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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, March 10th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Silicon Valley Bank has failed after a classic run on the bank. SVB, the small California bank which mostly loans money to high-risk tech companies, experienced a capital crisis this week which was caused by high interest rates.
--:-- John Bickley: In an effort to control inflation, the Fed has been raising the funds rate, which in turn made many bank assets lose their value. As of Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had taken over the bank and assured customers that they would have full access to their insured deposits.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw testified before the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works on Thursday and apologized for his company's role in the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
--:-- John Bickley: I want to begin today by expressing how deeply sorry I am for the impact this derailment has had on the residents of East Palestine and the surrounding communities. I am determined to make this right.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Senators from both sides of the aisle excoriated Shaw for the disaster. Well, his apology, but I want to hear other commitments, what he's going to do. Reimbursing people for hotels and water testing, committing to paying people's health care if two and three years out they develop bronchial diseases or cancers.
--:-- John Bickley: The Biden classified documents saga continues as a new letter reveals that the National Archives told Congress it had obtained nine boxes of materials from the Boston office of a personal attorney to President Joe Biden.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire Deputy Managing Editor Eric Quintanar has more. A letter sent to a pair of Republican senators this week reportedly divulges new details about the inquiry into Biden's handling of government documents, specifically about Patrick Moore the attorney identified as the one who initially found classified materials while packing up the president's former think tank office in early November.
--:-- Eric Quintanar: Acting archivist of the United States Deborah Wall wrote in the letter that the National Archives was informed Biden's counsel began their review of the materials in the Penn-Biden Center in October 2022, earlier than previously known, and had moved some boxes to Boston at some point afterward.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The letter was addressed to Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who are requesting more information. Democratic Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned U.S. intelligence community leaders on Wednesday that a lack of transparency to Congress about the documents might jeopardize the Biden administration's efforts to renew a surveillance law this year.
--:-- John Bickley: He said, quote, this trust relationship has to go two ways.
--:-- Georgia Howe: As America's college kids enter spring break, many are traveling to tropical places like Mexico. The State Department already advised against Americans traveling to certain parts of the country due to drug cartel activity and potential kidnappings.
--:-- John Bickley: But one former FBI official is warning that even staying on secure and exclusive resorts could be dangerous. Here's what he told Fox News' Jesse Waters this week.
--:-- Former FBI Official: The problem with these self-resorts and they have all kinds of security and protection and everything but you have to get to the resort. And so the danger is getting off the plane or the bus or the train and getting from the transportation hub to the actual resort, which there you have protection, en route, you're in danger, just like these Americans that were killed in Metamoros, because once they crossed the border, they were on their own.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Fewer young Americans are opting to go to college. That's according to data reported by the Associated Press. From 2019 to 2021, college matriculation among high school seniors dropped from 66% to 62% nationwide.
--:-- John Bickley: Generous sign-on bonuses and weariness with remote learning are thought to be contributing to the trend.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And Hollywood is preparing for the 95th Oscars this Sunday, where films like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Avatar Way of Water, and The Fablemans will vie for the coveted Best Picture Award.
--:-- John Bickley: The ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who is emceeing for the third time.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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