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Once and said Our country will remember them every day not just on Memorial Day to every parent who weeps for a child to every child who mourns for a parent and to every husband or wife whose heart is been torn in pieces today we ask God to comfort your pain to ease your sorrow. And to wipe away your tears that somber tone came after the president stirred a bit of controversy with the self-congratulatory tone of a tweet saying quote those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud how well our country is doing today Barbara's friend n.p.r. News Washington of Tropical Storm Alberto the 1st named storm of the 2018 hurricane season is hitting the u.s. Gulf Coast bringing with it heavy rain and threats of possible flooding David's Olinsky is a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami he says the storm has the potential to cause major flooding there's a high risk for flooding in especially flash flooding where you have very heavy rain over a short period of time can cause floodwaters especially in urban areas to rise very quickly so that's really the biggest threat of this point there's also a threat for some coastal flooding especially to the east of Alberto and high surf along a large portion of the Gulf Coast especially the eastern side tropical storm warning is in effect for a stretch of coast from Florida to the Alabama border the border patrol has revised an official statement regarding a shooting incident in which an agent killed a young Guatemalan woman on the Texas border as N.P.R.'s John Burnett explains new statement says the immigrant woman was not attacking the agent as it had previously stated cloudy a Patricio Gomez Gonzalez said 20 year old Maya woman from the Guatemalan highlands was fatally shot last week in the town of real Bravo Texas the Border Patrol's original statement claimed she was an assailant and that the agent was attacked with blunt objects the agency has since updated its version of the incident to say that she was just a member of a group of 6 immigrants who rushed the officer after they ignored orders to get on the ground her family in Guatemala says the small statured woman had just turned 20 and come to the u.s. Looking for work she apparently crossed the border illegally near Loredo the f.b.i. In Texas Rangers are investigating the case the agent who's not been named has been placed on administrative leave John Burnett and. Euro News Austin with u.s. Financial markets closed for Memorial Day European markets drifted moderately lower today in Paris the CAC 40 fell 6 tenths of a percent while the German Dax fell by a similar amount the London stock market was also closed today you're listening to n.p.r. After flooding hit the Maryland town of Ellicott City officials now say one person is being listed as missing Fishel say they're searching for 39 year old Edison harmand a u.s. Air Force veteran and current member of the Maryland Army National Guard flashflood there last night swept through the small town overflowing cars and storefronts a guard spokesman says harmand was not on duty Sunday night he did not have a guard duty this weekend he was last seen at the height of the flash flood that sent water careening down the city's main street St continues to see an increase in migrant arrivals to the Mediterranean Sea as the weather warms and conditions for crossings are more favorable just 48 hours the Spanish maritime rescue services reached almost 600 migrants this weekend we see Benevides from Spain reports the last of the migrants arrived on the shores of southern Spain Monday morning the refugees mostly from north in sub-Saharan Africa are the latest in an increase of crossings through the west military nion route the stretch of sea between Morocco in Spain as of May 23rd before this weekend's rescues the un migration agency said almost 7000 migrants arrived in Spain by sea this year double what the country saw this time last year and Italy the number of migrant arrivals by sea has dropped 79 percent the Italian government has cracked down on immigration through controversial deals with the Libyan coast guard and investigations into N.G.O.s search and rescues for n.p.r. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and we begin this hour with the uproar over children being separated from their parents at the Us Mexico border over the weekend the president tweeted quote put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from their parents once they cross the border we're going to dig into that statement in a moment but the fact is the trumpet ministration from its early days has talked about the policy as a deterrent in March of last year John Kelly told c.n.n. That the administration was considering taking children from their parents if they crossed the border illegally at the time Kelly was secretary for the Department of Homeland Security yes I am considering in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network I am considering exactly that they will be well cared for as we deal with their parents now administration officials are making clear that this is exactly what border agents are doing here as Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaking earlier this month if you don't want your child to be separated then don't bring him across the border illegally is not our fault. That somebody does that John Kelly successor as d.h. a Secretary cares to Nelson defended the practice on n.p.r. a Couple of weeks ago she said the primary issue is referring adults who break border laws for prosecution even when those adults are with their children operationally what that means is you will have to separate your family that's no different than what we do every day in every part of the United States when an adult of a family commits a crime we want to hear how this practice is playing out so we reached out to the young center for immigrant children's rights that's at the University of Chicago Law School and Jennifer Nada is policy director for the young center she joins us now welcome thank you for having me let me start by making clear what steak you have there at the young center you help advocate for children who are in shelters around the country is that right we do under a law that was passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed by a Republican president we are appointed as the independent child advocate for particularly vulnerable children unaccompanied children typically those children who arrive at the border by themselves and are placed in government custody our role is to identify and advocate for their best interests with respect to all of the decisions that are made in their case have you noticed an uptick in children who are coming in with parents and are then separated from them at the border we have absolutely no to snap tech I think it might be fair to say we're feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the increase in cases we noticed as early as late spring of 2017 and through the winter and now the spring of this year we have seen a significant number of children referred to us for the appointment of a child advocate for kids taken from their parents at the border and then these children are being sent all over the country they are the children by law are placed in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in shelters in facilities around the country where they're placed depends on where. Where are our has capacity to place them where as a completely different agency the Department of Homeland Security is making decisions about where parents will be held in immigration detention and so often we find that children are thousands of miles apart from where their parents are being detained which of course makes everything from establishing communications to working on their legal cases so much more difficult. Gather there's one case that has stuck with you a mom who came from South America with her 4 year old son and the little boy was placed in custody while she was sent to adult detention he was he didn't speak Spanish he spoke a different language and he was being well cared for but he was really struggling he was having trouble sleeping he lost his appetite and he was really starting to regress developmentally and we fortunately had a child advocate who spoke that little boy's language and she worked really hard to get him weekly calls with his mother she'd never expected to be taken from her son and she herself was struggling in debating giving up her claim for asylum but she hung in there and she was eventually released by a judge so that she could live in the community while she continues with her immigration case and we recommended that it was in the little boy's best interest to be immediately reunified with his mom and they were and they came to our office the day they were reunified and there were a lot of tears and they were generally very happy tears but I think what's hard to know is how much work lies ahead for this mom and for this little boy to recover from the experience of spending months away from his mother well let me ask the question that is at the heart of this as we heard the trumpet ministration defends the space policy this practice as a deterrent have you in your work seen evidence that it is deterring families from trying to enter the u.s. Illegally we've seen no evidence that it is deterring families from entering their families who are coming to the us. They are fleeing situations of extraordinary violence when they are leaving they are just trying to get to safety from our experience the last thing any of them anticipated was having their children taken from them these people are though aware that they are trying to enter the u.s. Illegally what is the reaction to the point that we heard Attorney General Jeff Sessions make if you don't want to be separated from your child don't try to bring them across the u.s. Border illegally so I think it's important to clarify that there's nothing illegal about coming to our border and asking for asylum these families are not necessarily trying to sneak in they are coming to the border they are presenting themselves to border officials and they are asking for help nothing in our laws or international laws suggest that the appropriate next step is to take those children from their parents in the hopes of deterring other families from exercising their right to seek protection at another nation's border. That is Jennifer Noctua the young center for immigrant children's rights Jennifer Noctua thank you you're welcome as we mentioned President Trump has suggested that existing law in his words a horrible law is to blame for what is happening now at the border with children being separated from their parents and again President Trump blames Democrats for what's happening we put that claim to Bob Kerrey who ran the Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Obama administration my experience both in the Obama administration and under prior administrations both Republican and Democratic was that the law was not interpreted in the same way and children were not being separated from their parents unless there was a very strong body of evidence that indicated that they were not their parents so you're saying the existing law Yes correct was in place but it's being interpreted in a different way under this administration it would appear that way yes you know in the past under both international and u.s. Law if someone fleeing a. Country where they were experiencing violence and were asking for protection at u.s. Border this was not interpreted as a violation of law early Eagle entry nor was it assumed that if they were traveling with their parent that that was not an illegitimate relationship in that they should be separated particularly with small children and has not been a policy under any administration I'm aware of I want to pivot you to another immigration issue that has also gone viral on social media under the hash tag missing children last month a Health and Human Services official was testifying on Capitol Hill and said that the federal government had lost track of nearly $1500.00 immigrant children 1st to be clear this is a separate issue from children who are separated from their parents at the border these are children who were internet country unaccompanied correct yes correct and who are they where they coming from these children are for the most part they are older teenagers you know of 141516 who have fled violence in Central America El Salvador Guatemala Honduras often gang violence so fleeing gangs not members of gangs is a general rule who have been apprehended at the border to usually present themselves that are taken into the custody of Customs and Border Patrol and then placed in the care of the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement until they can be reunited with a sponsor in the United States and then go through the legal processes so you know over 90 percent of those cases are joining close family members of Eventually after those relationships can be verified so I would argue that for particular those children who are joining a parent or close family member calling them last is it might be you know misinterpreting the facts what does that mean that federal authorities have lost track of them well I think the interpretation was or are as a refugee resettlement has custody of the children until they are released. To us monster who can be identified in a relationship and identity verified what I believe they're into putting is lost is individuals who did not respond to follow up phone calls after 30 days which were routinely provided so it's essentially not answering a phone call and to verify where they are and I think that's not at all surprising in the current climate where fear has been sown in immigrant communities that they may be apprehended or that they are targeted by law enforcement so it creates a disincentive for people to maintain contact or come forward when contacted by a federal agency you're saying and in many cases these people might not want to be found exactly and that's not at all surprising given some of the rhetoric we're hearing about immigrant communities that they would not want to identify themselves to a federal office which has made clear is now is hearing their contact information with law enforcement agencies and Immigration and Customs Enforcement So that certainly creates a disincentive for people to answer the phone and say this is where I'm where I am or you know it creates an incentive for in some instances for them to perhaps move and not provide fording address information well circling back to this number that has caused an uproar the federal authorities saying they lost track of nearly 1500 emigrant children last year when you heard that number what went through your mind does that strike you as a surprising number that number seems quite large you know I I don't know the exact statistics but I think that it's been established that killed her staying in care for longer periods of time and fewer sponsors are coming forward from what I've read so I think that that has changed greatly from the time that I was working in government from want to understand as Bob Kerrey the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement under President Obama Mr Kerry thank you thank you. 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Comes from this station and from the Walton Family Foundation where opportunity takes root more information is available at Walton Family Foundation dot org from Linda mood Belle committed to helping all students learn to their potential offering a learning ability evaluation and summer programs for reading comprehension and math more at Lynda mood Bell dot com and from the John s. And James l. Knight Foundation helping n.p.r. Advance journalistic excellence in the digital age. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly the island of Taiwan about 100 miles off China's southeastern coast has its own democratically elected government so unflagged its own military yet most of the world including the u.s. Won't recognize it as an independent country for fear of upsetting China which insists it owns Taiwan caught in the middle are the island citizens they are constantly at odds over national identity even in their own households N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz brings us this report. I think the beans for outlets in the walk inside the she family kitchen are starting to sizzle and so are the tempers around the dinner table. Here they really don't. Care It's only been minutes since I've sat down to chat which he will read then his daughter Ray and when I ask a question about identity Ray asks her dad to leave the dining. Thank you why why do you want to be here. Because we think it's been through so many times that we had the argument about it the last time the 2 argued about their identity was in Japan it was a family trip they were on the subway and Ray became embarrassed because her dad was speaking loudly inside a crowded but characteristically quiet Tokyo subway car when I got to their stop she lectured her dad I just thought in life you have to respect their culture if you don't talk it out loud and in the metro and that's their culture and did his like oh no but we Chinese we don't care about that no you Chinese and then we started out really fighting everything she yelled at her dad you might be Chinese but I'm not I'm Taiwanese were different there they were screaming at each other over whether they were Chinese or Taiwanese along a crowded street in Japan I think that to respect other people's culture it means that you respect your own culture but then if we do not as we play what culture we are then Ray says you've got problems this gets to the heart of what it means to be tough. I wene where concepts like country and culture can be trigger words where people in Ray's father's generation see themselves as exiles forced to flee China their homeland after losing a civil war to communist only to arrive here on this island an island their children identify not as a refuge but as home a homeland a democratic free society independent from China later on when I get a chance to talk to Ray's father he explains what they felt like I was told at school I'm Chinese young people are told their time when and their education tells them to be wary of China that the country is backwards and disorderly that it threatens us but we're all Chinese by blood of the young ones however we taught our daughter to be whoever she wants to be. For me and it will he says his daughter is what the Taiwanese call born independent in Chinese we call that. Dr Jane she runs the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy the young people have very strong tile a nice identity if you ask them if you're Tom a nice or Chinese or both almost 90 percent of them will say we are Taiwanese in a surveys shoes foundation conducted last fall 70 percent of young people in Taiwan said they'd fight if China's military invaded their island which China's threaten to do if Taiwan's government formally declares independence that said the overwhelming majority of people in Taiwan says she would do not advocate declaring independence from China overwhelming majority of Tony's people deeply for De Mint instead of school and the status quo including a democratic system. Back at the she household re the daughter says she would die defending Taiwan her father has a more favorable view of China but her younger brother 23 year olds she jumped when seems to be in the middle the status quo majority doctor she was talking about but he's less worried about China's political influence than its economic influence of the day though. If we unify with China their money comes in and it will be hard to live here they're rich. The Us will be priced out of our own home of the Toyota. Who will do a good ol he complains that China already exerts considerable control over Taiwan's economy de Gaulle though the eyes of what goes on go you know they don't need to take us over by force he tells me they've already bought us it may be cynical but it's a thought nobody around the c. Family dinner table seems to disagree with Rob Schmitz n.p.r. News Taipei. If you are a Vegas Golden Knights fan you are already playing with house money and the team has made history by making the Stanley Cup final in its 1st year of existence Vegas fans would be forgiven and if they think this is how it goes every year fans of The Washington Capitals snow better check to. See. The. 6 to 2 quick ones they have won 7 out of 8 playoff series from the Washington Capitals and we don't have time to list all of the years that the Capitals have had a commanding lead in the playoffs only to collapse in heartbreaking fashion that has happened to 10 times since 1905 this year might finally be different the Capitals are in the final for the 1st time in 20 years they will be facing the Golden Knights and tonight is game one in Las Vegas John welcome the play by play announcer for the Capitals is there John Walton welcome Mary Louise good to be with you good to have you with us so what's the vibe like there in Vegas are you nervous the vibe is one of anticipation I think it is one of celebration on some level it's always a celebration in Vegas anyway to have the Stanley Cup final in the midst of all of this is one of the strangest things I think I've ever seen but it's also a whole lot of fun what changed for the Capitals this year how did they finally break through I think it was borne out of failure in past seasons you've had years where the caps were the best team in the league in the regular season and they still couldn't get by the 2nd round they still couldn't get by the Pittsburgh Penguins I think that feeling hung with them and they slowly but surely built to this point by believing in themselves even when I think a lot of teams or a lot of people around the league and pundits around the hockey world thought that Washington's window had passed and here they are now of course you will know the greatest fear for Caps fans is that the final act of torture will be that they have made it all. The weight of the Stanley Cup And they're going to lose in Game 7 to the upstart Golden Knights Well I suppose that's a fear the problem on the other side is not really a problem but just amazing that it worked this way George McPhee was the general manager of the capitals from 1980 when they went to the final the last time until 2014 he runs the Golden Knights as their general manager and now Brian McClellan who is the Caps g m they went to school together they played in college together at Bowling Green in Ohio and now they're going head to head they've known each other since they were in grade school you know there is some symmetry that maybe works in the Caps favor maybe it doesn't but we'll find out as the series on folds now you've been calling Caps games for how long now this would be my 7th year finishing up right now and you've never gotten to call the Stanley Cup game it is my 1st I was privileged enough to call the Olympics for n.b.c. Back in February if you would have told me that there was going to be a Stanley Cup final in the same calendar year for the caps I would have been overjoyed at that news even 6 months ago but it's been a fun $28.00 team doing anything special to get ready for tonight you know you just call the game as it comes to you I'd love the game since I was a kid in Minnesota and to be able to have the chance to do this has been a dream of mine for a lifetime to get a chance to do it in Las Vegas seems incredibly surreal but it's something I've wanted a long time I'm glad I get to do it tonight all right that is John Walton the Washington Capitals play by play announcer talking about game one tonight of the Stanley Cup John Walton thanks so much Mary Louise thanks for having me. I gotta say Go Caps You're listening to n.p.r. News. There are still a lot of details to be worked out in any North Korean nuclear deal this includes the u.s. Military presence on the Korean peninsula North Korea wants u.s. Troops out South Korea wants them to stay the presence of our forces there is the stabilizing presence the American dream committed and this resonates among allies Lang the groundwork for talks tomorrow on Morning Edition. It's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly coming up we cook lunch with Ruth Rogers of London's River Cafe where she's won over fans with simple Italian cooking oh say the Italian cooking fairies from village to village city to city family to family and they the sister to sister 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown as they honor the nation's war dead this Memorial Day President Trump is pursuing a possible peace mission with North Korea N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports Trump is eager to revive a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong un that the president abruptly canceled just last week President Trump told reporters talks aimed at rescheduling his summit with Kim are moving along very nicely the u.s. Has dispatched 2 teams to coordinate a possible meeting as early as June 12th one group has been talking with North Korean counterparts along the demilitarized zone about the substance of the summit and how far Kim is willing to go in dismantling his nuclear weapons a 2nd team traveled to Singapore in an effort to hammer out some logistics the Singapore team was stood up by the North Koreans at what was supposed to be an earlier planning session Trump says if the u.s. Is successful in ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons it would be great for the region and the world Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington Hawaii's killer whale volcano continues to shoot ash into the air as Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman tells us the volcano remains active on 2 fronts Kill the way it continues to erupt with plumes of ash and it's summit shifting winds are pushing ashen hazardous sulfur dioxide gas in one toward more populated areas about 20 miles away lava streams are pushing into the ocean but it a slower pace waffle also crossed into geothermal power plant but civil defense officials say the affected wells are stable and secured Alberto the 1st named storm of the Atlantico hurricane season has lost a bit of strength as it made landfall tonight on the Florida Panhandle with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour a tropical storm warning remains up from Florida's Gulf Coast to the border of Alabama and Mississippi with heavy rain in the forecast on Wall Street u.s. Markets are closed in observance of Memorial Day This is n.p.r. . The Stanley Cup hockey finals get underway tonight the Washington Capitals go against the Golden Knights Las Vegas's 1st pro sports team as N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel reports the n.h.l. Expansion team is surprising everyone with their performance and expansion team is typically were professional hockey players go in there other teams don't want them anymore but in Las Vegas the team that jokingly refers to itself as misfits are playing in the Stanley Cup in their 1st year and the city has gone Golden Knights crazy with specialty beers menu items pastries at nearly every casino restaurant and bar in town and the City of Las Vegas is banning capital letters in response to the capitals around mean cry all caps tweeting only in lower case and photoshopping a famous Las Vegas welcome sign to remove capital letters Leila Fadel n.p.r. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly for a while yesterday Main Street in Ellicott City Maryland looked less like a street than a raging river 8 inches of rain fell in just 6 hours flash floods tore through the historic downtown for the 2nd time in 2 years the city experienced what has been called a 1000 year flood governor Larry Hogan has declared a state of emergency and now as floodwaters recede residents and business owners are assessing the damage Mark chemist's is one of them he owns Phoenix Emporium a tavern style restaurant in downtown Alegate City and he's on the line hey there Mark how you doing today great good afternoon to you we are glad to have you with us I wonder if you can start by just telling me what yesterday was like did you have customers in the restaurant as the rain certify all we did we had gotten through a lunch rush of a low in the mid to late afternoon and that's when the waters really started coming down Main Street and what did it look like I mean when you said the water was coming down Main Street it was it started out as they pulled around that there on the side of the road you know a couple inches deep on the curb and then it covered the road and once they came over the curb we brought all the customers up to the 2nd floor and then it got bad from there the water and of the being 678 feet deep coming down Main Street I mentioned that yesterday's flood was the 2nd 1000 year flood of Ellicott City has has experienced the last one in 2016 was your restaurant flooded then to go absolutely we were close for 6 months with similar catastrophic damage we lost everything in the 1st floor in the basement so we redid the plumbing and the electrical and all the sewer lines and then rebuilt redid the floors and replaced all the refrigerators and tables and chairs and I got a glimpse inside the 1st floor yesterday that looks I don't know if I can quantify better or worse but it looks it looks horrible not. So sorry so you had only managed to rebuild and been open for what like 18 months almost 18 months we took a 6 months of the day to get back open we open to reopen on January 30th 2017. You know we're coming up on a year and a half now now. I wonder if it's feels too soon to ask you this but but how are you feeling about the prospect of rebuilding again. I'm really not sure where I'm at with up I don't know anything else in the restaurant business that those 14. Of them the Phoenix for almost 17 years I'm not sure what's next but I'm in my primary focus right now is to you know and ensure the stability of my employees try to get them jobs and try to assist them in paying their bills and you know staying if they afloat. Difficult to hear you use that word staying afloat but yeah I know what you mean what are you hearing from them today I haven't heard much yet or now I'm just trying to arrange them and I was it's a holiday today but you know we have a payroll they expect to pay it on once they have got an order at that do you have any idea whether other restaurants or other businesses you know on your block are affected in the same way going through the same Oh I think all of that city is very much a complete loss right now. Some places are get it worse than others they out there with the geography of the town just because we're at the bottom doesn't mean we get the worst I imagine and almost all of that will be closed for a significant period of time it sounds like what's keeping you going on what must be a really hard day is looking after the people. Who work with you at the restaurant trying to take care of the 20 out of 22 employees going back after the 1st flood. It's difficult to. See the people that have we've cared about for so long and knowing the time they're going to going through and the period coming up. Yeah so we will hold everything we found up in the transition until we figure out what's next Mark chemists thank you for taking the time I'm so sorry for what you're going through there today Ok Thank you Mark chemist's he owns the restaurant Phoenix import which as you just heard was badly damaged in yesterday's floods in Ellicott City Maryland. The French Open tennis championship is underway in Paris clay courts Czech Rafael Nadal defending champ check the Eunice and Serena Williams check but hang on Serena Williams has added a new title to her resume since she last played a major tournament that title is mom and when she steps on to the court tomorrow she will be unseated Joining us to talk about that is Courtney knew and senior writer for w t a insider She's in Paris at the tournament she joins us via Skype a Courtney Hello hey so the backdrop here Serena Williams last played a major in 2017 that was the Australian Open which she won she's taken off the next 4 majors while she was pregnant and then on maternity leave she's back now and her current world ranking is 453rd in the world how does that work. Well yes it's definitely odd to see any triple digit next to Serena Williams exam given her accomplishments over the course of her career but the w.t. Rankings as well as the a.t.p. Rankings are 12 month kind of mathematical calculation and it depends on 12 months worth of result so we can hear some of the announcements going on behind us this tournament plays out why does that even matter whether she's seated or not I explain how that affects her chances sure I mean seeding basically allows you a little bit of protection in the draw your top 32 seed you don't face another top 32 player until the earliest in the 3rd round so theoretically it means that the top 32 seeds they have a slightly easier draw early in the 1st week that's definitely beneficial to top players in particular kind of save their energy maybe play theoretically easier matches to get deeper in the tournament No allows a tournament as well with the seeding to kind of protect their tournaments make sure that the top players are still playing in the 2nd week you know it helps for marketing and all these sorts of things and you theoretically avoid the 1st round 2nd round upset Well some people are raising questions is this a mom being paralyzed for being pregnant and taking maternity leave and then not able to return to the job in the way that she was doing it before that's really where the discussion is sitting right now it's something that's been hotly debated amongst the Player Council this is the rule that has applied to everyone Kim Clijsters for example came back you know years ago and she won the u.s. Open in her 3rd tournaments back coming back after having a child she was unseeded she was actually unranked at the time it happened also to Victoria Azarenka who's one major titles former number one she came back last year at Wimbledon was unseated at Wimbledon and now it's happening with Serena so but I think that because it's arena obviously the end people think Ok she's the best plan the world how she not number one that's where you know everyone's kind of having a bit of a bit of a tizzy over well setting aside the. Seeding debate for the moment is there a possibility that a player ranked whether you like it or not 453rd in the world could win a Grand Slam. Well straightaway has done it before the last time she was on see the slam it was 2007 Australian Open she came in won the whole gosh darn thing this is going to be her 1st Grand Slam since she won the Australian Open last year only has played 2 other tournaments this year both in North American Indian Wells in Miami played Ok not great but she comes into the French Open without having played any clay court lead up events so she's a big mystery at the moment I saw her practice a little bit here at Roland Garros she looks good but what Serina needs is just matches to be able to play her way into this tournament so her chances I think that she's on everybody's list of a potential champion here at Roland Garros because we just know how good it can be when she plays at the Slams Courtney Newman senior writer for w t a insider reporting there from the French Open in Paris Courtney thanks so much thank you. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. California is making a big move to get people more value for their money when they receive health care and hospitals among the measures to make sure the quality of care is improving will be how many c. Sections are performed from member station k.q.e.d. In San Francisco April explains We're all used to pharmaceutical commercials that end like this call your doctor if you have the very stiff muscles and confusion as these may be signs of a life through that you would never hear a chip or hospital ad that ends like this people who get care here may die from medical mistakes get a hospital acquired infection or have an unnecessary c section well covered California the state's insurance marketplace has devised a new way to hold hospitals accountable when it's advertisements but in its contracts and hospitals don't meet certain targets on safety and quality they could be excluded from the marketplace basically we were saying time's up plan slang is the chief medical officer for Covered California we've told health plans that by the end of 2019 we want networks to only include hospitals that have achieved that target one target is c sections hospitals get paid more to do them and they usually take less time so women who don't need a c. Section often get one even in low risk cases several California hospitals are delivering more than 40 percent of babies by c. Section at one hospital it's 78 percent so that means that when a woman goes to a hospital it's the culture of the hospital that really determines whether or not she gets this is their inspection not so much her own health c. Sections are major surgery doing them when they're not needed exposes women to unnecessary risks bleeding haemorrhage even That's why Covered California state health programs and big companies want hospitals to keep c. Section rates below 24 percent for low risk births but only cover California is telling hospitals that if they don't play by the rules. It's basically a quality improvement project but with a deadline it's probably the boldest move we seen in maternity care ever binder is c.e.o. Of the Leapfrog Group a nonprofit that rates hospitals on quality she says quality control of any kind has been recent and mostly voluntary back in the eighty's ninety's nobody ever thought that hospitals should ever have to report to anyone on how they were doing California has more than 240 hospitals and most are now working actively to improve their c section rates but state data show that there are about 40 hospitals that are still far off including a cluster in East Los Angeles that treats low income patients o.b.-g.y.n. Says the target rate is harder for them to reach So if you have somebody who is on methamphetamines and is home last and has not gotten any prenatal care her chance of a of a c. Section is way higher than someone who is not all of those things and so the problem is about how do you adjust for the patient population of a hospital cover California's Dr Lang says it may take some awkward conversations but he believes all hospitals will be on board by the 2020 deadline either meeting the target or on their way for n.p.r. News I'm able to in San Francisco and that story is part of a reporting partnership with n.p.r. K.q.e.d. And Kaiser Health News. Tomorrow morning the trial of a former CIA officer accused of passing national defense secrets to China and here's Ryan Lucas will bring us details on that story you can listen for that story and much more tomorrow as you begin your day with Morning Edition tell your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your station by name. And this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Next time on the world a West Bank mechanic does a steady business repairing cars for customers who drive down from the Israeli settlement near by. 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From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly Colombia on Sunday held its 1st presidential election since the end of the country's half century old guerilla war the big winner was conservative lawmaker Yvonne do k. But because he failed to garner more than half the ballots in the 5 candidate race he will face a runoff next month John Otis sent this report from Bogota. Supporters of Duke had much to celebrate last night Dougie finished 1st with 39 percent of the vote to have a petro a former senator and Bogota mayor received 25 percent thanks in part to a 2016 treaty that ended the war it was Colombia's most peaceful election in decades Oh yeah I know you're going to be on the speech Dukie called the balloting a victory for Colombian democracy however due k has pledged to revamp the treaty that made it possible the peace accord prompted 7000 marks rebels to lay down their weapons and it allows them to run for political office Duke a claims the peace treaty is too lenient on these former fighters for example it has so far allowed those accused of war crimes to avoid confessing or going to prison. Will get evidence we are not going to shred the treaty Ducasse said but we must be clear a peaceful Colombia is one with justice truth and reparations still some analysts say Ducasse plan could prompt former guerrillas to take up arms again others worry about his lack of experience a 41 year old lawyer Duke a worked at the interim Merican Development Bank and is now a Colombian senator he never held any position of expected branches on being a senator for 4 years so he's going to brights wait that's former Colombian diplomat. He says Duke is main calling card is the backing of former Why. When President Alberto would you Bay is a hero to many Colombians for ordering devastating military attacks against the guerrillas during his 2 terms in office with the Rebbe isn't Dorce meant the largely unknown Duke a shot to the top of the polls is that. But after voting on Sunday insurance salesman Giovanni Rodriguez said he fears that in a Duke a government or rebate would pull the strings Ducasse rival Gustava Petro has his own baggage many Colombians distrust him because he was once a member of the 19 a rebel group that disarmed in 1990 what's more Petro is an admirer of the late Chavez who ushered in a socialist revolution in next door been a swell up many Colombians fear Petros populist proposals could lead to the economic ruin that now grips venis way Petro says not to worry most of the same all what is said of him in his speech last night he declared We are not talking about impoverishing the rich we are talking about enriching the poor the runoff between Petro and duke it will be held on June 17th for n.p.r. News I'm John Otis in Bogota Colombia. It's not every day that one of the most famous chefs and restauranteurs in the world shows up at your front door and offers to cook you lunch but Ruth Rogers has a new cookbook out celebrating 3 decades since she co-founded London's iconic river café there are some new recipes in here but it's mostly classics the simple Italian cooking that has won the river café so many foodie fans the one she's offered to teach me is totally basic only 5 ingredients it has bag it has tomatoes it has Fazil and a bit of the oil and that's fairly. Well. Ruth Rogers is taking over my kitchen. Specked in the garlic. Rummaging for pots and the pepper grinder. She asks to borrow an apron and moments later is tying my husband's or rather the barbecue stand favorite around her waist. The dishware make out Papa Doro a thick rich Tuscan bread and tomato soup it's called Papa. Because it's the most considered like papa baby food you know that this is something you would give it a child. Leave it to the Italians to make even baby food taste absolutely gorgeous Rodger's husband's family is Italian and she used to go visit them on the Tuscan coast every summer one day she told me she was reading up in her room when she overheard a massive fight erupt in the kitchen 2 sisters making a pot of pop all Pomodoro and show reeking over whether to add a cup of water or just leave the tomatoes alone if they were really arguing about what to do it today and then didn't because this is true only a lot of this model is one that I thought this is to come back later at this point for the water. I would say that it's had been cooking with various from village to village city to city family to family and even sister to sister so for the record it refers to a big old cup of water in the papa all Pomodoro simmered and stirred and that was it so how long should we let it cool kid and talk yesterday while the super cooled we pulled up chairs at my kitchen table to chat from the get go correct me if I'm wrong you insisted on having a kitchen that was 50 percent when. Has it been hard I think it's you know it was started by 2 women it's how do you make a better place of work how do you make a place where being a chef being a manager being a waiter a part washer being whatever you that you come to work and you want to come to work how do you do that you have a mixed environment whether you know it's women in the kitchen diversity in the restaurant it's crucial and I don't think women cook in a different way I'd like to say that I can tell from his I was made by a woman if I thought that people sometimes say that you know a lot of you love the way women cut No I think that the way people cook Ruth Rogers loves to cook herself as you probably gathered but you don't survive 3 decades in London one of the most competitive restaurant cities in the world unless you have a nose for business true she says last year Harvard Business School sent 2 students to study the River Cafe and to make recommendations for how it might continue to thrive for another 30 years they came up with 4 pitches one is that we open another restaurant just like it the 2nd one is that we do it kind of which we often talked about which is doing a kind of river café Cafe so we'd have the cheaper things on the menu you take the simpler things and the 3rd one was to do product by all of oil or to do ice cream and what do you think the 4th one was do nothing do nothing yeah stay as you are and Richard Rogers choose that would be option for the old if it ain't broke don't fix it like it's growing and I was doing better this year than last year so I think we're good good because of Roger's focus on simple delicious food food that I could not wait to east so we try it we find bowls and spoon some big legal it's not nice in the shallow but I. Like it I suppose this is the obvious thing but when you just have a tiny handful of and greedy. And she really taste really tasting beers or really to yeah tomato really tasting garlic and that's it that's the Ruth Rogers her new cookbook is River Cafe London 30 years of recipes and the story of a much loved restaurant. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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And North Korean officials try to reach an agreement it's not just the Americans who are. According to the South Korean President Kim still is not so trusting of the United States and wants more guarantees that the u.s. Will drop what Kim calls its hostile policy against the regime. Families are taking this would be Summit very personally I am directly. The latest on the summit and much more today here on the world. The b c news with Sue Montgomery Italy's 2 main populist parties of code for peaceful protests against the nomination of Carlo quarterly a former i.m.f. Economist as the country's prime minister the 5 Star Movement and the league have promised to block any programme submitted to parliament by Mr Carter rarely President matter relevant jek to their choice of a euro skeptic finance minister Manlio to Stefano a 5 Star Movement m.p. Gave his reaction to Mr Katter Ellie's appointment. 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