"Ly from MPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's sending a delegation to the U.S.
“to make sure its position is heard as negotiations continue between the U.S. and Iran”
to find a permanent end of the war. Israel's fighting with Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon has become a major sticking point and PR's carry-con reports." Speaking to reporters Netanyahu says he wants to make sure Israel's position that Iran cannot have future nuclear capabilities, his front and center.
Israel was not invited to talks between the U.S. and Iran, nor did it sign on to the memorandum of understanding the preliminary proposal to end the war. Netanyahu said, "We weren't party to the agreement, but we have interests, and we will express them." While Netanyahu backs a deal between Israel and Lebanon to end fighting there, he does not
back in Israeli withdrawal until his militants are disarmed. Israel's leader says that won't happen until Israel leaves Lebanon, and he rejected the U.S. brokered deal, which the militant group was not a party to. Carry-con and PR news, Tel Aviv.
“A major heat wave has expected for much of the central and eastern U.S. this week, with”
temperatures expected to surpass 100 degrees in some areas. New York Governor Kathy Hokel is warning residents to keep hydrated and check in on neighbors. Our meteorologists are forecasting dangerous heat-starting Tuesday through Friday, with Wednesday and Thursday expected to be the hottest days. In many parts of our states that let's seat over 100 degrees, and because the overnight
temperatures are expected to be still elevated, many New Yorkers will not have the opportunity to really cool down after sunset. Electricity grids in the region are expected to be taxed during the heat. Three firefighters have died, and two others were injured this week while battling wildfires on the border of Colorado and Utah.
Officials say they were responding to the nose and gore fires on Saturday, wildfire activity has intensified across the western U.S. in large part because of hot, dry, and windy weather. The largest fire right now is the cottonwood fire in Utah, which is consumed 146 square miles. State and local officials in Kentucky are assessing the damage after deadly flash flooding
“in more than a dozen counties Saturday and Sunday.”
As Curtis Tate from Member Station, W.E.K.U. reports, at least four people were killed in the storms. As much as seven or eight inches of rain fell in some areas in just a few hours, flooding roads and washing away bridges. Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir says crews are working quickly to survey the damage.
Let me start with the good news. Rain is starting to move out of Kentucky, but we have been hit really hard. Bashir declared a state of emergency for Kentucky, and 18 of the state's counties and cities declared their own. As of Sunday afternoon, crews have conducted more than 60 water rescues and evacuations.
For NPR news, I'm Curtis Tate in Richmond, Kentucky. And you're listening to NPR news. A record-breaking heat wave continues across much of Western Europe. Officials in France say there've been about 1,000 additional deaths during the time the heat wave was at its worst.
Extreme heat has also sparked wildfires in Germany, and temperature records were set in several European countries this weekend, a study by the World Weather Attribution suggests that climate change has made the heat wave 200 times more likely. Hollywood is in the middle of a hot streak and not just because of the weather and Piers, Bob Mondello has our details.
This summer always looked promising with Toy Story 5 and Devil Wears' product, too, on
the menu. That's not what you're wearing to the dinner. That's all. But no one expected low budget horror, flicks, obsession, and backgrounds, and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael to contribute another 600 million.
I believe music could change the world. This year is currently running about even with 2019 when Avengers in-game was supercharging ticket sales. Still to come this summer, Spider-Man brand new day, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and Minions and Monsters, which has some observers predicting North American box office
will top $10 billion this year. One caveat in dollar terms, that's a return to pre-pandemic levels, but ticket prices have risen so it's still fewer people. Bob Mondello and BR News.
Stepan Estequillo scored in the second minute of the final stoppage time Sunday, as Canada
beats South Africa one nil. It was Canada's first-ever knockout round victory in World Cup play. The match appeared to be heading for extra time until Estequillo put a volley from outside the penalty area into the bottom corner of the nets. I'm Dale Wilman, and this is NPR News.
One of the world's most famous art detectives was on the hunt for a stolen bank go. He turned to an unlikely source for help. You have born soccer players, born teachers, born police men, and I'm a born belger. On the Sunday story, how an art thief in an art detective set out to recover a missing masterpiece. Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the MPR app.
