year. tropical storm warnings up for parts of texas. we re going to see some heavy rainfall in certain parts. we re going to tell you where and what that means for drought conditions. and a massive fire erupts at a boat yard in massachusetts. what we re learning about the fire and the damage that s been done. welcome to your weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re grateful to have you. thanks so much for waking up with us. great to be with you, amara. i can t believe it s august 20th. i wait for the weekends to know what the date is. i m realizing, oh my gosh, we re close to september. that s good. cooler weather, please. we were just talking about that, yes. it s almost halloween. good to be with you, boris. of course. we have a lot of news going on. we begin with the intense situation surrounding the z zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. that lies on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. the fighting around the area have intensified so have concerns abo
at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism tha
stay the lower court s ruling, push pause so he doesn t have to show up tuesday and wait to see how this appeal plays out. the appeals court has not yet ruled on that ask from graham. the district attorney is interested in lindsey graham because he had a phone call with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. he came away from that call feeling like graham was asking him to throw away ballots in a way that could benefit donald trump. graham has denied that this was his intent. but this is, of course, just one of the things that the district attorney wants to get to the bottom of with senator graham. we will see if he manages to get out of that tuesday appearance. back to you guys. sara murray, thank you so much. let s dig deeper now with cnn legal analyst and former new york prosecutor paul kallan. appreciate you getting up bright and early for us. so lindsey graham says he s protected under the speech and debate clause. he s arguing he was acting in his capacity as a member
pause on this because i m planning to appeal. the judge got back to him on friday saying senator graham raises a number of arguments as to why he is likely to succeed on the merits, but they re all unpersuasive. graham does have one other iron in the fire. he also filed with an appeals court saying he plans to file his appeal and asking that court to put a stay again essentially to pause his required tuesday appearance while this appeal plays out. we re still waiting to see what the appeals court says about this. the district attorney who is investigating all of this in georgia, her office has said that graham is a crucial witness. they are particularly interested in a phone call that graham had with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. he came away from that call feeling like the senator was asking him to throw away ballots in georgia in a way that would benefit donald trump. senator lindsey graham has denied that. we will see what happens for his legal challenges and if he
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O tempo da delicadeza
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Toda gentileza é uma declaração de amor”, é a afirmação de Mia Couto que chegou num post do Facebook para mim. Outra veio na música:
Todo Sentimento de Chico Buarque, e nela o refrão que carrega o sentir de muitos nessa atualidade dura: “
Pretendo descobrir//No último momento//Um tempo que refaz o que desfez//Que recolhe todo sentimento//E bota no corpo uma outra vez.”
Li também um título da Revista Prosa Verso e Arte que me chamou atenção pela dureza: “
Agora é preciso coragem para ter esperança”. É uma publicação de fragmentos sobre o livro: “