Democratic sources said the matter involves allegations made by a California woman about conduct that allegedly took place while the woman and Cavanagh were in high school Feinstein said the woman strongly requested confidentiality declined to come forward or press the matter further the matter what might have ended there the sources said but with details leaking and Democrats worried that they would be accused of a cover up Feinstein decided to refer the allegations to the f.b.i. Republicans pointed out that Cavanagh has repeatedly been cleared by the f.b.i. Over his 25 years in public service most recently prior to his Supreme Court nomination Nina Totenberg n.p.r. 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News in New York I'm Fred Mogul federal authorities will investigate 3 communities north of Boston today to find out what caused yesterday's devastating explosions a suspected gas leak triggered dozens of blasts and house fires one person has been killed 10 people are injured and thousands of others are displaced You're listening to n.p.r. News. President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul man a Ford may be close to a guilty plea this would avoid his trial later this month in Washington d.c. On conspiracy and money laundering charges it's not clear if he'll cooperate with prosecutors working with special counsel Robert Muller or help them build a case against anyone else metaphor was convicted on 8 other felony counts last month in Virginia he faces between 8 and 10 years in prison former President Barack Obama continued his campaigning for Democrats in midterm elections with a visit to Cleveland on Thursday night N.P.R.'s Don Gonyea says his focus was voter turnout Obama has been defending his administration's record on the economy and other areas while at the same time going on the attack against President Trump like this from last night in Cleveland I don't know when we began to fill a break bullies instead of looking out for people who care problems with the weather that happen Obama said the best check and balance people have against the current administration is to vote indifference he said is the biggest enemy to democracy he was speaking at an event for Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray who's in a tight race against Republican Mike De Wine Don Gonyea n.p.r. 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Well we rescued over 100 people in New Bern North Carolina people in Jacksonville North Carolina had to be rescued from a hotel there are still people in New Bern who need to be rescued and we know that this is going to be a long haul for our state Florence is an uninvited brute who doesn't want to leave and we know that this is going to be a tough couple of days with the rain with the storm surge with the flooding that we know will occur in low lying areas we've got almost 20000 people in 157 shelters and the number of shelters may increase we have close to 400000 people without power right now that will increase and we know we're in for a long haul here but I think we're ready Well let's talk about New Bern and Jacksonville North Carolina I'm just looking at a map they both appear to be north and east of where the eye of the hurricane is landing which means they're getting the worst of the winds they're getting water blown inland Jacksonville is near Camp Le June I guess the u.s. Military base but it is these inland towns somewhat inland towns are flooding why because the rivers near them in the in the estuaries near them are flooding yet these rivers. But their discharge their water into the ocean this ocean surge is pushing back. At those rivers and there's nowhere for the water to go on top of that we're having to ritual rain falls with that could be historic could be in some areas measured measured in feet instead of inches and flash flooding on top of that and we think that the flooding issues will continue to increase because the rain is going to keep coming down and this storm surge will back the river up so we've spent the last week telling people to evacuate now where we're working very hard to save lives that is the number one mission right now and then of course after the storm leaves we will be in for working for recovery repair and long term efforts to get people back on their feet again are you getting what you need from the federal government right now we are we're working closely with our Fema partners they have brought down significant supplies and equipment they are in bedded in our emergency response operations but of course hurricane recovery is a long term process it can it can take months and years for communities to recover and we know that will be very expensive and loquat will require a significant investment and that is why it's going to be so important for us to get the federal help that we need because you know when you have these kinds of hurricanes and particularly with flooding the people who can afford it the least get it the most and these are people who are in dire need of help these are a lot of people who don't have adequate health care which they should have live in difficult. Places where a tragedy like this puts a light on the need for affordable housing and we've been working on that significantly for the last couple of years and this just shows us that it's a problem not only in the areas where there is flooding but it's a problem across our state and our country for that matter Governor you noted that a lot of the flooding may come from rainfall which makes this next point relevant to the Charlotte Observer in your state had an editorial yesterday saying that cities are more vulnerable to flooding in part because a sustained rush of development has increased land surface impervious to water meaning parking lots buildings that sort of thing are we building ourselves into worst disasters. We have to be smarter about our planning for building we have to understand what climate change is doing to our coast and to our rivers and we have to take all of that into account as we plan for the future and right now we're worried about the storm and getting people to safety and making sure they recover but those items have to be addressed in our long term recovery process and Jim And just in general across our state in our country Roy Cooper is the governor of North Carolina Governor thanks very much thanks very much we're going to go now to one community that has been under a mandatory evacuation order since Tuesday it's the town of New Bern North Carolina a city of about 30000 residents and as the storm surge in the rivers there have overflowed and swept into the town thousands are waiting for evacuation and early this morning the Twitter account for the city tweeted out the following quote We have 2 out of state Fema teams here for swift water rescue more are on the way to help us we are coming to get you in all caps it said Sarah see Davis was born and raised in New Bern she is still there now she is not evacuated and she joins us on the line Sara what's the situation what are you seeing right now we had pretty high flood water up until the early morning hours and I'm not sure if it's a shifting winds or low tide but the water has already been asleep disappeared so my little neighborhood breathing a sigh of relief you say that your neighborhood is breathing a sigh of relief because the floodwaters have receded but it's the risk isn't over yet right right yes so nasty tides and things we are I guess going to deal with it as it comes I understand reading posts. That there were people on houses rooftops and think in other neighborhoods as far as I can tell here in Riverside it has not been that bad but again I'm speaking broadly at I don't know for everyone to have a game plan if if the water does start to rise Yeah it would go up stairs you know big tall old houses and even into the attic it doesn't hurt that our property is the highest in the neighborhood so I think that gives us a bit of a sigh of relief but. I think we're going to stay put right so you know that when people disregard mandatory evacuation orders it means that 1st responders often have to show up to get those people out of the situation has that gone into your calculus little. So originally not. People that I spoke to that were deciding to stay. Understood that you know fire rescue and that sort of thing would not be dispatched that was sort of the understanding that we were all willing to take. So we have all learned things but that if things get really bad fire rescue 1st responders are going to have to risk their own lives to come save yours. Right and I don't I mean we did not think of that. I don't think a lot of us. I think we are understanding that bus saying we would not be able to call on wanted it was a fire in the kitchen or something I mean they honestly Riverside is not even lost power during hurricanes so. In saying that we felt comfortable it is this has always been a very safe and high Baber Hood and so I think that's what went through everyone's mind when we decided to say service to Davis she lives in New Bern North Carolina and she is hunkering down waiting out the storm in her home thank you so much for talking with us Sarah stay safe Sure thanks so much Some choose to stay in the storm while others have no choice like those in South Carolina prisons at least 2 detention facilities in South Carolina that fell within government mandated evacuation zones did not relocate their inmates Governor Henry McMaster said So this week reporter Daniel Gross is covering the story for The New Yorker is on the line good morning good morning Ok why not evacuated for Ginia and North Carolina did for their president I spoke yesterday to the director of the prison system in South Carolina and he described it as a problem of having to play hopscotch she was concerned that if he was to evacuate one of his presence they would have a caravan of buses driving down congested highways and not necessarily knowing where to go in a very overcrowded prison system Oh you don't have a lot of extra cells inland I guess that's what he told me now with that said I mean you don't want the prisoners to drown these facilities do they appear to be like on high ground are they safe. I've spoken to 2 people who are currently in the South Carolina prison system that they spoke to me through contraband cell phones and independently they both described incidents on the bottom floor of a prison that did flood in past storms and so they had a real fear that the water would rise inside their cells and then one of them described the water reaching his ankles before a correctional officer let him out of that cell that was an account that the the director of the prison system disputed do authorities have a plan for flooding in a prison that they chose not to evacuate authorities told me they did have a plan they said that they had supplies for 10 days they had generators and pumps they also posted on Twitter a photograph of 30000 sandbags that prisoners had been forced to fill but I'm still hearing a lot of fear and a sense of powerlessness from the folks who are inside these prisons I would imagine somebody listening to this is fearing something else the possibility that if you started moving hundreds of prisoners at a time say that you might have an escape or a lot of escapes when there have been this kind these kinds of evacuations in the past have people escaped I haven't heard of that happening that is the concern that was raised by the director of the prisons but I'm hearing activists question that claim saying that it that it could have been an issue of money or understaffing and not really an issue of public safety very briefly how many prisoners now are we talking about here in these facilities I would say thousands have the potential to be directly affected in the in the high hundreds really within the path of the storm Daniel Gross of the New Yorker thanks very much thank you It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep the day Lehman Brothers closed scot free time was a top executive there he's had 10 years to think over what went wrong the closing of Lehman raised the possibility that the financial crisis could become an economic collapse for a time as mentally replayed the months beforehand like the day that he and other executives asked him Geithner then a top official at the Federal Reserve to change the form of the bank in a way that would give it more federal protection we believe that that was the right message for the marketplace on that phone call he said no it will send the wrong message as we all know what he denied us was precisely what he prescribed and executed for Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs One week after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and it was the right thing to do to save the financial services industry so why were you told before the collapse of Lehman that it was not possible for the federal government to do what you asked never did the Fed or politicians say that they could not and I think it's pretty clear well and in terms of the law in terms of technical considerations they could have supported you but was there a political consideration that made it impossible well on a couple things you said that legally they could have Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner have stated several times that they were legally precluded Now I'm not particularly in that camp but to the point that you just read about politics I have enormous respect for their talent the sense of urgency that they had and that they had no other choice as Timothy Geithner said before the weekend started before the competitor started pouring through Lehman's books he said there is no political will in Washington for support there will be no government money do you think that bankers are so on pot. Because it a sense you earned it I once they earned it meaning Well here's what I mean the average person the average person may well feel like they're getting even when there's not a financial crisis feel like they're getting shafted by the bank and there's some truth to it that for decades now people in the middle or on the lower part of the economic spectrum are not making any more money and they see that people in financial services are making more and more the people who make the rules of the game somehow seem to be getting a larger and larger share I think unquestionably there is a stratification of wealthy and not and that contributes to the lack of popularity so I think there are pros and cons of where we are today with a lot of progress but yes I understand that there is that dynamic absolutely you've laid out why you think the Fed made a mistake with Lehman why you think that a different course might have fled to let's say a less disastrous situation. What was Lehman's responsibility by which I mean a How was it that your company specifically got into the mess it was in the industry was over lever and all of us had risk management tools that simulated every crisis going back 50 years but as an industry we didn't take it far enough and Lehman was one of those and since we were the 2nd smallest once Bear Stearns was gone we were the focus of the world and having been one of those participants we bear the shadow of that cloud for the rest of our lives scott free time thanks very much thank you very much. It's time now for Story Corps And today we remember a man who was killed in one of the country's 1st crime or just after September 11th just a few days after the attacks Paul beer sings so was outside the gas station he owned in Mesa Arizona while beer was Sikh and wore turban a man assumed he was Muslim and shot and killed him in retaliation for $911.00 at Story Corps his brother's Ronna and hard Jeet sat down to remember him when we came here in the United States he friend very quick I remember when. Me reopened the gas station I saw you give the free candies to children freed pinks and some people didn't have enough money said tomorrow he's kind of a special person. When 111 happened bulb you called me and told me Turn on the t because our country get attacked. My blood but immediately they start showing the bin Laden picture and the t.v. And people saw only a turban and beard people he yelled to us and using f. Word and asking to go back to your country in after that even our neighborhood people start talking you know you guys need to very careful people can you tick you off but I think this is part of my religion I can't take off my turban after 911 a lot of hate crime murder happened in Verbier was the 1st on September 15th believe it was outside working with a landscaper to give them direction where they can plant flowers and somebody short will be he fired 6 shot and 5 hit my brother somebody took my best but from my best brother in his funeral people come from all over the world and you know that make you feel better specially when you immigrant and you feel like you you know you're not alone the person who killed my brother I talked to him in 2016 and he said that if you die and go to the god only thing he want to do is see my brother and sister Ari to him you know believes death teaches love and peace and I decided this is my mission of my life. That was so sad but I have to fit his memory and I put out of my brother. That's r.g. To Enron a sody in Mesa Arizona remembering their brother Balbir Singh Sodhi It was murdered after $911.00 the shooter is currently serving a life sentence This Story Corps interview will be archived at the Library of Congress major support for Story Corps comes from Subaru featuring the outback with standard symmetrical all wheel drive and standard Subaru Starlink multimedia with apple cart play and Android Auto integration keeps drivers connected more at Subaru dot com. And from Cancer Treatment Centers of America 5000 dedicated stakeholders are committed to delivering care that inspires stories of healing and hope for cancer patients every day more of Cancer Center dot com This is n.p.r. News 10 years after the financial meltdown We'll talk with a man who had a front row seat to the image that just resounds for me is just bankers and their suits and ties walking out of the building with their boxes of files and personal belongings and that really that fear of what's next I'm Ari Shapiro how the financial crisis of 2008 still resonates today plus the latest on Hurricane Florence Safdar noon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. This. Is all yes Friday and support comes from your membership thank you and from the Aspen Institute presenting the Murdoch Mind Body and Spirit series improving the peas the making work better featuring Adam Graham organizational psychologist Ted podcast host and author of originals given take an option be on September 20th from 530 to 6 30 pm tickets at Aspen show t r x dot com. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly water rescues are ongoing this morning in parts of North Carolina where Hurricane Florence has come ashore it made landfall near Wrightsville Beach not far from Wilmington as a Category one storm in New Bern north of Wilmington more than 100 people have been rescued from their homes some from rooftops because of heavy rains and storm search Jean Hodges is the assistant manager of Craven County and the whole idea of managed wanted out your way someone that if you do decide to stay we can't promise you that we will be able to respond to you sorry we tried to make that abundantly clear and we're trying our best to help as many people as we can more than one of the half 1000000 people were told to evacuate ahead of Florence in the Carolinas and Virginia in Massachusetts investigators are trying to learn what caused dozens of natural gas explosions and fires in 3 communities north of Boston they left one person dead and at least 10 others injured Greg Le Molt with member station w. G.b.h. Reports firefighters put out fires across the towns of Andover north and over in Lawrence people were injured and an 18 year old was killed when a chimney fell on his car after a nearby house exploded the gas company and 1st responders are now checking thousands of homes to make sure they're safe and federal agents have begun investigating what went wrong many homes were evacuated overnight this is n.p.r. News from Washington. Crews battling wildfires in the Western u.s. Say cooler damp weather is helping them to contain the flames Brian Bull with member station calle c.c. Reports from Eugene Oregon for much of the summer exceptionally hot and dry conditions made fighting fires challenging Eric wise as a fire weather meteorologist for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center he adds that the intensity of the fires were near record levels across the region but now Weiss says new weather patterns are helping firefighters some scattered showers and a little bit of invented thunderstorm activity even those areas that aren't getting the rain they are getting not much moisture Marine air mass moving in tamping down the fire behavior increase moisture is helping control fires that were barely contained in August as are overnight lows in the forty's and fifty's for n.p.r. News I'm Brian Bull in Eugene Oregon large wildfires continue burning in a dozen states in the West including Oregon California Washington Montana and Idaho California Governor Jerry Brown has signed 16 bills designed to tackle global warming they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state especially from cars trucks S.U.V.s and busses The measure also encourages residents to buy 0 emissions vehicles the governor signed the bills at a summit in San Francisco retail sales in the u.s. Rose last month that's according to the Commerce Department I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News and Washington. Yes. It's 633 this is Katie and Kay and Comet dawn's early life. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin federal officials are trying to figure out what caused a series of fiery explosions in 3 towns north of Boston yesterday evening officials responded to at least 70 house fires explosions or reports of gas odors around the towns of Lawrence and over and north and over here is Lawrence mayor Dan Rivera late last night be patient and still come back to all that so we ask you to come back to those who want to situation when you come back when you do there's no threat to yourself or your loved ones we're not sure that that's going to be anytime soon one person died in these explosions at least 10 have been injured crews from Columbia gas utility are updating natural gas lines when the explosions happened and officials urged customers in the area to evacuate Fred Tyson of member station in Boston is covering the story and joins us now Fred I understand you were out there last night what was the what was the situation I was Rachel I was up in the city of Lawrence that is about an hour north of Boston with no traffic it's a city of about 80000 people a largely Latino community Spanish is the main language you hear on the streets there and the power was cut all over the city police were in intersections to direct traffic and people were standing in front of their homes I was at the command center in a parking lot of an old strip mall and there was just gridlock with all the emergency vehicles that were staging out of there they were they had come from all over eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire any idea how many homes are buildings were damaged the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency says $60.00 to $80.00 structure fires in the city of Lawrence and in the towns of and over and north and over and they say there were 3 explosions so I mentioned in the intro that the Columbia gas utility was updating natural gas lines when these mics. Motions happened did is there a causal link there do we know that's what they really don't know for sure it. Does remain unclear exactly what caused these blasts Columbia gas has not said what went wrong the state fire marshal's office has said that the fires followed a high pressure gas mean explosion and state emergency management officials said that possible gas line over pressurization could be the source of the explosions federal investigators as you pointed out are taking the lead now those are from 2 agencies in the pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration in the National Transportation Safety Board we mentioned that people were encouraged to evacuate have you been able to talk to anybody who lives in those areas so I was at this command center in Lawrence and so was unable to talk to anybody but my colleague Quincy Walters did talk to some folks in North Andover he was at a high school shelter there and he you know they were telling him that they really just had nowhere else to go because when you evacuated an entire town you can't stay with your friends right or your family right and so folks were were staying in the shelter Ok Well we will keep following it to investigators trying to figure out what caused the series of explosions that happened in 3 towns north of Boston we've been talking with Fred Tice of member station. In Boston who's been covering it Fred thanks so much we appreciate it glad to do it Rachel. Former President Barack Obama spoke last night in Ohio where Democrats hope to take back the governorship the former president has been defending his record and questioning that of his successor N.P.R.'s Don Gonyea reports from Cleveland this was an Ohio rally for Ohio candidates for governor and lieutenant governor for u.s. Senate and right on down the ticket even so there was that moment just after 8 pm when the vibe in the high school gymnasium very 2000. That song by You Tube was candidate Obama's entrance music back then it played again last night Obama shaking hands on stage he then turned to the Cleveland audience I'll tell you what. Baseball teams let them go it Obama talking sports is nothing new but even that fleeting moment underscores the contrast with President Trump whose approach to sports has included frequent attacks on athletes from protesting n.f.l. Players to Le Bron James in Cleveland the crowd heard a former president defend his own record and play off hands I don't know what happened to our culture where some Sometimes we think that if you're a kind person a pup a person then you must not be a tough person. I don't know when we began to celebrate bullies instead of looking up for people who care for all the people who when did that happen. When the that have and while Obama covered a wide range of topics he kept circling back to one thing the need to vote when you vote. You've got the power to make sure our voting rights are protected and our criminal justice system treats everybody equally under the law and this one about indifference the biggest threat to our democracy. Is where you just turn away from politics and you stay home on election day even the location of this rally in a neighborhood east of downtown sent a message that African-American voters are a critical part of the Democratic base and turnout here could be the difference in the tight governor's race between Democrat Richard Cordray and Republican Mike De Wine and given up. For the next governor of the great state of Ohio home right. Afterwards people filed out 34 year old government worker Donald Forrest said he took the message to heart you just need to get up and go health care worker Kimberly Don low had her 9 year old grandson with there she always votes but says she'll also be volunteers to get here to the still fat. And quick motivational speaker I'm ready I'm ready to. Now Ohio Democrats look to leverage what Obama did for them last night to try to make sure its impact extends through to Election Day Don Gonyea n.p.r. News Cleveland. You know it's amazing to think Don Gonyea came to n.p.r. News to cover politics beginning in the 2000 campaign this man is seen in the 21st century unfold through politics and you hear him here on Morning Edition which is on your public radio station remember that you can follow us on social media what you're with your Twitter praise you can buy me at Rachel n.p.r. David is odds n.p.r. Greene and Noel is yeah and I'm n.p.r. Inskeep Now later today on All Things Considered we go to Cape Town South Africa where residents cut their water consumption by half to keep from running out you can listen by tuning in to your public radio station or telling your smarts begin to play n.p.r. . And speaking of water it is time for your Kadian a local newscast for this Friday morning September 14th I'm Steve Cole from the heart of common deals created district surface water storage and rude turquoise and Twin Lakes reservoir as low and dropping. As water demand remains high for municipalities agriculture industry and non-human environment the Roaring Fork Conservancy reports that warm dry and windy weather is worsening dry conditions causing more water to be lost through evaporation and plant needs more on the current state of water in Colorado coming up in just a couple minutes during our local newscast here a federal court in Denver dismissed a legal challenge against the Bureau of Land Management's 2016 Thomas Thomson divide lease cancellations Kadian case any hadn't Marsh as more these particular leases are gone for good that's Peter Hart attorney for carbon deals wilderness workshop he told Katie and Kay that a recent lawsuit was dismissed by a district court judge in Denver with prejudice meaning that the energy company can never sue for those leases again the energy company in question is s.g. Interests which lost 18 leases on the Thompson divide in 2016 when the Bureau of Land Management decided to cancel them Ursa resources lost 7 leases but did not file suit Hart says the area is protected against future leasing but not forever the area where these leases were located has been closed to future leasing for the duration of the way or a national forest or in gas leasing land rights is likely to be about 20 years Hart says lease is still exist on the Thompson divide including Huntsman's Ridge the headwaters of Divide Creek in s.g. Interest sub leases 410000 acres under the Wolf Creek storage field you know this administration is eager to lease new land so there's a threat that new leasing will occur in those parts of the divide that have been closed to future leasing and they're also working to sort of expedite approval of development plans and drilling and we are now sort of ramping up our campaign to protect those really special spot the district court September 4th ruling ins a years long. Battle to protect the heart of the Thompson divide that brought disparate community groups together Hart says the ultimate goal of the Thompson divide coalition is to permanently protect all 220000 acres which is still unresolved you know in 2017 Senator Bennet introduced the most recent version of the Thompson divide which ran Protection Act It's a bill that we support and you know a lot of folks in the community certainly support it's one that we need to continue to build support for we want to see it passed he adds that the community should celebrate the recent District Court decision but the fight to save the Thomson divide is not over for Katie and Kay News I'm Amy had Marsh water officials statewide are worried about what is now an 18 year drought wrecking havoc on water supply and water use along the Colorado River for this week's news brief Katie in case Amy had Mara spoke with brown gardens Gardiner Smith editor of Aspen journalism about demand management and more from August water meetings in Vail. Frank Gardner Smith editor and executive director of Aspen journalism thanks for joining you know you welcome to News Brief you wrote a story late last month Colorado water officials stepping up demand management efforts this is based on a big water meeting in Vail water meeting meaning water officials from across the state what was the upshot of that meeting the upshot of the meeting is that officials are really concerned that Lake Powell is dropping so far that it's going to mean that Glen Canyon Dam can't produce electricity and can't release enough water to meet the state's downstream obligations which if that happens it means a Compaq call could occur which means that anyone with a water right later than $122.00 could be asked to turn off their water right. Stop diverting that subject has been bandied about in the media for at least a decade and what's different about this discussion than previous ones the fear of a compact call coming up the Colorado River is the biggest bogeyman in Colorado water and now it looks like the bogeyman is on a slow moving train and he's common so to use a Game of Thrones metaphor winter is here. Is that it's yes it's suddenly you know what what used to seem like a far off distant but scary proposition now looks like a still scary but closer proposition how close if we have the same kind of summer next year that we had this year very close and the same kind of winter we had last year yes reading your article reading the 1st you know 4 paragraphs the thought came to mind what does it take for all of us to understand and accept that we need to change the way we use water I mean. Officials seem to be hedging and you know we have to be careful about what we say and how we say it who we say it to and I'm concerned that if this hedging continues to go on water users won't change their use patterns I mean what are your thoughts about that well I think in a broad picture probably all of us can find ways to use less water but what the water managers in the state are really focusing on is agriculture and irrigation because that uses the most water in the state you know percent right yeah talk about demand management the seem to be a big part of those meetings demand management is another for a classic euphemism in the water world they're trying to figure out a way cannery reduce demand on the system can we get people to use less water can we incentivize people not to irrigate as heavily as they currently are which comes down to can we get people to grow fewer crops. Now it sounds kind of easy in a way but if you're an irrigator or if you're an agriculturalist or you're growing alfalfa year to year it's hard to stop doing that because it changes the income stream to your farm potentially and the alfalfa may not come back in the same way after you stop watering it so what they're trying to do with irrigators so how can we make it worth your while to do that can we give you enough money and do it in a way that doesn't jeopardize your water right doesn't destroy your ranch doesn't bum you out on a day to day basis but is actually good for your farm operation can you use water as another crop so rather than selling alfalfa can you sell your water on a temporary basis where does that money come from that's another good question no one's really sure just yet maybe it comes from private philanthropy Maybe it comes from the state maybe we pass a tax that gives the state a pool of money to work from to the benefit of all of us maybe it comes from a front range municipality known as really sure yet you said there's another way to look at this what is that as a neighborhood say we have a big bucket of water at the end of our street that we all use and depend on the water in that big bucket is dropping to the point where we may not be able to pen on it anymore so we all may have to change the uses in our neighborhood to keep that big bucket of water full. That's demand example. It's pretty simple That's demand and we might get paid to use less water to keep that bucket full and if we don't get paid to keep that bucket full then someone's going to come turn off some of our water Well Brant Gardiner Smith editor executive director of Aspen journalism thank you for the water Listen I feel like a water preacher but I'm in over my head. That does it for this week's news brief on Kadian came Amy had Marsh thank you Gibbs you can find Brant Gardner Smith's work at Aspen Journalism dot org It's all about the Benjamins support for Katie and Kay comes from Big Horn Toyota family owned and operated award winning sales and service where locals buy Toyota's in fall at 9456544 and bighorn toyota dot com It is the 51st rather fast in Aspen and usually most always I mean speaking colors and indeed out of nowhere peeking countless from Snowmass Canyon and up. 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Ok the new standard would be quote substantial direct and immediate control over workers that means you would be able to hold the whole fast food chain responsible in say a lawsuit you have to sue $100.00 different restaurants labor advocates say the rule is anti worker and franchisees the individual restaurants say they should be fully responsible for what happens if they don't have direct control Now this law would not change immediately because there is a 60 day public comment period before the board can adopt the rule it could also be challenged in court Renate thank you so much and let's do the numbers. Dow s. And p. And Nasdaq futures are up in the 110 percent range with the Dow futures up $25.00 points the 10 year Treasury yield is a 2.99 percent. Marketplace Morning Report is supported by the Tel advanced technology in analytics designed to improve patient outcomes and health care experience at the tally can be done the town dot org And by Sony Pictures Classics presenting the wife a new film starring Glenn Close as a woman whose marriage is challenge when her husband received the Nobel Prize for his work now playing. 10 years ago today Lehman Brothers the country's 4th largest investment bank at the time was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy over the next weekend the Federal Reserve the Treasury and other banks worked to save Lehman they failed Lehman's was the largest bankruptcy in history global financial markets froze the financial crisis of 2008 intensified executives at Lehman have said the Fed could have saved them but made the political choice not to all this year Marketplace's been looking back on that crisis as part of a series we're calling divided decade and today we're speaking with Tom Russo he was general counsel of Lehman Brothers at the time Good morning Tom thanks for joining us thank you it's great to be here what was it like on Lehman weekend to be in the center of it all it was nerve wracking there's a great line from Kipling from the poem if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those 2 impostors just the same and during that weekend we were going to be saved if we weren't going to be saved was the ultimate low and being told sensually that we had to file for bankruptcy by the government Tim Geithner president of the New York Fed at the time Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Fed chair Ben Bernanke they all said that they couldn't find a buyer for Lehman and that you didn't have enough collateral for a bailout Here's what Ben Bernanke he told our afternoon host Kyra's dollar in an interview earlier this year but there you've got to have a company which is fundamentally viable and just short liquidity and Lehman Lehman was not viable and that So that strategy didn't work so we didn't you know we didn't really have it wasn't a choice we didn't have the tools to prevent the failure and what would you say to that well my comment is that's patiently false there was at least 122000000000 of collateral that they had put this in perspective a few days later Morgan Stanley they borrowed 107000000000 dollars and gold. And at one point borrowed. 69 Bay And but I mean if they did go around bailing absolutely everybody out doesn't that create the moral hazard problem that everyone worries about specifically you're rewarding people for taking risks knowing that they're going to get bailed out doesn't matter what happens on terms of the moral hazard a I chase a great example what happened to the management of a.i.g. Basically gone what happened to the shareholders of a.i.g. They got creamed so it doesn't mean that when you save an institution you're saving the executives you're saving the shareholders what you're doing is you're trying to prevent a systemic problem that affects the entire community moral hazard is a buzz word sounds good the public didn't like bail out but a Profile in Courage means doing things when the public may have one view but it's short term in the long run what they did by bailing out save the economy you were at Lehman for 15 years right what are you most proud of what do you regret while most proud of the culture we had the ability to laugh so the culture actually brings a smile to my face the regret was this whole thing was so unnecessary and you know I asked myself What more could have been done we reduced the balance sheet we tried to sell the company we tried to do all sorts of things but when you're in a tidal wave maybe sometimes you get drowned that should not have happened not only for Lehman but for the rest of the country Tom Russo former general counsel at Lehman Brothers and a i.g. Thank you so much for coming in it's been a pleasure thank you for having me. Next week we'll be talking to the congressman that saw the country through the crisis including Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank Paulson and Bernanke you were saying to me well we would like to have a better tools and I think in the end they had j.p. Morgan Chase taken one and bankroll market took over another and Wells Fargo took over another and then came Lehman who nobody left to take it over we'll hear more from Barney Frank along with former Senator Chris Dodd next week our executive producer is Nicole child our digital producer is Redmond Redmond Carolyn our engineer is Daniel Ramirez and in New York I'm sure with the Marketplace Morning Report. From a.p.m. American Public Media. 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