Its one of the largest dams in the world and its being so barely tested by the worst floods china has seen in decades the 3 gorges dam was once a school for great and National Pride but what impact of such mega projects have on people and the environment and how is beijing now reconsidering manages rivers this is inside story. Thank you. Thank you. And welcome to the program im laura caro its been described as a once in a generation event floods have swamped large parts of southern and Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades many people of dead or missing whole villages are inundated a 1000000 of people displaced the Economic Losses in dollars all believed to be in the billions nearly 2 months of intense rains have swelled 433. 00 rivers with water in some reaching record levels trying to authorities or raise flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levees seasonal rains a common in china but this year is flooding has been exceptional and ear
Well talk to an influencer and you have no idea how much i want to be an influencer about how she is making money on tiktok. Later, godiva chocolates is remolding its business amid the coronavirus pandemic the ceo will be here to tell us whats working and a lot is working for this company in the consumer space power lunch starts right now thanks welcome back welcome to power lunch. You can see that tech continues to dominate the market today the sector up more than 2 outperforming everybody else thats in large part to apple up 3 today shares of apple are now up about 50 on the year. Its been an incredible run. That brings the companys market cap to 1. 9 trillion and change. Were within tuouching distance of a 2 trillion dollar market cap. Also take a look at nvidia today. Its up more than 85 this year. Nvidia has been a monster. Tesla up about 4 to just under 1500 share. Theres one wall street analyst chasing shares well have those details shortly. Tyler, back to you congressional lead
Its one of the largest dams in the world and its being so barely tested by the worst floods china has seen in decades the 3 gorges dam was once a school for great and National Pride but what impact of such mega projects have on people and the environment and how is beijing now we considering manages rivers this is inside story. Thank you. And welcome to the program im laura caro its been described as a once in a generation event floods have swamped large parts of southern and Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades many people of dead or missing whole villages are inundated a 1000000 of people displaced the Economic Losses in dollars all believed to be in the billions nearly 2 months of intense rains have swelled 433. 00 rivers with water in some reaching record levels trying to authorities or raise flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levies seasonal rains a common in china but this year is flooding has been exceptional and early some en
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