Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Rescue crews in Nepal are now in their fifth day of searching for survivors after catastrophic
“flooding killed at least 750 people, more than 3,000 others are still missing, and then”
uncertainty is being felt back in the United States. Priscilla Rice from Member Station, KERA, reports members of a Nepalese community in North Texas are waiting for word from friends and relatives. The uncertainty of the condition of missing loved ones has impacted the Nepalese community in North Texas, home to over 20,000 nationals.
The Nepalese American Chamber of Commerce in Dallas has been overwhelmed with calls of concern, or from those wanting to help. Shradah Shresta, who grew up in Nepal, is President of the Chamber. She says as a whole, the community is coming together with whatever means they can, but most of all, have not lost hope.
The anxiousness, the waiting period has been tougher, all the people who are far away from home,
and especially for people who have lost their loved ones. Shresta says she is planning a video in the upcoming days. I'm Priscilla Rice in Dallas.
“President Trump is touting a new agreement that would give the US majority ownership”
of several Venezuelan oil fields, including access to vast reserves. But as MPR's Julia Simon reports, the claims about what that could mean for American drivers don't match the realities of oil production. Oil experts say the idea that this deal would reduce gas prices was "observed". It's not clear when this oil would actually be produced.
Again, it's oil in reservoirs. It's underground. We're not talking about crude oil that's sitting in storage, and we're talking about oil that could take at least one to two years to produce up to 10 years to produce. So there is no connection to gas prices right now.
That's MPR's Julia Simon reporting. At least 37 people had been killed, and dozens more were injured after Russia launched a missile attack on an arms warehouse outside of the Ukrainian capital. MPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow. Russia's defense ministry said it had targeted an ammunition's depot housing components
for drones. A version of the events essentially confirmed by the authorities in Kiev. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky acknowledged the warehouse contained drones, shells, mines, and other munitions. But he added that the depot was inexplicably located near civilian apartment buildings,
an act of criminal negligence that led to multiple secondary explosions in the high casually count. The strike on the munitions depot comes amid a wider Russian campaign targeting both Ukraine's civilian and military infrastructure. As Moscow takes advantage of Ukraine's near total lack of US-made patriot intercept missiles
it had used to defend its skies. Charles Mains impure news, Moscow. The attacks spark explosions and fires that swept through nearby homes, including a care facility for the elderly. This is NPR News in Washington.
The grand ol' op-ree honored country icon, Dolly Partyn last night, with a sold-out standing room only show in Nashville. The executive producer, Dan Rogers, as her connection with fans went far beyond country music.
“"A lady who I truly believe was the most beloved human being in the world."”
Every artist who took the stage had a connection to Partyn who first performed at the Aubrey in 1959 at the age of 13. She died last week at the age of 80. NASA is preparing to send its newest space telescope into orbit this morning. Joe Powell reports the launch is scheduled from the Kennedy Space Center Weather Permitting.
The good news is to potentially major storms in the Atlantic face and won't pose a problem. But launch, weather officer Justin McRennelts of the US Space Force, says local weather off the floor to coast means there's a 50/50 chance of a launch. "We believe there's going to be some weather around, it's the question of, is the weather going to be over the pad or away from the pad?"
If weather does cause a delay, there's another launch opportunity on Monday morning.
Once in space, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will head to a point about a million
miles from Earth, where it will conduct its five-year mission. It's intended to search for new planets and galaxies, as well as a special type of exploding star called a Type 1A Supernova. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca. I'm Windsor-Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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