redistricting map violates the voting rights act. former president trump in a familiar position, under threat of indictment as the target of a major investigation entering its final phase, over the mishandling of classified documents. unhealthy skies across the northeast impacting tens of millions of americans. the dangerous air quality levels caused by canadian wildfires are causing ground stops at major airports. president biden meeting with britain s fifth prime minister in the last seven years to deepen the economic ties between the two nations and reinforce the importance of continued support for ukraine against russia. very happy to have spent many years working, living and studying here. it s a country that believes in freedom, enterprise and opportunity. i believe in all those things, too. good day, i m andrea mitchell in new york. the supreme court rules today on voting rights. in a surprising decision written by chief justice roberts, joined by the three l
People are stranded in the middle of black rock desert. It is billed as nineday escape from reality, which ends with burning of a statue. Monsoon rains rocked that desert floor turning it into gluelike sticky mud, which trapped most vehicles. Attendees have had to conserve food and water and hypothermia was a risk. One person died, although the cause of death is not known. Some burners are sharing their reaction to this that has gone so wrong. It is about six inches of mud, cars are sinking. We have gotten an inch of rainfall the last hours. Been to a lot of Music Festivals, nothing that turned out like that one. Go to joe in the middle, your thoughts on that. Joe i wasnt at woodstock. If you are going to i desert in the year 23, where everybody can communicate with the outside world is that you would be stranded and have to conserve food and live in conditions like that. The line going around social media, when the president was told about burning man, he immediately told the story ab
When wildfire smoke turns the air brown and hazy, you might think about heading indoors with the windows closed, running an air purifier or even wearing a mask. These are all good strategies to reduce exposure to the particles in wildfire smoke, but smoky air is also filled with potentially harmful gases. Those gases can get into buildings and remain in the walls and floors for weeks. Getting rid of these gases isn’t as simple as turning on an air purifier or opening a window on a clear day. In
ultrafine smoke particles, these things are tight. if you basically look at air quality, the issue is it is harmful but invisible. if i put a dirty glass of water in front of you you would not drink that. you have that choice you can see that. you do not have that choice with air quality thus important of concert filtration. eric: you umc cannot see the sw tiny is it? what does that mean? and can you always smell it? you know, you cannot always smell in the size is not visible to the eye. you are talk about micron sizes of .1 for instance. you can see dust sometimes and things floating in the air. if you put it light audit these are tiny particles are quite harmful. eric: look and it difficult air pollutants there s a lot of controversy over gas stoves the science of showing it is there. you ve got radon and mold and
Experts say current air quality recommendations for public spaces are not sufficient to prevent small particulate matter, including pollutants in smoke, from circulating indoors.