NPR News: 07-07-2025 5PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. |
| 0:05.2 | Search and rescue operations continue in central Texas |
| 0:08.8 | following catastrophic flooding that is left close to 90 people dead. |
| 0:13.7 | Dalton Rice is the city manager of Curville, one of the hardest-hit areas. |
| 0:18.6 | He says first responders are facing a number of technical challenges. |
| 0:23.3 | Terrain with water, even potentially with weather, you know, in the rising fields. We've talked |
| 0:28.6 | about this before. Volunteers stay out of the way because if we start getting weather reports |
| 0:33.7 | and in all, you know, in all the other complications that are out there, we then have to pull off of those |
| 0:39.5 | search and rescue missions to be able to communicate to those volunteers to get off to make |
| 0:45.4 | sure that they don't become victims themselves. With more rain in the forecast, officials warned |
| 0:49.6 | that search and recovery efforts could be hampered and the death toll may climb even higher. |
| 0:55.3 | President Trump has declared a disaster declaration for Kurd County and is expected to visit |
| 1:00.7 | the region on Friday. The president is preparing to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:06.9 | at the White House tonight. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports the two leaders are expected to discuss |
| 1:13.3 | a potential ceasefire in Gaza this week. Netanyahu is expected to remain in Washington until Thursday. |
| 1:19.9 | He said talks with Trump could help with a deal in Gaza. Israeli and Hamas negotiators began talks |
| 1:25.7 | Sunday in Doha, Qatar. Mediators tell NPR they're shuttling between the Israeli and Hamas negotiators began talks Sunday in Doha, Qatar. |
| 1:34.1 | Mediators tell NPR they're shuttling between the Israeli and Hamas delegations on different floors of the same hotel. |
| 1:37.3 | They're working out the details of a 60-day ceasefire. |
| 1:41.9 | Hamas would agree to release half of the living hostages it still holds in Gaza. |
| 1:45.4 | Israel would release Palestinian prisoners, and the sides would start discussing a final end to the war in Gaza. Trump and Netanyahu are expected to discuss |
| 1:51.3 | the terms of ending the war, which could lead to more Arab and Muslim countries opening diplomatic |
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