>> Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
More than 2,500 people in Venezuela are known dead after twin earthquake struck around Caracas last week.
“The search continues for tens of thousands of missing international rescue committee emergency”
response director Rafael Velázquez Garcia. >> We are looking right now, sadly at, you know, the figures were more than 2,000 people have died and they're still more than 38 to 40,000 people missing.
Beyond search and rescue, he says it's also critical to address the quality of life that
earthquake destruction is left behind for affected Venezuelans. >> Now, we have to reconstruct people's livelihoods. We have to help people help themselves making sure that they have access our people and the ground or teams on the ground are telling us that they're considering a vector response, the worry about water and sanitation, like of access to clean water.
>> The quakes erupted a week ago Wednesday. >> The death toll in the latest Russian strikes on Keev has climbed to 30, as rescue workers sift through the remains of an apartment building destroyed in that missile strike. NPR as Joanna Kikis says reports from Keev that Ukraine is running low on air defense supplies that intercept missiles.
Ukraine has already developed interceptors that target Russian drones, but it relies on western
allies to supply anti-balistic air defense that targets Russian missiles.
In his evening video address, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Ukraine wants licenses to produce US-designed Patriot air defense missiles.
“>> If NATO still means something to the allies, he says, you must have its own capacity”
to defend itself from all types of threats, including Russian ballistic missiles. Zelensky says that lives might have been saved in Thursday's attack if Western allies had delivered promised air defense missiles on time, Joanna Kikis's NPR news cave. >> On this Fourth of July, holiday swarm drones are increasingly being used alongside fireworks to animate patriotic symbols in the sky.
>> From member station WPLN, Blake Farmer reports of few towns are even experimenting with all drone shows. >> This is just a trial run for Clarksville, Tennessee. >> Still doing fireworks on July 3rd, but the town that neighbors Fort Campbell, Kentucky, has also added an old drone show on the fourth.
Michael Hunter was an army drone operator who now works for Clarksville's Parks Department and pitched the drone display. >> There's less litter, it's more environmentally friendly, doesn't disturb the wildlife as much. And it's also a beautiful way to actually get your family out together and just celebrate as a community.
“>> It's also less triggering to local veterans dealing with combat related PTSD.”
>> It sounds an Iowa and Illinois have transitioned to drone shows because of cost and convenience. Salt Lake City is doing all drones this year primarily because of heightened fire risk. >> For Imperial News, I'm Blake Farmer in Nashville. >> A heat dome, high pressure systems above a region that trap heat and humidity has been smothering parts of the U.S. this weekend.
This is NPR. >> With a heat wave affecting roughly half the country, Hollywood is expecting a big holiday weekend, and PR's Bob Mandelo has to tell. >> Back in the 1950s and 60s before home air conditioning was common, movie theaters put out blue and white signs with penguins in the summer saying it's cool
inside the signs are long gone, but the cool hasn't changed and cinema's expect sweltering families will take advantage. >> The animated heroes of millions and monsters are joining Pixar's Toy Story Five in Cording Kids aimed at older audiences, Supergirl, the Thriller's Disclosure Day and Obsession, and a story about the young George Washington.
>> Why can I not become a British officer? >> Because you are not British, so if crowds seek them out during midday heat, that should compensate for Saturday night when even the biggest films are no competition for 4th of July fireworks, Bob Mandelo and PR News. >> At New York's Madison Square Garden, the rehearsal dinner is history and all that's left
is a wedding extravaganza for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. The fine details have been hushed, it's all expected to begin at 5pm and last potentially till 4am. There's another Swift in the news and that is NASA's Swift Observatory, a NASA's telescope that's been circling above Earth, but an altitude that's lower than where it began.
The telescope has been blown to lower orbit at least in part due to recent solar storms. Today a three-armed spacecraft was launched by Northrop Raman to eventually capture the Swift Observatory and boosted its orbit otherwise it could eventually crash into Earth. I'm Luis Skivone and PR News, Washington. >> The fatal shooting of a teenager at a protest in Seattle has gone unsolved for six years.
>> This is open in your face to how are there no answers.
>> Our investigation has uncovered new evidence and witnesses who say they've never talked
to police. >> Did police ever call you? >> Not once. >> Listen to weeky bus safe, a new true crime series on the embedded podcast from NPR.
