After Oregon fires, no house to come home to

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Oregon residents struggle to find shelter away from wildfires and dense smoke. Why a Black autistic man is serving 10 years in prison for a car crash. And U.S. Open winner Naomi Osaka sends a strong message with her masks.

Samantha Schmidt reports from Oregon, where state orders have evacuees sleeping in parking lots and residents find themselves without homes to return to.

Video journalist Lindsey Sitz reports on the case of Matthew Rushin, a 22-year-old Black autistic man who is serving 10 years in prison after a car crash.

And sports reporter Ava Wallace on how U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka used her masks to support black lives.

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0:27.1	Hi there. How are you?
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0:30.2	This is post reports.
0:31.7	I'm Martine Powers.
0:35.2	It's Monday, September 14th.
0:40.5	Today, the fires in Oregon, uneven justice for autistic suspects,
0:46.0	and a strong message at the US Open.
0:52.9	I'm Samantha Schmidt and I'm a reporter with the Washington Post and I was sent to Portland
0:57.8	over a week ago to cover the ongoing protests here.
1:01.0	The Black Lives Matter protests as well as a pro-Trump rally on Labor Day.
1:10.0	And just after we had left the pro-Trump rally, we saw in the distance the smoke rising
1:17.0	and the sky getting hazy and within a day the wildfires had started spreading across the state.
1:27.8	Within a week, the state went from being at the center of the national conversation about
1:34.4	race and civil unrest and dealing with the pandemic.
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