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Hurricane Lala is moving away from Hawaii's big island after scurting the southern coast
without making landfall.
“The storm brought powerful winds and torrential rain, flooding roads and knocking out power”
to tens of thousands of customers. Robert Ballard is a meteorologist with a national weather service. We're getting incredibly strong winds, very strong downslope winds coming off the mountain slopes, massive flash flooding with intense and tense rainfall. And then of course, as we typically see with hurricanes, very high surf and storm surge
as well. So, it's a combination of all of those threats. Some areas of the big island and Maui receive more than 15 inches of rain as the storm passed.
Some severe storms and flooding are being reported across parts of the Midwest.
Indiana has been especially hit hard with rivers reaching record levels and hundreds of people forced from their homes. Samantha Horton from Member Station, W.Y.I. reports, at least five people, have died.
“In the town of Rocky Ripple along the white river, residents are more than 300 homes”
were urged to evacuate while on tier's help to fill sandbags for residents to try to protect their homes. Some sandbags were also used to reinforce the levy keeping the water back. Town Council President Randy Sanders says the flood is expected to be the worst since 1913.
Projections right now are that the water could be a foot over top of the levy here. There's also some weak spots in the levy and if we lose any part of it, we're going to lose most of the town. President Trump approved federal aid to assist in emergency response efforts. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Horton and Indianapolis.
The FDA is in Mexico to investigate the cause of contaminated lettuce that has thickened almost 10,000 people in at least 19 states and PR's Laura Sullivan reports. The FDA officials say they have initiated an on-site inspection at Taylor Farms in Mexico.
“The farm linked to the largest known cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history.”
They say they're coordinating with Mexican officials. The FDA says in a statement it's "confident" that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market. Officials noted that the best by dates on the lettuce packaging has also now passed. The FDA says investigators in Mexico hope to sample different areas of the facility and
the field. Though critics say it will be hard to gain much useful information now because too much time has passed. Taylor Farms says it recalled all iceberg lettuce from the U.S. market on July 17. Laura Sullivan and PR News, Washington.
This is NPR News. The United States and Canada are trying to reach a 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. Here we go. The Trump administration opened the largest U.S. detention camp at Fort Bliss in Texas.
The calls to close the 10th facility have grown louder amid allegations of inhumane conditions where three people in custody have died. Angela Couturga with member station KTP reports from El Paso. Civil rights and immigrant advocates gather to mark the one-year anniversary of the camp, which opened on August 17th of last year.
They read testimony from detainees detailing unsanitary conditions. Igor Undercooked meals and dangerous medical neglect. Attorney Charlotte Weiss with the Texas Civil Rights Project visits the camp. She read testimony from a 48-year-old man detained at the camp who needed multiple medications for diabetes.
"I was only given insulin once per day by the medical staff and my daily doses were often late or missed altogether." Immigration and customs enforcement has said detainees get proper care, but a government accountability office report released in June found the camp failed to meet basic health and safety standards.
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