Counterterrorism director resigns from top role in protest of Iran war
The nation’s top counterterrorism official resigned Tuesday in protest of the U.S. war against Iran, saying Tehran posed no imminent threat.
Joe Kent said in a post on X, “After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.”
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” he wrote. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
In a pointed letter to President Donald Trump, Kent said the war marked a departure from the administration’s earlier approach to avoiding prolonged conflicts in the Middle East.
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“Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation,” he said, seemingly referring to Operation Midnight Hammer, a series of U.S. strikes in June 2025 on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Kent wrote that in his first term, Trump understood how to “decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars,” citing the killing of former Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
Prior to the current conflict known as Operation Epic Fury, Kent claimed that “high-ranking Israeli officials” and members of the media had deployed a “misinformation campaign” to “undermine” America First.
“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was an clear path to swift victory,” Kent said.
The National Counterterrorism Center director reports directly to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and is a top five intelligence community post in any administration.
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Gabbard, a longtime critic of regime change operations, has been quiet since the Iran conflict. Her office could not immediately be reached for comment on Kent’s resignation.
She recently hired Dan Caldwell, a prominent voice for restraint-minded foreign policy, as an advisor to senior intelligence officials, a source familiar with the move confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Caldwell was fired from his role as a senior advisor to War Secretary Pete Hegseth during a leak investigation that has not produced public results.
A former Army Green Beret and CIA paramilitary officer with 11 combat deployments, Kent ran for Congress unsuccessfully twice with Trump’s backing in the state of Washington before being appointed to his role as counterterrorism chief.
Kent’s late wife, Shannon, was a Navy intelligence officer killed in 2019 in an ISIS bombing in Syria.
Kent wrote on X Tuesday, “As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people or justifies the cost of American lives.”
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The White House could not immediately be reached for comment on Kent’s resignation.
Taylor Budowich, who departed his role as Trump’s deputy chief of staff in September 2025, claimed on X that Kent was a “crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work.”
“This isn’t some principled resignation — he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned,” Budowich wrote on X Tuesday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Kent was “clearly wrong.”
“I got all the briefings,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat, that Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear capability, and they were building missiles at a pace that no one in the region could keep up with.”
Kent’s tenure drew sharp opposition from Democrats during his confirmation, largely over his past political statements and associations, including reported contacts with figures tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, movement and his alignment with election denial rhetoric during his congressional campaigns, but supporters pointed to his extensive combat and intelligence experience.
Operation Epic Fury is now in its third week, with sustained air and missile exchanges across the region, including Iranian retaliatory strikes against U.S. forces, Israel, and Gulf states.
While the Trump administration initially signaled the operation could last four to six weeks, officials have acknowledged the timeline could stretch longer as Iran continues to resist and regional tensions remain high.
Susan Rice cautions Trump allies ‘it’s not going to end well for them’ in ominous warning
A former top official in the Biden and Obama administrations recently caused a stir after she appeared to vow political retribution against companies once Democrats regain control in Congress and the White House.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., last week condemned plans for political retribution he believes Democrats, such as Susan Rice, hope to enact when they regain power and argued that both parties should refrain from using government power to pressure their political opposition.
“What Ms. Rice is talking about is payback,” Kennedy said, referring to comments Rice, who served as Biden’s domestic policy council director, had made on a podcast last month.
In a media appearance Rice gave with Vox in February, she warned that companies that had aligned themselves with President Donald Trump’s priorities could face Democratic scorn down the road.
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“I’m going to quote [her],” Kennedy said. “‘When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, it’s not going to end well for them.’”
In that podcast appearance, Rice promised that Democrats would not quickly forget their posture.
“They’re going to be held accountable by those who come in opposition to Trump and win at the ballot box,” Rice said.
“I think whether you’re a law firm, whether you’re a university, whether you’re a media entity, whether you’re a big corporation, whether you’re big tech, you need to play a long game, not this short game that has been so detrimental,” Rice added.
Kennedy said he found Rice’s comments troubling.
“What Ms. Rice seems to be saying is that it’s okay in America today to use the law to prosecute and harass your political enemies. I find that astounding coming from a person of her statue,” Kennedy said.
Rice, who in addition to her Biden administration role was former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, could not be reached for comment.
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Kennedy framed political retaliation as a practice that in recent years started under the Biden administration and, in particular, with then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, who launched probes of Trump while he was campaigning to recapture the presidency.
In 2021, Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to investigate whether Trump had interfered with a transfer of power after the 2020 election and whether Trump had mishandled classified information following his presidency.
Kennedy recalled thinking that Garland and Biden had set a new precedent they would regret.
“And I remember thinking at the time: They have unleashed spirits they cannot control,” Kennedy said.
Although he primarily focused on remarks from Democrats like Rice, Kennedy said he opposes continued political retaliation from across both parties, noting that Trump has received his fair share of accusations of weaponizing the government against political opponents.
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Trump has received criticism for investigations opened by his Department of Justice (DOJ) into figures like former national security advisor and Trump critic John Bolton, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who helped spearhead prosecutions against Trump in New York, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who has resisted policy changes Trump has pushed.
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“And I know some are going to say, well, ‘President Trump is doing the same thing.’ If that’s true, I don’t like that either,” Kennedy said.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right. It was wrong then when President Biden did it; it’s wrong now.”
Five shootings in three days send spring break crowds running at beach hot spot
A popular spring break hot spot was rattled by violence after five separate shootings sent visitors to a Florida beach destination running for cover, with one ending in a police officer being hospitalized for gunshot wounds.
The shootings happened over the weekend in Daytona Beach, according to WFTV 9.
A video shot from the balcony at the Ocean Walk Resort shows hordes of beachgoers scrambling across the sand and into the road as police attempt to calm the chaos.
“Twerking, dancing, stopping traffic, cussing people, flipping people off, stopping everyone, screaming. It was insane. Stopping traffic, you couldn’t move, you couldn’t go forward, back, nothing,” Kissy Derito told WFTV 9.
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The cause of the panic was not immediately made clear, with the Volusia Sheriff’s Office reportedly saying there were no shootings on the beach over the weekend.
On Friday, one shot was fired after a fight broke out at the Joint Bar in Seabreeze, located just off the beach strip, according to the Daytona Beach Police Department. No one was hurt in the shooting.
Just one hour later, one person was reportedly shot outside a nearby Crunch Fitness.
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On Saturday, police were called to the scene of two separate beachside shootings, according to WFTV 9.
One of the shootings reportedly happened outside the popular Crusin’ Cafe, which is located a mere two blocks from the crowded beach.
“There was a poor [man] that’s never been to Florida in the elevator last night, and he was like this is our first time ever in Florida, he was like should we pack up and leave?” Derito told WFTV 9.
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On Sunday, South Daytona Beach Police Officer Jake Fessenden was hospitalized after responding to reports of a fifth shooting near Country Lane, the Port Orange Police Department said in a social media post.
The suspect allegedly fled in his vehicle as authorities responded to reports of shots being fired in the area, authorities said.
Officers from multiple agencies attempted to apprehend the suspect as he crashed his vehicle while going northbound on I-95 and began firing on deputies, striking Fessenden.
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Another officer struck the suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Todd Anthony Martin, according to WFTV.
Both Fessenden and Martin were transported to a local hospital, where Fessenden underwent surgery and is expected to survive. Martin, however, remains in critical condition.
“The big important news is that he’s in stable condition, and he’s in good spirits,” DBPD Deputy Chief Tim Morgan told ClickOrlando.
“God was on his side today. You know, he’s hit twice. Two critical areas, but we’re being told he’s in stable condition, and he’s going to be fine.”
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All the victims in the weekend shootings are reportedly expected to survive.
Police are still investigating if any of the shootings were related to spring break.
The Daytona Beach Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
US and Israel’s military strikes against Iranian regime earn praise from unlikely source
Operation Epic Fury is receiving praise from an unlikely source. Al Jazeera, the Qatari government-funded news organization, published an op-ed Monday declaring in the headline, “The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working.”
“Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war… But this narrative is wrong,” the piece began.
“Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are [cataloging] the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.”
Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, authored the piece.
“When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air [defenses], its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades,” he continued.
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Seloom marveled at how “every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded” and “collapsing in real time.”
He also pointed out how Iranian ballistic missile launches “have fallen by more than 90 percent” since Operation Epic Fury was first underway, dropping from 350 to roughly 25 — similar to its drone launches going from 800 on Day 1 to 75 by Day 15.
“Hundreds of Iranian missile launchers have been rendered inoperable. According to some reports, 80 percent of Iran’s capacity to strike Israel has been eliminated,” Seloom wrote. “Iran’s naval assets, fast-attack craft, midget submarines and mine-laying capabilities are being liquidated. Its air [defenses] have been suppressed to the point at which the US is now flying nonstealth B-1 bombers over Iranian airspace, a decision that signals near-total confidence in air dominance.”
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The Qatari professor insisted the Iranian regime is facing a “strategic dilemma” — that firing any remaining missiles will expose the launchers and would promptly be targeted by the US and Israel while reserving missiles “forfeits the ability to impose costs of the war.”
“This is a force managing decline, not projecting strength,” Seloom said.
After highlighting the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities, Seloom pushed back against Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who claimed the Trump administration misjudged Iran’s retaliation, as well as CNN’s suggestion that the administration lost control over the war regarding the Strait of Hormuz, saying their framing “inverts the strategic logic.”
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“Closing the strait was always Iran’s most visible retaliatory card, and always a wasting asset. About 90 percent of Iran’s own oil exports pass through Kharg Island and then the strait,” Seloom wrote. “China, Tehran’s largest remaining economic partner, cannot receive Iranian crude while the strait is shut. Every day the blockade continues, Iran severs its own economic lifeline and alienates the one major power that has consistently shielded it at the United Nations. The closure does not just hurt the global economy; it accelerates Iran’s isolation.”
He continued, “Meanwhile, the naval assets Iran needs to sustain the blockade – fast-attack boats, drones, mines, shore-based antiship missiles – are being degraded daily. Its naval bases at Bandar Abbas and Chahbahar have been severely damaged. The question is not whether the strait reopens but when and whether Iran retains any naval capacity to contest it. Critics compare the challenge of escorting a hundred tankers daily to an impossible logistical burden. But you do not need to escort tankers through a strait if the adversary no longer has the means to threaten them. That is the operational trajectory.”
Seloom also pushed back against the notion that the war is expanding through Iran’s proxies like Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iraqi militias, stressing that the command structure of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “has been decapitated at multiple levels” and that the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “eliminated the apex of the [authorization] pyramid.”
“When proxies launch retaliatory attacks across the region, this is not evidence of an expanding network; it is evidence of predelegated response authority, which is what a [centralized] command system activates when it anticipates its own destruction,” he wrote. “Predelegation is a sign of desperation, not strength. It means the centre can no longer coordinate. The attacks will continue, but they will become increasingly uncoordinated, strategically incoherent and politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.”
Seloom went on to say President Donald Trump‘s rhetoric “has not helped” combat critics who question the endgame, which the professor said is the “permanent degradation of Iran’s ability to project power beyond its borders through missiles, nuclear latency and proxy networks.” He also acknowledged critics like Murphy have a “legitimate concern” about what happens in Tehran after the fighting stops, something he says the Trump administration needs to lay out.
“Call it strategic disarmament. This is closer to the approach of the Allies to Germany’s industrial war-making capacity in 1944-1945 than to the US war on Iraq in 2003,” Seloom said. “The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.”
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Captain Sandy says she lost all of her money in alleged Florida contractor scam
“Below Deck” star Captain Sandy Yawn and wife Leah Shafer spoke out about their ongoing legal battle against their former contractor, Spencer Calvert.
Yawn revealed how much money they lost in the alleged scam in an interview with Fox News Digital, alongside Shafer and friend Randi Gold.
“All of our money. Gone. Emotionally, we were wrecked,” Yawn said.
“But here’s the deal: like, I love God, Leah loves God — we love God. So we knew that we were going to get through this because, no matter what, as long as you do the next right thing and just show up in life and show others by your example how you walk through things, then that’s what it’s about, right?” Yawn added.
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In 2020, they hired Calvert to build their $1.6 million Jacksonville, Florida, home along with 12 other families, but instead he allegedly pocketed the money.
Of the 33 homes he took on, he allegedly only completed 18, per the New York Post.
He allegedly defrauded them out of about $18 million, according to the St. Johns Citizen, leaving their dream homes unfinished.
Calvert was charged with grand theft, misapplication of construction funds and organized scheme to defraud, according to TMZ.
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In February, Calvert entered a guilty plea and accepted the state’s deal of five years in prison, $150,000 to each victim upfront, $1.47 million in restitution to the victims, and 20 years of probation, according to First Coast News.
Yawn and the other victims appeared in a courtroom in St. Johns County, Florida, to challenge the plea deal their former contractor tried to take.
Yawn and the victims testified against him, pushing for 10 years behind bars.
The plea deal was revised by the state after the victims’ statements, asking for a $650,000 payment upfront and 10 years in prison, which Calvert and his team rejected — with a pretrial hearing scheduled next month.
Fox News Digital reached out to Calvert’s attorney, Mitchell A. Stone, for comment.
In 2024, Stone gave a statement to Entertainment Weekly: “Although I cannot comment on the evidence at this time, our investigation has revealed that my client was a respected home builder and businessman for many years. As in all businesses, market conditions sometimes create unexpected challenges. Supply chain and work force issues can impact construction costs which in turn can cause a ripple effect on the home building industry resulting in financial loss.”
Stone noted that “regardless of any explanation, we are committed to trying to resolve those problems favorably,” adding, “my client never intended any person or business to suffer any loss.”
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On why they went to the courtroom and took a stand, Shafer said that they “just had enough.”
“A circle talking, false promises, and it was just time to stand up for ourselves,” Shafer added.
“Also, the community kept reaching out to the local government and no one was responding. And sometimes it takes people who are on TV to get things done because you get the press — which is really not… it shouldn’t work like that. Every voice should matter, especially when you’re being robbed,” Yawn said.
They realized something was going on with their home after Yawn’s sister called her.
Yawn and Shafer were in Colorado at the time, so they were not in Florida to keep tabs on the construction project.
“My sister called me and said something’s going on because your house… nothing’s happening,” Yawn explained, with Shafer adding: “It’s at a standstill. There’s like weeds growing, the tiles weren’t on. It was two years later.”
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Shafer said when they realized they were allegedly being defrauded by Calvert, she “cried,” noting that she “couldn’t believe it.”
“I think we both cried. And then you feel betrayal. And when you have emptied your bank account already – we started calling our friends trying to borrow money to finish our house. Yeah, because we spent all our money on our house,” Yawn said.
Shafer also revealed that she got her contractor permits afterward in order to complete their home, and also formed relationships with people in St. Johns County.
“I just went through the list of what you do. Oh, electric? Oh, plumbing? And it’s impressive when you pay people, they show up! Go figure. So we finished our house little by little, and we’re still trying to finish it,” Shafer said.
Yawn and Shafer tied the knot in May 2024.
Shafer said life changed “for the better” post marriage, calling it “wonderful” and is “happier than ever.”
Yawn said they “learned communication.”
“When you’re in a relationship, you have to learn how to communicate with kindness because you never want to hurt anyone,” Yawn said.
Yawn has been the captain in “Below Deck Mediterranean” since season two. The tenth season premiered in fall 2025.
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The show premiered in 2016 on Bravo as a spinoff of the show “Below Deck.”
The series follows the crew as they live and work on a superyacht, in different areas around the Mediterranean in Europe each season.
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Past locations include: Greece, Croatia, Italy, France, Spain and Malta.
Yawn replaced Captain Mark Howard, who appeared in season one.
On how much longer she sees herself captaining superyachts, Yawn said: “You know, no, it’s not because I love boating. You know what I love about ‘Below Deck Mediterranean?’ I get to drive a different boat every year.”
Adding: “That is the coolest part. Because when you’re a captain you work for one guy on one boat. So I get to drive different boats with different problems, so my problem-solving skills become sharper, especially when it comes to docking.”
Conan O’Brien’s Oscars jab gets response from singer Kid Rock in X post
Singer Kid Rock responded sharply Monday to comedian and host Conan O’Brien’s jab at him during the 98th Academy Awards.
“I should warn you, tonight could get political, OK? And if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. Yeah, it’s at the Dave & Buster’s down the street. A lot of tickets for that,” O’Brien said during his Oscars monologue.
O’Brien’s comment referenced Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) alternative halftime show, which was headlined by Kid Rock and meant to compete with the Super Bowl halftime show headlined by Bad Bunny.
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The singer himself responded to the jab on Monday, writing on X that it was “not a very good” joke and promoting his “Freedom 250” tour as an alternative.
“I love a good joke, even when I am the butt of it, unfortunately this was not a very good one,” Kid Rock wrote. “Either way, if you want to see a REAL good show this spring / summer that celebrates America and 250 years of Freedom – make sure you buy your tickets from (ugh) Ticketmaster for my Freedom 250 tour – The Road To Nashville. There is a reason for this, TRUST ME!”
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He included a link to Ticketmaster with dates for his upcoming shows starting in May.
Fox News Digital reached out to O’Brien’s representatives for comment.
TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet also reacted to O’Brien’s joke, posting on X: “Literally had no idea the Oscars was even happening until someone sent me this just now. Living rent free in these people’s minds.”
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“It’s a testament to the success of the All-American Halftime Show,” Kolvet told Fox News Digital. “Over 50 million Americans tuned in, making it the #1 livestream in American history and #2 globally. The event broke containment, and the Halftime Show will never be the same again. We love the free publicity, so thank you, Conan. We’ll see you in 2027!”
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Patrick Mahomes appears to have a new backup as Chiefs land veteran quarterback
Patrick Mahomes appears to have a new backup.
The Kansas City Chiefs agreed to a deal to acquire quarterback Justin Fields from the New York Jets for a 2027 sixth-round pick, according to multiple reports. The Jets will also pick up $7 million of his guaranteed $10 million salary for the 2026 season.
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The teams have yet to officially announce the trade.
Kansas City was holding its own for the most part last season and were aiming to make the playoffs as a wild card team before Mahomes suffered a season-ending knee injury.
The Chiefs uncharacteristically lost eight of their last nine games and turned to backup quarterbacks Gardner Minshew II and Chris Oladokun as the team dealt with injuries at that position.
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Fields, the No. 11 overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, will find himself on his fourth team in four years. He played his first three seasons with the Bears before he was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in March 2024. He signed with the New York Jets in the offseason last year.
The former Ohio State standout has 9,039 passing yards and 52 touchdown passes in 59 games played. He started nine games for the Jets in 2025 and had 1,259 passing yards and seven touchdown passes. He was 2-7 in those games.
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The Chiefs will have a viable quarterback to play in case Mahomes may not be ready for Week 1.
Thick smoke billows from NYC building as fire erupts on St Patrick’s Day
A fire broke out in Manhattan on Tuesday, which is St. Patrick’s Day.
FDNY indicated that a call came in for a fire on the roof at 6 E43rd street, Fox News has learned.
FDNY shared footage of the smoke billiowing into the air in a post on X, noting, “The FDNY is operating at a fire on East 43rd Street in Manhattan.”
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FDNY also reposted a post by the X account for the city’s official emergency notification system which stated, “@FDNY Activity: Expect traffic delays, road closures, mass transit disruptions, & emergency personnel near East 43rd Street & Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Use alternate routes.”
Kevin Gordon, head of macro research and strategy, Schwab Center for Financial Research, posted a photo of thick smoke on X, and commented, “Quite the scene this morning on 43rd street in midtown Manhattan … really hope everyone is alright.”
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