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The death toll after a powerful 7.4 earthquake in Colombia has risen to 111.
“Authorities say they expect the toll to rise, people remain trapped under collapsed buildings”
in several cities in Western Colombia, including the city of Cali with more than 2 million residents in Periscarri, Con reports. The strong quake struck early Monday morning rattling buildings in homes in the Choco region, some 150 miles west of the Colombian capital Bogota. The U.S.G.S. at the Temblor struck at a depth of 66 miles, posting on social media.
The governor of Choco says there are reports of, quote, "multiple injuries and severe damage to the buildings." Some 140,000 people live in Quibdo, the capital of the region. The video on local TV from cities in the region so collapsed, building, and major damage to a regional airport.
The quake comes more than a month after 2 strong back to Bakr, quakes hit neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 5,000 people in destroying hundreds of buildings. Kerry Con and PR news, Rio de Janeiro.
“The U.S.G.S. has a lot of data for L.S. first major crisis as president.”
L.S. Perella was just sworn in last week. He has declared a state of emergency and says
the first priority is rescuing people trapped beneath the rubble.
President Trump signed another executive order Monday. This one aimed at trying to up-in the way American children are vaccinated against dangerous infections. "Effectively, immediately, my administration's recognizing gold-standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases
along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up." The MMR shot is a single vaccination against measles, bombs, rubble, and chickenpox. Trump's executive order calls for it to be broken up into separate shots. The order is being denounced by public health experts who will likely be challenged in court.
A new poll, commissioned by supporters of election reforms, finds voters are open to some
“big changes into how Congress has elected in PR's Ashley Lopez reports.”
The poll shows their significant support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation. It's a system used in most democracies that elects multiple representatives in a single district, according to a party's vote share. Lee Dropman with the liberal thing tank new America partnered with the advocacy group fix our house to commission the poll of 1,000 voters.
He says they found this idea was supported by a margin of two to one. So probably the most appealing aspect of the proportional representation based on this polling is that it provides a solution to gerrymandering and it increases the competition for voters. More than 90% of how selections this year are on competitive. Ashley Lopez and Piano's.
This is in PR news. The trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of rapper two Poxa Core 30 years ago, got underway Monday. Duane Davis's trial is expected to last about a month in Las Vegas. He has pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder with a deadly weapon.
Davis was a gang leader at the time of Shakur's murder in 1996. Store shelves are lined with school supplies and some have already had decorations for Halloween. But for service workers in Idaho are thinking about Christmas. From Boise State Public Radio Lauren Patterson reports on a call for handmade ornaments for the Capitol Christmas tree in Washington, D.C.
Also nicknamed The People's Tree, this is the towering evergreen that stands in Capitol Square to represent the people of the United States. This year's tree will be harvested from northern Idaho. Katie Bauer, a recreation management specialist for the Nespers Clearwater National Forests, says her team is trying to get as many handmade ornaments as they can.
All of the ornaments that go to the tree are handmade from people in our communities. And we are looking for 10,000 ornaments. So from all across the country are encouraged to make ornaments and send them in to be packaged up with the tree. Learn more about the project at uscapitalchrysmistry.com.
For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Kamiai, Idaho. Former Democratic Georgia Congressman Ben Jones has died. He was 84. His wife said on social media that he suffered a heart attack Sunday at their home in Washington, Virginia.
Jones served two terms in the house but is likely best known for playing couture. The TV series of dukes of hazard. This is NPR. 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today it's back at rates not seen in half a century.
These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. On the Sunday story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster.
Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
