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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican Donald Trump has not released information about his health because he doesn't want the public to see if he's fit to be president again. It's just a further example of his lack of transparency that on top of his...
unwillingness to debate again. Sarah spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews after her campaign yesterday released a White House medical report that says she is in excellent health. She is to rally supporters in Greenville, North Carolina today.
Trump has been campaigning in Western states this weekend, and Pierre Stephen Fowler reports on his rally in Coachella, California. California isn't a battleground state, but Trump's increasingly dire campaign message is that the future of all states rests on him winning. We will defend our territory, we'll defend our families.
We will defend our communities. We will defend our civilization. We will not be conquered. We will not be occupied. We will not be invaded. We will reclaim our sovereignty. We will reclaim our nation. And I will give back your freedom and give back your life. For nearly 90 minutes, he repeated familiar themes like demonizing migrants, insulting opponents, and riffing on whatever crossed his mind. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
Efforts to reduce IV fluid shortages following Hurricane Helene appear to be paying off. The Biden administration says the situation is improving, as NPR's Sydney Lubkin reports. The shutdown of a North Carolina factory making IV fluids in late September put a strain on the national supply of things like sterile water for injection, saline and more.
The factory owned by Baxter International was among the biggest suppliers to hospitals around the country, and it shut down following flooding from Hurricane Helene. Hospitals could only order a fraction of their usual amounts of IV fluids. But the Biden administration says they could order 50% more this week than last. That's because of joint efforts to move undamaged product out of Baxter warehouses, allow new imports, and leverage other facilities to bridge the gap in supply.
Sydney Lepkin, NPR News. SpaceX's launch window for another test of the largest rocket ever built opens in less than an hour. Here's NPR's Jeff Rumpfriel reporting. Chopsticks. That's the plan after the launch when the rocket's enormous, super-heavy booster comes back to Earth. Other rocket companies let their boosters crash into the ocean, but SpaceX hopes to catch its booster with a pair of giant mechanical arms attached to the launch tower. They call them chopsticks.
If it works, it'll be a critical milestone for SpaceX's newest, biggest rocket known as Starship. Elon Musk hopes Starship will someday go to Mars, and to do that affordably, they need to catch and reuse the booster after every launch. If this test fails, then the booster and the launch tower will likely be destroyed. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News. And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News.
