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    Will Southern Floods Force Republicans to Accept Climate Change?

    Houston is still reeling from floods which killed eight people this week. It's just one in a series of storms recently to hit the Gulf Coast and many Red States in the South, where Republican mayors of hard­-hit cities are calling for their party to stop dismissing climate change science and to combat rising seas. Will the Republican top brass come around?

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Apr 21, 2016 • 52m Listen

    Houston is still reeling from floods which killed eight people this week. It's just one in a series of storms recently to hit the Gulf Coast and many Red States in the South, where Republican mayors of hard­-hit cities are calling for their party to stop dismissing climate change science and to combat rising seas. Will the Republican top brass come around?

    Later on the program, NPR is finally investing in the next big thing ­­ podcasting. All Things Considered host Kelly McEvers tells us about her new weekly digital series, Embedded.

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    1. 1:49

      Musician Prince Dead at 57

      Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince and the visionary behind the film Purple Rain, died today at the age of 57. One of the most iconic and talented artists in music history, Prince passed away at his studio, part of a large estate in a suburb of Minneapolis.

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      7 min
    2. 8:46

      Record Floods in Red States

      Record flooding this week in Houston killed eight people, devastated more than a thousand homes, and caused at least $5 billion in damage. And the storms aren't over. Forecasters predict that in coming days rains along the Gulf Coast could create flooding levels that haven't been seen for 500 years.

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      34 min
    3. 42:42

      NPR "Embeds" in the Podcast World

      Podcasts are big right now, as big as things get in the audio world. Every media company from Buzzfeed to the New York Times is investing in them. Serial is credited with putting podcasts on the map in the culture beyond public radio, but some critics have worried that National Public Radio has been too slow to lead the pack.

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      10 min
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      Barbara Bogaev

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Jenny Hamel

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    3 stories
    1. 1:497 min

      Musician Prince Dead at 57

    2. 8:4634 min

      Record Floods in Red States

    3. 42:4210 min

      NPR "Embeds" in the Podcast World

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