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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Hurricane Milton was downgraded overnight to a Category 4 storm with top sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. It is still targeting the Gulf Coast of Florida and could make landfall late tomorrow night. Tampa could get a direct hit. Leaders are pleading with people to evacuate. From member station WUSF, Gabriella Paul spoke with a Tampa resident.
Across the county, roads are busy. There's winding lines of cars at many gas stations, and grocery stores are full of shoppers, especially closer to the coast. Deborah Steele says her South Tampa neighborhood was spared during Hurricane Helene.
Standing in the cart bay at Publix, she held back tears. She's afraid that won't be the case this time. I wasn't scared with that one, but I'm scared now. And it's just a matter of where do you go? You better know where to go. She lives in a mandatory evacuation zone, but she's planning to shelter in place with her son, three dogs, and a cat. Steele says she would rather take her chances than get stuck in traffic from mass evacuations when hurricane force winds and rains start.
For NPR News, I'm Gabriela Paul in Tampa. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two researchers for their work on artificial intelligence. NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports the duo helped develop the foundations of modern chatbots. Jeffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University were awarded the prize for their roles in developing artificial neural networks.
These networks work the way scientists think the human brain works. They pave the way for computers to do things like facial recognition and language translation. Speaking at the prize-winner announcement conference, Hinton said he believes AI will change the world. So it will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual ability. But he also said he's worried the AI he helped develop might one day take over the Earth.
Jeff Brumfield, NPR News. President Biden heads to Wisconsin today to discuss his efforts to get rid of lead pipes for drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates up to 9 million U.S. homes have these lead pipes. NPR's Jason Fuller has more. The Biden-Harris administration believes removing lead pipes will be a historic commitment to advancing environmental justice.
The EPA has issued a new final rule, which Administrator Michael Regan says is based on this premise. The science has been clear for decades.
There is no safe level of lead in our drinking water. The rule requires cities and states to replace lead pipes within 10 years. The Biden administration says this will help prevent low birth weights in nearly a million infants a year. And that Midwest cities like Milwaukee and Detroit are already on pace to meet the deadline. President Biden will announce another $2.6 billion for these projects in Milwaukee today.
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