Trump's D.c. Takeover Met With Confusion And 2 Dead In Steel Factory Explosion: Morning Rundown

Donald Trump said National Guard troops will beryllium deployed to Washington, D.C., and Pam Bondi will "take command" of section police. Two group died successful an detonation astatine a Pennsylvania alloy factory. And really FEMA flood consequence maps concerning Texas’s Camp Mystic were edited complete respective years.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Trump’s Washington, D.C., takeover met pinch confusion

National Guard troops are expected to beryllium connected nan crushed successful Washington, D.C., starting coming aft President Donald Trump claimed nan nation’s superior was "one of nan astir vulnerable cities anyplace successful nan World" and announced a scheme to deploy hundreds of troops to nan city. One 100 to 200 troops retired of nan 800 activated "will beryllium supporting rule enforcement" astatine immoderate fixed time, Army Public Affairs confirmed. In yesterday’s announcement, Trump besides declared a nationalist information emergency successful D.C. and said Attorney General Pam Bondi will "take bid of nan Metropolitan Police Department arsenic of this moment."

Trump portrayed D.C. arsenic a hellscape and ticked disconnected caller convulsive incidents, including nan fatal shooting of a legislature intern and nan attempted carjacking of a DOGE staffer, arsenic examples to backmost up his claim.

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According to nan D.C. Home Rule Act, Trump has to notify definite members of Congress wrong 48 hours astir nan logic for his taking power of nan constabulary and nan estimated timeline for national control. He besides can’t return power of nan D.C. constabulary for much than 30 days, unless Congress authorizes an extension.

Trump’s unprecedented determination was met pinch skepticism by constabulary and subject experts who constituent retired that crime is astatine its lowest level successful decades and mobility really businesslike it is for national rule enforcement to reside section crime. "To conscionable flood nan streets of D.C. pinch rule enforcement" and "taking complete D.C. section police, it seems for illustration a half-baked thought looking for a problem," said Donell Harvin, a erstwhile homeland information and intelligence main for Washington, D.C.

Already, arsenic galore arsenic 120 FBI agents worked shifts pinch nan Metropolitan Police Department past weekend, but a elder rule enforcement charismatic said nan effort was chaotic and nan agents were confused astir their nonstop domiciled connected nan streets and who they reported to astatine immoderate fixed time. And nan National Guard does not person arresting powers, truthful location will beryllium a limit to really progressive they tin beryllium successful fighting crime.

"It’s a large photograph op," said Daniel Hodges, 1 of nan Metropolitan Police Department officers who were brutalized during nan Jan. 6 riot. "It’s not going to alteration anything."

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More authorities news:

• As Trump carries retired his plans successful D.C., a national judge successful California heard arguments astir whether nan management violated nan law erstwhile it mobilized National Guard troops and Marines to L.A. this summer.

• The Trump management has erstwhile again agreed to hold nan tariffs deadline connected Chinese imports to Nov. 10, arsenic discussions betwixt nan 2 sides continue.

• Trump said he would try to return territory to Ukraine and laic nan groundwork for a woody to extremity nan warfare during his gathering this week pinch Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Inflation study whitethorn show user prices rising

The monthly Consumer Price Index study from nan Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to show nan complaint of ostentation accrued past month, a imaginable denotation of really Trump's tariffs are weighing connected consumers. It is besides important to watch really nan president reacts to nan cardinal report, which comes aft he fired erstwhile BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer complete a weaker-than-expected July jobs study that he claimed was "rigged." Trump announced yesterday that he plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, nan main economist astatine nan blimpish Heritage Foundation and a contributor to nan Project 2025 rubric, to switch McEntarfer.

If nan study hints astatine Trump's tariffs strategy disrupting nan economy, it would beryllium astatine likelihood pinch his assertion that waste and acquisition duties are making nan U.S. "strong and rich." For now, statement is ongoing astir who really ends up footing nan costs of import taxes. Analysts pinch Goldman Sachs estimate consumers paid astir 22% of tariff costs done June, and that fig could emergence to 67% by year's end. Read nan afloat communicative here.

Two killed successful Pennsylvania alloy mill explosion

Investigators are moving to find nan root and origin of an detonation astatine a alloy mill successful nan Pittsburgh area that killed 2 group and injured astatine slightest 10. The blast ignited yesterday conscionable earlier 11 a.m. section clip betwixt 2 batteries astatine Clairton Coke Works, which produces commercialized coke, a type of substance utilized successful alloy production.

The 2nd victim, whose decease was confirmed yesterday evening by Allegheny County officials, had antecedently been unaccounted for. Five group were successful captious but unchangeable information arsenic of past night, officials said, and 5 others were taken to nan infirmary and were treated and released. Here’s what other we know astir nan incident.

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• Three people, including a child, were killed and a fishy was detained aft a shooting extracurricular a Target shop successful Austin, Texas.

• After a shooting past week adjacent nan CDC’s Atlanta campus, staffers are voicing frustration complete HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past anti-vaccine comments.

• Tropical Storm Erin could go nan first hurricane of nan 2025 Atlantic play later this week, forecasters say.

• Are you fresh for it? Taylor Swift announced her 12th workplace album, "The Life of a Showgirl," astatine 12:12 a.m. ET.

Staff Pick: How FEMA’s outdated flood maps spurred a negotiable system

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In nan weeks since a devastating flood deed Central Texas, questions person swirled astir section leadership, emergency notifications, and national staffing. Science newsman Evan Bush’s latest study delves into different facet successful really nan floods devastated properties on nan Guadalupe River: flood maps.

From 2013 to 2020, Camp Mystic asked FEMA to redesignate nan flood risk for 65 of its buildings — much buildings than antecedently known — changing nan consequence designations of decades-old buildings and their caller building from "high" to "moderate" aliases "low" connected paper. NBC News’ reappraisal of documents revealed nan easiness pinch which Camp Mystic was capable to make nan changes and showed really wide flood maps tin alteration for a spot for illustration Camp Mystic, depending connected who draws them. As nan authorities and federation grapple pinch nan floods’ toll, this communicative spotlights an rumor that’s applicable beyond Texas. — Elizabeth Robinson, newsletter editor

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