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0:46 Ukraine doesn't have the air defenses to guard against Russia's airstrikes. I'm Leila Faldin.

0:51 Voz 4 And I'm Michelle Martin. Ukraine didn't shoot down any Russian missiles in a recent attack. Its president is calling for more American-made interceptors. Also, how Japan and South Korea are responding to a record heat wave. And actor Brisha Webb used to play a doctor on TV that helped her spot when her mom was having a stroke in real life. She reminds that for laughs in her new stand-up special. It's Thursday, August 6th. Actor Leslie Odom Jr. turns 45 years old today.

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1:25 Voz 1 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between Israel and Lebanon are continuing despite a deadly flare-up along the border. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon on Tuesday. NPR's Itay Stern reports that's raising new questions about the durability of the U.S.-backed talks.

1:49 Voz 2 The Israeli military said the soldiers were killed when explosives planted by Hezbollah, which is not part of the talks, detonated during operations in southern Lebanon. Four other soldiers were seriously wounded. On Wednesday, Israel ordered evacuations in a village in southern Lebanon for the first time in weeks and carried out strikes. strikes. Lebanon's health ministry says one person was killed and 12 others were wounded. The fighting prompted U.S.-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon to pause early on Tuesday. The negotiations are expected to resume today. A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect in late June, and it has largely held until the latest escalation. For NPR News, I'm Itay

2:30 Voz 1 Stern in Tel Aviv. President Trump used a stop in Las Vegas yesterday to promote his administration's economic agenda. NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports recent polling suggests many Americans remain unconvinced as prices for everyday goods continue to rise. A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that for the first time in almost 10 years, more Americans prefer Democrats to Republicans on handling the

2:57 Voz 2 economy. And that's bad news for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. But in the last

3:02 Voz 5 last few months, I will say Trump's message hasn't really changed much. He continues to insist that the economy is great. He says any high prices are there because he inherited it

3:11 Voz 1 from Democrats. NPR's Deepa Shivaram, Trump's stop in Nevada, comes as Republicans look to defend key House seats and build more momentum ahead of the November midterms. Federal health officials say cases of cyclosporiasis have now been reported in almost every state. NPR's Maria Maria Godoy reports on the biggest outbreak of the illness on record.

3:35 Voz 4 The CDC says 10,468 cases of cyclospora infection have been confirmed through laboratory testing since early May. That's a jump of more than 3,700 cases since last week.

3:47 Voz 1 The agency says it's aware of more than 12,000 additional cases nationwide that still have to be confirmed by labs. Officials in Missouri and Arkansas confirmed to NPR that their states have been added to a multi-state cluster of cyclosporiasis cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms. The CDC says more than 500 people across the U.S. have been hospitalized and two people have died. Maria Godoy, NPR News. Stocks are trading mixed on Wall Street at this hour. The Dow was down 193 points. This is NPR News.

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4:48 Voz 5 Delaware's Democratic Governor Matt Myers is signing the latest state-level Voting Rights Act after a similar bill in New Jersey became law in July.

4:54 Voz 6 lie. There are about a dozen state laws like those around the country. The newest ones come months after the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority further weakened the Federal Voting Rights Act. Legal experts say that ruling has made it extremely difficult in places where

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8:01 Voz 4 seat in Michigan is now fully underway. Progressives are celebrating the narrow primary evictive Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who campaigned on Medicare for All. In a few minutes, we'll ask former President Barack Obama's chief strategist how he would advise El-Sayed. But first, a preview of what lies ahead as the Michigan Democrat prepares to face

8:21 Voz 1 former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers. Colin Jackson of the Michigan Public Radio Network joins us to discuss what's next now that the primary election is over. Good morning, Colin.

8:31 Voz 2 Good morning.

8:32 Voz 4 So let's start with why this race is so competitive. Michigan is a swing state.

8:37 Voz 1 What does that mean for the Senate race?

8:39 Voz 2 You know, well, President Trump won Michigan in 2024, but a Republican hasn't won a U.S. Senate race here since the 90s. You have Democratic strongholds in Southeast Michigan, you know, think Detroit or Ann Arbor, and pockets around college towns and population centers like Grand Rapids and Lansing. But West Michigan, Northern Michigan, you know, minus a few places here and there, are generally redder. And to borrow a term, El-Sayed will have to lose by less in those

9:05 Voz 1 rural areas to win the state. Tell us how El-Sayed will try to go about doing that.

9:10 Voz 2 During the primary, El-Sayed pushed a populist platform that he often boiled down to three slogans, money out of politics, Medicare for all, and money in your pocket. He built a younger coalition campaigning alongside Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other progressive voices. And he beat Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a moderate in the primary. And, you know, she relied on a traditional coalition of black working class and Jewish voters. Now, El Sai is going to have to appeal to those voters. You know, he's already calling for Democrats to unite behind him to defeat Mike Rogers. He said that to Michelle yesterday on your show. We also know that what reunites us is way bigger than what divides us. We know that Trumpism has been just a colossal failure. We know that to defeat Trumpism, we're going to have to defeat Trump's handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate.

9:57 Voz 4 What messaging are we hearing from Mike Rogers, the Republican?

10:00 Voz 2 Mike Rogers is an establishment Republican with a long track record in office, but he can also appeal to the MAGA base. And Rogers is already trying to paint al-Sayed, who is Muslim, as a communist and an extremist. You know, Rogers' reaction statement to the win included some dog whistles referencing terrorism and baselessly linking al-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood. But, you know, al-Sayed, who is the son of Egyptian immigrants, you know, he said he's dealt with this his whole life and he considers it baseless fear mongering. Rogers is also saying that he understands the concerns of blue collar voters. You know, here he is in an interview on Fox News recently. We need a senator to fight for these jobs, to fight for these defense industrial based jobs.

10:43 Voz 3 I'm the only guy in the race that actually worked on a car assembly line.

10:46 Voz 1 Chrysler LeBaron convertible. Who doesn't want one of those?

10:49 Voz 5 I will tell you that we're feeling pretty good about where we're going.

10:55 Voz 2 El-Sayed does have the UAW endorsement, but blue-collar workers are still pretty much a big factor here.

11:00 Voz 1 Okay, so a lot of fear-mongering around El-Sayed's faith. What are some of the main challenges for each campaign to win in November?

11:08 Voz 2 Rogers will have to balance appealing to MAGA Republicans, while also not turning off the independents who are largely against Trump here. Meanwhile, El-Sayed is going to need to bring in people that he may have turned off back to his side. You know, think some Oakland County Jewish voters in Metro Detroit who have issues with his criticism of Israel. There is establishment voters and moderate Dems who do think he's too extreme. And he'll also need to contend with the big fundraising gap in the primary race. AIPAC and other outside groups spent over $60 million against him. Republican groups are pledging a lot of money against him, too. And AIPAC says it's committed to keeping El-Sayed out of office.

11:43 Voz 1 That's Michigan Public Radio Network's Colin Jackson in Detroit.

11:47 Voz 3 Thank you, Colin.

11:47 Voz 4 Thank you. We're going to talk more about this with a political advisor to another candidate that some considered a long shot. David Axelrod was a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and the chief strategist for both of Obama's presidential campaigns. Good morning, Mr. Axelrod. Welcome back.

12:03 Voz 5 Good morning. So let's start with Michigan.

12:05 Voz 4 On Wednesday's All Things Considered, Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, you might call him the elder statesman of the progressive movement, had this to say about El-Sayed's primary win.

12:15 Voz 6 This is the most extraordinary victory in modern American politics. He took on everybody and over 60 million dollars. That he won by one vote would have been an extraordinary victory.

12:28 Voz 4 Okay, so let's account for some election night adrenaline spillover, okay. But was it as-

12:33 Voz 5 Is that what adrenaline sounds like? I don't know.

12:35 Voz 4 Was it as extraordinary as Senator Sanders says?

12:39 Voz 5 Yes. No, look, I don't think it was the most extraordinary victory in history and so on, but it was a very, very impressive one in the sense that he was outspent vastly in that race. It may be a commentary on the limits of money in politics, but he survived that. But it was a lot closer than the polls suggested, and I think that he expected. And I, Michelle, think there is virtue in that, there's value in that, because one thing that I think El-Sayed needs, he's incredibly talented as a candidate, he's passionate about issues, but he is very sure of himself in ways that can be off-putting. And I think there was a humbling element to this for both factions of the Democratic Party. They need each other. He did extraordinarily well with, you know, highly educated voters and with young people. But among rural voters, among African-American voters, not so much. And when you're talking about a working class movement, you've got to bring the working class along with you.

13:57 Voz 4 I'm wondering if you see any comparison to Obama in the sense that Obama's opponents try to tie his name and his background to radical politics, similar to what Republicans are already doing with El-Sayed. Do you see any similarities there that perhaps El-Sayed could learn from?

14:15 Voz 5 Well, for sure. I mean, there are similarities. I mean, the difference is that Barack Obama was very much a center-left politician, and he focused on the issues that unified the largest number of people, basic bread-and-butter issues that people were concerned about, and, of course, at that time, the war in Iraq. rack. And he basically, he did wage war on conventional politics in Washington of both parties. And in that sense, there's a similarity. But what El-Sayed needs to do is focus on that, on the putting money in people's pockets element of his triad there, because that's what is motivating people very much today. I mean, the cost of things is what's motivating people.

15:07 Voz 4 But you don't think he's doing that?

15:08 Voz 5 And Trump is motivating people.

15:10 Voz 4 But Al-Sayed is emphasizing protecting health care. He is a doctor, strengthening unions, clean air, clean water. You don't think he's doing that? Or do you feel that part of his message has been subsumed by messaging on ICE and Gaza and so forth? Do you think he's not doing that yet?

15:28 Voz 5 This whole DSA question, he's not a member of the DSA. he takes issue with some of their uh positions you know he does believe that we need you know he has stated in the past that uh he we ought to divert some of the police money to other uh social service kinds of efforts but he doesn't think that you should abolish police he doesn't believe that we don't need any prisons he doesn't believe in open borders he doesn't believe so you know he he needs to separate himself out and focus like a laser on those three things and he needs to spend time in those communities and uh you know listening as well as talking and make people comfortable uh with him and he needs to sort of shun some of that other stuff and make clearer the separation you know the danger here is these elections midterm elections Elections are always about the incumbent president, and we have a very unpopular president, a 35 percent approval rating in the state of Michigan. What you don't want is for Mike Rogers, who has pledged his fidelity to Trump, to be able to create a distraction by using the DSA and Hassan Piker and some of the more radical elements of your coalition to change the subject.

16:50 Voz 4 his primary opponent, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, and it was a tough race, I mean it was hard fought has already endorsed him and says she's going to work as hard as she can to see that he's elected is that important? Does that matter?

17:07 Voz 5 I thought it was important and I think that symbolically it was important I think that he needs to be embracing of that, he did welcome it But I think he needs to more enthusiastically embrace the elements of the party that are now joining him. Look, there is legitimate doubt about establishment politics because people feel the system has failed them. But that doesn't mean you should push away everyone who wants to help. He needs them all now. And that's what a split primary does. A 50-50 primary says we need to bring more people into our coalition, and that should be the focus. And she is certainly an ambassador to some of those voters who didn't vote for him.

18:02 Voz 4 From what you've seen so far, is Mr. El-Sayed a skillful enough politician to navigate all the traps that are clearly coming his way, being tied, as you pointed out, to the democratic socialists that he doesn't necessarily support, allowing his ethnicity, his heritage to sort of be used against him? Has he demonstrated the political skill to navigate these traps?

18:24 Voz 5 I have no doubt that he has those skills.

18:54 But I do think that he is an adroit politician, and he should make those adaptations. But put the focus on Trump. Put the focus on the cost of things to people. Put the focus on changes that are going to affect that. Okay.

19:11 Voz 4 That is Democratic strategist David Axelrod. David Axelrod, thanks so much for joining us once again.

19:16 Voz 5 Always good to be with you.

19:17 Thank you.

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22:15 Voz 1 This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Leila Falded.

22:18 Voz 4 I'm Michelle Martin.

22:19 Voz 5 And Aimee Martinez. Actor Brisha Webb fits the classic description of, you know, that woman in that show.

22:26 Voz 6 You might not know her name, but you might recognize the face. She played Kevin Hart's sister in the movie Night School.

22:33 Voz 1 Pops, those standardized tests are culturally biased.

22:36 Voz 3 You do know how to spell your name, don't you?

22:38 Voz 6 t h e what you're wrong webb was also in the sitcoms run the world and marlin she was in hacks

22:45 Voz 1 and she played dr laverne st john on er but what the hell was last night huh boring you don't want to see me fine but you still have to teach me risha webb is also a comedian her latest stand-up

23:01 Voz 6 special streams on hulu and disney plus as part of the lol live comedy series my other girlfriend

23:07 Voz 3 friend she had a baby and she didn't have a nanny she was over there just taking motherhood to the face poor thing walking around looking like gollum from lord of the rings now you've had your heart

23:22 Voz 2 set on being a performer since you were a little girl i heard you once say that when you were a

23:27 Voz 6 kid you wanted to be inside of the television what's it about performing that makes it something

23:32 Voz 2 something that you need to do seemingly?

23:34 Voz 3 I mean, it's just a part of my nature. If I hear a song, I want to sing it full out. You know, if I see something, I want to do it all. You know, I used to watch music videos all the time, and I would get up and start learning the dance full out. You know, if I see something, I want to do it all. You know, I used to watch music videos all the time, and I would get up and start learning the dances. That's just a natural thing for me, and then I wanted to do it in front of people and so my parents just paid attention to that and they just nurtured it. When I was about seven or eight years old I was really obsessed with Annie like I really loved Annie you know and it was crazy because they were bringing Annie back to Broadway I was like mom I really want to go and they surprised me and they said we're going to get in the car and we're going to go all the way to New York for your Annie audition I was like really i walk in and it was then where i realized that um annie's white

24:37 Voz 6 most parents might say okay well let's give this a shot and if it doesn't work then all this you

24:42 Voz 1 know then you go you do something more realistic that's what maybe more parents would probably say

24:46 Voz 3 of course but my parents were artists at heart you know we went to church every sunday my dad was a gospel singer at church my mom was a dancer she toured europe before she had me you know so they realize this is of course we birth this of course we were birth a creative being so let's nurture it you don't look good we should call 9-1-1 or call the doctor something so i run over to my phone i call 9-1-1 and i'm like 9-1-1 you need to get over here stat my mother's having a stroke then finally the paramedics run in and they're like man ma'am, how did you know your mother was having a stroke? And I was like, I played a doctor on ER for two seasons. My Instagram, they were like, no, ma'am, we got to get your mom to the hospital. She's having a stroke. I was like, yes, exactly. Call the CDC on the CRT.

25:46 Voz 1 That might be one of the most Hollywood stories I've ever heard in a comedy special. That is so Hollywood.

25:54 Voz 3 That's really what happened. And so in that moment, you know, of chaos and, you know, anxiety and fear, I can look back and find the levity and find a joke there and make it real and hopefully help someone else to know, like, if you're going through some stuff, maybe there's some things you can laugh about after.

26:13 Voz 6 I've always wondered, Brisha, for an actor who plays, like, you know, a doctor or a lawyer on TV, how much of the character skill set rubs off into real life?

26:20 Voz 3 well it does i remember seeing sometimes i remember i remember things in the oddest times you know and it does rub off you know i i put on the thing and i i talk the talk and sometimes it sticks with you and it did in the right time you know one of the things you get into in in your

26:39 Voz 2 comedy showcase is being a mom you got married three years ago uh your husband was a single dad which made you an instant mom then a year later you gave birth to a daughter one of the things

26:48 Voz 5 that really made me just bust out laughing

26:49 Voz 6 is when you told your stepdaughter

26:52 Voz 5 to call you Bresha,

26:53 Voz 1 but then your other daughter,

26:56 Voz 5 the one you gave birth to, started calling you Bresha

26:58 Voz 6 before she even called you mama.

27:00 Voz 3 You know, one time she came in my room and she looked up at me and her eyes were so beautiful and I was like looking at her and she went, mm. I said, ooh, are you about to say it? You can say it, mm, mm.

27:11 Voz 4 And she said, Bresha.

27:16 Voz 3 Isn't that a whoopsie? You know, I thought I was being progressive And this thing just slapped me in the face. I was quite embarrassed in the moment. And she's up there going, Bresha, can you pass me this? Bresha, go get me this. I'm like, girl, no.

27:30 Voz 1 You called your mama since?

27:32 Voz 3 Oh, now I'm mama. Now you're mama? Okay, good. Yeah, but thanks to my bonus daughter, thanks to her, we had to have a conversation. I was like, I'm going to need you to help me out. And she did.

27:42 Voz 6 What's the biggest difference, would you say, between doing stand-up and getting up in front of a camera and doing some acting?

27:48 Voz 3 acting i mean well stand-up is full of surprises you know you never know what you're gonna get it's a box of chocolates you know you get up on stage you don't know how the audience is gonna be it keeps you on your toes you know um with acting there's a blueprint there's a set there's a stage you know there's a the script you know uh other actors that you yeah you know so you kind of know know where you're going with stand-up you could be in the middle of a set and change directions you might come up with a plan and then something happens and it inspires you to go another direction it's like you're you're using all of your senses at one time you know it's kind of an outer body experience you know uh because you have to be looking at the audience and making sure they're tuned in it definitely gives you what you give it you know and um acting is is equally as difficult because it can surprise you in the same way but at least you have somebody driving the car and stand up you drive in a car and you got a whole bunch of things you gotta get out the way like you you know you got stop lights you got green lights you got the crazy person the passenger walking down the street you know you got all kinds of stuff going on brisha webb's comedy showcase on

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29:35 Voz 1 New federal data shows the vast majority of people with serious addictions still are not getting treatment. Critics say there are low-cost medications proven to treat addiction and save

29:45 Voz 6 lives, but most doctors don't prescribe them. We would not allow, as a society,

29:51 Voz 2 people with heart attacks to come to a hospital and not get appropriate treatment.

29:54 Voz 1 This is as serious as that. I'm Elsa Chang. That's on All Things Considered.

30:36 Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the most recognizable public figures in the U.S.'s response to the COVID pandemic and decades earlier the HIV-AIDS epidemic, is now being held in contempt of Congress. Today, the Senate Homeland Security Committee's chair, Rand Paul, and his Republican colleagues voted for the resolution. On the grounds Fauci inappropriately invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at last week's hearing on the origins of COVID.

31:04 Voz 6 Dr. Fauci's assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege was unsupported in light of the pardon and the testimony he offered in his opening statement.

31:12 Voz 1 Fauci was granted a preemptive pardon shortly before former President Biden left office. However, the government scientist believes he still faced the threat of prosecution if he'd given any answers last week that his critics could have interpreted as perjury. November's matchup is decided in a Michigan race that Democrats see as a must-win to regain control of the U.S. Senate. it. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will face Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in the fall after defeating U.S. Representative Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary. Michigan Public Radio

31:41 Voz 2 Network's Colin Jackson has more. El-Sayed has pushed this populist platform, money out of politics, Medicare for all, and money in your pocket. And he built a younger coalition campaigning alongside Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other progressive voices. That's Michigan

31:57 Voz 1 Michigan Public Radio Network's Colin Jackson reporting from Washington. This is NPR News.

32:06 Jalapenos distributed by Coast Citrus are being recalled for possible salmonella contamination. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking nearly 350 cases in 27 states. Two restaurants, Chipotle and Qdoba, say they're no longer serving the jalapenos grown in Sinaloa, Mexico. Mexico. The recent cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms' distributed iceberg lettuce source from central Mexico also has a lot of people on edge. The CDC says that foodborne illness is reported in at least 15 states. Security operatives in Nigeria have rescued at least 300 people kidnapped in attacks across the northern part of the country. NPR's Jewel Bright reports local authorities describe the one-day rescue as the largest of its kind in Nigeria. A spokesperson

32:49 Voz 4 person for nigeria's president says a total of 308 people were rescued in the operation

32:55 Voz 2 which occurred at a sprawling national park used as a hideout by criminals and insurgents

33:00 Voz 4 those rescued include 163 people who were abducted in february from the northern states of quara and 145 people who were taken from another state mass kidnappings for ransom by criminal

33:14 Voz 2 Criminal groups and Islamic insurgents have become commonplace in Nigeria amid a worsening security crisis in the country.

33:22 Voz 4 Amnesty International says more than a thousand people have been abducted across northern Nigeria in the first quarter of this year. Drew Bright, NPR News, Lagos.

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35:13 Voz 4 And I'm Michelle Martin. Ukraine needs more interceptor missiles. That's the message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after Russia launched an attack on Ukraine's capital this week and Ukraine was not able to shoot down any of its missiles. Zelensky met with defense officials on Wednesday after he said Ukraine's supply of air defense missiles has fallen by two-thirds in the first half of this year

36:04 You know, and these bombardment barrage started at around midnight and continued till the morning.

36:13 Voz 5 So it was very loud, you know, but it happens virtually each day, each night in Kiev, in other cities.

36:20 Voz 4 You're obviously a member of government. Do you think most of the public is aware of the issue with its air defense missiles having been used while the stockpile is as low as it is? Do you think most people know this?

37:24 Well, it's hard to say. To me, honestly, it looks strange because you represent the biggest democracy

37:30 Voz 6 and you know your word matters a lot.

37:32 Voz 4 And if you made a promise, you're supposed to follow through. Otherwise, you undermine credibility. You as a president and your country. And when President Trump has backtracked on his promise, to me it looked, I don't understand this, honestly. Other countries in Europe also have stockpiles of Patriot missiles. If you're unable to get the technology from the U.S., is there any opportunity to get more missiles from European allies?

37:57 Voz 5 The biggest supplier in this regard remains the United States.

38:01 Voz 4 Yes, but we get some help from our European allies. We have even formed a special so-called anti-ballistic coalition. Germany and Poland have provided their missiles,

38:13 Voz 5 but they themselves lack them.

38:15 Voz 4 They need more also. Forgive me, it's a difficult question, but do you think that this is a matter of the United States being concerned about its own stockpiles because of this war with Iran, which has lasted much longer than the president seems to have thought that it would? Or do you think that this is, in fact, a tactic to pressure Ukraine?

38:38 Well, it's really hard to say, because recently there was a statement made in Ukraine by the president himself

39:13 they couldn't seem to agree on strategy. How does that decision look now?

39:19 Voz 5 The parliament will be considering in a week or so

39:21 Voz 4 the candidacy of a new minister of defense. But honestly, I don't see the reason why, for example, Mr. Fedorov should have been dismissed. Because he's been in his position only for six months and he proved to be a rather effective minister. I hope that he will be reinstated, but I'm not sure about that. Before we let you go, we have about 40 seconds left here. Can Ukraine promise its people it can defend the skies?

39:48 Voz 5 Well, we would like our allies to help to close the sky. We continue to push for this.

39:56 Voz 4 Yeah, but we're doing everything what we can under the circumstances. That was Oleksandr Mareshko. He's a member of Ukraine's parliament. Mr. Mareshko, thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Thank you.

40:08 Voz 1 Now to East Asia, where many countries are sweltering under record temperatures. The heat is especially risky for rapidly aging societies in South Korea and Japan. Governments there treat heat waves as natural disasters and are mobilizing resources to beat the heat. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul.

40:32 Voz 6 A deafening crescendo of cicadas cuts through the midday heat. Over the weekend, the mercury hit 108 degrees in the city of Yangsan, the hottest in over a century of weather records in South Korea. Twenty-one people have died from heat-related illnesses in South Korea. In Japan, the heat wave complicated the response to an earthquake that killed 38 people and displaced thousands in Kumamoto Prefecture. In Seoul, residents dabble their feet in Cheonggyecheon, a natural stream that the city turned into a downtown park. Seven-year-old Summer Han is back from Seattle to visit family.

41:05 Voz 1 me and my grandma is so hot so we only keep inside it's so hot summer's mother

41:14 Voz 6 mijin jeong says she's concerned about her parents

41:21 Voz 1 i am extremely worried because the air conditioning is hard for them to endure in small enclosed korean homes so even if it's hot we try to find a place like cheonggyecheon

41:31 Voz 2 or a valley stream to deep our feed-in.

41:34 Voz 6 Heat waves claim far more lives every year in South Korea and Japan than other natural disasters. Most of the victims are elderly. President Lee Jae-myung told his aides that the government must quickly adapt to the new normal and protect citizens' lives.

41:51 We are effectively facing a national climate disaster, he said. We must respond with greater urgency than ever before, maximizing the level, scope and speed of our policy responses. That includes everything from ensuring water and power supplies to checking up on elderly residents. Back at the stream, Mijin Cheong says she uses some of the same tricks to keep her kids cool that her parents used on her.

42:18 Voz 1 I find it fascinating that some of the old ways still apply to our modern society.

42:24 Voz 3 My back feels cool after eating something like mango shaved ice, and the kids say, ah, I feel like my head just froze.

42:32 Voz 6 Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.

44:36 The Trump administration is making it harder for people fleeing persecution to claim asylum in the U.S. We'll look at the state of asylum next time on Here and Now.

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45:07 Voz 4 I'm Michelle Martin with news about a note. An organ in eastern Germany changed chords on Wednesday, adding an eighth note to the seven it had been playing. A single note is news because the organist playing composer John Cage's organ squared as slow as possible. One of his only instructions was to play it as slowly as possible. This version will take nearly 700 years. It's been going since 2001, and NPR has been covering it almost as long. You'll never hear the end of it. It's Morning Edition.

46:02 Voz 1 online at WTGrantFoundation.org.

46:10 Voz 4 It's Morning Edition from NPR News.

46:13 Voz 2 This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity

46:15 Voz 1 from Houston Public Media, News 88.7.

46:20 Voz 6 Today, a clash of titans. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents...

46:41 It was one of the most famous scientific meetings in all of history. Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees had either received or would receive Nobel Prizes. But what made the conference so memorable was a disagreement. A disagreement between two of the titans of physics, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. The year was 1927, and physicists were puzzled. At question was the very nature of the extremely small. Were electrons, light, and similar entities waves or particles? In some experiments, the tiny entities behaved like waves, while in others they behaved like particles. That's just not possible in our macroscopic world. Sound waves don't behave like pebbles, and thankfully so, or your ears would be stinging right now. Now, the 1927 Conference on Quantum Mechanics was held to discuss how the many seemingly contradictory observations could be reconciled. Schrödinger and de Broglie showed up with their ideas. But the 800-pound gorilla was Bohr. In what later came to be called the Copenhagen Interpretation, Bohr proposed that wave equations equations described where entities like electrons could be, but the entities didn't actually

48:05 exist as particles until someone went looking for them. The act of observation caused existence. In Bohr's own words, the entities in question had no independent reality in the ordinary physical sense. Einstein wouldn't have any of it. An electron was an electron, and just just because someone wasn't looking at it, it was still there, wherever there happened to be. Late in the conference, Einstein rose to challenge Bohr's views. But that was only the beginning. Until Einstein's death some three decades later, Bohr and Einstein entered into spirited debates, in print and face-to-face. The debates were gentlemanly. Bohr and Einstein were friends and had great respect for one another, but they were also stubborn. It is wrong to think the task of physics is to find out how nature is, said Bohr. Einstein disagreed. What we call science, he said, has the sole purpose of determining what is. Through all its strangeness, Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation remains one of the most widely accepted worldviews of quantum mechanics. other common interpretations are seemingly even more bizarre but they all point to one simple fact

49:28 our universe as any physicist will tell you is a mysterious place it teases us with unimaginable facts then leaves us to make sense of them perhaps someday we will but until then we'll just have to to savor the great mysteries that surround us. I'm Andy Boyd at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds

49:58 A transcript of this Engines of Our Ingenuity episode number 2627 is online at uh.edu slash engines. Additional episodes are available by podcast.

50:11 Voz 1 Valdez Museum and Historic Archive now offers a free basic membership to residents, Valdez Native tribe members, and Prince William Sound College students. They also offer new benefits for business partners, including advertising, marketing marketing partnerships, VIP event tickets, guided group tours, event rentals, use of the pins-on bar, advance notice for raffles, and event sales.

50:35 Voz 5 To learn more, visit valdesmuseum.org or call 907-835-2764.

51:00 Voz 1 and exploration of the last frontier.

51:03 Voz 4 In today's episode, Deshnev's Forgotten Voyage.

51:08 Voz 1 Semyon Ivanovich Deshnev was a Russian explorer who became the...

51:12 Voz 3 ...in 1741, were better documented and more widely publicized than Deshnev's,

51:17 Voz 1 leading to the strait being named after Bering, despite Deshnev having discovered it decades earlier. Because Bering's expedition had more notoriety, the strait bears his namesake. Today, however, the easternmost point of Eurasia honors the legacy of Simeon Dezhnev, with the title Dezhnev Point. Although Vitas Bering's name and legacy is more widely renowned, Dezhnev's pioneering voyage through the icy waters of the Bering Sea remains one of the most remarkable and underappreciated achievements in the history of exploration. His daring navigation of one of the most remote and challenging regions of the world, in boats Boats built for simple regional travel paved the way for future explorers and contributed to the expansion of our collective knowledge of Alaska and the Far East.

52:04 Voz 2 I'm James Devins at the KCHU studio in Valdez, and this has been Inside Passages.

52:15 Voz 5 School buses for emergency power. I'm Randy Simon and this is EarthWise, a look at our changing environment. The heat waves that keep happening this summer are a major strain on power grids. In some places, electric school buses are helping utilities to keep the lights on and air conditioners running. The Electric School Bus Initiative project from the World Resources Institute currently

52:37 Voz 1 has about 230 electric school buses that are able to supply 8 megawatt hours of power back back to the grid at any time, enough electricity to power about 1,600 typical homes for as much as four hours. Deploying the buses as V2G, vehicle-to-grid, power sources can significantly

52:56 Voz 5 shave peak load demand for the utilities where they're located. California is the leader in

53:02 Voz 1 developing and adopting V2G school bus technology. The largest program is at the Oakland Unified School District, where a fleet of 74 buses adds an estimated 2.1 gigawatt hours of clean energy

53:15 Voz 5 back into the grid each year. San Francisco's Unified School District plans to launch a new

53:21 Voz 1 electric school bus project in August, with a fleet of 104 buses returning about three gigawatt

53:27 Voz 5 hours of energy each year. There are about 6,700 electric school buses already in service on U.S.

53:34 Voz 1 roads. If even half of them participated in a V2G program, they could supply well over 100

53:40 Voz 5 megawatt hours of flexible off-peak energy during periods of peak demand. This sort of resource is

53:47 Voz 1 not just a way to shore up the grid. It could also help lower consumer electricity costs by reducing the need for utilities to buy expensive peak power. Besides saving money in an emergency,

53:58 Voz 5 all that stored power in bus batteries could save lives. EarthWise is a production of WAMC.

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55:00 Voz 6 We're going back, before tie-dye was even a thing, to the Grateful Roots. Songs that influenced the Grateful Dead.

55:08 Voz 1 You're on The Soundbeat.

55:20 Voz 2 This is Stealin' Stealin', recorded by the Memphis Jug Band in 1928.

55:25 Voz 1 It was one of the first recordings released by the Grateful Dead on Scorpion Records in June 1966.

55:32 Voz 6 The band, known for jamming, among other things, had their roots in jug band music. In fact, founding members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron Pigpen McKernan spent their pre-dead days in a band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.

55:57 Voz 1 They'd move on to The Warlocks, but didn't want to be accused of stealing.

56:02 Voz 6 Two other bands at the time went by the same name. Ironically, the other two ditched the name as well. You know them by ZZ Top and The Velvet Underground. So how'd they come up with the name Grateful Dead?

56:14 Voz 2 Steal on over to soundbeat.org.