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News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman president from flies to Great Falls Montana today he'll campaign for a Republican Senate candidate who was hoping to unseat a Democratic incumbent N.P.R.'s Amy Held has more state auditor Matt Rosendale a Republican is running against incumbent Senator Jon Tester in a state that went to trump by 20 points in the 2016 presidential election so Tester a Democrat has a fine line to tread appealing to his own party while not alienating the Trump base tester told Montana Public Radio that opposition and resistance just aren't his style we don't have any problem working with Donald Trump and we can work with him and we do that regularly in April Trump said that the Montana senator would have a big price to pay for publicising allegations against Trump's doctor helping to rail Ronnie Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs Amy Held n.p.r. News British authorities say a couple in their forty's have been poisoned by a nerve agent it's the same one used to attack former Russian double agent Sergei screwball and his daughter in England this year Larry Miller reports it's not known how the couple apparently came into contact with it Britain's chemical weapons laboratory a Porton Down confirms Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgis were poisoned with Nova Chuck after showing the same symptoms as the script calls but they are believed to be just members of the general public Scotland Yard's Neil Bassekou I don't have any intelligence or evidence that they would tell that they did anyway there is nothing in their background to suggest that told the search for the source of the nerve agent continues areas frequented by the couple are cordoned off although millions were spent on decontamination after this cripples were attacked security minister Ben Wallace says it's like looking for a needle in a haystack he says there can be no guarantee at this point that people will be 100 percent safe for n.p.r. 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The black and white negatives from his camera are on display viewers can adjust the settings on their smartphones to invert the colors on their cameras then Stimson says when they look at the portraits through their phone that's when you can actually live you a positive image from the negative So what that means is when you walk in you can use your i Phone to decode the negatives so looking becomes active you become more engaged with the photography than you would just looking at a photograph not also talk refers welcome the fact that ordinary people have a device at the ready to take photos beautifies them through filters and shares them with an audience one something only done by professionals in the darkroom Simpson is excited by how phones have made photography accessible but he also acknowledges that they have heard human interaction instead of engaging with other people on a bus or while standing in line many of us stare down at our phones in about face Stimson wanted to change the phone from something a lot of us avoid other people to a tool that helps us connect once given an opportunity to look intimately and very close proximity at each portrait all of a sudden we don't feel like complete strangers from one another Ben Timson will discuss his work tonight in an artist talk at the c.m.c. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep good morning the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court brings home a reality about the law written law says what it says but is often subject to interpretation if the speed limit is 65 it is illegal to go 90 that's obvious but what if the question is affirmative action an effort to repair past racial discrimination by giving preference to people of color which can itself be labeled discrimination Justice Kennedy balanced the complexities in 2016 providing a key vote that upheld the limited use of race conscious policies at universities now he's leaving so what's at stake Dana Thompson Dorsey specializes in Education Law and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh she's on the line from w a s a good morning good morning how are you I'm doing fine thanks very much so how did Justice Kennedy find his way to supporting affirmative action given that he had been skeptical about it over the years. Well Justice Kennedy is definitely a conservative justice however he is one who upholds legal precedents and basically since the Baki case in 1978 the Supreme Court said that race could be used as a factor not the factor in race based admissions so in the Fisher 2 case in 2016 this is the University of Texas we're talking about here right exactly university official versus the University of Texas basically what he was upholding was the fact that universities have a compelling interest to maintain education the educational benefits of diversity he was basically saying in his opinion that he wanted to give deference to universities because their identity and educational mission may be based on how they define student body diversity Ok so so it through he gave deference to the university he gave deference I think you also said the president which is a big deal we've been talking about the importance of presidents the last few days but given that all of that how could a different justice change that calculation approach this matter completely differently. Well I'm sure you know that there is a lot of controversy going we talk about race based admissions because of that issue of race and race is given strict scrutiny by the courts so someone else can come in and simply look at the fact that race is being used as opposed to thinking specifically about educational diversity or thinking about deference given to universities so there is a case that is currently making its way through the courts students for fair admissions versus Harvard University There's also a pending case versus u.n.c. And this is actually station students that are bringing in this particular case and basically saying that they are harmed by University's race base it missions policy it disadvantages them because they are held to a higher standard to gain admission to these particularly institutions so when you look at it almost is like a reverse reverse quota in a sense yeah I mean I wonder if that raises the question certainly doesn't some people's minds as to whether affirmative action has gone too far or gone on too long when you have members of a racial minority saying that efforts to balance out racial minorities people of color other kinds of people are actually harming them Well what we have to think about is the history of this country. That as long as we're race remains a factor in this country and particularly when it comes to education and educational disparities then we have to think about how it would impact students' access to education and that is particular to higher education because it is higher education our access to universities and the type of education universities can provide particularly these elite institutions and the names and reputations that go along with those elite institutions that can make a huge difference in in the success economically and socially in people's lives so I think I hear you saying that a different justice could come in and just say look I'd rather be colorblind society ought to be colorblind and therefore I'm not going to put up with these complexities and I'm going to rule differently in a case that might come before me let me ask very briefly about one other possibility Sandra Day O'Connor former Supreme Court justice said once upon a time there ought to be a kind of time limit on affirmative action the shouldn't go on forever would you buy that notion that there might be a time there should be a time when affirmative action should run out sort of speak. There should be a time and Justice O'Connor said this in her opinion in a 2003 Grutter v Ballinger case also known as the Michigan law case however the issue is the fact that we don't have a colorblind society we don't live in a colorblind society we have a long history based on racial discrimination that still exists today so at the point when our society no longer depends on racial discrimination to advance other people. White people for example who have benefited from advantages and privilege based on their race then at that point we can have a colorblind society and maybe color blind decisions where race based admissions is no longer necessary Dana Thompson Dorsey is a scholar at the University of Pittsburgh thanks very much for your time thank you in Kentucky whiskey distillers are getting nervous u.s. Trading partners have put new tariffs on whiskey to retaliate for the Trump administration's tariffs on them and distillers worry that a recent boom in u.s. Whiskey exports could be coming to an end N.P.R.'s John it's t. Has the story American whiskey has experienced a huge revival over the last decade era Gregory of the Kentucky distillers Association says the biggest reason is that u.s. Trade initiatives over the past few decades have opened up global markets the free trade agreements and the lowering of tariffs that we received in the past generation have really put bourbon on an equal playing field with our friends and Scotch and Canadian whiskey and other other whiskeys around the world but all of a sudden the open trade environment that produced that boom is threatened us allies including the e.u. Canada and Mexico are responding to the trumpet ministrations aggressive trade moves by retaliating against bourbon along with other u.s. Products Gregory worries there are no winners in a trade war only casualties and unintended consequences and that. Kind of where we feel we are we're were the victims in a fight that we didn't really this by keeping to making great whiskey water brain fermentation distillation of maturation a mere pay is one of the potential victims he's just opened a new distillery here in Lexington Kentucky actually it's a very old distillery that pay has rebuilt to produce James e. Peppers 7761 of the most popular whisky brands in America in the late 18 and early 1900 s. That rock you see there that big limestone Boulder with water flowing down the sides of it that's really illustrate why our distillery and all the distilleries in Kentucky make great bourbon and that because of the water revitalizing this brand and distillery is a 10 year project that pay funded with his own savings he's already producing nearly $30000.00 cases of whisky a year using his recently renovated plant and excess capacity at other distilleries about 10 percent of pays revenues already come from exports we have been eyeballing Europe as the most logical place to invest and to grow and expand the brand in fact he's already hired a person to manage the expansion but new European tariffs along with those in Canada and Mexico could sabotage his growth strategy I just had a meeting this morning with our Canadian importers were here at the distillery and we're all just sort of scratching our heads because who in their right mind a few years ago would have envisioned us in a trade war with Canada and the European Union our closest allies and partners pay estimates that 25 percent each tariff will force him to raise the shelf price of his $776.00 whiskey from $35.00 euros to 45 year olds he fears European customers will look for something else to drink I think it will have a big negative impact you know we're creating a lot of jobs we're hiring a lot of people. All investing in growth and new growth is being stifled that is very problematic pay says what worries him most is that over the past 10 years the biggest whisky distillers in the u.s. Have been doubling and tripling capacity in response to the global whiskey boom he creases in production really intended to fill the anticipated global demand in Europe and China and India and elsewhere and whiskey needs to be aged 3510 years or more so those companies have already produced much of the whiskey they think Europeans and Asians will purchase in the next several years but if those forecasts don't come true because of a trade war what do those companies do with all that excess whiskey pay says they would likely try to sell it in America so then what do we now have a flooded market where there's too much whisky brutal price competition distilleries get shut down their unintended consequences and what might seem trivial are not as bad or early on could snowball into something much worse and at that point it's kind of hard to turn it back pay says he hopes the trade conflict will be solved before the worst happens but he also remembers that the original James pepper whose decelerate he now owns went bankrupt after a whiskey bubble burst back in 890 John it's t. N.p.r. News Lexington Kentucky. This is n.p.r. News 2 2. Good morning it's 57 degrees in Aspen 54 in Carbondale 62 England would Springs. With a chance of scattered thunderstorms starting around noon. Visibility and air quality Stay tuned for updates this hour of the lake Christine fire. Support for. Budget lines of the high country providing residential and commercial window coverings to the Rocky Mountain region including Eagle and Garfield Counties and. You're listening to Morning Edition on Aspen Public Radio thanks for. From n.p.r. News and Washington I'm Winsor Johnston President Trump will travel to Montana for a campaign rally tonight he's expected to endorse Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale and Representative Greg g. In Forte a counter protest is planned the Kremlin says it's deeply concerned about the poisoning of a British couple who came into contact with the same nerve agent that contaminated a former Russian spy and his daughter 4 months ago N.P.R.'s those seeing him reports Russia insists it had nothing to do with the 1st incident Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters Britain turned down Russia's offer to help investigate the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei scribal and his daughter in April the school said unfortunately the British authorities didn't show any interest in the Russian proposal earlier Britain security minister Ben Wallace said he was still waiting for a phone call from the Russian government to explain what they think happened search and rescue teams and Thailand are working to free 12 boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped in a flooded cave complex Australian dive expert Matt Fitzgerald says even highly experienced divers are finding it hard to getting beyond a location in the cave waters called point 3 It's a specific job requirement and before seen by some of the equipment it's a challenge for us the team went missing 9 days ago forecasters say additional rain is on the way and water in the cave is expected to rise this is n.p.r. . 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep weeks of protest in a Pittsburgh suburb focus on what happened in just a few seconds on June 1000 police pulled over a car 2 young men fled on foot and they'd gone only a few steps when an officer opened fire. Video shows 17 year old Antwan rose an African-American in a white shirt tumbling to the ground east Pittsburgh police officer Michael Ross Feld has been charged with criminal homicide but protests have continued in and beyond the suburbs demonstrators demand a conviction one of those demonstrators is referenced Chanelle Leonard who attended the teenager's funeral he was definitely a young person of good nature and a character one of his poems that he shared was still so deep in moving that it showed that he was a person of insight what one of the poem say to remember any part of it I am scared and afraid and that I'm not what you think and that basically I'm trying to figure life out and that I'm not a stereotype but I'm looking for my way and in today's society I'm scared and afraid is a paraphrase that was the theme of the poem Yes. So and when Rose was shot and it's captured on video on June 19th just over a week later the officer is charged and there's supposed to be a preliminary hearing it's been delayed to the end of the month but the process is working I could see someone in authority saying what are you protesting about given that the processes working here were protesting about a couple of things Number one there was no charge brought initially and so that's when the initial unrest in the city started and so it was it was looking like and in still looking like another case of police brutality that was going to go unchecked and there would be no justice for any one once we heard a charge was made and he turned himself in the problem now is that he's out on bond. And he was charged with criminal homicide and he's supposed to be on house arrest he's not even at his house have you gone by his house to see if he's there I have but we were out in the peaceful peaceful rally in front of his home until about 1115 at night and he was not there because the lights were out that's how you're saying that you think it's not it there was no movement the lights were out there was no car there was no nothing now I'm thinking about how his lawyer might respond if we were talking with his lawyer the lawyer might point out hey people are bailed out all the time if you can make bail that's how it is in the United States what makes this a special case for you which makes this a special case for us is that this is an unjustified murder and if he was anyone else he would not be out this is not right this is not justice you know one of the question occurs to me you've got a very small community there on the edge of Pittsburgh you've got a very small local police department have the other members of the police department reached out to the community in any way. It's interesting you would say that I was in a meeting with our police chief here and several members of law enforcement around the area and I will just say that it was a less less than productive meeting and that we are at the end pass one of the chief say in what did what did everybody else say were basically saying that when you come to our protests when times are always and you show up in riot gear and we don't feel protected by you yet feel threatened by you that you could see in a perpetuate the distance in the disconnect between black folks and the police department Well now we've got 2 different issues because it's a question of how do they police a protest and you've got issues there obviously but then there's the underlying question of whether police are dealing with African-Americans other people of color fairly on a day to day basis did you hear the chief acknowledge that there was a problem there or something at least worth looking into now you know he never made outright statement about that and that's part of our issue one of the things we're asking is that why has there not been any other police force in the area even Pittsburgh police that have said you know what I know that it's our policy to for blue to stand with blue but this was not right something as simple as saying a public statement of this is not right would show a level of trust I'm from the community that has not been there Reverend Shinui Leonard of east Pittsburgh Pennsylvania now to follow up on a few things here the status of the officers house arrest is not clear we're checking into that east Pittsburgh authorities did put out a statement expressing profound sorrow at the death of Antwon rose and saying quote We acknowledge the serious allegations directed at our management of the borough police department finally the city of Pittsburgh has also answered criticism of the way it has been policing protests saying protective gear comes out only when police officers feel they are in danger. In Britain police say 2 people have been poisoned by the nerve agent no overtalk that's the same substance that almost killed a former Russian agent and his daughter earlier this year these 2 new cases were in a town close to Salisbury where the earlier poisoning happened counter-terror police are investigating and Alice Fordham has the story from London it began on Saturday in the town of Amesbury Wilcher where a woman and a man collapsed and were taken to the hospital in nearby souls very initially it was believed they had taken contaminated drugs but off the suspicion about the symptoms samples were sent to a nearby government laboratory late last night Britain's top counter-terror police officer Neil Basu announced the results following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm 'd that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent Robert show which has been identified as the savior of agents were contaminated by computer I'm surprised that Russian defector and his daughter nearly died after they were exposed to the substance of the year British prime minister to resume a set then it was highly likely Russia was to blame either the state had tried to assassinate scruple or it had lost control of the deadly substance the u.k. Along with the u.s. And its European allies expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in response Russia denies the attack chemical weapons acts but hey Mr Broughton Gordon says these new cases seem severe. Who have been exposed and overtures had quite a high taste on this occasion though the 2 people had no apparent connection with Russia they operated and local to the area they were contaminated also contaminated but it's pretty clear this was an attack to present Gordon says the original container of the poison was never found and could have been discarded somewhere and that even a few molecules of Novacek can be highly toxic some places including a park and drug store where the 2 a thought to have been prior to that collapse on now sealed off for n.p.r. News I'm Alice Fordham in London. This is n.p.r. News. Many immigrants say they're anxious and fearful even people in the u.s. Illegally say they feel they could be deported or separated from their kids I'm beginning to worry I wasn't worried before I was angry but right now I'm beginning to worry and I think they're after us like I really I'm the toll on Latino Americans the border crisis this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Things Considered today at 4 on asked when Public Radio. Good morning I'm no well King as if Shakespeare wasn't difficult enough a British exam board is in hot water after more than 14000 students took the test with a confounding question about Romeo and Juliet the test asked about Tybalt hatred of the Capulets but tibble you may remember is a Capulets he's Juliet's cousin he hated the Montagues for the mistake the exam board could be fined more than $200000.00 Now that's a tragedy It's Morning Edition. Good morning from the b.b.c. In London I'm going to go to sleep with b.b.c. Top line a few stories we're following right now Russia says it's deeply worrying that there's been a 2nd poisoning in Britain involving a nerve agent from the Novacek group of chemical weapons the u.k. Is investigating the latest incident which left a couple in critical condition it follows a similar case of poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter 4 months ago President Putin's spokesman described the news from Amesbury as deeply worrying and alarming Dmitri Prescott told the b.b.c. That from the very beginning of the Souls be story Russia has categorically denied and continue to categorically deny any involvement Moscow he said was concerned by the repeated use of such substances in Europe the B.B.C.'s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow the un refugee agency says the recent fighting in southwest Syria has displaced more than 300000 civilians the u.n. Says most are living in dire and insecure conditions and it's urged Jordan to open its borders to tens of thousands living in camps on the Syrian side and police in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have arrested an employee of a high profile christian charity who faces charges of profiting from illegal adoptions Police say the woman admitted taking payment from couples in return for arranging illegal adoptions the baby is at the center of the allegations were reportedly born to young unmarried girls Jill McGiver ng and in London I'm planning to do see at the b.b.c. . We're continuing to track the late Christine fire with reports from the field and life updates you can find updates on our Facebook and Twitter feeds as well as online at Aspen Public Radio dot org. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep and I'm Noel King good morning there's political disarray in Poland today following a move to purge justices from that country's supreme court a new law forces nearly 40 percent of the court's judges into early retirement for Poland's ruling party this is an opportunity to reshape the courts but critics say this law is unconstitutional Joining us now to explain all of this is will cast pub Lofsky He's the managing editor of cool tour a liberal magazine in Warsaw and he joins us via Skype will clash Welcome thanks for having me hello what does this new law aimed at the Supreme Court actually do so 1st of all the Supreme Court in Poland is not like supreme courts in the United States to judge whether a new law is in line with the Constitution we have a different course called Constitutional tribunals however to supreme courts in Poland decides on how laws should be inserted it's that's one of its main functions and also the sites on their legality of the elections so this is a very important decision to make Therefore if you introduce quote unquote your judges into disagreement courts gives you an enormous political leverage over Rio opponents and it gives you any great power interpreting the laws that are being introduced so that is the main goal of the ruling party no one Justice is trying to achieve here the European Union is not pleased with what is going on in Poland What is the e.u. Worried about. This the the main worry that the European Union has is that. Polish traditional resource them will not be independent and the laws that should apply across the European Union may not apply in Poland that's one thing that obviously impairs the safety of investments of safety of European citizens coming through to Poland as well so this is the main fear that the European Union I guess had Can the European Union force the Polish government to withdraw this law that the Supreme Court the European Commission can challenge the laws that were implemented in Poland before the court of justice of the European Union and if it decides that it's because of the new also in Poland the European laws introduced by the European Parliament Act cannot be implemented or are in danger of being somehow incurred then the court of justice of the European Union may ask the Polish government to withdraw this law well gosh how are people in Poland reacting to all of this are they worried well it's obviously difficult to answer in that simple way but I'll tell you that. A regular in Poland you have demonstrations against the actions of the government not on the against the actions regarding the judiciary system but many different issues as well for example abortion rights so I would say the Polish people are very politically active However the major problem is that even if they are against the actions taken by the current government the us still not willing to vote for the opposition parties All right so a lot remains to be seen will Cash pup Lofsky is managing editor of couture liberal magazine thank you so much to cash thank you very much and later this afternoon on All Things Considered will the trumpet ministration extend temporary protected status to Yemenis a decision on that is expected today listen by asking your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your local member station by name. Ok nobody likes bureaucratic red tape but it's usually not fatal Aviva the Kornfeld from our Planet Money podcast team has the story of what happens when bureaucracy accidentally declares you're dead for Judy rivers that was in 2008 she walked into a bank in Alabama she applied for a new savings account and when the woman at the bank started to process Judy's paperwork she got this weird look on her face she stopped and turned around and says this is really not that's of course. Yeah dead did he laughed the woman ran the report again and again it said Judy was still dead that again and again alert was going out she had accidentally been placed on something called the Death Master File this is a list created by the Social Security Administration of every person with a social security number who is dead more than 100000000 names the main purpose that the security is a force to stop benefits for people when they die that is run a Lawson she works for the Social Security Administration and the Social Security Administration adds names to the death master file by collecting records from places like funeral homes hospitals state governments sometimes they just receive a call from someone's family member reporting a death and run of those unfortunately mistakes do get me the most common mistake is that a person who is actually dead never makes it onto the file it's been I think around $16000000.00 deaths that we need added to the file and many of the $60000000.00 dead people are still receiving benefit checks from the government each month the less common mistake is the reverse when a living person like to do you ever has somehow ends up on the list there honestly no way to explain it no one's RINGBACK really sure how Judy ended up on the list it may have been as simple as a clerical error the Social Security Administration estimates that around $12000.00 Americans. Accidentally placed on this list every year and as Judy learned being dead ruins your life basically even Thomas what we term a scientist you no longer exist in the Jewish world she couldn't access her bank accounts she says it stopped her from getting a job she even got accused of stealing her own identity age 7 cars and a Wal-Mart and they found the place for identity theft even after the mistake had been fixed it took years for Judy to get her life back because banks and credit card companies use a death master file to prevent fraud but they don't always use the latest version of the list so Judy is always prepared just in case anyone declares her dead again in lines of security of confidence 1st Jessica and the certified letter from a source sure it's harmless. I am sure he rivers and I am alive and well and never go anywhere without it for n.p.r. News I'm a view to current. 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News in Washington I'm Winsor Johnston China is ramping up its rhetoric in a bitter trade dispute with the United States Beijing says it's quote opening fire on the entire world as N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reports the warning comes a day before the trumpet ministration is set to implement tariffs on $34000000000.00 worth of Chinese goods a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry told reporters that Washington's proposed tariffs on Chinese goods will hit international supply chains including foreign companies and the world's 2nd largest economy the comments come a day before Washington and Beijing plan to implement tariffs against each other's goods amidst an escalating trade conflict that has roiled financial markets a community activist accused of plotting to fire bomb the Milwaukee Police Station in 2016 will appear in federal court today on Mays is charged with attempted arson and illegal possession of a firearm Marty Michaelson from member station. Reports The charges stem from riots that broke out 2 years ago Von Mays allegedly planned to use Molotov cocktails to attack the Sherman park police station in Milwaukee police clashed with protesters in that neighborhood for 2 straight nights in August of 2016 after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed a black man during a chase prosecutors say Mayes eventually called off the attack because too many people knew about it you're listening to n.p.r. News in Washington. I'm Jeremy Hobson as president prepares to announce his nominee to the Supreme Court will look back at some of the well known and controversial confirmation battles of the past and also look ahead to how the Senate might vote on Trump's nominees and what that will mean for the court for decades to come that's next time on here and . Here and Now today at 11 on Aspen Public Radio. 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All right so this was for community members people who have concerns people who have been displaced What were some of the questions and concerns you heard during this meeting I mean the biggest question of course that you heard over and over was when do we get to go back to our houses the fall and Rural Fire Protection District Chief Scott Thompson and the Thought Police Department Chief Greg not and both of them were very clear in saying that fire is erratic and they just are unable to predict when people are going to be able to go home they emphasized that neighborhoods have to be safe for you know things like gas and electricity that the trees in the neighborhood have to be safe and this also affects evacuations they're just really unable to let people know who might be evacuated next Christian what did you hear about how long this fire might last how long it will be until it's all out and safe again. The district ranger for the White River National Forest Karen sure was at the meeting because the fire had spread to national forest land this afternoon she said this is not going to go out quickly this is probably going to be weeks long that we really are going to need a weather event to help put a fire like this out we heard earlier that the cause of this was people at the gun range and assault using some trace bullets did that come up to how did how could this happen to that come up during the meeting yes definitely another kind of the prize guest the briefing was very we'll he's the c.p.w. Area a manager and he would have been that would have been his office that those sounds like 3 calls went to about shutting down the range and. People he started by saying Of course everyone's wondering why it was still open because appropriate shooting doesn't cause fires even though the range is not supervised lots of shooting was taking place the whole day that it started without issue however he did say all any shooting range within b.t.w. Land is now closed after the fire and this was the most tense moment of the community meaning people were really hot lots of hands in the air lots of mumbling people wondering you know how long does it take to respond to a call they had been called last week about whether to close that range and they kind of had to move the meeting on because so many people had questions for him and it does sound like you know that the 2 back in the in the fire were using the trace bullets are being charged with 4th degree arson at this point but it sounds like there could be more charges forthcoming How does this how is this being taken statewide has a as a Governor Wade and we have some other fires going around the state are we able to get more resources from the state of Colorado to help with the fire the Eagle County Board of County Commissioner Kathy Chandler had Henry was here to kind of speak to that. She said the governor has declared a state of emergency as of this afternoon also the work 15 I mean we have lots of fires burning in Colorado right now and the 415 fire in Durango which has been the big one is winding down the were able to get some resources from trucks and some teams from both that declaration of state of emergency and from that 415 fire and it sounds like they started. Kind of under the false police of the befalls fire department command and now it's come to the states and they will get some resources federally but they're not quite sure if it will be managed at the federal level any other moments during this press conference of course what a great outpouring that most people want to ask how they can help and even that emotional moment from Mayor Jackie with that saying hey we're all neighbors here right it feels like the community is real that this is going to be a long term thing and. That they're ready it really ready to support each other I mean a lot of people are following this on social media and you can see people are offering their home offering transportation It sounds like Rafter reached out to see if they could help with transportation anyone in any way so lots of organizations and businesses and individuals pulling together but it could be a long haul Christine thank you so much yes thanks Alison. Reporter Kristin case speaking with Alison back to community meeting held by fire officials and assault last night this is Aspen Public Radio coming up in local news updates on the Christine Lake fire and a new photography exhibit asks viewers to use their phones to interact with the photos coming up at 7 o 4 and online at Aspen Public Radio dot org. 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Americans eat everything Marketplace Morning Report is supported by Carbonite offering data protection solutions for businesses including automatic backup for servers and point protection high availability and disaster recovery and data migration learn more at Carbonite dot com I'm David Brancaccio in New York a British prime minister to resign May is meeting with the German chancellor today she's looking for political support given that the u.k. Still isn't even close to clear about how it will leave the European Union in fact a British proposal to cobble together a continued role in the common market seems complex Rob Watson the u.k. Political correspondent for the b.b.c. Is here to explain what Britain used to have or does have at the moment with the European Union is a customs union and also membership of a single market Britain aside it somehow wants to leave basically what's being proposed is that Britain would continue to share rules and regulations with the European Union at least as far as manufactured goods and agricultural products a concern but maybe not over services but of course just to step back from all of this I mean what people are saying who are on the remains side during the referendum and of course the vast majority of businesses in the u.k. Are saying is that just shows you how daft and difficult it is to leave the European Union it's been over 2 years since the Bracks it they're still working this out it just goes on forever I guess it is utterly incredible I mean look to the intense irritation of British business as the u.k. Government just hasn't managed to agree on what Bracks it should mean the governing Conservative party but I should also add that the main opposition Labor Party are just hopelessly divided on either how close or how distance Britain's future relationship with the e.u. Should be rubbed Watson u.k. Political correspondent for the b.b.c. Thank you very much thank you David checking my live market screens here the 100 here next in London is up 6 tenths percent a dowel and s. And p. Futures are up 7 tenths of a percent. As to a future of 9 tenth's percent A.D.P.s private sector count of payrolls came in lower than expected today there were 177000 more people on payrolls in June that's still quite strong the official jobs report for June is due tomorrow a renewable energy advocacy group is setting a lofty goal a trillion dollars in new alternative energy investments within a dozen years trillion with a t. Marketplace's Jake came reports. A trillion dollars seems like a lot of money because it is but Gregory Whetstone c.e.o. Of the American Council on renewable energy says his group represents businesses that manage $20.00 times that amount in assets and it's doable why it's profitable there were an Opel sector has then the largest source of private sector infrastructure investment in the country for each of the past 7 years there is a Hc upcoming However federal tax credits for renewable power sources are set to expire in a few years Ethan's in there is with Bloomberg New Energy Finance which projects a more modest 400000000000 in investment by 2030 and that's problematic even we don't think that you come close to addressing the problem of climate change under the current scenarios he says new policies aimed at increasing investments would help close the gap I'm good good for Marketplace. And. If anyone says the big trend in food is fill in the blank healthy sustainable sugary salty guess what they're all right at the same time at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado the other day I spoke with a guy who does curios and Lucky Charms but he also does Cascadian Farms and any organic and bugles Jeff Harmon is c.e.o. Of General Mills Well of course are trends in food and the main thing that makes a complex is it that people are complex and when you multiply that by 350000000 Americans you have a lot of complexity and so you have several trends going on at one time I mean on the one hand consumers want to eat more things with fewer ingredients they want to stay for longer so they're eating more protein eating more fiber snacking is on the rise is a 25 year trend and so the thing that makes the trick in the reason our strategy is consumer 1st is that consumers want something different different parts of the day and between consumers they want something different what if it's not a food thing but it's a brand thing. That reaching for Cheerios seems to some people like old school like a cassette tape for your audio but if you bought another one of your brands Cascadian farm seems more 21st century is there any element of that going on you know I really don't think so our job is the bank branch relevant to you giving example Lucky Charms been around since the early 1960 s. And we grew a 20 percent this year what do we do we talked about marshmallows and so the judge didn't hide the sugar and you said there marshmallows and we said there are marshmallows because it turns out people who eat Lucky Charms actually like the marshmallows and so for us as as brand builders our job is to make sure we keep our brands relevant to the extent we keep them relevant they keep growing I mean Nature Valley has grown has grown while they've been sort of brands like Ann is and Laura Barr So I think people ask me a lot are consumers looking for small brands as another looking for brands or reflect their values and and that could be Cheerios or that could be any of that could be lucky charms you know what is changing though is the retail environment does General Mills have to adjust or respond when you see the story crossing that the big story from last 2 years Amazon buying say Whole Foods does that change your life I think the biggest change we're going to see in food over the next 5 years the way food is delivered and so by necessity then retail is going to change and that's true in the United States that's true in China it is true in France in the u.k. And we have a global business we see all this we have been changing and what's interesting is that I hear an air of about how food companies are getting in trouble as food goes online and yet our market share is online or about 20 percent higher than our than our market share is in-store and the reason that is that great brands travel across different different mediums and so for us e-commerce we see is a big opportunity yes it's dynamic Yes we have to adjust but we are and that's why are sales last year through e-commerce channels are up 50 percent globally and 70 percent here in the u.s. What about if we stop preparing food for ourselves completely you have these companies that are emerging door dash Grub Hub it's an app based way to get restaurant food quickly to you that could take. Away from what General Mills does there are only 2 places you can eat food that's at home or away from home and you know we have we have good businesses and both we have a good convention food service business away from home and we've got a big business and home and those are really the only 2 places people can eat in so as different models develop Meanwhile we'll make sure that we take advantage of them just like we have over the years whether it's selling yogurt to people like McDonald's or whether it is selling Cheerios through grocery stores or pet food through places like Chewy dot com Jeff farming c.e.o. Of General Mills thank you so much thank you now I did take the opportunity to ask the General Mills boss there if I could veto just one of his products bugles Mr Harding defended bugles and another guy on his team pointed out that you can use the little dunce caps to make hats for your fingers a director's cut of that interview is stream of all at Marketplace dot org And you're welcome to object to my hard line against bugles tweet us at Marketplace if you're so inclined in New York I'm David Brancaccio with the Marketplace Morning Report from a.p.m. American Public Media. This is Aspen Public Radio broadcasting on k. Jack's Aspen in k.c. Jack's Carbondale the summer we've started our membership drive but that means we need your support earlier than ever early birds to contact us before the drive starts on July 16th will be entered into a drawing for 2 passes to the j.s. 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