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The aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, is in route to the Middle East.
“It will relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been at sea nearly nine months, and”
Piaz Avapukech reports there are reports of difficult conditions aboard the Lincoln." President Trump told reporters Friday the record-long deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln is "not nearly long enough." Aaron Bramlet, who has a grandson on board the aircraft carrier, condemned the President's comments.
"Donald Trump needs to be ashamed of himself to let them suffer, that the way that they're doing they're over there fighting for our country, and this is the thanks they get." Bramlet said the conditions on the ship are wearing on her grandson. She says he once thought he would retire with the military, and now that dream has shattered. One cow acting secretary of the Navy said the crew on the USS Lincoln, quote, "Have
been pushed to their limits, but they never have broken."
Eva Puketch and Piaz News A relentless stretch of thunderstorms has brought devastating flooding across the Midwest more rain is expected. Here's NPR's Laura Sullivan.
“The National Weather Service is predicting widespread storms this weekend through the Ohio”
Valley, Midwest, and the Central Appalachians. The rainfall will bring additional precipitation to already heavily saturated areas. Indiana and Ohio have been among the hardest hit states with rainfall totaling more than 11 inches in some areas. The White River in Anderson, Indiana, rose to a record 24.9 feet surpassing a floodmark
that has stood since 1913. Indiana Governor Mike Brown requested a presidential emergency declaration and declared a statewide disaster emergency, more flood warnings and flood watches have been issued across parts of Central Illinois and Central Indiana through Sunday night. Laura Sullivan and Piaz News
The death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit Western Columbia last Monday is at least 294
and other 300 are reported missing, but hopes are beginning to fade of finding more people alive. NPR's KeriCon reports
“Recovery crews are finding few possible signs of life under the rubble”
of collapse buildings. In Cali, Colombia, the country's third largest city, the fire chief told Reuters efforts to recover body should come to an end this weekend. Heavy equipment will then be brought in to clear the debris. On Sunday, top Latin music stars, including Mark Anthony, Cheyenne and Luis Fonsier, scheduled
to hold a benefit concert from Miami to raise money for earthquake victims in Colombia, as well as those from the back to back quakes in Venezuela, June, that killed more than 6,000 people. Promotors say online donations and ticket sales from the concert will help rebuild homes, schools and communities.
KeriCon and Piaz News, Rio de Janeiro, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The National Hurricane Center says Lula is gaining strength that is now a category one hurricane as it heads Westerly towards the big island of Hawaii, Lula has a maximumst to sane winds of 75 miles per hour with heavy rains between 8 and 25 inches that could hit parts of the island beginning Saturday night.
Hawaii's governor Josh Green has declared a state of emergency. Movie ticket sales are not cooling down is Hollywood reaches the dog days of summer and Piaz Bob Mondello has details. When the Odyssey first opened, it was playing on every iMac screen in the country. Now it's sharing a few iMac screens with Spider-Man brand new day.
And together those two films will take in about $90 million this weekend in North America. Conventional movie screens meanwhile have not won but two movies with rampaging dinosaurs. The end of Oak Street, which is sort of Jurassic, Suburbia. The animated kid flick Paw Patrol by no movie. They're in a tight battle for third place.
Altogether the weekend will take in roughly $150 million all but guaranteeing that this summer will end up Hollywood's best in a decade. Bob Mondello and PR News. Police in Chesterfield County, Virginia confirmed they have made an arrest in connection with today's shooting at Virginia State University, south of Richmond.
Five people, including one student were wounded, one victim is in critical condition.
A 19 year old man who is not believed to be a student, Cameron Harris is currently in police custody. This is NPR. Support for NPR. Hey it's Mike Danforth, executive producer of Weight Weight Don't Tell Me.
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