Low Air Quality, High Temperatures Across The U.S.
Over 120 million Americans were under air quality alerts on Wednesday from the smoke of the Canadian wildfires and it will continue on Thursday. Meanwhile, the heat continues in the Southern states.
Federal health advisers voted overwhelmingly against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease at a Wednesday meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state.