Soleimani’s Relatives Detained by ICE

Our top story tonight, relatives of a deceased Iranian terrorist living in the United States.

Federal law enforcement arresting family members of a former Iranian general who was eliminated during the first Trump administration.

Arian Pazdar has comments from the State Department.

A federal judge orders President Trump to stop collecting data from colleges and universities.

The latest development in the president’s push against race-based policies in higher education.

And in college basketball, the final four is about to begin with the winners today advancing to the championship game.

And today’s Dave Martin joins us with a preview.

This is NTD Evening News live from our global headquarters in New York City.

Thank you for joining us tonight.

I’m Arlene Richards.

Federal law enforcement arresting family members of a now deceased Iranian terrorist.

And today’s international correspondent Arian Pastor has the latest on the Iran war.

ution.

During his first term, President Trump eliminated Hassim Solmani, a major general for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp.

The United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world, Kasan Salami.

Now today, the State Department announcing the US is revoking the visas of his relatives who are living in the US despite supporting an anti-American cause.

His niece Ashar Solmani and her daughter are now in ICE custody with the State Department saying Ashar Solmani pushed this propaganda for Iran’s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles.

The State Department notice ends saying the Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

At the same time, President Trump is increasing pressure on the Islamic regime, saying, “Remember when I gave Iran 10 days to make a deal or open up the Hormu straight? Time is running out 48 hours before all hell will rain down on them.

Glory be to God.

” Earlier this week, the president also pointed out that the US is not as dependent on the passage as other nations are.

As the US produces most of its oil domestically, the United States imports almost no oil through the Hormo Strait.

The countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormone Strait must take care of that passage.

Go to the straight and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves.

Meanwhile, in Iran, the rescue mission for a crew member of a downed American fighter jet continues after the plane was hit on Friday.

This comes after the US struck over 10,000 Iranian targets and completed thousands of missions.

As the chairman of the Institute for the American Future told NTD’s newsroom, “There is hardly a better endorsement of American air dominance than the fact that we’ve th flown 13,000 missions over Iran in the last few weeks, and this is the only plane they’ve been able to shoot down.

” Another US aircraft was later shot down as well as it was on the rescue mission in Iran.

However, the pilot of that claim has already been accounted for.

Arian Pastar, NTD News.

President Trump posting a new video on Truth Social of what he calls a massive strike in Thrron.

As you can see on the screen here, the footage shows a night sky over what appears to be Tyrron with multiple explosions flashing with smoke billowing from structures on the ground.

In the post, the president says, quote, “Many of Iran’s military leaders who have led them poorly and unwisely are terminated along with much else.

We’ll keep you updated with the latest developments as they come in.

” A federal judge orders President Trump to temporarily pause its collecting of race data from public universities in 17 states.

really get the nomination.

Last August, the president ordered colleges and universities to disclose more student admissions data in an effort to track the use of race in the higher education application process.

The Supreme Court in 2023 ruled against the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

In a ruling yesterday, a federal judge in Boston said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a quote rushed and chaotic manner.

He cited the multitude of problems presented by the new requirements.

Last year, President Trump said the persistent lack of available data paired with the rampid use of diversity statements raised concerns about whether race was still being considered in college admissions.

From a historic mission to the moon to major developments in the Iran conflict and fraud investigations at home, President Trump shaping a pivotal week on the world stage.

And today’s Daniel Monahan has your White House week in review.

NASA launched the Aremis 2 mission from Florida, sending four astronauts in a nearly 10-day journey around the moon and back.

Former NASA astronaut Jerry Lininger on Fox News.

The things with the Trump space policy is unreal.

He started it his first term and this is a fruition of it.

President Trump addressing the nation on the war in Iran this week.

Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the spectre of nuclear blackmail.

The president telling nations worried about oil stuck in the straight of Hormuz to buy from the US and to take matters into their own hands.

build up some delayed courage.

Should have done it before.

Should have done it with us as we asked.

Go to the straight and just take it.

The US and Israel continued strikes across Iran.

A video shared by President Trump appears to show a large-scale strike on an ammunition depot in Isvahan with massive flames rising into the sky.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rut will visit Washington next week.

The trip comes after President Trump criticized Europe over Iran war inaction and threatened to withdraw from NATO.

President Trump’s White House ballroom project was approved by Washington planning authorities on Thursday.

However, two days earlier, a judge ruled the work cannot proceed without congressional approval.

The Pentagon sharing new information on the war in Iran.

War Secretary Pete Hegth saying US firepower is only increasing while Iran’s is decreasing.

Our strikes are damaging the morale of the Iranian military, leading to widespread desertions, key personnel shortages, and causing frustrations amongst senior leaders.

The Trump administration is lifting sanctions on Venezuela’s interim president, Deli Rodriguez.

The move opens the door for Venezuela to reopen embassies in the US and regain control of stateowned assets abroad.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

announces the launch of a national program to measure, understand, and remove microlastics from the human body.

We are focusing on three questions.

What is in the body? What’s causing the harm? And how do we remove it? And Secretary of War Pete Hegath says service members will now be allowed to carry personal firearms on US bases.

Our war fighters defend the right of others to carry.

They should be able to carry themselves.

The move reverses a policy that restricted privatelyowned weapons on military installations.

The Justice Department says eight suspects were arrested on federal charges that they schemed to defraud the nation’s health care system out of more than $50 million.

Half of the 1800 prospices should not be in business if we are able to identify the red flags.

And that’s what we’re basing these numbers on.

And Pam Bondi is out as attorney general.

She says she’s moving to an important private sector role where she will continue fighting for President Trump and his administration.

The president confirming the move in a true social post, calling Bondi a great American patriot and a loyal friend.

And President Trump signing an order to strengthen election integrity, requiring federal agencies to verify US citizenship, create voter eligibility lists, track mail and ballots, and prioritize prosecution of election fraud.

Daniel Monahan, NTD News.

Coming up, more on the US move targeting the relatives of notorious terrorist Casm Salammani in LA, the down US jet in Iran, and President Trump’s ultimatum for the regime.

We hear from retired Lieutenant Colonel Darren Gob.

As the Iran operation continues overseas, at home, the US taking steps to boot out green card holders supporting the Iranian regime.

In this latest case, the relatives of notorious terrorist Casm Salammani, who was killed by a strike ordered by President Trump during his first term.

We’re now bringing in retired Lieutenant Colonel Darren Gob, a geopolitical strategist, former battalion commander, and former Blackhawk pilot for the US Army.

He’s also the author of Veraritoss Vincent.

Thank you so much for coming, Colonel.

Hey, good evening.

Thanks for having me.

Now, the State Department’s revoked Solommani’s niece and grand niece’s green cards, and they say his niece is an outspoken supporter of the Iranian terrorist regime now that she promotes their propaganda and celebrates attacks on US soldiers.

So, what is your reaction to the administrative administration’s move? Yeah, I think it’s ultimately a good move specifically because of what she’s advocated for.

And that’s the I guess the biggest difference that’s that’s truly important here is if you know if if they were over here and seeking to get away from the Iranian regime and the ideology that infects that country and and seek to live in peace and freedom here in America as a result of what they’ve seen, that would be one thing.

But because they apparently are advertising that they’re on the side of the ideology that is in Iran and and their dictatorship, uh removing their green cards, absolutely a good move.

Now, the State Department is also emphasizing it won’t allow the US to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

So, we’ve seen it tackle the visa issue before, especially in terms of support for Hamas.

So, how important is securing our immigration system to protecting US national security? Well, securing our immigration system and cleaning out what was let in is probably the number one priority that would ensure that we can remain being a free and independent nation versus not being.

So that’s how important it is to ensure that one that only American citizens are voting in Americans ele America’s elections and two that uh people come here legally through a process and become familiar with what it means to be an American or government and everything.

If you’re here attempting to destroy America from inside, then you must be deported.

There’s absolutely no way around it.

And and and again, the difference is national survival.

Now, Colonel, I want to move on to the fight in Iran.

Now, we’re now in day two of the reported US search and rescue mission for a jet crew member in Iran.

Now, Israeli officials confirmed the initial search uh to Epoch magazine Israel on Friday.

And and whether it’s still ongoing, we can’t independently verify.

The US hasn’t confirmed anything publicly.

So what are some factors a rescue team might be considering in a search like this? Well, first of all is in this case where where did they eject and in that case that gives you a parameter for you know be able to scale down the scope to certain geographic limitations and you know I’ve been teaching uh search and rescue and personnel recovery for the military for many years and that that is absolutely critical.

Now there are systems that the pilots would carry and uh those would help narrow it down once those systems are up and op up excuse me up and operating.

I don’t know if that is working here.

Uh next thing becomes what is the threat situation on the ground that determines what they think you know what kind of duress the actual isolated personnel are under and then also what kind of threat a recovering force would be under if they were launched to go back to go pull them out of of this location in Iran.

That’s part of it.

There’s also how much water do we think they have? What’s the access to water? All these kinds of things are considerations to cons, you know, basically determining how long the survivability is of this person and whether or not we can recover them.

There are many other things that go into this, but those are just a few off the top of my head.

Well, you you talk about the threat situation on the ground and and whether or not this person can survive.

What can you tell us about what a service member ejecting somewhere in enemy territory might be thinking and going through and and how are they trained for situations like this? Well, I know exactly how they’re trained because I’m the one one of those people who did it.

I’ve trained hundreds of air crews on how to survive behind enemy lines and deal with this kind of a situation.

So, I’ll tell you first and foremost that the training takes over because I’ve also been a person shot down.

I know exactly how this feels.

um that’s what human beings do when we’ve been repeatedly trained on a specific, you know, scenario.

We’re going to lean on that training in order to survive.

So, the first thing they’re going to do is go towards that.

They’re going to say, “Okay, where am I? What is my situation as far as my medical situation is concerned? What is a threat in my area? The best I can assess? And if I need to move, where do I need to move?” And by the way, there are other things that are pre-briefed before every mission that a pilot or anybody who could become isolated will will take part in.

That way, those who are looking for them have an initial idea of what they’re going to do and how they’re going to move.

But it ultimately comes down to the quality of their training and the plan they have for such a situation going into any mission.

Now, this downing of a jet really highlights the risk our troops face in this conflict.

But as some have put it, this doesn’t mean Iran has an edge over the US.

Now, Sentcom putting the following numbers, and I’m going to read them here.

Over 12,000 Iranian targets struck, 13,000 combat flights, and over 155 Iranian vessels damaged or destroyed.

So, what is your reaction to these numbers? Well, first of all, these numbers lead to my advice to the American people would be that to maintain perspective.

Yes, this is dominating the news because it is the number one mission in Iran right now as it always would be.

Anytime there’s an isolated person, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a pilot or whether it’s special forces or somebody else.

That becomes the mission, the focus, and everything else will take secondary will take second place even though some of it will continue.

But to see these uh many missions completed across Iran, knowing what the air threat was in Iran and how familiar I am with uh the nation and the the threat they do have for air defense systems and other things for one aircraft to be shot down at this point.

Um all things set aside, that is an absolutely impressive number and and we should be proud of our US military as a result of that.

But we also need to remember that we’re also expertly trained in recovering our own and we will turn every asset we can towards the remaining person to make sure that we can get them back.

Now finally, Colonel uh the president today telling Iran they have 48 hours left to make a deal or open up the straight of Hormuz before quote all hell will rain down on them.

So what options does the president have if the deal doesn’t materialize? Yeah, that’s a great question at this point.

You know, as you go back to those numbers you listed on what we’ve already struck, there are always going to be things left and and so some of that is going to be those things that can affect the straits themselves and what we may not have already eliminated, but as he said before, he’s willing to go after specific infrastructure throughout Iran to include their their electrical capacity and other things.

Recently, we saw him destroy a bridge that had been used for military purposes.

So that’s why it was destroyed.

And I think all of those things are on the table, but I I’m certain he is hoping that he doesn’t have to do any of it.

Yeah, I’m certain he’s hoping that as well.

Colonel Darren Gob, always great to have you on.

Thanks, Ronnie.

Have a good Coming up in college basketball, the Final Four is about to begin with the winners today advancing to the championship game.

And today’s Dave Martin joins us with a preview.

And as humanity pushes forward in space exploration, how close are we to discovering life beyond Earth? A leading scientist explains the search from microbiolife in our solar system to technological signals from distant civilizations.

And now for your sports news, we’re joined by NTD’s Dave Martin.

Dave, good to see you as always.

Yeah, good to see you, Arlene.

And I know you’ve got a lot of baseball news for me today, but I want to start with college basketball if that’s all right with you.

That’s fine with me.

We’ve got this final four just got underway with Yukon facing Illinois.

Now, you didn’t pick Yukon, did you? I I I picked Duke last week, but it was very, very, very close.

All right, Duke led 99% of the way.

Other than that, I got the other three right.

Well, we got Yukon facing Illinois, followed by Arizona versus Michigan.

And so, what do you make of these matchups? You know, both are very good.

The second one to me is the main event.

Arizona versus Michigan is the uh Big 12 champ versus the Big 10 champ.

Both of these teams are ranked really in the top three or four the entire season for good reason.

They were very dominant.

They’re both are highscoring game or both I’m sorry, high-coring teams averaged nearly 90 points a game.

Both had very little trouble getting here.

I mean, both teams won all four NCAA tournament games by double digits thus far.

I mean, it’s kind of amazing that we got two teams that are really overshadowing Yukon right now.

there.

This is their quest to win three titles in a 4-year period, which I don’t think any team has done really since the 70s when UCLA did it.

Uh, so I’m not quite sure actually why Yukon is even not even favored against Illinois going in the game right now.

Now, I just thought it was 11-7 early in that Yukon game.

The Alina though, they’ve looked very good in this tournament.

They beat Houston last weekend by 10 points, which if you’ve watched Houston this year, it’s very difficult to do.

Uh, but anyway, as for my picks here, I know I know you wanted me to get to these picks here.

I do.

I I am going, even though the game started, I’m going to go with Yukon beating Illinois in the first game.

And then I’ve got Michigan edging out Arizona in the main event.

If I’ve been calling it main event, so you’ve learned your lesson.

You’re picking Yukon this time.

I’m picking Yukon this I mean, listen, that Duke led 99% of the way.

I I was I was this close to picking all four winners last week.

I thought I just thought we’d point that out for once because usually I’m I’m pretty wrong on those and in those case we just don’t follow up with all my bad picks.

But that one was a near-perfect weekend.

Whatever you three out of four, I’ll I’ll take that for sure.

But uh yeah, so that that’s it.

So I guess the women also have a final four.

I didn’t know that.

And we got a bit of an upset last night.

South Carolina beat Yukon on the women’s side to advance to the championship game.

How about that? Yeah, that was an incredible defensive performance by the the South Carolina Gamecooxs.

They beat the Huskies 62 to 48.

It was the first time or I’m sorry, the third time in their tournament history of 170 something games for Yukon to score less than 50 points in a game.

Plus, it snapped Yukon’s 54game winning streak.

That’s the fourth longest of all time.

Meanwhile, for South Carolina, it avenged their loss to Yukon in last year’s championship game.

Now afterwards the two head coaches got into a heated argument in the handshake line that really ended up being the big story of the game.

Arima Gino Arima Yukon head coach though released today released a statement apologizing to the South Carolina staff and team for his outburst.

So South Carolina is going to advance the tomorrow’s championship game.

They will face UCLA.

The Bruins beat Texas uh last night 5144 to advance.

That women’s championship game takes place tomorrow at 3:30 Eastern time.

That should be exciting as well.

Should be a good one.

Now, we’re going to move to college sports news.

All sports.

President Trump issuing an executive order yesterday aimed at saving college sports.

So, what is this about? Yeah, basically this executive order, it really just kind it doesn’t actually change anything yet.

It orders the appropriate, you know, governing bodies to kind of restore some order and fairness in college sports.

Really, that that’s what they’re saying.

One of those orders is a five-year participation window for athletes um where they have four seasons of play.

Basically like like it used to be.

You have five years to have to play for four four seasons and then you get a red shirt years the other year.

Uh now that pay now now that pairs are players are paid players have taken to even suing the incident or whatever governing body to try and get an extra season.

Sometimes they’ve even been successful.

Also, we’ve got a limit of uh one transfer for players unless you’re a grad student.

Now, it used to be you could transfer, but you’d have to sit out a year.

So, you’d register that year unless you’re a grad student.

Now, students, I mean, they enter the transfer portal every single season.

So, some of them end up playing four years for four different teams.

As a as a fan of someone, it really does start to take away from the game.

I know they’re getting play paid, which I’m all for, but it kind of takes away when you’ve got a new roster to look at every single year as a fan.

There’s not much continuity at all.

But the executive order also orders them, you know, to fix revenue sharing in a way that protects Olympic sports and women’s sports.

Now, right now, schools can pay their players a total of 20 million, but it’s however you want to do it.

And so, most of it goes to the main revenue sports, men’s basketball and football, of course.

So Trump’s order really calls on uh Congress to enact this also for the education department, the FDC and the attorney general to make school make sure schools enforce it as well.

So nothing has yet changed.

This is really calling for action from Congress.

The the interesting thing to me is it really makes the NCAA look kind of useless, you know, right now.

They’re usually the ones that are enforcing this.

They really have not had any control yet.

So this is this is an attempt anyway to to make it happen.

So, we’ll have to see.

I didn’t know Congress could get involved in that or the president.

They’re usually not.

I They’re They are I think I think NCAA leaders have been calling on someone to do something because the NCAA has kind of sat back ever since they allowed pay players to be paid.

It’s really been a lot of chaos.

There’s not rules about players like the the payments.

Each state has their own rules about this.

It really made for a lot of chaos going on.

So, someone is calling for someone to do something, Trump is the guy to do it.

All right.

Well, let’s shift to baseball.

Uh, the Pittsburgh Pirates called up 19-year-old rookie Connor Griffin this past week, and he made his debut yesterday.

What do you make of that? Yeah, he looked pretty good.

He had a he got a double and an RBI in his very first at bat.

Pretty incredible.

He let later scored.

He’s the first teenager to play any position in the big leagues since 2019.

I It’s not easy to do.

He will turn 20 later this month though.

But anyway, last year he was named baseball’s minor league player of the year.

So he’s a very highly touted prospect.

Now he and the Pirates are playing the Orioles today and he’s going to be uh starting there at shortstop again.

In fact, all 30 teams are in action today.

A few games already complete.

Let’s take a look at a few scores here.

Uh right now the Tigers already beat the Cardinals this afternoon 11-6.

Detroit four home runs in the win.

They’re now 4-4.

So is St.

Louis with the loss.

White Socks beat the Blue Jays 6-3.

Japanese slugger Munitaka Murakami hit his fourth home run today of the season for the White Socks.

Vlad Guerrero Jr.

finally hit his first for Toronto.

Toronto falls to four and four.

Chicago now three and five.

And the Bluer Brewers beat the Royals 5-2.

This is the first of a double header today between those two teams because they rained out one yesterday.

Game two will be tonight.

We’ve actually got nine total games on tonight, including the Phillies versus the Rockies.

You know, the Phillies won yesterday against the Rockies 10 to1.

If you remember last year, everyone beat the Rockies.

They lost 119 games.

It was the sixth most in Major League Baseball history, which goes, you know, 150 years back.

So, it was quite a bad season.

Right now, they are off to a 2 and5 start, which actually if they they continue that, they’ll have a much better year than last year.

But for them, yeah, you know, for for them it’s actually good, but that would still probably be equal last place.

But just an FYI there for you.

All right, Dave.

Well, thank you so much for that update as usual.

Thank you, Arlene.

All right, and for the first time in half a century, humans are returning to the moon.

What do everyday Americans make of NASA’s Aremis 2 mission? And today’s Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in DC to hear from the people.

Artemis 2 going around the moon.

What do you think? I think it’s great.

I think the kids are excited about it.

It’s like it’s a whole new world for them.

I think the next next step they ought to take is landing on the moon and then Mars and then Elon he’s going to help us go to Mars.

Uh I like it.

I like I like how we are exploring the moon and just doing what we need to do to just find out new stuff.

Yeah, I think it’s absolutely awesome.

I’m really excited to hear uh what’s to be said about everything they’re doing.

No, I hope it’s the uh the start of a of a new uh space race.

I remember the space shuttle launches in the 80s and the 90s and you know, every single one of them was on was on television and it was it was exciting to see that we’re kind of back to that.

my grandparents and millions and millions of Americans, I think something like 80% of Americans watched uh the original moon landing on TV.

So to be able to have that moment for our generation feels really significant as well.

It’s kind of a a mark of the times and how much we’ve advanced since the first initial moonlanding.

What do you think about the possibility of extraterrestrial sightings out there? I feel like there’s at least something out there.

I don’t know if it’s like what we to believe as humans.

I definitely think there’s stuff that we don’t know that’s out there.

Um, I don’t think they look like humans at all, but I think there’s probably some microscopic little aliens out there roaming the planet.

There’s people out there somewhere.

They’re not like us, but they’re out there and everybody’s keeping it a secret.

The government’s keeping it a big secret.

I think it’s really funny how much people care about extraterrestrials.

I think it’s kind of a red herring.

Uh, cuz, you know, you only have one planet.

So, I think we should focus on issues on our own planet rather than worrying about aliens.

I don’t think there’s a reason to think that there’s not.

I mean, they’ve already found water out there.

So certainly you could have energy and um why not? I don’t know.

I mean never say never.

It’s a space is a big place but um you know I I I don’t know that we have I don’t know that I have a strong opinion either either way.

I wouldn’t be surprised either way to be honest.

Do you think space is a really important vantage point for us to have a leverage over adversaries such as China? We have to have everything over China and definitely space but everything else.

We can’t let them buy any more land in America.

There’s got to be rules.

They got to stop doing that.

We live down in South Carolina and there’s a lot of golf courses down there and they’re buying them up.

Yeah.

I mean, I I absolutely believe that.

I think as as goofed on as it was, the Space Force is a valid branch of the military.

I think we should put a lot of our military resources towards satellite defense.

I think I mean that’s what won us the Vietnam War is, you know, outspending Russia in space infrastructure based on technologies that we never even created.

Whoever can establish a permanent base there or at least a temporary base there will um will have a strategic advantage in both science but probably also unfortunately in in defense as well.

As Artemis 2 makes its journey, it’s also renewing questions about whether we’re alone in the universe.

Frank March is an astronomer and senior scientist working in the research for extraterrestrial intelligence, also known as SETI.

He explains that today’s hunt for life extends far beyond radio signals, ranging from probing oceans on distant moons to analyzing the atmospheres of Earthlike exoplanets for signs of biology or technology.

In this conversation, March also outlines what would happen if a potential alien signal were ever confirmed and how the world would be told.

Now, at SEI, it’s mainly looking for signals, right? Is that correct? signals from far away.

Right? So city is a search for such terrestrial intelligence.

Yes, it’s different way of finding intelligence.

So finding even microbes observed in the planet in the solar system planets like Mars.

So dig uh the ocean to find to analyze the water in the ocean of Europa or Enceladus which are moons but we believe there is an ocean in underneath this the icy crust.

We can explore the caves of Mars.

Maybe there is life there.

So this is one way that would be very primitive light that would be very primitive like microbiological life probably.

Then we have the search for life by analyzing the lights of exoplanets planets in orbit on other stars.

So we know now the universe in our galaxy has in average in our galaxy there is two planets per stars.

in average and we know that there is at least 300 millions of those planets that could look like earth in size and also have a temperature close to the temperature of which is compatible with liquid water on the surface.

Yes, that’s a lot of words.

So now what we’re trying to do at the city institute is to look at those planets analyze find them analyze the light and maybe see the signature of life on this planet.

It could be basic life like microbiological life or maybe we’re going to find something more interesting such as the light of cities for instance or technologies because technology has a signature and technology will lead to finding intelligence.

And then the third way is to search for techno signatures.

So this is basically searching for an alien civilization which is using technology to communicate.

Maybe they’re using radio.

Maybe if we listen to the stars in radio, we may see a signals which could infer that there is intelligence there.

It could be the the TV or some the radar or something like that or it could be also lasers.

Maybe the civilization are so advanced that they have created this technology to accelerate gigantic solar cells and they use powerful lasers to do that.

So we need to find those uh lasers.

That’s the third way that the search for techno signatures.

Now I have to ask you about the protocol.

Let’s assume that Siri discovers a signal be laser or radio or whatever that’s in some way artificial.

What would what would you do? What would be the steps that you know if you discovered it somehow or or you someone told you what are the steps that you would approach this this discovery I guess? Well, the first thing you we will do as scientists is to be to confirm that this is a real signal and is not someone playing with a cell phone nearby the antenna or shining light into our instrument.

Could be that, right? So, what we’re going to do is to ask our colleagues who operate the same type of instruments to listen or to watch this part of the sky and confirm the existence of this techno signature.

So this will take time probably a few hours but after a few hours we will get a confirmation of this when the signal is confirmed there will be a rec will be recording continuously and analyze to make sure it’s not coming from a satellite because we now launch satellite a lot of them.

So maybe this is coming from a satellite or maybe a spacecraft that we have launched a long time ago.

So there will be this work to assess and to be sure that this is truly coming from a nonhuman technology.

And that’s difficult to be very honest with you.

This is not that easy because radio they bounce.

There is always these weird phenomena.

There is always someone who has wearing something that emit radiation for instance that could basically trust make us make mistakes thinking that it’s an alien techno signatures.

When this is done and it’s confirmed that it’s not coming from a human and the image the scenario is recorded, there will be a committee that will basically uh decide what how to announce it.

So we have we have derived a protocol at the at the city institute at the city sorry city permanent committee that has been redesigned as we speak.

It will be announced probably next this year in 2026, end of this year.

But part of this protocol is to make an announcement with all the scientists involved and also warn in advance the United Nation and the president of the country where the discovery was made.

I see.

And when this is done, everybody will have access to the data can make their own analysis.

That’s key I think.

And then we will have people other instruments following and tracking this this signal.

It may be very boring to be very honest with you.

You may hear oh scientists think they found something and it will take a long time for this.

Maybe we found something to Yes, we truly found detected the first techno signature.

Frank, thank you so much for your time.

It’s been a fascinating conversation.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you for having me, Steve.

Coming up, the New York Auto Show, the oldest of its kind in North America, is underway for its 126th year.

We take a look at some of the new models and features.

And from traditional hand decorated eggs to Belgian chocolate masterpieces, we take a look at how people around the world are preparing to celebrate Easter.

The oldest auto show in North America, the New York Auto Show, kicked off yesterday for its 126th year.

New model unveilings, innovation, and US manufacturing are among the main focuses this year.

And DD was at the media and industry preview before the show opened to the public.

Introducing the Boulder Concept.

Hyundai kicking things off with a world premiere of the Boulder Concept.

Their first ever body onframe concept vehicle.

This is not just styling.

It is the design built on American values and lifestyle.

Body on frame gives us the freedom to expand this authentic approach to variety of lifestyles.

Hyundai is aiming to produce its first US-built midsize pickup truck before 2030.

The company is looking to grow in the pickup segment here in the US, which has the biggest market of its kind in the world.

We are doubling down, expanding our expectations and our operations and bringing more products to the US.

Subaru unveiling two new SUVs, adding to its lineup of vehicles built for people who like spending time outdoors.

And Infiniti introducing the allnew QX65 crossover, the first new name plate in 5 years.

Midsize SUV, 5 seat premium vehicle is the heart of luxury in the United States.

The whole idea of this vehicle was really to present to the market an extremely flexible and diverse interior packaging wise.

A lot of utility, a lot of space in this vehicle.

wonderful powertrain, standard all-wheel drive.

However, we do speak a little bit to the heritage of the Infiniti FX from 20 plus years ago.

And so, we bring in that design language into a very versatile package.

Nissan, Infiniti’s parent company, which has faced years of financial challenges in restructuring, displayed several vehicles as it works towards stabilization.

We brought back really exciting vehicles, different trim levels on those vehicles, too, like we’ve added for the Nismo Z over there.

the six-speed manual is coming back over there.

We have uh uh Smyrna in Tennessee, also in Mississippi as well.

So, we do a lot as far as manufacturing in the North American market, avoiding whatever tariffs, making sure there’s no new tariff pricing added on there.

Across the show floor, automakers rolled out refreshed lineups, including three row family SUVs and performanceoriented models.

Many of the vehicles on display are built here in the United States.

Everything is new on our our allnew Atlas here.

This is our 2027 model and it is the debut of the second generation of the Atlas.

It is predominantly a North American car.

We’re going all hybrid now for our normal production run of the Camry.

So, efficiency as well as a lot of power under the hood.

Uh, and then all the luxury and comfort stuff.

We have a lot of US factories.

The RAV 4, some of them are made in Japan, but some of them come out of Mississippi and some of them come out of Canada.

So, yeah, a lot of North American platform.

The media preview days featured a range of updates across the industry, including redesigned family vehicles and special edition models.

Many automakers continue to emphasize vehicle production in the United States.

The auto show runs through April 12th and remains open on Easter Sunday.

And as Easter approaches, we take a look at a traditional craft from Slovenia.

In the leadup to the holiday, women in the southeast of the country prepare intricately handcorated Easter eggs.

Those who wanted to gift someone, to give an Easter egg to someone they liked, they had to put in the effort and make a design with old scissors, small knives or a razor, the one used for shaving.

That is how this tradition started.

I was not much of an artist while in school.

I can’t say that I drew nicely.

But when I started making Easter eggs, sometimes I surprise myself.

I wonder where I get the inspiration.

The eggs dyed red with onion skins, which is a common method in Slovenia.

The eggs are cooked for at least an hour, then stored in cold conditions and maintained with oil to help them last.

Designs range from messages of love to floral designs, animals, and religious motifs.

The only rule, the two sides of the egg cannot be identical.

Master crafts women organized workshops in primary schools to keep the tradition alive.

And the land of chocolate is also gearing up for Easter.

40 of Belgium’s most famous chocoliers coming together to showcase handcrafted chocolate with Easter egg themed artworks in the country’s capital.

There are a lot of different techniques like molding, coating, and detailing.

You can sculpt, you can mold, you can shape chocolate.

I have to confess that when I’ll see someone taking a bite, I’ll think to myself, “Wow, that really took me a lot of hours of work.

” But that was part of the point, too, to enjoy making it and then to enjoy seeing people enjoy eating it.

So, it really is a circle, an infinity symbol that starts over every time.

So, it’s perfect.

So my interpretation was because the theme this year is movement uh I decided to do a golden car a coach golden coach and inside is a gold egg.

Uh quite magical it’s whimsical.

The beloof French for nice egg was started four years ago as a friendly competition for Belgium’s top chocolate makers.

The theme of this year is pleasure in motion.

Chocolate makers made trains, rockets, bicycles, wheels, carriages, hot air balloons, and motorcycles.

The mechanics of movement influencing the design.

The exhibition is open to the public until April 8th, and admissions and art sales will be donated to a Belgian cancer research organization.

Each artwork is on sale for $900 or about $1,000.

And thank you for tuning in.

I’m Arlene Richards.

Good night.