LEILA FADEL, HOST: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned communities in that part of Florida's West Coast to be prepared for a historic storm surge. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Leila Fadel is a host of Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is on. Amateur and professional snake hunters alike are scattered across parts of the Everglades on a mission to capture as many Burmese pythons as they can.

Millions of people around the world live with acute hunger. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with a mother of eleven who has survived a famine in Somalia brought on by drought and years of conflict.

LEILA FADEL, HOST: In Florida, police have a 20-year-old man in custody after a shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and six people injured - one critically.

Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and race.

LEILA FADEL, HOST: In Florida, police have a 20-year-old man in custody after a shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and six people injured - one critically.

LEILA FADEL, HOST: In Florida, police have a 20-year-old man in custody after a shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and six people injured - one critically.