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09-07-18 5:45 PM newscast

The James Beard award-winning chef started out preparing food for doctors and nurses. Then calls started pouring in from across the island. The message was clear, he says: "The island is hungry."

On Tybee Island, Ga., flooding is getting worse, and can even cut off residents from the mainland. The island is doing lots of things to control it, but some believe the island will one day disappear to the rising sea.

CEO Les Moonves has left CBS. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to Wall Street Journal media reporter Keach Hagey about how this is affecting the broadcasting giant.

A new law in California sets a goal of phasing out all fossil fuels from the state's electricity system by the year 2045.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to The New Yorker's Evan Osnos about his new profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Talks to try to slow down an expected government ground offensive against the rebel-held Idlib region failed last week. Now eyes are on the threat facing millions of civilians along the route.

Scientists say one of the biggest threats posed by Hurricane Florence is rain. The Trump White House takes credit for a strong economy. Millions of Syrians could be in the path of a bombing campaign.

Brazilian voters go to the polls in October for general elections. Gender is increasingly an election issue, specifically concerning the low number of female candidates. Several groups are trying to address this.

Little is known about impact, or even size of the three-week nationwide prison strike that ended Sunday. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Udi Ofer, head of the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice about the strike.