Tracy Mumford
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9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then he felt a whoosh of air, like a breeze coming through.
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Before he knew it, a massive wave of muddy water and rock had slammed into his home.
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He was able to outrun it, scrambling up the valley, but he watched as it carried away his wife and two daughters, age seven and eight.
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Nepal's foreign minister said the flood, which experts think was caused by a huge chunk of a glacier plummeting down into the valley below, has completely wiped out town after town.
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With the roads washed away, too, helicopters have been flying in and out of the mountains, picking up survivors.
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At this point, authorities are warning that there could be more water coming.
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Chinese officials say that the ice avalanche that set off the initial flood also formed a massive lake.
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And that lake is now at risk of bursting as rain sweeps through the region.
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And finally, buckle up here for a bit of a story.
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In Canada, starting a few years ago, there was a surge in car thefts.
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It got to the point that thieves were breaking into people's homes just to get keys.
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And specifically, a lot of pickup trucks like Dodge Rams, Toyota Tundras, and Ford F-150s seemed to be just disappearing off the streets.
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Jane Bradley is an investigative reporter at The Times.
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She says, according to data from Interpol, there were almost 5,000 reports of stolen Canadian vehicles ending up in Russia over the past two years.
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And authorities think that's a significant undercount.
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What's happening, Jane says, is that Russians have developed a huge taste for Western pickups and luxury cars that they can no longer get due to sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
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And the more people can't have them, the more they want them.
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Jane says Canada has been trying to crack down on these crime rings and thefts have been going down recently as the country has made changes like increasing prison sentences for car theft.
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Still, one man she talked to, who was being held on charges of participating in a scheme like this, said he didn't think it would stop anytime soon.
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There's just too much money to be made.
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