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News Conway South Carolina Florence is blamed for at least 5 deaths and widespread power outages in coastal areas South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria Hanson is in Charleston wind and rains are expected to push into Charleston but when and how strong are as unpredictable as the storm itself Mayor John Tucker says the city has been busy preparing lower the lake levels and cleaning up drainage pipes and he says he has another weapon in his arsenal we brought in portable pumps at strategic locations that are known for flooding much of the city floods even on sunny days during high tide the mayor says he hopes the city does not see the huge storm surge that washed over the battery wall last year following Irma for n.p.r. News Victoria Hanson in Charleston to Asia now where a strong typhoon is headed toward Vietnam and southern China the B.B.C.'s Robin Brant is in Hong Kong which is preparing for the typhoons arrival what you've got basically are people being advised to stay in tomorrow by the head of government has a carrier chief minister she doesn't want any storm chasing she doesn't want people going out surfing that has happened in the past and you look around the buildings office is high rise towers as masking tape going up inside and outside on the windows it has been a very beautiful day had said that she blue skies but it is getting windy this evening the expectation is they'll be very heavy rain in the early hours of small morning and that mine pitch could pass by I think on the poem for cost but that could change possibly a direct hit we don't know but around about the middle of Sunday storm threatening Hong Kong passed over the northern Philippines before dawn today packing 124 mile per hour winds and torrential rain at least 3 people reported dead amid floods landslides and power outages this is n.p.r. 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Secretary of State Mike pump A.O.'s accusing his predecessor John Kerry of actively undermining the Trump administration when it comes to Iran and earlier this week President Trump accused Kerry upholding what he said were illegal meetings Kerry negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran is on a book tour and has been speaking about his recent meetings with Iran's foreign minister such meetings are not illegal and Kerry said in a tweet that the president should be more worried about Paul manna for 2 has agreed to cooperate in the Russian Vista cation one of the world's biggest film festivals around this weekend in carp and Chuck reports on the Toronto International Film Festival for many people in the city it's a chance to spot some of the stars and perhaps take in a future Oscar contender this year the festival rolled out red carpets for dozens of gala and special presentations and there's already some Oscar buzz Bradley Cooper his directorial debut of a star is born starring Cooper as a fading rock star and Lady Gaga climbing to the top as well as quote owns Roma based on the director's memories of growing up in Mexico City it's estimated that as many as half a 1000000 people attend the festival over 2 weeks it's also a big boost to the city attracting thousands of tourists who spend millions of dollars at Toronto restaurants bars hotels and industry parties for n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon Tropical Storm Florence is pummeling the southeast today with life threatening storm surges and strong winds at least 5 deaths have been linked to the storm including a mother and her baby number is expected to climb flooding is expected to get worse today much of the North Carolina city of New Bern remains underwater about 200 people have been pulled from their homes N.P.R.'s Bracton Booker is there back and thanks so much for being with us yeah absolutely Scott we've certainly seen pictures on social media and television of a city that's literally seems underwater What's it look like on the ground what's going to pinning on where you are in New Bern there's not much ground to see obviously there are trees that are down from the storm nearly all the power is out in the city and even an entire front facade of a Piggly Wiggly supermarket store has been blown completely off and is laying on the ground but it's the water that's the real issue here it's flowing all over the city and spilling into neighborhoods I've got some tape for you of to Newbern residents describing how they escaped water coming into their home here's should need for Jones and any Williams Williams speaks 1st it was water up in my house only to have had the we had up in the attic or it is just down there is that on the dresser that at work we hadn't seen were. So Scott my producer and I Liz Baker were driving around Newburn and we saw homes with water 3 to 4 feet surrounding them and what we what we saw was probably not the worst because we're told that some neighborhoods are only accessible by boat reports are there have been $200.00 water rescues so far to get people out of their homes or the rescues still going on yeah those rescues have been taking place around the clock since Thursday night when the storm surge from Florence begin to flow over the big. Of the new Cintron rivers where New Bern sits officials tell me that at one point on Friday the governor rescue Chu down to about 40 when the water levels begin to rise again then they got another 100 calls for help and Newbern is under a 24 hour curfew and that's to keep streets clear so that rescue efforts can continue and Newbern officials tell me that rescue teams from Texas to Massachusetts have assisted local authorities and also the Louisiana famed Cajun Navy has also sent volunteers to help and at one point they actually put out volunteers for local folks to bring their boats to assist with the rescue efforts Craven County that's where no burn is had a mandatory evacuation order days before the storm but everybody makes an individual decision why did some people stay where you know their evacuation order was put in place on Tuesday and I will tell you that many residents did evacuate they did hit heed the calls but the city as I said sits in this confluence of 2 rivers so Newbern residents are used to a bit of flooding they just tell me that they never saw it to this extent So yes some underestimate it Florence's magnitude but others made a calculated decision whether it's too difficult to move elderly parents to a shelter or for you know others it was a financial reason you know renting a hotel for days maybe even a week or longer is expensive and then there's the exact if you do leave your home not knowing how much damage there is and when you would be able to get back to assess the damage. Back and what do you think is the biggest concern for people in New Bern now that the the storm is over but the flooding certainly is not yeah yeah it was it's not just new I mean this is this region has been inundated with Florence so cities all over this region in areas south of here like Jacksonville North Carolina where Marine Base Camp Le June sits and Wilmington and Myrtle Beach in South Carolina those places are experiencing heavy. Rains are expected to get hit for hours today so there are fears that with all this rain being dumped in rivers and tributaries will swell causing even more catastrophic flooding in the ahead N.P.R.'s Bracton Booker and New Bern North Carolina Bracton thanks so much for being with us thank you. The White House says President Trump will tour a storm damaged area sometime next week once it's clear that his visit won't distract from the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts but even a deadly storm doesn't entirely distract from the political turbulence in and around the White House this week as were N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley comes at Scott thanks so much for being with us good morning. We haven't seen much physically publicly of the president the last couple days his meetings with emergency responders and Thursday and Friday behind closed doors he has been active on line but 1st why isn't he come before the cameras was a good question it ordinarily the press staff would invite cameras into his briefings so the public could see for themselves that the president's on top of the situation he could shine a spotlight on everything the federal government is doing to help respond the storm but transfer even as both Thursday and Friday were off camera it could be that his aides are worried that if reporters were there the president might be goaded into talking about some of the more controversial stories in the news this week. And the president called federal efforts to assist Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria an unsung success but of course as we know 3000 people died and then the president said that his critics are just cooked up that number and that. We have to say that's just not true that's right now a lot of those deaths did not take place directly during the storm or rather they took place indirectly during the painfully slow recovery remember it was only last month that electricity was finally restored throughout the island so if this is a success Trump is in a very lonely chorus singing about it in Florida some of the president's fellow Republicans tried to distance themselves from Trump's comments candidates like Rick Scott and Rhonda Santas they know that downplaying the scale of that disaster is not the way to make friends in Florida a lot of Puerto Rican transplants have relocated to that state and many of them will be voting in November and turning to the political news of the week which is important the president's former campaign chairman Paul man of Fort pleaded guilty yesterday to felony conspiracy charges and agreed to cooperate with Robert Muller's investigation do sources in the White House believe Paul manner for it has a lot to dish about on Donald Trump and or the Trump campaign publicly the White House is stressing that Paul Mann affords guilty pleas have nothing to do with his work on the trunk campaign press secretary Sarah Sanders said quote This has absolutely nothing to do with the president and that is true if you read the information it's not about the time that metaphor spent on the campaign but look he was running the Trump campaign during the summer of 2016 he was present for that infamous meeting in Trump Tower with Russian delegation that had offered to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton so if he is going to cooperate with Mahler's team as as he said he could be a valuable source about any possible contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign funding the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote next week on the Bret. 7 a nomination to the Supreme Court. There were grave charges this week that surfaced alleging that Brett Kavanaugh committed a sexual assault during high school what do we know about this according to The New Yorker a woman who was who knew Kavanagh in high school notified her congresswoman and also Senator Dianne Feinstein that at a party back in the early eighty's Cavanaugh ahead held her down and tried to force himself on or now Cavanaugh emphatically denies that and Feinstein didn't bring this up during the confirmation hearings the White House suggest this is an 11th hour stalling tactic and yesterday Chuck Grassley the Republican chairman other to Sherry Committee released a letter signed by 65 women who say they knew Kavanagh in high school and testifying to his good character N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley thanks so much You're welcome. Governor Andrew Cuomo won the New York Democratic primary for governor this week just 4 days after his opponent Cynthia Nixon ordered locks with cream cheese red onions and a sprinkling of capers on a cinnamon raisin bagel on Russia Shona yet Governor Cuomo was renominated by more than 30 points I doubt his opponents unconventional bagel order figured much in her defeat but the resulting public outrage risked making Ms Nixon look like she doesn't know or bagels the real mayor if you please in New York politics and blonde attention from other issues including that one of Governor Cuomo his former aides approved a campaign mailer the tried to link Cynthia Nixon to at the semitism Gothamist broke the tail of the sentiment big unlocks with Jack often hearts writing I personally have had a stomach ache since tasting the pungent concoction and I'm now debating whether to ask for a raise or a sick day that's really disgusting I mean like it's terrible said Jake Dobkin a horrifying example of globalism horrors a number of people observed locks her up but Cynthia Nixon argued that locks on yours cream cheese. And capers on a sentimental raisin bagel is just sweet and Tang a diversity don't. She said some people then rallied to her defense and Social Media New Yorkers consider themselves broad minded they embrace people from all over the world all kinds colors faiths orientations and vocations and even people from New Jersey New Yorkers are the most broad minded people on earth until they disagree with you especially about something like bagels then they can get as hot as a French person who sees someone plop an ice cube into their glass of wine they sniff and sputter it's just wrong I applaud Cynthia Nixon for having the courage of her food cravings she is a lifelong New Yorker who must know the long list of candidates who committed Cullen ery political self immolation when they were seen eating pizza with a fork coffee milk with a kosher hotdog or cutting a bagel crosswise like a sandwich on white bread maybe she gestured have told those who asked about her bagel inclinations I like lox I'm cinnamon raisin bagels and if you don't like it you can kiss the backside of the Brooklyn Bridge come to think of it that could be the New York City motto. You're listening to n.p.r. News. 'd Joel Snyder with these headlines North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says what is now Tropical Storm Florence is read limbless in excruciating Forecasters say Florence has weakened the storm is creeping inland today dumping Terentia rain forecasters say they expect another 10 to 15 inches in parts of the Carolinas in Asia the strong typhoon is heading toward southern China and Vietnam that big storm tore through the northern Philippines before dawn today bringing heavy rain and knocking out power and in Mexico City authorities are investigating a shooting that left 3 people dead and at least 7 others injured police say the gunman armed with rifles and pistols were dressed as mariachi musicians and that they fled on motorcycles on trial Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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Is receded about halfway out there's just some one or 2 scripts that are made just great sort of thought Gulf and Mosco the interior of the city has been. Cleared of water and is going to have a lotto floating in the houses we had to rescue probably well over 100 it was my knee just talk to the manager to full pour. Got the total for less money came up but it started receiving last night about should. Has been steadily. Going down so this is kind. Pretty much down. And now we're just going to have to assess the damage to let this work to just go on the wind gust to World Order 4030 to 30 miles an hour which soon is a transformer where we had 6 crews out put it back up. Just a 2 story do you tell it is underground power now so we'll get back to normal pretty quickly but you know bunch of limbs and debris all over the road. We've got a major cleanup and then we got. Did a good as. Any I mean the house is flooded I'm in. If I may any injuries Mr Mer. Heard of here I think nobody by we put out a car because you put everybody you know police in a mall or run around and just go I'm sure. They did actually job and most people heeded the warning we thought it will be a lot worse than it is a new person got. Get hammered they probably got it worse than anybody because they just flooded all of. Ours did not get into central business district where it came within a foot or 2 but most of the buildings around it was pretty for that water but post . Did not know which is good the malls and all the shopping around and all that. Retail and commercial this. Is just a low lying areas that are sitting there overwhelmed for any. Well if I may sir any concern about flooding over or over the rest of the weekend. I think we're through it you know it's down to a tropical storm and in the we'll just go way down is co-author normal rainy day here the day is done in the winter in the water the problem we have with these hurricanes is one day set up for 2 days it is pull the wind just pull pumps water up rivers and so it was a bed of flooding that own a mobile one hurricane that was about a foot or so it we had about as much water as well go ahead. And lose just because I heard you know a lot of hurricanes come through in 1st 4 hours are gone and I mean that's a Category 3 hurricanes come right over town and do less damage and this is going. You know all my debts it just depends which way the winds call in public water disposable this was a bad one so we're word is in the half minute we have left where is Florence stand in your recollections of storms you have seen there in North Carolina pull funding would probably be. Within the top 3 a full album in a way we have a lot of the headaches we wanted that but 8.5 so you don't this one there's probably 5 or 6 of them over last 2030 years that got to wait for a and then you have somebody Category 3 that might put 5 feet in them to pull wind damage or break more trees but we really did a problem. Which was really what concerns me the most Tuesday when they were you know they had it Amy writes great fortune 140 mile an hour wind gusts at that but that. Well they were silent thank you so much. Max Odgers the mare of Washington North Carolina thank you sir yes sir thank you today marks 10 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed it was a signal moment in the financial crisis that nearly spun out of control one response for the Dod for. Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which became law in 2010 huge law that called for breaking up banks if they were determined to be too big to fail so that an entire global economy would not be at risk and also help create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but the powers of that agency have recently been curtailed by the trumpet ministration the Frank of that bill of course is Barney Frank who joins us now Mr Frank thanks so much for being with us you're welcome 10 years later with the advantage of historical hindsight what what do you think was at the root of the financial crisis 2 major changes in the way in which financial activity was conducted one was frankly made possible by information technology in 1070 if you borrowed money you borrowed it from a bank which you would have to repay that if you got a mortgage and everybody's You sent them a check and then banks began to develop something called securitization banks would make hundreds thousands of loans but instead of waiting for each car would have repay that loan they would bundle them into securities and then they would sell to investors a package of loans and the mortgage repayments then went to the people who owned the securities the problem is that if I'm lending you money and I'm depending on you to pay me back every month I'm going to be careful about who are you going to but if I am making thousands of loans I know want to have an interest in whether or not they're repaid Secondly around the same time and will mated to this why do you mounds of money started coming into the United States not from banks you had the oil producing countries you had Asian countries with large balance of payments to places you had all kinds of money coming in that was available for loans outside the banking system so the combination was that the discipline in the lending business of the borrower having to prove his or her credit worthiness disappeared a whole lot of bad. Loans were made. Mr Frank how do you. How do you react to the criticism that's been made over the years that when Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner. And others got together and figured out what amounted to a rescue package for the u.s. Economy it rescued Wall Street but not regular citizens Well that's wrong what they rescued was the economy now it is true that the direct beneficiaries in the 1st instance where the banks although if the banks aren't working you know who is particularly Hoda people who live paycheck to paycheck look if the bank system failed Jamie Dimon the c.e.o. Of j.p. Morgan Chase a perfectly nice man I mean to single him out but he had enough money he would in a start he would have he would have found a way to support himself it's the people living paycheck to paycheck who suddenly weren't getting a paycheck or had no place to cash it or no a.t.m. They would have been hurt by missed the mistake and it was one I was very angry about in 40 against but the Bush administration was in power and then frankly the Obama administration didn't pick up enough on it we should have done more with that money to help people who are having foreclosures and that 530. Mr Frank have to ask and make Congress passed. Bipartisan legislation that loosened some provisions of of your own bills so community regional banks smaller banks could operate more freely you endorse that change. This is at the same time you're on the board of the Signature Bank. Which stands to benefit from that change well you have to out since you left us a very salient facts 1st of all I did not endorse it I could simply said I would have voted against it I did disagree with those who thought it was a terrible mistake and I don't think you did share his damage but the most important thing you left out is this in 2013 long before I had ever heard of Signature Bank the part of that law that benefitted Signature Bank was something that I had announced my support for years again before you even heard of the bank and the fact is that passing the law as they did. Preserved most of the of the regulatory bill over 90 percent and by the way with regard to the biggest banks there was no singing whatsoever Barney Frank a member of Congress for 32 years thanks so much for being with us thank you. All this week N.P.R.'s been taking a look at nonvoters the 60 percent of the population that has not typically vote in midterm elections even though they're eligible today a look at the question How might the country and public policy be different if they did N.P.R.'s political correspondent reports. Francisco moralities is a community activist in Nevada his mission is to get young people of color to vote people who might vote in a presidential election but don't really bother with the midterms I meet Morales in a working class neighborhood in Las Vegas where he's going door to door and at this one house we meet a young Latina mom she says No campaigns have come knocking and so morale as it jumps into his pitch a lot of the times people don't pay attention to Ari I grew up here when she went to school to us and a lot of people don't pay attention to our neighborhoods because folks don't turn on the probes opposable patients don't fear us right they don't think that you know we matter exactly morality is a big believer that politicians focus on issues like Medicare and Social Security because older people are reliable voters and so if young people of color want elected officials to talk more about student debt or immigration reform they need to vote more Jan weekly agrees voters and nonvoters do differ on some policies but not every policy She's a professor at American University who studied elections between 19822008 the one consistent finding that we have are the voters and nonvoters have different preferences on economic policies legally says This includes all kinds of bread and butter economic issues. So policies that talk about an expanded social safety net unemployment issues and how to respond to them and redistributing wealth from the wealthy to the poor and this isn't entirely surprising based on who does show up to vote we know that the wealthy are more likely to vote than nonvoters and Weekly's theory is not that every nonvoter would want more progressive economic policies but if politicians knew that anyone would realistically step into the voting booth they would be facing an electorate that's further to the left on economic issues that means who they target and how they use their resources and their strategies to try to win would we think change substantially but the idea that turnout would substantially change the balance of power has its skeptics Jason Brennan is one of them he's a professor at Georgetown University waving a magic wand and making literally everybody vote would have a really weak effect on which party holds power Brennan points to countries like Australia that have compulsory voting is surprisingly has very little effect on like the distribution of say left or right politics it doesn't really seem to help the left wing party like people may think it would it doesn't cause a further redistribution of tax to the lower income people it doesn't seem to have really much of an effect at all this precise question what if everyone voted is something Eric should clear research about 15 years ago she Claire is a professor at the University of California Berkeley on average when we looked at this in 2003 you'd be talking about a one to 2 point increase on the Democratic side so if everyone voted you'd be talking about just a one or 2 percentage point change in the final results which was clearly enough to tip a really close election such as for example Bush v Gore but not something that would you know give the Democrats a a permanent majority in elections he says it's possible some policies would change he thinks of immigration and. Well now turnout has been low among some of the groups that care the most about that issue that's provided a buffer for Republicans as they fight for restrictions on immigration Shipley's research is from 2003 and he says if you redo the analysis today he thinks it'll probably show a more consistent benefit for Democrats in part he says because the non-voting population today is more democratic than it was back then it's younger and browner . N.p.r. News. And tomorrow on Weekend Edition Sunday what we're learning from whatever the opposite of nonvoters is probably does voters Lou and lead political editor dramatic moment in our own take stock a primary season of this week's contests in New York New Hampshire and Rhode Island are over who turned out to the parties many nominees look like what does all that tell us about Election Day in November tune in tomorrow by asking your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your member station by name. This is n.p.r. News. One of the lingering legacies of the Cold War is radioactive sites scattered throughout the u.s. Sites that help reduce the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and were long ago shut down their facilities raised today the land around one of these sites Rocky Flats in Colorado is set to reopen to the public and neighbors aren't sure the area is safe Dan Boyce reports from what is now the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge . About 45 minutes north west of Denver sit more than $5000.00 acres of trees some wetlands and pristine rolling prairie At least that's how it looks walking down the hillside off the highway you come up to a rusted barbed wire fence and the sign that says National Wildlife Refuge unauthorized entry prohibited this is as far as I get to go because both the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency declined interviews for the story but the government's Rocky Flats website says the area hosts $239.00 migratory and resident species from Falcons and elk to the threatened probables meadow Jumping Mouse although of course Rocky Flats has a much more active past at peace and everybody that's in our nuclear arsenal has something to do with Rocky Flats that's a story and Stacy Pendleton in a 2014 Rocky Mountain p.b.s. Documentary from 1952 to 89 she says there was an entire small community inside this fence converting plutonium brought in from other sites to create the pits for the triggers that will then be sent down to pan Tex down in Texas where they're going to install than the ponds and sells Rocky Flats closed with the ending of the Cold War federal and state agencies oversaw a more than $7000000000.00 demolition and cleanup of the area that wrapped up in 2005 the main issue here is just how contaminated are these lands University of South Carolina biological sciences professor Tim muso studies how radioactive contaminants affect living things was opening is the part of the wildlife refuge that used to serve as a buffer around Rocky Flats like a donut the e.p.a. Says soil was tested in this Dota and determined safe for unlimited use more than a decade ago muso is not convinced there is still plutonium in the soil of that refuge buffer. Just the simple action of walking shrew some of these areas during the dry season will kick up the dust from the ground in that floating dust plutonium particles muso says even the tiniest most imperceptible ones can be ingested and lodge in the lungs often they don't get released they get stuck there for the entire life of the organism leading to higher cancer risk the worry is hikers and bikers taking advantage of 11 miles of new dirt and gravel trails in the refuge will be kicking up a lot of dust 7 local school districts have prohibited field trips to the area and several lawsuits are looking to keep the refuge closed off to the public including from the adjacent town of superior attorney Tim Gable houses representing superior He says the government has not done a full environmental assessment on what the effects could be from all that use and the impacts of all of that on human health and the environment because none of that's been studied He says the refuge should not open untel that assessment has been done but in a statement regional e.p.a. Administrator Doug been a vent calls Rocky Flats among the most studied and well understood pieces of property in the u.s. He says he looks forward to visiting with his family in the fall for n.p.r. News I'm Dan Boyce at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. This is n.p.r. News. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday Governor Roy Cooper warned residents it's going to stick around the storm is going to continue its violent grind across our state for a day look at the latest on Florence and the recovery effort next time on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. I'm Joel Snyder with these headlines what is now Tropical Storm Florence is moving slowly over the Carolinas today the storm is dumping heavy rain leading to fears of epic flooding power outages are widespread secretary of state Mike pump Ayos accusing his predecessor John Kerry of actively undermining the trumpet ministration when it comes to Iran Pompeo says what Kerry has done is unseemly and on President Kerry negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran pump a 0 referring to Kerry's recent meetings with the Iran's foreign minister and president Tromso former campaign manager is now cooperated was special counsel Robert Muller Paul man of Ford has entered into a plea deal that lets him oh boy the 2nd trial is already facing up to a decade in prison for financial crimes on trial Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon Tropical Storm Florence has claimed at least 5 lives some towns have received more than 2 feet of rainfall since the day luge began which has caused catastrophic flooding as the storm moves further inland hundreds of people have been rescued from their homes in the coastal town of Newbern North Carolina where a mandatory evacuation order was placed this week Daniel Katyn is a resident of New Bern and she left her home on our own when it began to flood thanks very much for being with us Ms Katyn thank you for having me and how did you get out we actually had a 4 wheel drive vehicle and we left. My son and my boyfriend and his child and we laughed and we came to his residence which is on higher ground so we had to leave 2 other vehicles behind we lost a in Palau and a several a full size truck when you say you lost you you assume they've been they've been delusions when he had to go back in I guess it was around midnight. Thursday evening and I had to rescue his parents who were in the same neighborhood and he made it back to my house by walking or treading through chest deep water and my pal was completely submerged and he had left the truck for his parents and they left the truck there and it was submerged with water to but his parents your children his child you're Ok yes we're all Ok we're all safe for it his house and Dame City thanks and as I'm told you you left after the evacuation order may ask why. We made the decision to stay based on the fact that all of the A.T.M.'s were out of cash there was a gas shortage monetary reasons and concerns of not being able to get back again I have my father who is in a nursing facility fighting stage for Hodgkin's lymphoma and I was really concerned about what would happen with him how I was your father how is your father married and. As far as I know I spoke with him last night they're running off generators they have plenty of food so he's comfortable and everybody in the facilities Ok much going through your mind now what do you what do you Wayne what are you considering. I'm. I'm just kind of numb at the moment just scared to death as far as how we're going to get this little area back on track I know we will I know everybody's. This community is wonderful as far as banding together and trying to get things done and helping but in daily life is definitely going to change there's several people who have lived here their entire life mentors several hurricanes I'm originally from South Carolina lived in South Florida so I've dealt with several hurricanes myself but while this probably was not the worst storm that I've ever been through the devastation that this storm has produced has certainly been the worst that I've witnessed. Like there's 3 feet of water inside my house so. Trying to figure out what's next as far as do we apply for I made it really do I contact insurance immediately we are. Trying to just make. The best decisions but also you know trying to figure out as far as food in keeping additional people 'd healthy and whatnot. So it's pretty devastating to this lawyer I am. Speaking from New Bern North Carolina thank you so much for making the time to speak with us for her great to use her thank you. What's the matter with c.b.s. Its chairman and c.e.o. Les Moonves was pushed out following a series of sexual harassment claims against him the longtime executive producer of 60 Minutes Jeff Fager was ousted for sending threatening text messages to a fellow c.b.s. Correspondent she investigated claims of sexual misconduct against him c.b.s. This morning host Charlie Rose was fired 2017 after some 8 different women came forward with the counts of lewd calls nudity and groping and remember David Letterman Kim Masters has been following the various threads of this story she's editor at large for The Hollywood Reporter and joins us now from Los Angeles Kim thanks so much for being with us my pleasure let me begin by noting I am a special contributor to c.b.s. Sunday morning but I've never worked with either of these men. Jeff Fager or Les Moonves let's begin with the text message that Jeff Fager sent to jury could Duncan which I'm going to read quote Be careful there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem I mean it was very clear that this was a threat she said on the air on C.B.S.'s own air that she interpreted it as a threat which is the only reasonable interpretation I think and it's kind of a situation where Jeff Fager was under the spotlight already somewhat for allowing geishas that he had touched employees in ways that made them uncomfortable but he then went into the space of threatening one of c.b.s. His own reporters in a way that was easily proven and obviously that was a very big mistake and gave c.b.s. The opportunity to just they were washing our hands of you know I think they had no other choice it was also an issue of you know what she was reporting on was this environment this alleged environment this boy's club environment many women talked about how it's. Just didn't seem that they were getting fair opportunities these allegations were obviously very troubling So I think he probably would have been dismissed earlier if it had not been for the trouble that we probably are about to turn to involving the c.e.o. Of c.b.s. Leslie Moonves exactly because it turns out that Ronan Farrow his 1st piece in The New Yorker led a lot more people to come forward with new and disturbing charges didn't yes this is that's a pattern that we have seen in these cases you know and the door opens and in this case there's somewhat of an angry denial from the person who's accused and that denial if people were holding back from coming forward in the 1st place that denial often just drives them to the point where they are ready to speak out and these were terrible allegations of in some cases violent sexual assault and misconduct but these allegations were serious enough and the pattern of conduct was serious enough that he had tried to fight off the inevitable after a run of Pharaoh's 1st story but then by the time the 2nd story landed it was just impossible there been calls this week to to reassess what happened to David Letterman before he signed off from c.b.s. Now he did help prosecutors with the blackmail case against him but it was blackmail occasioned by the fact that he had relationships with with female subordinates course he got the Mark Twain Prize last year you got a new Netflix series is there a reassessment of what happened there. Well certainly now Sco Val who has written about her experience being the only woman writer in the writer's room at Letterman have made that point on social media he referenced multiple women and it seems that the matter was let to drop there obviously was an important talent but you know I think the culture is changed at this point where you don't get away with that so much you don't get to say Ok I'm sorry I did things with multiple women that probably were not legal and and then everybody says Done and dusted so at this point I think there is some reassessment of a lot of people who you know were sort of a shrug before now it's a serious matter is this a c.b.s. Problem or an industry problem it is an industry problem that at n.b.c. News at a.b.c. News at c.b.s. News at Fox News we've seen so many allegations we can we can at n.p.r. To that list and we can at n.p.r. To that list and of course we've had various people in the studio so you know Leslie Moonves was truly a huge huge figure in the industry here a legendary t.v. Programmer suave charming you know but I think it's really a worldwide business problem that somehow all in situations where generally men get to a certain point of power and money or even not that much power and money they somehow feel that they're entitled to engage in this kind of conduct and of course the hope is that the series of revelations and the consequences that follow will lead to some of these people who want to try to think about doing these things to think twice you know because it is unacceptable and women have suffered from this for since time began I think Kim Masters of the Hollywood Reporter thanks so much for being with us My pleasure thank you lot amendable covers the lead is considered a masterpiece and these days more than 6 years after it was published in the United States a masterpiece to make people squirm it is the narrative of a middle aged man Professor Humbert Humbert 2 was obsessed with floors Hayes a 12 year old girl called Lolita and he prays upon her. Sarah Weinman the distinguished crime writer has finally put together the true life story of the real little girl who was kidnapped and raped it's important not to resort to euphemisms here and whose story was demonstrably in a book called So magination when he wrote Lolita Her book is The Real Lolita the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world sir Weinmann joins us from w.h.y. Y. In Philadelphia thanks so much for being with us thanks so much for having me there's no question is there that new book Off knew about Sally Horner and the case and even had a line in the lead about it that he did and the line it's very late in the novel and the line goes Had I done to Dolly perhaps what Franklin a 50 year old mechanic did to 11 year old Sally Horner in 1948. Sally Horner was 11 and 12 years old when she was kidnapped. By a man who claimed it was an f.b.i. Agent who had let her off from a shoplifting charge she said his name was Frank to sell and it turned out he'd already term for statutory rape What did he have in mind what was his scheme. Well when he chanced upon Sally Horner and she was at a Woolworths in Camden New Jersey essentially playing out a dare in order to join a girls' club at school he was 2 months removed from a prison sentence for the statutory rape of 5 girls between the ages of 12 and 14 so he called her out he said that she had to go away with him and tell her mother that he was the father of school friends and they would go to the Jersey Shore for a week so her mother Ella did agree and she saw Sally off on the Camden bus and Sally and went to Atlantic City and from there commenced a 21 month cross-country nightmare that took her from Atlantic City to Baltimore to Dallas and eventually to San Jose where in March 1950 thanks to the enterprising machinations of a neighbor she was ultimately rescued What made you eager to tell Shelley Horner's real story alongside the book off creation of Lolita. I 1st read Lolita when I was 16 which I think is a little bit young but it was a thrilling and disturbing read because it was the 1st time I really sensed that you could have an unreliable narrator that you didn't have to sort of tell the truth in a narrative that there could be something deeper and richer and more complicated going on and so Lolita really thrilled and disturbed me and so to understand that there was a real girl who was an inspiration for Lolita it made me ask the question what did we know about Sally Horner had anyone reported it out where their relatives family members other people who might still be alive who knew her I knew there was so much more that I could discover about the connections between what really happened to Sally Horner and the narrative of the leader and also how the book of wrote about it and what he knew and when he knew about Sally Horner parent in a book off always said that she thought it was important for readers to recognize the strength and the decency of young Lolita Dolores because she overcame the terrible thing that happened to er and at the end of the novel we glimpse her having a normal and loving life exactly and just like Sally Dolores didn't have very long to live but she did escape both Humbert Humbert clutches and the clutches of Claire Quilty and attempted to build some kind of quote normal unquote life for herself and that's a real victory and so in the corresponding reality that Sally had she did come home she didn't have terribly long to live but she tried to make as good a life for herself and the fact that I could speak with her best friend. Carol starts later Carol Taylor who told me how much of a formative influence Sally had in the mere year that they knew each other we should go that Sally Horner just 2 years after she was freed died in a dry. Africa accident injury yes she did she was only 15 years old you're reminded how much we have changed or not changed in some ways when in the book you recount what Sally's mother said when the case was getting a lot of publicity around the country but particularly locally Well it let me get you to recount what her mother said that she loved her but yeah but she said whatever Sally has done I can forgive her and I still remember reading that line for the 1st time and every time I read that line it's like a shiver goes up and down my spine because I can absolutely understand why she would have said that in the context of late 1940 s. Early 1950 s. And the fact that people just didn't recognize the effects of that kind of trauma they didn't necessarily view girls like Sally in that situation as victims the fact that after Sally came home and reintegrated back into life in Camden and instead of people viewing her with some degree of sympathy they slept shamed her they claimed they said that because she wasn't a virgin anymore that she was essentially worthless that she had a real hard time making friends she wanted to have a boyfriend and that was incredibly difficult and so hearing from Carol recount this and also sticking up for her friend it just sort of took my breath away because things have changed but they haven't changed enough. I find myself closing the book and while still recognizing the lead his brilliance as a novel regretting that it took all those long for me to learn about Sally Horner. I think that's a worthy regret to have and if my book can do anything it's to make Sally Horner's name deeper in the culture and for us to remember that she matters and girls and women just like her before and after also matters so much Sarah Weinman her book The Real Lolita the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world thanks so much for being with us thank you so much Scott. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Main Office of Tourism offering travelers an opportunity to explore and discover their very own main thing to be inspired be original and be yourself at visit Maine dot com from Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and a and from the John d. 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