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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Today marks one week since powerful flooding tour through communities in Tibet and Nepal. Rescue crews are still searching around a dozen hydro power plants for people who remain missing. NPR's Diyadh reports about 500 people are believed to be trapped inside. Nepal's military is leading rescue effort, and on X they shared a video of khaki-clad men pulling themselves threw on ropes in a narrow, dark, dripping tunnel. And just finding that tunnel is an achievement. Arnold Dix, a tunneling expert, describes the flood.

Like a bomb's gone off. We've got multiple power stations all blown up. In each of them, we've potentially got people trapped. And he says it's a challenge to find the power stations because they were covered up by mud, debris and boulders. They're trying to locate the tunnels or the plants because that will lead them into the turbines. A government spokesman said to tunnel rescue teams

from India and another from China had arrived to assist Nepali workers. The spokesman said Cruz had not yet made any rescues. Diyadh, NPR News. Russian President Vladimir Putin is professing support for Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel. NPR's Charles Mainz reports from Moscow. Ahead of yesterday's talks with Iran's president,

Massoud Pezesh Kyan, at a regional security forum in Central Asia. Putin said he regretted the collapse of Iran's ceasefire with the U.S., but express solidarity with the Iranian people. Putin said Russia is, quote, trying to give you the help you need during this difficult time. Putin's comments come amid U.S. intelligence findings that Moscow has been providing Tehran with targeting assistance and perhaps more to strike U.S. military assets in the Middle East, a charge Putin has previously denied. Moscow and Tehran signed a strategic partnership agreement last year that expanded economic and military ties, but did not include a mutual defense pact.

Charles Maines, NPR News, Moscow. Immigration and customs enforcement says it now has enough body cameras for all of its officers and agents. NPR's Hemenabustillo reports calls for ICE officers to where the cameras have intensified after several deadly shootings this year. The update comes after years of immigration officials telling lawmakers and civil liberties advocates that they did not have enough devices for a body-worn camera program to be implemented agency-wide. Now Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says he expects every agent in the field to be using one by the end of September. That doesn't mean every ICE agent, everybody that's in the field or have a body war camera. It's for our safety and the public safety, too. In a statement to NPR, ICE said that training is still ongoing.

It is still unclear how many cameras the agency has acquired. Earlier this year, top ICE officials told Congress they needed about 10,000 cameras for all their officers. Jimenez-Bustillo, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News. jury deliberations are underway at the hour for their fifth day in the murder trial of Massachusetts' mother, Lindsay Clancy. Jor's told the judge Tuesday they were deadlocked over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The judge ordered them to keep deliberating in an effort to reach a unanimous verdict. A new spider species has been discovered in Idaho.

Lauren Patterson from Boise State Public Radio reports on how the discovery highlights a unique ecosystem in the northern part of the state. The small, nickel-sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the Nesperse Clearwater National Forests. Graduate student Arnau Kalatayu Maschere found the spider along the Loxa River. It was super exciting to find something that we knew that was unique and probably new to science. The genus known as Hexura is usually found in the northwest and parts of Canada, but had never been seen here before. The paper detailing the new findings outlines how conservation action is needed to secure the survival of the species that is only found in damp

conifer forests in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Idaho. The research team is named the spider Hexura Vandal, honoring the University of Idaho's mascot. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Kuski, Idaho. Stocks are trading higher this hour on Wall Street. The was up 365 points. The NASDAQ composite up 89. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.