A huge explosion rocked the center of Beirut, Lebanon today. Gregg Favre, former St. Louis Fire Captain and current executive director of the St. Louis Area Regional Response System, shares his insight on the blast. In other news, NASA astronauts in a Space X capsule made the first water landing since 1975. Mack Bradley, local author on international space policy, joins host Mark Reardon to analyze Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley’s splashdown landing on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico in the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Next, the XFL was bought for $15-million by a group headed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Kurt Hunzeker, former president of the St. Louis Battlehawks, shares if he thinks the league can be revived. Finally, today’s Cut of the Day features CNN’s Ben Wedeman’s report from the devastating scene in Beirut.
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