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On today's 'BradCast': New Zealand bans military-style assault weapons less than one week after a white supremacist massacred 50 worshiping Muslims in Christchurch. As record flooding inundates the upper Midwest, the National Weather Service warns the catastrophic floods are moving south. NOAA warns spring could bring even more "unprecedented flooding" to most of the nation. In Wisconsin, a state judge has blocked laws passed during the GOP-controlled state legislature's unprecedented power-grab in the lame-duck session last December, revoking measures that had been intended to strip authority from the incoming Democratic Governor and Attorney General. The U.S. Marine Corps Commandant issued a blistering memo warning that Donald Trump's "national emergency" declaration and deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border has undermined troop readiness, national security, the Marine Corps' solvency, and delayed urgent repairs caused by last year's hurricanes right before the next hurricane season begins. On Wednesday, Trump touted his support for the military at a plant that manufactures tanks the Pentagon has said it no longer needs. The nuclear arms race begins again:\xa0 in the wake of Trump's announcement that he will pull the U.S. out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, and Russia's subsequent withdrawal, Pentagon officials now say the U.S. will begin flight tests this summer of two types of non-INF compliant missiles that would have been banned under the treaty.\xa0 Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' on the staggering economic cost of floods in the upper Midwest, the toxic chemical inferno this week in Houston, Trump's EPA chief pushing delay on climate change, 2020 Dems pushing climate solutions, and a very encouraging ruling on oil and gas drilling in Wyoming...