Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattinglay.
Search teams in Nepal say they rescued two hydropower plant workers, nine days after
“a glacier collapsed triggered deadly flash flooding near the border with Tibet.”
NPR's Dia Hadid says the two are among hundreds of workers believed to have been trapped at around a dozen such plants. Video shared by NPR's military showed five men in high vis, amid a moonscape of mud and debris. They heave and pull out one man from the Trishuli 3A hydropower project. The associated press reports that more than 100 people are believed trapped inside that project alone.
Rescuers believe hundreds of power plant workers likely sheltered in tunnels and turbine rooms during the devastating floods. But the plants were hard to locate after the floods caused the river to shift and the tunnels attacked with mud and boulders.
One rescue hotels NPR that finding these men alive gives them hope that others might
still be out there. Dia Hadid and Piano News. More than 1200 people are confirmed dead in that flooding several thousand are still missing. Vice President Vance says it's up to Iran as to when the war with the US ends. NPR's Emily Fang says Vance also says at this point he wouldn't describe the most recent
exchanges of fire as a war. Asked whether the Iran war would be over by the midterms the first week of November, the Vice President disputed whether the conflict is really a war and continued.
“I think the reality is I don't know the answer to that question.”
You'd have to ask the Iranians. When will the Iranians shooting at ships stop having an effect on the world energy markets
in the answer is it has less effect day by day.
Earlier this week, Iran's president said his country is willing to go back to a ceasefire at reach with the US in June if the Trump administration is willing to do so as well. But Vance said the US is not talking to Iran and not looking to start negotiations until Iran stops shooting at vessels. Emily Fang and Piano News the White House.
The fighting between the US and Iran is in its seventh month. Early on, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth repeatedly said the war would last weeks, not months. Triple A says diesel prices in the US are at an all-time high. Price rose another 7 cents a gallon overnight, diesel now averages $5.85 a gallon nationwide.
“Higher diesel prices raise transportation costs which hikes the cost of many consumer goods.”
Economists will get their latest look at employment in the US when the Labor Department releases the August hiring numbers this morning. In July, employers shed about 23,000 jobs. Economists are forecasting job growth in August to range from 25,000 to 125,000, who report from ADP on Wednesday suggested the number will be on the lower end of that range.
This is NPR News. Authorities in Minnesota say the man who opened fire inside a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building on Wednesday was being evicted and had previously threatened his neighbors. Police say in June they investigated a report that Carlton Johnson had displayed a weapon. Investigators say Johnson shot and killed two people in the building and wounded five others,
including two police officers. Johnson was fatally shot by responding law enforcement. The Missouri Supreme Court is blocking new congressional districts backed by President Trump from being used in the November midterm law elections. In a unanimous ruling the state's high court also ordered a statewide vote on whether
to uphold the new map, as Jason Rosenbaum with St. Louis Public Radio reports. The state's Supreme Court ruled that a referendum over congressional lines aimed at outsting Democrat Emmanuel Cleaver can go forward and that means that a different map with a district cleaver's favorite to win will be in effect in November. Richard von Glon is executive director of people not politicians, the group that spearheaded
the referendum effort. He says the Supreme Court is giving Missouri voters a chance to push back against the Trump backed redistricting plan. People across the political spectrum want a democracy that is accountable to us and focuses on our needs.
Missouri's Attorney General, a Republican, is appealing the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. For MPR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum and St. Louis. Wall Street Futures are mostly higher this morning, though Dow futures are down 29 points. I'm Dave Madingley, NPR News, in Washington. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, Democratic Socialists are having a moment.
What's their goal? The goal being to eventually re-aligned the Democratic Party to perhaps some day develop up an independent party, but we recognize that in the United States there's just a two-party system. How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
