If a drug house recruit people to rob it and then bust them for agreeing to take part in the fictitious crime more than 40 defendants have contested the operation in federal court in Chicago saying they are unfairly target people of color the cases band 9 different judges chief judge Ruben Castillo was the 1st to rule on a motion to dismiss based on alleged racial bias from the bench because Steele called on the a.t.f. To stop the practice saying it traps people who might otherwise never have attempted this type of crime but he said the burden for dismissing charges is really high and the defendants didn't need it he plans that jury trial dates later this month for n.p.r. News I'm Patrick Smith in Chicago New Securities and Exchange Commission said today many online trading platforms for crypto currency should be registered and subject to additional rules in a statement the f.c.c. Said the what it called potentially unlawful platforms may be giving some users an undeserved sense of safety by calling themselves exchanges when they are not subject to any government oversight concern comes to some sites the trade big corner other crypto currencies may be facilitating possible criminal activity including possible money laundering after last Friday's big run up some divergence on Wall Street today the Dow closed down 257 points the Nasdaq was up 27 this is n.p.r. From k.q.e.d. News I'm Tiffani Kam Hi Some residents of the veterans home and vote want armed security guards at the sprawling site after a gunman killed 3 caregivers there Friday k.q.e.d. Mean Occam reports the pathway home at the Veterans Home remains cordoned off today as authorities investigate how a decorated Army veteran who once lived there was able to walk in and kill 3 employees Korean War vet Neal remnant says security personnel at the Ideal a campus should be armed and better trained but I think we could have more security without it being intrusive to the large crowd here several residents echoed his sentiment remnant says he'd like to see the pathway home program Contin. Knew but moved elsewhere population here are elderly or disabled veterans and to have this program with 3 younger. Our veterans is not a place where as far as I understand the State Department of Veterans Affairs says it will wait for the investigation to end before recommending changes I mean again k.q.e.d. News wine country residents are raising money and honor of the victims of Friday's deadly shooting along with a fundraiser created by the pathway home 2 of the 3 women who work there have Go Fund Me page is set up by friends and relatives one of the victims Dr Jennifer Gonzalez was 6 months pregnant with her 1st child a memorial service will also be held a week from today on March 19th more on that story and other Bay Area News at our website k.q.e.d. News that Warg I'm Tiffani can I support comes from visitors coverage providing online travel insurance to protect against travel emergencies while traveling more of visitors Coverage dot com support for n.p.r. Comes from Rice University working to a tree of transformative discoveries and to develop leaders who disrupt traditional paradigms Rice University unconventional wisdom Moore at Rice dot edu slash future and the listeners of k.q.e.d. Support for k.q.e.d. 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News I'm Sarah McCammon And I'm Ari Shapiro We begin this hour with a look at President Trump's 1st formal policy response to last month's deadly shooting in Parkland Florida he's created a new commission to make recommendations on school safety we'll hear more about that in a moment he's also endorsed federal legislation to improve background checks and he's renewed his call for letting teachers carry guns and act as volunteer marshals gun control advocates generally have slammed the president's plan but they do like one piece of it a push for so-called Red Flag Protection Orders N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley has details Red Flag Orders allow police to temporarily take guns away from people who've been found by a judge to pose a threat to themselves or others Connecticut adopted the nation's 1st such law nearly 2 decades ago Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal says it's worked the Connecticut experience over the last nearly 20 years has been that these extreme risk protection orders or red flags really save lives so far only a handful of states have followed Connecticut's example California Oregon Washington Indiana Florida passed its own red flag lot last week now President Trump is urging every state to do so Kristin Brown of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says without such laws police are often powerless to stop a would be killer like the one that Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School gets really a slap in the face the idea that there were so many signs associated with this individual that should have meant that he was not able to possess or purchase a firearm dozens of states are considering red flag laws Blumenthal says the potential impact is broader than just school shootings these kinds of orders help prevent not just the mass slaughters but also one by one shootings that account for a lot of the 90 deaths every day in the United States as a result of gun violence. Putting suicide in fact one of the big success stories in Connecticut has been preventing suicides which account for about 2 thirds of all gun deaths in the country Duke University professor Jeffrey Swanson has studied the Connecticut law and says about 60 percent of the Red Flag Orders sought are for someone at risk of taking his own life this could be you know we're worried about granddad he's been removed he's all by himself and he's drinking heavily and more worried about he has all these guns so it's an estimate the Connecticut law save one life for every $10.00 to $20.00 gun seizures he says it makes sense to focus enforcement on those who pose an immediate threat it gives you a smaller haystack with a lot more needles than a red flag laws are still controversial though with some gun rights advocates we call it gun confiscation orders because it's largely confiscating firearms for people without due process deadly Brown had the group Gun Owners of America people whose guns are taken away do have an opportunity under red flag laws to challenge the move in court but Brown insist that should happen before their guns are seized not after otherwise a family member who's angry at Uncle or ex-boyfriend or something can go to a court and have someone stripped of a constitutional right without ever even knowing it and we think that's fraught with danger the n.r.a. Did not respond to requests for comment today but in the past it's opposed these laws still some prominent Republicans including the president are now speaking out in support of red flag legislation researcher Jeffrey Swanson says that makes sense people from the 2nd Amendment community have been saying for years guns don't kill people people kill people well this is a lot it's focused on figure out who those people are Senator Blumenthal joined forces with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in calling for a federal red flag law that would apply in all 50 states so far the president has not gotten behind that Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington. President Trump also is setting up a commission on school safety he's asked education secretary Betsy device to lead it it will look at everything from arming teachers to age restrictions on gun purchases to video game violence the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High has thrust the normally press shy education secretary into the spotlight she visited the school in Florida last week. I come committed on behalf of the soonest ration to continuing to work to find solutions so that no student no parent ever has to go through what this community has had to endure and we're joined now by N.P.R.'s education correspondent Anya cabinets with more about devices positions on guns in schools Hello Anya Hi Sarah so up until now what has been Betsy devices position on school safety Well a lot of people probably remember the moment during her confirmation hearing when Senator Chris Murphy Democrat from Connecticut after about guns in schools and Murphy's really a den of fight with this issue because of the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown Connecticut one final question do you think that guns have any place in or around schools. I think that's best left to locales and states to decide. If the underlying question is going to say that you can't say definitively today that guns shouldn't be in schools Well I will refer back to Senator Enzi and to the school that he was talking about in Wa that he Wyoming I think probably there I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies the president if the president even really seized on that grizzly bear comment they accused of us of being out of touch and you know on you know polls suggest she is president Trump's least popular cabinet member remind us why so much criticism well since the confirmation hearing critics have been pointing out that she seems really unprepared for her job on the spot of course she's never been an educator at the same time she's one of the wealthiest members of a very wealthy cabinet and during her philanthropic career she's really pushed for private religious and charter and for profit schools even as her job puts her in charge of course of the nation's public schools and then beyond her background she's John I or her her rollbacks of Obama era civil rights regulations especially those protecting transgender students and victims of sexual assault so we know what devices had in the past. About teachers needing guns to protect students from bears but what has she been saying lately in response to the shooting last month in Parklane Florida well she told us we saw in 60 minutes that she sort of supports the idea that states could choose to arm teachers do you think that the teachers should have guns in the classroom that should be an option for states and communities to consider and I hesitate to think of my 1st grade teacher Mrs or Hof I couldn't ever imagine her. Having a gun and being trained in that way but for those who are who are capable This is one solution that can and should be considered but no one size fits all every state and every community is going to address this issue in a different way and she also said on The Today Show everything is on the table and that we have to get much broader than just talking about guns says we have to get much broader What might she mean by broader Well there's a longstanding national divide over what really makes schools safer devices Education Department held a meeting a few months ago on school safety and they heard from people who are really concerned about violence in schools who say that we need harder discipline more 0 tolerance type policies and then on the other side of the debate you have a whole lot of scholars and experts calling for more school counselors more mental health resources less suspensions less expulsions and making sure that schools are safer and emotionally healthier places to be this is kind of the approach it's really backed up by a lot of research and really I think it's what we're going to be debating in the months to come to very different perspectives on what might be best with move forward on this issue that's N.P.R.'s education correspondent Anya Kamenetz thank you Anya Thank you Sarah. The British government believes Russia was most probably behind the poisoning of a. Father and daughter last week the father was a Russian exile and former Russian spy prime minister Theresa May spoke to parliament today and she said various signs point to Russia including the nature of the poison and previous Russian threats against defectors the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against and to the script how the scriptures were found slumped on a park bench in the western city of Solsbury both are still critically ill in the hospital a local police officer who came to their aid is also hospitalized for more on the story N.P.R.'s John a casus joins us from London I do Anna Hi Ari what prompted Theresa May to make this statement and what else do the prime minister have to say about Russia. So she's under a lot of pressure from the British public from her own party from the press topper really robust response here there's been criticism over how did the British government handled the response to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko you may remember him he was a former Russian Secret Service officer who defected to the u.k. And he was poisoned by radioactive polonium he died a slow agonizing death in 2006 so Theresa May said that Russians had threatened defectors in the past that there's just a pattern and she said that circumstances and this history pointed to 2 explanations either this was a direct by the Russian state against our country or the Russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophic league damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others catastrophic we damaging nerve agent tell us more about this poison that was used so this is a military grade nerve agent called Nova chuck the Soviet Union produced it in the 1970 s. In the 1980 s. It's pretty tough stuff and one of the Russians said in response to this so the Russians say they had nothing to do with what happened in this great palls and they called me statement today a circus show and foreign secretary Bush Johnson has summoned the Russian ambassador to his office to explain what happened with the scrape and the ease expecting an answer tomorrow afternoon to Theresa may indicate what the next moves will be by her government. She wants an answer in 24 hours and she says if she doesn't get a satisfactory answer she is going to unveil a range of measures Mr Speaker on Wednesday we will consider in detail the response from the Russian state should there be no credible response we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom. And I will come back to this house and set out to the full range of measures that we will take in response we don't know what those range of bashers will be but she has said that this may be an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom N.P.R.'s Joanne speaking with us from London thanks Thanks Ari. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News time knows 518 Monday afternoon how are the roads. A little wet Shanda Santa Cruz mountains definitely dealing with problems here a multi vehicle crash north 17 before I do wild and they have the left lane taken away so there's back you have to Redwood estates in a Napa Highway $121.00 remains close both directions to add to wooden Valley Road overturned big rig lost in a big load of dirt and trouble on the Nimitz's south $84.00 Davis injury rate there on the right hand shoulder that's a crawl back to 90 Julie deputy. Thank you Julie her report brought to you by Alto pharmacy support for k.q.e.d. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Sarah McCammon And I'm Ari Shapiro it's expected that the u.s. Will be producing more oil than any other country by next year that's thanks and big part to advances in technology most Michel of member station looks at what those advances mean for the oil industry and its workers to understand what's changed we're going to start with a trip to the past we have the witch tax model $66.00 of the Permian Basin petroleum museum in Midland Texas with James White he's showing me how workers used to get oil from the ground so I won't try to get this thing to start with is it a waist high steel engine with 2 huge wheels attached it's called a Johnny Popper he grabs on to a wheel and spins it to get the machine working. This is used to new pump jacks. The Johnny Popper was outdated by the time White started work in the oil fields he says since then things have changed even more guys don't have to get in pick ups and drive up to their pump jacks every day like they used to. It's done with a lot of modern technology and you know let's go. Just put people out of work. Next up a lab at u.t. Austin where Professor Eric Bana Norte shows me that modern technology so we're going to reel them operating central remote collaboration room students are sitting at computers where they can monitor information streaming in from oil wells hundreds of miles away more and more we see operators willing to share data with us we analyze it and we give advice back to them to help them get the most oil possible out of the ground another big change is automation it's always taken brawn and skilled to do the dangerous work of drilling wells and putting pipe down them and those workers are called roughnecks but more and more of them are being replaced. By a robot called an iron roughneck companies are also turning to drones smart drill bits even autonomous rigs that can drill oil wells on their own and if you see those in operation but there's definitely an a while moment a lot of these advances took off after oil prices cratered a few years ago and companies tried to cut cost it worked these days the u.s. Is producing more oil than ever but at a cost the Labor Department finds 50000 fewer people working in oil and gas extraction than at the height of the last boom on or does see an upside the good side is that we are creating more sophisticated higher end jobs in the process and he says it's making the traditionally dangerous oil field a lot safer but it's not just roughnecks in the oil field who worry about their jobs I mean our t. Hale at a diner back in Midland I got a machine shop down here and I remember 47 here he repairs old oilfield equipment and he says it's getting harder now machines were made to United States Larry Bowa one out of bed. Firings are your favorite version or sticker no one owner These days he says feels like his old shop belongs in a museum for n.p.r. News I'm most bush out in Midland Texas. A new true crime movie by 1st time Texas filmmakers is getting good reviews it's called Bomb city and it recounts the killing of a young punk rocker in the town of Amarillo 19 year old Brian Dennehy was deliberately run over by a high school football player during a fight N.P.R.'s Wade Goodwyn covered the murder when it happened 2 decades ago he has this report on how the stories being told today the movie by city gets its name from the nearby pan text nuclear weapons assembly plant and also because the cultural conflict between 2 groups of amorality neighbors the perhaps in the Bronx explodes on the screen the film opens on the night of the deadly fire. Of Bridget Gale diminishes the vacant neon lit landscape remains of a lit cigarette blow across broken asphalt it's late and the only human activity 2 groups of teenagers gathering in a dark parking lot getting ready to smash each other's faces in earnest. The montage ends in Amarillo courtroom abundant the lawyer holding forth destroying everything. Is this the message we want to send our children for generations to come we are not watching Amarillo as district attorney vilifying the accused murderer instead it's the defendant's lawyer maligning the victim punk rocker Brian Dennehy Denecke his leather jacket with a skull and crossbones a nihilistic cliche's destroying everything is held up to the jury this ladies and gentlemen. Is what that weapon wielding guilt for the night of the altercation. Post made like he was on a mission to kill both filmmakers Jamison Brooks and Sheldon chick grew up in conservative largely fundamentalist Amorello their movie is a modern day West Side Story in this case the teens are jocks and punks according to the testimony of a young woman who was a. Passenger and Dustin camp's car the captain of the j.v. Team raced around the parking lot aiming for punk rockers and yelling I'm a ninja in my caddy after bouncing one kid office Hood campaigned for Brian Dennehy and crushed him under his car but even more than the killing it was camps a murder trial and the subsequent verdict that tore the population of the Texas panhandle asunder I just remember that you know there's a big split base a big divide in the community altogether Jamison Brooks directed and co-wrote the film and then you had the punks and everybody would call them freaks and then you'd have the jocks you know known as the white hats in and I think even after this whole thing happened things didn't get any better they actually got worse for a long time Brooks says that in predominately white Amarillo in 1907 you didn't need to be black hispanic or Muslim to be considered an outcast the director was an avid skateboarder and says that made him different enough to be considered fair game after all happened I even remember riding my bike around town and I would get bottles thrown at me from trucks just for being on a bicycle or granting a legend a rail or whatever and kind of doing something that you know isn't the normal kind of sport I travel to Amarillo for n.p.r. After the verdict Destiny's brace Justin was just trying to defend himself in the other boys ain't he dad is there that's Debbie can dust and camps mother and my interview with her after the trial ended in 1909 for camp the fact that her son used a car as a weapon in a fistfight was not the point half of Amarillo disagreed with and was embarrassed by the verdict and camps lenient sentence for many it was simply a matter of law and order but plenty of others in Amarillo saw Brian Dennehy as a bad kid who got killed in a fight with good kids which made what happened morally more acceptable in an interview with A.B.C.'s 20 twentieth's after the. Trial lawyer for Dustin cam Warren Clark said that how someone looks does matter here's Debbie camp's view upon progress again from my interview with her in 99 they like to intimidate people they like for people to look at I'm in be shocked by their appearance I think they're just about drugs I think they're about alcohol I think they're about 30 new Some They don't date the movie bomb city is a gritty crime saga full of teenage male and that ends in violence a subject particularly apt in this semiautomatic day and age where a good one n.p.r. News Dallas. This is n.p.r. News let's see how traffic is moving right now with Julie Davus no more trouble in the Santa Cruz Mountains see a 2 car wreck North 17 after Laurel road has the right lane blocked and it's a backing up to Scott's Valley Milpitas a car in an s.u.v. Colliding 680 southbound before Calaveras Boulevard may still be in the 2 left lanes and Sunnyvale this is an injury crash middle lane pliant westbound to 37 you for Matilda you'll be on the brakes back to Lawrence expressway. Thank you Julie her report brought to you by Alto pharmacy support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Log Me and makers of Go To Meeting a collaborative meeting platform with over 18000000 monthly users designed to connect people from anywhere in the world on any device learn more and go to meeting dot com and common board of California helping support pollinators like honeybees because 2 thirds of crops including Aman's rely on them more and Aman sustainability. Dot org This is k.q.e.d. Public Radio at 530 from k.q.e.d. News I'm Tiffany cam Hi a storage tank failure at a San Francisco fertility clinic is putting thousands of frozen eggs in embryos at risk the president of the clinic Pacific fertility center and knowledge yesterday that one of the facilities tank suffered a liquid nitrogen failure last week this comes as a similar incident occurred at an unrelated Fertility Clinic in Ohio Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein broke the story and she's with us now Amy thanks for joining us good to be with you so how many patients were affected by this and what does this mean for the woman who had their eggs or embryos frozen Well I spoke yesterday with the president of this Pacific cryptology Center in San Francisco and he told me that there were 400 of the clinics patients who had eggs or embryos for those and in the one storage tank that failed so these were the people who they began calling Saturday night to let them know that there was not a certainty that there was a risk that their kids do that was in storage might be damaged and how was the the storage tank malfunction discovered well as I understand it the laboratory director of this clinic was in a week ago Sunday and was doing a routine check of the tanks and he apparently noticed that one tank was Tank number for. The level of liquid nitrogen was too low and liquid nitrogen is critical to keep the material frozen so when he discovered this currently quickly a ways to have a spare tank that was not in the slab itself brought in filled with liquid liquid nitrogen and they quickly moved all of the vials of eggs and embryos that had been in the malfunctioning tank and to this new one and I know you mentioned that you spoke to the president Dr Karl Herbert how is he responding to this. He acknowledged that this is a very emotional kind of incident that patients come to these clinics to try to find ways to have a family and when patients find out that their eggs or their embryos have been you know it's not known how many of them are damaged by these incidents but they can't really damage it's a very emotional experience to find that out and there was a similar malfunction at another facility in Cleveland Ohio the same weekend are these 2 events unprecedented Well I spoke with the professional association for people who do work in reproductive medicine and according to them I mean they can't absolutely rule out that there haven't been any other large scale incidents of this kind but they say that they are unaware of any so with 2 of these malfunctions happening back to back what does this mean for the fertility clinic industry Well that is the question I mean I think that there's an effort underway now to figure out what went wrong in these 2 different places and to different parts of the country that are run by different organizations and figure out was there any kind of systemic problems or whether potentially and this is hypothetical potentially whether any other storage facilities elsewhere are similarly at risk and what they find out will presumably determine whether any changes are needed whether in a change of regulatory structures more regulation I mean this is all to be determined Amy Goldstein is a reporter with The Washington Post thanks for joining me Amy a pleasure to talk with you and I'm Tiffany can hike a comedian is support comes from the bass Center at Stanford children's health so delivering nationally recognized treatments in pediatric cancer and blood diseases support for k.q.e.d. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Sarah McCammon And I'm Ari Shapiro one of the concerns that came out of the mass shooting in Parklane Florida last month was about the reliability of police radios in the years since $911.00 the U.S.'s spent billions of dollars to improve communications and big emergencies and yet as N.P.R.'s Martin costy reports the systems sometimes still fall short if you go back and listen to the recording of the Broward County radio dispatch system in the minutes and hours after the Parklane shooting where you hear is him so for us. Gratian for I can't remember the reason I can't transmit for some reason says one officer and others echo his complaint I don't know if that radio. And it gets so bad that someone finally gets on the system to say this. Already or . Another But the strange thing is the question overloaded by. Too many people are trying to talk and the system is crashing or at least that's how it seemed to police and 1st responders at the time after it was all over the people who run the county's radio system said that's not quite what was happening this system was never crashing the system was operating the way it was designed to operate was a desire says he'd been a stranger of the 911 emergency radio communications for Broward County he says what their system experienced was what he calls a throttling event where it starts to slow down and starts to restrict users from committing and down requests to the system he says the system is being upgraded and the reception needs improving but both he and the systems manufacturer Motorola Solutions insists that there were no technical failures this kind of throttling event to simply how modern radio systems cope with too many users still for the officers in the middle of a crisis it can be very unsettling your radio gives you a reject sound Sergeant Dan hills as an officer in Cincinnati and also head of the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police last year he launched a social media campaign to call attention to the shortcomings of the new digital radio system they're also made by Motorola Solutions Hills compares the radio's digital channel assignment system to a highway that routine times it works trying but you get busy and you have some sort of emergency some sort of. Riot actuation or emergency with many multiple injured people you have already excitement you have all these people entering that highway I want and. When. You get blocked his social media campaign worked Motorola Solutions came back to Cincinnati and made some fixes and Hill says it is better now but he still doesn't trust the all or nothing nature of digital radio and hear similar misgivings from other cops around the country sort of a nagging suspicion that the expensive new systems have become too Jetsons as one officer put it and may not hold up in a massive event Bill Schreier is a senior advisor to a federal effort to build 1st that a new cellular network for 1st responders He agrees that it is possible to overwhelm these newer digital systems during big events you'll have a lot of different people push the button on the side of the radio and if you outstrip the number of frequencies in your system you're going to get people who are unable to talk but he says that doesn't mean we should go back to analog radios those have less capacity and can also get overwhelmed the way he sees things the solution to the shortcomings of digital is more digital What we really need is we need to supplement our voice only radio systems with networks that allow data to be transmitted building plans for example or the use of apps and smartphones that will reduce the voice traffic in other words police should become a little bit more like the rest of us have become with our phones they should talk less while uploading more even in emergencies marchin n.p.r. News the small town of Aztec in northwestern New Mexico is recovering from one of the worst tragedies anyone there can remember in December a 21 year old gunman entered the high school posing as a student he shot 2 students before killing himself it didn't get a lot of national media attention but as N.P.R.'s Kirk Siegler reports the shooting is driving some tough conversations in the community about guns in schools and a warning this story contains some troubling descriptions of violence Fritz Polk remembers the moment he made up his mind about whether teachers should be armed you're hearing boom boom. Boom boom boom boom boom and they're coming down your hall and you've got 20 kids that are like I do not want to die today its 1st period on December 7th a gunman walked toward Hawkes high school history class firing a handgun along the way Polk barricaded as students are booming and they're coming and you've got 20 kids that are scared spent less and all you have this is a buck a yardstick So that needs to be put on the table for discussion Polk also works as a chaplain for the local sheriff and like a lot of people his views on guns don't fit into some neat political box he supports banning some assault style rifles and stocks and he thinks teachers who are willing should get trained and be able to carry a gun in class as a last line of defense in a utopian world a perfect world yet we don't need to be armed and I would rather be a teacher never have to pick up anything other than a book on a whiteboard marker but at that moment I was I cannot just be a teacher I have to be a defender a push to arm teachers might be expected in more rural largely conservative town like Aztec New Mexico. A lot of people here own a lot of guns Jr Isaiah many at us says he this family his friends are just comfortable around them yeah we go shootin we we don't hunt with them we have tons of gun we have anything from a bolt action gun to a ar 15 through a lot of handguns were a very pro-gun family but as tech high school you also get the sense that this push isn't some sort of reaction to national politics it's more a feeling of exasperate many are willing to try anything in order to prevent another shooting I'm not saying they have every single one of them go through of course but if they want to like Mr Polk do some and just arm them they have it and he had it was holed up in for it's Polk's classroom during that tear filled morning he had with his classmate in childhood friend 17 year old Sarah Gifford both are shaken but each are drawing different conclusions from the tragedy We didn't happen to action before shooting there was no one to be like oh hey you're not suppose. To be coming on you know schools with a lot of funding have that. Small schools like our school don't have that and I thought that it should be mandatory there is now a full time police officer at the high school in the superintendent told me he wants to hire more armed guards but arming teachers he said that's a nonstarter it's currently illegal in New Mexico anyway but just the idea of arming teachers make Sarah Gifford nervous if you put a gun on school who is going to have access to it how are going people going to get it when they get into a situation how they're going to grab enough time to save other people as just more complex than people want to make it this Wednesday during the planned national student walkout some Aztec students will hold a walk in they plan a moment of silence in discussions about school security junior Sarah Gifford in Assam Indiana are respected student leaders he's an r o t c she's on the student council for it instead of arguing about it I feel like we need to come together I mean just put our fathers' signs out making it so political and start thinking about the kids both these kids have different views but they want to talk about them be civil they say why can't the country do that I feel like people need to learn to respect other people's opinions I respect that he thinks that's right and that he respects me for thinking it out it's not Ok like Sarah said they just want to pick sides there's really no meat in the middle with a lot of people and yet a says everyone wants to feel as if they're right and he says that stubbornness is causing chaos Kirk Siegler n.p.r. 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President Trump remains popular in many rural parts of the country where people are eager to hear his message of Make America Great Again the White House has been laying out ideas to help revive these rural areas where job growth has been slow at the same time the trumpet ministration wants to cut funds for some programs that help rural America Grant Gerlach of any team news in a brassica has been gauging the reaction from rural development advocates one sign that President Trump is in tune with real interests is the administration's infrastructure proposal it provides $50000000000.00 for rural infrastructure who have really been left out in a meeting with local officials last month Trump said the goal is to spark job growth in part by upgrading utilities like broadband which they don't have and they want it actually as many as 70 percent of rural residents do have it though there's still a significant urban rural disparity Maurice Jones heads the local initiative Support Corporation and says broadband helps workers connect with online classes and get much needed job training we're talking welders intellect and coding in medical technicians if you have that helmet prepared for the jobs that jobs will but other proposals give rural advocates pause retaliation against Trump steel tariffs could harm the ag economy at a time when farm income continues to drop then there's the White House budget proposal to cut nearly a $1000000000.00 in discretionary spending from the Department of Agriculture which works closely on real issues that includes defunding the rural business service which is often a last resort for grants and loans Jonathan logic with the Center for Rural Affairs says u.s.d.a. Programs helped create private sector jobs in places where fewer people now work in agriculture when we really break it and we look at where that shop is a real communities it's happening through those small businesses I want to see getting better and I like different colors a lot of yes yes businesses like this custom t. Shirt company in downtown Carney. Rask China Meyer and her husband chase started making original t. Shirts here about 5 years ago a wall of shirts shows off their designs you've got to be cute mean just people come in and they what their friend's face huge printed on a t. Shirt just as a practical joke. They outgrew their one of the timeshare printer and went to 7 banks shopping for a $60000.00 loan for new equipment one after another every banker said no Chase says the loan finally came from the u.s.g.s. World business service the same one the White House proposes eliminating it would be a huge disservice to businesses like us and I have that as an option. Now the buyers have a new workshop filled with big spider shaped printers this is the place. They grew from 5 workers to 10 and while it's an unconventional rural business the loan is helping it thrive Doug O'Brien worked on rule development in the Obama administration he likes what the Trump White House is saying about rural issues but I'm not certain that we've seen the support for some of the strategies that are going to help making sure that there's economic opportunity in rural places O'Brian and others are watching the farm bill which is up for renewal this year with significant cuts possible many people who rely on programs to support rural development say they'd be happy just to keep the status quo for n.p.r. News I'm Grant. That story comes to us from Harvest Public Media Reporting collaboration focusing on agriculture and rural issues RINGBACK. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News time for us to get a look at the road. One of the peninsula big delays here the. North one a one before Hillsdale they were in the middle lane for a while it should be on the shoulder now but traffic is pretty much back to Whipple in Berkeley new crash eastbound 80 after Ashby Avenue look for a couple cars in a 2nd lane for the left you still have a closure nap of Highway 121 a wooden Valley Road after a big rig overturned last load of dirt. Thank you Julie her report brought to you by Bale arm support for k.q.e.d. Comes from 1st public private wealth management where a collaborative approach allows the team to tailor a plan to fit clients future goals more information is available 1st Republic dot com 1st Republic it's a privilege to serve. An adaptive insights maker of software for people who plan adaptive insights business planning cloud helps leading organizations and nonprofits gain business agility learn more at adaptive insights dot com. Help solve the Bay Area's housing crisis that we're in this housing crisis. He cites public land housing and this is a perfect opportunity what about building housing public land and other major transit stops Berkeley and Palo Alto are thinking about it. The debate. Coming up on All Things Considered recently in Ethiopia hundreds of blind people made their way to a hospital hoping for a miracle their sight back that's coming up in the next segment of all things considered here. I'm Joshua Johnson former National Security Advisor Susan Rice on diplomacy and her concerns with America 1st. Join us tonight 11 pm here on k.q.e.d. Public Radio 10 minutes now before 6. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Sarah McCammon 40 years of institutional memory walked out of the Justice Department last month lawyer Douglas letter joined the agency in 1978 since then he's defended controversial policies advanced by both Democratic and Republican administrations now N.P.R.'s Carrie Johnson reports he'll be suing over them inside a sunny conference room at the Georgetown Law Center Doug letters reflecting on his long government service it meant the world to me my father and several of the people in my family were also career public servants and so I grew up feeling like public service was a calling letter fought for the government no matter which political party controlled it through Reagan and Clinton and George w. Bush after the terrorist attacks in 2001 his docket included cases about harsh interrogation of detainees lethal drone strikes and more ask for his proudest moments and he mentions this one from the Obama years the O'Berg a fellow case that's the one that where the Supreme Court decided that gay marriage was constitutionally protected that it is in a real institution at the department just and the thought of him you know not being there anymore was sort of hard to fathom appellate lawyer Bob Loeb says letters departure came as a big surprise as a mark of his reputation consider the guest list at letters going away party the chief justice of the United States John Roberts was there so as new Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch people who know letter say they think President Trump's attacks on the Justice Department made it easier for him to leave Here's how letter responds Yes one obviously has to be concerned about the just harm in the future the Justice Department letter says he's seen a lot of politicians run against the bureaucracy in Washington but he says those folks can learn from public servants who can help them write. Policies that can be defended in court with each new administration I have legitimate concerns that the new political people will confer with listen to and be guided by the career professionals letter will be bringing his considerable experience to the Institute for constitutional advocacy and protection at Georgetown that center suing over President Trump's travel ban and his efforts to block critics on Twitter letter can't participate in those cases but he says he expects to weigh in on other lawsuits over bail practices that punish poor people and another case in Charlottesville Virginia that's trying to ban militias and paramilitary groups from wreaking more havoc there Carrie Johnson n.p.r. News Washington now to Ethiopia where recently hundreds of blind people arrived at a remote hospital they were hoping for a miracle the ability to see again for a week the hospital compound held a campaign to remove cataracts the world's leading cause of blindness N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien reports. The courtyard of the beastie mill hospital complex outside the eastern Ethiopian city of Harare is packed with people many of them milky white eyes we have like 70800 patients already in the compound and there are many more others that I point to for tomorrow in the day after to take it's almost you know says with the Himalayan cataract project which is hosting this weeklong cataract surgery campaign people hoping to get their site restored wait in long lines outside the hospitals operating room others spill out of an office where optometrists are screening the patients checking their eyes and overall health ahead of surgery Matthew says some patients may have to wait a day or 2 to get the front procedure there's been there's a way they have pins here has this been that they instead nights we give them the food to eat and we try to take care of them as much as we can cataracts are a condition with a natural lens in a person's I grow as opaque surgery to repair this consists of removing the damaged lens and replacing it with a clear plastic one. And you're. In the main operating room of the hospital not only by an ophthalmologist from Oregon disappearing through a microscope as he makes a small incision into the eye of a patient on the table in front of them we're going to make a linear opening in the bag holds the cataract in place all of us has been a board member of the Himalayan cataract project for more than a decade he regularly does mass surgical campaigns like this one in Asia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the trick is to gently remove the Cataract and leave the bag which holds the ones in place intact so I can put the new artificial plastic lens right in the exact same spot. This surgery took in just over 4 minutes some more complicated cases take a bit longer all of along with 3 local surgeons can remove and replace as many as 300 cataracts a day one of those surgeons will assign a walk says the problem of cataracts in Africa is linked. To the lack of my doctors she points out that there's only 110 ophthalmologist in Ethiopia or roughly one for every 1000000 residents and she says the untreated blindness contributes to poverty in her country because people are still being productive when they get contracts not only is it people who are productive in the family because their productivity because they have to take it off their plant family members but I think that by the next morning the patients gather on long benches in the courtyard of the hospital the doctors and nurses start removing bandages from the patient's eyes and checking to see how well their ceiling is doctor all about Paul de Gaulle's of sons' eyes the 8 year old leaps from the bench as if startled by an apparition. Whirls around to take in the scene in the courtyard as all of our laughs hugs the doctor had been blind for 7 years for women next to him their eyes still covered between you lending. As more and more vanities are peeled off family members and patients start singing and dancing several patients experiment with putting one hand over one eye then the other checking out their restored sight they hilling cataract project covers all the costs of this event include paying staff frontier Quitman transporting patients back and forth to their villages which doctor all of us says breaks down to just $75.00 per patient $75.00 you can take some of these wind and give them side again would mark a look cost effective health intervention. I mean Ahmed who's in her sixty's has just returned home from the b.c. My hospital after having cataracts removed from both of her eyes isn't your problem a new food new novel hadn't really went to the hospital I can see you know I can see everything and I'm very happy I can see the thesis of the 32 year old great grandson wearing a torn teacher. No pants jumps into her lap to welcome her home. Through his voice Nike. And then they have Ahmed had been totally blind for about 4 years she says but she adds that her eyesight had been slowly failing her before that her family says it's been very hard to look after her in recent years I'm it's nice says they even had to keep the chickens away from her yet and that if ever. You serve her the. Gym to her it's her food and you tell her to cover herself I think so that she should if you can get out of the talk to her family members laugh about this story in part because they're relieved that they will have to worry about her so much anymore as children say cataract surgery didn't just change their mom's life it changed the whole family's Jason Beaubien n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News and all things considered will continue in a moment but right now we get a look at the roads with. Let's go the issuer freeway we have a Berkeley accident westbound 80 before Ash the 2nd lane for the last couple cars a volunteer and back University Avenue 2 car wreck in San Jose north one a one before Great America Parkway has your middle lane taken away so expect delays back to Santa Monica and troubling Cupertino it's northbound to 80 after d.n.c. Look after that stalled car blocking the left lane. Thank you Julie her report brought to you by Peninsula Del Ray support for n.p.r. Comes from National Geographic presenting Jane a new documentary that tells the story of Jane Goodall directed by Brett Morgan Jane premieres tonight at 8 pm Eastern 7 Central on National Geographic and indeed used by over 3000000 businesses for hiring. Where employers can post job openings with screener questions then sort review and communicate with candidates from an online dashboard learn more at a dot com slash hire. 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A fashion designer who dressed some of the most glamorous women in the world 1st this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have finished their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election N.P.R.'s Ron Lucas reports Republicans draft report says they found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow committee Republicans are wrapping up the panel's Russia investigation after a year on the job the panel interviewed around 70 people interviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents in its work in a g.o.p. Draft report Republicans say they found no sign of collusion they agree that Russia interfered in the election but Republicans say Moscow did not intend to help Trump when that conclusion contradicts the assessment of u.s. Intelligence agencies the Republican leading the committee's probe Michael Conaway says Trump associates held inappropriate meetings who displayed bad judgment but did nothing wrong beyond that the top Democrat on the panel Adam Schiff criticized Republicans for shutting down the investigation and accused the g.o.p. Of being more interested in protecting the president than protecting the country Ryan look at n.p.r. News Washington the White House says it still fully expects a meeting between President Donald Trump a North Korean leader Kim Jong own to take place though details about what would be expected would be unprecedented meeting are still being worked out u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says lots of questions remain there will be. Several steps will be necessary to agree on a location agree on the scope of those discussions it's very early stages we.