Live from MPR News, I'm child Snyder, a rough night in Mississippi officials ...
storm damage following a series of tornado warnings.
“Scott Simmons with the state emergency management agency says there are reports of hundreds”
of structures damaged, including the agency's own emergency operations center. >> tornadoes reported in Wilkinson and Adams, Forest County doing preliminary assessments we talked about as many as 815 structures between Detroit, but it was like a county summary of some damage right now. >> Mississippi governor Tate Reeves has multiple tornadoes have been reported in central in
western Mississippi with a major one reported in Franklin County where damage is said to be widespread with reports of people trapped inside damaged homes. President Trump is seeking to pressure Iran into reaching a deal to end the war, warning that the U.S. will start bombing again if Iran does not agree, but in a social media post, Trump said a deal is very possible.
A ceasefire officially remains in a pack, but the U.S. military said it disabled in Iranian
flag tanker in the Gulf of Vermont Wednesday, saying it was trying to breach the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.
“Israel has launched its first attack in the Lebanese capital since a ceasefire in April”
the air strike targeting a senior has blocked commander as in Paris chain or Afriports. Israel's Prime Minister said in the statement that Israeli forces targeted the commander of the militant groups elite red one force. It did not give his name or say whether he was believed to have been killed. There was no media comment from his Bola.
Video from Bayrut's Southern suburb showed people searching for survivors in the rubble of what appeared to be a residential building. Lebanon israel agreed to a ceasefire April 16th, but Israel has been escalating attacks, most of them in border areas in south Lebanon, Jane O'Ralf and Pyrenees, Bayrut. A new MPRPBS mayor's poll finds President Trump at the lowest point in his presidency
politically as people across the U.S. deal with high gas prices linked to the unpopular war with Iran, and Piers to medical Montenaro has more. 810 of the more than 1,300 respondents say the recent rise in gas prices is putting a strain on their household budgets.
“The war in Iran has led directly to those prices surging, and most are blaming President”
Trump for the increase. As a result, the poll found Trump with just a 37% approval rating and 59% disapproving his worst score in the poll of either presidential term. His economic approval is down to 35% and on his handling of Iran, it's just 33%. Democrats appear to be benefiting when respondents were asked who they would vote for if congressional
elections in their districts were held today, they sided with Democrats by 10 points, Domenico Montenaro and Pyrenees, Washington. And to mark it's an Asia sharply higher in Thursday trading, Japan's benchmark, NICA leading
the way crossing the 62,000 mark for the first time.
This is NPR. A federal judge says a justice department does not have to return the 2020 election ballots from George's Fulton County. They were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta. The judge issued the ruling Wednesday.
Lawyers for Fulton County had argued for their return, saying the seizure was improper and unconstitutional. Fulton County is at the center of unfounded election fraud claims by President Trump. The deadly cruise ship outbreak of Hontavirus is a strain called Andy's virus, an impairs Gabriella Emmanuel reports it is known to spread human to human.
People are typically infected with Hontavirus after inhaling virus particles from rodent urine feces or saliva, however, Andy's Hontavirus is known to be transmitted between people who are in very close contact. Carry Devink is at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. What they're doing is isolating people mostly in their rooms, like allowing them to go
to kind of the open decks where, you know, the ventilation is good. The World Health Organization says personal protective equipment has been brought on board. Three passengers have died and there are five other patients, including one in the hospital in South Africa and another in the hospital in Switzerland. Devink says the risk to the general public is very low.
Gabriella Emmanuel and PR news. The cruise ship is now heading to Spain's Canary Islands, departing the waters off Cape Bird after three people were evacuated to arrive at Amsterdam's airport Wednesday evening and we're driven off in ambulances. Health officials in the U.S. say they are closely monitoring the situation with Americans
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