Navy families criticized USS Lincoln conditions. Then a man went overboard.

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  Good morning.

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  Lawmakers call for answers over conditions at a US aircraft carrier in the Middle East.

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  MS Now has been speaking to the relatives of troops.

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  What these family members really want to emphasize is that these are real humans that are serving in this war

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  and this is not a material resource,

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  these are people who have chosen to defend our country.

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  One year on how the National Guard deployment in DC has impacted the capital

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  and why it’s been such a blockbuster year at the box office.

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  It's Friday, August 14th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shumita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Military families are sounding the alarm over conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln,

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  with mounting concerns over the mental well-being of 5,000-plus crew members after an extended deployment in the Middle East.

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  They've been deployed for around eight months by now

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  and haven't had a port call in over 200 days, a record.

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  And there's been reports of deteriorating conditions on board.

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  In recent days, stories have emerged of multiple crew members attempting to go overboard.

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  Yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the reports about conditions on the ship had been completely misrepresented.

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  Listen, we make sure that at every ship, every crew,

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  every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.

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