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An oppressive heat wave is triggering heat and extreme heat advisories for more than half
of the American population. The alert stretch from Eastern Kansas to New England and points south from Arkansas to Alabama. Steve Kasimbaum reports on the heat's impact on New York City." "The high heat is already causing a strain on the power grid in the Northeast in New York. The utility company reduced voltage in some neighborhoods near Zaron Mamdoni.
"We are talking about a level of heat that the city has not seen in more than a decade." "The heat wave coincides with major events that are expected to dry out millions of people over the next few days, including two parades of tall ships and naval vessels." "We will also host the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks on the evening of Saturday, July 4th. To cap off the weekend, the Brazil versus Norway FIFA World Cup match will take place on the
afternoon of Sunday July 5th." Hundreds of cooling centers and drinking water stations have been open to the public. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kasimbaum in New York."
“The extreme heat's taking hold just as the FIFA World Cup enters the crucial knockout rounds.”
Stadiums are expected to employ more protection such as increase access to cooling areas and water for spectators and staff. But enduring the brutal heat's of sacrifice many soccer fans are willing to make especially if their team wins, fans at a watch party in Washington D.C., celebrating as they watch the U.S. beat Bosnia Herzegovina to Nill in the World Cup last night to advance
to the round of 16 in Pierce Becky Sullivan was there and joined us from California.
The U.S. had to work and work and work to get that first goal to go up one to zero just
before halftime. And then there's striker Philaren Balligan, who is this like the newest big star of this team made this disastrous mistake in the second half he got his legs tangled up with a Bosnia defender. He stepped on the defender's ankle.
It went to a video review and it was deemed a red card, Bosnia was, of course, only
“down one, anything could have happened and they pulled it off for the biggest win for the”
U.S. men's national team in a good long time. NPR is Becky Sullivan, turning now to Venezuela. The ongoing search for survivors while the death toll climbs. It's nearing 2300, here's John Otis. The coastal town of Caravayeda, members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department are
searching for three girls trapped in a collapsed building. It's all because all of the dust in the dirt just keeps going into the hole. LA firefighter Michael Tofer says they've heard signs of life. What we're hearing are faint knocking, tapping. The last confirmation we had was about an hour ago.
A week after the twin quakes, the odds are against them. However, this week, another team from Jordan rescued a two-year-old boy who is now recovering in a Venezuelan hospital. That's John Otis, it's NPR. Immigration and customs enforcement says it is investigating all credible threats toward
its ice officers. NPR is due, Jafi Black reports, one of those investigations led to a New York man's home because of an email he sent months ago. Back in January, David Streaver of Rochester, New York, dashed off a scathing email to the acting director of ice at the time, Todd Lyons.
Then last week, federal agents with Homeland Security investigations showed up on Streaver's porch with a form for him to sign. It was a warning notice that said the email he had sent may be an illegal threat and he may have violated the law. Civil liberties experts say this is a new tactic.
Federal agents showing up and asking people to sign such warning notices and they criticize it as a means to intimidate and chill speech. Jude Jafi Black and PR news. America celebrating its 250th anniversary with events in DC and across the U.S. and Pierce Rachel Treesman reports on how this compares to earlier birthday parties.
There wasn't a national celebration until the 50th anniversary in 1826. Coincidentally, two founding fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on that day. 50 years later, Philadelphia hosted the country's first world fair. The six-month event drew millions of visitors, debuted inventions from the telephone to popcorn and announced America on the world stage.
Philadelphia hoped to build on that success with another world's fair in 1926. But political corruption and bad weather resulted in an overbudget, low turnout event that variety dubbed, quote, "America's greatest flop." That's Rachel Treesman, it sent me. As America marks 250 years.
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