November 5th actress Tilda Swinton is 59 today. And the news is next. But from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman one of president trumps longtime political allies is in court today N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reports the trial for Roger Stone is scheduled to get underway in Washington today stone was indicted as a result of the investigation led by then Special Counsel Robert Muller he's facing 7 counts including lying to Congress trying to obstruct a congressional inquiry and intimidating a witness the trial is expected to focus on Stone's role in the Trump campaign's efforts to obtain e-mails stolen by Russian hackers and published by the Wiki Leaks website to undercut Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton jury selection gets underway today opening arguments could begin as soon as Wednesday Winsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington 4 states are holding elections today including Kentucky Mississippi a New Jersey voters in Virginia are holding legislative elections for member station. Mallory no pain says Republicans and Democrats are vying for control of the state house in Virginia Republicans hold a slim majority in both chambers of the legislature but pointing to gains they made during the 2800 midterms Democrats say they have the momentum to take control this is one of the few competitive elections anywhere in the country this year a record amount of money has poured into Virginia as well as big name campaign surrogates including Vice President Mike Pence and former v.p. Turned presidential candidate Joe Biden observers say the off year elections are a test case for 2020 and whether Democratic or Republican voters will be more engaged for n.p.r. News I'm Molly no pain in Richmond Iran's president says Tehran will begin injecting nuclear gas in more than a 1000 centrifuges Iran is suspending more of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says President Trump. Withdrew the u.s. From the agreement last year and imposed sanctions on Iran in a televised address President Hassan Rouhani said as of Wednesday uranium gas would be injected into centrifuges Iran's enrichment of nuclear fuel has been closely watched with critics warning that terror and could seek weapons grade highly enriched uranium some 1044 centrifuges had been left empty under the nuclear agreement N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon officials of Mexico say gunmen from a drug cartel shot and killed a group of people today including 3 women and 6 children they were in a convoy in northern Mexico several children were found alive all of them are said to be Americans President Trump tweeted today that Mexico with u.s. Help should wage war on the cartels Mexico's president has refused the offer saying it's not an option on Wall Street the Dow Jones industrials are up 80 points at 27542 You're listening to n.p.r. News. House lawmakers continue the impeachment inquiry today they're seeking to hear from 2 witnesses one is Michael Duffy of the Office of Management and Budget but when b. Says he will not cooperate the other scheduled witness is Preston Wells Griffith an energy specialist with the White House National Security Council a survey from the American Psychological Association finds more adults in the u.s. Say they're dealing with higher levels of stress and P.R.'s Petty name and as more the majority of us adults 71 percent say Mass shootings are their biggest source of stress for Hispanic adults that concern rises to 84 percent of those surveyed as the 2020 presidential election nears more than half of adults report they're significantly worried an increase over the 2016 election and this year stress related to global warming and climate change increased substantially for people of color anxiety over health care emigration and discrimination is on the rise and like previous years worries about work and money continue to dominate personal concerns Paddy name and n.p.r. News the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to roll back some Obama era regulations on coal waste the change would give utilities more time to close down some unlined coal ash ponds these can leak heavy metals into groundwater the e.p.a. 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Doesn't service the team you can trust Good morning once again the time is 8 o 6 time for another look at the weather forecast and once again more the same another sunny day afternoon highs will reach the low to mid sixty's for the high deserts and the middle of Asians all sorts in the San Juans top out in the upper forty's clear skies overnight lows range across the twenty's and Southwest Colorado Well North was New Mexico will hit a low right around 32 degrees tomorrow may see a few clouds in the picture but highs should be very similar to today perhaps even a degree or 2 warmer the extended forecast is calling for no big changes across the region through the rest of the week the weekend and into next week and no precipitation on the forecast at least through the next 10 days. N.P.R.'s Morning Edition continues with support provided by bait breakfast treats made in house each morning and homemade soups and sandwiches freshly baked bread for lunch located on Wolverine drive and Bayfield and baked is open from 630 to 3 Tuesday through Saturday menu details or on their Facebook page baked bakery treats classic heat and custom meats. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm David Greene the trumpet ministration has notified the United Nations that the u.s. Is officially withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement that means one year from now the United States will become the only nation to pull out of the global pact to combat climate change Joining us now Andrew light he's a former climate official in the State Department who helped develop the Paris agreement thanks for coming on the program thank you David this was we should say not unexpected the president was planning to do this but what went through your mind when you heard the news yesterday well it was expected certainly and I think that you know what we see here is. I think typical unfortunately of this administration which is that there are abandoning the fight we saw this in Syria we're seeing it on Climate Change this is something that you know there's no doubt about the reality of climate change in the rest of the world the United States is the only place where there's still something and we have a leader who who doesn't even acknowledge that climate change is real and and other countries care about this when we turn our back on them and then they're going to turn their back on us and other countries are going to fill the gap for assistance in the in the in this area I just I want to focus on the message from the administration yesterday when Secretary of State Mike Pompei Oh you know was not talking about whether or not climate change exists he was praising the United States for lowering its greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last decade while also growing the u.s. Economy and I mean opponents of the Paris Agreement have have made this essential argument that it could hurt the u.s. Economy is that a risk for the United States if they stayed in this agreement no it's not in fact it's quite the opposite there was a very interesting study that was done a couple years ago by the International Finance Corporation which is part of the World Bank Group they looked at the top $21.00 commitments under the Paris agreement. For developing countries such as the $21.00 largest developing countries their conclusion was that this created a $23.00 trillion dollar investment opportunity between now and 2030 so when the United States turns its back on the Paris agreement and on International Cooperation what we're doing is we're hurting American businesses and we are not growing the job sectors that other countries are going to step in and take in take up I remember a study from the conservative Heritage Foundation you know when when the accord was was 1st developed I mean they were projecting aggregate g.d.p. Losses of $2.00 trillion dollars in the United States of the next 15 years a loss of income for American families you know have to buy energy and in different ways mean what what is wrong with those numbers and those projections Well that particular study was riddled with flaws it had a pretty crazy assumption that we were going the only way we could meet our commitments under the Paris agreement would be to basically Visser rate the u.s. Industrial sector and that's just not any that can be further from the truth the other thing though that would not taken into account by studies like that is the economic harm that will happen that we know will happen if climate change is left unchecked so about a year ago the United States released this White House actually released the 4th u.s. National Climate Assessment it came to the conclusion that left unchecked you were going to see economic impacts to the tune. Hundreds of billions of dollars per year by the end of the century if we do not do something on climate change and that needs to be taken into account as well when we're looking at the overall economic impact this administration has said there are other ways to fight climate change even outside of the Paris agreement I mean could States could the private sector the United States step in and do better in this fight well they are in stepping in and I think that's one of the great things that we've sort of seen We've got 25 governors now hundreds of Mayors thousands of business business leaders who've stepped forward and said that they want to try to fulfill the u.s. Obligations under the Paris agreement but at the end of the day it's not going to be enough we absolutely need a reengagement by the u.s. Federal government working with working with states. And cities and businesses to try to achieve our goals under the Paris Agreement and your light is a former climate official in the State Department he helped develop the Paris agreement thanks so much for time this morning thank you David Afghanistan grows a lot of opium more today than almost any other time since the u.s. Invaded the country 18 years ago Global markets are awash in its by product heroin but heroin is also tearing holes in Afghan society to N.P.R.'s Day a good deed brought us this from Kabul q. Shows of how well he sings he wants to do this professionally and I my legacy dog a sad Mali's army was a lawyer but 1st his mother says his goal is to break his heroin addiction and his 10 on his one of the handful of kids where referring to him by an initial because of his age and the only refer to the women in the rehab center by their 1st names because of the discrimination they'll face if they're identified. Q became addicted to his parents he began smoking his father's heroin in the summer and nobody noticed cures a sunken his cheeks a pinched you can feel his bones when you give him a hug he says shaking off heroin was hard Tommy John Adams after Nixon and I went through a lot of pain on every single bone in my body and it was hurting Q one has perhaps the new faces of addiction in Afghanistan they're at a government run rate help center in Kabul it's on a quiet street you can hear the hum of generate is and it seems to often summer spiral inside kids play on swings women chatting. One woman stopped singing. Down on. The head talk to hear if she's to high can she's worked in this field for 2 decades she says it was rare in the beginning to see if a male addict let alone a childish illicit was better. Day by day with the best night of those numbers are growing and the daughter flex that according to the un in 2009 Afghanistan had nearly 1000000 drug uses by 2015 the last time a major report was done that number had grown to 2 and a half 1000000 kiam the doctor says decades of war and poverty have ground women down making them and their kids more vulnerable to addiction there's also more supply there's more opium being grown in the nearly ever before and more of it is being converted locally into heroin Kim says she's seeing things now that was shocking just a few years ago I like women living in drug dens was some work as prostitutes while . They go there because people offer them drugs they take the drugs but do whatever is asked of that killing his mother lived in one of those dense but she says her husband supplied her drugs. Now at the rehab center she's learning how to cut half was in another room kids learn how to solve their making red. Hanson TOEFL toffs some of the kids were using drugs to some of them are company in their mothers but just being in makes them lucky free to says one of her sons pushed her into rehab it's a 2nd time here this year she says she was addicted through her husband she was only a kid herself when it happened she was 8 when she was married and she didn't know what heroin was when he got her to smoke it they had 5 children together and she says her husband married off their daughters to the highest bit is basically and he sold them for about $6000.00 as they were $11.12. Years the 3rd live and author of the city I'm a fool he sold them for money he used it for drugs now one of those girls is 14 and she has a baby her eldest son is in jail his an addict for desperately wants to break her addiction and salvage her family. I literally do every single 2nd in my heart my son is in prison because of my urine addiction my daughters were married off where young but heroin isn't the only drug flooding the Afghan market Sharifa has great dark eyes she's the child of straight beggars and she's a beggar herself she says her life is never easy but it felt like it was becoming harder and harder her husband was sick she was struggling to keep her daughters in school. Because of my poverty my situation I was weary upset so a neighbor gave her meth a few months ago she said it would take away her pain but tree for says it made her crazy she chopped her hair off it's short and messy she hurt herself and shows me the scars on her arms she couldn't sleep couldn't 8 a mother took away her kids they were their mother. My mother is taking care of them she begs with my children and I came here Sharifa wants to get better and maybe get a job here at the rehab center she says life on the outside isn't going to improve she'd still be. Begging and drugs offering release an escape would still be waiting for her. Dad to n.p.r. News Kabul. Let's go to Niagara Falls you know it's along the u.s. Canada border this landmark that welcomes some $8000000.00 visitors every year Niagara Falls is a mecca for honeymooners the world over it's Russia going waters provides a central hydroelectric power but resting atop that famous destination is a 2nd lesser known landmark I'm talking about a ruined ship known as the iron scowl Here's Nagra park c.e.o. David Adames there was work going on in the upper Niagara River back in August of 1918 to $2.00 gentlemen working on the irons Dow It became dislodged from a sister ship and started to drift down the river towards the falls but then while it was drifting it just got stuck the 2 men were rescued very dramatically but the iron scow sat there about a 3rd of a mile from Horseshoe Falls battered by the elements for more than 100 years it's a big part of Niagara Falls history and even if you look at Google Earth it ended on a fire the iron scowl Well this was the case until this past dark and stormy Halloween night high winds lashing rain knocked the boat from its long held perch somebody the barge actually sort of rolled and floated a bit more about 50 to 60 metres and in northwestern action and now it is stuck again ever closer to the edge of the falls but Honeymooners have no fear Nagra Falls is still open the boat tours are safe and well in fact May the minister wrapped up the boat tourist season on the weekend or more and I had crews will sail until the 1st weekend of December officials will continue to monitor the scow for any movement but they are not that worked up seeing as how it could be another 100 years. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning one of the 4 White House officials who didn't show up to testify yesterday was a man named John Eisenberg he's the top lawyer at the National Security Council and according to reports Eisenberg listen to the complaints of White House officials who thought President Trump's request to Ukraine for an investigation into the Bidens was inappropriate Eisenberg is believed to be the person who decided to put the ruffed transcript of that call into a highly restricted computer file N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson has the story John Eisenberg has a triple barreled title at the White House he's the top legal advisor to the National Security Council assistant to the president and the deputy counsel to the president for national security affairs former attorney general Michael Mukasey who's worked with Eisenberg says all those titles showed just how confident the White House was in Eisenberg's judgment my you don't get to be any of those almost people have a great deal of confidence in your judgment I don't know anybody who's ever been ill free Eisenberg also has impeccable traditional conservative credentials he has a Yale law degree he was a clerk to conservative judge Michael Luttig and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas he was also an associate deputy attorney genera