Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiewone.
The Trump administration says around 85 Americans remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flash flooding into Paul last week.
“9 U.S. citizens have been safely evacuated and PR's Windsor Johnston reports on the U.S.”
response. The State Department says its embassies in Kathmandu and Bayed Jing are working with local officials as search and rescue operations continue. The U.S. also has a disaster response adviser on the ground helping determine what kind of assistance is needed.
spokesperson Tommy Pigut tells ABCs this week that millions of dollars in emergency aid have already been approved.
We have activated from the State Department $3.6 million in emergency humanitarian assistance.
That includes up to three months of emergency food for up to 10,000 flood affected households. Money will also help restore damaged roads and provide specialized transportation to remote communities. Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington. The acrimonious trade war between the U.S. and Canada continues President Trump's
executive order that lake Ontario be changed to lake America.
“Has now been reflected on Google Maps for Google users in the U.S. and Canada, it's not”
changed and for the rest of the world Google is providing both names. Meanwhile in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford posted a big sign that reads lake Ontario now and always. Ford said today that the U.S. has a lot to lose. It was a terrible deal for Canada.
I told him it was a terrible deal. We're the engine of Canada on Tereo is and what it hurt our steel industry and I find it ironic because we're the number one purchaser is steel in the world off the U.S. So that's going to hurt the steel mills right across the country where the number one auto purchaser that's going to hurt auto plants.
Ford spoke on ABCs this week. Iceland's voters this weekend rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union and a national debate over geopolitical security and local prosperity, the people decided to maintain sole control over the country's prized fisheries. A telescope to study galaxies and more is now shooting through space, Marianne Semorall
from Central Florida Public Media reports. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched this morning at 726 Eastern Time, a top space exes Falcon heavy rocket. Roman will search for dark energy which could explain why our universe expands and dark matter, what holds galaxies together.
Unless it will study exoplanets or planets that orbit stars outside our solar system.
Roman will travel about a million miles from Earth to start its observations.
The telescope's view is about a hundred times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. For MPR News, I'm Marianne Semorall at the Kennedy Space Center. This is NPR. The National Hurricane Center says tropical storm carina has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, it's more than 800 miles out to see, not expected to make landfall,
but could eventually create dangerous undertow and rip currents. Dolly Parton was a fixture in Nashville around the city, fans are sharing stories about when they met her. Justin Barney from Member Station WPLN, Listened In, as one man recalled his encounters. Years ago, Tom Occupinty was working at a publishing studio, an accidently opened a door
right into Dolly Parton. She laughed it off and then waited patiently as he struggled from the office to the car looking for a pen and paper to get her autograph. Decades later, he saw her again at a chiropractor's office, and she joked that she was there because he'd hit her with the door long ago.
Occupinty was at the memorial outside of her studio in South Nashville last week. It was like, we were friends.
She had this innate ability just to make you feel like you were the most important person
when she was talking to at that point, and you mattered. Parton's legacy is full of stories of kindness and joy. Friend PR News, I'm Justin Barney in Nashville. At the box office this weekend, Spider-Man brand new day top sales in North America bringing its worldwide total to $2.3 billion making it the fourth highest grossing film of all
time. Coming in second this weekend, Coyote vs. Acme formally produced by Warner Bros. and now showing in theaters under the catch-up entertainment brand. I'm Louis Skivone and PR News, Washington. One A is named for the first amendment, which protects the freedom of the press and your freedom
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