The race to save Yosemite's giant sequoia trees

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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A wildfire in Yosemite National Park has expanded almost 10 times to 2,000 acres since it started on Friday. The rapidly growing Washburn Fire in California is threatening some of the world’s oldest sequoia trees…and around 1,600 people have been evacuated from the area. Plus: the Biden administration tries to protect abortion providers. And: some Venezuelan migrants are granted extra time in the U.S. Guests: Dr. Maureen Kennedy, associate professor of wildfire ecology at the University of Washington Tacoma and Axios' Oriana Gonzalez. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Life-saving abortions OK despite state bans, Biden administration says Yosemite crews rush to protect sequoias as fire swells to over 2,000 acres Biden extends Temporary Protected Status for eligible Venezuelans to March 2024 (Miami Herald) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.9	Good morning, welcome to Axios today.
0:21.1	It's Tuesday, July 12th. I'm Naila Buddha. Today,
0:25.0	racing to save Yosemite's giant sequoia trees from wildfire. Plus, some Venezuelan migrants
0:31.5	are granted extra time in the U.S. But first, the Biden administration tries to protect abortion
0:38.2	providers. That's our one big thing.
0:47.1	Updated guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services
0:50.5	says health providers who perform abortions in emergency situations are protected under
0:56.4	federal law, even if they practice in a state with an abortion ban in place.
1:01.0	Axios' Oriana Gonzalez is here to explain, hi, Oriana.
1:04.6	Hi, Naila. First, this isn't an executive order, but this also isn't a new law.
1:11.0	What does this guidance actually mean?
1:14.4	What the Department of Health and Human Services is doing is clarifying what is available
1:20.9	under federal law now that Roe has been overturned. So they're referring to a law known as the
1:26.4	Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It was an act of 1986, and what it does is
1:32.5	just say that people have the right to access emergency care. What the HHS is saying in this case
1:39.8	is that abortion should be considered an emergency treatment when necessary. So in cases of a medical
1:47.5	emergency, if a patient has a life-threatening condition, abortion providers will always be protected
1:54.5	when they provide an abortion in those cases. And when we're looking at state laws,
1:59.7	you know, we have around 13 states that have banned or heavily restricted abortion since
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