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CNN International: Trump Pauses Iran Energy Strikes; Iran Claims it Has Full Control Over Persian Gulf Region; IDF Strikes IRGC Headquarters in Tehran; Israel Aims to Destroy All Bridges on Lebanon's Litani River; LaGuardia Plane Crash; Iran Denies Talks are Taking Place with U.S.; NTSB Update on Deadly Crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport; Deadly Airplane Collision. Aired 6-7p ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us all around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade, live in Atlanta. You're watching "The

Brief."

Well, just ahead this hour, President Trump says he's pausing strikes at Iran's power plants and conducting talks with Tehran. Oil prices are down,

but what is Iran saying about that? Also, ahead, two deadly airplane accidents. One, a collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport. The second

involves a military transport plane operated by Columbia.

President Trump is announcing a five-day pause on strikes on Iran's energy sites, claiming the U.S. and Iran held productive conversations over the

weekend. He says there are 15 points of agreement between the two nations.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We were planning tomorrow on shooting down some of their power plants, and we're not going to be able to hold that up.

Hopefully, we won't have to do it, and hopefully, we can make a deal that's good for all of us.

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KINKADE: But Iranian media cite the foreign ministry saying there has been no dialogue with Washington. The Iranian military claims Tehran has full

control over the Persian Gulf region and the Strait of Hormuz, saying it does not need to lay mines in the Gulf.

Kristen Holmes is live for us at the White House with the latest. Good to see you, Christian. So, U.S. President Trump says talks with Iran have been

unproductive, Iran saying no such talks have taken place. Has the White House given any clarity as to who in Iran they're talking to?

KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: No, they haven't, and President Trump was asked directly that. All he would say was that it

wasn't the new supreme leader, essentially saying that he didn't want to say who they were talking to, but they believe it is the person in charge.

They didn't want, the United States didn't want this person to be killed, of course, referencing the fact that Israel has killed almost all of the

Iranian leadership that we have seen.

Now, there are a lot of other questions in regards to what exactly was agreed to. President Trump was asked about those 15 points, something that

he repeatedly said, and he essentially said that all of the points or a lot of the points were about Iran agreeing to not have a nuclear weapon. Well,

that is something that they have also done publicly. So, the question is, what would have they have also said in these 15 points to get the U.S. on

board?

Now, President Trump noted that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well as Steve Witkoff, they are participating in these talks with this,

quote/unquote, "Iranian leadership," but we still don't know exactly what that looks like. Now, there's a lot of talk about a potential in-person

meeting with these negotiators on both sides that has yet to be confirmed.

KINKADE: And of course, Kristen, the president has said that he has postponed or delayed strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure. What

conditions would trigger the resumption of those strikes?

HOLMES: Well, it's really unclear right now, because President Trump at that point, when he issued this ultimatum on Saturday, it was all about

opening the Strait of Hormuz, which, by the way, is still not open. It is still closed by Iran. So, the question as to what exactly would have to

change that would trigger those strikes, we don't know, because it's not as though Iran has opened the Strait of Hormuz and could close it again.

What President Trump has essentially done with this is given himself a little bit of leeway here in five-day stretch to see where these talks go.

There are a lot of people who are hopeful about this. They want an off- ramp. They want some kind of diplomacy to put an end to all of this. They don't want to be at war right now. But whether or not these are actually

going to come to fruition, some of these talks, and when we're hearing from the administration, they sound very similar to what we've heard in the

past. The same kind of idea. Leadership in Iran, meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, having these conversations, only then, of course, to

fall apart.

So, what could change this time? We still don't have the answer to that. All we know is that President Trump has given himself a runway here to try

and seek an alternate solution than to actually attack those key energy infrastructure points.

KINKADE: And just finally, so many countries around the world have taken action to reduce the price of fuel, of gas, to consumers. What steps are

being taken by the U.S. government, and how concerned are they about the disruptions to the oil supply?

HOLMES: Well, it's a lot of lifting of sanctions. I mean, we saw the secretary of treasury lifting some of these oil sanctions just two weeks

ago.

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We saw President Trump being asked about this idea that they are no longer putting a ban on Iranian oil, and they are not putting sanctions on Iran

for that oil. That is to try and get the marketplace to have enough oil to not have to see a spike in those prices. One of the other things we've seen

is this idea that India can still buy their oil and their fuel from Russia, something that had been banned by the United States.

Again, this is all trying to make sure there is enough out there in the market so that the prices don't spike. But it's not changing what we're

seeing here on the ground, at least. We're seeing an enormous raise in gas prices already. We expect that to continue to go up. The question is how

long that stint will be. We've only gotten kind of vague answers from this administration, including President Trump and the press secretary, saying

that we do expect these prices to be higher for the time being, but that they are going to ultimately be lower. No one has given us a time frame,

though, yet.

KINKADE: All right. Kristen Holmes for us outside the White House. We appreciate you. Thank you.

Well, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says his country will continue its attacks on Iran. It comes as the Israeli military claims it

struck one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's main headquarters in Tehran. The IDF says it targeted key weapons manufacturing sites as well.

Meanwhile, a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader says the war will continue until Tehran receives full compensation for the damage it's

sustained.

Our Nic Robertson joins us from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia now. Good to have you with us, Nic. So, despite Israel's Iron Dome defense system, there are

attacks that are hitting Israel, causing damage, injuring people, killing people. We saw the attacks yesterday on the communities near Israel's main

nuclear research center and, of course, the attack in northern Israel. Just how effective are Israel's air defenses right now?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, they take this layered approach. You've got Iron Dome at this sort of low altitude. You've

got the Arrow at a higher altitude and the really super high David Sling, so they can intercept them when they're sort of really high up in the

atmosphere.

What the IDF is saying, look, as of right now, they say Iran has fired about 400 ballistic missiles. Their interception rate is about 92 percent.

That only four significantly have got through, one in Tel Aviv in the opening day of the war, Beit Shemesh a couple of days later, and then what

we saw over the weekend near Dimona and near Arad.

Right now, the Israelis are saying total casualties so far a little over 4,700, about 125 people or so in hospital, 15 of those seriously wounded.

So, in essence, what the IDF is saying is they're doing a good job, that their missile defense system is working, that this will keep them in the

game.

Whether or not they expected Iran to be able to continue a barrage and continue to be able to get missiles through and to be able to use more

sophisticated missiles than they'd seen before, the cluster munitions, all of that is an open question. But the line from the IDF is very clear. They

are implying that they are doing a good job and no implication that they are running out of missiles to intercept.

I think, you know, compare it with Saudi Arabia, where a colleague in Abu Dhabi, Becky Anderson, told CNN today that the Saudis had approval from the

U.S. military to restock their Patriot systems. So, it's clear that countries are using up their protective defensive missile systems. But it

also seems that the U.S. is providing them. And I think we can pretty straightforwardly understand if they're resupplying Saudi, they'll be

resupplying Israel as well.

KINKADE: Yes, Nic, it seems like quite a contrast to what we're hearing from the U.S. president, who's spoken about the fact that there's a very

good chance of a deal with Iran. Just give us some context, given what we've heard from Iran, what we've heard from Israel, what you're seeing on

the ground. Are there signs of diplomacy or de-escalation?

ROBERTSON: De-escalation, not so much. I think it's fair to say it's been a little quieter this past weekend, but it's been the Eid al-Fitr holiday

here. It's been the Nowruz, the new year in Iran. Iran's missile firing capability, according to the U.S. and according to Israel, is being

depleted.

But I think here in Saudi and in the Gulf region, they're not stopping keeping up their defensive shields. They're not walking away from their

missile defense systems because they still feel very much under attack and threat from Iran. It's not clear what Iran's capacity is at the moment.

So, I think the sense of what President Trump is talking about is, you know, a de-escalation is good.

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I think the sense we get from here today is that Saudi Arabia and perhaps the other Gulf states as well are not perhaps fully informed as much as

they would like to be about what President Trump is thinking, about what he's doing.

There's an interpretation in this region that says, quite simply, President Trump, to be able to continue to fight the war or buy time for some other

solution, had to say something, had to back off from the corner he'd put himself into, threatening the escalation, which Iran has threatened to

escalate back, hitting things like power generation, desalination plants, which are absolutely critical to life for the Gulf countries here, that

President Trump had to do something to de-escalate that because Iran said they wouldn't de-escalate. In a way, President Trump has blinked, and Iran

hasn't.

However, if the president is correct in his assessment that there is a diplomatic track that can be found here, that is something that's going to

obviously find a level of support, but at the same time a level of concern, because it doesn't seem that the Gulf states have a stake at that talks

table, should it happen. And they want to, because they don't want to be left with a belligerent, aggressive Iran that can continue to fire missiles

at them, that continue to exert, essentially, extortion for getting goods in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. So, that's not going to be a solution

to talks that they're going to want.

And I think when President Trump talks about a 15-point plan or going back to the case of Gaza, a 20-point plan, what we've seen and what the

diplomats in this region will have seen is that when President Trump commits to a 20-point plan, it comes out, there are the points, they get

signed off on, it looks like a solid document. But months, if you look at the case of Gaza, the peace document there, 20-point plan was signed in

October in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, there are still dozens of questions about the remaining three quarters of the points on that peace plan.

So, if you're in a Gulf state here and you're looking at what President Trump achieved with a peace plan in Gaza, you'll be concerned about how

these 15 points might look, how they might not be fully implemented or fully thought through, as appeared to be the case with Gaza. But at the

moment, this is still discussion. It's not even a piece of paper on a table with numbers and paragraphs of information next to those numbers.

KINKADE: Yes, exactly. Great analysis as always. Nic Robertson for us in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Thanks to you.

Well, Israel is also escalating attacks in Lebanon against what it says are Hezbollah targets. The IDF says it will accelerate demolishing homes along

the Lebanese border and destroy all bridges over the Litani River. It's condemning Israeli attacks on infrastructure, calling them a prelude to a

ground invasion. Our Nick Paton Walsh is in Beirut with more.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Something familiarly awful is happening here. Israel said leave to the town of Nabatea two weeks ago. Now, life is ground out of its streets.

WALSH: This extraordinary devastation just helps explain how the south is being emptied, ultimately a strategic part of the Israeli campaign here.

And those blasts distant, we're up on the hill here.

WALSH (voice-over): Even higher up still no calm.

WALSH: They deal with a constant noise of jets around them here, but also just overnight intensification of airstrikes. And because they're up on the

hill here, they feel and see everything. And of course, the injured from it come into here as well.

DR. HASSAN WAZNI, GENERAL DIRECTOR, NABATIEH GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITAL: All strike we hear here.

WALSH: You hear everything up there?

DR. WAZNI: Everything, yes, we hear everything. Like, yesterday was horrible. Yesterday many, too many strikes.

WALSH (voice-over): There are fewer people below, so fewer patients than at the start.

HUSSEIN NADAR, NURSE, NABATIEH GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITAL: Once we've got nine children together have been injured. Three of them died and the rest lost

their families. 18 people martyred in that strike, all civilians.

WALSH (voice-over): The burns unit treating a rescue worker who ran headlong into the carnage.

AHMEN AWADA, PATIENT (through translator): We moved towards it, the missile hadn't exploded yet. But the building was full, more than 30 or 40

people. We started evacuating them, and so on. Eventually, the missile went off.

WALSH (voice-over): And doctors, families have moved in as it's safer here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Are you getting scared here?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): No, I don't get scared.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): She isn't getting scared. I stay strong for my kids so they don't feel fear. Everything changed for them.

They used to have playroom, they played in the garden, ride their bicycles. Here there's nothing.

WALSH (voice-over): To the south, near Tyre, where we also filmed with Hezbollah's permission, life too is being squeezed out. Sunday, Israel

warned twice it would blow up all the bridges to the south, sparking panic. Which one would they hit first?

WALSH: And a shouting warning about the jets, which we've been hearing over the last half hour now, this one particularly low.

This, the force used. Twice again later. Yet more isolated now in Tyre is the entire village of Majdal Zoun, who we met earlier, and fled their homes

to this school.

YOUSSEF SHUHEIMI, MAYOR OF MAJDAL ZOUN, LEBANON: 50 family.

WALSH: 50 families.

SHUHEIMI: 51 family. About 240 person.

WALSH (voice-over): Five of the men dead, two girls here without fathers, who sleep with their grandmothers here, but are still girls.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to tell you a secret they were fighting but they made up.

WALSH (voice-over): Although Zainab (ph) keeps pushing Yasmin's arm away still.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We build a secret bakery her and me. We can show it to you. It was ruined by the cats.

WALSH (voice-over): A million are forced from their homes in Lebanon and into anger. Imagination where these girls hide from horror even in the mud.

Mohamed (ph) is 16 and worldly.

WALSH: Well, what do you think of Trump?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not good.

WALSH: Not good.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bad, very bad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very, very not good. I have him. He's so bad. And we know that -- about the Epstein.

WALSH: Yes. The Epstein files.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

WALSH (voice-over): But no calm here either.

WALSH: So, they say that four days ago they got what must have been a fake warning, a telephone call to the people here to get out as quickly as

possible. So, they say they ran out down here as fast as they could and hid down on the beach for five hours until the threat had passed.

WALSH (voice-over): The city's old ruins sit silent and powerless as it keeps getting new ones.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, South Lebanon.

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KINKADE: Well, passengers on board a flight landing at New York's LaGuardia airport have been describing Sunday's runway collision, which

claimed the lives of the pilot and the co-pilot and left dozens injured. The Air Canada Express jet struck a firetruck in its path.

A family member identified one of the pilots as Antoine Forest. As for the firefighters, they were responding to a report of a suspicious odor on a

different plane. The final moments before the collision were captured on an air traffic controller recording.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Frontier 4195, just stop there please. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Truck One, stop, stop, stop. Stop Truck one. Stop. Truck

one. Stop.

JAZZ 646, I see you collided with the vehicle. Just hold position. I know you can't move. Vehicles are responding to you now.

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KINKADE: The two firefighters inside the truck are expected to recover from their injuries. Passenger Rebecca Liquori describes how she escaped

from the wreckage.

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REBECCA LIQUORI, PASSENGER ON AIR CANADA FLIGHT: As you heard the break, you just -- a couple seconds later, it was just a very loud boom. And

everybody just jolted out of their seats. People hit their heads. People were bleeding. We opened the exit door, and there was no slide for us.

We just -- a lot of people slid off of the wing of the plane getting out. And then, by the time I got out, there was emergency personnel, and someone

was able to assist me sliding off of the wing. And once we got off of the wing, they had us standing next to an emergency vehicle, and that's when we

were able to see the extensive damage of the plane, on top of people just, like, bleeding and bumps and bruises. It was just -- it was a very

harrowing scene.

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KINKADE: Richard Quest joins us now live in New York. Richard, good to have you with us. The last time there was a fatal accident at LaGuardia was

34 years ago to the day. This time, two young pilots lost their lives. What do we know so far about what led to this fatal incident?

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS EDITOR-AT-LARGE AND CNN ANCHOR, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: And by the way, I covered that one as well 35 years ago when the

plane ran off the runway. On that occasion many more people died.

This -- the facts here are really simple. The plane is coming into land, it's on the runway, and the fire truck is cleared to cross the runway to go

to its other incident. That is the facts -- or those are the facts I should say. Now, underneath that are a whole host of issues that the investigation

will be looking into.

Firstly, there was no way the plane was ever going to be able to stop. It was traveling at 100 miles an hour by the time it hit the fire truck.

Secondly, the questions will be asked about, yes, well, they may have been cleared the fire truck, but why didn't they do what most people do in

procedures in aviation, look out the window to make sure it's clear both ways? And thirdly, they'll be looking at the dynamics in the control tower.

We know that it was staffed properly.

We believe there were proper, you know, an air traffic controller and a ground controller. So, how did this happen? What were the underlying

dynamics? And that's where this investigation is going to be crucial. But the core facts are not in dispute.

KINKADE: Yes. And of course, we know 40 people were injured, taken to hospital, including a flight attendant who was ejected on her seat, still

trapped to her seat. What do we know about that?

QUEST: Well, if you look at the way the whole thing fell apart, I mean, you know, the cockpit has gone and where the cockpit went, of course,

there'd have been a flight attendant in a jump seat behind. So, that's how you get that sort of happening. And it's quite common for people to be

ejected from the aircraft where you get these very, very serious crashes like that.

I mean, again, if you think that the cockpit was crushed and destroyed, how those people in the first rows were more badly hurt. Thank God they were

not. And of course, there was nobody really -- according to the reports, there was a lot of screaming. There wasn't much panic, but they did

evacuate the aircraft. The aircraft was evacuated quite quickly.

I think this is a tricky one because we know what happened and the reasons why are going to be multifarious and complicated and they will not lend

themselves to a simple spend more money here, do more money there. Somebody should have paid more attention over there.

KINKADE: I mean, we have spoken quite often, Richard, about, you know, traffic controllers and the shortage and staffing in that regard. We did

hear some audio from one of the traffic control towers, a person saying, I've messed up. What are the authorities saying about who was operating

those traffic controllers at the time?

QUEST: Yes. Well, they're not. And for good reason. Once an incident like this happens under the ICAO Annex 13, it is up to the NTSB who will now

take control. And the NTSB, by the way, can be vicious. If you start releasing information that you're not supposed to, they'll cut you out of

the investigation. It's up to the NTSB to decide what information gets released, when and how.

I would expect what we'll see next, the preliminary report within 30 days. It'll give us a vague idea of what's happened. It'll have some core facts

and confirm some salient details, age, who was involved, et cetera. Then you're going to have hearings. Who did what, where, when and why.

Now, although the pilots were killed, you've got the fire trucks, you've got both of them, the fire truck, you've got the air traffic controllers.

They will all take part. And then probably in a couple of years down the road, with maybe interim recommendations on the way, you'll get the final

report from the NTSB, who are the gold standard at doing this.

KINKADE: Well, right now, our thoughts are with the families of those pilots and all those injured. Richard Quest, appreciate you. Thanks so

much.

Well, one social media post was all it took to turn financial markets around. Manic Monday on Wall Street and what comes next for oil. We'll have

more next.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. I'm Indy Kinkade. In today's Business Breakout, U.S. stocks rallied and oil prices fell after President Trump postponed his

threat to strike Iranian energy targets and said the U.S. was in negotiation with Iranian leaders.

Wall Street was on track for a week open before Trump's announcement, with the major averages nearing 10 percent correction territory. Bond yields had

risen to levels not seen since last July, too. Washington Watch is saying President Trump was certainly monitoring today's financial markets before

delivering his announcement.

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MARC SHORT, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF TO MIKE PENCE: The reality is that similar to Liberation Day roughly a year ago, I think there's also been

concern in both the equity and the bond markets and particularly when treasuries are spiking the way they were early pre-market today. I think

it's fair to say there's probably a correlation between those.

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KINKADE: Well, Brent Crude fell 11 percent to settle below $100 a barrel. U.S. Crude is trading below $90 a barrel. Despite today's positive market

news, the International Energy Agency says the reduction in the global oil supply already exceeds losses suffered during the energy shocks of the

1970s. It says at least 44 energy assets in the Gulf region have been severely damaged across nine countries. A longer war also raises the risk

of potential oil shortages, particularly in Asia.

Well, U.S. gasoline prices rose for a 23rd straight day on Monday, prices have risen by some 34 percent in the past month.

Tom Kloza joins us now. He is the chief energy adviser for Gulf Oil. Good to have you with us, Tom.

TOM KLOZA, CHIEF ENERGY ADVISER, GULF OIL: So, nice to be here.

KINKADE: So, I want to get your reaction first on how the day began. The U.S. president coming out saying that U.S. was in talks with Iran, that a

deal might be happening soon, that the U.S. wouldn't be striking energy infrastructure in Iran for the next five days. And of that, markets bounced

back, but Iranian officials have denied any such talks taking place. What's your assessment of today's market reaction and what we might see going

forward?

KLOZA: My assessment is, we've seen this before, you know. This was immediately regarded as the witch treat or witch tweet because it was

spelled W-I-T-C-H. And it -- you know, it took a lot of the froth out of a market that had been a feeding frenzy for a while.

I think the burden of proof, though, suggests that this is kind of a one day or maybe a one week wonder and not a trend change and not an end to a

lot of concern and a lot of likely moves to much higher levels.

KINKADE: And you've noted that the disruptions we've seen so far in the oil industry haven't really worked their way through the supply chain. How

long might it be before we see these disruptions actually affect downstream in gas, diesel, jet fuel?

KLOZA: Well, they're working their way to other continents. Asia's got a problem. Australia had a problem. They had to import about five or six

cargoes from the United States, and I saw late today that Europe, I think it was Slovenia installed some sort of fuel rationing.

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It'll take a while to come to the United States. But we're sending jet fuel from the Gulf Coast to Alaska. We will probably be sending crude oil from

Alaska to Japan. And so, it will infiltrate North America. But North America's got a solid advantage because of all our crude oil production and

world-class refineries as well.

KINKADE: The IEAs had warned that the reduction in global oil supply from this current conflict already exceeds the supply losses we saw back in the

1970s. How should markets interpret that comparison to the crisis of the 1970s? And what could it mean for volatility going forward?

KLOZA: I think it means we're in trouble. Even if there's an end to the Strait of Hormuz blockade or embargo or whatever you want to call it, we're

in trouble for a while. I mean, I started in this business by siphoning gasoline during the oil shortages of the '70s. And this is by far the worst

thing that I've seen.

The problem is there's no real quick solution. I think the Trump administration is trying to choreograph the business response to this. But

unfortunately, when you lose somewhere between 15 and 20 million barrels a day of oil, it's like an embolism that's going to move its way through the

bloodstream and hit some major organs downstream at some point.

KINKADE: And you -- when you look at history, you drew an analogy to the 2007-2008 oil spike where there were temporary dips that concealed a long-

term trend. Are we at risk right now of a similar scenario?

KLOZA: Yes. I would say we're at risk of going to prices of $150 to $200 for crude. We may see those numbers in the fiscal market, and the fiscal

market has been trading way above futures. Sometimes futures aren't a real good indicator of the futures market or of the price of oil, and that's

been the case of late.

Yes, during the 19 -- excuse me, 2007 to '08 run-up, we hit $100 in October 2007 and we took a break in the '80s in February of 2008. We ultimately got

to $145 demand destruction ensued, the great financial crisis ensued, and we ended that year around $35 a barrel.

KINKADE: Great to get your perspective, Tom Kloza, longtime observer of the industry. Thanks very much for joining us.

KLOZA: Thanks for having me.

KINKADE: We'll still to come after the break, in London, Jewish volunteer ambulances set ablaze outside a synagogue in an antisemitic attack. We're

going to have the latest on the investigation next.

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KINKADE: Right now, the National Transportation Safety Board is speaking about that fatal collision at La Guardia. Let's listen in.

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