Transcripts for KPBS 89.5 FM/KQVO 97.7 FM KPBS 89.5 FM/KQVO 97.7 FM 20191105 010000

Katie b.s. Is supported by Alexandria real estate Alexandria is a real estate and investment partner for San Diego's life science and technology companies Alexandria building the future of life changing innovation contour t.v. Simply say what you want to watch into the contour voice remote and you'll get results from Live t.v. On demand and streaming apps like Netflix video Pandora and more contoured t.v. From Cox This is San Diego 2006. Vo Calexico. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer House investigators are calling out for White House officials for refusing to testify today in the impeachment inquiry N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports the lawyers who reportedly or the lawyer who reportedly put the log of President Trump's July 25th phone call on lockdown has been blocked from testifying President Trump through the White House counsel directed the top lawyer for the National Security Council John Eisenberg not to appear even though he had been subpoenaed by House investigators the White House cited a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion issued over the weekend that Eisenberg qualifies as a senior advisor to the president and is therefore immune from congressional testimony Eisenberg's lawyer wrote in a letter to the House committee quote under these circumstances Mr Eisenberg has no other option that is consistent with his legal and ethical obligations except to follow the direction of his client and employer the president of the United States Tamara Keith n.p.r. News Washington a federal appeals court in New York is ruling president Trump's tax returns can be turned over to state investigators the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a lower court decision that rejected Trump's efforts to block his account from releasing the 2011 tax records Manhattan d.a. Cyrus Vance has been seeking the records as part of a broader investigation president's lawyer says his client will appeal the case all the way to discipline court Apple today announced a 2 and a half 1000000000 dollar plan to help address the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area Rachel Myrow with member station k.q.e.d. Has more 1st came Google then Facebook now Apple is the latest Silicon Valley tech titan to offer a package of housing solutions this marks a dramatic shift for the Cupertino based company which has not historically assumed much of a role in addressing the housing crisis the package includes a range of initiatives from financing aid for prospective home buyers to providing land in. San Jose where affordable housing might be built in a statement c.e.o. Tim Cook said Apple feels a civic responsibility to ensure Silicon Valley quote remains a vibrant place where people can live have a family and contribute to the community for n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Myrow in San Jose Iran says it's boosting a rainy I'm in Richmond again because the e.u. Is failing to provide economic support promised by the 2015 agreement rejected by President Trump Kerry shoulder says signatories to the deal would have the right to reimpose sanctions he you has been reluctant to threaten Iran with punishment for its breaches but this latest increase in your rainy I'm enrichment reportedly 10 times higher than just 2 months ago will put Brussels under pressure to respond so far officials just urge Iran to come back into compliance with the Accord the u.s. Withdrawal from the deal and re imposition of sanctions on Iran has made it virtually impossible for the e.u. To fulfill its own pledges to revitalize Iran's economy this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Jones Day and integrated partnership collaboratively providing legal services for more than a century 43 offices 5 continents serving clients as one firm worldwide learn more at Jones Day dot com. This is k.p. b S news in San Diego I'm Sally Hickson Once again President Trump is criticizing Governor Gavin Newsome over the handling of wildfires k.p.s. Reporter Matt Hofmann has more on Trump's threat to hold up emergency funding and the possible local impact over the weekend trying to criticize Newsome and California saying when the state has fires it looks for federal aid but no more there's nothing you can do to prevent those fires once they get started Bill Pascrell is chief of the alpine fire protection district he says federal money is key for helping tackle wildfires we need federal dollars to help that happen because none of that none of our small communities can afford to pay for these Pasco says losing federal funds would mean fewer crews available to fight fires would mean a lot of the smaller agencies like mine small cities that Sun resources to help mitigate these large campaign fires or large natural disasters wouldn't be able to do that because they would. Be reimbursed for their time and efforts I mean the firefighters up there to those incidents you some responded to Trump's tweets by saying you don't believe in climate change you are excused from this conversation Matt Hoffman k p b s news the n.c. Devil a was originally opposed but after a vote last week they are now allowing student athletes to benefit from their name image and likeness the reversal came nearly a month after California passed a fair pay to play act which will go into effect in 2023 mayoral kopek with San Diego State and bottom line marketing says that the n.c. Double a hasn't revealed any specific details yet in regards to its new rules and so it's all looking to do is create a system that allows them to better enforcement track and kind of balance that that you know collegiate versus professional player perspective by making sure the students focus on their education in the collegiate experience the n.c. Double A's says that the new rules should be in place no later than January of 2021 tonight you can expect mostly clear skies in most parts of the county clouds and fog roll in later along our coastline overnight lows in the forty's and fifty's cooling a bit as the week progresses in the inland valleys and in the on the coast warming elsewhere this is k.p.s. . This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington and I'm Ailsa Chang in Culver City California House committees have begun releasing the transcripts from the depositions in the impeachment inquiry these transcripts tell us more about the trumpet ministrations removal of its u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine and why her firing matters Democrat Adam Schiff describes the ambassador of on of each as a dedicated public servant who was encouraging Ukraine to fight corruption and who had a front row seat to everything that was unfolding it is someone who also is one of the 1st witnesses to this irregular back channel that the president's established with Rudy Giuliani and the damage that it was doing to America's national security and foreign policy interests and P.R.'s diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen has been going through the testimony and joins us now hey Michelle Hi there Elsa So what more have you learned from your vantage this transcript about her removal Well she says she was shocked to read the the White House call record when President Trump told Ukraine's new president that she would go through some things that was the quote she says she felt threatened by that and wouldn't have thought that a president would speak about her or any ambassador that way to a foreign counterpart She also told a story from late April that's when she got a call from a top foreign service officer who told her that there was a lot of nervousness that she should board the next plane home she asked what happened and she was told I don't know but this is about your security and when you have on of it got back to Washington deputy secretary of state John Sullivan informed her that the president had lost confidence in her and that she was being withdrawn but also that she had done nothing wrong well that's exactly what Republicans are jumping on I mean they say that ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president here's Congressman Jim Jordan a Republican from Ohio the president United States can have whoever he or she thinks is. To serve the interest of our country as as an ambassador to whatever country so then why Michelle is this scenario as described by so unusual here right well it was because she was facing a smear campaign by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates and you have on of it she told the impeachment inquiry that she 1st learned about all of this from Ukrainian officials it was Ukraine's interior minister for example who told her to and this is a quote watch her back he told her about Giuliani's associates left Parness an eager firm and names that were not known to her before then who wanted a different ambassador in the job and she came to understand that this was because of their business interests so you have on of it all the impeachment inquiry look this is really a dangerous precedent that private interests can come into play in recalling an ambassador she says the president may have made this decision but says you know that he was influenced by some untrustworthy figures including a former Ukrainian prosecutor who spread some false stories about her and later retracted them now the Committee has released another transcript today it's of the deposition of a top adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompei Oh can you tell us a little more about this witness give us a sense of what he has testified to right so that's Mike McKinley He's a 37 year Foreign Service officer and a close aide to Pompei o he told the committee that he was worried that the State Department was becoming dragged was getting dragged into politics and when he saw that transcript of the call he wanted to show support for your vantage he didn't get anywhere with that he said he raised it several times with Secretary of State might pay 0 including on the day he resigned September 30th and he said he didn't get a reaction from the secretary so how would you say comes off and all of this well you know it's interesting he's been trying to shift the story line accusing committees of bullying and intimidating his employees but McKinley testified that State Department employees felt bullied by that apartment. Itself they're not getting any public support from the secretary they're having to answer these subpoenas and now have big legal bills to pay you have on of it for instance said she never met with Pompei or communicated with him she tried to meet with his counselor Well Rick Brecht Will who was she was told was handling the situation but she says that he did not accept a meeting request That's N.P.R.'s diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen at the State Department thanks Michelle shreiking All right let's go around the world now to Baghdad from atop a building in that city a building that protesters have seized you can watch see of people in the streets protests there have gone on for weeks so has violence today several more people were killed by security forces N.P.R.'s general reports that huge crowds built over the weekend and their ambitions are growing. In Baghdad's temporary square Iraqi society has been turned upside down young men driving to. The 3 wheeled vehicles driven and written in by the poor and become heroes unpaid the great crowds of protesters facing off against Iraqi security forces to rush the wounded to ambulances most of those 18 from Sutter city on the outskirts of Baghdad a stronghold of support for Shia cleric looked at us other except that I'm independent most of us he says he doesn't follow anyone not Sutter not even Iraq's most revered Shia cleric Alyea systemic more influential than any political leader . He could says his full name but people are being kidnapped and arrested even just for speaking out or using just 1st names provoke Oh I want my rights we haven't seen anything good in the past 16 years he says that of course was when the u.s. Invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein must have as part of the 1st Iraqi generation . To grow up without Saddam Iraq is a rich country and he wants what almost everyone else in the square wants a job public services and not just a change in parliament but an end to the parliamentary system and corrupt political parties money going to a lot of money in the wrong I don't accept that we don't want to parliament they stole from a Says another took took driver we want to Iraqi leaders not people from Iran says another was. The drivers break into a rousing chorus of up root them they're all thieves you could dismiss this as the kind of protest that regularly springs up and then dies down except it's not. Around 250 unarmed protesters have now been killed in protests in Baghdad in the south of Iraq some of them shot by security forces in the head or the chest right police are now using tear gas and rubber bullets but protesters are still dying almost every day and rather than frightening off the protesters it's made them more determined to dig in until the entire government falls on the carnival like atmosphere of Tahrir Square where families stroll waving Iraqi flags is the front line of what protesters call their revolution. It starts at an abandoned high rise overlooking both tech for square and the bridge the Green Zone it's a strategic asset there are holes in the walls were snipers were believed to have shot it unarmed demonstrators protesters occupy the building now where they're doing stories out in this building that has become both a symbol and a citadel in a sets a place that protesters say they're willing to defend with their lives and they might have to the Iraqi government and Iran backed militias have made clear they're prepared to use force. To defend the Green Zone in the Iranian embassy this isn't just a popular uprising against the Iraqi government it's one against Iranian interference in Shia dominated Iraq it's dangerous no yes of course dangerous that's Alie a university graduate who speaks English and Russian and drives a taxi because he doesn't have the money to bribe someone to get a government job the protesters have turned their backs on political parties even religious leaders are demanding an Iraqi government that serves Iraqis Kemal Jabar has been an activist for years he's trying to advise them protesters I'm hoping we can mobilize this and they're doing that in this I get it and this madness into a peaceful resolution to convince them that National Committee to listen to them the demands of a generation that feels it's been Raud won't go away Jane around n.p.r. News Baghdad. Britain's House of Commons has just chosen a new speaker he served Lindsay while a member of the opposition Labor Party oil replaces John Bercow who with his foghorn voice and rhetorical acrobatics became a breakout Bragg's at Star Bercow stepped down last week after a decade in the job now as N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from London Bercow is the star of a Belgian dance track called Order. Burkle sounds like a character from Downton Abbey with a vocabulary to put strain the findings of the Saugus so perhaps it was inevitable that a European musician would immortalize him with a track named after Bercow signature work. It's the work of Belgian d.j. And drummer Mike a shot with a comedian supplying a spot on impression of burka including this moment when the House voted down then prime minister to resign May's Breck's a deal by the largest margin in British history. There's even a music video or a puppet depicting burka warns British lawmakers to behave themselves just as the real burka. Good to go. And which point Bercow and puppets depicting prime minister bars Johnson and Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbin shake their heads wildly to the beat but he flashing red purple and yellow lights as if an unlikely listener to. The. Conductor. Of the. Circle may be gone from the Speaker's chair but his distinctive way with words may live on dance floors across Europe Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London. The 1st. No idea how frank like it made it through that without laughing this is All Things Considered. Is supported by the California coast Credit Union offering certificates designed to help you achieve your financial goals visit Cal Coast c.u. Dot org or visit a branch near you open Saturday at select branches federally insured by n.c.u.a. Sharp health care a not for profit health system dedicated to providing quality health care throughout San Diego sharp accepts most health insurance plans including Medicare plans learn more by speaking with a physician referral nurse at 1882 sharp or visit Chart dot com You're listening to k. T.V.'s a service of San Diego State University. I'm Sally Hicks and in the newsroom Kaiser Permanente in northern and southern California health plans are the only plans of the state to achieve 5 stars the highest possible rating for overall clinical effectiveness clear skies tonight then low clouds and patchy fog rolling along the coastline overnight lows in the low forty's to low fifty's and temperatures will warm in the mountains and deserts starting tomorrow coming up on all things considered the nation's veterans cemeteries are running out of space in many areas there's no longer enough land to offer burials to veterans and their spouses so in several cities the V.A.'s putting up buildings to Inter veterans cremated remains above ground we now welcome a new generation of Americans to take their place among the honored. That's coming up at 544 it's now 51000 in time for marks again but accident cleared south 163 before Washington you're still slow for me at all 5 coming off this with the Suffolk Genesee all the way down to the 54 there's a stall downtown in the center lane before the 163 the South 8 o 5 plenty of traffic village drive to an accident past market the north why there's some fog around the coastline now and you're slow from the merge until Manchester traffic reports made possible by Michael Moore and Gabriel Wisdom of American money management specializing in dividends an income investing portfolio reviews of vailable American money management dot com marks the can keep p.b.s. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Whole Foods Market offering colors and flavors of the season with seasonal produce holiday desserts and Chef created menus Whole Foods Market color the classics from Drexel University recognizing 100 years of a cooperative education program that prepares students to address the challenges of a changing world more at Drexel dot edu slash ambition can't wait and from the John d. And Catherine t. MacArthur Foundation at mac found dot org. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ailsa Chang this month in All Tech Considered we look at who's spying on us and how they're doing it. Today we take this scenario a whatsapp call from an unknown number pops up on your phone you don't answer it but that actually doesn't matter because you've already been hacked and this hacker can now monitor every call every text every e-mail in fact they can even use your phone's microphone and camera to record you Nicole Pearl Roth is a cyber security correspondent for The New York Times and she joins us now to discuss who is making this technology and how governments are often their biggest clients Welcome thanks for having me asa so I know that you've been reporting on this technology for quite some time now and then just last week what's app sued one of the companies that makes the spyware the companies called n.s.o. Group tell us a RINGBACK little bit about this company and what happened to instigate this lawsuit so a couple years ago and I so was really dragged into the spotlight we'd never heard of them before when their spyware was found on the phone of an American human rights activists a mad man so far so for the last 2 years researchers and journalists have been tracking the use of and if so spyware all over the world but last week what happened was whatsapp came out and said that they had uncovered evidence that and so spyware had been used on some 1400 whatsapp users including a group of about $100.00 journalists human rights activists human rights lawyers religious leaders and a class of targets that looks like the spyware is readily being abused and where are these targets are they all over the world they're all over the world we know they're in Bahrain we know they're in Mexico we know they're in the u.a.e. Just based on the country code numbers of the what's out. Numbers that were targeted but then over the weekend late last week a number of about 2 dozen human rights lawyers former journalists peace activists in India came forward and said that they had been notified by whatsapp that their phones were being spied on using the us why are so this spans several continents and what are the legal rules that might hold a company like n.s.o. Group responsible for what its customers what these governments do with the spyware it purchases it's really a black hole and so group says it that's governments based on their human rights records before it will sell it spyware to them just because it is such a powerful hacking and surveillance tool but once that spyware gets into government's hands it's really impossible for and I so group to have any insight into how it's spyware is used or abused by some of its clients Yeah I read that and it's a group says it sells a spyware on the explicit condition that the spyware can only be used investigate criminals or terrorists but realistically there is no way n.s.o. Group can enforce how its product is being used alternately right that's right and they've said really the only times that they're able to investigate abuses is when it comes up in the press or by reports by privacy activists and researchers and even when it discovers instances of abuse it really has no way to just shut down that spyware it can only really when it's government clients off slowly by denying them Software Update Zahau does and that kind of thing I suppose we should also mention that n.s.o. Group is just one of a number of digitals lying outfits that sells these kinds of tools do we know who else might be selling this I'm told that there are dozens if not hundreds of companies selling similar products and capabilities to and if so group whose names we've never heard of many of them exist around the beltway and sell exclusively to the u.s. Government or our closest ally. But increasingly there is a huge market abroad for these Tula's especially in countries in the Middle East that don't necessarily have the cyber talent that we have here in the West but certainly have the resources to buy into these capabilities Nicole Pearl Roth is a cyber security correspondent for The New York Times thank you very much for joining us thanks so much for having me and we should note Facebook which owns what's app is among N.P.R.'s recent financial supporters support for All Tech Considered comes from c. 3 dot a i c 3 dot AI's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3 Ai and from ultimate software dedicated to putting people 1st with solutions for h.r. Payroll and talent management learn more at ultimate Software dot com To Florida now where invasive species are a big problem the state's Department of Agriculture says at least 2 invasive species are established there every month they are brought in through cargo or by visitors N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reports that Florida researchers are making progress in the battle against one such pest The Invasive Plant Brazilian pepper on a cattle ranch near Fort Pierce Kate were Tendo bends over a Brazilian pepper Bush and caps on a small vial. There really small you can see them kind of crawling around oh there goes on this day a team from the University of Florida is releasing some 1500 of the Kani insects called through rips they like the plant come from Brazil what's the actual name of the 3 of the scientific men yeah this pseudo Phillips It's funny he was testing you carry him in tears an entomologist in charge of a project that stretches back decades working with researchers in Brazil u.s. Scientists identified some of the insects the keep Brazilian pepper in check in its native habitat in Florida Brazilian Pepper was into. Deuced more than a century ago as an ornamental plant valued forged red berries and dark green foliage since then it's overrun much of the southern part of the state also parts of California and Texas covering 700000 acres Mike Adams says he began to see it on his family's cattle ranch near Fort Pierce in the late sixty's I know my cousins from Miami they would use the Brazilian peppers for their Christmas tree because they have a nice bright red berries and they are wonderful. On cattle ranches military bases and natural areas if left unchecked resilient pepper takes over Adam spend some $250000.00 every year to control the weed on his $40000.00 acre ranch you know they just get started and they just create a monoculture wherever they get started at so they'll push out all your natives will it stand out in your grasslands and start phasing those out. In Everglades National Park contractors have worked remove Brazilian copper for the past 2 decades a park service video showed bulldozers pushing over all the vegetation in an area that used to be farmland the topsoil is scraped down to the bedrock the effort has cost more than $100000000.00 so far but it's the only way permanently remove the invasive plant researcher Carrie Mintier says using herbicides just pulling up the Bushes are temporary measures and making things worse resilient Pepper is related to poison ivy and many people are sensitive these things are multi-stemmed the stems are very tangled you really have to get in there sometimes is that gets a really understands that people are allergic to them and so getting in there it's really really difficult Mintier and other researchers have high hopes for the threat and another insect that preys on the plant in its native range the yellow Brazilian pepper tree beef color after decades of research they've proven the 2 species aren't a threat to any native plants and they've received federal permission for large scale releases here Mintier says the 2 bugs won't get rid of all the invasive plants they should stop it from spreading. That would be how I would define success is to have less than 700000 acres of Bursley popular it's taken decades of research to get here but it's a small victory in a never ending battle to control invasive species Greg Allen n.p.r. News Fort Pierce Florida. This is n.p.r. News. B.s. Is supported by Colorado State University Global and online State University now offering a bachelor's degree in computer sciences along with other career relevant degrees and certifications learn more at c.s.u. Global dot edu the California Department of Public Health helping parents understand the severity of the vaporing illness outbreak more c.d.c. Outbreak information is available at flavors hook kids dot org P.D.'s visual arts briefs are supported by the front porch retirement communities of Carlsbad by the sea Casa de Manyara Frederica Manor and Wesley palms and front porch gallery presenting creating meaning artworks created individually and collaboratively by Front Porch retirement communities residents November 10th through January 4th front porch gallery dot org You're listening to k. P.b.s. Member supported public radio Good afternoon as we take a look here as we go up the coastline or 5 slowly from the merge to Manchester then through Carlsbad east and west 70 a very slow Sycamore to the 15 the sponsor a little bit worse than accident the 70 to San Marcos has been cleared 15 year in traffic in the 52 districts power Parkway Carmel mountain the West Bernardo drive another segment of problems there for these 52 it's tough year the 8 o 5 to mast Boulevard East a flowing from before the 5 on to college there is an accident on the transition the state to the 125 traffic supported by Lexus ask indeed go off I thought 15 an auto Parkway in Escondido find out more Lexus Escondido dot com I Marxian for key p.b.s. . Live from n.p.r. News and Culver City California and to Wayne Brown the trumpet ministration is officially notify the u.n. Of its intent to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement Here's N.P.R.'s Geoff Brumfiel president term patchouli announced his intention to pull the u.s. Out of the agreement back in June of 2017 the Paris climate accord is simply the latest example of Washington doing it to an agreement that disadvantages do United States Trump said the cost of the accord was too high both in terms of taxpayer dollars and blue collar jobs environmental groups counter that the world can't afford to ignore the threat of global warming today's notification starts the clock for withdrawal exactly a year from now that will come on November 4th 2021 day after the next presidential election Geoff Brumfiel n.p.r. News Washington the House Intelligence Committee is releasing several transcripts and President Trump's impeachment inquiry chairman Adam Schiff says former ambassador to Ukraine Maria von of itch was the victim of a smear campaign run by Trump allies Schiff says he's releasing the information so the public can see for themselves that smear campaign orchestrated by this a regular channel was successful in removing a u.s. Ambassador and tarring her reputation of course you see the president's comments about the investor in the call records Meanwhile several witnesses called to testify today before the panel defied their subpoenas to do so in Chicago Buffalo Wild Wings says it's fired multiple employees after a group of mostly black customers said they were asked by a manager to move to another table because of their skin color it happened last month at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Naperville where the group was celebrating a birthday and a regular customer complained he didn't want to sit near black people stocks finished higher on Wall Street today as energy companies and banks posted some solid gains you're listening to n.p.r. News. And this is k.p. Vs news in San Diego I'm Sally Hickson House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was an oceanside today at a forum with Representative Mike Levin Palosi talked about her concerns over foreign government interference into American elections p.b.s. Reporter Selena Chet Lonnie is live in Oceanside Hello Selena Hey how are you I'm good and so what did the speaker of the House have to say today well she was there to talk to Representative Mike Levin about h.r. What the for the People Act to mitigate ethics 9 to mitigate star so called Dark Money and politics and to talk about ethics and campaign she didn't specifically talk about it each minute but she did allude to the impeachment Korean's of President Tran when she brought up the fact that h.r. One is also about limiting the amount of foreign assistance that can come into politicians pocket. Any of the people who do not respond to every question Congress may be engaging in obstruction of justice so they're not making their case any clearer and they all have the opportunity to present information that might be favorable to them so if they don't show up we wonder why they didn't show up if this is their chance to give their best side of the story. Yet so that was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking at the end of the forum there about you know whether she feels like Republicans will be able to play ball when it comes to this each minute that's because there are reports this morning that. The Republican witnesses actually refused to show up to Capitol Hill to testify so she yeah she she did this like talk about a teacher meant during the talk over evil to sneak in a few questions about it yet she touch on any other subjects. She did she talk about climate seems that was a big part of her platform or she got it politics like Levon before he became a rational district representative was an environmental attorney so they talked about the the effort the partisan effort Congress to work to or mitigating climate change and to help veterans address issues of health care Ok thank you so much we've been speaking with Kay p.b.s. Reporter Shelley in a chat Lani This is Katie b.s. In San Diego support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from right at home providing in home senior care with custom care plans trained caregivers and scheduling options to meet the needs of seniors learn more it right at home dot net slash n.p.r. From Fidelity Investments taking a personalized approach to helping clients grow preserve and manage their wealth learn more at fidelity dot com slash wealth fidelity brokerage services l.l.c. And from listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm also Chang in Culver City California and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington d.c. Tomorrow is Election Day It is an off year election but will be closely watched to see what it may signal for you 2020 Alexion n.p.r. National correspondent Sarah McCammon joins me from Virginia Beach Virginia that is one of the key states where voters will be casting ballots Hi Sarah I'm Mary Louise right so you're in Virginia you live in Virginia why don't we start there what's at stake yes the Democrats made huge gains here in 2017 fresh off the Trump Alexion of course in 2016 Republicans are still narrowly in control of both chambers of the state house and they're trying to hold on to that but Democrats are very hopeful that they can take over they point 227000 also to games in 2800 nationally as signs that they have the momentum and there's been a lot of spending in these races and a lot of it from national groups on behalf of both sides on issues like gun control and abortion among others and as a reminder of the sticks you've had some big names dropping by campaigning as Election Day approaches who's who's been showing up right several Democratic presidential candidates have been divergent Yang hooting Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders today and former Vice President Joe Biden yesterday and this election is being framed really by both sides as something bigger than just Virginia you know Virginia used to be more of a swing state it's still kind of seen as a bellwether in these off year elections although it's been trending bully recently but yesterday in northern Virginia former Vice President Biden said this election is about much more than just the Virginia General Assembly but this in a sense is all about from folks look for what is it now or now we have to want to get we have to want to get to 20 you have to want to get 20 not be in the off year you really have to do a preview of the servant what's going to happen 2020 All right so that's what the Democrats have been up to what about on the Republican side right so Vice President Mike Pence was here in Virginia Beach over the weekend and he too had a similar message for Republicans that this. It's about something more this is about looking ahead pence told the crowd that Virginia should quote send a message to Washington d.c. That enough is enough and if Virginia is tired of their endless investigations and partition impeachment if you want to send a message to the do nothing Democrats that the people of Virginia and America support President Donald Trump then folks recover. Having these I should mention President Trump has also been visiting a couple of the other states that are holding elections this week to Mississippi last week campaigns in Kentucky tonight those of course are red states where he's pretty popular and he has not campaigned here in Virginia ahead of this election which again is a purple state that's been trending blue Sarah let me flip you back to Mississippi Kentucky some of those other states yes there are a handful that are electing governors another state wide officials which races are you keeping an eye on so quickly New Jersey is also holding some legislative elections this year Democrats are expected to hang on to control there the question is just by how much and there are a few governors' races in Kentucky Republican governor Matt Bevin is among the least popular governors in the nation he's known for clashing with teachers' unions among other things he's running against Democratic attorney general and he Bashir that race looks close Mississippi there's no incumbent in the Republican in the in the governor's race the incumbent Republican is term limited out that race looks close to between the Republican lieutenant governor and the Democratic attorney general President Trump of course was in both of those states and one more thing I should mention Louisiana is also holding a gubernatorial election this year but not until November 16th Ok so a little bit of time to wait for Louisiana and back to this question the central question of how much we can read into what's going to happen this month that may tell us about 2020 how much can we glean from tomorrow's votes yes so prognosticators will of course pay attention and you can certainly expect both parties will tout their successes as a sign that the tide is turning their way whatever those successes are Dimmock. Tell me they're feeling really confident again because of the the last couple of years that they've seen Republicans seem a bit more reserved especially here in Virginia some party leaders have been reticent to talk to be when I've asked for interviews about what they're expecting but at the rally this weekend Vice President pence and other Republican leaders talked up the strong economic numbers we've been seeing told voters to be sure to show up both tomorrow and in 2020 but it's important to remember that these are just a handful of elections and a handful of states it'll give us a snapshot of what's happening in a year when there's really low turnout in off year elections but we are still a year away from 2020 and a lot could still change between now and that is n.p.r. Sarah McCammon taking the snapshot there from Virginia Beach thank you Sarah I think you. The Trump administration has formally told the United Nations the u.s. Is pulling out of the Paris climate agreement the State Department sent a letter to the u.n. That said basically we don't want to be part of this deal anymore there is a one year waiting period before the withdrawal takes effect and as N.P.R.'s Rebecca Herschel reports today's action makes the us a conspicuous outsider when it comes to dealing with global warming the 2015 Paris climate agreement was designed to be easy to join and hard to leave in fact the United States spearheaded the effort to make sure that's how it was otherwise who knows what could happen another country could have an election get a new leader who wasn't so keen on the international agreement and poof it would all start to fall apart and since 2015 there has been a lot of political turmoil in countries like Brazil and India and Turkey and China and Japan but the us is the only country where the new people in power have decided to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and your light is a former top climate official in the State Department and that's one of the ironies of all this even though we're the ones who've been pointing to these potential center. As for problems with the countries we seem to be the biggest problem light helped negotiate the Paris Agreement it took years these agreements are just only as good as the commitments from each country the American commitment under the Paris agreement is to reduce National Greenhouse gas emissions by about a quarter compared to what they were in 2005 the us is not on track to do that in part because even though the formal withdrawal has just begun President Trump began pulling back from the commitment more than 2 years ago in June 2017 the United States will withdraw. From the Paris. Climate court in that speech President Trump suggested that the Paris requirements to transition to cleaner energy sources and help other countries do the same would cost too much Rachel Cletus works on climate and energy policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists an American advocacy group she says they've got the math wrong for one thing you have to take into account the costs of more intense and frequent wildfires and other natural disasters what they gonna forward in his runaway climate change just look at California right now tell me that this is not an economic cost in fact the most expensive thing they can do is not take action to limit least types of climate and that as for what comes next now that the u.s. Has formally signaled it's done with Paris a year has to pass before the withdrawal is final In the meantime a delegation from the State Department will still attend the annual meeting of the nearly 200 countries that are in the agreement it's in early December and if a new president were to take office in 2021 and decided to reenter the Paris agreement they can go on Inauguration Day 2021 you know they can communicate to the United Nations that we want to get back in the Paris Agreement it takes 30 days for that to happen so that's pretty much the easy part the harder part will be pushing to get the u.s. Back on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before the most catastrophic effects of climate change are inevitable Rebecca Hirsch or n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. This is All Things Considered on k. P.b.s. In San Diego Sally Hickson the nation's veterans cemeteries are running out of space in many areas there is no longer enough land to offer burials to veterans and their spouses so in several cities the v.a. Is putting up buildings to Inter betterments cremated remains above ground from Los Angeles Libby Danke men reports for the American home front project. Army Air Corps vet Leon Waldman points out fresh landscaping and swaying palm trees alongside the 405 freeway near the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles which Israelis were allowed jurors the former World War 2 b. 17 waist gunner is scoping out his final resting place the newly expanded columbarium on the West l.a. V.a. Campus it's a series of thick concrete walls with nieces to store cremated remains the 1st phase of the project has room for more than 10000 vets and their spouses it's a day Wildman's been waiting for he arranged for his cremation over 10 years ago you know I got the empty urn sitting at home waiting to go on one of these natures when it's time Waltman wants to stay in the city where his son lives and make things convenient for family visiting from New York but a burial was out of the question because Ellies National Cemetery hit capacity in 1978 and hasn't taken new applications for over 4 decades the closest plots available are hours away in Riverside or Bakersfield the cemeteries original indoor columbarium which holds 5000 remains also filled up that I'm here thank you ladies and gentlemen v.a. Secretary Robert Wilkie presided over the new columbarium dedication after 40 years we now welcome a new generation of Americans to take their place among the honored here at this hallowed ground he acknowledged his agency's National Cemetery Administration is facing a real estate crunch in large cities where most veterans live because space is running out a solution is in the works but it's running behind schedule and over budget in 2015 the v.a. Announced a series of projects to expand national cemetery capacity in l.a. New York Indianapolis Chicago and San Francisco Los Angeles is columbarium is the 1st completed project under the urban initiative we did not want to have to force. Families to travel all over the state to visit their family members the v.a. Now estimates the San Francisco cemetery project 1st slated for completion in 2017 won't open and tell at least 2027 and the v.a. Is on its 5th attempt at buying land in Chicago for previous tries went bust mostly because the asking price went over budget in places like this everybody is short of land even Arlington National Cemetery is facing a shortage of burial sites the army announced it's considering tightening the rules for who has access to below ground in term and only troops killed in action Purple Heart recipients former p.o.w. Use and those who earned a Silver Star or higher would be allowed in. Los Angeles National Cemetery director Tom ruck says it was emotional to finally begin accepting applications on October 1st it's fantastic and I'm starting to tear up a bit because I know what it means to the veterans and their family members RUC is expecting a bit of a rush after years of no vacancies at this veterans cemetery many Angelenos have been holding on to family members remains in urns at home I can tell you that there's a whole lot of people that have they had or their own court of brothers up in the closet just waiting for this to happen Secretary Wilkie says the agency is doing its best to get cemetery construction on track and it's offering to take over old military property and convert it into columbarium says and gravesites in the meantime veterans' families who want a casket burial will still have to drive to surrounding cities for the nearest available national cemetery plots in Los Angeles I'm Libby Denk Ben. This story was produced by the American home front project which is a public media collaboration that reports on American military life and veterans funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting It's now 548 it's time to head back to the freeways and check with Mark Sagan on the Rafiq All right the 63 slowing the 52 into downtown that south to 15 is tough from 163 to the farm all the way through mid city south of coming off a split stop and go village drive to the 54 now suffer from the splits of the 54 is in trouble perhaps the night commuters making things a little sticky for people not 15 of the 52 to Scripps poly Parkway is tough then again Camino del Norte ative the Parkway and the east and west 78 between Sycamore in the 15 both sides are pretty congested traffic reports made possible by Hornblower cruises in advance offering holiday lunches nightly dinners and sightseeing tours to entertain family or out of town guests reservations at Hornblower dot com morgues even for key p.b.s. Tonight we start with clear skies throughout the county and most areas stay clear except our coastline we're expecting partly cloudy skies and patchy overnight fog overnight lows in the forty's and fifty's this is k. P.b.s. San Diego's n.p.r. Station. Is supported by u.c. San Diego health whose mission is to help San Diego live their better life u.c. San Diego health is expanding its network with new locations and new physicians so everyone in San Diego from newborns to seniors can live their better life learn more at get better care now dot com Jackson design and remodelling inviting you to their design and remodelling seminar Tuesday Nov 12th 530 to 7 30 pm in their Kearney Mesa share room meet j t r designers and architects and explore materials and trends in living spaces r.s.v.p. At Jackson design and remodelling dot com You're listening to k. P.b.s. . From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Elsa Chang and I'm Mary Louise Kelly among the voices calling for action on climate change are some young evangelicals this despite the fact that church elders have portrayed environmentalism as anti Christian N.P.R.'s Gregory Warner has been digging into the origins of the divide between environmentalists and evangelicals Rachel Lam is the co-founder of the group young Evangelicals for climate action but throughout her childhood she'd always been taught to be suspicious of mainstream science and then in high school she decided to take an environmental studies class and was like you know I've inherited. Skepticism about this so I took it and I was like oh wow like as a Christian I had to take this seriously I had to do something about it protecting the earth seems completely in line with the values she learned in the church it's Biblical and so connected fundamentally to what it means to be a Christian why is it that. All of these Christians that I knew didn't see it that way and that question why is there a divide between environmentalists and evangelicals it led me to meet a guy who actually helped create that divide so if that's me that's who you are yeah that's Richards Isaac at about 12 years of age for most of his life Richard size it was what he calls a lobbyist for 30000000 evangelicals he represented the National Association of Evangelicals the. Size it had been there since Reagan and helped create the political partnership between evangelicals and the Republican Party and then in 2002 he went to an international conference on global warming and there he had a conversion it was a conversion to the science. Help me understand what's the difference between just going and having your mind changed or hearing some convincing science and being persuaded to actually having a conversion. My conversion was a repentance for all the disbelief. And wrong headed attitudes I had it's a repentance that says I have disobeyed God's very commands about what I'm to do and be as much as even Jellicoe didn't see eye to eye with scientists there was a growing eco theology known as Creation Care and Jesus says this is a creation care t.v. Ad from 2005 maybe I should ask what would Jesus drive so seismic the evangelical lobbyist started throwing his lobbying muscle behind creation care he'd cite Bible passages like Revelation $1118.00 the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth he gave a college tour and found that climate issues were energizing young evangelicals and he started persuading some environmentalists to use language that would appeal to a wider set of Americans even Al Gore started speaking Creation Care lingo I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God and you cannot do it while he been contempt on God's creation size it hoped to build a bridge between environmentalists need angelical and he wanted to show that even Jellicoe stand up for a broader set of issues than just the so-called culture wars and so he was excited to get a call in early 2006 from Vanity Fair magazine they asked him to be part of their green issue of environmentalist influencers I go up to this brownstone with my suit on Penn stripes or I'm ready for a photo shoot and I go into the room and I'm just shocked there's this whole room that's filled with water the celebrity photographer tells him now take your shoes off and he explains to me that I have to walk on these clear. Bricks. So that it looks like I'm walking on water but did you feel at any point during that photo shoot that maybe walking on water may be a bad idea for my image. The thought occurred to me Republican lawmakers and even gelcoat conservatives saw their opportunity to attack and you know I'd have to say this to the Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe took the stage at the next Conservative Political Action Conference c Pac and he held up a copy of Vanity Fair that magazine so here's Richard seismic this was his portrait on the front of a very liberal magazine and if you see he's dressed like Jesus he is actually walking on water he's very footed that you can see the little ripples if you look down close now I have to say this it was a brilliant idea divide and conquer the way the senator put it seismic was not just trying to expand the evangelical tent to include a broader set of issues he was trying to break up the marriage between Christians and the Republican Party if they can somehow drag the evangelicals away from their pro-life stance and all their their conservative agenda or their core values and put it into this environmental stuff then they they win and we lose it's like as a Christian you're either pro-life or pro environment you can't be both and the very same day is that speech $25.00 leaders of the Christian right publish an open letter demanding that seismic be sacked his advocacy around climate change was quote contributing to a growing confusion about the very term evangelical So you Kiana on what was my motivation here Syafiq says he wanted to invite that confusion he wanted it to be possible as a political Christian to vote Republican on some issues and Democrat on others and he says he recognized in climate change any issue that might have enough Biblical appeal to Christians to blur those lines my motivation wasn't soley about climate change Nonono there was something more at stake which was. Who we are as Evan generals and where we fit in the American scene politically the amazing thing was his gambit worked his employer the National Association for evangelicals with all its conservative board members voted to support him in 2008 size it was listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the year and that December he sat down for a radio interview which is seismic Welcome back to Fresh Air President Obama had just been elected but not yet sworn in so I'm going to ask you who you voted for knowing that it's your right to not tell us the so now at this point Richard seismic like King David from the Bible had outlasted everything that his opponents are thrown at him they called on him to be sacked he wasn't sacked he dipped his toes in controversy actually his whole foot and on camera and now Terry Gross is asking him which side are you on Terry let me then answer it this way in the Virginia primary I voted for Barack Obama days after that interview aired size it was fired from the job eat healthy 28 years he admits that these days it is much harder for an evangelical leader to come out in support of climate action if I'm a divider I'm a divider better would be over an issue like the survival of the planet. Then over something busted never there's another legacy of Richard's Isaac that Eco theology creation care a recent poll found that even jealous girls more than any other Christians feel that God expects people to be good stewards of nature and so Rachel Lam the young evangelical we met at 1st she never uses divisive labels like environmentalist even to describe herself and she always opens up conversations about the planet by talking about the Bible like Psalm 241 The earth is the Lord's and everything in it that is Gregory Warner he's the host of N.P.R.'s rough translation. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Warner Brothers Pictures presenting the good liar a suspense thriller about the secrets people keep in the lies they live starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen the good liar rated r. Only in theaters November 15th from pro Quest creators of pro Quest want to academic unifying journals ebooks videos and dissertations across disciplines in one mobile enabled interface progress dot com slash go slash n.p.r. And from Babel teaching new languages with the spaced repetition method daily 10 to 15 minute lessons using simulated conversations that are voiced by native speakers are at Babble b a b b e l dot com. Thank you for joining us for all things considered Yes Coming up in our 6 o'clock newscast members of San Diego's Catholic community gathered to hear the latest about global warming and President Trump again criticized Governor Gavin Newsome over his handling of wildfires details next but now another check on traffic with Mark Siegel looks like this off still pretty tough year for the split 2 of the $54.00 but now an accident at Washington blocking the middle lane south. Village drive to the $54.00 not before plus accident out of lanes but debris apparently is in lanes the south $163.00 it's troublesome from Balboa into downtown looking up the coaster still slowly on the North Lawn from the merge to Manchester then poinsettia toward Tamarac the east and west 78 a very congested freeway both sides between Sycamore in the 15 traffic reports made possible by some powered by stellar solar offering the Sun Power the series 400 watt panels part of the equinox ystem stellar solar dock that this is key p.b.s. . The murder of James read in 1965 caused a national outcry but in Selma Alabama things were unusually quiet as is so hard to find these people about the trial on the next white lies from n.p.r. Friday night at 7 k. T.V.'s is supported by the Better Business Bureau committed to providing trustworthy information to support the public in making wise purchasing decisions from customer reviews to ratings b.b.b. Has everything you need in one place start with trust visit b.b.b. Dot org Signet theatre presenting a Christmas Carol the family friendly musical is adapted from Charles Dickens classic tale of hope and redemption featuring stagecraft puppetry and life sound effects November 27th through December 29th tickets at Cygnet theater dot com This is your source for balanced news and reliable information k p b s San Diego 2006 AC La Jolla k.q. Vo Calexico a public service of said Diego State University leadership starts here. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer on the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis the Treasury Department has announced a new round of sanctions against associates of Iran's supreme leader N.P.R.'s reports the trumpet ministration is also calling for Iran to release all the Americans detained in Iran the financial sanctions target 9 individuals who have been appointed by Iran's Ayatollah Ali how many or who have acted on his behalf a senior administration official describes individuals as a part of a shadow network of corrupt appointees that exploits financial resources that should belong to the Iranian people the trying to administration also now that it's offered a $20000000.00 reward for information leading to the safe return of retired f.b.i. Special agent Robert Levinson Levinson went missing in Iran in 2007 u.s. Officials say they believe the Iranian regime was involved in his disappearance I saw Rosco in p.r. News Washington the u.s. Has formally told the United Nations it is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate accord the withdrawal will take effect after a one year waiting period at the end of which the u.s. Will no longer be a party to the agreement that falls right after the 2020 election u.s. Can technically reverse course at any time during that waiting period though House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff says the public phase of the impeachment inquiry is well underway N.P.R.'s kléber Salis reports House investigators are releasing several transcripts this week with public hearings to follow chairmanships says the no shows for this latest round of closed door testimony as new fodder for the house's impeachment probe this will be further evidence of an effort by the ministration to obstruct the lawful constitutional duties of Congress the committees have released transcripts for former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yavanna village and former State Department advisor Michael McKinley those transcripts describe efforts to smear You've on of it and back channel maneuvering by Trump's personal attorney Rudy to.

Related Keywords

Radio Program ,Incorporated Cities And Towns In California ,County Seats In California ,Populated Coastal Places In California ,Climate Change ,Companies Listed On Nasdaq ,Abuse ,Culture ,Human Rights Abuses ,Law ,Economics ,Road Transport ,Habitat Ecology Terminology ,Spanish Mission Settlements In North America ,Political Science ,Legal Professions ,Cities In Los Angeles County California ,San Diego County California ,Climate History ,Globalization Issues ,Personhood ,Human Rights ,Communities On Us Route 66 ,Environmental Terminology ,Cloud Computing Providers ,Law In The United Kingdom ,Legal Ethics ,Radio Kpbs 89 5 Fm ,Stream Only ,Radio ,Radioprograms ,