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News from Washington voters in the United Kingdom may soon hold a national election the opposition Labor Party has dropped its objection to the vote now that there's going to be a 3 month delay in Bracks it the ruling conservative party of Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to hold the election on December 12th but the exact date still needs to be chosen by lawmakers a foreign delegation is visiting Indian controlled Kashmir today for the 1st time since India imposed a lockdown on its northern Himalayan Staind N.P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai the delegation consists of 27 members of the European Parliament most of these European lawmakers are from far right parties Marine Le Pen's party and France force that Italia Italy the U.K.'s Brax it Party and Poland's far right ruling party the Indian government has granted them all permission to visit Kashmir even though it's blocked Indian opposition lawmakers United Nations envoys u.s. Members of Congress and foreign journalists including n.p.r. The European lawmakers got a personal briefing from Prime Minister Narendra Modi he's Hindu nationalist government says it's trying to better integrate Muslim majority Kashmir into the rest of India but has been accused of torture and mass detentions there Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News Mumbai officials in Iraq say gunmen attacked Iraqi protesters in the central city of Karbala today and left at least 14 people dead news reports say that several 100 more people have been wounded Iraqis have been protesting their government for weeks there demanding an end to government corruption and better public services I'm Corba Coleman n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include capital one offering a variety of credit card options with features for a range of customers from foodies to travelers Capital One what's in your wallet credit approval required capital one bank Good morning to time is 7 o 6 today is Tuesday October 29th and thank you for tuning in to case you. And making us part of your morning before we get back to Morning Edition Let's take a look at the weather was support provided by big-O. Tires and service Spencer from Cortez Erik from Aztec and Farmington and wind from Durango are pleased as a board quality programming on public radio bigger cars and service a team you can trust. Than sun can be expected across southwest Colorado with the high 160 ranging across the forty's breezy conditions are also expected today so for general see a good chance of snow showers this afternoon the possibility of a couple inches of accumulation along with winds gusting up to 35 miles per hour across the San Juans Farmington and Northeast New Mexico will see mostly sunny skies afternoon highs reaching the low fifty's tonight into the single digits across southwest Colorado so vision will settle in and just above 0 over the continuing chance of snow showers but there's New Mexico's lows will reach the upper teens and are partly cloudy skies Wednesday mostly sunny and. Eyes are only expected to reach the low thirty's for most population centers and summers and will top out in the upper teens clear skies continue on Wednesday night several degrees below 0 and Silverton and because this brings the rest of the regional bottom up low single digits and into the low double digits in north west New Mexico. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. President Trump has tried to undermine the credibility of the whistleblower in the Ukraine scandal saying that this person only had secondhand information about his phone call in July with the leader of Ukraine today House investigators will hear from someone with firsthand information His name is Alexander Vin and he's a top aide in the National Security Council overseeing Ukraine policy he listened in on that phone call and he was concerned about what he heard today he becomes the 1st current White House official to testify before the impeachment inquiry against the president n.p.r. White House correspondent Franco or Donya as has obtained a copy of Inman's opening statement and is with us now by Franco So what does binman say about why he was so troubled by this July phone call well of him and said that he didn't think it was right to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. Citizen in this case that's Vice President Joe Biden's son he said he noticed back in the spring that quote outside influencers were promoting a false narrative of Ukraine and he worried that it threatened to undermine u.s. National security he also worried that investigating the Bidens would be seen as a partisan play and that it can damage u.s. Support for Ukraine and what do you do about those concerns Well he raised those concerns with top n.s.c. Lawyers he also he did it not just once but twice he also confronted another diplomat Gordon Sunland the u.s. Ambassador to the European Union telling him that investigating the Bidens had nothing to do with national security and that the n.s.c. Was not going to get involved with that or push that effort so then moon is going to be delays 1st to testify basically backing up everything we heard in the original whistleblower complaint right yeah that's right he is going to be the. Latest person do it and he's the 1st person as you noted earlier to do it with firsthand knowledge of someone listening to the president speak to his Ukrainian counterpart You know it's I'll just note that he does not have to do this he does not have to give an opening statement that speaks I think. That many national security professionals have about the situation here he was not the 1st person to raise these concerns William Taylor the special envoy envoy for Ukraine also raised several of these concerns Fiona Hill who worked with van men at the n.s.c. Testified that even national security advisor John Bolton raise concerns and characterize this whole situation as a quote drug deal so the White House has tried to undermine the credibility of the entire impeachment inquiry by attacking the credibility of the people coming forward so I guess my question to you is is there anything and then man's own biography that would suggest that he's not credible Yeah it's interesting we're already seeing this morning supporters of Trump raising question about his loyalties but he's got quite the resume he's also an Iraq war veteran he was awarded the Purple Heart for his service to the United States after being wounded by an i.e.d. One thing he makes very clear though about his background is he is not the whistleblower he's not the person who brought this to the attention of the CIA and the committees and he also made very clear that he would not be comfortable speculating about who is that was a blower All right N.P.R.'s Franco or Dunya is giving us a preview of this important testimony coming up in the House impeachment inquiry today Frankel thanks we appreciate it thank you very much so we've got the ongoing testimony happening this week in the impeachment inquiry there's another important milestone happening on Thursday the House will take the 1st vote. On the impeachment inquiry this means lawmakers will have to go on record to either for or against the process but it also sets the rules going forward for more I'm joined by former assistant u.s. Attorney Kim Whaley Kim thanks for being here hi Rachel so I want to talk about the White House response to the news of this vote because they they have maintained all along that the impeachment inquiry thus far has been quote unquote an authorized. But explaining why Nancy Pelosi is holding this vote now and if it is just to authorize the process doesn't the White House have a point that everything that has happened up to now has been authorized here I don't think it's so black and white Actually we do have we know as of Friday one witness a close adviser to John Bolton has filed a lawsuit in court basically asking federal judge to say listen my client getting competing advice one directive from the White House one directive from Congress can you please tell me what I need to do am I allowed to I'm required to respond to a congressional subpoena and I think what Nancy Pelosi is doing to use her words is to quote eliminate any doubt as to whether that witness and future witnesses have to respond because there is a shred of legal authority in a line of cases that suggest that Congress is position in court would be stronger with this kind of clear House vote it does I don't believe that's required I don't believe that it's a black and white thing that it's an authorized up until this point but I would say going forward she'd be on the strongest legal ground with this folks if it gives the inquiry more gravitas more accountability why didn't she hold it earlier. Well that's probably a political judgment for now and several weeks into the impeachment process where we know that the polls are rising and their support for impeachment In addition the sort of narrative the factual narrative is pretty clear as far as what happened whereas when we started it was a whistleblower complaint and cries from the White House that there was no quid pro quo based on summary of the transcript of the now infamous July 25th meeting between President Trump and craning president in which there was a request for a criminal investigation of Joe Biden and it's done and so the objection to the process has been about process that is there's no there was no official inquiry vote and that there's no due process allegedly for the president in the House of Representatives and the a pretty weak argument due process is a concept that fundamentally for criminal defendants and criminal targets grand jury investigations don't get cross-examination of witnesses and don't get their lawyers in the grand jury all the things that the president lawyer is claiming he's entitled to under the Constitution to crash House inquiry those things happen in the Senate that would happen the Senate Matley and people go to jail without that when it comes to a grand jury investigation and you mentioned John Bolton earlier. How central is his potential testimony to this whole thing I think he's going to be probably one of the most if not the most critical witness and as I mentioned his lawyer is the lawyer for the witness who filed this lawsuit seeking clarity John Bolton is the person that's closest to the president as a former National Security Advisor and to the extent to which we have been hearing from other players about what was going on generally in the State Department in the White House around Ukrainian policy John Bolton is potentially the person that can link it to the president ited States in the south and we know he did not leave good terms with the president we hear that he. He objected to this withholding foreign aid from Ukraine in exchange for this kind of basically opposition research that could influence the 20 twentieth's action so if John Bolton is going to go in there and tell his story that could be very very damaging to the president and even put potentially the nail in the coffin. Of the case for at least articles of impeachment and this kind of vote I think will make it easier for the federal court to rule that these congressional subpoenas need to be responded to which I think really is the vast weight of authority Ok So bottom line I mean this announcement came after former deputy national security adviser Charles Copperman defied a congressional subpoena he didn't appear yesterday bottom line now you believe that this will make that impossible or at least more difficult that this vote will will compel high profile witnesses to come forward this go we'll take it hard for a judge to not compel high profile witnesses to come forward and I agree going forward I think will be very very hard once this case come down as expected to do for witnesses to just completely Stonewall they will be defined not just Congress but the federal courts as well Jim Waley a law professor at the University of Baltimore and the author of How To Read the Constitution and why Kim Thanks as always thank you Rachael. 16 year old Swedish activist gratitude bird has Garner worldwide fame also a Nobel Prize nomination for her fight against the effects of climate change well now that fight has also earned credit something else a name sake for a newly identified species of beetle less than a minimum age alone living in the meatless or the sitting on the stones of some g. Max Barclay is an entomologist in Sr beetle curator at the National History Museum in London another scientist actually found the previously neglected beetle in a collection of specimens that's been at the museum since the seventy's so this bug is really tiny. Also notable it doesn't have any eyes or wings so they're calling this beetle now lop toadies gratify in honor of the activist the 1st part of that name I just said refers to this relatively new subgroup the beetle belongs to and the 2nd is a Latinized version of Gretta Barclay says the researcher wanted to call attention to the importance of biodiversity I think he feels a lot of people don't realize that the world is so fantastically diverse that also it's a very fragile the tiny beetle species is thought to live in the topsoil of tropical forests in Uganda that's one of the habitats most threatened by climate change Barclay says the discovery of new species is a pretty common occurrence with a beetle collection some 10000000 specimens strong the museum logs a new species about once a week some are only identified after they have gone extinct all of them doing something important but until you lose the boss doesn't what they do some people have a like side of us to a game of Jenga you know you take one piece of the hotel from the sun and Barclay says it is pretty unusual for a species to be named after a non scientist Still he thinks this honor is well deserved I think this is probably the 1st issue system named after it probably won't be the last great a joins the ranks of other big names in environmentalism who have beetle namesakes including Charles Darwin and David Attenborough. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene Ok here's a fact more than half of American children now own a smartphone by the age of 11 that is according to a new national survey of kids' media use so what are the implications of that will N.P.R.'s On a chemist's covers education kids and tech and she's been digging into these numbers and joins me hi Anya Hi David am I wrong to be a little shocked by this 11 years old more than half of American kids have smartphones what would tell me are you serving it's really interesting if you look around you may not be that surprising but of the survey was conducted by Common Sense Media and they've been looking into kids in media use since 2003 and yes we are seeing that a majority of kids are getting the 1st phones younger and younger so in 2015 the last time they did this survey most kids had a phone by age 14 and now it's just over half have their 1st phone by age 11 and about one in 5 have one by the age of 8 years old 8 years old I mean what does that even tell us about children now well you know it could be a lot of different things and it truly depend on the family here so I'm not necessarily hitting the panic button like sometimes a kid might need to go between dad's house and mom's house right and they need the phone for communication sure obviously a phone you know is a connection to inappropriate content cyber bullying a lot of scary stuff and some researchers say you know there could be a silver lining in that if your kid starts out with the phone earlier as long as there's a strong friend on hand guiding them and looking over their shoulder and taking the phone away you know certainly a bedtime and other designated times maybe that gives you longer to model healthy habits instead of kind of throwing them the phone at age 15 let's say where they're really not listening to Mom and Dad Ok so beyond a safety necessity and in some cases like did you learn about what kids are actually doing online when they have these things so one piece of good news is we're actually not seeing kids spend a lot more time with media overall compared with 2015 we have seen is there watching less t.v. They're watching more videos on the. They're also spending more time using screens for homework and that's a real challenge given the dangers of multitasking which which is not great for the brain does the survey break it down in terms of which kids might have phones and which might not yeah and there's actually some really interesting points there for example ownership of phones is very very high across the board and the lowest income young people reported spending almost 2 hours per day more using screen media and that is a really big difference compared to the most affluent use and 1st of all this is a sign that the digital divide has a very different definition than it might have just 5 years ago and there's so much that we don't know I mean are they spending more time unsupervised What are they actually doing on the phones and the big one is is this a positive or negative right this this class divide we don't know with other devices that the kind of struck you well you might not be surprised that boys play more video games girls enjoy listening to music and reading more than boys they also say that they like social media a lot more and they use it more often and another really interesting area is racial and ethnic divides so black and Hispanic teens report that they spend much more time on social media they like social media more and that's unexpected but it's also really intriguing because there's other research that suggests that young people people of color as a group are more likely to value social media and possibly even use it as a bridge to civic engagement so there's a lot more to dig into here such interesting stuff n.p.r. Education reporter on income and it's Thanks Anya Thanks David how to compensate for America's original sin the issue of reparations has made its way into the Democratic primary and into the broader culture several of the presidential candidates say they would support a commission to study the matter and to Protestant seminaries this fall announced plans to create reparations funds in recognition of their own ties to slavery N.P.R.'s Tom Gjelten says these schools that train clergy see it as a confession of past sins Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey was from. Founded in part by people who used slave labor or profited from it the seminary president Craig Barnes says in consideration of that history the school will spend more than a $1000000.00 a year through a reparations fund about half of that's going to scholarships also scribbler changes fully funding a center for black church studies also this fall Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria announced its own somewhat smaller reparations initiative some of the money would go to descendants of the slaves who actually built the school the idea of reparations does remain somewhat controversial However at least as exemplified in these cases the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville last spring rejected a petition from some Baptist ministers and former faculty calling for a reparations fund that school's president Albert Mohler says if an institution just sets aside scholarships for African-American students it's not really paying reparations you're taking a percentage of your own funds and then you are designating that scholarship assistance to be paid to your own institution Moeller says the seminary in that case is simply prioritizing black students for scholarship assistance this seminary last year acknowledged its own extensive connections to slavery partly to make up for that legacy it's now giving financial assistance to African-American students in his doctoral program not unlike the assistance other institutions are offering their black students it just doesn't call it reparations at Princeton president Barnes says terminology can be a bit of a hang up afraid of the word reparations but we prefer repair like how do we care the legacy that we've inherited a broader question is whether the legacy of slavery can be addressed by individual institutions taking steps on their own the case by case approach can't encompass the full range of effects of slavery and. Producing racial inequality in the United States William Verity as a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University is written extensively on reparations a focus on individual perpetrators and individual victims Deryni says Obscure is how slavery in the United States was officially authorized and so I'm convinced the what we have to do is treat the federal government as the culpable party culpable because laws and court decisions provided a legal framework for slavery segregation and racial injustice generally but also because of its implicit approval of these kinds of practices by its failure to intervene at Princeton Seminary President Barnes says an institution's establishment of a reparations Fund is no substitute for a national program the country needs to have a conversation about this he says and he says his school is happy to participate in it Tom Gjelten n.p.r. News. Under pressure from the trumpet ministration of Mexico has stepped up deportations of migrants along its southern border and making. The southern border of Mexico has become the most effective of all Donald Trump wanted I'm Mary Louise Kelly more on the immigration crackdown this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. You can join case you probably choreo 7 days a week for N.P.R.'s All Things Considered today and every weekday from 4 to 6 and on the weekends at 6 pm. We are coming up on $730.00 b.c. Top line is next and support is provided by the sun huge community center in Nashville offering a complete fitness facility that includes 5000 square feet weight lifting and cardio equipment hot tub exercise classes and more there on line at Sun You dot com and at 970-563-0214 Good morning from the b.b.c. In London I'm Sara Hawkins with b.b.c. Top line some of our top global stories this hour reports from Iraq say there have been a number of fatalities in the city of Karbala during clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators Jeremy Bowen says the Iraqi government faces serious threat from the protesters they demonstrating actually about the kinds of things that people right across the Arab world all very often arms about corruption a sense of hopelessness widespread structural unemployment so people can get jobs which is immensely debilitating for them in all kinds of senses one of the leading pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong Joshua walking has been disqualified from running for office in upcoming local elections the government says any candidate who supports independence is unable to run Joshua wall says he's not calling for independence he's calling for self-determination and for the autonomy in Hong Kong However its aims that some in the government or at least some electoral official thinks the 2 of the son Stephen McDonell and Australia's consumer watchdog has filed a lawsuit against Google accusing it of misleading customers about its collection and use of personal data when people had their location history turned off by night his cell that Google was not collecting their location data and recording of taking that but in fact. Rod Sims of Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission in London I'm Sara Hawkins at the b.b.c. N.P.R.'s Morning Edition continues now on k. Shooty. General Motors is reporting stronger net earnings in the 3rd quarter despite a 40 day strike by members of the United Auto Workers Union the automaker says sales rose 6 percent led by stronger demand for pickups S.U.V.s and crossovers analysts estimate the u.a.w. Strike cost g.m. More than $2000000000.00 The Ford Motor Company says it plans to cut $450.00 jobs in Canada early next year as Dan Carp and shark reports weaker sales are prompting the Detroit auto maker to discontinue some vehicle models the cuts will come at Ford Canada's manufacturing operation in Oakville Ontario west of Toronto about 11 percent of the Oakville assembly plants $4200.00 workers will be affected Ford ended production of its Lincoln m.k.t. Crossover earlier this month it also plans to halt production of the flex s.u.v. At the end of November officials with Ford say the focus will now shift of models where there is more consumer demand Canada's Auto Workers Union unifor said Ford knew the 2 models were coming to the end of their production life and should have come up with a plan to avoid the layoffs Ford has already said it would replace 75 percent of its vehicle lineup but hasn't said whether Oakville will get any new a renewed models for n.p.r. News I'm Dan carpenter shock in Toronto Public schools in Chicago are closed again today because of an ongoing teachers' strike this is the 9th day of canceled classes the Union and the District remain at odds over class sizes and staffing Good Morning the time is 733 you're listening to N.P.R.'s Morning Edition on k. Should be public radio on this Tuesday October 29th Next up we've got the daily sky on the moon is in the waxing Crescent phase just about 3 percent visibility or rise this morning at 9 o 9 and set this evening at 745 the next full moon is called the full Beaver moon it rises on Tuesday Nov 12th at 8 34 am the next new moon will occur on Tuesday November 26. The sun rose this morning at $732.00 they gives us 10 hours and 44 minutes of daylight that's 2 minutes and 8 seconds less than yesterday's total since it takes place at $617.00 today and Wednesday morning sunrise will occur at 733. Now back to Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from my drive maker of remote p.c. Providing real time remote access to computers anywhere and featuring remote p.c. Vision and augment and reality support tool learn more at remote p.c. Dot com from the Walton Family Foundation where opportunity takes root more information is available at Walton Family Foundation dot org And from the William t. Grant foundation at w t grand Foundation dot org It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene in Culver City California let's return now to that fluid situation in north eastern Syria this is where Kurdish militias who are allied with the United States and helped reclaim land from ISIS felt suddenly vulnerable after President Trump ordered u.s. Withdrawal Turkey sees these y p g Kurdish forces as a terrorist threat and it wants them away from the border but a cease fire between Turkish forces and Kurdish militia militias is due to expire later today N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon has been reporting on this in southeast Turkey and joins me now hi peter So what is life like along this all important border right now. Well the border is relatively quiet so far but the question is what happens next that's what people are asking witnesses are reporting Turkish military convoys continuing to bring vehicles and personnel to the border area military helicopters are overhead I heard some this morning this cease fire has not been totally peaceful and not totally peaceful each side accused the other of violating it in the large area near Russell line but the overall assessment is that it has largely held for the past several days in Kurdish fighters have been moving away from the border but now with this cease fire due to expire will people here be seeing mortar and rocket fire again and certainly the same if not worse on the Syrian side of the border so that's where the Turkish forces are now occupying what they call a safe zone is there diplomacy under way any talk of you know extending this cease fire before things you know start to fire up again. Well it's a bit unclear no bold predictions of extending this but it is worth noting that Turkey's foreign minister is meeting today with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Geneva that's ahead of a longer term u.n. Mediated meeting on constitutional reform in Syria so with the 3 top diplomats responsible for the so-called stunna process aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict meeting today it's worth watching to see if they could come up with anything and Peter just just tell us where is the u.s. And all of this well in part they're still celebrating the targeted killing of Abu Bakar al Baghdadi Turkey has joined the list of countries claiming to have helped with that operation reports so far suggests that Kurdish intelligence played a vital role there's some feeling that now is the time to build on that success with more antisense operations some u.s. Forces are going to remain in Syria they've been ordered to guard Syrian oil facilities and about the official u.s. Position remains that neighboring countries should be doing any fighting that needs to be done and the risk to forces in Syria would seem to be increased now following this killing ISIS needs to name a new leader but avenging Baghdad he's killing would seem likely to be a priority as N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon who is near the Turkey Syria border reporting on the cease fire that set to expire today Peter thanks so much thank you David. In many states if you're selling your home you don't have to disclose if the property has flooded or if it's at high risk that's becoming a bigger problem as climate change drives heavier rains and rising seas Texas recently expanded its flood disclosure law and some see it as a national model most the shell of member station reports. When Arthur Mosley moved through ethos in the 1980 s. He didn't worry about flooding back then he says living here felt like living in the country and the creek that ran behind a lot provided a green space when 1st. Down here the creek had many trees undeveloped it was full of wild pecans and muskets and grapes that didn't last long over the years more houses went up and the creek flooded repeatedly almost reaching his house twice all of this was just complete water about 15 years ago the city spent millions to try to control the water it put in a big flood wall behind the neighborhood improved drainage but as the climate is warm the storms have been getting worse and recently engineers looked at the rainfall data and decided the wall isn't enough Now this land is designated a high risk flood plain and I've seen the water come right on up to almost a borderline all over the top of a wall and so it's kind of frightening in the conflicts between development and growing flood risk became too big to ignore after hurricane Harvey That's when thousands of homes flooded in the Houston area because they sat in reservoirs floodways and other dangerous areas a risk many homeowners weren't even aware of that experience prompted lawmakers to act this year. And this is a listing that I have them over in Brentwood in another Austin neighborhood real estate agent mit Courtois shows me a classic 1950 s. Bungle alley and walks me through the new flood disclosure process that took effect in September. On She pulls out a form these are yes no questions and there are a lot of them presently have flood insurance coverage have you ever received emergency federal flood assistance I located wholly or partly in a 500 year flood plain Have you ever experience flooding from a reservoir or previous water penetration into a structure on the property due to a natural flood event the owner of this house answered no to all of these questions if he answered then yes Courtois says the closing price would probably be lower and the sellers would need to provide even more in from a. To a potential buyer now way to go Texas this is Rob Moore he works on water and climate policy for the National Resources Defense Council and he's one of the people who says this puts Texas at the head of the pack when it comes to making sure homebuyers know about flood risk more says 22 states have no mandatory flood risk disclosure and several others have inadequate rules so we shouldn't be surprised that people make really bad decisions because state legislatures have basically decided that people shouldn't know that information he says ideally people wouldn't build in high risk areas but at least with more information homebuyers might make better decisions or get flood insurance if they know they may need it knowing the properties history will also give people a better sense of risk because floodplain maps are often outdated and wrong if you're not going to able to get accurate information about flooding from the flood map you have to go to the source of information which is the owner of the house Morris group and others have pushed Congress for a federal law similar to the one in Texas that would require strong disclosure for states to take part in the National Flood Insurance Program and sitting in the back yard Arthur mostly agree more disclosure is a good thing for me for sure because. Some of those kinds of issues been brought up I discuss I would reconsider very seriously before I considered moving here and he says he'll be happy to tell anybody about the flood risk of his property if the time ever comes to sell for n.p.r. News I'm most Boucher in Austin. Coming up this afternoon on All Things Considered California firefighters have called in some of the biggest air tankers for help a pilot takes us inside their operation tell your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or you can ask for your member station by name. I'm Tanya Moseley childhood malnutrition and obesity is on the rise in this country and some say one glaring factor is a lack of nutrition education and set of being judged men taller resentful or demonizing food to people can preach and I have decided to find a solution to making healthy eating more positive next time I'm here in that. You can join. At noon Monday through Friday for n.p.r. Is here and now and right now it's time for a look at the weather forecast Southwest Colorado can expect more clouds than some today with highs along the high 160 cord or ranging across the forty's also some breezy conditions sorts and we'll see a good chance of snow showers mainly starting this afternoon and into the evening the possibility of a good interest so of accumulation also winds gusting up to 35 miles per hour across the San Juans Farmington in North was New Mexico will see mostly sunny skies today with Afternoon highs reaching the low fifty's those tonight will drop into the single digits across southwest Colorado Silverton will settle in at just above 0 along the continuing chance of snow showers both as New Mexico's lows will reach the upper teens under partly cloudy skies tomorrow mostly sunny and cold as only reaching the low thirty's for most population centers all sorts and will top out in the upper teens clear skies will continue tomorrow night although several degrees below 0 and so are 10 and goes the springs well the rest of Southwest Colorado will bottom out in the low single digits or there's New Mexico's lows on Wednesday will be in the low double digits extended forecast is looking like sunny days and. Your nights will continue for midweek through the weekend on the gradual warming trend bringing highs I can the upper fifty's and possibly low sixty's by next Monday now back to npr's Morning Edition. Good morning I'm David Greene So residents of Gresham County Michigan book up last Saturday to a surprise visitor from space no it was not an alien a small satellite attached to a balloon had crashed in a field according to The Detroit Free Press the landing was planned no one was injured Samsung the satellites owner issued an apology quote We regret any inconvenience this may have caused no problem at all just maybe a little heads up next time you're listening to Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from c 3 dot a I see 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence that enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn Morrisey 3. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene even for Hollywood Robert Evans was over the top the flamboyant movie producer bridge the Golden Age of Hollywood with the rebellious spirit of the sixty's and seventy's Evans died this weekend at the age of 89 with dozens of movies behind him some probably among your favorites N.P.R.'s net it will be has this appreciation which does include some strong language he created mythologies most especially about himself fears Robert Evans posting about his heyday in a 2002 documentary I was working 18 hours a day 7 days a week with no plans to slow down to 6 pictures and develop into a project I felt invincible Robert Evans was already a wealthy businessman when his looks landed him a role in a movie soon he was in in 1970 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as a bull fighter but Hemingway hated him as did most of the cast still the mogul behind the movie supported Evans at one point yelling that kid stays in the picture. And anybody who doesn't like him can quit at that moment Evans knew he did not want to be an actor he wanted to be a producer and for a while he was an amazing one from the 19662970 4 when Evan talked to Paramount Pictures he produced some of the eras most definitive movies Rosemary's Baby Chinatown The Godfather love story and many more things basically saved the studio by taking huge risks he hired obscure Polish director Roman Polanski for Rosemary's Baby about a woman pregnant with the devil's child why do you judge every time a star Mia Farrow was spent in the throes of divorcing Frank Sinatra in the Evans documentary he imitated her distress. But Evan sat her down showed her the footage and said there is a bridge and issue into the award she did not but Robert Evans movies racked up nominations he made stars of Jack Nicholson and Ryan. Neal and hired the unknown Francis Ford Coppola to make the Godfather when Koppel attorney did a version Evans found 2 sure the producer says he said the picture things for just got a shot a great film with it is it in your kitchen would just be getting it sure you know this green and things continued to go back and give me a movie at the time Robert Evans was a bigger star than some of the stars he was a flagrant womanizer who married 7 times says film critic Carrie Recchi 1st of all he was very good looking with the signature style big tinted glasses both tie he were bathrobes and turtleneck Senyah decadent late dark tan I mean he just looked like he was on the griddle a little too long Evans world crumpled in the 1970 s. He lost his wife Ellie McGraw to her costar Steve McQueen He tumbled into debt and as he said in the documentary he became acquainted with cocaine it was my 1st experience into the world of what sense was busted for drugs and the seamy side of Hollywood engulfed him when one of his business associates was murdered Evansville briefly under suspicion he became a pariah to his 1904 memoir The Kid Stays in the picture became a best seller and his audiobook became catnip for comedic imitations Here's Patton Oswalt in a You Tube clip you know back in the early seventy's when I was producing The Godfather films I had a whirlpool bath that started by a trailer that I would fill with apple juice but something about that voice trance and it inherited that your house the window I needed done it I got it you name him I met him well almost by the workers of thought it was a fire the fire the laughter the pride of them and probably told him all about the mythology of our protections net and Libby n.p.r. 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Good morning The time is 749 Time for another look at the case you see community calendar with support provided by Alpine eye clinic and Dr John Petty dedicated to bringing their patients the most advanced and trusted lasik technology available custom Lasik can provide a whole world of clarity and boundless possibilities for information on Lasik and appointments are available at 970-385-1583 the public is invited to the nonpartizan presentation Medicare for all miss and misconceptions at the Durango public library that is tomorrow at 6 pm Children and Families are invited to join Durango public library for stories songs and other hallowing activities that's Thursday morning at $1030.00 customs are encouraged and this will be a candy free event the downtown Durango children's hallowing takes place Thursday from $4.00 to $6.00 at a wide variety of venues along Main Avenue the event is for kids 10 and under in costume and accompanied by an adult the deadline for submitting an event for inclusion in the 2020 snow down schedule is this Thursday event submission forms are available at snow down. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin the writer Diaz has a story about escaping the disasters of her own family born in Puerto Rico she spent her early years in a public housing project Her mom worked all the time and her dad my father was a drug dealer as a child she would see him counting the wadded dollar bills he had earned in that deadly trade later he moved the family to Miami and found work was lawful but Jake you're a Diaz says her mother was temperamental violence and finally diagnosed as schizophrenic the writer describes their life in a memoir titled ordinary girls she talked with Steve Inskeep How did you understand what was going on around you at 1st I didn't really I thought everyone lived like this because there were so many other families in in custody that were dealing with similar things it wasn't so I was a grown woman looking back at these things and realize how much violence made its way into or everyday lives into our childhood games how much we thought that was normal What kinds of violence were there in your home around your home there was a lot of drug dealing there were fights there were raids that the cops would often show up and raid places for drugs and guns when we were young my brother and I saw a guy get stabbed in front of our building. Was very common and so now I look back and I realize how not normal that was how. How lucky we are are to be alive although you tended rather quickly into violence yourself I did when I was a teenager I'm so I was a juvenile delinquent spent most of her time on the streets. I attempted suicide for the 1st time than a few months after that I ran away from home for the 1st time and then I started getting arrested. Mostly for fighting I was in a state of. Also I was so angry and I couldn't really explain why I didn't have the language for it and so I turned to what I knew I remembered the kind of woman my mother had been. In a lot of ways I was acting out I was performing the same thing. I wonder if I can get you to read a bit of this memoir of course and what's on my mind is page 171 at what point in your life you're describing yourself. So this is when I'm 14 this is from a topped are called 14 or how to be a juvenile delinquent. Learn to fight dirty to bite the soft spots on the neck and inner thigh to pull off earrings and hair weaves slather your face with Vaseline before fights so you don't get scratched so the blows slide right off without leaving a mark keep 5 or 6 razor blades tucked in a loose spun on top of your head in a girl fights they will always pull your hair learn that anything can be a weapon pencils bottles rocks belt buckles full of nickels a master combination lock eventually you'll carry other weapons brass knuckles and pocket knives but never a gun because what you really love is the fight besides you're not crazy this passage of the book is. All the more startling because the young woman who had that experience group beyond it for all of her family problems to cure it says her father loved books she aspired to be a writer and gradually haltingly she found a way to be one she joined the Navy and says For the 1st time she was surrounded by people who expected her to succeed she also met a young man who for a time became her husband he took me home to meet his family and I saw what a family was actually supposed to look like. These were people who loved each other and one afraid to touch each other all the time who hugged each other. Down to dinner and asked each other about their day. And they were loving and happy and he was happy and I looked around and I thought this is what I want I want a family that loves me and shows. You know when we think about your turn around or come back from that it would be easier I guess if you told your story like the hymn Amazing Grace I once was lost but now I'm found that is like a progression from bad to good but it doesn't feel that way as I read this story it feels to me like you are in some ways the same kid in different circumstances and the person you are now was was in existence back there at h h 8 and maybe there's still a little bit of that family trouble with you now is that true. I'd like to. Think you're right. It definitely didn't feel like I turned my life around it felt like I was always from the very beginning trying to turn my life around and it took a lot of people and a lot of stumbling and a lot of mistakes on top of finally. There were fewer mistakes it wasn't one thing that turned my life around those many different things many different people who saved me again and again. And I also I also suffer from major depression and so every day is a struggle even though every day is a blessing I still feel like I could very easily. Go back to being not person but I don't the public housing projects in which you grew up yes are they still around they're still around yes have you been back in recent times I have. So I was there a couple years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time and because I mean everyone know everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that you don't go back and I did go back and I want to go look at our house I went back to my old elementary school. And I walked around while I was there boy. But a boy on a bike came up to my car and told me to basically approached me and said I didn't belong there and I told you. That. You have to leave you don't belong here. But the truth is that I don't as much as I love. And as much as I feel like. It's not my place anymore. D.s. Is the author of ordinary girls which is a memoir thank you thank you. And I'm David Greene. Provided by trees of trail Canyon a local tree nursery a wide variety of trees with an eye catching winter interest. And their. Trees of trail Canyon dot com today for a better tomorrow this is. Farmington . Springs and you can stream our signal at. We're also on i Tunes radio and on the app Morning Edition continues with support provided by Chris Bettina and Christina and their team at. Real estate brokerage pleased to announce their integrity gives campaign with a community support philosophy Durango Lennon homes and leads sales follow. Homes dot com Good morning The time is 8 o'clock. Good morning wildfires are threatening even more homes across California thousands have been forced to evacuate Coming up we'll speak to a mayor who city is right on the front lines that's on Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. The u.k. 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