Preying for Maui: Speculators Come Calling

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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With their homes destroyed and neighbors killed, some Maui residents describe calls from speculators who want their land. Scientists announce new advances in transplanting pig kidneys into humans. And Kansas prosecutors tell police to return materials seized during a controversial raid of a newspaper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, August 17th.
0:02.5	What kind of Lahaina will they return to and can they afford it?
0:06.3	We start here.
0:09.5	Their homes burn to the ground.
0:11.2	Now Maui residents say people are trying to steal the land underneath.
0:15.3	Change it if I'm interested.
0:17.3	The sound my property.
0:19.6	The growing calls to ban speculators from Hawaii.
0:23.1	You want to use all the parts of the animal, but do you really want to transplant them into
0:27.0	humans?
0:28.0	Not all the lives that that one genetically edited pig could save.
0:32.7	How pig kidneys could find their way onto organ donor lists.
0:37.1	And why would police need to rate a small town paper?
0:39.8	They're trying to take our computers away so we couldn't publish.
0:42.9	A controversial search in Kansas has been punctuated with a dead newspaper woman.
0:49.9	From ABC News, this is Stark Here.
0:52.6	I'm Brad Milky.
0:58.0	The death toll on Maui has now reached triple digits.
1:05.7	110 individuals have been confirmed deceased.
1:10.0	We share these numbers with you so you can have perspective.
1:12.5	But one individual by one individual, it makes us like I said, heartbroken.
1:18.8	We've talked about how many more fatalities could be confirmed in the coming days.
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