On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: Kentucky braces for more rain, death toll increases to 28
Severe flooding continues to ravage the state. Plus, Supreme Court reporter John Fritze describes the high court’s mostcurrent gun ruling, a wildfire burns out of control near the California-Oregon line, education pressreporter Chris Quintana looks at the near future of trainee loans and a judgment is anticipated for Deshaun Watson in his disciplinary case inthemiddleof sexual misbehavior claims.
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Taylor Wilson:
Good earlymorning. I’m Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you requirement to understand Monday, the 1st of August,2022 Today, more rain on the method as 28 are now dead in Kentucky flooding. Plus, the Supreme Court’s newest state on weapons, and more.
Taylor Wilson:
Here are some of the leading headings:
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is off to Asia, however there’s still no reference of whether she’ll make a questionable stop in Taiwan. She and a congressional delegation have verified they’ll goto Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.
- A co-pilot in North Carolina has inexplicably passedaway after leaving a airplane and falling 3,500 feet. The other pilot made an emergencysituation landing, reporting that one of the wheels had come off the landing equipment.
- And Bill Russell has passedaway. The NBA legend won 11 champions with the Boston Celtics and was a voice for social justice. He was 88.
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28 individuals are now dead in ravaging flooding throughout Eastern Kentucky, and that number is anticipated to keep increasing. Dozens of individuals are still unaccounted for and flooding has triggered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Many locations are still inaccessible with power and cell service concerns. The hardest hit parts of the state got almost a foot of rain late last week. The North Fork of the Kentucky River crested a record 43 and a half feet in Jackson, according to the National Weather Service. A lots shelters for flood victims throughout the state drew almost 400 individuals theotherday and more than 1,200 saves haveactually taken location. Still, more Kentuckians directly left while losing nearly whatever. Hubert Thomas and his nephew Harvey Thomas madeitthrough and conserved their petdog CJ, however they lost whatever else.
Hubert Thomas:
I had my [inaudible] conserved him. I ain’t got absolutelynothing. I’ve got absolutelynothing now. We ain’t neverever had a flood like this. Some individuals state it hit one greatest flood of ’57, however being sincere with you, flood of ’57 couldn’t be as bad is this.
Harvey Thomas:
I lay down and he gets me up at, what, 2: 30, 3 o’clock. And it’s getting quite close to inside the house, however it’s not within yet however within an hour it was coming inside and it getting evenworse. There was one point we looked out the front door and mine and his carsandtrucks was playing bumper vehicles, like bumper boats, in the middle of our front backyard. I puton’t understand even where to begin, what to do, where to go. Just a lot for, I think, individuals around here to take in. It’s evenworse than anything we’ve ever seen. Probably one of the worst catastrophes around here, mostlikely in history I’d state.
Yeah, however we shot to be appreciative that we still have one other, duetothefactthat there was numerous households that wasn’t that lucky. The death toll keeps increasing and simply attempt to keep in the back of your mind that it might’ve constantly been evenworse.
And individuals are strong, and like I stated, it’s not going to be tomorrow, mostlikely not next month, however I believe everyone’s going to be fine. It’s simply going to be a long procedure.
Taylor Wilson:
The National Weather Service alerted that extra overflow from showers and thunderstorms theotherday and today might cause more rivers and creeks to flood. And rains rates of