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WNCW's Outdoor Report for July 29

This week's edition features a trip to the Big Hungry River with Mountain True's Riverkeeper, Erica Shank, and the debris cleanup crew. They invited the media from around the region to join them as they removed several cars from a section of the river. It was the culmination of a months-long effort to clear the Big Hungry of Helene debris.

A bear made news this week after entering a home in Asheville in search of food, injuring the homeowner. This week, I'm airing a portion of my interview with NC Wildlife Biologist and statewide BearWise coordinator Ashley Hobbs. And to wrap up the series on Asheville Greenworks, we hear from their Watershed Outreach Coordinator, Micah Azalea Lynn, about two of their volunteer opportunities.

A Texas House report issues blame for failures in Uvalde. Steve Bannon goes on trial Monday for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 panel. Ukraine's president fires two top officials.

There's never been a hotter month in records going back to 1895. The average temperature across the lower 48 states was 77.6 degrees.

The corporation that regulates the Internet plans to increase the number of "top level" domains from the current 22 to 1,000 domains starting in early 2013. The proposed domains offer a cross-section of the Internet — what we use it for, and where the money is.

After briefly ceding to Sabrina Carpenter, “I Had Some Help" is back on top of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is still No. 1 over on the Billboard 200 albums chart — she’s holding strong at ten weeks.

Kendrick Lamar won his rap war with Drake last year by just about any measure, but this week, Drake got a small measure of revenge when his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, knocks Lamar out of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts.

Todd is your host from 3 to 6pm on Goin' Across the Mountain and 6 to 7pm on The Tall Grass.

Since 1955, the King's name had been among the 1,000 most popular baby names each year. No longer. And for the second year in a row, Twillight's Jacob and Isabella rule as No. 1s.