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the world are racing against the clock to find survivors of last week's back-to-back
earthquakes.
“International Rescue Committee Emergency Response Director Rafael Velazquez says teams”
are starting to think about next steps. Now, we have to reconstruct people's livelihoods. We have to help people help themselves making sure that they have access to our people and the ground, or teams on the ground, are telling us that they're considering a vector response, the worry about water's annotation, like of access to clean water.
More than 2,500 people are confirmed dead and up to 40,000 are still missing. Many fear mass graves are coming, then as well as acting president Delci Rodriguez is defending her government's response.
Extreme heat is adding another challenge for 4th of July celebrations on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C., triple-digit temperatures limited shade and security restrictions could make for a long and potentially dangerous day outdoors, and appears Windsor, Johnston reports. Visitors will pass through airport-style security checkpoints with restrictions on items including folding chairs, coolers, and oversized bags.
With little natural shade on the National Mall and temperatures, expect at the top 100 degrees, forecasters say the biggest threat may be the heat itself. Meteorologist Scott Kleebauer is with the Weather Prediction Center.
“"Hydrate, even if you don't even think that you need to hydrate, because the body can never”
have too much water whenever you're outside for a long period of time." Visitors on the Mall should also try to take breaks in areas that have air conditioning and pay close attention to kids, older adults, and anyone with underlying health conditions. Windsor-Johnston and PR News, Washington. The Trump administration has reached its goal of bringing three new experimental nuclear
reactors online by July 4th, and PR's Jeff Brumfield has more. It seemed like an impossible task, President Trump wanted at least three new experimental reactors up and running by the nation's 250th birthday, but it had a statement that Department of Energy said it had reached that goal. Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valer Atomics, their reactor came online in June earlier this week
they used it to power an Nvidia microchip.
"And it's the first time that a nuclear reactor has directly powered AI infrastructure.
So it was a really exciting moment."
“Valer Atomics and others hope their small reactors will one day power data centers, critics”
point out that the Trump administration slash safety and environmental rules to allow companies to meet their deadline, but Taylor says, "Safety remains his top priority." Jeff Brumfield and PR News. Argentina's soccer star Leonardo Messi resumes his chase of the golden boot today, the award for the top goal score in the World Cup, defending Champions Argentina to take on Cape
Verde in the round of 32 in Miami this hour, Messi has six goals in this World Cup tied with France's Killingham Bapé for the tournament lead, Messi and Bapé are far from being the only contenders, Norway's early Holland and England's Harry Kane, each have five. This is NPR News. Conservative politician Kiko Fujimori has won Peruz, presidential runoff election, concerns
over surging crime dominated the election, Fujimori is the daughter of a disgraced former president. She ran for the presidency for the fourth time, she'll become Peruz, ninth president and ten years when she takes office later this month. With a heat wave affecting roughly half the country, Hollywood is expecting a big holiday
weekend, and PR's Bob Mendollo has the details. 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 cinemas expect sweltering families will take advantage."
The animated heroes of millions and monsters are joining Pixar's Toy Story 5, recording kids, aimed at older audiences, Supergirl, the thrillers' disclosure day, and obsession, and a story about the young George Washington. "Why can I not become a British officer?" "Is you on a British touch?
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 Mendollo and PR News A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that's in danger of crashing back to Earth, launching from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, the Pegasus
rocket blasted off from the belly of a modified airplane, putting the spacecraft on course to reach NASA's swift observatory in about a month, launched in 2004, Swift is sinking faster than ever because of recent solar storms. I'm Ryle and Barton, this is NPR News from Washington.
