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Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall in Louisiana · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: In the day's other news, Tropical storm Bertha made landfall
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  Speaker 1: on the southern coast of Louisiana this afternoon, about forty
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  Speaker 1: miles east of New Orleans. Satellite imagery shows the sheer
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  Speaker 1: size of the storm, with winds stretching as far as
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  Speaker 1: one hundred miles from its center. Officials are warning of
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  Speaker 1: dangerous storm surge and damaging wind even as Bertha weakens
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  Speaker 1: moving westward across the Gulf coast. In a press conference today,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana's governor said the state is prepared for the worst,
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  Speaker 1: though the storm is not expected to cause major damage.
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  Speaker 2: Today's forecast is encouraging, but it doesn't mean that we
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  Speaker 2: should be complacent. I expect every level of government to
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  Speaker 2: stay focused on and that's its core responsibility of protecting
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  Speaker 2: people and maintaining a critical infrastructure. Then.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, flash flooding has swamped homes and businesses in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: with up to seven inches of rain falling in some areas.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Patrick Morrissey declared a state of emergency for all
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  Speaker 1: counties and sent more than three one hundred National Guard
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  Speaker 1: troops to affected areas. Emergency crews on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the Atlantic are battling conditions of a different extreme.
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  Speaker 1: Wildfires engulfed entire homes in Turkey, while in the mountains
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  Speaker 1: of Sicily, towns were surrounded by a wall of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: In Spain, a fire in Guadalajara, north of Madrid has
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  Speaker 1: burned some eighty thousand acres and forced more than twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred people to evacuate. It's now the country's second largest
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  Speaker 1: wildfire on record. Today, Spain's Prime Minister visited the fire zone.
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  Speaker 1: He said compared to this time last year, the number
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  Speaker 1: of wildfires in Spain has quadrupled.
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  Speaker 3: Span Spain needs a major state pact against the climate
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  Speaker 3: emergency because we cannot only think about wildfires when they occur.
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  Speaker 3: We have to act beforehand. This is not about politics,
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  Speaker 3: It is not about ideology. It is science.
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  Speaker 1: The fires come in the middle of a still swell
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  Speaker 1: to summer across Europe and France. Public health officials say
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  Speaker 1: there were upwards of fifty seven hundred more deaths than
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  Speaker 1: usual during a record setting heat wave last month. This
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  Speaker 1: year's cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US is officially the worst
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  Speaker 1: on record, as the CDC says there are more than
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  Speaker 1: forty one hundred confirmed cases across forty one states. The
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  Speaker 1: agency is aware of seventy four hundred additional cases that
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  Speaker 1: have not been confirmed. No debts have been reported. Health
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior told ABC News yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: the outbreak is quote under control. Officials are still investigating
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  Speaker 1: iceberg lettuce from tailor farms as a potential source of
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  Speaker 1: the outbreak, and say the number of cases could rise further.
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  Speaker 1: On Capitol Hill today, the House passed a flurry of
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  Speaker 1: Republican led measures, including the GOP's ninety five billion dollar
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  Speaker 1: budget proposal that would further fund the Iran war.
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  Speaker 2: The concurrent resolution is adopted.
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  Speaker 1: In the tally was two sixteen to two fourteen, with
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  Speaker 1: all Democrats opposed. The vast majority of the funds would
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  Speaker 1: go towards the Pentagon and other national security needs. The
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  Speaker 1: rest would help farmers struggling under President Trump's tariffs and
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  Speaker 1: pay for voting law changes that he's pushing. The measure
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  Speaker 1: faces an uphill battle in the Senate, but House Speaker
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  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson touted it and other bills passed today as
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  Speaker 1: a win.
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  Speaker 2: This was obviously a consequential week for House Republicans, but
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  Speaker 2: it was a very consequential week for the American people.
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  Speaker 1: The House also approved measures that would ban insider trading
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  Speaker 1: for lawmakers and officially rename the Defense Department as the
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  Speaker 1: Department of War. OpenAI says it's investigating what it's called
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  Speaker 1: an unprecedented cyber incident after one of its AI models
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  Speaker 1: went rogue and hacked another company. The chat GPT maker
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  Speaker 1: says the breach happened last week while open ai was
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  Speaker 1: testing the cybersecurity capabilities of its systems. The head of
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  Speaker 1: the hacked company, the Hugging Face, called the attack mind blowing,
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  Speaker 1: but said there was quote no malicious intent. The incident
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  Speaker 1: has raised concerns about the growing capabilities of AI and
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  Speaker 1: the need for guardrails to keep the technology in check.
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  Speaker 1: On Wall Street today, stocks ended a bit lower as
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  Speaker 1: oil prices spiked. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost just
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  Speaker 1: six points, so basically flat. The Nasdaq fell nearly one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty points. The S and P five hundred
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  Speaker 1: also closed the day in negative territory. And we have
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  Speaker 1: two passings to acknowledge this evening. Starting with the death
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  Speaker 1: of former CIA director James Woolsey. His tenure under President
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was a Rocky one, marked by the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four arrest of CIA case officer Aldrich Ames, who
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  Speaker 1: sold secrets to the Soviet Union for nearly a decade.
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  Speaker 1: Woolsey's decision to not fire or demote anyone in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of the scandal cast a shadow over his time
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  Speaker 1: at the CIA. His politics tilted to the right over
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  Speaker 1: the years. In twenty sixteen, he joined Donald Trump's presidential
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  Speaker 1: campaign as a senior advisor, and he continued to defend
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  Speaker 1: America's two thousand and three invasion of Iraq, which he
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  Speaker 1: spoke about on this program in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Two of the three weapons of mass destruction biological and chemical,
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  Speaker 4: were in the hands of Saddam the whole time. It
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  Speaker 4: was the third kind that everybody's particularly worried about, nuclear,
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  Speaker 4: that was lied about and so forth. But two thirds
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  Speaker 4: of the types of weapons of mass destruction were.
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  Speaker 1: In fact in Iraq, his wife says. James Woolsey died
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  Speaker 1: at his home in Washington from a stroke. He was
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  Speaker 1: eighty four years old, and celebrated saxophonist Plas Johnson has died.
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  Speaker 1: He's best known for his playful musical turn on one
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  Speaker 1: of the most recognizable movie themes in history. Johnson's recording
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  Speaker 1: for composer Henry Mancini's The Pink Panther helped the song
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  Speaker 1: to win three Grammys and an Oscar nomine. The Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: native was also a prolific session musician, recording alongside the
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  Speaker 1: likes of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and The Beach Boys,
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  Speaker 1: among many others. Johnson's family says he died last week
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  Speaker 1: at his home in Los Angeles, Plas. Johnson was ninety
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  Speaker 1: four years old. Still to come on the News Hour,
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  Speaker 1: a US attorney fired by the President after less than
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  Speaker 1: an hour on the job sues the Trump administration. How
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  Speaker 1: China's latest AI model threatens a US lead in the
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  Speaker 1: tech race, And two hundred and fifty years after he
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  Speaker 1: wrote the Declaration of Independence, a look at Thomas Jefferson's
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  Speaker 1: complicated legacy.
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  Speaker 3: This is the BBS News Hour from the David M.
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  Speaker 4: Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, headquarters of BBS News