trial that took place earlier this year, Meta and YouTube were found to be negligent in operating products that were harmful to children. Documents released during that trial showed that Google understood introducing school age children to Chromebooks would build brand loyalty and usage patterns. YouTube says that when it comes to schools, administrators control what students watch and have the power to block or restrict access to the platform entirely. That's what happened last month when the Los Angeles Unified School District became the first major school system to require screen time limits in a sweeping resolution. The board voted to cut back use of devices in the classroom and encourage pen and paper assignments instead. The resolution also includes a policy that would prohibit students from seeking out YouTube videos on their own. The changes are slated to go into effect in the next school year.
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Cecilia Ley
And finally, here's a few other stories we're following. On Monday, Senate Republicans introduced a proposal
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that would aim to secure a billion dollars to pay for new White House security measures.
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Cecilia Ley
The allocation would be included in The
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Senate's roughly $70 billion reconciliation package for immigration enforcement. But the White House and lawmakers are not in agreement over whether Trump's planned ballroom would also be covered by the legislation. The bill's text states that funding can only be used for security features, and a spokesperson for Senator Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said ballroom construction would not be included. The Washington Post reports White House officials said otherwise and that the legislation, if enacted, would authorize the entire ballroom project, including above the groundwork, which a US District judge halted last month. The legislation would need to be reviewed by the Senate parliamentarian before it advances.
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Cecilia Ley
It arrives as Republicans have increasingly called
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for the construction of the ballroom following the shooting at last month's White House Correspondents Dinner. Previously, the president had said the ballroom would be entirely funded by private donations.
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Cecilia Ley
A majority of the Indiana Republicans who defied Trump's efforts to redraw the state's
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congressional maps were ousted on Tuesday.
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Cecilia Ley
Trump aligned groups spent millions of dollars against the seven GOP lawmakers who were
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up for reelection in state Senate races that are typically low profile, and on
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Cecilia Ley
Tuesday night, at least five of them lost.
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The primary races were closely watched as a measure of whether Trump still has sway over Republican voters months before the
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Cecilia Ley
midterms, and it was a test of his ability to enforce political payback to
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those who defy him.
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Cecilia Ley
Under Trump's direction, Republicans have pushed for
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redistricting in order to help the party
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Cecilia Ley
maintain its slim majority in the House. Among those ousted was state Senator Travis
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Holdman, the third most powerful Republican in the chamber who had served for nearly two decades.
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Cecilia Ley
And there's been a lot of talk about the high cost and difficulty of
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getting tickets to this summer's FIFA Men's World Cup. But the same doesn't go for hotel rooms and host cities, at least for
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Cecilia Ley
games in the US NPR reports.
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With just about six weeks to go before games begin, bookings for hotels are running much lower than expected, According to a survey from the American Hotel and lodging association, nearly 80% of hotel bookings across host cities are running below initial
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Cecilia Ley
forecasts, and the association attributes the disappointing bookings to multiple factors, including fewer international travelers and large cancellations by FIFA. The hotel industry was anticipating a strong summer this year, with the World cup taking place in 11 cities across the US and in Canada and Mexico. The survey also revealed some bright spots. Host cities Miami and Atlanta reported stronger than expected projections. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the News app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up. Next, Town and Country reports on the resurgence of cryonics and why more and more people are opting to freeze their
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bodies for a shot at eternal life.
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Cecilia Ley
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follow Apple News Narrated to find that story.
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Cecilia Ley
And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.