Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. A Delta jet slid off a runway in Des Moines, Iowa last night. No major injuries were reported, but officials closed the city's airport temporarily. NPR's Matt Bloom reports the accident comes as a major winter storm disrupts travel throughout the Midwest.
The airline says the flight from Detroit, Michigan left the runway's paved surface while transitioning to the taxiway after landing. All 54 passengers and four crew members were evacuated and taken to the terminal via bus. The slide happened after a powerful winter storm dropped more than eight inches of snow in parts of Iowa and other states across the Midwest.
The storm hit just as many residents head home from the Thanksgiving holiday, and officials say more delays are likely. Forecasters say another winter storm could bring freezing rain and ice in the Appalachians Monday and Tuesday and moderate to heavy snow in the interior northeast. Matt Bloom, NPR News.
Flight delays out of Chicago persist this morning as snow-covered roads are creating challenging driving conditions. The death toll from a fire at a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong has risen to 146. The whereabouts of about 150 others is unclear. Officials say the search through the buildings could take up to three weeks. The BBC's Martin Yip has more from Hong Kong.
We are hearing this new death toll of 146 and that's the result of the police victim identifications team.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Delta jet incident in Des Moines, Iowa?
The experts have been going through two other buildings to date and found these new victims sadly died in this raging fire that started on Wednesday. We've heard from local media that the queue just coming into this park to pay respect to those who've died in this fire is now two kilometers long with people not just laying flowers but writing down messages of condolences.
The BBC's Martin Yip reporting from Hong Kong. The Supreme Court is still mulling whether to take up the question of birthright citizenship this term. As NPR's Martin Coste reports, President Trump wants the high court to back his executive order signed in January, limiting the right.
For more than a century, courts have read the 14th Amendment to mean any child born on U.S. soil is an American citizen. But the Trump administration says that reading is too broad. It says the right should be reserved for people who are, in the words of the amendment, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Chapter 3: How is the winter storm affecting travel across the Midwest?
Trump signed an order in January withholding citizenship from children born to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas. So far, federal judges have blocked that order, which is why the White House now wants the Supreme Court to weigh in. The justices are expected to meet privately on December 5th and discuss whether to take this case this term.
They're not obliged to, but if they do, a ruling on birthright citizenship could come by June. Martin Koste, NPR News.
This is NPR. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey saluted 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom at a vigil service last night, honoring the brief but heroic service of the U.S. Army Specialist gunned down Wednesday while on patrol in Washington, D.C. Bound by grief, but to honor the life, the courage, and the spirit of Sarah Beckstrom. Beckstrom was a West Virginian.
Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was on patrol with her. He was critically injured, but he is still alive. The accused shooter is a refugee from Afghanistan. Pope Leo travels to Lebanon today where he meets with leaders in a country that continues to be targeted by Israeli airstrikes. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports.
This is the most diplomatically thorny part of Pope Leo's trip. He steps into a heated and complex political environment where lots of competing groups have their own hopes and expectations for this papal visit. For example, Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia,
has called upon the Pope to express his, quote, rejection to the injustice and aggression of continued Israeli airstrikes against the group despite a ceasefire.
And some Lebanese hope Pope Leo can hold Lebanon's political class to account for the vast corruption in the country and over the explosion in 2020 when large stores of ammonium nitrate triggered a blast that devastated the capital, Beirut. Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, on the Papal Plain to Lebanon.
Pope Francis had hoped to visit Lebanon, but his failing health would not allow it. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.
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