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Hurricane Lala has skirted Hawaii's big island without making landfall after lashing
“the region with heavy rain and strong winds.”
The eye of the storm passed as south of the island avoiding what could have been a historic direct hit. Bill Dorman from Hawaii Public Radio reports. Blocked roads, fallen trees, and downed power lines. That's part of what many people in Hawaii are dealing with this weekend.
A powerful storm system pushed very close to Hawaii Island on Saturday.
With Hurricane Force winds sweeping across much of the island. Tens of thousands of customers were without electricity. As crews worked to restore power once winds slowed down. The National Hurricane Center reports more than a foot of rain fell across Windward Maui in the big island on Saturday, and the storm continues to move west to the island
of Oahu on Sunday. For NPR News, I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. severe weather is hitting parts of the Midwest at least five people have been killed in Indiana. And forecasters say additional storms are on the way.
Nearly a foot of rain fell in some areas pushing rivers to record levels and forcing hundreds of people from their homes. Governor Mike Braun says the saturated ground leaves the state, especially vulnerable to another round of heavy rain. And the ground saturated like this, even though it's a dry time in the year normally,
“I think we've got to hopefully not any more major storms like this come along, or else”
we'd have to deal with it to some extent again. President Trump has approved an emergency declaration for Indiana making federal assistance available. Israeli settlers attacked a construction worker trying to restore water service to a Palestinian-American home on Saturday in the West Bank.
The area has been under siege since last Sunday. NPR's Frank Lankford reports from Tel Aviv. Video from the home's occupant shows more than a dozen Israeli settlers chasing a back home and jumping aboard, the operator tries to drive to safety. The homeowner, Luay Ride, a Palestinian-American businessman who lives in Toledo, said the
settlers are trying to take over his home and should be arrested. Imagine that you have a gangster's in front of your house and you call the police on them. And when the police come, they go hang out with them. Israeli soldiers did run off the settlers today. Israeli defense forces said it deployed more soldiers to the area and pledged to protect
all residents. But Palestinians say land grabs are rarely punished because they advance the government's goal of expanding Israeli control of land Palestinians claim. Frank Lankford and pure news, Tel Aviv. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
The United States and Canada are trying to read to trade deal, new 50% U.S. tariffs on
roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods are set to take effect on Wednesday.
The dispute involves Canadian dairy policies, restrictions on U.S. alcohol and tariffs affecting autos and other goods. At the box office, movie ticket sales are not cooling down as Hollywood reaches the end of summer, NPR's Bob Mandela reports. When the Odyssey first opened, it was playing on every IMAX screen in the country.
Now it's sharing a few IMAX 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 mean while have not won, but two movies with rampaging dinosaurs at the end of Oak Street, which is sort of Jurassic, Serbia and the animated kid flick Paw Patrol by no movie.
They're in a tight battle for third place, all together the weekend will take in roughly
$150 million all but guaranteeing that this summer will end up Hollywood's best in a decade.
Bob Mandela and PR news. Opening statements are expected Monday in Las Vegas in the murder trial of Dwayne Davis, the only person ever charged in the death of Tupac Shakur in 1996, prosecutors accused Davis of orchestrating the drive-by shooting and supplying the gun, although he's not accused of firing the fatal shots.
Davis has pleaded, not guilty. This is NPR News.
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