The White House announced today that it would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which covers about 800,000 undocumented youth. Camille Mackler, the director of Immigration Legal Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, has the latest.

Ciriac Alvarez is one of DACA grantees worried about the program's fate. An immigration rights activist and college graduate, she came to the United States from Mexico when she was five years old and has called Utah home for 17 years. She shares her concerns with The Takeaway.

Tensions continue to escalate after North Korea carried out on Sunday its most powerful nuclear test to date. The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting Monday to address the latest escalation and to urge stronger measures against North Korea. Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, joins The Takeaway to discuss the news.  

The House and Senate are returning from recess with some pressing items to resolve, including decisions about raising the debt ceiling and sending relief funds to Houston in the wake of Hurrican Harvey. Mike DeBonis, who covers Congress and national politics for The Washington Post, discusses the checklist that Congress must tackle in coming weeks.

In the past week, nearly 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have been on the run from violence in Myanmar, and nearly 20,000 of them are trapped in a no man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Debra Eisenman, the executive director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, describes the recent surge in violence. 

Last week, it was reported that Hurricane Harvey was a 1-in-1,000-year flood event. Adam Sobel, the director of Columbia University’s Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate and the author of “Storm Surge,” says that the 1-in-1,000-year statistic is misleading, and that even though we can’t say for sure, hurricanes like Harvey provide important teaching moments for a country that often misses the point about climate change.

Americans near and far have donated their time and money to helping victims of Hurricane Harvey. Halfway around the world, South Asians suffered their own environmental catastrophe as monsoons swept the region. Does the experience of a natural disaster at home make us more empathetic to a crisis abroad? Stephanie Preston, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, weighs in.