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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. More than 160 people are still missing from the catastrophic flash flooding that's claimed 119 lives in Central Texas. Survivors have gone to great lengths to stay afloat, including clinging to trees. NPR's Sergio Martinez Bertrand spoke with one family in Kerr County.
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Sergio Martinez Bertrand
The current of the Guadalupe river pushed Taylor Bergman and the woman he considers his mother into a tree.
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Taylor Bergman
I didn't think I would drown because I'm so tall, but I thought my mom was gonna die in front of me.
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Sergio Martinez Bertrand
They were trying to evacuate in the early morning, but they ran out of time. They clung to the tree for an hour. The mom's boyfriend and the family dog were swept by the it was pitch black. Bergmann could not see anything. He could only hear the neighbors screaming for help. Fortunately, everyone was eventually accounted for. Bergman says he'll never live by the river again. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Kerry County, Texas.
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Shea Stevens
The U.S. supreme Court has rejected Florida's emergency request to implement its ban on undocumented immigrants entering that state. The story from NPR's Jasmine Garsd.
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Jasmine Garsd
Florida officials have stated they hope to spearhead the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign. As part of that, this measure made it a state crime for unauthorized immigrants to come into Florida with a mandatory prison sentence. Two nonprofits, the Farm Worker association of Florida and the Florida Immigrant Coalition, sued to block enforcement of the law. The Supreme Court's order was brief. There was no written opinion. In recent years, several states have passed similar laws, including Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa. Four of those, including Florida, have now been blocked by lower courts who say they interfered with federal immigration law. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York.
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Shea Stevens
President Trump says the Pentagon will send additional weapons to Ukraine after a pause, but declined to be specific. This after amid reports of Russian progress, including the largest drone attack on Ukraine since the war began three years ago. As NPR's Tom Bowman reports, the White House is still considering whether to send another Patriot air defense system to Ukraine.
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Tom Bowman
All we know is that Trump has overruled Pentagon leaders who announced that halt. And he said, quote, we're going to send more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. He said this as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was sitting next to him. Now, he wasn't specific and the Pentagon would only say in a statement it was sending additional defensive weapons, and that was all. Now we expect they'll send more Patriot missiles. There are some 30 being held in Poland, according to a US official who was not authorized to speak. And these missiles, of course, have been key in destroying incoming Russian missiles.
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Shea Stevens
This is NPR. Some 9,000 blue collar Philadelphia employees are returning to work after their union reached a tentative contract agreement with the city. Sanitation workers, 911 dispatchers, water department staff and others walked off their job last Tuesday in a dispute over pay and work rules. Mayor Cherelle Parker says the proposed four year contract includes a 14% pay increase over four years, plus a signing bonus. The president of AFSCME District Council 33 says he's not happy with the tentative deal, but says it was the best the union could get. Online retailers are viewing consumer buying during Prime Day sales as an early test of how bargain hunters will spend amid tariffs. As NPR's Alina Selyuk reports, the assail event is now four days instead of two and has some sellers doing a new kind of math.
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Alina Selyuk
The calculation is whether it's worth participating in Prime Day. Many retailers had stockpiled their imports ahead of President Trump's tariffs, but the stockpiles are running out. American importers are on the hook to pay the tariffs, which means future shipments will come at a higher cost and likely require raising prices. So some sellers, especially smaller ones on Amazon, are choosing to keep their goods and sit this Prime Day out. And note that Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters and pays to distribute NPR content. Spending wise more days of Prime Day sales means retailers won't know how they do until Friday. Adobe analytics says the first day saw a record of nearly $8 billion spent across all online retail. Alina Selu, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
U.S. futures are flat in after hours trading on Wall Street.
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