"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
Rescue efforts continue in Nepal, where the death toll from a catastrophic flood stands
“at more than 600 with nearly 3,000 people still missing.”
California's Anjana Rajah and her husband were on a bus at the China Nepal border when the rushing water, ice, mud, and debris wiped out entire villages. She says there was no time to think and she grabbed her husband and ran." It just came like a roll, it sucked a bunch of buses, as you eat, people. The base camp.
Everything. She says she told her husband at that moment, "I just said, "Leave the bus right away. We're going to die." Relief efforts are underway as helicopters ferry survivors from the region hit by disaster four days ago.
Other airborne relief carries boxes and bags of aid, including clothes, instant noodles, crackers, and rice.
This state department is taking steps to send some diplomats back to the post in the
Middle East, but the U.S. is still encouraging Americans to avoid travel to countries that have been hit by Iranian fire in that war and PR's Michelle Kellman has the latest.
“In the early days of the war as Iran struck U.S. interests across the Persian Gulf region,”
the U.S. evacuated diplomats and their families leaving only enough staff for emergency services for Americans. Underordered and authorized departures, as their known diplomats receive housing allowances to stay in the U.S. to work remotely, but that's only supposed to last 180 days. Now the Department is sending some diplomats back.
In Qatar, family members may join the U.S. government employees in Kuwait and Bahrain only family members 18 years and older can go. The U.S. is still discouraging American citizens from traveling to these countries amid uncertainty over the war. Michelle Kellman and PR news, the State Department.
In the Middle East, local health officials say Israeli strikes and fire and Gaza have killed three Palestinians and wounded others as real military charged that a Hamas commander was hiding in a hospital there. Stocks dipped on Friday, but as NPR has got, Horsley reports all the major market indexes still ended up.
A report from the Commerce Department this week showed consumer prices are still climbing faster than most people would like. Prices were up 3.7% for the 12 months ending in July. The Commerce Department's inflation yardstick is the one most closely watched by the Federal Reserve.
Fed Chairman Kevin Morris told a gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, that curbing inflation should be the central banks' main focus for now. He says the job market appears stable and consumer spending is still resilient. Horses did not offer a forecast of where he thinks interest rates are headed, but odds of a September rate increase rose after his speech for the week the Dow and the S&P 500
index both rose half a percent while the tech heavy NASDAQ jumped eight tenths of a percent. Scott Horsley and PR news, Washington. This is NPR. We've heard from plenty of adults about Meta's landmark child safety agreement, users under age 18 cannot be on Facebook or Instagram more than two hours a day, notifications will be muted
during school hours and Meta will step up its age verification process.
“But what are kids saying about the prospect of new rules?”
And PR's Ava Berger spoke to some young people to get their take. Today's teenagers are savvy technology users, and they know it. Meta says they're investing in stronger technology to make sure kids are following the AEG news restrictions. But NPR spoke to teens who said their age group will just find a way around any new restrictions
because they always have.
13-year-old Sonalia Sedaya lives in Washington state. She said there are plenty of work rounds, like changing time zones to avoid screen time limitations. Were the people that are on, like know how to use technology the most so that it's they're really, really simple ways to get around this kind of stuff?
After all, kids can always go to another app. They have plenty to choose from. David Berger and PR news. In Nashville tonight, the Grand Old Opry will honor Dolly Parton and her vast impact on country music with a special tribute celebrating her life and times.
Parton died at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Some ticket sale proceeds will go to Parton's imagination library. That project has provided hundreds of millions of free books to children. The show will be live-streamed. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway, we've smuggled products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent at Harktica. That's right. Big for me. Mr. Penguins.
I've had another sound of Antarctica, that's a reporter trying to interview a penguin. We'll explain on Planet Money Summer School. on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
