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Why are flood victims still missing in central Texas and what does it reveal about flood readiness?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. Dozens of flood victims are still missing in central Texas. The disaster is prompting a number of cities to take a closer look at their flood readiness plans. But as Nathan Bernier from Member Station KUT reports One of the most common flood dangers in Texas may take generations to
fix. Texas already led the nation in flood deaths even before the recent storms claimed more than 130 lives. One of the most deadly flood risks is when fast moving water flows over the road.
So when it comes, it comes fast.
We've been up to our knees or our thighs on this road.
How many low‑water crossings exist in Austin and why could fixing them take centuries?
It's just pouring.
Brent and Katie Johnson live next to a low water crossing in northwest Austin. The city has nearly seventy of them. At the current pace, Austin is fixing about one low water crossing every three years. That means it could take 200 years to fix them all. And across central Texas, there are hundreds more. I'm Nathan Vernier in Austin, Texas.
Adelita Grijalva has won Arizona's Democratic primary for an open US House seat that her father, Raul Grihalva, held for two decades until his death in March. And Alita Grijalva hopes to serve the remainder of her father's term.
Who is Adelita Grijalva and what are the stakes in Arizona’s special House election?
She'll face Republican businessman Daniel Butieras in a special election that's scheduled for September twenty third. The Republican led Senate is taking up a package of roughly nine billion dollars in spending cuts requested by the Trump administration. NPR Spot Matanis reports that a major global health program that provides HIV AIDS treatment is being spared from the cutbacks.
PEPPAR was launched by President George W. Bush and has been credited with saving 25 million lives by helping control the spread of HIV AIDS around the world. The Trump administration sought to cut $400 million in PEPFAR funds, along with billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds for global health and humanitarian assistance programs. But some Republican senators voiced concerns about cutting the popular program, and today Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced that PEPFAR funds would be spared. The White House is keen on having the package pass.
Why was the $9 billion spending‑cut package altered to spare the global HIV/AIDS program?
President Trump has said that he would withdraw support for any Republicans who did not vote for it. Fat Metanis and Pierre News.
President Trump and executives from the oil and tech industries gathered in Pittsburgh Tuesday for a summit to promote investments in the energy and technology sectors. Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Trump announced investments in artificial intelligence as well.
Twenty leading technology and energy companies are announcing more than ninety-two billion dollars of investments in Pennsylvania. And if you want, we could probably get them up. Let's talk to a brand.
He also says it should also ensure that the future economy will be designed and built in the United States. You're listening to NPR.
What investments were announced at Trump’s Pittsburgh summit for energy and technology?
Western European nations have agreed to restore sanctions on Iran by the end of next month. Negotiators from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany held several rounds of talks but failed to get Iran to agree. to end its nuclear program. President Trump has said that the US and Iran will hold more nuclear talks soon, but he did not say when. The amount of investment in global health is dropping. And buy a lot. A new study published in the Lancet shows that global health funding for two thousand twenty six is expected to drop to half what it was in twenty twenty one. NPR's Gabriella Emanuel as the story.
Global health funding reached a historic peak in twenty twenty one during the COVID pandemic, with some eighty billion committed to international health.
How is the projected drop in global‑health funding expected to impact future aid?
Next year the figure is expected to be thirty eight billion. That's because the US, the UK, France and Germany are all cutting back on foreign assistance. Angela Esia PG is with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and lead author on the study.
The landscape is now open, so non traditional donors could also move in. China, India. Middle Eastern donor countries.
Even if others increase their contributions, she says the dramatic drop in aid threatens to reverse decades of progress in global health.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are flood victims still missing in central Texas and what does it reveal about flood readiness?
0:01–0:41
2
How many low‑water crossings exist in Austin and why could fixing them take centuries?
0:41–1:17
3
Who is Adelita Grijalva and what are the stakes in Arizona’s special House election?
1:17–2:09
4
Why was the $9 billion spending‑cut package altered to spare the global HIV/AIDS program?
2:09–3:01
5
What investments were announced at Trump’s Pittsburgh summit for energy and technology?
3:01–3:49
6
How is the projected drop in global‑health funding expected to impact future aid?
3:49–4:38