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On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: Pope Francis to apologize for abuses against Indigenous peoples in Canada

School children were ripped from their families and forced to assimilate to Christian Canadian society, while being physically and sexually abused. Plus, breaking news reporter Cady Stanton has the latest on severe heat waves, Russia says Odesa missile strike only hit military targets, reporter Celina Tebor gives an update on California’s Oak Fire and seven new members enter the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Hit play on the player above to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript below.This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.

Taylor Wilson:

Buenos dias. I’m Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you need to know Monday, the 25th of July, 2022. Today, apologies for decades of abuse against Indigenous school children in Canada, plus extreme heat continues, and more.

Here are some of the top headlines:

  1. Authorities are still looking for clues into the shooting of a family at an Iowa campground last week. A couple and their six-year-old daughter were found dead on Friday, with their nine-year-old son as the lone survivor. Officials said a suspect was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
  2. Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France. The Danish 25-year-old formerly worked in a fish factory before winning cycling’s biggest race.
  3. And the Mega Millions jackpot has risen to $790 million. The prize for tomorrow’s drawing, if there’s a winner, will be the fourth highest lottery jackpot ever.

Pope Francis will meet today with survivors of abuses by missionaries at residential schools in Canada, where he is expected to deliver an apology. The Canadian Government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse were rampant in state-funded Christian schools that operated from the 1800s through the 1970s. Around 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to attend. The move was an effort to isolate them from their homes, native languages ​​and cultures, and assimilate into Christian Canadian society. And many were abused even beyond the displacement from their families. Rose Pipestem is a residential school survivor who repressed violent memories.

Rose Pipestem:

I was put in a residential school when I was three years old. Said all along, “I thought I never had no kind of problems. No, I was never abused or anything.” And he said, “Do you remember when that nun in the classroom beat you so bad, blood was squirting?”

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[Rose Pipestem sobs]

And I didn’t know that.

Taylor Wilson:

Pope Francis begins his trip in Alberta, in Western Canada, before stops in Quebec and Nunavut in the far North. He previously held meetings in the Vatican this past spring with delegations from Canada’s three main Indigenous groups, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. Representatives of the groups greeted his arrival yesterday.

[Indigenous groups greeting Pope Francis]

But, Indigenous groups are looking for more than just words. They’re pressing for access to church archives to learn the fate of children who never returned home from the schools. They also want justice for the abusers, financial reparations, and the return of Indigenous artifacts held by the Vatican museums.

Extreme heat in the Northeast turned deadly with major cities breaking record highs across the region over the weekend, but just how long will this heat wave last? Breaking news reporter Cady Stanton and producer PJ Elliott have the details.

Cady Stanton:

So, the heat wave first started around the middle of last week and has continued into the weekend. And a couple of major cities, specifically in the Northeast, have experienced either approaching record high daily temperatures or breaking them. So, Philadelphia and New York City are forecasted to break those record high daily temperatures and haven’t done so yet, but Boston, this afternoon, broke its record daily temperature for July 24th today, by one degree.


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