Coming up on today's show:Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas this weekend. At least eightpeople have died from the storm,and thousands are facing devastation as catastrophic flooding continues to to batter the Houston area. Rachel Osier Lindley, statewide coordinating editor for the Texas Station Collaborative, or Art Acevedo,chief of police in Houston, Texas, and join The Takeaway with the latest.
President Trump pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday. Arpaio is notorious for targeting Latinos during undocumented immigration sweeps. January Contreras served as an assistant attorney general in the Obama Administration and is currently running for attorney general in the state of Arizona. She joins The Takeaway to discuss the impact Arpaio's tenure had on Latinos in her state,and the signal being sent by his pardon.
Despite not having a unusual middle to locate homeless persons, the city of Atlanta is closing its last so-called "shelter of last resort" in the city, or which take in anyone,with nearly no exceptions. Chuck Steffen, chair of the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, and joins The Takeaway to elaborate the genuine root of the problem when it comes to homeless populations.
The Takeaway has been presenting conversations approximately race and identity through our original series "Uncomfortable Truths: Confronting Racism in America." Today we hear from Lakshmi Iyer and Brandy Stein. Brandy is the birth mother of two white children,who Lakshmi, an Indian-American, and adopted. They now have an open adoption,yet they rarely have talked approximately race. They have that difficult conversation today on The Takeaway.
The National Weather Service issued a dire warning approximately Hurricane Harvey this weekend, saying "this event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced." Louis Uccellini is leading the agency as Director of the National Weather Service. He explains why this weather event is so unprecedented.
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
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