Hurricane Isaias nears Gulf Coast as Georgia and Florida declare emergencies
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Hurricane Isaias nears Gulf Coast as Georgia and Florida declare emergencies

Hurricane Isaias makes landfall as a Category Two storm, prompting widespread emergency declarations across the Southeast. Plus, President Trump rules out military strikes on Iran before the November midterms, and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine honors the pioneers of optogenetics.

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Hurricane Isaias hit Destin, Florida, as a Category Two storm before moving inland toward Georgia.

Georgia declared a statewide emergency across all one hundred fifty-nine counties to manage flooding risks.

Saturated soil and fifty mile per hour gusts caused power outages for nine hundred thousand customers.

The Pentagon is deploying nine thousand additional personnel and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East.

Optogenetics pioneers won the Nobel Prize for using light-sensitive algae proteins to control brain cells.

New medical treatments use blue light to restore vision in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

In this episode
  1. 01Intro1 min
  2. 02Hurricane Isaias nears Gulf Coast as Georgia and Florida declare emergencies: The Landfall2 min
  3. 03Hurricane Isaias nears Gulf Coast as Georgia and Florida declare emergencies: The Aftermath2 min
  4. 04Trump rules out Iran strikes before the November 3 midterms1 min
  5. 05Optogenetics pioneers, including Stanford's Deisseroth, win the Medicine Nobel2 min
  6. 06Outro1 min
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