In the aftermath of Maui’s Lahaina wildfire, the University of Hawai‘i will use $519,000 in USDA grants to fund research projects that aim to reinforce Hawai‘i’s agriculture against disasters and address the health risks of toxic chromium.
community. and so as we get more soaked over this period of time with continuous rain, we continue to be concerned about that, downed power lines, of course, and our thoughts turn to recovery and people using things like generators and using them safely and, you know, we can t emphasize enough that without proper ventilation, the generators can be very dangerous and even deadly in just a matter of minutes really. and so just always important to make that type of emphasis. we re doing the disaster assessments now and moving into the recovery phase and very fortunate to have dodged, again, the brunt of idalia. still those are very important admonitions, not just power lines, but generators for people who don t have power, to use them properly and understand exactly what the down sides are of using a generator. thank you so much. appreciate it. and now i want there are some dramatic scenes in
about it, i was once it hit the ground on the fifth time, everything just i saw daylight. i don t know how i m here. in just a few moments, a tornado survivor remembers his mother who did not survive. and we are just getting word that a plane carrying american and british pro democracy workers has left cairo. they were accused of cementing unrest in egypt. they were ngos who were the target of a government crackdown last december. all face charges of fraud. the crisis further strained ties between new egyptian government and the united states. meantime, in syria after weeks of fighting, rebel of the free syrian army today pulled out of the district of the embattled city of homs. and that did nothing to stop the heavy shelling of homs. dissidents describe it as a blood bath and residents without food, water, or medicine. desperately needed supplies could soon be on the way. the international red cross says the syrian government has given it permission to enter homs t