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Also we ll talk with a journalist who came back from covering Charleston with a story she never expected a profile of a mass shooter Dylan roof the moment that he said you don t know me you don t know what. I m going to find out who you are and I m going to know you because you are the latest from the Texas recovery from Superfund sites to a makeshift animal shelter that popped up in the town of Beaumont. And. Now the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jenny Herbst the u.s. Is pushing for further sanctions on North Korea following its latest nuclear test N.P.R. s Winsor Johnston reports the un Security Council held an emergency meeting after Pianka detonated what it called a hydrogen bomb u.n. Ambassador Nikki Haley says North Korean leader Kim Jong un is quote begging for war but stopped short of calling for a unilateral military action by Washington she instead urged the council to exhaust all diplomatic means to end the ongoing crisis a Denmark senior fellow at the Wilson Center says diplomacy will be challenging but it s still the way to go neither side really can agree to what to go she added the United States is insisting that the negotiation be focused on denuclearization and North Korea absolute refuses to talk about them Switzerland has offered to help mediate any potential diplomatic talks Winsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington meanwhile President Trump spoke by phone with South Korea s president moon j.n. Today both leaders agreeing to increase pressure on North Korea and to strengthen joint military capabilities Trump also gave in principle his approval to lift restrictions on South Korea s missile payload capabilities used and mayor says the city is open for business N.P.R. s Carrie Kahn reports the mayor gave the upbeat assessment despite thousands of people still evacuated from flooded homes there Sylvester Turner says he s hoping the city will be back on track after the Labor Day holiday speaking on c.b.s. Turner urged anyone planning a conference convention or sporting event in the city to still come he assured visitors that Houston can handle multiple events at once Meanwhile thousands of you stone Ians remain evacuated from their homes mainly in the western reaches of the city where structures are still flooded due to water releases from full reservoirs Sunday officials carried out a controlled burn of unstable chemicals at the Arkham a plant in nearby Crosby hoping to reduce the chance of further explosions at the damage facility there s also concern about chemical contaminations as at least 5 superfan waste sites in and around the region were flooded Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News Houston. As many holiday drivers found gas prices rose thanks to Hurricane Harvey Patrick De Haan a senior analyst at Gas Buddy dot com says the national average has risen $0.30 since the storm hit more than a week ago to $2.64 a gallon and he says the price hike will probably continue for a short time we could see gas prices moving higher for a few more days but I think the national average will top out somewhere in the mid to sixty s we re very close to seeing a top gasoline futures slip though and more refineries and oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico shut down during the storm are coming back on line the government says now only 14 of the $38.00 platforms evacuated for the storm are still closed this is n.p.r. News. And this is Delaware public media and your All Things Considered host today Meghan Polly water in the Chesapeake Bay That s about 30 to 50 feet deep is becoming more acidified according to new research as Delaware Public Media s Katie Price reports that means carbon dioxide is dissolving in the water which could potentially hurt oysters and clams there aren t as many oysters in the Chesapeake Bay as there used to be and University of Delaware is wage and says he may know why shellfish need a compound called calcium carbonate to help build their cells and if ph is a low carb but is true should they these lower than that it would be harmful and they have to be up of will to be saturated carbonate if it s under saturated the shell would dissolve in an oyster may not be able to rebuild that science part of a 16 person research team that collected water samples in the Chesapeake Bay to study oxygen and ph in America s largest estuary He says the team will next look at how to apply their research to preserving shellfish in the Bay They re also building a model to predict how ph changes in the surface water Kitty I guess Delaware public media a new partnership is underway between the Delaware Department of Transportation and projects search a high school transition program working worldwide dell dot 88 title to coordinate or Todd Webb says Project search is for students with significant intellectual developmental disabilities the main goal of this program is to teach these and turns job skills that they then can take and to gain meaningful employment I mean that s really the whole goal this program so here Delgado we re we have multiple and turn locations around all the different divisions here at Delta and the students will be at these locations for 10 weeks where they learn the job skills. 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News I m Ari Shapiro roughly 800000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children will soon learn the fate of a policy that shields them from deportation the White House says tomorrow President Trump will announce his plans for the Obama era executive action known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Dhaka as a candidate Trump vowed to end it though over his campaign and months as president he has expressed compassion for Dr recipients a group often referred to as dreamers here he is speaking at the White House on Friday we love to dream and we love everybody for more on this we re joined by Jeff Bennett who covers the White House for n.p.r. They are while we await the president s announcement Politico and other outlets are reporting that the president has decided to terminate the docket program with a 6 month delay to allow time for Congress to pass a legislative fix tell us about that well with the coffee out that President Trump could always change his mind at the last minute as you say the president appears to be on the verge of ending the stock policy with you know what opening this the 6 month window for Congress to pass a legislative fix and this is his answer Ari to the ultimatum put by him by the attorneys general from what are now 9 Republican led states they ve threatened legal action if he doesn t take steps to end the policy by tomorrow and the Republican officials say that docket is unconstitutional because former President Obama established it by way of executive action and I think it s worth noting that when Obama crafted the policy 5 years ago he said he did it because Congress had repeatedly failed to do what President Trump might be asking lawmakers to do now and that s in shrine these doctor protections in law and so you know if the president does make this request of Congress we don t know if lawmakers will act within the 6 month time frame and if Congress fails to find a solution in the docket protections expire dreamers by and large fear that they would be targets for deportation in keeping with the president s you know hardline immigration approach we re about to hear from a Republican who is optimistic. That such a bill could pass Congress from your view you covered Congress for a while how difficult would it be for them to do this I d say it s a pretty heavy lift because remember back in 2013 House Republicans effectively killed the a comprehensive immigration reform that was passed to them by the Senate and traditionally Republicans have said they would only get on board legislation that would help undocumented immigrants if Congress did something to beef up immigration enforcement or border security 1st and there you have an obstacle right out of the gate because as you know the president is on the hunt for congressional funding for his long promised southern border wall of you know which Democrats want no part of but I d say there is now bipartisan support for protecting dreamers and I think this 6 month Doc deadline if it comes to pass would create a sense of urgency that I think would help focus the minds of lawmakers and already today we ve heard from Republicans like James Lankford of Oklahoma and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina they are they are on board with a doc of fix and then over in the house prominently is House Speaker Paul Ryan who I have to say sounds a lot like the immigration advocates I ve spoken with when it comes to doctors future here he is answering the question of whether Trump should end the policy while talking to w l c o radio in his home state of Wisconsin late last week I mean I actually don t think he should do that and I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix let me back up for a 2nd President Obama did not have the legislative authority to do what he did You can t as an executive write law out of thin air and so that s very very clear we ve made it very clear so Paul Ryan saying the president should defer to Congress to come up with a permanent solution what other options does President Trump have on docket Well he could end the program outright and revoke the participants work permits he could end the program phase it out over time you know ending the program now for new applicants and then allowing the doctor work permits to expire but with these attorneys general threatening legal action he could allow it to go to court although it s highly unlikely that the trunk. This department would defend considering that the president has almost reflexively opposed nearly every other Obama policy of consequence you know its influence in the president s thinking here the White House keeps pointing to this moral question that the president is weighing what to do with these nearly 800000 young people who were brought to the country illegally as they so often say through no fault of their own and who by the way according to the most recent survey arrived in the u.s. On average at age 6 and a half so dreamers are sympathetic group and I think that is what complicates the politics for the president polls show the doctor program is widely popular even among Republicans and although there are elements of the president s base and hardliners within his administration who want him to end Dhaka I think scrapping it would rank among the most divisive things the president has done so far That s N.P.R. s Jeff Bennett thanks Jeff you re welcome we re going to hear now from Representative Carlos Kerr Bello a Republican from Florida he s introduced legislation called the recognizing America s Children Act it would solidify the protections for dreamers that were introduced by President Obama s executive action into law and it would also go further providing pathways to citizenship Earlier today I asked Congressman Kerbala whether he thinks 6 months is enough time to convince his fellow Republicans that these actions are worthwhile Well I think it s pretty obvious that if the president does indeed give us that window within which we can act I think most Republicans would be willing to take that step I think if there were a vote on the House floor today a majority of Republicans would support allowing these young people which I consider Americans us a name I legislation to remain in the country and to obtain permanent status in the country most people understand that these young immigrants went to school with our own kids grew up here speak perfect English many of them don t even remember their countries of origin so they are American and I think most Republicans would be willing to take that step which would mean that it would overwhelmingly the u.s. Also represent. You say if there were a vote tomorrow alternately whether or not there is a vote is up to the leadership have you spoken to House Speaker Paul Ryan about where he stands on bringing this up for a vote right away well we ve had some good conversations and most of these leaders have heard the president s most recent statements on Dhaka one of the most notable ones is the one where he says that he wants to treat these young people with heart with compassion and I d say that out of our leadership most of not all agree that that is the right approach to take. There s already a long list of things that Congress has to get done this fall including raising the debt ceiling to keep the government open do you think there is room in the legislative calendar to do this. There s certainly room and more importantly there are opportunities with so many must pass items not just in September but before the end of the year there will be multiple vehicles that we can attach this legislation to if it doesn t get a standalone vote in the in the House or the Senate so look I support keeping the program as it is until we find that permanent solution so I will probably be somewhat disappointed tomorrow by the president s statement but at the same time we have to recognize that this may open the door to a permanent solution for these young people which is what they deserve the executive orders everyone knows in our country do not constitute law they can be changed from one president to the next or by the same president so although tomorrow might be a tough day for DACA recipients and for those of us who support them I think that it might also be a day of great hope as we see the political system moving towards a permanent solution as opposed to this executive order which might be declared unconstitutional by a court anyway that s interesting you have urged the president not to repeal this policy but it sounds as though you re saying the president repealing the policy could give your legislation the boost it needs to pass and become more permanent in the long run that s right it s somewhat ironic of the president had not made any decision on Doc or had lasted as it is which he has done during the 1st 78 months of his presidency there would be a sense of urgency and I think people would be complacent with the status quo with this phase out if that s what ends up half. I think it s still speculative at this point then there will be a sense of urgency and most members of Congress and both chambers do not want to see these young people deported so it it will really force us to act and yes it will improve the chances of legislation like my recognizing America s children are moving forward you ve said the most republicans in your view support this policy we ve heard a lot of different statements from a lot of different people where do you get the conclusion that most people agree with you on this well I ve been talking to my colleagues about this since I arrived in Congress in January of 2015 and overwhelmingly Republicans tell me yes I could support giving these young immigrants permanent status in our country as long as we continue moving towards better border security the enforcement of our immigration law so at the very least there is a willingness to find a compromise that includes stronger security and some compassion with these young people who never violated any law when they came to this country they were brought by their parents or by others and are contributing to our country today so there is a sweet spot here and this action by the president tomorrow I think will force us to find congressman Carlos Cabell Republican of Florida thanks for joining us of course have a great day President Trump has said a lot about the Dhaka program over the years and he has not always been consistent he made this promise when he announced his candidacy for president I will immediately terminate. President Obama s illegal executive order on immigration immediately that was 2015 after Trump won the election in 2016 his definitive statements from the campaign became less so in December he told Time magazine this about so-called dreamers quote Some were good students some have wonderful jobs and they were never neverland because they don t know what s going to happen a few weeks after inauguration he said this it s a very very tough subject we re going to deal with Darko with heart I have to do with a lot of politicians don t forget and I have to convince them that what I m saying is is right President Trump has been hinting about what his announcement tomorrow will be on Friday a reporter asked him what he would say to dreamers who were scared then I agree reserve right but thank you very likely very much everybody tomorrow those dreamers will find out if being terrific earns them continued protection from deportation. You re listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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Church in the summer of 2015 conses idea was to write about the people he killed but she told my colleague Kelly McEvers that as she sat there in the courtroom her project changed Dillon was very determined to keep all psychological and personal information out of the trial. And his silence struck me as being defiant and insulting and it felt extremely unfair that he was allowed to have this sanctuary of silence and the family members and the victims had been interrogated and had to testify and had to sort of validate the goodness of their character and at the moment that he said you don t know me you don t know what hatred is I said no I m going to find out who you are and I m going to know you because you are so I went to the town were dealing roof grew up Columbia South Carolina she talked to his friends his elementary school principal his pastor his parents she learned about his online life his undiagnosed psychological issues his hatred for black people and she had a point of view she wrote a long essay about her time in South Carolina for g.q. Magazine. Is a black woman and I asked her what it was like to knock on the door of Dylan roof s father I went to the door I remember 3 times and I looked in through the Plexiglas door to see what was going on and it was weird because you could see sort of him moving around through the house. And when he finally let me in you know you re sitting there with I think it to 100 pound Rottweiler dogs. And my heart was just thumping I was terrified I was petrified and I just also wanted to know what had happened in this house that your son left here drove 200 miles to Charleston and killed elderly black people you know they were largely older women and he was really reluctant to talk but what was going through my head initially was just I have to figure this out you had all costs and I was very very sick at the time of hearing so much about black people being murdered in the streets and I kind of felt like well it s time to stand up it s time to knock on someone s door it s time to make them justify how we re treated in this country did you can he answers from his father do you feel like you were able to enter you know get any sense. Of him or why did this I got the sense that he felt like he didn t know why his son did this what was revealed later and the testimony that was unsealed from the trial was that this is a guy who would have Dylan you know do songs and raps where they would sort of parity saying The n word and do all of this really offensive stuff this is a guy who believe that America was headed towards a race war this is a guy who knowing his son had all of these issues gave him $400.00 to buy a gun so while he can maraud around and say oh I have no idea why he did this or where he got this from this is not to implicate him and saying you know you raised a murderer but you definitely raised a child without racial sensitivity. The Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks hate crimes says Don t refuse and usual in the fact that he was radicalized almost entirely on line right in some ways he was similar to an ISIS recruit Yeah and he says that now I mean he says if anything from what I understand myself to be like I m more like an ISIS guy but Dylan did engage on certain chat rooms and he used the name Lil. And he would constantly talk about you know how he was a great student of racism how he was a sort of historian of black on white criminality he know all of this information about what it is to be a white supremacist and so I don t want to suggest the Dylan was completely not in conversation but what is interesting when you look at him on these sites and you look at his post no one is talking to him and they re actually saying hey you like this really backwards crazy level of white supremacist behavior and we are way more sophisticated than that now Ok so this is a guy who s alienated even with in this sort of lumping proletarian hate groups that he s aspiring to be like. And you also talk about this idea of grievance you know that Dylan roof and people like him who have these grievances who feel left behind and then they re able to connect online with this narrative that that. The world is against you that there is this race that s trying to keep you down that that s a really new thing you know it s interesting I m not sure it is you always had poor white people in America right what you haven t always had though I think is the discussion of where these people come from and what they do with their anger and Dylan can t imagine that because of what s happened in the last 200 years with the consolidation of whiteness and even lower income whiteness Anything s better than being black and so there s this whole myth that black people have to take ultimate responsibility can t be on welfare can t be poor and are coming out of chattel slavery and these same white guys can t even turn the mirror back onto themselves to say how did I get in the situation and one reason that they got in the situation right Dillon is Ged 9th grade dropout Ok there s no one in my family as a black woman who has not been to college or graduate school for 200 years so Dillon and these sort of generation of white men they take no responsibility for the fact that they never learned a skill they never learned a trade they never went to school they ve never done the work and so if you re really talking about who want something from America without putting anything in its them. You re right it is possible that dealing roof is not an outlier at all but rather emblematic of an approaching storm you feel that way do you think there are more donors to come. I hope not. It s alarming when I was doing the research for this to see how many. Of these men are preparing for a race war and they re armed to the teeth I mean that is terrifying you don t know how much of it is just you know social media posturing are if they re serious you know. And so I would hope that there are more men like Dylan roof but I do see on social media there are people who call themselves roofie there are fan clubs for him so I don t know what the moral compass of these people are but I do know that they don t have much of one. You in the piece by going to Sullivan dot island this is a place where Africans were brought to this country a slave s don t really spend some time there he squatted under a sign that honors these people he wrote. Neo Nazi symbols in the sand and I m wondering if you could just if you have it with you read the last graph of your piece. And so where on that beach he wrote down hatred in the sand I carved into it all 9 of their names Clement to pink name to want to Sanders Cynthia heard sure Rhonda Coleman Singleton Myra Thompson at the lance Daniel Simmons the pain Middleton doctor Susie Jackson of course of the names of the people who died at the Emanuel and me tourch Rachael Kohn I want to thank you thank you so much the story a most American terrorist is in the September issue of g.q. Magazine. You re listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. And you re listening to All Things Considered on Delaware Public Media your 1st state source for n.p.r. News broadcasting from Delaware State University and 91 point one and Dover and 91.7 in Wilmington in collaboration with the University of Delaware and the Brandywine school district coming up on All Things Considered 13 so-called Superfund sites were flooded last week and p.r. Visited 6 of them and talked to people who live nearby about the possible contamination spreading that story and more coming up on All Things Considered support for Delaware public media comes from listeners like you and from Delaware health information at work dinners with you from the doctor s office to the hospital to the lab making sure your medical information travel safely and securely did better communication for better health care learn more at d h i n dot org Right now in Dover it s 81 degrees a high of 86 tomorrow it s $530.00. It s All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I m Ari Shapiro next a report from Myanmar where tens of thousands of people from the repressed Rohingya minority group are fleeing violence and crossing the border into Bangladesh there s a widespread disbelief amongst the male public that the government could be running these villages will have that story after these headlines live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Barbara Kline the u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Nikki Haley is rejecting a proposal that the u.s. And South Korea stop military exercises in the exchange for p.r. Young halting its nuclear weapons program the idea that some have suggested a so-called phrase for phrase is insulting. When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an i.c.b.m. Pointed at you you do not take steps to lower your guard the u.n. Security Council met in emergency session today to discuss a response to North Korea s announcement that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb the u.s. Is calling for stronger sanctions several Gulf Coast communities hit by Harvey s record rainfall still don t have basic services back online N.P.R. s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports downed or malfunctioning systems are leaving many without access to drinking water according to the e.p.a. Officials have contacted about half of the 4500 drinking water systems potentially affected by Harvey of those 50 are shut down and more than 160 have issued boil water notices people who rely on private well water in 17 counties surrounding Houston can bring samples to the city s health department lab for testing to see if the wells need to be disinfected the flooding caused sewage spills and hundreds of wastewater treatment plants are not fully operational officials say they re focusing their water quality monitoring efforts on industrial facilities and hazardous waste sites now Greenfieldboyce n.p.r. News in the Atlantic hurricane Irma has now strengthen to a Category 4 storm forecasters say are likely hit the Northwestern Leeward Islands as a dangerous hurricane tomorrow and could impact the British and u.s. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico early Wednesday this is n.p.r. And this is Delaware public media you re listening to All Things Considered I m your host Meghan Pauly. Residents were surprised to find racial slurs spray painted on a van in Wilmington just over a week ago Bobby McCormick lives directly across the street from where the spray painted van with phrases like go back to Africa and other white nationalist symbols was found last Friday when he 1st saw it he was shocked you don t expect that that be right in pointing out and and it was. Not good to see he says at 1st he suspected the racist remarks are a cover for some kind of personal vendetta but then he heard about a similar vandal situation this time on playground equipment in a Newcastle park. Now that all. Man Ok so it s happening. So how can we do McCormick says he doesn t think President Trump s rhetoric is helping and it s sad to see situations like Charlottesville take place we really don t need it it hurt me feel bad Make America Great Again when was America great when y all would be. That when America was great when we were divided police are still investigating both vandalism cases considered hate crimes in Delaware make it Polly Delaware public media Wilmington s Eastside charter school c.e.o. Aaron bass is calling on 300 men of color to welcome students in during its 1st day of school tomorrow he s calling the 1st time event suit up show up Bass says it s part of his mission to support students and show them an image of success but he says that support doesn t stop on Tuesday our focus is really on so how do we then connect that shot with this this foreign concept of what they want to be to they connect with their reality so we bring in mentors we do trips we have children connect with our director of college and career to make sure they understand we re going to support you the entire way Bass s also part of a network called the fellowship dedicated to increasing the number of men of color in education positions that group is holding its national conference in Philadelphia October 13th through 15 Thanks for listening to Delaware public media all things considered continues it s 535. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from State Farm committed to offering tools and education resources to help Americans better understand their finances and take control of their money learn more let s start today dot com State Farm here to help life go right. And for me nada creators of the Japanese made Dreamwave massage chair with shots to point detection and 16 program to massages including morning and night time sessions retail dealers nationwide more it Dreamwave chair dot com. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I m Ari Shapiro officials in Texas are still trying to confirm whether flood water has spread contamination from decades old toxic waste sites 13 so-called Superfund sites were flooded last week and P.R. s Rebecca Hirsch or visited 6 of them and talked to people who live nearby. The white Chandler has made serious progress ripping out drywall in his flooded house east of Houston on the ready to child welfare study 42 in the fifty s petroleum companies dumped industrial sludge including self your acid into pits around the corner from his home in the eighty s the federal government got involved and trucked out a bunch of contaminated soil Chandler knows the so-called Highland acid pits Well when they d fill up with water people would swim and I grew up down there and I d ask yes like I did it my whole life that s because that he was right here like he did in fact today you know he says he s never had any health problems that he knows of he even took his daughter there when she was little I know he was just baby and doctors. You know have 3 eyes and it s always difficult to tie any particular health outcome to contamination or lack of it studies have found significantly higher rates of cancer and respiratory illness along the Houston ship channel here but a lot of people in this region are in Chandler situation knowing they were exposed to toxic waste decades ago and still living right next to those sites hoping they re not dangerous even Chandler agrees it s probably a good idea for experts to test those sites after the floods see what toxins might have moved around a lot of that hasn t happened yet the e.p.a. Is still working to inspect multiple sites a spokesperson for the agency said it planned to do so quote as soon as floodwaters recede n.p.r. Found little or no water left at 6 sites we went to yesterday neither the e.p.a. Nor the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality would be interviewed for this store. Scott Jones used to work for the Texas agency with all of our government agencies whether it s that or state we don t put enough money into it now Jones is with the Galveston Bay Foundation which works on water contamination issues he s most concerned about a Superfund site that s partially submerged in the San Jacinto River it s heavily contaminated with chemicals called dioxins which leaked out for decades before the area was temporarily kept in 2011 as a result we ve got you know seafood consumption advisories on the bay for fish and crab although advisories can only do so much there were people fishing there yesterday before the storm the e.p.a. Was already considering removing more than $150000.00 cubic yards of contaminated material now Jones is concerned that the plastic covers over that which are held in place with huge rocks could have come loose in the floods the issue we have with this is that s a temporary cap so hopefully temperatures whose job will have to see what happens after this storm but prior to this some of the rocks are getting a road away from just like a 10 year storm the water this time was so powerful it removed part of the road nearby the e.p.a. Said it would try to get a dive team and today but some residents aren t waiting for official inspections at toxic waste sites Barbara Luke and Ellen Luke grew up near the Highland acid pits we always walk down there are messed around and now they re in the front yard of their mother s ruined home around the corner from the pits setting fire to whatever waterlogged belongings will burn they re skeptical of any official who tells them the area is safe do you trust now I don t trust or I m not something that will probably forever environment Yeah I don t see how you can get rid of them now the yard is covered in mud that came from the direction of the acid pits and they re looking to sell the house Rebecca Hirsch or n.p.r. News. In Me and Martin. Of thousands of people are fleeing violence escaping across the border to neighboring Bangladesh the people on the run are part of a Muslim minority in this mostly Buddhist country they re called Rohingya Poppy Macpherson is a journalist based in Myanmar and joins us to explain what s happening there welcome Hi Ari rowing I have been persecuted in Myanmar for a long time but this latest crisis comes from a series of events that took place on August 25th tell us what happened in the early hours of August 21st a couple dozen police posts were attacked by this new insurgent group. Muslim militants and they killed 11 members of the security forces and immigration official and since then they re being clashes here and there according to the government and the government says it s killed hundreds of alleged militants and sent tens of thousands fled across the borders of Bangladesh so the government describes this as a counterterrorism operation but we ve seen reports of villages set on fire mass executions do you have a sense of which is closer to the truth it s extremely controversial topic here and man there s a widespread disbelief amongst the public and the government could be done in these villages in previous rounds of violence in October there was a previous attack by the militants also prompted allegedly extremely violent response from the authorities but the government insists this time that the that is the militants who are setting fire to their own houses for people who are not familiar with this part of the world describe how the are going to fit into larger society in Myanmar their hinge or are and I think minority lives in the western part of the country and Rakhine state and many can trace their families back a very long time but they ve been subject to decades of persecution by the Me a majority is and in the eyes of many people in Myanmar they are viewed as an illegal and immigrants from Bangladesh their. Why do called Bengalis But people here and a lot of them more than 100008 combined 2 internal displacement camps so it s safe to say that domestically they re very very unpopular so just as we re trying to wrap our head around what s happening here from your description it sounds as though there really was an attack that could be considered terrorism perpetrated by Rohingya and the really has been a response from the government but that response may be far wider than any kind of measured reaction to what could be described as terrorism is that right that s definitely how it appears it s very difficult to verify information obviously because the Army has those rather than areas under lockdown so it s impossible to go the training as a journalist and do the job but the stories you know are so consistent from the Ranger a few years in Bangladesh deeply troubling I d like to ask you about the role of Nobel Peace Prize winner on song Suchi in all of this who is sort of a de facto leader of Myanmar some of her fellow Nobel laureates have criticized her for being complicit in the mistreatment of. Tell me about what role she has played and whether there s anything she could do to stop this if she wanted to. I think it s often forgotten that one sense that she is not in charge of the country the military is still very much has has a grip on the past important institutions and they control the police the soldiers so there are instances in the eyes of the in session here she is she really should have spoken out about this a very long time ago and she didn t do that she chose she has chosen not to. It could be a variety of reasons some people say she she s playing a long game she s trying not to do anything that would anger the military there s also the argument that as we ve seen in the by the reaction to this here in Manama many people d. The Ranger as a security threat they view them as illegal immigrants so for functions to cheer to come out in support of them could make a. Domestically that s journalist Poppy MacPherson speaking with us from Myanmar over Skype Thanks a lot thanks a lot for having. You re listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast that starts with talented casting directors the people who can see a Tony winning star in the making say when a performer walks into an audition as a college student named Audra McDonald He s the Remis to see you know. They know standing Manley s the casting directors are essential to New York s theater industry they are not represented by union or guild though Jeff Lunden reports they are trying to change that and producers are pushing back Cindy Tolan has been working in New York in Hollywood for 3 decades and she says it s time for Broadway producers to give a little back Broadway grossed 1500000000 dollars last year and it s the Hyrst in history and we are 40 casting directors 40 people who want health insurance and a pension and you know one week s benefits for a casting director is significantly less than the price of $1.00 Broadway premium ticket so Broadway s casting directors approached the Teamsters Union to help them organize and on a recent Monday morning the buildings in Times Square reverberated with the sounds of dozens of members of the Broadway community. And. The casting directors were joined by some of their already unionized colleagues Slike after Michael Malenka many of my friends and teachers and the people that helped me get a start my career in the casting profession so I think it s only fair that I support them when they need it in a time like this when they re striving to get people wages and health care benefits and things like that but the broadly he sees it differently the League represents producers and theater owners and refused to speak with n.p.r. In a statement they said the casting directors are independent contractors who work on more than one show at a time casting directors counter that that s exam. Actually what lighting designers and set designers do they all work on multiple shows and they re unionized 12 years ago casting directors joined up with the Teamsters to organize their film and t.v. Work Cindy Tolan says they face the same pushback from producers the same argument that we were independent contractors yet the same people who have a presence on Broadway Disney Fox the actor goals recognize us and one medium but are refusing to do so in another Tolan says the threat of a strike helped t.v. And film producers change their minds Thomas O Donnell was part of those negotiations he s president of Teamsters Local $817.00 and he says the Broadway League won t even sit down with him right now we re trying to do it is friendly and it s nice as possible but the last campaign took us a year and a half what 14 months in now I m not fazed by it you know will deal with everything the Broadway week says it s encouraged the Teamsters to take their arguments to the National Labor Relations Board or n.l.r.b. And will abide by its ruling but Cindy Tolan points out the board s members are appointed by the president currently the president of the United States of our country is Donald Trump Yes of course they want to put in front of the n.l.r.b. Board obviously know what the outcome will be so for now Broadway s casting directors are getting the word out through rallies and social media and hoping that it doesn t come to any sort of job action for n.p.r. News I m Jeff Lunden in New York. You re listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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News this is All Things Considered I m Ari Shapiro people talk about Harvey flooding south Texas on a biblical scale so it makes sense that there would be a kind of Noah s ark in this story Brian Mann found it in Beaumont Texas a massive animal rescue center that s been created by volunteers out of thin air Beaumont still lack safe drinking water but on the outskirts of town 2 huge county fair pavilions the size of baseball diamonds have been transformed into a livestock yard and animal shelter. It s a bedlam for animals and people and supply trucks Nick Moore a veterinarian from Georgetown Texas volunteered to help heal the large animals being rescued a lot of really critical horses that are in shock be hydrated wounds lacerations there are geese and dogs cats and pigs all hit by the storm separated from their owners Amy Walters from copper s Cove Texas spent the last couple days on horseback rounding up lost cattle bringing them here it s quite the adventure it s a gentle and. Alligator and. There s alligators everywhere so and there s snakes and stuff so it s it s like I said it s quite the gentle rush that I m on the Apolo Gonzalez turns up he s a rancher who says he s been searching for days for lost livestock when no one thought when I. Was Pregnant says he s eager to find. Most of the animals being carried in or cats and dogs there are hundreds of them and wire cages that stretch as far as I can see small scruffy dogs big scared looking dogs for some reason there are a lot of Chihuahuas on this afternoon volunteers and soldiers are caring for the animals walking them comforting them also trying to comfort pet owners who turn up looking frightened what animal did you lose track not lost in a silent but way Guy about 4 or 5 years ago Judy Reed says her house outside Belmont is still completely underwater but what she worries about most is her dog Shadow. She s elderly all alone and safe shadow with her family rescuers left him behind when they carried her away in a boat grandstand that I don t have somebody up to the t.v. Will mention. I don t really have to but he does give me this looks like he understands on this day there s no sign of shadow he s not here Judy says you keep checking back as more and more animals arrive lost pets are being held here for 30 days to give the owners time to claim them after that the people running the shelter say the animals will be put up for adoption Brian Mann n.p.r. News Beaumont Texas with advances in artificial intelligence and robotics more people are wondering whether their jobs are safe and are launching a new series to try to answer that question we ll look at all types of work low paying gigs lucrative professions blue collar white collar and we ll need your help more on that in a few minutes 1st Lauren Silverman of member station Katie are a explores the job of a radiologist from inside the University of California San Francisco in health care you could say radiologists have typically had a pretty sweet deal they make on average around $400000.00 a year nearly double what a family doctor makes and often have less grueling hours but it became clear within minutes of entering the department of Radiology that golden path is no longer so secure this is a reporter for n.p.r. And she is doing right or I m more in the future of our fashion oh great love inside a dimly lit reading room young trainees click through black and white images of abdominal scans in the last decade the number of M.R.I. s and c.t. Scans has risen dramatically radiologists here assessed 20 to 100 scans a day each scan can have thousands of images to review her confidence your pattern kind of like every other minute someone picks up a microphone to dictate into an electronic health record your paragraph in large man prominent artery commissar for dear radiology fellow Phelps Kelly the work is pretty predictable now but the kind of biggest concern is that we could be. Replaced by machines replaced by machines that s because since radiology has gone digital it s become in easy target for artificial intelligence like machine learning essentially complex problem solving formulas Dr Bob Wachter is author of The Digital Dr radiology at its core is now a human being based on learning and his or her own experience looking at a collection of digital dots and a digital pattern and saying that pattern looks like cancer or looks like tuberculosis or looks like pneumonia computers are awfully good at seeing patterns just think about how Facebook software can identify your face in a group photo or Google s can recognize a stop sign big tech companies are betting the same machine learning process feeding a computer thousands of images could help it diagnose heart disease or stroke faster and cheaper than a human can I would say that there are many people who have a lot of anxious about this u.c.s.f. Radiologist Mark Coley you can t walk through any of our meetings without hearing people talking about machine learning both Coley and his colleague Dr John Mangan are researching ways to use artificial intelligence in radiology Mongan says the people most fearful of Ai understand the least about it he compares the climate to that of the dot com bubble people were very sure about the way things were going to go you know web van had billions of dollars and was going to put all the grocery stores out of business there s still a Safeway half mile down from my house but at the same time it wasn t all hype the reality is this dozens of companies including i.b.m. Google and g.e. Are racing to develop formulas to diagnose diseases zebra medical vision Israeli company already provides algorithms that help radiologists predict disease Chief Medical Officer Eldad says Computers are great multi-tasker they can look for appendicitis while. Also checking for low bone density the radiologist can t make 30 diagnoses for every study but the evidence is there the information is in the pixels still u.c.s.f. Small isn t worried about losing his job in the short term he s excited algorithms could help prioritize patients and make sure he doesn t miss something long term he says radiologists will spend less time looking at images and become the expert on those algorithms the expert on how you apply them and how you interpret what comes outfront is a low predominant course for take your passages corresponding to fibrosis on the same t.v. Period in the reading room radiology resident Phelps Kelly agrees that machines won t replace radiologists but radiologists who embrace Ai will have a far more certain future his analogy and the taxi business if the taxi industry had invested in right hailing apps then maybe they would be going out of business and labor would be taking them over so if we can actually own this then we can maybe benefit from and not be wiped out by it for now he offers what a computer can t a diagnosis with a face to face explanation I didn t tell anybody I am I going to look at a bell and see Lauren Silverman n.p.r. News. Have you thought about how technology could affect your job our series is my job safe is looking at how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the way we work and if you re worried you might be automated out of a job or if you re confident you have nothing to fear send an e-mail to talk to us at npr dot org In the subject line please write is my job 6. 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