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Georgia Congressman John Lewis got a wide ovation³ from the crowd. But he first said he / here 50 years ago right in the spot he standing⁴ up podium on the first / stair down to the Lincoln Memorial. He was 43 years old, he / that he had long hand, he was a few pounds lighter,and he can come back here to keep on and fight the civil right. He said that people here have to stand up, they cannot let the vote be taken away. People here are very concerned about the Supreme⁵ Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act. NPR's Allison Keyes. 

President Obama met with his National Security staff this morning to discuss reports of a major chemical weapon's attack earlier this week in Syria. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports the U.S. is trying to figure out how to respond. 

A White House official says the Intelligence Community is still gathering⁶ facts about what happened in Syria. The official stressed that whether the U.S. has a range of options available, the President wants to make an informed decision in a deliberate way rather than jumping to action before all the facts are known. President Obama has described this week's chemical weapon's attack as a big event of grave concern. On CNN he warned that the U.S. has core national interests in preventing the use of chemical weapons, but he said the U.S. also must be cautious about being drawn⁷ into expensive, difficult, costly⁸ interventions⁹. Shapiro reports, NPR News, Washington. 

Egypt has shortened its nighttime curfew by two hours ten days after imposing¹⁰ one during a crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood¹¹ supporters in Cairo. Effective immediately, the curfew will last between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Officials say on Fridays, it will start at 7 p.m.. 

A wild fire that's spreading into California's Yosemite National Park is prompting a state of emergency in San Francisco 150 miles away. Gov. Jerry Brown issues declaration the because the blaze is threatening the city's power supply. And his Deputy Director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services Kelly Houston says it's water supply. 

"Up where this wind fire is, there is a lot of the infrastructure¹² that helps transfer that water from / the mountains into the San Francisco area. That includes pumps and pipes and wells and other things they have up there that is the part of the entire system." 

The fire has burnt nearly 200 square miles, putting thousands of homes in danger. The blaze is only 5% contained. 

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Ivo in the eastern Pacific has strengthened some more today. At last check ,the storm had maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. This is NPR News. 

New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg says his administration will challenge frugality¹³ of new laws to create additional oversight¹⁴ for the city's Police Department. City Council voted to override¹⁵ the mayor's vetoes this week. NPR's Joel Rose reports. 

mayor Bloomberg says the new laws will make it harder for the NYPD to keep the city safe. In vows¹⁶ that his administration will go to court to prevent them from taking effect. Still in his weekly radio appearance at WOR, Bloomberg sounded uncharacteristicly subdued¹⁷. 

"The fact that they overruled the veto wasn't a surprise. You know, it's election year, politic¹⁸ rather than common sense in terms of what's right for the city." 

The administration is also planning to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the NYPD's aggressive use of stop-and-frisk tactics violates the civil rights of blacks and Latinos. The the mayor's term will end in December. And the leading candidates / said they support efforts to end racial profiling at the NYPD. Joel Rose, NPR News, NY. 

Several bridges in Little Rock have been declared safe. Arkansas State Highway spokesman  Randy Ort says the authorities are trying to figure out what cause two barges¹⁹ to break free on the Arkansas River last night. 

"All the local authorities say the right thing...So our inspector²⁰ was able to get out on the water and looked at the bridges." 

Five bridges were closed for about an hour last night, causing traffic delays along Interstate 30, and in Little Rocks' River Market Entertainment District. 

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