NPR News: 08-20-2025 1AM EDT

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. People who live along the eastern U.S.

Speaker 2 seaboard are keeping a close watch on Hurricane Erin, which is causing rough surf and large waves from Florida to Canada.

Speaker 2 Lifeguards along beaches in New Jersey are on duty to ensure people stay out of the water. The state's governor Phil Murphy is also emphasizing the risks posed by the big storm.

Speaker 3 Please, please take this seriously. Particularly push back on complacency, on the human nature of, gosh, it's beautiful outside.
Let's get, let's sneak a quick dip in the water.

Speaker 3 This is not the week to do that.

Speaker 2 The outer edges of the storm are expected to bring tropical storm force winds, large swells, and life-threatening rip currents. The biggest swells are expected Wednesday into late Thursday.

Speaker 2 Aaron is now a category two hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. It is 540 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 The governors of six states are sending their own National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to help President Trump's initiative on crime.

Speaker 2 But as NPR's Meg Anderson reports, several of those states have have crime problems of their own.

Speaker 1 The governors in West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio, and Tennessee have all pledged to send their own National Guard troops to D.C.

Speaker 1 for the Trump administration's crime campaign. But violent crime in the district is falling, and last year, cities in at least four of those states had higher murder rates than Washington's.

Speaker 1 In Mississippi, for instance, Jackson's murder rate was nearly four times the rate in D.C.

Speaker 1 And in Memphis, Tennessee, the murder rate was nearly triple. Incha Rahman of the Vera Institute of Justice says that signals to her.

Speaker 1 This is about a political power grab and political theater, not about making cities safer. NPR reached out to the governors in Mississippi and Tennessee, but did not receive a response.

Speaker 1 Meg Anderson, NPR News.

Speaker 2 Lawmakers in Texas are gearing up to vote on a redistricting bill today to keep Democrats around. The speaker is requiring members to stay in the state legislature.

Speaker 2 Blaise Gainey from Texas Newsroom reports one is staying full-time.

Speaker 4 Representative Nicole Collier says she's used to long days working in the Texas legislature, but she hasn't left the House floor since session began Monday afternoon.

Speaker 4 She says while her Democratic colleagues signed the slip allowing themselves to be monitored by state law enforcement officers until Wednesday's session, doing so didn't feel right with her.

Speaker 1 I feel like that is an invasion of my rights as a person and it's dehumanizing and demeaning and I just won't take it. I won't agree to it.

Speaker 4 The vote to pass the redistricting bill is slated for Wednesday. It would give Republicans a leg up in five Democratic districts they are trying to flip.

Speaker 4 Once that passes, Collier believes the House Speaker will no longer require DPS escorts for corn breakers. I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin.

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Speaker 2 Walmart is recalling shrimp in 13 states after it was discovered to be contaminated with radioactivity. NPR's John Stempen reports the tainted seafood was shipped from Indonesia.

Speaker 6 The general risk is low, but the FDA asked for the recall because repeated exposure to the radiation could be problematic.

Speaker 6 The frozen shrimp are packaged under the Great Value brand with a best buy date of March 15, 2027.

Speaker 6 Officials detected the contamination in one sample of shrimp and in shrimp shipping containers arriving at the ports of Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah, Georgia.

Speaker 6 The contaminating agent is cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear reactors and explosions. The FDA did not say how the contamination occurred, but warned the shrimp was processed in unsanitary conditions.

Speaker 6 You should throw the shrimp out. To find out if your shrimp is recalled, go to walmart.com and type recall in the search bar.
John Stempen, NPR News, Washington.

Speaker 2 Lawyers for Kilmar Abreo Garcia are seeking to dismiss his criminal case in Tennessee, arguing he is the victim of a vindictive and selective prosecution by the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 Garcia is the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and then held by that country in a mega prison that the Justice Department later admitted was an administrative error.

Speaker 2 After months of legal battles by his families with the Trump administration, he was returned to the United States where he now faces human trafficking charges related to a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.

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