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Some top level Republicans say this is an issue Congress should address not the White House I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Rachel Martin thousands of people in the Houston area are still in shelters but today many in the city are expected to show up for work Also this hour the world response to North Korea's most recent missile test we talked with a former u.s. Ambassador on how China is the threat from Kim Jong un and 3 ingredients for a great story N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli monks and beer Monday September 5th Bob Newhart is a gate years old today news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm core of a coalmine the National Hurricane Center says hurricane Erma headed for the Caribbean Islands has gained a lot of strength its top sustained winds are at 175 miles per hour at the top of the scale the chief of the Hurricane Center Michael Brennan told c.n.n. Irma's power is deadly right now we have those that core of 175 mile an hour winds near the center we could see storm surge of 7 to 11 feet that's certainly life threatening and very very heavy flooding rainfall the those those winds in the core capable of catastrophic damage total building failures trees knocked down severe damage to infrastructure in any any location that gets the I Wal of Burma at this point Irma is expected to strike the Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico in the Virgin Islands by tomorrow its path is not yet certain but hurricane specialists say it's likely Erma will affect Florida by this weekend used in May or Sylvester Turner says his city is open for business with many areas dry and returning to normal following catastrophic flooding from Harvey but other neighborhoods are still struggling to recover from member station w b u r Anthony Brooks reports on one of them there are still about 1000 people seeking shelter in Houston's convention center down from a peak of 10000 a week ago so many people have returned home but here in the western part of the city houses are still flooded because of overburden reservoirs Joe Palmer owns a restoration company in Chattanooga Tennessee and came here to help people rebuild but he says this neighborhood will have to wait they say for the next 15 days the water still going to be up to 8 feet high and swift moving water in a lot of places for the local community had lost their entire largest investment they've ever invested in their home some relief officials speculate that Harvey's price tag could ultimately surpass that of Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago for n.p.r. News I'm Anthony Brooks in Houston attorney general Jeff Sessions is expected to announce the Trump administration's position on the docket program next hour that's the executor. Move order President Obama signed shielding 800000 people from deportation who were brought to the u.s. Illegally as children Gustavo Torres is the chief of the Latino immigrant rights group Casa he says if the policy is overturned many young people are stuck we have so many in our community radio here in the Washington d.c. Area secular that keep that come out 7 years of secure soul and you know this country is the only country that they know they speak mostly in English their communication with the frames in a school in college Wark in English so I don't know what they are going to do many people are going to be terrified some news reports have suggested that Trump will in the program but delay implementation for 6 months to allow Congress to pass new legislation on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down $104.00 points the Nasdaq is down nearly 16 points you're listening to n.p.r. . It's a go for this is news from Aspen Public Radio I'm Todd Hartley schools were in for school district begin today as Aspen Public Radio's white or reports in Rowlett is higher than last year the district says one $133.00 more kids are enrolled this year compared to last this does not include numbers from bridges high school or the Carbondale community school there are also $75.00 new hires which is more than usual this has to do with the district's brand new Riverview schools south of claim would Springs the district start date was delayed until after Labor Day because of construction on the Grand Avenue Bridge School bus routes have been reorganized to best navigate the congestion why dorm Aspen Public Radio News picking County is planning a trail from Carbondale to Crested Butte and as Elizabeth Stewart Severi reports the public can check out route options this week open space and trail staff has been working with consultants and engineers to determine possible alignments through the crystal Valley it's a narrow river canyon paralleling a state highway and the Valley is also home to wildlife This presents both environmental and engineering challenges open space and trails staff has 2 alternatives for each segment of trail one that follows the highway and one off highway option several of the off highway sections could make use of historic routes today picking county commissioners and the open space and trails board will hear a presentation on the Clear Creek Canyon Trail which staff says face similar challenges on Wednesday and Thursday the public can check out the alternatives at meetings in Redstone in Carbondale Elizabeth Stewart's every Aspen Public Radio Environment Desk. Last week Governor John Hickenlooper unveiled a bipartisan plan aimed at stabilizing the individual health insurance market he had Republican governor John k. Sick of Ohio spearheaded the effort to Birkeland has more from the state capitol the plan would keep the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act in place for now it also asked the trumpet ministration to keep the current cost sharing reductions for health insurers it would give insurers tax breaks for competing in under-served areas and help those companies cover the costs of 2nd Rowley's what we're recommending could go a long way toward stabilizing these markets for the next couple of years allow us to really look at other innovations and other better ways of doing things the governors of 6 other states have also signed on to the bipartisan health proposal Hickenlooper is set to testify before Congress next week and acknowledges the plan could land on deaf ears as Congress focuses on other topics such as the budget and tax reform and bend to Birkeland at the state capitol. Coming up on ask the public radio a Glenwood Springs woman has been named to the State Parks and Wildlife Commission here what that means for recreational is at 830 you're listening to Morning Edition on Aspen Public Radio thanks for tuning in. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Mary Louise Kelly we are waiting this morning on an announcement on the fate of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children all signs indicate the Trump administration is planning to end protection for the nearly 800000 immigrants often called Dreamers President Obama had protected them from deportation through an executive action here to tell us what President Trump might do as n.p.r. Congressional reporter Scott Dutrow Good morning Scott good morning Ok so the program in question is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA It's known as and we are told the decisions been made to end it but maybe not right away what's the story yet there could be an asterisk here and that would be a 6 month delay which would give Congress technically time to pass a bill to make this legislation not just an executive action you know this has been questioned they have been questioned about legal standing it's been challenged in the courts before and the reason President Trump and the White House are making this decision today is because several conservative states had said they are planning on suing on challenging this yet again in the courts on this particular issue you know President Trump has really been all over the map when during his campaign he ran as you remember as a hardliner on immigration with build the wall chance at literally every single rally Here's how President Trump answered a question about what he plan to do with Dhaka when he was running for office last year I want dreamers to come from the United States I want the people in the United States that have children I want them to have dreams and something about dreamers for other people I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers and assume they're not dreaming right now all right that was that was then candidate Trump back on the campaign trail last year Scott what is he saying now you said he's been all over the place yet that certainly was not sympathetic sounding to to dreamers but since he's taken office he has sounded a lot more sympathetic there was one interview with The Associated Press or. Leader this year where he said that dreamers have nothing to worry about he was asked that question again should dreamers worry last week here's what he said to that question . Is the reason. We love the dreamers we love everybody thank you very much. But more non-committal there perhaps but I think that's reflective of the fact that President Trump is being lobbied on all sides on this issue and he really seems to be wrestling with the right path what to do here both politically and and as a way to deal with about 800000 people whose you know this is a serious issue for their lives yeah absolutely critical and central Ok so what is Congress's role in all of this Congress has struggled for years to pass comprehensive immigration reform what are the chances it might happen now I think that you're right every time this has been picked up in bills tried to get passed it stalled at one point or another you know this is an issue where Republicans are split many Republicans don't want to see President Trump and aka House speaker Paul Ryan last week said he should not and it there's been a big push among moderates to fix this but what was interesting is in the last week or so even some really conservative lawmakers have have spoken out for keeping some form of docket this is a statement from Oklahoma Senator James Lankford very conservative lawmakers saying what we as Americans do not hold children legally accountable for the actions of their parents the question is what can happen remember Congress has had a hard time getting any major legislation passed that Republicans agree on let alone something as divisive immigration or otherwise which makes me want to pivot your toward some of the other things on Congress' plate they are back in town today after the summer recess at what is going to be top of the agenda well this month there are several key deadlines must do things they need to fund the government they need to raise the debt ceiling so those are priorities $1.00 and $1.00 and a Immediately what you're going to see is action as early as this week to pass an initial emergency. Response bill for Harvey There's an $8000000000.00 package the House could vote on it tomorrow now the White House is pushing for that Harvey relief to be rolled in with raising the debt ceiling so just get it all done at once all out of the way here's treasury secretary Steve mission speaking this weekend on Fox News Sunday prior to Harvey I think you know I've said we have enough funding to go through the discipline burn had urged Congress to to focus on this before that period of time but with Harvey it's moved the situation earlier and without raising the debt limit I'm not comfortable that we will get the money that we need this month to taxes to rebuild now in the past when there have been efforts to to combine raising the debt ceiling with with other issues there's been big pushback from Tea Party Republicans especially who are loath to raise the debt ceiling without cutting funding elsewhere so you can see rank and file pushback for that another big issue on the table is tax reform was this a signature President speaking of things that he backed on the campaign trail he wants to get this done is that going to get done this fall this fall perhaps I don't think that it could get done in September I think you know we got the debt ceiling we've got government funding we haven't even gotten to the fact that several key government programs expire or run out of money at the end of the month one of those being the National Flood Insurance Program which is going to play a central role in Houston in Texas recovering her Missouri Yeah so. President Trump is meeting with with key House and Senate and ministration leaders who are going to be drafting a negotiating that bill today had been meeting with with Democratic and Republican leaders tomorrow and he's been talking about tax reform on the road but the fact remains one there's a busy schedule and 2 the key details of this plan have not been figured out yet right now we have President from tweeting saying big week coming up sounds like that is certainly the case got back to check true N.P.R.'s Scott doctrine. Thanks very much thank you for the long holiday weekend is over and it is back to work in Houston that is easier said than done thousands of people remain in area shelters thousands more in Fema paid hotel rooms as N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn reports getting to work may be the least of some people's problems 18 year old adult Angel was all ready to start his new job until Harvey hit Houston his employer told him to come back today The only problem is one of the family's cars is still drying out everything works with words Luckily he says the engine is fine we pulled out the back seat there's nothing in the trunk and it is right there I mean you can still feel where it is the water came in over the seats but Angel says it's still drivable that's good news since Houston the 4th largest city in the country is not known for its public transportation cars or the way to get around the angel family has for Lucy Angel's mom has a car but she's not sure about her job. She says she doesn't know if she and her husband can get to their job they work as kitchen help at an upscale either in the heavily flooded western part of the city. In the Morial bend a few residents wearing hip highways or sloshed through the water filled streets of this affluent neighborhood trying to get to their flooded homes the area did pretty well during Harvey's downpour It wasn't until last Wednesday when officials released water from the fast filling reservoirs that hundreds of homes flooded including Jennifer Richmond. Luckily Brad all those that still wearing boots masks and gloves Richman and an army of helpers are packing what is dry and throwing out what got wet her daughter's feathered rainbow colored parrot ended up in one of the 30 filled industrial black garbage bags on the front lawn her flat screen t.v. Looks like it's salvageable I have to. Friends are going to help me visit my Girl Scout troop leaders and we're just doing the hard work you know most of Richmond's friends though have full time jobs everyone has to go back to work I mean of course I mean as well I'm panicking she doesn't know how she's going to finish cleaning out everything by herself your health is going to dry up you're not going to have people to help you anymore that's like a that's a huge stress. At the massive energy center which is still housing nearly 3000 displaced residents many volunteers are having to give up shifts and go back to work 1st grade teacher on a corner hands out books and colorful fidgets spinners to children staying in the shelter you want right you want Green Yes I have been remiss. Yes I do yes well yes thank you she's worried that with the start of the workweek fewer people will be able to lend a helping hand I hope. They help because these people need help too Texas' congressional delegation is also heading back to work Republican Senator John Cornyn took a final tour of the massive shelter before leaving for Washington d.c. And the 1st order of business is to make sure that we do everything we can do to make sure the federal government is providing the support that's needed for Texas and Texans to heal there are still 1500 people in downtown Houston's George r. Brown Convention Center and fema has given out vouchers for more than $700.00 hotel rooms. Says so many people still need help. But with much of the city back to work this week that might be yet one more challenge Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News Houston. Later this afternoon on All Things Considered We'll take you to Colombia where Pope Francis is expected to arrive tomorrow that country is working through. Peace deal that ended a 50 year guerrilla war and while the pope supported that deal some claim he hasn't supported more justice for the war's victims that story later today on All Things Considered. It's 18 this is Aspen Public Radio in today's river report the Roaring Fork River above Aspen flowing at 44 cubic feet per 2nd just below today's average of $48.00 from one spring cemetery rapid flowing at 723 C.F.'s that's below today's average of 749 Crystal River near Redstone flowing at 92 C.F.'s that's well below today's average of 122 Colorado River show the rapid flowing 1730 C.F.'s well above today's average of 1390 and the Glenwood way of park flowing at 2630 C.F.'s that's above today's average of 2350 the tunnels are sending just $4.00 C.F.'s down to the front range and route I reservoirs 89.9 percent full spread for every port comes from Roaring Fork Conservancy the watershed watershed action in education organization in the record Valley that brings people together to protect our rivers focusing on water quantity and quality and habitat preservation to maintain the integrity of our watershed more at Roaring Fork dot org. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly American Airlines is adding flights on the Caribbean islands of St Martin and St Kitts ahead of hurricane Irma the Category 5 storm continues moving to the west with top sustained winds of 175 miles per hour it could reach Florida by Saturday Congress is considering an aid package for Texas and Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey lawmakers are returning from their August recess today N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn has more from Houston Texas governor Greg Abbott says damage estimates are as high as $180000000000.00 and several neighborhoods in western Houston remain flooded as officials were forced to release water from full reservoirs they say it may be up to 10 days before the waters recede President Trump says he's given the go ahead for South Korea and Japan to buy more high tech military equipment from the u.s. After North Korea's latest nuclear test in Seoul N.P.R.'s Elise use is South Korea's military is using a show of force the naval drills began today with warships conducting a live fire exercise in the sea off Korea's east coast they will continue through Saturday on Monday South Korea conducted a mock attack on the North's nuclear testing site with fighter jets the presidential office here says Washington and Seoul also agreed to remove a limit on the size of South Korea's missile warheads so the South can boost its own defensive power Hi I'm David Mattingly. 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Dot com from out last seen maker of collaboration software confluence bitbucket in trying working to help teams across industries ascend to new heights to create what's next learn more about Lassie and dot com At last Ian team up and from the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Mary Louise Kelly let's head next to California to hear how the debate over doctor is playing there doctor as the program that allows people who arrived illegally in the u.s. As children to stay and work as N.P.R.'s Danny Heydrich reports it affects more people in California than any other state Labor Day in downtown Los Angeles brought together union organizers and the founders of Dhaka. Undocumented unafraid Karen or a Gaza leads the chance she remembers coming to the u.s. From Guadalajara Mexico when she was 7 or geyser says she's made a life for herself here in l.a. That's why she's anxious about the fate of Dhaka I have 2 jobs I'm a I'm a full time student so everything would be taken away because this is our home you know we were brought here as kids we grew up here she says she's representing others who are too scared to come out and protest if anything is a wake up time wakeup call for us to not be in a comfort zone in some kind of you know and say that we're not willing to tobacco we're here to fight. Was the right god was Los Angeles is at the center of this debate because according to the Pew Research Center California alone has over 200000 doc and recipients it's more than any other state so one in 4 that the recipient is recover fornia So the issue for us it hits home this is Melody Clinton fuss another dreamer activist who works with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles she's holding a giant banner that reads No human being is illegal These are issues that we have been dealing with internally for years I know I was undocumented when I was 17 I'm 23 now so it's been 16 years of constant turmoil inside or maybe it has been extremely exhausting but at the same time when we come out to these events and see people support us it really gives us that motivation to keep going that same motivate. Brought up Jorge Herrera he's lived here since he was 4 and says he'd be lost if he were sent back to Mexico growing up he says he was told the American dream could be his reality is that we really don't think there is an American doing that math of having a American dream to was no longer exist regardless of the decision that comes out of the White House the so-called dreamers in this crowd say they're determined to stay in the country they call home then Heydrich n.p.r. News Los Angeles. In central Italy at the birthplace of St Benedict an enterprising group of mostly American monks spend their days chanting prayers and making beer N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli recently visited the monks a year after a devastating earthquake killed some 300 people in the region and left their monastery in ruins. It's very quiet up here on the mountainside high above the walled town of North birthplace in the year 480 of St Benedict patron saint of Europe. A community of Benedictine monks has moved up here to build a new monastery after last year's quakes devastated the grandiose 13th century basilica and left much of north in rubble the monks now celebrate mass in a brand new chapel made of wood. Choirmaster father Basil Nixon a native of Arizona says medieval Gregorian chants make up what he calls the life beat of their lives were chanting singing our prayers about 4 to 5 hours a day so it has a very important role it's what unifies us as a community brings us together the monks settled in North in 2190 years after the monastery had been shut down on orders of Napoleon now numbering 14 the monks do not live a cloistered existence in 2015 they gained international fame when Benedict their cd of Merion chants was number one on Billboard's classical charts for 17 weeks 3 years earlier seeking a reliable source of income they trained with Belgian monks and embraced a centuries old monastic tradition making craft beer it's called new to see it from the town's lot name and it's a popular item in north along with the local specialties cured meats and truffles rather Augustine from South Carolina is the brewmaster 3 very intentionally chose the name of the town for the beer. To involve the townspeople involved the rich call an area and cultural and spiritual tradition of this town the prior of the community Father Benedict never cough a native of Connecticut explains the spiritual aspect people kept asking the monks for a product they could take home with them because they can't take a monk home to take something that the monks make is a way of bringing a little bit of monastic life into their home to bring home a wine or a beer or a product that monks or nuns make sort of sanctifies their home for them. A local Mason who has been working for the monks for many years is grateful for what they've done for the North. And I could undergo some of it keep the monks have symbolically brought St Benedict back to his birthplace in economically they've been vital to our town not just attracting tourists but also showing solidarity and helping those whose homes were destroyed. In the. Us. On this hot August day along with the monks plumber carpenter and electrician has been invited to a small ceremony to bless the land and lay the cornerstone of the new mountainside brewery. Father Benedict the dryer plunges the shovel into the hard earth while the other monks pass around goblets of ice cold and who are sea of the air. That for these months came to an orchard to observe a contemplative life of prayer but now they're also full fledged members of the town contributing to its economy and becoming its spiritual and cultural point of reference Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. News check. In. This is n.p.r. News. This is Morning Edition on Aspen Public Radio I'm Melissa Stewart's every governor John Hickenlooper recently appointed Glenwood Springs resident Carrie Hauser to the state's Parks and Wildlife Commission this board sets rules and oversees state parks and wildlife programs thanks for being here Kerry certainly So you were appointed to represent outdoor recreation and park interests What do you see as some of the issues you'd like to address Well I'm brand new I've just learned of this appointment a day or 2 ago so I will look forward to learning a lot more about the commission you know to be a Coloradan you care about our states and our incredible backyard and so to the extent that I can offer some perspective on being a relatively frequent user of our incredible open spaces and our state parks and all the things that Colorado has to offer I look forward to doing that can you tell me about your perspective on how to balance conservation and Recreation we've heard a lot locally about overuse of some of our most precious places how might you address some of those issues it would seem to me that this is something that you have to try to find reasonable balance and the reason that the Commission as I understand it has different delegates based on different sort of affiliations is surprise to bring together ranchers users conservationists and others to try to find an appropriate balance for these really incredible places in Colorado to make sure that we've they're still here for generations to come does that mean since you were appointed on a recreation kind of focus that you would be primarily advocating for recreational It's well I think my understanding is that that's sort of what I represent I'm not a rancher I don't come from those other sort of constituency bases that's kind of how in my understanding with a lot of these state commissions is it really try to find a balance of folks it'll bring different voices to the table and hopefully in doing so not only just for political affiliation but you're bringing something that will add to the conversation and ideally whatever actions come out of that are sort of the greatest collection of that thinking and. A lot of compromise as well now in your day job you're the president and c.e.o. Of Colorado Mountain College How does that work tie with this how do you do you see a connection there it was one of the pieces when I was asked if I might be interested in this I always sort of ask myself or go through a process to say well how does it connect with college and given that we're in one county 12000 square mile you know enterprise in the central Rockies where so much of this activity happens there's a lot of connectivity we have so many outdoor programs we have seen ability program all of our natural resources programs so I was in our steamboat campus yesterday and it happened to be that all of our outdoor faculty were getting ready to launch the semester and I walked in and share this news with them and I said I want you to help me think about how do we connect or students and how do we connect our programs and how might there be opportunities Ok Thank you Kerry Kerry Hauser will represent outer recreation parks on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission I'm Elizabeth Stewart Severi You're listening to Morning Edition on Aspen Public Radio support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from engineers list who is committed to helping over 6000000 members choose local service pros in their communities over 20 years of members reviews are available online more at Angie's List dot com Angie's List home is where our heart is from American Express Open which is committed to helping businesses turn their best ideas into reality American Express Open wants to help with money and know how so businesses can say yes to their best ideas and get business done and from the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Rachel Martin another weapons test from North Korea another emergency meeting of the u.n. Security Council and more tough talk from the u.s. And its allies his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. War is never something the United States wants we don't want it now our country's patience is not unlimited it was Nikki Haley the u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Speaking yesterday in response to Kim Jong un's nuclear test over the weekend on Sunday President Trump said that the u.s. Could consider stopping all trade with countries that do business with North Korea which is a not so subtle message to China for more we turn now to Max Baucus he served as u.s. Ambassador to China under President Obama thank you so much for being in here this morning and asked her Do you think threatening to cut off u.s. Trade with China as a way to force their hand on the North Korean issue do you think that's a good idea no I don't I think it's bluster frankly and that's a problem here we don't know when the president is serious and when he's not serious my judgment on that is I don't know that he knows himself he's different tactics says different things different times but it's not helpful I want to get back to how you see the administration's strategy in all this in a moment but on the China issue and how they see this China clearly in this moment is viewing North Korea's new aggression as a threat why doesn't China just cut off ties trade ties in particular with North Korea this isn't just the u.s. And Donald Trump floating this other allies have suggested that China needs to get tougher on North Korea especially on the trade issue why don't they do that China is Dural Jake about stability. The Communist Party will do whatever it can to maintain stability in China in the region because if that country is stable that its people are happy and that means the party can maintain its little. Even if that stability includes keeping North Korea as a nuclear power I think China has decided that the status quo currently is is preferable that is if. China does cut off all. Economic trade with China China probably implode with North Korea with your Korea sea and with which I was not Korea implode and who knows what might happen next Kim Jong un might get there but fall who knows what happens after that refugees make becoming flooding over into and to China. A us might long with South Korea start to take control and north of the peninsula China does not want that that's 1st of all that's instability 2nd it's United States and South Korea and China story so then how is the us supposed to. Get China to move the needle and if China insists on the status quo in the us says this is anything but this is we have to take action I think we've taken a couple of wrong approaches one is we in the past we've been asking China to to do us a favor China's not going to us a favor no countries do any countries favor every country x. Ask operates its own self interest we say do this for us put pressure on Kim Jong un for us we asked him to do a favor tell us I can do a favorite us a 2nd we we accept times call China names we threaten trade sanctions you know that's not really helpful rather we have to I think start working with China to try to find a solution well so what what does that look like I mean what in the world can be tried now that hasn't been tried before well we're going to cooperate with China so far we've not been cooperative with China we believe treat we've treated China as if not it an adversary but least certainly not a friend when I was serving as ambassador many times and states would come over and talk to the leadership in China trying and asking the Chinese leadership put pressure on on Kim They were very superficial. Quest by the United States we'd really frankly to know not what we're doing we have to get lot more substantive and think more about the end game what you want to end game to be with China and as you see it now and Akili said the North is begging for more secretary of defense Jim Mattis says that the u.s. Will have to issue a military response is the trumpet ministration running the risk of sounding empty threats when the North can or yes no question absolutely I don't think the North Korea's begging for any real threat that it is an empty threat we'll have to leave it there former u.s. Ambassador to China Max Baucus thanks so much. To Germany now where the election season has truth been told been pretty lackluster at least until last night when raucous debate broke out among candidates from smaller political parties they are vying for 3rd place that's right the race for 3rd in German national elections and they could end up being key powerbrokers as N.P.R.'s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Berlin televised debates here tend to lack the drama of those in the u.s. Like this past weekend when Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main rival Martin Schultz were lampooned in the German media for engaging in a quote duet rather than a duel but there was no such harmony last night during the debate between the top candidates from 5 smaller parties who are also running against Merkel dynamic evaluated as a sign that they shouted and interrupted one another and the moderators who struggle to steer them toward issues German voters care about like affordable housing and terrorism none of these smaller party candidates has a realistic chance of unseating Merkel who c.d.u. Political party has long been the front runner in weekly opinion polls but the stakes for the runners up are high because the c.d.u. Isn't likely to win enough seats for Merkel to govern without forming a coalition government is in soil. Said during her debate there is no way she will join with the Left Party which is the successor to the former East German Communist Party or with Alternative for Germany which is a newer party made up of right wing populists who are staunchly anti Islam but even so the 2 parties could influence policy in an alternative for Germany's case already do it came in 3rd in recent opinion polls and there are fears the party might gain even more voters that has led Merkel's government to replace its welcoming stance toward refugees with policies aimed at limiting asylum and increasing deportations just how nervous German politicians are about alternative for germ. It was clear last night its lead candidate Alisa by Dell was asked how she felt about bringing quote half Nazis into the German parliament politician competence said I've had an analysis of my dil defended her party's perspective and piece describing them as academics who delivered constructive policies for Germany's future based He gets the money from Dr Tiller's on the haka as his minor liberal rivals Christiane Linton he replied This isn't about how many Ph D.'s your party has but it's character Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and n.p.r. News Berlin. This is n.p.r. News. It's 841 good morning this is Aspen Public Radio thanks for tuning in in today's weather it's 53 degrees right now in Aspen 53 in basalt and 58 in Glenwood Springs look for clear but a hazy skies today with highs in the eighty's throughout the Valley tomorrow and Thursday should also be sunny and hot before temperatures dipped slightly on Friday and through the weekend. In Aspen Public Radio News schools in the run for school district begin today also plans for a trail from Carbondale to Crested Butte are starting to take shape and Governor Hickenlooper wants to stabilize the health insurance market read those stories and more on our Web site at Aspen Public Radio dot org. Good morning from the b.b.c. In London I'm rich Preston with 2 international stories from our news room this hour as the u.s. Considers new sanctions on North Korea China is urging negotiations the B.B.C.'s John Sudworth is in Dandong China on the border with North Korea through which almost all of North Korea's trade flows including Chinese oil Donald Trump's argument is that China could simply choke North Korea into submission by turning that pipeline off but when you sit here and see just how close it is you can understand why the government in Beijing is very very nervous about the prospect of regime collapse it would bring chaos and instability right up against this border elsewhere the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence from Myanmar has risen sharply with more than 35 fires and arriving in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours alone the prime minister of Bangladesh says the refugees should be returned to Myanmar The B.B.C.'s John we're giving says Myanmar's de facto leader Nobel Prize winner on song Suchi is under pressure to speak and more against the Army's attacks on civilians the population which generally is not sympathetic to the ranges and generally takes the government line that sees them as illegal immigrants rather than a legitimate part of the country rather than nationals so Washi to speak out it certainly wouldn't be a vote winner but I think there's a growing clamor from the un coming saying you know you need to take a stand on this there was refused Tories we're following here in London I'm rich Preston at the b.b.c. . 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Station it's 845 this is Aspen Public Radio the Aspen Valley Polo Club just wrapped up its summer season over July and August world class professionals played with amateurs in a dozen tournaments Aspen Public Radio's Wyatt Orme attended the final games outside Carbondale as he reports the owners want the run for Valley to become a destination for polo. 8 horses jostle each other on a perfectly manicured field they're so strong you can watch their muscles working from hundreds of feet away this is very physical game for the player British freshly for the horses Jerry Simmons and his wife Edith stand at the far end of a good sized crowd it's mostly older folks they talk quietly and munch on the free empanada as there are lots of polo shirts but the occasional Carbondale mountain faire T.-Shirt as crop up Jerry is a retired veterinarian and used to play a lot of polo it's not just a sport for the super rich he says when he used to play in El Paso there were a lot of people like me who were you know making a living but having to work 5 or 6 days a week to get there but we always show up on standard bipolar you needed had 9 horses but they also had 3 kids eventually the sport got a little too pricey came to the point where we had to decide who's going to get for this month to get the kids or the horses. So. We decided to. Go with the kids but there's another reason he quit a horse he loved developed colic which is an intestinal condition he had to euthanize her afterwards he told his wife he'd never watch another polo game this is the 1st polo game I've been to machines I put in on their down that night 4045 years ago but decades later he still misses the game a lot of the horses or what have attracted many in the crowd here today what do you like about just the horse flesh I mean these are nice horses and really good riders I've played football and rugby and it's as fast as a man can run this is as fast as a horse can run so it's a lot more exciting when you're going $35.00 mph the horse going Mach one that acceleration is like skydiving That last voice belongs to my kids are oh he's one of the best polar players in the world he's a Hall of Famer he and other pros spend the summer with the Aspen Valley Polo Club a lot goes into playing polo it is level. He owns 35 horses for example and that's really not that many he says when I was in my prime I had between 85 and hired some players bring their own trainers and their own horses the process can be pretty involved they're just like big horse planes that no actually usually salts on the bottom of the plane no way yeah yeah like on the bottom of like an American Airlines flight or something's a sometimes sometimes sad excess start to start to get into a lot of econ transport There's companies that do it exclusively that Stern Tamplin the clubs full time but Marion he's in the barn all the time he says making sure the horses stay healthy the club also has its own farrier he's the guy who shoes the horses. Again he is checking on one of her stallions she owns the Aspen Valley poa club along with her husband Mark it's their 2nd club they own another in Florida they want to make the sport more accessible all the games this summer were open to the public and during the winter they organize a snow poetry moment in Aspen it happens right before Christmas and brings out polo enthusiasts and 1st timers alike they also run a nonprofit polo school here to get young people interested in the sport there's opportunities there for people that possibly can afford it predominantly children the clubs other goal Ganz he says to really make this Aspen Carbondale eligible area a world class polo destination they currently own 7000 acres of Katherine store road there outdoor and indoor arena as in the field where today's games are being played which is a little small regulation size is 15 acres so the club recently bought over 100 acres across the road they're planning to full size fields with grandstands a clubhouse and much more this will just put the club on the map says Mike is our for me I'll be the premier color club for summer polo in the world. Wyatt Orme asked in public radio news It's $850.00 You're listening to Morning Edition on Aspen Public Radio Hartley spoke for Aspen Public Radio come from the salt Sunday market taking place each Sunday from $10.00 to $2.00 with live music food vendors fresh local produce arts and crafts and more kids can enjoy a variety of bounce house inflatables every week more at basalt sundae market dot com and from Snowmass tourism presenting the Snowmass balloon festival this weekend September 8th the 10th balloon launches take place in Snowmass town park from 7 to 10 am each day with a glow show and a concert in Snowmass bass village on Saturday evening more at Go Snowmass dot com . This is Aspen Public Radio find us on your radio dial at 91.5 f.m. In Aspen of assault it is 8.9 f.m. And Carbondale and 89.3 f.m. In Glenwood Springs listen live online on our website at Aspen Public Radio dot org Marketplace Morning Report is up next. What flooded chemical plants are doing to the us economy Marketplace Morning Report is supported by the town developing new forensic d.n.a. Tools to help crime labs across the country solve missing persons cases in criminal investigations because a patella can be done but tell dot org slash marketplace and buy American Express Open American Express Open is committed to helping businesses with money and tools to bring their best ideas to life and get business done for a marketplace I'm David Brancaccio coming to you from the studios of the b.b.c. In London this week authorities in Crosby Texas say their controlled burn of toxic chemicals wrapped up last night at the arc of a chemical plant those fires are now out in the aftermath of Harvey industrial plants that supply many of the petro chemicals in the u.s. Are offline Now here's a key problem with ethylene used to make everything from milk jugs to car parts marketplaces Aaron trunk reports chances are you're currently surrounded by stuff made with everything you're wearing your computer your cars household cleaners Kathy hall edits trading history newsletter petrochem wire she says right now 60 percent of u.s. Ethylene production is offline so the price of these key consumer goods ingredient has spiked 20 percent some producers are already telling customers they can't meet supply contracts but Hall says manufacturers probably aren't panicking yet every manufacturer keeps a certain amount of inventory and they're obviously using that right now but how long the plants stay closed will determine how much prices go up Hassan a matter of alleged big Global Advisors not deal you actually try to restart your chemical facilities where you realized the full extent of the damage with some refineries rail lines in other parts of the chemical supply chain still flooded the ripple effect could be felt down the line in the form of price hikes on a range of consumer goods I'm Aaron Schrank for Marketplace Let's turn to the flood infrastructure and what this city London. Did to get ready for high water Joining me now is my newest colleague here at Marketplace b.b.c. Host and correspondent on the on here in London Welcome thank you very much David So we're watching taxes and huge swath of South Asia clean up from the horror of this flooding but we're talking together here in London we can learn from London in terms of how to deal with the stuff that's right London had a catastrophic flood back in 1953 and then they decided to do something about it so in the early 1980 s. a Brand new thing opened it's called the Thames barrier and it's these amazing walls that come up and literally block the flow of the River Thames which runs through London it costs $2100000000.00 to build in today's money but that's not all you know they're spending billions more to try and shore up flood defenses right around the country you got to spend money if you want to protect your assets you know I would visit here in the 170 s. And see these scary posters on the walls of the subways that would have these maps of central London with the flood map what would happen if the 100 year flood would come it was like a disaster movie and it was these pitches to come up with the money to build the thing that stops the floods right so they invested in this they invested in it and it's true that most of London's most iconic landmarks Shakespeare's Globe Theater the Houses of Parliament most of it would be underwater if that barrier was not there and it cost money to run you know each time they they shot it completely it's $20000.00 so again you've got to spend money and the other thing is it's only going to last another 35 years because of climate change so they're going to have to spend even more money at some point but you know we do we spend money on disaster cleanup and relief instead of the infrastructure spending beforehand I mean that's the lesson I think from around the world that's right and that is what is distorting flood defenses in the us the fact that the money is available after the fact rather than before the fact and the fact that a lot of. Surance is subsidized So you think living in a flood plain Well it's not that expensive it is expensive because when the flood comes there's the damage and the money has to come out of the public purse it gives people a false sense of security and the data that we have is that more and more damage is going to occur in those areas more people are living around rivers lakes oceans and the damage is just going to go up and up and down all right another argument for infrastructure spending both in the u.s. And around the world my newest marketplace colleague Starting today the B.B.C.'s new Anand can also be heard in a podcast with the global perspective it's lined up in the Marketplace Morning Report podcast read a new Thank you thank you David shall we do the numbers the Dow is down 172 points 8 tenths of a percent on the 1st u.s. Trading day after that North Korea underground nuclear test the s. And p. Of the Nasdaq reached down 5 percent about 2 miles away is the London Stock Exchange where we find the $100.00 share index down 3 tenth's percent people are piling into u.s. Treasuries with a 10 year yield wedo below 2.09 percent the publisher of the l.a. Times is buying the New York Daily News for one u.s. Dollar I mean I say $1.00 it's also assuming about $30000000.00 in liabilities including pension and other debt the buyers the former Tribune Company which decided a while back to change its name to trunk thought that was a good idea. 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Dot com An update now on a 30000000000 dollar aerospace merger Here's Marketplace's supreme Bena shore United Technologies is a conglomerate that owns to companies that make everything from air conditioners to escalators to jet engines it is buying Rockwell Collins which makes aviation electronics and aircraft parts you probably sat on a Rockwell Collins airline seat what makes this deal pay off in the minds of these $2.00 companies is a they have similar enough operations that by consolidating they could save money $500000000.00 in just a few years at least that's what they think we'll see that works and b they both sell stuff to airplane makers so combined they can theoretically drive a harder bargain when they deal with Boeing or Airbus or whoever Sabrine in New York thank you and there's this amid all this missile testing in Asia most rocket engines used to launch u.s. Missiles military gear and American satellites are made in Russia and could be made in Russia for a lot longer the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Lockheed Martin and Boeing are behind in their joint effort to develop new u.s. Made rocket engines and that project could take another decade or more the u.s. Buys Russian to save money the startup company Space x. And Blue Origin would also like to help with us our producers are just in hope Katie long Daniel Shannon Nicole child is Engineers Brian Allison and Daniel Ramirez from London this week I'm David Brancaccio with the Marketplace Morning Report. From a.p.m. American Public Media. Good morning 59 this is Aspen Public Radio broadcasting. 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