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Another look at your ride to work comes our way now from Joe McConnell page Joe on the math newest trouble Highway 4 westbound at Bailey a report of the crash there couple of cars might be in the lane 2nd from the left and if you're traveling south as they want to 19 commuter action southbound south the Trimble there's a report of a collision with a vehicle ran off the road and hit a pole one of the northbound Lawrence expressway or Matilda actually closer to that it's a 4 car pileup and might still be in the left lane so that's the biggest deal we have the bridge northbound of the toll plaza there's a report of a wooden cabinet in the middle lane Joe McConnell for Cutie All right thanks Joe his report brought to you by Mothers Against Drunk Driving President Trump wrapped up to mulch us appearance at NATO in Brussels with an unscheduled press conference this morning you'll hear what he said as the program continues then later this morning on forum in the 9 o'clock hour we'll start with a look at the history of integration in the Berkeley Unified School District and then at $930.00 there are 2 bills making their way through the California legislature which would allow p.g. 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President Trump wrapped up a tumultuous appearance at NATO in Brussels within unscheduled press conference this morning so I think we're going to be ultimately treated fairly on trade we'll see what happens but I can tell you that NATO now is really a fine tuning machine people are paying money that they never paid before and that happy to do it and the United States is being treated much more fairly trumpet earlier called NATO allies delinquent for not spending enough of their g.d.p. On defense N.P.R.'s. Political Correspondent Mara Liasson has been following this NATO summit she's with us now good morning Mara Hi Noelle what was so remarkable about this press conference was it that it seemed to stray very far from how the president started the summit he seemed to make a threat that the u.s. Might withdraw from NATO that's right in a closed door meeting we are hearing from reports he threatened to go it alone if the NATO countries didn't immediately start spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense and then it's almost as if he said never mind and he took finally took yes for an answer and came out and said he had succeeded in getting his demands met but until we know all the details it sounds like all NATO has agreed to is what they already had which was to meet the 2 percent threshold in a certain number of years maybe they'll get there and at a slightly faster rate but if you look at this in terms of political theater which or producing a reality television show The president goes over there he blusters he threatens and he succeeds in just 24 hours a kind of reminds me of North Korea he went over there he had one meeting and then said there's no more nuclear threat from North Korea but it doesn't seem that he got anything more than what he was already getting and he even signed a NATO communique that condemned the annexation of Crimea something that he had left up in the air so this was not a replay of the g. 7 meeting where he left with a lot of broken crockery and bad feelings let's hear what the president had to say about NATO allies agreeing he says to up the amount of their g.d.p. The amount that they spend on defense the commit there was a 2 percent ultimately that will be going up quite a bit higher than that Ok so we do not know that for a fact at this point but I want to ask you Were you surprised by the president's tone in this press conference it went from feeling or seeming like a meeting or a president who was very confrontational to a president who then comes. This is not everything's great I was very surprised and the big question is what happened over the last couple of hours maybe he had no real negotiating strategy he threatened and bluffed and blustered he got himself into a corner he kind of called his own bluff and then capitulated because that was the only way he could come out and declare the meeting a success and that he got the credit for NATO spending more money even though they had already agreed to do that even before he was elected Yeah quite quite a lot of questions still there but I can I get it this is certainly better than him leave it leaving NATO saying I'm going to pull troops out of Europe which is one of the things that he threatened before and to me what was an interesting moment in the press conference was you know you have to wonder what's the bottom line here he comes out still committed to NATO but with a big cost to the he looks unpredictable and unpredictability is something you supposedly say for your enemies not your allies and does it mean that his threats will be taken seriously in the future we don't know but at one point he was asked Is this an effective way to deal with your allies and he said Yes I think it's very effective Let me bring in another voice here it's for Bruce protease He served as NATO as Director of Policy Planning he's been in a lot of NATO meetings like this and was has been following what we heard from President from today thanks for coming on the program we appreciate it Ramani So if you are another NATO leader if you're among your McCrone from France or uncle America and you're watching this press conference the president of the United States sounding very upbeat declaring victory saying that NATO is stronger than it was just a day or 2 ago because of what he did in terms of these meetings how are you reacting to that. Well I would say that he's just hosting the charm summit when the real summit the official was taking place outside the press conference room and I think that's what your correspondent just said very well that you know it's very much about so many cheap and and driving home the message that he's defending what he considers the u.s. Interests and the unfair treatment of the u.s. So this is mostly about domestic politics and u.s. Midterms and actions and it seems actually that there was indeed an emergency session but there was no will how could become a tall hot agreement we would have to see each day something but it seems that far as a president might call just say that there was an old note you commitment and we're sticking to 2 percent that's very important to point out here I mean the President Trump I mean seem to say that 2 percent we should say this is 2 percent of g.d.p. Being spent on the military which is the demand that has been made of NATO countries the president said we're 2 percent and then we're going to start talking about 4 percent but the French president is basically saying that the president was was not accurately depicting what happened in these meetings those commitments were never made where they might be both right. You know the French president might be right in a formal way because I don't see days in the new place coming out of that emergency session they still are 24 to play just 2 percent but there might have been a kind of informal agreement that we should accelerate the pace of 2 percent and then we should have a discussion about what's next in terms of new targets that could be you know what's in the air but the question is going to be whether there's going to be a real you put a sea return here after the summit on whether it was just to satisfy tribes so much IP Well the question of showmanship aside if President Trump came and is saying that that NATO countries should commit more to military spending and there are other NATO countries who. Agreed at least you know in theory to maybe talking about 4 percent at some point is take the showmanship sort of question out of it what was this is success in many ways that the country is the United States and all the other NATO countries coming together and making this commitment to to a bigger military commitment in years out I don't think there is a bigger commitment than what was already planned before the summit so I think we should not overstate defy the east but 4 percent of the agenda is obviously any member state can do that especially the u.s. . But that doesn't mean the other allies agreed with it I think what they probably the the atmosphere is more let him have his way at least in terms of rhetoric so that he can drive hold me to say edge and get on with it and get on with the concrete work and the real commitment let me just ask you looking forward. President Trump is going to be in Helsinki meeting with Russia's pleasant President Vladimir Putin in a few days and the president was asked at this press conference might he consider at least hearing Putin out on a possible demand that the United States stop military exercises with the Baltic countries that would be a huge deal would it not I mean these are NATO countries right on Russia's border that rely on support from the United States to defend them against you know a possible hypothetical attack from Russia is that has to be something that NATO is going to be watching very closely. Yes I think this would be a real point of contention between the u.s. And the European allies and not just the Eastern Alliance but the whole of the a large because there is a commitment to maintain the pace of exist size and training days a big exercise planned for the Full of this year so did this would be seen as really touching on a red line and the question is whether he's laid the ground for that during this discussion with the heads of states or whether is going to again take them by surprise but that would be a major concession and if you read the communique that the u.s. Has agreed and the 28 other allies also it doesn't say anything about reducing the pace of exercise and to communicate is actually pretty robust and it says more or less business as usual says 2040. Ok for brief protease served as NATO as Director of Policy Planning joining us this morning we really appreciate the time thank you so much thank you so much N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson I want to go back to you for a quick 2nd because I am very interested in this question of whether or not this summit could be viewed as a trump success what do you think I think it could be viewed as a trump success and a NATO success success in terms of the reality t.v. Show mentioned aspect he goes over there he says I demand this and guess what they come they capitulated to my demands they're spending more because of me he says I take full credit for this so from his metrics dominating the narrative dominating the media coverage setting up suspense and a cliffhanger and then winning in the end that's a success for him that's his metric from Nato's point of view he did not say that he was withdrawing troops from Europe and a communique which among other things says We strongly condemn Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea which we will not recognize so substantively success for NATO rhetorical e success for Trump N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson thanks so much Mara thank you. Later this afternoon on All Things Considered the Trump administration's tariffs on aluminum and steel are starting to trickle down into small communities across the u.s. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly President Trump is in Great Britain where he's kicking off a 4 day visit it includes talks with Prime Minister to resign May and a meeting with Queen Elizabeth N.P.R.'s Are you sure Roscoe says on Monday Trump will be in Helsinki for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin he's basically characterizing it as an opportunity to improve relations he's saying that he thinks that he might be able to have a good relationship with Putin and then maybe he could even become a friend he said that he doesn't view Putin as an enemy earlier today Trump was in Brussels wrapping up a 2 day NATO summit at a news conference afterwards the president said NATO countries have agreed to raise their defense spending he offered no specifics a new survey shows American businesses operating in China are reporting steady profits but as N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reports u.s. Companies are also critical of Beijing's policies. 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Supreme Court in question abortion rights advocates are beginning to prepare for a future they hope never to see one without the protections of the Roe versus Wade decision the confirmation of President Trump's nominee for the court Judge Brett Kavanaugh would not necessarily mean that decision would be overturned but we have new reporting this morning about how some abortion rights groups are in fact already preparing for that to happen it comes from n.p.r. Sarah McCammon who is in our studios morning I Sarah good morning so remind us I mean so many headlines about this in the possibility of Roe v Wade being overturned and what that could mean what exactly could be at stake here with with this changing court right I mean if Cavanagh is confirmed which isn't a foregone conclusion yet there's no guarantee that Roe versus Wade the 973 decision that legalized abortion would be overturned but a lot of legal experts think it's very likely that it would be or at least substantially weekend and that would give the say back to the states letting them have a lot more latitude to restrict abortion which has reproductive rights advocates worried I talked to Leslie Gorman with neighbor out Pro-Choice America. About this this is a new time this is certainly an all hands and back business certainly like red alert whatever the phrasing for our mergence seem a come up with like we're in that state right now so neighbor Al and other groups are trying to do a couple of things one they want to block Kavanagh's nomination but 2nd David they're also looking ahead to state legislatures to try to prepare for this possibility that abortion rights could eventually end up left to the states Ok this is actually it's really important to underscore that if Roe were to say overturned it's not immediately that abortion would be illegal throughout the United States of America this would go to the States it would be given a real process so if you're preparing for that process if you're a group like Mira What are you doing exactly Well they're looking at state laws right now more than 20 states have laws on the book books that could ban abortion altogether or in most cases if were to go away activists want to remove those laws they also want to take proactive measures to protect abortion rights narrow has some model legislation to that effect that they'll be putting out also talk to this Center for Reproductive Rights one thing they want to do is make it easier for health care providers like Nurse practitioners to provide abortions so that if there is a greater demand say and more liberal states for women coming from more restrictive states those providers could meet that demand and I suppose abortion rights opponents I mean even if they are feeling like this is a good moment with the court changing in their direction if a lot of these battles are going to move to the states they must be gearing up as well right and they've been fighting these battles for a long time those would intensify Malory quickly as the anti-abortion rights group Susan b. Anthony lesson she says they're ready I think that that is where it's going to be very important where I think both sides are likely to be extra engaged because this is really going to set the tone for the future of our nation so you would likely see a lot of debates about where to draw the line when to restrict abortion and a lot of these states as I guess were. Looking ahead for the moment to Kevin on whether or not he's confirming or activist feeling how they're feeling on both sides of this well this is really the big fight on both sides the cabinet confirmation as the major fight abortion rights opponents are very optimistic although they know there's no guarantee that Roe would be overturned in that situation if he were confirmed abortion rights supporters meanwhile are taking this very seriously they're trying to stop Cavanagh's confirmation but they realize that they may have to prepare for a future where that's not the case all right N.P.R.'s there macam and Sara thanks a lot thank you Beijing says it will retaliate if president goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on more Chinese products the u.s. And China are locked in what could become a full on trade war and China's economy is better positioned than it once was to survive N.P.R.'s Jim Soorley has a story President Trump holds a view of China that a lot of Americans have he says for too long it's been able to flood u.s. Markets with cheap imports and as a result it's amassed lots of money which has helped turn it into an economic superpower China made anywhere depending on the way you count from $375000000000.00 We built China it's true that China has sold a lot of products to the u.s. Over the years and it still does the u.s. Remains China's most important single market buying $500000000000.00 in goods last year David dollar who worked on trade negotiations with China in the Obama Treasury Department says losing access to that market would take a bite out of China's economy for any economy to go down by 2 or 3 percentage points that you know that's a serious short run issues and the impact would be especially serious right now because China's economy is already slowing at the same time Dollar says the pain wouldn't be as bad as it once might have been the u.s. Market is very important to China but it's less important than it was 10 years ago for one thing the Chinese economy has become a lot bigger and more diversified. It once was and less dependent on trade and China now has leverage of its own against the Us companies such as Apple and Boeing make big money in China and Boston College political science professor Robert Ross says the Chinese bureaucracy can make life difficult for them if it once all these various industries can develop problems in time that can be health hazard at a McDonald's Starbucks could all the sudden come under investigation for profit issues and taxes use China can even discourage its consumers from buying American products whether it would go that far is still an open question but Ross says if worse comes to worst China may be better able to survive a trade war than the us the question less is whether we can do harm to them then which one can endure the pain that there and there are some reasons to believe that over the short term the Chinese are better position to manage this it can do that partly because of its top down economy if its growth suffers Beijing can take steps like cutting taxes or stimulating spending without having to run it by Congress No one has to worry about midterms economist Linda Lim at the University of Michigan says many of China's most important companies are government subsidized and they don't have shareholders breathing down their necks if you don't have to make money that's a huge competitive advantage so they can absolve the cost limb points out that China has been gradually trying to become a more independent economy to strengthen its tech and defense industries Ironically she says a trade war would accelerate the process even if China has to suffer through some pain to get there Jim's or only n.p.r. News New York. This is n.p.r. News minute 730 Brian will be. Along with local news in just a moment but 1st Joe is here with another look at traffic this morning West on 24th called the cut tunnel is a report of a stalled vehicle not sure which lane yet though 80 in Vallejo westbound it read with the report of a stalled car there otherwise the heaviest traffic is on 80 westbound through Panola Richmond but it's just not as bad as most days before westbound still have a crash Bailey road back into traffic all the way to leverage road 6 city south that we're now still of a crash but move to the shoulder the son of a collision one of the North Mathilda also still causing a big backup Joe McConnell perky cutie Thanks Joe his report brought to you by Positive Coaching Alliance and support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Moscow at Selby a tax law firm helping businesses and individuals learn the advantages of the new 2018 tax law information at 8 a day tax deal or Moscowitz l.l.p. Dot com And by x. 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Shi'ah Leavitt tells us why privacy advocates are concerned unlike other traffic cameras automated license plate readers track the plates of every passing car and log them into a readable and searchable database they're cheap and easy to use and in areas where there widespread they can provide a detailed map of where people go like a mass tracking tool this can help solve crimes but there are also privacy implications what really matters is what happens to the data how long is it being happy Catherine Crump directs the law Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law School she says there needs to be transparency about tracking including who data is shared with data is critical of existing me understand and even if you trust your broker Police Department I should be really. At this data Hugo question that we're Contra Costa Sheriff's Department says license plate data collected at Contra Costa center will only be shared with them and stored for up to one year District Supervisor Karen Mitchell says she's not worried so I am very confident that the tools are in place to make sure that as I say only the bad guys and girls get caught the California Highway Patrol already uses more than 150 license plate readers statewide contre cost as are slated to go up later this year I'm silent at k.q.e.d. News there's more at k.q.e.d. News dot org I'm Brian Watt support for n.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Noel King in Washington d.c. Good morning President Trump arrives in London today tomorrow he will meet with Britain's prime minister Theresa May and also with the queen in London huge crowds are expected to turn out to protest Trump in fact in an attempt to embarrass him demonstrators are planning to fly a giant blimp of a baby that looks. President Trump in a diaper N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt in London has been following all this hi Frank. Are you so what is on President Trump's I 10 a rarity and when do these big protests kick off with a actually kick off later this afternoon where he 1st arrives here in London he's going to be at Winfield House this is the u.s. Ambassador's residence around Regent's Park and Trump is going to be meeting and greeting with the embassy staff there is actually you know the only places action to stop in central London the rest of the time to be outside of the city a black tie dinner tonight at Blenheim Palace the birthplace of Winston Churchill in the tomorrows you're saying the prime minister he'll be meeting with her at Checkers the Prime Minister's a state where they'll have a discussion on trade and security probably going to be light on results but really what the Brits want is to project an image of unity and hope to avoid kind of the kind of the things that happen in Brussels which are angry tweets and things of that sort hopefully from the British perspective this will be a calmer meeting here why is the president spending so little time in London and has he getting around. You know if you talk to the embassy they'll say he's got to basically spend time in a helicopter going from place to place because things are so far apart but it also appears that this is by design that the White House wants him to spend as little time in London as possible so he's less of a target for demonstrators I ran into some protesters yesterday here on the streets they're wearing surgical masks that say Trump stinks and they think that Trump is afraid the 1st person you're going to hear from is many Von She's 31 works in advertising and the 2nd one is Alice Konstam she's a t.v. Producer I think the fact that he's not taking any meetings in London is quite cowardly I think you know if he has a lot of people just like him I mean I think. 7 looking on line at pictures of this blimp that's going to fly over London it's a big baby that looks like President Trump in a diaper how did protesters get this done did they need approval they did. You know this is you don't see blimps around London at all and they had to go they had to go to the mayor's office a City Con and he said he agreed to it in part because there was a petition online and he said this is just about free speech and I'm not in any place to censor anybody he's taken some criticism of this because people want to have a lot of who would like to have good relations with the United States but this also may be payback for mayor con to President Trump because they actually started engaging in a Twitter war more than a year ago if you remember we had the London Bridge terror attacks here that killed I believe about 8 people and during that time. If I remember correctly City Khan said people shouldn't be alarmed there be a lot of heat police on the street a President Trump actually deliver seem to deliberately misquote him make it look like he didn't care that much and so they've been kind of going at it back and forth ever since so it's a tense relationship and it also shows that the mayor is willing to kind of take a jab at the present United States interest saying N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt in London thanks Frank happy to do it nohow. Right lawmakers in more than a dozen cities are talking about creating spaces where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs under medical supervision there about 100 of these so-called safe injection sites around the world but no u.s. City has officially opened one yet advocates say these spaces can save lives in the midst of a deadly overdose crisis but fears over a clampdown from the federal government are keeping many local leaders on the fence Bobby Allen has the story outside of a needle exchange in Manhattan we found Jeff we agreed to use just his 1st name since he is a legal opioids he's been battling addiction for a long time over 25 use this this thing is on the children really isn't just says using on the street is risky which is why he's welcoming New York City's proposal to open for supervised injection spaces people would bring their own drugs and use under the watch of workers armed with an overdose antidote it's not good to have a person strung out on this stuff but you definitely don't want to do in this alone the difficult to find out they died alone just as a needle exchanges help contain the spread of the Aids epidemic decades ago harm reduction advocates today say allowing people to use drugs in a medical setting can curb fatal overdoses and provide a bridge to treatment n.p.r. Found that there are at least 13 efforts underway to open the country's 1st official supervised injection facility and the forms vary Seattle is planning a safe injection van Philadelphia is considering pop up tents and some elected officials in places like Denver and Vermont are trying to gather support for proposals you can talk about cities racing to be 1st but my guess is that you have a lot of cities who are actually racing to the 2nd that Scott Burress he leads Temple University Center for Public Health Law research he says municipalities are worried about a showdown with Jeff Sessions Department of Justice and what insurance company would cover the site in Philadelphia where overdoses. Kill 4 times as many people as murder Eva Gladstein says it's time to act she's a top official with the city's Health and Human Services Department we estimate that we would save up to $75.00 lives in one year and if any of those 75 people are member of your family you would I think agree that that is something that's desirable you're talking about an extremely dangerous situation with people injecting these drugs into their veins Philadelphia based federal prosecutor Lou Lapin is killing them at rates we have never seen before in the history of the world so it's not something that we can just say wow that's a really great idea it's not just prosecutors who are unsettled by the concept Massachusetts state senator will Brownsburg or sponsored a bill to jump start a safe injection site movement but many in the Boston area said not in my backyard if we had a place where people were ready for. We could probably get them but we don't have a right now to help grapple with some of these issues city and state leaders have been taking trips to Vancouver Canada a safe injection site called Inside has operated there since 2003 there's a table in the waiting room with syringes and bandages above it there's a message on a dry erase board drank water Darwin fish or works here so now we're heading out of the injection room we're passing the treatment room which is where a lot of opioid epidemics started to worsen He says being a tour guide has become a big part of his job as dozens of city leaders have rolled through the site demystified back in New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is still puzzling through the issue asked about his position on supervised injection facilities he replied it's complicated Bobby Allen n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News it's now 19 before the hour. 8 o'clock and Joe McConnell is here to bring us more about your ride to work this morning Joe north one Mathilda still the biggest deal in Sunnyvale were 2 left lanes there blocked the crash and now about 45 to 50 minutes old they get back up into San Jose behind that had a stalled call to cut 1st reported westbound it's actually eastbound in the right bore and in the right lane tow truck rolling to that 6 city northbound elp in toto in Danville a report of a broken down car looks like they're pushing it over to the side of the road in the downtown Santa Rosa exit one southbound is still a collision there debris in the lanes Joe McConnell for key committee thank you Joe his report brought to you by Lucky stores look for a mostly sunny day around the Bay Area today with San Francisco expecting a high of 68 degrees will get up to 72 later Mountain View will have a high of 79 Napa reaching 82 Santa Rosa will have a high of 84 Same with Redwood City San Jose will get up to 87 today and Sacramento can expect a high of 100 we'll get a news update from n.p.r. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly President Trump is offering no specifics but he says NATO countries have agreed to raise their defense spending after he pressured them at this week's 2 day summit in Brussels NATO is much stronger now than it was 2 days ago I think that NATO was not doing what they was supposed to be doing a lot of the countries and we were doing much more than we should have been doing frankly we were carrying too much of a burden that's why we call it burden sharing NATO countries agreed in 2014 to raise their military budgets to 2 percent of gross domestic product by 2024 Trump says he wants that achieved by January the president has sense left Brussels on arrived in Great Britain for a 4 day visit on Monday he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin and Helsinki the adult film actress who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006 was arrested overnight in Ohio N.P.R.'s child Snyder says that's according to the attorney for Stormy Daniels attorney. Michael of an Audi says Stormy Daniels ran afoul of an Ohio law it's known as a community to Fence Act The law prohibits anyone who is not a family member from touching a nude or seminude dancer of an id says Daniels was arrested while performing at a strip club in Columbus where some patrons touched her and what he said was a non-sexual way on Twitter of an audio alleged Daniel's arrest was a setup and politically motivated Daniels is now free on bail I'm David Mattingly in Washington $743.00 now in support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Comcast committed to improving its customer service experience with 2 hour a point on windows including nights and weekends and by 1440 Multiversity in the redwoods near Santa Cruz offering equal parts learning and vacation and weekend programs with luminaries including Danny Shapiro recants and audio Shante and more 1440 dot org. 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Public radio as our program continues this morning the time is 15 minutes before 8 This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News good morning I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King a group of Republican and Democratic senators is working on proposals to introduce paid family leave under current law the Family Medical Leave Act new parents can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave Republicans may introduce a bill that would allow. Parents to tap into their social security benefits to fun time off now this plan was formed by the Independent Women's Forum which is a conservative political group and that group's president Carrie Lucas is with me now good morning Ms Lucas good morning so what is the paid family leave program can you walk us through how this would work it's a real simple concept people who just had a baby or adopted a child would be given the options it's important voluntary it's just an option to take care of their Social Security benefits to help finance time off from work in exchange for delaying their retirement eligibility so this would be about if you take 12 weeks off the expectation is you have to delay retirement eligibility far by about 3 months so it's almost a week for week to offset those costs your idea has a lot of supporters it also has some critics who say Look employers might see this as an added burden because it's going to encourage workers to take time off and to take more time off what would you tell a worried employer who says this might not be good for me well most employers are trying to do right by their employees we've seen a growing number of players trying to offer benefits on their own when they can even for hourly workers and part time workers and that's a trend we really want to have continue this program wouldn't create a new burden in terms of new costs but of course to the extent that people are able to take more time off and that doesn't impact employers most employers I think recognize that women particularly who have babies are going to need to take time off anyway and are able to deal with that and our hope would be that this would also they would recognize that this will encourage those employees to come back to their jobs and stead of Possibly I'm quitting their jobs I've got to ask you about Social Security this plan would be funded through Social Security Social Security is not an on troubled program and there are people who say listen. This is just going to further damage it further eroded what do you think about that is there a way to do this so that it doesn't end up hurting social security yes 1st it's really important I think to keep this in perspective because you're right absolutely lawmakers should be thinking about Social Security's long term financial imbalance and that's important and it needs to be addressed but the important thing when you think about this program or this set of reforms is that this doesn't change Social Security's overall liabilities any benefits that you're taking that someone would take today will be offset by reduced benefits in the future all right so if you retire when it comes time to retire you have 12 fewer weeks or 6 fewer weeks of Social Security payments I must ask you one more question president from called for family leave during the Republican primary but historically this is not an issue that we associate with Republicans in the last couple seconds that we have left why now. The president and Trump have been leaders in calling for the country to do something on this issue and there's been a fresh look at our overall entitlement programs trying to make them more modern and more flexible and better suited for today's workforce and that's that's really what this is about all right worth noting as well that it Democrats of course also have their own plans which are somewhat different a Kerry Lucas's president of the Independent Women's Forum Kerry thank you so much thank you. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm David Greene 749 and Joe McConnell is here to bring us another look at Thursday commute conditions latest problem is in Campbell on 17 northbound Hamilton a report of a crash lane 2nd from the right and also a new problem for San Mateo 92 westbound for Foster City Boulevard actually a crash there in the shoulder and the biggest jam is still instead of say on one of the northbound heading into Sunnyvale the crash Matilda's been there about an hour now and it's still blocking a couple Alain's back up solid Highway $87.00 a separate crash southbound at Trimble and north of the crash in Sunnyvale at Ellison one of one northbound tree branches are sticking out in the left lane Joe McConnell for key cutie Thanks Joe his report brought here by Positive Coaching Alliance and he is next update is coming up in about 10 minutes or so Bri Benish sure will bring us the Marketplace Morning Report in just a moment and then later today California has declared itself the heart of the resistance to President Donald Trump and State Attorney General Javier Basara just might be the movement's leader is there or has filed dozens of lawsuits against the trump of ministration But critics say he's gone too far we'll hear what the Sarah thinks of that I'm Katie your joints got shape for a nice night at 630 for a political breakdown on k.q.e.d. 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The details of Bragg's it are here minus the details part Marketplace Morning Report is supported by exact sciences offering color guard for average risk over 50 color guard is a noninvasive colon cancer screening test that can be used at home available by prescription only information a color guard cast. From marketplace in New York I'm sorry Ben a short end for David Brancaccio President Trump is now in the u.k. As part of his weeklong European trip of course the biggest issue facing the u.k. Is brags that and Prime Minister Treece I'm a government just released what was supposed to be an outline of how that separation from the e.u. Is supposed to go it is not the clearest of documents in fact it may be raising more questions than it answers the B.B.C.'s business correspondent John c. Bloom joins us from London good morning John good morning to bury this white paper from Prime Minister trust in his office it seems to not clear up a whole lot of details let's take one issue the ability of European citizens to come and go from the u.k. To work freely I can't tell if that's going away or not will join the club because it's not really likely at the moment the u.k. Being part of the e.u. Anybody from any country in the e.u. Can come and live and work in the u.k. . Any You cases and can do the same in any other country and it was one of the big contentious issues of the BRICs debate in the referendum that too many people were coming to live in the u.k. Said the brakes it is and they wanted to stop it and now to end freedom of movement you have to leave the e.u. But then the government is saying this White Paper Oh well industry will still need lots of highly skilled workers the health service will soon still need doctors and of course we need to guarantee the rights of our citizens who are living in the e.u. And don't want to come home so there will be an agreement on immigration they just doesn't say what that agreement might be but there's going to have to be some kind of compromise not least because we want the e.u. To guarantee the rights of people from the u.k. Who are living in the e.u. You know we're getting closer and closer to the Braggs a deadline in March and there are still so many details unresolved if they just don't get their details together in time what happens yeah there will be no deal if we crashed out with no deal whatsoever we would basically go back to being members of the World Trade Organization and trade on their terms but there would be whole industries which would be desperate to be able to continue exporting to the e.u. There would have to be some emergency deals on things like keeping flights going keeping medicines being imported making making sure that supermarkets could import food when they needed it but it would be very dramatic and most economists believe very very painful for the British economy and for the rest of the use economies as well b.b.c. Business correspondent John t. Bloomer thank you so much a pleasure anytime. Then let's do the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up $153.00 points that is 6 tenths of a percent the s. And p. $500.00 up 6 tenths of a percent the Nasdaq is up 9 tenths of a percent 10 year Treasury yield is that 2.85 percent the world's biggest oil producer next year will be the United States at least that's how it's looking right now according to a report out today from the Energy Information Administration the u.s. Would be producing more oil than Russia more than Saudi Arabia So what does that mean for u.s. Consumers who are paying nearly $3.00 a gallon across the u.s. Marketplace's Aaron Schrank reports thanks to advancements like fracking or oil production in the u.s. Has doubled in the past decade Jason Bourne off runs Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy the dramatic increase has been one of the strongest positive forces in the u.s. Economy's creating economic activity and John's so good for Americans born off says but being number one won't have much of an effect on what we'll pay at the pump because the world uses about 100000000 barrels a day so if the Us goes from 10 to 11000000 barrels a day that's an increase but it's still a pretty marginal factor surging u.s. Oil production has reduced dependence on other countries in 2005 the Us imported 65 percent of its crude today it's less than 17 Fred Lawrence at the Independent Petroleum Association of America that gives us a lot of clout economic clout but also diplomatic and political opac with its 15 members is still the heavyweight in the global oil market producing about a 3rd of the world's oil I'm Aaron shrank from Marketplace. Marketplace Morning Report is supported by indeed used by over 3000000 businesses for hiring where employers can post jobs in new screener Quest. To build their short list of preferred candidates learn more and indeed dot com slash higher the World Health Organization has announced it is no longer categorizing transgender identity as a mental illness which could pave the way for better health care for transgender patients Costa Rica recently created a program to offer hormone replacement therapy for transgender people through its national universal health care system reporter Sara Barrett has more on how that's going to Rica is a small country about 4800000 people and since the program started in the fall only about 30 people have signed up Kelly November paedos a transgender woman is one of them she says in the past it was too expensive to pay privately for an endocrinologist at around $100.00 u.s. Dollars just for an appointment so she found other ways to get hormones that make Apple many comments on the concept the oath before I used to self medicate with birth control pills but now taken to so certain blockers they will help me a lot Q Does not only gets hormone therapy the program also covers doctor visits and psychological counseling it doesn't offer gender transition surgery like a similar program and would or why but it does provide more treatment options than richer countries like Canada and Germany in Costa Rica transgender people have to go through a process before they're approved for hormone treatment 1st there are physical exams to make sure they're healthy Dr Gloria getaways works for the Department of Social Development she helped write the government policy. Totally against addition we have to make sure that the treatment will have benefits and risks right now the program is only available to people 18 years or older and once they are approved the treatment is free the government says the program might actually avoid future costs by keeping people out of the black market where they can fall victim to dirty needles or bad treatments. Low cost high benefits we're very confident he does says she's glad she's not taking birth control pills anymore but she says the government process has felt stigmatizing at times. Like when a doctor had to sign off on her eligibility not the m.s. But kept us out of boredom you shouldn't have to have a psychiatrist decide whether you actually are or are not transgender history can officials expect as many as 600 people will seek treatment through the program and they're considering eventually expanding the program to cover transition surgery as well in Costa Rica and Sarah Barrett from Marketplace and in New York I'm suburban ashore with a Marketplace Morning Report. From a.p.m. American Public Media it's a minute now before 8 o'clock am back we go to Joe McConnell for another look at our commute this morning Joe one of one Sonny Bill northbound the tilda crashes now blocking just to the left lane had been 2 left lanes that just opened up the number 2 but it's still a big backup behind that newest problem is on one a one in Mt in the Redwood City south one a one at Whipple and that is a crash in the left lane in Cupertino $85.00 north out of DNS it's a broken down bus pushing it off to the left side Campbell North 17 that Hamilton collision just cleared out of the lanes there Bay Bridge or correction Kharkiv this bridge where spawn of the approaches stall Joe McConnell for key committee thanks Joe his report brought to you by on brown dot org And support for k.q.e.d. 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News in Washington encore of a coalmine the Trump administration announced this morning it has reunited roughly half the immigrant children under age 5 with their families who are in custody Monica Ortiz Uribe reports the government claims the remaining children in this age range are ineligible for immediate cation in a joint statement between the Departments of Justice Homeland Security and Health and Human Services the administration says it's worked tirelessly to complete the 1st phase of family reunification the government missed a court ordered deadline to reunite children under age 5 by 2 days it hasn't really knighted $46.00 of these children due to a variety of reasons including that the adult claiming them has a serious criminal record other adults have already been deported and officials are still attempting to make contact the government is scheduled to submit a progress report this afternoon ahead of a federal court appearance on Friday the next deadline to reunite more than 2000 immigrant children over age 5 is in 2 weeks for n.p.r. News I'm want to go to the city that in El Paso President Trump has claimed credit for an accelerated increase in military spending by NATO allies N.P.R.'s Alice Fordham reports he called a surprise press conference us to cascades of tweets and tirades calling the military alliances usefulness and to question Trump changed his tone I believe in NATO I think there's a very important probably the greatest ever done after a morning of jittery media reports of the summit suggesting he had stunned world leaders by threatening to pull out if they did not increase military spending soon Trump told reporters he has secured guarantees from some NATO countries that they would increase the military spending faster than they had initially planned he spoke warmly of the secretary general against Bolton back and said it had been a very successful summit Alice Fordham n.p.r. News Brussels Meanwhile French president Emmanuel McCrone has said NATO members are going to follow the same schedule as they laid out before not an accelerated one as both sides of the board. Debate prepare for a confirmation fight over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh some abortion rights groups are also preparing for battle at the state level N.P.R.'s Sarah McCammon reports supporters of Roe versus Wade are worried about the ruling being weekend or overturned the 1st call for a boy's.