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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly it's unclear if Afghan peace talks between the trumpet ministration and the Taliban will resume President Trump called off talks with the militant group amid continued attacks in Afghanistan once the Taliban say were meant to strengthen their hand in negotiations from canceled previously secret meetings at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan leaders citing a recent deadly bombing near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul among those killed was a U.S. Service member has followed multiple rounds of peace talks involving a U.S. Envoy and Carter to try to end the nearly 18 year war Iran is rejecting calls to comply with the 2015 nuclear agreement from the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says Tehran promised more violations of the agreement as that U.N. Official was visiting Iran's capital Cornell through to the acting director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and that interim Sunday with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other officials for you to stress the need for full and timely cooperation The visit came as Iran's atomic energy organization said it will move ahead with activating event centrifuges used to enrich nuclear fuel it has already exceeded the deal's limits on enrichment though its stockpile remains far from the purity needed for a nuclear weapon the shop administration launched a maximum pressure campaign against Iran after Trump pulled the U.S. Out of the nuclear deal re imposed sanctions and demanded that Tara negotiate a tougher agreement Peter Kenyon N.P.R. News Istanbul officials in the Bahamas say that death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen to at least 44 residents and tourists continue to be evacuated from Abaco Island where Dorian struck is a category 5 hurricane with winds of 185 miles per hour Karl Smith is with the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency evacuation strictly voluntary the total number of the. Back east an awesome is approx the $3500.00 so far planes and cruise ships are being used to evacuate residents the city of San Francisco is offering to buy Pacific Gas and Electric Power Grid Sonya Hudson with member station K.Q.E.D. Has more P.G. And E. Filed for reorganization in January as it faced mounting liability from wild fire started by its equipment city attorney Dennis Herrera says San Franciscans would get safer and more affordable power from a city owned utility there has been a lack of investment in infrastructure over the course of the last decade by P.T. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene after 18 years and nearly 150000 lives lost the United States seemed closer than ever to ending the war in Afghanistan after months of negotiations with the Taliban but then in a tweet President Trump called this off now President Tom said he was canceling a planned summit with Afghanistan's president and leaders of the Taliban it was supposed to have happened yesterday at Camp David just days before the anniversary of the September 11th attacks N.P.R.'s The deed has been following all of this she's based in Pakistan and joins us either D.M. Good morning do you mind starting with the substance here like what were these negotiations about what it what it looked like they might result from it all right so these negotiations they appeared to be finalized according to the Taliban spokesperson for negotiations and roughly it would have begun with about $5000.00 American troops withdrawing within 5 months from Afghanistan and shutting down 5 military bases and there would have been more phase withdrawals after that the Taliban woman to agree that they were to commit that they wouldn't allow foreign militant groups to plot terror attacks you know Afghanistan and that they would sit with off guns to chart out a political future for the country and that was set for September 23 that meeting but now that doesn't look like it will happen either well that I mean doesn't like that's going to happen but sounds like they're also meant to meet with President Trump earlier is that it's a remarkable and unconfirmed day Teil the Taliban said that that actually been invited to meet President Trump at the end of August but they had refused on the basis that they wanted to sign an agreement and that's what led to these meeting that was meant to happen on Sunday. I mean should say the idea of hosting the Taliban on U.S. Soil is is kind of stunning and totally unprecedented right 8th absolutely one president it and it was met with criticism even among those in the president's party and a handful of Republican members of Congress did speak out over the weekend they were incredibly critical of the idea of hosting the Taliban this would have also been shocking for off cottons consider the national security forces who would toss with keeping the country together once foreign forces leave more than $45000.00 of them were killed over the past 5 years largely at the hands of the Taleban and it's hard to imagine how they would have perceived the president of the United States fighting the very people had been out killing them. Well so what happens now I mean this is the U.S. Secretary of state might bump AOE said that the Taliban has failed to live up to commitments they had made I mean is that why these talks have broken down well so pumpin is referring to the last thursday bombing in Kabul that killed 12 people including the American serviceman but there was no commitment that we know of for the Taliban to halt attacks during the negotiations in fact there would deadlier attacks by the Taliban during this period but they largely killed off gone civilians and those attacks had even seemed to have stepped up as the talks were winding down and that could mean for leverage off OP tics to show their Paypal that they had kicked out the Americans but there was also a glow growing political pressure on the top of President Trump by people like Senator Lindsey Graham and former ambassadors who served in Kabul warning them that this deal reste igniting a total civil war Wow OK That's N.P.R.'s Dina who did in Pakistan covering these negotiations that have been called off by President Trump for now they were supposed to happen it sounds like in Camp David of the weekend thanks so much You're welcome thank you David. Or the effort to hold drug makers responsible for the country's opioid crisis accountable has intensified over the last year a lot of the focus has been on a company called pretty pharma this is the company that produced the opioid medication Oxycontin they are facing 2000 lawsuits across the country alleging that they fueled the crisis so the company's been in negotiations with state attorney generals to reach some kind of settlement now though it turns out those talks have reached a stalemate and pretty pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann has been covering all the various chapters in this litigation for N.P.R. And joins me on Skype Hi there Brian ever so what exactly were these talks meant to accomplish here with performer. Yes And this is a very complicated moment when the company and its owners members of the Sackler family have signaled that they want a national settlement something that would cap their total liability for their role in this epidemic we've heard payouts could run as high as $10.00 to $12000000000.00 But in this latest round of talks state attorneys general demanded that the sacked lawyers commit to paying roughly $4500000000.00 out of their own personal fortunes as part of the compensation the internees general say to sack lawyers refused to give that commitment Here's Josh Dion he's attorney general for the state of North Carolina we needed more security on the part of the fact lawyers that the money that they were pledging they would in fact pay. And we didn't have that commitment and the factors rejected those proposals to deal with their to be made and they refused and so this is where we find ourselves OK what where where they find themselves where do they find themselves and what happens now that the 2nd is the refusing here so Stein and other members of his negotiating team predict produce pharma will now file for bankruptcy protection imminently in an e-mail they said Saturday that was obtained by N.P.R. They said states across the U.S. Are already preparing for that bankruptcy to happen Perdue has signaled in the past bankruptcy is one option they're considering the company has declined to say whether this is in fact imminent but produce pharma did send N.P.R. a Statement last night saying they still hope to negotiate some kind of deal in fact they say talks with some government officials possibly local government leaders are continuing but if you have been victimized in the opiate crisis if you are someone like a state suing this company you hear the word bankruptcy and I mean that could have a lot of implications whether these lawsuits might might go forward right if this could be chaos I mean it might take years to sort out in bankruptcy what assets remain what their value is and then who's 1st in line for compensation Meanwhile the these lawsuits are happening fast and major federal trial involving. Produce pharma and 20 other drug companies is scheduled for next month in Ohio. And Brian just remind me about the sack leaders I mean they are probably one of the richest and also most controversial families in the United States and what happens to them here. So there's a legal argument being made by some states that the Sackler is effectively stripped billions of dollars out of produce farm over the years and now they want to claw some of that money back here again is Jock Stein e's attorney general in North Carolina saying they're going to be suing this actor's directly many states like mine will be filing lawsuits against the SAC lawyers and their individual capacity I think almost more than any other family company after that. Yes So basically what we're hearing is that the legal trouble even if bankruptcy happens legal troubles for the sacked lawyers those are very likely to continue Brian Mann has been covering the opiate like litigation for N.P.R. Brian thanks as always thank you David. We can turn now to the Bahamas again we have a reporting team from N.P.R. On the ground there reporting on the communities that were just devastated by Hurricane Dorian a week after the storm made landfall conditions are growing increasingly dire food is scarce water and other supplies are rapidly running out as residents on the other Grand Bahama are just desperately waiting to get evacuated and it's not clear when they'll come back if they're ever going to come back the death toll now stands at 44 people and that is expected to rise N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien has been leading air reporting team there and joins me now hi Jason. Hey David So you as I understand it are just outside Marsh Harbor that's the real commercial hub on the Abaco Islands right I mean just take us there what what are you seeing and how are how are people still there even holding up. I mean people are specially here are really trying to get out it's vertically more here I think than in Grand Bahama Marsh Harbor is completely flattened you know there you look around there you see any houses that didn't suffer damage lot of things are just completely destroyed and it's even hard to find people it's actually interesting over the time we've been here things have gotten sort of calmer because there are fewer and fewer people around this is not of 17000 people thousands have already left one of Fishel I've managed to find was a guy who used to be the head of the Chamber of Commerce this guy. And he's basically saying that you know nothing is operating here right now 0 commerce 0 commerce at this time there's nothing you can buy water you can have as much money as you want You can't buy anything and. He is saying that and that is an accurate description you cannot buy anything there are no stores open whatsoever so everything is going to have to be brought in. I says 0 commerce it's hard to find even people are there recovery efforts happening I mean are you seeing some activity in that regard at all. So at this point this has moved over to you know search and rescue teams going door to door searching for bodies they are going to some teams out Gainesville Florida teaming up with I mean police and they're going in and they are blunt about it that they are going and they are just smelling for the smell of rotting corpses at this point and if if they they believe the bodies are in there they mark it in a certain way if not to mark them clear and they move on to the next one and I was talking one by police officer yesterday he says they expect more heavy equipment to help them in some of the areas that are they they know there are bodies hidden inside some of this this rubbish rubble and they're going to try to get them out of there. Imagine just think about what you're describing in a community suffering through this if there's no sign that these storms are going to get any less destructive in coming years maybe worse just the scale of what you're seeing like is it feasible for islands like this to to recovery to recover like every few years if they have to go through this. I mean absolutely this is one of the questions that's out here is like how do you deal with a time when you might be getting more and more storms like this you know this is going to take years for Abaco and for Grand Bahama to recover and yet it's it's it's the new reality. It's N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien who's part of an N.P.R. Reporting team and he's talking to us from Abaco Island in the Bahamas thank you Jason. You're welcome. This is N.P.R. News. The Federal Trade Commission takes aim at You Tube for marketing to kids new to. The kids. To serve those kids. The challenge of protecting children's privacy in the You Tube. The takeaway from. 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It's MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin good morning we're going to talk next about the story behind a headline the headline in question longtime film producer Harvey Weinstein and the allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault against him it's been 2 years since the New York Times broke that story and tomorrow the 2 reporters who wrote it are out with a book it is titled she said and it documents just how difficult it was to convince women to come forward also how hard Weinstein and his associates fought back Mary Louise Kelly host of All Things Considered spoke with the 2 times reporters Jodi Kantor and make into he and Mary Louise is in our studios this morning thanks for coming in I'm glad to be here this morning so the Times published the I.Z. Investigation nearly 2 years ago as we noted what new details do the reporters here in this book what struck me Rachel were 2 things one the lengths that these reporters went to to get the story starting with they were trying to reach actresses who had worked with Harvey Weinstein How do you get going if you're on the phone how to get Angelina Jolie on the phone how do you get their number and then once you've gotten it how did the restart I'm going to talk to you about something that is private and possibly painful and as we know many of the women they were trying to reach had settlements barring them from speaking these nondisclosure agreements that has been widely reported before but the way that Jodi Kantor and Meghan to approached it was if we're going to keep this from blocking the story forever we have to make it the story we have to follow the trail and so the investigative journalism that has revealed Here's is quite something and really interesting to read the other thing is just there are sources named here who have not been on the record before it widens our understanding of. Exactly what may have happened and the details of the people around Harvey Weinstein who his attorneys and others who were protecting him enabling him there's a lot of details a lot of documents that have not been made public before so. People in the film industry used to describe Harvey Weinstein's offenses as a quote open secret right one of them was his own brother noble and seen how does he figure in the book he is someone we have heard very little from before on the record of you of course were in the Weinstein Company with Harvey he provides one of them who are truly astonishing accounts in the book I actually want to play you a longer a longest chunk of that part of the interview you're going here Meghan to a one of the reporters telling me how she and Cantor were hell bent on trying to get answers to 3 questions What did Bob know when did he know it and what did he do about it and it took many attempts to get Bob to talk had countless times where I'd call him and he basically hang up on me but last year there was a moment where he finally agreed to meet me at a diner here in New York and it was the beginning of him slowly starting to open up in a series of interviews and what we learned over the course of that time worth were some interesting things one he absolutely had been made aware of allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assaults against Harvey going back to the ninety's and some cases he had provided money that helped silence the women but that he claims that he believed Harvey when he insisted that these were extramarital affairs and nothing more and that there was a rationale that Bob himself kind of applied in this situation which was to believe that his brother's problem was sex addiction perspective that was actually informed by Bob's own battles with substance abuse over the years and his path to recovery and we also obtained this intimate letter that Bob wrote to Harvey in 2015 in which he's pleading with him to get help get treatment for his quote unquote misbehavior and we that's another document that we reproduce in its entirety in the book so that readers can sort of see for themselves you know what happens when people get a glimpse of a problem what do they try to do about it and how do people become complicit there's a. A stunning line from that letter from Bob Weinstein to his brother where where he writes if you ever strike me again or verbally abused me making clear that inside the Weinstein Company and inside the Weinstein family this behavior was was known and documented that's right there was we document a particular incident in which Harvey Weinstein had actually punched had physically assaulted his own brother there were other executives in the room you know and nobody did anything about it. So that's Meghan to he's speaking there Rachel and I should note Harvey Weinstein has denied allegations of nonconsensual activity his trial is scheduled to start next year and he's pleaded not guilty the new book is by Jodi Kantor and making 2 of the New York Times it's called she said breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement you can hear Mary Louise's full interview tonight on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED thank you you're welcome. We're right ocean temperatures from Alaska down here to California have been rising this is a marine heat wave and scientists say it looks a lot like a mass of warm water that appeared 5 years ago and was nicknamed The Blob Casandra proceed with Oregon Public Broadcasting as more the current Marine heat wave isn't quite as big or as warm as the Blob at least not yet. But the last heat wave caused major up evil in the ocean a toxic algae bloom made it unsafe for people to eat shellfish up and down the coast so many crab and clam fisheries were closed salmon and sea lions had less food to eat and warm water species started showing up farther north Chris Harvey is a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service given the severity of the last Marine heat wave the blog we've definitely felt it was our responsibility at this point to say this is something we are concerned about and we're going to continue watching it with regular monitoring along the west coast Harvey says one of the unexpected consequences of the blob was that more whales got entangled in fishing gear while searching for food closer to shore we didn't anticipate that at all we should expect there to be from surprises that we currently can't anticipate if this event persists for years like that last one did and if it extends and the magnitude remains the severe scientists say it's possible a change in the weather could end the heat wave night man with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center says the warm water is the result of an unusual weather pattern that's caused winds to be weaker than normal for months that means cold water at the bottom of the ocean is not moving up toward the top scientists don't know if that's connected to the human caused climate change that's warming the planet we don't know if the weather powder news we do know that there is an underlying warming that have boosted ocean temperatures every year right now water temperatures are about 5 degrees above normal off the western U.S. Scientists expect the heat wave to hurt salmon populations and the fisheries that depend on them it could also cause a shift in marine species to cooler waters For N.P.R. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly President Trump says a deadly Taliban bombing in Afghanistan prompted him to cancel previously secret talks to be held at Camp David with Afghan and Taliban leaders among those killed in the attack near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was a member of the U.S. Military it's unclear if war when the talks to end the nearly 18 year war will resume China is reporting a 3 percent drop in exports amid its ongoing trade war with the U.S. N.P.R.'s Shannon Van Sant says Beijing's exports to the U.S. Were off by double digits in August exports of Chinese goods to the U.S. Fell 16 percent while imports of American goods to China dropped 22 percent in August U.S. And Chinese negotiators are preparing for meetings in October on the table is China's trade surplus theft of intellectual property rights and barriers for American companies entering the Chinese markets the U.S. Coast Guard is still looking for 4 crew members from a cargo ship that rolled onto its side and caught fire off the coast of Georgia at least 20 people aboard the golden ray were rescued Sam Whitehead with member station W A B E has more the vehicle carrier began tilting to its side in St Simon sound near the port of Brunswick soon after setting sail officials say there's no active threat of pollution in the cause of the incident is still under investigation this is N.P.R. News from Washington. Bishops in Nicaragua are calling for a week of prayer as the U.N. And other organizations denounce ongoing human rights violations in that country by remarking reports the Bishops Conference of me got out started its week of prayers for peace in the country on Sunday the campaign runs through next week when he got us celebrates its independence a new U.N. Report says churches are among the targets of what it costs a gross human rights violations under the government of the north they got the report says independent journalists are also persecuted just last week a group of businessmen a scorching independent journalist and even thought when you go to his home we put it being attacked by government supporters or who knows home was also spray painted with their threats For N.P.R. News I'm ready I'm Martin at least one death is reported in Japan today because of a typhoon dozens of people have been injured trains and subways have been suspended in Tokyo and flights canceled the typhoon moved through a northern suburb of Tokyo before dawn widespread power outages are also reported British Airways says nearly all of its flights are canceled today because of a pilot strike the 48 hour walkout is taking place amid contract negotiations the airline says it's offering pilots of pay hike of $11.00 and a half percent over 3 years the pilots union says that's not good enough I'm Dave Mattingly N.P.R. News in Washington. Next time. Democratic. About some of the complexities challenges. And how that plays out in platforms of social media. Is it 10. Nowadays you need more than just information you need facts relevance and understanding that comes from the kind of journalism every time you listen to. N.P.R. 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News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington D.C. a 3rd Republican has now issued a challenge to President Trump in the 2020 campaign his name is Mark Sanford he's a former governor from South Carolina and more recently a congressman until he lost his primary to a Republican challenger who was endorsed by President Trump Sanford spoke to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED yesterday I think that the Republican Party has lost its way on what were traditional benchmarks to what party is that about traditionally Republican Party States or some levels so that we conservatives that since it didn't turn out the window of late N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith who hosts the N.P.R. Politics podcast joins us now to talk about this development Hi Tam Hi So we heard Sanford there in that clip saying the words financial conservatism is that the central part of his platform is that why thinks he can win here I'm not sure he does think that he can win but he is using this campaign to raise alarms about the debt and deficit he also argues that President Trump has strayed from traditional Republican principles in other ways like on trade and he says that Trump has done damage to institutions and norms as he explained on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED yesterday State's president is that disruptive and harmful in the way that he is used town that's turned off I think a lot of people to what would otherwise be good clinical best so in short he thinks that President Trump needs a serious primary challenge so there can be a conversation and debate about what it means to be a Republican which he says hasn't really happened during the Trump presidency because President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and he tends to crush his opponents like Sanford you know so presumably though that means he doesn't believe Bill Weld or Joe Walsh are serious primary contenders I mean both men Bill Weld is the former Massachusetts governor Joe Walsh former member of Congress they are both in the race. Trying to primary the president does it do any of these 3 pose a real threat to President Roh will they deny him the nomination even their boosters admit that it's not likely but there is another goal a secondary goal which is to weaken the president headed into the general election President Trump has 88 percent approval according to the latest Gallup poll among Republicans so there isn't a lot of room for these people to run but they point to history the president of Ford and Carter and George W. Bush they all faced primary challenges they all won their party's nomination but then they were denied a 2nd term there is an argument though that these 3 are not Ronald Reagan Ted Kennedy or Pat Buchanan right it's also interesting because clearly as Republicans they feel like they can't defect to the Democrat Party Democratic Party but this is a way that they feel like they can undermine President Trump Meanwhile some states are just doing away with the Republican primaries or the No that's right a handful of state party organizations have moved to change the rules even a limb in aiding their primaries and caucuses this year that is seen as a move to protect the president but the president's opponents say it's a sign of weakness it's clearly a sign that the Trump campaign and his allies at the state level don't want to leave anything to chance N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith for us thank you so much Jim You're welcome. It's been a week now since Hurricane Dorian devastated the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas the government is now saying the official death toll is at least 43 but sadly that number is probably going to keep going up the main commercial hub for the islands is Marsh Harbor and the infrastructure there is so badly damaged the government's trying to move residents off the islands and it's not clear when they'll come back if ever N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien is in Marsh Harbor. A yellow bulldozer clears part of a road in Marsh Harbor shoving piles of concrete aluminum siding and other hurricane debris off the asphalt along with a few Bahamian military transport trucks it's one of the only large government vehicles moving about town utility poles are snapped throughout the middle and northern part of the island now because only power plant remains offline and there's no running water in Marsh Harbor and there's a stench of death. In urban search and rescue team from Gainesville Florida along with the Hayman police officers are checking collapsed buildings in a commercial district near the harbor where the school. Heavily damaged areas and were helping them search including. Injuries or fatalities you know if there is a system with. John says you know with the Gainesville Fire Rescue Department says the main way to tell if bodies are buried in the rubble is by smell at this point in the game this kind of this late in the game there's a definite odor and I would say if you have to and it is difficult to tell sometimes from from animals versus humans sometimes. Maybe some bad food going off so we had to be. In some situations that come from a. Huge if they don't find anyone they mark the building with orange spray paint and move on to the next one. Is US military helicopters and other aircraft shuttle and supplies the former head of the Abaco Chamber of Commerce says almost every business in Marsh Harbor is shutdown 0 commerce 0 commerce so this time there's nothing you can buy water you can have as much money as you want You can't buy anything air that I would tell senior describes himself as a glass half full kind of guy everything's wiped out so it's a chance to rebuild everything back he says this island is one of the main economic problems for this country so in my personal opinion I don't see the way the government could not rebuild this it has to be done it's not going to happen overnight but it has to be done but in the meantime what do you do with the island $17000.00 residents what do they eat where do they sleep how do they get water how do they survive for the people currently homeless in Marsh Harbor the government's answer is to send them to shelters and Nassau on the island of New Providence more than a 1000 are already sleeping in gyms and churches in the capital hundreds potentially thousands of others are staying with friends and relatives and the government is even appealing to private individuals to take in more of the evacuees who continue to be ferried off of Abaco so many people have left that much of Marsh Harbor feels eerily calm and empty. Pristine life warm Red Cross however says some people are still afraid or unwilling to leave you know I thought you know he Some of them I'm never going to want to leave. And that's the reality that we face lie porn is managing a shelter in Marsh Harbor she rode out Dorian along with nearly 500 other people in a primary school which was. Turned into a hurricane shelter before the storm as soon as boats and planes started departing for the capital like warning her staff encouraged the people in the shelter to leave the Island on Saturday night she was down to 248 people staying in the school she hopes to have fewer than 70 residents by today she says people here are used to hurricanes and many feel that they'll bounce back like they have after every other storm in the past but she says the devastation from Dorian is different and it could be a long time before even basic infrastructure is restored here it's going to be a long process. We have to face the reality of what devastated us and us is for the worst movie ever had in the Bahamas that I've lived she says as soon as this shelter is empty she's going to catch the next flight out to Jason Beaubien N.P.R. News Marsh Harbor the Bahamas. This is N.P.R. News. In Indiana mental health needs were skyrocketing at the same time there was a chronic shortage of providers one Indiana Medical Center though has found a workaround here are you doing today tell us psychiatry in my opinion the SCHLEIFSTEIN I marry the Reese Kelly that story Monday afternoon on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from N.P.R. News We dated for an 89.38 in Cincy. Long before George Takei played Sulu on Star Trek he survived one of the darkest periods in North American history Japanese internment now he's in his eighty's and telling his story in a graphic novel he's also got a lot to say about how his story is still relevant today that's coming up on cue from P.R.I. 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Adventure through inner space and beyond this is Sandra Tsing Loh with the lowdown on science the Disneyland Tomorrow Land ride let visitors travel through space writers where shrunk down to smaller than an atom beyond the limits of microscope technology like an outside fine movie Fantastic Voyage cool right current technology still can't see this hidden world directly but it's getting there and lasers can photograph it however the microscope images they produce aren't crisp and clean they're grainy with spotty patterns called speckle point Chalo at Yale University wanted to free lasers from speckle tyranny he tracked and stored green light in a liquid solution called a row to mean 640 this solution once saturated releases a flood of yellow laser light to modify the road I mean Chalo added tiny reflective styrofoam spheres which act like laser floodgates normally laser light is perfectly wavelike like the surface of the ocean now it was random Rocky and J. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene It is yet another big day in Bret's Atlanta British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in Dublin Ireland to talk about what could be the biggest consequence of a so-called heartbreaks and that is what might happen on the Irish border Jonson's also expected to push parliament to hold a snap election let's talk all this through with N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt in London Hi there Frank thank you morning David I Will let's start with Ireland I mean this is kind of the nightmare Bret's that scenario for some that are that a hard border with Ireland cred bring back old tensions it could slow trade on what's now the seamless borders their chance of some kind of breakthrough here I don't think today that's not very likely Johnson says he wants to get some kind of deal but if you talk to people in Brussels over the European Union they say nothing's been moving and speaking with Johnson today just ahead of their talks in Dublin Irish Prime Minister Leo Brad he made it very clear that negotiations have a long way to go this is how he put it David we must protect base and also the economy we are open to alternatives but they must be realistic ones legally binding and workable and we haven't received such proposals to date and you know David the current solution is for the United Kingdom to stay in a close customs arrangement with the E.U. Until they come up with something that's going to work to avoid these very things that you mentioned Johnson though rejects that because it would keep the U.K. Tied to the U. Potentially for many many years but as Barack It just says Johnson hasn't offered any solutions and the time of course is ticking down still here in the United Kingdom it's scheduled to leave the European Union at the end of October right so one thing the prime minister is offering is his idea for parliament to approve a snap election but but he would need votes in parliament for that had to write half of them no he doesn't at all he needs a 2 thirds majority and he's going to we think he's going to ask tonight for it but the opposition parties are opposing him now officially they say we don't trust Boris Johnson we. We're going to give him a lection and then he's going to trick us and crash the U.K. Out of you anyway many of those think the real reason behind this is the opposition Labor Party is trailing Johnson's conservatives in the polls and if there were an election next month as Johnson wants Labor would lose and a big reason for this is even as the conservatives have basically had a disastrous time in the last 3 years with Bracks it the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn is even more unpopular than Johnson and the reason for that is he is a socialist and many people feel here that he would actually damage the U.K. Economy and so the problem that Labor has is that the person at the top of their ticket is just not he's very polarizing and he's not that popular I was feel like on moments like this I'm making do with lightning round I mean there's so much to ask you about. The queen is expected to approve this new law today right that would block the prime minister from taking the U.K. Out of the E.U. At the end of October that deadline that you mentioned without some sort of agreement because the fear is that that kind of withdrawal would damage the U.K. Economy Johnson says he he might not abide by this law so what is happening here he does this is in an exchange with a reporter on Friday but Friday this is what the prime minister said can you make had the data that is public that you are not going back to Brussels and so now that tonight yes and so he added you know. Each OK it's pretty clear so how would parliament respond of Johnson does defy them ignore this law I think they take him to court we could see this all heading to the Supreme Court here in the United Kingdom sooner than later and then John supposed to suspend Parliament this week as well he is he should be could do as early as today after he fails in what's expected to fail in this vote or as late as Thursday and then Parliament wouldn't come back into the middle of October life that land with N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt Frank thank you as always for helping us understand this happy to do it David It's N.P.R. News. 330 on the frame she's got to hit summer. Movie. We hang out. At 339.3. 0 be at the theater at. $28.00 I'm taking the 10 to the one o one then I'm going to get over to the left then I'm going to go over to the right then I'm going to panic. Then I'm going to. Get out of the car the night away get your tickets now. In person. 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Samantha a cosmopolitan and Donald Trump you just don't get more New York and downtown but like you to me what am I telling King of that at all you handsome Cillian ass now and sound from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to sex in the city for years Trump was an undisputed icon of money and power in pop culture a new book by New York Times chief T.V. Critic James planet Wozzeck looks at how television enabled Trump's political rise he had this this fantastic instinctual sense to 0 in on this change that was happening in this like I said you know Ronald Reagan got elected there's sort of a move away from the populism of the seventy's to materialism and it's OK to want things again and Madonna is making the Material Girl video and there's a real opportunity for somebody to be calm that sort of broad pop culture cartoon you know. I'm big and I'm successful and I'm living large and I'm not ashamed of it and he embraced that fully and became sort of a media star doing that and Hollywood Hollywood but what he was selling I mean so much so that as you describe in the book they would create opportunities for him to show up in cameos to just represent richness and wealth in New York in particular because once you sort of you know create yourself as the symbol of New York rich guy that makes you a useful sure and that you know people can use if they need somebody to appear yet in a sitcom cameo or in a movie and this was also really useful to the public image of Donald Trump because you know what happened to him at the end of the eighty's was that his businesses ran into a lot of business trouble and you know went through bankruptcy and his job you know essentially became to play the character Donald Trump. You know in the media on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air You know because that kept the brand Trump alive because it was so tied to his persona and that public performance his job basically became to become the mascot of himself so the perception of of his wealth was far more important to Americans than the reality of his finances and he understood you know from the beginning and I think this is just you know his his key insight that symbolism is incredibly subconsciously powerful to people it is more important to look like the biggest businessman in New York than it is to be the biggest businessman in New York. Critics of the administration like to call it the Trump show as if the presidency were total performance and it has a lot of that feel right but do you think that Donald Trump has been successful in manipulating the media as president I think he has been successful in getting the attention of the media as as president you know one thing that he is very successful at is just knowing what stimulates a camera and what keeps the red light of the camera on one thing that I think you know it is not necessarily the case is that he's been able to sort of manipulate the media in ways that are strategic and practical for a you know he's not necessarily disappointed when he was on The Apprentice he had somebody like you know the producer Mark Burnett and you know other story editors to go back and sort of edit logic on to the program what do you mean edit logic on to the program meaning meaning for that you know people who worked on the show have talked about how in the famous boardroom scenes where he would fire a contestant on The Apprentice you know he would often make decisions that were sort of random or you know from a like a minor annoyance over something that somebody said and they'd look at each other and say there's nothing in the rest of the episode not just we have to go back and re edit this so that we're weren't. You know putting logic on his actions and now there's nobody to do that except you know Mike Pence and you know those press secretaries so you know we're now it's more like we're seeing the raw unedited feed and so it certainly works in terms of making him the protagonist of this you know 24 hour T.V. Show that's the news he doesn't necessarily always use it to tell the story that's most advantageous for him to tell but it's almost like he knows instinctually though what will at least help him sometimes in the short term I am thinking about the summit in Singapore for the 1st time that he met face to face with Kim Jong un Yeah and that was that was one of the instances where you know he arranges this meeting with with Kim It is dramatic because this is you know something bad has been unprecedented in American diplomacy and it sets up all of these images like them walking through the garden together at the summit in a just these images that sort of in short clips on T.V. Say diplomacy progress deals right it doesn't matter if there's any substance in the talks that the performance is the news that is the significant thing that's happened and a lot of times you know a small images are just what the the mass of people who have other things to pay attention in their lives it's what they take away from them deal maker goes to make a deal shake somebody's hand that's what deal making looks like. It's important to note this word that you include in your subtitle the fracturing of America because Donald Trump you're right has been able to leverage the the fracturing of the media landscape right over the last decades we've seen that Americans we can we can dive into our subcultures we can create kind of parallel worlds and we can just stay there and live there and Donald Trump has capitalized on that has he not he has you know and this is for me as a T.V. Critic this is sort of a double edged sword you know because I think that the fragmenting of media has created a lot of great things media and television is more representative and inclusive and diverse than it used to be but you know we also have the situation where everybody is in their own sort of little media bubble and this creates a real opportunity if you are say a politician who can benefit from turning one group against another because there are so many groups out there who are primed to be turned against another by the mechanics of how media works now New York Times chief T.V. Critic James part of his new book is called audience of one Donald Trump television and the fracturing. It's MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene. On the next FRESH AIR The CIA secret experiments with L.S.D. In the fifty's and sixty's and search of a drug that could be used to control the minds of enemy Allen Ginsberg and were introduced to L.S.D. 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News in Washington on child Snyder the Bahamas is still struggling a week after hurricane durian battered the islands as a Category 5 storm N.P.R.'s colander wire has the latest on recovery efforts and them as a Dorian left behind is so massive that even now officials are still trying to gauge its full extent efficient death toll in the Bahamas is now more than 40 but with so many people missing authorities are warning that the number is likely to climb much higher in the days ahead about 70000 people in the Bahamas are estimated to have lost their homes in the storm here's Carl Smith A spokesman for the country's emergency management agency you would see an improvement in The Situation . As we speak we are doing the best to be Dorian was the strongest storm ever on record to hit the island chain call in prayer and P.R. News in Japan a strong typhoon is back out to sea after moving across the Tokyo area during the rush hour the country's weather agency is still warning of the potential for mudslides and flooding though because of the heavy rain that fell one person is reported dead and dozens injured a separate typhoon struck the Korean Peninsula over the weekend the ongoing investigation into the Labor Day blaze of board the dive boat conception is expanding Matt Gillum with member station K.C. R.W. Reports a range of agencies have served search warrants on the owners of the boat the Santa Barbara based company that owned the conception truth aquatics was served several search warrants over the weekend they came from the U.S. Coast Guard the F.B.I. And the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives while those agencies were looking for records about safety training in Maine into the dive company's office they were also seen searching 2 other boats run by truth aquatics conception was on a 3 day excursion when it caught fire killing 34 people who were sleeping on board the British prime minister Boris Johnson says he will not ask the European Union for another Breck's an extension even though a bill compelling have to. Do so became law today N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from London on Britain's potential constitutional crisis Johnson says even if he can't negotiate a new withdrawal agreement with Brussels he won't ask the E.U. To extend the BRICS the deadline be on October 31st I'd rather be dead in a ditch she said Friday Johnson's refusal would crash the United Kingdom out of the E.U. With no deal something parliament have.