For. The. First. Got a merger for you. Now the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jim hock German police fired water cannons to disperse violent protesters in Hamburg on the eve of the g. 20 summit N.P.R.'s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is in the German port city where the clashes erupted while Chancellor Merkel was meeting with President Trump. And. The anti g 20 protests which we're going to as are calling Welcome to Hell resumed after a brief hiatus following the clashes most of the demonstrators are peaceful but in a live video stream of the protest black hooded amassed participants like the ones that attacked police earlier with bottles and bricks are visible in the crowd many protesters are calling on the g. 20 to be dissolved while others are urging world leaders to fight climate change and address the global gap between the rich and poor some 20000 police are on hand to help keep the peace although many activists and some local politicians accuse them of being heavy handed Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson n.p.r. News Hamburg President Trump says he's considering quote pretty severe things in response to North Korea's recent test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile but speaking at the Pentagon Defense Secretary Jim madness as the North Korean missile test should not be overstated I do not believe this capability in itself brings us closer to war because the president and very clear and State been very clear that we are laden with diplomatic and economic effort and it's also said the u.s. Continues working with allies as well as the Chinese but he says any kind of effort by North Korea to start a war would lead to what he called a severe consequences Microsoft is laying off several 1000 employees the cuts part of a larger restructuring will mostly head workers abroad as N.P.R.'s are the Johnny reports last week of Microsoft chief sent out a memo to employee thought about restructuring but did not use the word layoffs now the company confirms that layoffs are half. But ng starting immediately the majority about 70 percent are outside the us the company is cutting sales and marketing positions but a spokesperson says the move is not a cost cutting effort it's an effort to bring in more skilled workers and Microsoft plans to hire new positions as well the tech giant based in Redmond Washington is focused on ramping up its subscription business getting corporate and government customers to pay regularly for data storage and computing services on line across multiple devices are a shiny n.p.r. He has there appears to be a cooling in the pace of private sector hiring today's report from a.d.p. Indicates employers added 158000 new jobs in June well below the estimated gain of 185000 another report show weekly jobless claims rising for the 3rd week in a row 224-8001 Wall Street the Dow closed down 100 $58.00 points the Nasdaq gave up $61.00 this is n.p.r. News from k.q.e.d. News Devon Katayama Sound Cloud the company that aspires to be the You Tube of audio is laying off 40 percent of its staff and closing its San Francisco office. Thorson reports Sound Cloud is used by musicians podcasters and yes radio producers and stations to share audio content easily across platforms although the company claims 175000000 listeners it hasn't found a way to make the service profitable it's free to listen and upload 3 hours or less of audio rumors of acquisition by bigger fish in the digital music ocean have failed to pan out Sound Cloud is based in Germany and opened at San Francisco office 6 years ago its offices in New York and Berlin are expected to remain open I mean if arson news civil rights attorneys say Oakland city officials should be held in contempt if they do not comply with police reforms ordered by a settlement the city's been under federal oversight for the last 14 years a report last month showed the city. Managed its investigation into allegations that officers sexually exploited a teenager in court filings attorneys are demanding more details about the city's investigation and if not granted they say officials should be held in contempt Robert Weissberg is a law professor at Stanford What complicated here of course is said you have new leadership in the police department and the judge may well want to give them a little extra time to comply a court hearing is scheduled for Monday will have more for you then for more Bay area coverage you can follow k.q.e.d. News on Facebook and Twitter we'll have more local news in just half an hour and Devin Katayama k.q.e.d. News support for n.p.r. Comes from Life Lock reminding consumers that identity thieves composes other people taking over bank accounts filing fake tax returns or doing other criminal acts more at Life Lock dot com And by the listeners of k.q.e.d. Support for k.q.e.d. Comes from the almond Board of California working to expand sustainability programs on the growers act more than $11000000000.00 to the local economy while providing over $100000.00 jobs in California alone more at home and sustainability dot org. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Robert Siegel in Washington and I'm Kelly McEvers in Culver City California world leaders and protesters are in Hamburg Germany the site of this week's g. 20 gathering President Trump met today with leaders of South Korea and Japan on their minds as North Korea test fired a long range ballistic missile just days ago suggesting it may soon be able to reach the u.s. Earlier Trump was in Poland there he answered questions about North Korea and reaffirms the u.s. Commitment to NATO N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley is traveling with the president and begins our coverage President Trump told reporters quote something will have to be done about North Korea's nuclear missile rattling but he did not offer any details the u.s. Has long been reluctant to use military force against Pyongyang for fear of a retaliatory strike and Trump is so far not been able to persuade China to put the squeeze on North Korea's economy as far as North Korea is concerned I don't know we'll see what happens I don't like to talk about what I have planned. But I have some pretty severe things that we're thinking about in addition was talks with Asian leaders trying to also has a much anticipated meeting tomorrow with Russian President Vladimir Putin he continues to raise doubts about whether Russia meddled in last year's presidential race while u.s. Intelligence agencies concluded Russia did interfere to boost trumps chances the president notes those agencies have been wrong in the past as are their finding that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction mistakes of the May I agree I think it was Russia but I think it was probably other people and or countries and I think see nothing wrong with that statement nobody really knows later took a harder line against Russia in an outdoor speech to the people of Poland. Standing in Warsaw screws in ski Square where poles rose up against the Nazis during World War 2 trump paid tribute to polish resilience he also delivered a warning to Russia whose aggressive moves on. Poland's eastern flank are odd with considerable suspicion We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere and its support for hostile regimes including Syria and Iran worries about Russia prompt Poland spend more than 2 percent of its total economy on defense and example Trump says other European countries would do well to emulate Trump called on other NATO allies to boost their defense spending as he's done in the past and he said something he did not say during his last visit to Europe the Us will come to the aid of any NATO member that's attacked the United States has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind Article 5 the mutual defense commitment the u.s. Is already selling Patriot missiles to Poland and last month it delivered its 1st shipment of liquid natural gas a boon for American gas producers at a hedge for Europeans worried about being cut off from Russian supplies Trump's beach today was not just about military and economic might though he also sought to defend western civilisation which he and his speechwriters defined in ethno nationalist terms the president suggested Western music art law and religious faith are under attack and must be jealously guard it we must work together to confront forces whether they come from inside or out from the south or the east that threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture faith and tradition. That make us who we are the invited Polish audience responded like a crowd at a trump rally back home chanting the president's name Trump a clear quote We will never back down the Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Hamburg Germany and I'm Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson also in Hamburg choosing the city as the venue for the summit is a big security and political gamble for on the MacHall but Emberg is the chancellor's hometown and she's trying to show the world that protests are tolerated in a democracy. Waves and boats ferrying passengers across the Elba River are the sounds typically associated with this northern port city now this week though as authorities try to secure Hamburg before the summit begins. Police helicopters hovering overhead nonstop well below 20000 heavily armed police officers from around Germany have taken over downtown. Many of them with dogs sniffing for explosives and helping to keep order German officials are concerned about the prospect of an Islamist terror attack given the many recent incidents across Europe they're also determined to prevent Entergy 20 demonstrations from turning violent and police have been quick to use force to break up gatherings at the 1st sign of trouble as they did tonight nor were area business owners taking any chances. They put up flyers led to protect their store fronts from the clashes between demonstrators and police 50 square miles of downtown have also been declared off limits to anyone not connected to the summit the. Public transit drivers warned of areas that were closed to passengers but Hamburg mayor all of Scholz denied the authorities were being heavy handed if it's a good idea. He told German public broadcaster a r.-d. The city has agreed to allow nearly. 30 demonstrations to go ahead he says holding summits in some out of the way location as is usually the case is an s.m. Accredit is holding it in a liberal city like Hamburg he says some portion for the 20 most powerful leaders in the world to get together and to tackle pressing global issues like climate change free trade and aid for developing countries but his assurances weren't stopping many Hamburg residents from leaving like this 61 year old doctor's assistant at the central train station who said she was too frightened to give her name just because. I find the city's atmosphere threatening the woman says adding she worries there will be a rampage she says she and her husband moved up their vacation to escape the g. 20 but they 1st had to make a pass hundreds of protesters who had just arrived by chartered train from Switzerland. The scores of police in riot hand to vet the out of towners thousands more Hamburg residents are protesting against the summit too like this group that carry posters denouncing Donald Trump the. Was the none of the residents I interviewed were happy Trump was here 2 if they think his talks with Merkel let alone the g 20 would change anything there especially upset about the American president pulling the u.s. Out of the Paris climate accord one is retiring a close Milka this is. There for he says Trump is a charlatan who thinks he can get things done but doesn't understand his job though the ads tongue in cheek if he doesn't come around will just make him take a time out like in kindergarten and it'll be the g. 19 not the g. 20 Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson n.p.r. News Hamburg. A White House commission set up to look into voter fraud is being criticized on many fronts even before it has held its 1st meeting many states are refusing to. Share voter data with the panel one of the 11 commissioners has already resigned and several legal complaints have been filed challenging the commission's work N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler has been following the story and she's with us now Pam and Kelli so we've seen reports that at least 44 states so far refused to comply with the commission's request to provide detailed voter information but then yesterday the commission's vice chair Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach said that most states either are complying or are considering complying So who's right here well it depends on your definition of the word comply last week the commission sent letters out asking states to give all their publicly available voter data to the panel such as names dates of birth partial social security numbers about a dozen states refused outright they raised concerns that the information might be misused and other states said there were laws don't allow them to send such sensitive data to Washington but about half the states said they would send what's already publicly available but that that information would be very limited and Kobach says since the commission's only asking for what's publicly available those states are complying but I think it's very important to know that those states that are compliant are doing so very reluctantly I could not find any states that were very enthusiastic about supporting what Kobach wants to do which is to look for evidence of voter fraud and as I mentioned one of the commissioners has already resigned who is that and why was names Louise his deputy secretary of state in Maryland he hasn't said publicly why he's left but a White House spokesman told me yesterday that Brenda said he was worried that the workload would be too much with his current job I should also note that a lot of eyebrows were raised when he was appointed to the panel because like a lot of the commissioners he has no experience in elections in Maryland those are not run by the secretary of state's office and that's only added to the criticisms about what the panel might be up to and as you said the commission is already in court to. Itself against some legal challenges right that's right they've got these problems too there's one lawsuit that was filed on Monday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center it claims that this request for voter data is violating federal privacy laws there are also some complaints that Kobach is violating the Hatch Act by using his role in the commission to promote his candidacy for governor of Kansas and others are worried about whether the commission is meeting in open meetings law and requirements the administration disputes that it's violating any laws but it's unclear you know what impact that's going to have and this is a pretty long list of problems already is this commission going to be able to accomplish anything and I don't know I wouldn't say if this panel is imploding right now but it appears that it's definitely headed in that direction if things don't change most election officials Democrats and Republicans alike have viewed the panel with a lot of skepticism right from the start a lot of them think that it was set up to validate president trumps allegations of widespread voter fraud and they think there are a lot more serious problems that need to be dealt with including aging voting equipment and the potential for hacking of u.s. Elections by Russia or somebody else and it's not clear that the commission will deal with any of those issues. Thanks thanks. It's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opioids are still being prescribed too often that story and more coming up in the next segment. Considered 1st though here Stephen with more traffic sent in the evening commute has kicked in south 85 you're going to slow in pockets from Mountain View all the way out to Los Gatos southbound 101 right after Dale a cruise through San Jose motorcycle crash still blocks the left lane northbound 680 from Danville of Sycamore Valley Road one long stretch of slow down all the way up to Pleasant Hill of Gary road and northbound Nimitz through Oakland you're going to be slow from the Coliseum up to prevail even John for take and Stevens report brought to you by the Alameda County Fair support for k.q.e.d. Comes from c. Of s. 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Fog and clouds rolling in tonight with overnight lows in the fifty's some low sixty's and tomorrow they'll be a clearing in the late morning and it will be hotter tomorrow afternoon from n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Robert Siegel and I'm Kelly McEvers doctors have got more cautious about prescribing opioids for pain but too many patients are still getting the addictive drugs so says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention n.p.r. Health correspondent Rob Stein has more as everyone knows the nation is in the mists of an opioid crisis millions of Americans are hooked on the prescription pain killers and thousands are dying from overdoses so and shocked at the C.D.C.'s acting director says the agency wanted to see if things were getting any better and we have good news half of the counties in the United States saw a drop in the amount of opioids that was being prescribed from 2010 to 2015 there was overall an 18 percent drop in prescribing and the average dose that doctors are prescribing has also dropped which is more good news she says now the bad news u.s. Doctors are still prescribing 3 times more opioids than in 1999 and $3.00 times more than doctors in Europe overall the level of prescribing today it's enough that every American would be medicated round the clock for 3 weeks so that's a lot of opioid use and doctors are actually writing their patients prescriptions that last longer the bottom line is that too many are still getting too much for too long and that is driving our problem with drug overdoses and. Overdose deaths in the country because the longer someone has access to opioids the greater the chance they'll get hooked and the C.D.C.'s latest data show that there are so huge variations in how doctors prescribe opioids around the country there is 6 times more opioids being prescribed in the highest prescribing counties compared to the lowest prescribing counties and that a man can lead to a much higher risk for opiate addiction overdose and death the counties where the most opioids are being prescribed are scattered all over the country though they tend to be places with more white unemployed people with less education Andrew Kalani an addiction expert at Brandeis says the new numbers show that the campaign to get doctors to be more careful still has a long way to go we're in the midst of the worst drug addiction damage in the United States history but we're still massively over prescribing so Kolob being shocked at hope that more doctors will start prescribing opioids much more carefully and you say for drugs physical therapy and other ways to alleviate their patients pain whenever possible Rob Stein n.p.r. News well as we've heard the last year of data included in the C.D.C.'s report was 2015 since then the agency has released guidelines for prescribing opioids they're meant for primary care physicians like Dr Alan Schwartz Stein he's been a family physician for over 30 years he works in rural well with County Wisconsin and he's a member of the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians Welcome to the program which works Dan thank you Robert are you prescribing fewer opioids than you used to yes I am absolutely and how many opioid prescriptions you're right now as opposed to 510 years ago well approximately 15 years ago there was a lot of encouragement from patient advocacy groups people that had chronic pain as well as some government organizations for us to prescribe more into a better job. Of treating chronic pain it's just in the last 4 to 6 years that we recognize this defeat increase in opioid prescribing And so during that time I prescribe less I do shorter prescriptions and in the last year I've actually been actively working with all my patients who are on this to back off that or use other modalities are you at all concerned that the pendulum with regard to painkillers might be swinging too far that is the doctors might be overly reluctant right now to prescribe opioids to patients who are dealing with chronic pain it's possible family physicians have to run a thin line between providing adequate treatment for chronic pain and limiting opioids I don't think it's going to go too far Robert I'm optimistic I have heard from doctors who practice in rural areas that the question of how many pills you prescribe is a tricky one because if you give too few pills your patient doesn't like someone in the city who can check back with you in a few days and have another visit with the doctor the patient may be 60 miles away from your from your office it is that a problem for you and well with County Wisconsin and how do you deal with it for people that I'm treating with opioids for chronic pain generally the prescriptions I'm giving them and then I'm refilling for them are for 28 day period however for acute pain I'm being to prescribe shorter duration it's actually only 3 days for someone that comes in with a bone injury or some other reason for pain and they only needed those 3 days and after that they relied on the c. To mount a fan and ibuprofen and the like in addition to seeing patients at your practice you also hear from patients who are seeking emergency care do you hear different kinds of problems related to opioids there well I do patients don't generally come in there seeking to get off an opioid they usually come in on weekends asking for a refill on their medication either by. Yes their own physician is out of the office or it's the weekend and they ran out generally we get to understand when we should be prescribing for a few days to get them through and when this probably is not a proper prescription and I've had at least 3 people over the last 6 months on the urgent care when I decline to write a prescription say you know doc I can go on the street and get her alone or this medicine for cheaper anyway what do you say to someone who says that I hear what you're saying but ethically I don't feel this is the right medication for you what you do when you leave is up to you but I also say to the you know if this to become an issue if you have over using the medication or you feel it might be a problem I'd like to get you connected to somebody that can help you deal with this and control your addiction what is the opioid situation while with County Wisconsin didn't pick out a ranks as one of those with a very large problem are in the middle or small problem I would say we're probably in middle it is a rural county and we have a large population that is unemployed or under served and so opioid addiction and use of opiate medication tends to increase in those areas and I see that in the area that's a short Stein thank you very much for talking with us today thank you Robert Alan Schwartz Dunn is a family physician in southeast Wisconsin. 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Comes from Sony Picture classics presenting 13 minutes new thriller about an ordinary man who in 1939 was 13 minutes away from killing Adolf Hitler starts Friday you're listening to k.q.e.d. F.m. San Francisco and to k.q.e.d. I have family or Thailand Sacramento the time now is 530 it's k.q.e.d. News and I'm Devon Katayama as President Trump prepares for tomorrow's g. 20 summit in Germany Governor Jerry Brown has sent his own message on the. Half of California and the country saying Trump's views on climate change don't reflect many American views look up to you and it's up to me and tens of millions of other people to gather together to roll back the forces of carbon is Asian and join together to combat the extra special threat of climate change in a video message of the Global Citizen festival in Germany Brown announced an international climate summit in San Francisco in 2018 while Brown has been seen as this international leader for climate change news about California's flagship program to cut carbon emissions is raising some eyebrows with environmentalists here to talk about it is k.q.e.d. Sky Mars Roddy who's in Sacramento Hey Guy Hey Devon So lawmakers are updating the state's cap and trade program which is set to expire in 2020 and this is the cornerstone of California's fight against climate change 1st just remind us how this cap and trade program works so cap and trade it's a market system and it's one of the tools that the state uses to reach these ambitious climate change goals that it set being a market based system Basically it lets polluters like companies buy and sell a certain amount of credits that allow them to pollute and so if the state wants to meet its more ambitious goals in the future the next big one is getting 40 percent below 1900 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030 the governor really wants a cap and trade to play a big role in that So California and Governor Brown has set these really ambitious goals does what you've heard today about the cap and trade deal conflict at all with the state's goal you know it does a little bit the draft language that I've heard about from a number of folks from Il you're with the latest version of the deal sounds like the deals moved in a more industry friendly direction so that means a couple things One there's going to be some continuing of free allowances for some companies and then any credits that the companies can buy in this current cap and trade system will still be valid after 2020 and so that's important because if the state is going to put more and. This climate goals in years to come the price of those credits are going to rise after 2020 so if companies can keep their current cheap credits they'll have to do less amission reducing later that's basically going to help this bill get Republican support if industries are behind it you know folks I spoke to with somebody Republican leadership said you could see up to 15 Republicans in the assembly signed on to this plan to support cap and trade I mean that's still a surprise and still departure from what we've seen of Republican policy on the national level is this why Governor Brown is supporting this negotiation moving in this direction is because they need Republican votes he's been very adamant in recent weeks that Republicans are going to be the key to getting this passed he wants to do this on a 2 thirds vote so that means the vote is likely to be tight either way he really wants the deal because the current system is going to expire in 2020 all experts on the issue really think that you need to have a new system in place a year or 2 in advance for it to really be effective and start right in 2020 what are environmental groups saying about these negotiations imagine some are to please yeah they really are to please and I think that extends to legislators who are supportive of the environmental justice movement I spoke to one Democratic assembly member who's been really pushing the environmental justice aspect of this she said you know you're giving basically the oil companies a gift by giving them these free allowances and allowing them to keep these cheaper emissions credits He covers politics for k.q.e.d. 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In Sacramento where Guy Mars Roddy is it's hot tomorrow as temperature high temperature should be 105 degrees it will cool off a little bit over the weekend down to 100 degrees but it's a triple digit weekend in Sacramento Lake Tahoe sunny with highs in the eighty's this week here in the Bay area it looks like tomorrow's highs will range from just about the low seventy's at the coast San Francisco should see a high of 70 tomorrow to the upper ninety's Livermore one of the hottest locations it should get up to 97 degrees tomorrow Concord expecting a high of 9482 in San Carlos 86 in San Jose tomorrow 93 the anticipated high for Santa Rosa and in Oakland tomorrow the temperature the hottest temperature should be 77 degrees you know listening to k.q.e.d. F.m. San Francisco k.q.e.d. I am North Island Sacramento it's 535. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Robert Siegel and I'm Kelly McEvers President Trump is at the g. 20 meeting in Europe where he could face some tough negotiations over world affairs the trip is a break from grueling talks that are happening here at home about health care the Republicans effort to replace the Affordable Care Act has stalled in the Senate Trump has boasted about his skills as a negotiator but so far he hasn't been able to move this piece of legislation N.P.R.'s national political correspondent Mara Liasson reports Donald Trump promised to bring the art of the deal to Washington with Congress you have to get everybody in a room and you have to get them to agree but I'm really a great negotiate I know how to negotiate I like making deals preferably big deals but deals especially on legislation have been hard to come by on health care Trump has careened from one position to another he promised health care for everyone with no Medicaid cuts but now he's supporting a plan that does neither but all of that says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is just part of Trump's negotiating style a fair amount of what Trump does his posture. He knows his posturing his be his base audience knows it's posturing and he's a little sloppy about it and always has been I think it's been part of who he's been probably for his whole life and it's like the friends who say to me Oconee get in a Stop tweeting and my answer is no Gingrich has been Trump's interpreter and defender argues that trumps early negotiations as president sloppy as they may have been show he can be successful he is going to renegotiate NAFTA so having threatened terminations he's now made the moderate position negotiation. Whereas if he started negotiation you might have heard the Mexican saying no we don't want to do that well now they're grateful renegotiating he actually has moved NATO NATO the secretary general NATO said they had 10000000000 dollars in increased commitments since he became president in the same way Gingrich would argue Trump helped heave the House version the health care bill over the finish line he sent conflicting signals 1st lashing out at the Conservative freedom caucus then giving them what they wanted but in the end says former Republican strategist Dan Schnur the widespread view was the Trump was able to get a deal because he didn't really care what was in it trumps and sees himself as a master dealmaker mask a negotiator and so in the long run it probably doesn't matter that much who he makes the deal with this long as he can make a deal and then stand up today afterwards and say look what a great deal I made so maybe Trump isn't a master negotiator or even a great closer he's a salesman and a cheerleader happy to declare a big victory in a Rose Garden ceremony after the health care bill passed its very 1st hurdle in the house so what we have is something very very incredibly well crafted but the problem was when the president said that the health care bill wasn't even halfway through the negotiations and a few weeks later he was calling the House bill mean after the Senate version ran into trouble he suggested changing the strategy altogether to a simple repeal of Obamacare something he'd explicitly rejected months earlier confusion as a negotiating strategy might work in certain real estate deals but it tends to undermine a president's allies in Congress says Francis lead professor of political science at the University of Maryland it's a very difficult position for them to be and it's not clear what he wants in terms of deception to do legislation he wants to get rid of Obamacare that it's not clear what he wants in a deal would you say he's helping hurting or irrelevant at this point I think he's on balance hurting as far as leading Congress it goes I think he's probably irrelevant in terms of leading public opinion trump is not only can. Using Republicans in Congress he's damaging the trust he'll need from his own team on issues beyond health care Republicans have been furious at Trump's decision to throw the House bill under the bus to threaten to attack fellow Republican senators who weren't onboard and then there are the traditional presidential negotiating tools that Trump has decided not to use Newt Gingrich he's about to learn the thoughts of total misunderstanding of the Congress. You can't negotiate with the Congress the way you would in the business community because the various and sundry things which drive members of Congress are different than the things that would drive people you know you're trying to have a business association with you if you really want to dominate the Congress you have to arouse the country but Trump hasn't given a single public speech explaining what his health care plan would do and why it would be better he hasn't given an in-depth interview on health care even to a friendly reporter he has made lots of phone calls to senators and invited them to meetings at the White House but overall says Sarah bender of the Brookings Institution the president has taken a much lower profile in the Senate negotiations leaving the heavy lifting to Republican leader Mitch McConnell and I think what we're seeing is he gets squeezed out of the deal right it's all being done on the Hill he's not really being engaged in leading the way forward so Trump has to hope Mitch McConnell comes through with something he can call a win as he wrote in The Art of the deal quote you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press and you can throw in a little hyperbole but if you don't deliver the goods people will eventually catch on Mara Liasson n.p.r. News Washington for the 1st time in 2 years the state of Illinois has a budget late today the Illinois House of Representatives overrode the governor's veto of the spending plan that n.x. $5000000000.00 in tax increases are going to talk now to Brian Mackey his state house reporter of Illinois Public Radio and bright why did it take 2 years for the state to pass a budget Well there's really 2 things that happened about 2 years ago we had a big tax cut the took effect here and we had a new Republican governor who came into office he had campaigned on big changes shaking up Springfield he had a very long list of conservative policies one of the big ones was weakening public sector labor unions he also had a lot of things he wanted to do he says would have helped improve the business climate we've seen these policy changes in some of our neighboring states Indiana Wisconsin but unlike those states where Republican governors have had more success getting. Policies through the Illinois Democrats had super majorities in the Illinois legislature and the governor says he wasn't interested in really negotiating on the budget until he got his agenda through and that's basically where we've been for 2 years if Illinois hasn't had a budget for these 2 years how has the state been able to function you know we really haven't had like a shutdown like you see in Washington d.c. Or even this week right New Jersey there were those stories about the beaches that were shut down here you know but nobody would have really noticed should say most people in Illinois didn't really notice if there was a court order that went into effects of state employees have stayed on the job they've continued to get paid you can still get your driver's license state parks are still open but there are a couple of sectors that were really hard hit higher education took a big. Whack from this the social safety net has been hard hits there are some social safety net providers these they take care of elderly people they take care of people with disabilities some of them have not been paid all year there was a stop gap about a year ago that they got some of them you know sort of kept them going but you know basically the state has been held together with bubble gum and scotch tape the governor you know had vetoed the original budget and now that the legislature has overridden that veto does this mean it's over Illinois budget problems are solved not by a launch shot so we still have built up there in these last 2 years we have this $15000000000.00 backlog of unpaid bills because we've been doing all this spending even though we didn't have a budget that's not the same thing is not spending money right so we've been spending basically out of control I mentioned that tax cut that had taken effect so we were spending as though we had all this money coming in that we no longer head and on top of that we still have the largest on funded government employee pension liability in the country it's about $130000000000.00 And finally we had this threat of going to junk bond status there were but it's not even clear that this will be anough to hold that off. 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Next week a federal court will consider whether Texas should change its political boundaries before the 2018 election for the past several years the state has held elections with interim congressional and state House districts in place courts had ruled its original maps discriminated against minorities the plaintiffs in this case a current maps haven't fixed that problem as Ashley Lopez with member station Austin reports Mandy block woke up after the presidential election last year and decided she was going to become more politically active so she did what a lot of people do she looked up her member of Congress and it was a complete shock to me I had no idea that I had a Republican representative and honestly I completely assumed that the entire city of Austin had a Democratic representative block lives in one of the several congressional districts that touch Austin City Limits and even though Austin is largely considered the most liberal city in Texas only one of those congressional seats is held by a Democrat and that district is a block away from block house so I can walk to the border of the district between Roger Williams my district and Lloyd Doggett in probably 3 minutes that's how close it is literally can just walk around the block and be in the other district lot lives in east Austin it's one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city that line she's talking about breaks up her neighborhood between a Republican leaning district that sneaks up to Fort Worth and a Democrat leaning district that goes all the way down to San Antonio Michaeli with the Brennan Center for Justice represents plaintiffs in this case often doesn't actually have a member of Congress who firmly percents Austin and tracks 4 of the 5 districts are controlled by Republicans which is also not for years like of Austin politics the Supreme Court hasn't weighed in on whether it's Ok for state leaders across the country to divvy up political districts in a way that favors one party but this past May The court did rule that it's not Ok to do that if it hurts minority voters in the process. Yes and that's what Attorney David Richards argues Texas lawmakers did several years ago what happened in Texas and what happened elsewhere across the country is using race or ethnicity as a proxy for Democrats so the state defends itself we drew this play and not for any racial or ethnic purposes but just to protect Republicans but Richards argues this disproportionately her black and Latino voters across Texas and earlier this year a federal court agreed the court ruled state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act in 2011 and plaintiffs say the 2013 interim maps before the court now have many of the same issues I do think this is mostly about political power Brendan Steinhauser is a Republican strategist in Austin he says he doesn't think Republican lawmakers set out to hurt minority voters Steinhauser says because the minority population in Texas keeps growing those voters are just more likely to be affected by redistricting they also think that no matter how you cut up the maps and in Texas or in other states it's going to be difficult and someone is going to feel left out and because a federal court found the state intended to discriminate attorney Michael e. Says Texas could be required to have federal oversight of its election laws I think everyone is closely watching to see whether Texas gets put back under federal supervision it will be a key test of that original the voting rights a 3 judge panel in San Antonio will spend 5 days hearing the case for n.p.r. News I'm Ashley Lopez in Austin. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News coming up on all things. Considered a review of the new Spider-Man movie yes that's right the new Spider-Man movie 1st though traffic with Steven Chan is any southbound $101.00 is going to be slow in pockets from Mountain View out to San Jose 880 northbound also slow in patches from Union City northbound from Thorton Ave up to St through Hayward the metering lights are off at the Bay Bridge but for heavy from the towers back into San Francisco and the eastbound 241 long stretch of slow down from Oakland 580 all the way out to 630 Walnut Creek Stephen John Ford k.q.e.d. And Stevens report brought here by Ashley Homestar support for k.q.e.d. Comes from actress firm mattress firm stores are collecting school supply items for local foster children backpacks art supplies binders and more learn more at Mattress Firm foster kids dot org. The Commonwealth Club presents its climate one program tonight at 8 o'clock will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic or will autonomy as cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our streets more than ever before we don't know for sure yet which of those futures to expect but it's happening faster than many thought and the technology promises one of the biggest industrial and cultural disruptions we've ever seen join us tonight climate one from the Commonwealth Club at 8 o'clock I'm Noel King tennis star James Blake takes a lesson from sports heroes who have called for social change that's Next Time On want to and we bring you one a week nights at 11. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Kelly McEvers And I'm Robert Siegel NASA hopes to send people to Mars sometime in the 23rd President Trump would like to see that happen even sooner and at a remote site in the Utah desert would be astronauts are already simulating what it would be like to live on the red planet N.P.R.'s Raylan but Shell spent some time with one crew Victoria Lavar was in her spacesuit climbing out of a canyon when she started to experience an astronaut's nightmare suddenly I couldn't breathe but lobar didn't unlock your helmet to get a breath of fresh desert air because in this simulation she was clambering out of a 5 mile deep chasm on Mars and on Mars you do not take off your helmet so instead she radioed her crewmates who walked her through some breathing exercises I think that's one of the best things about Mars is the teamwork lobar and the rest of crew $177.00 known as the lone star Highlanders are a few days into their week at the Mars Desert Research Station. I'm Ray It's a 2 story metal cylinder in southern Utah there's a workshop and bathroom on the 1st level and. The crew biologist climbs a ladder to the sleeping area and kitchen on the 2nd most of us life just hang out here the only other people they talk to are the ones that capsule communications the simulated command center the kitchen pantry is stocked with restraining gradients so dry they rattle in the jars just a quasi as the team cook Here's our eggs never seen eggs that look like it's that weird powder today the crew has planned an excursion a spacewalk you put your suit on in here Their goal is to collect rock samples so they can find out what resources the land might hold and what this place was like millions of years ago. There it allows us to know that the crew engineer and geologists who point out a strange flag on the wall with blocks of red green and blue it's an unofficial flag of Mars I guess when we land on Mars that's what's going to be for really many people think of Mars as the next frontier. Or for human exploration pictorial bar is excited about all the technological advances the mission could spur that it's going to be amazing others like a. Few Mars as a necessary plan b. For 5 generations on the road there may be a point in time where Earth isn't suitable anymore you know you have to leave and there's it's either you know the human race can end or the human race can progress on another planet a group called the Mars Society built this place in 2001 to promote the human settlement of the Red Planet the group isn't affiliated with NASA it's a nonprofit funded by grants and private donations groups hey this is citee to stay at the Utah site and work on research projects that's the rover we could together working on a generator bike usually the teams that come here are scientists from all over the world the previous crew came from Poland but this crew is made up of students from McLennan community college in Waco Texas some are the 1st in their families to go to college at least one hadn't been to a state other than Texas until this Mars mission now 4 of them are squishing into the air lock to leave the building they count on a minute it's a pretend de pressurization to keep them from getting sucked outside like ants in a vacuum cleaner target reading. The astronaut stuff out radio. Board a couple of electric A.T.V.'s and navigate their way between hills that come in stripes of maroon whites red and yellow they pull over to collect rock samples or you. Know agents and you. Take some samples from them in the ground around them in some places the ground is sandy in others dirt crumbles underfoot like a steel muffin the whole landscape looks extraterrestrial except for the cow off in the distance. Aliens they wave to the alien and then hammer off a chunk of sandstone and zip it into a back later they'll test the samples for things like potassium iron and uranium that way you know what you have to work with when it comes starting a civilization things. No but. We have said that head back to the have over after I leave the group will watch the sunset from the port hole windows and in a few days they'll step out of the capsule this time without spacesuits on and go back to breathing the outside air the go back to Waco Texas to classes in homework and dreams of graduate school and if all goes as planned by the time the members of this crew are in their late thirty's NASA will actually be sending humans to the Red Planet the real one Raylan to shell n.p.r. News. There have been 5 Spider-Man movies already starring to difference Biedermann and Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield they've been hugely successful so no surprise a 6th opens tonight critic Bob Mondello says true to the title Spider-Man homecoming the main character seems finally to have come home pretty near the start of this movie everybody's favorite spider teen is coming home literally climbing through a window in his Aunt May's apartment crawling across the ceiling as one does when one of the spider bitten taking off his mask as he turns around and seeing his best friend Ned sitting there in shock. Yes nobody nobody has a spider. For you to look silly I wasn't mean what do you dream I really let me in use of a bit of the distortions and no one else but me Mr moves me were stupid that seemed to be stuck trapped I should have better I should probably back up a little superheroes used to stand alone now they come in packs the 1st 2 spider doods were old school their world was just there's this new one has joined what's called the Marvel Cinematic Universe meaning he interacts with the other Marvel characters he sort of is an Avenger though not full fledged Tony Stark has him on a short leash in turning as it were like this got to be secret secret war shit which I took to try to leave as soon as she got really does anyone Peter Parker's always been a teenager but Tom Holland super kid is the 1st who seems like he could actually be a classmate of Ferris Bueller's or the folks in The Breakfast Club he and his best buddy who's played by Jacob battle on are funny awkward and real John Hughes teenagers more or less to pursue right this is going to change our lives grassfire immensely see you guys are tight and then I get a fist bump a lot of those have been by these antagonist a trucker who's cleaning up the mess from the 1st Avengers movie and keeping some alien powered souvenirs feels decently real to partly because he's played by Michael Keaton while changing time reaching. But also because the screenplay gives him persuasive blue collar reasons to be ticked off at the government and billionaire Tony Stark there are other bright spots the girl Peter has a crush on the girl who maybe has a crush on him the wonderful Marie Soto may as Aunt May It's a matter that you love Flarm to Larby not Larby enough returns have seen a larger before he took to me and I want to be but what makes this homecoming fun is Holland who seems as excited about Spiderman as his classmates even though he is Spider-Man at one point he shows off a selfie video he took while he was in somebody else's Marvel movie critics are finally getting America still she looked at him. To really speak and we also see him learning to use the spider suit Tony Stark made for him creating honking at 576 possible last year for the nation's capital and just generally having a ball imagining his own about to be glory even when he's screwing up as when he misjudges things on the Staten Island ferry which gives director John walks a special effects show piece he gets Peter chastised by his mentor what if somebody died I was just trying to be like you I want to be better underneath your back but I'm nothing without the suit if you're nothing without this year then you should never have a tough love happily Tom Holland Spidey is not nothing without the suit he just has to grow into it no question the suit suits him I'm Bob Mondello. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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