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Mass shootings have, sadly, come to feel commonplace in the U.S. But each new report causes new trauma. Here's where to get help.

The deadline for commodity and specialty crop producers to complete applications for the Emergency Relief Program is July 22.

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Experts at UCLA and USC recommend taking a break from doom scrolling and offer resources for parents who need help with their mental health in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas shooting that took 19 young lives and two teachers.

Well see how it pans out during the course of the day. the president spoke with governors of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama yesterday to talk about those preparations. fema has already deployed staff to the region as well as meals, tarps, generators as the storm is approaching. as the president receives the hurricane briefing today, it will also be the first time we see president biden since learning of the air strike that killed two isis-k targets in afghanistan yesterday. the president he...

Borrow to fund fema and we should find money where we spend it unwisely, sending money to people who hate us, is not a good use. but beyond that, most disaster programs would be better handled at the local level, and i have a great deal of respect for the churches, the salvation army and the firefighters, the police officers but i am still waiting for the trailers to get to new orleans, the trailers sat in arkansas for three or four years and we had warehouses full of ice for years, they had to ...

Drought. some help is on the way, wendell, but theres only so much they can do. >> reporter: the agriculture department has cut the interest rate for emergency loans and cut the pricing for grazing or haying on public land, but the government cant make it rain. with more than half the farm land in the coul continental u.. affected by the drought, congress said they need to get involved. >> we need to create greater flexibility in program to revive the disaster programs that were allowed to expir...

Months. updates as they happen. judith, thank you. >> now the record drought. the agriculture secretary now warning that it will trigger a spike in prices on everything from wheat and grain across the board. more than half of the lower 48 states now report drought conditions, the widest area we have seen in half a century. according to the federal government. and wendell, what is the administrations idea of what to do about this? >>guest: well, secretary of agriculture has cut the processing tim...

this until the the cottons picked and the beans and the kernels are counted. smart phones make calls, send e-mails and now you can set them to stun. it is going too far? hello, everyone, im poppy harlow in tonight for don lemon. lets get you up to speed on the day r days biggest stories. in syria, a senior government official with 34 years of service now says hes on the side of the rebel uprising. he was syrias ambassador to iraq, and hes the highest ranking diplomat to defect. he ...