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CBS News took a boat into the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what we saw #shorts 100%
4/18/2026, 1:53:01 AM
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We're on a tour boat here in the waters just off the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most contentious flash point.
We're only a few minutes into our journey and you can already see tankers and cargo ships just stuck there and they've been there for weeks.
And those oil tankers are where around 20% of the world's energy passes through and for 7 weeks now, none of those tankers have been moving and now that's created an energy crisis all over the world.
It seemed gas prices skyrocket and President Trump and Iran are negotiating.
It's not just Iran that is blockading these waters.
President Trump has also announced a blockade in an attempt to choke off Iran's own energy exports.
Now, all of this comes at a time when the world is trying to figure out a way to prevent something like this from happening again.
We have leaders meeting in Europe from dozens of countries gathering together to try to come up with some sort of solution, potentially even a military solution in order to ensure that these waters don't become blocked again.
Now, the war between Israel, the US and Iran again is in a ceasefire right now.
That ceasefire expires only in a few days from now.
President Trump signaling that he feels confident that some sort of agreement can be reached but these waters remain at the heart of those negotiations and until the deal is reached, none of those ships will be moving.
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