Tuesday, July 19 top stories
It is Tuesday, July 19. Here are today’s top stories.
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Britain records highest ever temperature of 40.2 C
Today temperatures at London’s Heathrow Airport reached 40.2 degrees C or 104.3 degrees F. It broke a record from 2019 for the highest temperature.
Reuters said Britain is now in a state of national emergency due to the heat. Many train services were canceled due to concern over buckling train tracks.
A smaller airport in London had to shut down because the heat caused a small section of the runway to lift.
A UK government official said much of the British infrastructure was built during the Victorian era (1850’s to the 1900’s) and wasn’t built to withstand this type of temperature.
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Four-year-old shoots at cops in Utah
Police in the Salt Lake City, Utah area released body camera footage that showed a four-year-old boy shooting at officers while his father was being detained outside of a McDonald’s. The incident was in February.
Police said they went to the McDonald’s because employees reported that a man was threatening them with a gun at a drive-thru due to his order being messed up.
When cops arrived and detained the man, they came under fire and seemed ready to shoot back before they realized it was a child. They shouted, “Kids! Kids.” Inside the car was the four-year-old and a 3-year-old sibling. Fortunately, nobody was shot. An officer said if the kid aimed a bit lower, they could have hit his head.
The four-year-old told officers that he grabbed his father’s gun and tried to shoot the police so his father could be free and do what he wanted.
News reports said the father, Sadaat Johnson, admitted that it was not the first time that his four-year-old son handled his gun. Last month, he was convicted of child abuse and assault.
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Putin visits Iran
Russian President Putin visited Iran today and met with the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. He will also meet with the Turkish president Erdogan. The three countries will discuss Syria, Ukraine, and oil.
BBC said it is Putin’s second foreign trip since he launched the invasion of Ukraine in February. Iran is one of Russia’s few remaining allies.
The White House said last week that they have information that Iran plans to supply Russia with hundreds of drones that will be used in the war.
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Marburg outbreak in Ghana
The World Health Organization declared that there is an outbreak of the Marburg virus in Ghana.
CTV News said the Marburg virus is in the same family as Ebola, which is a very infectious hemorrhagic fever.
It is spread to people by fruit bats and spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids of infected people and surfaces. It has a case fatality rate of between 24% to 88%.
WHO said there were two confirmed cases of Marburg from this month. Both were males that were unrelated to each other but were from the same region and. One was 26 years old and the other was 51. Both died shortly after checking into a hospital.
Health officials said they are responding quickly and trying to get ahead of a possible outbreak. They have identified contacts of the two men and are monitoring them.
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Former Trump White House staffers to testify on Thursday
The Jan 6. House Committee will have two former Trump White House staffers testify before them on Thursday evening. The committee said they will focus on what Donald Trump did for three hours when the U.S. Capitol was under attack. One of the members of the committee said Trump didn’t do much except gleefully watching it happen on television.
The two staffers are former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews. The NY Post explained that the two staffers were among “a group of Trump administration staffers who resigned immediately after Jan 6.”
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U.S. Women’s Soccer defeats Canada
The U.S. Women’s National Team (soccer) defeated Canada 1-0 last night in the CONCACAF W Championship in Mexico. Alex Morgan scored the only goal in the game, a penalty shot near the end of the game.
The win means the U.S. will have a spot in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
During the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Canada defeated the U.S. in the semifinals before winning the gold medal. Now the U.S. has defeated Canada.
The two teams are among the best women’s teams in the world.
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That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
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https://www.newson6.com/story/62d471f16704ed07254324ff/fouryearold-shoots-at-officers-in-utah-
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/after-warmest-night-britain-braces-record-temperature-2022-07-19/
https://weather.com/news/news/2022-07-18-europe-heat-wave-britain-france-spain
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62218696
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/world-health-organization-declares-marburg-outbreak-in-ghana-1.5991658
https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/matthew-pottinger-sarah-matthews-to-testify-at-jan-6-hearing/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/sports/soccer/uswnt-canada-concacaf-w-championship.html