This would probably be our most robust annual revenue source from here forward to protect its future state officials caution against big spending from the Permanent Fund from Alaska Public Media this is state wide news on Alaska news nightly for Tuesday November 7th Good evening I'm Lori Townsend also tonight will the global jumping oil prices mean anything for Alaska if you're looking at the impact on investment and production you really have to look at the longer those stories and more tonight on Alaska new nightly. Listen to Alaska news nightly coming up in one hour at 6 o'clock here on f.m. 91 point one k s k a Anchorage lows of 15 to 20 degrees tonight except 5 to 10 above in. Each life from n.p.r. News 8 in Washington I'm Jack Speer Democratic candidates in both Virginia and New Jersey have won key gubernatorial races that's based on projections by the Associated Press in the closely watched for generation Democrat Ralph Northam is defeated Republican Ed Gillespie n.p.r. Sarah McCammon has more from Richmond Virginia this was supposed to be a good year for Democrats because of the fact that Virginia has been increasingly turning blue in the state went to Hillary Clinton last year it was the only state in the south that Clinton won and the demographics of the state have increasingly been becoming democratic So there was a lot of optimism on Democrats' side but at the same time Republicans hope they could maybe sort of capture some of the Trump energy and the fact that this is an off year which tends to be better for Republicans n.p.r. Sarah McCammon Meanwhile in New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy is the projected winner of the Republican lieutenant governor Kim Guadagno Murphy will succeed Governor Chris Christie who's term expired more information is emerging about the Texas gunman who murdered 26 people at a Sutherland Springs church N.P.R.'s Debbie. Elliott reports police records show Devon Kelly escaped from confinement at a mental health facility when he was stationed at a New Mexico Air Force Base a u.s. Official says Kelly was on pretrial confinement at peak behavioral health services in New Mexico awaiting court martial for assaulting his wife and baby stepson and all passed so police report from 2012 says the facility reported him missing Kelly was later picked up by police at a Greyhound bus station and handed over to local officers from New Mexico according to the police report an employee at the facility told police at the time Kelly had tried to carry out death threats against his military commanders and had been caught sneaking firearms on to Holloman Air Force Base the Air Force has not confirmed the allegations Debbie Elliott n.p.r. News the extent of damage from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is so great that absent help from the trumpet ministration and Congress the island's recovery will fail that was the message to Congress today from Natalie Drasko executive director of the financial oversight in management board Drasko says while conditions are slightly better since the September 20th storm the situation there is dire the extent to which you help rebuild the public sector the extent to which Fema and Hud and other agencies are charged with coming in and helping with the devastation will define pretty close future to a great extent despite the fact the hurricane hit more than a month ago 60 percent of the island is still without power u.s. Employers were posting roughly the same number of jobs in September as they were the previous month that's based on the latest government analysis of hiring labor department in its monthly job opening survey known as Job says just over $6000000.00 jobs were available at the end of the month on Wall Street the Dow closed up 8 points the Nasdaq was down 18 this is n.p.r. . Pope Francis has sent a telegram to the archbishop of San Antonio Texas expressing condolences for the deadly shooting at a Baptist church in the town of Sutherland Springs the pope saying he was quote deeply grieved by the News of the loss of life and grave injuries as a result of what he called an act of senseless violence Sunday's shooting claimed 26 lives more than a dozen others were wounded the troubled ministration is going forward with an Obama era rule that would require chain restaurants and other food establishments to post calories on menus or menu boards N.P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports the Food and Drug Administration announced the guidance today f.d.a. Commissioners got Gottlieb's says at a time when more than a 3rd of u.s. Adults are obese people need access to reliable and actionable nutrition information some food industry groups have been asking for more lenient see in implementing the calorie labeling rule but nutrition advocate Margaret wood tant of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says the guidance the f.d.a. Has now put forward is good for consumers any food that's on display like a salad bar or buffet line has to have calories posted so that people can see the information as they are serving themselves the f.d.a. Will take comments on the guidelines for 60 days Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News driving vehicle maker away most says it intends to pull a human back up driver from ongoing test operations that are taking place on public roads the Google created company says as of as of earlier in the month to begin testing vehicles on public roads with all the employee running and riding in the back testing it using a soft driving cross the Pacific is taking place in Arizona I'm Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include American Jewish World Service working together for more than 30 years to build a more just and equitable world learn more a.j. Ws dot au r.g.p. And the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. Bodega fest 2017 Anchorage is premier tasting event is Nov 11th at the Alaska Aviation Museum featuring beer Mead and cider from Alaska the Pacific Northwest and beyond and performances throughout the night by local Alaskan artists tickets for bodega fest at brown paper tickets dot com this message Bonser by the Alaska Aviation Museum. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Kelly McEvers in Culver City California and I'm Robert Siegel in Washington the man who killed 26 people at a Texas church on Sunday had escaped from a mental health facility 5 years ago it happened while he was in the Air Force at a base in New Mexico this 1st came to light today from a police report obtained by a Houston television station k p r c The report says that Devon Kelley suffered from mental disorders and was attempting to carry out death threats against his superiors and official told n.p.r. That Kelley had been confined by as Air Force commander prior to his trial on charges that he assaulted his wife and stepson Kelly cracked the toddler skull these revelations are now heightening the long running debate about mental health and access to guns President Trump weighed in earlier after Sunday's shooting blaming the Southerland Springs massacre on mental illness not guns Here's what he said in a news conference in Japan on Monday mental health is your problem here to say the very based on preliminary reports very deranged individual a lot of problems over a long period of time we have a lot of mental health problems in our country as do other countries so what is the trumpet ministrations record on mental health care N.P.R.'s health policy correspondent Allison Kojak has been looking into this and she joins us now hi Alison Hi Kelly So I want to 1st just fact check what the president just said and what other politicians have said to you that there is this direct link between gun violence and mental health what are the experts say about that well in fact most mental health professionals would dispute what the president said in that press conference I asked Bethany Lilly about that earlier today she's with the basil on Center for Mental Health Law There is no real connection between an individual with a mental health diagnosis and mass shootings that connection according to all experts doesn't exist now that's not to say that people who commit mass shootings never. For for mental health issues clearly that's not the case but research shows that people who are mentally ill who suffer from having like bipolar disorder anxiety are no more likely than the average population to become violent and in fact people with mental illnesses are 10 times more likely to be the victims of violent crime so what about the record this White House on mental health what did you find there was that an interesting question because one of the 1st things that President Trump did after he took office was to repeal an Obama administration rule that blocked gun sales to some people with mental health diagnoses and as far as mental health care goes the president record isn't very very strong if you measure it by where he puts federal money again I was talking with Bethany Lilly and here's what she said about it I think this administration is record on mental health has been. Abysmal she pointed above all to the president's support for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act the Affordable Care Act was the largest expansion of mental health services in the past 3040 years and that's because the Affordable Care Act for the 1st time requires insurance companies to cover mental health care and then beyond that it expanded that insurance coverage to millions of people who never had insurance before so a repeal of Obamacare could reduce access to mental health care what other policies are being considered that might affect those who need mental health services Well the biggest is tied to those Affordable Care Act repeal and that is proposed cuts to Medicaid that have been in all the health care bills that have been considered by Congress these go beyond rolling back just the Medicaid expansion to reducing future Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars today Medicaid pays for about 27 percent of mental health services so cutting that much money is likely to take money away from the mental health care for the poor That's N.P.R.'s Allison Kosik thank you so much thanks Kelly. Those who live around Sutherland Springs Texas may still be questioning why a gunman shot. At the Baptist church during Sunday worship but they're not at all confused about how citizens should respond many believe that the best way to stop the next massacre is to pack a pistol everywhere they go N.P.R.'s John Burnett reports from Wilson County which includes the rural Texas town there's a sort of cowboy ethic that exists in Wilson County Texas a historical marker in front of the stately 19th century courthouse describes the sheriff a century ago as always armed but gentlemanly and kind the current sheriff Joe Tackett Jr has worn the badge for 25 years in his white cowboy hat and white cowboy shirt he pauses in the courthouse hallway to ruminate on the private citizen who grabbed a rifle and confronted Devon Patrick Kelly as he left the church where he killed 26 people the citizen shot Kelly who fled and later killed himself I consider the man a hero I mean he ended that threw it right there at the church now that we know where the guy might have gone had heated up the church because he still had weapons there is no gun debate for many people who own weapons here in Wilson County if there was Sunday's massacre settled it only hours after the shooting a retired oil field hand named Ethan Campbell stood on the porch of his house a couple of blocks from the church in Sutherland Springs cradling his infant son and my opinion everybody should carry a gun because no matter what a criminal is going to carry a gun if you don't and if you get a gun on you can at least protect yourself or your family and many people in the surrounding communities believe Sunday's massacre validated the n.r.a. Position it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun to get a countervailing view I reached out to enjoy a look Turner who lives in San Antonio 30 miles northwest of here she works at a private school and volunteers for a group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and this makes me sad but this is where the conversation has planned that we're talking about whether we need for our my son to go to church and protect our fans when they're going to finish school when they come. There's a sense that we really should be having and how do we keep violent people from having a gun in the 1st place nearly 6 percent of Texans have permits to carry guns with them in public Texas is the state with the 3rd most permits in the nation after Florida and Pennsylvania the sheriff reports that lots of his citizens pack pistols people like Kaylynn Thompson a 23 year old waitress who works at Trail Riders steak house and florist Bill she says she and her mom both have 9 millimeter handgun when they worship at their church and she wonders whether things would have turned out differently if someone in the Sutherland Springs congregation had shot back I mean I wasn't there so I don't know the circumstances but to me if I'm going to die I would like to at least fight you know and I don't know why I didn't fight or why the gun like there's so many crazy people out there and so many incidents that you never know when something's going to happen thank honestly I carried everywhere I go Thompson says several friends and family have said now they plan to get right to carry permits Roman Bolton is one of those considering keeping a concealed handgun on him he's a clerk at a hardware store in Le Vernia just up the highway from Sutherland Springs Bolton says even before the recent shooting he has sat in his pew in his church on Sunday mornings and wondered what if someone comes in here now when he starts brand a place how long does it take a policeman to respond to something like that in 10 minutes is a long time a customer Steve Stephenson has brought his mower down to the shop to get work done he listens intently to the discussion I asked him if he thinks that more guns make for a safer society I don't know what about the old west was at a safe place everybody carried back then John Burnett n.p.r. News Wilson County. The company that makes stocks those devices that make semi automatic rifles fire even faster is putting them back on the market slide fire had pulled its products last month after the mass shooting in Las Vegas but as North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports the company now says stocks are back on the shelves when Stephen Paddick opened fire into a crowd in Las Vegas last month it sounded like this. That recording is from a cell phone and posted online panic was able to fire that fast using a device called a bump stock that causes a semi-automatic rifle to bounce rapidly against a trigger finger slide fire is based in Moran Texas and is the leading manufacturer of bump stocks in the hours after the mass shooting the company announced they were no longer for sale Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn who opposes most gun regulation questioned whether they should even be legal the unique aspect of the bomb stock and how you would literally transform a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic weapon is something that I think bears looking into corn and spoke last month and he's continued to push for a review of the devices this week Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said his Judiciary Committee will hold hearings and a spokeswoman for the a.t.f. Tells n.p.r. The Justice Department is taking a 2nd look at the sale of bump stocks and quote reviewing its regulatory authority despite the pressure and scrutiny Slide Fire says its resuming sale of the devices the announcement came a day after another mass shooting this time at a church in Texas Slide Fire founder Jeremiah Cottle hasn't responded to N.P.R.'s repeated requests for an interview but his website offers videos portraying bump stocks as legitimate gun accessories. From stocks currently are legal and Jordan Stein with Gun Owners of America defends the company's decision to resume sales they're a company and they should be free to operate their business as they once were. Are opposed to any type of legislation or regulation so if we can regulate stocks then it will open up doors to other major banks and for all as is often the case after mass shootings sales of bomb stocks could see a boost some gun dealers contacted by n.p.r. Say they weren't all that popular in the shooting community before the Las Vegas massacre but with new attention and fear of possible federal restrictions there could now be a much larger market for the devices. N.p.r. News. High attrition Martin I know you've got a lot of choices about how you use your time and there's a tradeoff right if you watch a t.v. Show then you didn't. If you helped a kid with homework you didn't do that I guess that is my life too I know your time is valuable which is why at n.p.r. We put all we've got news and telling stories. We want to thank so much for your station and. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Farmers in North Carolina. For years. Difficulty with you know when I'll. Reveal. His economy. What should that look like in the future. The commissioner of the Department of Natural. Resources future. Recorded rebroadcast can be heard. 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News I'm Kelly McEvers And I'm Robert Siegel when Donald Trump won the election a year ago and he promised to be a transformational president to drain the swamp shake up the establishment and do away with gridlock He also predicted that being president would change him with the example of the late great Abraham Lincoln I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office that idea. How has the presidency changed and how has Trump changed the presidency Here's N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson Donald Trump is like a Rorschach test he produces radically different reactions from different people but on the question of whether the presidency has changed Trump there is unanimous agreement to a surprising degree the presidency has not changed Donald Trump h.w. Brands is a presidential historian whose biographies include Andrew Jackson Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan previous candidates get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility they take on John from shows no evidence of that he's the same trump that he was when he was host of his reality t.v. Show he was the same trump that he was when he was a candidate and that's exactly what his supporters wanted a president who would channel their grievances against the elites just as he did in the campaign but if the presidency hasn't changed Trump brands believes Trump has changed the presidency the biggest transformation is the way Trump's America 1st Philosophy relates to the rest of the world the president of the United States from the 1940 s. Until 2017 was considered leader of the free world probably the most powerful person in the world not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral aut