20 Million People are under heat advisories. Factor in the humidity and it felt like 111 in tallahassee florida, 102 in atlanta georgia, and 98 in the nations capital. In the west the punishing drought appears to be giving way to devastating rain. Ben tracy begins our coverage. Reporter today construction crews began fixing the highway bridge washed out by heavy weekend rains in california. Scientists say such rare summer storms are a preview of a potentially recordbreaking wet winter in the west. Nasa climate scientist josh willis says the storms are fueled by the phenomenon called el nino. A whopper of an el nino could bring a lot of really heavy rain really quickly which brings as many problems as it does solutions. Reporter el nino is a band of warmerthanusual water in the Pacific Ocean along the equator that changes weather patterns worldwide. Forecasters say this one has the potential to be the most powerful el nino on record. Signs of el nino have been washing up on western shor
Improving Emergency Response and care and rehabilitation. But here we are really focused on these three things in the middle ground, separating time and space and modifying the basic structures and finding ways to separate people who might be at risk from the hazard it in particular we are most concerned about again responders and care providers of all kind whether occupationally involved in providing care or family members. And when we think about occupational exposures and potential interventions that we can use to get lemonade or reduce exposures, we think about these as occurring on the hierarchy where we know that it is far more efficacious if we can engineer the environment or change the process to prevent the possibility of exposure in the first place, less effective is to take administrative for programmatic behavioral approaches where we try to change the way that people work together, the behavior of the cases and the least efficacious they use a personal protective equipment
Elections. In our signature segment Brittany Maynard, the young woman with terminal brain cancer, has gone to oregon to get the medication she needs to die. Well look at how the assisted suicide law there works. And a boston exhibit celebrating the works of alexander calder. Next on pbs newshour weekend. Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The United Nations warned today that the world must get most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050 or increase the likelihood of what it called severe, pervasive and irreversible damage. A report produced by
In our signature segment Brittany Maynard, the young woman with terminal brain cancer, has gone to oregon to get the medication she needs to die. Well look at how the assisted suicide law there works. And a boston exhibit celebrating the works of alexander calder. Next on pbs newshour weekend. Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The United Nations warned today that the world must get most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050 or increase the likelihood of what it called severe, pervasive and irreversible damage. A report produced by hundreds of
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