Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, Steve Scalise Wins GOP Vote For Speaker, AI In Science
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Israel els bombing campaign in gaza, following the weekend attack by homes fighters.

has plunged the area into darkness. Israel also cut off food and water supplies. How are civilians .

and gaza try to survive the siege up first from npr news? In an internal vote, house republicans pick luizi and a conscious Steve collects to serve as the next house speaker.

We have a lot of work to do, not just in the house for the people of this country.

but please doesn't have the required votes in the full house. So what's next?

Scientists from various disciplines will meet in washington day to discuss the use of artificial intelligence epr s jeff rubin recently visited a lab where a is all ray being used to examine the technologies. Potential benefits stay with us. We've got all the news you need to try your day.

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Gazp has plunged in the darkness.

The one hundred thirty nine square mile enclave is home to more than two million palestinians. It's been under a land, air and sea blockade that has restricted the movement of people in basic goods for some sixteen years now, but the territory is now completely blocked off. Israel has caught of food, fuel, water and electricity from entering the powerplant is no longer or Operating.

And this while israeli forces are continuing air strikes that have so far held more than twelve hundred palestinians and wounded fifty eight hundred others. This, according to the gaza health ministry, all this is retaliation for the massive and unprecedented attack homos launched on israel saturday that also killed at least thirteen hundred people. A ground ambition also appears to be in the works.

For more on this for brain, our cohoes little file, who's on the line from jerusha alem later. What do you know about what's happening side gaza right now?

Yeah, i've been calling people overnight in this morning inside watching the videos that are coming out and its not homes reduced to rubble a there, its entire blocks. And among those killed in the air strikes, our entire families, palestinians in gaza i've been speaking with, say, we've been moving from one neighborhood to the next, looking for a place to be safe. But they say there's no where safe.

They can't find a place, even you. In schools where palestinians, typically flea or safety, have been hit, eleven people from the U. N.

Palestinian refugee agency have been killed. The crossing into egypt is closed and has been struck at least three times. And remember, palestinians cat, just leave because there's a siege, so they're trapped, trying to survive.

I spoke to her mother, who's giving her baby only half the amount of milk because food is running out. I'm going to play you a bit of a conversation I had this morning with our own N. P. R.

Producer, anas baba, who lives in gaza. Job, leave my, my work OK. And to get to go to my family in order to evaluate them, I started to, just to think, we're, am I gna big them?

We're, am, I gonna hide them. Go, go. So I took them to another place which was dangerous, and we answer them to another place which was not dangerous. So after that, I took into one of my friend's houses just in the night. And now I took them back to my own house, to the previous, into the original.

So as you can hear there, people are giving up on trying to find somewhere safe. And just six days into the swar, gaza is already in a deep humAnitary arian crisis.

With no electricity is going to be a lot harder, maybe even impossible, really, to reach anyone in there.

Yeah, I mean, people are charging their phones in their cars. If they have you left their afraid, they soon be cut off from the world, which would mean an information black. And this is happening at a time when palestinians inside gaza are saying .

the other strict are coming with no warning.

any side that is gna let up at all. In fact, israel, I na, who says is army, says it's preparing for a ground invasion, which many are specular means a reoccupation of gaza. And palestinians tell me there that they've never seen anything like this.

And remember, they've lived through four gaza wars before this. And just for context, they've also lived under sixteen year blocked e but this time, they say, is different. People are saying they fear that they won't survive, and they feel the international community just doesn't care about their lives. Here's how alex inie, journalist wash abuzz a who lives .

and works in side gos, put IT, we are, you don't forget us. Why you allow you to kill us every day without any problem. We are innocent people.

So why is showing our homes? Why is is closing the order not allow anybody to help us? They are publishing student people. They are not punishing as they are clean.

And this is what I heard in one phone call. After the next please, for help .

attempt that a file injuries. Thank you.

Thank you.

House republicans nominated lousianner congressman Steve skills to serve at the next speaker.

The house slice won an internal gop election against house judiciary committee chairman jm. Jordan, but he does not have the votes to be elected by the full house of representatives, and so the house remains frozen. Even with bay partisan calls to pass legislation supporting israel in its war against Thomas. Nothing can happen until a new speaker is elected.

He is pr. Congressional correspondent dear walls dedra. What is the whole appear?

He's still significantly short on the votes to win. School is still facing a lot of resistance from fellow republicans. As you said, he won the internal vote.

He had one hundred and thirteen votes to ninety nine for Jordan, but needs two hundred and seventeen to be elected by the full house. Jordan quickly got behind squars after he won the internal vote, but some of Jordan supporters say they still want to vote for him on the floor. Schools can only afford to lose a handful of votes.

There are two hundred and twenty one republicans. If they all show up to vote, there's a significantly more than a few Jordan backers are just not budging. People like mark Taylor Green from georgia, chip boy from texas law and Robert from corrado.

But what republicans really wants to avoid is another big, public, messy scene on the house for or when they need multiple rounds to elect a speaker. School has been meeting one on one with these hold outs, but that could take a while. The list of republicans still opposing him includes people with different concerns and demands, and it's really unclear what IT could take for him to win them over.

So if school is though, became speaker or would be the most immediate chAllenger of about.

I mean, he has that razor thin house majority uh, the same issue mccarthy had also just the last week of chaos without a speaker has a lot of republicans worried. They look like they just can't govern right now. The house can't vote on anything. This comes at a time when israel is dealing with that surprise attack from him. Police made IT clear his tap priority would be to bring up a resolution supporting israel.

We have a lot of work to do, not just in the house for the people of this country, but we see how dangers of a world IT is and how things can change so quickly.

The other big chAllenge for the next speaker is the federal government is still Operating under a temporary funding bill, and that runs out november seventeen th. So the next speaker still has just weeks to avoid a government shutdown and would have to negotiate a compromise with the democratic senate and president bind.

Tell us about Steve school. He was about the number to what else about him, though, pitch to get this nomination. Well.

his experience in leadership, he's been part of the leadership team for about a decade, he argued. He bring unity after a really divisive week following mccarthy's ouster. He's more conservative than in macau. But just like mirth's and jim Jordan, police voted against certifying the twenty twenty election results, one of Jordan's supporters, south CarOlina, a republican I mates, said she's not gonna vote for school.

Citing on the fact that he met with the group of White's premises that happened back into two thousand two when he was a state representative, he later apologized personally squeezes gone through a, he was a victim of a mass shooting in twenty seventeen and he almost died recently. He was diagnosed with multiple malema h blood cancer. But he says he's doing well. He's up to the job as speaker.

mp. R, due to walsh. thanks.

Sorting this out. Thank you.

right? Scientists are talking about their plans for artificial intelligence today.

Researchers are meeting at the national academies here in washington, D. C. The topic A I for scientific discovery doing is .

now to discuss how researchers think A I can help is mp r science correspondent jeff brum fields. So jeff of this meeting and dc is open to scientists from all fields. What are going to be talking about?

Yeah, they're going to be talking about using artificial intelligence for everything from climate studies to Cosmology. And the ultimate goal here is to actually make little A I scientists. I spoke to a researcher named aliaga ill from the university of southern california.

And SHE thinks eventually A I might be able to, like, run entire laboratories, ies set up and run in own experiments. But if you're in a first listener who is also a scientist and they're out there, don't worry, there are so many questions. In science.

SHE says the amount of work is infinite. Uh, there is not enough humans to go around to do all this work at her hope.

And the hope of a lot of researchers is the day I can pick up the slack and make science Better. But to do that, they also have to think about bias. Of course, AI is encoded with all the bias that humans Carry with us. And so for things like medical research, you have to be very careful about that.

Yeah, there you go now, jeff, I know that you recently visited a lab where scientists are using artificial intelligence to see.

yeah, I went to the versy of washingtons institute for protein design in seattle. And what they're doing there is designing these proteins that do everything in biology, Young. They make up our muscles.

They help our immune systems and help us digest food. These researchers want to make new ones that can do new kinds of stuff. And IT was a really interesting line up. Half the lab was like test tubes and beckers and all that, and the other half with computers.

So what kind of things that they want to do?

I met a graduate student names Susana aska tourists. And he wants to make proteins that can basically counteract snake. But here's the thing. Finding the right protein has taken a lot of trial and error in the past in using A I has really sped up that process. I think it's just like crazy revolutionary that we can come up with through the in a couple of months now, wherein the past my taking years.

So how does the I work?

Yeah, in this lab, it's actually the same AI technology used in image generation. So I don't know if you've seen dolly made journey, these programs that can make these amazing images. And they worked by studying millions of images and then learning to make their own. This program works by studying a bunch proteins and then using that knowledge to try make new ones. It's called deep learning.

David Baker heads this lab and he says, a big part of why I works so well is that this protein program has had a ton of data to learn from our ability to design new proteins s using deeper learning rest entirely on the work of forty or fifty years of graduations and post talks and scientists. And you know, this is the thing about AI. We still have this impression that can do absolutely anything, but IT needs a lot of human data to actually do its work. Now not all fields of science have this much data, and the data always isn't always as well organized, so may not work for everyone, but it's bound to work for a lot of different fields that M.

P, R, science core respond. And jeff Brown field with a really cool assignment today. Jeff, thanks a lot.

Take you.

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