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Historic Hurricane Bearing Down on Mexico Hurricane Patricia today became the strongest storm ever recorded in the Western hemisphere with top winds of 200 miles an hour. As it headed toward the Pacific Coast of Mexico, residents and tourists prepared for the worst. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for Weather Underground.com , has an updates.
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Winter Weather Chaos, in Atlanta and Beyond Yesterday, Winter Storm Leon dumped snow all over Southern states that aren't used to it, turning streets and highways into parking lots, stranding school buses and causing 940 confirmed traffic accidents in Atlanta alone. Today, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal vowed, "(T)here will not be anybody stranded in a vehicle on our interstates that has not been offered the opportunity to go to a place of safety and security where they can be fed, where there will be access to restrooms, etc." Jeff Masters is Director of Meteorology for Weather Underground.com , an Internet forecasting service.
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Which Way Is the Radioactive Wind Blowing? Nobody knows how much radiation will be spewed into the atmosphere by Japan's damaged nuclear power plants. We do know that the prevailing weather patterns might bring it in this direction. Jeff Masters is Director of Meteorology at WeatherUnderground.com , an online forecasting company.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.