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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's west coast, expected to make landfall this morning. Milton threatens to cause potentially lethal storm surge.
NPR's Sergio Martinez, Bertran has the latest. Millions of residents living in Tampa, Sarasota and Fort Myers are under mandatory or voluntary evacuations ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. But time is running out for those who have yet to leave. Yes, from my house, yes. Are you going to stay here in the city? Yes, I'm going to stay, but there's nowhere I can go.
Juan Domingo says he is staying in Fort Myers because there's nowhere else to go. Many hotels in the area have shut down and evacuated guests. And although Governor Ron DeSantis says there's no fuel shortage, many gas stations in the Fort Myers area have run out of gasoline.
Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Fort Myers, Florida. Cleanup and recovery efforts continue in areas that were damaged by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, causing more than 130 deaths. FEMA officials say that misinformation about the government's response to recent disasters is hurting the effort.
In hard-hit Asheville, North Carolina, Mayor Esther Manheier agrees. It's astonishing to me that in a moment, in a crisis like this, for so many individuals, that anyone would spend time spreading hate, spreading lies, and making anti-Semitic hate speech against me or any other person who is Jewish in this situation. Governors and local officials in communities hit by Helene say the Biden administration is helping,
and has offered whatever assistance they might need to recover.
Hundreds of students at UC Berkeley walked out of classes Tuesday to protest Israel's ongoing war against Hamas and other groups. The demonstration was met by a small counter-protest of pro-Israel students. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Azul Dahlstrom Ekman has more. Pro-Palestinian students are demanding the university divest financially and academically from Israel and calling for an end to the conflict there.
Zaid Youssef is a law student at UC Berkeley. We stand with the people of Palestine. We demand an end to this violence that has escalated from just Gaza to the West Bank, to Lebanon, to Yemen, to Iraq, to Iran. Israel is...
questioning and causing the instability of the entire Middle East. About half a dozen students draped in Israeli flags showed up to counter-protest, carrying signs demanding the return of hostages still held by Hamas. Tensions ran high as students on both sides screamed at each other, a year after Israel began bombing Gaza in response to the October 7th attack by Hamas. For NPR News, I'm Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman in Berkeley.
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