Northern California Transforms Into ‘Hellscape’ Amid Wildfires

Coming up on today’s show:

• Deadly wildfires ripped across northern California on Sunday. More than 20,000 people have been evacuated, over 100 have been sent to hospitals, and at least 10 people have died as a result of the blazes. John Sepulvado, the host of The California Report, brings us the latest.

• Republican Senator Bob Corker came out to criticize the president over the weekend — he claims that Donald Trump is pushing the globe towards World War III, and that the GOP is enabling behavior that could potentially be dangerous for the country. McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of “The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to take back the White House,” analyzes the state of the Republican Party.

• Trauma is a complex mental health issue, and survivors of mass shootings can experience a range of psychiatry, emotional, and interpersonal effects in recovery. Pam Simon, a survivor of the 2011 Tucson mass shooting and former staffer for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords; and Dr. Carol North, a professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Metro Care Services in Dallas, reflect on the trauma and recovery process associated with mass shootings.

• Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has become the latest figurehead in a multi-entertainment empire to be embroiled in sexual harassment allegations. After The New York Times published a story this weekend detailing multiple allegations of harassment and subsequent pay-offs, Weinstein was fired from the board of the Weinstein Company. Melissa Silverstein, publisher and founder of “Women and Hollywood,” discusses the allegations facing Weinstein, and the film industry’s response.

• In the early 1930s, at least 5 million Ukrainians perished as a result of famine. Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a columnist for The Washington Post, tells this story in her new book, “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.” She discusses her latest work today on The Takeaway.

• Women made up a majority of codebreakers during World War II, but their contributions — including cracking the Japanese shipping codes — have been largely hidden. Author and journalist Liza Mundy was floored to learn that 11,000 women made up more than 70 percent of the domestic codebreakers during the war, but because their work was top secret, she could barely find mention of their contributions. She weighs in today.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.