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Severe flooding continues to devastate the state. Plus, Supreme Court correspondent John Fritze explains the high court’s latest gun ruling, a wildfire burns out of control near the California-Oregon line, education reporter Chris Quintana looks at the near future of student loans and a ruling is expected for Deshaun Watson in his disciplinary case amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Taylor Wilson:
Good morning. I’m Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you need to know Monday, the 1st of August, 2022. Today, more rain on the way as 28 are now dead in Kentucky flooding. Plus, the Supreme Court’s latest say on guns, and more.
Taylor Wilson:
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28 people are now dead in devastating flooding throughout Eastern Kentucky, and that number is expected to keep rising. Dozens of people are still unaccounted for and flooding has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Many areas are still unreachable with power and cell service issues. The hardest hit parts of the state got nearly a foot of rain late last week. The North Fork of the Kentucky River crested a record 43 and a half feet in Jackson, according to the National Weather Service. A dozen shelters for flood victims across the state drew nearly 400 people yesterday and more than 1,200 rescues have taken place. Still, more Kentuckians narrowly escaped while losing almost everything. Hubert Thomas and his nephew Harvey Thomas survived and saved their dog CJ, but they lost everything else.
Hubert Thomas:
I had my [inaudible] saved him. I ain’t got nothing. I’ve got nothing now. We ain’t never had a flood like this. Some people say it hit one biggest flood of ’57, but being honest with you, flood of ’57 couldn’t be as bad is this.
Harvey Thomas:
I lay down and he gets me up at, what, 2:30, 3 o’clock. And it’s getting pretty close to inside the home, but it’s not inside yet but within an hour it was coming inside and it getting worse. There was one point we looked out the front door and mine and his cars was playing bumper cars, like bumper boats, in the middle of our front yard. I don’t know even where to start, what to do, where to go. Just a lot for, I guess, people around here to take in. It’s worse than anything we’ve ever seen. Probably one of the worst disasters around here, probably in history I’d say.
Yeah, but we try to be thankful that we still have one other, because there was several families that wasn’t that fortunate. The death toll keeps rising and just try to keep in the back of your mind that it could’ve always been worse.
And people are strong, and like I said, it’s not going to be tomorrow, probably not next month, but I think everybody’s going to be okay. It’s just going to be a long process.
Taylor Wilson:
The National Weather Service warned that additional runoff from showers and thunderstorms yesterday and today could cause more rivers and creeks to flood. And rainfall rates of up to two inches an hour could cause flash flooding. That also won’t be the end of it. Thunderstorms are possible tomorrow, and then again Thursday through Saturday.
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A Supreme Court decision has set a new standard for how lower courts will judge gun laws, and that’s left uncertainty for what the Second Amendment allows.
