Top of the Hour: Weather Threatens U.S. Nuclear Facilities, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

This morning, severe weather is threatening three separate nuclear facilities in the U.S. The Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, in New Mexico, has been closed because a 50,000-acre wildfire has moved within a mile of the facility. Los Alamos residents are evacuating the town. Meanwhile, flood waters are rising around two nuclear facilities in Nebraska.  

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