Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, a powerful 7.
struck Columbia today, killing at least 111 people and trapping residents under collapsed buildings.
“The quake hit 250 miles away from Bogotá, authorities warn of aftershocks and report injuries”
across the country.
This is the most powerful quake in Columbia in a decade.
The Trump administration says the U.S. is committing $15.5 million for emergency shelter, food protection and earthquake assessments. Russia and Ukraine continue to launch deadly air strikes that the other side simply can't stop, air offenses far outstrip air defenses, and there's no sign this huge gap will be closed anytime soon, meanwhile Ukraine continues to push for its allies, especially
the U.S. to send more patriot missile systems, but they've been made more scarce by the Iran war, as NPR's Greg Mayrie explains. Ukraine has run out of defensive missiles, just as Russia is ramping up its production of offensive missiles. Now about 20 countries have patriots, but the Trump administration is not sending any
of them now.
No other country is publicly pledging to help Ukraine.
“The U.S. stockpiles are way down because of the war and Iran, European countries have”
provided some previously, but have limited stocks and appear unwilling to part with them now. So Ukraine is talking about building a new anti missile system with European countries, but this is complicated and will take time. There's talk about testing a new missile, but not until the middle of next year.
NPR's Greg Mayrie reporting, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today declared a public health emergency in Washington state. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports the emergency gives more flexibility to the state during ongoing wildfires. The public health emergency declaration comes on the heels of President Trump's emergency
declaration last week. In a statement, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, "We stand with the people of Washington and we will not let them face this crisis alone." Part of HHS, the administration for strategic preparedness and response, has sent regional
“staff to the state and is standing by to send more staff equipment and supplies for”
a request by the state, around 65,000 people were evacuated out of Spokane last week, but now some roads have reopened and people who live in communities outside of the immediate area of the fires have been allowed to return home. There are other active wildfires throughout the state and the region, Selena's Duffin and PR news.
The trial of a man accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur has started, the trial is expected to last about a month, Dwayne Keffy D. Davis has pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder, Shakur was on his way to perform at a Las Vegas club when a car pulled up beside him. He was shot multiple times and died a week later, people who will testify include those
who saw Shakur moments before he was shot, as well as people who were affiliated with a rival record label. It's NPR. The World Health Organization says the fastest growing Ebola outbreak started in February, months before it was officially declared in May, the WHO's regional director says early
cases were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid confirmed cases have reached a 4200 with over 1,900 deaths. In California, tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in the state, as NPR's Bobby Allen reports Google co-founder Sergei Bryn has spent more than
$100 million to fight the ballot measure.
A November ballot measure known as Proposition 40 would impose a 1-time 5% tax on California residents worth more than $1 billion. If past the tax would fund health care programs in the state, leading the fight against the tax is a coalition, including Google co-founder Sergei Bryn, who has so far spent $102 million to blank at the state with ads and commercials condemning the ballot measure.
Bryn has compared the tax to the Soviet-style socialism his family fled in the late 1970s. He has moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe to avoid the tax. Bryn is also supporting two competing ballot measures in November that would effectively avoid the billionaires tax. Bobby Allen and PR news Los Angeles
Two drivers of Mercedes AMG cars have found a class action lawsuit against the luxury car company saying that the AMG logo on their driver's seats gets so hot that it literally brands them and causes burns. The plaintiffs alleged the front seats of certain Mercedes AMG vehicles have a design defect where, on a hot day, the raised metallic AMG logo can burn a person's upper back
neck or shoulder, they want Mercedes to compensate them for medical and other costs. This is NPR News. There's something wrong with the plumbing in Cincinnati. Billions of gallons of raw sewage ends up in waterways every year and for some, that raw sewage is a lot closer to home.
When it's coming out of the drain down there, it's sewage. This stench was terrible.
