Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Rescue teams in Venezuela are continuing their efforts to find people alive on the rubble
left behind by Wednesday's earthquakes.
“Officials say chances of anyone still being alive are now remote, but as NPR's eight”
apparel to tell us, hope remains for many of the searches. There was just this mad rush to try and find people who were making noise from under a rubble, and really it was an ad hoc job. They were tying pieces of concrete onto cars and just trying to move them with cars. And in every once in a while, they would tell everybody to be quiet.
The motorcycles would turn off their engines and they would all go quiet and the rescuers would scream, "If you're alive, please make some noise." The people inside had been screaming for days, but last night, all the rescuers kept hearing was just rustling sounds. They told them, "If you're alive, use two rocks and smash them together so we can hear them."
NPR's eight apparel to officials say the death toll now sits at 1,450, but that number
is still expected to rise. Potentially dangerous heat wave is building in the Midwest and east, and it will begin to scorch much of the east coast and south mid-week, NPR's James Jones has more.
“It's been a relatively cool start to summer for much of the east.”
That's about to change in a big way. By mid-week temperatures from Atlanta to New York City are expected to top 100. My Thursday, New York City, could hit 103 and DC 105. "Everyone should be paying extra attention to this." Bob Oravak is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
"The heat stress of the heat risk is going to be extreme as we get towards Thursday, Friday, and the major metropolitan areas all on these coasts. So it's going to be potentially very deadly." Meanwhile, hot dry weather and strong winds are turning parts of the west into a tinderbox. The cottonwood fire in southern Utah has scorched more than 92,000 acres.
James Jones and PR news. On Wall Street, investors will be watching for an update on the US job market this week, and Paris Scott Horsley, as our reports. Before they fire up their independent state barbecues, traders will take the temperature of the US labor market.
“Employers added an average of 188,000 jobs a month in March, April, and May.”
Forecasters think "June's hiring pace" might be a little bit slower, but still strong enough to keep the unemployment rate in check. We'll find out on Thursday when the Labor Department delivers its monthly jobs report. Average wages were up 3.4% for the 12 months ending in May. That was not enough to keep pace with rising prices.
The new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Wars is promised to restore price stability. He's had to take part in a panel discussion with other central bankers in Portugal on Wednesday. Scott Horsley and PR News Washington. Stocks in Asia were down slightly in Monday trading. South Korea's Cosby was down almost 2% while Japan's NICA slipped 1% S&P 500 in Nasdaq futures,
both gained half a percent. You're listening to NPR news. Officials in Utah say three firefighters have died and two others were injured this weekend, while working on fires along the Colorado Utah border. The largest fire right now is the cottonwood fire in Utah, which has destroyed more than
146 square miles, both Utah and Colorado, declared states of emergency. The Australian government says it wants to strengthen its U-social media ban so far, data suggests that it's done little to prevent most young people from accessing many sites, including Facebook and TikTok. Christina Kukulia has more.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Parliament his government is prioritizing plans to toughen laws banning children under 16 from accessing some of the world's biggest social media sites. Albanese said there's more to do to check the quote "extraordinary power of tech giants." He called an accountable.
The government is also looking at expanding the E-safety Commission as powers to enforce the restrictions. An Australian study published in the British Medical Journal found over 85% of underage respondents were still using restricted platforms three months into the ban. It found quote "limited implementation in complete compliance and substantial circumvention
of restrictions." For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukulia in Melbourne. Scotty Schaffler and Victor Hovelin will meet for a playoff Monday to determine who will win the PGA Championship in Connecticut, Schaffler sank an eight foot putt on the 18th whole Sunday to force the playoff.
But play was delayed by about 90 minutes on Sunday because of thunderstorms and officials decided there was not enough day like to finish the playoff was moved too later today. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery.
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