Work to be done very productive conversation about. The process by which we will deliver on the commitments that were made in the Singapore summit another view was expressed by North Korea a statement called the talks regrettable it accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program a federal judge is refusing to grant the trumpet ministration a blanket extension of the deadline to reunite children separated from their parents at the border instead acknowledging that more time may be justified only in specific cases N.P.R.'s Richard Gonzales has more u.s. District Judge Dennis abroad in San Diego heard the government's request to relax a deadline of next Tuesday to reunify about 101 minors under the age of 5 with their parents or government lawyers said thus far it has matched only 83 children with their families judge her brother said he needed more information before considering the government's request and he ordered the government to come up with a list of the reunification status of the children before he holds another hearing on Monday the judge already has set a deadline of July 26 for the reunification of older children Richard Gonzales n.p.r. News Young people are holding demonstrations in support of gun rights this weekend N.P.R.'s Kirk Siegler reports rallies are said to be held in many left leaning cities such as Los Angeles and Boulder Colorado these are being billed as 2nd Amendment defenders rallies the group behind them March for our rights was created earlier this year it's meant as a counter to March for our lives protests led by students who called for more gun control in the wake of the Parklane High School massacre March for our rights founders have called the Parklane activists anti freedom saying they're pushing for gun restrictions that would make it harder for quote law abiding people to defend themselves it's not clear how large these rallies will be but thousands of people were checked in as attending on. Spoke at more than a dozen sites including the National Mall in Washington Boston San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles Kirk Siegler n.p.r. News a March is scheduled to begin in about an hour in Chicago to protest Gun Violence Act was planned on walk along a stretch of interstate sign for and they hope to shut it down but now the state police is urging them to reconsider saying the tactic is dangerous no matter how righteous the cause this is n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Newman's Own Foundation working to nourish the common good by donating all profits from Newman's own food products to charitable organizations that seek to make the world a better place more information is available at Newman's Own Foundation dot org. For k. P.b.s. News in San Diego I my eye trouble say the u.s. Department of Justice wants more time to reunify children separated from their families at the u.s. Border but k.q.e.d. Johnson Paul video reports the judge overseeing the case wants the government to turn over a list of children under 5 years old in custody federal judge Dana Sabra says he can't decide whether more time should be given for reunification because the government isn't being clear exactly why they need that time so the judge ordered the government to turn over a list of 101 children all of whom are under age 5 judge Sabras says that list will help them understand why the government needs more time to reunify those children by Tuesday as he previously ordered the government objected to releasing the information saying the release will distract agencies for unifying the families the judge ordered that the information be released by Saturday at 5 pm as of now children under 5 are supposed to be reunified with their parents by July 10th outside the federal courthouse in San Diego I'm John suppose that up for k.p. Vs the heat advisory will begin for the inland valleys and is in effect through 9 o'clock tonight for another day of hot temperatures it will feel even hotter as humidity levels are on the rise today highs for today will be mid ninety's at the coast 104 in linen in the mountains 112 in the desert communities stay tuned to Cape p.b.s. Throughout the morning we're hoping to have updates from Cal Fire on the west fire burning in Alpine area neighborhoods which as of 5 hours ago was still 5 percent contained after burning $400.00 acres We'll have that for you at $718.00 here listening to Kaye p.b.s. People are raccoon crazy on this island on the next Radiolab I got to come with a raccoon I needed a snow globe with a record in it the lengths that people go to for the animals they love send me at 11 am on a p.b.s. . Is supported by Sullivan solar power providing residential and commercial solar with energy storage in Southern California Sullivan solar power is vision is to change the way the world generates electricity to reduce fossil fuel consumption learn more at Sullivan Solar Power dot com This is a 9.5 k. P.b.s. . This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Linda Wertheimer Scott Simon is away and so is Scott Pruitt he resigned from his post at the e.p.a. On Thursday Pruitt cited unrelenting attacks on him and his family as a reason for his departure and he certainly was under siege there were more than a dozen federal investigations of Pruitt ranging from looks into his relationships with lobbyists to accusations of abusive spending but what did Scott Pruitt achieve as e.p.a. Administrator and what will the e.p.a. Look like now without him to help us find out we have William Busby in the studio he is a law professor at Georgetown University a specialist in Environmental Law Welcome to the program thank you thanks for having me now Mr Pruitt approach to deregulation with enthusiasm quickly could you just give us a sense of his principal achievements he had actually very few achievements he has many proposals in the pipeline but most are in the pipeline and most are deeply flawed so the not likely to go zipping along and become new regulations I think that many will be revisited and if they want them to be successful we'll have to be adjusted and pay more attention to the law and pay more attention to science and protection of the environment now Andrew Wheeler will step into Pruitt's shoes on Monday as the acting chief he was the deputy I sort of had the impression that Mr Wheeler was was kind of handling those kinds of things the technicalities the tough stuff true not true I'm not sure we know we don't know internally how they interacted he was acting in the deputy role and so he would have had much control but in the end the final call. As would have been his will he bring more professionalism and respect for law to e.p.a. Will be that big question Does does he share puts passion for deregulating environmental law does it do activists worry I know they are activists do worry that he'll be more effective than pro and I think that is a legitimate concern he worked for Senator Inhofe he's a past lobbyist for coal interests and so some worry that he will just be a more clever version of Pruitt you know more smoothly trying to achieve the same goals but others also say that he's more professional and hence may grow into his role do you think that he will be asked to stay on as a possibility that certainly something people are talking about he in the past has said that no if he wanted to be the head of e.p.a. He would have sought that role he said he's happy to serve in the role he was in does he has rather controversial views on climate change doesn't he yes he is someone who has like others in the administration expressed great skepticism that climate change is a reality so if he were to be named put successor we could look forward to something that hasn't happened yet changes and are there changes in climate regulation there are several proposals to weaken climate regulation that started under the Obama administration but actually goes back to Supreme Court decisions a decade ago. His views in the end don't rule the day what Congress has set in the law and what the science shows is in the end what he would have to follow as the head of e.p.a. So he might try to nudge it in that direction but if he respects the law he would not be able to just force that natural action. Thank you very much William Busby is professor of law at Georgetown University thank you for coming in thank you. Now we are down to just a handful of names President Trump has narrowed his list of Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy he is expected to announce his final pick on Monday evening to learn a bit more about who's on the short list we turn to David let his editor at large and founding editor of above the law illegal news website he joins me now from member station w. Have c r in Amherst Massachusetts welcome to our program thanks for having me Linda So who's still in contention who made the shortlist it appears that President Trump has narrowed his Supreme Court consideration to 4 contenders judge Brett Kavanaugh of the d.c. Circuit Judge Raymond Catholic Church of the 6th Circuit Judge any county Barrett of the 7th Circuit and Judge Thomas Hartman of the 3rd Circuit so they're all of 4 federal appeals court judges from different parts of the country and we don't really know which ones he prefers yet or which are but let's let's start with Judge Brett Kavanaugh Why is he an appealing nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is an extremely well credentialed highly regarded judge on the d.c. Circuit which is really the 2nd most important and influential court in the country after the Supreme Court he's a known quantity in the legal conservative movement he's been a judge on that court for more than a dozen years where he has ruled on very important high profile issues so with his background with his credentials he's a former clerk to Justice Kennedy he's a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School he is in many ways a very appealing candidate a very appealing candidate but not necessarily to President Trump's base voters who you think they'd like best so it seems that many members of President from space prefer Amy Kone Barrett she's been on the Federal Appeals Court of the 7th Circuit out of Chicago for. Couple about 8 months or so she's a former law professor at Notre Dame and she's quite conservative and Catholic and she engendered some or I should say Senator Feinstein engendered some controversy when at Judge Barnes confirmation hearings she said something to the nominee along the lines of the dog meaning Catholic teaching lives loudly within you and this of course was viewed by many as and I Catholic anti-religious and then became a hero to the president's base one of the most interesting things I think about the current court with when Judge Kennedy was on it was how many Catholics there were almost everybody is a Catholic on that court. What about Barrett and haven't they seem to have momentum but but that behind them is Catholic and Hartman Roman Catholic and Thomas Hardman So Judge Kessler is a judge of the 6th Circuit he is based in Michigan he's been on that court for about a decade he is in some ways very similar to judge Kavanaugh he also has a great reputation and as a former law clerk to Justice Kennedy around the same age he's 5153 also quite conservative and young and has a great resume he in some ways could be almost like a lower risk you could argue for conservatives lower award perhaps than Judge Kavanaugh in the sense that he doesn't have as much in his background that would be quite as controversial but he's also less of a known quantity to legal conservatives in d.c. So what about Hardiman and Judge Hardiman is a judge on the 3rd Circuit he is based in Pittsburgh he is actually interestingly enough a long time colleague on the 3rd circuit with Judge Marianne Trump Barry who happens to be Donald Trump's older sister he also has a great resume a strong background he was a trial court judge before he joined the appeals court and he was the runner up for the Supreme Court seat that went to justice course Ok who's your pick. So if I had to guess I would say that it will be either Judge Kavanaugh or judge has ledger which is basically a position I've taken since Justice Kennedy announced his retirement as between the 2 of them it's very difficult to tell and it's quite possible the president has made a decision and then will change his mind at the last minute but it's looking like those 2 I would one of those 2 I would say Ok Mr David Lat of above the law Thank you very much thank you. I love summer but when I look at the weather map of the u.s. Lately and see nothing but gold in our engine light red highs in the eighty's and ninety's and above across the whole country that scares me I do know about heat on hot days my mother used to wake up before sunrise to get outside things done before the heat really took hold then as the sun began to pour down on my hometown in New Mexico would be summoned inside to rest and wait for shade I associate summer with shade resting reading napping childhood and no school of course formed my summer expectation and decades later I still can't shake it now we are debating these rising temperatures Did we cause them could we somehow correct the colors of that weather map not doing too well so far so for now I suggest we try controlling psychic heat and turn down the volume of this hot summer staying in close touch every day all the time with our friends and families what everyone is doing wearing even eating seems to me an activity which is hot and which I could regulate by not doing it there are those our editors hate that phrase who think we could cool down our fried brains by stepping back from the news that's tough and not just for obvious reasons many Americans registered their disapproval of what they saw on the news the way children were being treated at the border and that led to some changes for the children this guy. Endl plague the head of the Environmental Protection Agency lost his job because millions were paying attention to the news that we could cool our consumption you're N.P.R.'s Jason is bound to be cooler than other broadcast media somewhat less likely to yell at you for one thing News edited rather than performed that might lower the temperature of your hot head but we can't reach much beyond our own lives with this idea and even if you are trying to stay cool the heat beckons imagine a big white house with a lovely balcony 2 tall handsome people arm in arm cooling off looking at the view an interlude in this Washington summer then he leans into her and murmurs misquoting Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca will always have Twitter. You're listening to n.p.r. News. For k. P.b.s. News in San Diego I'm my own troubles see a fast moving wildfire that ripped through the rural neighborhoods near v.a. Hospice you know in Alpine yesterday prompting Governor Jerry Brown to declare a local state of emergency is still now only 5 percent contained this morning after burning 400 acres that's at last check with Cal Fire Cal Fire spokesman Kendall board teasers he says even when a fire appears contained it can still get out of control it's also important to note that remaining We had a fire a couple years ago we had 95 percent containment and the winds kicked up and it blew up the fire line and we had it on fire so until we have 100 percent containment and have a line completely around the fire we don't sleep easy and that could be several days from now and the blaze dubbed the west fire erupted for unknown reasons alongside eastbound Interstate 8 at willows West willows road an alpine that was around 1115 yesterday morning stay tuned to Cape p.b.s. For updates throughout the weekend I'm Maya triple c. I'm nor wrong with these headlines police in Louisville Kentucky are bracing for trouble at a protest today against the government's immigration policies a militia group is planning a counter demonstration and police say they believe some of the protesters may be carrying guns which is legal in Kentucky authorities in Thailand say they may soon attempt the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave where they've been trapped for 2 weeks they say they need to try before expected heavy rains this weekend Meanwhile off the southern coast of Thailand divers are searching for 18 people missing since a tour boat sank Thursday it went down during a storm off the resort island of cool cat 38 people died I'm sure rom n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Frederica and Howard Stevenson supporting all in college and it's work in collaboration with other educators around the world to revolutionize engineering education and ignite the next generation of engineering innovators learn more at Olan dot edu and from Dreamwave maker of luxury massage chairs from Japan with shots who point detection and 16 program to massages including morning night and stretch sessions retailers nationwide Moret Dreamwave chair dot com This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Linda Wertheimer America's top diplomat has wrapped up 2 days of talks n.p.r. Looking for a more detailed agreement on how North Korea will end its nuclear weapons program but just hours after Secretary of State mocked pail his plane left North Korea the North Koreans were calling the conversations regrettable N.P.R.'s a lease Hugh covers the region for us and she joins us now from Seoul Hi Elise Hey there so could you just bring us up to speed what came out of these talks in Pyongyang Well 1st I'll give you Secretary of State might pump ales perspective he called the talks productive and claim that he made progress on central issues he did not meet with Kim Jong un this time or secure any breakthroughs on trying to get North Korea to draw down its nuclear program but still while his plane was on the tarmac before leaving piano Young spoke with reporters and was sounding positive we talked about what the North Koreans are continuing to do it how it is the case we can get our arms around what cheating what Chairman Kim and present proposed a great deal which was the complete denuclearization of North Korea. And now for North Korea's perspective so after Pompei a got to Tokyo which is where he is now North Korea's foreign ministry called the u.s. Added 2 to the talks regrettable and it claimed that the u.s. Made unilateral demands for denuclearization also suggested that its commitment to denuclearization in the North Korean one could actually falter after the u.s. Demands in this particular round of talks so where does this new disagreement between the 2 sides leave the deals struck between President Trump and Kim Jong un last month. Well for now it's in the same place because this just happened but unless you know things could change right because in the coming days one side or the other could decide to walk away from diplomacy or try another tack but we should remember that it is a common North Korean negotiating tactic to claim that it's being misunderstood or being treated unfairly and to be fair to North Korea it hasn't done anything to violate that Singapore deal mainly because that Singapore deal was so broad and generalized when it came to the nuclear issue that it left a lot of room for the 2 sides to interpret their own definitions and that's a problem that we're seeing emerge right now President from sides the lack of missile and nuclear tests since November is evidence that progress is being made do we know how seriously the north is really taking these talks we don't we don't know for sure whether North Korea is substantively committed to that top line goal of denuclearization us intelligence reports that have leaked in the recent weeks indicate that North Korea does not intend to surrender its weapons stockpile and there's also commercial satellite imagery showing ongoing construction at a missile facility after the June summit so that construction will likely continue unless Pyongyang orders it to end bottom line there's a lot of distrust because the u.s. From the u.s. Perspective North Korea hasn't held up their end of previous agreements to denuclearize and those previous agreements with the u.s. Were a lot more detailed than this more recent Singapore Trump deal npr's So release Hugh thank you you're welcome. The Air Force has a multi-billion dollar problem with one of its most expensive assets pilots the American military overall is facing serious problems filling its ranks for some branches that means shortages of new recruits but in the air force the issue is retaining pilots after years of costly training even as the military spends hundreds of billions of dollars on new hardware Joining us now is N.P.R.'s Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Tom all the services are facing a recruiting challenge right right Lou there are 2 problems here 1st of all the economy is doing really well so unemployment levels were way down so that makes it hard for recruiters and also the recruiting pool is small because so many teens have either criminal histories lack the necessary high school degree or have physical problems that would bar and listen so get this 70 percent of young people don't meet the qualification standards to go into the military and the Air Force is short on pilots as likely to get worse now we have more on this story from Zachariah Hughes of Alaska public media wherever there fighter pilots there's competition at Air Force bases around the world elite Flyers have even ritualistic the thinner before very specifically spicy helped popcorn every single fighter squadron across the Air Force you will find a popcorn machine that produces hopping of popcorn and one of the finest lieutenants to run the machine to make sure that it it is going Lieutenant Colonel David skal lecky commands a squadron of fighter pilots at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage and is himself a pilot he flies f. $22.00 Raptors and he says to the best of his knowledge the popcorn started a long time ago as a snack during informal debriefs that Flyers would have over drinks but at some point the snack migrated and now they eat it all the time junior officers are tasked with popping duties at 6 am ahead of morning missions popcorn and coffee. And things you'll find in every room the parroted room is basically a pilot clubhouse there's a bar foosball a photograph of the squadrons mascot a bulldog even a wall of beer steins emblazoned with each pilot's nickname Michael Chinese Zeke z e k e. If this seems like a cross between a military secret order and a sporty frat house because it is the f. $22.00 scale it's going to screw fly one of the most agile powerful jet fighters in the world and they get to fly them in Alaska legendary among all kinds of pilots because of the wide open training ranges where Flyers have free reign to push cutting edge machines to their limits you know it's like getting tossed the keys do an Indy car and going all right to go out go do it becoming an Air Force pilot of any sort is competitive requiring years of officer training in academic study flying jet fighters is a whole other Echelon which is why given the dedication required it's so surprising that the Air Force is dealing with a pilot shortage so severe that one general labeled it the national aircrew crisis of this amount of total force was short 1211 fighter pilots last year Lieutenant General Gina Grosso told the House Armed Services Subcommittee of the problem is most acute with fighter pilots according to a report in April from the Government Accountability Office more than a quarter of the positions are unfilled and it's mid career pilots who are leaving in the greatest number Grosso says this isn't just a liability for military readiness and national security it's also really expensive the amount to train just one new pilot in a plane like the f. $22.00 Raptor is $11000000.00 a $1200.00 fire pilot shortage amounts to a $12000000000.00 capital loss for the United States Air Force that estimate is on the high end but it's still billions of tax dollars invested in human capital that then walks out the door so why are all these young highly trained elite pilots leaving. One of the main reasons is that commercial airlines are hiring them away globally more planes are in the air and the money is way better I just finished year 2 and year 2 was more than I was making a year 20 in the Air Force David Gould retired from the Air Force as a colonel after 26 years much of it spent flying c $130.00 cargo planes now he works for United Airlines the pay bump is nice but he says the main reason that pilots leave is tied to the same reason they joined in the 1st place they just want to fly as much as they can that's just so much fun and if they were I would guarantee it on my life if you just have them do it enough nobody get out the problem according to Google is pilots are in the cockpit less and less Instead they're spending more time devoted to administration and after a while you cannot look back and go I'm a pilot and I'm flying and if I'm lucky once a week what am I doing the other 80 percent of my time stupid paperwork that doesn't have to be done this isn't just one retirees griping the g.a.o. Report from April to the same thing another big reason for leaving is the Air Force lifestyle prolonged deployments long workdays frequent moves a battery of sacrifices that strain family life cool says many younger pilots after they've met their service requirements look around and decide the chance to keep flying cool planes isn't worth the headache which leads squadron commanders like Dave's Kalinski the pealing to pilots enthusiasm for the work itself what I'll tell you is that there is so much energy and so much driving these people in this profession Corvair and then we have that harnessing that energy focusing it to get this mission done as is is more of a privilege and then a challenge Air Force leadership is keenly aware of the pilot problem they've increased the bonus pay given to pilots who Rian list midway through their careers . They're also shortening some deployments are experimenting with letting pilots stay at bases an extra hitch to spare the moves and hired contractors to take on some of the administrative work for n.p.r. News I'm Zachariah Hughes in Anchorage and Zachariah here who's joins us now are any of these fixes working well it's hard to say this is a problem that's been on the Air Force's radar for a long time and in the past they've tried to as one member of leadership put it by their way out they've increased their retention bonuses higher than any of the other branches in the military but really they're trying to pursue a lot of different strategies to keep pilots in and there's a lot of little things and it's too early to say whether or not they're cumulatively adding up to keep more pilots in the force and Tom Bowman What else does the Air Force have up that slave well into the Air Force was also looking at voluntarily bringing back pilots who have retired in the past 5 years now they see a lot of them would handle that administrative work but some could return to the cockpit but we don't have a sense right yet if they will be doing it and then if they do head down this road how many of these pilots who want to come back and P.R.'s Tom Bowman and also Zachariah Hughes from Alaska Public Media thank you both for joining us you're welcome thank you. This week the Trump Administration revoked federal guidelines on affirmative action from the Obama era those guidelines encourage the consideration of race in admissions at schools and universities Trump officials instead are promoting a race neutral approach we wanted to know how the trumpet ministrations announcement will affect college admissions Jan back instead is an associate vice president it to Paul University in Chicago he oversees undergraduate admissions there he joins us now from Naperville Illinois I thank you very much for joining us it's my pleasure to be here Linda thank you so what is your reaction to the trumpet ministrations decision to revoke the Obama guidelines Well I don't think it will have much effect on colleges and universities in the short term and in fact a few university systems have already come out and said that they're not going to change anything that they're doing currently with the admissions process as long as the recent Supreme Court decisions are still the law of the land colleges are not obligated to follow any of the guidelines issued by the administration but there's the possibility I assume that this tells you which way the administration is heading I think it's pretty clear and it's probably no surprise to anybody who's looked at what's going on in Washington that there is sort of a leaning or an orientation toward reducing or eliminating the use of race in college admissions. You do take race into account now here are allowed to when you do as I understand it that's correct the Supreme Court has been pretty clear about what we cannot do and less clear about how far we can go in considering race so for instance quotas have never been considered legal in our system. But using race and ethnicity as one factor in the series of factors in a holistic admissions process is in fact the law of the land and still completely legal in colleges and universities at least the ones I've talked to have indicated they'll keep doing that some college leaders have suggested that so far this is just guidance and it's not law and they're not changing anything do you worry at all that the top administration might object to that. Well I think they can object I'm not sure that they have any recourse to unilaterally change the law of the land and certainly no recourse to change the Supreme Court decisions which has said the way colleges and universities do it now is completely legal but certainly with the appointment of a new Supreme Court justice and Anthony Kennedy being the swing vote on previous college admissions decisions I think there is some concern among college leaders that we may deal with a new reality and within a few years and that's that's troubling to some people and I think people are already sort of planning and thinking about what happens if in fact the Supreme Court decisions are reversed John back instead is the associate vice president of enrollment management and marketing that's quite a title at De Paul University thank you very much for joining us Mr back and said thank you for having. Getting to recant edition from n.p.r. News. The Tour de France began this morning with stage one a 201 kilometer ride with a long stretch along the western coast of France over the next several weeks cyclists will climb the Alps whooped will marshlands even cross a bit of the Basque country of Spain idyllic is that all sounds Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay a self professed cycling fanatic is a little uneasy his peace another queasy Tour de France appeared in the paper this week he joins me now welcome to our program thank you for having me so let's just get straight to the big cloud hanging over this year's Tour for time champ Christopher for whom he isn't exactly a pure fan favorite he and his team Team Sky were actually booed at a pre-race event this week what is the story I were kind of accustomed to a little bit of queasiness at toward a France time you don't have to go back terribly far to find scandalised champions of years past the most memorable of course being Lance Armstrong the 7 time winner who lost all those yellow jerseys firms cases a little bit different earlier this winter results leaked from a test for an asthma drug that he took at a race in Spain the drug itself is not considered actually even a banned drug at you know permissible levels but he really received this thing called an adverse analytical finding and so he had to explain why he had this high level of this asthma drug in his system and just days ago the u.c.i. Which is the governing body of pro cycling exonerated him this was happening in the context of the Tour de France actually discussing banning Kristopher for him from the race so it is a very strange queasy situation for the tour but candidly we've had situations and craziness in the tour before so for cycling fans this might feel somewhat like old hat teams guy has another thing in cars. Hamann with the Postal Service Team Lance Armstrong's team they use similar tactics when they write they are built to win big races like the Tour de France they have a stacked team of supporting riders who are extremely well paid whose job it is basically to pro tect and ride for Chris Froome in those mountain stages and make life easier for them which makes them very very hard to beat and is very reminiscent of some of the top teams in the past like us postal do people not like that kind of riding do you think that that that somehow is obnoxious to the fans it's a little bit boring I mean I think cycling as a professional sport has become increasingly data driven increasingly analytic cycling used to have these kind of romantic notions of you know putting cautions of the wind and trying to make your opponent suffer and now it's almost taken on a coldly sort of clinical quality to it and you know in France they love a champion who rides with quote unquote panache and some of these races have not been terribly Penn Ashfield over the last bunch of years Froome is expected to win of course who's his biggest competitor Well I'd say his biggest competitor is a guy who did not finish last year's Tour it's an Australian rider a 33 year old guy named Richie Porte and then my sort of dark horse pick for this race is a guy named Rigoberto around who is a Colombian rider he writes for an American based team called e f education 1st around placed 2nd at last year's Tour I think he could be the upset guy to really get wonky here for a 2nd there's a very interesting stage where they ride a cobblestone section of France things could get very hairy out there e.f. Is making sure they have a team that's prepared for that stage that happens Sunday the 15th you are a great lover of cycling and I guess you'll be hanging on that one and we will too I'm a hopeless romantic about it I can't help it Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal thank you very much thank you guys very much this is n.p.r. News. Live from the k. P.b.s. News room in San Diego I'm Maya triple c. The west fire that ripped through all neighborhoods near v.a. Hospice you know an Alpine yesterday is now 30 percent contained after burning 400 acres 1000 structures have been destroyed and 8 structures damaged all evacuation warning orders remain in place until further notice meteorologist Alex Hardy with the National Weather Service says high winds weren't forecast for Friday so there was no red flag warning but he says wildfire threat is there any way any fire could start and be aggressive even with light winds with or without wind because the fuel source so Dr near record dry is what we're talking about and then you throw on these hot temperatures actually were shattering records today and some of our in one valleys like Ramona these temperatures just aggravate it so when just make it worse and a heat advisory is now in effect through 9 o'clock tonight for another day of hot temperatures you're listening to Kate p.b.s. Where news matters I'm nor rom with these headlines a judge has given the federal government until tonight to provide a list of the estimated 100 children under the age of 5 who have been taken from their parents at the southern border secretary of state Mike Pompei o says progress was made during 2 days of talks with senior North Korean officials on the denuclearization of the peninsula but a statement from North Korea called the discussions regrettable and weather forecasters are watching Hurricane Beryl as it approaches the Lesser Antilles is the 1st hurricane of the Atlantic season is expected to move into the eastern Caribbean On Monday a hurricane watches in effect for Dominica which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria last year I'm nor rom n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Babble a language app that teaches real life conversations in a new language including Spanish French and German Babble's 10 to 15 minute lessons are available in the app store or online at Babel be a b b e l dot com from the Wallace Foundation fostering improvements in learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and the vitality of the arts for everyone ideas at Wallace Foundation dot org And from the any case the foundation This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Linda Wertheimer friends and neighbors a new movie is making its way to your town from The Rock Dwayne Johnson former pro wrestler current action movie superstar It's called skyscraper. My family is truck 244 said here. It was the plan whatever it takes. It brings together lots of threads that world's tallest building on fire with thousands of people inside including the hero's beautiful family Johnson is of course a hero a war veteran with only one leg who must save the day there are lots of scary moments lots of tension and if you're afraid of heights really lots of tension the director Roslyn Marshall Thurber is writing and directing his 2nd film with Mr Johnson Thurber joins us to talk about skyscraper thank you so much for doing this thank you for having me now you are in Hong Kong which is where the movie is set is that right well that's correct. Is it true that you are personally scared of heights I mean did you search your soul for something that would scare you to death . I am scared of heights my mom scared of heights I'm scared of heights Yeah I guess maybe I'm in the wrong movie maybe I should have made a ranch house or something. Do you find skyscraper scary I do in fact I'm talking you right now from the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong on the Cohen's . 116th floor and I'm very very far away from the windows. You do have some very high value stunts in this movie Dwayne Johnson climbs up the superstructure of a massive crane which is is this crane used in building the huge skyscraper or is it just parked out there well in the movie the supercar in the doing uses to jump often enter the burning building is perched atop a building that's under construction adjacent to the pearl so the Pearl which is the name of the skyscraper he climbs up the superstructure of a huge crane then realizes he's not going to make it so he swings out on the hook of the crane and jumps across the gap when crane plus chain is not quite long enough to get him into the burning building I feel free to mention this in some detail because it's in the trailer and it sounds like a great movie to me. Tell us how you arrived at the idea of a crane with a 2 short chain and bursting through the glass of a burning building yatta yatta yatta Well I think a couple things The 1st is. How do you get into a burning building when your family's trapped above the fire line 100 stories in the air because you can't go in through the bottom and climb your way up so how do you do it right so 1st I faced myself with that puzzle and then there's that light bulb moment and I remember it Stinky and and I got really excited because I had never seen anything like it in and it seemed appropriately kind of over the. Tops for this kind of picture and then the sort of beats that you talk about were doing is character will Sawyer 1st you know attempts to use the crane hooks to get in and then that goes wrong and then he doubles back in is going to try to another way but he can't cut off and he's forced to make this leap of faith you know this is all sort of stuff that you learn from Spielberg as supposed in the kind of escalation of tension and escalation of problem that pushes you toward character toward revealing character so doing Johnson has to make a choice you know what is his family mean to him What is he willing to sacrifice what is he willing to risk and it turns out he's willing to risk everything now you and I believe doing Johnson as well like to leave little scraps of humor around the wreckage of your movies isn't that right it's. So nice way of putting it it's interesting that you build up the scary tension and then there's a tiny taste of humor and then you go back to the bad stuff you know I mean Die Hard is one of my all time favorite films it's on the Mount Rushmore of action pictures with movies about 3 jokes I have a straight up comedy now certainly skyscraper isn't quite as funny as die hard but we found the moments the moments of levity and I think the film is so tense and people are gripping their chairs and kind of watching it through their fingers that you will have those moments of released so people can take the tension out and laugh and then buckle up again so did you think you know thinking about your audience and what does your audience want to see and all that kind of stuff do you think this is a good year for heroes. It's clearly a good year for superhero nds but I think that's what's so interesting about skyscraper is that it isn't about a superhero we have sequels on their side of a sea of 11 sequels in sort of a 5 week order and we're the only original picture there and we're the only picture that doesn't really have a superhero at its center when you talk about these big temples and I'm really proud of it and they don't really make these movies anymore and this is like skyscrapers and like the kind of movie I grew up watching diehard Towering Inferno the fugitive when I guess it's my love letter to those movies. Rowson Marshall Thurber he wrote and directed a skyscraper which stars a really big strong collaborator who climbs the building the movie's out next Friday thank you very much for joining us when there was a real pleasure thank you when any ouches was growing up her world revolved around sports basketball soccer even football she played it all she eventually made it to the big leagues in the offensive line of the Detroit demolition the city's now defunct professional women's football team but after 4 years on the team you know just found another calling a week ago she changed her name and changed her life surrounded by family and friends sister redeclare made her final vows to God she entered the Franciscan order she joins us now from the Irish Hills in Michigan thank you for being here you're welcome thank you for having me so congratulations just to Rita how are you feeling about what you've just done it was the best day of my life feel so good feel so secure in my identity and who I am and yeah I was just so happy to celebrate with all my friends and and family surrendering everything which feels very free playing sports was a huge part of your childhood were you also interested in the church at that point I mean sports were pretty much my God I mean it was my idol and it was what I did with all of my my time I went to church every Sunday but I really only talked to God when I needed his help and asked for him to you know help us win in the basketball game when a teammate was at the free throw line I would say a quick prayer Yeah I think lots of people still do that. So what was life like playing pro football it was so fun and amazing be the girls I met on the football team I would have never been friends with if it wasn't for football because we came from all the. Backgrounds and. Different places and you know it's these elite athletes from all different sports coming together to play football and we really just came together to play it because we had heard men talk about how awesome the sport was but never had a chance to experience it ourselves well so you have a calling you've said so where did that come from when did that come I was actually in Italy. On a pilgrimage and I was looking at these nuns walking into the church and I heard a voice in my heart say you should do this you could do this and I said to God do what become a nun Are you crazy like I didn't know people still did that I didn't know anyone who had done that and I was like I think you have the wrong person I do know who I am and what I just did last night like it but the problem was it never went away and I tried to run away from it there's this is tugging on my heart every night before I went to bed you have a calling you vocation and so yeah that's when it started and so do you think that what you did playing football what put position did you plug I play fullback stood behind the quarterback and hit people the whole game. Do you think do you think that that experience will in any way inform your life as a Franciscan nun Yeah most definitely I mean everything that we experience in our life forms us into who we are in the Lord uses everything whether it was good or bad for his good and so it has made me definitely considerate of others a team player know how to work hard and how to work with others and how to be disciplined and just really how to fight fight for what you are fighting for and fighting for the good sister redeclare yo churches of Michigan thank you very much for talking to us thank you for having me. Anne Tyler's latest novel is about a woman in her sixty's who married young had 2 children and then is widowed young she remarries and finds her life truly changed by a phone call that was probably made in error but of course that does not make it a mistake her latest novel her 21st is called a clock dance it has us so Watto cactus on the cover but and Tyler's novels almost always lead back to Baltimore and that's where she was at member station wy p.r. When she spoke to Weekend Edition Scott Simon what led to the creation in your imagination of this woman in her sixty's will Adric Well I think several things 1st I've been thinking about how we decide at certain points in our lives. Who to be what kind of grown up we're going to be for instance when we're children and much of the novel is set at different points in her life when she's alive and when she's 21 and she's 41 before it ends up at 61 and I think each of those moments is a sort of pivot for her in some way or another Willow gets a phone call from a stranger one day saying I need your help now she has every practical reason in the world to say it's not me you you want right yes she's a woman sort of at what she imagines to be the end of the road everything is settled nobody much needs her she would love to have grandchildren but that doesn't seem likely to happen her sons live far away and it's a cool relationship so of course she's just very vulnerable to this kind of thing of the person who calls literally says we will be waiting with our noses pressed to the window for you to get here and help out how could you resist we should explain it to the next door neighbor of a woman who was briefly involved with one of her sons yes a very tenuous connection and she has never met the woman but the neighbor who calls imagines that she is the woman's mother in law so that's how it all gets started I ask about your own childhood. Well it was very isolated I was raised in something that people call a commune for a long time and so I think that helped me as a writer look at things from a distance a little bit when I look at the world of Quaker commune and I was reminded of the the phrase from Quaker meeting in the world but not of it yes I suppose that still true in a way it's funny i.e. I left that commune when I was 11 but I really think the 1st 12 years of your life are the most important and for me the most clearly remembered I swear almost every moment of those 1st years I remember I'm trying to think I cannot think of another novel I've read that let you know directly and bluntly widowhood is rough yes it's unbearable basically yeah there's and this is something you know in your own life yes I remember when my husband died having the thought that well as father talks about when he was talking about his wife's death I thought I don't know hi I'm going to get through the rest of my life without him and then I thought Well Ok but at least right now I'm drinking this cup of coffee and it tastes good it's a nice sunny morning and I'll just get through this this this is Ok I can do this and I do think that most people who lose a wife or husband stumble across that approach to you are as associated with Baltimore as much as. I'm going to say Cal Ripken Jr John Waters and Ira Glass. 3 already I know I'm in good company so what are your books to do it in Baltimore and are. Well people don't know this but in spite of its reputation Baltimore is a very kind hearted city people are genuinely warm to each other they mean well all with it's it's not what people imagine and you learn this after you've been here a long while I mean 2021 novel set in Baltimore Well it also has a lot of color and grit we have to say and you know things going on in it that I don't I almost wonder if I could sat on novel in another city and have it be the same kind of writing and I'm not sure I could. Well you've won so many awards the most respected one say for the Nobel and of course your name is often mentioned 2 words mean anything to you. It sounds fake to say they don't and of course I like to be noticed by I it's funny it's all really about what you think yourself you know it's a prize doesn't have much to do with whether I think the book deserved the prize or not you were in your I don't want to be on gallant but. Well maybe I'm 76 All right God bless. I have 2 or 3 novels working well I'm already writing a novel actually I like to I like to be writing a novel or at least in the beginning stages when the latest novel is coming out because then that makes me not focus particularly on the reception of the latest novel I'm thinking more about the story I'm telling myself right now the new one 0 my gosh can you you wouldn't want to broach a sentence or describe that with us which are. It's about a man who's. Well if there's anything less promising than writing a book about of a woman enters sixty's it's about and I do. Sometimes I think I might be challenging the reader actually. And Tyler her novel her 21st clock parents thanks so much for being with us. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Linda Wertheimer. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Arcus Foundation dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony with one another and the natural world more about artists and its partners at Arcus Foundation dot org from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation providing scholarships throughout the nation to exceptionally high performing students with financial need for middle school or college more information about Cook scholarships is available at j k c f dot org And from listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station. P.b.s. Is supported by sun powered by stellar solar celebrating 20 years powering San Diego homes and businesses sun powered by stellar solar was voted 1st in the category of best solar power company in the 27000 Union Tribune readers poll learn more at stellar solar dot net Loyd pest control proud supporters of one book one San Diego Lloyd pest control offers termite solutions and a defense against ants fleas and spiders they can be reached at 1800 bad bugs or online at bad bugs dot com. The u.s. Imposed $34000000000.00 worth of tariffs against China China immediately answered with tariffs against the u.s. Some call it the official start of the trade war if so who are the casualties and who stands to gain we'll hear from people whose livelihoods are on the line and find out what they're doing to adapt Plus the latest from World Cup on the next All Things Considered from n.p.r. News Saturday at 5 pm on p.b.s. Where news matters the k.p.s. Vehicle donation program is available to take the used vehicle you no longer want when you call 1877 k. P.b.s. Car proceeds from your used car will help support Public Radio and your donation may help you at tax time call 1877 k p.b.s. Car or donate online at www dot car easy dot org This is member supported k p b s San Diego k 206. And k.q. Vo Calexico where news matters. From n.p.r. News in Washington d.c. This is Weekend Edition. I'm Linda Wertheimer President Trump is spending the weekend looking at his shortlist of Supreme Court candidates e.p.a. Administrator Scott Pruitt is gone after months of high profile scandals in his wake of a new view of government. The president's trade war with China is officially underway we hear from one group caught in the middle American soybean farmers one tells us he doesn't want help to survive a trade war he wants it over by a spring planting farmer says. We don't like to take handouts and really would rather have us negotiated out also the World Cup 1st our newscast it's Saturday July 7th one again. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington and Barbara Kline the u.s. And North Korea are releasing contradictory assessments today after Secretary of State Mike pump Ayos denuclearization talks with North Korean officials in pyung young pale says progress was made but as N.P.R.'s Elise Hu reports from Seoul The North says otherwise the top u.s. Diplomat took part in 2 days of talks in North Korea in an effort to firm up the broad agreement struck between President Trump and then last month Secretary pump aoe told reporters he had hours of productive conversations but just after his plane left North Korea Pyongyang called the talks regrettable and accused Washington of making unilateral demands for denuclearization this type of disagreement has led previous u.s. North Korea deals to fail North Korea's longstanding position on denuclearization has favored a phased approach u.s. Administrations including this one have taken a harder line they call for complete irreversible verifiable denuclearization which North Korea typically rejects n.p.r. News Seoul. British Prime Minister to resign May says she now has a plan in hand for how to leave the European Union from London N.P.R.'s Alice Fordham reports her announcement follows a very long meeting with her senior ministers to reason may emerge from a marathon meeting of the country retreat checkers to say that has to happen and have finally settled on a proposal she can take to the e.u. This is 2 years after the u.k. Voted for it in a referendum and less than a year when the country is formally out of the block the plan includes a United Kingdom European Union Free Trade Zone and seems to seek some version of free movement of goods but not of people that's something officials have said they will never accept more negotiations probably lie ahead Alice Fordham n.p.r. News London in Chicago hundreds of protesters are expected to.