Heat Hits Texas, Honduras Gang Crackdown, Malaria in the US
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Taxi spaces at record breaking heat IT feels like a hundred forty degrees in places.

The government just signed a law ending Mandatory water breaks for construction workers. So what's IT like .

working outside the that? Steven, skipping this up first from npr news.

malaria has returned to the united states.

This country gets scattered cases, but Normally there are only in people arriving from abroad. So how did five people contract IT locally?

Also, police and honduras have been cracking down on gangs. They blame gangs from massaging forty six women inside a prison. Our colleagues or paralus following this story and helps us understand what's going wrong.

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The newman dan rather once said on T. V. That a close election was harder than a latter. Texas parking lot this week, that parking lot is about as hot as it's been.

I'm glad i'm not in the texas parking lot because much of the southern us. Is under his advisor ies. And that includes texas. The heat is straining the power grid and breaking temperature .

records most bushels with member station K, U, T. And Austin and is covering this, and I hope not being too hard while doing IT.

Good morning this morning.

How is this different from every other hot summer in texas?

Well, it's usually like in july and August, and we get this big heat. But here we are in june, and we're breaking a ton of heat records, including the heat index, which is that that feels like temperature. So here in awesome last week, we hit a one hundred and eighteen degrees in san antonia is one hundred and sixteen heat index.

Indices hit one hundred and seventeen, and it's important that to say they're talking about the heat and the humidity here, right? So that's unusual. In a lot of the state where heat waves are often associated with drought, this humidity is keeping IT very hot overnight. People are obviously trying to stay inside if they can, and a lot of cities to .

set up killing centers. Okay, so you can say that thing about well to dry, you can't dismiss IT in that. So what if you have to work .

outside is really tough. I I was out yesterday. I ran into a guide.

Ed, andre south, aw, he's a welder here in auto. He's on a job side outside. I ask him, describe what has been like unbearable.

You have to take precautions. Ons, right?

So all says that means taking breaks, and of course, of staying hydrated. Ted, drinking water. This is saying that getting a lot of attention right now because texas governor greg abbott just signed a law ending Mandatory water breaks for construction workers.

So like here in Austin, for example, we had a local rule that said workers needed water breaks in the heat. State republicans ended those worker protections. So I was worried about that.

You know, you can just tell the constructive al worker that's working in a hundred degree heat, the heat index being one hundred and twelve fifteen, that they can stop and take water. That's cool and unusual position. Abbey.

worth remembering that extreme heat causes more deaths in the U. S. Than any other kind of natural disaster. That's according to the national oceanic and atmosphere administration.

Have people died from the heat then? Oh yeah.

there there been several reports around the states that includes nine he related decent web county around to a male career who died on the job last weekend, dallas, when the hidden decks was around one hundred and fifteen degrees. These some of these deaths are still under investigation, but obviously, there may be many more that we're not .

aware of right now. People are naturally going to wonder how much of a factor is climate change here.

Yet human cause climate change means more intense in more frequent heatwaves. I talk to Victor Murphy is the climate program manager, the national weather service in for worth, and he says, a warmer atmosphere just holds more humidity.

So the fourth climate change figure prints, I would say perhaps the decreased in humidity and waterbed er in the atmosphere, this dictionary I do took .

me saw another climate fingerprint, like movie says, could be a very a weakening jet stream that's basically an area current that circles the globe, a weaker jet stream that means whether can get stuck in place like we're seeing with this heat over the south.

I remember ing the extreme cold in texas as a couple years back, which devastated the power grid. I guess heat can also put a lot of strain on the grade.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm keeping my eyes on the texas great how IT holds up. We set a new record of our energy demand yesterday within up their, as IT looks like will do IT again a day. Probably the other question is how this early he could introduce drought again to the state that could leads to more heat later in the summer, july and August. So this really could just be the first chapter in a really scorching texas summer this year.

Most bushell with ku, t. Stay cool. Thank you. In addition to heat, texas and florida face five cases of malaria.

If you're thinking, wait, malaria gone from the U. S. Well, that was all but gone. It's disappearance.

As one of the great public health stories many kids learn in school, this country cut back on the mosquito born disease. They use insecticides and window screens and good drainage of standing water. But now that seems to be back.

and p is being wang is covering malarious reemergence. Good morning.

Good morning, Steve.

What is unusual about these five cases?

Or Steve, it's really where people got the disease. So each year in the us, there's about two thousand cases in malaria, but all of those are generally traveled related IT means that usually found in people have come back from sub saharan africa, southeast asia, other countries where malaria is common. These five cases are locally transmitted, so these patients got malaria where they live for, and south as florida, one in south taxes.

And this local transmission is something that the U. S. Has not seen in twenty years. So that prompted the cdc to send out and alert to doctors, tell them to look at for our cases.

people have seen so little malaria. I have to ask for those who don't know what IT is.

So it's a disease that caused by a parasite, and it's Carried by mosquitoes. It's transmitted between people through mosquito bites. And after someone gets bitten, IT can take a week or a few weeks for sentence to show, determine. A police with the C, D, C says, then I can quickly become a medical emergency.

We don't want people to have travelled to malaria area and then get a fever and just sit IT at home. Or if you see care and have been given a diagnosis and you're not getting Better, you need to go back.

Do you know what's changed why we would see these cases?

Now that's an open question. Mean experts think that what's happened? Is that a few factors online? So maybe there is an influx of travellers who came back with malaria, got bitten by mosquitoes in the us.

Maybe that's coincided with a lot of rain, a lot of heat and humidity. These are conditions that mosque es and the malaria parasites really thrive under. And probably what happens that these forces combined to cause of flying cases.

You know, I study a lot of history, so, you know, you read about the sixteen century, you read about malaria in the united states. I mean, he killed people there. I would deviates their health for a long time.

How dangerous is this? Well, IT depends on the country and also the strain. And so specific to the U. S, around fifteen out of every hundred people who get malaria get seriously ill. And every year we do see few people who die from IT.

And one thing to note is that malaria can be caused by, at one of five, the different parasites species. And these cases in the U. S.

Are caused by one called plasmodium five ax. Still, there's good news, and there's bad news that comes with that. So the good news is that this is not the most deadly one.

Although people still can be laid up for weeks with illness. The bad news is that this is a species that can hide out in a person's liver and come back after a few weeks or a few months. It's called for current. And so that makes IT extra important for people to get the right diagnosis and take the right drug so that people can fully kick these parasites.

I'm just making a wild guess, paying that if we know of five cases, there may be more than five cases. Should we expect that malaria is going to become a larger problem in the united states.

while there is probably more than five cases, but at the moment the C D, C says are not expecting a huge outbreak. Um you know malaria, as you mentioned, used to be a big problem in the us. And it's actually the reason the C2C was fou nded bac k in one tho usand nin e hun dred and for ties.

They did a lot of work going door to door and that LED the disease actually being eliminated from the us. By the early thousand and fifty. So they're watching these cases closely in the best scenario. These cases are a blip, but they are checking to make sure that they're not a sign of a bigger problem.

And there's pink.

Thanks so much. You're welcome.

The president of honduras is is ordering a crackdown on gangs.

The government released images showing police going cell to sell in jails, moving prisoners around and searching. They've also thrown up road blocks in the streets and made mass arrests.

Peter paralysis covering all this from his base in mexico city. Atter, good morning.

Hey, good morning.

sea. What let to this crack down?

So IT on us just had a grow some week. I started with a gang attack on a woman's prison just outside the capital people. He got back, and that left forty six women dead.

Some had been burned to death, others, t. Other, stabbed. The president, humana castro said that the attack had been planned by gangs, but he said quaked under the watchful eye and with the approval from prison authorities. And then this past weekend, a more carnage. At least twenty people were dead, including thirteen people, when a gunman opened fire at a pool hall.

Okay, so how is the government trying to root gangs out?

So looky, they had, they had tried to get this violence under control in the past. At the end of last year, they suspended some civil rights in some parts of the country. But then we had all this violence.

And after the attack on the woman's president, humana capital promised, quote, drastic measures. And now we know what he met by that. Police, as you said, have set up roadblocks.

We've announced a curfew and they're working their way through the prisons. They've confiscate knives and grinds and a salt rifles. And police have released videos showing inmates just in their boxers being lined up outside.

They're being a made to cover. And all you see is this mass of tattooed flesh. And this is almost exactly the kind of images that we've seen coming out of this side a lot, where they've gone after gangs viciously.

They've suspended their civil rights, they've tortured gangs members, and they've kept them in overcrowded prisons. In gusta sanchez, who's the director general of the police and ondo us, gave a speech that seems to promise more of this. Let's .

listen. So he's saying that .

in the next .

few days they will send a proposal to congress to declare any gang member a terrorist. And of course, that's the same thing. That is all other calls. Uh.

it's gangs members uh, I remember some of you are amazing reporting from ml celador on some of the extreme measures the government has taken there even though many people did support those extreme measures. Hondas is going for the same .

thing yeah I think there is no doubt that that is exactly what's happening um but in a limited way um and saba lord has fully suspended certain civil rights and we've done for over a year, but on dudas has only done IT for parts of the country. So they seem to be crawling toward inside about.

And I think that's why it's important to watch these developments on because the security situation is in a pretty dire away in a lot of an american countries. So I mean, of course, people see the human rights abuses that are happening in this out a lot. But a lot of analysts i've spoken to say that people are so sick of crime that they're willing to sacrifice democracy or personal freedoms if IT means that they can .

sleep easy at night and there's .

a problem to thanks so much.

Thank you, Steve.

And that's up first for this wednesday, june twenty eighth. I'm Steve .

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