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
think of genetic risk factors. for this study researchers liked at behavior, metabolic risk fak torts and examined global deaths for the 2019. researchers found 44.4% of cancer deaths globally were attributable to those preventable risk factors. that s more than 4 million deaths worldwide. the leading risk factors associated with these cancer deaths were smoking, excessive alcohol use and having a high bmi or body mass index. that s one measure of obesity. and the leading cancer types in terms of these deaths varied among men and women. for men the leading cancer types were lung, tracheal and bronchial. for women, lung, tracheal and bronchial, cervical, colorectal and breast. and these risk-attributable