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Just there's actually no such thing as a brand new Sherman tank it's a World War 2 era tank that hasn't been in service for quite some time Tamara Keith n.p.r. News and you're listening to n.p.r. News from k.q.e.d. News I'm Brian Watt more than 25 years after a series of brutal attacks Sacramento prosecutors say they used d.n.a. To finally catch the suspect investigators tucked away rape kit samples from the attacks between 19921904 in the Sacramento and Davis areas they couldn't identify a suspect at the time but filed charges against the anonymous snippet of d.n.a. Code in 2001000 years ago just 2 days before the statute of limitations was to run out yesterday they announced that they finally linked the John Doe d.n.a. To a person 59 year old Mark man to feel he was arrested Friday in Decatur Georgia into full was linked through family d.n.a. Similar to the way charges were brought against the so-called Golden State killer last year. San Francisco Giants c.e.o. Larry Bayer is set to return to the team today bear was suspended for nearly 4 months after causing his wife to fall to the ground during an argument Ryan Levy reports Major League Baseball suspended bear in late March after a video was released showing his wife Pam falling to the ground screaming as a bear reached over her to try and take a phone out of her hands prosecutors declined to bring charges against bear but he was required to undergo counseling as part of his suspension and a statement from the team Barry said he was truly sorry for letting down Giants employees and fans during his absence Giants board member Robert Dean served as acting c.e.o. According to the team bear will now report to Dean who will transition to the role of team chairman I'm Ryan Levy k.q.e.d. News Giants won big event against the Padres $13.00 to $2.00 the A's host the twins tonight I'm Brian Watt k.q. . 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Now John McConnell with traffic to start the hour at 7 o 6 South to 37 between 237 addicts and landings to working on an injury motorcycle collision and they did have 3 lanes block looks like it's just one left lane now but it's backed up solid the mission the crash in 92 West not industrial that had a motorcycle down in the 2 middle lanes over the shoulder but it's backed up one of the Nimitz the Nimitz back to the San Leandro and 80 southbound also has a crash still near 16th with a motorcycle down the left lane might be blocked there actually that one just cleared Joe McConnell for key cutie All right some better news thanks Joe traffic with Joe McConnell brought to you by the Ad Council on k.q.e.d. Later this morning at 9 it's forum with Mina Kim hosting the 9 o'clock hour forum looks at the increasing number of corporate names on prominent buildings in the Bay Area and a discussion what's behind the trend and what it says about the changing face of our region and at $930.00 a bill that would ban racially based hair discrimination in workplaces and public schools is headed to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk form discusses the bill how it might be enforced and the politics of natural hair those topics and others today 9 to 11 it's forum here on public radio This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep What did a visit by members of Congress reveal about u.s. Border detention facilities a group of lawmakers went yesterday to sites in Texas and they emerged with a haunting photo of women in. Despair along with descriptions of women in crowded conditions and short of clean water one of the lawmakers was Norma Torres a Democrat of California and she is on the line Congresswoman welcome to the program I guess Good morning thing how much access did you get as you toured the facilities. Not very much after that there was a lot of reluctance on p.v.t. To allow us to have a conversation with adults that were in detention cell but still it is that where in cages and certainly they did not allow us 'd to speak to the children and yet it seems they told some of you something what did you hear absolutely some of the women told members of Congress that they were not being treated well that they were that there was no running water with in the south and you know by the way how members of Congress not insisted on going in stepping into both spells we would have never found out looking from the outside through a clear glass window that there wasn't running water inside not a facility that they only running water that they had was coming out of a Twain representative Taurus the detail of the toilet water is so explosive I mean it's something that would kill people that that I have to just ask about that detail do they mean to say that they had to use a device that is a kind of combination sink and toilet in one fixture or did they mean literally being told to drink toilet water of a man literally being told to drink water from the toilet water that is sitting within a toilet bowl and that's why the paper cuts look so disgusting. I'm a little surprised that conditions would appear so bad in a facility that the Border Patrol knew you were coming to visit right or Customs and Border Protection New York come to visit Right absolutely and I don't expect border agents to be changing diapers but I also don't expect the u.s. Government to be home think toddler in a jail facility who have we become Did you understand some of the women in the shelters that you visited to be asylum seekers who claimed a legal right to be here yes some of the women pasta ballads. Having left behind you know other family members who they were afraid whom I also. Take them to the criminal element that they they they are escaping themselves some of that has been domestic violence but let me give you one example there was a woman woman sitting with her 7 year old child she was waiting sitting on a bench waiting to be processed I try talking to her I asked her how she felt to say he was Ok She was very very timid the baby that the young child was cleaning to her I asked him Are you superman are you Batman you know who are you trying to engage him I asked us for permission to talk to him I also told her that she did not have to speak to me if she did not want to which she responded to me I am afraid I cannot feel in front of them. Having described these conditions what do you blame them on do you blame Customs and Border Protection do you blame Congress for the amount of funding do you blame the situation what is it. I blame the lack of training I blame all of it I blame you know these trans Democrats have who have pushed for a bill a funding bill that ultimately gives a blank check without any any requirement of a van of the c.d.t. One I or anyone of Homeland Security you better is a Tree people and certainly treat children as children I think I think you used a phrase there that that may call for some clarification you said Trump Democrats do you mean to say that there was this bipartisan bill that passed the Senate the didn't go as far in protecting migrants as you would like and that is what has become law instead of a bill that was gone father that was favored by many and where you are you're where you are in the house. Absolutely I'm talking about a bill that was simply a blank check I want to look at a facility and I want to see children being treated humanely I don't want to see children sleeping on the floor I pleaded family on the floor because they are too thick and they have been quarantined by Yet the only thing that they have to cover themselves the shield themselves from the cold and then through are these that aluminum foil pipe a blanket that is not she making that outrageous number Taurus is a Democratic member of Congress from California thank you so much thank you Steve n.p.r. White House correspondent Franco or Don yes has been listening with us and Frank overshoot talking about there at the end I mean this is this is an example of how explosive this issue has become I mean this has really divided not only Republicans and Democrats but Democrats themselves House Speaker Nancy Pelosi she reluctantly she said she reluctantly took up the Senate proposal to get the money to the children fastest as she can we should note that the trumpet ministration did acknowledge that conditions were not good. They said last week that they were running out of space and they were running out of money that's why they desperately needed that $4600000000.00 package and it's representative Torres and others who felt that money wasn't part of the protections of that money was not enough they wanted and just want the money they wanted new rules that would require Customs and Border Protection to take care of people differently Absolutely and they also were very nervous about how the funds would eventually be misused in your interview she repeated blank check blank check that just shows how defensive and how did how they don't trust the administration won't redirect these funds to for example enforcement and a bitter phrase for a Democrat to say have another Democrat to call them a trump Democrat at this moment in history I've never heard that term before and it's pretty pretty amazing the state of the Democratic Party right now Franco thanks so much thank you N.P.R.'s Frank or Don Yes the relationship between big tech and Washington has sunk to a new low Congress the Justice Department the Federal Trade Commission are getting closer to investigating the biggest tech companies and those companies are paying to protect themselves N.P.R.'s Peter Overby reports Washington is talking about the big 4 tech firms Amazon Apple Facebook and Google but not in ways they appreciate Here's Democratic senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on N.P.R.'s Morning Edition recently it's about the concentration of wealth and what that does in a marketplace but it's also about concentration of power economic power and political power up until a decade ago big tech thought it didn't have to deal with Washington politics that changed and last year the big 4 firms spent $55000000.00 on lobbying it marked of 7 fold increase over 10 years a decade when lobbying spending overall state essential a flat it puts And you know basically on par with some of the big players that we've long known about you know the banking industry that the car industry Lisa Gilbert is with the watchdog group Public Citizen she was citing data from the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics which tracks campaign and lobbying money. The 4 tech firms again Amazon Apple Facebook and Google this year reported hiring 70 different lobby shops they also pay lawyers so-called strategic consultants and others who are not legally lobbyists and so don't get disclosed and it's Gilbert notes big tech contributions flow through the governing infrastructure in Washington it's really hard to turn a corner in d.c. Without running into some google money both Google and Facebook have trended hundreds of in tanks and influential trade associations Congress and big tech have collided before in 2012 anti-piracy bills in the House and Senate would have allowed for regulation of website content industry led protests Coleman aided in an internet blackout and sent the legislation then last year big tech was in trouble over failures to protect users personal data Congress held hearings which accentuated how little the lawmakers knew about the Internet Here's Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana question and Facebook c.e.o. Mark Zuckerberg are you willing to go back and work on on giving me a greater right to a race my Vadra Sen You can already delete any of the data that's there are legal interest I am at work on expanding map. The center I think we already do what you're referring to the sites Congress the Justice Department and the f.t.c. Are also looking at big tech the Senate Judiciary Committee has an antitrust hearing this month and House Judiciary has begun a series of hearings Democratic Congressman David Cicely chaired the 1st one is the 1st significant antitrust investigation undertaken by Congress in decades antitrust is serious stuff if the government thinks the tech giants are competing unfairly the companies could even be broken up children and a senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute there's a lot of things that are kind of coming together right now to make this a bigger issue than it has been in the past one of those things is politics Internet industry donors have given at least 60 percent of their money to Democrats every election since 2004 that's according to the Center for Responsive Politics children said that now I think they're finding out that that was maybe not the best approach tech firms are looking for allies among Republicans and Libertarians who are more likely to oppose government intervention at the same time some Republicans have muted their allegations of social media bias but among tech companies there's also a hunt for compromise as attorney mix Stoltz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation put out trying to steer the government towards solutions that maybe they don't love but that they can deal with one possibility is a privacy bill something that would protect the personal data collected by social media companies a good portion of industry is for a broad incomprehensive federal level Pat if you know Nicole Wong is a former executive at Twitter and Google She was also deputy chief technology officer in the Obama White House there is a point where line regulation comes into play. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep good morning we do not know if President Trump will follow through on a threat to begin immigration raids in major cities the president announced these raids on Twitter and then delayed them saying he wanted to pressure Democrats to agree on changes to immigration law at a press conference over the weekend the president said the rates will proceed now unless the Leslie do something pretty miraculous but the Democrats it seems to me they want to have open borders Now the mayors of 10 big cities where those rates may take place are deciding how to proceed and in Chicago the new mayor Lori life for it says she's given orders to police what is it that Chicago intends to stop doing that it was doing with immigration authorities. I you should have directed to our police superintendent that ice can no longer get access to any databases that c.p.t. Has so that's I think a big star the other thing is I've underscored to the police department that they cannot in any way facilitate any of the ice raids and they understand that I do know that your predecessor Rahm Emanuel is taken similar positions though are you going beyond whatever he was having the police do well I'm just reemphasizing that this cannot be something that we do we're not going to facilitate street closures blocking air traffic anything like that oh well let's think about that for a moment if we have magine an ice raid and it being a rather large scale effort they might send immigration agents into an apartment building hypothetically to pick some people up and they might ask the Chicago police for backup to clear the streets to be ready in case anything goes wrong you're telling me the Chicago police just aren't going to do that we're not going to do that as it were that is not our role as local law enforcement we have to make sure that we're maintaining good relationships with people in communities just this morning I was in an area in our city called back of the Yards which has a heavy emigrant population and certainly a number of people that are undocumented and there's a level of fear in those neighborhoods and particularly among some of our young people who come from the immigrant community because in many instances their 1st generation they are the ones in their family that speak English and it is scaring them to think about the fact that they may be the victim of an ice raid or that their parents or somebody else in her family so what these tweets do is really work to destabilize neighborhoods and bring fear into our city and that's one of the things that we're trying to work against some people listening will say well naturally people would be afraid if they're in the United States without documentation but do you find fear among people who are in the United States legally when you're walking down the street and you are a bra. Skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community there's no differentiating soley on the basis of what you look like they don't walk down the street saying Hi I'm an immigrant I'm here legally or are not and so there is a general concern as to how I says make a differentiation and we've had a student here not that long ago or a woman was stopped on a traffic stop turned out that she was a doc a kid who was here illegally she was with her young daughter she wanted to take her daughter home to her parents and event that she was going to be arrested and once the ice agents determine that she was actually subject to Dhaka and here illegally then they found her parents at home who were undocumented had been here for decades and now they've been deported so those kinds of stories spread like wildfire and the general fear of what might be coming is something unfortunately that permeates many of our neighborhoods if there are people with deportation orders against them should they be deported if a judge has made a final determination and somebody is in here legally then that's what our system provides and they're going to have to deal with those consequences now there's obviously also appeal rights but we expect people that are here going through an immigration process to get their due process what I would like to see is a focus on individuals who are creating harm in our communities there are people here and gauged in violent crimes or people here who engaged in other kinds of things that are disruptive to the community Well that's an interesting point because the president has framed this latest threat instead of raids we don't know if any rates will happen but he's threatened them framed them as a pressure tactic to get the Democrats in Congress to move do you want the Democrats in Congress to work with the president here I wonder to be a bipartisan effort to solve this problem that has eluded many presidents and I. I think it's realistic given the complexities of the issues if the president isn't lobbying members of his party to come to the table with a comprehensive solution it's not going to work if that happen and I have some confidence that we could move forward in a realistic way but fear mongering scare tactics in artificial deadlines are not going to get it done you outlined a moment ago what sounds to me like a position similar to the one that President Obama took when he was in office that authorities should focus on serious criminals people who have done something wrong other than cross the border illegally if ice were to come to you or come to your police department with a narrower list of people and say this is a list of serious criminals we want to round them up would you collaborate then if there's a court order yes we would consider that if there is a valid court order signed by a judge that isn't simply an ice detainers signed by an agent will absolutely abide by that that we believe in the rule of law 100 percent Is there a downside to avoiding broader cooperation with ice I know that you've got information that they might want I'm wondering if sometimes they have information that your police might need to solve a crime Look it's a complicated there's no question about it and you know I'm a former federal prosecutor before ice was ice I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement but I fundamentally what we have to do is stand up for the rights of people in our communities we have to support them it's hard for me to listen to young people who are terrified that their parents are going to be taken away from them kids who know no other way around than the United States who no other place than Chicago and I think what gets lost in the shuffle is the human toll that has taken and I'm I'm seeing it in witnessing it every day Lori life what is the new mayor of Chicago Mayor thanks so much for your time thank you I appreciate your time. 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Customs and Border Protection is investigating a Facebook group for current and former Border agents as N.P.R.'s Vanessa Romo reports the close page contained derogatory posts targeting migrants and some members of Congress congressional Democrats who were part of a delegation visiting a Border Patrol facility in Southwest Texas on Monday condemned the online group for mocking migrant death Representative Joaquin Castro said it shocks the conscience that these agents are entrusted with the lives of the anybody in their custody Customs and Border Patrol an ounce the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security is conducting an independent investigation it appears the trumpet ministration missed its own deadline to begin printing paper forms for the 2020 u.s. Census N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang says the trumpet ministration remains focused on a citizenship question it wants added printing was scheduled to start yesterday but president says he wants to push back the council that there is supreme court can make a more decisive ruling on this citizenship question last week a majority of the court decided to keep it off the census for now found the ministers and reasoning for the question quote seem to have been contrived ministration is now set to tell a federal judge in Maryland soon whether will try again to push for the question the Trump administration argues that question will help enforce the Voting Rights Act This is n.p.r. News from Washington from k.q.e.d. News I'm Brian Watt rallies against conditions at u.s. Immigration detention centers are planned across the Bay Area today as k.q.e.d. 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Creative planning wealth management redefined and by the listeners and members of the public radio 88.5 f.m. . It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep What do Hong Kong's protesters do next the latest demonstrations turned violent in the Territory at the edge of China demonstrators broke windows and forced security gates This gave the embattled chief executive Kerry Lam a chance to take the offensive at a press conference that she called at 4 in the morning nothing is more important than the rule of law in Hong Kong so I hope. You will agree with us that's why these violent acts that we have seen it is right for us to condemn it and hope society will return to normal as soon as possible let's remember the immediate issue is a bill that would allow extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China the larger question is how if at all to preserve the relative freedom enjoyed by millions of people in Hong Kong we call the protest leader Bonnie long of the civil human rights front in Hong Kong Welcome to the program Hello Steve was it appropriate for demonstrators to break into a government building which is what they were doing well if you really read the host or rate that is $1000000.00 people and $2000000.00 people had took to the streets what I sing out 5 demands including withdrawal of the extradition which is a total violation of basic human rights and rule of law and also if you see what happened on the 12th of June which the police have used excessive force and disproportionate force I want to make sure I understand what you're saying there you're saying we should understand why the protesters are angry but you also mention a 1000000 people and maybe only a few of them committing violent acts are you Are you condoning the violent acts or are you saying the violent acts were wrong and committed by only a few Well if we only look at what had happened last night all colas any Balance Act should be condemned but the young protesters they have so Das rights and already they have to peacefully protest it. Not only for the last few weeks but actually Hong Kong people have been processed this for so long and our voice has never been hurt by the government and even with 2000000 people the world has seen us peacefully took to the streets and the government totally turned a deaf ear to Audi Amman's and ignoring even mocking. And we can't understand why do ya protest as a so angry about it and they want to ask you late their actions which I may not agree with that strategy but of course these young people left Hong Kong so much that state even do not care about a personal cost let me ask a question about your longer strategy or broader strategy here I'm thinking that if this were Egypt or one of the other countries in the Arab Spring you would have an autocratic ruler and the goal would be to be in the streets until the ruler is swept away and it's an individual who can be swept away in this case the autocratic ruler is $1400000000.00 people it's mainland China it's not going anywhere do you feel you know the longer strategy for fending off China's incursions into Hong Kong over time well I believe that's to face with the situation that you mentioned Hong Kong people we are so determined to have universal suffrage to have one man one vote to vote for a chief executive and also the whole legislature which we do not have now and we believe that when we have foisted out our demands to the whole load because it is according to law it is according to international human rights standards and it is also promised in constitutional law which is the basic law and also promised in a scene over a dish joints declaration which is signed between Britain and China before it handles that we have totally legitimate to have faced in months and of course what we're facing is a tide or any Beijing is a tyrant and a Hong Kong government is becoming a tyrant also but do you think that you can forever fend off China. Well we have to do our best at we love Hong Kong and we have legitimate reasons to fight for what we are fighting for Bonnie long as vice convener of the civil human rights front in Hong Kong thank you maybe you've heard of this case that's drawn a lot of outrage across the country and Alabama woman has been charged with manslaughter in the death of the fetus she was carrying her name is Marcia Jones and she was 5 months pregnant when officials say she started a fight with another woman who then shot Jones in the stomach in self defense a grand jury dropped charges against the shooter and instead decided that Jones quote had intentionally caused the death of her fetus by starting the fight Mary Scott Hodgson from member station. Has the latest on how people in Alabama are reacting Pleasant Grove is a small town about 10 miles outside of Birmingham Alabama it's a quiet place with one grocery store a few restaurants and a gun shop this is where marché Jones got into a fight with Ebony Jamison it's a case that garnered national and even international attention. Jack's restaurant is in the same shopping plaza where the fight happened local residents are gathered for breakfast some of them like Fred Gibson say they don't think the indictment against Jones is fair I'm all facing here to be charged with killing the body yet I don't know existed mochi more baby for others it's not so clear and a lake has been following a story in the news and says she's not sure about the legal details but when a woman is pregnant she says she's responsible for protecting her fetus definitely think the baby was a life that was lost because of the unfortunate circumstances so does the state of Alabama it recognizes a fetus as a person in cases of criminal homicide or assault so when Jones allegedly started the fight that led the other woman to shoot her in the stomach the grand jury said she intentionally caused the death of a separate person in this case her own fetus but Jones is Lee. Team says state law doesn't allow for a woman to be prosecuted for manslaughter in the death of her fetus Mark White is one of the attorneys on the case I don't know why this was manipulated to get this result but it is unprecedented Jenny Carroll is a law professor at the University of Alabama she says when it comes to recognizing the rights of a fetus Alabama already stands out hundreds of women have been prosecuted for using drugs during pregnancy under the state's chemical in danger man law Alabama recently passed one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and now the charges against marché Jones the way the state is treating the fetus in this case and in all these other laws we just talked about is it is creating a girl for mothers that doesn't exist for anyone else back in Pleasant Grove in the parking lot where the fight broke out resident Latasha Currington says she understands the woman who shot Jones was allegedly acting in self-defense and she also feels the fetus counts as a person but she says Jones shouldn't go to jail she lost a childish has to pay for her child this can a harsh it's sad to say in a statement last week officials with the local district attorney's office said they're evaluating the charges against Jones and deciding whether or not to prosecute her yesterday joins us legal team found a motion to dismiss the indictment a hearing is scheduled for July 9th for n.p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin who owns the recordings a musician makes most of the time especially in pop music it's the record labels and that can create painful situations for artists who have worked hard to create that music but ultimately someone else owns the mega-star Taylor Swift is just the latest musician to come forward with better complaints about that very situation and she's gotten into a very public feud about it that swept up the likes of Justin Bieber Demi Lovato and Kanye West we're joined by N.P.R.'s On the stars yes fuel costs in New York to untangle the story. Ok on a sow's ear that's Taylor Swift and her latest single you need to calm down but she is an a fan back all right now what's going on Hey Rachel Well you've got to go back a ways Taylor Swift signed her 1st record deal when she was just 152 it was then a brand new Nashville outfit called a big machine and she became the label as a big big star she made 6 multi platinum albums for them and big machine owns all of those albums including the master recordings masters are important right and these are the original recordings exactly they're vital musically historically and not least financially and most of the time pop labels own those as Prince famously said back in the ninety's when he was fighting about Masters he said if you don't own your masters your master owns you so this past Sunday news came that the founder of Big Machine who's a guy named Scott sold his label for $300000000.00 to another very powerful guy in the entertainment industry a manager a name Scooter Braun and now Braun represents a whole flock of a lessers including Justin Bieber Ariana Grande and Kanye West and this is where the whole thing exploded right exactly Taylor Swift turned her Tumblr blog on Sunday and she wrote that she didn't know that big machine was being sold she'd been trying to buy back her masters for years and that in the past were. I had suggested terms that were just so onerous that she had to walk away and she also laid into Scooter Braun and she claimed that he subjected her to what she calls quote incessant manipulative bullying and I mean she said that her work had been snatched up by 2 men who had nothing to do with her creative process that's exactly right Rachel and fired back on his social media saying that if Taylor had react her deal with big machine she could have earned her old masters back but in the meantime in that blog post of hers swift laid into a couple of scooter brands clients by name she name checked both Kim Carr Dashon and Kanye West whom she has very publicly feuded with before writing this is of the b.m.a. Is right when he got on stage and interrupted her acceptance speech exactly I'll let you finish the classic moment and then Justin Bieber who has worked with Scooter Braun since he was 12 jumped into the fray to defend him so did another scooter Brown's clients Demi Lovato and this whole issue of who owns Masters which has been an issue that has plagued artists in the industry since literally the dawn of the recorded era is now playing out like a middle school throw down among some very very rich people so what's Taylor Swift doing now well Last November she signed a new deal with the world's largest record company Universal Music Group and as part of that agreement shown her Masters which is a big deal absolutely the irony here Rachel is that Universal is under intense scrutiny right now because a New York Times investigation last month revealed that universal allegedly allowed hundreds of thousands of master recordings and other treasures to burn in a catastrophic fire back in 2000. And. 3 to produce its Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep All right time again to check. I'm with Joe on k.q.e.d. At 10 minutes to 8 latest problem in Pleasanton 580 westbound or Santa Rita road reports of a crash middle lane bumpy blocked traffic was moving pretty well in the Pleasanton and most of the works of course the other one pass the Slow down there for mountain house but it picks up after about Greenville road southbound 80 extra slow south of the bridge down towards Milpitas because of an earlier crash between mission between Dixon and 237 that had lanes blocked earlier but they're clear now Joe McConnell for k.q.e.d. This time out by fair Marketplace Morning Report on the way at 751 coming up on k.q.e.d. Way may be able to keep buying American components to make smartphones under the current trade truce Weiwei in the last 5 years has developed into a smartphone superpower but hasn't been able to break into the u.s. On claims of stealing technology that another business news this morning and business news the Safdar known at 4 and 630. 1 markets are open you can get 2nd by 2nd updates but the action does not stop at the closing bell which every detail how should we play best really get in the market should we get out of the market I'm a result trading after hours we'll have that story for the rest of the day's business news and of course the numbers from Wall Street during the session on Marketplace. Next time on City Arts in action environmental activist Bill McKibben and Mustafa Santiago on the discuss the future of climate activism and the reason which I moved to move. That's next time on City Arts and mixers here on k.q.e.d. . China's tonight on City Arts and lectures at 8 pm with the rebroadcast early tomorrow morning at 2 am on cheek you read the public radio. Good morning it's now 751. Some low wage workers will see a boost. 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Dot com In Washington I'm Kimberly Adams in for David Brancaccio The new fiscal year starts for many state and local governments this week and with that several states some cities and a few metro areas are raising their minimum wages this comes at a time when unemployment remains low and many voters are pushing for better pay Marketplace's Erica Barris has more in a tight labor market employers have to compete for workers that means they may also raise wages if they want to keep good worker says Donald Grimes an economist at the University of Michigan he says only 3 to 4 percent of the workforce earns the federal minimum wage of $725.00 an hour many states and localities have minimum wages that are higher even in states that are not experiencing the mandate of minimum wage increases for firms or enough to increase their wages to foreign workers so who is still getting paid minimum wage workers in fast food home health and retail Sylvia Alec Ratto an economist at u.c. Berkeley says many of those workers are women and people of color who haven't benefited as much from the economic gains of the past decade and for these workers now it seems like even when the labor market tightens up it's still difficult to get increases in wages so where are workers seeing minimum wages go up this week places where the cost of living is high coastal states like Oregon and the Jersey cities like Washington d.c. And Chicago and municipalities and metros like Los Angeles and the Bay Area America Barris for Marketplace drug companies have raised the prices of dozens of drugs by an average of 13 percent this week according to the company r.x. Saving solutions prices are rising twice as fast as they were this time last year that. Clue drugs hospitals need and some drugs that are in short supply both the Trump administration and Congress are pressuring pharmaceutical companies to make drugs more affordable Marketplace's Mary also Gary has been following this and Mariel what's exactly going on drug prices have been going up for decades the amount spent per person on prescription drugs and this is adjusted for inflation was less than $100.00 a year in 1960 and now it's more than a 1000 according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and this is gotten the attention of both the White House and lawmakers of both parties right this is one of the few areas of American politics where there is bipartisan agreement at least on what the problem is the president has been really vocal about this he's criticized drug companies like Pfizer for raising prices the administration also just finalized a rule that requires drug makers to show the list prices of their drugs in t.v. Ads and then in Congress the Senate Finance Committee called drug company executives to testify about prices in February and House Democrats are currently working on a bill that would give the government more power to negotiate drug prices even on behalf of people who don't have government plans like Medicare or Medicaid. Marielle thanks let's do the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up less than a 10th of a percent about $21.00 points the s. And p. Is up a 10th of a percent the Nasdaq is up 4 points pretty flat. Marketplace Morning Report is supported by figure providing a streamlined digital platform for home equity loans you can learn how to use the equity in your home for home improvement major purchases or debt consolidation at Figure dot com figure is now available in 38 states and by 4 x. Dot com committed to empowering and helping traders seize opportunities in currency markets since 1994 x. Dot com It's your world trade it for extracting involves significant risk of loss the Chinese tech giant wall way now has a reprieve from u.s. Sanctions it's part of the trade war truce declared over the weekend by President Trump and China's paying their few details but While way may be able to keep buying American parts to make smartphones which are less of a security concern than telecom gear Marketplace's Scott Tong recently returned from a trip to China where he reports that over the last 5 years or so while way grew from a local favorite to a global smartphone superpower while weight is the number 2 Phone seller in the world just behind Samsung and ahead of Apple it dominates sales in China where it can do what all phones do they stream video. Just in this case Chinese wedding. They take selfies. With. Full disclosure she's a distant in law of mine lives in the tech city of Shenzhen based She pulls up a selfie app. So in the end it has all kinds of functions faced lengthening skin whitening I always buy Huawei the camera. Better still is the battery in China while we sells 3 times more phones than Apple and in Europe each has about a quarter of the market and many Americans miss the Huawei rice it barely sells here but analysts Avi green garden exponential raves about the company's new $1000.00 p 30 pro especially its camera it has without question the best low light camera capability this will turn a night into day if you want to Shandong analyst Steve Di spend 16 years at the company he says while we histone a lot of money and a lot of workers at the handset business others. While workers are like on locusts everywhere our protocol he was worse before but we made up for it in hard work that he says while his breakthrough came in 2014 competitor Apple's image suffered when the Us movie stars had their i Phone photos hacked and Samsung's design lagged he says justice was put out a winning phone to get fresh infector from the card up your copy we put the fashion factor in big screen better battery fingerprint recognition that's when hallway began taking over in China and then globally now the u.s. Which had cut off from American technology like Google's Android software may give the company a reprieve under the new trade troops so analysts greencard thinks Weiwei could still thrive in Europe and Asia there will need to be a major marketing campaign they will probably try to spin this as a trump trade negotiating tactic but Holloway is an innocent political victim. At least that's the view and we're following is Cain people here like to note that always logo if you look closely resembles a slice of apple intern John I'm Scott Tong for Marketplace and in Washington I'm Kimberly Adams with the Marketplace Morning Report. From a.p.m. American Public Media and we're headed up to the final hour of Morning Edition in just a minute after John McConnell closes out our hour with Bay Area traffic some heavier than usual traffic in Salon a county and 6 city south because of a crash that was blocking a lane near parish road 60 south it's cleared but traffic is backed up still to bow Goldhill the latest collision is in San Jose on Highway 87 northbound you're sent a clear astri and the left lane might be blocked by that one might be a vehicle fire on the peninsula 200000 Millbrae near Larkspur drive or at least some debris in the back of a truck is smoldering Joe McConnell for Cutie brought to you by the t.j. Martell Foundation and support for k.q.e.d. Comes from the John s. And James l. Knight Foundation helping Public Radio advance journalistic excellence in the digital age Knight Foundation believes informed and engaged communities are essential for healthy democracy more at night Foundation dot org It's 8 o'clock Good morning I'm Dave Freeman and. Family in San Francisco and. Sacramento. Good morning prosecutors are experimenting with a new response to crime instead of sending young offenders to prison they bring the accused together with their victims restored of justice a Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. Coming up the order of Chicago's new mayor gave to local police I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep Lauri Lightfoot says if the president follows through on a threat to round up undocumented families Chicago cops will not. At this hour What does the world do now that Iran has gone beyond one part of a nuclear deal and can the president really delay the u.s. Census It's Tuesday July 2nd an elder Marcos the one time 1st lady of the Philippines who sure collection was exposed to the world is 90 years old today. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Joel Snyder u.s. Border Patrol is under fire today following every port by the Pro Publica investigative reporting outlet but a legislations created a closed a Facebook group opposed to vulgar comments and graphic photos about migrants and lawmakers officials say an employee is found to have violated standards of conduct will be held accountable detained asylum seeker from Honduras died this week an Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Houston Public Radio's Elizabeth Trovato reports that the man is the 6 detainees to die under ISIS watch since last October 30 year old he me and nexus that Ramos daughter died Sunday after 3 weeks in Immigration and Customs Enforcement attention ice officials say they found him unresponsive Sunday morning at a detention center in Houston medical personnel brought by that almost bodies to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead ice officials say they are waiting on an autopsy to determine cause of death that I almost thought of this was seeking asylum in the u.s. But had been removed from the country under the trumpet ministrations policy to have asylum seekers wait for the hearings in Mexico he later crossed back into the u.s. Without authorization and was detained in early June in Houston I'm Elizabeth Trovato Iran is being urged to stick to the nuclear deal or reach with world powers in 2015 Iran announcing yesterday that it has reached part of the deal exceeding the limits of low enriched uranium it's permitted its 1st major breach after the u.s. Were through last year Meanwhile European capitals remain committed to the nuclear deal despite the u.s. Withdrawal but Iran is pressuring European capitals to do more and N.P.R.'s Deborah Amos reports from Berlin Germany's trade with Iran is collapsing according to a report from Germany's chamber of commerce trade was down between Iran and Europe's largest economy by almost 50 percent compared to a year ago there are still more than 60 German companies in Iran but most have reduced operate. To local staff according to the chamber and addition other European companies are canceling plans to invest over fears any dealing with Iran could shut them out of the u.s. Market the trade figures show the strain on Europe's goal to offer some economic benefits to preserve the nuclear deal Tehran says Europe has failed to deliver Deborah Amos n.p.r. News Berlin path of a total solar eclipse will be sweeping across the Pacific Ocean today N.P.R.'s Joe Palca is at an observatory and she like this eclipse starts in the Pacific Ocean actually travels about 6000 miles across the Pacific Ocean before reaching the west coast of Chile a passes over a giant observatory and then continues on to Argentina where the eclipse ends and the sunset actually at the observatory they'll be several teams that will make measurements of the sun's outer atmosphere that can only be made when the sun is in total eclipse this is n.p.r. From k.q.e.d. News I'm Brian Watt State Assemblyman David Chu who represents San Francisco is calling on his city to do more to safeguard patients at its public hospitals This comes after revelations last week of alleged abuse of 23.

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