Plus: Carless cities | Wednesday, August 03, 2022
| | | | | | | Presented By Meta | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Aug 03, 2022 | | Good Wednesday afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera and copy edited by Amy Stern — is 583 words, a 2-minute read. 🏠 Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., please join Axios, in partnership with URL Media, for the second event in our Hard Truths series exploring the racial homeownership gap. Guests include HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and National Fair Housing Alliance president and CEO Lisa Rice. Register here. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Heat records shattered |  Data: Southeast Regional Climate Center. Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Last month's heat waves broke dozens of high temperature records across the country — with at least 43 locations setting or tying their hottest July on record, Axios' Jacob Knutson, Andrew Freedman and Erin Davis report. - Why it matters: Extreme heat is already the nation's leading weather-related killer. Global warming from fossil-fuel burning and other sources makes heat waves more likely, more severe and more frequent.
The record highs were concentrated in Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, the Carolinas and Oregon, according to NOAA data via the Southeast Regional Climate Center. - Just outside the Texas town of College Station, a 2009 record for hottest average temperatures in July was shattered by 1.8°F, with an average temperature of 90.9°F.
- Records in Nantucket, Mass., and Robbinston, Maine, were particularly notable: They reflect warmer than average ocean temperatures — also related to climate change.
🔮 Another heat wave is hitting the U.S. this week. The heat is shifting east into the Plains, the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, with more than 100 million people under heat advisories. |     | | | | | | 2. Impeachment Republicans dwindle |  Data: Axios research. Table: Kavya Beheraj/Axios At least six of the 10 House Republicans who voted for former President Trump's impeachment last year won't return next Congress — and that number is expected to rise, Axios' Andrew Solender reports. - Why it matters: The bleak political future for those who broke with the ex-president over Jan. 6 underscores how inhospitable the party has become to Trump critics.
The latest: Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) lost his primary yesterday to Trump-backed former HUD official John Gibbs. He's the second to have lost, after Tom Rice (R-S.C.). - Four of the Republicans aren't even trying for reelection and instead announced plans to retire.
What's next: Trump-backed Harriet Hageman is favored to beat Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the Jan. 6 committee vice chair, in an Aug. 16 primary. | | | | | | | | A message from Meta | | The metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real | | |  | | | | In the metaverse, biology students will have a larger-than-life view of microscopic organisms — transforming what is possible for science education, research and medical breakthroughs. Learn how Meta is helping build the metaverse. | | | | | | 3. Catch up quick |  | | | Photo: Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP | | | - Above: Speaker Pelosi speaks with Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu as she leaves Taipei today. Pelosi received a rapturous welcome, but her trip enraged Beijing. She was the first U.S. House speaker to visit the island in 25 years. Go deeper.
- The lawyer representing Sandy Hook parents said Alex Jones' lawyer sent him years' worth of texts and emails from Jones' phone. Go deeper.
- Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), 58, was killed in an SUV accident in Elkhart County this afternoon, local authorities said. The South Bend native was an Air Force veteran and had served as a missionary in Romania and as an Indiana legislator. Sheriff's release ... A tribute.
| | | | | | | | 4. AI artist imagines carless cities |  | | | Image: Zach Katz | | | | Urban planning advocate Zach Katz can show you what your city might look like with fewer cars and more people, bike lanes and light rail. - He uses an AI tool, DALL-E, to show real-world, car-dense streets in cities as pedestrian and public-transit utopias, Axios What's Next editor Alex Fitzpatrick writes.
Why it matters: Images are powerful tools for imagining what's possible in urban design. - Katz says it can take 40-50 attempts to render exactly what he wants in a given scene.
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