Strong showing by smaller and regional parties could force the prime minister to try and form a coalition with political allies and the 1st polls have just closed there in Newfoundland and Labrador That's reporter Emma Jacobs airplane builder Boeing continues to see its stock move lower made ongoing revelations over flight control systems on its 737 Max Jets tied to 2 fatal crashes last week it was revealed a pilot told a coworker he had struggled to handle the m caste system in a flight simulator may have unknowingly lied to regulators about it and Castle is partly to blame according to investigators for the deadly crashes of 2737 Max Jets one in Indonesia the other in Ethiopia that killed 346 people stocks gained ground on Wall Street today the Dow up 57 points 226027 The Nasdaq rose 73 points this is n.p.r. . The speaker of Britain's House of Commons today turned down a government bid for a new vote on the Bracks a divorce deal you know has been coming as a blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who's been trying to reach a deal before Britain is to believe the European Union at the end of this month Speaker John Berkhout today said the vote the government wants is in substance the same as one held over the weekend so violates Parliament's rules there is new evidence the cause of a rare childhood illness that can paralyze kids is a virus N.P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports scientists are now more certain a particular virus is behind the polio like condition which has struck 570 families since 2014 the condition is called acute flacid myelitis some kids recover others struggle to regain movement and have long term paralysis scientists at u.c. San Francisco have analyzed the spinal fluid of kids who've gotten it and report in a paper published today they find that many Harbor antibodies that target enter 0 viruses scientist at the c.d.c. Confirm that cases spiked during years when enterovirus d. 68 circulates which tends to be every other year this is an off year for the virus and few cases have been reported but there is concern of another spike next summer and fall Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News as a tornado tore through their neighborhood in Dallas overnight one family says they sheltered in a bath tub and sang as it moved through the neighborhood it caused major damage but left their home in largely intact Meanwhile the tornado tore off storefronts and ripped off rubes from nearby homes there were no reports of injuries or deaths I'm Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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Troops from northern Syria and a White House announced meant now retracted that next year's g. 7 summit would be at a trump resort some moderate Republicans met with Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney this weekend at Camp David that's one indication of how troubled some lawmakers are here's another Republican strategist Michael Steele who was an aide to former House Speaker John Boehner says his phone has been blowing up lately I asked him what concerns Republicans the most. The situation in Syria and the abandonment of the Kurds who had been such loyal allies and such a critical force and containing and what we thought at the time was defeating. That was the thing that really really bothered Republicans the most does it feel like now calculations among Republicans are changing somewhat when it comes to whether they will call out President Trump on something I think congressional Republicans have been calculating the limits of his tolerance for dissent since he rode down that escalator 34 years ago now is the the hour of maximum uncertainty means it's the hour of maximum danger for people's political prospects and I think the smart move right now is to make like America stay underground if you possibly can America is that the thing that looks like a ferret Yes exactly I see but why do you think this is the maximum point of danger as you put it is it because of just where we are in the election cycle is there something particular about this moment now I think that the Ukraine investigation and the fact that we are actually in an impeachment inquiry in the else even if the House Democrats haven't chosen to have a vote yet they are taking testimony the Intelligence Committee is conducting an inquiry I think that means that the administration faces a an existential threat in a way that they haven't in the past how would you counsel a moderate Republican right now the challenge here is that while independents are increasingly turning against the. As an and the base of the Republican Party continues to remain very strong for him and so I think the way Republicans in tough districts or tough states have to thread the needle is by saying yes the president did something wrong I don't think you're in a very good position trying to pretend that he didn't but it does not rise to the level of requiring his removal from office when we're less than a year from the American people the voters getting to make that decision was that you think moderate Republicans or maybe any Republican should just go ahead and embrace the idea that President Trump did in fact suggest a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian president I think that's the only way to deal with reality right now look I think that House Democrats have made a series of errors in this dentist a Geisha and I think that it is a very poor decision to continue holding these hearings behind closed doors the idea that they are moving towards impeachment soley on the basis of the situation in the Ukraine is utterly untrue this is obviously the result of a series of investigations a series of outrages that they feel the president has committed but I don't think anyone is in a good position insisting that the president did nothing wrong when it came to asking the Ukrainians to investigate either this conspiracy theory that the d.n.c. Server wound up in the Ukraine following the 2016 election or that they needed to reopen the investigation of Hunter Biden's involvement in the energy company in Ukraine I want to play you something that President Trump said today the Republicans have to get tougher to fight we have some of their great fighters but they have to get tough and fight because the Democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election what do you think of what the president said and I think it's entirely in keeping in character with President Trump he always wants to be on off and he never wants to concede error and I don't think that that's a very good strategy for any Republican candidate who does not have the the Teflon coating that President Trump as with with Republican voters in particular so do you think president trumps insistence that Republicans hang together and fight this impeachment inquiry do you think that that is a strategy that could hurt moderate Republicans who don't have teflon coating right now. You know I think you could definitely be a poor strategy because particularly if there are further revelations and it seems like another shoe drops every day or every other day in the situation that could be increasingly difficult to defend I don't think any House Republicans in a moderate district in a difficult to defend district or a senator in a state that could swing the other way wants to be Wiley Coyote and realize that there's no cliff under them anymore Michael Steele is a Republican strategist thank you very much for joining us today good to be with you there's been a lot of breaking news today on the opioid front 1st a major court settlement in Ohio and now talk of a tentative national deal valued at $48000000000.00 North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann is in Cleveland where these developments have been taking place and he's on the line with us now hi brian Hey there 1st there was the sudden settlement early this morning which resolves a lawsuit filed by 2 counties in Ohio that have been hit hard by the epidemic tell us what kind of help they're going to receive Yeah at the very last minute just before the trial was scheduled to start companies agreed to pay summit in Cuyahoga County is roughly $260000000.00 in cash and medications Eileen Shapiro is Summit County Executive and speaking outside the courthouse today she said you know these resources will save lives and also send a message to the drug industry we got people time we got people that are addicted we need to stop this and so that was the primary purpose and that's the way that it works with companies is that getting them to change behavior is through the pocketbook so there was a lot of hugging and back slapping there in Cleveland after this deal was announced there were there was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement and the deal means that a lot of documents and evidence about the epidemic will not be released to the public how are people responding to that yeah on this point there's a lot of frustration and anger I spoke out side the courthouse also with Greg McNeil he's an opioid activist who lost his son Sam to an overdose in 2015 it's kind of a hollow victory because you have no admission of wrongdoing you know and I feel like if we had some admission here then you get a little bit of closure for a lot of fan. Please out there that I will say that McNeill does agree that the money will help you you know with medical care and social programs for people who are addicted this was supposed to be a kind of test case this was a major trial that was going to hash out some of the big questions about who pays for the opioid crisis so what happens now that the trial was cancelled Yeah this was a bit of an anticlimax in that sense and there is uncertainty now even some of the attorneys who negotiated this settlement voiced regret that this didn't turn into the test trial they've been building toward For months I spoke with Mark Lanier who's one of the attorneys for the 2 counties we don't have a chance to test the legal theories that are being used here to see if they are properly used to see where their limits are and the ballots are so what that means is that there are unanswered questions for all the other communities out there who are still suing the drug industry and as we mentioned there is another big news story in the opioid front today the framework for a national settlement was just recently announced tell us what that looks like and whether it's likely to be enacted Yeah this is kind of a moving target disaster noon a bipartisan group of attorneys general and 5 major drug companies say they've reached a $48000000000.00 deal that resolves a lot of these opioid liability questions they say this is a plan that will end at least part of this big wave of litigation across the country here's Josh Pirro the attorney general in Pennsylvania if we can't bring people together and there is no settlement if you will have random haphazard aged and the needy people across this country it will not be met Johnson and Johnson in particular has agreed to pay out $4000000000.00 in cash into this framework but now these attorneys general are going to have to convince a lot more states and local governments to suspend their lawsuits and sign on we'll see if they can pull that off that's North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann speaking with us on Skype thank you thank you if you never heard the name Pierre delectably Well we don't blame you his Twitter account opened in July of 2011 and it's tweeted only a few times. Seems almost always to defend Republican senator Mitt Romney yesterday we learned why p.-r. Dialect is Sen Mitt Romney Romney secret Twitter account 1st came up on Sunday when the Atlantic magazine published a profile of the Utah senator by staff writer McKay Coppins he decided to get out and grab his i Pad from the desk and said You know I actually have a Twitter account that separate from my official account he said he wouldn't tell me the name of it but he gave me a bunch of details the revelation was an irresistible tidbit for Ashley Feinberg a writer for Slate who has a thing for unmasking secret accounts the confirmation that exists at all is sort of all we really need to see what's out there Feinberg started by combing through the accounts of Romney's family members pacifically their followers when she got to Romney's oldest granddaughter Feinberg noticed follower Pierre de Lector Oh an infrequent user with no picture no details but a lot of positive things to say about a certain senator from Utah he had 10 total tweets and almost every single one of them was either coming to the defense of Mitt Romney or asserting that actually Mitt Romney is very good p.r. Dellec tweeted to conservative figures like Erick Erickson with messages like wrong or don't read the comments ever he suggested that Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin take a breath after she called Mitt Romney spineless and the accounts Pierre followed were very Romney Mitt Romney's family Mitt Romney staffers even Mitt Romney fan accounts Slate published Feinberg's findings on Sunday night so McKay Coppins who wrote the article that started the whole thing reached out to Romney's communications director for comment she handed the phone over to Mitt Romney who had a 2 word response which is same one same watch it's me Senator Mitt Romney admits to having a secret Twitter account and that he sometimes uses it to defend himself here delicto here Dellec so. Did he was just using it to monitor political Can I say she's on Twitter secret identities have always had. In the political world from Deep Throat to Carlos Danger before he was president Donald Trump famously called tabloids as John barren to plant stories and Ashley Feinberg has a track record here in March of 2017 she uncovered the secret Twitter account of then f.b.i. Director James Comey she says she expects these stories to just keep coming a lot of politicians probably either count because it's very unlikely they're running their official ones and they're clearly saying this stuff somewhere so to any high profile tweeters out there with secret accounts enjoy the masquerade while you can. Consider it from n.p.r. News. Upper $1.28 festivals celebrated the 100th anniversary of the world from here if you'll recall she's most ambitious and I think you have the trip to the journey from tragedy. Was presented with Michael Shane's Ghost the sequel to the only comedy. Joining us for the 1st 2 parts of this journey and that's what I'm going. Saturday morning at 10. 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Are coming up a look at the match up in this year's World Series game one starts tomorrow with the Houston Astros hosting the Washington Nationals details on game and series in about 5 minutes here on g p r right now our weather forecast on the southern Oregon Cascades and Sisk used tonight mostly clear skies the low around 34 degrees in the mountains tomorrow mostly sunny the high 60 by Rica clear overnight the low 40 tomorrow Sunny the high 69 we did Mount Shasta clear and 40 tonight Sunny and 70 tomorrow reading in Red Bluff clear tonight the low 58 sunny and warm tomorrow the high 87 glam of basin tonight mostly clear the low around 35 tomorrow mostly sunny the high near 63 southern Oregon coast mostly cloudy tonight the low around 53 tomorrow a chance of rain and patchy fog otherwise mostly cloudy with a high near 62 northern California coast mostly cloudy tonight the low around 49 tomorrow partly sunny with a high near 57 Roseburg in the basin partly cloudy tonight the low around 50 tomorrow partly sunny but with a Chance of rain early the high near 64 and in the road Valley mostly clear skies tonight the lower around 44 to March to be mostly sunny with a high near 66 degrees rest of the week should be fairly warm and mild and clear I'm Jeffrey Riley This is Jefferson Public Radio from southern Oregon University. 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Conservative leader Andrew sure did put a stop to lock him up but overall this is been a campaign where the focus by the main party leaders has been on why the other guy isn't qualified for the job Here's Andrew Scheer over the last 4 years he has demonstrated time and time again that he is unworthy of that office and he is unworthy of the trust Canadians place in him to respect taxpayer dollars and safeguard our democracy against corruption his ongoing scandals and coverups have caused Canadians to lose face in the integrity of their government Trudeau scandals have included photos that emerged during the campaign of him wearing blackface as a young man and this summer he was found guilty of trying to pressure his attorney general to obstruct justice in a case involving a liberal party linked company it's all work to undo his reputation as a progressive leader pushing for change. Trudeau in return has showed his pledge against negative campaigning he has played on voter concerns about the Conservative Party's reluctance to tackle climate change and on their history a budget cutting Andrew Scheer would cut services for families and rip up Canada's only real climate plan taking back the money we've been putting in people's pockets by making big polluters pay even with the negative tactics neither party has been able to break away from the other they went into today's election. Deadlocked at 32 percent in the polls was the politician who appears to be benefiting most from this situation is Jag me saying the son of Sikh immigrants the young charismatic leader of the left leaning new Democratic Party has surged in the polls into a strong 3rd place showing his rallies have a youthful party like atmosphere very similar to what Justin Trudeau experienced 4 years ago I've heard from people who tell me their stories about not being able to find housing their stories about not having health care when they need it young people are worried about the environment and this campaign has really been about letting their voices be heard letting their struggles their worries or fears be heard but also to give them hope I should Gray is among those young people impressed by saying she cast her vote this morning in the Pontiac district of come back just outside of Ottawa I look at all like the people who are running as a lot of people as that one man of color as Ali has finally it's good to see that there's diversity