2025-07-31
12 分钟Good morning. It's Wednesday, July 30th.
I'm Shimita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show,
the Environmental Protection Agency is considering repealing the basis of a lot of their environmental protection policies.
What's driving the nationwide air traffic controller shortage and extreme heat is driving cooped up Americans so crazy.
But first,
a major earthquake off Russia's coast put much of the Pacific on tsunami watch and prompted evacuations in areas of Hawaii,
Alaska, California, and Japan.
The quake was reported to be a magnitude 8.8,
which would make it tied as the sixth strongest earthquake ever recorded, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
No major damage was caused on American coastlines.
The tsunami caused coastal flooding in Hawaii and sent thousands of people to evacuation shelters.
And by the time waves reached California,
they were about anywhere from one to three and a half feet above the expected tide,
according to NOAA data.
In Japan, the tallest wave to hit was about four feet above normal tide.
The eastern coast of the country has vivid memories of the last major tsunami event,
the 2011 earthquake,