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Violence in this country did they get one last comment on Morning Edition from n.p.r. . News . One grieving father told President Trump yesterday my daughter's not here it doesn't make sense fix it I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin this hour more from that White House listening session and we'll speak with the mayor of Parkland Florida about next steps for her community plus the a.c.l.u. Says police in Milwaukee are pulling people over without just cause and N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz goes in search of the best rap music in China it is Thursday February 22nd the birthday of actors and producers Drew Barrymore she's 43 years old today. News this next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jeanine Herbst Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio was challenged by angry students and parents at a c.n.n. Town hall meeting last night including Fred Gutenburg who's 14 year old daughter was one of the 17 people shot and killed at a Parkland high school Senator Rubio my daughter running down the hallway a martyr still in doubt was her shot in the back yes with an assault weapon the weapon of choice Yes Ok it is too easy to get it is a weapon of war the fact that you can stand with everybody in this building and say that I'm sorry Rubio told the crowd he is rethinking his opposition to limits on high capacity magazines I traditionally have not supported looking at magazine clips size and after this and some of the details I've learned about it I'm reconsidering that position and I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why because while it may not prevent an attack it may save lives in an attack he also endorsed raising the age requirement to buy a rifle then you'll gathering of conservative activists known as c Pac begins a 3 day conference outside Washington d.c. Today President Trump speaks tomorrow N.P.R.'s Don Gonyea reports the list of speakers also includes a leading European conservative the conservative political action conference is expected to draw some 10000 attendees today they'll hear from vice president pants and also from British politician Nigel Farage a keep proponent of the Bracks it initiative in 2016 in which the u.k. Voted to leave the European Union for Raj is a big admirer of President Trump and vice versa c Pac is also scheduled to hear from Wayne La Pierre the c.e.o. Of the National Rifle Association his appearance has been included in c Pac promotional materials but the exact day and time of his speech has not been announced the n.r.a. Has long been a major sponsor of this event gone gone. N.p.r. News Washington conflicting reports from Nigeria say the Army has rescued dozens of schoolgirls missing after an attack on their boarding school by suspected extremist gunmen Monday night N.P.R.'s off maybe a quick start and reports there's been run confusion over what happened Monday night inductee of the government school in Nigeria's northeast and you'll meet initially state officials were reluctant to describe it as an abduction by suspected extremists and play down the incident they said insurgents rode into the boarding school compound firing weapons and looting the food store you'll also said school girls and teachers had fled into the bush yet Family members told journalists they'd seen girls being carted away in trucks and that about 91 missing a late night media advisory from the state government said in hot pursuit of terrorists the Nigerian army had rescued an unspecified number of go. On n.p.r. News this is n.p.r. . Both Sweden and Kuwait are asking the u.n. To vote on a resolution that would order a 30 day ceasefire in Syria to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people caught in the Syrian government and allies offensive that escalated earlier this month the u.n. Says hundreds have died the Security Council resolution would exempt attacks directed at the extremist groups ISIS al Qaeda and the nurse a front the district attorney of Philadelphia says his office is no longer requiring nonviolent offenders to post cash bail before being released as Bobby Allen of member station w.h.y. Why reports the new top prosecutor says the policy aims to reduce the jail population in a city with one of the hot country's highest levels of incarceration Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasny says for those arrested on dozens of low level criminal charges such as marijuana possession and retail theft posting cash bail will no longer be required under the old system Krasner says many of those defendants could only be released before trial if they met their cash bail requirement calling that imprisonment for poverty some of those people would have been able to pay it and some of those people would have sat in our county system and they would have contributed to the mass incarceration that we continue to suffer present says more than 20 percent of the city's jail population is there for not being able to post bail prosecutors will still be able to ask for bail if someone has a long criminal history or is considered a flight risk for n.p.r. 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And I'm David Greene in Culver City California last night Fred Guttenberg whose daughter Jamie was killed at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day was at a town hall he confronted his senator Republican Marco Rubio who was talking about gun policy I'm saying of the problems that we're facing here today cannot be solved by gun laws along. And I want to tell you what we've done already what I hope we're doing moving our lines the factor obviously wanting of our What If it were. That exchange came during a c.n.n. Town hall many survivors of the massacre in Parkland Florida and their families spent yesterday talking with political leaders students also met with lawmakers in Florida's capital some sat down with President Trump at the White House Parklane Florida's mayor Christine hunch off Skee was at that meeting with the president and joins me now Mayor Welcome good morning I just have been struggling to listen to some of these parents all morning and what they were saying yesterday the parents students that it sounds like there's still so much pain in your community can can you just tell us how people are doing in Portland Yes the whole community is grieving we lost 17 lives on the Marjorie Stillman Douglas community and for the last week we've been going to morals to funerals and we live in such a wonderful close knit community and Parklane very family oriented most people have been somehow affected or knew someone so it really hits home for our residents and makes it very tough So we're definitely going through a grieving process and it's going to be a long process the good news is if there is a good news in this because we have such a tight knit bonded community. We'll get we'll get through this together I know at the White House yesterday one of your many difficult jobs was to read statements from 2 fathers who lost their kids in the shooting what can you tell us about the message you think they had for the president what did they want President Trump to know. Antone Montell toe and Jen Montell So the 1st ones I read about in their comments they just want solutions they just want something to be done. There mention was. They support the 2nd Amendment but that they didn't feel there was a need for assault weapons as part of that and for Guttenberg it you heard him so eloquently last night speak on his own. He wanted it acknowledge that guns are part of the debate. I want to just play a clip from the end of that White House meeting if if we could listen together if you have a feeling as. Many If you. All ears. Yes you are some are good so so listening to the President Trump I mean did did you leave that meeting feeling like the president has a plan. I feel left that meeting feeling like the president wants to take action and there seems to be a resolve of vice president Pence was also there he seemed resolved. I think we're just really now at a point where people of all parties and all areas of the country just want to see some action and some solutions so many times people get so caught up in their own ideals and beliefs and we forget about what we really need to focus on and that's to make sure that something like this never happens. On the listening listening session was nice and productive in the sense that there were many different opinions there there were many different viewpoints and they were all presented in a respectful way with the goal of coming up with a solution. I What might the solution look like or do you see a solution coming together I mean I know after this meeting you mentioned the positive impact of banning assault style weapons President Trump talked about maybe arming teachers he also talked about being open to to different age restrictions maybe raise raising the minimum wage to purchase different kinds of weapons you as you listen to all of these ideas do you feel there might be a coming together of the mind somewhere I think there will be a coming together of minds somewhere there and listen there are so many things that could be done to take steps toward preventing this from happening again so there are so many little things that can be done and what I've noticed so in our own Florida. Capital we have Senator Bill galvanic know who's already proposing changes that one would never have thought would have been possible a year ago on things like raising the legal age of possession of an assault rifle. Red Flag legislation which there seems to be a lot of consensus around and the red flag legislation is when someone shows signs of wanting to harm themselves or others you can get a restraining order on their gun. The fact that people seem to be willing to talk about these kinds of solutions is very promising Well mayor will be thinking about your community in the days and weeks ahead thank you so much for your time thank you that is the mayor of Parklane Florida mayor Christine hunch off ski. While the debate over immigration rages here in the us there's a similar debate happening in Israel tens of thousands of East African migrants have gone to Israel in the past decade and now Israel is handing out deportation notices and threatening jail N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin begins this report outside an immigration office near Tel Aviv. So we're here in a parking lot people from Eritrea and Sudan showed up very early in the morning couple guys in line said they got here by 4 in the morning and one by one some people are coming out with papers they got from the immigration authorities saying they can take $3500.00 and leave to a different country or else they'll be sent to jail in Ohio Levi have a Latino woman this is a maritime sui and you know from Eritrea He's 28 years he says he came here fleeing an oppressive mandatory military service in Eritrea Israel doesn't consider that a reason for asylum but Israel acknowledges it's dangerous to send Eritreans and Sudanese back home so Israel has made deals with 2 African countries apparently Rwanda and Uganda to take in migrants so young was given a document saying he'd be sent somewhere safe he has until the beginning of April to decide whether to take the plane ticket and the money or face jail actually them check it in a political as a political name a hockey doesn't believe he'll be treated well and Rwanda or Uganda that he'd rather go to jail if he's losing sleep over it and so was someone else like me here outside the immigration office the money shoot me here under age under a new law an article that says Israeli volunteer a not Reisman legging What are you doing here today doing whatever I can do in order to sleep well at night the big picture is to prevent the potations she came to help migrants fill out their asylum requests properly she says she's reminded of her parents Holocaust survivors but it's not on she. Yes but the issue of being a refugee and being in danger. And asking for refuge in others countries do not accept it we've been there the new policy has prompted a fierce public debate in Israel does the country have a historical or moral obligation to shelter African migrants to make up a lot of your own thoughts that you don't want to hear that see as not us about these conservative talk show hosts are arguing with a liberal lawmaker on the radio they say it's insulting to compare this to the Holocaust they say the migrants are a burden on society they're not the only ones with the long view above I'm a homophobe this cab driver Yossi Cohen tells me the problem is that the African migrants are not Jewish He says the fear is that tomorrow the next day they'll become citizens and take over the country. I'm. Sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defending the deportation plan he points out Israel is not deporting women and families and letting others stay while their asylum requests are pending but opposition is growing groups of physicians and filmmakers have taken up the cause and some flight attendants and pilots are calling on airlines not to fly people to Africa and there is some concern among Jews in the u.s. An American Jewish community leader Malcolm home line said on a visit to Israel that he and heads of several Jewish organizations are studying the issue we have this debate raging in the United States right now and there's no way that you can make it look nice when people are leaving the country but at the same time we recognize that every country has to set standards just this week Israel jailed the 1st few Eritreans who refused deportation But prison officials say they might not even have the space to jail everyone who won't leave pressure is building on the government to come up with another. Solution Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. I'm Cody Jacobs I've lived in Los Angeles about 8 years now I'm a chief lighting technician in the local 728 a kind of some old upon b.c.c. 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News in Washington I'm sure Rahm several 1000 people attended a c.n.n. Sponsored town hall in Florida last night to discuss ways to stop gun violence after last week's attack in a high school that killed 17 people Dana lash was there to represent the National Rifle Association she said the gun lobby supports efforts to keep guns away from dangerous people shouldn't they never be able to get a firearm be people who are crazy should not be able to get firearms say. People who are dangerous to themselves or another individual should not be able to obtain a firearm. Air France employees are on strike canceling half the company's international flights including many u.s. Routes Jake's again a row in Paris tells us employees want more money Air France employees haven't seen a real raise in 7 years besides small increases for cost of living airline bosses have offered a standard one percent salary increase but employees say they won't settle for less than 6 percent especially since over the last 2 years Air France has seen its operating income improve reporting more than one and a half 1000000000 euros in 2017 Twitter says it will no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts it will also end the practice of using software to simultaneously perform other actions such as liking or re tweeting such tactics allowed Russian agents and others to make tweets go viral I'm nor rom n.p.r. News in Washington. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin the a.c.l.u. Has released new information about a class action lawsuit that it's filing against the city of Milwaukee The group says that over 7 years police stopped tens of thousands of people without cause here's Latoya Dunn us from member station. For years black and Latino tents here have complained about being racially profiled by police resident Steven Johnson says his experience came 3 years ago as he was walking home from college just after midnight he asked if I had any marijuana if I had been smoking and such Jansen who's black and Native American told the officers no and that he doesn't smoke marijuana the a.c.l.u. Alleges that between 201-2017 Milwaukee police made more than 350000 stops without reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed the experts including a former Texas share of reviewed hundreds of thousands of records compiled for the report the Milwaukee Police Department denies that it has a stop and frisk policy but a year ago the a.c.l.u. Filed 9 lawsuits against the city over what it says is just that a.c.l.u. Attorney Karen you can't just stop someone on a hunch or because you know what sometime in the past they did something wrong or because you don't like the way they look you have to have some kind of suspicion to believe that they're violating a law and recent Charlottesville and Philadelphia have come under fire for their policies that some say mirrors stop and frisk Well neither the mayor of Milwaukee nor the police department will comment on the report former Police Chief Edward Flynn who were tired just last week and the department's during the review period he says the police department is not biased against any group they are going to be racial disparities in or interventions that match or victimization populations Flynn says in cases where more black president. For than white residents it's because police are patrolling in greater force in largely African-American neighborhoods the a.c.l.u. Lawsuit against the city is set to go to trial in May for n.p.r. News I'm less than Malaki All right so guidebooks will tell you that the Chinese city of Chengdu is a pretty good place to find spicy food you can also find pandas but it is putting southwest China on the map now for something else rap music N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz explains why when it comes down to it language is at the heart of rap and that's why rappers in Chengdu the capital of Sichuan Province insist their city is the heart of Chinese rap. The language of Chengdu to try knees as an emotive drawling dialect of Mandarin so wildly different from its rigid sounding mother tongue that visitors from other parts of China have a hard time understanding what it's Twain seems to fit the rhythms of a song. By Robert t.s.p. Like a glove. That being the business rates all the songs like an East Coast West Coast rivalry from ninety's hip hop except here the enemy is a rapper Lish on another city in Sichuan province 24 year old t.s.p. Says the song wouldn't have sounded right Mandarin just a says oh mandarins pronounce Asian is too strict for instance no amen During is but it's bell which becomes one word that suddenly has 2 different meanings so our dialect has an advantage but that's not the only advantage t.s.p. And fellow rapper young 13 d. Baby lounge about atop an expansive 7th floor rooftop in downtown Charlotte do in one corner is a studio in the other an open air balcony littered with booze bottles and ashtrays the musician friend pays just $200.00 a month to rent this space the affordability of Chung says t.s.p. Has given birth to a vibrant rap scene so. All sorts of subcultures are developing here. Part of it is that the pace of life in Chengdu East slower than China's big cities so people have time to practice the arts. The duo song fast food takes aim at much of the rest of urban China and its consumer culture. It's a rapid fire song sung by rappers from a slow paced city the pair filmed a video for the song at a McDonald's on a budget equal to a couple of happy meals but social criticism like this can sometimes get artists into trouble t.s.p. And young 13 d. Baby are both ethnic Tibetans and when they've released songs about discrimination against Tibetans authorities remove them from the Internet. I don't care if I write whatever. You ban it our ride it again that's also the attitude of cafe who Chung to rap or who grew up in the countryside listening to m n n n j z while bingeing on Hong Kong gangster movies that is when he wasn't salting away in school. Every morning we stood at attention for the flag raising ceremony and morning exercise it wasn't till later that I realised how much I despised it and it wasn't just me everyone hated it café whose dreadlocks lie down his thick tattooed neck as he sips a cup of long at his neighbor a teahouse the 30 year old says Music helps him through the mind numbing routines of Chinese school with just a don't want to talk about Chinese education create. It's anti-human the best education is putting students in a school where they feel safe to pursue their own interests under China's system when you let students choose they don't know how to do it because they've always been told what to think sorting through what he thinks is a subject of Cafe whose song Hope in reality. The song begins with a wish list of a listener I hope you are greedy I hope you can breathe the air I hope you can speak freely to Ford. Sends into reality that corruption is rampant the air toxic and free speech can lead to prison on a short one for you song is about the problems of this country I wrote of because American culture has had a huge influence over me the Us media sometimes exaggerate how bad China is China exaggerates how good it is the song is movie looking for us for the reality is on the means of the just some bad authorities of Panda song from the internet cafe who still performs it live and watching all of them on channels if I can't do it the way I was I'll just not do it so I'm not afraid of somebody fanning my music all the freest thing in my life is to make music also give him one last look at his one single it's a believe café who shares with many of the young rappers of Chengdu one he wants passed down to the next generation 6 months ago café who became a father he named his son a transliteration of the English name. Rob Schmitz n.p.r. News. And this is n.p.r. News. 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It was a remarkable day survivors of gun violence speaking directly to those in power about their loss and how it could have been prevented from Florida to Washington in 3 different settings they shared their grief and demanded answers there was a meeting between Parklane students and Florida State lawmakers then there was the c.n.n. Town hall event in Florida where a grieving mother confronted a spokeswoman for the n.r.a. Here's Linda Biegel Schuman whose son Scott was a teacher at the school why are my son's an alley in of all rights not protected as fiercely as the right to bear arms. And there was this listening session at the White House this is Sam is a student at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School here he is addressing President Trump Welcome to the news that my best friend was gone. And I don't understand why I could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war President Trump said this to the group you start thinking about this. Situation the thing. To get. So how will he and other leaders figure it out we're joined now by N.P.R.'s national political correspondent Mara Liasson Mara I just want to start there in the White House in that room you were there or what was it like it was very raw like all of these confrontations have been you had parents not just from Parkland students from Parkland you also had parents who had lost children in Sandy Hook and Columbine and it was a very intense emotional meeting the president trying to show empathy something he struggled with in the past Later when we saw the close up shots from that meeting he was holding in a little card with instructions on it that included one that said to remind the crowd I hear you but there was it was a respectful somber conversation about ideas to make sure these kinds of horrific attacks don't happen again did it get specific and did the president give any concrete steps about what he was going to do yes it certainly did there was a consensus in the room that there should be better background checks more mental health restrictions although not a lot of specifics about exactly what that would be but the biggest takeaway from the president is he wants more firearms in schools he wants to arm teachers school employees like histo de ins that got a mixed reception at the White House meeting and he also said that he was going to go very strong to push age restrictions on purchasing assault rifles to make it $21.00 instead of 18 this is something that the n.r.a. Opposes the president doesn't usually break with such an important part of his political base so we'll see if he maintains that position so speaking of the n.r.a. There spokeswoman Dana lash was one of the guests at the c.n.n. Town hall that happened last night in Florida not that far away from Parkland among the other guests Senator Marco Rubio faced a lot of really tough questions from family members. Vive years of the Parklane shooting I mean this got very intense we've got some sound of how the crowd was responding to Marco Rubio when he was trying to explain his positions on gun control but I want to explain to you why. Senator Rubio I mean this was extraordinary mark to see lawmakers in this kind of position yes and I should say Senator Rubio got a lot of credit for just showing up there was a lot of comments that he had leased came Governor Scott who is widely expected to be running for Senate this year did not come to that meeting but Rubio was booed he was called pathetically weak when he said he wouldn't refuse to take n.r.a. Money but even Rubio was changing his positions he said that he would now support a new age limit for purchasing assault rifles he said he would reconsider his previous opposition to banning high capacity magazines and you can see that for the moment at least Marco Rubio is caught between the new intensity of gun control activists the conventional wisdom is that the intensity is on the other side the pro-gun rights side and the n.r.a. Which is an important part of the Republican base his base the n.r.a. Is the most powerful corporate plus grassroots lobby in American politics and we're going to see if there's some movement on this issue so Meanwhile Republicans are gathering conservatives are gathering in an annual event called the Conservative Political Action Conference is gun control going to come up I'm sure it will Wayne La Pierre from the n.r.a. Will be speaking at that Conservative Political Action Conference this could be a chance for gun rights supporters to push back against. The ideas for more gun control or they could make a tactical retreat you know the background check bill that the president supports that's now in Congress is supported also by the end of. It's a bill that would tweak the background check system make it more efficient and it would not create a universal background check system N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson thanks Mara thank you there was a beautiful moment at the Olympics last night that might have gone unnoticed 2 u.s. Athletes won medals for the 1st time but that is not the story as N.P.R.'s Russell Lewis reports from p.r. John Keegan Randall is a 5 time a lintian 1st competing in 2002 and I knew it was going to be a long road and I don't think I'd be quite this long Randall's gold with Jesse Diggins in the team sprint is the 1st ever medal for the u.s. In women's cross-country skiing Randle is $35.00 and after Sochi in 2014 took a year off to have her 1st child and there were certainly some really frustrating moments some doubt of whether or not I'd ever be able to make it back of the 242 u.s. Athletes and 20 are dads but there's only one mom to Randall this all seems like a fairy tale she'll read to her son one day for bobsledder Lauren Gibbs she called the experience of winning a silver medal with a lot of buyers Taylor surreal Gibbs had a successful job in the corporate world she had just turned 30 and finishing an executive m.b.a. I was a miserable just didn't it wasn't enough you know it's like I would end the night and be like. Again tomorrow so she gave it all up to become a bobsledder who does this at 30 she asked for the next 3 years she dedicated herself to this new sport even her dad doubted her now she wants to become a public speaker there's so much opportunity out there in the world to Dear own thing in and carve your own path and so I want to tell that story when people graduate from college they can make the decisions about what they are passionate about instead of what they feel like they're supposed to do Lauren Gibbs keek in Randall to 1st time elliptic medalists inspiring others to reach higher Russell Lewis n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. This weekend on Live From here with Dr Dog and friend. Part of. The weekend Saturday night at 7. On the next fresh air we talk about Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the Muller indictments with Scott Shane of the New York Times he says the Russian social media campaign reach millions of Americans if you are provocative if you are emotional if you are extreme you can stir up a whole lot of trouble he says the effort to divide Americans is still underway join us weeknights at 10. Point 3. 0. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm sure a rom gun control advocates gathered at Florida state capitol yesterday demanding action N.P.R.'s Bracton Booker reports this comes after last week's mass shooting at a high school in Florida that killed 17 people there were thousands who came out to the steps of the old state house building to support in their 80 year old grandmas p.t.a. Moms who took off work just to be there and what was really different is that young people were leading this movement and they were there were certainly idealism and optimism that these young people could change minds change laws and change the change the way guns are viewed in Tallahassee president met at the White House yesterday was some survivors of last week's shootings He's to meet today with local and state officials on school safety flood warnings are in effect in the southern plains and the Midwest today because of heavy rain and rivers swollen by melting snow Tang globe or is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service he says there may be more rain this weekend there will be a couple of chances of precipitation moving across northeast northwest Indiana over the weekend or late late Friday into the weekend at this time it looks like most of that perception will fall away from the areas that have seen the flooding conservative activists open a 3 day conference just outside Washington today there is to hear today from Vice President Mike Pence and from President Trump tomorrow I'm nor rom n.p.r. 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Conflicts talk North Korean official and former intelligence chief who is believed to have masterminded 2 attacks in South Korea that killed 50 people is being sent by the North to attend the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics some in the south will be furious that. The government's even letting him into the country and yet they have their will have. In the main stadium for the closing ceremony along with a vodka Trump now you'd have to think might be China's the sitting right in it's a not have that situation like we had last time when Mike Pence was sitting just one row in front of the North Korean leader's system which didn't have enough Stephen McDonell in Seoul and Saudi Arabia is to invest nearly $65000000000.00 in the entertainment industry over the next decade as part of new reform Saudi Arabia has opened cinemas organized concerts and is building an opera house in Riyadh I'm going to do see at the b.b.c. . I'm Marco Werman The World is people they become celebrities the salvation of their families they've been sending money back to people who needed school fees medical fees when they re 10 it's not just your brother. But the person who has been the cd of the family for years and is coming back to the community so this join us and listen to the world join us this afternoon at 2 on 89.3 p.c.c. . Vice President Mike Pence says America will lead the space race again with some outside help the president's direction the National Space Council will also in his words draw from the expertise and insights from scientists innovators and business leaders like never before we will tap into the bottomless well of American innovation once again from American Public Media this is Marketplace Tech I'm Molly Wood. Marketplace Tech is supported by Epson innovating the future of display technology with laser projection where there's business there's eps and learn more at Epson dot com slash for business the trumpet ministration has appeared to be quite pro space in January President Trump reinstated the National Space Council which hadn't met in. Almost 25 years that council had its 2nd meeting yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida but Trump's proposed 28 team budget for NASA suggests that the administration is interested in the space race but not that interested in paying for it not even to maintain and operate the International Space Station after 2025 here to walk us through the budget proposal is Marketplace's Washington and space correspondent Kimberly Adams what this document really is is the administration saying here's what we think is important and here's what we're planning to go in terms of our plans for space and so you know it doesn't give a hunted detail about things and really what's important is the trend lines where in and what sections of NASA the money is going up and what sections the money is going down there is a bit of a headline though it seems like about the International Space Station the proposal would and u.s. Payments for it by 2025 have private industry take over its management and that seems to be something that people are a little fired up about this plan does not say that the United States plans to d. Orbit the space station as in cause it to come back down and crash into the ocean or something like that they're just saying that they don't want to fund it anymore after this time period with the idea that private industry would step in and pay for its operation and this is kind of the m.o. Of the administration because this is a way to potentially bring down the cost of going into space now then about no longer funding the space station it's probably not going to happen I mean Senator Bill Nelson who is the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee the only member of Congress who's actually been in space called this a nonstarter when he was talking to the Miami Herald So the trumpet ministration is probably going to run into a bit of trouble yeah so as you look at this budget what's your takeaway what's your kind of top line here. It doesn't really matter it's a political document it is a political document because what we have seen especially in the last few months from Congress is that they are pretty much going to go their own way and unfortunately the broken way that government gets funded in our modern politics means that the nuance of these things often gets lost in some last minute dash to keep the government lights on and so what happens is you end up with some top line number and then later on people who work in executive agencies hammer out all the details that may or may not see the light of day until they've already been decided That's Marketplace's Kimberly Adams in addition to its education cuts astronomers are alarmed that Trump's budget would also kill funding for the wide field infrared survey telescope it is designed to look deep into the universe to find other planets and study dark energy the National Academy of Sciences panel said in 2010 that the telescope should be lead top priority for astronomy research I'm Molly Wood and that's Marketplace Tech. This is a pia. A lot of young undocumented immigrants are moving back to where they were born of the sense that a yes but also of opportunity will tell you more next on the marketplace join us this afternoon at 3 an 89.3 k.p. C.c. . An economist offers this metaphor the trillion dollar flask of liquor smuggled into the u.s. Economy Marketplace Morning Report is supported by Progressive Insurance protecting commercial vehicles and offering specialized coverages designed to protect your business more at progressive commercial dot com I'm David Brancaccio in New York it's been just under 3 weeks since volatility returned to financial markets volatility in some cases with a vengeance Hong Kong stocks fell one and a half percent today the Footsie in London at the moment is down 9 tenths of a percent the latest catalyst for selling a statement from u.s. Central bankers that hit the screens at 2 o 2 pm Eastern time yesterday broadly hinting the Fed's about to tap on the economic brakes are Thursday analysts Diane Swonk is chief economist at the accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton Good morning to you Diane good morning so all of us you 2 were watching that Federal Reserve statement yesterday suggesting you know we had some higher interest rates probably here we certainly are the Fed came committed they had revised up growth and that was before we got the increased spending that we're going to see from the federal government which is going to juice the economy even more and put the Fed in this uncomfortable position of their sort are going to be watering down the punchbowl Congress or the place the adolescent sneaking in and last of all con spiking the punch bowl dance I love the metaphor Now listen I was a history major and I've lived through a really long expansion the 1990 s. Was the 5th so worried maybe we could do another one of those well we might be able to get it come without a cost what we're facing is now it's collating deficits and that and it's a trajectory that really matters and there are going up because we have an aging population so we've just added all that Q That which means even if we make it to Summer of 2019 which I think is going to be dicey but we'll see is the cost of higher interest rates choking off some of the very. I mean an investment we want to create I often discuss do not make it to the summer of 2019 you don't mean like live that long you mean the expansion and contraction Yes No you don't want to that's a nice in the ninety's and you know we're going to have it labor shortages are going to be a cue we before then and reminiscent of the ninety's no one really remembers what it was like to sort of help wanted ads now hiring posts required pulse required that was a prerequisite All right Diane Swonk chief economist a grant there and thank you thank you checking the numbers this morning the Dow futures up attend the recent Now the s. And p. Futures are up 3 tenth's percent a key benchmark for u.s. Interest rates is down a bit this morning after a bigger run up yesterday on the 10 year yield is a 2.92 percent as for return of market volatility this month some see this as a return to normal one analyst told us today that markets used to move up or down one percent or more about 50 times on a given year last year swings like that happen only 8 times we're continuing to follow fund raising efforts by students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida the site of last week's mass shooting the students have been lobbying for gun control marketplaces Marial Cigars here the students have been rallying They've been meeting with lawmakers they're planning a March next month in Washington d.c. And other cities and they've been raising money they set up a Go Fund Me page to pay for the March yesterday morning after $2.00 days it had gotten about $1200000.00 in donations now it's up to almost $1700000.00 for about $21000.00 donors around the world the students have also gotten some large donations from celebrities people like George animal Clooney and Oprah so in total they've raised about $3700000.00 so far their Go Fund Me page says they'll use donations to plan the March with anything left over going into victims' funds now in the Miami Herald a spokeswoman says leftover funds would be used for what she called a can. Tin uing long term effort to end mass shooting places Thank you. Marketplace Morning Report is supported by paired a financial partner guiding families businesses communities and institutions since 1919 r. W. Baird dot com has more information you can buy exact sciences offering color guard for adults over 50 and at risk color guard is a noninvasive colon cancer screening test that can be taken at home available by prescription ask your doctor or go to Color Guard Task dot com New York's Metropolitan Museum created waves when it may develop voluntary entrance fees mandatory but some exceptions What about charging an entrance fee for a church all a big $1.00 Notre Dumb and Paris the Cathedral is in disrepair but the Catholic Church leadership in France is against charging to get in John Laurenson reports. If you look here is the Michel PICU head of friends he is showing me around the famous Cathedral the food costs of the cars he drove. Up to have been stuck Yeah 50 metres long lots and lots of stones which come from the cathedral or or for the cathedral either as a full on them or as have been taken of the guys who door because it was a big risk that they were all going to do for he says water is seeping through the roof pressing the beams that hold it up and where there should be goggles there are often bits of plastic piping sticking out instead of being bitter as it is. Fully. Just hanging on to exist in front of the government's own school old churches and is responsible for the upkeep Pekoe hopes to supplement insufficient government funds with private sponsorship but others say some churches should challenge an entrance fee. As is the presidents of the religious heritage observed tree whose. That is to say from his close 212-0000 old. New poll show Cupid knishes say princess' to stop judging from Tories visits and I'm really just brooding is this has happened since pain for example of the u.k. Get so crusty tools operations of worship but they are not the only places a free to say Oh ho so places over history and it is right and proper that tourists and trunks she's be used to maintain from. Back in the dam or some of the $13000000.00 people that visit this cathedral each year a lined up to get the comforts of French Bishops has rejected the idea of making them pay saying he doesn't want money to come between people and goat in Paris some from Marketplace and you know the cross country competition to be side of Amazon's parallel headquarters and all the jobs that would come with it will Europe's going to many one of these going on right now the consumer products giant Unilever wants to build a new consolidated headquarters either in the Netherlands or in Britain u.k. Leaders are apparently really nervous that the Dutch are going to win this because the u.k. Is Brecht sitting from Europe a rotter them versus London match could be resolved at the unit labor board meeting next month in New York I'm David Brancaccio with the Marketplace Morning Report. From a.p.m. American Public Media. Hey I'm Tom Power Ken Burns is famous for his epic multipart films exploring huge subjects like the Civil War and baseball and jazz but he has another huge passion that I think is going to surprise you Ken Burns is obsessed with quilts is going to tell you about it coming up on cue from p.r.i. Public Radio International tonight at 11 here on $89.00 k. P.c.c. . This is Southern California Public Radio 89.3 p.c.c. Pasadena a community service of Pasadena City College 90.3 k. V.l.a. Coachella Palm Springs 89.5 k. J a I Ohio and 89 point one. Red LEDs the community service of the University of Redlands Twitter Facebook and Instagram. K.p.c. Sea Org. This.

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