The Push For Federal Action On Extreme Heat
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tens of millions of Americans in the Northeast and Midwest are sweating through their first major heatwave of the year. Heat is the deadliest of all natural disasters, according to the National Weather Service, killing more Americans on average each year than floods, tornados and hurricanes combined. This week, a coalition of environmental, labor, and healthcare groups filed a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to start recognizing both extreme heat and wildfire smoke as major disasters. Jean Su, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity and the petition’s lead author, explains how FEMA could help vulnerable people during extreme heat and smoke events.
And in headlines: The first debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump is one week from today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to ban smartphones in public schools throughout the state, and Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride is one step closer to becoming the first openly trans person elected to Congress.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, June 20th. I'm Priyanka Aravindi. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day of the show where we're wondering who is leaking the opposition |
| 0:14.4 | research on President Biden's dog. |
| 0:16.2 | Yes, yet another report of Commander Biden biting a Secret Service agent ended up in the daily mail of all places. |
| 0:23.0 | Commander, I don't know who you're yapp into. |
| 0:25.5 | You need to shut that mouth. |
| 0:26.6 | And more than one. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh my. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, California is the latest state to call for a statewide ban of |
| 0:35.3 | smartphones in schools. Plus, we are a week away from the first presidential debate |
| 0:40.0 | and will tell you all the rules that the presumptive nominees must adhere to. |
| 0:44.0 | But first, it is hot outside, dangerously hot. |
| 0:48.0 | Tens of millions of Americans in the Northeast and Midwest |
| 0:52.0 | are sweating through their first major heat wave just before summer even officially begins. |
| 0:58.0 | The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures in the high 90s, but it will feel more like 100. |
| 1:04.4 | And huge swaths of both regions are under heat watches and warnings into Saturday. |
| 1:10.0 | Out west, wildfire season is off to an early start as well. |
| 1:14.6 | Since the weekend, around 20 fires in California have already burned tens of thousands |
| 1:19.6 | of acres in the it's scorching not quite as high and no fires currently which is good but it's not not great I know a lot of people will sometimes brush off the health risks that come with extreme heat, but can you explain for us |
| 1:44.3 | just why it's so dangerous? |
| 1:46.8 | Plain and simple, heat is the most deadly of all of the natural disasters according |
| 1:51.7 | to the National Weather Service. |
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