Today on West Michigan Live: Professor Allan Saxe talks to us about the latest in politics. Brad from Service Professor gives us some tips on keeping the air clean inside our homes. Finally Ken Coleman tells us about his new show.
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1 Heat wave coming this week
Clean air action day
Barry, which barreled into Louisiana as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday, isnow a tropical depression. The storm's remnants are slowly moving through north Louisiana andinto Arkansas. There was some flooding in Louisiana, but not the epic deluge that many had feared
2 The trade war is taking its toll on China. The country'seconomic growth slumped to its lowest levelin almost 30 years. China's gross domestic product grew 6.2% in the latest quarter, the slowest quarterly growth rate since 1992. In the previous quarter, the GDP grew at 6.4%. Things won't get better anytime soon, China's National Bureau of Statistics predicts. The country's economy will continue to face "downward pressure" in the second half of the year, the bureau says. The US and China recentlyagreed to restart talksin their months-long trade dispute, but the consensus among observers and businesses is that a deal is a long way off.
3 Raids targeting about 2,000 undocumented immigrant families -- who have received removal orders -- began yesterday, a senior Trump administration official said.
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