Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the weather, Donald Trump's speech to the nation today
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Richard Arnold, morning.
Good morning, Mike.
How's your weather?
It's Mother Nature on the rampage, got to say.
What extreme weather events are impacting the US and Canada right now?
We have floods, fires and a pall of smoke across 17 states right now. When deadly flash floods hit Texas last year, you recall, around Camp Mystic, that summer camp for kids, more than 100 people died, including 25 young girls. That was described as a once-in-a-century event, maybe once in 500 years, they said. Now, yeah, just 12 months on, those floods are being repeated. Texas Governor Greg Abbott saying of this new flooding... ...is likely going to break records in Texas history. They have had up to 20 inches of rain, about 50 centimetres in a couple of days, almost half of that just this morning, on the river that runs by the now closed Camp Mystic sections of that waterway rose by more than 30 feet, nine metres, in a matter of hours, say officials.
This is a life-threatening weather event. I don't want to mince words about how serious this situation is.
How severe were the Texas flash floods compared to past events?
One person has died to this point. They've rescued dozens of people, Black Hawk helicopters involved in that effort. Meantime, in New York, the mayor, Zoran Mandani, is urging people to stay indoors if possible because a massive smoke plume is stretching down from Canada, where there are hundreds, count them, hundreds of bushfires affecting not only NYC, but also Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Toronto.
Mandani says everyone, not just people with asthma and heart conditions, not just older adults, everyone may feel health effects. So today, every New Yorker should take precautions. Limit your time outdoors, especially strenuous activity.
Well, they're also offering free KN95 masks at hundreds of spots around the city. Folks can get to them. While across the border, there are some pretty terrifying scenes. In all, there are presently 838 bushfires, wildfires burning. These used to be rare as well, but in the past several years, they've become a feature of the season here. The air quality in Toronto listed right now as dangerous. A First Nations tribal village has been completely destroyed in northern Ontario, says one evacuee.
No, we have nothing. My community burnt down within less than an hour.
Well, perhaps the most shocking image is that one of a freight train that people might have seen where the workers took video of the cab totally surrounded by flames, and then they called for help.
Okay, y'all need to hurry up here. Like, seriously, we're encased in flames now.
How that man sounds so calm, I don't know. How they got that crew out of there, don't know. But they were rescued. They did get out alive.
Very Canadian, actually. One o'clock, my time, I'm ready. What's he going to say?
Well, with all that's going on in the world, could be a number of things, right? Yeah, Trump in a bit over three hours will focus on the election that he lost in 2020, right? And I'm trying to maintain power for the midterms. The White House says there will be important new info on China's efforts to interfere with the... votes six years ago. In that election, Biden, of course, defeated Trump, 306 electoral college votes and 51.3% of the popular vote to Trump's 232 electoral votes, 46.8 of the popular vote. Since then, Trump has been pressing claims that he didn't really lose, that it was all rigged. He's always been a winner, couldn't possibly have lost this thing. There have been since then over 60 lawsuits that have been filed challenging the results, every one of them lost, except for one that gave him a minor point.
Since then, Trump has been pressing for what he calls the Save America Act that would require a photo ID for proof of citizenship here, something that would be difficult for some minorities in terms of documentation for women who took on different names when they married and so on and on. This legislation would suppress legitimate votes, basically.
Trump is saying... It doesn't get bigger. Because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country.
Total crap, says Democratic Senator John Ossoff in responding to that.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:07
2
What extreme weather events are impacting the US and Canada right now?
0:07–0:58
3
How severe were the Texas flash floods compared to past events?
0:58–4:40
4
What health and safety warnings are New York officials giving about the smoke plume?
4:40–5:59
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