Intro

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future, according to NBC hurricane specialist John Morales in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He joins us to talk about his concerns for Milton’s future victims.

Vox asks: Can we trust the polls this year? And Apple News editor Gideon Resnick discusses what the polls can and can’t tell us in the final weeks of the election. 

In a landmark move, the EPA said U.S. cities must remove all lead pipes over the next decade. The Washington Post has more. 

NPR reports on how the Supreme Court may uphold the Biden administration’s plan to regulate “ghost guns.”

Popular Mechanics explains why the “godfather of AI,” who just won a Nobel Prize for physics, worries the technology could threaten humanity. 

Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.