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Central America Braces For Another Hurricane

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As Central America recovers from Hurricane Eta, which made landfall earlier this month as a Category 4, the region is bracing for yet another hurricane.

Tropical Storm Iota, currently in the Caribbean Sea, is forecast to strengthen and inundate the area beginning sometime Monday. The National Hurricane Center warns that dangerous wind, storm surge, and rainfall could impact portions of Honduras and Nicaragua with additional dangers in parts of Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.

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This is difficult news, but we feel it's necessary. We're going to start with a coronavirus pandemic because by nearly every metric, the crisis is getting worse. Yesterday, the U.S. recorded more than 184,000 new coronavirus cases, and the number of daily cases has topped more than 100,000 for the last few days, something we haven't seen before.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is difficult news, but we feel it's necessary. We're going to start with a coronavirus pandemic because by nearly every metric, the crisis is getting worse. Yesterday, the U.S. recorded more than 184,000 new coronavirus cases, and the number of daily cases has topped more than 100,000 for the last few days, something we haven't seen before.

Sarita Talusani Keller's home in Laramie, Wyo., would usually be aglow this time of year with an array of candles and clay lamps. There would be guests enjoying a copious selection of food, laughing and smiling and taking pictures together.

The U.S. added more than 184,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, the fourth day in a row that the country has set a record for daily infections, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.

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Thousands of President Trump's most fervent supporters were out in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a day of rallying that echoed the false assertion that the presidential election was marked by fraud.

One week after Joe Biden's presidential victory brought about spontaneous celebrations in the nation's capital, a crowd that included the group Women for America First, right-wing activists and conspiracy theorists gathered in the city's downtown near the White House.

We've invited comic, writer and actor Chelsea Peretti — you may know her as self-involved administrator Gina Linetti from Brooklyn 99 — to answer three questions about The Chelsea Football Club, the English soccer team. Peretti's latest film is called Friendsgiving.

Click the audio link above to find out how she does.

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The title track from "I Can Still Hear You" begins with a clear, pure solo.

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We don't know when this will all be over. Those may be the hardest words to hear. We spend most of our lives planning around calendars and clocks, schedules, seasons, school days, holidays, ETAs, projections and informed predictions. I try not to compare any other tests in life to war, but because I've covered wars and conflicts, I think I recognize what many people in places like Sarajevo or Afghanistan always told me. It's not just the danger but the uncertainty, not knowing when a crisis, the hardship, loss and peril will be over.

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