UAW Strikes, Florida Vaccine Guidance, Libya Flooding Recovery

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

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Members of the United Auto Workers walked off work at three select plants and are threatening to expand the strike. Florida's COVID vaccine guidance contradicts the CDC's. And officials in Libya say as many 11,000 people have died in flooding there.

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0:00.0	I'm not internationally known, but I'm known to rock the microphone because I get stupid.
0:05.1	I mean outrageous.
0:06.0	Stay away from me if you're contagious because I'm the winner.
0:09.2	No, not the loser.
0:10.6	To be an MC is what I choose.
0:15.9	Members of the United Auto Workers strike at exactly three car factories.
0:20.4	This strategy will keep the company's guessing.
0:23.4	The Union walked out of plants at four General Motors and Stellantis will that get a deal done?
0:28.3	I'm Steve Innskipe with A Martinas and this is up first from NPR News.
0:34.6	Florida has its own guidelines for who should get the new COVID boosters, advice that contradicts
0:41.2	CDC recommendations.
0:43.0	Even though there is a lot of information on social media, we need to make our decisions based on
0:50.0	the science that's exact.
0:51.7	Okay, is this guidance about science or politics?
0:54.4	An Olympian humanitarian organization says more than 11,000 people died in floods there.
0:59.2	Thousands more remain missing and responders are overwhelmed.
1:03.5	Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start your day.
1:12.8	Some of the United Auto Workers are on a historic strike this morning.
1:16.7	The Auto Workers Union is striking at three assembly plants, one Ford, one General Motors,
1:22.1	and one Stellantis, which is the parent of Chrysler and Jeep, one plant in Michigan,
1:26.3	one plant in Missouri, one in Ohio.
1:28.7	Other plants operate for now, although the Union says it can, expand the strike,
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