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What A Day

Crooked Media

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Wildfires in the western US and parts of Canada, driven by extreme drought conditions and heat waves, are casting hazy skies across the country. We talked to Brian Kahn, the managing editor of Earther and a lecturer at the Columbia Climate School about how climate change is altering our lives. Some counties nationwide are recommending that even vaccinated individuals keep their masks on when in indoor public spaces to fight the spread of the Delta variant of coronavirus. And in headlines: India’s COVID death toll estimated to be over 4 million, the former chair of Trump’s inaugural committee Tom Barrack was arrested for foreign lobbying charges, and Japan loses big on the Olympics. Show Notes: The Guardian: “Deadly flooding hits central China, affecting tens of millions” – https://bit.ly/3xWnAlY Washington Post Op-Ed: “The pandemic has changed course again. The Biden administration urgently needs to do the same” – https://wapo.st/3hV2IpU For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, July 21st. I'm Keela Hughes.
0:09.6	And I'm getting a rest like this is what a day, the future gold medal winner in the Olympic
0:13.6	event called competitive browser tab opening.
0:16.2	Yes, we've been training for this our whole lives currently nexing out at 100 open tabs.
0:20.7	I also want to confess to shooting steroids into my computer.
0:24.4	I'm not confessing anything.
0:27.5	I want to win.
0:32.1	On today's show Jeff Bezos, food of space and all he brought back was a cowboy hat.
0:39.5	Plus the Olympics has become a $20 billion boondoggle for Japan.
0:43.9	But first the Western US and parts of Canada are once again in flames.
0:48.6	Everything we're seeing in the outlook doesn't look good for the next couple months.
0:52.3	It looks like we're in this for the long haul.
0:54.9	So that was Carrie Bilbaugh of the National Interagency Fire Center speaking to PBS news
0:59.5	hour.
1:00.5	The wildfires on the west coast are so catastrophic and burning so fiercely that the smoke has
1:04.3	cast hazy skies across the eastern part of the country.
1:07.6	Gideon first give us an update on those fires.
1:10.2	Yeah, so as we go to record, there are over 60 uncontained fires in just the US alone.
1:15.3	That's according to the US Forest Service.
1:17.6	Most are concentrated in Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, and California.
1:21.4	And one that is of the most concerned right now and was being discussed in that clip above
1:26.0	is what is being called the bootleg fire in southern Oregon.
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