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New York offices now that brings the total number of suspected pipe bomb sent to prominent people around the country this week to 12 the investigation into where they came from and who sent them is ongoing and the f.b.i. Says more packages may still be in the postal system former President Barack Obama former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Joe Biden all prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump are among those who've been targeted President Trump himself called for unity in his 1st statement after the discovery of the packages but later he pointed his finger at the media for quote a very big part of the anger we see today Earlier we discussed that anger and the current political climate with Republican senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska Good morning Senator good morning well thanks for finding the role the Rusko very good to have you here we don't know the motivation of the person or people who sent these packages but the targets are very clearly political What does that tell you about our current political climate. Where we have very little sense of what we need and this crosses yet another line because we don't do political violence in the u.s. There's no place for it that's not how we settle out of spirits but this country does have a history of using violence to work through things to settle scores America in many ways has long been a divided country hasn't it and it surely has but when we act that way we're departing for who we are and what it means to build a more perfect union and the better angels of our nature so what we're supposed to do in public was is the direction of the future is the direction of where. People who differ still believe in each other's humanity 320000000 Americans are supposed to believe that 320000000 other Americans have souls and the way that we settle our political disputes is through persuasion and we said I once outside the bounds of what we call are allowed went at 1st President Trump condemned all political violence but later he attacked to the media again including a tweet from just this morning just after 3 am Eastern Time the president tweeted and I quote funny how lowly rated c.n.n. And others can criticize me it will even blaming me for the current spate of bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream it's just not presidential and just as a reminder the offices of c.n.n. In New York did get one of these suspicious devices these these bombs what do you think of the president's response here. I haven't been on Twitter today so I haven't seen it but in America we don't say things like the press is the enemy of the people well let me dig in a little deeper here recently President Trump praised a Republican congressman from Montana Greg Forte who physically attacked a reporter named Ben Jacobs Here's a clip of the president Gregg is small and by the way never wrestle him I want to say I'm not. The only guy that you do a body slam is my God. Senator says I want to ask you about this particularly because the president is treating this as a joke right and I wonder do you think that treating violence as a joke against the press is making things more dangerous. I don't know what goes through his head when he says stuff like that there are people watch and rally like that on t.v. That are and say in America isn't you know a place where every single person is fully functioning and processing the information the way the president in a situation like that probably thinks that it's a performance art when I time of this specific case I haven't spoken with law enforcement I don't have any any specific information on this investigation but the bigger point is we need an overarching sense of we that precedes and supersedes that particular policy or legislative issues that you might fight about and that sense of we includes the freedom of the press and religion and speech and press and assembly again protest that's what we're supposed to be passing on I don't I don't know what you say to a rally like that when one of the fundamental duties of the president should be shepherding a sense of what the we is that doesn't mean we don't differ about lots of other things but there subordinate to that and then after you've condemned any sense of the threats of political violence and domestic terrorism Senator Ben sass Republican of Nebraska Senator thanks so much for joining us thanks for the invite and we have a quick update just now federal authorities have arrested one suspect in this case we'll have more reporting later in the hour. And now we turn to the midterm elections leading up to next month's voting we've been bringing you stories from some of the key districts across the country Texas is 23rd district is viewed as one of the Lone Star State's only real true swing districts and that's where we find our own Rachel Martin Good morning Rachel Hey Noel Good morning from Del Rio Texas that's where we're broadcasting from this morning right near the u.s. Border with Mexico this district is huge in terms of population necessarily but in terms of just actual land mass it goes all the way from just outside El Paso to San Antonio and the suburbs around those cities are really key in the upcoming elections Republicans and Democrats are both fighting for the votes in particular of white suburban women like the 2 women we're going to introduce you to right now we drove in 100 Creek neighborhood and quickly noticed a pattern we passed Hunter circle intrastate hunters do every street starts with hunters Yes it's kind of silly right it just makes it that much more confusing this is Janet Oglethorpe she and her husband made a good living in real estate they are retired now and she teaches part time at the gym nearby and so that makes it more cardio Ok. Have you taken we met her at her house in a well manicured cul de sac Janet says people here are friendly enough but on the whole everyone sort of keeps to themselves which actually suits her just fine she filled up water bottles and we headed out for a walk. This way in many ways Janet represents a lot of white liberal women when Trump was elected and I kind of fell apart and to get back together I actually you know did a lot of reading of you know Ok Howard how to survive this and the advice was get busy for her that included volunteering for a group she cared a lot about Planned Parenthood and I actually got a pink cape. My 1st year. Because I put in more hours than any. People kid me about it much and you don't have to wear the Cape again today Janet follows politics more closely than she ever did before she registers people to vote she donates to campaigns she even lets campaign staffers stay in her house so is it an overstatement to say that it has been a political awakening for you know it's I've always been aware politically but I've also been complacent I mean look around where in this relatively affluent area I got mine you know I don't really have to worry that much and I hate that about my history I wish I'd done more earlier for progressive candidates I just didn't. Think it was so necessary Now why do we keep walking around the island in the middle of the street where the cactuses are painted to look like pumpkins for Halloween so if you like we can cut right through here to my have yes with Syria Ok there are a lot of campaign signs in Janet's front yard all for Democrats including beta O'Rourke who's running a surprisingly competitive race against Republican incumbent Senator Ted Cruz Jan It's not the only one campaign signs have stirred up an internet scene battle on the Web site next door it all started when one guy said someone had stolen his Ted Cruz sign and then he and others on the site talked about rigging their signs with a power cord to electrocute the next person who tried Janet Reid's us comments off the thread here's what I wouldn't want to kill them but I would share the video of them being shocked until the breaker kicked good for you. This goes on for her crew supporters are in the same camp as Trump supporters and she just can't understand where they're coming from I think trumps bases last I think when I hear them described as a cult it makes sense to me from what I've heard and seen that what ever he says is fine whoever he hurts is fine Janet's neighbor. Ellen Pfeiffer is a big fan of Donald Trump Hi Ellen thank you so much for doing this absolutely I'm excited we were supposed to talk with her the same day we saw Janet but then Trump came to Texas for a rally and Ellen had to go she and a couple friends drove up to Houston stood in line for hours and got to see the president do his thing we spoke the next morning how was it it was great it was everything that you hear on t.v. That it's going to be more Ellen likes the direction that the country is moving she likes Trump's tax cuts the low unemployment rate she also likes the president's position on immigration the obvious onslaught of migrants coming up the inability of the countries they're coming from and coming through to the flow it's very concerning and there's just no accounting for all these people flowing in I told Ellen about my conversation with her neighbor Janet Oglethorpe in particular the bit where Janet said Trump's base acts like a cult Ellen says she doesn't think of herself as a radical she's voting for Ted Cruz and Republican will hurt in the congressional race but she thinks of herself as open minded I block walked with a liberal over in a very liberal neighborhood all summer and because I thought she was the best person for the job so I don't you know I don't think I'm part of that cult. I guess I would close by just asking if you could change anything about our current political moment what would you change. I think I'm out there every day you know trying to. To be the opposite of a cult and have open arms to people and. I you know I hope that I can lead by example and I think I do. We might have political differences that we all are you know working towards the same goal. But no well that sentiment that you heard Ellen expressing there really is aspirational she totally feels the divides between parties right now so does her neighbor Janet as we heard they are each making their case to their neighbors to try to see the world as they see it thanks so much Rachel Rachel Martin is joining us from Del Rio Texas today and we'll be hearing her stories elsewhere in the program this is n.p.r. News. On the next music from other minds a special holiday edition dimentia by George Antheil Friday evening at 11 pm here on Cape a.l.w. 91.7 f.m. In San Francisco. 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One person is now in federal custody after a nationwide bomb scare the Justice Department will hold a news conference later this afternoon to share more details now this news comes on follows the discovery of 2 more potentially threatening packages this morning one of them was addressed to New Jersey New Jersey Senator Cory Booker the other to former director of National Intelligence James Clapper N.P.R.'s national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson has been following this fast moving story hi Carrie hire new well so what do we know about the person now in custody Well not much our law enforcement source tells me it is a man based in Florida we don't yet know his name or his background or importantly whether he acted alone we also don't know whether this person was motivated by politics or personal reasons or some other reason the Justice Department says it's going to hold a news conference at 2 30 pm Eastern Time to provide more details on this unfolding case only this morning investigators found a package addressed to former intelligence chief James Clapper in New York and also disclosed that they had found a package in Florida addressed to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker Well a lot of attention in this case it focused on Florida overnight local police there searched a mail facility what were they looking for last night authorities were searching a package sorting facility in Florida in Opa-Locka near Miami the operating theory was some of the packages went through that facility and through the u.s. Mail they were looking for more devices but also any other clues and local t.v. In Florida is now beaming images of a strong law enforcement presence in Plantation Florida at a site that appears to be connected to the suspect in federal custody a lot of manpower has been deployed nationwide though the Postal Inspectors the f.b.i. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives have been on the case as well as local police in the Miami Dade County area and also of course the New York City Police Department too and there's also. So some ongoing activity in Virginia right yes in Virginia the bulk of the investigation there is that the f.b.i. Lab in Quantico which has been analyzing some of these devices which look like homemade pipe bombs they've been looking for clues for how the bombs were constructed and they've also been looking for d.n.a. Or fingerprints the bomb or may have left behind no word yet on whether anything they found in that analysis has helped lead them to this suspect in South Florida that's interesting we'll have to wait and see I suppose so I mean one notable thing this whole time is that none of these bombs have actually exploded and so there's been some speculation that maybe they couldn't explode they didn't have the capacity What have investigators said about that theory on the record police sources and the f.b.i. Are declining to answer questions about whether the these bombs could have presented a lethal threat to anyone on background overnight an earlier this morning I was hearing law enforcement was inclined to think they did not present a lethal threat there could be a reason for that some former bomb analysts at the a.t.f. Have raised questions about whether these devices included a key component that would have set them off that would have detonated them it appeared from the photos that were made public that perhaps these devices lacked that key component but nonetheless police had been advising folks as had the f.b.i. To be very careful when they were looking at any or any suspicious packages because they needed to be considered a potential threat and they law enforcement right now even is advising people to call authorities call police call the f.b.i. If they see anything suspicious now we know that the New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill sudden last last afternoon that the device they recovered in New York that was addressed to the actor Robert Deniro did not pose a biological threat did not contain anthrax or any material like that but that authorities were still treating all of these parcels as potentially dangerous and the analysis may not be done yet as to what's in all of these these bombs potential So law enforcement officials still have a long way to go here N.P.R.'s justice correspondent Carrie Johnson Carrie thank you so much for the update my pleasure. President Trump is headed to Charlotte North Carolina today to rally supporters for Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris Harris is caught in a tight race in a former Republican stronghold against Democrat dam accreting N.P.R.'s Kelsey Snell has more on how major shifts in North Carolina politics mirror changes across America for more than 50 years voters in the 9th Congressional District of North Carolina have been sending Republicans to Congress but things are changing this year Harris a conservative Baptist minister is slipping in the polls behind McCready a Democrat and former Marine David McLennan a professor of political science at Meredith College says the Trump rally is a sign that Republicans have to fight harder than there used to the fact that President Trump is coming in is a saw and they still say that race is when a ball it would be inconceivable 2 decades ago for a Republican president to me become into that district McLennan says it's because of shifting demographics people from other states and other countries are flocking to jobs in places like Raleigh Durham and Charlotte young generations of farmers are doing it too he says like the rest of America Democrats in North Carolina dominate the cities and suburbs but things change the further out you go you look at the political sides I mean you can almost see at a county line the shift between you know the Democratic sides are on one side of the county law and then you move into another county more rural county and all of a sudden it's trunk country the line isn't so clear in other areas like Polk County where the view of the political trend line depends on who you ask county commissioner a gas person says the areas about 60 percent Republican but he's the only elected Democrat and while he sees his party dominating in statewide offices in the future that doesn't mean the entire state is turning blue we have $100.00 counties and the least 80 percent are very rule which trend to go much more Republican Polk County recalled. In chairman Dick Shaughnessy says rural Republican voters like Trump I'm seeing a trend where there's a movement away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party just because. There is a lot of dissatisfaction with what has been going on at the national level Trump certainly could be the closing pitch for Republicans who want to keep at least the 9th congressional district from turning blue Kelsey's now n.p.r. News Polk County North Carolina. This is n.p.r. News. An entire family worked at the same auto plant in Michigan until it closed during the recession like losing somebody. Like losing your life you know now with unemployment near record lows What does the recovery look like to that seems like a fantasy world or something here you know I'm Ari Shapiro in Michigan with views of the economy and the midterms this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News this afternoon from 3 to 5 here on new a very good morning to you I'm David not too late coming up to 830 and on the weather forecast for your Friday a fine forecast sunny skies today high near 70 degrees some gusty winds who will prevail on most afternoons over the next several days but throughout the weekend temperatures should be approaching 70 degrees again some breezy conditions in the afternoon Enjoy your weekend and thank you for sharing part of it with your local public radio station. San Francisco always here for you at 917. Ly from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying one person is now in police custody in connection with the investigation into a series of suspicious packages addressed a prominent critics of President Trump in recent days packages some including pipe bombs were intercepted in California Florida Washington d.c. And the New York City area John Miller with the n.y.p.d. Reports on a 12th suspicious package that was intercepted today at a postal facility in Manhattan the bomb squad was able to safely remove that package with the device and in fact into the fold of containment vessel and transport that of the highway escort to the n.y.p.d. Range that brought them back were out of the placed in a secure storage area for the f.b.i. Who were then transported along with the other suspected devices we've seen that we . Want to show the targets have included Democratic Party leaders most recently New Jersey Senator Cory Booker Beijing is denying a report in The New York Times suggesting Chinese spies are listening in on President Trump's phone calls N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz has more from Shanghai Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman who watch when young suggested President Trump exchanges i Phone for a cell phone made by Chinese manufacturer Huawei if the u.s. Is worried about security issues the Times reported that American intelligence said Chinese and Russian spies are listening in when Trump calls friends on one of his i Phones and is using the information to try to influence him in impact administration policy that's Rob Schmitz reporting this is n.p.r. . The Associated Press is reporting that it has uncovered a practice of patients routinely imprisoned at hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo for failing to pay their medical bills its investigation found that nearly 20 hospitals and clinics in the city of Lubumbashi help patients against their will and did so openly the a.p. Reports many international donors and agencies with operations in Congo such as Unicef and USA d deny knowing about the detentions or did not have enough information to act the a.p. Says it has also found evidence of hospital imprisonment in more than 30 countries around the globe the Taliban say Pakistan has released the co-founder of the insurgent group the move is seen as a gesture to facilitate talks among the Taliban the Afghan government and the United States N.P.R.'s Day to Day has more from Islamabad Pakistan detain Mullah Baradar 8 years ago in the sprawling port city of Karachi a Taliban spokesman confirmed to n.p.r. That he was freed the spokesman wouldn't say when he was released or if he'd return to Afghanistan Mullah Baradar his release can be seen as a goodwill gesture to the Taliban but it's unclear if he'll be involved in future talks over the past few months a small group of Taliban officials have met American diplomats in the Gulf state of Qatar that came after the u.s. Restarted its efforts to bring the Taliban to peace talks to end the 17 year conflict in Afghanistan Washington appointed the veteran diplomats all my halls odd to oversee those efforts did indeed n.p.r. News Islamabad this is n.p.r. . My niece and I will buy. Their way through our interview really play their questions that they've never been before I'm Jessie for this week Eric Idle talks to me about 50 years of Monte Python and more plus musician death hides with blood orange that's on the next bull's eye for maximum fun dot org And n.p.r. Bowls I would just say thorn Saturday mornings at 10 here on Cape Verde or n.p.r. 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And Mexico Del Rio is part of the 23rd Congressional District in Texas really one of the only swing districts in this red state and we've been here talking to voters about what's on their mind ahead of the 28000 midterms and how they measure the presidency of Donald Trump there's a new poll out this morning from n.p.r. P.b.s. News Hour and Maris that addresses that very topic and we have N.P.R.'s political editor Dominik Oman tomorrow with us to discuss the findings Good morning Dominik Oh hi Rachel so I am at this moment looking up at the vast Texas sky and it feels pretty far away from Washington d.c. In politics but. Yeah it's really nice but let's dig into the poll findings let's start with the president and Republicans they saw a bump in enthusiasm among the base during Justice Brett Kavanaugh his confirmation hearing did it last not really you know the Kavanaugh factor appears to actually have faded as a big motivating issue for voters Republicans have maintained their level of enthusiasm but with the pollsters tell us is that that's more likely because it's October the closer you get to the election there's a natural rise and when you look at Cavanaugh specifically the number of people saying he's motivating their vote has gone down between both parties including Republicans and we see the president's approval rating back down to 39 percent we see Democrats opening up a gap of 10 points now on the question of whether you'd want to have a Democrat or Republican in control of Congress and your district I feel like you've been on the program several times over the past few months talking about the importance of women in these midterm elections President Trump is struggling on that front as the polls show that he's making any inroads with female voters not at all in one of our pollster said that it's really all about the jet. Or gap here in 2018 they said 20102014 really about men who are motivated to take back the House and Senate upset with President Obama but in 2018 it's about women who are motivated against President Trump we saw that up and down on questions related to the president's approval rating to preference for control of Congress and in particular when you look at white college educated women they give the president the lowest approval ratings of almost any group and are among the highest to believe that these elections are very important so they're very motivated really interesting because we did meet a woman here Janet Oglethorpe in the suburbs of San Antonio same thing she's a liberal she's a Democrat but the election of Donald Trump shattered her and she has become politically motivated in a in a totally new way so we've definitely seen that play out here what about issues the medico I mean does a poll address what are the issues that are going to motivate people to turn out this year well you know 1st and foremost the driving factor in this election is President Trump 2 thirds say that the president will be a factor in their vote that's 20 points higher than in 2014 when the same question was asked about President Obama and that's the year Republicans took back the Senate but when we dove in specifically at some of the issues that are important to people the top issue of course was jobs and the economy followed by health care and immigration all of which we've heard a lot about in this election but when you break it down by party that's where you see some real differences Republicans jobs in the economy and immigration far and away the biggest issues nothing else comes close for Democrats it's health care and climate change Notice I didn't mention those tax cuts Republicans hope to run on those but they haven't broken through more people say they'd be motivated to vote for a Democrat because of those tax cuts and when you ask people about the rising federal deficit 60 percent including a plurality of Republicans say in order to address the deficit they'd prefer to roll back tax cuts rather than touch entitlements N.P.R.'s a medical Monson. Across the Midwest it's grain harvesting time and this year there are 3 big problems one is wet fields too low crop prices exacerbated by a trade war that decimated the Chinese market for soybeans and 3rd some twists from the new tax law Amy Mayer reports from Iowa Public Radio. As brand I was once in Harvest I believe in Randall Iowa the combine blades cut the stems pods are pulled apart and the hard yellow beans fill the hopper Usman since cousin pulls the matching red tractor up alongside positioning the attached grain cart to catch the beans as they're odd out of the combine. The u.s. Department of Agriculture predicts a record flooding harvest this year but China wants a major market for soybeans impose a 25 percent tariff slashing imports that knocked $2.00 a bushel off the price and will get costing him tens of thousands of dollars it's one more thing that we have pretty much no control over it seems like that affects us greatly so I guess we're just kind of rolling with the punches here on this and the punches keep coming this year besides the tariffs persistent rain pushed harvest back by weeks and there's the new tax law that could have a big effect on farmers who sell their crops to the local grain cooperative Iowa State University Ag a con a Mr Kerry Jacobs says the laws changes make who to sell to a dicier proposition that's what's hard to nail down and that's where farmers are in their marketing decision process at this point for example a farm with lots of employees might be better off selling to a private ethanol plant but one with no employees might benefit from joining a co-op Mike helland who farms near Huxley Iowa serves on the board of Heartland co-op He says even though he's been paying close attention he still doesn't understand how the changes will affect his bottom line I've contacted my accountant about. That and he's still going to school and learning about it so he didn't feel comfortable at this point advising for now Helen is more concerned with bringing in his crop and most of us a big lab this year just over the Agriculture Department promised farmers $12000000000.00 to help offset the tariff impact but Osman says that's not a real fix but we are in an election year so I figured there had to be something like that coming out. As a key co-op all of it or in Roland Iowa Steve Webb crank open the hopper on a semi to let soybeans cascade into a pit from there they'll be conveyed to a nearby storage bin I was state ag economist Chad Hart says higher prices are on the horizon and so as we look out into the spring of 2019 we do see some reasonable prices out there but that means we're going to have to hold this crop for 67 months to get there and with all the rain some elevators are storing soybeans that can't sit that long meanwhile Mexico Malaysia Indonesia and even Argentina have stepped in to buy u.s. Soybeans China went and bought a lot of buttons from Argentina left them a bit too short they had to come into the world market they bought some from us and so you're seeing some really interesting trade flows but still about 200000000 bushels that would have gone to China need to find another customer on dry days farmers are razor focused on just getting in this late crop but with tariffs taxes and quality to worry about this nerve racking season isn't going to end when the last beans hit the bin for n.p.r. News I'm Amy mayor in Ames Iowa. Amy story came to us from Harvest Public Media it's station collaboration reporting on food and agriculture. It's n.p.r. News. Good morning from the b.b.c. In London I'm Pete Ross of b.b.c. Top line a few stories we're following right now China's president Xi Jinping has said relations with Japan are back on the right track after meeting the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abi in Beijing the issues that have long divided China and Japan have not gone away instead far away in Washington President don't trump has declared a trade war imposing hundreds of billions of dollars of new tariffs on Chinese and Japanese made products he's too old rivals the turning to each other out of economic necessity the B.B.C.'s report Winfield Hayes in Tokyo in the past hour we've heard from the fiance of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi had to get says she does not believe the United States government is sincere about getting to the bottom of the case speaking on Turkish t.v. She demanded those responsible be punished and for many Brazilians who are voting in the presidential runoff on Sunday religion will play a big part far right candidate Zire balsa not always leading in the polls helped by the support of evangelical Christians who have traditionally stood by the left wing Workers' Party this time polls show up to 70 percent of evangelicals may vote for Mr Ball so narrow some of them spoke to the b.b.c. Nope don't want to support that I chose him because he's a decent man he defends the family and has never been involved in corruption scandals put him in any school in the fullest he speaks of preserving the family the values the good customs. At the b.b.c. . As Americans go to the polls on November 6th a record number will be motivated not by civic duty or party loyalty but by rage political anger is on the rise in the u.s. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin listen carefully and you can almost hear Americans all over the country binge watching the latest releases from Amazon and Netflix these 2 tech giants are now turning their attention to India the country's market for online video there is expected to reach over $2000000000.00 in the next 5 years but so far neither company has had a whole lot of luck so Cardiff Garcia and Sally Herships from our Planet Money team identify some possible steps to success so I was watching this movie recently on Amazon it's a comedy guy gets engaged his best friend doesn't like the girl tries to break up the wedding there is this whole complicated plot but that is all besides the point what was really surprising was all the twerking which I told her about she's a journalist for the b.b.c. I don't know if you have 2 working in the u.k. Or Yalit the same thing but they do Ashanti covers Indian film and culture that's where you were watching in Indian film and there are all these stereotypes about these films like that they're really conservative so I get it Sally you fell prey to a stereotype it's true shameful but true and when I told a shanty I was surprised by all the drinking and talking about sex in the movie she totally schooled me Indian cinema has not been the way you described it in many many many Well don't feel bad Amazon in Netflix also need to get up to speed on Indian film because they're up against a serious competitor India already has a major online content provider called hot star and hot star says it has about 150000000 monthly users according to counterpoint research Amazon has 11 Netflix a paltry 5 which brings us to our strategies for streaming success in India number one understand the market because if you think India is all Bollywood think again India is not just Bollywood Bollywood movies are mostly in Hindi but according to India's last. Census 121 languages are spoken in the country so plenty of Indian films are made in other languages you know well when you go to India who go to believe in them I remember in 2005 I was in a village and I went to the number that was showing Harry Potter but he was selling it would have tumbled out the bottle with King in step 2 programming for culture most of the content Amazon Netflix produced in the u.s. Plays well all over the country you can show Portlandia in New York and Seinfeld in Portland but India is packed with different cultures and viewers want content relevant to them which is why I am a zine and Netflix are using strategy 3 focusing on a nice In this case India's wealthy high earners people who can afford in other words an Amazon Prime subscription which is almost the same price as hot star just over one u.s. Dollars a month or Netflix around $7.00 a month and both Amazon and Netflix say they're having some luck both are offering content in multiple languages and Netflix has a hit secret games a cop thriller but if either wants to crack the Indian market there is one more thing they'll likely need hot star has this thing Amazon and Netflix do not the advantage that hope to have is cricket because Indians are not the cricket hot star has the license to show the i.p.l. That's the Indian Premier League like the n.f.l. For cricket and one last challenge Ashanti mentioned Indians love sharing their pockets but we don't have that problem here you know Sally Herships part of Garcia n.p.r. . Support for Planet Money comes from his Cox insurance offering the Hiscox cyber readiness report to provide businesses with perspectives on cyber security threats and how to protect against them learn more it c o x dot com slash cyber security. This is n.p.r. News. Public radio. Were 99 percent Invisible in Roman Mars and we'll conclude this hour but not before I offer you some all the knock fun facts for the day a very good morning to you I'm David not to leap today is Friday October 26th the 292nd day of the year 73 days remaining 11 days until the midterm elections sunrise this morning was at 729 sunsets at 61898 percent of the now. Now waning moon I believe correct that will be visible rising at 8 o 7 pm and we just had a recent at our Golden Gate High tide was this morning at 138 again this afternoon at 1258 this morning of 640 and again tonight at 726. It's mincemeat pie day and national pumpkin day I think I'll go to the pumpkin myself on this date in 25 the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York 363 mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of just over $7.00 and a half $1000000.00. If today's your birthday you share with the composer you're hearing in the background the many go Scarlatti also musicians Mahalia Jackson Maggie Roach of the Roche Sisters. Keith Strickland from the b. 52 singer Keith Urban as well as actor Jackie Coogan who was the 1st child to appear in a full length movie lots of interesting fun facts today but I'm going to concentrate on a couple things that happened out here in the wild west in 1901 the gunfight at the Ok corral took place in Tombstone Arizona the fight was between Wyatt Earp and his 2 brothers Doc Holiday and the eye Clinton gang It lasted all of 30 seconds and on this date in $861.00 the Pony Express ended it only had an 18 month run yet it's so iconic in our history it ran from Missouri to California enabling a 10 day a rapid fire service East Coast to West they were mounted riders rather than stagecoach and some interesting fun facts about them they had to weigh less than 125 pounds they changed horses every 75 to 100 miles. Total of $120.00 riders were employed by the company or $184.00 stations along the way and $400.00 import horses employed each writer was presented with a special edition Bible and had to swear an oath to the company that they would be faithful to their duties and direct all their acts to win the confidence of their employers so help them God these vacs and many more at our website k l w o r g. This is 99 percent of the civil and I'm Roman Mars. 3 years after moving to New York City Maggie Wrigley found herself on the edge of homelessness it was 1987 Sheen or boyfriend at the time had been living in a warehouse in Brooklyn but their landlord was shady and they didn't trust him with we weren't going to stay and pay him all this money and you know he got kind of crazy and violent we didn't really know where we were going to go around that time they heard about an abandoned tenement building on the Lower East Side it was owned by the city but had been left empty and unmaintained a friend told them a group of squatters had taken it over and started to fix it up it was a place they could live without paying rent to a lawyer and he said there's an there's not that space if you want to come it's rough we were like where we need a place to go so Wrigley in her boyfriend packed up their belongings and drove their old car from Brooklyn into Manhattan and Maggie and her boyfriend discovered that when their friend said the building was rough he wasn't kidding that's producer Delaney Hall the building was full of rubble some of the walls were rotten and falling down the guy from the hydrant with a wrench and then fill up these water buckets and carry them back into the house and it wasn't fun it wasn't just the building that was falling down the whole Lower East Side which today is filled with expensive boutiques and high end condos was struggling in the 1980 s. There were empty lots filled with trash and falling down buildings everywhere in fact Wrigley's building wasn't the only property in the neighborhood that had been taken over by squatters by the late 1980 s. Squatters would come to occupy more than dozen old tenements on the Lower East Side . In the 1960 s. And seventy's New York City began hollowing out the city lost many of its manufacturing jobs and people with means started moving to the suburbs property values started to slide when landlords couldn't make a profit anymore by renting out. They're buildings and low income neighborhoods to low income tenants they would start what's called milking them this is Dr a new start she's an anthropologist and an oral historian so they were trying to continue to collect rents but increase their profits by not spending any money on the building 1st they would stop providing services he hot water stop making repairs they would also stop paying taxes when that happened the city could take possession of the building. The city ended up owning tens of thousands of properties that were in port condition full of poor people and which hadn't been taken care of properly for a long time all of which meant terrible housing conditions for the people that remained and lots of opportunities for squatters. Squatters set about fixing up their decrepit buildings clearing rubble building stairs reinforcing them replacing windows they illegally tapped into this news electric grid and water system everybody worked together Maggie Wrigley again I mean I built this house you know I raised my floors you know I wired electricals many squatters may have lived outside the mainstream but in some ways they were tapping into mainstream American values they way back in history values helps efficiency entrepreneurial is pulling yourself up by your bootstraps individual responsibility squatting fits in with that story too but the city government didn't necessarily see it that way and as time went on the squatters renegade methods would draw more political attention that was rapidly. By late 1980 s. New York City had turned and was gradually starting it's not a full moon economic slump people were moving back into the city real estate prices were once again starting to decline and the city was beginning to reinvest in neighborhoods long neglected issues of homelessness. And housing on the Louis side were becoming more and more tense both squatters and homeless people felt like they had to fight to hang on to whatever spaces they had claimed try. I got there when you were. There Tompkins Square Park riots were a turning point in the relationship between squatters and the city that brought a lot of the tensions around gentrification and displacement and class in the neighborhood to a head. As criticism outed the city began working harder to the victim the squatters and in response those waters began devising creative ways to resist addiction Here's Ringley again we had we had barricades in the house and that was the mentality that we were living with you know we always had signs you can't let anyone in the house know it's good enough fire no no no no nothing and when the police did show up the squatters had developed a plan for how to quickly mobilize the eviction squatters would physically block police from entering the building they'd link arms and stand in front of the door they would have put all secret compartments and hiding places to go and you know physically occupying the building was always the best strategy. Squatters weren't just fighting the city in the streets they also began devising a legal strategy based on a theory called adverse possession. The details of the law varies state by state in New York it says that if you occupy a piece of property for 10 years and the legal owner doesn't force you out you can claim the legal title to successfully claim adverse possession the squatters would need to meet a number of conditions like proving they had lived in the buildings continuously for example some of this waters were wary about getting tangled up with the legal system but others saw it as their chance to gain ownership of the squatters hired a lawyer started putting together a case. And entered into a legal battle with the city that went on for years the fighting finally came to an end in 1909 when the city and the squatters began to discuss what at one point had seemed impossible legalization in 2002 the city affectively turned over 11 buildings to the squatters for $1.00 each and the squatters began turning their buildings from squats into legal co-operatively owned apartments there have been hard trade offs but for many like Maggie Wrigley the legalization has been a victory for affordable housing and one of the most expensive cities in the country and it's offered a kind of stability at the end of nearly 2 decades of drama. There's not that sense of constant threat the fear that police might come by and break up all their windows Maggie is not a squatter and she's something else I am a homeowner and it's incredible and you know as long as we keep our act together. Then nobody can put is that you know that's it we got it you know it's our building it's asked to lose. 99 percent of it's own a home. On Rio and me Roman Mars edited for radio. We are a project of mine 1.7 k. In radio topia find out more and I mean I p r. M w.h.y. Why in Philadelphia I'm Terry Gross with fresh air. Today we talk about Lou Reed with Anthony De Curtis author of a biography of reed which just came out in paperback De Curtis is a music critic and was Reed's friend many of Reed's Velvet Underground songs and solo songs were about sexually transgressive characters heroin and other drugs and his stage persona played with his. On sexual fluidity his sexuality was something I think you know Gates to have that you saw what you wanted to see you know and I think really was kind of open to go in there for that was the Curtis interviewed many people read new including 2 of his former wives needy is a word that came up a lot and talking about Lou's relationship with lovers and part of that was the hated being alive that's on Fresh Air. First news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the Justice Department says one persons in custody in connection with suspicious packages including confirm letter bombs address a prominent trunk critics across the country N.P.R.'s Brian Lucas has more a law enforcement official tells n.p.r. The individual was taken into custody in Florida where some of the 12 known suspicious packages were discovered no further details were immediately available on the individual including the suspected connection to the packages t.v. Footage from the town of plantation in South Florida shows officials from the f.b.i. N.y.p.d. And other law enforcement agencies putting a blue tarp over a white van in a parking lot to tow the vehicle away the Justice Department has scheduled a news conference for this afternoon to provide more details on the case Ryan look at n.p.r. News Washington Unicef says it's working with Mexico to care for the migrant children who are part of the caravan of Central Americans traveling north to the u.s. Border it says the children need access to health care clean water and general protection on the long journey through hot temperatures and rainy weather thousands of people make up the caravan many say they're trying to escape poverty and violence in their home countries but it's uncertain what they will encounter if they reach the u.s. Border the travel ministration has ordered hundreds more troops to support Border Patrol there are already more than 2000 members of the National Guard at the border the u.s. Economic growth is still robust the latest numbers from the Commerce Department reflect that N.P.R.'s Kamila says the economy grew 3 and a half percent in the 3rd quarter the increase in the real gross domestic product is.