Cheers of finda cation rang through the public gallery as the judge and no there was no case to answer he said the prosecution had failed to prove numerous charges against the former president including that speeches by Laura bag Bo constituted ordering or in slicing the alleged crimes Mr Gbagbo and his associates the youth leader Charles Baker take were granted immediate release as the 1st head of state to be handed over to the course Mr Gbagbo extradition from the Ivory Coast in 2011 was celebrated as evidence the i.c.c. Could have bring the most powerful state figures to justice soldiers are patrolling the streets of Zimbabwean towns on the 2nd day of protests against a huge rise in the price of fuel and growing economic hardship the main opposition party the m.d.c. Says security forces have shot 3 people dead at his headquarters in the capital Harare has been torched widespread looting is being reported Here's Andrew Harding across the many shops schools and businesses remain closed the reports of looting and of violent clashes there are also signs that mobile phone and internet access has been restricted Zimbabwe's government has blamed the opposition and human rights organizations for orchestrating street violence but many people insist the protests are a spontaneous response to rising prices a currency crisis and deepening economic hardship this is the world news from the b.b.c. Russian news agencies say a court in Moscow has extended the detentions of 4 of the $24.00 Ukrainian sailors arrested off the coast of Crimea last year they'll now be held in pretrial custody until the 24th of April Russia seized a number of sailors and 3 Ukrainian naval vessels in November last year accusing them of illegally entering Russian waters something Kiev denies. The federal prosecutor's office in Germany says a 50 year old German Afghan Jule national who works for the German military has been detained on suspicion of spying for Iran the suspect identified as Abdul Hamid s will face a judge later today prosecutors say the man who was arrested in western Germany is a language expert the Brazilian president also Naro has signed a decree loosening the country's gun laws it was a key part of his presidential campaign and Mr Bolton r.-o. Said it restored the rights of Brazilian citizens to bear arms which had been taken away by previous governments perspective owners had to undergo psychological tests in the past hundreds of Hondurans have set off a new migrant caravan bound for Mexico's border with the United States around $500.00 people left the town of San Pedro Sula from which a much larger convoy left late last year some said they were heading for the United States others insisted their main aim was employment and they would stay in Mexico if there were any jobs there this man explains why he's leaving his own. Situation here in him do s. S. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep in Washington and I'm David Greene in Culver City California good morning Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King has been stripped of his committee assignments in the House of Representatives King is facing backlash for comments he made to the New York Times questioning why the terms white nationalist and white supremacist are offensive House minority leader Kevin McCarthy announced the decision to strip all of King's committee assignments after a meeting of the house g.o.p. Steering committee last night McCarthy called King's comments reckless and wrong let's bring in Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters from Des Moines he has covered Congressman King's career for a good number of years Hi there Clay Good morning David So you've been tracking comments like this for a long time right this is certainly not a 1st for this congressman No it's not a 1st and covering the congressman over the years he has a history of saying offensive things and I mean there's a running list that we can go through all the different times where he has said something and then top Republicans in the state from the governor to the state party chair 2 u.s. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst then regularly call out these remarks say it does not represent their values but that's kind of where it stops but now it's a new Congress and it's getting much more mainstream attention I think largely because the comments were published in The New York Times we have Republican senator Mitt Romney the one time Republican presidential candidate even calling on king to step down he had to resign and move on and let someone else who represents American values take a seat Ok so you have someone that Romney's love actually calling for him to step down even more action than was taken but these committee assignments have been stripped Is that a big deal in itself Well Congressman King was on the Agriculture Committee which is a big industry in Iowa he was also on the Judiciary Committee which has jurisdiction over immigration voting rights impeachment these kinds of things and you know now he has to go back to Iowa as he will start campaigning for 2020 and make the case that people should send him back to Washington and without committees that could be a hard sell. Now the congressman has been making the argument right Clay that this was all taken out of context what exactly is he trying to say as he explains all this he's trying to say that the comments were mis characterize that it was not a full quote and in his statement after this came out and there was all this controversy surrounding it he said he will continue to point out what he calls the truth and work with all the vigor that he has to represent his district for at least the next 2 years and I should point out too that he is facing already last week a primary challenge in 2020 against a powerful well known state senator from that part of the state Randi Feenstra And he also has had Governor Cameron holds the Republican who did better than him in his district in 2018 saying that she will remain neutral in the primary election. So what does this story feel like in Iowa in his home state clay What are people making of these comments and what it means for him Congressman Steve King is a very divisive person in the state I think he's largely seen by many of his voters and those that send him back to Washington time and time again as an anti-establishment congressman and I think that he could spin this as hey the elites aren't giving me a seat at the table which potentially could work in his favor in this district that heavily went for Donald Trump and I should point out too that Congressman Steve King is now the only member of Iowa's House congressional delegation that is a Republican and last year King narrowly defeated his Democratic challenger who is the political newcomer by the name of j.d. Shelton and King has also announced that he plans at the beginning of this year he said that he's going to hold a $39.00 town hall meetings between now and the end of the year so there will be plenty of time for refute holds true to this for people to voice their concerns and he will just continue to be this divisive person within the state of Iowa well and I don't want to put you in a position of making predictions but you're saying it's not out of the realm of possibility that the idea that he is embattled could actually help him with with his base in this district yet that's exactly what I'm saying I think that that could work in his favor but there is going to be a lot of attention from different Republicans to try to to get him out of this seat I think so light like all elections stories are just going to watch and see how it plays out and I will look forward to all your reporting as we follow Him My him along on his journey Clay Masters of I Will Public Radio thanks so much thanks David a tide of plastic waste is contaminating the oceans and in a congressional hearing Senator Sheldon Whitehouse named major culprits over 50 percent of the plastic waste in the oceans comes from just 5 countries China Indonesia the Philippines Vietnam and Sri Lanka N.P.R.'s science correspondent Christopher Joyce when. To one of those countries the Philippines to see how bad it is. That sprawls along the coast of Manila Bay. Shantytown sit in the shadow of new high rises and mega shopping malls people here have more money than they used to so they're buying more stuff from fancy so. Fast food all of which is wrapped in plastic packaging. In the back there's an island in the bay that's kind of like a. Plastic I went to take a look it's not far from sure. I could see lots of mangrove trees could be a place for a resort except that what looks like Spanish moss hanging from the branches it's plastic bags. On the way I. Just want. To get it sure we will a little catwalk. Held together with. Anything it's. The variety of stuff is opposing shoes bottles syringes even motorcycle helmets it's impossible to tell exactly where all this stuff comes from but clearly a lot of it comes from the neighborhood surrounding. Some of those neighborhoods are trying to stop the flow of plastic into the bag. Good morning people on the local government is now requiring residents to actually pick through their trash and segregate the plastic so the community can deal with. A woman for her trash part of a series of bad. And along with there's a monitor from the neighborhood government my name yes Denny you. Speak through a translator so the policies that no segregation affliction so collection is free but the household need to segregate their lives who'd waste goes in one bag metals paper glass in another and 2 bags for plastic recyclable and non-recyclable if residents don't comply with all this they pay a fine 1st up inspired by. Second. And 3rd going to Jade even jail for not separating plastic from your friends there are hundreds of official neighborhoods in this huge city. Is one of just 16 that now require residents to segregate plastic from their garbage is that enough I asked the town secretary need to love ya know if you think it's going to work I mean it's like a tsunami a plastic. Bag a novel who now you now own Well sometimes I get mad as a community we do our part to clean up the waste and educate people about the environment and in the beginning people call operate but then they go back to their old ways and it makes me sad you know but even when people do do their best Where does that plastic go that's where it gets complicated some plastic bottles gets recycled but then there are the sachets plastic packets that contain a single portion of soap or coffee or shampoo That's how corporations like Unilever and Nestle market consumer goods in Asia and most of these sachets cannot be recycled that rankles. He's with an environmental group Mother Earth Foundation which has sponsored the neighborhood cleanups The problem is that for most of these companies they feel they're responding to their product and the moment the salat He says there's a reason used to sachets end up in the ocean. In the Philippines independent waste workers collect plastic and sell it to recyclers but if it can't be recycled like those session it has no value the waste worker can you actually earn from this because so they don't collect it right he has spent 17 years looking for ways to get rid of plastic waste you know realizes that Filipinos can't dig out of this alone most packaging comes from just a few big companies he says it's time they take more responsibility you have companies dumping all of this new products and packaging that is beyond their capacity to manage you earn from this you know and you expect all of us to then magically just solve it for you. You can't just magically get rid of something that is permanent that doesn't degrade it just keeps piling up remember that island I visited walking toward the beach but still going to put I stop to look at a huge pile of burlap bags stuffed with plastic waste a team of workers collected that waste one day's work and yet they barely make it did. Tremendous And if there is itself in the sand it becomes a permanent ticket stand aside and there's a plastic that's $45.00 straws from the sand there's a half of a plastic bag and mixed in with coconuts and mangrove seeds you know it's just to give you the feeling that you can't ever catch up that's why many people throughout Southeast Asia are now saying enough cleaning up isn't going to fix this they want to take the fight to the corporations that create the plastics in the 1st place Christopher Joyce n.p.r. News. This afternoon on All Things Considered How did a marketing strategy for consumer goods contribute to Asia's plastic problem. 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And e. Is under investigation in last year's deadly camp fire that is the one who destroyed much of the town of Paradise now facing what could exceed $30000000000.00 in liability costs p.g. And e. Is now planning to file for bankruptcy cuties Merissa Lagos' reports on what that could mean the reaction to p.g. And his announcement was swift California Governor Gavin Newsome called on the utility to keep its promises to energy suppliers and its customers and lawmaker after lawmaker promised to protect the public hears Democrat Tony at Ken's president of the state senate I think uppermost is protecting ratepayers fire victim and certainly the integrity in the reliability of our electric and gas service to California consumers whatever happens at the company everyone agrees that the lights will stay on in California the bigger questions are who will pay for all those wildfire costs and for the upgrades to make sure the electrical grid isn't going to keep sparking deadly blazes Patrick McClellan lost his home in a 2017 wildfire and has been lobbying on behalf of fire victims at the state capitol for the past year he believes the utility is posturing to pressure lawmakers into some sort of favorable change in law bankruptcy is not a good direction for anybody in California the bankruptcy lawyers and it's definitely not good for victims there lawsuits will be put on hold while the company reorganize us so McClellan is still holding out hope that the state can do something before months and to prevent bankruptcy are they leveraging Yes we trust them no but there is a severe financial problem with that utility given everything that they're going to have to do in order to create a safe for all of us to read and. 1st that I'm another key player in the discussion is p.g. And E.'s work force which is largely represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Tom dolls all is i.b.e.w. Local 1245 business manager he doesn't think their contract or pensions are risk in the end whatever comes out of the bankruptcy court has to be approved by the Public Utility Commission and I think that that's a strong backstop for us in terms of protecting workers but clearly someone will lose out and if history is any indication any rate payers will be among those hit hardest the utility filed for bankruptcy 18 years ago during the state's electricity crisis and customers are still paying higher rates related to that and even if p.g. And e. Doesn't seek bankruptcy protection rates will likely go up in addition to those wildfire liabilities the company is going to have to spend a lot of money to make sure it's equipment doesn't keep starting fires for n.p.r. News Emery's a law goes in San Francisco. Broadway actress Carol Channing died today she was 97 years old Kim Koch has this appreciation Carol Channing trademark platinum blonde hair framed a face that always seemed to be smiling her wide eyed innocence style be lied a very savvy mind and her voice was unmistakable just need to go around it or out. You are wrong so that. Carol Channing his career on the stage and film on television and in recording spend more than 6 decades in an interview with n.p.r. In 1905 Channing said that when she began working in theater in the early 1940 s. She was rarely unemployed 1st off I think it's very fortunate I never stopped working it's terribly important because I guess it's like an athlete by she have if you keep using it it gets stronger and stronger actress Marge champion is credited with discovering channel. In a casting office while scouting for a show being directed by her late husband Gary champion came in with those big eyes and then do you mind if I take off my huge and of course it's old I'm laughing as she took off her shoes and launched into an. Image thing because that's what she did she was Carmen Miranda and Sophie Tucker and they were laughing all the time but I think they did enough but I kept urging her to keep on doing more Channing was born in Seattle Washington her parents were Christian Scientists in her self admitted rambling and selective memoir just lucky I guess Channing writes that she was a young child delivering copies of the Christian Science Monitor to theaters when she got her 1st glimpse of backstage she explains it came over me that I was looking at the stage and backstage of a cathedral a temple a mosque a mother church I know I'm using adult words to describe a child's feelings but I don't know how else to tell you the simple reaction of a child to a holy place Channing's near religious connection to her audience gave her she said and the standing amount of energy and she grew irritated with those who tried to diminish the importance of theatre in people's lives live theater is something that can't possibly die because we're working on their metabolism sometimes nights their hyper some nights their sleeve but we have to find the way in to communicate with them and slowly the and build and it's an electric thing for the performers as if you plugged me in the out wall. Channing's 1st great role was also her 1st big break the part of Lorelai in the 1949 original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but the role with which Channing will always be identified is Dolly. The. It's nice to be back. It was this role that Channing loved most because it was life affirming in every sense she had great respect for Thornton Wilder who created the character of Dolly Levi as a widow and the character's gradual reawakening in this most optimistic of Broadway shows touched Channing deeply it's easy to slide downhill but who are the ones that just won't do it who are the diamonds in the rough they go upstream against everything and that's what it's all about that's what Thornton Wilder kept writing about and he said in the skin of our Chief mankind can survive the ice age the stone age the dinosaur age if we just forget our jealousies forget our competitions stay together burn the furniture in the fireplace but we'll make it we'll somehow make it and he says Dolly Gallagher Levi stop talking to your good husband rejoin the looming for n.p.r. News I'm Kim in Washington. This is n.p.r. News. These days people go to great lengths to shed the stress of daily life there's acupuncture deep tissue massage meditation yoga American Reese Cali and all things considered we offer our own type of feeling new stories that span the rainbow of human experience nourish your mind we do so on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News and. All things considered. This afternoon I should say at 3 o'clock sun's not down by that time. William Boreas going to be he's nominated to be the attorney general and there's little question of his loyalty he's apparently written an article. Condemning the Monger investigation and Democrats are wondering apart be detached from that meadow or keep them meddling in the probe we'll hear about that and much more in the next half hour of Morning Edition time now 730 live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly president Trump's nominee to be the country's next attorney general is on Capitol Hill this morning William Barr is before the Senate Judiciary Committee promising to be even handed in on swayed by politics President Trump has sought no assurances promises or commitments from me of any kind either express or implied and I have not given him any other than that I would run the department with professionalism and integrity Democrats on the committee have accused bar of trying to undermine special counsel Robert Muller's Russia investigation they point to bars unsolicited memo sent to the Justice Department last year critical of Muller's team examining whether Trump tried to obstruct justice are also testified Jeff Sessions did the right thing in recusing himself from the Moller probe thousands of people are under evacuation orders in areas of California hit by wildfires in recent months stormy weather is prompting concerns about possible landslides and debris flows where hillsides have been scarred by fires Sean Bowlus lives in mana Sito I am going to put my sandbags directly via line by the driveway and then the side of my house where the mud came through last time a year ago a strong storm triggered debris flows in mana Seato leaving 23 people dead it destroyed hundreds of homes this is n.p.r. News. Public school teachers in Los Angeles are on strike over pay raises staffing and class sizes This is day 2 of the walkout educators and parents marched from City Hall to be l.a. Unified school districts headquarters yesterday calling on the district to meet their demands School officials say those demands could bankrupt the school system it's the nation's 2nd largest with 640000 students in Zimbabwe today soldiers are patrolling city streets after protests over higher fuel prices turned deadly several people were killed in demonstrations yesterday Krista Maher has the latest a prominent lawyers group in Zimbabwe says it's received reports of uniformed soldiers and police breaking into homes and assaulting residents suspected of participating in protests that took place in the capital Harare on Monday the Movement for Democratic Change Zimbabwe's largest opposition party has also accused the porters of the ruling Zanu p.f. Party of looting and lobbing petrol bombs into its downtown headquarters the government blames the party for deadly protests that broke out in Harare Ambuhl a while after President Emerson man and dog announced a sharp fuel price hike over the weekend it's accuse the party of trying to undermine the president's efforts to reengage with the international community while he's on an official visit to Russia for n.p.r. News I'm Krista Maher in Johannesburg stocks are higher this morning on Wall Street the Valley's up 7 points I'm David Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. On the next call what is being done to support caregivers more than $43000000.00 adults in the u.s. Took care of someone in 2014 and they did it without pay that is according to an a.a.r.p. Report which also found that caregivers spend more than 24 hours a week providing care and the need is growing people are living longer but they're living with chronic conditions so what resources are available for caregivers join the next with me. This morning at 10 o'clock followed at 11 by one a Kelley remains one of the most successful artists in history but for how much longer a new documentary has renewed more than just interest into claims that he abused women new criminal investigations are underway protesters have taken to the streets and artists have publicly apologized for. Surviving r. Kelly next time. You can hear one a this morning at 11 o'clock right after your call here on 91.7 time now it's 730 Report for n.p.r. 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William Barr faces questions before the Senate today his hearing for the post of attorney general underlines the complexities of the job he is seeking in effect he would have multiple masters if confirmed under the constitution he is appointed by the president but he must be confirmed by the Senate he is answerable to Congress and above all he supposed to enforce the law senators want to know how Barr will handle those conflicting forces because the attorney general oversees an investigation of Russian involvement in u.s. Politics an investigation that has come close to the president himself n.p.r. Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas has been covering this story hi there Ryan good morning what is William Barres background Well he's very much a Republican establishment lawyer he served as attorney general once before that was from 1901 to 1903 under. President George h.w. Bush he held other senior positions in the department as well during the 1st Bush administration he led the Office of Legal Counsel and then later served as the deputy attorney general which put him in charge of running the the day to day affairs of the d.o.j. So he would bring a lot of experience to the job he knows the Justice Department people who worked with him there say that he cares deeply about it now he would be taking over from acting attorney general Matthew Whittaker who stepped in on a temporary basis after Jeff Sessions resigned under pressure from the White House given that depth of experience what has he said or done that would make this confirmation anything less than automatic Well Republican certainly support his his nomination but the focus for Democrats in the confirmation hearing is going to be on things that bar has said criticisms that he has made about Special Counsel Robert Miller's Russia investigation topping that list for Democrats is an unsolicited memo that bar wrote last year to the Justice Department and in that memo he essentially says that Muller would be wrong to pursue an obstruction of justice case against President Trump. Talk to Trump's decision to fire f.b.i. Director James Comey now so from a Democratic perspective he has weighed in with an opinion about something that he should be judging impartially it raises questions about whether he would be impartial overseeing that investigation yes now we learned last night from a letter that Barr sent to the committee chairman that bar shared the memo or discussed it with several people including many of President Trump's lawyers as well as the man who is now White House counsel now bar was a private citizen when he wrote the memo he says that it was he wrote it it was based solely on information that was publicly available but for Democrats that has not been enough so far some have said that they want part of recuse himself from overseeing the mother probe they've called at a minimum for him to commit to allow it to proceed unimpeded and they want him to promise to release to Congress and public the final report that Muller is expected to draw I guess we should note the importance of him saying he was a private citizen at the time is that you may have any number of private opinions but still might be able to understand you have a public duty to behave in a certain way once you become an official that I would be bars explanation Democrats though not accepting that is barred likely to recuse himself or do anything else that Democrats are demanding it seems very unlikely that he would recuse himself the Justice Department released a copy of bars written written testimony yesterday in those prepared remarks bar certainly stops well short of recusing himself now according to those remarks he plans to tell lawmakers that it's vitally important that Muller be allowed to finish his investigation and that the country needs answers in a resolution to all of these issues that kind of encircle us right now he also plans to say that he will be an independent attorney general he won't interfere in the probe and he plans to say that the public and Congress need to be informed of Mahler's results but but he does stop short of saying that he will release them he says that he will be as transparent as possible consistent with the law oh leaving a little bit of space to maybe not reveal everything if he decides as attorney general that that would be a better course Ryan thanks for the update appreciate it my pleasure That's N.P.R.'s Ryan Lucas. Thousands of teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are on strike this is the nation's 2nd biggest school district it's a huge story here and parents have a lot of questions but we should note the district is over 70 percent Latino or Hispanic serving many non English speaking families k.p.c. Sees Emily Alina Dugdale looks at the difficulty of reaching these families. It's 7 30 am and raining at Hollenbeck middle school employee Heights a largely Latino neighborhood an l.a. Seaside teachers wearing bright red Union shirts class picket signs and chant outside the school entrance but school is still in session and Antonio Francisco holds up to the curb to drop off his daughter just as he always does but today he's shocked by what he's seen look them up all over this open you don't just go says I don't have words for that he had no idea his daughter's teachers would be in the streets but he doesn't have time to deal with that he's got to get to work to get him and even stop assuming they can be such a player he says he thinks if teachers want to protest they also need to let people know but what Francisco doesn't know is that other parents have known about the strike for weeks Francisco's reaction isn't hard for community leader Henry but as to imagine the vast majority of non English speaking parents in our community they definitely have a disconnection with what is happening but as is the director of inner city struggle an organization employ a height that supports local families he says these parents often work long hours and can't spend time at their children's school or there's limited access to Internet so they don't always get new information but families who don't speak English have the most to lose from a strike they feel the impact of this challenging situation much greater than other communities to help close this gap but has held meetings with parents and put together a strike guide in. Spanish but the small organization can't reach everyone Joseph McCord out with the school district thought his team would come pretty close Ellie going to fight is so big that the district is divided into several local districts a quarter is superintendent of one of them last week the district set up a bilingual English and Spanish hotline to spread information about the strike they've also sent automated calls in English and Spanish to homes and some schools also sent letters a quarter says they're tracking how schools are engaging with non English speaking families I was able to get a good hole from my parents coaches as well as much of actors with regards to translation missions The district also puts out notices in Spanish on a Twitter handle called so most l.a. U.s.d. That we are l.a. U.s.d. But the page only has about $200.00 followers in a district of thousands of Spanish speaking households spokesperson Gloria Martinez with the teachers' union said they've had success going door to door with strike flyers in some neighborhoods and rely on small networks of bilingual parent volunteers to pass the message of the strike along to non English speakers they themselves are saying you know we need to put our communities of color up front we need to make sure that monolinguals speaking parents are also using their native language to communicate she says non English speaking families want to be in Balt it's just a matter of better meaning than where they are for n.p.r. News I'm Emily Elena Dugdale in Los Angeles. This is n.p.r. News. We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter says a lot Musk the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and c.e.o. Of space x. Rockets Musk is not merely reacting to humanity's recent tendency to elect limited extent lead our countries rather he's trying to warn us about the rep and razz of a radical new technology artificial intelligence in common parlance he's referring to robots but these are not the clunky somewhat cute machines performing rote tasks a century has evolved to become an electronic brain a web of ever more complex super computers interacting as one cognitive unit that can program itself make decisions and act independently of the humans who are creating them these Thinking Machines are readily increasing in number and geometrically advancing their i.q. Prompting Musk and others to view technologies in apocalyptic terms as algorithms and systems and evidently grow more sophisticated He says digital intelligence will exceed biological intelligence by a substantial margin in graphic terms must warns that profiteering humans are quote summoning the devil by creating a new superior species of beings that will end up dominating humanity becoming quote an immortal dictator from which we would never escape what's weird is not his dystopian prognosis other experts confirm that runaway bot intelligence is a real threat but his solution the way for us human beings to compete with says Musk is to merge with it not a corporate transaction but a literal merger surgically implant devices in human brains with quote a bunch of tiny wires that would fuse people with super intelligence this is just how you are saying. It's good to have technological geniuses alert us to looming dangers but maybe the larger community of humanness ought to leave the search for answers. Good morning I'm David Greene Ernest Hemingway once suffered a disaster for a writer whose wife lost a suitcase full of his manuscript this is not exactly the same but the actor Hugh Grant lost a film script it is hard for him to grab another because he says he spent weeks covering it with notes he says it was in a bag that was stolen from his car he is appealing for the script to be returned and also he says his kids medical cards you're listening to Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from at last a collaboration software company powering teams around the world committed to providing the tools and practices to help teams plan track and build and work better together more at last c.n.n. Dot com and from Capt Terra for helping people find the right software for their business from Project Management to yoga studio software users can read reviews and compare solutions across hundreds of software categories Moret kept Tara dot com It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene Kyla Murray can certainly play baseball in fact he was a top 10 draft pick by the Oakland A's back in June but he can also play football pretty well he just completed a season as quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and he won the Heisman Trophy So what do you do if you're in his position to pursue baseball or football or yesterday Murray announced that he is filing paperwork to enter the n.f.l. Draft and to talk about what that means for him in both of these sports we turn to Jeff passon who has been following his decision making process for e.s.p.n. He joins us on Sky Good morning Jeff. Good morning David how are you I'm good fascinating story of this effort. If he's the Marines entering the n.f.l. Draft I mean baseball's off the table for him. Not necessarily in that because the confusing in fascinating part of this whole story the Oakland A's drafted Kyler Murray with the 9th pick last year and gave him a signing bonus of 4660000 dollars and there was one caviar that he could go back to Oklahoma and play football for one year it was almost like a parting gift for and the A's thought that he was going to have fun at Oklahoma and maybe throw a few touchdowns and be back in spring training and a full time baseball player the next year well Kyler Murray went out and had one of the statistically greatest seasons in college football heroes and wins a husband trophy which makes everything more roar as earmarks and suddenly now n.f.l. Teams are interested in him and throwing 1st round grades and potentially guaranteeing him even more money than he would have been making in baseball so you say baseball not off the table does that mean I mean he could be like a boat Jackson a Deion Sanders and actually play both of these sports professionally I desperately wish that were the case as a child of the eighty's who grew up worshipping budget ax and loving Deion Sanders and with a de rigueur the rigors of quarterbacking in 2019 and the fact that coaches want you to be in the film room all the time and learning playbooks it's just not realistic to think that Kyler Mary could be a quarterback in the n.f.l. And a center fielder in baseball now that being said. Could he potentially play some minor league baseball in the off season and play football year as I wanted to be true I really do that the big question with Kyle or Murray though it's not which does he choose It's Can he be successful in either he has not played baseball barely at all since going to college and the problem The drawback with him in football and the reason people are questioning his ability their color is only 5 foot and I we haven't seen a quarterback that short in the n.f.l. Since Doug Flutie so he's no sure thing in football either this historic tell us anything larger about sports in this moment. Yeah that you don't have to specialize and this is something near and dear to my heart having written a book on baseball players blowing out their arms because they throw too much as kids in the idea that kind of armory did not himself say I have to choose baseball or football early I can continue to play both shows kids that hey even though there's pressures going on from youth coaches you do not have to succumb to them E.S.P.N.'s Jeff ass and Jeff thanks a lot. Pleasure my David thank you you heard it here on Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Steve Inskeep. But this is a area short where we get bite sized answers to questions us listener Montserrat Gonzales wanted to know where they're going to get our Merrill's. Calles have used tear on our coast and the answer. San Francisco has free meals by Diego Riviera the 1st real he painted outside of Mexico is at the city cop then there's the Pan American unity located at City College I went with months to San Francisco Art Institute or s.f. Ai where you can see the real called The Making of a fresh school showing the building of a city bred the blues are so vivid that it really makes it feel like it could come to life at any moment the mural features the people that are involved in the building process from General laborers to engineers but why did we beat up paint mills in San Francisco Ray Boynton who is teaching rural painting school starting in the 1920 s. And went down I think about 1927 or so to Mexico this is cordon Knox He's the president of s f a I he says after studying which review board to convince local leaders that San Francisco needed a revered emule and this piece turned out to convey a powerful message about the working people who make the city the bulk of it is really build made and put forward by the working class these values are important 2 months out and their family to visiting the gallery makes it quite emotional hard work represented with a do. Unity and pride in our is something that isn't seen often and I think it's really important and I love that it's here and accessible for us the free murals are all excessive both for you too in San Francisco I'm sorry for Haiti area. It is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin Maggie Rogers was doing what most college seniors do when classes wrap up she was packing and getting ready to head home but I graduated and then I guess very quickly had a job what was the job. Popstar. Because just a few months before graduating from you you Rogers went to one of her classes and found none other than legendary producer for rel William sitting there he was part of a master class there to critique students' work she played him this. Book . It's a song called Alaska and the classroom video of this moment shows for Williams practically in tears Here's what he said. Never heard anything. From the video went viral and it is a horrible cliche to say someone's life changed overnight but in Maggie Rogers case it really did since then she has been touring around the world playing her songs to huge crowds and it's all been building up to this her 1st major label album it's called heard it in a past life this record is about that moment and what's happened since then and when that 1st video went viral the reality is that I was incredibly overwhelmed and really scared and suddenly my very private life was very public without me really having any control or say over it. And it sounds like that it's taken you kind of a while to wrap your head around yeah life totally because it's interesting I've never had any doubts about the music but the reality of the music industry is something I had to learn really fast all of a sudden Yeah and there's all these expectations that you sort of just know how to do it like oh yeah just like do the photo shoot and I'm like no one's taking my picture ever before like I don't know how to do this and and navigate it in a way that felt like me right and I think that's the weird thing that my music too is that I'm from folk music I grew up playing the banjo but I also love pop music and I love to dance and I think it left people at a bit confused about like who I would be what kind of artist I would become so were people cool with like did you get to a point where you felt like you could play in all those spaces and everyone was fine with it I think I am now and I think a big part of that for me was learning what to give my energy to you know I realistically talked about for a Williams every day for about a year and a half and so I went through different stages of that of like I have worked for 10 years why I can't just talk about my work. And now it's like I understand it and I just decided like I'm not gonna let that stress me out and I'm way happier because of it let's get into the album I'm so excited you've heard it. I'm going to play lead on would you believe me not. Till. All is good with. The. Book and stuff but. This. First song I was actually Christian was actually nervous to put a song out because it is so vulnerable when all of this happened I sort of became this like cocktail party version of myself where I felt like I had to play the role of like happy girl because my my story has this element of like a Cinderella story to it girl gets plucked from obscurity becomes start you know but I was really struggling. But I think the chorus of light on. Says what I really want to say which is that you know led on as a happy song like it's a dance song you can hear it in the chords and the textures there's optimism and hope and the song says like Ok I'm going to do this I'm going to be here for you in the way that you've been here for me and I'm going to keep coming back. I wrote 3040 songs for this record and I thought this record was done a bunch of times and this time I really kept going back and challenging myself like do I think I can do better and even like light on was the last song I wrote for the record but I was looking at the track list and thinking about the balance between the chemistry of all of these songs and I realized I hadn't written a song to open the record. I'm thinking. So I wrote give a little and it's the 1st song on the record because I wanted to write something that said let's have a clean start. In that song are like you don't know me I don't know you let's say everything's fresh Let's start from a place of empathy like let's just like reacquaint ourselves. Realistically the album is the introduction to me that I never got to make by the same token there are going to be 15 year old girls out there listening to this conversation who are writing songs in their bedrooms at night what do you say to those girls. I think the most important thing is giving yourself permission to feel and to write and to not worry about the reception all I can say is that I want to make music. Because I want to create community and bring people together and also I want to feel less alone. Maggie Rogers her debut album is called heard it in a past life it comes out Friday Maggie thanks so much thanks much for having. Fun as soon as. You lose This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene. Soon learned since. The job as a former campaign official not coming to the job as the president. He is coming into the job. And so I think there's more of an expectation of independence from him than there was unlikable of our that's today on the daily from the New York Times. More layers underneath. The daily helping to peel them wait 530 this afternoon right after crosscurrents here on 91.7 The programming you hear on k l w is made possible by the support of John Rigney of South San Francisco Francis Hobson of Richmond and Victoria post of San Francisco and all of you who are members of k l w k l w it depends on engage listeners like you thank you this is 91.7 use and Francisco. Your local public radio the time now is 8 o'clock. Good morning William Barr breeze through confirmation hearings to become attorney general about 3 decades ago things might be a bit more challenging now that he's been nominated for that job by President truck It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. Senate Democrats are focusing on bars criticism of the special counsel's Russia investigation we will question Minnesota Senator Amy I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene 2 countries 2 political stalemates here in the u.s. The partial government shutdown goes on and we'll hear how it's hurting efforts to prepare for Hurricane season and in Britain parliament looks ready to vote down the prime minister's Bret's a deal it is Tuesday January 15th Dr Martin Luther King Jr would have turned 90 years old today. The news is next. Hello I'm Chris Sparrow with the b.b.c. News a huge police operation is underway in Kenya after an attack on a luxury hotel in the Westlands district of Nairobi Kenya as head of police Joseph pointed spoke to the media a short while ago some. Building in our special forces as I see engaged in that position to find the marks we wish to also to give a bit could have been some injuries. And we're in the process of confirming the nature of the types of injuries a number of people were successfully escorted out of the compound after sustained gunfire and a large explosion were heard but as the B.B.C.'s Larry says it's not clear that everybody is safe this is about the myth of the b.b.c. So all of us are trying to figure out what happened here exactly could have happened to any of us live around this area it's a shopping complex hotel there's a lot of office blocks in there and right now as we speak there are still people who are tweeting that they are trapped in toilets or in some offices or they're hiding and trying to get security forces to go and rescue them I have just spoken to a journalist colleague of mine who had an interview in one of the complexes next to the hotel and he's still in the toilet right now with his crew still hoping that some help will get here the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said it was responsible 6 years ago also killed more than 60 people in an attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The British Parliament is holding the final debate on the draft deal to leave the European Union ahead of a landmark vote which Prime Minister to resign May is expected to lose her attorney General Geoffrey Cox has urged M.P.'s to understand the value of compromise and back the deal he said that by rejecting the agreement M.P.'s would be choosing chaos words very true. What are you claiming I. Was doing here was.
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