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It's. In part one of I guess the Christie's nemesis Miss Marple was played by June Whitfield Mr Rafi George a cooper Miss Temple Jill Bolte. 6 Cherry Jane wouldn't show this to broad rip Jeffrey Whitehead Esta and assume Yvonne edgel. This is really Porter boy. Richard Jamieson. Other parts were played by members of the cost. RINGBACK Them a sis's dramatized for radio by Michael Bakewell and directed by and it with. June Whitfield the brilliant as the sleuth with candyfloss head and a mind like a steel trap. I'm mumbling I'm and this is my rule book of crime here on Radio 4 extra Still to come Reitman Chandler p.d. James Henning Mankell and my own little surprise a radio crime jam featuring an actor that starred in the sixty's t.v. Classic Cathy Come Home need any more clues come on I'm making this easy for you. Is b.b.c. Radio 4 x. . Monk billing thems rule book of crime chapter 3. Tastes better. Personally speaking there's nothing wrong with top quality potting cryptic puzzles or a beautifully disguised red herring there's room for cyanide with crumpets and for costly goings on at the vicar Ridge but after falling for show look I always seems to be looking for something a little darker while I go through friends are busy defining but huge crime on the other side of the pond something very different was taking shape Dashiell Hammett cut his teeth in the 1920 s. On pulp magazines such as Black Mask against the bleak background of the Great Depression and prohibition his stories could not have been more different to the u.k. Cozies there were no Vickers there was no poison or inheritances they were hoodlums guns cops and above all there were characters like Sam Spade who appeared in the classic 930 novel The Maltese Falcon. He was said that Hammett gave murder back to the people who committed it for a reason those are the words of Raymond Chandler who picked up the ball from Hamilton ran wild with it Chandler gave hard boiled detective fiction its style in the shape of archetype will gumshoe Philip Marlowe appearing 1st in 139 as The Big Sleep Molly was a knight errant on a quest for the truth John Doe thought he knew the truth about crime writing to in his classic essay the simple art of murder he took Dorothy l. Sayers to task for daring to suggest that the detective story could never have genuine literary merit it is always a matter of who writes the stuff Chandler said and what he has in him to write it with there are no dull subjects only dull minds well said write. In 2011 on Radio 4 Harriet Gilbert inspired by a very personal connection set off down the mean streets to reassess this quintessential Los Angeles mystery writer a man actually raised in Upper Norwood and educated adult college in a coat a hat and a gun. It was about 11 o'clock in the morning the sun not shining in a lot of rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder blue suit with a dark blue shirt tie and display handkerchief. Clean shaven sober and I didn't care . I was ever the well dressed private detective. I was calling out for a $1000000.00. It was about 11 o'clock in the morning a weekend in the late 1950 s. I was wearing a lady t. Shirt shorts and roller skates. The phone rang. I reached for it. Mike there wasn't often my father was called Mike Lincoln's Inn solicitor as well as a respected crime novelist he was more usually known as Michael Gilbert but this client disturbing his weekend rest was obviously American Orsi as I later discovered Raymond Chandler did invent a quintessentially American hero the wisecracking battered Private Eye Philip Marlowe but he himself was actually British most of his life even though his novels a peppered with the u.s. Street slang he collected in his notebooks Chicago lightning gun fire circulation drops drinks squibbed off shot the novels in which Philip Marlowe walks the mean streets of Los Angeles including Farewell My Lovely The Big Sleep and the little sister have become crime classics around the world their influence still potent half a century off the Chandlers death Sarah do not creator of fictional private detective Hanna Wolf he is one of the few writers who actually made me want to write when I 1st read him was so severe resistible to a teenager who wanted to be a popular writer but wanted to say something serious and wanted to be seen as a stylist where else could you go chant creased bent knocked off also stolen kick the joint break in the bestselling American crime novelist Michael Connelly also became a writer because of Chandler I think people who write crime novels almost everyone but certainly people who write crime novels about was and was are all disciples of Raymond Chandler and trying to come up a very unique voice themselves zob or a cane and Spads Guy pin jab or hypodermic use or the charm Lyrian Private Eye novel has been immensely. Influentially current right the way through to even John Grisham people that John Sutherland emeritus professor of English at University College London it depends on a particular view of American life that ultimately you can only be saved by certain that are well intentioned individuals the institutions but save you the cops won't help you out the law won't help you and what will help is. Some of. Those creator was born in 1908 in Chicago to a Protestant Arash mother Florence and a less than satisfactory American father Morris Tom Williams is writing a biography of Chandler when Chandler and Florence lived in Chicago Morris was away a lot he was a railway engineer he said he was actually in the field plotting the position of the tracks and what comes up and so fronts and cooped up together and it was almost like a single parent family so they became very very very close but this closeted Chicago existence didn't last long as Joan Sutherland explains the point is underneath it all. Chanda was an Englishman one of the thing he was proudest of was that you know his family broke up when he was very young mother was Irish came back to Olland after the breakup a marriage with little ray then ended up in England and a kindly uncle sent him to a public school in dollars dollars college from then on he saw him self as incarnating the code of the English public school boy the kind of person who who won the Battle of Waterloo playing fields of Eton the the person in fact who had a very high sense of duty Mahler in fact is named after one of the houses one of the boarding houses in dollars college not after as people sometimes think the Conrad here and Heart of Darkness So even though in fact he took the detective story wrenched it away from the English tradition and plunked it right there in the middle of Southern California at the same time there's a core of Chandler which is as English as cottage pie. Well dull it's college in South East London it's this seriously imposing many wings building an orange brick surrounded by playing fields and a rather unlikely place for the young 12 year old Raymond Chandler to of arrived from his Chicago beginnings but anyway he did come little boy. No doubt rather overshadowed by the ha ha ha a door and high ceilings of this place. Through the doorway along a cloister up a couple of flights of stairs to the dollar college library and its archivist Calista Lucy who believes the school had a powerful effect on Raymond Chandler I think it was a tremendous influence the headmaster who was very strict disciplinarian he was also Christian and full of moral choose and he said that he'd rather see a prefect die than hear him swear and that's something that comes out in Chandler's writing that however bad the situation Philip Marlowe never swears So he obviously had no male role models at home but he had these very strong teacher influences we could hear a group photograph of the boys taken in another in 1904 and one of these kids actually is Raymond Chandler he has rather distant look I think in his eye as if he's thinking of something else and would rather not be here at all actually you say Chandra looks very distance and detached which I think he does he speak he also looks as though he might be quite miserable. Yes I'd agree with that. The writer and film critic David Thompson went to the same school albeit quite a few years later he has firm views about what Chandler would have made of it that feeling which I had Get Me Out Of Here. I don't mean to say I had a bad time at Dodge I had a terrific education but I knew that there were ways in which dollars that don't have a great deal to do with the real world and I wanted to get there it took me longer to get away the litter of him but I mean Shackleton went there is he could to the South Pole. He went to was he an older lady went to Dallas p.g. Wodehouse went to dodge he went to Los Angeles. And c.s. Forester roster went to Sears Horatio or so but he ended up in California as well they well before Chandler made it to California he went at his uncle's insistence to study languages in Europe Tom Williams again used to live in Paris this map of Chinese India grafs above his bed he wanted to be a comparative fairly ologist So he picked up his language skills comes back to London under pressure from his uncle and the advice from a dollars form teacher he goes into the civil service sits the exam comes 3rd and comes top in the of the entire intake goes into the civil service as an accountant in the Admiralty and was responsible I think he described as toting the numbers of potatoes and bullet last 6 months. It stormed out to the disapproval of his uncle and his mother and John had always had this sort of great love of poetry of the classics of writing he decided that he would have a go living by his pen and met Stephen Spender's uncle. He was at the time editor of the Westminster Gazette which is a sort of weekly newspaper the kind of green paper very political and he gave him one of his 1st breaks and he would sit in the library and would translate foreign news and they would go into this this newspaper he would also write poetry he looked at what was selling. What was in these papers already and then you know wrote it very very badly his 1st poem was composed in the bath in Stratham when the evening sun is slanting when the crickets raise their chanting and the dewdrops lie a twinkling on the grass as I climb the pathway slowly with a mean have proud head lonely or the ground your feet have trod I gently pass Unsurprisingly perhaps Raymond Chandler slipped Rieker it did not take off and in 1912 despite by now having become a British citizen he returned to North America eventually settling with his mother in Los Angeles he'd been hoping to resume writing but instead found himself picking fruit stringing tennis rackets and during World War one fighting in France by night $32.00 though in an apparently but well during change of track Chandler had become vice president of an Oil Syndicate Tom Williams he's met sissy Pascal who falls head over heels in love with after a courtship was interrupted by the war and then a courtship that also has to deal with the fact she's already married they get together but Florence his mother by this time who is living in Los Angeles with a rare disapprove massively so right has to look after 2 households so he joins you wouldn't history and very quickly become successful now in the twenty's in he he did have some issues that we might call shellshock And so he was drinking quite heavily throughout that period by 32 he's lost his job probably because of the drinking but. It was the moment where he could focus again on what it was he really loved and that was writing you know he always did love it and he sits down and. Starts From the very beginning what's interesting about Raymond Chandler is that at the age of almost 40 for a. He should have made a huge change in life and decided to become a writer at a particular point of his of his career it must be said John Sutherland again he looked for vacancies a very shrewdly he saw that there was in fact an opening for writers oddly enough in hard boiled detective fiction not this was a show on which was really invented by somebody else by Hemingway with a short story in 1928 called the killers and the whole thing is done and I like Connick wiseguy really hard boiled is the phrase but it is normally used way which in fact is very oblique very artful Hemingway didn't carry on with that he had other fish to fry but charmless all that this could be developed into something very very interesting and he made the decision that he was going to need trained himself he effectively apprenticed themselves into creative writing courses read and then finally got his own tray into a magazine which specialized in this kind of writing it launched the career of Dashiell Hammett and Jane Tim Kane black mask and he became a virtue of this open field as it were at them was to what extent did he learn how it was done and reproduced it and to what extent did he take it somewhere new this whole mask kind of Private Eye writing he realized that there was something wrong as he saw it with American literary writing for a particular novel namely And he used this does turn very very interesting he said it lacked Kadal it's what he meant by that was that you could read the stuff but you couldn't hear it in your inner ear or in all the Philip Marlowe novels what you have is someone talking reminiscing looking back common. He's a bit of a Flannery hangs around streets very often you know things happen to him rather than him making things happen but But what one takes away from those novels particularly the best of them for the big sleep I would say in tone Good boy is the sound of a voice it's very interesting that he adopted very well to film but he had tapped it even better to radio queen b. Show off fluff baby doll sutler Clark punched the time clock voice was certainly more important to him than story he didn't pay attention to one particular constituent in the Take did novel The crime novel The Private Eye novel and that is plot a very famous example of when The Big Sleep was being. Film the director Hawks actually sending a telegram to want to know about a particular someone dies in law what a chauffeur and it's not clear why or why he's been killed you know Sir Charles that he read didn't know and trying to summaries a child love is very very difficult to eat didn't much care about that because in fact his interest was somewhere else among those interests was the detective form itself a subject on which he wrote with passion one much quoted essay called The Simple Art of Murder contains his image of the ideal private eye he wrote down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean John Lewis also very much concerned with the language and wit of his fiction one of the things which makes the Chandler flavor so unique is the fact is sir musing that in fact it is full of wisecracks very funny words current very often. A description of Mahler coming run from he's been beaten up his heroes or hit on the head and he says now do something really really tough put your trousers on if you reach you constantly your smiles cross your face even though he describing things which are often rather rather violent brutal and you know to use his word mean the doors swung back outwards and almost settled to a stop before they had entirely stopped moving they opened again violently outwards something sailed across the sidewalk and landed in the gutter between 2 parked cars it landed on its hands and knees and made a high keening noise like a cornered rat the unforgettable new smoke lawyer from Farewell My Lovely Chandler wasn't only a deft and elegant stylist he also became enormously successful writing scripts for Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder seeing his own novels turned into films. Being admired by literary authors such as w.h. Auden uneven war and perhaps not least making money and money didn't matter to Chandler one letter he wrote My father says I wish he would send me a bill because I read a bloodcurdling article about lawyers fees lately you realize of course that it's only curiosity that makes me want to see the bell I haven't the remotest intention of paying it joking yes but not only joking. If Chandler's dry wit is one reason his work so popular there is another no less important and that is his hero Philip Marlowe here being played by Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks is screen version of the Pixley. Beginning to think that she worked in bed like myself. You know how much of a front much more. We can start out again actually I also asked. Well as a bit of a trick he pretends to be tough and hard boiled and cynical and he has great dialogue but he's a softy film writer David Thompson again he's a remand tic He's noble he does it for its own sake and therefore he's a tough guy. Who's orrible. A great American myth. And you know I think that Mahler was crucial in the coming out of Humphrey Bogart for instance and you know bugger out in the 30s was quite a star and he played nasty guys and he snarled and he wind and he cringed and he beat people up and Bogart only became a star. When a series of films multi-focal. High Sierra Casablanca in The Big Sleep allowed him to become this tough nobleman a different kind of person altogether and I think that was charmed his dream I think that's how he saw himself completely and accurately but it's very appealing to readers to it's a little bit like James Bond if you like who acts very cold very cynical but actually if you go through the books behaves like a gent. Well Mahler's like that I think that's why actors have always liked playing games omens create a reinflating in fact admired jaundice work a lot and in 158 the 2 men drink conversation on the b.b.c. a Somewhat tipsy Chandler coming up with this interesting revelation I got myself i met bob Spock while. I was by a fellow has to get married. Here mom I'm going to get married but there's going to be an awful struggle so she's not going to like him sticking to his rather seedy profession Murphy considered how he is not tall going to like the way he wants to live in an expensive house in Palm Springs a lot of freeloaders coming in all the time. So it's going to be a struggle my handle and a voice I don't know. Oh golly indeed Malo getting married I don't think so he isn't that sort of character the another g. Which is often made is with the nightly heroes Courtney here is of an epic like Tennyson as it was of the king Lancelot. Galahad author himself Knights of the Round Table people thought to knight errant who wonder through the world doing good saving people a crusader. Are down the streets a man must be marched one must not go down the main street I don't get on Main Street Cowboy the reporter now you must go for the same reason that you're in search of the Grail sort of a mission. I think you have to start questioning when a realistic portrayal of somebody turns into in this office Sarah do none to again and I think what was so interesting about Philip Marlowe is that he was one level certainly enough to convince most of us a realistic figure but also he was a mythic figure in so far as we've already described how his moral code stands outside anybody else that allows him almost to be the litmus paper by which you can tell what is corrupt and what isn't but he stays outside other people's moral codes by staying outside normal life and there is an image of Marlowe at his most profound which is at the end of a dirty day with everybody else's soiled linen he'll go back to his office and they'll take the bottle of Scotch out of the bottom of the filing cabinet poor himself a drink and put his feet on the table and he'll watch the lights of Los Angeles come up in front of him while drinking alone now that makes him the perfect commentator and the perfect person to solve the crime whether or not it makes him emotionally healthy is another thing if Marlowe always has that edge of ambiguity so to Inchon this fiction does the city has light sea watches Los Angeles for Chandler is very much a place of some on Shadow luxury and poverty David fine author of imagining Los Angeles the way he portrays a city is interesting because. A landscape is a symbolic kind of symbolic geography were and this is what really in fact did happen where the wealthy were the criminal class usually has his criminal seem to be people who have gotten away with crimes in the past bury those crimes and then move up into the hills and barricade themselves in these giant mansions or fortresses away from the crimes that committed the victims those who were preyed upon live in the flat lands the whole thought or of the say Michael Connelly whose crime novels are also set in Los Angeles loves Chandler's evocation of the city is wonderful some of the descriptions are worse and worse are appropriate now 50 years 60 years after they were written in that to me from some being someone who writes about the city is pure art that some of these takes I think of the little sister There's a chapter and there were he just goes for a drive his head is full of the case he's frustrated and so he kind of takes a chapter out of the plot and takes a ride around the city and describes what he sees and most of that chapter and it's 56 pages could describe the city today I read that over and over again through my writing career for inspiration and there's no other writer that does that for me. I drilled past the gaudy neons and the false fronts behind them the sleazy hamburger joints that look like palaces under the colors the circular drives his gaze circus's with the chipper hard eyed the brilliant counters and the sweaty greasy kitchens that would have poisoned the toad great double trucks rumble down over supposed from Wilmington and San Pedro and crossed towards the ridge route starting up in from the traffic lights with a ground of lions in the zoo. From the little sister published in 1949. That's John le grew more and more successful he became physically more distant from Los Angeles David Thompson again 1st of all he did not really live in Los Angeles he lived in La Jolla which is a very attractive outlying area of San Diego on the coast a rich person's place to live his life was not outgoing not social not a Hollywood party man I think he was very close to his wife in the sense that they kept company even if he was not deeply intimate with her but Cissy was 18 years older than her husband and in 1954 she died Chandler was bereft at one point he even tried to claim self Tom Williams he went into the shower with a gun and. Pointed it at him self and it missed and the bullet ricocheted around the shower and it was a cry for help his life was so tied into Sissy's when she wasn't there and he just didn't know what to do what did he do he'd always had this hankering to go back to London he talks about it as early as 130 I think 3334 he goes back in the 55 and finds himself in this circle of literary London but really liked him in a way that his American audience didn't seem to and he connected with the spenders Well Natasha more than Stephen it was a complicated relationship and it was almost as a popular of triangle possibly because he thought since when do we still get and that you know he didn't respect Natasha tall and the railways from self is the knight in shining on to want to go and rescue Natasha from this. Marriage that he didn't think was very good so while he was in London besides showering the Tasha spender with unwanted roses What was he doing getting drunk he had a male nurse looking after him because he needed somebody to control his drinking the spenders Matusz many organizers the whole coterie of women to look after him and they would go on pseudo dates that Ray thought were dates but the women in question didn't talk of course they had no real romantic interest in him they just wanted to look after him it was a really sad in undignified and it wasn't quite the end though having finally become an American citizen again Raymond Chandler staggered back to the states and it was there in La Jolla California that in March 959 he died his funeral attended by 17 people one of them a representative of the American Mystery Writers Association Saad undignified and lonely Chandler left behind him a landscape hero and above all a voice that aren't about to sleep the big sleep anytime soon. Oh what did it matter where you lay once you were dead in a dirty sample in a marble tower on top of a high hill you were dead you were sleeping the big sleep you were not bothered by things like that oil and water with the same as when the near to you you just slept the big sleep not caring about the nastiness of how you died away you fell maybe I was part of the nastiness now. A coat a hat and a gun was presented by Harriet Gilbert and the readings were done by jungle Russia the producer was Rebecca Stratford I'm Mark Bingham and this is my rule book of crime here on Radio 4 extra Still to come p.d. James Hanning man Kellerman nature of good and evil and finally a little radio crime surprise starring an actor the join the cast of Eastenders as Joe Mason in 2005 come on even the dimmest of detectives would have solved this one by now. Billing him as rulebook of crime chapter 4 it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. And sadly fascinated I think by death and I was fascinated by death from childhood I think that the detective story is really about. The story. Another great day Baroness p.d. James up until this point detection had been down to the brilliant amateur sleuth all the private eye but what about the offices of the law in other words why is there never a policeman around when you want one well in the 1960 s. And seventy's a new generation of crime Queens took the conventions of the Golden Age and twisted them to their own ends p.d. James inspect the dog leash and Ruth Rendall's inspector Wexford were from a very different background to the detectives that had gone before alongside calling Texas opera loving Inspector Morse these were middle class men cultured rather than privileged spectrum dog leashes a published poet for heaven's sake he was a cerebral copper not overly fond of getting is not bruised but still a 1000000 miles away from the top patted toffs and little old ladies of half a century before now readers were given a glimpse into the in a workings of the boys in blue in what became known as police procedurals and I'm talking about something a bit more. Complex and proceeding in a westerly direction the depth of character and invention that p.d. James brought to her crime novels is clear to see no more so than here in part 2 of cover her face 1st heard on Radio 4 in 1993 inspect a dog leash has been called to investigate the murder of Sally jump a beautiful young housemaid at the country pile of Mrs Maxse paying homage to Agatha Christie dog leash brought to life here by Robin Ellis said about a drawing room interrogation of all the suspects in this episode also starring Hugh Grant it's left to Mrs Maxse to recall recent events the window was open and the pillow on the bed was blood with rain over the pillow Sally's hair was spread like a web of gold from the clenched corner of her mouth a thin trickle of blood had dried like a black slash on each side of her neck was a bruise an indelible sign of where the knife had been choked out of her. Cover her face by p.d. James dramatize by novel time with Sean Phillips Hugh Grant. And with Robin arose as Adam don't lose. His billfold Oh well thank you for filming. My police but I'm being too much menus and no they're being most considerate. As I'm taking it I'm afraid he's in new condition to be involved at all a blessing really is in his waking coma most of the time. There's no point in having the grass was a friend. I'm going to ask God to take over the investigation probably send a detective chief inspector what to say thank you very much Bill I really and most grateful. Just out of belief a long time no see I was wondering who would pick the short straw maning have you been know well enough pretty stretch that we 3 fools going inquiries on the gold ones now does this oh that's probably why the old man decided to call you in there to help out and this is Detective Sergeant Martin I'm presuming you say press. Is a nice looking place this Elisabeth's that said they tell me it's been in the family for hundreds of years oh by the way Doug lease they're all together in the drawing room do you want to see them now know the body 1st and the living will keep . Them in on the details. And I've done all I can here we'll take it away No that's alright with you yes yes doctor certainly simple enough medically speaking manual strangulation by right handed person standing in front of the sexual interference no doesn't mean sex wasn't the motive though nothing like finding a dead body on the ends remove the quite so really more off the post-mortem. Going at the stretch of the muddy nasty business for a Sunday morning that door was bolted on the inside you now most of the classic unlocked door Motors this time searching. Entrance to probably was by the window I mean you can see the marks on the stock part of the wall and it looks as if he failed the last 5. Difficult climb for any one reason. And so on the job she was last seen alive at half past 10 last night carrying a late night drink up to bed up she didn't finish it. Could it be only funny you should ask in fact some dope has gone missing the older Mr Max is an invalid bottle of sleeping pills as wondered from his medicine cabinet of course will analyze what's left in this cup and any way the post-mortem will show if she drank any and if it was drug. How about the attack any obvious motive could be there are no details but I've heard gossip are gossip Missler Dale showed up earlier on to take the baby away she was here at dinner last night quite a meal by her account apparently the son and heir Steven Maxie just proposed to this sally job and she blurted it out to everyone you can imagine the reaction the maid and an unmarried mother with a 6 month baby to build a motive for the family as a bonus or be rather interesting to see how the family choose to present last night's events. I have a feeling the person we're after slept under this roof we sat in the drawing room waiting Stephen and Katherine Bowers not too far from me Deborah close to Felix Han Mathare on an upright chair against the wall sat ramrod stiff and apart from the rest of us she seemed to regard the whole thing as a past 9 sobbed I couldn't help thinking about the effect of all this on my 2 men for Simon and Stephen in the midst of the nightmare there was some pamphlet in the thought that Stephen would get over it the young always do and that Simon thank God would never now. So are they giving you waiting as I told you the chief constable has asked Scotland Yard to handle the investigation This is Detective Chief Inspector Dalgleish he is in charge of the case as from now but 1st thought is that him directly stepped into the room was where. I had to before and then I knew an engraving bacteria unique portrait of an ad man can police do you have to how do you do how do you do. Talk dark and handsome but what I expected to talk quite an interesting faith really poor Steve shouted supercilious looking devil take his time coming I suppose the idea is to soften a stop or else he's been snooping around the house. This is the end of privacy and heaven fathers be on the Internet. That'll bring back the past. Well they're gleeful discovered because stopper left me with 3 fingernails and a dissing to nation to answer even nice English Bob his questions I understand of the small room next door has been put at my disposal I'd like to see you in there separately please and in this order Dr Stephen Maxi Miss Katherine bio's Mrs Maxse Mrs Deborah Riscoe Mr Felix Hearn and Mrs Martha bulleted Taft. Until the interview is over I must ask everyone to stay in this room if you need to leave there's a woman police officer and a constable outside in the hall who can go with you could you lead the way please Dr Maxine Yes it's through here. Does anyone get the feeling we're all going to be beaten by the headmaster I'd better start by telling you that Mr up and I were engaged I proposed yesterday evening and there's no secret about it yes I've been told please accept my condolences and then feel of any right to condolences but even feel bereaved. I suppose I shall when the shocks worn off we were engaged yesterday. And sunk in and what were your relations with Mr job before yesterday evening after Maxine if you're asking whether we were lovers the answer is No I was sorry for her. And I was attracted by her. I've no idea of what she told me she accepted your offer of marriage not in so many words but she told my mother and everyone that I proposed so I assume she meant to after you had finished dinner on Saturday night what happened. We had coffee in the drawing room at about 9 my mother suggested they start counting the takings from the fate I decided to go out I asked my mother to leave the south door open for me and I went to see Sam Bowcock he used to be my grandfather's groom he lives alone in the cottage at the far end of the matter. Where we talk and listen to music. I stayed quite late last night I can't remember he may be able to help just after 11 I think. I walked back came into the house through the south door bolted it and went to bed and saw you came straight back here yes means you'll be back in the house. It's only 5 minutes walk but I didn't hurry. I suppose I was in bed by 11 30 in the morning when you were woken up want to do it with Felix her and to get the ladder carried up between us though it's quite light and went up 1st I followed the window was open but the curtains were drawn. As a wide window ledge apparently Sally kept a collection of small glass animals there I noticed they've been scattered and most were broken. And went over to the door and pulled back a lot. I stood looking at Sally. I saw at once she was that take a look at the stock in Access What is it 3 splinters of glass they were found in the outhouse opposite Mr Jobs room where the lab is kept you know what they are could be part of a broken watch glass I suppose or part of one of the smashed glass animals from the straps room perhaps I see you have a small piece of plaster across here right now called what's wrong just a graze last night or I must have brushed it against the back of a tree don't remember doing it I thought I put a bit of plaster on before I went to bed. And he. Looks like a cup to me or it could of course be a scratch from a finger now in which case you'd expect to find blood in the skin under the nail which did the scratching I'm sorry I just can't remember how it happened. That all know I want to be perfectly clear about this law yes it leads directly to the flight of stairs which go up to Mr x. Room that's right so she was almost in a self-contained flat once the kitchen was closed for the night she could let someone in without anyone know I suppose as the sands door was left on bolted for you last night anyone could have gained access to the house through that door while you were out well. Yes Would you be prepared to swear that it was unbolted when you got back from Mr Bouck Ochs cottage of course I couldn't have got in otherwise gotta makes you do realize how important it is to establish the exact time you both had that door yes yes of course now you've just told me you came back to the house just after 11 bolted the door and went to bed and I'll ask you again and please think very carefully before you reply. What time did you both to the south door. Well. Actually it was 33 minutes past 12 by my watch I was in bed by about half past 11 as I said but I couldn't get to sleep 1230 I suddenly remembered that I hadn't locked up so I got out of bed and it's. Very careless of me but if there's a law against forgetting to lock up I should like to hear of it 1233. Yes I can quite see how it happened no one is kind of than Stephen Max The girl just took advantage of him I knew he couldn't have loved her really he'd have told me before anyone if they'd really loved each other he could have relied on me to understand and release him you mean you were engaged. Not exactly an engagement inspector no ring or anything like that but an understanding it was taken for granted Stephen has a long way to go before he can think of marriage and that his father's illness to consider Jimmy about the early hours of this morning as far as I understand you were with Mrs Maxse That's right I couldn't sleep and I had a headache I went to the dressing room where Mrs Maxse was spending the night and I asked for some aspirin did she give you some she told me to find it for myself in Mr Maxie's medicine cupboard it was while I was looking for it that I saw the bottle of sleeping tablets the May is the brand name it was written on the label you're quite sure it was my I'm a state's registered nurse inspector I know a bottle of some a when I see it so it was in the cupboard out at 7 o'clock this morning and when Stephen and I went to look for it about 2 hours later after we'd found Sally's body the bottle had vanished Tell me about finding the body when mother came to tell Mrs Maxse that Sally hadn't got up we thought at 1st she devil slept then Martha came back to say that her door was locked as you know Dr Max and Mr Hearn got in through the window we waited on the land. Feeling. What's happened here. To have an it company. What's safe here is she's been strangled Oh. We've looked at a long enough for her face. And it's best if we don't touch anything call the police get here. You know the something strange about all the strange That's not a way to describe what you mean there's no sign of struggle in my experience people don't usually allow themselves to be strangled to death without putting up something to fight Felix what can all of that matter she's dead isn't she she's dead Mrs Maxa. I wonder you think this coke I suppose it is you think it's drugged I don't know I think it's possible but. That's my cup. It's the one I always use everyone knows it what's it doing up here. Oh my God. I think I'm going to be sick all right and even me. Move on to why new Mrs Maxi and her son found that the sleeping tablets were missing Well I'd picked Jimmy up from his cot he stopped crying and I followed the other 2 into Mr Max's dressing room Stephen went straight to the medicine cabinet he said it's gone I asked what he meant and he told me about the 10 tablets that Sally had found in Mr Max's bed and that Mrs risk put back into the cupboard. Was the 1st I'd heard of it I was able to tell him that the bottle had been there when I went to the cabin aspirin earlier on I see that there isn't much more to tell so I took Jimmy away to change his nappy Stephen was just starting to phone the police no one seemed much concerned with the baby so I took matters into my own hands and . She agreed to take until things are sorted out came around by taxi and by then the police had arrived the rest you know that's very clear and very useful thank you now just a few more questions. Yes yes the earlier part of the night tell me what happened from about 10 o'clock onwards let me see well I helped Mrs Maxse and the others count the days takings from the fate misled Ellen Dr Epps left at about 1030 Mrs Maxse and I went to the kitchen Martha had gone to bed but she'd have to source been a milk on the stove and a trap cups on the kitchen table did you notice that Mrs riscos was missing as a matter of fact I did it's Wedgwood very distinct. She'd gone up to the garden with Felix hearn a little earlier and I thought she must have come in without anyone noticing. It never occurred to me that Sally might have taken her cup though of course it's just the sort of thing she would do she hated Deborah miss is risky. You've heard about the affair of the copy dress Debra pretended to take it calmly but I could see that really she could have killed Sally. I didn't know what cards are. Then well we made our drinks and took them up to the dressing room which was where Mrs Maxse said she'd sleep that night I helped her make up Mr Max's bed and get him comfortable then I went to bed. And what time is this. A quarter past 11. You may find this part rather strange something happened of that scene before dinner it had been a great shock I just couldn't believe Stephen and that girl wearing gauged dinette self was a nightmare everyone behaving as if nothing had happened of course the Maxis never do show their feelings no one said anything to me so in a way I was the one most affected so what did you do well I couldn't sleep and I couldn't bear to lie there all night without knowing the truth the natural thing seemed to ask Sally put on my bedside lamp and looked at my watch and the time was the minutes to midnight. Didn't seem too late to have things out not in the mood I was in so I went to Sally's room. Her door was locked but I could see the light through the keyhole and knocked and called her you must have heard me because the bolt was suddenly shot her she stood in front of the keyhole cutting off the light I knocked again it was obvious she wasn't going to let me in so I went back to my room. Drove back not quite I thought I'd see Stephen I just had to know the true light wasn't on in his room so I knocked him when he felt that if only I could see him everything would be all right wasn't he wasn't there inspect. The bed was turned down for the night but he wasn't there. I'm surprised you bothered to ask inspector deadly She must know that I would disapprove strongly even though Sally jobs affection for your son could have been genuine and paying have a compliment of assuming it was but what difference does that make I'd still have disapproved they had nothing in common he did have to support another man's child he would have hindered his career and they did this like each other within a year after course I disapprove I'm sorry to discuss what must seem no one's business but your own but you must see it's important naturally it provides a motive to several people myself particularly but one does not kill to avoid social inconvenience I admit I intended to do all I could to stop the marrying I've no doubt we should have been able to help Sally short of welcoming her into the family and must be some limit to what one does for these people. This business of the cocoa if as I assume it turns out the missed shot was drugged there are 2 possibilities she could have taken it herself or someone else drugged her well so in the household drinks cocoa I don't know what Martha drinks but none of the family uses it the milk must have been all right here in this buzz used to make your own drinks the other drugs are the crumbled into the dry cocoa or dissolved into the hot drink sometime after Mr Sharp made it not by anyone other than Ms Jap inspector we saw Sadie carrying it up to have a Woman Who do you mean by we dock to eps Mr Dale and myself I was seeing them out it was about 25 past 10 we were in the hole said he came from the kitchen end of the house and went up the main staircase carrying the blue Wedgwood Cup No one said anything was it usual for her to use that staircase and know who the bad staff they directed to her room I think she was trying to make some kind of gesture you say you saw that Miss jump was carrying your daughter's cup that you meant. Listen to your guests or to mistrust what did you pick to be considered to Inspector tear it from her grasp what an exciting road yours must be sometimes it is Mrs Maxi For example we found the empty cocoanut in the dustbin a little while ago we'd have been able to tell of the drug of the input into the dry cocoa if someone hadn't rinsed out the empty tin and destroyed in a paper lining. About $930.00 Mrs Riscoe and I came in here where Mrs Maxse and the others were counting the money taken at the fete we told them we were going out for a little wander in the garden what did you talk about. Mrs Riscoe already told you I'd like to hear your account. I asked Mrs Riscoe to marry and did she accept you to be interested in Spector but inexplicable as it must seem she was not enthusiastic God Felix I can't. I can't not after Edward. You don't know what I went through watching him die nothing him so much. Feeling so helpless that was a tragedy and a chance in a 1000 years don't die in the long run that people get married just the same they gamble on life being kind to them on some years of happiness together I'm not prepared for that. Not yet Felix I'm not ready. Nor is Stephen come to that. It's been enough talk of marriage in this family. Was how I hate to go how long were you in the garden till about 1040 then we came in and then Mrs Riscoe offered me a whisky which I refused she went to the kitchen to get her nighttime drink but came back in a minute or 2 saying she'd changed her mind then I went to bed and slept reasonably well for me do you kill Sally job Mr. That I'm aware of at any rate have you any idea who did know and I doubt if I'd tell you if I had I presume some one came through the girl's window. That built a door must be a great disappointment to inspect but hard to visualize a member of the family pounding up and down a ladder to get in and out of their own house I know the Mexican gauge must excite sure but you don't need to get out of unwelcome engagements all the mortality rate among women would be astronomical don't you think after the discovery of Mr Chops body what would you do I went to see if Mrs Bell to Taft was all right she seemed stunned and kept repeating that Sally must have done herself in I pointed out that it was anatomically impossible to strangle yourself at which point she burst into even louder saw then Miss Bowers arrived with the child. But we're one thing Mr and Mrs riscos has you spent almost the whole night in her bedroom but you slept together how sweet of her but it puts me in a delicate situation doesn't it you'll have to make up your mind which of us is lying thank you I've already done so. Employing an unmarried mother but it had never have been thought of in the old days so it was an experiment what sort of a girl was Mr Were you satisfied with satisfied you know Earth 1st anyway what made you change your mind she began to get j. K. She started acting as if she was the mystery says she was beginning to think that she might be mistress here one day when she was very mellow and that Dr Max he did proposed to her on Saturday and I know nothing about that dad Dr Max He couldn't a married Sally judge though you can't now someone made certain of the. Those tablets found in Mr Max's jail didn't find any tablets she got them at the bottle jack this allegation to get attention Well I do all the heavy nursing if there was anything hidden in bad believe me I divined it one other thing Mrs Walter turfed there was an empty Coke 010 found in the dustbin That's right. I found on the kitchen table this wound and I took out the in a paper and put it in the stove and then I rinsed out the 10 Why do that Madden doesn't like dirty chains in the dustbin they were inside all the used tens of Martindale always have done we won't keep you long mislead No Sergeant Martin and I hear of course about the death of salad jump not dreadful business dreadful she stayed here for the last 5 months of her pregnancy you know and came back to us when she'd have the baby you must have got to know very well and said that if you like or like her. What can I say. If you don't ask me last week I'd have said she was an excellent worker and a most deserving girl but now I can't help wondering if I was wrong about her you mean because of the scene with Dr Maxie was never more shocked in my life and specter of course she had no right to accept him she looked positively triumphant when she stood in that window and told us. I should always blame myself I recommended Sally to Martin Gail you know so you think Sally jumps that is the direct result of her engagement to Stephen Maxie what it looks like that doesn't it I agree that her death was highly convenient for anyone who disliked the proposed marriage elective family for instance. What a terrible thing to say and noble of course who don't know the family as we do but you must take it from me that that suggestion is fantastic mislead Oh we've spoken to the proctors son his next of kin can you tell me why you phoned Mr Proctor on Saturday morning what their daughter said she spoke to you about me phone said I don't know that some steak I haven't been in touch with a proctor since Sally 1st went to Martindale. Earth would i Phone Mr Proctor that's what I've been wondering. Your private papers misled documents about the running of the refuge and things like that where you keep Oh over here inspect industry or actually I think you know the key is in this little compartment anyone who wanted would find that very quickly do you mean that Sally might have pride about among my things. Yes I see it now. That was why she liked to work in here or that to sell it to that poor likeness so much pretense. I think I trusted her she must have been laughing at me all the time I suppose you think I'm a fool to well I may not be very clever with figures and accounts but I've done nothing to be ashamed of and they've told you about that scene in the dining room I suppose but I've done nothing wrong you could ask any member of the committee Sally job could prize much as she liked a lot of good it's done poor. Poor little girl and she was so happy here.

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B.b.c. 5 received his own form of history Roscoe a 20 year old man shot dead by police in south London after he stamped people had only recently been released from prison so Dasha man he was jailed in 28 team for terror of fences was under police surveillance Chris Phillips is a former head of the National Counterterrorism Security office we should master someone under surveillance he's been sentenced to 3 years in prison a year after a sentence to then expect social services and the police to March of 2 unit been cut to shreds over the last 15 years it's just too dangerous for the public this man should still be in prison the government's promising to take action and change how convicted terrorists a deal with matches a-g. To be announced later has the home secretary pretty Patel this is very much about the system where they are let out a person under different law so this is a law that goes back obviously to previous government whether led out of prison halfway through their sentence we committed to the Counter-Terrorism Bill to stop that but as I've said we're going to announce new measures that will deal with the fundamentals of counterterrorist offenders 3 people were injured in what police have described as an Islamist related terror incident on stratum high road 2 are being treated in hospital and the woman has been discharged in other news a lot of them British citizens flown back from the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak spending the 1st night in quarantine as a hospital on the where all the journey more than 80 others will be monitored for signs of the illness of the next fortnight. Hundreds of thousands of voters are preparing to take part in the i work of causes the 1st state vote to determine the Democratic candidate for the u.s. Presidential election in November the polls show that Bernie Sanders is slightly ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden the World War One film $917.00 has dominated at the batter's in London it won 7 of the 9 awards it was nominated for including Best Film and best director versus a Mendez the main talking point of the night was the lack of diversity among nominees something back to President Prince William addressed in a speech in 2020 and not for the 1st time in the last few years we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more to ensure diversity in the sector and in your ward's process that simply cannot be right in this day and age and a wild Gracie ill has been caught clapping on camera for the 1st time he was filmed making will spin describe his shotgun like cracks off the Fall annoyance experts say is their way of warding off potential competitors and tracks inmates dumbass b. Has the sports Jones has urged his beaten players to go to Mari field next week and have a bit of fun England face the Scots off the back of a 2417 loss to France England's women defeated their French counterparts in the women 6 Nations 913 Island beat Scotland 814 and Italy won another close game beating Wales 915 Stephen Bergeron scored on his debut before Sunday in Maine added a 2nd source Spurs defeat the champions Manchester City 2 nil in the capital Tottenham are now 5th in the table earlier Burnley an Arsenal played out a goalless draw at turf more Celtic a 7 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership after a 41 win at how Morton and the women Super League leaders Manchester City beat Arsenal 21 Chelsea thrashed West Ham 8 nil and Brian were one nil when his over Everton in Super League debutante Sonny Bill Williams lost his 1st game for Toronto Wolfpack they were beaten 2810 by Cassel for. And Sunday's other game. 30 points to fall on the will sneak past Neil Roberts a 9 frames to 6 to win his maiden German mostest title this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. Sallis. To look at the at the Scotland you know the island I know of in England will have to be shallow as far south we'll see clear spells with a few showers in western areas including parts of Wales wins will strengthen especially for the North coming up this February. Extra 6 Nations rugby back. Should be. Treated Like coverage from the i.c.c. . B. Club Challenge. And the life continues with the return of the Champions League the Premier League and the f.a. Cup. Feb. And find life sports extra. This is an. Added by own coming up in this opening up the phone lines now brought Monday morning travel for me and this morning it's destination u s a if you like to join in the conversation feel free pick up the phone and give me a call on 885996930808599693 few go any questions or comments about travel in the USA Whether you're headed there any time soon or maybe in the more distant future or you've been there and you'd like to share your anecdotes of bring in the USA being back in the USA as Chuck Berry said. Was it the Beatles they only way one was us is always USA I think Chuck Berry won that one with hamburgers sizzling on an open grill did he miss this guy's grape juice did he miss the long freeways from the coast to California to somewhere in the Delaware you can bet your life he did see go back in the USA and say somebody else is in the USA Right now our travel guru Simon Calder of the independent and precisely so I mean you are at Gate see Nawin at sots Lake City airport as we speak. Yes good morning to you Daryn I've been here for oh right actually I think let me just let you know I think 7 hours ago now and nothing has gone wrong in terms of mechanical breakdown or bad weather or anything like that what has gone right is that the life of a supposed to be commuting on which left 6 hours ago was overbooked and rather than . Random passengers you know on this flight they will open negotiations to persuade people to volunteer to off so I may have my friend Doug with Satie Yes Police say we have been sitting around for 6 or 7 hours and it's good to go out and around the hot from now until final destination of law books but even that is up for negotiation and I see this now just appeared at the gate and therefore it's worth negotiating again to see if we can take an even later flight and get even more cash for trouble. You'll be a billionaire this time I'd share here be really nearly Yeah very likely that the film what was the film is it contempt of the bomb where somebody was stuck in a trance was and it was yeah I think in any way only this is this is entirely voluntary voluntary it's not. You can check out anything you can never leave. Anyway. Powered up switched on and ready to take any questions can give you some breaking news which is just coming actually from. The new cd the government. Is refusing any foreign travelers who've left transit through China. So if you if you did it. You're going to be refused entry to. Any questions on any issues you remember he said. The. Officials are at the gate now maybe flying. Questions about. Going to be here with. You know you sure because they may not have you know the president to do a good deal and. Pretty. In the. 330. 335 what we might have to do. 10 minutes he may I may have to switch. The plane. To situation but we'll. Have lots of questions about traveling in the USA. 3. From Edinburgh with British Airways always full for the very 1st time to provide proof of my. Exceptions at the airport before they'd issue boarding passes New did it last September but desk staff. Were adamant that they had to see routes improve for Luckily I was able to go into the us embassy website but after filling in various details of the accepted message. Across the states. Over the last 20 years and I've never had this happen before is it a result of break. Is right there has been a recent clampdown on. The electronic system for travel in that every visit it needs to us in this year or some other kind of strange visa. Has nothing whatsoever to do with breaks it relations between the u.k. And the us completely change and he did with Europe as well as repented to the European Union till the end of the year after that at some stage there will be a European type state but we got plenty of months to talk about that I am like you Stuart on baffled by these British Airways certainly are not going to allow anybody on board a plane. Who convinced as is going to be allowed to enter that country because they get fined thousands of pounds if they do. Right now sometimes I have no idea what's happening behind the scenes. From County has. An ester sometimes it did moment proof so always worth carrying an actual physical paper copy with you although quite often they will be able to just tell from from swapping or possible it's just every time I go to the us is a different rigmarole. When I left it took off at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning couldn't have been easier checking in and everything for anything and then going through immigration here when I've got some people Global Entry which are stupid might want to consider it's. A bit of a 5 to apply full cost about 150 quid but then you just adore everybody else in the queue because you just go straight to the scales can you. Now filling out customs forms or whatever it was very very light touch but next on hold off to secondary Don't Have you ever been hauled off to secondary there where that is what you have been there and a secondary is where they they and they take it if possible take a look at you they ask if you questions and they know it just so you go in this room other people have been sent to check in 3 and they they make inquiries and you have to. Do anything by the way you can't you can't. You just seat. You simple questions. And then finally they will make you out of big stuff for up to 4 hours before now today it was maybe a minute to you to get free. I remember I was flying into Washington d.c. . Dulles Airport Washington d.c. Is going back about 4 or 5 years ago and. Mustering 4 years ago I was going to travel up in and everybody coming in to. Pull from. A plane that was coming from somewhere in the Arabic world some was holding a slide and. This one particular possible control he was holding everybody into secondary and fortunately it was one of those when you had. You going to just go to the next booth variable for a moment I feared that my booth was going to line routes going to take me to his booth but thankfully. Somebody else was old off the secondary and I fear went into another possible control law and. Yeah it's not president's appearance so I imagine if you just come. I mean it. To be. Possible just a. Miserable experience Ok. 66 yeah. So no fly zone you with. Great grades because they. Did Route 66. Very very well. If you do the Pacific. Coast. Yeah. Ok So several things they think of Route 66 he's quite. To be going from San Bernardino to. The Route $66.00 stops being east west south and goes across a mountain range and various things like the Route $66.00. And so on of the world's 1st. That. Is. Route 66 so it's just Midwest but very happy to be driven. Across the u.s. Several times coast to coast by different routes but not this route $66.00 which of course is about 2000 miles. She called Illinois to Santa Monica Pier California. Wardens from she called Brother way more than 2000 miles over we're. Going to Joplin Missouri Oklahoma. Which doesn't. Exist. But you will see I'm going. To New Mexico. Right now. Is the only. Rock overlap so you don't forget we had known that and when the eagle was. Standing on the corner. We need to get to get there with intersection so yeah. They went through 66. Week period for their honeymoon a couple years right and as good as the big city it was small town USA That really is true. There are some great places of Arizona what a wonderful place. It's where you can really feel that you're back on the old. 66 and for them all this fantastic things like great access to the Grand Canyon which is a start and on top of that this. Wonderful Pacific tree just up in the hills and you can drive up there and it's really kind of stuff. And there is actually a good thing as Proposition 2060. 2 Route $66.00 we've kind of chalky through the whole thing and that's what I'm going to be using for my trip on just a slice probably Alice with a $66.00 but I think the best hours with anybody. Years ago I became aware of how much tipping money. Anyone listening to this program. Should be aware of. To begin with frankly. Bristol is quite right it's a it's a fire risk. Just before I can't talk. Very nice cup of tea from from the coffee shop which is just across. 10 yards away from me here and. Because of course people he's running. To traffic that absolutely fine but I got the credit card thing to sign in and there was a space for a tip now forgive me when I'm buying a cup of tea. And it's. And that was sort of his $48.00 so you didn't have to work out. That this is going to be reasonable given I'm never going to come here again I'm pretty generous tipper it's places where I know I'm going to be able to never get to be to return to this place it was to see it all so unless I had left 18 percent which worked out just about $8.00 that would have been a sign I was actually giving myself a discount It is just you just have to get used to the idea that 80 percent guarantee absolutely to be true to present and to any i.p.o. Since there is growth and of course you get the ball and have a drink. Is going to expect quite a lot of cash rich a chance to just be getting. Your money all the time and this is because. Of a built in to the system. The fact that people will get a minimum wage which is generally quiet and receive $50.00 an hour that doesn't apply if you are in the hospitality industry he might just get one of $2.00 and they they think you're going to make up the rest so it's a messy Oh please do this and I've got a lot of the. Changes from state to state because of state taxes change by the way did did the Paul waitress in I'm presuming nevertheless did the poor waitress who served you did see did she realize that you just made a few. Bucks off your. Best but. If only it were if only it were I would tell you haven't I got $600.45 pounds which is very nice That's more than the entire London Salt Lake City Long Beach and then back on find out from Miami to to so that where you've made a profit already there you go. But I need to because because of. Negotiating to see if we can do it. Or we go. To. Tomorrow to Los Angeles possibly. Into the course they get schools. On the menu Oh yes they are going chips that's going to be $50.00. $15.00 plus 70 percent of a state tax so suddenly it settles 16 votes and it's $25.00. Cheese which other people have lots of money. Is just on from a country where did you just get used to the price being what gives you great service because it's of money. That you. Gates Nawin see slate see it see. You have disclosed you've been doing very good business tonight anyway. Entirely wrong and no I don't know anybody who's a couple of minutes well good thing is where we're here you've been talking to me. And there I was envious did I know that you'd be trapped in transit and see it see. That there was. Only Marriott later on tonight but that. The Queen Mary fill in to. Apply now a towel to have her reservation there which is rapidly dwindling in its value but that's not I mean they just say that wait until the floodgates if this were a good find if they were. To use yes it's quite a sport a Friday night Sunday night definitely best by the way everybody Oh Ok and the Queen Mary is doctor. At Long Beach California as she has been for a long time I think. So we're just going to do that you know chips on our ferry briefly if I may Queen Mary the original has been at Long Beach I think for Certainly 25 years she's a 1st attraction she's a. Pretty pretty good right so she compared with. A breach. Of the pull the Q e 2 which has been work effectively. Deep night for a decade is now back in action it's been used every trick in the early ninety's sort of typical. To her credit the fact that exactly where she was to get it completely it's over 360 is now it's not certain Chris she says she feels quite old school very good job of putting it out and putting it back to the way she was and apparently incredibly popular for conferences because people like having it read. And. Ok you're in Salt Lake City was you keep an eye out to see if any of the. On it and it just. Didn't you remember the Winter Olympics. And today held you. And. Your home to sort of treat me which really was. Quite so I mean I get to speak up a little bit. The loudspeaker. The you are but Ok fine I feel I think they're after me now 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City the Mormon temple the mafia church in the heart of the city I was out doing a preview who popped up only donate said hello shook his hand what a what a man I am of course this is. Man's famously. To the Mormon faith and this is where it is where the heart is and a little bit of terrorist advice if you hear it's a beautiful clean enough least 50 mountains all around and you can go to the boom and h.q. Where they have got over all the details of you all your relations with your ancestors going back to the dawn of time so I was I think able to see my paternal grandparents wedding certificate I seem to recall the last time it was and did you do the obvious with Dani. And that's exactly it no I didn't. It's good to. Enjoy meeting him very much. Enjoyed the experience. And the cold it anyway is there anything this is a dream. Is it anything to do you all see in Buffalo New York which is a look oh yes there where you are the moment. Most certainly is I'm embarrassed to say that I have a crush on the old but there is the most extraordinary. Early to me to 20th century architecture going on. This was when 913 was that 920 s. Into 930 s. America was getting its sense of identity and so therefore you get a prize actually in them. Main Street downtown l.a. You have the main street has just magnificent buildings and. They 1st of all fell into the k. In the seventy's eighty's ninety's and then now being brought to life and there are great architectural tools you can go on in but of course most people go at it because it's the trade system to Niagara Falls which by the way off on the Canadian side the American. Every been to all the states in the u.s. Including or excluding Alaska and Hawaii. No I haven't counted them I've not been I know I definitely have nothing to do with the coast if you see what I mean. Because I've always thought it looks a bit cold and remote and not much going on. And I'm sure others I haven't been to I've not consciously thought I'm going to try to take all. The. Inclination to go to a for. Country in the welter of go to places which look interesting Ok if you had these are families united. States was always a New York state California. Nevada. Florida. Texas. D.c. Is not really a state but I've been surveyed Ginia. Over Illinois and. Ohio . And Michigan. Is not a bad place much better than awful actually. Knowing my now 50 Ok Right well I would say on and on ahead of you did you mention South Dakota Yes Mt Rushmore and. I haven't yet that is quite quite astounding. If you've seen all the pictures this is great for Haiti the American president if we could be I can't remember their names I'm sorry Thomas Jefferson George Washington and John Adams from now. On the inside. I don't know he just I forget the Badlands a bad man for a crisis by really strange weird landscapes I was different so the movie to dispose for a moment if you know. So I mean about your destination us safe you've been to the states so indeed if you're planning on going you might be able to on so many questions in gauging the conversation 080-859-0969 extension 3 so we want your stories of traveling to the states can take similarly 5 or 58 remember b.b.c. Talk 1st has got the latest 5 live at lines. On digital b.b.c. Sound small speaker and. B.b.c. Radio 5 Live I am secretary pretty Patel is calling for people convicted of terror offenses. To serve their full sentence after it emerged the attacker in Stratham had been released early from prison last month Sue just a month served half of his 3 year jail term 11 British citizens are spending their 1st night in quarantine at the hospital on the we're all left returning from we heard in China that joining more than 80 others who will be monitored for signs of coronavirus over the next fortnight as explosive admitted crime scene mistakes were made in the investigation into the rape murder of a man that Michael Barrymore's home the admission is made in a Channel 4 documentary to be out on Thursday and the 1st World War film $917.00 was the big winner at the back to Film Awards in London it took home 7 awards including Best Film dumbass b. Has the sport it was a case of what might have been for England after a poor 1st half display cost them there in Paris the host run in $3.00 tries they had 70 Nella half time before England got 2 of their own through Jonny May in the 2nd half well the French won it 2417 so it was they say you will Cup hangover for England his head coach Eddie Jones Look we don't know but certainly we're slow are the blocks we were feeling a bit sorry for ourselves out of kilter and let the situation get to a spin and half time we took responsibility belief of the situation and I thought the response of the boys that's really magnificent England's women began the defense of their 6 Nations title with a narrow 913 whenever France Pero Alan Bates called an 814 and Italy won another close game beating Wales 915 Tottenham had a day to remember in the Premier League after beating current champions Manchester City to nail in the capital sun here knowing got the goal that secured victory with the openness scored by Steven Berg why not his debut his manager Joe same arena was delighted with the new signing even forgetting the rule as it was very good. Didn't lose the ball easily played against a fantastic opponent called Walker is so difficult to play against the play The control will create he was reading the game well he was understanding. Every single To told him and then you know top of that discourse in a musical so couldn't the beautiful in the days early kick off Bernie to nil nil with Arsenal and Celtic us 7 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership after a $41.00 win at Hamilton and the women Super League leaders Manchester City beat Arsenal $21.00 Chelsea thrashed West Ham 8 nil and Brian were one nil win is evident in Super League debutante Sonny Bill Williams couldn't help his new club Toronto Wolfpack to victory they were beaten 2810 by Castleford in the days of the game while f.c. Beat Leeds Rhinos 30 points to 4 Meanwhile the former Wigan Warriors head coach Sean Wayne is set to replace Australian Wayne Bennett as the England head coach More now from our red Belleek correspondent Dave Woods show Wayne had to riff excesses within coach 3 grand finals and a world championship in his 8 years in charge before stepping away and joining Scottish Rugby Union he replaces the Australian Wayne Bennett who had led England to a 2017 World Cup final but 2 years out from the next World Cup his reputation had nosedived when his Great Britain side had a miserable run of 40 feet sinful matches in a series Down Under shoulder Wayne's 1st challenge will be against the touring Australians in a Test series in October and November this year Graeme McDowell claimed his 1st European Tour title since 2014 with victory in the Saudi international racing and 30 Hayne demonstrated his enjoying class with a thrilling victory in the flow gas Novice Chase at Leopardstown I will sneak a champion Judd Trump has beat Neil Roberts and 9 frames to 6 to win his maiden German Masters title Sylvain t.t.c. Sounds fine place to eat hot spots they conceded like that and missed a few chances so it might be a bit for that he didn't have to play that well to win for the 1st 6 of the 1st the weekend is to speak on the latest news and analysis and some big name guests military training in front. Kiran tricky. With me for $45.00. This is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live available on the b.b.c. Sounds. Right. To the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl and the 49 is 27 c. Head of Kansas City the chiefs and from Monday morning travel for. Travel is in Salt Lake City at the airport there waiting for a flight so I'll phone in his Destination USA If you go any questions about your travel plans to this stage now's the time to give him a call on. 85909693 if you've been to the states to share your stories as well we'd love to hear from the same number applies 080-859-0969 extension 3 interesting enough if you're listening from the States I'm happy to take your calls Teles Where is the best place for a Brit to visit stateside this question for you Simon from says What's the best and crucially easiest destination to add to Vegas stateside for a wheelchair user. Right really really good question Dan thank you very much for that there's a couple that I would add on the 1st one I know it's not great for wheelchair uses in the way some place it's just about 20 miles west and last I guess you find yourself in. An extraordinary bit of landscape absolutely classic Southwest USA sandstone Red Rocks and this is red and yellow as a pretty good this is descent and there are some trails we. If it be easy going but from what I recall they are not. Excessively. Good people with a bit of limited mobility but that wouldn't be to retrieve the great things to 30 miles or so south that. Would rule quite possibly the beginning of the 1st of the 20th century the Americans are doing some amazing civil that website will get you and Beth says by email to see. Who are female Paul could not swim have been fortunate to go. Anywhere else it would be good to go. Right well it depends if you want theme parks over the go through. It thrill rides now. It's our own land out a couple times a week and must say the original is still the greatest in my book Disneyland in Florida as sorry forgive me in California Anaheim harder for no harm at Anaheim Now possibly anyway. And. Morning to me. Late evening. Here in the city. And it. Seems to be in the. 18. Counties. That. Thank you Nikki the great question. We're older than in the. Military that 16 year old but they have been going to the u.s. With their very 1st state that they went to war ship it off the wall with Alaska. But. I must say they were about 100 times more impressed with new gold and it's a funny thing you know I think as an American cities. I would say. It's in the Premier League but it's not nearly so American as she can it's not nearly such a great tourist destination as Washington d.c. And I would definitely put those 2 ahead it's not nearly as as as as welcoming and and fun and interesting and historic as Boston so I'd say Boston Chicago Washington d.c. Well ahead of of New York but what you can do is. Say. Off to the would that be appropriate on the shoulder where they are in the school year. Fantastic time to combine all of them you're not going to get the whole time searching prices because it's it's too too far off a sociological mayors or is. What work really well for us was flying out to Washington d.c. Great city in fact just loads of really interesting crucially free stuff. Some of the best museums in America not so stuff it was really really interesting for teenagers we went through down to Orlando bought somehow managed to swerve the theme parks and instead went to space said to us a. What a fabulous sister nation we really did. We went to see a little choose one of the highlights of my life you can find out online where they're all going to go to is that they tend to be every few weeks because you can . The best is not guaranteed if this bad weather it might not happen. But try just a launch event just right down the coast West Palm Beach Florida and Miami Beach and then you see excited me different sides of America. That they can do that with their pals and some other time and hopefully for you your credit card as well. The Super Bowl story is a spring in the background on that was that but anyway. The important thing is Mickey's travel plans to keep farm I beg to differ you know you have a stake you know fighting up to listen to my advice however I do I do have to do it says myself who are the age of your do you know your children they both kills you. Ok Well let me speak for the girls before might. My daughter says. One city go to New York we had no other choice and I suspect it's because the 2 destinations they want to go to all the destinations are familiar with from the television screens or the movie screens you've guessed the other one is l.a. Now New York had no trouble they just love New York I know that Simon's would do you often he is right what he's saying but let's face it it's not your holiday if you see what I mean so this 2nd well was Los Angeles and well. If you choose that one is to do 2 things if they really loved a friend of a friend who is who lived in the apartment which was close to the Hollywood sign is as close as you can get to the Hollywood sign they'd love. And then we drove up the p.c.h. The Pacific the Pacific Coast highway up to San Francisco and they could. Looking out the window. We have the words. Nicky I would absolutely agree with. Much under great heat and wonderful tourist destination it's not. Because all the interesting bits is as it was strewn about great so Santa Monica as the end of Route 66 Absi gorgeous place to be just down from there you go to Venice Beach. Because. You can then this is the one of the best. In the city in the world you could hike across from Wonderland drive it's Ok you have to address the call up to Wonderland drive. 2 or 3 hour hike through this amazing creature and you come back you come down at the back of the Hollywood sign and then you guys are Griffith Observatory and that's all spectacular and then you realize it by road is about 10 miles away and so you hitchhike around to it which for me and. Things like the studio 2 it's absolutely great so pretty exciting but sort of place that you need to kind of base yourself for a good few days like a. City where you're going to think Ok. Here and get the most. Coveted you need. You do you do think I wouldn't go. Because. Even though it's going to be extremely low. Yeah yeah. Yeah I think right. Good good luck to you. It will be great if you do do any of those trees so we next have been on or whatever after you've done the trip if you tell us all about it. Yeah well Ok take care of your pleasure. 08085. 3 we've got colder for about another 40 minutes before you might have to go on a flight to California he's in Salt Lake City at the moment I've already done the Osmonds job so please don't send me any more but thank you nevertheless. So I mean. This is from Joy says Oh talk about the Super Bowl do you know any of the players. Who I know need a player now to. Check in on. It's really good to be caught up in the Super Bowl. Excitement and forgive me I was listening to. A good analysis. Of what was going to be happening is going to be one I really enjoy that just look here on the screen I have absolutely no clue what's going on in my theory is that americans. Are just exploded because nobody else gets to pee on the search or get. To the Super Bowl or expose his it's great to just let everybody know what you heard the federal review heard in the background all the commotion was probably because the Chiefs have turned around they were 2010 down to San Francisco but they've turned around. 2420 they've made up about 14 points in the last however many minutes of about 244 means a lot says. American football fans money. In old money can you tell me is that the same as going from 21 down to 3 to. In the closing stations Yes You know if. It is there's a lot more money at stake in the Super Bowl ring any of our old money could ever imagine on earth and. So you'd be just. The other people school chief excuse for example get into baseball anywhere in North America is great even if you don't quite work out what's happening it's a really good atmosphere. And anyone anywhere that you all just find out what's happening in the schools they vehemently it's generally a very crude Washington today. Ok. Yeah my experience of baseball and I went to the l.a. Dodgers many many many moons ago my experience is some degree you could explain where you are in a lot so much was you know on the field. Quite easy to grow over the obviously c 3 d. So sure I know when you see this role you will see you on Super Tuesday there are so many there are so many. Really good gauge of the group as it were and takes how yeah and of course it's the same for Americans coming to you to tell you to. County cricket match I mean they're going to be awful the whole thing. 202-140-1314 I'm looking for more rules balls as in. I'm going to. Palm Springs. Because it's going to be hot. So if you want if you want these I would say those are all great places if you want to take. Yeah I know that for a fact because they haven't been released for May 2021 yet and it could consider this big lump of. Provides a brilliant cliff drive above codes. And polish bedroom communities great place to stop for. Me as the sun sets next to me you know I live to try and whistle as you do this writing impressions well sitting on the dock of the. San Francisco No no no. Thank you for that I might even try that tomorrow in the unlikely event that I get to the west coast sometime sometime tonight or tomorrow morning at the moment is for. A commuter jet flying down to Long Beach tonight and it looks like there are many people. Signing could say they are here. I'm trying to help people die live in la I am going to help the community center the bill is a community very community says you will get paid for it but you called me today for free will just very quickly. Once when I was in the state somebody said to me Oh you lived in l.a. That's a Western town that they meant as opposed to Nice didn't sound because the Radio. 3 Good morning this is not over. 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Inches to one of the country's bedrock environmental laws if finalized federal agencies would no longer have to consider climate change before approving big projects such as oil pipelines and highways N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady has more the National Environmental Policy Act or Nepa is 50 years old and requires federal agencies to analyze a project's environmental consequences and also gives the public a chance to comment on government decisions for many years now a wide range of industries have complained that the need for a process is time consuming and expensive the changes expected today are designed to streamline that process but environmental groups say the changes would undermine the intent of the law and make it difficult to plan for the effects of climate change court challenges are expected and the changes are unlikely to be made final before the November election Jeff Brady n.p.r. News Puerto Rico continues to be shaken by earthquakes there have been half a dozen already today some with magnitudes greater than 3 a powerful tremor on Tuesday left one person dead several others injured and collapsed many buildings people in Puerto Rico are sleeping in the streets on a cots and under plastic sheeting about half the island's residents still lack electricity. You're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include I drive maker of remote p.c. Providing remote access to computers anywhere for remote assistance and featuring remote p.c. Vision and augments a reality support tool learn more at remote p.c. Dot car. Good morning from News I'm Lisa Ray I'm the Atlanta Police Department is shifting its focus away from illegal narcotics as Lisa Hagen reports the a p d says it will disband its narcotics unit and use that manpower to instead focus on violent crime in guns it's not clear yet when members of the 20 person narcotics unit may start being reassigned but the agency says it will be soon in a statement spokesman Carlos Campos told. The department is decentralizing its narcotics unit in recognition that the violence that surrounds this trade should be the focus of the entire department not just one team The move follows on the heels of another policy shift from a.p.t chief Erika shields she announced late last week that her officers will no longer chase suspects fleeing in cars to innocent bystanders were killed in December by a car attempting to get away from officers Lisa Hagan w a b e News Mayor Kesha lands bottoms just a point in a new city contract compliance director that comes after former director Larry Scott was sentenced to 2 years in prison this week Scott pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion he worked under former Mayor casino reads administration new director Martin Clark will start immediately Lance bottom's has said that she chose Clark because of his history of prioritizing women and minority owned businesses and lettering slow when it comes to the nation's highest paying jobs that's according to the u.s. News and World Reports best jobs in 2020 list the Atlanta Business Chronicles Crystal Edmonson has more if you're looking for a lot of high paying jobs New York San Jose and San Francisco are the places to be in fact San Francisco paid well for most of the jobs on the list 77 positions by comparison metro Atlanta was considered a best paying city for just 4 positions according to u.s. News and World Report Atlanta pays a competitive salary for art directors and health. Gaiters the median salary for those Atlanta based jobs about $100000.00 Meanwhile the best paying job overall according to the list anesthesiologist with an average salary of $267000.00 from the Atlanta Business Chronicle I'm Krista Levinson for w.a.v. . On the next closer look at land a city council member a mere is calling for peace between the u.s. 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Any time you want any way you are go to w a b e dot org slash passport to start streaming day the Trump administration has informed the United Nations that when it killed Iran's general in a drone strike it was acting in self defense but members of Congress haven't seen evidence of that and according to some lawmakers who were briefed by the White House yesterday they have been instructed not to question the legitimacy of the strike or even ask tough questions about it our next guest was in that closed door briefing and afterwards called it quote insulting and demeaning he is Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah and he joins us now Senator thank you so much for talking with us thank you it's good to be with you you came out and came to the microphones and said it was the worst briefing you have seen on a military issue in your 9 years in the u.s. Senate what how. You know my anger was not about the salon monic health killing it was instead about the possibility of future military action against Iran and it was on that topic that they refused to make any commitment about when whether and under what circumstances it would be necessary for the president or the executive branch of government to come to Congress seeking authorization for the use of military force because Congress has not been able Congress was not given a heads up that the the strike was going to happen again that's right that's right and now I want to be clear with respect to this strike against soul of money that was the arguably lawful I still have questions that remain unanswered on that point I'm going to set that aside Sayah in a moment and I'm going to assume for purposes of this discussion that that may well have been lawful what I'm most concerned about about is about where that goes from here or what comes next is there another strike coming against Iran if so at what point do they need to come to us seeking an authorization for the use of military force the fact that they were unable or unwilling to identify any point at which that would be necessary yesterday was deeply distressing to me what kind of hypotheticals were you putting to them in hopes of understanding when the administration sees a need for congressional authority. As I recall one of my colleagues asked a hypothetical involving the supreme leader of a law or wrong if at that point the United States government decided that it wanted to undertake a strike against him personally recognizing that he could be a threat to the United States would that require authorization for the use of military force the fact that there was nothing but a refusal to answer that question was perhaps the most deeply upsetting thing to me in that meeting I think it was unprofessional inappropriate and reflective of a certain cavalier attitude toward the Constitution to refuse to make a commitment on that front so. The. Reporting has it that you all in that briefing were were outrightly discouraged from asking tough questions that the tone in the room got a little tense when people tried to push Is that correct Well when people asked tough questions it's not so much that we were discouraged from asking them in that context as much as it was we weren't getting direct answers and at one point at least one of the briefers discouraged us even from having a debate on the Senate floor including among other things in the context of a War Powers Act resolution talking about future military action that that might somehow embolden the Iranian regime in future attacks against the United States it wouldn't be helpful I think that is the very kind of advice that is counterproductive and decidedly not helpful and I found that upsetting so they were discouraging debate over a potential war powers act that would limit the president's ability to deploy military force against Iran this is something we should mention House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing a vote on this very kind of resolution today it is my understanding that you were against limiting the president's power in that respect before you went into this briefing and you came out and changed your mind I wouldn't put it quite like that I was undecided as to whether I would be supporting the resolution introduced by Senator Kaine. And amended modified version of that pursuant to amendments that he agreed with me to make yesterday. But you know where do you stand on joining that I'm going to I'm going to join it I'll be supporting it I'll not only be voting for it I'll become a co-sponsor of it as soon as those changes are made I do want to as a member of a sorry interrupt I do want to play a clip of Florida Senator Marco Rubio he and other Republicans had a dramatically different take on the outcome of the briefing it was very well done I think they've done an excellent job of outlining the rationale behind both the decision to go after Solomonic and the response. So to the Iranian attack yesterday now you have said earlier that you you believe in the in the legal justification of the strike but how could Marco Rubio come out of that briefing with such a different opinion than you I think he must have been in a different briefing than I attended I literally find it difficult to imagine how my friend Marco who is smart who listens carefully who cares about these things and how he could emerge from that meeting and say that it was good it was terrible I think it was an unmitigated disaster what kind of dangerous precedent or what kind of precedent rather I shouldn't characterize it what kind of precedent do you think this sets a not a good one it's a precedent that is unfortunately not itself unprecedented we have had many decades now going back 506070 years in which we've been drifting away from this idea and bedded within the Constitution that the power to declare war belongs to of Congress it's enumerated in Article one Section 8 there's a reason for that we want to make sure that the power to put American blood and treasure on the line is given only to that branch of government most accountable to the people at the most regular intervals ours is not a system in which we can be taken into war by the executive and it never should be Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah we appreciate your time thank you sir thank you N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson was listening in to that conversation she joins me now Mara what's your my garments What did you think about the. Well this I have there have been a lot of clashes between the president and his own party on foreign policy even though Republicans are usually in lockstep with him on almost everything else but I have never seen it reach this level of ferocity even if it isn't that widespread other then Senator Lees Senator Paul was also expressed his disappointment in the briefing I don't know how many more Republicans would come forward but this is a pretty big split and as Senator Lee said the clash between the branches about war powers have been going on for a long time Congress has been ceding its constitutional authority to declare war bit by bit to the executive but this is a president who has said that Article 2 of the Constitution lets him do whatever he wants and Mike Lee said he has a cavalier attitude towards Congress others have said it's contemptuous is this going to be a problem for the president who up until now as you have noted has has enjoyed a kind of unanimity among Republicans on the Hill I don't think that the war the War Powers Resolution is going to affect him in the short term 1st of all he seems to be willing to accept the off ramp that Iran was offering doesn't want to escalate and also this is a resolution it's not a law it doesn't have the law N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson with context for us thank you thank you as Australia has been ravaged by one of its worst bushfire seasons in history there is a lot of debate about controlled burns and the role that fire can play in managing fire Aboriginal Australians used fire to manage brush lands and forests long before Britain started sending convicts to the continent in the 1700s N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien caught up with an Aboriginal teacher who just lost his home and camp to the raging inferno knoll Butler and his wife Trish used to run the Noura going yeah Aboriginal culture and education camp deep. In a forest in New South Wales but last week an inferno swept through their Canyon in front of us of course there that's what's left of a house that was a 2 story I frame house which are built the inferno torched the camp their house and the surrounding woods for miles and once you can see. There's nothing not a single thing left its own absolutely completely destroyed the ground is now covered in powdery ash every tree trunk is charred black some of them still smolder there's not a single green leaf left anywhere so Butler is putting out hay for the kangaroos and chicken feed for the Wallabies Wallabies. Anything Butler has also been burying kangaroos and wallabies that were killed in the blaze but he's seen one large grey kangaroo still alive in the tracks of some wallabies and a few birds have returned Butler and his wife used this place to hold camps and workshops on Aboriginal culture and a program for troubled indigenous use school groups would come to learn about native art history and food fire was a key issue they teach about far in this place is their friend far has been used to bind. This whole continent for native peoples used what they called Cool burns low intensity fires and tended to balance the various plants and trees growing in an area how we balance. By not letting any one thing dominate something else the eucalypt shouldn't be allowed to overrun all the other trees if one tribe starts to take over a grassland if you get burned back Aboriginal people have generations of knowledge about managing the landscape on this continent Butler says but they were ignored by public officials who rely on massive back burns this week the New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner defended the large scale controlled burns firefighters have been using There's been a torrent of criticism over the blazes the clearly frustrated commissioner declare . The burns are necessary to try to cut back the amount of fuel available for the next blaze but Butler says there's clearly a problem fires have been burning since October all across Australia and officials say they could continue to burn for months to play hating destruction nobody can deny never going to say just yet. Australia had its hottest and driest year on record in 2019 Butler puts the blame squarely on humans by his words not respecting Mother Earth mismanaging the land and continuing to burn fossil fuels I think this is a wake up call not only for you but for the rest of the world you cannot just destroy the land you cannot destroy what keeps you annoyed Butler's father told him a long time ago he says that the white man may have to destroy himself in order to save himself and Butler is worried that now that may be coming true. Jason Beaubien n.p.r. News New South Wales Australia. This is n.p.r. News. Support for w a b e comes from Georgia State's Robinson College of Business its executive m.b.a. Program is now ranked the number one m.b.a. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene they are called the one percent the richest of the rich and as income and wealth inequality have grown significantly in this country they've become more of a political economic and social focus we have a new poll out today that breaks down people's views on a number of topics by income and it's pacifically looks at the one percent comparing them to the views of everyone else this telephone polls conducted by n.p.r. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard University's th chance School of Public Health and let's talk about the poll with n.p.r. Political reporter Daniel Kurtz Lavan Hi Daniel Hey David so the poll covers a number of issues but I want to hear about how it isolates the views of the one percent what happened here. Right so this is a really unique poll we have here because usually in a poll we take a sample we ask people questions but that sample of people is usually not big enough to really drill down and see what a small tiny subgroup really like the one percent things by want by definition the one percent is tiny. Right and the one percent is people earning at least somewhere in the ballpark of $500000.00 a year or more so pretty rich people this poll allows us to see how the views of those highest earners differ from people of other income levels because we have enough of them in this poll to look at this well how big are the differences I mean to do people who are making that kind of money have really different views on on some really important topics yes no I want to start here with something that was pretty similar across the board on income inequality itself a majority of respondents overall say it's a very or somewhat serious problem so not too much of a difference there by income but then when you ask people what should be done about it there you see a bigger gap 45 percent of one percenters say it should be a very or a somewhat important priority for the president and Congress to reduce inequality between the rich and the poor that increases as you move down the income spectrum 2 thirds of the lowest earners said should be a priority so a significant difference there now that's perhaps not surprising but it's interesting to be able to actually see with some actual data yeah no I got it totally great what else stood out to you as you went through this so what really stood out to me was when you drill down to party and then break it down by incomes there you have some really interesting gaps by political affiliation and by income so just 15 percent of Republicans who are the very highest earners in that one percent just 15 percent of those say the government should make it a priority to make sure everyone has health insurance but then roughly 3 times as many about half of the lowest income Republicans say it should be a priority so health care has obviously been this. Szell issue and here there is this big divide among actual Republican voters now interestingly when you look at Democrats they're pretty consistent across incomes about 9 in 10 give or take one in 10 Democrats say universal health coverage should be a priority regardless of income. So it sounds like party affiliation doesn't necessarily work the same way when it comes to this smaller subset of Americans right it doesn't necessarily Well if you're breaking it down by income now then again there are some things that of course separate the 2 parties no matter what regardless of whether you're looking at income or not for example clear majorities of Democrats say they believe graduating from college is essential or very important to being economically successful then if you look at Republicans the numbers are much much lower the numbers for them is about 40 percent that's across income so there's a pretty big divide there and it's really issue dependent we see the wealthiest Republicans differ from other Republicans on some issues while Democrats appear to be more aligned at least on some of these pocketbook issues but really on other issues you see this clear worldview difference philosophy difference even cultural difference between the parties interesting stuff n.p.r. Political reporter Daniel Kurtz live in talking about this new poll this morning thanks Danielle thank you there's been deadly violence in Mississippi prisons It happened last week 5 inmates were killed by other inmates advocates say understaffing and constant lock downs are in part to blame the calling on the federal government to investigate the state's corrections department Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Ashley Norwood reports as lawmakers met inside the Mississippi state capitol earlier this week dozens of people rallied outside. The hard. Right Hand of. God only while being black. Advocates from the Southern Poverty Law. Enter in other groups called on the u.s. Justice Department to investigate the inmate on inmate violence in the States prisons Sharon Brown has a family member in custody and told the crowd the situation is bleak is on the country. And heart and it's not Ok. And if they damage these advocates claim Mississippi has the nation's 3rd highest rate of incarceration and a prison staff vacancy rate of nearly 50 percent the average hourly wage of correctional officers in Mississippi is the lowest in the nation outgoing Republican governor Phil Bryant has been fielding questions at recent news events about who's responsible for what's happening in the state's prisons the in the end the ones that take each other's lives in light of the war and fashion weapons medaled in much of the one that they do the damage to the very rooms that they are living in that kind of thinking has angered some in Mississippi and has become an issue in the state capital as lawmakers are back in session this week Democratic State Representative Christopher Bales says the state prison system is in turmoil he says prison officials have warned legislators they need more money to hire guards and pay them better will have to give them the amount of money today need. A 2nd it has to gain control of Prisons Republican senator Bryce Wiggins is a member of the state corrections Committee he agrees the legislature should look at ways to funnel more money into the department but it won't be easy or fast what's going on right now has brought it to the forefront and yes we need to address it and look at ways we can do it but it's not going to be fixed in one year I mean we didn't get here overnight we're not going to get out of it overnight for the past few years Mississippi's correctional spending has declined while it's prison park. Elation has remained almost unchanged reform advocates say that's exactly why they've seen more recent prison lock downs and violence in many of the state's correctional facilities for n.p.r. News I'm Ashley Norwood in Jackson Mississippi. This is n.p.r. News. Support for w a b e comes from Atlanta international school offering a rigorous international baccalaureate curriculum with a Chinese immersion from preschool to grade 5 fluency in the language is not required admission session on January 14th a high school dot org. And 729 glad to have you along a member supported. His choice for n.p.r. a Water main break continues to wreak havoc in grainy Memorial Hospital and it's having an impact on Atlanta as emergency medical network Sam White had reports from the deadly a.b.c. News room but 1st saw the top stories from n.p.r. With Morning Edition on $90.00 to be Atlanta I'm Lisa Ray and then at $730.00. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly a resolution meant to limit President Trump's authority to take military action against Iran comes up for a vote today in the house the measure is largely symbolic It follows a u.s. Drone strike in Iraq that killed Iran's top general Qassam solo Monny the trumpet ministration is telling the u.n. That drone strike targeting the Iranian general was an act of self-defense Linda facility has more in a letter to the Security Council u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Kelly craft said that the u.s. Acted in self-defense and was prepared to take further actions as necessary to protect u.s. Personnel and interests she also said that the u.s. Stands ready to engage without precondition and serious negotiations with Iran to prevent further endangerment of international peace and security despite denials from Iran the head of Ukraine's security council says a missile strike has not been ruled out. Out in the crash of a Ukrainian airliner the Boeing 737800 crashed minutes after taking off from Tehran's main airport killing all 176 people aboard most of the victims were from Iran and Canada Iranian Investigators say the crew of the jet made no radio distress call and was trying to return to the airport when the jet went down the crash occurred hours after Iran fired missiles at 2 bases in Iraq this is n.p.r. News from Washington. Good morning from the newsroom I'm Lisa Raye I am a water main break re Tadic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta in early December for a time the facility could take no e.r. Patients even now one of the region's largest emergency rooms is at a reduced capacity. Sam Whitehead reports on how that's impacted metro Atlanta submergence the medical network some patients that would have gone to great easy are have ended up here at Piedmont Atlanta hospital and Stead we've seen higher emergency room volumes in December higher in patient volumes in December and lover is chief operating officer at the hospital he says his ers volume in December was up 12 percent from the year before but that it's hard to know if that's because of Grady So wait times are a bit longer and lover may have to bring in more staff if things get busier for now we've really fallen into a pattern now I mean you know when it subsides that'll be great but you know we'll be ready to keep going as long as we need to other area hospitals such as those run by well start and then Emory health care said much the same one thing that has changed more coordination between emergency medical services providers Terence ram Atar is with American Medical Response its ambulances take about 50 patients a day to Grady from to cab and North Fulton County so on each 911 call when the patient is in the back me ambulance and ready to be transported to our paramedics we make a phone call that phone call goes to Grady which tells paramedics which local can take patients Ramit are says that changed to help area paramedics normally operate as help spread out the volume that Grady can't take the hospital runs the call center with support from the Georgia Department of Public Health which also helped Grady secure a 30 bed mobile e.r. In part thanks to a state of emergency declaration Chris Ruston is with the agency the system is working and there's been no major combat. Claims and we'll continue to monitor it until the duration of how long this event last but it's unclear how long the event will last Grady did not respond to questions from. About when it expected to return to normal operations Sam Whitehead. 36 degrees in Atlanta and 734th time. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Arcus Foundation dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony with one another and to the natural world learn more about artists and its partners at Arcus Foundation dot org from the Andrew w. Mellon foundation guided by the belief that the arts and humanities are essential to the well being of diverse and democratic societies learn more at Melun dot org And from the William t. Grant foundation at w t Grant Foundation dot org. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene in Culver City California on Capitol Hill the House is expected to vote today on a resolution to curb president trumps war powers administration officials briefed lawmakers yesterday on the strike that killed Iran's top military leader Qassam saloon money Congressman Adam Smith is a Democrat from Washington state he is chair of the House Armed Services Committee and he joins me this morning to talk through all of this Congressman thanks for taking the time for us thanks for give me the chance I appreciate it so what with this resolution accomplish the resolution basically require the president to get congressional approval before taking military action against Iran. It would do is direct his ability to commit acts of war against Iran and basically reassert the congressional role in in going to war and you're going to support it yes I am and I mean is there any chance of it surviving in the Senate well I will say that there has been bipartisan support for the basic principle that the executive has overreached and not just this president but many presidents have pretty much ignored the congressional role in deciding when to commit our troops to military action there is bipartisan support as we passed a similar amendment to this that was attached to the National Defense authorizing Act last year and it had bipartisan support now it did not survive the Senate Senate Republicans opposed at the White House opposed it but it's not just a Democratic idea that the legislative branch ought to have some say in when we go to war as I've talked to generals actually who feel strongly about this that the country needs to support the military action of our military Well I'm glad you brought up the timeline because it's not just President Trump I mean presidents before him ordered hundreds of drone strikes in the Middle East in Pakistan in Afghanistan in the Horn of Africa I mean what why why now why wasn't this done sooner MUDs. Bits been introduced throughout all that period and people have supported it there have been efforts to rewrite the 2001 a your mouth there have been efforts to repeal the 2000 and want to go out to 2002 a year after Mina number of efforts on this front but they've run into some of the same challenges that this one is going to run into so this is something we've been talking about and pushing for a long time I just want to ask I mean there are members of Congress who say they fully support what the president decided to do with this drone strike the administration has made the argument that there was an imminent threat that sort of money was plotting attacks against the United States if this went into place would it constrain the president from being able to act quickly to prevent what the president sees as an imminent threat one no and that's the interesting thing even the resolution that I mentioned or the piece of legislation that was attached to the defense bill it always has a clear exception for the president's right to act in self defense and then this is a both a necessary element and a flaw without question because it says you know if an attack is imminent if the president feels that his action is necessary to protect American lives then he has the right to act regardless of what's in this resolution or any other resolution now obviously you can see the flaw in that what is an imminent threat what is defense Well that brings up the very situation we're in now you got a briefing from the White House yesterday I presume making the case that he did pose an imminent threat and that this was an act of self-defense did you learn about the rationale the President Trump had to carry this out when the big problem there is what we did and I personally have had conversations with General Milley and Secretary of Defense Marc esper about this and I knew where they were coming from their argument is that they had intel that Iran to sell them on e. Was planning attacks but when you ask Ok well what attacks what what were the targets they didn't know what was the timeline they feel that the time line was days maybe weeks but there was no message that they received or intel that they got that said Ok Iran has a has approved this attack on these sites in this timeline it was just a lot of chatter about targets that they were looking at and the desire on Iran's part to hit those targets some time in the near future so the near future be immediately I mean could could chatter be enough to could be an act of self-defense could be I mean that but that but we were not specifically told there's reasons for this they want to protect their sources and methods you know not not let people know what we know or how we know what more importantly what we would not specifically said Ok here's what we heard here's why we thought it was him and so I think there still is a legitimate question as to how imminent this attack was Chairman Smith thanks much your time really appreciate it thanks for the chance Democrat Adam Smith chairs the House Armed Services Committee I want to bring in n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson who was listening in to Mara Hello interesting here what struck me in that conversation was that this this is not about a single drone strike I mean this has been a fundamental disagreement between 2 branches of power going back through George w. Bush's days maybe beyond Right yeah maybe beyond Congress has many people think Congress is under reached you know you hear a lot about congressional overreach in this case they haven't passed a new. Authorization to Use Military Force since 2002 and that's been a really long time and certainly when you have divided government it's usually the opposition party in Congress that wants to put some checks on the president but the Constitution does give the sole power to declare war to Congress and so that's why you had not only Democrats in the house pushed. Back against the president with this resolution but you had some Republican senators who felt that the administration has not given them in these briefings a clear enough moral legal constitutional rationale for why they took the strike and they are willing at least 2 of them Mike Lee and Rand Paul to join Democrats and vote for some kind of a restraint on the president going forward 2 senators could could there be more I mean do you think Republicans are ready to do something like this if they believe in it fundamentally but if it could come across to the American public as. A criticism of this specific president yeah that's a good question I don't know the answer to that I do know that in the past even though Republicans in Congress have been in lockstep with the president on almost everything foreign policy is the one thing where they have broken with him on various resolutions whether it's about NATO or Saudi Arabia or Russian sanctions and even if the Senate did join the House and pass this resolution that doesn't have the force of law the president doesn't have to sign it and the president has taken a very very expansive view of his constitutional authority he has said famously that Article 2 allows him to do whatever he wants Congressman Smith very measured I mean even saying he's had he's had conversations with the military with the White House or other Democrats ready to be as measured in the criticism of this president's foreign policy in this moment Well sure because as you said this is a constitutional argument this is going to affect the next Democratic president and this is about how popular will is represented in government this is a long standing constitutional debate n.p.r. 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The monthly employment report for December will be released tomorrow it will cap off a year of decent job growth coupled with declining unemployment but the numbers might indicate for 2020 that's ahead in the Marketplace Morning Report but 1st a quick travel advisory for you there is a crash I 7585 northbound this is that avenue causing delay its. Support for w e b e comes from the original mattress factory now offering to hand hybrid mattresses both models combine the support of traditional inner spring with the comfort of memory foam available at the Atlanta factory showroom or original mattress dot com and from the Friends School of Atlanta a diverse learning community teaching to the goodness within every child French school is hosting an Open House Saturday January 11th a 10 am more French school Atlanta org. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin the trumpet ministration is expected to announce sweeping changes to one of the country's most consequential environmental laws today under the proposal federal agencies wouldn't have to consider climate change when approving major new projects like oil pipelines or highways we've got N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady with us to explain Hi Jeff good morning tell us more about this change what it is expected to do yeah this law is called the National Environmental Policy Act It's better known by its acronym Nepa and it's been around for 50 years that requires federal agencies to consider the environmental effects of proposed projects before approving them and it doesn't say that the agency has to choose the least polluting option it just says that they have to think about the environmental consequences and that gives the public the opportunity to see what the government is doing and how it arrives at its decisions and it also gives the public a chance to comment on those decisions and it also gives environmental groups a chance to comment over the years though through a series of court decisions and as some of these issues have become more complicated the process has gotten long up to 6 years that's because some of these big projects you know like a gas pipeline or big highway they have a lot of the environmental consequences to consider Ok so that's what the law is and what it has done previously What's the change about why is it happening now well since these industries have long complained about the time it takes to get through the need for a process that expensive they want these regulations streamlined and that's what the trumpet ministration is proposing to do here some of those groups led by the u.s. Chamber of Commerce have long been working with the administration to rewrite the regulations we haven't seen all the details yet but they're going to come out later this morning and there are some early indications of what they've come up with one big issue is whether an agency has to consider the cumulative environmental effects of a project and think about an oil pipeline under these changes the agency would count only. The environmental effects of building that pipeline environmentalists agency should also have to count all the oil that's flowing through that pipeline they argue that not doing that makes it very difficult to plan a plan for climate change so any time you lift regulations I mean fair to say the industry has been replaced with this change oh yeah from early indications you can definitely say they're very pleased with this they don't like the direction the cases have been heading in courts they've There have been some recent decisions about oil and gas drilling on public land and about pipeline construction where judges have said that agencies must consider climate change during the need for a process that adds all that complication and there's another big change that we're going to see here companies would be allowed to conduct their own environmental reviews Christi gold for us she's with the Center for American Progress and she was an environmental officials around the Obama administration here's what she had to say about that this is clearly a conflict of interest to just say to the company go ahead and tell us what the environmental impacts are going to be Does anyone believe that's actually going to result in information that the public can trust or that we can use in the future to makes wise decisions right self-regulation is always sort of problematic so once these changes are announced what happens then well President Trump he's expected to make this announcement himself at the White House later this morning and there's going to be a public comment period but there's a question about whether the civil ever even take place because there's going to be court challenges and then we don't know if it's going to become finalized before the November election All right N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady on this news today Jeff thank you for explaining it to us we really appreciate it thank you Rachel. This is n.p.r. News. History . What's it mean to be financially independent if your grandmas her majesty the queen Marketplace Morning Report is supported by Carbonite protecting small businesses from ransomware attacks Carbonite helps businesses recover computer files without paying a ransom learn more at Carbonite dot com I'm David Brancaccio in New York 1st it has been an unpredictable week for geopolitics given Iran given Iraq and more but it's possible there is some predictable big news tomorrow the official report on hiring and unemployment for December hits the wire at 8 30 am Eastern tomorrow it's expected to be quite strong yet again Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has a preview back in 2018 the labor market was on fire fueled by the Trump tax cuts and sky high consumer confidence employers added about $225000.00 new jobs on average every month then in 2019 that slowed to around 180008 month amid rising trade tensions and sluggish global growth still that's well above what's needed to absorb young people entering the workforce here zip recruiter economist Julianne Pollack as we start 2020 we see a job market characterized by remarkably steady job growth but economist Dan north that business and assure you'll are Hermes North America sees some signs of weakness in the job market as the u.s. Economy slows temporary job growth shrunk to 0 and temporary people are usually the ones that stop getting hired 1st plus state unemployment claims have risen over the past few months those so far that hasn't been reflected in the unemployment rate which remains at a 50 year low Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace show we do the numbers and s. And p. Futures are up 3 tenths percent at the moment the Nasdaq is up a future of 4 tenth's percent footsie index in London up half. Sent crude oil down yesterday as the u.s. And Iran seemed to back away from immediate confrontation is a bit is up this morning that price it's up $7.00 tenths of a percent to right at $60.00 a barrel in New York Ok pleasant couple in their thirty's decides to forge a new career path outside the family business is that news well it is when their senior members of Britain's royal family must take a moment to follow the money after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex you know them as Harry and Meghan said they want to make their own way in the world with a view to becoming financially independent by marketplace colleague the B.B.C.'s Victoria Kreg in London is of course following this Victoria Hi David So where do British royals get their money well for Harry and Megan 95 percent of the money they need to carry out their royal duties comes from income that's a lot of it to Harry's dad Prince Charles the other 5 percent they say comes from something called the sovereign grant that's a pool of money that the royal family gets every year it's paid to the queen and is a portion of revenue generated from buildings and land Oh and by the Crown estates Prince Harry also has an inheritance from his mom Princess Diana she left in a state of about $20000000.00 So theoretically he's gotten about half of that and Megan of course has money she made as an actress before she became a royal now can senior royals like Harry and Megan really become financially independent I mean cut themselves off from this gravy train that is the $1000000.00 question so they say they're still going to live in Frogmore cottage which is owned by the Queen so last year it was renovated to the tune of 3000000 dollars that was at a cost to taxpayers it's also kept up with funding from that sovereign grant so they still want to also carry out royal duties which means they won't have to pay for their own travel expenses and other costs associated with those trips the bottom line though here is that Buckingham Palace says nothing has been agreed so far senior members of. Royal Family are not allowed to hold their own jobs so we're not sure what the parameters might be for private work for Harry and Megan for example could make an return to acting would they be able to go on the speaker circuit earn money that way or start up their own private company even all that remains to be seen this is a pretty unprecedented move her right Victoria Cregg marketplace b.b.c. In London thank you my pleasure she's in the B.B.C.'s big news room in London where I've seen there's assigned seating for business reporters for sports reporters and no kidding one whole section labeled royals. Marketplace Morning Report is supported by Newman providing an online evaluation and the tools to help people live healthier lives through behavior change more information at noon and o.o.m. Dot com. And by Fidelity wealth management where advisors work with their clients to develop flexible investment strategies that evolve as their needs change that ality dot com slash wealth to delegate brokerage services Alcee electric cars are a burgeoning business with there's still just one and a half percent of total passenger vehicle sales in the u.s. What might increase that are more places to plug in and charge who carpenter has the story Mallory bass lives in l.a. And drives a mini cooper that runs on gas the when her lease is up in early 2021 shell consider an electric car I like that it's good for the environment. That I weighed it spends less money on gas but she doesn't like i worry about her finding a place to charge that the vehicle when you buy a gas powered car you don't ask how many miles I'm going to take a guess Chad Baulch the spokesman for Chevrolet but anybody that's your 1st question How far can I go before I run out of battery and what happens when I do Chevrolet makes the all electric Bolt says charging infrastructure is important for . Drivers peace of mind right now there are 76000 public charging station outlets in the country according to the alternative fuels data center compared with 168000 stations that serve gas we're improving the infrastructure but we're not where we need to be Kevin Roberts is a senior mobility analyst with a global consultancy firm easy why it surveyed u.s. Consumers and found more than half in Evie due to a lack of charging stations ranging Saudis a major concern for most consumers. Public Chargers are operated by a handful of companies crane lots ego and a new player electrify America folks who are going created the subsidiary as part of its u.s. Department of Justice emission settlement that requires feet of you to spend $2000000000.00 on charging infrastructure Brendan Jones's with electrify America he says by the end of 2021 it plans to install $3500.00 high speed Chargers nationwide you can get 20 miles in a minute on that charge Mallory bass will be on the lookout for more charging stations over the next year while deciding on a new car maybe I'll do the research and go for an electric car. Maybe there will be more charging stations because seeing more Chargers might tip the balance on what she decides to drive in Los Angeles I'm Sue carpenter for Marketplace. The Marketplace Morning Report from a.p.m. American Public Media. Support for Marketplace comes from Emory University's course what a business school and its number one ranked evening m.b.a. 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News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote today on a resolution intended to limit president trumps military action against Iran N.P.R.'s Susan Davis reports members of Congress have raised concerns about the president's decision to engage in hostilities towards Iran without consulting Congress the resolution is an outlet to express that frustration it sponsored by Michigan Democrat Alyssa Slotkin and it says the president can't engage in military actions towards Iran without expressed approval from Congress unless there's an imminent threat to national security it's also symbolic The resolution has no force of law and does not require presidential signature Democrats could have put forward a more binding resolution but they chose not to continuing in a stablished record of Congress declining to call back war making powers from the presidency Susan Davis n.p.r. News Washington a humanitarian crisis is looming in northwest Syria hours before a crucial deadline that the United Nations the u.n. Is weighing whether to reprove cross border aid to civilians trapped by War N.P.R.'s Deborah Amos reports aid agencies are raising the alarm more than $4000000.00 Syrians depend on aid to survive the need made more acute by relentless winter rains and cold David Miliband president of the u.s. Based International Rescue Committee published an open letter urging the u.n. To renew the program the i.r.c. Serves more than a 1000000 Syrians across the country in December Russia and China vetoed approval for the u.n. Program for the 1st time in 5 years without a vote the program is set.

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On and off I look forward to your new stories and in fact I have to say take an opportunity to check them out and great stories all week and because nobody says that anybody anybody in the Senate or the House is saying anything truthful or real That's our musical theme tonight songs about truth and real I'd love it there you go there are lots to choose from dozens it goes with the simple truth it does indeed and what is the simple truth the night Sarah Oh we're going to poke holes in a very popular Christmas Carol good thank goodness you know I'm not a real fan of the Christmas carols No you're not I'm not I'm not one of the journals I'm more but I'm half and half I'm I'm Catholic Hebrew I'm a I'm a cashew I'm I said I'm a he Blick and he black I mean I I have it all going on all season long so I'm very happy that I get to celebrate my holidays with you guys on the air and so I'm looking forward to that segment Oh very exciting to move your book reviews from our good friend the doctor of dark Wiley one time Wiley Hello Chris looking forward to hearing about your new movie find you get out there and really find some new cool stuff because when I watch a bad movie I feel like to always live my life has been taken away from my life that I felt like that for years ever since Trump took office I feel like I've lost 2 or 3 years of democracy you know honesty and decency decency all the season we lost all the seas Wally and also we have the top of the luxuries. 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Yeah and your own save cheese All right cool all right and I'm going to talk about how the more things change the more they stay the same apparently we're experiencing another Bernie blackout and we're going to talk about that a little bit on tonight's show but before we get to that what are the I know it's amazing but let's get into this because I cannot enjoy my week without getting the news the honest way we do it on this show with the Dr Dark if you never had while we want to tell you about the top 5 news stories you haven't been told the truth can you handle the truth serum can you from Wally I can Ok well then I'm like Where am I getting this truth you can't handle the truth all right lie I think I can now let's do it it's time for. 5 Things You Should Know today with Dr Jarkko Wiley one woman and now a quick news update 5 things you should know today from America today newspaper the making and flu than the Christmas tree lights in La Jolla the only place in San Diego they can still afford Christmas because we're all one paycheck away from bankruptcy how do you know it I don't know and last week during the impeachment testimony Florida Republican met attack hunted Biden saying he once crashed a rental car and the rental agency found a crack pipe in the car immediately afterward Democrats we might get he was once busted by the cops on a DUI and fighting to have as much as removed from the Internet. And was never arrested but yes was so Congress begins to win the coveted life a new face a pack receive award for 2020 regulations you ask weasel positive. Charity work with boys to give money to charities giving the money to Donald Trump personal bank account tween that and the lawsuit where he had to pay off $1000000.00 to Trump University students the presidency might actually make chump an honest man. That'll never happen I don't know but to me New Jersey Congressman Jeff then Drew is going to switch from the Democrats to the Republicans and vote against impeachment everyone wonders why I haven't answered he's from New Jersey have you ever been there to say when you spend your life 2nd do you think I can become the petro chemical industry for the much put up with how it doesn't change the fact that Trump will be impeached by the house all that does is remind us that some idiots would rather represent corporations or their own country I don't know the full impeachment update Donald Trump still guilty still in the breach and still won't. Go anywhere else and say well I had item number 5 trump campaign Photoshop jump ahead and put it on gratis and then do the same thing for 2 bibles than those and Rocky Now that's a bad idea because a racket with. 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Donald Trump his face doesn't blow away that's really in the White House Yeah that's America that he's up there 5 things that you did that was 5 things you should know today with a doctor apparently while you're listening to laugh in your face radio 89 point one your network for social justice comedy in commentary we laugh in the face of corporate media every time we do with this show because you make it all possible check it out on our Go Fund Me and also check us out out there on the radio we are a podcast you can go and check it out on almost any pod cast dreamer it's easy to find us look for a laugh in your face radio on whatever stitcher or whatever they call that an aggregator yeah oh yeah on the Internet you know on the Internet you know just Go Fund Me go to that's the one that we well give us another heater Yes to keep us warm or you get one solid heater and well it get us the wall or on the roof. And we're were huddled around a heater like the homeless in a park or doing we're not far from a park you know nothing from home with you the cars. People wonder why a love you Wally that would be it right there well let's see what's going on in the news now. Now it's time for a commentary with. Thank you Sarah Burton. Here we go again. I can't believe it we're back here at this point yet here we go Bernie Sanders Senator Vermont has recently had a significant gains in recent polls but the corporate media and even the Democratic Party are rarely reporting it in the headlines it's like the Democratic Party did not learn for the last election which happens when you ignore the base of the party when you ignore the base of your party guys let me refresh your memory of what happened at the Hillary devival you lost it was close enough for the Republicans to steal you can't do that you're dividing the entire party let me give you an idea. In the last week a wave of polls has emerged showing a genuine full on Bernie surge but you might not know it if you watch cable television or read the headlines from the national press in fact you might not even know Bernie is running for president at all it is like a Bernie blackout if you have you seen a lot of people who did Gedge of course he is a big corporate friendly candidate so they're putting him all over the place despite all the data many in the national press corps continue know both in inaccurately reporting what's going on and also in the way that they package the polling results they'll say things like in the top 3 we have and they'll get the list and they'll do it out of order even though Bernie's in 2nd place in certain states use a past Elizabeth Warren weeks ago and they know they're never going to say he's right behind by the never say he's picking up steam and it happens over and over and the series reminded me a lot of a previous election doesn't remind you of something yeah the polls show Sanders is leading in New Hampshire 2nd place gaining momentum in Iowa swing states. In 2nd place and surging in key battleground state of Michigan that's a big one and I'll only 2020 Democrat leading President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania Wisconsin and Michigan and that's after he suffered from a heart attack and came back and it's impressive I mean how many guys have suffered a heart attack and then come back and sort of surging in the polls this is a dangerous thing the Democratic Party is doing to Bernie and I guarantee that the Russians are going to do what they did last time they got on the web and they started dividing the Democratic Party by picking fights pretending to be one side or the other they're brought in fact you can almost pick out the exact blogs and each time you hear the phrase Bertie bro using that as an insult and that became a popular meme and it was just a way to have us fight amongst us enough so that your regular independents or or center leaning people who didn't know exactly how to vote would basically think well it's a rigged game they're not letting people succeed so why do i brother showing up to vote is just a way of getting you not to show up and vote the answer is simple support what ever candidate has the best chance and the most support according to the polls you have available through polls. It's it's time to use those Find out who's actually surging and a Democrat if you don't you can count on 4 more years of Trump as a maxim goes a definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result please learn don't be crazy make the leader of the polls the nominee or will all pay the price leave the dirty tricks and the rigging up to the opposition party that's my comment if you don't figure out how to stay away from trying to rig your own game you're going to have it happen all over again to tell us what you think at the laugh in your face on Facebook. All right guys. I know. He's not very corporate friendly and they don't like the fact that he's getting his donations from independent people sending in their money they like to be able to pay a politician make an investment and how that investment comes back to them after that person is President United States they can't do that with Bernie and so that's where we're running into into problems I was a big burly fan I am a big Bernie fan but I tell you if Camila Harris was the nominee if Biden is a nominee I would rather vote for anyone than Donald Trump I can't take that guy for another 4 years that's where I'm coming from take a dog drop you know the Donald Trump That's right so regardless I'm going to vote for that person who are whoever that person is the thing is I think people need to all hear that because that Bernier bus death last election just pissed me off yeah it's like Ok your candidate didn't get it for whatever reason don't. Because look what happened yeah and I understand how a lot of people were disillusioned with it with the whole system because Bernie had a incredible surge and and they were doing their best to cover his group and even after the election was over there was the revolution and in fact you want to check it out that was Bernie's movement that followed the election they kept it going Bernie we were going to get the Democratic nomination because Bernie is not a Democrat he was an independent RIAA and you know part of the game you have to play is money for the Democratic committee you know I mean you just can't come in Punch to take it right Dean next to your name I thought I dislike Bernie Sanders but all that started in the last election I like there's no way the Democrats are ever going to get him give it to him and what what amazed me most was and this is the really frustrating part when it comes to scandals and it was kind of a scandal let's be honest here Donna Brazil hooking Hillary up with the. Questions before they went on to a t.v. For the debate there was a lot of stuff that happened that was just change and wrong and and I and I agree there was a lot of dirty tricks and they and frankly they owed a lot of money to the Clintons because the Clintons the Democratic Party was completely drained of money and they weren't going to get money for the campaign that came from the Clinton supposed to be you know I've planned on going to be a big primary. Turned into that right and the idea how it helps how Hillary Clinton did it at the end going through the whole primary season like that and then take it on trumpet and technically she did win the popular vote if I thought of all 1000000 but I was a millions out about 3000000 yeah and amaze me most and it's so frustrating if the dams and in the party and this is independent of Hillary if they had just let Hillary beat Bernie the properly without trying to rig the game without without shutting down his polling stations in his in his hometown so it was painfully obvious that they had done it without trying to regain their own cheating lead to trump in the White House I mean pencil not voting Yeah I mean I just thought it was a huge demographic that they just didn't show and the thing is that you've got to go with who has the Porsche got to go with who has the excitement behind them and certainly I would just by having Trump in the race is making damn show up just to get rid of it I don't think we're going to have that low voter turnout on the Democratic side this time I think there's people out there would vote for a piece of cake absolutely the cake won't get you involved in nuclear war or a mess that your trade deals or. At least people at the u.n. Would enjoy take instead of laughing at it so yeah I agree with you completely but if you want to be the Fair party if you want to be the party of representing the common person you don't cheat you don't deliberately rig the game for whoever you think is going to be the candidate and when the super delegates came. And that's where it relieved. Me and that was out of the way today as like well we paid attention because I've always been at it I actually exactly and I understand that and part of the anger part of the fervor of of the Bernier bust I guarantee you there are a lot of Russians who are on the Internet trying to convince people that they were burning or bust people and I knew a very small percentage of burning or bust people and in fact we're going to have one of them on our show tonight Diane Jean was averted her bus for us and and I scolded her on the radio every week saying there's no excuse for not voting Well I'm going to write it in like I'll never see another Hughes in Saranda in movie ever I love her I'm sorry you so much but he was leading the charge and I'm like you are so irresponsible However I did see a really interesting poll of the most popular Democrat Hillary yeah. Yeah all well actually if she were to run she would be like beating Joe Biden right now absolutely yeah yeah well the popular among the That'll tell you that popular among anybody who doesn't like Trump but and and part of it right now is that there if you're not in the limelight you're your numbers are a little skewed in other words. Ok if we talked about this before yes if it's a defeat them a credit card itself hadn't done everything to rig it towards Hillary and I'm sure that there would have been a lot less anger and a lot of left people feeling cheated but by the same token if Donald Trump and only spent his own money to get opposition research on his on Joe Biden instead of going to other countries then he wouldn't be where he is right now being impeached and you know if you do what the proper way and you don't try to rig the game your chances are you have a much better chance of winning any certainly have less chance of getting going to jail and when it comes to when it comes to elections you're going to have a lot of support because Dems like to think that their vote counts Yeah and when you do anything to get in the way you. That especially with Democrats you're you're just you're asking for trouble so I'm hoping this is my hope I'm sending it out on the radio damns if he's leading in the polls say he's leading in the polls I just did and 2 paragraphs what I haven't heard on regular media on cable television I had to look up the stats Verney's leading in a lot of states and then and there swing state and it's still early and he may fade as often they do I mean we've seen it was for the war in fade and blue to judge is coming up but he's not he's not at the level that Bernie is and it's not name recognition this is a swing it's not it's it's it's actually a movement So listen as much as I love Bernie I like I like award more that's that's just how I feel about it I think we should just let Ohio the because they tend to be the thing well them in Florida yet they're still high in Florida and they will be the end of if you like of the rest of the because that doesn't make a difference the last thing the Republicans and the Democrats wanted democracy Oh yeah yeah it's not the thing that well it's a amazing to me that we were talking about before about the Electoral College and how the electoral college tries to divide up the votes amongst a country and the idea of course is that if you have these people who are out in the in the sticks that they in order to have some representation that you at you have to have a certain number of votes in the in the Electoral College to make them a valid place that's the rationale the part that bothers me the most is there's a reason why there have to spread it out like that because that's where the people are you know California you can you can take 2 or 3 of the states and fit them in New York alone seriously come on come on I've seen are we representative of the people or are we all crazy about states' rights is that what I'm and for years this the phrase states' rights was a was a dog whistle phrase that was used in campaigns which meant. You know let's bring back slavery you know and I mean back to Klan Yeah and I got along to the business I need heat that was there. Are candidates in Mississippi right now we're still saying states' rights which is rather which is code for you know that let's get rid of civil rights so let's see what happens I'm hoping that they're listening they should be listening I'm not the only progressives saying this on the air don't cheat do it right give everyone the props Bernie is not unbeatable Ok And you and Biden is still ahead by a good 8 points as far as the polls go so you know why why shut him down. All you're doing is making yourself look like you're rigging the game so don't do it just simple simple simple simple well enough of that you know when I get into one of those little Bernie tests and Mike and I can see that with the eyes of my friend Sarah you know there's only one thing that will keep the peace between you and me Sarah is it Gaga Iowa caucus Yeah I do there it is it's the sound that means one say yes now that. It's our job to love with Sarah Byrd for all things Gaga Yeah so did you guys get to see her at the Super Bowl a couple years ago halftime show I don't watch hockey hockey. It was seriously one of the best I have time shows they've had in a really long time and I thought Prince was pretty good prince was good that's one thing no one but yeah it was yeah anyway let's not go down that road kind of you know I love or no I don't know that Prince is dead what are you worried about right then you think. Lady Gaga is returning to the Super Bowl. Oh. No. She's going to headline a t.n.t. T.V.'s Superbowl Saturday night concert in Miami the night before the Super Bowl on February the 1st so she's going to perform a set that will be live streamed on 8. The Twitter account from the city's Meridian at the island's garden venue the setlist for a guy got concert yet to be announced we're all speculating I'm saying she's going to end up doing her a nigga show from Vegas that's kind of where she's been these private gigs she's been doing a lot of people think she's going to debut material from her new album at that time and who knows but her halftime Super Bowl her future will have time show is one of the most viewed in history drawing 118000000 viewers and 150000000. Views over and I felt digital platform so yeah and I'm sorry digital n.f.l. Platform mobile. I know I've watched about 10 times anyway currently on sale if you want to go all the way out to Miami to steer or just to new streaming Lady Ga Ga at the Super Bowl. I might actually get back into sports I will go wild dislodged that I was watching the night before. And I'm I'm never going to sports did you like any sports Well I'd like it when the guys running down the football field and he gets shoved out of bounds and he plows into the coaches and the cameraman I mean that's an e.s.p.n. Classic moment perfect you know we should we should have a series of that for you I mean it was just on the people to wipe it out all in the old days on the goalpost with a shape and it was run right into. My favorite was when Madonna was the halftime show at the Super Bowl and all the gays were there the gays. Were there to see Madonna not the Super Bowl. Is great when the Super Bowl is being shown and gay bars you know sums up well you know when I feel like doing just for a little variety you know we have one of the best in field reporters working for us she's amazing does a researcher and she does her health perk I think and tonight I just can't wait to get to it because frankly she's talked. About Sex. That's right it's a little little sex percs with a good friend to center on Cassandra Hi I'm co-founder along with your health part why this sexuality self embody cognition This occurs when what is seeing effects your mood seeing a dirty ad makes you feel dirty and more likely to buy personal hygiene products psychologist you I can found when those with a negative view of casual sex viewed risque advertising as led to an increase urge to shower which then led to an increase willingness. To buy personal hygiene products and to pay more for them this story is brought to you by Lizzy Virgie's of new neuro Mark marketing dot com because Sondra won and that's Your Health Hurt thank you Cassandra I feel dry want to shower right now it's funny that she said I could every time I see a Lady Gaga video I think feel like I can do shall I guess that explains it I still wouldn't pay retail for sexual hygiene products. It was because you were sweating. Like a young man. All right let's even get into find ourselves some positive news out there. In your face. So Virginia man who grew up in a poor part of town of Harrisburg Pennsylvania came back over the weekend with a $25.00 foot truck packed with $12000.00 with the toys for the resident Adam Armstrong gave away bikes balls remote control cars all kinds of other staff to the residents of the Harrisburg Garden Apartments which is a low income section a complex where he used to live after he gave away all the toys. He wore a Santa hat and doing delivered all these toys he ended up giving away almost all of them in a thing he had left over went to the Salvation Army and apparently he's been doing this this Christmas giveaway since us December 23rd teens are giving back to the community here from. Norway recently achieved a milestone by recycling 97 percent of its plastic bottles now really can officially say some bottles have been recycled up to 50 times because men don't jump but this he condemns no easy cyclist programs because that's left enough oil to jump also criticized no way because without making a profit all the time strippers and so on a full blown have fake breasts like Donald Trump to funnel and then to the afterward just lying about. Women is what makes Donald Trump so attractive to the evangelical Christian because sexually assaulting women is a little known 11 the can then in the Bible apparently is very popular with women voters in the Midwest How is that possible here 7 you know the 1st drone project of its kind in Canada is aiming to plant 1000000000 trees by 2028 that's right they're using drones to plant trees Canadian tech companies aiming to plant 1000000000 trees by 2028 and they plan to achieve their goal with these drones Tronto based startup flash forest you can check them out on the web is using a fleet of aerial drones which has been designed to plant these trees 10 times faster than human planters can do it since they began testing their prototype drones earlier this year they have already managed to plant several 1000 trees across Ontario using pre germinated seed pods the drones are capable of planting trees at about $0.50 per sapling it's very inexpensive and certainly less expensive than hiring people to run out there in the forest and the little holes which is just one 4th of the cost of a typical planting methods flash forest hopes to diversify their ecosystems by using a different species of tree the organization is already managed to hit their 1st crowdfunding goal of $10.00 grand within an organization that has already managed this and it's like in 24 hours of launching their Kickstarter campaign everyone is very excited about this group now plans to start planting trees in April but at least $150000.00 trees in the ground by the end of 2020 cool I want to see drones plain tree damage is what is that is this line tree corporeally that Seaworld show they're going to start doing. Like 20 drones carrying a whale Yeah I was thinking they could you know do the show and then plant some trees and come back. They do it in Georgia right that it's not just for your entertainment you know the drones drone. Love Jones All right ladies and gentlemen tonight we're talking about real life and the truth so let's go with the song's about being real we could not do that scene without having Cheryl Lynn's classic This is got to be real. Just. The Who you. Know who you. Are why. The one. Who has. A while. Q When you. Knew. You. Knew. You were listening to laugh in your face radio commercial free $89.00 f.m. Descanso your network for his social justice yeah that was Sherrilyn With got to be real for all your tax increase. I'll still have to do disco they did night and there's nothing more real than living green it's time for living green it's not that easy being green when Diane Jean Diane I admire I am how are you now I'm doing great a little chilly out here where you're at in my break ground I don't feel your little chilly or if it's in the fifty's and we're all huddled around a heater in the outdoor studio that is Spring Valley studios I would say it's probably in the forty's I didn't like the temp in there I hope it is definite It's not freezing yet I thought it was going to freeze last night but instead we had a power out so now my goodness well you still have water right we still have water there you go you have water and a generator and it's awesome I guess I just got my weather update it's a chilly 56 degrees and beautiful San Diego California. Sure So tell me what today and what do you want to talk about tonight Diane I want to talk about. This that we have coming up on January 1st we have this a geological or better known as a sweat lodge a little it's not a traditional Indian pipe a lot but it is a pity you can feel an awakening through it. It's really is that if you have you ever done months I've never done a spiritual you know sweat lodge the scenario I have loved looking at the actual Native American Kiva in the places where they do that sort of ceremony I have ever been to a major There they. No You know yeah well out of it too it's very very common. When you go and you visit that these various reservations it's always a cultural thing and I always try to respect people's cultures but I know that within tribes within different groups it's always a different sort of experience that people are looking for now what do they do that's special and my grounding what special about it if it's not like I said it's not a they don't they don't claim to be a Native American ceremony similar yet in that you know it is a you know you go into that you know desk. And they you know it it's all your it's completely dark and they bring in the hot stones and then they add water to it so the temperature not sure what the temperature gets up to but it's it's a rebirthing I mean yeah it's a simulation of you you know rebirthing and leaving everything behind you so whether you have you experienced a rebirth in yourself or I have and I was at the peak of my men a pause from Templeton Yeah I think that's that's a rebirthing in the cooling down in another rebirthing that another cooling down yet you know today I am going to do it again the hot January show you going to give us a report on the air of what it's like to go into the sweat lodge and and hopefully have visions I have had that would be really cool Right yeah I will wonderful and once again that's out and the how when someone arranged to go and do this if they're interested go to the website at Madre got Graeme day dot org monitoring around a dot org got it yeah it's a donation to you you can come up and not pay pal Yeah but that would be terrible to stonemason and help the monastery out and it's a potluck. So you can bring up. Have something to eat after wonderful a little sweat and that's what nosh when not sweat not a day that magic magic is that people come out of here are. Very interesting very unique people that come out and I guess that's probably because it's the journey you have to take yes I think so a little dirt road action the little off roading action and but the best thing of course is to go to moderate ground a dot org and see if it's right for you yes the wonderful There you go Diane always a pleasure dear thank you happy holidays to you I do not say that these loons. Out there need some money the color of the tree. You're listening to laugh in your face radio 89 point one your network for social justice 89 point one out of Descanso Af-Am that makes you check us out and check out the station can s.j. Dot org They'll be more than happy to help us find new things to do in San Diego and be a part of a larger community and there's lots of activities there on their website and I know where website Well we don't have a website where we have Facebook so that's one group in me and I go funny Absolutely and also sometimes we're very likely to have this we have a strange strange world now where people lie constantly record breaking liars all yes it's true or not our president exactly well and apparently all of the senators who are lying now for him to know to protect him from impeachment that you can help to protect the Constitution when you and I think they're breaking their oath no no no that's fake news for 2 weeks and then coming up but you know we have on this show impossible if we have we have an impossible counterbalance the truth Wow The simple truth facts with Sarah for free there are no it's the holidays and that means Christmas carols and I don't know about you guys but seems like every time I go to a Christmas party I get stuck in the singing of the 12 days in which to me. It's worse than a 100 bottles of beer on the wall so if you find yourself stuck in a party where the songs being sung here are some things you might not know about the 12 Days of Christmas that you can distract yourself to the end of the song write. To the history scholars believe that the song is French in origin if you believe that all the 1st printed appearance was in an English children's book called mirth without mischief and if you haven't heard of it probably because it was printed in 1780 version that we know was written in 1009 by a British composer named Friedrich Austin I hate it right there a trick Friedrich thank you very much for this I hate this this is a part of Christmas I absolutely. People believe it started out as a memory and forfeit game which if game they play in England with the kids playing and it's really easy someone sings the lyrics to a song and then you have to sing them back and if you get it wrong you have to go you know I hate America we take a shot over there the as a kid somebody or you get a piece of candy still a song still on there was a lot of stuff on. The lawn from the start I need partridge in a pear tree remember the 5 gold rings that's as far as I write so there's this thing that was going around the Internet saying that the song was had a coded reference to Christianity and if you're interested now it's all over the Internet. They're saying that early Christians wrote it so they could pass on the catechism in secret but it is baloney never it's not what it was about. If you're not catholic you may be interested the song doesn't end on Christmas it's not the 12 days till Christmas 12 days of Christ. Well Ok. So in Catholicism. Christmas is the birth of Jesus right and then 12 days later is the epitome which is when the wise men showed up her. That's what the 12 Days of Christmas are they say burning fuel logging try to get burned for 12 days and that's one thing I know for sure it wasn't when we celebrate it oh right yeah that actually April they think it's friday. I'll give you another one. How long to take the wisemen to get there a long time not long right because here it is you know the story there was an empty head and I hear it all the babies are 2 and under so hey but I digress a time until they don't know I live let's get into it if you know why there was no room at the end because it wasn't really an end it was somebody's house Well technically I have a would be in the. 3 Wise Men looked ahead they booked ahead. With the hoping that we would. Come part out let the light on did so for calling birds and it's not actually the words it's Cali birds not calling birds and it's a collie is kind of an obsolete. Name for a grimy or city like a chimney sweep I mean the blackbird Yeah. The partridge if you people change this whole thing if somebody replaced the partridge apparently with a very pretty Peacock upon a pear tree and you think that's weird there's a Scottish version that gives an Arabian baboons and song but but the cock actually makes sense because if the cock in Christian paintings represents the return of Christ Yeah right so that would make sense God how about the 5 golden rings I assume that was a Vegas reference. Actually they think it might refer to pheasants I because it's weird in the song how they would switch from birds to gold jewelry and at the only reference to George that I think it was actually a crappy printing the golden rings around the neck of a of almost all or nothing logical all of been burned right all 12 of them you know how many gifts in total so if you were going to if you multiply the gift by every time it sung in the song you know how many gifts there are too many 364 wow yeah and I did this because I love this is one of the things I do like to find out at Christmas time how much I'm with this cause in modern money Ok so if you were to buy everything. From the from the 12 Days of Christmas all $364.00 of the gifts it would cost you 170000 dollars 289170289 dollars Ok And that's point 2 percent from last year wow how much time we have can I have like kind of a funny cost breakdown Ok so. The partridge in a pear tree cost you $2207.00 and 17th centuries actually down 4.5 percent from last year get a cheaper better steal it yet the turtles are the biggest drop 2 turtle doesn't cost you $300.00 down 20 percent the free the 3 French hens stayed the same the Cali bird or canaries were $59996.00 same as last year and gold is up 10 percent 60 so lane were 420 dollars 7.7 percent from last year Swans stayed the same the Swans were a big $113000.00 for the Swans milkmaids $58.00 same as last year 9 ladies dancing a little bit more $7552.00 same as last year Lord leaping comes in at $10000.00 same as last year at the big ones were the pipers 2740 dollars 87.8 percent from last year and 12 jurors drumming will set you back $2972.25 set point 8 from last year so there you go from Days of Christmas Underwire try not to say you could song and that's today's simple truth. Man you know when I can afford barely barely I can't afford any of that sir but sometimes a good movie or maybe get a cheap book probably isn't so many. It's time for books and movies don't. Move you can actually read a lot in the scheme of it and the apocalypse. Musical that takes place during the zombie apocalypse and at the by the young the school girl in England and her and. Friends who feel so trapped in school and they just yearn to be out and be free and travel the world and then the zombie apocalypse breaks out and then they have to fight for survival you turned me on to this earlier this week and I've checked out all the songs and they're all happy they're all happy it's a surprisingly upbeat musical Yeah it's a happy cheerful Christmas musical that just happened to take place during the drought the apocalypse just a few people being eaten right yes well actually holiday on a runs around with a candy cane Christmas element that you dig a lot and because it has a spike in it he uses that to kill the zombie that yeah in the round Yeah it's a said it was kind of like a combination with the review said somewhere between Shaun Of The Dead and a la la land if you will if you want to put those 2 together that's what I am and the apocalypse it's a happy musical but even if you take away the zombies if you're still a very happy nuke it sure is uplifting but I would not take away the sound I think is that it makes it that makes that makes a holiday movie for me while when people have bleeding during Christmas that makes you know that makes the holidays when when you put your relatives you always to fantasize about seen some of them bleed from different offices in the body ledger but in the next week I spend more holidays with the human. Eye and the apocalypse came out last year a very funny movie very uplifting and as a change you'll be singing along with the song I already am yes. Thank you you're listening to laugh your face radio 89 point one your network for social justice comedy commentary check us out on the web and check us out for local events that. Happen in your. Marriage just in time for the holiday season Claire the Clermont United Methodist Church in Claremont California has come up with a nativity this scene that depicts Jesus Mary and Joseph. As refugees in cages they're hoping to draw attention to can they condition faith by the migrants seeking asylum in the United States did have darker skin right at the church hosted its posted photos on its website showing Jesus Mary and Joseph held in separate cages top of barbed wire and this is the best part of the Baby Jesus is wrapped in a silver foil blanket. According to their pastor Reverend Karen Clark roosting the inspiration came from a nativity scene that was posted on Facebook with the idea of what if this family sought refuge in the country today and she noted that the Bible story Mary and Joseph lean from Israel to Egypt outright Herod is symbolic of the plight of several 1000 refugees who are seeking asylum in America and she hopes that the Nativity can spark enough conversation to make change for how the migrants are being treated so not another word for the evening I think they need like I carry dressed up like Trot. Leaning over a wall. Tweeting so many people from all over the world want to come to America just like that Donald Trump is the president well next you can pay up to $10000.00 to be smuggled across the border Chinese Illit illegal immigrants a pain up to $60000.00 while because human smuggling has far fewer risk than drug smuggling more criminals are smuggling Chinese immigrants from Mexico into America the goal is to fill the United States the so many illegal immigrants that they'll take over just like European settlers did when they wiped out the Native American population and took their land because breaking your premises hurting innocent people profiting from the misery is the only way to make America great again men while I feel good to Marian Well Bill and Spencer Stratton Adrian Adrian York and Taj Ortiz back had already been catching some waves and Trinidad State Beach California for several hours when they decided to take a break and to sit on a surfboard you know like you always see when I'm driving. I guess what as they were resting in Chile waters which makes tonight's weather seem warm by comparison they began to hear cries for help it would have been a very foggy evening if the 15 and 16 year old boys saw through the mist people yelling at age 5 to swimmers who were smashing around of the ocean their heads barely above the water 100 feet away the surfers to a home had been through junior lifeguard training new when the as they just dressed swimmers did not have long before they fell victim to hypothermia stay immediately jumped into action York and headed back to shore and called 911 and the other 3 went over got the swimmers and saved them right here off the coast of California you know they were talking about the ones that live and you talk about the ones that are missing now thanks a local story for you here's some nice music for you this is an old one but we're doing a lot of disco stuff if you don't you know you've heard that one you're the one that got to be real by Sherrilyn Oh yeah it's a classic that any good in it is and I've been going to the skating rink as a kid but nothing about I remember that with my skates or was it the real roller skating at the time then you probably skated on this one too this is from the band real life they had one real hit send me an angel oh. 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So Wal-Mart has taken the ugly Christmas sweater to a whole new level there are American retail giant had to withdraw a festive sweater they had on their website that celebrates cocaine Yeah it has Santa on it with a straw man you see and and 3 white lines laid out on the ship before Him Let it Snow is written underneath it how many people are going to slang reference to cocaine when no kidding the sweaters or it's drawn from the retail chains website over the weekend and have never been sold in a retail store so the Las Vegas people have been thought of pickin slyness walking around hiding how boys hats and some of these gluing cowboy hats on the heads of pigeons and the pigeons and unable to get them off animal activists are hoping to catch you pitch and remove the hat and also open a cat's supposing gluing these hats on the pig because if they find that person they want to hire him for the glue a ball gag inside a Donald Trump because of all that I gotta have done something stupid but there's the next he never says anything at all Oh man all right this one of the locator but I love it when driving a very large r.v. 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Studies suggest the world gender gap won't be closed for another century New statistics show that 8 years sooner than the last estimate Teri Schultz reports the most progress is expected in education the World Economic Forum the predicts gender equality worldwide will only be achieved another 99.5 years the 14th Global Gender Gap Report surveys more than 150 countries ranking them by a quality of participation and opportunities in politics the economy and education as well as by health and survival rates Iceland takes the top spot for the 11th year in a row followed by Norway Finland Sweden and Nicaragua the Us ranks 53rd despite more women holding high profile political positions around the world equality in politics is the worst performing category meanwhile is projected to take just a dozen years to reach gender equality in education and 40 countries have already achieved that for n.p.r. 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For how it handled the investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia now the inspector found no political bias against Trump from the agency but he also said the f.b.i. And the Justice Department mishandled surveillance on a former campaign aide Carter page they didn't disclose information to the court that made page less suspicious now the phase the court itself has demanded that the f.b.i. Explain its mistakes and show how it will fix the problems Mary McCord is a former top Justice Department official she served during both the Obama and Trump administrations and was partly involved in the fight as applications we're talking about she is now a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and joins us this morning thanks for coming on the program my pleasure happy to be here I just want to start with you know your former role you were assistant acting assistant attorney general for national security plates some role in the 1st 2 phase applications during this f.b.i. Investigation I mean you're actually named in the in the inspector general report so how do you defend the department's actions that are in question here. Well I think if you know kept a careful read of the report shows that most of the blame at least that the inspector general is placing on the department is with respect to a failure of the f.b.i. To apprise Department of Justice attorneys those in the chain of review of face applications of all of the pertinent facts and relevant facts that should have been provided and not only to the Department Justice officials but also many facts that should have been provided to the court and so. I and I'm not here to you know trash the f.b.i. There are very good people excellent people there who try very hard every day and are very careful every day to make sure that their face applications are 100 percent accurate but obviously the inspector general's report found a number of deficiencies in this particular Pfizer application and so I'm not at all surprised that the chief judge of the FISA court has asked for the government to answer to those out to those misrepresentations and those emissions and explain what it intends to do to rectify the situation so you're saying that if employees of the f.b.i. Were trying to look at quarter page for example they might not have been totally forthcoming about things that for example may have seemed less suspicious about this former Trump campaign aide that information never even made it into the department like the level where you were working that's correct and you know it's similar fires set up a cation is not that much different than say an application for a search warrant or an application for it Title 3 warrant in normal criminal case in the process is different the court it goes to is different because it's a face a court but the feds the court is made up of Article 3 judges the same judges that sit in criminal cases and any time that Department of Justice lawyer or a prosecutor is going to be submitting an application for any type of search or surveillance to any court they are reliant on information provided by long for. Sometimes it might be local law enforcement sometimes it might be the f.b.i. Sometimes it might be other law enforcement and so the in this case the Bureau of course the that the strength of the application is dependent on the information provided by the Bureau to the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice of course is the only entity that can make applications to the FISA court for these orders so it's a a union a yang relationship the f.b.i. Needs the department the department relies on the f.b.i. And the face a court relies of course on both and the files of court now saying that they can't necessarily rely on on the f.b.i. Or the department to be truthful even in future applications to what needs to be done here what needs to be fixed Well I think that what you're going to see and we've already seen out of director read a you know 40 different recommendations or 40 different things he intends to change about the process I think we're going to see a much more rigorous review of the factual accuracy of every assertion made in a face application so there's a procedure that the f.b.i. Uses and it's a creation of something called a woods file named after the f.b.i. Assistant director who came up with this notion which is a file where every single factual assertion is stored it's where any kind of derogatory or negative information is stored any kind of information as you indicated earlier David that would tend to suggest that maybe the target of the application is less culpable and so that I think what we'll see is a much more rigorous of review to make sure that everything that is in that would file 1st of all that everything's in there and that everything in that woods file that needs to be presented the Department of Justice and needs to be presented to the face the court will in fact be presented very McCord was a long time Justice Department official now with Georgetown University Law Center thanks so much for time this morning really appreciate it you're welcome. Boeing's decision to suspend production of its 737 Max airplanes has hit the airline industry but it probably won't stop there Boeing is this country's most important industrial company so important that the decision to stop making the plane is expected to cut into u.s. Economic growth on the whole N.P.R.'s Jim Lee has the story in October Boeing c.e.o. Dennis Mueller Emberg appeared before a congressional committee to apologize for the 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people and he said government officials should keep the plane on the ground as long as necessary regulators around the world should rigorously scrutinize the max and only approve its return to flight when they are completely satisfied with its safety and that's what regulators around the world have done refusing to say when the 737 Max will fly again throughout this crisis Boeing has continued to build the planes and parked them in giant facilities in Texas and Washington state now it's shutting down production Boeing is just one company but it's an enormously important one it's the biggest u.s. Export are and the 737 Max is by far its biggest selling plane says Gregory Jack-O. Of Oxford Economics Boeing is a big company and the 737 is the largest share of its production of of aircraft 80 percent of the planes produced by Boeing are the 737 doco says because of the decision to stop making the plane u.s. Economic growth will tumble over the next few months at an annual rate of half a percentage point it's a view shared by other economists the impact will be so great because Boeing has tentacles throughout the manufacturing sector says aviation consultant Ross aimer there are hundreds of sub contractors who supply engines and other part. Parts to Boeing they're going to be affected that includes big companies like General Electric which makes engines for the $737.00 and spirit Aviation Services which makes assorted aircraft parts they and many smaller companies will now have to decide how long they can afford to keep their factories open and their workers working as for Boeing it says it won't layoff anyone with the job market so tight the company is reluctant to see skilled workers walk out the door but the company has lost billions of dollars since the plane was grounded and Grigory Dhaka says it could be forced to cut jobs as the months drag on some of these Chloe's will be geared towards other parts of Boeing's production chain but that being said I wouldn't be surprised that as we move into 2020 there will be some layoffs announced back us says that could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs next year alone none of this includes the potential impact on Boeing's customers the airlines both domestic and foreign carriers have had to reduce flights in recent months because they haven't been able to fly their 737 Maxes and that's cut into the money they make $1.00 of the worst hit has been Southwest which operates more of the plane than any other carrier yesterday Southwest said it would have to cancel more flights at least 3 April Jim n.p.r. News New York. In Pakistan a country long dominated by its armed forces a military dictator has been sentenced to death for high treason for suspending the constitution but the government says the special court that sentenced the country's former president General Pervez Musharraf is void N.P.R.'s Day to Day has more from Lahore the verdict was unheard of in Pakistan and for many unimaginable in a country with full military generals had ruled the country for nearly half of its 70 years a mirage as an analyst and deputy director of South Asia for Amnesty International we spoke by phone it's actually a huge huge to the idea of anyone senior in the armed forces let's learn a former military. Being held accountable in this way. President the punishment isn't likely to be carried out Musharraf was tried in absentia because he now lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates he resigned from power in 2008 a year after he suspended the constitution and imposed a state of emergency since then Pakistan's been ruled by civilians but the army is still considered the country's most powerful institution and it's quite close to the current government led by Prime Minister Iraq in fact the attorney general told local media that he thinks a special court doesn't have legitimacy it was created at the instigation of the government that was in power in 2013 the attorney general statement echoes the military spokesman who tweeted that Julie go process was ignored this is a political analyst and that Quantic or the judiciary could dig a body or it. Is huge because despite all and the both spending of democracy the army is perceived as the court with the Army in government on one side the judiciary is pushing back that's a role it stepped into in the past few years as it tries to demonstrate its independent of both this is what Raj The analyst again you could hear the tick talk of his car into Qaeda in the back row. And you could see the judiciary saying no one is above the law we will hold powerful accountable he says the judiciary isn't going to take orders and that's a challenge to those who have always seen the military as beyond accounts did the deed n.p.r. News local. This is n.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning if you want to know how a kid is going to do as an adult look at the neighborhood they grow up in schools safety access to healthy food all of it matters new research shows a big racial divide in almost every major metropolitan area in the United States most white children live in neighborhoods with lots of opportunity most black and Hispanic children live in neighborhoods with low opportunity and often these neighborhoods are just a few blocks away from each other N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler went to Albany New York where the disparity is among the widest in the country drive around the arbor Hill and West Hill neighborhoods of Albany and you can't help but notice all the boarded up homes they have big red signs with a large Access last across the middle put there by the fire department signal it's a little known case of emergency the searcher could form it's a danger Jonathan Jones is Albany's commissioner of recreation youth and Workforce Services he's trying to help turn things around here by pushing more investments into the area like building a new park with colorful playground equipment on what used to be an empty lot and now we have this open space for young people you can work out there in the back in there little kids can play here but it's a very small step in what promises to be a major challenge new data collected by researchers at Brandeis University show that arbor Hill is one of the lowest opportunity neighborhoods in the country for kids a quarter of the buildings are abandoned green space is limited unemployment and poverty are high and 97 percent of the children who live here are black or Hispanic we keep track of all this it was one of the last she would have been. So far in our zone former gang member Justin Gattis is the consequences 1st hand he's with an anti-violence group called snug which stands for should never use guns a tally on his office wall shows it's been only 14 days since the last year. In here which happened right near the new park Gattis group is trying to keep neighborhood kids from becoming the next to to stick some of them you know they've got just a mother at home with 3 or 4 segments of the stuff like that. The mother has to work you know she's by herself sometimes these kids all of the workers direct them into activities like sports to keep them busy but recreational outlets here are limited even Albany's Mayor Kathy Sheehan who recently moved to Arbor Hill knows these neighborhoods aren't the best for kids not necessarily because they're safe but because of the message that they send the message of disinvestment the message that nobody cares Yeah Ok in high end it's in the middle of December. So the city is using the Brandeis research to help guide its response among other things it has new programs for teens about 3 dozen are meeting after school trying to come up with a theme for a party to take a summer party I'll get in there eventually as there are like that many ways are sounds chaotic but they're learning how to organize events they also have internships and local businesses and talk a lot about careers and their futures 15 year old Asia right wants to go into marketing She says the program helps but the real eye opener for her came when she attended private school for a year in a wealthier part of town she says she was one of the few African-Americans and only poor girl in her class and was constantly amazed by the things she saw and went to my friend's house and she had floor heaters and like there's floor heaters that's a thing you can heat your floor right quickly realize that just a few blocks from our home there was a whole other world is one thing to be like oh you know we don't have the opportunities within to see how many opportunities people actually have like while you guys are really fortunate really lucky and it's me realize how much people in my community don't have those things in fact the new research which looks at every u.s. Census track finds that while the Albany area. Overall is among the best in the nation when it comes to child opportunity those opportunities are concentrated in a few select neighborhoods. We. Meet. Seniors come from around the city to a daycare program in the basement of a church in Albany's Buckingham like area it's a far cry from Arbor Hill the church is surrounded by neat single family homes 20 percent of households here are headed by a single parent compared to 86 percent in Arbor Hill the median income is 3 times higher and most of the children are white Harris Oberlander says the area was a great place to raise his kids because it had so many resources there were Catholic churches and Jewish temples and you know all sorts of services all the outpatient clinics for the local hospitals are lined up along some of the boulevards there he said he and his wife also had easy access to grocery stores good preschool programs and most importantly a network of close friends we literally raised our children with different people babysitting for one another it's the social fabric of the neighborhood that helped us raise our children Oberlander knows how important that is because he works in Albany's poorest neighborhoods where the social fabric is often frayed he runs Trinity Alliance a nonprofit that provides food medical assistance and other services more readily available on his side of town Brandeis Professor Delores Acevedo Garcia says the pattern in Albany can be found across the country and the way that we find by the serving with really vast inequities between black and white children as well as between white and Hispanic said then and it's not surprising such disparities igs. But that they're so pervasive and don't seem to be getting better Acevedo Garcia says and equities tend to perpetuate themselves children from low opportunity areas face more problems as adults in terms of economic success and health life expectancy an arbor Hill is 7 and a half years less than in Buckingham lake coming up here on your left I'll stop her from the. City Commissioner Jones pulls up to 2 story brick house on the edge of arbor Hill this red house is like the Mayor Jones and his family have moved here and are renovating a once abandoned building it's part of the effort to revitalize the area Albany's not only upgrading parks and offering more activities for kids but providing grants to turn vacant buildings into affordable housing it's a long haul but Jones hopes his children and others growing up here will one day have opportunities much more in line with the rest of the region Pam Fessler n.p.r. 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News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst this morning the full House will debate and then vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the proceeding start in a half hour and abate is expected to take 6 hours late evenly between the 2 parties the final vote is expected to fall along party lines and if Trump is impeached the matter then goes to the Senate for a trial and that's expected to take place early next year meanwhile Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Hershey Pennsylvania last night mocking Democrats over their efforts to impeach him but N.P.R.'s Joel Snider reports they weren't the only object of his attacks as he rallied supporters in that key swing state president John traveled to Pennsylvania after Democrats on veiled 2 articles of impeachment in Hershey he called the process impeachment light and said it would help him win another term in the White House he also talked about the report on the 2016 Russian investigation hailing its release by the Justice Department's inspector general and attacking the f.b.i. They spied on a campaign Ok a spy the i.g. Report on the origins of the investigation into the trunk campaign's links to Russia did detail f.b.i. Missteps but found that the f.b.i. Was justified in opening the investigation and acted with no political bias trial smiter n.p.r. News but an hour to go to the opening bell on Wall Street u.s. Futures contracts are trading slightly positive You're listening to n.p.r. News. Good morning welcome to Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. I'm Deb Welsh Tuesday was the anniversary of the historic day in 1903 when Wilbur and Orville Wright took off on their 1st flight near Kitty Hawk North Carolina every day or rather every year on that day the San Diego area is based museum brings out powers up a replica of that aircraft's engine the museum's curator Terry Brennan says San Diego's a fitting place for this piece of history it's incredible. When you take a look at the aviation industry in San Diego it's like no other place in the country but we're just a huge tourist center for aviation both historically and in the modern day they hope that young people who visit the museum and see the replica will be inspired and take off on careers in the aviation industry 10 years and $741000000.00 later officials from both sides of the border celebrated the rebuilding of the Santa cedar port of entry Tuesday morning the improvements include $62.00 northbound inspection lanes after the ceremony Congressman Watt Vargas told k. P.b.s. That while a new crossing will bring the 2 countries even closer he looks forward to a day when these facilities will become obsolete This is Morning Edition on Cape p.b.s. San Diego's n.p.r. Station. 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He says the institution holds and misuses charitable contributions close to $100000000000.00 Lee Hale is reporting on the story from member station in Salt Lake City good morning Lee the morning before we get into the specific allegations this is a big deal because donations are very important to this church right yeah I mean the churches Christ of Latter day Saints like most churches are a lot of churches I should say ask for 10 percent of all income of their members be paid in typing the interesting thing is that leaves most that money for facilities missions military and work what's left over they invest and that's where David Nielsen comes on Ok so who is David Nielsen and what is he alleging So he's the whistleblower who filed the complaint to the i.r.s. And he's a former employee of the church as a nonprofit investment arm that's called peak advisors and he says peak would receive about a $1000000000.00 of excess tithing a year and over time and through some clearly successful investment strategy they ended up with $100000000000.00 The church has not confirmed that figure they don't have to by law but Nielsen argues that and St Pete this investment arm they're out of compliance for their tax exempt status because they receive this tithing money they invest it they haven't made any charitable donations from that money no no charitable contributions and so instead they've used it to bail out for profit companies the church also owns How are Mormons reacting to these allegations about misuse of money that they've donated. Yeah when it comes to ties to paying members of the church I think most of them will likely agree with church leadership and the official response from the church has been that the vast majority of tithing is used for the purpose of helping meeting the needs of the church and the church has also said that the claims being circulated are based on narrow perspective and limited information. Even defended their right to invest the money invoking the parable of the Talents thing that's the sound doctrine on financial principle topped by Jesus in the New Testament other members of the church have a different reaction if they've referred to this as hoarding and they're really upset that this 100000000000 for investments isn't being used in religious or humanitarian efforts what is the parable of the talents that you mentioned there basically Jesus is instructing. These disciples to go and basically magnify what they've been given you know to kind of grow what they've been given and basically that this is an example of them growing the money they've received investing Ok Now if these claims to turn out to be true what are the consequences for the church potentially Well I spoke with a law professor Sam Bronson Arroyo Loyola University in Chicago who's an expert on this kind of stuff and he says if the whistleblower is correct that no money has gone to charity then this investment arm of the church risks losing its tax exempt status well but importantly he says that the church itself is not risk. The church is tough it is not at risk why well because they have the separate investment arm which caused the problem but is also going to shield them from potential fallout Lee Hill with member station k.q.e.d. Thanks so much for your reporting thank you I took cops have long had dogs and also robots to help them do their jobs well now they have a robot dog robotics company Boston Dynamics is loaning out its dog like robot named Spot to police departments beginning with the Massachusetts State Police this is raising questions about the future of police robotics and what kind of oversight there should be for member station you our alley Germanic has a story spot is a robot that gets a reaction oh my goodness it's kind of scary looking actually it was like well see some aliens you know for the brains of me and darkly there's a lot of I will go and those are people in Boston watching videos of spot opening doors and climbing over snow banks. Spot kind of looks like a headless dog a metal one that has 4 legs a long arm and a $360.00 degree camera Massachusetts State Police became the 1st law enforcement agency in the country to get access to spot earlier this year with a 3 month loan alone was revealed in documents requested by the a.c.l.u. Of Massachusetts while in this brand new robot to police Michael Perry is Vice President of Business Development at Boston Dynamics we've tried to make the robot as customizable as possible so that our customers can do exploration and really truly understand what the value of a legate robot is in the real world police of long use robots when dealing with potential bombs or hostage situations places where they wouldn't want to send human and state police troopers were giddy about getting to use the more nimble spot spots police handlers gave specific feedback to Boston Dynamics spotted great walking over big dirt mounds but not so great dealing with tall grass into real life police calls it checked out a. Briefcase and surveilled a barricaded suspect both Boston Dynamics and state police are quick to say that spot wasn't and won't be weaponized but it's not unheard of it appears to be the 1st time police have ever used a robot bomb on u.s. Soil as n.b.c. News reported in 2016 delves police sent a bomb disposal robot armed with explosives to kill a sniper that sniper had earlier killed 5 police officers Boston Dynamics of the lease agreement won't allow clients to use spot to physically harm or intimidate people but that doesn't quote concerns from people like Cade Crockford director of the technology for liberty program at the a.c.l.u. Of Massachusetts the secrecy surrounding all that is very concerning Crockford want to see a policy from state police or even a state law about the use of robotics and they want more openness about the program the technology that can be used in concert with a robotic system like this is almost limitless in terms of what kinds of surveillance and potentially even weaponization operations may be allowed even some law enforcement officers see the need for more transparency about how police are using robots the Orioles is the executive director of the National tactical officers association and a former Swat commander he gets that people want to know more about how robots are used law enforcement to balance any tactical secrecy with the public's right to know how their police departments are working these tools are used in critical incidents the primary purpose of it is to gather information to help in making decisions that can ultimately save lives he noted police still have to abide by the law if you need a warrant to send a person into someone's home you also need one to send a robot but judging from the troopers excitement over the robot dog Spot will probably be on a few police departments wish list for n.p.r. 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Mc Foundation dot org It morning I'm Terry back with bad check on traffic accident in our east county westbound 8 just before West Main right lane blocks we find just a little bit of a slowdown there was a little bit of a slowdown north 125 approaching the 94 that was from some road work overnight that lasted a little bit longer and the same reason for the slowing is out on 15 in Rancho Bernardo community picking up cones and opening up off ramps there satisfied looking great in our north county so far traffic reports made possible by the marina restaurant in La Jolla presenting December high tide as waves splash against the floor to ceiling windows breakfast menu and high tide dates are at Marine Room dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Tory. K. T.V.'s is supported by the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona featuring over 360 historic aircraft from all over the world displayed over 80 acres in 6 hangars with everything from a right flyer to a 747 plan your visit at Pima Air dot org This is k. P.b.s. Good morning you're listening to Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. I'm Deb Welsh repairs will continue today after a water main break flooded streets and homes in North Park forcing the closure of traffic lanes leaving several dozen households without water service for most of the day the failed pipeline began sending a muddy torrent through a roughly 5 block area near the intersection of caps and Ray streets in North Park about 6 yesterday morning San Diego City Council members Tuesday approved reforms that will help churches build affordable housing on their parking lots he p.b.s. Metro reporter Andrew Boyd says faith communities support the move churches and other public gathering spaces are required to keep a certain number of parking spots based on their size the update reduces those parking minimums and streamlines the approval process for housing on Religious Land Jonathan Doolittle senior pastor at Claremont Lutheran church told the council the new rules would make a real impact the whole idea of this is for churches to use their resources to make a difference for our communities and churches realizing that there are real issues with affordable housing and our neighbors and the members of our congregation need something to change the changes were inspired by a group of housing advocates calling themselves gig b. That stands for yes in God's backyard into Bowen k. P.b.s. News some San Diego students take public transportation every day to get to school over high school junior Diana Frias is hoping the metropolitan transit system board will vote to put a half says sales tax increase on next year's ballot to fund free bus passes for students up to 24 years old. Allow earth to get to school to enter. And just over a. Sense of independence the M.P.'s board will vote next spring to put the measure on the November ballot k p b s news time $546.00 a new Star Wars film continues the storyline of insurance and rebellion Native American fans of the Southwest say that speaks to historical experiences of many in the Indigenous community N.P.R.'s Ryan Hinds c.s. Has more. Orders to join Coyle weigh in as piloting a custom r 2 d 2 units in front of the Museum of northern Arizona. It's life size and sounds just like the original when I was thinking about it I was like Wouldn't it be cool to see an r 2 that's decked out like looks like actually like a pottery so along with that comes the designs and so the tans and the reddish burn marks from one they fire their pottery at 1st glance the traditional Hopi maroon and tan patterns are a surprising look for the famous Droid but Coyle when a says it makes total sense for our to a lot of elders you know our own cool is our friends always tell us in ceremony and hung up which means to give it your are just to be strong and to persevere I feel like the Hopi are too kind of fits in that same line oil Wayne is one of 25 artists from more than a dozen southwestern tribes taking part in the forces with our people curator and ethnography for Tony to video got the idea for the exhibit during a trip to indigent pop acts the indigenous Comic Con in Albuquerque New Mexico I think there's clearly some parallels between the native stories things like the hero twins a very prominent story in Navajo culture parallels between that and Star Wars Of course Luke and Lad being basically hero twins in that story a glass case in the middle of the exhibit holds tiny wooden shoe boxes carved in painted in a sparse Navajo style nearby stands a stormtrooper adorned with patterns by an Apache artist and the comic book illustration represents r 2 d 2 and c 3 P.O.'s as Navajo Code Talkers. On opening night the visitors are in chanted with the words especially Hopi are 2 who's the star of the show and works the room. With kids and adults interact with and even talk to the Droid as if it's an old friend. Exhibit also bridges generations drawing families made up of the wide age ranges I would enjoy the Star Wars in my artwork for Probably since I was a little kid since the late seventy's early eighty's that's Ryan singer a New Mexico based Navajo artist prominently featured in the exhibit he paints a vivid depictions of reservation life that overlap with the Star Wars universe for him the connections run deep there's always that rebellion kind of attitude or spirit like the little guy people that don't have all the power and they're getting trampled over Indigenous people can kind of feel like that maybe the rebels fighting the Empire cultural assimilation and the lasting effects of colonialism are strong and singers work his painting decolonized the walk was inspired by the trauma of the forced boarding school experiences of thousands of Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries you can use Star Wars metaphors or motifs to kind of real people in to let them see what's happening or see what happened before say in history for a moment the parallel universes are one bringing that galaxy far far away a little closer to home for n.p.r. News I'm Ryan hunches in Flagstaff Arizona. It's 550 in time for a look at Wednesday morning traffic Good morning Tory package morning Deb couple things happening now a new accident on the westbound 94 South of teen connector in the left lane and it's causing pretty good back up on the west 94 North 8 o 5 a little slow behind the 94 in the north arc north 5 is going just past the 54 National City accident on the eastbound 8 near alcohol level of our there on the right lane little slow down there westbound 8 still looking Ok West 52 a little jam up between the 125 and mast bill of our then it's kind of off and on over the summit traffic reports made possible by boot world Luckily own since 1975 offering one on one service for work hiking and a wide variety of sheepskin footwear and slippers a boot World dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Tory pack partly cloudy skies expected today throughout the county winds out of the east and northeast will continue to weaken today temperatures will be cooler as well this is Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. . Is supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for support of the California Dream series a statewide nonprofit media collaboration focused on key issues of economic opportunity quality of life and the future of the California dream Arts District Liberty Station where you can skate create and celebrate salute the season with radio children's ice rink Nutcracker Tea Party Hanukkah celebration and more wander explore meet artists and experience the sights and sounds of the season salute the season dot com This is gay p.b.s. And Diego Katie 06 AC Latoya and k.q. Vo Calexico. This is the California report good morning I'm Lily Jamali a federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of p.g. And e. Has approved 2 major wildfire settlements u.s. Bankruptcy judge Dennis Montopoli yesterday Ok to a 13500000000 dollar agreement between the utility and the survivors of a string of deadly and destructive fires over the last few years some of them are clients of attorney Amanda riddle we are now able to tell them we have a plan that will provide payment hopefully as soon as next summer to next fall for a number of people the judge also approved an $11000000000.00 settlement with insurance companies the Gini filed for bankruptcy protection in January after its equipment was linked to a number of wildfires legislators set a deadline for the company to exit bankruptcy by June 30th if it wants to access a state wildfire fund Ok thank God Ok oh gosh that was last night Californians in cities up and down the state gathered to demonstrate to show their support for the impeachment of President Donald Trump this is the House of Representatives prepares for its historic impeachment vote scheduled for today. In the small community of Sierra Madre east of Los Angeles about 250 people gathered below the town's Christmas tree to chant slogans and wave signs that read impeach and remove by California Report co-host Saul Gonzales was in Sierra Madre and spoke to demonstrator Janice Nelson so generous Why is it important for you to be here it's important for me to be here because I am a member of a democracy and the people run the democracy but that is that's fading as Trump takes over and is puts installs loyalists in all of the positions in the cabin. And other agencies I'm standing up for my democratic rights do you think you change your mind by being here or do you just kind of show that there is support for the impeachment process I don't think you are going to change a single mind I think all minds on both sides are completely met the settled. But it's important for me to be visible to show the level of dissent and the level of support for impeachment and that's why I'm here tonight that was Janice Nelson at a pro impeachment rally last night in the community of Sierra Madre as the House of Representatives prepares for its historic vote to impeach President Trump today here in the Bay Area some teachers are using the ongoing saga as a good real time civics lesson k.q.e.d. Matthew Green takes us inside a classroom at Oakland Tech High School where students debated the merits of the case. American government teacher Katie Bell uses the students in her 5th period class have been shocked by how can that it'll be here and listen they kept talking about how passive aggressive it was getting They don't even like when they hear other kids in class sort of talk to people that way but nevertheless she's asked them to review the transcript of President Trump's now infamous call with the president of Ukraine they've been tasked with arguing for and against impeachment yet another high crime is meaner life than art that would try to size the running of the. Student John Kelly holds up a summary of the call right to be wrong but that's just for the government for the Russians are to meet in Ukraine it's where we need to like a chicken now it's not our bombs. He's doing right now what we've seen he died in his own one from across the room Kelly's classmate Lucas Eichelberger looks Skeptical Inquirer loopholes you know just do your own private investigation. Person. After class barely notes that most of her students will be old enough to vote in the next presidential election and she hopes these lessons give them a good sense of the political landscape they're getting into for the California report I'm Matthew Green now to a new legal challenge filed against a.b. 5 that's the new law that aims to give wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors a lawsuit filed yesterday isn't coming from Ride Share companies like and lift it's being brought by the American Society of journalists and authors and the National Press Photographers Association It says that $85.00 would unconstitutionally effect free speech and the media the suit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation challenged what it calls an irrational and arbitrary limit of $35.00 submissions each year to each media outlet the lawsuit was filed the day after the sports website s.b. Nation owned by Fox media announced that it would end the use of more than $200.00 California freelancers switching instead to a much smaller number of new employees. Well we're going to end this morning with an alarming finding in the waters off the coast of our state a new study finds a city here which gets worst when oceans absorb greenhouse gases is rising faster than the rest of the oceans it's a rare glimpse tracking the long term effects is difficult because it turns out no one studied ocean acidification until the 1980 s. K.q.e.d. Science reporter Peter r. Cooney has more on a study that looks at fossils to figure out what's going on there called for ams microscopic organisms that make shells similar to clams through a process called calcification more acid in the ocean hinders that process the study out this week in Nature Geoscience use fossils to show it to. Percent decrease in the thickness of foreign shells in California waters from about 1900 to 2000 authors say this could mean California waters are acidifying faster than the rest of the ocean for the California report. Support for the California report comes from Eric and Wendy Schmidt whose fund for strategic innovation supports transformative ideas that benefit humanity in the natural world recognizing through science the. Energy upgrade California. Gold and by saving energy through simple acts like adjusting the thermostat a few degrees energy upgrade California org and. Now with 760 California where households and businesses can recycle their leftover paint more. And that is the California report for this Wednesday December 18th the production of k.q.e.d. Public radio make sure to check out our podcast for more state news. Thanks for listening. Good morning This is Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. 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Beginning at the top of the hour now a look at Wednesday morning traffic Here's Tory pack that was 94 South 15 connector accident in the left lane and the West 94 starting to back up from Euclid Avenue north to 5 a little bit slower behind the 94 in the North Park the northbound 5 it's getting a little bit busier out of our South Bay up to Maine and then it's pretty clear after that pretty good back about 32nd Street Naval Base this morning the British tropics nice and quiet over decor not 0 West 52 just a little jam up between the 125 and mast Boulevard what you're up on the summit back up to speed again traffic reports made possible by Michael Moore and Gabriel Wisdom and the advisor partners of American money management a portfolio review is available at American money management dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Terry Pac this is special coverage of the historic vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from n.p.r. 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The economy to claim success and question why the impeachment process is moving forward Joel Snyder n.p.r. News Washington House lawmakers have approved a gigantic spending package worth $1.00 trillion dollars to fund the federal government and P.R.'s Claudia Grisel as says the package has bipartisan support House lawmakers approved 2 massive spending bills to fund the government through September 2020 the government is operating off a temporary funding measure that runs out of money Friday night the Senate is now poised to vote on the measures later this week President Trump has previously threatened to veto spending measures but White House advisor Kellyanne Conway said the legislation should become law the president is poised to sign in to keep the government open President Trump must sign the measures by Friday at midnight to avert a government shutdown clouding the Celis n.p.r. News the Capitol scientists are reporting a sharp increase among teenagers who have been vaporing marijuana products over the past 2 years N.P.R.'s Richard Harris reports on 2 studies published in the medical journal Jonna the national youth tobacco survey polled children in grades 8 through 12 in 2018 and found that nearly 15 percent of them had vapor a marijuana product recently that was up from 11 percent just the year before many of these teens lived in households where other people other vapors or smoked many kids who had marijuana also used to back up products a 2nd independent survey found similar results extending it to 2019 the surveys were conducted before this summer which is when federal health officials started recording severe vaporing related lung injuries and now more than 50 deaths many of those are associated with marijuana vaporing products that had come from dubious sources Richard Harris n.p.r. News this is n.p.r. News. With j.d. Local News I'm Daniel rhizome as Colorado lawmakers prepare to return to the Capitol next month for another session governor Jared Polis is sharing his top priorities for the year ahead. Scott France has more as he looks forward to 2020 he says health care reform is at the top of his list a public option that sick it reduces premiums not just for individuals but also for businesses under $100.00 people more than 20 counties in Colorado only offer one insurance plan on the individual market lawmakers say a new public option will create more competition and cut premiums by as much as 18 percent I'm Scott Franz at the state capitol governor Polis says he is not close to endorse seen any of the Democratic presidential candidates who are hoping to challenge President Trump next year Polistes says he has talked to most of his fellow Democrats who are seeking the nomination however he says he wants to quote highlight the importance of Colorado issues in the campaign than a college is working on plans to create a law school that day to day symposium hosted at the campus the college explored Law School accreditation and how it ties back to its mission in a statement college president Charles Monte Russell said Navajo Nation should have a role in creating the law school this is k s j d news. Please B.-r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm no well King in Washington d.c. Good morning today is a big day for the u.s. House of Representatives the president and for history the House is expected to vote to impeach President Trump tonight yesterday the president wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the vote an attempted coup if the vote goes as expected in the Democratic controlled House it will lead to a trial in the Senate which is led by Republicans Democrats have asked to call witnesses for the trial Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said no he also said he has no plans or responsibility to be objective here I'm not sure if your political process is not anything judicial about impeachment. It is a political decision I also made a partisan political decision to impeach I would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the Senate I'm not impartial about this at all the Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer says that goes against the spirit of this process anyone in America watching this would draw the same logical conclusion that the president has something to hide and Republican senators too many of them are intent in helping him hide now many things at this trial apart from a criminal proceeding for one the jury pool the entire u.s. Senate would serve as the jury and one of those would be jurors is in studio with me now Republican Senator Mike Brown of Indiana thank you for coming in good to be here Ok so as jurors senators including you will take an oath to quote do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws and quote Are you prepared to do impartial justice here I am and I earlier was mentioned being objective I think the big issue is as we get into the Senate trial is there any other pertinent information that we hear beyond what we've heard so far and I think the easiest way to understand this idea of political is you could almost swap roles between McConnell and Shomer if you go back to the Clinton you know years so that I think is the best explanation of how this is political and look at the votes in the outcomes back then regardless of the reasons of how we got here Sal and that's a little tough for me I've come from a business world where everything I try to look at both sides on any issue I'm dealing with that must make it hard for you let me ask you I mean Senator Mitch McConnell says his mind is made up he is working in conjunction with the White House ease your mind made up I think that's based upon once we get into the trial that there's nothing else we hear and I think in that case you could again say that same thing on both sides. You know I'd wrote an op ed recently about how difficult this most must be for the 5 senators still in the presidential race on the Democratic side you know where none of us would probably be seated as jurors if you tried to parallel this completely to a court of law because I think that's the hardest thing to kind of understand it's political and I think for me the difference say between Nixon and Clinton is in the case of Trump he has mostly the personification of people in general being upset with business as usual before we got here and Clinton and Nixon or the quintessential politicians problem isn't you and that's to the media and it sounds like you are saying your mind is not made up that there's addition if you heard additional information you would be willing to vote to impeach you would be willing to vote guilty what what more do you want to learn about the president's behavior this point I don't think there will be anything more to learn because we've had 3 renditions. The hearings behind closed doors and the public hearings the 4 constitutional experts and I'd listen carefully to see if I could glean anything from the 2 later discussions and I didn't really hear anything other than kind of a re. Taishan of stuff that we heard leaked out the main hit points you know early so your mind is made up not necessarily because I will never say never something different I'll consider it because I think we need to do that do you want to hear from witnesses and if you do who do you want to hear from I believe Sure I'd love to hear witnesses that we could call and vice versa use a fix so who would you want to hear from. I would say that. I'm not sure about the whistleblower but I'd certainly. Probably want to hear from Biden Our his son Hunter probably all the ones you've been hearing about and I think they're that's a nonstarter that's a parlor game because both sides know witnesses won't be involved because you have to give the other side that same latitude and you know Chuck Schumer's already said that you know $100.00 Biden would be off the table in terms of the witness so I don't think we even start there but I know why the subject was broached It's all part of the process Ok this is the mutually assured destruction argument Matthew in the seconds we have left what do you make of the letter that the president said to Nancy Pelosi it was in his own words some people refer to it as a rant or a bit unhinged it was certainly strong it was strong and if you look at the entirety of the 6 page letter I think it was. Almost every paragraph was something I heard before and it was kind of put into a compilation because I think for President Trump as much as he lets anything roll off his back you know we're converging on a day here that you know he. Long said that impeachment is an ugly word and I think today is that day when it's formalized and for me. The foundation of how we got here in the 1st place is different from other proceedings and that to me taints the process a little bit and I think in the see that play out Senator Mike Brown of Indiana thank you so much and I want to bring n.p.r. In n.p.r. Congressional correspondent kill ceased now Kelsi is Senator Brown in line with other Republicans you've been hearing from yeah absolutely I think that there are 2 camps that I'm seeing develop here one is the camp of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said about not being impartial juror and Senator Brown appears to be falling into a camp very similar to that of Senator Susan Collins of Maine people who are saying that they will wait and see what they hear but so far they haven't heard anything that they see as an impeachable offense and the senator points to the fact that this is an historic. De is that the feeling you're getting as you talk to people on Capitol Hill Yeah absolutely Today I am at the the mood among members of Congress is extremely tense and very resolute tense and resolute n.p.r. Congressional correspondent thank you so much thank you more than a year after widespread complaints of mold mice and other issues the military is still struggling to improve conditions in private military housing the new defense budget includes language that puts greater power in the hands of tenants and local commanders Steve Walsh with member station has more. Yes and that's the intake and if I could show you on my intake at my house oh my goodness I hope when Bradley lives in military housing in San Diego Her husband is in the Navy she's become an unofficial spokeswoman for other residents in privately run military housing for some of these families this is the 1st time that they've lived away from home this is the 1st time that they have rented a home and been responsible for the things that happen with them at home and they just simply don't have the knowledge the problems with contractors who provide private military housing for each of the service branches made nationwide news over a year ago but those problems persist Marine families in San Diego have reported mice infestations inside their homes at Camp Pendleton Navy and Marine families complained about the slow response time from private maintenance contractors that's what they were asking for anything outlandish we just want the homes that don't make our children sick tenants complained about mold collecting in their ductwork in one development Lincoln Military Housing the private contractor who runs the subdivision sent a contractor who taped blue plastic all over their vents Bradley says the family hasn't been told when the contractor will be back she says the Navy has to do a better job of managing the private contractor a fellow like enough of us are saying hey guy that's not Ok Hey guy they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing for our families hey guys we need some help from somebody that can make something happen the Navy like all of the service branches vowed to get more involved after widespread complaints of substandard conditions made their way all the way to Congress last year but in San Diego alone the Navy found they had little leverage to force changes under their contract with Lincoln Military Housing right now again it's advocacy if there's a problem Captain Mark nice would tell me is the commander of naval base San Diego he says when problems arise he talks to the contractor my fellow command office when they're sailors of issues please bring them up where should we suffer in silence let's hear about them. Because we don't know about the say they're maybe struggling and they don't need to feel that way local commanders haven't had the authority to withhold incentive payments for substandard conditions for camp the nice widow me that's meant limited options those 'd are the tools I have right now and the advocate for our families and could there be more tools that potentially come to the commit officers they could payments are based on things like customer satisfaction surveys recently the General Accounting Office told Congress those surveys are suspect adding the Pentagon has little insight into the real condition of housing managed by private contractors. Has included language in the defense budget that would require the Pentagon to negotiate a tenant's Bill of Rights for military housing local commanders would also have some discretion to withhold incentive payments hope Bradley who works with other military tenants in San Diego says families can feel stuck they can rent a place on their own but in pricey San Diego even finding a home can be tough our families are kind of ending position because a lot of them don't have anywhere else they can afford to live out in town in San Diego where there are complaints of mold in the docks the contractor has told the Navy that every home will be inspected though for now at least 700 families are expected to remain in hotels over Christmas with no definite answer on when they'll come home for n.p.r. News I'm Steve Walsh in San Diego. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm David Greene with the latest beer news one of the country's largest independent craft breweries is getting a new owner shareholders of New Belgium the maker of Fat Tire voted yesterday to sell to an international beer conglomerate with a controversial background Matt Blum from member station k.u.n.c. Reports on the end of an era for long time Fat Tire fans New Belgium started in the basement of a home in Fort Collins Colorado in the early ninety's and it's since grown into one of the country's largest independent beer distributors with a devoted following it's how Mary Collins a lifelong resident explained to people over the years where she was from it was like that for Collins Oh I love that tire like that's great so like you Belgium like really put us on the map sitting at a bar in town she says the sale changes things for her it's going to be really sad for me to like like it won't be as much of a point of pride the company's new owner is a subsidiary of one of the world's largest beer makers Kiran holdings it's based in Tokyo with operations across the globe including Southeast Asia Belgium a I'm year Kiran's business dealings in Myanmar formerly Burma have come under fire by human rights groups including Amnesty International they say the company's operations there have financially benefited the military which the un has accused of serious human rights abuses Kiran has pushed back on the allegations saying any benefit provided to me and Mark was meant for humanitarian aid we a pill Service spokeswoman for a New Belgium says it stands by Kiran they also have a commitment you know culture and the well being of our coworkers and that was actually the brewery was one of the 1st to be 100 percent employee owned that model is set to go away now my hope is that I can still go to New Belgium and feel like a New Belgium as I was working there Peter Bouckaert spent more than 2 decades as the company's brewmaster. The sale makes business sense the craft beer market is more competitive than ever and beer makers need a lot of capital if they want to keep growing I'm still surprised that so many breweries are want to open a lot of home brewers want to open but they don't really understand what this business is about there's distribution special taxes marketing Bowker knows as well as anyone else he left New Belgium about 2 years ago to give starting his own local brewery a try just a few miles down the street for n.p.r. News I'm Napal him a woman named Angela Okafor has made history in the small city of Bangor Maine Okafor is an attorney and a small business owner and now she's something else too she's the 1st immigrant and the 1st person of color elected as a city councilor in Bangor Maine Public Radio's Robbie Feinberg sent us this. So I think just for that update inside her small shop in downtown Bangor Angela Okafor is chatting with a local mom and she braids her hair a few feet from the styling chair for his young daughter glides on a scooter through shelves of international foods and spices racks of African clothing sewn by okra for the Wall it's a busy place she says and one that the city's small immigrant population seeks out for food and connection I have but I have jumpier groups that have 0 people bring come here to shop with the kids I write invites me to see so what a shop like this didn't exist when over 4 and her husband moved to mean from Nigeria about a dozen years ago on a work visa like most of the state Bangor is overwhelmingly white and for says the adjustment was hard people couldn't understand her and would often stop and stare and despite holding a law degree from her home country and passing the New York bar exam for says it was nearly impossible to get any job in the legal field employers told her she was either overqualified or said she needed main experience they are frustrated he's been. The description I feel free to talk this now because I am my own employer it watching a lot of other people who. Cannot speak up so for took things into her own hands 3 years ago she launched an immigration law practice which she could operate with her out of state license because of its basis in Federal Law She then opened her international food store and hair salon to provide needed services to Bangor immigrant community but she wasn't done earlier this year after seeing other immigrants bring their concerns to local leaders who were all white Okafor realized they needed representation and you know who better to do that I'm not so one needs to do that when I'm like why not me so for got into the race for city council and last month she won handily becoming the 1st immigrant and a person of color elected in Bangor is history city council chair Claire Davidge says that before will bring a needed perspective to city leadership and then to have her knowledge of law and as a small business owner that representation matters so much especially as we are losing workforce and trying to rebuild that is one of dozens of women of color nationwide who have jumped into politics in recent years Kimberly Peeler Allen is a visiting practitioner at Rutgers University who founded higher heights I'm national nonprofit to elect black women to office she says her organization identified about 90 black women running for federal in statewide executive office in the 2800 cycle already they know there are more than that in 2020 and with months left to go until the filing deadlines in several states she says those numbers could easily keep climbing Peeler Alan partially attributes the shift to the national prominence of candidates like Camila Harris as well as dissatisfaction with current leaders particularly at the federal level is really propelling more women to say what else can I do you and how can I. Deeper level and I'm not happy with my current elected leadership so I think I think you a better job and they're throwing their hat in the ring tox careful between customers in her small shop in Bangor Angela Forbes says she feels grateful for the newfound prominence in her city after years of overcoming barriers for me this is you know I grew up struggling I struggled at not growing up so. Right now I feel privileged I feel I'm very religious I feel blessed and while she still learning the ins and outs of her new role on the Bangor City Council before says she wants to focus on improving public transportation which she says has long affected families and small businesses now Okafor says she's in a position where she can make a difference for n.p.r. News I'm Robbie Feinberg in Bangor Maine. And this is n.p.r. News. A historic day in Congress the full House of Representatives debates articles of impeachment against President Trump as in past impeachment inquiries technology has played a leading role received text messages on a 3 way what's up next a conversation with investors both groups on the I'm Ari Shapiro test and impeachment this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst as the house gets set to vote on impeaching President Trump protests took place around the country last night in favor of the measure the. The Marches were held in hundreds of cities around the country including Minnesota where protesters held up signs saying impeach Trump Meanwhile the president sent a 6 page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last night calling the impeachment proceedings a coup and saying he is innocent of the charges N.P.R.'s Nell has more on Palosi Israeli action she sent a letter to her own members following the letter from President Trump and she never really might happen says the letter from Trump but clearly and of has it in her mind she says that Democrats should proceed in a manner worthy of our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and she repeated a phrase that Trump himself criticized in his own letter that she was approaching this prayerfully N.P.R.'s Hilsey Snell 1000 Pietschmann gets underway at 9 Eastern this morning with debate scheduled to take about 6 hours a vote is then expected later tonight then a trial will be held in the Senate next year well financial markets Asian markets mixed by the Bell The Nikkei is down more than half a percent the Hang Seng up 110th of a percent European markets are trading a mixed territory this morning u.s. Futures contracts are trading in positive territory you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington with j.d. Vocal News I'm Daniel rhizome as Colorado bomb makers prepare to return to the capital next month for another session governor Jared Polis is sharing his top priorities for the year ahead stretes Scott France has more as he looks forward to 2020 he says health care reform is at the top of his list a public option that is good reduces premiums not just for individuals but also for businesses under 100 people. More than 20 counties in Colorado only offer one insurance plan on the individual market lawmakers say a new public option will create more competition and cut premiums by as much as 18 percent I'm Scott Franz at the state capital governor Polis says he is not close to endorse seen any of the Democratic presidential candidates who are hoping to challenge President Trump next year Polistes says he has talked to most of his fellow Democrats who are seeking the nomination however he says he wants to quote highlight the importance of Colorado issues in the campaign than a college is working on plans to create a law school that day to day symposium hosted at the campus the college explored Law School accreditation and how it ties back to its mission in a statement college president Charles Monte Russell said Navajo Nation should have a role in creating the law school this is k s j d news. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t. 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And I'm David Greene in Culver City California the western hemisphere's poorest country Haiti has experienced months of anti-government protests these demonstrations have left more than 40 people dead crippled the economy and left millions in the Caribbean country on the brink of starvation opponents of the current president say he is corrupt and has mismanaged millions of dollars and must go but he is refusing it actually appears his grip on power could be tightening N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn is in the capital Port au Prince and joins us this morning hi Carrie good morning David can you just remind us of the context here what fueled this protest movement Haiti. It's corruption people are very upset about specifically this a low interest oil program that was sponsored by Venezuela to its ideological allies and neighbors here in the region Haiti received billions of dollars and there is no accounting for that money and people are extremely upset about that they want to know where is the money and now it sounds like going through a lot of suffering as as well I mean but but there does seem to be some sort of change me just weeks ago there were tens of thousands of protesters on the streets and it sounds like that is no longer the case I mean or are demonstrators giving up or what's happening no not at all but there definitely is a lol It sort of a holiday pre-Christian is low there is no resolution to the political crisis here but we definitely have seen a drop off in the size and the scope of the protests just Asians are tired of what they call here paid luck it's called the lockdown on the country but it just seems like a temporary calm and like he said they want the president to resign he says he has done nothing wrong and he is not budging. So what does life feel like I mean there are some summons of normalcy of the protests are dying down well the traffic is back to its horrific ways here it takes just it could take an hour to get just a few a few miles so you see activity on the street you see kids actually going back to school they're not wearing their color for old need bright uniforms that you usually see because they just don't want to draw attention themselves because they're afraid of retaliation by opponents who have tried to keep schools closed businesses closed everything just shut down Ok so you have a president who is disliked and is hanging on to power we have several dozen people dead an economy in terrible shape of a very poor country what happens now I mean is this is political stalemate get broken in some way. It's going to be. Increasingly more difficult there are supposed to be parliamentary elections in January the 2nd Monday of January but there is no signs that they can hold an election and that just means that there will be no active parliament in force in the middle of January I think there's something like only 10 senators terms have will not be turned out so that just will intensify and many people and analysts believe that the protests will resume once holidays are over. And what is life just feel like being there I mean it take us to what you've seen what people are going through it's very difficult the currency here inflation is Spike the currency is just worthless it's hard to get basic goods what is interesting though is that you have seen the president out in the open in trying to rehabilitate himself to sort of take advantage of those lol to get out he sees the largest private electricity provider in the country many say this is an illegal move to silence his opponents and the head of the company has been a very outspoken critic but he does to is asking people to be patient but patience is really run out especially when it comes to electricity he campaigned on bringing electricity 24 hours a day to people barely have 3 to 4 hours at that well N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn in the Haitian capital Port au Prince Harry thanks you're welcome the process of applying for financial aid is really complicated and every year millions of students and sometimes their parents have to figure it out there is an act called the Future Act which is passed in Congress and it makes that process simpler President Trump just needs to sign it N.P.R.'s Alyson that were me has the story if you've ever applied to college or helped a friend or family member you've probably encountered the fafsa or Free Application for Federal Student Aid the point of the future act is to make that process a lot easier for students this piece of legislation is one giant step forward that's just in dragger president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators the future act cuts down the number of questions on the fafsa despite concerns about privacy it allows the i.r.s. To share data with the Education Department so you don't have to submit that information in your taxes and then again when you're applying to college not only helps people apply for financial aid more easily it also prevents schools from having to constantly follow up with to verify the information that they submitted on their face. Because they'll already have it from the i.r.s. It's meant to help students like Whitney Brown. Territory Brown is a junior at Howard University in Washington d.c. Where she's studying criminology she relies on federal aid loans and a grant to help pay for school and she's the 1st in her family to go you know it's a building of a legacy you understand yes it's going to be hard but there's going to be so many more people. And things were going Ok she felt that each year she's a student leader and she has great grades but then this fall she got an e-mail that said she had been randomly flagged to verify her income on the fafsa. Back and forth with the center understanding. That information it was a long drawn out process the Education Department does this because they want to make sure that that money is going to the right people and it's a process that creates a lot of confusion for students and a lot of work for colleges and universities just in Dreger says the Education Department doesn't release how many people are verified but his organization estimates that about 30 percent of Pell Grant recipients are selected for verification and research has shown that getting verified it really changes the amount of aid you get often the most vulnerable populations are stuck in the an enviable position of having to prove over and over again to multiple agencies that they're poor Brahmas juggling all the back and forth on paperwork on top of assignments and midterms the process dragged on and since she hadn't been officially verified that meant she never got her financial aid and because she owed university money she couldn't register for classes or secure housing for the spring . To such a prestigious school and pay for it. There with me still waiting to get verified but in the meantime she's fundraised. Emergency grants and scholarships just this week she had enough money to register for classes. Then. The data agreement that would help students like Brown could also help folks in rolled in income driven repayment options paying down their federal student loans those plans require you to verify your income each year the Future Act makes the government agencies do it for you all the simplification is estimated to save the Government $2800000000.00 over 10 years and that makes it possible to provide permanent federal funding for historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions and let's not do any n.p.r. News Washington this is n.p.r. News. RINGBACK 2020 is right around the corner and there are some changes coming to k.s. Trades radio programming I'm Tom your programming in media director at case j.d. And I'm excited about the fresh programming we are bringing to you starting in January there are way too many changes to explain in 30 seconds but you can visit. And click on the k s j t 2020 radio programming link to see what our program schedule will be in the New Year. Good morning I'm David Greene It was the 1st lap of a muddy men cycling race in Belgium and competitors faced an unexpected challenger he's got a leash on but really lost his owner going for it right now in here place somebody is a dog somebody is dog appeared to be a German Shepherd riders pedaled past the dog as it tried to take a bite out of some bikes in the end 2 wheels beat 4 legs the dog was eventually caught and disqualified It's Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from campaign monitor with c.m. 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Orders to drain coil Wayne is piloting a custom r 2 d 2 units in front of the Museum of northern Arizona. It's life size and sounds just like the original when I was thinking about it like Wouldn't it be cool to see an arch you that's decked out like looks like actually like a pottery so along with that comes the designs and so the tans and the reddish burn marks from one they fire their pottery at 1st glance the traditional Hopi maroon and tan patterns are a surprising look for the famous Droid but Coyle when a says it makes total sense for our to a lot of elders you know our uncles our friends always tell us in ceremony no one view which means to give it your are just to be strong and to persevere I feel like the Hopi are too kind of fits in that same line Coyle Wayne is one of 25 artists from more than a dozen southwestern tribes taking part in the forces with our people curator and ethnography Tony to video got the idea for the exhibit during a trip to indigent pop acts the indigenous Comic Con in Albuquerque New Mexico I think there's clearly some parallels between native stories things like the hero twins a very prominent story and Navajo culture parallels between that and Star Wars Of course Luke and layout being basically hero twins in that story a glass case in the middle of the exhibit holds tiny wooden shoe boxes carved in painted in a sparse Navajo style nearby stands a stormtrooper adorned with patterns by an Apache artist and the comic book illustration represents r 2 d 2 and c 3 pm as Navajo Code Talkers. On opening night the visitors are in chanted with the work especially Hopi are to who's the star of the show and works the room. With kids and adults interact with and even talk to the Droid as if it's an old friend. Exhibit also bridges generations drawing families made up of the wide age ranges I've enjoyed Star Wars in my artwork for her room probably since I was a little kid since the late seventy's early eighty's that's Ryan singer a New Mexico based Navajo artist prominently featured in the exhibit he paints a vivid depictions of reservation life that overlap with the Star Wars universe for him the connections run deep there's always. That rebellion kind of attitude or a spirit like the little guy people that don't have all the power and they're getting trampled over Indigenous people can kind of feel like that maybe the rebels fighting the Empire cultural assimilation and the lasting effects of colonialism are strong and singers work his painting decolonized the walk was inspired by the trauma of the forced boarding school experiences of thousands of Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries you can use Star Wars metaphors or motifs to kind of real people in to let them see what's happening or see what happened before say in history for a moment the parallel universes or one bring that galaxy far far away a little closer to home for n.p.r. News I'm Ryan hunches in Flagstaff Arizona. This is n.p.r. News. Yes Fun on deadline with the huge government spending plan Marketplace Morning Report is supported by McDermott will end Emery providing clarity on the regulatory sprint to coordinated care updates on changes to Stark anti kickback and more at m.-w. Dot com slash Sprint ready and by Fidelity Investments taking a personalized approach to helping clients grow preserve and manage their wealth learn more at fidelity dot com slash wealth but ality brokerage services l.l.c. 1st we call them jeeps but they're now kin to Fiat's Peugeot's in situ ns with the approval today of a merger of equals between fee at Chrysler of London them another lens and p.s.a. Of Paris this will become the 4th largest seller of cars and trucks in the world here's Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer if the merger is approved by regulators and shareholders brands like Jeep dodge Alfa rim a.o. And Opel would be under one roof the 2 auto makers say they won't be closing any factories they don't make any promises about layoffs they say the combined company will save about $4000000000.00 a year from beefed up purchasing power into bigger corporation can get better prices for parts and supplies and also from improved efficiency since most of their vehicles will be built using 2 standard platforms the merger is expected to be finalized in about a year last week u.a.w. Members voted in favor of a new contract with Reuters is reporting that it will meet with Italian Trade Unions this Friday to discuss details of the merger as a thank you for that a $1.00 trillion dollars spending deal has passed in the house and no heads to the Senate where it needs approval by Friday to avert a government shutdown $738000000000.00 for national security funding $632000000000.00 for domestic agencies and some taxes that were supposed to happen will not including 3 that have been designed to pay for the Affordable Care. Act Obamacare for instance the controversial 40 percent tax on the fanciest of employer health plans is now gone there's more let's bring in Mark maser director of the urban Brookings Tax Policy Center thanks for doing this great have a beer the legislation this week in Congress also extends some tax breaks for some specific industries want to have a couple of them for me they include a whole range of things special depreciation rules for race horses and car racing tracks special provisions for maintenance of revenue tracks. Tax credits for electric vehicles in producing renewable energy and producing bio diesel fuel one in particular was a scheduled increase in excise taxes for beer wine and distilled spirits that Congress passed in 2017 and that would expire at the end of 2019 and obviously no no congressman wants to go home and report that you're going to go up. You have the figure at hand how much is all this going to cost the Treasury i.e. The taxpayer so over the next 10 years the total cost of this tech these types of regions about 426 $1000000000.00 for $26000000000.00 I mean that's Get didn't close to half a trillion this if you round out. Correct and if you think about the $27000.00 tax bill that was one of the have trillion dollars over over a decade and that was a giant tax overhaul this is perceived as a relatively small bill and it's about a quarter of the cost mark maser director of the urban Brookings Tax Policy Center always good to talk to you great things out there it. Checking markets Londons up a term percent here the s. And p. Futures up above 2 point Marketplace Morning Report is supported by black line helping over 200000 accountants at midsize and large enterprises achieve visibility control and automation for their financial close blackline dot com because trust is in the balance and by a.d.p. Focused on transforming how work gets done with h.r. Talent Time benefits and payroll informed by data and design for people a.d.p. Always designing for people around the world pocketbook issues have been the catalyst for protests against inequality in Lebanon it started with attacks on what's up calls in Chile demonstrations started with an increase in ticket prices on public transit were protests now include calls to overhaul pensions and change the Constitution in Chile's capital Santiago the effects of the ongoing protests have brought some businesses to the brink Here's the B.B.C.'s Jane chambers. The dignities class it's been renamed is at the heart of the protests in Chile pavement to be ripped up to make barricades and that's graffiti everywhere many of the shops are now boarded up but to the c.s.s. Suites drinks and biscuits and a small kiosk right next door to the now destroyed metro station full of a body get it every day there have been protests and after 3 pm I have to pack up and leave They destroyed my kiosk but I take all the merchandise with me and the delinquents throw rocks at the police and they fight back or take gas and water cannon my head hurts because of the take the situation has damaged my house it's not just her health that's been damaged sales at her shop the down by 80 percent compared to this is not sure how much longer she can keep Skype and but some people here are making the situation work for them street vendors have adapted their products to appeal to a new market but he hid under city's south brightly colored bandanas the flats in the political beliefs of the. There is protest it's just us and I was working as an able driver but I couldn't get around because of all of the demonstrators look in the streets now I saw souvenirs of the social unrest the tourists and protests because I walking around the streets many of the restaurants are empty or closed and hotels are having a rough time. Just down the road from class Italia she explains how the UN's decision to move its annual climate conference from Chile to Madrid this month has impacted the business that we were meant to be completely full for cup 25 and then it was canceled because of the situation here and most of our reservations were canceled the same thing happened with APAC 2 big events that meant the hotel should have been full but not now China's pastor is down an economic forecasts have been slashed since protests began in October the government's helping businesses have been looted but counted in once more to be done to get this area back on its feet. And we are asking the government for money but we do need the right conditions to work for the pavements to be fixed and streetlights to return so people feel safe walking about at night. Business owners around here struggling to pay their stuff and overheads this once thriving historic area Santiago desperately needs people to come back to spend their money if it's going to survive in Santiago and the B.B.C.'s Jane chambers the marketplace also covering news that Britain's central bank will start doing stress tests on insurance companies and banks to see how hold up in the face of climate change Marketplace Morning Report podcast feed if you missed that on the Air I'm David Brancaccio. And this is from a.p.m. American Public Media. This is b. We want to invite you to a New Year's Eve party at the sunflower theater all you have to do is show December 28th at 7 pm So bring your family and have a good time on a free admission. Or we're going to tell them about the contest I think you just did. This is case study ideas stories community 91.5 k. Stadium Cortez 90.5 k. Z e t toy 89.5 k. I c o Rico and courtesy of the nec college 92 point one k. X. w r P Saley listen and make us that 91 point one and unpleasant view at 90.9 follow us on Facebook Twitter Instagram and on the web. You're listening to Morning Edition and the f.b.i. Is facing more criticism over its surveillance of a former Trump campaign advisor it comes in the shape of a rare ruling from the secretive court that oversees intelligence gathering more Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. This hour a whistleblower complaint against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints I'm David Greene and I'm no well King a former investment manager says the church miscues $100000000000.00 that was meant for charity. Also the shutdown of the Boeing 737 Max could slow overall economic growth and research shows a racial divide in the opportunity gap will go to Albany New York where kids with the best chances live in a few select neighborhoods It's Wednesday December 18th singer Billy Eilish is 18 today. And the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Corba Coleman today lawmakers in the House of Representatives will take up the impeachment case against President Donald Trump N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor reports the lawmakers will debate 2 articles of impeachment the articles charged President Trump with abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress each was approved on a party line vote last week by the House Judiciary Committee and it's expected today's vote will also closely follow party lines Democrats say the president betrayed the nation's trust by enlisting a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections and that his defiance of House subpoenas for information and testimony constituted an assault on the impeachment clause itself President Trump fired off an angry letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the eve of the vote calling the impeachment effort an illegal partisan attempted coup and telling Palosi quote you view democracy as your enemy Brian Naylor n.p.r. News Washington meanwhile thousands of people held rallies on Tuesday to call for the president's impeachment activists gathered in cities from New York to California and in towns from Alaska to Florida the League of Women Voters has filed a federal lawsuit to try to stop the potential removal of more than 200000 names from voter rolls in Wisconsin from member station Wu w.-m. In Milwaukee reports the league claims voters did not get enough notice a state judge in Wisconsin has ruled that election officials should within 30 days remove about 234000 names from the role of registered voters but the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin argues the removal would violate federal due process projections one of the league's attorneys Cecilia Hagel era of the Washington d.c. Based fair Alexion Center says the group is asking for a slow down until the election commission has an opportunity to know.

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The president dials chose his road is their duty to investigate is their duty to made the barrier for undoing a national election in a letter sent Sunday Schumer asked McConnell to agree to call for administration officials including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Nick all they need even if McConnell and Schumer do not come to an increment senators can still try to call witnesses once a trial has begun those requests would be subject to a simple majority vote Kelsey smell n.p.r. News Washington the House vote in favor of impeachment is in little doubt but the Senate trial is widely expected to go the other way that's because in the g.o.p. Controlled Senate many lawmakers say they've already seen all the evidence they need to make up their minds however in an interview with N.P.R.'s All Things Considered today Maine Senator Susan Collins says she won't be preg prejudging the case I have not bait up my mind and I think it would be inappropriate for me to have made up my mind but for I hear the presentations from both sides Collins is a moderate Republican one of a closely watched few who have broken ranks on key votes in the past in a blistering letter to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi today trunk and damn the impeachment process calling it a perversion of justice and abuse of power and part of a Democratic effort to remove him from office the House of Representatives has approved a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package to keep the government funded N.P.R.'s Claudio reports the measures were approved along a bipartisan vote House lawmakers approved 2 massive spending bills to fund the government through September 2020 the government is operating off a temporary funding measure that runs out of money Friday night the Senate is now poised to vote on the measures later this week President Trump has previously threatened to veto spending measures but White House advisor Kellyanne Conway said the legislation should become law the president is poised to sign in to keep the government open President Trump must sign the measures by Friday. At midnight to avert a government shutdown cloudy sadness n.p.r. News the Capitol u.s. Employers were throwing up help wanted signs in October pointing to continued strength in the job market Labor Department reporting today the number of available positions rose by just over 3 percent to 7300000 for almost a year now it's been easier for people to want to job to find one with more job postings than unemployed people stocks gain ground today the Dow up 31 points this is n.p.r. It is 4 o 4 with Cap Radio News I'm Randall White California is exploring how sea level rise is expected to worsen as the climate crisis grows kept radios as are David remember all reports those rising waters threaten among other things the state's iconic beach identity that. People love the Golden State because of the coastline. Songs like Katy Perry's California Girls embodied us but the oceans response to climate change threatens that very identity it's part of what you often hear described as being Californian Christine Woodcraft studies sea level rise at Cal State Long Beach threats from sea level rise are important for economics but they're also important for the intrinsic value they have to us as Californians the sea could rise by at least 7 feet by the end of the century and that could have a huge impact on the millions of people that live along the coast we could lose 2 thirds of our beaches absent any action Rachel ailerons is with the legislative analysts office the group recently released a study on the issue it's not just wealthy people who will be impacted there's a lot of communities that have a lot of folks with lower incomes folks who don't have cars so they may not be able to get out when there's flooding the researchers also found a gap and how the state wants to address sea level rise and how localities are the big issues come down the funding. 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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro all of Washington is focused on the expected House vote on impeachment tomorrow President Trump was asked about it earlier today but you never want to receive the money I want you to have and I've not seen it let me say you know hopes the whole impeachment thing is a hoax and we look forward to getting on to the Senate. We're not entitled to lawyers we're not entitled to witnesses we're not entitled to anything in the house it's a total sham Well the president had a few more things to say about impeachment he wrote a 6 page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasting the proceedings you are declaring open war on American democracy Trump wrote national political correspondent Mara Liasson is at the White House and joins us now to talk about this letter Hi Mara Hi Ari This letter is full of exclamation points and suppose why did the president write it he wrote it I think to get a lot of things off his chest he is hopping mad about impeachment he's very upset about it even though he has said that he's going to benefit politically by it this letter kind of reads like a 6 page tweet but he didn't take to Twitter he wanted to put this in a more formal format and he put you're not a White House that had Oracle record has a lot of 100 years from now people can read what he said that this shouldn't happen to another president he said more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem witch trials again he called the impeachment process a coup he said he did nothing wrong he complained about a long laundry dissed of what of what long laundry list of what he called the ranged and radical far left Democrats he named Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff he said the Democrats have never gotten over losing the 2016 election he says they'll pay the price in 2020 he said You are the ones interfering in America's elections you're the one subverting Americans democracy you're the ones obstructing justice you're the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan gain it's kind of like I'm rubber you're glue this was a fairy long angry screed and some familiar argue. It's one that really stood out is that he criticizes Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi specifically for describing the proceedings as prayerful What do you make outline of a this is clearly gotten under his skin he said you are offending Americans of faith by continuing Lisa continually saying I pray for the president of course Nancy Pelosi is a devout Catholic he says when you know the statement is not true unless it's meant in a negative sense it's a terrible thing you're doing but you'll have to live with it not I And later in the letter he also he takes up the same theme he says perhaps most insulting of all is your false display of solemnity you expect the American to be able to believe that you're approaching this impeachment somberly reservedly and reluctantly and what's so interesting is that Nancy Pelosi has gone about this in a very somber manner there's no reporting that behind the scenes she is gleeful or gloating about impeaching the president and this really really offended him you can almost hear him shouting as you read the letter how does this compare to the way President Clinton handled impeachment some 20 years ago well behind the scenes President Clinton was also hopping mad and he vented plenty but he did have a different model a different plan he showed every day that he was demonstrating he was he would demonstrate that he was working on the country's business he said I'm going to not let impeachment distract me out here doing what the people sent me here to do so that was his method he didn't want to let the country know that he was really see them about it even though he was quite angry in private and President Trump acts like impeachment is all he has on his mind even though he's on the cusp of getting approval for his u.s.m.c. a Trade deal he got approval for the Space Force the White House has tried to showcase his other work in his victories but he doesn't seem to want to participate there is one paragraph in a letter where he lists all those things in a 6 pages but yes he does setting aside the letter where are we in this process what happens next well the House is meeting today to do. Determine the rules of the debate which will happen tomorrow on the floor there's not a lot of suspense about the votes the Democrats have the votes to impeach the president we don't expect any Republicans to cross over and vote yes the only question is how many Democrats will vote no we have seen a parade of Democrats from districts that voted for Trump in 2016 come out and say they will vote in favor of impeachment and that is a but big political risk it could cost them their jobs and then it moves to the Senate trial is that also a foregone conclusion I think that the president will be acquitted that's a foregone conclusion Majority Leader McConnell rejected Democratic leadership Murs request for witnesses in the past rumor McConnell has said that calling witnesses mutually assured destruction sounds like it'll be a 2 approximately 2 week trial in the Senate with no witnesses and even though the president wanted Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Adam Schiff to testify he's going to let McConnell make that decision and c.r.s. Mara Liasson at the White House thank you thank you Pope Francis has ordered big changes in how the Catholic Church deals with clerical sex abuse of children he's a string in more transparency by lifting what's known as the rule of pontifical secrecy some churches have invoked that rule in denying victims and law enforcement access to information about their cases N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports on this and the other announcements Francis made today. Today's announcement was welcomed by many survivors of sex abuse and their advocates Marie Collins abused by a priest as a child in her native Ireland had resigned in 2017 in frustration from a papal commission on abuse because of what she did now and as Vatican resistance today she held the reform tweeting excellent news at last a real and positive change and Barrett Doyle co-director of the abuse documentation website Bishop Accountability dot org said the pope has taken an overdue and desperately needed step as sex abuse scandals rocked the Catholic Church over the last few decades there has been mounting criticism the pontifical secrecy was used to protect pedophiles silence victims and prevent law enforcement from investigations Meanwhile from Chile to France to the United States and Australia law enforcement officials have begun to convict not only abusive priests but also bishops who failed to report them in accordance with the pope's ruling from now on information on abuse cases must be protected by church leaders to ensure its security and integrity but the high degree of confidentiality imposed by pontifical secrecy no longer applies Archbishop Charles she Clune of the Vatican's top sex abuse investigator hailed the move as an ethical decision in transparency he told Vatican Media that Pope Francis is lifting of the secrecy seal opens up avid use of communication with victims and facilitates collaboration with civilian authorities in another ruling Pope Francis raised from 14 to 18 the age that pictures of individuals can be considered child pornography for purposes of sexual gratification by whatever means or using whatever technology and into a 3rd move today the pope accepted the resignation of his ambassador to France who has been accused of sexual misconduct so. Jolie n.p.r. News Rome black and Hispanic Americans are especially vulnerable to all timers but these groups are often under-represented in scientific studies of the disease N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton says scientists are trying new ways to diversify their research scientists often look for study volunteers at clinics or medical centers but it team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is trying something different. On this Sunday morning they've come to a fundraising walk organized by the local chapter of the old timers Association well God and everybody have everybody you know before the walk begins the crowd gets a pep talk from Representative Stephanie Howes she's African-American she also takes care of her mother who has dementia some days have been hard right there right but there are we've been having a lot of great days a lot of good memories a diverse crowd of about 4000 people have shown up and the ones who stopped by the vendor tables are likely to meet Leah Cummings one of 2 Research Associates from the medical school at Case Western So we're looking for a family minorities and people with early on that it's a genetic thing Cummings explains that the goal is to find genes that contribute to memory loss especially genes that might be different in African-Americans and Hispanics it is gives you some more information about our study Ok if you are these older you want to be there and then feel free to take anything else are you Ok if I'm right thank you for coming says despite the big crowd the study is a tough sell so far no one has signed up for were hoping that would get a few names today the recruiting effort in Cleveland is part of a nationwide strategy funded by the National Institute on Aging Jonathan Haynes a professor at Case Western says diversifying research studies is the best way to answer some outstanding questions about race ethnicity and Alzheimers historically we have not been looking at a lot of the diverse populations and so there's some evidence that it's different in different Poppy. But there's a lot that we still need to learn so Haynes and other researchers are asking minority communities for help we actually need to have thousands and thousands of individuals participate in these studies to really understand the genetics of Alzheimer's disease the university is trying to make it easy to participate people who sign up can even ask to have a researcher visit their home to collect blood samples and health information but Haines says in minority communities it's about more than convenience one of the concerns that we often deal with is an issue of trust trust in doctors and medical institutions and the good intentions of researchers that often requires building a relationship and again says talking to people at an all time as well is one way to start. But. Today's walkers include many African-Americans one is Robert Smith whose aunt has all timers I've been up since 230 this morning and I ran over here to make sure I made the event Smith says he's no fan of doctor visits but would consider signing up Lauren Alzheimers Study Yeah absolutely if they may help find a cure I'm all for receipt of Brantley has a grandfather who died with all timers and rarely works in the dementia unit of a retirement home so I ask if she's interested in joining the genetic study at Case Western Well yes because I would want to know if if this genetic you know it is in my genes you know what would be passed down yeah what I would do if I was asked yes Case Western researchers were able to sign up for people for their study before the walk was over Jon Hamilton n.p.r. News. 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When Chuck almost prison sentence ended last year he came home to his mother's cozy house in Shelton Washington and that's where I went to meet him would you go I remember him. Chuck home as quick to apologize for the way his body is shaking these are tremors that come and go I've been shaken for the last this fall on one second day he says the tremors started after he was strangled by his cellmate in prison he was West with a serious brain injury and you know. I'll shake for 2 days then I might go a week or maybe even if I'm lucky I'll go 2 weeks but then I'll shake for nother 2 days straight or more and on this day his whole body is shaking nonstop his arms and hands his legs his shoulders imagine your body. Make an uncontrollable your uncontrollable jerks it depends on how this is going to go but maybe tomorrow he will be able to feed in South are nothing that's his mother Donna coma I'll have to be had they think it the public it's probably in me they didn't say that I'm saying Chuck coma he's 51 came home from prison with other disabilities to memory loss an explosive temper his vision is blurry he has difficulty walking coma served time for armed bank robbery he was a prisoner at the federal prison in Lewisburg Pennsylvania in the special management unit set up for prisoners considered dangerous or disruptive prisons often put 2 men into one small solitary confinement cell when we did our stories 3 years ago the Federal Bureau of Prisons justified this double cell solitary confinement suicides go up in regular solitary confinement so putting 2 men together is a way to cut down on suicides and it's troop suicides go down but homicides go up there are high rates of violence between prisoners locked together in cells no bigger than a parking space for days weeks and months on end that was the conclusion of N.P.R.'s reporting with the Marshall Project which reports on criminal justice it happened the 26th of February in 2016 a Friday afternoon the prison one called across the country until Saturday it was the prison chaplain he got hold of me and he said you have a son named Charles Comey and I said yes I do and he said well the incident happened and they don't know if he's going to live through the night the chaplain promised someone would call back with more information but then no one called. 2 days later that a coma finally reached someone at the prison I think what happened they wouldn't tell us nothing and he said he tried to kill himself it was a suicide I would I know he game the injuries were life threatening her son couldn't eat he was fed through a tube he couldn't breathe a surgeon cut through his neck to connect another tube to his windpipe Well that's a brain you didn't do when it that's what the cars. Or the breathe and keep me keep me breathing even today the Federal Bureau of Prisons suggests comes injuries are the result of a suicide attempt in its response to a lawsuit filed by the family the government says comment was found hanging in his cell but that's false we know because we have the Bureau of Prisons own internal investigation it concludes come it wasn't found hanging and it wasn't a suicide attempt. We found the report among more than $1000.00 pages documenting inmate on inmate violence that n.p.r. And the Marshall Project up tain by filing Freedom of Information Act requests Originally it was come as some aide who said it was a suicide that he income a class SOCOM a fake the suicide thinking it would get a move to another cell but the fake suicide went wrong he gets not remember about the incident than a coma is right her son's memory of what happened is a cost but prison officials investigated and concluded the summit was why that he had strangled coma Comet was found on the floor of a cell he wasn't hanging a bed sheet was tied around his back but the she was loose and the knot around his neck was one that a person can tie on himself koma had been kicked and hit the summer I was disciplined he was moved to disciplinary segregation which at Louisburg meant he most likely ended up in his own cell that some made by the way it killed another inmate and another prison we asked the Bureau of Prisons to comment on what we found a spokeswoman said they can't talk about it because of the family's pending lawsuit . We've come to a fence at the water's edge on Puget Sound where police caught Chuck coma after he robbed the bank according to the police report this is where chalk being chased by several members of the Olympia Police Department pulled over in a white 2 door Mercury crashed through a chain link fence that's our reporting partner Christy Thompson of the Marshall Project got out of the car wearing a full scuba suit the newspapers would call it a James Bond plot but mostly it was just delusional he'd robbed the bank wearing a long raincoat over a wetsuit he had scuba tanks in his car and his plan was that crashed his car in the Puget Sound and swim away the police would find the submerged car and figured he drowned only the police saw him chased him and caught him before he could get into the water today coma says he was high on drugs he spent almost 15 years in prison the last 2 and a half years in a prison hospital he came home last year the day after Christmas severely disabled after that attack by his cellmate looking far you came for Chuck coma he just wants to get out of his mother's house and live on his own maybe buy a motor home and drive across country but his injuries get in the way there is no doubt in my mind you will get better because you have in you seen me shake in all day Chuck coma is an Army veteran he saw combat in Panama and the Gulf War when he came home with Gulf War Syndrome with p.t.s.d. The Veterans Health Administration was there to care for him when he came home from prison this time with even more significant injuries he went months without medical care I were rather been dead than be in the man right now probably so coma is stuck at his mother's home arguing about how much will get better and who will take care of him after his mother dies Ok let me put it this way you know I have. Yeah you know what I go through I do not wish that I would die I want to live for another 50 years of began. So I don't think you're in any worse shape than me probably maybe you're stronger. The year Chuck koma was attacked in prison the marshal Project found there were some $3000.00 inmate on inmate assaults in federal prisons more than 90 percent of prisoners one day will come back home some of them like Chuck comma with lifelong injuries Joseph Shapiro n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. The House votes on whether to impeach President Trump no one not even the president is above the law will he be brought to trial for abusing his power and obstructing Congress to use the power of impeachment on this non-church is an embarrassment to this country I'm Mary Louise Kelly join us for live special coverage of the House floor debate and the historic vote from n.p.r. News. That starts tomorrow morning at 6 on capper a.t.o. 90.9 Sacramento streaming at Cap radio dot org In the Valley tonight a 30 percent chance of showers in a low near 40 degrees cloudy for the foothills it will be around $33.00. 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Are any Republicans today willing to muster the strength to say that what this president did was wrong Meanwhile Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is not unusual on the question of whether the president should be removed from office he tells n.p.r. This is a political process there's not anything judicial about it the House made a partisan political decision to impeach he says in New Jersey hundreds of mourners came out for the funeral of a police detective killed last week in connection with an attack on a market that left 5 others dead N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports police from across the region lined the streets for blocks to pay their respects in the cold rain a procession led by officers on motorcycles lights flashing escorted detective Joseph seals cough and from the funeral home to St Aiden's church. 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It is 432 with Cap radio news on Randall White the home of the suspected Golden State killer has sold to a couple who say they intend to live there Joseph D'Angelo as $1500.00 square foot house in Citrus Heights was sold last month but 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch on sold for $320000.00 that price is near the bottom of the market for the area the 74 year old former police officer is awaiting trial on charges he broke into dozens of homes or out California in the 1970 s. And. Eighty's raping and often killing real estate experts say it is likely the buyers were told who lived in the home California's congressional delegation is expected to split along party lines tomorrow when the House votes on whether to impeach President Donald Trump kept Radio's Ben Adler says that includes the swing district Democrats who flipped seats last year from red to blue all 6 1st year Democrats who represent competitive districts have either hinted or outright declared they'll vote for impeachment Josh harder in t.j. 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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro Washington is full of negotiating spinning and finger pointing before the expected House vote on impeachment tomorrow if Democrats have the votes as expected a Senate trial will follow in January today Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected Democratic leader Chuck Schumer's request for witnesses in a Senate trial shows this road is their duty to investigate is their duty to made the very undoing a national election Schumer was hoping to get White House officials that refused to participate in the House to testify in the Senate meanwhile President Trump sent a long letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi objecting to the impeachment process and he accused Democrats of interfering in America's elections and subverting America's democracy. In the Senate a team of House Democrats known as impeachment managers will present the case against President Trump 2 decades ago Chris Cannon was one of the impeachment managers in the case against President Bill Clinton and the former Republican congressman from Utah joins us now welcome oh what is the job description of an impeachment manager Well it's kind of vague and depends a great deal on the Senate in the rules they set that piece of managers essential a prosecutor a guy who presents a criminal case or a litigator who presents a case in the civil situation and how much guidance does the Constitution actually give about the role of these managers almost 0 Ok there is a requirement that it go to the Senate if the president is impeached for a trial and the House managers are in charge of of how they present the material in the Senate Ok So Congress has a lot of freedom to set the rules here and we're already hearing some rumblings about what this might look like in the New Year in the Senate with President Trump compare that to what you experienced 20 years ago with President Clinton one of the fascinating differences today is that in the case of the impeachment of Bill Clinton the Senate decided to set rules and what that sense of became was a question answer situation where senators ask questions and the managers answer those questions and then the defense team for the president also answer those questions so there's no presentation of the case you're just kind of a q. And a I personally found it ridiculous you found it ridiculous why it ridiculous because a trial actually has meaning in the middle American constitutional system that means that you present witnesses that the defendant has the right to confront those witnesses and that you have examination cross-examination presentation of evidence and then a decision in this case all you had were random questions from people who are embarrassed about. The underlying issues embarrassed because it was sexual in nature yeah right as opposed to the crimes which were alleged and which got very little mention and you could have 3 possible outcomes a trial which is basically a debate and a vote that may result in no presentation of evidence at the other extreme you'd have a full trial where you would have witnesses and examination by the managers and then cross-examination by the president and then witnesses called by the president and cross-examined by the managers and all the issues that of the president is convinced vindicate him would probably come out and that is probably. A risky process and so I suspect that it's going to be something less than that but it's up to the senators to decide several of the people who manage Clinton's impeachment went on to much higher profile roles in politics if a friend asked you for advice on whether or not to take a job like this what would you tell them I think this is going to be a really miserable experience for a Democrat impeachment manager because they're going to be subject to the regulations of of the Senate and I don't think those are going to be favorable to even the most eloquent and articulate of prosecutors That's former Republican congressman if you talk Chris Cannon he was an impeachment manager in the trial of President Bill Clinton thank you very much a pleasure my friend. It took 7 decades after World War 2 to put together a system of free trade around the world that system has been rocked in just the last 7 days the president today announced what he's calling a phase one trade deal with China the 2 sides are very close on a deal on u.s.m.c. And you could see that analogous Johnson hoped his victory would bring closure to the breadth of debate and let the healing begin on both sides of the Atlantic populous leaders are challenging long established notions of how trade should be conducted President Trump and u.k. Prime minister Boris Johnson are winning praise for their efforts in some quarters but also raising questions about unintended fallout N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports President Trump not wins on 2 fronts in his trade war last week congressional Democrats okayed an updated version of a trade pact with Mexico and Canada and China agreed to a preliminary deal of its own trade representative Robert light hisor told c.b.s. Long months at the negotiating table all came together at once Friday was probably the most momentous day in trade history ever both deals purport to foster cross border trade but they also include protectionist measures and to get their Trump put up roadblocks ordering stiff tariffs against Canada Mexico and China those countries retaliated so farmers and manufacturers have paid a price for the trade war but White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow insisted to Fox News it was all worth it it does show that president trumps example of being a tough hard nosed bargain or on trade and economic matters works an ocean away Boris Johnson is pushing his own hard nosed agenda insisting after last week's election that the u.k. Will pull out of the European Union No if buts or maybe economist Matthew Slaughter who served in the George w. Bush White House sees a common thread between Johnson and Trump we have leaders today saying that they want to be connected to the world. Old but only on terms that they dictate and only according to the criteria for what constitutes winning and with a lot of threats that 0 sum approach is it augurs with the rules based international order that the u.s. Spent decades helping to build Johnson and have little regard for that order while Johnson is bent on withdrawing from the e.u. Trump is kneecapping the World Trade Organization just last week the president block the ability to referee trade disputes with no referee Trump is freer to follow his own protectionist instincts slapping tariffs on friends and foes alike former Trade Representative Carl Hill says when other countries follow that example the global economy suffers if we're all going to go out you know laterally and just impose tariffs it's going to have friction and fraction can explode to be sure freer trade hasn't worked equally well for everyone while some industries have thrived with access to global markets others have suffered from overseas competition Slaughter who's now at Dartmouth says populist leaders like Trump and Johnson may be well intentioned in catering to those who feel hurt by globalization but he suggest protectionist trade agreements and a withdrawal from Global Engagement are not the answers most people don't want just wall to get the globalization in general is good what they really want our bridges that will build ladders of opportunity at the same time so people would have a chance to thrive and benefit from all the dynamism of innovation and globalization the last 7 days have exposed deep cracks in the global trading system the months to come will show whether those cracks can be repaired or if the system is bound to crumble under populist pressure Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington. You're listening to All Things Considered. These days a big city police chief doesn't last long in that job for years if they're lucky that's been the case in Chicago the country's 2nd largest police department the last 2 superintendents each spent less than 5 years as the city's top cop now the city's on the search for a new one and people in Chicago have strong opinions about what they want N.P.R.'s Cheryl Corley reports. The 1st public conversations about Chicago's next police superintendent opened in the sanctuary of a church on the city's South Side Thank you. Forming on the radio and Foreman as the head of the Chicago Police Board that's a group that will recruit interview and ultimately select 3 finalists to present to Chicago mayor Laurie Lightfoot the board got an earful from regular Chicagoans So what they do we want to make sure is that this process isn't another dog and pony show because of the mayor isn't the only one that don't like being lied to our community does not like be alive to Eric Rosser was like many in the city who have strong feelings about the Chicago Police Department mayor Lori Lightfoot who campaigned on police reform is another she fired former superintendent Eddie Johnson just weeks before he was to retire saying he lied to her about an incident where police found him asleep at the wheel of a running car 3 years ago life would lead the police board when former mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Johnson's predecessor he also rejected the police board's recommendations and selected Johnson as superintendent whoever Lightfoot selects to lead the department next will be the city's 3rd superintendent since 2011 Renee Collins says that person should come from the outside the culture inside the Chicago Police Department is so corrupt at this point. Not change them but glad it's true Anderson a retired law enforcement officer favors the inside track the superintendent for us of law has to come up to the rights they. No Was happen it out there the next Chicago police superintendent will have to take on some big challenges and entrenched problems prolific gun violence in some neighborhoods a lack of trust between residents and police plus he or she will have to work under a consent decree designed to overhaul the entire department that came as a result of widespread protest over a police shooting of a black teenager which led to the firing of the police superintendent at the time and a Department of Justice investigation I'd like to see a superintendent that has heart Robert Beekman a pastor says honesty and integrity are key for any police superintendent but Hart he says is just as important somebody who connects with community which has been failing in some of our previous superintendents Chuck Wexler is the head of the Police Executive Research Forum it's a police think tank based in Washington that keeps track of the reform efforts here and in other cities Wexler says just like in New Orleans in Baltimore a new Chicago superintendent might find that consent decree is not just a challenge but an opportunity to rebuild the city's police department for example changing use of force policies all require new training new technology all sorts of things that a department might not get and while the Chicago police board continues to ask people what they want in a superintendent the board is also reaching out to potential candidates locally and across the country anyone looking to turn around a big city police department has until mid January to get an application in Cheryl Corley n.p.r. 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Variety of lights and inspirers and that makes morning edition of the perfect fit for this holiday season bringing you stories on science and arts extensive election coverage and of course the latest news as well keep us on your nice list listen every day from n.p.r. News weekdays on Caprio It's 450. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish more than 5000 years ago a woman in Scandinavia chewed on a piece of birch a rudimentary chewing gum of sorts that as N.P.R.'s Merrit Kennedy reports has proven to be a remarkable source of ancient d.n.a. This dark little blob of birch pitch would be pretty easy to overlook at an archaeological site essentially it's a black brown substance that was obtained by heating birch bark but Hunnish Schroeder a paleo geneticist at the University of Copenhagen says a student coming from the site brought it to him with a question can we get d.n.a. Out of this and you know you well wouldn't you know we haven't really tried so let's give it a go people in the stone age would chew the substance and use it as a form of glue to put sharp points on to weapons they may have also used it as a kind of medicine so these were clues that it might contain d.n.a. But the researchers expected it to be difficult to extract it's still quite challenging to get you know a complete ancient human genome from human remains the d.n.a. Sequencing went better than they could have ever expected they were able to reconstruct a complete human genome Shorter's has the 1st time at an entire ancient human genome has been extracted from anything other than human bones or teeth the team published their findings in the journal Nature Communications and the d.n.a. Tells us a lot about this woman who lived about 5700 years ago she had this really you know striking combination of stark hair and dark skin and blue eyes Schroeder's has those features were common to other hunter gatherers in this area at the time which is now an island in Denmark he says that even though farmers were beginning to settle in northern Europe the woman's d.n.a. Does not show any traces of Farmer ancestry and even beyond her d.n.a. The scientists were also able to extract ancient microbes from her mouth there were sealed in the ancient gum they found traces of a virus and they also extracted remnants of what could have been the woman's leg. Last meal duck and hazelnuts shirt says it's unique to have d.n.a. Traces of microbes and clues about diet all from a single individual it's really the you know the rich picture from this kind of in conspicuous small lump of birch resin Herford molecular archaeologist Christina Warner's says she thinks that was incredibly creative to try to recover information from the ancient chewing gum and the finds has a lot about her field right now as our technology that we're using gets stronger we're starting to realize that much more of the past is preserved and we ever thought she recently tried analyzing chewed up stems from a cave in Mexico though unfortunately little information was preserved as technology has dramatically improved Warner says scientists should try to test more objects for d.n.a. That they find on archaeological sites gives me inspiration to go out and start looking for more of these unusual contexts in which we might find interesting information a pretty storied legacy for a piece of gum Merrit Kennedy n.p.r. News. After 25 years the number one the song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart is Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You . Know no one. Is more so. The thousands of new holiday songs have been released since but none has become an enduring standard like this one Chris clinic reports on the challenge of trying to crack the tiny Yuletide camera. Or is it. Easy. Right Carey single item wish list was the punctuation mark on half a century in which a new original secular holiday song would become ubiquitous every few years this was 970000000. Oh. Here's Nigeria one. Now $984.00. And 987. Of the songs or hate them you know that something you can likely say about any You'll tunes written lately but which I mean this century people still write them well this is a story about a misspelling Prince. It's so powerful there's no way that Mrs Santa Claus isn't the most important person in the room up in the North Pole so I thought she deserved to get some songs Aloe Blacc a Southern California singer songwriter who's been making records since 2003 had 8 new songs on his 28000 album Christmas funk it is intimidating to think about trying to write something that will stand the test of time he also wanted to try to expand the emotional palette of holiday music yeah we want to get together and have fun and give hugs and Christmas cheer there's also like some family members you just don't want to see for holidays and the Christmas thank. Goodness. She takes a picture of Dr Demento a pop music historian who specializes in oddities and ephemera likens the contraction of the Christmas playlist to increase your earning for tradition at this time of year I mean most Americans eat pretty much the same big meal every year turkey and all the trimmings if they introduce a new recipe people will comment about their mother what's this. Or a piece of the. Peach Pie You know my view is going to help me do that. Much time instead of one of the more traditional Christmas desserts I mentioned peach pie would. Is a little weird That's right Miller the front man of old 97 a country rock outfit formed in Dallas in the early ninety's so I like the idea of subverting the normal Christmas cliches but you know you sort of have to love them to subvert them quite a few attempts at dodging those cliches writing 9 new songs for the band's 2018 album Love the holidays that's why some people roll their eyes when the Christmas songs start out but he's willing to risk your annoyance to write a song that sees its emotional currency renewed every year I really love when songs have a utility when songs mean something in people's lives when they can be a part of people's lives when they can be a touchstone but I don't think there are any songs that are as useful or as fraught with really emotional baggage in a good way as Christmas and holiday songs on. This year's Molly Birch Christmas album is only the Austin based singer songwriters 3rd full length day or not it's 2 originals aren't pitched to the rafters the way Mariah Carey's pick it once was to write songs that felt like a little mix of classic. And I wanted them to sound like me Miller however would like to have an entry in the canon and he's going away for a new Christmas song is great as it might be and I wrote 9 fantastic ones but it's going to maybe take an entire generation for them to catch on you know we'll see if that sounds farfetched consider that Mariah Carey and all I want for christmas is you just hit number one in the Billboard Hot $100.00 for the 1st time it only seems like it's been there forever for n.p.r. News I'm Chris Cuomo. Thank you. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. 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I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish Coming up new discoveries in Tulsa Oklahoma about a massacre of black people that took place almost a century ago and never will forget some things that sell even though it was 5 years old donations pour into an Ohio food bank after the winner of this year's Heisman trophy talked about hunger in his hometown for Joey to say I'm up here for the kids who go home and don't have a lot of food on the table who are hungry yes here it's shot a life through the whole region the people that are going to care now these news headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer President Trump on the eve of an anticipated House vote to impeach him is accusing Democrats of pursuing an illegal partisan attempted coup you know a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Trump also making it clear he believes Democrats are using the process improperly N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson runs down some of the president's assertions peaching him they are to quote declaring open war on American democracy he also said that when Mansi Pelosi who is a devout Catholic says she's praying for the president he says quote You know the statement is not true unless it's meant in a negative sense it is a terrible thing you are doing but you will have to live with it not my trump letter comes as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today dismissed requests from Democrats for new witnesses and documents at a Senate trial expected to take place early next year members of the House Rules Committee Meanwhile met today ahead of what is expected to be tomorrow's a storage house vote to impeach the president a federal judge has sentenced Paul Mann affords former right hand man Rick gates to $45.00 days in jail and 3 years of probation as N.P.R.'s Ryan Lucas reports the president's former deputy campaign chairman became a key witness in the mall investigation in a brief statement to the court Rick Gates said he accepts full responsibility for his crimes and asked for leniency the decision rested with Judge Amy Berman Jackson in announcing her sentence Jackson said she struggled how to balance Gates his crimes with the vital information he provided investigators after pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Muller she knowledge that Gates provided extraordinary assistance he met with investigators more than 50 times.

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As of people are facing food shortages N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn is in the Capitol where there's no political resolution in sight. Also getting federal financial aid for college can be complicated right but Congress has approved changes to simplify the process. Immigrants journey from a lawyer in Nigeria to city councilor in Maine It is Wednesday December 18th happy cooking chef. Is 84 years old today. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm sure Rahm the House of Representatives is in session today to consider whether President Trump should be impeached right now members are debating the framework for the impeachment debate Congressman Jim McGovern is chairman of the Rules Committee he says It's unfortunate the house must proceed on this path our inquiry is simply to answer the following question Did President Trump and his top advisers corruptly withhold official government actions to obtain an improper advantage in the next election we now know who the hard work of our investigative committees and because of the president's own admission that the answer that question is yes the House has to debate the articles of impeachment for 6 hours and then vote both articles are expected to be approved along party lines the Senate will then hold a trial on whether President Trump should be removed from office Pohlmann afford president from former campaign chairman will not face state fraud charges after all a New York judge dismissed the case since he's already been convicted of similar federal charges the trumpet ministration hasn't achieved much on lowering prescription drug prices but today as N.P.R.'s Selena Simmons Duffin reports Trump officials are announcing a move to allow drug importation from Canada because the Canadian government negotiates with drug makers on prices and the u.s. Does not prescriptions in Canada are generally cheaper states such as Florida and Vermont attracted to those Canadian prices have been asking the federal government to let them import drugs in bulk from Canada President Trump has made clear he likes the idea and today officials are laying out the details there are serious questions about whether this would work however the Canadian government and drug makers would need to cooperate anything happening in real life is likely years away and officials could not say whether we would actually save money Selena Simmons Duffin n.p.r. News studies suggest the Global Gender Gap won't be closed for another century new . To stick show that's 8 years sooner than last year's estimate Terry Scholz reports the most progress is expected in education the World Economic Forum the predicts gender equality worldwide will only be achieved another 99.5 years the 14th Global Gender Gap Report surveys more than 150 countries ranking them by a quality of participation and opportunities in politics the economy and education as well as by health and survival rates Iceland takes the top spot for the 11th year in a row followed by Norway Finland Sweden and Nicaragua the Us ranks 53rd despite more women holding high profile political positions around the world equality in politics is the worst performing category meanwhile is projected to take just a dozen years to reach gender equality in education and 40 countries have already achieved that for n.p.r. News I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels stock prices are moving higher than Dow is up 32 points the s. And p. Is up 2 points this is n.p.r. News from Washington. This is statewide news from Alaska Public Media maybe Collins about the elementary school principal charged with trying to learn a minor into having sex and sending obscene material to a minor made his initial court appearance in Anchorage Tuesday agents with the f.b.i. His Child Exploitation Task Force arrested Christopher Carmichael principal of Bethel's gladdest junk elementary school in Bethel on December 11th the agents seized Carmichael's school computers and told school officials that no children were in danger but the charges against Carmichael say Bethel police began investigating him in June when a former student reported Carmichael had touched her inappropriately the charges say Carmichael was later caught having explicit text conversations with a minor and in November that he wrote similar sexually charged messages to an undercover f.b.i. Agent pretending to be another minor assistant u.s. Attorney Kyle Reardon says investigators are continuing to look closely at Carmichael are following up on every possible lead and end of the screen every possible date that we have and that comes in magistrate judge Matthew Scoble ordered Carmichael to remain behind bars Carmichael's attorney Burke one now declined to comment after the hearing reared in the prosecutor later addressed a question about why it took several months from when the initial report was made to Bethel Police in June to an agents arrested Carmichael in December Reardon says securing warrants to monitor a person's communications can take time and that law enforcement officers always want to build a strong case with solid evidence I don't know what it was that. Resulted in the case not being brought to our office until November. But I am confident that it was pursued as diligently as about the police department were able to do. But the police lieutenant Amy Davis the Department's acting chief says the initial report of sexual assault of a minor a state crime was under investigation at the local level Davis says she was talking to the f.b.i. About a different incident when the Carmichael case came up and the federal investigators offered to help well at the time to investigate on a case together. These things take a look at what Davis says the allegations of child sexual abuse remain under investigation. President Donald Trump has endorsed Alaska u.s. Senator Dan Sullivan is reelection in a tweet Trump says the Republican Sullivan is doing a great job for the state while also supporting Trump's agenda celebrants highest profile challenger so far is Al gross an independent who earned an early endorsement from the state Democratic Party this is Alaska Public Media the Alaska Morning News is brought to you in part by 1st National Bank Alaska offering online and mobile tools to help Alaskans 6 promises kept across current want to do if and be a law about support for n.p.r. Comes from Dr providing cloud backup full system back up and on site I drive appliance to protect P.C.'s Macs and servers from data loss due to crashes and ransomware and I drive dot com slash n.p.r. And Americans for the Arts This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm not well and I'm Noel King in Washington d.c. Good morning at this moment the u.s. House is voting on the rules that will inform the debate around President Trump's impeachment House House Rules Committee chairman Jim McGovern opened this way the president a successor to the same office is George Washington and Abraham Lincoln be trade his old to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. These aren't opinions these are uncontested facts and the top Republican on the Rules Committee Tom Cole had this to say it's going to be a deeply partisan vote coming at the end of an unfair and rushed process proscribed solely by Democrats to ensure a pre-determined result that vote will take place later today N.P.R.'s Claudio Grisel is on Capitol Hill she's with us now hey Claudia So an historic day what's it like there at the moment so the House of Representatives started out this historic day with a series of procedural votes related to Republicans efforts to adjourn the house or stop the proceedings with those failed in a series of votes House lawmakers have since moved on to these opening statements some of them very emotional ahead of this procedural vote perhaps this morning we could see that to wrap up before the actual debate on the Articles of Impeachment this afternoon I was in the chamber earlier this morning and you could sense the history in the air and the mood was very somber for both sides so these are rules votes that are happening now can you explain what that means exactly Well it depends on what side you ask them so for Republicans for example it's obviously an effort to stall the proceedings they this is their way of saying they're opposed to this process to the impeachment of the president they've been fiercely defendant of him throughout this and so for that that that's the Republicans a mare but for Democrats they are moving forward towards voting on this rule to set the stage for how this impeachment vote for on both these articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress could look later today what time do we expect this to be wrapping up today well this is a very fluid number it's Ok all day as we know on Capitol Hill things can shift on a dime but right now they're saying we could see the votes by 8 pm tonight we know one thing we learned from the previous proceedings before. Judiciary they don't want to vote on these articles in the dark of night so yeah late like 11 pm midnight get it on while people are still watching where exactly and they are granted an older Reporter Cody sellers thinks clay you know if the House passes the articles the Senate will begin a trial with all 100 senators serving as jurors Earlier today I talked to Indiana Republican Senator Mike Brown as jurors senators including you will take an oath to quote do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws and quote Are you prepared to do impartial justice here I am and I earlier was mentioned being objective I think the big issue is as we get into the Senate trial is there any other pertinent information that we hear beyond what we've heard so far and I think the easiest way to understand this idea of political is you could almost swap roles between McConnell and Shomer if you go back to the Clinton you know years so that I think is the best explanation of how this is political and look at the votes in the outcomes back then regardless of the reasons of how we got here so Senator Mitch McConnell says his mind is made up he is working in conjunction with the White House is your mind made up I think that's based upon once we get into the trial that there's nothing else we hear and I think in that case you could again say that same thing on both sides you know I'd wrote an op ed recently about how difficult this most must be for the 5 senators still in the presidential race on the Democratic side you know where none of us would probably be seated as jurors if you tried to parallel this completely to a court of law sounds like you are saying your mind is not made up that there is addition if you heard additional information you would be willing to vote to impeach she would be willing to vote guilty what what more do you want to learn about the president's behavior this point I don't think there will be any. Thing more to learn because we've had 3 renditions. The hearings behind closed doors and the public hearings the 4 constitutional experts and I'd listen carefully to see if I could glean anything from the 2 later discussions and I didn't really hear anything other than kind of a re. Taishan of stuff that we heard leaked out the main hit points you know early so your mind is made up not necessarily because I will never say never something different I'll consider it because I think we need to do that do you want to hear from witnesses and if you do who do you want to hear from I believe Sure I'd love to hear witnesses that we could call and vice versa to fix so who would you want to hear from. I would say that. I'm not sure about the whistleblower but I'd certainly probably want to hear from Biden are his son Hunter probably all the ones you've been hearing about and I think there that's a nonstarter that's a parlor game because both sides know witnesses won't be involved because you have to give the other side that same latitude and you know Chuck Schumer's already said that you know $100.00 Biden would be off the table in terms of the witness so I don't think we even start there but I know why the subject was broached It's all part of the process Ok this is the mutually assured destruction argument may I ask you in the seconds we have left what do you make of the letter that the president said to Nancy Pelosi it was in his own words some people refer to it as a rant or a bit unhinged it was certainly strong it was strong and if you look at the entirety of the 6 page letter I think it was. Almost every paragraph was something I heard before and it was kind of put into a compilation because I think for President Trump as much as he lets anything roll off his back. You know we're converging on a day here that you know he. Along said that impeachment is an ugly word and I think today is that day when it's formalized and for Mame. The foundation of how we got here in the 1st place is different from other proceedings and that to me taints the process a little bit and I think in the see that play out Senator Mike Brown of Indiana thank you for coming in good to be here more than a year after widespread complaints of mold mice and other issues the military is still struggling to improve conditions in private military housing the new defense budget includes a language that puts greater power in the hands of tenants and local commanders Steve Walsh with member station p.b.s. Has more. Yes and that's the intake and if I could show you on my intake at my house oh my goodness I hope when Bradley lives in military housing in San Diego Her husband is in the Navy she's become an unofficial spokeswoman for other residents in privately run military housing for some of these families this is the 1st time that they've lived away from home this is the 1st time that they have rented a home and been responsible for the things that happen with them at home and they just simply don't have the knowledge the problems with contractors who provide private military housing for each of the service branches made nationwide news over a year ago but those problems persist Marine families in San Diego have reported mice infestations inside their homes at Camp Pendleton Navy and Marine families complained about the slow response time from private maintenance contractors that's what they were not asking for anything outlandish we just want Holman's that don't make our children sick tenants complained about mold collecting in their ductwork in one development Lincoln Military Housing the private contractor who runs the subdivision sent a contractor who taped blue plastic all over their vents Bradley says the family hasn't been told when the contractor will be back she says the Navy has to do a better job of managing the private contractor a fellow like enough of us are saying hey guys this is not Ok Hey guys they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing for our families hey guys we need some help from somebody that can make something happen the Navy like all of the service branches about to get more involved after widespread complaints of substandard conditions made their way all the way to Congress last year but in San Diego alone the Navy found they had little leverage to force changes under their contract with Lincoln Military Housing right now again it's advocacy if there's a problem Captain Mark nice would tell me is the commander of naval base San Diego he says when problems arise he talks to the contractor my fellow command office when they're sailors have issues please bring them up and watch me suffer in silence let's hear about them. Because we don't know about them they say they're maybe struggling and they don't need to feel that way local commanders haven't had the authority to withhold incentive payments for substandard conditions for camp the nice widow me that's meant limited options those are the tools I have right now and the advocate for our families and could there be more tools that potentially come to the come a officers and they could payments are based on things like customer satisfaction surveys recently the General Accounting Office told Congress those surveys are suspect adding the Pentagon has little insight into the real condition of housing managed by private contractors Congress has included language in the defense budget that would require the Pentagon to negotiate a tenant's Bill of Rights for military housing local commanders would also have some discretion to withhold incentive payments hope Bradley who works with other military tenants in San Diego says families can feel stuck they can rent a place on their own but in pricey San Diego even finding a home can be tough our families are kind of ending position because a lot of them don't have anywhere else they can afford to live out in town in San Diego where there are complaints of mold in the ducks the contractor has told the Navy that every home will be inspected though for now at least $700.00 families are expected to remain in hotels over Christmas with no definite answer on when they'll come home for n.p.r. 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News I'm Joel King and I'm David Greene with the latest beer news one of the country's largest independent craft breweries is getting a new owner shareholders of New Belgium the maker of Fat Tire voted yesterday to sell to an international beer conglomerate with a controversial background Matt Blum from member station k.u.n.c. Reports on the end of an era for long time Fat Tire fans New Belgium started in the basement of a home in Fort Collins Colorado in the early ninety's and it's since grown into one of the country's largest independent beer distributors with a devoted following it's how Mary Collins a lifelong resident explained to people over the years where she was from it was like on her problems oh I love that tire like that's great so like you Belgium like really put us on the map sitting at a bar in town she says the sale changes things for her it's going to be really sad for me to like like it won't be as much of a point of pride for the company's new owner is a subsidiary of one of the world's largest beer makers Kiran holdings it's based in Tokyo with operations across the globe including Southeast Asia Belgium j m I 5 year Kiran's business dealings in Myanmar formerly Burma have come under fire by human rights groups including Amnesty International they say the company's operations there have financially benefited the military which the un is accused of serious human rights abuses Kiran has pushed back on the allegations saying any benefit provided to me and Mark was meant for humanitarian aid a pill Service spokeswoman for a New Belgium says it stands by Kiran they also have a commitment you know culture and the well being of our coworkers and that was actually progress the brewery was one of the 1st to be 100 percent employee owned that model is set to go away now my hope is that I can still go to New Belgium and feel like a New Belgium as I was working there Peter Bouckaert spent more than 2 decades as a company's brewmaster he saw. As a sale makes business sense the craft beer market is more competitive than ever and beer makers need a lot of capital if they want to keep growing I'm still surprised that so many breweries or want to open a lot of home brewers want to open but they don't really understand what this business is about there's distribution special taxes marketing Bowker knows as well as anyone else he left New Belgium about 2 years ago to give starting his own local brewery a try just a few miles down the street for n.p.r. News I'm Apple him a woman named Angelo Okafor has made history in the small city of Bangor Maine Okafor is an attorney and a small business owner and that she's something else too she's the 1st immigrant and the 1st person of color elected as a city councilor in Bangor Maine Public Radio's Robbie Feinberg sent us this. So I think it's not just for that update inside her small shop in downtown Bangor Angelo Okafor is chatting with the local mama she braids her hair a few feet from the styling chair Oka for his young daughter glides on a scooter through shelves of international foods and spices racks of African clothing sewn by okra for Lima wall it's a busy place she says and one that the city's small immigrant population seeks out for food and connection I have bikes here have jumpier groups I have played 2000 people bring come here to shop with the kids I write invites for me it's a community so what do you do on a shop like this didn't exist when 4 and her husband moved to mean from Nigeria about a dozen years ago on a work visa like most of the state Bangor is overwhelmingly white and for says the adjustment was hard people couldn't understand her and would often stop and stare and despite holding a law degree from her home country and passing the New York bar exam for says it was nearly impossible to get any job in the legal field employers told her she was either overqualified or said she needed the main experience they are frustrated he's been. Description I feel free to talk this not because I am my own employer but it watching a lot of other people who call civil dot com not speak up so for took things into her own hands 3 years ago she launched an immigration law practice which she could operate with her out of state license because of its basis in Federal Law She then opened her international food store and hair salon to provide needed services to Bangor as immigrant communities but she wasn't done earlier this year after seeing other immigrants bring their concerns to local leaders who were all white local For realized that they needed representation and you know who better to do that so one needs to do that and at some point I'm like why not me so Okafor got into the race for city council and last month she won handily becoming the 1st immigrant and person of color elected in Bangor is history city council chair Claire Davidge says that for will bring a needed perspective to city leadership and then to have her knowledge of law and as a small business owner that representation matters so much especially as we are losing workforce and trying to rebuild that for is one of dozens of women of color nationwide who have jumped into politics in recent years Kimberly Peeler Allen is a visiting practitioner at Rutgers University who founded higher heights a national nonprofit to elect black women to office she says her organization identified about 90 black women running for federal in statewide executive office in the 2800 cycle already they know there are more than that in 2020 and with months left to go until the filing deadlines in several states she says those numbers could easily keep climbing Peeler Alan partially attributes the shift to the national prominence of candidates like Camila Harris as well as dissatisfaction with current leaders particularly at the federal level so it is really propelling more women to say what else can I do you and how can I. Deeper level and I'm not happy with my current elected leadership so I think I think you a better job and they're throwing their hat in the ring box careful between customers in her small shop in Bangor Angela Forbes says she feels grateful for the newfound prominence in her city after years of overcoming barriers for me this is you know I grew up struggling I struggled at not growing up so. Right now I feel privileged I feel I'm very religious I feel blessed and while she still learning the ins and outs of her new role on the Bangor City Council before says she wants to focus on improving public transportation but she says has long affected families and small businesses now Okafor says she's in a position where she can make a difference for n.p.r. News I'm Robbie Feinberg in Bangor Maine. This is n.p.r. News. A historic day in Congress the full House of Representatives debates articles of impeachment against President Trump as in past impeachment inquiries technology has played a leading role received text messages on a 3 way what's up next a conversation with them both to vote groups on the I'm Ari Shapiro tech and impeachment this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for Alaska Public Media comes from Continental Subaru and the Subaru Forester standard symmetrical all wheel drive standard eye sight driver assist technology and 33 mpg learn more at Continental dash Subaru dot com and from Siri fireweed conference center offering 2000 square feet of conference space for training seminars and meetings rental details at fireweed Center dot com slash conference live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jenny Herb's live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying. The house will be in order on Capitol Hill the full House is now in the throes of a historic debate on President Trump's impeachment N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor tells us what's at stake in the Democratic majorities bid to impeach the 2 articles that the House takes up today charged President Trump with number one abusing the power of his office and secondly obstructing Congress each article was approved on a party line vote last week by the House Judiciary Committee and it's expected that today's final vote will also closely follow party lines on the eve of the vote President Trump fired off a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the impeachment effort an illegal partisan attempted coup N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor reporting the u.s. Senate holds a trial next year with Republicans in the majority present shop expects to be exonerated equity between men and women in the workplace continues to lag but Teri Schultz reports a new survey shows Iceland leads the way the World Economic Forum says despite more women taking high profile political posts around the world it is in political empowerment where gender parity suffers the most in the labor market female participation is stalled and inequalities are even increasing but in educational participation and opportunity the find equality could be reached in just a dozen years and 40 of the $153.00 countries surveyed are already there this is n.p.r. . Judge's greenlighting to settlements totaling $24.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to help compensate Pacific Gas and Electric customers who suffered losses in utility related wildfires in northern California today's approval bolsters p.g. And E.'s attempt to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30th Japan has announced new regulations on big tech companies like Facebook and Google Abigail Leonard has latest from Tokyo the Japanese government unveiled 5 guidelines that strengthen rules on big American tech firms as well as Japanese online retailers including Yahoo Japan the biggest change is that tech giants will have to disclose details of contracts with customers that's supposed to prevent big tech companies from abusing their market power to exploit small businesses the government says it will also strengthen personal data protections and allow individuals to requested to tell firms stop using their data. Japan's regulations are part of a global trend and chief cabinet secretary Yoshi he said they establish a new model for rules in the digital marketplace for n.p.r. News I'm Abigail Leonard in Tokyo a judge's greenlighting to settlements totaling $24.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to help compensate p.g. And e. 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And I'm David Greene in Culver City California the western hemisphere's poorest country Haiti has experienced months of anti-government protests these demonstrations have left more than 40 people dead crippled the economy and left millions in the Caribbean country on the brink of starvation opponents of the current president say he is corrupt and has mismanaged millions of dollars and must go but he is refusing it actually appears his grip on power could be tightening N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn is in the capital Port au Prince and joins us this morning hi Carrie good morning David can you just remind us of the context here what fueled this protest movement 80. It's corruption people are very upset about specifically this a low interest oil program that was sponsored by Venezuela to its ideological allies and neighbors here in the region Haiti received billions of dollars and there is no accounting for that money and people are extremely upset about that they want to know where is the money and now it sounds like going through a lot of suffering as as well I mean but but there does seem to be some sort of change me just weeks ago there were tens of thousands of protesters on the streets and it sounds like that is no longer the case I mean or are demonstrators giving up or what's happening no not at all but there definitely is a lol It sort of a holiday pre-Christian it's lol There is no resolution to the political crisis here but we definitely have seen a drop off in the size and the scope of the protests just Asians are tired of what they call here paid luck it's called the lockdown on the country but it just seems like a temporary calm and like he said they want the president to resign he says he has done nothing wrong and he is not budging. So what does life feel like I mean there are some summons of normalcy of the protests are dying down but the traffic is back to its horrific ways here you takes just it could take an hour to get just a few a few miles so you see activity on the street you see kids actually going back to school they're not wearing their color for old need bright uniforms that you usually see because they just don't want to draw attention themselves because they're afraid of retaliation by opponents who have tried to keep schools closed businesses closed everything just shut down. Ok so you have a president who is disliked and is hanging on to power we have several dozen people dead an economy in terrible shape of a very poor country what happens now I mean is this is political stalemate get broken in some way. It's going to be. Increasingly more difficult there are supposed to be parliamentary elections in January the 2nd Monday of January but there is no signs that they can hold an election and that just means that there will be no active parliament in force come the middle of January I think there's something like only 10 senators terms have will not be turned out so that just will intensify and many people and analysts believe that the protests will resume once the holidays are over. And what does life just feel like being there I mean take us to what you've seen and what people are going through it's very difficult the currency here inflation is Spike the currency is just worthless it's hard to get basic goods what is interesting though is that you have seen the president out in the open and trying to rehabilitate himself to sort of take advantage of those lol to get out he sees the largest private electricity provider in the country many say this is an illegal move to silence his opponents and the head of the company has been a very outspoken critic but he does to is asking people to be patient but patience is really run out especially when it comes to electricity he campaigned on bringing electricity 24 hours a day there Haiti and people barely have 3 to 4 hours at that well N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn in the Haitian capital Port au Prince Harry thanks you're welcome the process of applying for financial aid is really complicated and every year millions of students and sometimes their parents have to figure it out there is an act called the Future Act which is passed in Congress and it makes that process simpler President Trump just needs to sign it N.P.R.'s Alyson that were me has the story if you've ever applied to college or helped a friend or family member you've probably encountered the fafsa or Free Application for Federal Student Aid the point of the future act is to make that process a lot easier for students this piece of legislation is one giant step forward that's just in Dreger president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators the future act cuts down the number of questions on the fafsa and despite concerns about privacy it allows the i.r.s. To share data with the Education Department so you don't have to submit that information in your taxes and then again when you're applying to college not only helps people apply for financial aid more easily it also prevents schools from having to constantly follow up with them to verify the information that they submitted on their phone. Because they'll already have it from the i.r.s. It's meant to help students like Whitney Brown. Paving my way through uncharted territory Brown is a junior at Howard University in Washington d.c. Where she's studying criminology she lies on federal aid loans and a Pell grant to help pay for school and she's the 1st in her family to go you know it's a building of a legacy you understand that you're doing it 1st and yes it's going to be hard but there's going to be so many more people that come after you that it's not going to be difficult for him so it's very much so where things were going Ok she filled out her fafsa each year she's a student leader and she has great grades but then this fall she got an e-mail it said she had been randomly flagged to verify her income on the fafsa. Back and forth with the school servicing center understanding like what I mean how to submit that information it was a long drawn out process the Education Department does this because they want to make sure that that money is going to the right people and it's a process that creates a lot of confusion for students and a lot of work for colleges and universities just in Dreger says the Education Department doesn't release how many people are verified but his organization estimates that about 30 percent of Pell Grant recipients are selected for verification and research has shown that getting verified it rarely changes the amount of aid you get often the most vulnerable populations are stuck in the an enviable position of having to prove over and over again to multiple agencies that their poor was juggling all the back and forth on paper work on top of assignments and midterms the process dragged on and since she hadn't been officially verified that meant she never got her financial aid and because she owed university money she couldn't register for classes or secure housing for the spring so to know that I was you know set myself in good standing to go to such a prestigious school and be able to pay for it and that is $1.00 process is going to end it all. Kind of unfair Whitney's still waiting to get verified but in the meantime she's fundraised and. I do emergency grants and scholarships just this week she had enough money to register for classes and has the support that are due have been I wouldn't be in school the data agreement that would help students like Brown could also help folks in rolled in income driven repayment options paying down their federal student loans those plans require you to verify your income each year the Future Act makes the government agencies do it for you all the simplification it's estimated to save the Government $2800000000.00 over 10 years and that makes it possible to provide permanent federal funding for historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions and let's not do any n.p.r. News Washington this Susan p.r. News. This is Alaska Public Media on k s k encourage by Maggie Collins the municipality of Anchorage will formalize government to government relations with the native village of a clue The move comes after a unanimous vote by the city's assembly following following more than an hour of contentious debate me Assembly resolution is just over a page long and lays out the intention of establishing a formal relationship with over the course of the coming year the federally recognized tribes owns land in the northern end of the municipality although the resolution is a modest step toward establishing a more formal relationship it was complicated by a confusing push by private interests to tie the measure to ongoing litigation concerning gambling. Is currently working through the courts to establish a right to set up a casino something established gambling interests in Anchorage oppose Erin Leggett is president of a Clinton is tribal council and says the issue of a casino and formalizing relations with the municipality have nothing to do with each other. Ultimately a debate over whether or not to delay a vote on the measure in order to allow for public testimony was shot down the resolution passed unanimously the time is $743.00 and this is Alaska Public Media. Only the 4th time in history the House of Representatives gets set to vote on articles of impeachment against a president who has the latest next time around here and there. It is the season to be busy if the holiday rush has you falling behind on the news now you can listen to Morning Edition on demand weekdays 7 till 3 just say Alexa why Morning Edition. Good morning I'm David Greene It was the 1st lap of a muddy men cycling race in Belgium and competitors faced an unexpected challenger he's got a leash on but really lost his owner going for it right now in the 3rd place somebody has a dog somebody is dog appear to be a German Shepherd riders pedalled past the dog as a try to take a bite out of some bikes in the end 2 wheels beat 4 legs the dog was eventually caught and disqualified It's Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the ring foundation in support of N.P.R.'s continued mission to create a more informed public one challenge than invigorated by a deeper understanding of events ideas and cultures from the Andrew w. Mellon foundation guided by the belief that the arts and humanities are essential to the well being of diverse and democratic societies learn more at Melun dot org And from the e.c.m. See foundation at e.c. Mc Foundation dot org. This is state wide news from Alaska Public Media I'm Abbie Collins Tuesday was the final deadline for public comments on a proposal to exempt the tongue this national forest from the robust rule as the deadline loomed environmental groups increasingly tried to get the word out to encourage people to weigh in and those conversations have taken place in physical spaces and also increasingly online from Alaska's energy desk Elizabeth Jenkins has more Mary Catherine Martin works for salmon state and environmental advocacy group that works to protect waterways for salmon so I'm pulling this up on salmon state's Instagram she says the videos the group created with its partners about the Tongass has had a big reach. Our elders always told us. You know. This is Your Land I Klink it woman and a huge big woman dressed in regalia talk about the cultural and environmental significance of the nation's largest national forest salmon and Eagles make an appearance the pacing of the video. Card and fallen trees on the screen Mart estimates the video has been viewed on Instagram by more than 32000 people and her group is still adding up the numbers she says the goal isn't just to get people to watch and share the content but main purpose of all of this besides informing people about what's going on in the different ways the Tongass is valuable as an intact forest is to get people to comment in February the u.s. Forest Service logged over 140000 comments on a draft version of changes to the world this rule in the Tongass most of the commenters suggested keeping the rule in place but in November Department of Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue announced that despite all those comments the agency would recommend the Tongass be completely exempted from the roadless rule according to the Forest Service during this final comment period that started in October 220000 people have weighed in as of Monday. Over the weekend Autobahn Alaska helped host a weapon are to guide people through the process of crafting their comments I know we are looking at questions from the format was personal not stuffy The instructors for the video appear to be in their homes being crude activist and a tribal government leader 350 people watched on Facebook live another 150 people have streamed it sense that Natalie Dawson Audubon Alaska's executive director says environmental groups about making a special effort this go around to bolster the numbers I mean there's definitely been a bigger social media push for this than there has for other issues on the Tongass 100 percent here and down Dawson says people have asked her if official comment periods really matter doesn't thinks it does carry weight if the agency chooses to ignore the public and the public has made it stand to comment then that ground to pursue litigation and lawsuits to go after each and you know the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council took a different approach in addition to the group social media outreach executive director Meredith trainer says they want to invite people to drop comments on the eve of the deadline over bowls of salmon chowder it's also important to feel together right to feel a part of something bigger and to see each other make eye contact one of the comments that went into the public record was in the form of a song. For will roll will keep those logging roads or. For the. Road moves rule to. The u.s. Forest Service is expected to make its final decision on how the road this rule applies to the Tongass and 2020 from Alaska's energy I'm Elizabeth Jenkins in Juneau. Alaska Public Media. 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Good morning you are listening to Alaska Public Media on k s k encourage I may be Collins in the weather forecast for the Anchorage area today cloudy with highs in the mid twenty's mostly cloudy tonight with lows around 20 degrees and a partly cloudy day tomorrow with highs around 20. The sun will rise this morning at 1011 and set this afternoon at 340 giving us 5 hours and 29 minutes of daylight today a difference of 46 seconds the time now is 751 and this is Alaska Public Media. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning in June 1055 the 64000 dollar question debuted on c.b.s. It was a big money quiz show high on drama and it turned out it was also rigged Julie Fenster and her latest book cheaters always win looked at why so many people were captivated by that show they would have one contestant who would sit in a little booth and you get basically one question per week it started out miniscule but as we know the questions were supposed to get harder but the key was that each person only answered questions on one subject so part of the appeal from the producer's point of view was to get strange pairings of people and their expertise so there was a jockey who was an expert on fine arts and you know those were the kind of grabber pairings that the producers really really loved and then very few people got to the $64000.00 question but the ratings skyrocketed as the people went up the ladder but something was going on behind the scenes which was manipulation and cheating. The producers couldn't leave well enough alone with their hit show they wanted some contestants to exit stage right and they thought the charismatic one should stay around so for the ones they were tired of the producers would come up with questions that were beyond difficult and for the people that they kind of liked and wanted to stick around they would in casual conversation mention some arcane fact as though it were just came up that the president of Brazil might have had a wife named Darcy with. Isn't that they would say it like over lunch it wasn't like hey we're handing you the answers it was like yes it was as you say it was in casual conversation maybe even a stagehand would mention something lots of t.v. Game shows in the fifty's were up to the same tricks you might remember the movie Quiz Show from the 1990 s. It was all about that but not all the contestants on these shows were willing to cheat and Julie Fenster writes about one woman in particular who had a chance on the $64000.00 question and didn't take it well the person that did not cheat was Dr Joyce Brothers who started her public life as a contestant on the 64000 dollar question when she was just a another face in the crowd in New York City circa 1956 tell us about Dr Joyce Brothers and what she refused to do essentially which she pulled off yet next time anybody tells you that Oh everybody does it regarding cheating you've got to remember Dr Joyce Brothers because she wanted to go on the show she was a very well educated scholar and psychology and they said nobody wants to look at a intellectual woman and hear about psychology wanted to become an expert on something like boxing they thought they'd never see her again Dr Joyce Brothers had an encyclopedic mind and she studied book after book after book and Cyclopedia is a box of old clippings about boxing and it only took about 6 weeks and she went back to the producer and said I'm ready to be a contestant regarding boxing and then she gets on the show and she wins surprising everyone because they didn't expect her to know everything they didn't expect her to know anything and I think and she keeps winning Yeah and they're asking her harder and harder and harder questions each week she kept coming back and now the producers are saying she's run her course they were scrambling talking to experts on boxing talking the old boxers trying to find pleasure to know what and what world could answer and. She did and she won the $64000.00 question and then as you just mentioned Oh well there was a tremendous scandal these game show producers were cheating they were also you know enticing the contestants into cheating to the New York district attorney looked into it the u.s. Congress looked into it that was the subject of Quiz Show and The New York district attorney actually brought Dr Joyce Brothers in to the grand jury and peppered her with questions the whole day she had to answer boxing questions because he was so sure that she had been fed the answers and she answered them all correctly she better come out of the party. As a student of cheating she really is important because some people don't have to cheat they are really good at what they do what keeps a person from cheating you did all of this research at the end of the day if I were to ask you what is it about a person that prevents them or forbids them from cheating when so many of us do it the book's divided into 2 sections 1st people who get cheated and 2nd people who cheat within one of those sections is why some people don't want is family pride just the mortification if your family is embarrassed by your cheating that's one of the strongest another one that's interesting I found is just sheer pride the people who say I don't if I go out have it I don't even want it then I think what I found most interesting is how many people do not even consider cheating and this is why the current atmosphere in which those same people who would never cheat but they kind of accept it in other people to a greater degree a you write about game shows you write about athletes a lot about athletes you write a lot about card players you write a ton about students you. Right almost nothing about politicians who when I think of cheating rightly or wrongly I would say they're the 1st group that ambles into my mind why didn't you write anything about politicians well in a way the whole every word in the book is about politics because when we look at President Trump the 1st self admitted cheater to be taken seriously as a nominee let alone to be elected he did admit to try entering as a husband for her in other people's marriages as well now that's made me wonder was he so special that he changed the attitudes of voters or was it my thesis is that actually the voters changed 1st the country changed in their attitudes toward cheating so the book is sort of asking why so many politicians today their tolerance seems total and I I almost write this saying that there can't be such a lack of character on the part of so many politicians without it being a political calculation so if I in the book didn't talk about the politicians and their cheating it's because I'm trying to find out of the electorate changed 1st to a Fenster author of the book cheaters always win the story of America thank you so much for being with us this was such a pleasure thank you. 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Or Boston I'm Jeremy Hobson I'm Tanya mostly it's hearing that. Coming up we're witnessing history a vote from the House to impeach President could come later today the president with health Congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine a country under siege not to fight corruption but to extract a personal political favor We'll have the latest on the House debate and we'll speak with historian Julian Salazar also after last week's big Alexion when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants Parliament to quickly pass his brags that deal but then what I think the big issue of course is what is Britain's future relationship with the European Union going to be these stories and 60 years of comedy from 2nd City in Chicago coming up here in. The news is 1st. State wide news from Alaska Public Media Collins around 200 people gathered for a rally outside the federal building in Anchorage Tuesday the crowd was calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment and removal from office ahead of a vote expected in the u.s. House of Representatives today the event was one of several 100 similar mobilizations around the country organized by progressive and liberal political groups Cindy Roberts wants to see Senator Lisa Murkowski vote to remove Trump from office we believe that she can now make a very honest decision while being for that some of those who attended the rally didn't think the impeachment hearings have changed many people's minds that sentiment is backed up in a recent poll which found the public's attitudes toward impeachment statistically unchanged over the course of the hearings across the country the progressive advocacy group Move On helped organize events and lists a broad range of state and national partner groups says part of its impeach and remove campaign there were no visible counter protests outside the federal building though a few drivers rolled down their windows to shout pro Trump slogans at the crowd. Speakers and the language learners came from around the u.s. To a week long workshop in Anchorage with the goal of translating census materials can be a crowd has more racial Adams who is going to announce a Baskin works as an indigenous language specialist with the Alaska Public Interest Research Group or at permit organized by groups like.

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Campaign and Russia's efforts influence the 26000 election the judges also set a deadline for the f.b.i. To come up with proposed changes Here's N.P.R.'s Greg Myre e. The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court rarely makes any public comment but the court's presiding judge Rosemary call your delivered 4 pages of sharply worded remarks on the F.B.I.'s conduct surrounding a surveillance warrant for Carter page a trump adviser in 2016 her statement follows a report last week by the Justice Department's inspector general that said the f.b.i. Withheld and altered information that would have undermined its case for monitoring pages phone calls and e-mails judge Collier said the f.b.i. Must submit proposed changes by January 10th to ensure future applications are accurate the f.b.i. Monitored page for nearly a year and has not charged him with a crime Greg Myre and n.p.r. News Washington missions home builders are a bit more upbeat the Commerce Department reporting today construction of new homes increased by 3.2 percent last month from the previous month stocks gained ground today the Dow Jones industrial average closing up $31.00 points this is n.p.r. Britain's main any competitive watchdog says it's launching a formal inquiry into Google's purchase of cloud data analytics company look or data sciences That's according to the competition and markets authority which today said it notified both companies it's holding an initial inquiry into the deal Google says its acquisition of looker has already received regulatory approval in the u.s. And in Austria the u.s. Tech firm announced its acquisition of looker in June Google says it's buying the company which helps customers visualize data to better compete with rivals like Amazon. 4 deaths are now blamed on dangerous storms ripping through the south N.P.R.'s Debbie Elliott reports dozens of tornadoes were reported yesterday and more been forming today flash flooding claimed a life in Kentucky and tornadoes are to blame for 2 deaths in Alabama and one in Louisiana the rash of twisters destroyed property and caused injuries in several states including Mississippi where the governor says at least 14 tornadoes struck the storms are the result of a cold front moving through the region and colliding with warmer air over the Gulf South Forecasters say the tornado that hit Alexandria in central Louisiana cut a path of destruction 63 miles long crews are working to clear downed trees and fix power lines and surveyed the extent of property damage as the threatening weather moves into Georgia and Florida Debbie Elliott n.p.r. News the National Weather Service says parts of northern Florida and south eastern Georgia remain under a tornado watch I'm Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the n.p.r. Shop where visitors can browse Public Radio nerd tiny desk and n.p.r. Gear at n.p.r. Shop dot org And listeners like you who donated this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish Democrats and the White House seem to have reached an agreement over the u.s. And Ca that's the trade deal with Mexico and Canada that would replace NAFTA and deliver a major political win to President Trump It includes provisions for digital trade stronger enforcement of labor and environmental standards and protection for intellectual property one of the senators supporting the bill is Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio more than 25 years in Congress he's never supported a trade agreement until this one so when we spoke with him earlier today we asked why now well every trade agreement in my time in the House and Senate have been written by corporate interests workers are never really at the table there are a few things in these agreements for workers tromped renegotiation of NAFTA that he presented to Congress was more of the same was corporate special interest it was good for the drug companies it had nothing for workers and working was posi And Senator Wyden and the labor movement we made it very clear we will not support another corporate trade agreement unless it has strong provisions for worker So let's talk about that you mention Ron Wyden the other senator who is in Democrat who's in Dorset says well I see big changes for workers in Mexico it makes it easier for them to unionize and it requires higher wages there simulates a Mexican trucks can cross the u.s. Border meet higher safety regulations how is all of this supposed to help the American worker Well it helps the American worker because it means that you have standards go up in Mexico if workers are paid more they're more likely to buy American products made in the United States companies are less likely to shut down production in Mansfield Ohio or Toledo or Lima and move to Mexico expects it workers are treated better you know eyes are. Paid better wages and if you do that that's when trade works and Democrats progressives want to vote for trade agreements but only if those trade agreements work to build a little class in the United States and in Mexico and this is taken a step towards that unfortunately the trouble genda on taxes is still such that if you shut down production you have a company in Ohio you're paying a 21 percent corporate tax rate you move to Mexico you pay half that So will this trade deal make a dent if there's still this financial incentive in tax policy to leave Well this straight you know will help but as long as the president is in walk step with corporate interest it makes it much harder it will not solve every problem by a long shot but it's a significant step that's why I'm supporting one obstacle Mexico seems to be pushing back on the requirements for oversight that would kind of deploy u.s. Monitors to review whether or not they're holding up those labor standards how willing do you think the Mexican government is to support that in their labor force 1st of all the new Mexican president ran on a labor agenda he's the most pro-labor president that they've had in my adult lifetime so that's a good step but if they don't enforce if they don't allow enforcement of these provisions then their goods are denied at the border they don't get the NAFTA benefit so I'm it's in their interest to do this they made some noise during the negotiations and while the trumpet ministration continued to fight against our brown by provisions for workers they in part blamed it on the Mexican government but they were the ones that were blocking us and stopping us that's why it took a year and a half to convince them that if they wanted a real renegotiated NAFTA they have to put provisions for American workers in the bill and the president kicking and screaming was brought into that because he had to I want to go back to some of the original arguments for NAFTA back in 1904 right it was supposed to be a free trade agreement and all these years later you as. Intially have an update that some argue builds up rather than breaks down trade barriers are we looking at higher prices especially in areas like the auto sector and is this something Americans have to get used to what is your thinking on this 1st of these 4 never free trade agreements their oyster provisions they're written as a collection of special interest provisions to help various industries and special interests in the United States when workers make more money American workers are working in Mexican workers are working boats all rise and that's what that's a higher prices are Ok if everyone's making more well I'm not just not going to let you see him higher prices are Ok if you do that but I think you're going to see workers making more money Mexican workers will be able to buy American products and that's the open point of these trade agreements Ohio is faces severe decline in manufacturing jobs according to Georgetown researchers a portion of the manufacturing jobs in the state shrank by more than half between 190-2016 so this is a long time process how confident are you that companies would move back to a place like Lordstown or in Ohio or elsewhere as g.m. Continue to shut down production in Ohio and open production in Mexico on the president fundamentally did nothing except say Don't sell your home stops are coming back I am not going to promise that with this agreement I think what this agreement does is it makes companies less likely to move so we're not going to see huge numbers come back but we are going to begin to stop the flow of jobs going out and that's that's to me the whole point of this agreement to fight for workers and to make sure jobs stay in the United States competitively Senator Sherrod Brown thank you so much for your time glad to do it thank you Audie in France today strikes and protests across the country brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets protesters want the government to cancel its plan to reform the nation's retirement system N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley has the latest. Say 350000 people protested in Paris today and they weren't just train drivers and other industrial workers they were teachers lawyers hospital workers and even opera singers. They belted out Arians from the steps of the Bastille Opera House under the current system Paris opera performers have their own retirement scheme it's one of $42.00 separate retirement systems the French president a man who wants to simplify into one singer Claire Sam says she fears performers special circumstances won't be considered in the new structure the main problem is that. Expect people to sing really really well as we do now when the $6770.00 while the minimum retirement age remain $62.00 under the new rules a full pension can only be drawn at $64.00. You know in a nationwide address Prime Minister assured the French that the system would be more fair and even take into account the interrupted careers of women having children but high school teacher Valerie shallow says no one in the streets today believes and the teacher is belong to the group of people of workers who are going to lose most money among old French workers some of us are going to lose between 30900 euros a month discontent in the streets goes beyond retirement people accused macro of acting like a king and held placards of him wearing a crown they chanted leftwing slogans and songs glorifying workers fighting capitalist bosses It almost felt like another era retired computer engineer and you . Want to take away everything the French have fought for. We're not doing it if he touches our retirement he's going to go after health care next he wants to unravel the whole French social support system the government is hoping to split the more moderate unions from the hardliners in talks tomorrow. But for today at least the unions were united in their opposition to macros plan Eleanor Beardsley n.p.r. News Paris. Southeast Ohio is a region that doesn't usually attract much attention but that changed on Saturday as when Trophy winner Joe Baro used his acceptance speech to highlight the struggles that many people face in his hometown N.P.R.'s Laurel Wamsley reports when ls who quarterback Joe burrow took the stage to accept the Heisman lots of folks back home in Ohio were hanging on his every word coming from from southeast Ohio it's it's a very very impoverished area and there's so many people there that don't have a lot and I'm up here for all those all those kids in Athens and in Athens County you know go home not a lot of food on the table hungry after school and you got to be up here to one of the people watching was willed Raybold who was a senior at Athens High School when Breaux was a freshman there going he started his sentence about southeastern Ohio I sort of like jumped up walked up to the t.v. And said wow wow wow because I had never seen anyone bring attention to the region and as he dared trouble you know just what to do he created a Facebook fundraising page where donations would go directly to the Athens County Food Pantry contributions poured in there Joey to say I'm up here for the kids who go home and don't have a lot of food on the table who are hungry yes. It shot a white label through the whole region and the people that went there more than $370000.00 has been raised for the food pantry since Sunday for more than $10000.00 donors and while many of the donations were from Ohio plenty came from fans and Louisiana My daughter just took a phone call on the pantry phone and the person donated and said thank you for Joe from overeating and that's Karen bright president of the Adams County Food Pantry Ungar is a real problem in our county we don't have much in the way of industry there though if more startling and they do their best but it really really challenging here she says the donation since Burrows speech are more than the food. Pantry usually gets in a year and a county where 20 percent of people face food insecurity and the shout out to southeast Ohio has inspired more than donations. His wife is a teacher at a local elementary school yesterday the kids watched Burroughs speech and learned about the donations people were making one of my wife's students came up to her and said I get my food at the food pantry she said that beaming with donations still coming in from Ohio Louisiana and beyond that lightning bolt of a speech could spark a brighter future for a generation. N.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News and you're listening to All Things Considered on k a l w. 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On the northern bank of the Arkansas River where the old Santa Fe Railroad bridge crosses the water a homeless camp site squats along the sandy river bank see that railroad trestle right there there's been stories over the years that bodies were dropped off of it into the Arkansas River we don't think that happened we think that they dropped them onto a sand bar that we know was there on the river bank area known as the Canes Scott Ellsworth stands on what may be sacred ground or maybe not Ellsworth is the author of Death in a promised land perhaps the definitive account of the 1921 tolls or race massacre Ellsworth says nobody knows how many died estimates run as high as $300.00 afterward the white authorities cordoned off the town and couldn't find the surviving black residents at gunpoint they were hiding a horrific sight African-American mothers fathers children grandparents lying in the streets some draped over wooden fences that fronted the ashes of what had been their homes and businesses Elsworth believe some of the dead were loaded on to rail cars and dropped on to a large sand bar in the Arkansas river bed the authorities didn't know how to get rid of these bodies they were laid out there for a couple days it's summer time in Tulsa we think what happened is that they brought in a steel. Shovel and dug 2 trenches here and then brought the bodies up from the sand bar and buried them here and covered them up and didn't tell anyone about it for generations white Tolson and the state of Oklahoma repressed this history forget about putting it in school books just bringing up the subject of the massacre could bring threats Tolson city councilwoman Vanessa how Harper grew up here she says she inherited the fight for a memorial and to find the grave sites from the previous generation of Tolson's black politicians this is not the 1st time that this issue has come up when the 1st commission was initiated approximately 20 years ago there was conversation there was talk about doing something about these mass graves but for whatever reason I believe the powers that be decided no we don't want to do this now and it just dissipate just stopped but over the last few months an effort to find where the dead are buried has gathered new and significant momentum using ground penetrating radar and other methods researchers spent weeks searching several sites they've identified at least 2 which show underground anomalies consistent with mass graves the next step is to finish the scanning and then excavation 23 years ago I travel to told to report on the efforts of its black community to memorialize the massacre in 1906 the last of the survivors were still alive George Munro was playing with his friend next door when he 1st smelled the smoke and saw the white mob come over the horizon and never will forget somethings that sell even though this 5 years old man rose mother hid him in his sister's under the big bed the guys with the touches did come into the house and after they came in and set the correctness on fire. They were leavin and one step. I don't think out of on the edge and in bed and I was just about to holler and scream when my older sister that was next to me put a hand over my mouth now I remember this is it that Bush yesterday George Monroe in his family survived the massacre he died in 2001 but untold So Oklahoma the struggle to acknowledge what happened on June 1st 1921 is still very much alive Wade Goodwyn n.p.r. News Tulsa. The f.b.i. Is facing more blowback over its surveillance of former term campaign advisor Carter page this time the criticism comes from the secretive court that oversees Foreign Intelligence Surveillance it's accusing the f.b.i. Of misleading the court when seeking approval for surveillance on Page We're joined now by N.P.R.'s justice correspondent Ryan Lucas Welcome back to the studio thank you what do the court have to say in this order today Well 1st off it's incredibly rare to hear anything from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and this is the court that basically signs off on surveillance of Americans for intelligence surveillance purposes it operates very much behind closed doors so any public order is really a big deal and in this case we're talking about a 4 page order from the court Chief Judge Her name is Rosemary Collier and she has some pretty sharp criticism for the f.b.i. Over its applications for surveillance on page she says the court makes its decisions based on facts admitted by the f.b.i. And in the case of page she says the f.b.i. Misled the court withheld information if its applications were riddled with errors the bureau she says has a duty to be fully forthcoming with the court and in pages case the F.B.I.'s actions were that a cult she says to that duty in fact it's handling calls into question information in other f.b.i. Applications is what the chief judge says so she's ordering the government to say what it has done so far and what it plans to do to ensure that this does not happen again and she's giving the government a January 10th deadline to do so why is this all happening now so remember the Justice Department's inspector general released his big report on the early stages of the Russia investigation last week a big part of that looked at the f.b.i. Surveillance of page and the inspector general documented a 17 significant errors or omissions in the F.B.I.'s applications for surveillance on page the f.b.i. For example did not inform Justice Department lawyers who oversee this whole process of information that undercut the case for surveillance on page a few days later the Senate Judiciary Committee held. Hearing on the inspector general's report Republicans and Democrats right now of course don't agree on a whole lot one thing that they did agree on in this hearing the people on both sides of the aisle was the need to look at possible changes to the process for getting courts the courts approval for foreign intelligence surveillance so you have the inspector general's report and then criticism from lawmakers and now word from the face of court itself are we likely to see changes in the law you know it's hard to say right now it is still very early in this process the inspector general's report just came out last week but certainly advocates for change are eager to seize on this opportunity right now the American Civil Liberties Union said that Congress has to radically reform this process to increase accountability they say that that the whole process for getting surveillance from this court as it stands right now is really right for for for abuse but national security folks say that you know this surveillance power is critical for the f.b.i. It's critical in both counterintelligence and counterterrorism cases but nobody nobody is defending the errors or mistakes that were made in the case of quarter page and documented and the specter general's report f.b.i. Director Christopher Ray said that he accepts the inspector general's findings Ray says he's he's already vowed to make changes to how the f.b.i. Handles its applications for this kind of surveillance in order to make sure that the information that the f.b.i. Is providing the court is completely accurate and as is complete there has been rumbling of course from the hill as I said earlier to make changes but it really is too early at this point to say whether that will reach the critical mass to actually get something done that's n.p.r. Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas thank you thank you. This is n.p.r. News. When it comes to your child's prospects the neighborhood matters it's the social fabric of the neighborhood help us raise our children but a wide racial divide in most urban areas means more opportunity for some kids than others even just a few blocks down the street in one part of Albany New York some residents are trying to change that on the next Morning Edition from n.p.r. News you can hear Morning Edition tomorrow from 5 am to 6 am here on. Starting at 6 We'll have live coverage of the House impeachment debate and vote the House votes on whether to impeach President Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress charges join us for a live special coverage of the full floor debate and the historic vote from n.p.r. News and once again that begins at 6 am tomorrow here on and also on our Web site k l w dot org We will have video as well as audio of the proceedings beginning at 6 am tomorrow morning it's 330. It's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish next how Ukrainian prosecutor helped ignite the impeachment of Donald Trump It was almost as if you know if he'd been invited to a few more holiday parties at the embassy none of this would have happened plus poetry for the time of year when nights are at their longest Now this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Culver City California I'm Lisa kowtow at the Capitol tense negotiations continue between House Democrats and Republicans over the rules of debate over for tomorrow's historic impeachment vote Meanwhile Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the impeachment vote is a political decision not a judicial one adding that he's not an impartial juror that prompted Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York to say this he was asked if he was an impartial juror he seemed to proudly say no I would ask every one of our Republican colleagues do you want someone who proudly says they are not impartial to be on a jury judging high crimes and misdemeanors serious charges against the president of the United States that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer health care dot gov the federal marketplace for buying individual health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is back open that's after technical difficulties over the weekend and P.R.'s Selena Simmons deafen reports this temporary extension ends tomorrow at 3 am Eastern this new extra window to enroll in coverage is brief only 36 hours and the government is not doing a very good job of spreading the word the banner on the website Health Care dot gov continued to say open enrollment was over well after the extension was announced and government tweets and statements imply that only people who had begun applications can enroll that's not true new consumers can begin applications and enroll right now health care dot gov is a signature creation of Obamacare which President Trump has predicted would collapse that hasn't happened more than 11000000 people cut their 21000 health coverage through the insurance marketplaces Selena Simmons deafen n.p.r. 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In Denver 3 children are being treated for means ols they're among the latest of more than 1200 cases of the disease reported this year nationwide as Kalen sees Ray Allen the shell reports the patients had not been vaccinated against the illness they picked up the disease while traveling abroad then passed through the Denver airport last week measles is very contagious so a single case can kick local health officials into action mode to try and keep it from mushrooming into an outbreak Bernadette Albany's is a medical epidemiologist with the local health department she says they're focusing on key areas where the children may have exposed others to the disease including the hospital from the children's hospital emergency department exposure on December 12th we have approximately 80 families or 80 households that we are working through Colorado is one of about 15 states that allow parents to forego their children's vaccines for personal reasons in addition to medical and religious ones for n.p.r. News I'm rail and Michelle a day before the full House is to vote on impeachment the president sends a 6 page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and in it he criticizes the impeachment process as well as those involved in the hearings Trump writes any member of Congress who votes in support of impeachment against every shred of truth fact evidence and legal principle is showing how deeply they revolve the voters I'm holy site kowtow n.p.r. News. Pixie's is a band that some say never got their due influenced everyone from David Bowie but never got that level of fame but according to the front person Black Francis That's why he'll tell you the reason he's a musician has nothing to do with me. That's coming up on cue from p.r. X. . You can hear q. Tonight at 6 pm right here on. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish as the House prepares to vote tomorrow on the impeachment of President Trump we're going to look at the one person whose name is cited in the inquiry more often than almost any other it's not trump or even his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani who went to Ukraine to seek dirt on Trump's political rivals It's one of the people Giuliani met there the former prosecutor general of Ukraine Sankoh that observation comes from the Ukrainian prosecutor behind trumps impeachment is the title of the latest story by Adam enters of The New Yorker he joins us now to talk more about it welcome it's great to be here before we get to why goes so vital to the impeachment can you give us a little bit of his biography he's got a long history in Ukrainian politics right. Was as a younger man helped lead some of the early revolutions in the country he went on to become interior minister and was hailed by the u.s. Embassy and by the f.b.i. As one of the countries on his cops there was a lot of optimism about his future in the country so what happened because by 2016 he's the prosecutor general and the u.s. Wants him to root out corruption and self dealing among Ukraine's leaders and it seems like that's not the way it works out the former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Ivana vege talks about this goal in her public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee I did not tell Mr Litvinenko or other Ukrainian officials who they should or should not prosecute Instead I advocated the u.s. Position that rule of law should prevail what was the relationship between Ivana vigilant Sankoh and why is it key to the impeachment inquiry Well that clip is a reference to their 1st meeting which takes place in October 2016 the way it was described by Ukrainian officials who were present. Was allude Sankoh basically said that there were some anti-corruption activists who were supported by the Americans who he reserve the right to investigate and prosecute and according to loot Sankoh and his aides who were there the ambassador was unhappy with that and expressed concern that doing so was not what his office really should be doing that they should be investigating actual corruption instead of harassing anti-corruption activists and that sort of set the tone frankly for the entire relationship between them they became you know largely enemies and could barely meet together at least according to loot sank those account and the embassy cut them off. And he became embittered and was looking for a way to you know improve his standing in Washington and to find a way to do so meant looking for people that he could meet with besides ambassador Eve on a bitch and the person he found was the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani . Did the tango in your conversation take credit so to speak for helping to usher out this Ambassador how did he talk about his relationship with Giuliani in relation to that so his version which I think is is accurate is that when he went to go meet with Giuliani he knew that Giuliani wanted to talk about the Bidens but his version is he didn't know that they wanted to talk about you thought of it now he had plenty of things to say about you one of each when Giuliani raised her name and then he contributed you know with the dirt that he had and all this bile that he had in his built up over time towards her which she shared with Giuliani and when she was removed he said he was pleased with the result considering the ripple effects of all of these meetings and all of these situations it sounds kind of horrifyingly personal considering what's at stake Yeah I mean I was struck by you know kind of the ego and what happens when somebody who's very proud of themselves and part of that is justified feels like their egos been bruised I mean that's what happened with the go Also I was amazed by how how really petty the disputes were kind of reminded me of any office politics frankly where you know he was jealous of a rival domestic rival who was getting more adoration from Evanovich than he was getting It was almost as if you know if he had been invited to a few more holiday parties at the embassy none of this would have happened for him obviously it's not petty for him it's it became in his mind existential because he realized that his political future you know was being held back because the Americans distrusted him so much. Giuliani I was just in Ukraine recently met with the tank Oh are they still at it are they still trying to investigate President Trump's Democratic rivals I don't know if investigates the right word for what they're doing they're having meetings the he did have meetings with several former Ukrainian officials that have provided him with information that has almost no credibility you know I think Giuliani strategy here is to put it out there and hope that a good percentage or some percentage of the American population will believe it's true or at least be confused so confused that they won't necessarily pay as much attention as they might to the allegations that are being made against the president for his conduct in Ukraine that's adamant a staff writer for The New Yorker his story about Yuri would Cinco is in the December 23rd issue thank you for your time thank you now to Jersey City and the funeral for the police detective who was killed last week just before the attack on a kosher market N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports police from around the region lined the streets today to pay their respects it's a cold wet day in Jersey City a police procession with hundreds of officers has scored a detective Joseph seals coffin from a funeral home to St Hayden's church. As the coffin was moved along the street honor guards on the sidewalk raised their flags and officers with white gloves saluted arriving at the church bagpipes played as mourners went inside for the funeral mass. Patrolman Frank Steinhauser is here with colleagues from the North Plainfield New Jersey Police Department thinking about the officer who was murdered and want to dirty by terrorists to terrorists federal authorities call this a case of domestic terrorism and say the attackers appeared to be motivated by a hatred for Jews and the police among those watching the procession Natalie Miranda works nearby. And says she noticed there was a big security presence including officers patrolling with large guns there's a lot there's dogs extra precautions that a. I know that one of the cops had told me just so you know keep an eye out today and try to be careful nearby and standing under an umbrella Jersey City resident Michelle Maddy says she's thinking about Detective seals wife and 5 children you know it's just so sad it really is you know that I have 5 children amount. And you know to be you know for his life to be cut so short like that you know it's just it's just sad that he is absolutely baffled Sam enough help to do all he can for his family and online fundraiser brought in more than $570000.00 by this afternoon another organization is paying off the family's mortgage meantime the investigation into Seal's death and the attack on the kosher market continues investigators are holding back some details but we know that he was at a cemetery a week ago authorities say the attackers killed SEALs 1st and then went to the kosher market killing 3 more people the shooters died after a gun battle with police authorities say more details will be made public later today a police department from a nearby town patrolled Jersey City so officers here could spend the day remembering their colleague Jeff Brady n.p.r. News Jersey City. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Earlier this year Lauren Frayer our correspondent based in India heard something in southern India that stuck with her ever since a part of the conversation that never made it into a radio story but as haunted her since she recorded it now all this week we're asking our international correspondents to bring us scenes that hit the cutting room floor but that they haven't been able to shake my co-host Elsa Chang spoke with Lauren Frayer and a quick note before we get started this story details an account of sexual assault so tell us a little bit about how you ended up in this scene that we're going to hear who is it that we are going to be learning from today you're going to hear from Alex Thomas he's a 37 year old Christian man from southern India and I met him while reporting a story about a Catholic bishop who is currently on trial here in India for allegedly raping a nun and Alex his wife is another alleged victim she says that she was molested and raped by her parish priest she eventually confided in another priest that this abuse was going on and then he the 2nd priest allegedly took advantage of her to and so she got caught in this cycle of abuse and blackmail and silence which subsequently affected her whole family Ok let's take a listen to the conversation that you had with Alex just everyone knows we're not going to be using the victim's name or voice this is her husband and he was with. You to someone else nobody would believe you and he's a priest he said pleased or you still believe under both of them I believe in God they're both in the believe. You see it started because of the doubts you know him and the person is guilty but not the actually I know these people are with the pope. I'm a religious man and. I don't home big dreams I host more dreams my dreams when. It's really hard to listen to him can you tell us what was it about this interaction that stuck with you all here. For me Alex's story is a reminder that sex abuse hurts entire families when I wasn't even talking to the victim herself and you can hear Alex's pain there I saw it his face in the faces of his parents who were there when I met him had the couple's 2 children his wife had moved out and one thing that Alex struggled with was whether to believe his wife and part of him thought well maybe this was just an affair and so this was for him sort of a gray area this wasn't a priest preying on a child these were 2 adults who could theoretically understand consent. To think there are lessons that we can draw from Alex Thomas is moment here I mean do you think that there's a larger story to tell there is a growing number of adult women parishioners and nuns coming forward alleging abuse and it's happening around the world so India has 6 times as many Christians as Ireland and so it still might be a surprising place to hear about clergy abuse this is a country with a deep rooted patriarchy and caste hierarchies that often lead to powerful men you know not being questioned and in the end he's here Alex Thomas he says he still believes in God but he just doesn't know if these clergymen will face justice. That is our India correspondent Lauren Frayer with a scene that has stuck with her throughout 21000 Think you so much Laurin You're welcome. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News the ability of technology to manipulate and alter reality is growing at a breakneck speed will technology blind us to the difference between what is real and what is fake news that's terrifying here is what I'm seeing truth is what I'm hearing real how do you have a democracy where people can trust anything that they see or read breaking news on the next Radiolab. Radiolab this evening at 10 pm here on k l w followed at 11 o'clock by the B.B.C.'s cultural Frontline on tonight's show we meet Bernie Kraus the man behind the great animal orchestra Bernie has spent more than half a century recording animals and their habitats from rain forests to coral reefs he reveals why he hopes hearing the sounds of the natural world will inspire the world to take action against catastrophic environmental damage and climate change and that's tonight at 11 right here on k a l w k l w was deeply saddened to announce that Ken Taylor passed away on Monday December 2nd he was the voice and force behind our weekly program Philosophy Talk can brought his passion a fierce intelligence and humor to listeners around the country we extend our condolences to his friends and family in this difficult time you can share your memories and stories about Ken by leaving a message at 415-494-7197 can we promise to question everything except each other's intelligence and we'll miss you. Be sure to tune in on Sunday December 29th at 11 am for the special tribute show to Ken Taylor Kent's family asks that donations in Ken's memory be made to Philosophy Talk at Philosophy Talk dot org. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish it's been a record year for dengue fever in Latin America mosquito borne disease surged across the Americas with nearly 3000000 cases reported that's more than 20 percent higher than the previous record in 2015 N.P.R.'s Ping-Pong explores why it's been a weird year for rain and one of the hottest on record and mosquitoes are loving it tropical countries like Brazil Nicaragua and Mexico have all had bouts of heavy rain and flooding and huge spikes in donkey cats a leg has an epidemiologist at u.c. Berkeley says that after rains mosquitoes will lay their eggs in any pool of water you're just fighting against everything the lids on top of your barrels become containers for reading this any tiny little piece of trash and they found that tires are a huge source of life a those larvae grow into hungry mosquitoes of the eighty's object diet species that in fact people with donkey when they buy in some cases Dengue Fever can feel like the flu in severe cases it can cause blood vessels to leak and organs to fail more than 1300 people have died from donkey in Latin America this year but mosquito weather is only one reason for the surge. Is a viral just in Sao Paolo Brazil. That we have is becoming bigger than the last one he says it could be that the virus is mutating to become more infectious or because more people are packed into cities which also makes it easier for mosquitoes to spread but donkey outbreaks come in cycles to every 3 or 4 years you have surge of Thank You cases no data says that people who recover from donkey are immune to it for a couple years so after big outbreaks there's a time of herd immunity where there's enough people who just had to protect those that haven't so weather outbreak cycles and another reason for this year's explosion is a different virus Gabriela pas Bailey epidemiologist at. The Center for Disease Control's donkey branch in Puerto Rico says rates of dengue have been super low since a seeker virus swept through in 2016 and being very closely related viruses so you disposables that the outbreak in the Americas provided some short term protection against researchers think the antibodies the immune system is created to fight protect against but this immune system response is a temporary effect that fades after a few years which may have primed this year for a big surge around the world nearly 4000000000 people our risk of getting donkey and climate change and increased air travel means that risk is growing researchers are working on better vaccines and ways to hack mosquitoes to control this bad Ping-Pong n.p.r. News it's cold it's dark but with the sparkle of colorful lights and fresh snow on the ground there is beauty to our coast also Chang sat down with our poetry reviewer test Taylor to talk about her favorite selections of poetry to capture the magic of the season and the 1st book on that list a travelogue of sorts called Toward Antarctica the poet Liz Bradfield is actually also a trained naturalist and in this case she has been given the job of leading tours of people to go explore an Arctic cool it's so cool and she's you know she's a fabulous poet says she's taking notes on this process which is kind of a strange thing this hunger that we have to see this fragile rare possibly vanishing places and she's used the form of the Japanese high bun which is I don't know how to describe it other than saying it's kind of like a poetic travelogue from 17th century Japan Oh my goodness I don't even know what that would look like well it's it's got prose bits it's got haiku it's got notes it has the list it's kind of a grab bag of thing says you know I still talk or feel as well yeah beautiful photography I know this is a multi-talented art. And and you know she's come out now with this book that has these gorgeous side long photographs of stuff you might not expect to see so kind of like the station where you take off your shoes or the fact that no snacks are allowed and so it's all kind of flowing past you and then every so often they'll be these gorgeous. Notes like Moss snowed with molt all along pups Rangle knock kneed mink Brown and fuzzy or these kind of haiku thumbnail sized and Sheen and pink clams clinging to Stipe and Blade this spring's blossoms that sounds just lovely I know that the next book you picked is about a place that's much closer to us this one is called Nebraska tell us why you picked this one. Well I think to because I think the poems in it are so lovely but also because this is a time of year when we're all trying to go home in one way or another or we're thinking about home and this is a book where the poet Kwame dies who was born in Guyana and then lived in Jamaica is making sense of what it means now to live in Nebraska while friend so a different places the Reeves very different places and in some ways I think he's not entirely at home in Nebraska circling it and it's vast and it's why he did it snowy and it's there but what he does with that is he makes these beautiful temporary homes in the language itself and he sort of stills the language so that it reminds us that a poem can be a home for us even temporarily a home that we make out of breath and carefully crafted syllables I love that idea can I can I hear some of it Ok the rattle of getting to a poem loneliness I have taken to talking to trees in midwinter never those at the edges the safe ones gazing at the highway I go deep inside where the snow is powdery Crystal under light. We talk the branches rub together like insects hissing the cold calms even my jittery heart the silence is absolute here each step I am startled by the hollow echo of the leather and brittle smell that some sort desolate. But it's beautiful beautiful let's pick up the pep a little because I know you have a bonus for us I hear that you found a great book of poems for kids. Well it's a book called fantastic toys a catalog by Monaco. It's really east from the 1970 s. And the fantastic toys are totally fabulous but they are completely imaginary Oh I love that Ok I want to hear one of these go ahead Ok so this is the toy that's called the inflatable flower normal flowers grow very slowly the inflatable flower on the other hand grows into a small tree and less than a minute with it you can easily peer over the wall into the garden next door inflatable tulips and daffodils are already in production and next month roses will come on the market they are easily inflatable thanks to the 3 clockwork gnomes and the clockwork strong who works the bellows. That's adorable I also I just love the pictures in this book like the one you're reading the inflatable flower there's this little girl standing on top of a flower as tall as a tree it's so cool with a wind I'm on under her and you know personally I am just really really want my very own clockwork gnome that. I wouldn't mind going either. Well Ted staler thank you so much this was just so much fun to talk to you. Have a wonderful holiday it's great to talk to you to death Taylor has 2 new books of poetry out soon written zone and last West she teaches poetry at the University of California Davis. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from little passports a monthly subscription service for kids each package includes games souvenirs and activities from a new country designed to spark curiosity and cultures around the globe at little passports dot com slash radio. From Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One n.a. And from c 3 dot a i c 3 a software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3 died ai. 'd the people who. 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On the eve of the house and it's been voted President Trump lashes out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a 6 page letter president trying to claim to pressure the head if Ukraine to investigate a political rival and accuses Democrats of impeachment fever Tuesday December 17th it's All Things Considered. I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro Coming up we'll hear from also timers researchers who say the failure to diversify the pool of research subjects hurts the effort to beat back the disease in vulnerable populations historically we have not been looking at a lot of the diverse populations and so there's a lot that we still need to learn later u.s. Prisons routinely pair inmates 2 to a cell in what's supposed to be solitary confinement with violent results. Body. Making and control. First these headlines. I'm Stuart Macintosh with the b.b.c. News Hello President Donald Trump has described impeachment proceedings against him as an attempted coup by Democrats accusing them of declaring war on America's democracy in a letter to the Democratic Party's speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi Mr Trump compared his treatment to that of the victims of the 17th century Salem Witch Trials our Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has more even by President Trump's normal style this is an extraordinary letter 6 pages almost 2800 words of accusation alliteration assonance and outrage all directed at the whole impeachment process and the Democrats who have led it veering from loyally argument to name calling of attention as heights of hyperbole at tides groaning from adjectival excess President Trump says this is a partisan impeachment crusade the Us House of Representatives has passed a $1.00 trillion dollars spending package that will avert a partial government shutdown It now heads to the Senate where it needs to be approved before current government funding runs out on Saturday among measures included in the package other permanent repeal of some of the taxes included in the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare the Republican leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell commended the bipartisan work that went into the budget I think we're running on a pretty good note here in spite of all the challenges that are swirling around both the House on the Senate these days earlier the Senate overwhelmingly approved a $738000000000.00 defense budget. 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Prompted the agency to act It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. So who really gained when the Sackler family surrendered Purdue Pharma I'm David Greene and I'm Steve Inskeep an audit says before putting the company into bankruptcy the family put $12000000000.00 in their personal accounts. Also our lawmakers in Ukraine fighting corruption and why did George a purge many homeless people from voter rolls It is Tuesday December 17th this day in 1992 leaders of the u.s. Mexico and Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement which is now being updated and renamed. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Corba Coleman the House Rules Committee is meeting today to set the parameters for Wednesday's debate by the full House of the impeachment of Donald Trump any lawmaker can appear at today's hearing to speak but the committee is expected to vote to keep the text of the articles of impeachment most Democrats have signaled they will vote for impeachment of the president although there are exceptions N.P.R.'s to Mack says that includes New Jersey Democrat Jeff Van Drew who is also going to become a Republican with the exception of Congressman Ben Drew who Democrats say was facing a tough primary challenge if he opposed impeachment most Democrats in competitive districts that have made their position public has said they're going to vote yes on impeachment npr's to mak House Democratic leaders have scheduled a floor vote on impeachment for tomorrow if debate lasts all day there is a possibility the vote could be pushed to Thursday Boeing will shut down production of its 737 Max jetliner in January the aircraft maker is waiting for regulators to approve software changes for the troubled plane that could be months away N.P.R.'s David Schaper reports that means airlines may have to go without Max planes well into next spring industry analysts say Boeing's announcement that it will temporarily suspend production of $737.00 Max planes is an acknowledgement that the Jets will likely remain grounded into at least February or March and maybe even longer it even when the max is certified to fly again it will take some time for Boeing in the airlines to get them ready for passenger service says Joe sweeter min an aviation expert at Chicago's De Paul University their lies and selves are in just a terrible spot because they're selling spring break they're selling summer with the knowledge of what their fleet is barricaded Southwest Airlines have already pulled the max from their schedules and cancelled Max flights into April United has done the same into March David Schaper n.p.r. News Chicago Pope Francis has ordered a sweeping change in the way the Catholic Church deals with clerical sex abuse of minors he. The rule of pontifical secrecy in those cases N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports this was a key demand at a Vatican summit on sex abuse last February from now on information on abuse cases must be protected by church leaders to ensure its security and integrity but the high degree of confidentiality imposed by pontifical secrecy no longer applies as sex abuse scandals rocked the Catholic Church over the last few decades there's been mounting criticism that put it difficult secrecy was used to protect better files silence victims and prevent law enforcement from investigations Monsignor shells she Clune other Vatican's top sex abuse investigator hailed the move as an epochal decision in transparency he said it opens up avenues of communication with victims and facilitates collaboration with civilian authorities Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. News Rome you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. Severe weather in the south including possible tornadoes has left 3 people dead and officials in northern Alabama said 2 people died there and several people were injured a 3rd person died in eastern Louisiana the National Weather Service is warning that threat of severe weather persists this morning including a chance for tornadoes celebrities and fans of Star Wars turned out last night in Hollywood for the world premier of the latest Star Wars movie the rise of Skywalker N.P.R.'s Mandalit del Barco was there. A line of storm troopers led the Star Wars cast of characters into the premier at the Dolby Theater including John Boy a guy who plays the resistance fighter Finn he had a word for what it's like to be in this final chapter of the Skywalker saga this week Bob Iger the c.e.o. Of the Walt Disney Company said this may not be the last of these films and there are millions and millions of Star Wars fans out there that want more stories to be told but it is by far not the end of stories from galaxies far far away at Star Wars the rise of Skywalker poses a 42 year saga that opens in theaters on Friday Mandalit del Barco n.p.r. News Hollywood a court in Pakistan has sentenced the country's former military leader to death for treason General Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced in absentia he's been out of Pakistan since 2016 while in power notoriously imposed a state of emergency putting several key judges under house arrest he had ousted a former prime minister in 1999 coup I'm core of a Coleman n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations and other contributors include I drive maker of remote p.c. Providing real time remote access to computers anywhere and featuring remote p.c. 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In traffic would have the usual morning slowdown on one o one north between San Martino and Morgan Hill mostly cloudy today with light wind highs in the upper fifty's to low sixty's at the coast upper fifty's in the Salinas Valley today low sixty's in a row and upper fifty's in the Santa Cruz mountains and chance of rain tonight pretty much all over the area. Now 6 o 7 right here on 90.3. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep in Washington and I'm David Greene in Culver City California Boeing is going to temporarily stop making it $737.00 Max airplanes this decision comes 9 months after regulators around the world banned the Jets from flying following 2 crashes that killed nearly 350 people despite being grounded Boeing had continued cranking the planes out of its factory near Seattle anyway but that is going to change next month David Schaper covers aviation for n.p.r. He joins us from Chicago Hi David good morning David So why this decision from Boeing and why now well you know Boeing is facing a couple of ha hard realities one is that the head of the f.a.a. Last week told Boeing c.e.o. Dennis Mullen Bergen no one certain terms to just stop predicting that the f.a.a. Would approve the return of the max to service imminently it's not happening and maybe it's an effort to show an independent streak that the agency after the agency was accused of being too cozy with the company but f.a.a. Administrator Steve addicted told that at the f.a.a. Sets the timeline not Boeing and the agency safety experts will take all the time they need to get its analysis and testing it Boeing's fixes for the plane Don bright and won't rush the plane into a return to service I'm hearing that means that the plane will likely remain grounded until least February or March and it now appears Boeing has gotten the message what how much of it also might be the company just realizing how much money they were losing if they were continuing to make these planes and not selling them yeah that's the 2nd hard reality Boeing is facing a good 3rd burning through cash at a significant rate according to some estimates about $2000000000.00 a month the company did slow production a little bit back in April reducing the number of planes produced from 52 a month to 42 but now it has about 400 finished Max jets just sitting in storage it cannot deliver them to customers it cannot get final payment Richard is an aerospace industry analyst for the Teal Group it's been really painful for Bill. In maintaining production paying suppliers to build $52.00 per month while they build at $42.00 per month and not bringing in revenue this is very painful for a balance sheet perspective you know it's important to know David just how big of a deal this is for Boeing 737 Max is the best selling commercial airline in airliner in the company's history it had 5000 orders for the planes before it was grounded and it's a very profitable was anyway a very profitable part of product in a huge part of the company's future is tied to this plane Ok painful for Boeing What about the people who work there David I mean this plane is assembled at a plant in Renton Washington outside Seattle 12000 people work there how are they going to be hit by this well Boeing is saying that there will be no for a Lowe's and no employee layoffs at least at this time the statement announcing the decision to suspend production says the company plans to have affected workers continue either $737.00 related work or be temporarily assigned to other Boeing factories in the area but there still is a fair amount of anxiety in and around the plant we had Ashley Gross of our member station k m k axed ask around about the impact she talked with Veronica Medina whose family owns a Mexican restaurant called to rare O's in a strip mall called the landing right across the street from the huge Boeing plant Well obviously being right here at the landing it's very significant We got a lot of landscape to get you know rented in general. Very dependent on going well being Medina says even if the employees aren't laid off if they are going in and out of that factory across the street her business may suffer. Well obviously it's going to be a hit I don't know how big. That I think as a city as a business owner I think we will feel it David what about the economy and what the economy is going to feel here I mean you've got to have the supply chain that that feeds this big factory in there could be a lot of sectors a lot of companies that could be they could be affected Yeah I mean there's a lot of companies who did that could feel this more deeply not so much in Seattle but in places like Wichita Kansas where supplier spirit aero systems makes the fuselage and other parts for the $737.00 Max And you know they're scattered out just around the country but around the world the suppliers Boeing may do something to help soften the blow for them but many of these companies may be forced to furlough or lay off workers themselves it's just not clear how significant that impact may be N.P.R.'s David Schaper in Chicago thanks David my pleasure Dave the many nations where fake news stories on social media have influenced elections include Brazil Brazilian voters faced a tsunami of fake news before the election that brought far right President j. Or Boston are out of power this year now balsa Naro is at the center of a new controversy over the covert use of cyberspace for politics here's N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves. In Brazil Parliament can sometimes seem a little informal This is the lower house it's actually in session. A big crowd of members mills around the floor drinking coffee and chatting hang out in this talking shop for a while and there's a phrase who stuck to him in a cheetah Odio office of hate it's on everyone's lips right now because of this woman has the shit. Joyce she has is a Brazilian congresswoman she used to support showing up most know she was the government's leader here in Congress then she had a dispute with the president and things turned nasty she says let me say Michigan. We also didn't say she became the tug. A deluge of false online attacks like any politician she's accustomed to taking heat in cyberspace this was on a scale she had seen at Castle and says she started to investigate and asked them a silly cloud I mean there that's when she discovered what she alleges is a covert propaganda operation inside the presidential administration. To yours the office of hate they have Beckel and that you at back at this office even uses a calendar listing who to target and on what day says has Woman What is the office hey that's of hate cabinet you have in the us where. Has his office with a tree for public servants that all the time. In the social net spreading fake Milos Kennedy Alan Carr is a journalist and political commentator they are giving orders to attack people criticizing the government journalists politicians artists media outlets do they attack you they did Alan Carr says messages started circulating falsely accusing him of being a communist you know isn't comfortable you know you're doing your job and some people who are lying about you both are now though says the Office of Faith is a pure invention he was asked about it by reporters the other day but the book only idiots believe it exists he says yet the allegations by Haslam and the congresswoman are being taken seriously by some you know she knows what she's talking about get a challenge again see you this came from inside ensue went to a hearing in the Congress and just said that funnel has public servants spreading fake news. This is the Congregational hearing he's talking about it was originally set up to investigate fake news in last year's election this month has woman came here and laid out her allegations she made a Power Point. Taishan describing what she called a digital militia in the presidential palace using pots and fake accounts she provided names payslips job titles the committees now focusing on this. Person also said the operation is funded from the public purse this is important it's his. Director of Intelligence the Senate think tank if we see him prove that this was made by public money then you have a case for impeachment says if there's a move to impeach him also now though could be vulnerable as he lacks supporting Congress here has no party right now is trying to form a poor read that is 25 congressman out of 513 in the house those 25 include color sure he's following has women's allegations closely and insists they're on true just what their 2nd thought of noise sure she believes what has one calls the office of hate is simply an informal whatsapp group of balsa narrow sympathizers who are few who kept their word Gummidge I can assure you no public funds were used he says sure she thinks a possible impeachment attempt is highly unlikely. Choice he has summoned herself doesn't want that they are there they took good care I helped elect this president she says what she does want she says is for the office of hate to shut down before it does any more damage to Brazil's democracy Philip Reeves n.p.r. News Brasilia. Open enrollment on health care dot gov is back this is the federal health insurance exchange set up by the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare Sunday was supposed to be the final deadline for coverage in 2020 but website glitches prompted an outcry and the government restarted enrollment for 36 hours N.P.R.'s Selena Simmons Duffin has the story on Sunday afternoon Joshua Peck got an alert that health care dot gov might be in trouble I received an alert that told me that their lady an issue on the safe who is this person who monitors the health exchange website well under President Obama he worked in the federal agency that runs it the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services his job was to get the word out about the exchanges in 2017 the trumpet ministration slashed that budget so Pac set up an organization called Get America covered to do that work outside of the government when he got the alert knowing that a lot of people wait until the last minute to enroll he got worried I went to log in gauge and saw the error message that people were getting and that's initially when I posted on Twitter a lot of high profile Democrats retreated to him including presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren people to judge and Joe Biden many calls on c.m.s. Administrator seem to extend the deadline so that people getting the error messages could still sign up midday Monday she seemed to heed the call and announced health care dot gov would reopen enrollment Charles Gabe a is an analyst who tracks health care dot gov and well meant he has a guess for how many people might have missed out because of the glitches I don't know that would be somewhere in the range of around $100000.00 people there's no guarantee all of those people will hear about the new deadline and there are many more people with no health coverage at all 27000000 the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates about 5000000 of them are eligible for plans on health care dot gov with 0 dollars monthly premiums after subsidies the new deadline for unrolling in. Coverage is December 18th at 3 am Eastern Selena Simmons Duffin n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. She has a new memoir. Which began when she was brought to the Disney Studios to. Talk with her daughter. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelinsky has stayed silent about President Trump and also about Ukraine's role in the impeachment hearings but when Trump called Ukraine a corrupt country President Selenski fired back he told Time magazine the accusation undermines his central goal to clean up and rebuild Ukraine's reputation Gregory Warner host of N.P.R.'s rough translation podcast went to Ukraine to find out how that fight against corruption is coming along like a lot of current members of the Ukrainian parliament never imagined himself in politics I have seen what Parliament do with people his path actually began an odd place last December at the age of 36 he was diagnosed with cancer in the hospital in the capital Kiev he noticed something there was no call button for a nurse he just had to scream hope someone heard you you just understand that it has to be it's very simple but they're not sure and spent a career in advertising and he's a practical guy from his hospital bed he picked up the phone and managed to find a maker of call buttons who could outfit the whole hospital for $500.00 and he fundraised on Facebook and people gave me life to wealth thousands and that kind of solution minded approach to problems it was about to get him noticed. That is full of. Shit while all this was going on the televisions in the hospital were showing by the Alinsky campaigning for president they were also showing episodes of Zelinsky sitcom where he played a fictional Ukrainian president and there is one well known scene from the trailer of season 2 of the sitcom since he's character has an anxiety dream becomes to parliament with a big plan for reform Yeah but you might say you can form Calcutta and parliaments pretty laughs in the space of all music children have been excellent He's eyes blazed with anger. Yet you are. It's not new but if you do you believe the people of Ukraine have nothing to eat he says they're afraid to walk in the streets he's seen. This isn't comedy this is comedy is fury it's bottled rage against the political elites that Selenski and everyone his age grown up with the scene ends with Selenski pointing machine guns at Parliament. Which is played like over the top $10000.00 know violence. In his hospital bed deplored the bloodshed but understood the impulse Ukraine is ready for a reboot and Ukraine wants to become the new contrary in real life Selenski one and he did not shoot at Parliament but he did dissolve it he called for Snap parliamentary elections his party chose all kinds of unlikely non-politicians to run fellow actors teachers journalists farmers a wedding photographer Goran who is well known for his Facebook campaigns got the call in the hospital my colleagues went to the hospital and said Let's go to parliament but Goran was not at all sure he wanted to join them parliament had always been the symbol of corruption and so to understand why he decided to run he and his wife Masha South Dakota wanted to get a tour were actually done that way. On the tour they showed me this historic building where perched on one shoulder someone tried to build a private apartment my God it's so ugly. The new magic. Says there are legal developments like this all over Kiev except he can't call them illegal because the laws so vague on what is legal and what is not corruption he says is not just about people taking bribes to bend the law it's when the laws are intentionally vague to begin with there's an expression people use here the law as an ox cart it goes where you drive it and that vagueness in the law is one reason that one of the most powerful offices in Ukraine is the office that's opposed to. Corruption for a certain bribe they could open the case for a certain bribe they could close the case Daria Kelley new grounds the anti corruption Action Center in Kiev they could seize a cons of certain businesses and extort bribes in exchange watch the Selenski phenomenon with mixed feelings on the one hand he was talking about corruption and people were listening he was able to communicate simple solutions in simple messages to conflicts problems cell he promised hope but she says people didn't really know much more about Selenski than the role he played on t.v. And fighting corruption she knew is a lot more complicated than firing the old lawmakers and bringing in new ones we need strong institutions they have to shoot with the new with bullets from the criminal code. And entering there for hope not either just the Ukrainian parliament one afternoon and he have I visited the parliament building up the steps of the marble steps and I met Vitali as a reporter for a newspaper called The Observer he's covered the last Parliament in this one I see just members of parliament a more open This is the youngest and greenest Parliament ever and Ukraine and he'll meet some of them taking the Metro instead of going by luxury car and this parliament actually shows up you know because a lot of momentous Apollo went to the last fall and once they. Go for a walk they didn't show up to work don't they didn't show up for work how did Selenski party fix this they find parliamentarians for not showing up to vote. Party has such a huge majority they could pass almost any law so they also passed a law that parliamentarians have to declare their income and their spending to try to see who's on the take another new law is that the Ukrainian president can be impeached there in fact so many new laws that they've sped up the process for passing a new law. This is actually the sound of a vote taking place people are calling this the mad printer Parliament for how fast they're making new laws. We just screwed up the procedure. Who went in one year from his hospital bed to a parliament seat he tells me the time is already running out in time frame they must check to Pharaoh it is like. Half a year that's how long he says the previous parliaments have lasted before critical mass of lawmakers are on the take and the normal functions of governing cease and after they sold the previous evening parliaments and drill down to the hull of corruption as a cancer survivor Mitchell looks at life as a clock but he's not the only Ukrainian lawmaker coming to work with a stopwatch because Gurren does not see himself in just a fight against corruption it's also a race a race to get some good laws in place to counterbalance the other laws the laws of influence and money and might makes right then Ukraine have always held sway those Gregory Warner who hosts N.P.R.'s rough translation podcast and this is n.p.r. News. Nearly died in prison with injuries that left him permanently disabled An official told his mother it was a suicide attempt he tried to kill him so. Now we know he didn't n.p.r. Obtained the internal investigation report I'm Ari Shapiro victim of prison violence is this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. All things considered begins at 3 with your host Mary Jane Peters this afternoon right here on 90.3. This is Morning Edition on 90.3 k.z. . Time is $630.00. Just ahead an update on World News from the b.b.c. . B.b.c. News sweeping changes to the Roman Catholic Church's handling of allegations of child sexual abuse have been announced by Pope Francis he is he did recommendations from church officials and abolished pontifical secrecy and the obligation of silence on those who report sex abuse are alleged to have been a victim the u.n. Secretary general and Tony a good target as opened a summit on refugees with a call for both action to address the plight of those forced to flee their homes he called for the humanitarian spirit to prevail over those who seem determined to extinguish it but the Turkish president a mission to accuse the European Union of failing to meet its commitments on Syrian refugees the German security services are to recruit hundreds of officers to counter the growing threat from right wing extremism the interior minister said there were 12000 potentially violent right wing extremists in the country 48 of them I thought capable of planning attacks anticorruption officials in Angola have recovered more than $5000000000.00 stolen from the state so far this year but the justice minister said some countries but obstructing angle is efforts to track down the looted funds the Pakistani army has reacted angrily to the unprecedented death sentence given to the country's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf and trees and charges the penalty is unlikely to be carried out Pervez Musharraf has lived in exile in Dubai since cling Pakistan 3 years ago large crowds of demonstrators have gathered in central powers and the latest display of union led defiance against the French government's plans to overhaul the pension system the Burmese military says its detained 173 ethnic ranger who were travelling by boat apparently trying to reach Malaysia on Indonesia b.b.c. 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How much did the secular family profit before it surrendered Purdue Pharma the family put the maker of Oxycontin into bankruptcy part of a settlement over the opioid crisis but an audit now shows the profits the seculars took beforehand more than $12000000000.00 North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann follows opioid litigation for n.p.r. News on the line Good morning Steve one of this audit cover. Yes So this really goes back to the beginning of Oxycontin in the mid ninety's and this firm providing documentation for this bankruptcy process found that over the years the Sackler as with through $12200000000.00 from their company and what's interesting here is a review by the New York Times Steve found that the sac lawyers began pulling more and more cash out of the company faster even as this opioid epidemic grew hundreds of millions of dollars a year some of this money went to pay taxes but a lot of it went into their personal trusts and this is drawing special scrutiny also into offshore accounts Well if they took out 12000000000 dollars How does that make it look that they're offering to pay $3000000000.00 give or take to settle claims related to the opioid crisis Yeah this is controversial right to sack lawyers have consistently denied any wrongdoing but they have offered this bankruptcy deal that would mean them paying billions of dollars in their own cash while giving up control of produce pharma they've asked the bankruptcy court to then essentially shelter them personally stop all personal lawsuits against them they would be out of the opioid business but still really really rich because of Oxycontin and what we're seeing is a coalition of states pushing back saying we want to know where the cash went where it is now and can we claw any more of that back and this at the audit that just came out on Monday is adding fuel to that legal fight we heard from New York attorney general a tissue James last night she issued a statement to demanding more transparency and really a picture of where all the Sackler family's assets are you know we've got about $9000000000.00 extra dollars that are out there to be contested over I suppose then there's the question of bonuses for company executives what happened there this is interesting you know this company is still an operating business and what produce pharma told Judge Robert drain in this bankruptcy court is look we need to pay bonuses to keep people working for us about 35 mill. In dollars in bonuses to employees and the judge went along with it although he gave the green light for those bonuses to be paid out. Keep people going through this turbulent time for produce pharma but obviously you know this is money $35000000.00 that will not be paid to victims or to communities that are struggling with opioid addiction you know I guess if you're a drug company executive at this point you just want to see the bottom like what's the bottom line how much is this going to cost me what do I have to pay to make this go away to settle it and to move on is the drug industry anywhere near knowing what the prices you know the legal experts we've been talking to Steve say there is no end in sight to this opioid litigation across the country is a mess right now and in part because the situation on the ground is a mass roughly 130 Americans still dying every day from overdoses state and local government said they need tens of billions of dollars to save lives and begin the recovery process but right now no big global deal has been found that will resolve liability and get that help to communities that need it Brian thanks as always for your reporting thank you Steve Brian Mann covers opioid litigation for n.p.r. . The state of Georgia is purging thousands of voters from its rolls this morning these are voters who have not participated in recent elections or responded to official notices it's a controversial policy and a disproportionately affects one group the homeless Stephanie Stokes of member station a.b. In Atlanta has more looking through the list of purged voters one homeless agency stands out Crossroads Community ministries and midtown Atlanta the executive director Tony Johns shows me the main thing they do so starting this is our mail room it's available to our clients Monday through Friday 9 30 am to 12 30 pm it's a small room with instructions all over the walls for sorting mail necromancy one by one people approach a counter in say their names a volunteer then looks for any letters or packages and a series of wood bins lined up along the back wall it's like a p.o. Box for people who are homeless right that's exactly it John says about 800 people pick up mail here most don't have a fixed address of their own so John says they really need an organization like Crossroads a lot of state services like voter registration still depend on mail this is one of their few connections to that larger system where they could possibly receive not only benefits and things like that but participate in democracy itself well only to a point w a b e reports found many may no longer be able to participate in elections in 2017 the state removed nearly 500 voters from this address alone and another 400 from other homeless agencies in the city that didn't surprise the advocates I spoke to him every single voting problem is especially hard for people who are shopping with housing every single one Sean Young is legal director at the a.c.l.u. Of Georgia he says go through Georgia's other regulations which researchers at Northern Illinois. Ranked among the bottom 3rd for voting access in the country like how people must register 30 days before elections lower income people move more frequently and many don't know they have to update their registration every single time then the state also requires photo id at the polls people often lose their I.D.'s when they become homeless a lot of voting laws are written with the perspective of a middle class or wealthy person in mind but they're also written to ensure elections are fair according to Jake Evans he's an attorney in Atlanta who's involved in conservative politics a reality is we have to have rules to ensure that who is eligible to vote can vote . It's hard to do that because he says elections are complex and Georgia Evans doesn't think those rules keep homeless people from voting I've confident that if these individuals like most individuals in Georgia want to vote they're going to have every opportunity to vote fewer than 10 percent of people registered to Atlanta homeless agencies have voted since 2016 statewide voter turnout was around 60 and 70 percent still those numbers don't capture every voter without a home for males John Edwards steps up to the Crossroads mail room count he empties out a little black pouch to show me all of the documents he's received here and. There's a state id you got your voter card too. And a free picture i.d. Just for elections Edwards says he plans to use it you know you speak your voice be heard because your opinion can affect words continues to vote the state won't flag him as an active but for another 100 crossroads clients that's already happened unless they contacted election officials in Georgia canceled their registrations and the latest round of purchases for n.p.r. News I'm Stephanie Stokes in Atlanta. And this is n.p.r. News. You were tuned in 90.3 k.z. You and we are streaming an organ Dylan music good morning a pair of homeless mothers in Oakland is raising the questions about vacant homes and speculators make California's housing crisis by occupying one the women argue housing should be considered human right and they're taking this it case to a big court Bay Area Reporter Molly Solomon has their story on the California report coming up in about 8 minutes here. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene Pope Francis says he is going to loosen the secrecy requirements around cases of clerical sex abuse he's ending the use of the so-called pontifical secret in abuse proceedings Let's talk about what this is and what this means with Joshua McElwee He's the Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter joining us from Rome Joshua Welcome back yeah thanks for having me so can you just tell us what exactly is changing here well the Vatican announced today essentially that the pope has abolished what's called the pontifical secret This was the practice of imposing really strict confidentiality rules and any sort of proceeding at the Vatican regarding a priest accused of sexual abuse or misconduct that is now gone it's something that abuse survivors and advocates have called for for decades Vatican officials I've spoken to have said this was a move to show that they're serious about this they want the church officials across the world to be working with local authorities in order to do that they had to get rid of the secrecy requirement and they're also hoping that a allows abuse survivors who come forward with cases to more easily follow how the church is responding and what measures are being taken to make sure kids are safe. Can you can you tell us why this pontifical secrecy was was imposed in the 1st place. In the Vatican is an independent state just like any other country in the world and it has different levels of secrecy on different documents all Vatican officials and on the material they work on work on kind of a basic level of secrecy the pontifical secret was essentially that the top secret for the Vatican it was imposed. Officially in 1994 as a way of trying to protect the name of both the accuser and the accused and till the point at which there had been a firm judgment and in recent years abuse survivors had said this released had served to protect abusers to make sure the community did not know that they had been accused and it was limiting the ability of local authorities kind of to take whatever measures they needed to take to keep communities safe. So this move I mean how significant is it in the context of everything we've reported on it's really being praised across the board today several abuse survivors including one who had served on a commission to advise Pope Francis and had been quite critical of the Vatican slowness to response and Irish survivor memory Collins really praised the move she said it's something they've been calling for for a long time and obviously it comes in the context of Pope Francis really trying to show the world think he and the Catholic Church are very serious on the issue of the pope held a big summit of all the heads of the world's Bishops Conferences in February it was the 1st of its kind and since then he's put in place 3 concrete reforms this today being the 3rd of those so in just 8 months time for the Batek in doing a number of things which is kind of light speed the Catholic Church. And judge whether the pope also said the church is now going to label any pornography with people under the age of 18 as child pornography it had been the age of 14 What was that move about yes so at the same time the pope removed the pontifical secret from these cases he made a change also to a different part of the church's laws kind of updating what's considered the most serious crime for the church in the past the church had a label child pornography as being any image taken of a child 14 or younger the pope has now made that 18 or younger to align with more kind of modern notions of when a person becomes an adult and how serious it would be even for a priest or some Catholic official to have such pornography on their devices just well McElwee is the Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter joining us from Rome thanks so much thanks for having me. Coming up on the next point president trumps executive order defining Jewishness as a nationality or race does it help fight discrimination on college campuses or enable. Me to read. 50. Joins us on why he believes the hip hop superstar is one of the greatest poets of the American story that's coming up next on point from n.p.r. . Tune into beginning at noon today right here 90.3 you. Coming right up the California just ahead another California story in the. Morning Edition here in California wine country some farmers are experimented with grapes that can withstand extreme temperatures. To reduce carbon emissions That's ahead in about 20 minutes here on Morning Edition . Community a selection of trees for the holiday season selections and reservation details in new leaf markets in Santa Cruz Half Moon Bay capital. Village. In Santa Cruz and south Bascom in San Jose trades. Movies and open every day Records dot com. In the Salinas Valley today. It is $651.00 California Report up next here on. This is the California report Good Morning America all Maria Dillon today some news about homelessness 1st up the u.s. Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case about homeless encampments k.q.e.d. Housing editor Erica argue are reports on what that might mean for California the case was from Boise Idaho it argued that homeless people are unfairly fined and arrested for sleeping on sidewalks when there isn't any shelter for them and a lower court agreed essentially protecting them from communalisation but Boise said it can't keep community safe and clean without the legal authority to removing Kamins Los Angeles San Diego and several cities in Orange County supported Boise's case here in California there are about 130000 people without shelter that's nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless population the Los Angeles city attorney said the Supreme Court's decision to leave cities vulnerable to lawsuits as they try to balance the needs of the homeless with health and safety standards for the California report America. Let's check in now on what this means on the ground level for vulnerable people who are stuck living in encampments or on the street the California report co-host saw Gonzalez spoke with an Isa Cooper who's homeless in Los Angeles she's hoping the Supreme Court's decision will make her life a little less hard a lot of us don't have in the little bit that we had that you know what we what we cherish what we value and a lot of the times they rip it away from us. And when you say the l.a.p.d. Mean the cops come by and say that 10 down and down now are they coming bring sanitation and senators and just reps everything they trash it if somebody came along and said hey you have to take your tent down but we have housing guaranteed for you or shelter during t. For you when you go yeah most definitely damage a dam now the farm here is most definitely in a statement l.a. Mayor Eric Garcetti said quote homelessness won't be solved by move. People from one street to another he says the city will continue providing services and work to open more shelters and build more permanent housing here in the Bay Area 2 homeless moms are drawing attention to real estate speculators in the midst of California's housing crisis they're occupying a vacant house in West Oakland it's a unique and practical way to draw attention to their argument that housing should be considered a human right k.q.e.d. As Molly Solomon reports the women are taking their case to court by. The 2 moms facing eviction raised their fists outside Alameda County court after filing a legal claim they were homeless until last month when they moved into a vacant home in West Oakland the home is owned by a private investment firm the eviction has brought renewed focus to vacant housing in the Bay Area and who owns them Samir a Kareem is one of the mothers want spectators gone oh they want the whole land out right now. A spokesperson from the investment firm called the appeal a delay tactic they say they are the legal owners and plan to defend the of fiction in court next month for the California report I'm Ali Solomon the current housing crisis has been marked by a rise in ownership not by real people but by what are known as shell companies in fact reporters at the public radio program reveal have found out that of our state's total residential real estate purchases 30 percent were made in cold hard cash the reporters there are trying to figure out who's buying up cities across the country and in California the public radio show is now suing the u.s. Treasury Department to help answer that question the California report's co-host Lily Jamali headed to some prime San Francisco real estate to learn more Ok revealed reporter Aaron Glantz is with me here in front of 2 buying in this building and other buildings around the bay area it's almost impossible because the local property record just tracks back to the shell company so the Treasury Department has been asking the shell companies to identify their beneficial owners who really owns this building and all the other buildings own by 26. A capital c. Capital we don't know the Treasury Department so I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with them back in July. They would neither confirm nor deny that they have these records so I sent them bunch of information proving that they have these records but then they'd. Denied our request and so now we're suing them. All right Aaron Clancy reporter at reveal thank you so much my pleasure thank you that was the California report co-host Lily Jamali speaking with public radio reporter with the show reveal Aaron Glantz support for the California report comes from the California Earthquake authority urging Californians to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake learn more at earthquake authority dot com water hint is water infused with food essences including watermelon and Black Berry no sugar no sweeteners no calories available in grocery stores hint mouth watering water and Eric and Wendy Schmidt who's fun for strategic innovation supports transformative ideas that benefit humanity while protecting the natural world recognizing science the interdependency of all living systems let's close with some happy news a birth announcement times 3 assembly members that bring us Adventists gave birth to triplets last week 2 boys and a girl her office says she's the 4th California legislator to give birth in office but the 1st to have triplets the Riverside Democrat said in a statement that everyone's in good health barely see that this sleep well and that's the California report for Tuesday December 17th a production of public radio. 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Good morning lawmakers put aside disagreements over just about everything else and made a spending bill that funds border security and gun violence research and gives federal workers a raise It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. What exactly is the president's philosophy of international trade I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene will ask a veteran trade negotiator who was in China when the Trump administration announced a breakthrough in the trade war with Beijing. A newspaper investigates what happens to kids who are in foster care but never find a permanent home and then have to leave the system at the age of 18 many in prison It's Tuesday December 17th Filipino boxer turned politician many Paki turns 42 years old today. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Corba Coleman the House Rules Committee will vote today on how much time each side in the House will get to debate the articles of impeachment against President Trump a full House vote is set for tomorrow if the historic debate goes long the vote could get pushed to Thursday later today a federal judge will sentence Pomona for its one time business partner Rick gains and b.r.s. Ryan Lucas says Gates was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Muller's Russia investigation gates and Manna fort who were both senior Trump campaign officials were among the 1st people charged as part of Robert Muller's investigation while metaphoric fought the charges Gates struck a plea deal in early 28000 and agreed to cooperate with the government prosecutors say that Gates provided extraordinary assistance he met with investigators more than 50 times he testified for the government in 3 criminal trials including against man afford his former boss metaphor was convicted in that bank in tax fraud trial and is currently serving a 7 and a half year prison sentence in his own case Gates has asked the court for no prison time just probation in light of his extensive cooperation the government does not oppose Gates' request the decision on how much time if any Gates spends behind bars rests in the hands of the court Ryan Lucas n.p.r. News Washington a new survey shows Americans typically pay $2.00 to $6.00 times more for prescription drugs than people in other countries N.P.R.'s Sidney Lupton has more in this survey examine the prices of 11 drugs in the u.s. And abroad in 2017 her villainy which cures most hepatitis c. Infections in 3 months cost less than $15000.00 a month in Germany in the u.s. It's double that at $31000.00 a drug called embryo which is commonly used to treat autoimmune disorders like a.

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