And I'm Steve Inskeep federal prosecutors finished their case against President prompts former campaign chairman Monday one witness said man a Ford mysteriously got a $16000000.00 loan Also this hour a man deported back to Guatemala tries to recover his 7 year old from the United States and Lauren Frayer reports on the biggest government health plan in the world it's not Obamacare but India's Moti Care It's Tuesday August 14th Calley Berry is 52 years old. And the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman a heavily trafficked highway bridge has collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa and the head of the local ambulance service says there are dozens of dead N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports at least 2 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble around noon during a torrential rain storm the bridge gave way over a river bed and railway tracks in a densely inhabited area Italian state run t.v. Showed images of a $200.00 yard long section of the bridge that collapsed apparently after a central piling gave way Italian officials said some 10 vehicles were crossing the bridge at the time of the collapse the bridge is a viaduct that runs over shopping centers factories some homes the general on the line railway line and the pull of it a river hundreds of rescue workers and firefighters are at the scene the transport minister the needle described as what seems like an immense tragedy Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. News Rome London police have arrested a man suspected of driving into barricades around the u.k. Parliament building today 3 people were hurt but their injuries are said to not be life threatening British police are investigating the matter as a potential terrorism case the Taliban have overrun an Army base in northern Afghanistan and they've killed more than $700.00 soldiers the attack ums even as Afghan security forces struggled to repel the insurgents who launched a surprise attack on another city near Kabul N.P.R.'s Dia deed reports from Islamabad the Taliban surrounded the base in the 1st province for 3 days and they overran it off to soldiers run out of that initial food and water the insurgents took dozens more soldiers as captives it was another blow to the Afghan government his forces a still fighting the Taliban in the city of Hassani that insurgents launched a surprise attack 5 days ago but today it appeared that Afghan forces aided by u.s. Military advises shifted the fighting out of the city. It's fighting and Hosni has killed at least 120 security forces and civilians and an estimated 200 insurgents the u.n. Says there reported food and water shortages and the main hospital is overwhelmed to have date n.p.r. News Islam a bad authorities in California say a firefighter from Utah has been killed fighting the Mendocino complex the state's largest ever wildfire It has scorched more than 500 square miles north of San Francisco Mendocino County California Sheriff Thomas Allman is urging people to he evacuation warnings where citizens will decided not to leave is mandatory evacuation for whatever reason I'm urging all citizens. To merely for evacuation warnings the warnings and I understand this could happen to a firefighter It certainly could happen to citizens 6 firefighters have been killed fighting fires in California this season you're listening to n.p.r. . There are primaries in 4 states today Connecticut Minnesota Vermont and Wisconsin in Minnesota former Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty is seeking the nomination to regain his old seat in Vermont Democrat Christine hull quizzed is seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination she is one of the few transgender people to have sought political office a report is due out today on allegations of child sexual abuse within 6 Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania from member station w e essay on Lee herring reports this follows a nearly 2 year investigation by a grand jury the report covers a period of more than 7 decades Jim Vansickle testified before the grand jury after keeping his abuse a secret for 36 years he says it's empowering for survivors to share their stories given the truth that's what these survivors want to do they want to say their truth they want to take ownership of their life back somebody had taken a piece of their soul Vansickle expects more survivors to come forward following the report some names have been redacted as about 2 dozen clergy claim their report portrays them unfairly the state's high court said last month the grand jury identified more than 300 priests it says committed abuse or tried to conceal it for n.p.r. 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Congressional reporter Kelsey Snell is in our studios this morning hi Kelsey a there are so why is Minnesota so interesting well yet a strange situation where both senators are up for reelection at the same time that's where yeah it is strange it's of both of them are women both of them are Democrats and they're both likely to win these primaries we're talking about Tina Smith who was appointed to fill the seat that was vacated by Al Franken and that's why the timing is and yes these are together here Al Franken left in the middle of his his term and so Tina Smith is running to keep the rest of her and her term until remaining 2 years and then you have Amy club which are who is kind of rumored to be one of those potential Democrats in the 2020 mix she's quite popular in the state and she's likely very safe there but we're also looking at a full half of the state's congressional races being in toss up so that's really rare so you've got 2 Democrat toss ups and 2 Republican toss ups in that area the Democrats are fighting to keep their seat which is also kind of rare in this year when it's been mostly Republicans in the house trying to to save their seats it's a it's a very strange mix in Minnesota in part just because it's a very purple state with a really strong mix of Republicans Democrats are all in cities and which is they have Democrats want to chance of taking the house and they have to protect their own seats and then get some Republicans as easily but you do have some of these majority maker seats happening in Minnesota take Erik Paulson who is in the suburbs of there that Minneapolis he's pretty vulnerable and Democrats hope to pick that up in November Other news in Minnesota you have outgoing Congressman Keith Ellison who seems to be facing potential. To hear what's the latest He's a prominent progressive in the House who decided not to run for his seat again to run for attorney general instead in the state of Minnesota but over the weekend the son of a former girlfriend accused him of physical abuse and the former girlfriend then followed up on those accusations Alison is denying them but it's casting a shadow over the primaries as there's more investigation into what happened here Ok travel with me nearby from Minnesota to Wisconsin where there's also voting today yes neighbors up in that upper Midwest we've got guns and you have both Paul Ryan the of the House speaker he's leaving his seat is up now and it is an open seat and it is a seriously contested seat there are 5 Republicans running there and Democrats hope to pick it up but it's more than likely going to go to the Republican you also have Scott Walker who is running for governor there he has a primary challenge but it's expected that he will go up against a Democrat in November and it's supposed to bring a lot of energy out to Wisconsin to have both of those really prominent seats in play Ok the Kelsey's now electoral map now travels northeast of Ramana and got another place. Yeah over in Connecticut you have a potentially pair of Sturrock candidates that are running out there in the upper in the upper northeast in Vermont you have Christine help us who's running to be the 1st transgender governor in Vermont and she's running against an incumbent Republican there who has become increasingly unpopular so she's got a pretty good chance you also over in Connecticut have Johanna Hayes is running to be the 1st African-American woman to represent that state now she lost her state's primary indorsement but she's been endorsed by some really big prominent 2020 Democrats again we're talking about Camila Harris of California and Chris Murphy of Connecticut who have come to her aid in to kind of push her forward as a as a strong candidate there and I can feel the energy of an election year growing and growing and we're getting close yeah that's N.P.R.'s Nell thanks girls thank you. We have a story that. Mourning of a father he's a man from a troubled country in Central America and when he tried to migrate to the United States the u.s. Sent him back without his son N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports on families still trying to reunify after the trumpet ministration gave up a 0 tolerance policy that separated them the last time Pablo saw his son was in Texas Pablo wanted to find work in the u.s. So the 2 of them made the trip from Guatemala they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico illegally and turn themselves into Border Patrol agents father and son were detained together until Pablo says his 7 year old was taken away make it out on me while I laugh which is nothing new but I suppose they took him from my arms by force and my son started to cry he started to scream and grabbed the shirt I had on my son grabbed on to me with all of his strength so that they wouldn't take him from my arms Pablo son is one of nearly 3000 children who are separated from their parents by u.s. Immigration officials at the southwest border Pablo was deported back to Guatemala immigration officials tried to assure him that his son would follow in a week that was 3 months ago most of where they would be able to see no need hope again you can't live without a child it's destroying us psychologically We're getting sick we're going crazy we can't work anymore we can't do anything because we're thinking about our son how he's suffering Pablo and his wife Fabiana don't want to give their full names because they're afraid immigration authorities could postpone their reunion with their son looking good Ok I want them to do the just thing in return quickly the trumpet ministration has been under increasing pressure to reunite these families about 3 $180.00 children are still in u.s. Custody because their parents were deported without them at 1st the administration said the a.c.l.u. And immigrant rights groups should be the ones to find the parents but a federal judge ordered the government to do more now that the administration has produced a detailed plan one that still leans heavily on immigrant advocates the same way as have told us again and again that they just don't. Stand why the u.s. Won't send their children back Claire along is a researcher with Human Rights Watch the nonprofit has been tracking these parents down long put me on the phone with 2 families in Guatemala she says she often has nothing more to go on than a name and a town because that's all that u.s. Officials have provided what that means is driving 200 miles from the capital of quantum are happens at the Highlands to areas where people mostly speak indigenous languages the language barrier isn't the only obstacle the roads are bad these areas are sometimes controlled by gangs and people distrust outsiders Long says it's a slow process when she does find the parents Long says most are baffled by what happened to them the parents with us both that have told me almost universally that they believed when they were being separated from their children that the child would go with them and now months have gone by and they still don't understand why they don't have their child the trumpet ministration has insisted these parents agreed to leave their children behind in the u.s. Some may have thought their children could have a better life here but that's not what I heard from another Guatemalan father a man named Marcel Lino he crossed the border illegally with his 8 year old daughter in May They were separated several days later and he hasn't seen her since me until now. He is not silent on this I wanted to come back with my daughter but they said no they said I had to come back here 1st and that she would come back after Marsa Leno and his wife also didn't want to give their full names because they want to get their daughter back as quickly as possible they spent weeks trying to get information finally a relative in the u.s. Was able to find their daughter at a government sponsored shelter in Arizona but Marsal ino says he and his wife still feel disconnected from her and he is couple and yeah you know she's over there and we don't know how she is if she's doing well or if she's sick we don't know because she's far from here in the few phone conversations they've had with their daughter Marsa Leno's wife. Has avoided telling her one thing that her father was deported back to Guatemala because they don't want her to feel abandoned in the u.s. Pablo and Fabiana the parents we heard from earlier say that's exactly how their son feels he's in a shelter in Texas maybe who would give up because the young man they said Dad you left and you abandoned you left me here alone I want to be with he will come you get me that's what he told me over the phone yelling crying Pablo says sometimes their son cries so much on the phone that it's hard to understand what he's saying he's still very young they say he just turned 8 years old in the shelter Joel Rose n.p.r. News a group of black business leaders has launched a new political action committee to back candidates who support economic causes that benefit African-Americans Here's more from N.P.R.'s Scott Neuman the black economic alliance bills itself as nonpartisan but its 1st for endorsements announced Monday are all Democrats they are Virginia Senator Tim Kaine who is running for reelection and 3 other candidates who are seeking governorships Ben Jealous in Maryland is a former n.w.a. C.p. President and businessman Richard Cordray is the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau He's vying to become a higher next governor and Georgia Stacey Abrams hopes to make history as the country's 1st African-American woman to be elected governor the alliance's director Akun a Cook says it's choosing its candidates carefully we went through an exhaustive process of trying to understand candidates who are running in states and districts that are at least 10 percent African-American in competitive races and also went through a process of evaluating the candidates based on their background and their commitments to issues around economic empowerment and security in the black community the Pac starts with 3500000 from 55 donors including heavy hitting backers from the black business community people such as Ken Chenault a former c.e.o. Of American Express. Jamal Simmons of hill t.v. Is a former Democratic consultant he says what's unique about the black economic alliance is that it's not just focused on electing black candidates so Ben Jealous and Stacy Abrams are on the list but so is Tim Kaine from Virginia Simmons says in the old days many black entrepreneurs and business people who put their money behind candidates took what he calls the Michael Jordan approach quietly writing a check but not drawing too much attention to it I think we're now in the low Bron James era where people are willing to not only raise the money but speak up and make a forceful statement about why Maryland's Ben Jealous who is hoping to unseat incumbent Republican governor Larry Hogan in November says he's thankful for the endorsement they frankly bring the sort of vision and support. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene we have brought you more than a few stories about the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare but Moti care nickname for India's prime minister Narendra Modi is actually the biggest government health plan in the world Modi wants to give poor Indians health insurance they can use to buy private care N.P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports. This is the largest physical medicine and rehab unit in the private space and Dr me here shows me around by then and Bonnie hospital it's one of the top hospitals in Asia there's a robotics rehab unit in the state of the art cancer center yes we do gender reassignment surgery here there are marble hallways free why for so get into law the rehab the large waiting area the day the hotel the transit he has knowledge of French windows we have the Sky box deafened private hospitals like this one cater to paying customers medical tourists come from as far as the us to get hip replacements another surgery much cheaper than back home but most locals cannot afford this 90 percent of Indians go to public hospitals care in those is free but nowhere near as sophisticated. In a one room house in a moment as slums Shaheen Khan says cross-legged on the cement floor in pain he's got gallstones it because they get bit by bit detail even put explains how her family rushed her to the city's cyan hospital a government facility back in June doctors told her they would operate but after 8 days they discharged her there weren't enough beds patients were sharing mattresses on the floor full of 100 good weather to get any They said we don't have space in our hospital yet there are so many patients and there's a risk of infection spreading so it's better for you to go home they do and they said they'd call when a bed opens up it's been 6 weeks her phone hasn't rung she is a widow unable to work living. Offer brother just like in the us illness often bankrupts whole families in India people like Shaheen are the target of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new health plan offering the poorest half of India more than 500000000 people health insurance to apply toward private care. Is the one who . Health care should be accessible and affordable the prime minister said no radio address this spring and each family would get more than $7200.00 in annual coverage she said which might now buy a lot of health care in the u.s. But goes a long way in India the program is expected to roll out by the end of this year Modi is running for reelection next year this is a very nice appealing from a political perspective as you can imagine Ravi Rama Mortie is a professor of international business who studied India's health system and its government hospitals there are poorly staffed open that often doesn't work that employees who sometimes don't show up even the poor who they can at all find the means often will look for a private solution Moti care could help them and it's easier to shepherd patients into less crowded private hospitals than revamp all the public ones. 100 miles outside of Mumbai a big rural government hospital is completely full and a bit chaotic a world away from the private hospitals marble lobby is a bloody gurney in the hall here but every patient we approached was satisfied with their care his circle because it's totally free it says the director of the Nashik District Hospital Dr Suresh he feels proud India is a developing country that has managed to provide free health care however rudimentary now Modi care seeks to improve it India spends only about 4 percent of its g.d.p. On health care the Us By contrast spends nearly 17 percent Ravi Rama more to the health care expert says the Indian government can. Afford Modi care if least for now one or $2000000000.00 is not more than what the Indian government can afford but these programs have a way of exploring over time then it can actually get to be a bigger constraint these are programs you can never pull back from Modi this is good politics for India this may be a giant step toward better health care for 1300000000 people Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News Mumbai 2 bits of information to give you now in the state of Virginia a state inspection of a facility holding immigrant children finds that some of these children were restrained by strapping them to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads that's one piece of information here's the other the investigators did not find enough evidence to meet state standards for determining that the children were abused N.P.R.'s Richard Gonzales reports the investigation was conducted by the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice in response to a federal lawsuit filed in October 27th teen it alleges that immigrant minors at the Shenandoah Valley juvenile center are subject to routine verbal abuse and physical assault by staff and quote the extreme and inappropriate use of restraints and seclusion under federal law such minors known as unaccompanied children who cross the border without their parents are supposed to be placed in the least restrictive setting possible in June of this year the Associated Press reported that the children at the Shenandoah Center were stripped of their clothes and locked in solitary confinement strapped to chairs with bags over their heads soon thereafter Virginia governor Ralph Northam ordered an investigation in late June state investigators visited Shenandoah but by that time none of the immigrant minors who had originally made sworn depositions about abuse were still there they had either been transferred to other facilities or had been deported back to. Their home countries in a 12 page report The State investigators say they found that Shenandoah staff were trained in the use of restraint chairs and devices called mesh spit guards these devices can be used to keep a quote out of control resident from spitting or biting a staff member the report says quote interviews with staff and residents revealed that due process is not well understood and this lack of understanding appears to be related to language barriers and quote the report concludes that the state investigators found no evidence of abuse or neglect but it recommends better staff training to help it understand the cultural backgrounds of the immigrant minors and the hiring of bilingual staff governor Northam a plot of the quote quick and comprehensive examination by state investigators but advocates for the immigrant children vowed to press on with their lawsuit Meanwhile members of the Senate have called for an inspection of all federal facilities housing immigrant children Richard Gonzales n.p.r. 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Shock as people witnessed a large section of a highway bridge collapse near the port city of Genoa authorities believe dozens of people were killed it gave way during stormy weather authorities in northern California say a firefighter from Utah has been killed battling the Mendocino complex fire it's the state's largest wildfire on record most of us some of the National Park in California is reopening today as were David Rimmer with Capital Public Radio says it's been closed for nearly 3 weeks because of a wildfire there the closure happened during peak tourist season and cost businesses millions of dollars the famous mayor post a grove of giants acoa has reopened yesterday but the fires continue to burn on the western side of the park there are primaries today in 4 states Wisconsin Minnesota Vermont and Connecticut Laura white with Wisconsin Public Radio says 8 Democratic candidates are competing to go up against incumbent Republican governor Scott Walker in November Walker has been touting an historically low unemployment rate on the campaign trail Democrats are bashing him for a $4500000000.00 tax deal for Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn Walker is seeking his 3rd term in office candidates are also eyeing House speaker Paul Ryan's congressional seat he's not seeking re-election this is n.p.r. News. Good morning welcome to Morning Edition on p.b.s. I'm Deb Welsh a San Diego federal judge will visit the border before deciding on a government request to dismiss a lawsuit designed to stop cross border sewage spills federal officials argue the International Boundary and Water Commission did not create the pollution so it's not responsible a lawyer representing the port into South Bay cities disagreed Imperial Beach mare surged to Dina began the fight to challenge the federal government. The very emotional morning from a. Vivid memory is I'm taking my kids to the emergency room are you know we have little kids here our kids are getting sick or like you are doing the sec and are sorry but a long road in a really tough fight it really meant a lot to me that our members of our community were here to support that Judge shift remailer could issue a ruling on the dismissal request soon coming up on Morning Edition extreme heat may be keeping a plant common in the southern California desert from blooming we've seen a shift but we don't know if it's are related to precipitation by their aunts or temperature or something else our researchers at San Diego State and elsewhere in California are tracking the effects of climate change on plants at 545 today will be similar to Monday for Wednesday and Thursday monsoonal moisture will return bringing an increase in humidity This is Morning Edition r.k. P.b.s. Where news matters. 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Well we don't know it was around noon local time and it was a torrential rain storm the moat around the bridge is called the Morandi bridge just gave way over a river bed and railway tracks and it's in a densely inhabited area Italian state run t.v. Showed images which you've probably also seen it's a $200.00 yard long section of the bridge it collapsed apparently after a central pile and gave way Italian officials say some 10 vehicles were crossing the bridge at the time of the collapse a time in t.v. Just reported that 2 people have been extracted from the rubble and are then taken to hospitals helicopters are flying over the rubble and hundreds of rescue workers and firefighters are at the scene that the attorney and Transport Minister Danino 29 he described as what seems like immense tragedy Yeah you mentioned a central pylon I just want to describe this bridge I mean some bridges would be a suspension bridge or it's kind of hanging on cables from towers overhead This is one of those simpler bridges really that just has supports directly underneath it and it seems that those supports were the things that the collapse right are right that it's a it's essentially what's called a viaduct and it runs it runs over shopping centers factories homes the general Milan railway line and the punch of it a river the t.v. Images show the central piling that had just collapsed in in the rubble in the riverbed now generally it's a really unusual Italian city it's a major urban area crossed by many very very ugly elevated highways that soar over these very densely and have a date areas and it was built in the 1960 s. Having lived in Italy as long as you have Sylvia I'm sure that you and many other people are asking themselves haven't I crossed that bridge at some point I have indeed not recently but I have definitely in the past and I was always amazed that . You know it it's not a nice insatiate let me tell you it's cars are going so fast and you're just over the. City it's a very it's a very disturbing sensation at least for me it was so we have this bridge collapse we know that the pylon underneath that gave way we don't know yet why it would be and I'm sure that's going to be a long process finding it out and we're going to have to be direct about what we know and we don't know but want to mention that at least 10 people were killed you said about 10 vehicles seem to have gone down with the bridge and isn't this the 2nd major highway incident in Italy in recent days absolutely just last week 2 trucks one transporting on implantable materials collided on the highway near belong Yeah another very heavily trafficked area in the summer vacation time there was a massive explosion that caused the partial collapse of the highway bridge with fire spreading to a car park below where numerous cars caught fire and exploded Ok Sylvia thanks very much really appreciate it. Thank you state N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reporting this morning from Italy where the main news is out of general where a bridge collapsed. A long awaited report on child sex abuse within the Catholic Church is expected to be released in Pennsylvania this afternoon this is the culmination of a nearly 2 year grand jury investigation into 6 Pennsylvania diocese for member station in Pittsburgh on Lee herring reports the grand jury investigation is expected to name more than $300.00 priests it says sexually abused minors are tried to cover up the abuse the panel examined a span of more than 70 years and heard testimony from grown men and women who say they were abused decades ago Jim Vansickle was among them he says he was 1st molested by a young priest in 1981 here not at the time I don't think I realized you know I was being groped I was being touched in places where you you know normally would not allow that Vansickle kept his trauma secret for 36 years he says his mental health and home life suffered because of it but then he read in the news that someone else had accused the same priest of abuse my 1st feeling was for this kid and I cried and I prayed that. That this young man wouldn't be alone. And that's why step forward Vansickle testified before the grand jury last year his abuse like many other cases occurred too long ago to be prosecuted under Pennsylvania law but the grand jury found that his alleged abuser victimized 2 other boys more recently and the state's attorney general indicted the priest in those cases the grand jury's unlikely to yield many more charges but Father Tom Aris a columnist at Religion News Service says the investigation promotes transparency we have to make sure that every child is safe and we have to do our due diligence to make sure that that's a reality the u.s. Conference of Catholic bishops' an activist series of reforms starting more than 15 years ago those moves were designed to address clergy sex abuse more directly Kathleen McChesney formerly a top ranking official at the f.b.i. Launched the group's Office of Child Protection to enforce prevention and reporting measures she says Pennsylvania's investigation will help gauge their effectiveness it's important to know whether or not the problem is being addressed and people are being held or were held accountable as appropriate time about 2 dozen current and former clergy have raised concerns about due process they say the forthcoming grand jury report portrays them unfairly they appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in June asking that their names be withheld that's why the findings are set to be released in redacted form today the final report won't be made public until the court can consider the challengers claims on an individual basis that could be the last twist in an investigation some diocese once tried to shut down altogether officials at all 6 Pennsylvania diocese included in the probe now say they support releasing the grand jury's findings for n.p.r. News I'm only haring in Pittsburgh. 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Good morning I'm Tory packed with a check on traffic a tropical or continues in San Pasqual Valley from yesterday's brush fire they still have the 78 closed at San Pasqual road and the opposite end of town the court on a bridge traffic is heavy again for us it's solid from the 5 over the core not on 3rd street backed up heading to North Island north 5 is starting to back up out of National City behind the bridge so south of team kind of backing up as you get on to the northbound 5 north they don't find that still pretty decent out of South Bay of 54 to the 52 a pretty nice clear shot at Cape p.b.s. Your vehicle donation will help us continue to provide the high quality programming you expect donating is easy call 1877 p.b.s. Car you're listening to k. P.b.s. 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I'm Deb Welsh The man accused of being the east area rapist and Golden State killer is facing a 13th homicide charge Capital Public Radio's Drew says or says Joseph De Angelo is now charged with the murder of a sale to community college professor in 1975 the victim was shot to death as he tried to stop the kidnapping of his 16 year old daughter from their home police say the gun used in the shooting was stolen during an earlier home burglary one of more than 100 committed by a man investigators dubbed the vice Illya ransack or buy sell you a police chief Jason Salazar says they have long believed those cases were linked to the east area rapist and Golden State killer they say crimes abruptly ended in December of $75.00 you know a few months later the stereo read this crime to be here in the Sacramento area occurring between 19861979 in that jurisdiction beginning at the same time Joseph years alone moved to the 2nd Mary as an Auburn police officer after leaving the Exeter Police Department in 1976 Exeter is right outside vice Ilya the Angelo was arrested in April when detectives uploaded the d.n.a. Profile from a Ventura County rape attributed to the Golden State killer to a genealogy website they got a match with the relative of D'Angelo they later took the Angelos d.n.a. From a car door handle and a tissue and matched it to the Ventura rape and several other crimes in Sacramento I drew Sansar k. P.b.s. News time 545 is climate change affecting how plants reproduce that's the question behind a project lodging as head Diego State and 18 other California universities this fall k p b s education reporter Megan Burke's introduces us to some of the scientists taking part and the native plant they're studying justice in our state drops on the boulder repassing to the Imperial Valley a stone structure called Desert View tower has offered motorists sweeping views. The desert floor since 1923 now it could offer a glimpse into how climate change is affecting the plants. Is an evolutionary plant ecologist at State University the towers owners are letting her and her students track the reproductive cycle of the choice cacti on their property and then the. Scientific name but the common name. Is common in Southern California waste of cylindrical section is covered in fine spines at the catch the sunlight. Florist and master student Ryan noticed this year the Choi escaped their spring. Except those of the tower they fared better than a weekly drink of water so the 2 are back to see if the flowers develops fruit and in them seats. Large. Studies on the East Coast have found widespread changes in plant reproductive cycles as the earth warms on the West Coast a $1500000.00 grant from the National Science Foundation will help researchers like Flores ask whether that's happening here and whether it's linked to climate change we've seen a shift but we don't know if related to precipitation or temperature or something else so if we have historical data then we can. That historical data lives here pressed onto paper and cabinets deep in the life sciences building at San Diego State. Michael Simpson is curator of the. Oppressed desert there's a lot of detail that we can study we can. Look at the fruits. We can also extract d.n.a. With the Ask have grant or Barry across the state will upload high resolution photos of their specimens and information about where and when they were collected to a central database as we do this for all of California we can begin to get a and idea as to where they flowered when they fruited the past versus the present and they can use a digital map to make comparisons by location one hypothesis is there flowering earlier in the season and we don't have enough data to prove that but I think we will have enough. 3 years. Back at Desert View tower Florence Kentucky at Scholar's choice after Troy looking for fruit why they cannot really find anything that's that sat even on the sections covered with protective backs where floors Renteria poly of the flowers by hand the fruit tried out before it could make sure all the things that when we came here and we did that. We saw that. They're not going to say Sure no cure and see all of the fruits hardly an aborted so that's kind of scary to see all of these plants not producing 6 surely the plant can still clone itself by dropping sections off its branches to take root elsewhere but student Ryan bugs says the adaptation isn't a failsafe some magic in that you but often you start cloning and there is just a whole population of you and let's say your allergic to strawberries and the only food source you have to strawberries every single one of you is going to die because you can't eat so there's not enough genetic diversity to keep going some species can evolve and adapt but that's going to take a lot of time and. They don't have that much time back and Flores will continue to track the choice to see if this year is an anomaly or a symptom of climate change in the meantime they'll take the spiky dried fruit back to the office to see if they can sell. Some seeds make in Berks k. P.b.s. News it's 550 Time for a look at Tuesday morning traffic Good morning Tory Pac Good morning to you dabble a traffic alert continues in samples from yesterday's brush fire they still have the 78 closed at San Pasqual road bridge traffic is heavy over decor not again for us from the 5 over and northbound fives have been affected by that it's backed up pretty solid behind it from the 54 north they don't live just now slowing down here from 47th in the north he pay p.b.s. Strong for future San Diego with a gift in your will trust a retirement plan but a k. P.b.s. Dot org slash plan giving to learn more for some Tory Pac patchy low clouds and morning fog will give way to clearing today look for some light winds to coastal highs near 81 in those highs up to 85 This is Morning Edition on p.b.s. Where news matters sometimes one voice when I say. This black can drive a story home folks. Criminalized as a black man for being black and illustrate a bigger truth I did feel. As I know that there are folks who. Listen to all things considered and hear the bigger picture every afternoon. This is k. P.b.s. Sandiego k 206 AC lawyer and Calexico. Turkey's president asks his people to boycott us electronics Marketplace Morning Report is supported by Legal Zoom helping Americans protect their families and assets with last will and living trust estate plans Morant Legal Zoom dot com slash marketplace and on line test prep for the a c. T. And s a t that's designed to improve schoolers students can get video lessons practice questions and expert support on line at Magoo shot com I'm David Brancaccio in New York the Turkish lira has found some footing this morning and for the 1st time in days it's up by 5 percent right now at $6.00 to the dollar still the currency is down by nearly a 3rd this month alone in this morning a new development from Turkey's president earlier one who sees Turkey is under economic attack he wants to send a signal to America Marketplace's Justin hoes been following this president everyone says the country will boycott American electronic goods as in smartphones Here's the quote They have i Phones But on the other hand there are Samsung's early ones singled out the Turkish electronics brand Vestal and said its citizens will use their phones instead that's only has about a 5 to 6 percent market share in Turkey according to the estimable based Hawk invest but stock investors shot up 5 percent in Turkey this morning and how did these comments stack up against what the Turkish president said last week about this financial crisis it's a variation on a theme last week he called on the citizens to convert their dollars into lira that was an effort to stop Iran's value from falling more ends you can argue that this is just another way to drive people away from American products and currencies now it's not exactly clear how enforce this boycott yet but it's interesting that he singling out i Phones They're inexpensive American product and with the rise in the dollar lately the i Phone's been even more expensive in Turkey also Bloomberg noted this morning that the Venus phones use parts from call com and run Google's Android software so American companies may still be selling the turkey. All right Marketplace's Justin have thank you let us do the numbers the 100 index in London is down to 10 percent Dax in Germany up a 10th percent Dow and s. And p. Futures up 3 tenths percent now imagine if during the financial crisis 10 years ago if I had said this mess is going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars right out of your pocket that's the new calculation from the Federal Reserve in San Francisco which looks at the lingering effects of the Great Recession Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman reports the 2008 financial crisis shaved 7 percent off u.s. Economic growth over the past decade according to the Fed report it concludes that the shortfall is permanent and it's cost every American $70000.00 on average in Lost lifetime income lead author Regis Barney Sean says financial panic banks failing and refusing to lend likely slowed the formation of new companies you're preventing the emergence of thought it's because they cannot find financing they are like in this missing generation of startups Harvard economist Jason Furman says lack of financing depressed spending on research and development likely also slowing down new job creation when you have the unemployment rate so high for so long it takes human toll people become long term unemployed they exit their workforce Firman says the impact has been worst for less educated workers whose job prospects and incomes have been the slowest to recover I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace. 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A fraud targeting older Americans it was terrible in the old days when crooks would steal monthly Social Security checks by grabbing them out of mailboxes electronic payments were a solution but Marketplace's senior economic contributor Chris Farrell is at a Retirement Research Consortium conference recently when a topic stopped him in his tracks a professor at the Wharton Business School head research about the danger of people losing not one monthly retirement check but the whole retirement nest egg the whole thing Chris what she raised is with the aging of the population in people are more and more reliant on for one case and for 3 B.C.'s retirement savings plans and most people they take them as a lump sum but the con artists the scamps Toure's the fraudsters What if they can get at your whole for a one k. And she said this is a growing problem and I'm sitting there and I was chilled thinking about what this might mean for someone to lose all their money and if someone is saved these could be deep into the 6 figures or more exactly so this is where there's a movement in the financial services industry and one of the things that Congress did in the president's side recently and this was a good move and it's called a senior Safe Act and this provides for financial advisors and financial firms essentially a safe harbor from worrying about violating privacy laws or certain liabilities so if they see some suspicious activity going on they can highlight it but a lot more needs to be done because the population is aging and then you raise the issue about mild cognitive decline the kind of the column that comes as we get older so we have a vulnerable population and a lot of them are going to have a lump sum of money if there's a lump sum of money that the con artists can get their hands on they're going to go for it now an important line of defense not just financial advisors noticing some discrepancy or the local bank. Manager noticing a discrepancy but family members are right family members are extremely important and you know there's been this long literature on his long discussion about you know you need to do a state planning you need to have a will and you know how do you want to have your assets distributed well estate planning now me it's adding as your parents get older or as you get older they take into account cognitive decline in how do you want your finances to be handled Who do you want to have power of attorney now I understand this is not the most fun discussion in the world but you need to have it to in order to protect your aging parents your aging relatives your aging friends Chris Farrell MARKETPLACE's senior economics contributor thank you thanks David Given this I have a request of you in the interest of us reporting this topic more in-depth I'm working on a series about financial vulnerability in older people if this sounds like you if you yourself have ever been the victim of a financial scam either by a company or a family member or anyone else would you talk with us about it if you're willing to tell us what happened and I realize you are asking a lot e-mail us the address is Morning Report comments at Marketplace dot org Again that address starts with one phrase no spaces Morning Report comments in the at symbol then organs that dot com In New York I'm David Brancaccio with Marketplace Morning Report. 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Member supported public radio Good morning I'm Terry back of a check on traffic on problems in Temecula south down 15 just past the 215 injury crash in the right to lanes more slowing up ahead passed lower 79 traffic alert in San Pasqual Valley from yesterday's brush fire they still have that 78 closed at San Pasqual road or not a bridge traffic heavy again for us over decor not affecting North by about a National City traffic made possible by summer grass and Diego a 3 day Bluegrass Festival at the antique gas and steam engine museum in Vista August 17th through the 19th Moore at summer grass dot net for k p b s m Tory Pac It's 6 o'clock.