Man Kills Eight Children, Trump's Bible Reading, Cancer Vaccine and more

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Monday, April 20th. Here are the five things you need to know to start your day. Number one, the seized ship. It hasn't happened since the war with Iran began, and it may indicate a new chapter in this conflict is about to unfold. The U.S. military has now carried out its first seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship headed

to the Strait of Hormuz. Central Command posted video overnight of Marines. repelling onto that ship called the Tuska. Sentcom says it was trying to get past the U.S. naval blockade in the Gulf of Oman, and it failed to heed warnings to stop for six hours. The end result being a U.S. warship fired several rounds into the engine room, disabling the ship. Iran this morning is now vowing to retaliate. The country's foreign minister also says that they have no plans to return to the negotiating table that had been somewhat planned for this week. The two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran expires tomorrow.

Adding to the new Hormuz chaos, Tehran has once again shut shipping down just after it announced that it was opening the Strait of Hormuz completely back up, sending oil prices back up as well. And leading the U.S. Energy Secretary to say Sunday that U.S. gas prices may remain at $3 a gallon or more until next year. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year, but prices have likely peaked and they'll start going down. Certainly with a resolution of this conflict, you'll see prices go down. I think we've managed it fantastically, though. But saying they could remain at $3 plus until next year, that prediction, though, contradicts that of the Treasury Secretary. Scott Bessent had said he expects relief to be coming this summer, not next year.

Number two, the Louisiana tragedy. A community in Shreveport is in a state. state of shock today after eight children were killed seven of them siblings this horrible situation now the deadliest mass shooting in the united states since 2024 and the details are even worse than the heartbreaking scope of the tragedy it happened across multiple locations early yesterday morning police say the gunman was shimar elkins a 31 year old man who was the father of seven of the eight children killed three boys and five girls were between the ages of three and 11 years old they say Alkins shot the children execution style and also that he shot and critically

wounded two women his wife and the woman of the eighth child both of them are in the hospital police say that they are hoping the women will survive one was shot at a different location we believe the other was here as well and then she actually fled from this location to an adjacent house and called 911 from there that and a 13-year-old child who had also fled from this residence That 13-year-old survived after jumping from a roof, suffering broken bones. Police say that they are still trying to fully work out the motive here, but did offer that it was, quote-unquote, domestic in nature. Elkins was later killed by police after stealing a car, leading them on a chase into a neighboring parish.

Number three, the Bible study. Pope Leo is speaking out again during his marathon papal visit to Africa. still an outspoken critic of the war with Iran, though now trying to diffuse a perceived feud between him and the President of the United States over that war, addressing the criticisms that Donald Trump had sent his way, while the Pope was on the papal plane with reporters. There's been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects,

calling Pope Leo last week, week on crime and more. Pope Leo now in Angola is remaining focused on the gospel and his continued call for peace. I encourage those working towards a diplomatic solution to continue the peace negotiations so that the cessation of hostilities throughout the Middle East may become permanent. Number four, the cancer vaccine.

There are new and promising developments being announced in the fight against cancer, specifically this time about a vaccine trial targeting pancreatic cancer. This remains one of the most deadly cancers out there. Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. The five-year survival rate is at about 12 percent. But in this new trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, almost half of the participants who got an MRN-based vaccine to fight the cancer were alive and well up to six years after treatment. and how it works is also fascinating.

Doctors remove the tumor in each patient and then send the material to a lab in Germany where they develop personalized vaccines for each patient. The patients then get weekly infusions over the course of about nine weeks, and of the 16 participants in this trial, eight showed a dramatic immune response. Seven are still alive today, including Donna Gustafson,

the first person to enroll in the trial back in 2019. Now the focus turns to a larger global trial that has been underway for a year, but my goodness, any promise in this area is welcomed news. More right after this. Back to school starts now. Get long-lasting battery life on the Dell-XPS laptop, powered by Series 3 Intel Core, so you can work from anywhere. Now starting at $6.99, with exclusive student pricing starting at $5.99.

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One last thing. We all love a wild ride, I guess, once in a while. This most likely was slightly more of a wild ride than anyone had bargained for. 13 people set off on a hot air balloon ride Saturday and then things veered off course. Seriously. You heard of them there's backyard. No, no, not into the fence. There we go. You heard them there saying that they were landing in someone's backyard. Yes, they were, which was also quite the surprise for the homeowner.

Hi, everybody! Look at that! Wow! Hi everybody! How's you guys trip so far? How did you guys miss me? Can you imagine? I mean, so how did this man find out he had visitors?

Well, a neighbor ran up to his door and said, hey, you got a hot air balloon that just arrived and landed in your backyard. The pilot said that the winds died down, which is what led to them having to make this emergency call to land there. The balloon's crew ended up having to jump the balloon eventually over the house onto the street so then they could actually deflate it. Nobody was hurt. I mean, they honestly all looked like in pretty great spirits,

Everyone went home, though, clearly with quite a story to tell. Can you imagine that big in that small backyard? Oh, my God. I'm Kate Baldwin. Those are the five things you need to know to get your day going. No, get going.

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