National Forest and seeing nothing but brown on what had been this brilliant green it s almost like your tropical rain forest and you turned it into a New England woodland in December. Call for action on climate I ve talked to people who. In this day and this is a political issue when your house is. To be a political issue pretty quickly. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington and Joel Snider forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami have downgraded Florence a storm that came ashore in the Carolinas is now a tropical depression but it s still producing excessive amounts of rain N.P.R. s Debbie Elliott reports of flooding is widespread and rivers are still rising Barbara Jones had to pull over on a flooded road in Cannes to North Carolina as she was trying to get to her home on my own down there well you know it s not all that water. For this terrible terrible a creek has overflowed its banks it is rising the water reaches the bottom of the mailboxes lining the street for I ju
And it can be made even more stressed. Let s start with that moment of trust I mark with a pen a single vote on a ballot today I go over to a machine that looks like an oversized fax machine and feed the paper sheets and one by one then I hand my actual paper sheets to the polling person and those pieces of paper are the last place I know for sure that my photo was correctly counted but those super fax machines they scan my votes and start voting them up with all the others or I guess they do I have to trust that these digital votes won their electronic way up to the San Francisco Department of Elections and then on to the state where the nation or wherever they go which brings me back to pen and paper no digital technology solution is as trustworthy as hand counting with one person watching another and other checking and so on that many people can t all be bought and more are trustworthy than not. Now I realize that this is labor intensive but there are plenty of Americans happy to p
E.-v. These diseases that define our lives like alcoholism are also hammers maybe those have very simple fixes like a drug or even a beam of light. We re going to begin with a conversation we had actually quite a while ago it s a conversation we had with a reporter someone we still work with near center Yeah one of our great interns has gone off the world to me O Leary is rename Ariel here is her name she at the time was a New York Times reporter but is now the editorial director of Upworthy So the start actually through a personal interest so I was in a relationship with an alcoholic and was very open about that talked about it with my friends and with him about it too yeah I mean I was he was in some denial and but yeah I was I regularly would tell him hey like you have a problem with this and you know and he would be clear back and say you know if you re going to make me choose between me and vodka I m going to choose 5 so he did say that once you know but every night after 11 o cl
Is it his conviction by the International Criminal Court for bribing witnesses from Kinshasa his Louie s the worst after hours of deliberations behind closed doors the electoral commission has announced that 6 out of $25.00 presidential candidates are in the legible to Iran among them Bamba Bamber was recently acquitted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court after spending 10 years behind bars his return to the d.l.c. Was a big change to the political scene the former rebel leader is very popular in the capital Kinshasa and he is one of President Joseph Kabila is most feared rivals a court in Ecuador has ordered the government to lift the border restrictions imposed last week to limit the influx of migrants from Venezuela the judge found that the decision to require Venezuelans to carry valid passports broke regional agreements on freedom of movement the decision came just hours before Peru is to to introduce similar entry requirements for Venezuelans who go to Zillah prove
As for the transformative and beneficial properties of these substances and ask what are the ongoing risks are most all thought he s right to continue banning them or should they be considered for wider use and if so under what conditions that s the real story from the b.b.c. Coming up after the news. Hello I m Eileen McHugh with the b.b.c. News Pope Francis has met Arlen s president Michael d. Higgins at the start of a 2 day visit to the country hundreds of thousands of people are expected to turn out to see the Pope joining his state about the trip has been overshadowed by scandals involving Roman Catholic institutions in our land dating back decades including child sexual abuse by priests from Dublin Here s Chris page. A guard of honor from the Irish naval service welcomes Pope Francis to the official residence of the country s president Michel de Hagan s well wishers lined the route from Dublin airport there will also be protesters and Ireland s capital demanding the pope must add