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What is the current death toll and volunteer effort after the Central Texas flash floods?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The death toll from flash flooding July 4th in Central Texas continues to rise. At least 128 people are confirmed dead as search crews continue to find bodies. With the disaster now two weeks old, NPR's Frank Morris reports many volunteers who have been helping with the search are preparing to leave.
Volunteers have put in some nine hundred thousand hours. More than twelve thousand of them have been working here. But many, like Bo Burgess from Fort Worth, have only one week off to give. Burgess spent his last day volunteering, walking about ten miles of the Guadalupe River, and he says the debris still there was troubling.
Just seeing all the clothes from children and necklaces and crosses and goggles and kayaks. But really like the children's clothing. You know, just children's clothing everywhere. Burgess and many other Flash
Flood volunteers will be welcome at home, but missed in Kerr County, where cleanup efforts continue. Frank Morris, NPR News, Kerr County, Texas.
More rain is still forecast in central Texas. A flood watch is in effect again through tonight. Complicating recovery efforts along the Guadalupe River after the devastating July fourth flooding, one hundred and sixty people at least are still unaccounted for. But as NPR's Amy Held reports, relief may be in sight.
South central Texas could see several more inches of rain with isolated totals up to a foot.
How is additional rain expected to affect the Guadalupe River recovery efforts?
This as crews continue to look for flood victims. Here's meteorologist Joseph Wegman.
We're still unfortunately looking at at least some rain into the headwaters of the Guadalupe River, which could likely c cause at least some rises.
The rain should ease by early this week, but Wegman notes these kinds of cluster thunderstorms prove difficult to predict.
It certainly is unusual to have this much rain in a specific area on multiple days over and over and over again.
Climate change is making intense rainfall and flooding worse as a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. Amy Held, NPR News.
Sharp criticism from Congressional Democrats for an immigration detention center newly opened in Okope, Florida. The three thousand bed facility nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz, says Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's quote, wall-to-wall humans, thirty-two detainees per cage, and very hot.
In the medical intake area. It was 85 degrees. This is inside the so-called in air conditioned tent.
Visiting Democrats say the environment is unsanitary and bug infested.
Why are Congressional Democrats criticizing the new immigration detention center in Okeechobee, Florida?
Schultz told reporters the food is subpar. Visiting Republican legislators say they saw a clean and well-run facility. while on the same tour yesterday. This is NPR News. Parts of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona are under evacuation orders as two nearby wildfires burn uncontained. At least twenty five thousand acres have burned so far. No major injuries have been reported. Hundreds of firefighting personnel have deployed to both the Dragon Bravo and White Sage fires, but containment remains low. And the forecast is calling for more hot and dry weather in the near term. The number of pedestrians killed on US roads declined for the second year in a row. But as NPR's Joel Rose reports, fatalities are still well above pre pandemic levels.
Drivers struck and killed more than 7,000 people last year. Still, that was a decline over the previous year. The second year in a row, the pedestrian fatalities fell by more than four percent, according to a report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association. The report also looked closely at fatal crashes from the previous year.
What are the conditions and evacuation orders for the Grand Canyon wildfires?
It found that more than three quarters of pedestrian fatalities occur after dark, and that the share of deaths caused by SUVs and pickup trucks has surged. Pedestrian fatalities reached a forty year high in twenty twenty two, and while the numbers have declined since then, they remain almost twenty percent higher than they were in twenty sixteen. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the current death toll and volunteer effort after the Central Texas flash floods?
0:01–1:32
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How is additional rain expected to affect the Guadalupe River recovery efforts?
1:32–2:47
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Why are Congressional Democrats criticizing the new immigration detention center in Okeechobee, Florida?
2:47–3:55
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What are the conditions and evacuation orders for the Grand Canyon wildfires?
3:55–4:39