NPR News: 07-07-2025 10AM EDT
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What caused the deadly flash flooding in Texas and how are rescue efforts proceeding?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas says it's grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors in catastrophic flash flooding. The Christian Summer Camp released a statement this morning asking for prayers and expressing gratitude for the support it's received. At least 82 people were killed across the state. Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro's district is still recovering from deadly flash flooding last month. In San Antonio. He told NPR's morning edition the immediate focus after Friday's disaster is the search effort and then asking tough questions.
Right now we still have a a rescue effort going on and finding the rest of those people uh alive hopefully is a priority. Um but you know after that in the months to come. I think we owe it to everybody to make sure that there's a thorough investigation of what went wrong.
How is the Trump administration responding to the Texas disaster and the investigation into weather service staffing?
President Trump has signed a disaster declaration to send more resources to Kerr County, and PR Stepa Shivram says he may visit the flood zone later this week.
Trump told reporters that he wanted to quote leave a little time so that he wouldn't be in the way of recovery efforts from the flooding, which he called quote absolutely horrible. Trump's secretary of homeland security Christy Noam has already been on the ground. Rains on July 4th caused severe flash flooding in central Texas. Despite flood warnings from the National Weather Service, the severity of the storm was a surprise for many. When asked if the administration was investigating whether recent cuts in the federal government workforce left key vacancies open at the National Weather Service, Trump said, quote, they didn't. Deepa Shiv NPR News.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet today at the White House. Trump is pushing for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire proposal calls for a sixty day pause in the fighting and the release of some hostages held by Hamas.
What are the details of the proposed Israel‑Hamas ceasefire and the upcoming White House meeting?
Israel would release Palestinian prisoners. Israel sent a negotiating team to Qatar on Sunday for peace talks. Stocks opened lower this morning as investors brace for several more weeks of tariff uncertainty. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow fell about ninety points in early trading.
This is the week the Trump administration had threatened to impose higher tariffs on goods from countries that failed to strike new trade agreements with the U.S., but it now appears those higher import taxes won't take effect until at least August 1st. That means U.S. importers have at least three more weeks in limbo, not knowing what kind of bill they might face when bringing foreign products into the country. OPEC and its allies announced plans over the weekend to boost production by more than half a million barrels a day. Triple A says retail gasoline prices in the U.S. have already been falling to an average of three dollars fourteen cents a gallon.
How are new U.S. tariff rules and OPEC production changes affecting the stock market and gasoline prices?
That's about four cents lower than a week ago, but a penny more than this time last month. Scott Horselay, MPR News, Washington.
This is NPR. One beneficiary of the tax and spending bill signed into law by President Trump on the fourth of July is a type of coal used to make steel. From member station WESA Reed Fraser reports companies that mine metallurgical coal are in line to receive a two and a half percent tax credit.
The massive bill classifies metallurgical coal as a critical mineral and thus eligible for a tax credit that had gone mainly to materials used in clean energy. Metallurgical or met coal is used to make steel in a blast furnace and is a big greenhouse gas polluter. Hilary Lewis, an analyst with the environmental nonprofit Industrious Labs, says the bill will have more of an economic impact overseas since most met coal produced in the US is exported.
So it's going to make iron and steel produced outside of the US cheaper.
The top destinations for US met coal are India, Brazil, and Japan.
Why did the 2025 tax bill give a credit to metallurgical coal and what is the impact on steel production and the running of the bulls in Spain?
For NPR News, I'm Reed Frazier in Pittsburgh.
The running of the bulls is underway in Pamplona, Spain. A stampede of bulls opened the festival today, pounding along cobblestone streets with thousands of runners.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What caused the deadly flash flooding in Texas and how are rescue efforts proceeding?
0:00–0:54
2
How is the Trump administration responding to the Texas disaster and the investigation into weather service staffing?
0:54–1:57
3
What are the details of the proposed Israel‑Hamas ceasefire and the upcoming White House meeting?
1:57–2:50
4
How are new U.S. tariff rules and OPEC production changes affecting the stock market and gasoline prices?
2:50–3:57
5
Why did the 2025 tax bill give a credit to metallurgical coal and what is the impact on steel production and the running of the bulls in Spain?
3:57–4:39