"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corvo Coleman, Defense Secretary Pete Ex...
new U.S. effort to open the street of horror moves to traffic is a defensive one.
He says it won't last a long time." This is a temporary mission for us.
“As I've said before, the world needs this waterway a lot more than we do.”
We're stabilizing the situation so commerce can flow again, but we expect the world to step up. At the appropriate time and soon, we will hand responsibility back to you. "Hexeth gave a news conference last hour at the Pentagon with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Kane.
The U.S. military says two U.S. flag commercial ships transited the street yesterday. General Kane says the U.S. expects more to follow. The United Arab Emirates says that Iran, fired several missiles and drones at it yesterday. Hexeth says the ceasefire is not over." Alabama is one of several Republican-led southern states moving quickly to redraw their
congressional maps. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited how the Voting Rights Act can be applied. And Pierre's W.L.A. at reports, civil rights protesters showed up at Alabama's State House
“in Montgomery on the first day of a special session.”
Patricia Jeter says she came from Tuskegee to fight back. "Because they're interested in rezoning. Because I don't believe that the president of the U.S. State, so anybody else has a right to take away my God, given right." So I'm here.
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter says there's an opportunity for Republicans to win all seven of Alabama's congressional seats. "In the people voted to have the Super Majority as way it is today. And so, you know, this is the voice of the people." The Supreme Court effectively removed race as a consideration for drawing congressional
districts. Debbie Elliott NPR News, Montgomery. The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season starts next month. Federal officials say now is the time to prepare. Nick Gilmore of member station radio IQ has national hurricane preparedness weakness.
Dan Brown with the National Hurricane Centers says people and coastal areas should first figure
out if they live in an evacuation zone. And those farther inland should also take note. Hurricane Haleen is a prime example of the potential impact in mountainous areas. "Only about 10% of the tallies are actually from wind, but about 90% are from water that can need to be from storm surge or that in the flooding."
Brown says there have been more deaths from inland flooding connected to tropical systems in the last decade or so than ever before.
“Knowing where to go if you need to evacuate is vital, but now is also a good time to”
stock up on non-perishable food, water, medication, and other supplies. The Atlantic hurricane season runs through November. "This is NPR." For women who accused late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of abuse have testified before New York State lawmakers, they're calling for changes to state sex trafficking laws.
One proposal would allow victims to collect punitive damages from the estates of people convicted of sex trafficking. It also calls for an extension to the length of time people have to file a claim. A land fill site in Chile has been ranked as the world's single highest emitter of methane. This is according to a list prepared by the United Nations Environment Program, or UNEP.
John Bartlett has more. The trash dump until till, 60km north of Santiago, tops the list of 50 human origin sites with more than 100,000 tons of methane emitted per year. Passing even industrial oil and gas facilities elsewhere on the planet. The study, based on data from nearly 30 satellites, also identified another Chilean landfill
among the 10 largest global emitters highlighting the impact of waste management on the climate crisis.
The report says the emission sources released the amount of methane comparable to 24 million
gas powered cars driven for one year. For NPR news, on John Bartlett, in Santiago, Chile. A cruise ship remains docked off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The World Health Organization says three passengers aboard a died of the rare haunt of virus.
Seven other people are ill. The WHO says two people may be moved to the Netherlands for treatment. The haunt of virus is usually transmitted by rodents, but the origin of these cases is not clear. This is NPR.
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