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live from NPR News. I'm Dale Willman. The State Department says it's been in touch with more than 13,000Americans in the Middle east to provide help or advice on getting home. US Funded evacuation flights have begun, but most most Americans are leaving on commercial flights, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman tells us.
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The assistant secretary of State for Global Public Affairs, Dylan Johnson says several flights have safely returned hundreds of Americans to the United States. He says there will be additional flights in the coming days as security conditions allow. Johnson posted one picture on social media of Americans boarding a Patriots plane, but a State Department official noted that the US Government, not the football team, covered the cost of that flight. Another official says that about 30 to 40% of the Americans who are offered seats on chartered flights have declined taking their own commercial options or changing their plans. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News.
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The State Department fighting continues in Iran, where the US Says the most intense bombing of the week long campaign is about to start. The Israeli military announced new strikes on Tehran early Saturday. Local time now, a new NPR PBS News Marist poll is shedding some light on what Americans think about the war and and in particular President Trump's approval rating. As NPR's Domenico Montanaro tells us, it's
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just a 36% approval rating when it comes to this war. That mirrors Trump's overall approval rating on foreign policy from our last poll last month. It's also worse than when we asked about his handling of Iran after the killing of the Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani back in January 2020. Then about 42% approved. Not great, but still higher. We also see again some of the same divides, Democrats and independents heavily disapproving, while 8 in 10 Republic in Trump's corner.
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That's NPR's Domenico Montanaro with that report. A large storm system expected to stretch through the weekend produced tornadoes across the central U.S. friday and reached as far north as Michigan. As Anna Spidel of member station WMUK reports, the storms caused severe damage throughout southern Michigan, killing at least four people and injuring 12 others. After suspected tornadoes touched down on Friday
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afternoon, the National Weather Service issued severe storm and tornado warnings throughout southern Michigan. Storms continued to move east later in the afternoon, with local government officials reporting severe damage to structures and trees. Later in the evening and into the night, the NWS continued to issue severe storm and tornado warnings in Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. It's part of a storm system across the central US that's expected to produce severe weather and possible tornadoes throughout the weekend. For NPR News, I'm Anna Speidel in Kalamazoo.
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Stocks finished down once again on Friday. The Nasdaq closed down by more than 1.5%. The Dow was down by almost 1% and the S&P 500 down 1.33%. You're listening to NPR News. U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month. That's according to figures from the Labor Department. Economists had been expecting a 60,000 increase. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4%. The surprisingly weak unemployment numbers adds to the economic uncertainty over the war with Iran, which has caused oil prices to surge. Netflix says it's acquired Ben Affleck's AI powered filmmaking tool company. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, this comes just over a week since the streamer pulled out of its deal to acquire Warner Bros.
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In a video accompanying Netflix's announcement, Ben Affleck says his company, Interpositives technology, does not enable filmmakers to build scenes from scratch using prompts. It allows them to build their own AI models based on the scenes they've already shot.
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You can use your own model to
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remove the wires on stunts, reframe a shot, get a shot you missed, shape the lighting, enhance the backgrounds.
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In an email to npr, iatse, the main union supporting Hollywood's technical workers, said it does not comment on mergers and acquisitions. This is just the latest agreement the Oscar winning filmmaker has struck with Netflix. Earlier this week, Affleck and Matt Damon's production company, Artists Equity, signed a major partnership with the streamer.
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Chloe Veltman, NPR Dr. Vinay Prasad is leaving the Food and Drug Administration. Prasad was the agency's top vaccine regulator. His tenure was criticized for his approach to vaccines as well as his rejection of treatments for rare disorders. The FDA says he'll be leaving by the end of April. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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