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Speaker 1: Gandhi breaks down everything going on in the world. Here's

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Speaker 1: her three things. A lawsuit claims power lines from Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: Electric sparked the Maui fires. Some residents in Lahaina say

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Speaker 1: the utility company failed to shut power off ahead of

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Speaker 1: those wildfires. They filed a class action lawsuit against the company,

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Speaker 1: and officials have yet to confirm the exact origins, but

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Speaker 1: Hawaiian Electric stock took a noticeable dive. The fires have

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Speaker 1: now claimed at least ninety nine lives, and yesterday Governor

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Speaker 1: Green said more than eighty percent of the structures that

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Speaker 1: were destroyed are residential. The good news is that the

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Speaker 1: community is coming together to help one another and offer

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Speaker 1: housing to those who have lost everything. It's now the

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Speaker 1: deadliest wildfire in modern US history. Damages are estimated at

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Speaker 1: more than five and a half billion dollars. COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: Hospital admissions were up by twelve percent last month and

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Speaker 1: emergency room visits up by seventeen percent. The CDC says

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Speaker 1: COVID deaths are the lowest they have been since the

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Speaker 1: government started keeping track, but still between three and four

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Speaker 1: hundred Americans are dying each week. Epidemiologists think human behavior

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Speaker 1: is behind the uptick. They point to things like record

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Speaker 1: heat driving more people indoors for air conditioning, and summer

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Speaker 1: travel sending people outside their normal social circles. There's also

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Speaker 1: a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the US.

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Speaker 1: It's called EG five. And finally, the family of Henrietta

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Speaker 1: Lax is suing a biopharmaceutical company over its use of

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Speaker 1: the infamous Hala cells. If you are not aware of

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Speaker 1: the story, the cells were illegally taken from Henrietta's body

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Speaker 1: without her consent during a medical procedure in nineteen fifty one.

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Speaker 1: Her cell line was the first to reproduce indefinitely, and

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Speaker 1: it has since been used in medical research across the globe.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, her family sued Ultrogenics Pharmaceutical for unlawfully generating

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Speaker 1: huge profits using the HeLa cells. The lawsuit says the

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Speaker 1: suffering of black people has fueled innumerable medical progress and

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Speaker 1: profit without just compensation or recognition. The Lax family wants

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Speaker 1: to block the company from continuing to use those cells

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Speaker 1: without permission. I hope you're having a great day. I'm Gandhi,

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Speaker 1: and those are your three things