Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. A state of emergency has been declared in six Southern California counties because of relentless rains and high winds that are pounding the region. The declaration will free up resources for first responders and other emergency teams. Across much of the region, it is being devastated by the impact of the downpours fueled by atmospheric rivers.
Chapter 2: What emergency has been declared in Southern California due to recent weather?
Alameda resident Michael Burdick says he's trying to prepare for that flooding.
We got some sandbags, but we figured with this whole downpour coming for the next couple of days, we have a pool. So the pool might overflow. And then plus we have all the debris from up there from up in the fire area. So I was just like, I can go out and grab some sandbags, you know, so we're safe because our house is like a little bit lower. So it's that slope.
Back in 2016,
The high water has made portions of Interstate 5 and the Ventura Freeway in the Los Angeles area impossible. Markets will be closed on Thursday for the Christmas holiday. Trading resumes Friday morning at 9.30 Eastern Time. On Wednesday, the holiday trading was shortened because on Wall Street, the indexes, though, closed up. The Dow, the S&P, and the Nasdaq finished fractionally higher.
The markets will be closed Thursday for Christmas. The Dow gained six-tenths of a point. The Nasdaq edged two-tenths of a point. The S&P added three-tenths of a point as well. Millions of Americans will be flying this holiday season. NPR's Joel Rose reports the airlines are hoping to avoid a repeat of IT meltdowns that have disrupted the aviation industry.
It's been three years since a major winter storm brought Southwest Airlines to its knees. While other airlines managed to get their operations going within days, Southwest did not. Since then, Chief Information Officer Lauren Woods says Southwest has made big investments in technology so it can anticipate and respond to outages more quickly.
We may have a tech outage, but you care less about it if it's a five-minute recovery, and I have many of those, versus I had one major tech outage and it took me down for a day.
Southwest is just one of many airlines that have been forced to ground their planes because of IT outages. The test is how quickly they can get their planes and their customers back in the air. Joel Rose, NPR News.
The Justice Department says it is finishing the release of all of the files concerning Jeffrey Epstein, but it could take a few more weeks further delaying the compliance with a December 19th deadline that was set by Congress. The department did say Wednesday that the U.S.
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