Labor say more detail is needed on a $65000000.00 pounds savings plan approved by Northampton County Council it ll see voluntary redundancies alongside attempts to use fewer agency staff and increased council tax collection rates the authority hopes will see them balance the books but Bob Scott who leads the opposition Labor group says the fine detail will be important it puts forward a lot of ideas but there s not for me round at all. Will be de debated bit by bit as we go forward through the year and into next year hundreds of thousands of people in the southeastern United States have been urged to evacuate their homes in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Michael the Florida governor Rick Scott has described the storm as a monster B.B.C. s correspondent Gary O Donoghue is at Panama City Beach the authorities say when it does hit this part of the Florida coast it will be a serious threat to life and property some one 120000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders and 35 o
Unhappy things to deal with you also have to write an obituary for the local paper here s one that appeared in a couple of small town Pennsylvania newspapers Carol Fritzie Miller Roberson departed this world Friday December 2nd 2011 from her beloved 2nd home in a heap Mexico here I m going to let her daughter Amy Roberson read you the rights. Should be remembered as an astute businesswoman a rabbit historian a fascinating hostess and a boundless creative she loves her family history antiques horses the arts and good gossip her regular emails to family were often unintentionally hilarious yes or typing was spotty and her typos were legendary. Regardless kero wrote short stories and was working on a screen like she was a difficult mother and a grandmother long she was still being asked Carole is survived by her children Mark Lynn and of the Ninja and saying a need just now we re going to eat anyway I m sorry chart is just one of the best but I don t know it best it is one of the most un
Region talent gun ownership and N.R.A. Support the Corps one member station. Has more. Than just. 15 year old Corbin Brandon addressed hundreds of people in the rain while almost no lawmakers came to the event Vanderbilt University Medical Center surgeon Dr Starling herring drove 2 hours after speaking at the Nashville rally he tearfully describes standing over the bullet riddled body of a student injured in the Marshall County High School shooting and said he came to a stark realization. Long. After the shooting Kentucky Governor Matt Bevan called for prayer state legislation addressing gun violence has stalled For N.P.R. News I m a caller one in Marie British authorities say they finished searching the London offices of Cambridge analytic as N.P.R. s Joanne I could guess is reports the firm is accused of harvesting data from millions of Facebook users and using it to influence the 2016 U.S. Elections after days of waiting the U.K. s information commissioner finally got court permiss
In the legends of early computer science you ve probably heard of mathematician Grace Hopper she programmed Harvard s giant Mark one computer during World War 2 and helped make programming a language accessible to non-mathematicians How did you know so much about computers that. I didn t personally this hour the women who made the neck and the stories that have not been told and high school seniors have been in the news lately we ll meet one who wrote an algorithm designed to hunt down gender bias in movie reviews and news programs she created after experiencing gender discrimination herself we ll get that story after this. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m nor Rahm White House officials say there is no time or place set yet for a meeting between President Trump n. Korean leader Kim Jong un White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today the meeting won t happen at all unless North Korea Takes some concrete steps 1st if we can get to a place where North Korea is denucl
Into the mind of Apple s iconic founder Steve Jobs in his 2011 biography he s also written bestselling biography. Franklin and Henry Kissinger his new book goes back in time to look at a different kind of creative genius Leonardo da Vinci a long time journalist and president of the Aspen Institute joins us to talk about the man who s flying machines when people still relied on horses and carts and envisioned a different kind of future is coming up next after this. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying a motional testimony today from a former Navy seal at the sentencing hearing of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl he s a soldier who walked away from his Afghanistan post and ended up being caught and held by the Taliban for 5 years N.P.R. s Greg Myre he says retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer James Hatch was among a service member seriously wounded as they were searching for Bergdahl after he had band in his post that said he was the team leader and troops went in on 2 helico