Told Congress earlier this year that it didn't discharge the loans of 40 percent of eligible borrowers but data an official provided to n.p.r. Show that over the past few years just 28 percent of people have successfully had their loans discharged or are on track for that to happen Claire Lombardo n.p.r. News Washington the White House has launched a program to give free age i v prevention medication to certain uninsured people as N.P.R.'s Selena Simmons deafen reports it's part of what the Trump administration says is its plan to end the age Ivy epidemic by 2030 the new program is called Ready Set prep prep stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis the drug maker Gilliatt donated enough prep to treat 200000 patients for free that's the number of people the government estimates are at high risk for HIV and don't have prescription drug coverage not having insurance is a big deal when it comes to this medicine the list price is $1800.00 a month prep is very effective and has few side effects but it's under used by people at risk for HIV for reasons that go beyond cost or lack of insurance including not knowing prep exists or fear of discrimination from a doctor Selena Simmons Duffin n.p.r. News you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. In the Philippines the strongest typhoon of the season has been downgraded to a tropical storm N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy reports from Manila it has moved out to sea typhoon Sawyer the 20th storm the season had made landfall 4 times on the Philippine archipelago and forced the evacuation of $125000.00 people the Pacific facing central islands took the brunt of the typhoon with homes destroyed roads flooded and trees uprooted with the storm blown out to sea conditions are improving across the islands remnants of the soil have left Manila scorching but breezy travel is still too risky at sea is specially for small vessels the typhoon stopped nearly half the events at the Southeast Asian Games being hosted by the Philippines but organizers say the region's biggest athletic meet will wrap up on schedule next Wednesday Julie McCarthy n.p.r. 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What is the constitutional standard for impeaching a president and what is and is what President Trump did with Ukraine the kind of offense that meets that standard that is the central question of today's impeachment inquiry hearing this time the House Judiciary Committee's in the lead and the witnesses are constitutional scholars this next phase was triggered after the House Intelligence Committee released its report yesterday the report claimed there is quote abundant evidence that shows Trump abuse the power of his office for his own personal benefit Here's committee chair Adam Schiff talking with Steve Inskeep yesterday I don't think there's any question that the uncontested facts show this president solicited a bribe so now that question moves to the House Judiciary Committee which will ultimately decide whether to bring articles of impeachment Bruce Ackerman is a constitutional law expert and a professor of law and political science at Yale University he was also the lead witness in the House impeachment hearing against President Clinton thank you so much for being with us this morning hello Rachel can you just talk to us about the significance of this moment I mean you testified before this very committee 21 years ago can you give us a sense of the meaning of the inquiry now moving to the House Judiciary Committee Yes I think it's terribly important to take 2 steps back from today's headlines and look forward. Because of the great question the great danger of this proceeding is. Whether. In 2021 or 2025 when the next president of the United States enters office we will be looking here and seeing that we have 2 narrow impeachment proceedings that have been done in the last 25 years within the memory of everyone or at least a large percentage of the population present speed and this one that's right in both cases. There was a natural blunder of serious consequence which was then covered up and constituted an impeachable offense for sure however in the when the next president comes into power and if he or she is confronting. An opposing party in the house or in the House and Senate they will search through that president's record and find evidence or assert the existence of a blunder in his or her 30 or 40 year career so I understand you're afraid of the president this might set for future impeachment using as a political tool but I have to say Democrats case is that this is not a narrowly defined blunder the House Intelligence Committee asserts that this is about the American democracy writ large that whole President Trump is not held accountable that this will undermine our system of checks and balances they are correct but rather than only focusing on a single issue. We have to recognize that President Trump's behavior is unprecedented in American history because from the crime that he committed in bribing Stormy Daniels to the violation of a 1st Amendment in declaring that Muslims from coming from majority Muslim countries cannot become. Eligible for American citizenship this is a fundamental violation of the 1st Amendment so you are using a day when she should be part of our Selene plea completely we should have because what we have here is not. A precedent of one serious blunder and it is of a criminal character. No question about that but. An assault on the entire foundations of the American Constitution. Notice this president has dramatic violation of international law ripped infants and young children from their parents and which will traumatize them for life these are fundamental serious offenses one after another you look at his tweets and you will find others what the House should do and of course there is the mother report which details another so you are arguing for a far broader belief in terms of any potential articles of impeachment if I could have a broad based articles of impeachment because then when ever it come point whatever the judgment is and it's I'm not going. Be in a crystal ball mode here whatever the judgment is then in. Then in that 2025 or 2029 when we have this easily predictable situation in which the house is a Polish the president could be a Democrat a Republican I haven't the slightest idea I am talking about the foundations of American Constitution we're not going to have another effort to say Aha Here is an. Very serious mistake that you made in your career and you cover it up and we're going to get you and we're going to have another. Year of his ish kind of struggle which will then lead to a further furthered Deeble realization and really a nation of the American people who's not a man I'm a shining I'm afraid we have to leave. Bruce Ackerman is a constitutional law expert and professor of law at Yale University we appreciated his time. World leaders are gathering at a un climate summit in Madrid this week to talk about how to reduce greenhouse emissions in the search for alternatives to fossil fuel some countries have now turned to one of the oldest energy sources around wood some are importing it from the United States calling it clean and renewable but some environmentalists say this makes no sense N.P.R.'s Dan Charles has a story. On a soggy field in eastern North Carolina Jason 2 and his crew of loggers are cutting trees and sorting the logs into piles depending on their size and what kind of wood they're popular sweet. There are some piles will go into plywood some will become puffy absorbent fiber in baby diapers and then there's the least valuable pile the small limbs and tops of hardwood trees it's basically a trash we would have normally have hauled that back out in the woods and just left it but now there's a new market for that would pellet nails they've expanded across the Southeast over the past decade they'll take this would crush it and pressed into little pellets ready for burning as fuel the landowners get them by we're getting some production is just an all around good deal most of these pallets millions of tons each year will get shipped to Europe where they're burned in power plants because some European governments are offering financial subsidies to burn these pellets instead of say coal it's supposed to help fight climate change here Seth Guenter executive director of the industry group that represents wood pellet companies the carbon benefits are tremendous burning wood also called biomass does release lots of carbon dioxide the greenhouse gas but the idea behind the subsidies is you can let forests grow back and as they do they'll recapture the carbon dioxide from the air and store it in their branches and roots again so it's considered renewable just like wind or solar the European Union literally just passed something known as the renewable energy directive too and biomass sustainable. Mass was unequivocally included as part of what can meet renewable energy goal but environmental groups are challenging that decision in court they say the idea that large scale wood burning is carbon neutral is based on bad math and to explain exactly why Adam Collette from the environmental group Dogwood Alliance takes me to another patch of land in North Carolina near the town of Williamstown I know it doesn't look like much but we're going to take a walk it's covered with bushes and little trees maybe 10 feet tall in the south we call it a briar patch. But yet on paper this is a forest 4 years ago it really was a forest with big trees then it was logged some of it went to make wood pellets so let's count up the carbon emissions accurately collect says when the big trees were cut they stopped capturing carbon dioxide from the air that benefit was lost at least temporarily and some of the carbon they'd previously stored was released into the air when the wood pellets were burned and as tree roots decomposed but you won't see any of that in the official calculations of greenhouse emissions he says none of it's ever been counted in any of our Like emissions counting in the us or in Europe that's because the forest eventually will grow back and recapture that lost carbon but it could take a century for that to happen. Now Seth Tkinter from the u.s. Industrial pellet Association says his industry should not be blamed for those carbon emissions because wood pellets are not the reason forests are cleared these are being harvested for. For paper and for other things what we're taking is is the byproduct of that in fact the independent forestry experts say that's not completely true their data shows that the wood pellet industry is competing for some of the same wood that might go for making paper or diapers and is pushing up prices for that would Adam Callet from Dogwood Alliance thinks it's persuading some small landowners to harvest their trees you have more knocks on those doors more telephone calls saying hey I'll give you x. Number of dollars for your trees what Collette wants is for officials to knock on those doors with a different message encouraging landowners to maintain far expand our forests are young they're degraded and what that means is that the potential to suck carbon out of the atmosphere of force in the us south is enormous those forests are some of the best climate solutions we have he says if they keep growing Dan Charles n.p.r. News. And this is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin with an exclusive now an n.p.r. Investigation into what's happening to hundreds of thousands of Americans with student loans and a significant permanent disability according to u.s. Federal law these borrowers are entitled to have their student loans erased but as N.P.R.'s Corey Turner and Claire Lombardo report that is often not happening Denise was driving through New York City when her car was rear ended by a large truck the impact ravaged her back and legs I've basically been in pain chronic pain every day Denise asked that we not use her full name to protect her privacy you know I went from work into an extra overtime all of to rhyme I was called the overtime queen live on going to doctors it's Denise used her loans to help pay for a degree in psychology but after the accident she had to stop working and defaulted but then on one of her many doctor's visits there overheard someone in the waiting room Tallon someone about this charge that you can have your student loan wavered John Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center says this person Denise overheard was right anybody who is totally and permanently disabled can have their student loan fully discharged the problem says Brooks is that the u.s. Department of Education doesn't do enough to make sure borrowers like Denise know this benefit exists according to data provided to n.p.r. By a department official 365000 borrowers likely qualify to have their student loans discharged because of a permanent disability that's more than enough people to fill a city the size of Pittsburgh and of those nearly a quarter of a 1000000 are already in default n.p.r. Has also found that the vast majority of eligible borrowers won't get the hope they're entitled to just like Denise Drew Lehman was badly injured in a car accident and had to stop working full time it was at a point where I couldn't. You know do anything I was having trouble just getting up walking Drew Lehman is 48 and married with 2 kids he had no idea he qualified for a discharge of his student loans until one day he was on the phone with somebody at the company that manages those loans I got the impression that he really wasn't supposed to tell me about it but felt sorry for me and told me about the options specifically that Lehman might qualify to have his debts erased people don't even know about us they don't find out about it nobody told you about it the department tried to fix this problem a few years ago it started identifying eligible borrowers and then mailed them letters telling them they qualified but it requires borrowers to apply for help it is an automatic and according to data provided by an Education Department official since this outreach began just over a 3rd of eligible borrowers have even applied and there's a lot of reasons why people don't respond to these notices Persis you works at the National Consumer Law Center and she says 1st of all the Department of Education has lots of outdated borrower information including wrong addresses so you just have an issue a question about whether or not borrowers are actually receiving these notices but even for borrowers who do receive them you says a lot of folks have disabilities that frankly prevent them from going through the process what's more tons of thousands of people who do apply to have their loans just charged and get approved still don't make it through that's because after borrowers get approved they still have to send in some pretty confusing paperwork verifying their income for 3 straight years investigators at the Government Accountability Office looked into this problem a few years back and they took issue with how these forms were written here's the team lead Alison bought and we found that they did not clearly inform borrowers that failure to return that form and state their income even if they had no income . Would result in their loans being reinstated the department has slowly been updating this language but it's easy to understand why many people still would not think that they'd need to verify their income if they're not earning any income the problem is not turning in that form means getting failed out of the program tens of thousands of people who are initially approved for that discharge have their loans reinstated in fact n.p.r. Has learned that 44000 borrowers who had been initially approved to have their loans erased got kicked out of the program largely because they didn't meet this extra paperwork requirement they're all back in debt not only that earlier this year the department told Congress and discharge the loans of 40 percent of eligible borrowers but new data obtained by n.p.r. From a department official show the real number is much lower over the past 3 years only 28 percent of eligible borrowers with disabilities have either had their loans or raced or are on track for that to happen I just don't understand why the Department of Education continues to fail to make good on this opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of Americans who already suffered enough that Senator Chris Coons a Delaware Democrat he's one of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who wrote to education secretary Betsy urging her to make this loan discharge for borrowers with disabilities automatic The Department of Education simply needs to match up Social Security numbers and full names and send a notice of discharge rather than making folks jump through another hoop and another layer bureaucratic red tape several experts we spoke with said the income verification requirement is one hoop that needs to go they said it doesn't prevent fraud like it was intended to it just makes things harder for borrowers like truly men I know the criminal I'm now the one that has to be treated like. I'm trying to defraud the system I've done everything I was supposed it's been years since the car accident that left Drew Lehman unable to work and now he and Denise and thousands of other borrowers like them are trying to make it through 3 years of income verification it is the last step in a long process that Lehman says has left him tired and frustrated the anxiety pressure and the burden that face families all because of something that wasn't like will for now women says he'll be watching the mail making sure he doesn't miss an important form that could once again leave him saddled with debt for n.p.r. News I'm Claire Lim Bardot and I'm Cory Turner. We want to know that n.p.r. News. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump and Ukraine is shifting to the Judiciary Committee this morning N.P.R.'s winter Johnston says the committee's 1st hearing will feature several law professors discussing the framework of impeachment a panel of legal scholars will examine the constitutional and historical grounds of what constitutes an impeachable offense The hearing comes as congressional Democrats continue to make their case that trumps a birded u.s. Foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermine national security in favor of 2 politically motivated investigations that would help his reelection campaign today's hearing comes a day after the House Intelligence Committee released a 300 page report to accuse ing the president of abusing his office White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says the report fails to produce any evidence of wrongdoing President Trump remains in London where NATO is celebrating its 70th birthday today's summit is being hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson he opened the event saying NATO members are rock solid in their commitment to the alliance despite their differences Johnson urged NATO to focus on emerging threats as it moves forward more flight delays and cancellations are being reported this morning in Boston and New York City that follows a storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow in parts of the Northeastern u.s. This is n.p.r. News from Washington. In Idaho a 16 year incumbent has lost Boise's may oral runoff election Madeline back with Boise State Public Radio says the mayor was defeated by an opponent critical of the city's fight against homeless encampments incumbent Dave better supported ticketing homeless people sleeping in public calling it a tool to prevent homeless camps 6 homeless or formerly homeless residents took the city to court over that calling it cruel and unusual punishment the city lost in the 9th Circuit Court and is appealing to the u.s. Supreme Court city council president Lauren McLean was critical of the city's stance saying efforts and money could be better spent helping the homeless and she got 65 percent of the vote making her the 1st female to be elected mayor in the city. That we can do what needs to be done to address housing. Like this McLean says she can't pull out of the homelessness case now but hopes to redirect energies towards prevention for n.p.r. 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Senator Camila Harris is out of the presidential race here she is in a video announcing her decision Tuesday to drop out of the Democratic primary our campaign uniquely spoke to the experiences of black women and people of color and their importance to the success and the future of this party our campaign demanded no one should be taken for granted by any political party we will keep up that I because no one should be made to fight alone Harris told her supporters she was withdrawing because her campaign just didn't have the money it needed to push forward the remaining field of top contenders is now mostly male and entirely white so what does Senator Harris's departure mean for a party banking on the votes of diverse voting blocs in 2020 Amy Allison is a founder of she the people at the coalition trying to increase voter turnout and political participation among women of color in particular Amy thank you so much for being with us thanks for having me so there was so much excitement right among Democrats about Camila Harris in the beginning what happened well I was there in Oakland and you know when I when I was right there by stage and looked around the 20000 you know very excited group of multiracial people cheering her on in Oakland California was like This is the sauce and this is the energy that we need and really it helped a lot of us had hope that her campaign would keep that early momentum I think there were 3 things One is that you know it's 3 times as hard to be a woman of color running I mean there's a system that is harsh and hold her to a higher standard based on race and gender but I ultimately think it was both fire and Bloomberg ultimately entrance in the race in the pressure that ensued that pushed her out here you know in December many people thought it was a little early. Leading the field Lester 1st Tom Styer and Mike Bloomberg both candidates with a really big war chest quite frankly I want to ask though about about how she was positioned in this field of candidates though because she she had a damaging back and forth on health care. As it relates to private insurance and whether she would or wouldn't get rid of it and then she also got heat from progressives for her history as a as a prosecutor was she just not liberal enough for liberals or moderate enough for moderates. Well it is a I think it's a fair criticism of her campaign that she was trying to find her footing behind her lane in a very crowded field I mean there's going to be a lot of people who Monday morning quarterback who talk about the mistakes of the campaign I think what's important is to recognize as a 3rd black woman to run for president did nation's history as a person race $40000000.00 and. Did better than say a Joe Biden did when he ran for president 1st couple of times I mean her her presence in the race helped blaze a trail for the next generation of women of color she did run a competitive campaign and she forced us all to really rethink about you know what it means to be electable and I think those are contributions whether or not her politics and her policies landed. At this moment I think that's the bigger issue Karen Finney a noted Democratic strategist said yesterday on n.p.r. And I'm going to paraphrase here but basically we all want to be inspired we want to win I think in this instance she says a lot of calculations that voters have made in terms of why certain candidates are gaining support there's almost a feeling that voters don't want to take too big of a chance what do you make of that was her no I think that's still part of the myth of electability you know people said the same thing about Barack Obama until 2007 I think what's more important for us to realize is that come with terrorists and myself black women are part of the group of voters there are absolutely necessary for the Democrats to win anyone any candidate who wants to get through the primary and the White House so the candidates in the campaigns in the party have to engage in appeal to black women black voters and voters of color. Kamel Harris was doing her best to win over that group of voters and I think ultimately that's what's going to determine and you know the results of the election All right Amy Allison founder of she the people we appreciate your time thank you thank you. Our next story takes us inside Iran prisons a u.s. Resident is one of several foreign nationals who were imprisoned there and are now telling their stories in Washington here's N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen before he was released this past June is our Zaka spent 4 years behind bars in Iran describing the jail as a mini United Nations because they were detainees from all over the world this is definitely an industry that they are doing good fulfill to use they have been very successful and in fact they are winning this game because I was doing it again and again and again and say nor come to believe to whatsoever Zaka Lebanese national and u.s. President says every country tries to deal with these cases separately he was released as a gesture of goodwill to Lebanon others have been released in prisoner swaps but he argues it would be better for countries to work together to confront the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps it's a state their lives in Municipal Waste form from the minute they take you. They deal with you as a hostage Zaka we're speaking in a Washington d.c. Law office along with family members of other foreign nationals currently being held in Iran among them American Babak now mozzie who's advocating for the release of his brother and his father now he says it's been difficult to communicate recently because of protests in Iran it's been difficult for anyone to have any communications with the Internet being disconnected telephones have always been challenging I have had not been able to have as many contacts with my brother there there's more overcrowding obviously is already very overcrowded and there are more and more people being brought in Richard Radcliff is also hearing about overcrowded prisons from his wife and as a nina a British Iranian charity worker jailed 3 and a half years ago for all of the women who witness name in the sounds deeply worried as to where Iran is generated and and what that means and looking to the outside world to care and to watch and to report Radcliffe argues that the international community should hold Iran to account for the way it's cracking down on protesters and should not lose sight of the cases against dual nationals like his wife there should be a real clear cost to hostage taking it should be an anathema in the modern world Radcliffe is calling for targeted sanctions and other ways to raise the cost on Iran Sara Levinson Moriarity the daughter of a former f.b.i. Agent Bob Levinson says her family will be in a d.c. Court this week to sue Iran big portion of our lawsuit is punitive damages because we want to discourage them from doing this practice to anyone else it's reflect what they've done to my father in a recent filing to the United Nations Iran acknowledged that it has an open court case involving Levinson who disappeared in 2007 Moriarity says that means Iran knows more about her father than officials claim Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department. This is n.p.r. News. After Walsh is. Shaking she was going through a lot of exciting editor for the c.p.r. News series teens under stress for giving teens the opportunity to tell us about their problems in their own words we're also interested in your experience with a For me I once sat down to take a calculus test and immediately forgot everything I knew Tell us your story text. 255-5888 sponsoring c.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin the Houston Astros won the World Series back in 2017 and have won over 100 games each of the past 3 years but now Major League Baseball has taken a hard look at the Astros success in particular recent claims of sign stealing commentator Mike Pesca weighs in baseball is a game of action and reaction but there is a major exception where for knowledge not instinct is important in fact it happens on every play the catcher must know what kind of pitch he has to receive if the catcher is set up for a slow loping curve but instead the pitcher delivers a 99 mile an hour fastball all hell and possibly a bone or 2 could break loose this is why catchers put down a finger or 2 to indicate a fastball or curveball literally one for fastball and 2 for curve is the universal sign the exception to this storied study and semiotics is when there is an opposing player on 2nd base then the catcher will flash in a rate of digits in a sequence known only to the pitcher so as to secretly communicate the clandestine nature of the communication is important otherwise an opposing player on 2nd base could steal a sign and signal it back to the hitter now so far everything I've described might seem furtive and opaque if you're not familiar with the dark arts of baseball signs but as obvious as the nose on Yogi Berra's face if you are there's nothing underhanded about signs stealing signs or signaling stolen signs in fact it's what players would describe as part of the game but what the Astros are credibly alleged to have done is not part of the game nor should it be as reported by former players and confirmed by an analysis of game film the Astros' used powerful cameras to electronically monitor the catcher signals and then to alert batters by the decidedly non high tech tactic of loudly banging a trash can no banging the pitcher was coming with a for. Last fall bang bang bang that would be a breaking ball might want to lay off and statistics indicate the Astros did benefit at least a bit so what to do that's a question being hotly discussed and the answers usually deal in punishing the team with fines or revocation of future draft picks but my answer to what to do is more about how to correct the problem my solution is to simply allow the pitcher and catcher to communicate via a microphone and headset the n.f.l. Does it the idea of computerized umpires calling balls and strikes has gained widespread credence indorsed even by prominent players this year 2 minor leagues will experiment with Track Man radar technology calling balls and strikes during the game to have a robot empire at the same time you have a catcher flashing his fingers would be like having in advance the guided missile system triggered vs Semma for baseball is a traditional game resistant to change but other than resistance to change there is no reason to oppose having the catcher or even a bench coach dictate the pitch selection which is a necessary bit of information for the very safety of the players this will also eliminate those mound visits where the catcher goes over the signals with a confused picture these in game finger waggle refresher sessions are a big time waster the bane of baseball is popular entertainment while this change won't rehabilitate the Astros' image it will eliminate a potential source of should be for others she have time off the game and embrace the realities of innovation best of all I made the proposal without ever proclaiming Houston we have a solution. 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Position at Google's parent company alphabet I mean to the famed founders of the whole enterprise Larry Page and Sergey Brin will step down later this month we were talking to our newsroom partners at the b.b.c. This morning and they had the idea of reporting this out of Mr Pichai his hometown Here's reporters who are in jhana to worry in Mumbai India for many in India cinder Pichai embodies the modern American dream born and raised in the southern Indian state of them will not do he went on to study engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology one of the country's most respected universities He then moved to the United States to study at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Google in 2004 in his 15 years a Google send their pitch I rose up the ranks and became known for his engineering talents and his general likeability he's widely credited with developing Google Chrome as well as Android systems and generally growing the business in terms of hardware and cloud computing and while it's a proud moment for Indians being a powerful c.e.o. Of one of the world's biggest technology companies is not all that it seems these days companies like Google are facing mounting scrutiny from regulators and politicians over data previously and political interference government. On 5 continents are demanding better safeguards and then to what some say is anti competitive conduct and more taxes on advertising in Mumbai I'm surrounded at their worry for Marketplace the oil producers cartel OPEC meets in Vienna tomorrow joined by Russia on Friday this OPEC plus bunch as agreed to squeeze supply to keep prices up but is Marketplace's Scott Tong reports there are a lot of moving parts here too much oil with nowhere to go that's the problem facing the so-called OPEC plus group for almost 3 years it has agreed to pump less oil cut supply and bring prices up Allison cut right of the rapid and energy group believes attendees will extend the cuts they've already agreed to to balance out a global surge in crude supply there's a huge amount of supply coming on from Norway Brazil there's new production coming on from Guyana not to mention the u.s. But many analysts think just extending the cuts won't be enough to firm up prices since World demand is soft says Christopher page at risk at energy China used to be growing and a very very fast rate but because of a trade war all demand is not growing as fast then there's Europe where he says demand is shrinking because of slow and vehicle sales unless the OPEC plus group makes deeper cuts he thinks oil prices will plunge more than 30 percent next year and that translates to us gas prices falling from an average to 60 a gallon to under 2 I'm Scott Tong for Marketplace United Airlines has ordered 50 Air Bus Jets Airbus of Leiden in the Netherlands gets the business over Boeing of Chicago in Illinois the new United planes long range with just one aisle will replace Boeing $757.00 Zwilling is still dealing with its grounded $737.00 Max jets with fading chances that these will get back into the air in what remains of this year. 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Last year Americans took nearly 10000000000 rides on public transportation in Missouri transit officials have proposed making all public buses free for Kansas City residents as Lisa Rodrigo's reports the city council is expected to vote on this tomorrow bus fares in Kansas City cost of $1.50 per trip and Michael Mumford says he writes at least once a day he estimates eliminating bus fares could save him up to a $1000.00 a year if you have me out a lot if you can change. Mumford works but he also takes the bus to classes at a local community college he says some of that extra change could go to school some scuba Yeah about books with Robbie makan in the head of the Kansas City area Transportation Authority came up with the idea he says a $1.50 fare would go much further to boost the economy outside the farebox it's going to go right back into the local economy buying a pair of tennis shoes buying some bread buying whatever generating sales tax which we get a piece of and who are makin says going fer free across the entire system will cost about $12000000.00 He's asked the city to find 8000000 to get rolling Kansas City mayor Quentin Lucas is on board it really opens up more of Kansas City and. In a place like this where we are spread out we're far flung I think frankly it is a vital importance for us that we do something like this but Kansas City Councilwoman Katherine Shields who chairs the city's Finance Committee says $8000000.00 for free buses means $8000000.00 less for other services because I know there's not $35000000.00 or $8000000.00 sitting around part of what makes this complicated is that the bus system serves the entire metro area which is split across 7 counties in 2 states the only city proposing to go 0 fer is Kansas City Missouri So Josh powers who oversees transit services in suburban Kansas says someone may ride free in parts of the metro area but not in others and we've done a lot of work to make sure that our fares are the same across the region to make sure that our branding is the same across the region transit officials estimate about 20 percent of bus riders across the metro area already ride for free that includes veterans as well as students in Kansas City public schools in Kansas City I'm Lisa Rodriguez from Marketplace and there's word a drug company Gilliard Sciences has made good on a promise to donate medicines so that 200000 uninsured Americans can get HIV preventative drugs for free pharmacy chains are also helping out in a program coordinated by the federal government free prep pre-exposure prophylaxis will be available by prescription for people who don't have Medicaid veterans benefits or other insurance and currently test HIV negative You're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report from a.p.m. American Public Media. 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