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For how it handled the investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia now the inspector found no political bias against Trump from the agency but he also said the f.b.i. And the Justice Department mishandled surveillance on a former campaign aide Carter page they didn't disclose information to the court that made page less suspicious now the phase the court itself has demanded that the f.b.i. Explain its mistakes and show how it will fix the problems Mary McCord is a former top Justice Department official she served during both the Obama and Trump administrations and was partly involved in the fight as applications we're talking about she is now a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and joins us this morning thanks for coming on the program my pleasure happy to be here I just want to start with you know your former role you were assistant acting assistant attorney general for national security plates some role in the 1st 2 phase applications during this f.b.i. Investigation I mean you're actually named in the in the inspector general report so how do you defend the department's actions that are in question here. Well I think if you know kept a careful read of the report shows that most of the blame at least that the inspector general is placing on the department is with respect to a failure of the f.b.i. To apprise Department of Justice attorneys those in the chain of review of face applications of all of the pertinent facts and relevant facts that should have been provided and not only to the Department Justice officials but also many facts that should have been provided to the court and so. I and I'm not here to you know trash the f.b.i. There are very good people excellent people there who try very hard every day and are very careful every day to make sure that their face applications are 100 percent accurate but obviously the inspector general's report found a number of deficiencies in this particular Pfizer application and so I'm not at all surprised that the chief judge of the FISA court has asked for the government to answer to those out to those misrepresentations and those emissions and explain what it intends to do to rectify the situation so you're saying that if employees of the f.b.i. Were trying to look at quarter page for example they might not have been totally forthcoming about things that for example may have seemed less suspicious about this former Trump campaign aide that information never even made it into the department like the level where you were working that's correct and you know it's similar fires set up a cation is not that much different than say an application for a search warrant or an application for it Title 3 warrant in normal criminal case in the process is different the court it goes to is different because it's a face a court but the feds the court is made up of Article 3 judges the same judges that sit in criminal cases and any time that Department of Justice lawyer or a prosecutor is going to be submitting an application for any type of search or surveillance to any court they are reliant on information provided by long for. Sometimes it might be local law enforcement sometimes it might be the f.b.i. Sometimes it might be other law enforcement and so the in this case the Bureau of course the that the strength of the application is dependent on the information provided by the Bureau to the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice of course is the only entity that can make applications to the FISA court for these orders so it's a a union a yang relationship the f.b.i. Needs the department the department relies on the f.b.i. And the face a court relies of course on both and the files of court now saying that they can't necessarily rely on on the f.b.i. Or the department to be truthful even in future applications to what needs to be done here what needs to be fixed Well I think that what you're going to see and we've already seen out of director read a you know 40 different recommendations or 40 different things he intends to change about the process I think we're going to see a much more rigorous review of the factual accuracy of every assertion made in a face application so there's a procedure that the f.b.i. Uses and it's a creation of something called a woods file named after the f.b.i. Assistant director who came up with this notion which is a file where every single factual assertion is stored it's where any kind of derogatory or negative information is stored any kind of information as you indicated earlier David that would tend to suggest that maybe the target of the application is less culpable and so that I think what we'll see is a much more rigorous of review to make sure that everything that is in that would file 1st of all that everything's in there and that everything in that woods file that needs to be presented the Department of Justice and needs to be presented to the face the court will in fact be presented very McCord was a long time Justice Department official now with Georgetown University Law Center thanks so much for time this morning really appreciate it you're welcome. Boeing's decision to suspend production of its 737 Max airplanes has hit the airline industry but it probably won't stop there Boeing is this country's most important industrial company so important that the decision to stop making the plane is expected to cut into u.s. Economic growth on the whole N.P.R.'s Jim Lee has the story in October Boeing c.e.o. Dennis Mueller Emberg appeared before a congressional committee to apologize for the 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people and he said government officials should keep the plane on the ground as long as necessary regulators around the world should rigorously scrutinize the max and only approve its return to flight when they are completely satisfied with its safety and that's what regulators around the world have done refusing to say when the 737 Max will fly again throughout this crisis Boeing has continued to build the planes and parked them in giant facilities in Texas and Washington state now it's shutting down production Boeing is just one company but it's an enormously important one it's the biggest u.s. Export are and the 737 Max is by far its biggest selling plane says Gregory Jack-O. Of Oxford Economics Boeing is a big company and the 737 is the largest share of its production of of aircraft 80 percent of the planes produced by Boeing are the 737 doco says because of the decision to stop making the plane u.s. Economic growth will tumble over the next few months at an annual rate of half a percentage point it's a view shared by other economists the impact will be so great because Boeing has tentacles throughout the manufacturing sector says aviation consultant Ross aimer there are hundreds of sub contractors who supply engines and other part. Parts to Boeing they're going to be affected that includes big companies like General Electric which makes engines for the $737.00 and spirit Aviation Services which makes assorted aircraft parts they and many smaller companies will now have to decide how long they can afford to keep their factories open and their workers working as for Boeing it says it won't layoff anyone with the job market so tight the company is reluctant to see skilled workers walk out the door but the company has lost billions of dollars since the plane was grounded and Grigory Dhaka says it could be forced to cut jobs as the months drag on some of these Chloe's will be geared towards other parts of Boeing's production chain but that being said I wouldn't be surprised that as we move into 2020 there will be some layoffs announced back us says that could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs next year alone none of this includes the potential impact on Boeing's customers the airlines both domestic and foreign carriers have had to reduce flights in recent months because they haven't been able to fly their 737 Maxes and that's cut into the money they make $1.00 of the worst hit has been Southwest which operates more of the plane than any other carrier yesterday Southwest said it would have to cancel more flights at least 3 April Jim n.p.r. News New York. In Pakistan a country long dominated by its armed forces a military dictator has been sentenced to death for high treason for suspending the constitution but the government says the special court that sentenced the country's former president General Pervez Musharraf is void N.P.R.'s Day to Day has more from Lahore the verdict was unheard of in Pakistan and for many unimaginable in a country with full military generals had ruled the country for nearly half of its 70 years a mirage as an analyst and deputy director of South Asia for Amnesty International we spoke by phone it's actually a huge huge to the idea of anyone senior in the armed forces let's learn a former military. Being held accountable in this way. President the punishment isn't likely to be carried out Musharraf was tried in absentia because he now lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates he resigned from power in 2008 a year after he suspended the constitution and imposed a state of emergency since then Pakistan's been ruled by civilians but the army is still considered the country's most powerful institution and it's quite close to the current government led by Prime Minister Iraq in fact the attorney general told local media that he thinks a special court doesn't have legitimacy it was created at the instigation of the government that was in power in 2013 the attorney general statement echoes the military spokesman who tweeted that Julie go process was ignored this is a political analyst and that Quantic or the judiciary could dig a body or it. Is huge because despite all and the both spending of democracy the army is perceived as the court with the Army in government on one side the judiciary is pushing back that's a role it stepped into in the past few years as it tries to demonstrate its independent of both this is what Raj The analyst again you could hear the tick talk of his car into Qaeda in the back row. And you could see the judiciary saying no one is above the law we will hold powerful accountable he says the judiciary isn't going to take orders and that's a challenge to those who have always seen the military as beyond accounts did the deed n.p.r. News local. This is n.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning if you want to know how a kid is going to do as an adult look at the neighborhood they grow up in schools safety access to healthy food all of it matters new research shows a big racial divide in almost every major metropolitan area in the United States most white children live in neighborhoods with lots of opportunity most black and Hispanic children live in neighborhoods with low opportunity and often these neighborhoods are just a few blocks away from each other N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler went to Albany New York where the disparity is among the widest in the country drive around the arbor Hill and West Hill neighborhoods of Albany and you can't help but notice all the boarded up homes they have big red signs with a large Access last across the middle put there by the fire department signal it's a little known case of emergency the searcher could form it's a danger Jonathan Jones is Albany's commissioner of recreation youth and Workforce Services he's trying to help turn things around here by pushing more investments into the area like building a new park with colorful playground equipment on what used to be an empty lot and now we have this open space for young people you can work out there in the back in there little kids can play here but it's a very small step in what promises to be a major challenge new data collected by researchers at Brandeis University show that arbor Hill is one of the lowest opportunity neighborhoods in the country for kids a quarter of the buildings are abandoned green space is limited unemployment and poverty are high and 97 percent of the children who live here are black or Hispanic we keep track of all this it was one of the last she would have been. So far in our zone former gang member Justin Gattis is the consequences 1st hand he's with an anti-violence group called snug which stands for should never use guns a tally on his office wall shows it's been only 14 days since the last year. In here which happened right near the new park Gattis group is trying to keep neighborhood kids from becoming the next to to stick some of them you know they've got just a mother at home with 3 or 4 segments of the stuff like that. The mother has to work you know she's by herself sometimes these kids all of the workers direct them into activities like sports to keep them busy but recreational outlets here are limited even Albany's Mayor Kathy Sheehan who recently moved to Arbor Hill knows these neighborhoods aren't the best for kids not necessarily because they're safe but because of the message that they send the message of disinvestment the message that nobody cares Yeah Ok in high end it's in the middle of December. So the city is using the Brandeis research to help guide its response among other things it has new programs for teens about 3 dozen are meeting after school trying to come up with a theme for a party to take a summer party I'll get in there eventually as there are like that many ways are sounds chaotic but they're learning how to organize events they also have internships and local businesses and talk a lot about careers and their futures 15 year old Asia right wants to go into marketing She says the program helps but the real eye opener for her came when she attended private school for a year in a wealthier part of town she says she was one of the few African-Americans and only poor girl in her class and was constantly amazed by the things she saw and went to my friend's house and she had floor heaters and like there's floor heaters that's a thing you can heat your floor right quickly realize that just a few blocks from our home there was a whole other world is one thing to be like oh you know we don't have the opportunities within to see how many opportunities people actually have like while you guys are really fortunate really lucky and it's me realize how much people in my community don't have those things in fact the new research which looks at every u.s. Census track finds that while the Albany area. Overall is among the best in the nation when it comes to child opportunity those opportunities are concentrated in a few select neighborhoods. We. Meet. Seniors come from around the city to a daycare program in the basement of a church in Albany's Buckingham like area it's a far cry from Arbor Hill the church is surrounded by neat single family homes 20 percent of households here are headed by a single parent compared to 86 percent in Arbor Hill the median income is 3 times higher and most of the children are white Harris Oberlander says the area was a great place to raise his kids because it had so many resources there were Catholic churches and Jewish temples and you know all sorts of services all the outpatient clinics for the local hospitals are lined up along some of the boulevards there he said he and his wife also had easy access to grocery stores good preschool programs and most importantly a network of close friends we literally raised our children with different people babysitting for one another it's the social fabric of the neighborhood that helped us raise our children Oberlander knows how important that is because he works in Albany's poorest neighborhoods where the social fabric is often frayed he runs Trinity Alliance a nonprofit that provides food medical assistance and other services more readily available on his side of town Brandeis Professor Delores Acevedo Garcia says the pattern in Albany can be found across the country and the way that we find by the serving with really vast inequities between black and white children as well as between white and Hispanic said then and it's not surprising such disparities igs. But that they're so pervasive and don't seem to be getting better Acevedo Garcia says and equities tend to perpetuate themselves children from low opportunity areas face more problems as adults in terms of economic success and health life expectancy an arbor Hill is 7 and a half years less than in Buckingham lake coming up here on your left I'll stop her from the. City Commissioner Jones pulls up to 2 story brick house on the edge of arbor Hill this red house is like the Mayor Jones and his family have moved here and are renovating a once abandoned building it's part of the effort to revitalize the area Albany's not only upgrading parks and offering more activities for kids but providing grants to turn vacant buildings into affordable housing it's a long haul but Jones hopes his children and others growing up here will one day have opportunities much more in line with the rest of the region Pam Fessler n.p.r. 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News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst this morning the full House will debate and then vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the proceeding start in a half hour and abate is expected to take 6 hours late evenly between the 2 parties the final vote is expected to fall along party lines and if Trump is impeached the matter then goes to the Senate for a trial and that's expected to take place early next year meanwhile Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Hershey Pennsylvania last night mocking Democrats over their efforts to impeach him but N.P.R.'s Joel Snider reports they weren't the only object of his attacks as he rallied supporters in that key swing state president John traveled to Pennsylvania after Democrats on veiled 2 articles of impeachment in Hershey he called the process impeachment light and said it would help him win another term in the White House he also talked about the report on the 2016 Russian investigation hailing its release by the Justice Department's inspector general and attacking the f.b.i. 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He says the institution holds and misuses charitable contributions close to $100000000000.00 Lee Hale is reporting on the story from member station in Salt Lake City good morning Lee the morning before we get into the specific allegations this is a big deal because donations are very important to this church right yeah I mean the churches Christ of Latter day Saints like most churches are a lot of churches I should say ask for 10 percent of all income of their members be paid in typing the interesting thing is that leaves most that money for facilities missions military and work what's left over they invest and that's where David Nielsen comes on Ok so who is David Nielsen and what is he alleging So he's the whistleblower who filed the complaint to the i.r.s. And he's a former employee of the church as a nonprofit investment arm that's called peak advisors and he says peak would receive about a $1000000000.00 of excess tithing a year and over time and through some clearly successful investment strategy they ended up with $100000000000.00 The church has not confirmed that figure they don't have to by law but Nielsen argues that and St Pete this investment arm they're out of compliance for their tax exempt status because they receive this tithing money they invest it they haven't made any charitable donations from that money no no charitable contributions and so instead they've used it to bail out for profit companies the church also owns How are Mormons reacting to these allegations about misuse of money that they've donated. Yeah when it comes to ties to paying members of the church I think most of them will likely agree with church leadership and the official response from the church has been that the vast majority of tithing is used for the purpose of helping meeting the needs of the church and the church has also said that the claims being circulated are based on narrow perspective and limited information. Even defended their right to invest the money invoking the parable of the Talents thing that's the sound doctrine on financial principle topped by Jesus in the New Testament other members of the church have a different reaction if they've referred to this as hoarding and they're really upset that this 100000000000 for investments isn't being used in religious or humanitarian efforts what is the parable of the talents that you mentioned there basically Jesus is instructing. These disciples to go and basically magnify what they've been given you know to kind of grow what they've been given and basically that this is an example of them growing the money they've received investing Ok Now if these claims to turn out to be true what are the consequences for the church potentially Well I spoke with a law professor Sam Bronson Arroyo Loyola University in Chicago who's an expert on this kind of stuff and he says if the whistleblower is correct that no money has gone to charity then this investment arm of the church risks losing its tax exempt status well but importantly he says that the church itself is not risk. The church is tough it is not at risk why well because they have the separate investment arm which caused the problem but is also going to shield them from potential fallout Lee Hill with member station k.q.e.d. Thanks so much for your reporting thank you I took cops have long had dogs and also robots to help them do their jobs well now they have a robot dog robotics company Boston Dynamics is loaning out its dog like robot named Spot to police departments beginning with the Massachusetts State Police this is raising questions about the future of police robotics and what kind of oversight there should be for member station you our alley Germanic has a story spot is a robot that gets a reaction oh my goodness it's kind of scary looking actually it was like well see some aliens you know for the brains of me and darkly there's a lot of I will go and those are people in Boston watching videos of spot opening doors and climbing over snow banks. Spot kind of looks like a headless dog a metal one that has 4 legs a long arm and a $360.00 degree camera Massachusetts State Police became the 1st law enforcement agency in the country to get access to spot earlier this year with a 3 month loan alone was revealed in documents requested by the a.c.l.u. Of Massachusetts while in this brand new robot to police Michael Perry is Vice President of Business Development at Boston Dynamics we've tried to make the robot as customizable as possible so that our customers can do exploration and really truly understand what the value of a legate robot is in the real world police of long use robots when dealing with potential bombs or hostage situations places where they wouldn't want to send human and state police troopers were giddy about getting to use the more nimble spot spots police handlers gave specific feedback to Boston Dynamics spotted great walking over big dirt mounds but not so great dealing with tall grass into real life police calls it checked out a. Briefcase and surveilled a barricaded suspect both Boston Dynamics and state police are quick to say that spot wasn't and won't be weaponized but it's not unheard of it appears to be the 1st time police have ever used a robot bomb on u.s. Soil as n.b.c. News reported in 2016 delves police sent a bomb disposal robot armed with explosives to kill a sniper that sniper had earlier killed 5 police officers Boston Dynamics of the lease agreement won't allow clients to use spot to physically harm or intimidate people but that doesn't quote concerns from people like Cade Crockford director of the technology for liberty program at the a.c.l.u. Of Massachusetts the secrecy surrounding all that is very concerning Crockford want to see a policy from state police or even a state law about the use of robotics and they want more openness about the program the technology that can be used in concert with a robotic system like this is almost limitless in terms of what kinds of surveillance and potentially even weaponization operations may be allowed even some law enforcement officers see the need for more transparency about how police are using robots the Orioles is the executive director of the National tactical officers association and a former Swat commander he gets that people want to know more about how robots are used law enforcement to balance any tactical secrecy with the public's right to know how their police departments are working these tools are used in critical incidents the primary purpose of it is to gather information to help in making decisions that can ultimately save lives he noted police still have to abide by the law if you need a warrant to send a person into someone's home you also need one to send a robot but judging from the troopers excitement over the robot dog Spot will probably be on a few police departments wish list for n.p.r. 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Mc Foundation dot org It morning I'm Terry back with bad check on traffic accident in our east county westbound 8 just before West Main right lane blocks we find just a little bit of a slowdown there was a little bit of a slowdown north 125 approaching the 94 that was from some road work overnight that lasted a little bit longer and the same reason for the slowing is out on 15 in Rancho Bernardo community picking up cones and opening up off ramps there satisfied looking great in our north county so far traffic reports made possible by the marina restaurant in La Jolla presenting December high tide as waves splash against the floor to ceiling windows breakfast menu and high tide dates are at Marine Room dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Tory. K. 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Metro reporter Andrew Boyd says faith communities support the move churches and other public gathering spaces are required to keep a certain number of parking spots based on their size the update reduces those parking minimums and streamlines the approval process for housing on Religious Land Jonathan Doolittle senior pastor at Claremont Lutheran church told the council the new rules would make a real impact the whole idea of this is for churches to use their resources to make a difference for our communities and churches realizing that there are real issues with affordable housing and our neighbors and the members of our congregation need something to change the changes were inspired by a group of housing advocates calling themselves gig b. That stands for yes in God's backyard into Bowen k. P.b.s. News some San Diego students take public transportation every day to get to school over high school junior Diana Frias is hoping the metropolitan transit system board will vote to put a half says sales tax increase on next year's ballot to fund free bus passes for students up to 24 years old. Allow earth to get to school to enter. And just over a. Sense of independence the M.P.'s board will vote next spring to put the measure on the November ballot k p b s news time $546.00 a new Star Wars film continues the storyline of insurance and rebellion Native American fans of the Southwest say that speaks to historical experiences of many in the Indigenous community N.P.R.'s Ryan Hinds c.s. Has more. Orders to join Coyle weigh in as piloting a custom r 2 d 2 units in front of the Museum of northern Arizona. It's life size and sounds just like the original when I was thinking about it I was like Wouldn't it be cool to see an r 2 that's decked out like looks like actually like a pottery so along with that comes the designs and so the tans and the reddish burn marks from one they fire their pottery at 1st glance the traditional Hopi maroon and tan patterns are a surprising look for the famous Droid but Coyle when a says it makes total sense for our to a lot of elders you know our own cool is our friends always tell us in ceremony and hung up which means to give it your are just to be strong and to persevere I feel like the Hopi are too kind of fits in that same line oil Wayne is one of 25 artists from more than a dozen southwestern tribes taking part in the forces with our people curator and ethnography for Tony to video got the idea for the exhibit during a trip to indigent pop acts the indigenous Comic Con in Albuquerque New Mexico I think there's clearly some parallels between the native stories things like the hero twins a very prominent story in Navajo culture parallels between that and Star Wars Of course Luke and Lad being basically hero twins in that story a glass case in the middle of the exhibit holds tiny wooden shoe boxes carved in painted in a sparse Navajo style nearby stands a stormtrooper adorned with patterns by an Apache artist and the comic book illustration represents r 2 d 2 and c 3 P.O.'s as Navajo Code Talkers. On opening night the visitors are in chanted with the words especially Hopi are 2 who's the star of the show and works the room. With kids and adults interact with and even talk to the Droid as if it's an old friend. Exhibit also bridges generations drawing families made up of the wide age ranges I would enjoy the Star Wars in my artwork for Probably since I was a little kid since the late seventy's early eighty's that's Ryan singer a New Mexico based Navajo artist prominently featured in the exhibit he paints a vivid depictions of reservation life that overlap with the Star Wars universe for him the connections run deep there's always that rebellion kind of attitude or spirit like the little guy people that don't have all the power and they're getting trampled over Indigenous people can kind of feel like that maybe the rebels fighting the Empire cultural assimilation and the lasting effects of colonialism are strong and singers work his painting decolonized the walk was inspired by the trauma of the forced boarding school experiences of thousands of Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries you can use Star Wars metaphors or motifs to kind of real people in to let them see what's happening or see what happened before say in history for a moment the parallel universes are one bringing that galaxy far far away a little closer to home for n.p.r. News I'm Ryan hunches in Flagstaff Arizona. It's 550 in time for a look at Wednesday morning traffic Good morning Tory package morning Deb couple things happening now a new accident on the westbound 94 South of teen connector in the left lane and it's causing pretty good back up on the west 94 North 8 o 5 a little slow behind the 94 in the north arc north 5 is going just past the 54 National City accident on the eastbound 8 near alcohol level of our there on the right lane little slow down there westbound 8 still looking Ok West 52 a little jam up between the 125 and mast bill of our then it's kind of off and on over the summit traffic reports made possible by boot world Luckily own since 1975 offering one on one service for work hiking and a wide variety of sheepskin footwear and slippers a boot World dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Tory pack partly cloudy skies expected today throughout the county winds out of the east and northeast will continue to weaken today temperatures will be cooler as well this is Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. . Is supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for support of the California Dream series a statewide nonprofit media collaboration focused on key issues of economic opportunity quality of life and the future of the California dream Arts District Liberty Station where you can skate create and celebrate salute the season with radio children's ice rink Nutcracker Tea Party Hanukkah celebration and more wander explore meet artists and experience the sights and sounds of the season salute the season dot com This is gay p.b.s. And Diego Katie 06 AC Latoya and k.q. Vo Calexico. This is the California report good morning I'm Lily Jamali a federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of p.g. And e. Has approved 2 major wildfire settlements u.s. Bankruptcy judge Dennis Montopoli yesterday Ok to a 13500000000 dollar agreement between the utility and the survivors of a string of deadly and destructive fires over the last few years some of them are clients of attorney Amanda riddle we are now able to tell them we have a plan that will provide payment hopefully as soon as next summer to next fall for a number of people the judge also approved an $11000000000.00 settlement with insurance companies the Gini filed for bankruptcy protection in January after its equipment was linked to a number of wildfires legislators set a deadline for the company to exit bankruptcy by June 30th if it wants to access a state wildfire fund Ok thank God Ok oh gosh that was last night Californians in cities up and down the state gathered to demonstrate to show their support for the impeachment of President Donald Trump this is the House of Representatives prepares for its historic impeachment vote scheduled for today. In the small community of Sierra Madre east of Los Angeles about 250 people gathered below the town's Christmas tree to chant slogans and wave signs that read impeach and remove by California Report co-host Saul Gonzales was in Sierra Madre and spoke to demonstrator Janice Nelson so generous Why is it important for you to be here it's important for me to be here because I am a member of a democracy and the people run the democracy but that is that's fading as Trump takes over and is puts installs loyalists in all of the positions in the cabin. And other agencies I'm standing up for my democratic rights do you think you change your mind by being here or do you just kind of show that there is support for the impeachment process I don't think you are going to change a single mind I think all minds on both sides are completely met the settled. But it's important for me to be visible to show the level of dissent and the level of support for impeachment and that's why I'm here tonight that was Janice Nelson at a pro impeachment rally last night in the community of Sierra Madre as the House of Representatives prepares for its historic vote to impeach President Trump today here in the Bay Area some teachers are using the ongoing saga as a good real time civics lesson k.q.e.d. Matthew Green takes us inside a classroom at Oakland Tech High School where students debated the merits of the case. American government teacher Katie Bell uses the students in her 5th period class have been shocked by how can that it'll be here and listen they kept talking about how passive aggressive it was getting They don't even like when they hear other kids in class sort of talk to people that way but nevertheless she's asked them to review the transcript of President Trump's now infamous call with the president of Ukraine they've been tasked with arguing for and against impeachment yet another high crime is meaner life than art that would try to size the running of the. Student John Kelly holds up a summary of the call right to be wrong but that's just for the government for the Russians are to meet in Ukraine it's where we need to like a chicken now it's not our bombs. He's doing right now what we've seen he died in his own one from across the room Kelly's classmate Lucas Eichelberger looks Skeptical Inquirer loopholes you know just do your own private investigation. Person. After class barely notes that most of her students will be old enough to vote in the next presidential election and she hopes these lessons give them a good sense of the political landscape they're getting into for the California report I'm Matthew Green now to a new legal challenge filed against a.b. 5 that's the new law that aims to give wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors a lawsuit filed yesterday isn't coming from Ride Share companies like and lift it's being brought by the American Society of journalists and authors and the National Press Photographers Association It says that $85.00 would unconstitutionally effect free speech and the media the suit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation challenged what it calls an irrational and arbitrary limit of $35.00 submissions each year to each media outlet the lawsuit was filed the day after the sports website s.b. Nation owned by Fox media announced that it would end the use of more than $200.00 California freelancers switching instead to a much smaller number of new employees. Well we're going to end this morning with an alarming finding in the waters off the coast of our state a new study finds a city here which gets worst when oceans absorb greenhouse gases is rising faster than the rest of the oceans it's a rare glimpse tracking the long term effects is difficult because it turns out no one studied ocean acidification until the 1980 s. K.q.e.d. Science reporter Peter r. Cooney has more on a study that looks at fossils to figure out what's going on there called for ams microscopic organisms that make shells similar to clams through a process called calcification more acid in the ocean hinders that process the study out this week in Nature Geoscience use fossils to show it to. Percent decrease in the thickness of foreign shells in California waters from about 1900 to 2000 authors say this could mean California waters are acidifying faster than the rest of the ocean for the California report. Support for the California report comes from Eric and Wendy Schmidt whose fund for strategic innovation supports transformative ideas that benefit humanity in the natural world recognizing through science the. Energy upgrade California. Gold and by saving energy through simple acts like adjusting the thermostat a few degrees energy upgrade California org and. Now with 760 California where households and businesses can recycle their leftover paint more. And that is the California report for this Wednesday December 18th the production of k.q.e.d. Public radio make sure to check out our podcast for more state news. Thanks for listening. Good morning This is Morning Edition on k. P.b.s. And coming up in our 6 o'clock hour the full House of Representatives takes up the question of whether to impeach President Donald Trump today House members will debate and they'll vote we'll have live coverage from n.p.r. Beginning at the top of the hour now a look at Wednesday morning traffic Here's Tory pack that was 94 South 15 connector accident in the left lane and the West 94 starting to back up from Euclid Avenue north to 5 a little bit slower behind the 94 in the North Park the northbound 5 it's getting a little bit busier out of our South Bay up to Maine and then it's pretty clear after that pretty good back about 32nd Street Naval Base this morning the British tropics nice and quiet over decor not 0 West 52 just a little jam up between the 125 and mast Boulevard what you're up on the summit back up to speed again traffic reports made possible by Michael Moore and Gabriel Wisdom and the advisor partners of American money management a portfolio review is available at American money management dot com Ok p.b.s. I'm Terry Pac this is special coverage of the historic vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Luke Garcia Navarro in just a few moments the House of Representatives will come to order and take up 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald j. Trump we expect today's session to be long votes are expected by the end of the day and we'll bring it to you gavel to gavel this is just the 3rd time the House of Representatives is taking a vote on impeachment in American history the lower house of Congress has 435 members let's take a listen now to their God give you thanks for giving us an.