Live from MPR news on jiles Snyder widespread damage is being reported in finis
wail up the country was hit by back to back earthquakes when's the evening
“collapsing buildings and sending residents into the streets report a”
maria grater all is in caracas I wasn't home when the earthquake happened it was kind of fast but it was super strong so Duke will actually see the scratch the crutches on the walls you saw and fell how everything was shaking the quakes are reported to be among the strongest hit Venezuelan more than a century acting president del C. Rodriguez says there is quake damage in several states injuries
and fatalities are not clear but the West geological survey is warning other potential for heavy casualties lawmakers outraged after president Trump refused to sign the 21st century road to housing act package of bills which experts say could make home ownership more accessible from member station KQED a D.D. Battle of moody reports on the reaction in california president Trump says
he won't sign the bill package until congress approves a voter ID law the legislation which aims to increase housing supply and make homes more affordable
“pass the house and the senate this week bay area congressman john garramendi”
says the bill was a bipartisan feat with members of both parties voting for it that's overwhelming support that support from all across the country and the president judge I don't know he thinks he has some sort of a lever and leverage on the on the senate and we'll find out in november california
voters will be asked to approve multi-billion dollar housing bonds which could
go a long way garramendi says if this package is also signed into law for n PR news I'm other debundal moody in san francisco head of the u_s_ postal services the agency has responded to an executive order by president Trump by proposing not to deliver mail-in ballots and states it refused to turn over their voter list to the federal government in pyrus Hansi low-mong reports
proposal already facing multiple lawsuits trying to block it adhering on capital hill democratic senator garrie pyrus and michigan as postmaster general david
“standard about president trump's order it calls for the u_s_ postal service”
to maintain lists of eligible voters if they state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government will the postal service still mail their ballots under this proposal under our proposed regulation no five lawsuits by democrats almost two dozen states and voting rights groups are arguing the constitution gives power to state legislatures and congress not the
president to set federal election rules they also argue the postal service has no authority to refuse to deliver ballots voters because they are not on the list u_s_b_s_s_ of an actual support of n_p_r_ a court ruling on weather to blackshump's order may come as soon as this month on z_l_ one n_p_n_s_s_s_ n_p_r_ on capital hill the republican led senate has reversed itself working late into
the night to vote down a war power's resolution did it pass a day before the vote to reject the resolution blocking the Iran war came after a tense meeting on capital hill between senate republicans and president trump in the democratic republic of congo there are now more than one thousand confirmed Ebola
cases making it the third largest on record the initial government response was
slow but as imperial son of the labyrinth reports here are signs it's now picking up world health organization director general tedos at a long-gabriacus laid out progress in a press conference Wednesday in the plans five weeks the number of treatment beds has increased from less than what them to all that five hundred in nineteen health centers testing capacity has increased from just
thirty tests a day to over two thousand he said and while there are no approved treatments he says clinical trials for two will start next week still the outbreak shows no signs of slowing down health officials are still struggling to reach context of cases in the outbreaks epicenter and cases are spreading across borders a French doctor tested positive for Ebola after
returning from home from treating patients in DRC Jonathan Lambert and PR news will come soccer Mexico now three for three Mexico at already booked a spot in the last thirty two but finished the group stage in Mexico City Wednesday night with a third straight victory at three goals to know when against the Czech Republic Switzerland meanwhile wrapped up first place in group B with a two to one
victory over Canada which took second place both teams moving on to the knockout round this is in PR news this is our glass on this American life when they mean like it's a good mystery sometimes about really big things but most times the little mysteries of the best our lost and found is currently filled with
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