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Orther July celebrations are getting underway in cities and towns across the country today,
“but a dangerous heat wave is forcing schedule changes, prompting some cancellations and”
raising concerns about heat-related illnesses. NPR's Bryan Man has more. For a lot of Americans, like eight-year-old Logan Long's worth from New Jersey, this holiday is just about having fun. How I'm going to be celebrating the Fourth of July is I'm going to like some firecrackers
and stuff like that, and we also saw the statue of Liberty. But people in much of the country are facing dangerous heat, an independent state parade scheduled per day in Washington D.C. was canceled. Many events have been rescheduled to start later to avoid the hottest part of the day. Fireworks have been banned in parts of the country because of high wild fire risk.
Officials are warning the public to take lots of precautions, limit your time outdoors, bring water, and stay in the shade whenever you can. Bryan Man and PR News, New York.
“As the West faces hot and dry conditions, many large wildfires are burning uncontrolled”
across Colorado, including one outside of Pueblo that's destroyed more than 150 structures. Meanwhile, Grand Junction hosts a public memorial tomorrow for three wild land firefighters kill less weekend. Colorado Public Radio's Dean of SIG has more. Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sidney Watson will be remembered in an outdoor public
memorial, under skies still smoky from wildfires burning across the region. Governor Jared Polis has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff. The firefighters died near the Utah border after deploying their fire shelters, while fighting what would eventually be known as the Snyder Fire. A blaze that crews have no almost completely contained.
Several other large wildfires are burning within a few hours of where they died, including one that's forced to vacuations outside the mountain town of Ure. For impaired news, I'm Stena SIG, in Grand Junction, Colorado.
“In Venezuela, hospitals are overwhelmed in the aftermath of twin deadly earthquakes that”
struck the country more than a week ago, killing more than 2,000 and injuring thousands of others. Survivors are still living in tents, or dehydration and respiratory illnesses are a major concern. Empires Durya Baskaran has more.
At least three hospitals were destroyed in the years, quakes, and according to the World Health Organization, another six are only partially functional. Many health workers lost their lives. Dr. Ligue Gordon is an OBGYN for Project Hope, a medical non-profit. In the name of EUNA, UNIDAT, EGLYNICA MOVIL, Gordon and her team have set up a mobile
clinic at a shelter offering primary care, especially ultra-sounds for pregnant women who survived the earthquakes with minor injuries and are now staying in tents. Durya Baskaran and Pair News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A month after Peru's presidential runoff election, Gekko Fujimori has officially
been declared President-elect, winning by a slim margin. Simeon Tagel has more. Her victory has triggered fears that Peru could slide back into dictatorship. Fujimori is the daughter of 1990's Strongman Albert of Fujimori, whose presidency collapsed in 2000 amid accusations of vote-rigging, human rights abuses, and corruption.
She has sought to assuage those concerns by talking about the need for dialogue and national reconciliation. Simeon Tagel reporting from Lima, Peru. The World Health Organization is declaring the "Hontavirus" outbreak, officially over. Emperors Jonathan Lambert reports the final contact of a person exposed to the virus on a cruise ship as completed their quarantine.
The outbreak was first reported in early May when passengers aborted the MV Hondias cruise
ship tested positive for "Hontavirus." The disease can be deadly. Typically, humans get the virus through exposure to rodent urine, feces, or saliva, but the outbreak on the cruise ships spark concern that it might be spreading more readily through the air from person to person.
Ultimately, only 13 cases were confirmed, three of whom died. But the WHO said over 30 countries and territories responded to the outbreak, tracing more than 650 possible contacts who might have been exposed to the virus. Now, the last of those contacts has tested negative after quarantine, leading the WHO to close the book on the outbreak, Jonathan Lambert and PR News.
And on Janine Herbst and VR News in Washington.
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