Welcome to the news hour. Hurricane Barrel is taking aim at Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Haiti, after leaving a trail of destruction in the southeast Caribbean, including Grenada.

The storm has killed at least six people in the region.

In Barbados, high waters lapped against the shoreline as strong winds whipped through the trees.

Barrel strength has weakened from a category 5 to a category 4 storm

during the day, but officials say it could still devastate island nations with life-threatening

winds and storm surge.

The Biden administration today proposed a new rule to protect U.S. workers from the dangers of

excessive heat exposure on the job.

It could be the first federal heat safety standard of its kind.

President Biden said during a visit to Washington, D.C.'s Emergency Operations Center

that the measure will save lives.

Across the country, workers suffer heat stroke or even die just doing their jobs.

This new rule will substantially reduce heat injuries, illnesses and deaths for over 36 million workers to whom will apply.

From farm workers to construction workers, postal workers, manufacturing workers, and so much

more.

Among the proposed requirements, employers with workers routinely exposed to a heat index above 80 degrees

must establish a heat injury and illness prevention plan.

They must also offer rest breaks and access to shade and water for workers.

And employers who fail to comply would face steep penalties.

The White House says it will convene a summit on

extreme heat later this summer. The judge in Donald Trump's New York-Hush Money

case has pushed his sentencing until September 18th at the earliest.

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