The News Roundup For July 14, 2023

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

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Summary

Vermont and New York are bracing for more rain and flooding. The capital of the Green Mountain state, Montpelier, was swamped this week after storms dumped two months' worth of water on the city in two days. President Joe Biden declared an emergency in the state and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin distributing aid.

Meanwhile, overseas, President Biden met with NATO leaders in Lithuania this week and promised heads of state that the U.S. would remain committed to its allies despite "extreme elements" of the GOP signalling otherwise.

The Brazilian government announced that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is down by more than a third this year, so far.

The longest-serving prime minister of the Netherlands announced he would step down this week, paving the way for a general election.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Omna. I'm your host for this edition of The News Roundup. Just a quick heads up
0:04.8	before we start the show. The news is rapidly changing, and things may be different by the
0:09.8	time you hear this episode. Stay up to date by listening to your local NPR member station
0:15.6	and visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
0:20.9	You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Omna Navaz of the PBS News Hour, and it's time for
0:34.4	another edition of The News Roundup. Let's get into it.
0:38.1	High summer when we know it can get hot, but this hot?
0:43.0	114 and that forecast around 4 p.m. here tomorrow, Friday afternoon, 117 now in the forecast.
0:48.7	That could break the 2003 record. And as you look at these early morning lows, lows only
0:53.3	expected to dip down into the low 90s, which will put us in record territory, those mornings
0:59.1	as well.
1:00.1	High temperatures continue to set records in the south, and in the northeast, thousands
1:05.0	are only just beginning to clean up after historic flooding devastated parts of Vermont and
1:10.2	New York. That's just one extreme. We'll talk about this hour. Here in Washington, extremist
1:15.7	talk has landed one senator in the lot of trouble plus a hearing into the FBI goes off
1:20.9	the rails, keeping us on track this week is Anita Kumar. Anita is the senior managing
1:26.1	editor for standards, ethics and content at Politico. Also with us is Benji Sarlan, who
1:31.7	covers a lot for Semaphore as their Washington bureau chief and Jordan Fabian, White House
1:37.3	correspondent for Bloomberg News. Thank you all for joining us.
1:40.9	So let's start now with a couple of stories that have played out here in Washington, DC
1:44.7	this week. Each tells us something about the state of our politics right now.
1:49.2	Are you protecting the Biden's? Absolutely not.
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