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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. Funeral preparations are coming together for former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100. Grant Blankenship of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports his hometown is already preparing.
Grant Blankenship (0:28)
Carter spent most of his life in the southwest Georgia farming community of Plains. Normally, the Christmas decorations outside the main strip of shops downtown would have another week before they came down. Now most have been replaced with red, white and blue ribbons, and the flags are at half staff. Agnes McAllister has cleaned rooms at the Plains Inn on the corner of the strip for about five years.
Agnes McAllister (0:49)
And I have to get everything ready upstairs because all the Carters will be staying upstairs. It makes me feel good that I'm able to do that for them.
Grant Blankenship (0:59)
Carter's funeral schedule will both begin and end in Plains. Between, he will lie in repose at the Carter center in Atlanta and lighten state at the capitol in Washington, D.C. for NPR News, I'm Grant Blankenship in Plains, Georgia.
Dan Ronan (1:13)
In an end of the year message, the UN general secretary, Antonio Guterres, pledged in 2025 to move to a more peaceful, stable and healthy future for all people. He also said more be done to encourage the use of renewable energy and nations and people should come together to battle climate change.
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We have just endured a decade of deadly heat. The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years, including 2024. This is climate breakdown in real time.
Dan Ronan (1:48)
Despite the global warming temperatures. The secretary general said he's optimistic because citizens are forcing government and others to to come together. The investigation continues into that jetliner crash in South Korea Sunday. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports. 179 people died.
Anthony Kuhn (2:06)
Officials, volunteers and church groups comforted bereaved families, many of whom sheltered in tents in the Muon International Airport in South Cholla Province. Anguished cries and sobs occasionally rose from the tents. Family members asked officials to quickly return the bodies of their loved ones, but officials replied that only five of the bodies were relatively intact, while most were in pieces that needed to be properly sorted before being returned. South Korean authorities will Inspect all Boeing 737-800s in service with the country's airlines. The flight recorders recovered from the crashed plane have been taken to Seoul for examination. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Muon County, South Korea.