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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Millions of people on Florida's west coast are preparing for Hurricane Milton. It's expected to make landfall late today or early tomorrow morning. NPR's Greg Allen reports Milton is a Category 5 hurricane with top sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center says Milton is likely to weaken but still make landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm with 130 mile per hour winds. It will batter a large section of Florida's west coast with a storm surge
as high as 15 feet in some places. Many residents have heated evacuation orders. Rachel and Don Canty says they're hosting evacuees at their home in Antioch, 35 miles from the coast, and their pets. We took animals in for people that were evacuated, so we currently have eight dogs at our house and six cats. There's a rabbit and a squirrel. Milton will remain a hurricane after landfall and is expected to bring damaging winds, flash flooding, and tornadoes to central Florida as it crosses the state and moves out into the Atlantic.
Greg Allen, NPR News, Brandon, Florida. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to three researchers who pioneered how to design and analyze proteins, one of the building blocks of life. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports that their work could have far-reaching effects on medicine. The Chemistry Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, who honored three scientists who focus on proteins.
One is David Baker of the University of Washington. He figured out how to use computers to design entirely new kinds of proteins, including ones that could be used as vaccines or sensors. He's sharing the prize with two researchers at Google DeepMind in London, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.
They created an artificial intelligence tool that can predict the structure of proteins, letting researchers better understand everything from how enzymes work to antibiotic resistance. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. Vice President Harris made a series of media appearances yesterday, concluding with a visit to CBS's Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Earlier, she was a guest of ABC's talk show, The View. There, she was asked if she would have handled matters differently than President Biden has. Harris initially said, not a thing comes to mind because she's been part of most of the decisions that have had an impact.
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance quickly criticized Harris while campaigning in Detroit. So you think after all this time, all this time of thinking about how she would do things differently from Joe Biden, she would have a well-prepared answer for the interviewers on The View. Well, they ask her one thing you would do differently from Joe Biden. You know what she says?
I can't really think of anything off the top of my head. Later on The View, Harris said one thing she would do differently than Biden is include a Republican in her cabinet. Former President Donald Trump will campaign in Scranton, Pennsylvania today, the childhood home of President Biden. You're listening to NPR.
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