Zimm P.R.'s separate field reports that has some worried about traffic in orbit the constellation of satellites is called Starling space x. Says it will soon provide high speed internet service to everywhere on earth but to work space x. Must launch many thousands of Starlink sats into already crowded low Earth orbit Tim Ferrer is a satellite communications consultant it's vastly greater than any other constellation that you know but today Fair says space x. And arrival company will put hundreds of satellites up in the coming year he worries some could fail or into vertically hit others causing chaos in the statement space x. Says it's committed to safety in orbit and it's equipping it satellites with collision avoidance systems Geoff Brumfiel n.p.r. News and you're listening to n.p.r. News live from k.q.e.d. News I'm Brian Watt San Francisco's police union is unhappy about the election of the city's new district attorney chasuble Dean the longtime public defender becomes the city's top cop as part of the way the progressive prosecutors who hope to overhaul the criminal justice system more from k.q.e.d. Sara Hosain has never prosecuted a case but his vision for reform a focus on racial disparity police accountability and an end to cash bail resonated with a slim majority of voters a margin of about 4 percent at last count that in a personal story intimately connected to the criminal justice system at the age of one parents were imprisoned in the early eighty's they were involved in a bloody armed robbery while members of the radical Weather Underground buttin still visits his father in maximum security prison in New York half of the voters have clearly spoken that they want to favor serious criminal justice reform and not just reforming the status quo but essentially blowing up the status quo Loyola law professor Jessica Levinson says the question remains whether he'll be able to forge a working relationship with the city's police union if. Very difficult to implement these ride sweeping reforms without any support from what really needs to be your partner in the statement San Francisco Police Officers Association president Tony Montoya says he hopes Dean will tame his approach and grow into a champion of crime victims I'm Sarah Husseini k.q.e.d. News there's more about bloodying and the D.A.'s race at k.q.e.d. News dot org And the district attorney elect will be on k.q.e.d. Forum in the next hour I'm Brian Watt support today comes from Stanford health care where patients and physicians turn health care matters most support for n.p.r. Comes from p.b.s. With retro report on p.b.s. Host Celeste Headlee Massud all a funny and humorist Andy Borowitz explore the history behind today's headlines premiers this Monday at 98 Central on p.b.s. And the listeners of k.q.e.d. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep good morning this week's public testimony in the impeachment inquiry begins with some facts well established for example there is no doubt the President Trump sought investigations of a political rival Joe Biden the president said so in a phone call to the president of Ukraine a u.s. Diplomat has already disclosed that he personally told Ukrainians they would not get military aid until the investigation was announced that is not stopping debate over what the facts mean listen here to one of the president's defenders he is Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana on C.B.S.'s Face the Nation Kennedy starts out sounding like he may be open to finding the president did something wrong if it can be demonstrated that the president asked for and had the requisite slate in mind that the president asked for an investigation of the political rabble that's all the line but if he asked for an investigation of possible corruption by someone who happens to be a political rival that's not a lot listen to the language there after the word but Senator Kennedy leans into that 2nd idea that the president didn't have the intent to target a rival even though Biden and his son were the only specific individuals whose investigations he sought how can each side make its case in public Ross Garber joins us now he's a law professor who teaches political investigations and impeachment at Tulane timely subjects Mr Garber in morning good morning he joins us from New Orleans via via Skype I should say Senator Kennedy just said there you got to prove the president had a bad intent do Democrats have to do that. You know 1st an impeachment process isn't just legal it's a legal process but it's also political and honestly in some ways primarily political So it's not like you've got jury instructions or you know even clear instructions on the elements of the offense now as a practical matter though he's probably getting to what I think the Republicans are going to say the Democrats are going to have to show to establish an impeachable offense the Democrats may not wind up there so far neither side has specifically said exactly what they believe the impeachable offenses are or what they have to prove to establish a oh this is a good point at some point assuming the Democrats go I had the Democrats who control the House go ahead they have to approve specific articles of impeachment that say what they believe the president did wrong right yeah that's right and the constitutional standard as we know it is treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors and that last part of the phrase other high crimes and misdemeanors is very open to interpretation so you're exactly right at some point that you know House Democrats if they go forward with impeachment are going to say here is what we believe are the impeachable offenses and that leads to another possible defense of the president which we're hearing elsewhere on today's program Nikki Haley the president's former United Nations ambassador in an interview says it is quote not a good practice to seek investigations of a political rival so she doesn't seem to be an any doubt about what the president did but she then points out the effort failed the investigations didn't go forward the military aid was alternately released is that a good defense that the president tried something and it didn't work so I think that's going to wind up probably being the weakest defense that look if that's all the Republicans have they're going to go at it but I think that's probably the weakest defense they have and so far one of the challenges for Republicans is that the White House hasn't really. Spelled out of the fence the president tweeted over the weekend that Republicans should stop trying to come up with defenses because the call and all of his actions were perfect. But it's some point I think the Republicans are going to wind up settling on you know perhaps you know maybe a few defenses but but articulating them more I think the weakest one will probably be the it didn't go through because Democrats will point out Well yeah there are lots of crimes that aren't actually fulfilled empted you know murder attempted bank robbery conspiracy all sorts of crimes that actually aren't fulfilled you know I think where this is all going to probably wind up is more along the lines of where Senator Kennedy was in that clip you played which was that the president didn't have bad intent here it just so happens for example that the you know investigation of corruption he was looking for involved Joe Biden a potential political rival is the ultimate defense for the president polling data we're also hearing in today's program highlighting in today's program that while more Americans support than oppose the impeachment inquiry the numbers flip when you go into red states where Republican lawmakers are representing the people. Yes And I think that is going to be one of the big things to watch for years as this process plays out you know any Republicans come over to the side of pro impeachment and you know does Speaker Pelosi lose any Democrats on impeachment when you know the resolution was passed to authorize the inquiry it was very lopsided there were no Republicans who joined and the speaker even lost a couple of Democrats so they were to look to see whether you know that changed at all with this public testimony knowing if the public testimony were to change the polling data one way or the other that might cause Republicans or Democrats to flip it believe it or not there are politics in impeachment you did say at the beginning that it is a political as well as a legal process Professor Garber thank you so much really appreciate it it's good to be with you Ross Garber specializes in political investigations and impeachment at Tulane China's aging population is retiring faster than younger workers can replace them that's in part why China abolished the one child policy to allow families to have 2 children back in 2015 but the shadow of the one child policy still looms large over potential mothers N.P.R.'s Emily Fang talked to 2 single women who are desperate to have families but whose definition of what that means does not match with China's. 131 year old mislead you found out she was pregnant in 2017 she decided to keep the baby she always wanted children and she was getting older there was one catch she was not married. I just felt this was a small living that I should keep her and then I had to work hard to create the conditions under which I could raise her mislead you did not provide her full name because single motherhood still carries significant social stigma in China even though her parents and her close friends supported choice most colleagues Shanghai insurance company she's worked at for 9 years. I do not know she has a child they thought tell you that 8 lawyers would wonder is it just a human who cares for the child and if so then how will you focus on work Chinese women have one limited freedoms my last 40 years there are more financially independent getting married later and when they do getting divorced more often changing social mores are also affecting parenthood more women are postponing motherhood some are even choosing to have children on their own but China's reproductive policy is only specifying married heterosexual couples they make 0 mention of single mothers they and their children live in a legal gray zone in which there is a blank space when it comes to single parents for them half there is a catch all clause for punishing any situation that violates family planning as a Shanghai lawyer she's currently fighting a case in Shanghai court so unmarried women can at least qualify for maternity insurance technically the child of an unmarried woman can't even receive who call the equivalent of a u.s. National security number allowing them to go to school and access social services bigger cities and some provinces have started to change this though misleader was able to get her child in her not province her home but she's lived in Shanghai for 9 years and wants to raise her child there even though mostly it was one who could have gotten a Shanghai residence permit which would have allowed her and her child access to some services in Shanghai. For example to access insurance indication I need enough residence permit points but they consider me to have violated family planning regulations this is the thing that shames me the most Shanghai authorities have docked points for misuse residence permit application for being a single mother which means that she and her child are cut off she's considering moving back to one when a child grows up so she can attend public school that culminates party where and has always been active in shaping and encouraging particular kinds of families Stewart title Bast. Demography professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology He explains how Chinese family planning policy has always intervened families. It was. Very childish. In the seventy's. Children people who definitely don't fit Chinese style family planning single mothers having children through surrogates. Is $41.00 and highly successful having founded her own skin care products company in Shanghai she's always wanted to be a mother and finally became pregnant in 2018 but a sudden onset of severe depression caused her to get an abortion. I thought about suicide was here is just one week but I couldn't take it she still wants child but fears she might run into complications again as an unmarried woman would also have a difficult time qualifying for adoption that's why she's looking into surrogacy she's already spent tens of thousands of dollars in fertility treatments but any child has to surrogacy it will not have legal status in China because surrogacy is illegal her current plan is for her to join the thousands of Chinese women giving birth in the United States each year where surrogacy is legal in extra park her child would have American citizenship but now the Us isn't looking like a safe bet anymore. If the trumpet ministration were since birth right citizenship my child doesn't have a medical record in China than I would have spent that money for nothing then. Between a rock and a hard place. N.p.r. News Shanghai. Coming up this afternoon things considered dozens of women who work in special operations recently gathered in California to discuss ways to encourage female troops to stay in the military or to help them transition to fulfilling. Play n.p.r. Member station. This is n.p.r. News has been a serious accident and a big jam on 580 in Oakland let's get you updated with John McConnell at 819 when the only really big jams we had all morning but it's been there for about an hour 20 minutes now eastbound $530.00 here it's a major crash there all the eastbound lanes still reported blocked traffic Suisun by the shoulder only in the Harrison exit is open of the ride and all the westbound side is better it was it was completely stopped because of lane blockage on that side that they haven't said whether the lanes open up but I think probably is because the traffic's better Caltrain number 2 to 15 northbound train is late about 25 minutes coming out Apollo earlier bridge issues Joe McConnell for key committee support for k.q.e.d. This morning comes from Log Me n. Featuring the all new Go To Meeting collaboration software that comes with cloud recording voice commands and a commuter mode to help people get things done Go To Meeting dot com The John s. And James l. 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Supreme Court tomorrow California's solicitor general will argue to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals the program protects nearly 700000 undocumented young people from deportation. Merrill spoke with other people involved in the important case one of the plaintiffs trying to stop the Trump administration from ending that that is that 29 year old medical resident at the San Francisco General Hospital the doors or the emergency department today you'd let the Vong Scarne has run through those doors to attend to patients. When trauma codes like this one. Everybody who runs in this period to do in this obesity say in and stabilize the patient and may let the ones going became the 1st undocumented medical student to graduate from u.c.s.f. Now he says his patients include undocumented people afraid to come to the doctor until they're very sick so I have a visceral understanding because that was me that was my family that the wrong scorn was 9 when his family came from Thailand on a tourist visa and never left it was a hard life but he excelled in school and Milpitas in Sacramento and that scholarships to go to u.c. Berkeley then. On June 15th 2012 his world changed immediately the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people President Barack Obama offered 2 year work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. As kids while Congress considered a bigger fix this is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a leaf and hope to talented driven patriotic young they came out of the shadows trusting the government with their address and personal information Janet Napolitano put that guy into action as Obama's homeland security secretary now she's a plaintiff in a case to protect that as the head of the University of California where about 7500 students are enrolled they become doctors they become lawyers they become teachers they become taxpayers all of that return on investment is lost. Goes away 2 years ago the Trump administration moved to wind down arguing it was unlawful but federal judges ordered the government to keep the program in place after lawsuits were filed by California the u.c. Regents and that the recipients like Dr Latif in the past 2 years it's been kind of an extended limbo and now the Supreme Court will have a say on what happens to that the scorn and nearly 200000 others with that in California alone I have to admit I am nervous that the scorn is taking a red eye to d.c. To be in tomorrow's hearing with the 9 justices so they see me so I see them so I hear them I hear exactly how our case our lives are being talked about hundreds of other Dhaka recipients and supporters are expected to rally outside of the Supreme. Court and say that but I don't know if the students of California history have been marking the 25th anniversary of the passage of Proposition 187 it aimed to prohibit a legal immigrants living in California from receiving medical educational and other social services while most of it never took effect its passage with broad support by California voters might have the most lasting impact on California's politics of any proposition in a generation Los Angeles Times columnist Gustava Ariano is host of a new podcast about Prop 187 and he joins us welcome. As we've heard we are a day ahead of the Supreme Court hearing about the docket program do you see parallels between the campaign to pass Proposition 18725 years ago and what the trumpet ministration is doing today absolutely in many ways this is the dream of the backers of 187 manifesting itself in the Supreme Court but let's not forget one of the main tenets of Proposition 187 was to deny educate public education from k. From kindergarten all the way up through universities to anyone who was undocumented and that's what the doc a generation is but now we're seeing this you know it's blast from the past now being about to be heard at the Supreme Court now you focus a lot on how prop $187.00 inspired Latino's in California politically how exactly did that happen. Think about it my generation I'm a sophomore in high school people younger than me people there than me a lot of us have parents or are who are undocumented or are undocumented ourselves and now we hear from the governor of California Pete Wilson that we're the reason why California has sent such dire straits and we start seeing commercials saying that we are the ruin of California yeah you're going to be a little bit upset and so even though 187 passed by a big margin 51 to 41 percent it inspired that generation of Latinos like myself to say you know what never again we're not going to take this in California we're going to get into politics we're going to get involved in our community and the children of one of the 7 really we are the children of one of the 7 now we hold the super majority in the California state legislature and the Democrats to put the people who are running it really are is the Latino legislative caucus and they've made California into a sanctuary state the absolute end to this of what 180 seven's backers ever imagined do you feel like people are looking to prop when 87 and what happened to reverse it and the campaign against it even once it had passed by voters people are looking to that as they consider how to combat president Trump's policies today absolutely it's 2 lessons actually on one hand it teaches you what happens if you demonize Latinos If you demonize immigrants there's going to be a backlash but at the same time another article I did for the Los Angeles Times it gave a blueprint for anti immigration groups to then spawn similar measures on both the local and the state level all across the United States it really created that runway for which Donald Trump was able to take off using very nativists rhetoric and so now with this docket hearing in the Supreme Court it's almost like Ok we're almost the end game at this $187.00 fable but hey if it happens in California it's going to happen everywhere else who's Stoffel Ariano Los Angeles Times columnist and host of a new podcast about. When 87 Hey thanks a bunch. You're listening to Morning Edition on k.q.e.d. More news with Brian and n.p.r. In just a minute some traffic news now on Monday Veteran's Day Joe McConnell with the latest and a look at transit northbound Caltrain 215 coming out of Colorado still delayed about 25 minutes because of the earlier what are called Bridge issues and signal delays been holding up couple a couple couple of quarter train the live trains that there were to signal issues were west of Davis that apparently been resolved but 523 train heading into Hayward is delayed about 40 minutes and a stray number 5 the 3rd one of the days running about 10 minutes late and we still have the crash unchanged East 5 idiot Harrison with nearly all lanes blocked Joe McConnell for key committee support for k.q.e.d. 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N.P.R.'s Claudio reports the 1st 3 witnesses will testify before the cameras in the coming day this comes after weeks of private depositions concerning claims Trump held up military aid in order to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to announce an investigation into Trump's political rival 1st stop State Department officials William Taylor and George cant will appear Wednesday on Friday former ambassador to Ukraine Marie you have on a bitch will testify after nearly 30 years in Congress Representative Peter King says he will not seek re-election next year today's announcement from the moderate Republican from Long Island fuels the Democrats' resolve to maintain control of the u.s. House King says that in the coming weeks he'll continue to rally for Trump's re-election Iran's president says a new all feel discovery could add more than 50000000000 barrels see Iran's recoverable reserves N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says he now spent comes as Iran's economy struggles under u.s. Sanctions President Hassan Rouhani says the new field was discovered in the southern Khuzestan Province and could potentially yield some 53000000000 barrels of oil if so that essentially increases Iran's known crude reserves by a 3rd Iran's oil revenues have been down significantly since President Trump pulled the u.s. Out of the 2015 nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions It's N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reporting this is n.p.r. News live from k.q.e.d. News I'm Brian Watt tributes are pouring in to Bernard Tyson the c.e.o. Of Kaiser Permanente who died in his sleep yesterday there coming from mayors corporate executives and nonprofit leaders because as the leader of the giant h.m.o. Based in Oakland Tyson was a stalwart of the Bay Area business community East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee said she was scheduled to talk with Tyson yesterday she says he had a big impact on the national conversation about health care during the Obama administration. He was in Washington d.c. Quite a bit during the discussion with regard to the Affordable Care Act and even Long Island terms and have the strength and how to make it better lead to scribe Tyson is a man of the people and a role model for young African-American men who could see him and dream of leading a huge organization like Kaiser. Teachers in West Sonoma County say they will strike this week after about a year of contract negotiation stalled yesterday and Lee High school math teacher and union bargaining chair Brian Miller says a state appointed neutral fact finder recommended a 12 percent raise over the next 3 years so the district not only offering have what the fact I have recommended in terms of salary they're also offering in much worse and much more expensive health care option Miller says approximately 100 teachers will walk off the job on Wednesday unless and until the district improves on its offer for wages and health care benefits the district did not respond to a request for comment I'm Brian Watt k.q.e.d. News support today comes from bridge bank a division of Western alliance bank offering flexible financial solutions to entrepreneurs and the venture capital community forum on the way at 9 the California reported $851.00 after forum on k.q.e.d. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep and I know well King there are some remarkable political circumstances in Bolivia this morning it's not clear who the country's president is able Morales has resigned he was a notable leader for a couple reasons he was in power for 14 years he was Bolivia's 1st indigenous president but in this most recent election there were accusations of fraud and so people went out into the streets Morales said he's stepping down to end the violence it's a little see a little I am resigning was just so that my brothers and sisters and leaders of the movement toward socialism don't continue being harassed persecutors and threatened N.P.R.'s South America correspondent Philip Reeves is on the line Good morning Phil good morning so what happened here what went so wrong for a former palace Well after all those accusations of fraud surfaced following last month's election where he declared himself the victor after the 1st round the Organization of American States sent in a team to find out what happened early yesterday it revealed its findings it found many irregularities from faults in computer security the count custody of the ballot and that really lit the fuse and then moralities collapse began yesterday with remarkable speed he had been under a lot of pressure already on Saturday that police had begun deserted their posts. But after that report came out some of morale as his allies began to abandon him he tried to cling onto power by going on t.v. And saying he was offering new elections and was going to overhaul the electoral authorities that didn't work and then the army chief turned up on t.v. And announced that he thought he should go and that I was followed by saying he'd be turning in a letter of resignation to the legislature he's characterizing this though is a coup saying he's stepping aside to restore calm Ok so when you think of coup when you think of Latin America you do think of the military and the role the. They are playing or not playing Can you talk a bit more about what the military did in in this in this circumstance to make peace to make some people say this looks an awful lot like Well they certainly accelerated his downfall by announcing at the weekend that the army wasn't going to get involved in stopping these protests because it didn't want to confront its own people and then it delivered what was clearly a very strong shove and morale is back when the army chief turned up and t.v. Saying he should go around with his supporters on the left around Latin America are going to see this as evidence that this was a coup and there will be concerns about the role of the military in this you know this is Star expect there of a Latin American military takeover dance is lurking but the counter-argument is going to be that he was actually the victim of his own determination to bend the rules to remain in power for a 4th term but all eyes are going to be on what the Army does next I mean that's going to be a key question now I'm trying to imagine being in a country where it is unclear who the president is how are ordinary Bolivians responding to this well there were a lot of celebrations on the streets began actually even before man hours had completed his announcement people were honking their their car horns and Piri on the streets waving flags and and for setting off fireworks and so on but we are entering really perilous and uncharted waters his vice president has also resigned and the rules say that when the president and the v.p. Go on the head of the Senate should step in but she's resigned to as has the head of the lower house the next in line so the speculation that legislators will now have to meet to appoint someone or some kind of transitional body that will take over until elections they will need to act quickly the situation on the ground is unstable I'm seeing overnight reports of clashes of arson attacks in looting while N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves tell Thanks so much You're welcome. On this Veterans Day here in the United States we report on the effort to pair those who served with service dogs it is widely believed that dogs can help with mental health issues and that includes post-traumatic stress which is why advocates want the Department of Veterans Affairs to act more quickly Here's Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce this conversation has been going on for years service dogs will save lives that's former Marine Corporal Cole Lyle speaking before a congressional subcommittee in 2016 arguing for resources to use service dogs for p.t.s.d. Treatment his own dog at his feet Lyles life ill apart after his service in Afghanistan losing military friends to suicide he nearly chose the same path himself I still have my bad days but with chi at my side I'm largely in a different phase I call it recovery. Down flat today in Colorado Springs Air Force veteran Ken Morrow has a black German shepherd named Toby morrow never deployed but he was subjected to years of loud explosions before leaving the service in 2004 he took a blow to the head I have a traumatic brain injury I have here in issues I mobility issues like vertigo and he also pins longstanding anger issues on that head injury he says his wife worries she'll get a call from the police if he goes somewhere without Toby he keeps me from going to the next a few years ago morrow did extensive training with Toby at the facility where we're standing now it's run by Victory service dogs a nonprofit where Morrow is now volunteer vice president 5 star walk away like I was going to fall he would pull out of my trainers hand and come charge and cover me up to prove his point morrow demonstrates he gives Toby's leash to a trainer and starts walking away then starts stumbling a little simulating an attack of vertigo. Immediately tell he reacts whining and pulling hard to leech. The trainer lets go of Toby who sprints tomorrow now laying on the ground. 0 point. $50.00 victory service dances helped about $250.00 veterans sense opening in 2015 only charging a $50.00 application fee though normally matching veterans with dogs and facilitating their training costs thousands of dollars the Department of Veterans Affairs will help of Tain and take care of dogs for veterans who suffer from physical disabilities like blindness or deafness though not for mental health issues like p.t.s.d. The agency started to study whether dogs can help with conditions like p.t.s.d. 8 years ago but says it will be 2020 before has results some in Congress are tired of waiting how bad can I go we're giving them a dog for God's sake Florida Republican Representative John Rutherford is the sponsor of the pause act that's P.A.W.L.'s which would create a $10000000.00 grant fund through the v.a. The v.a. Is not yet endorsing his bill but that's not stopping him we have tons of and of those stories of service members say look but for that dog I would be dead today a study published last year by Purdue University found veterans suffering p.t.s.d. Slept better and experienced less anger and anxiety if they had service dogs there is a small pilot program through the v.a. That's matched a couple dozen veterans with service dogs over the last couple years but the vast majority of veterans seeking these dogs for mental health still have to rely on philanthropy or their own wallets for n.p.r. News I'm Dan Boyce in Colorado Springs. This is n.p.r. News coming up on 843 on k.q.e.d. Let's check in with John McConnell He's at the traffic desk I understand from better news. Joe finally took about an hour and 40 minutes but they just cleared a crash and 5 eastbound that Harrison all lanes open traffic still backed up 530 Eastern on the 24 through the 24 interchange 524 to change but it should improve greatly because everything else is very light this morning no backup of the Bay Bridge hasn't been all morning there's a little bit of a slowdown on 80 in San Leandro a southbound pass through 38 where there was a vehicle fire really something the back of a truck was smoldering Joe McConnell for Kiki beauty and I'm Dave for a minute 843 good morning it's time now for a perspective on k.q.e.d. Public Radio the world looks a lot different to maque lake now and that's not just because the world is different now oh my goodness the world is so messed up it's enough to make me want to go off somewhere and forget about it all I can do that now the work I do is portable I could live at the beach or in a mountain cabin no one would care that may sound like the musings of someone who's a little depressed or an old guy viewing his mortality they're kind of the same thing I think. I wonder how I made it this long without getting discouraged the world isn't objectively worse off now we're not in the middle of the Depression or World War 2 There is a lot of poverty a lot of economic inequality but by and large more people around the world are better off than ever climate change is coming at us like the asteroid at the dinosaurs that could be worse when I was young 2 things were different about me not the world 1st I was banned list Lee optimistic on behalf of myself and mankind 2nd I was busy working raising a family all that nose to the grindstone stuff I took Watergate and Reagan in stride when the Berlin Wall came down I said Of course it did that kind of repression never lasts. But some kind of repression is always with us it seems I don't need to give you a list everyone has their own we are beleaguered by the Democrats or the Republicans the right or the left corruption or political tyrants. The world is the same but I'm different now I want to be hopeful but I'm chastened by the realization that human nature in all its glory and greed is unlikely to change and so the world fundamentally is unlikely to change we are born egocentric it's the way we survive it's too bad we have to grow up it was a large chair in that long ago world I've just me and endless possibilities with a perspective I met Clayton Clayton contemplates possibilities from his home on the peninsula and you can share your thoughts on his commentary on line and. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep there's a new kind of community about an hour south of Amazon's headquarters in Seattle Washington what makes it a new kind of community is all the Amazon gear the neighborhood in the town of Black Diamond is stuffed with so much technology you could call it a smart home laboratory its residents are learning what it's like to live in what may be the home of the future they're finding smart homes offer convenience but also feed tech companies incredibly detailed information about their lives k u o W's Joshua McNichols takes us there. Is one of these that comes on us yes so that one of the fine print of it is that it was an experience I think that's the one that we're going to take Britney Sabbats works for Lennart one of the nation's largest home builders and she's been making the same sales pitch over and over to potential home buyers in this Seattle suburb control everything from your window blinds to your door locks using just your voice the front door is locked adjusts the mood lighting or tell Roomba to clean up. The feed from one of the countless video cameras on the smart television elect said show me the back yard. And now we can spy on whoever is having a drink on the back patio. Cameras and convenience that's the pitch Drew Holmes wasn't looking for a smart home when he shopped for a house here but the technologies came with the house now I'm like would not live without his favorite feature is a ring doorbell that logs visitors every teenager it's nice to confirm when they come home and I can have a proof of it one time Holmes was away on a business trip and his stepdaughter forgot her key and couldn't get in so she just text me hey can you open the door and I open the door from Oregon and those nice from salt there are other neighborhoods like this bubbling up outside tech savvy cities like Miami and Denver and I should mention Amazon is an n.p.r. Sponsor in this neighborhood Alexa's in every room she adjusts the thermostat and reports on people's commutes when they roll out of bed and she's getting better at it because she's watching and learning what people need but that data collection worries Theron Smith and he went out of his way to buy a home here that does not include smart home technology he didn't want the cloud to know every time his kids flip a light switch that data is not just sitting there just empty that somebody is going to look at it and leverage it to try to turn a profit or try to create a try to raise revenue that might be one reason smart homes aren't more popular already as Zillow survey found people are just far more interested in. Air conditioning and ample storage than smart home technology on the other hand Dave Garland thinks the technology will take off once people try it he's with 2nd century ventures an investment arm of the National Association of Realtors there is a new narrative when it comes to what home means it means a personalized environment where technology response to your every need may be a means giving up some privacy these families are trying out that compromise 15 year old Macy Ferguson says she likes it she uses Alexa alarms when for cheerleading practice and one for homework to help her manage her busy life I just feel really fancy because I feel like just my little like 7 Butler. But her mom Kelly is more cautious if I'm walking on our street I walk on the other side of the street the side without the smart homes just because they don't feel like being on everyone's cameras and that's something we'll all have to learn how to navigate if this technology becomes standard in more neighborhoods for n.p.r. News I'm Joshua McNichols in Seattle. This is n.p.r. News Joe McConnell with a look at traffic on k.q.e.d. Ahead of the California report starting with the South Bay and to any North out at Saratoga there is a crash reported there. Not a biggest issue so far but it's the latest collision no slowdown on to any South has been quiet most of the commute has been but a 580 in Oakland has a new problem a relatively new is actually a stall that's been there for about a half an hour westbound before Keller in the right lane and it's causing a sizeable backup it's now back to before golf links eastbound 5 he also still pretty slow through the 24 interchange because of the earlier crash near Harrison which has been cleared and behind that there might be a stalled car on 5 East before 24 Tell McConnell for k.q.e.d. Support for k.q.e.d. a 51 comes from Carbonite offering data protection to businesses including e-mail spreadsheets calendars and more Carbonite data protection for small businesses o.t.c. Dance presenting the 33rd holiday season of The Velveteen Rabbit which celebrates the heartfelt connection between a little boy and his favorite stuffed rabbit starts November 29th at y b c a tickets at 0 d c dot dance Good morning this is the California report and I'm sold Gonzales in Los Angeles after several days of vote counting in a very close election San Francisco has a new district attorney he's chase a blue jean a former deputy public defender who defeated interim da Susie Loftus Dean campaigned as a criminal justice reform or who wants more alternatives to mass incarceration and tougher police accountability the San Francisco Police Officers Association opposed to Dean by spending more than half a $1000000.00 on ads attacking his campaign to Dean's family history has also gotten a lot of attention both of those parents were members of the leftist radical group the Weather Underground they went to prison for their role in an armed heist in New York in 1901 that left 3 people dead the new d.a. Has talked frequently about how that shaped his views on criminal justice like this interview with k.q.e.d. My earliest memories are visiting my parents and president going through steel gates going through metal detectors just to be able to see them just to be able to touch them that it's. Variance of course profoundly shaped my life and the path it took it meant that I've been thinking about it and working on issues of criminal justice reform since I was in grade school I've spoken out about the challenges children with incarcerated parents face I've served in a variety of capacities on boards. In research capacities and in litigation capacities to do work on issues of criminal justice reform and to find ways to make the system fairer more effective more fish and in more humane the new D.A.'s father is still serving time in New York State and in another story Bernard Tyson the c.e.o. Of Oakland based Kaiser Permanente has died at the age of 60 Tyson who led Kaiser since 2013 was the 1st African-American to head the nonprofit hospital and health insurance company he was known as a strong advocate for affordable and accessible health care and placing an emphasis on preventive treatment Here's Tyson speaking at a conference earlier this year were an organization that believes that we're not really here with an aspiration of you give anything so we can fix you we want to partner with you to get and stay healthy the cause of death has been released yet in response to Tyson's passing the National Union of health care workers has postponed a planned 5 day strike of Kaiser mental health care workers support for the California report comes from Eric and Wendy Schmidt whose fund for Strategic and evasion supports transformative ideas that benefit humanity while protecting the natural world recognizing through science the interdependence of all living systems Strauss family Creamery producing 100 percent organic milk in reusable glass bottles for more than 25 years keeping 500000 pounds of milk containers out of landfills every year Strauss family Creamery dot com an energy upgrade California urging Californians to keep it golden by saving energy through simple as. Acts like unplugging and use devices energy upgrade california dot org You know that ad campaign got milk well not a California oldest dairy which has closed its doors it started producing milk in 8093 but as valley Public Radio's Keri Klein reports the dairy a swapping cows for trees do you know Jack Ahmadi is a 4th generation dairy farmer in the Kings County City of Hanford he suspects his family's dairy may be the oldest west of the Rockies or they were dairy sold off its 2000 cattle in October a decision he says wasn't easy when you're doing one thing for over a 100 years you know there's a lot of identity and that a lot of emotion and I think builds around that decision Giacomo he says he actually made the decision in 2013 to begin transitioning from milk to all men's he planted the trees on a different property years ago to prepare for the transition for decades milk prices have stagnated while production and labor costs rose small areas all over the state have shuttered although many farmers blame legislators and environmentalists for leaving them high and dry Jacka mozzie blames apathy toward farmers the fact is that we've just strong to such an incentive present percentage of the population that it's not necessarily that people are against us is that they just don't consider us he says it was only after his 105 year old grandmother died last year that he felt it was the right time to make the change for the California report I'm Kerry Klein in Fresno and finally let's turn to the heavens as I speak to you this morning a rare astronomical event is happening the planet Mercury is crossing between Earth in the sun here to talk about this mercury transit in our occasional series about space called spacing out is k.q.e.d. Science reporter Danielle Benson So how rare is this trances then you know it's something that happen. From time to time there's not a set interval so on average it happens about 13 times a century but whether you can see it depends on where you are so in California we won't be able to see one until 30 years from now until 2049 but let's say you decided that you didn't want to wait that long in South America or Europe or Africa in only 13 years 2032 will be the next transit of mercury and what should I do if I want to see this and if I want to see the safely the definitely do not look directly at the sign you can cause permanent damage I would recommend if you want to see it get yourself to a viewing party at a planetarium near you in the Bay Area that there will be one at the Chabot Space and Science Center in southern California the Mount Wilson Observatory and how tech are having events the best way to see it is through binoculars or a telescope that have protective solar filters you could look at the sun if you have the say well there's mass or solar eclipse glasses but it might be very difficult to see it because mercury is such a tiny dot against the surface of the sun and other than being generally cool to look at do planetary transits whether it's mercury or some other world teaches anything yet you know it was through studying transit particularly the transit of Venus that astronomers back in the 17th and 18th century were able to triangulate the distance between Venus and the sun and they already knew the relative proportions of the different planets in the solar system and so they were able to calculate the distance between all the planets which is kind of cool today we're able to discover new exoplanets planets outside of our solar system by seeing a dip in the light from a star when one of those planets passes in front of it or transits in front of it 25 years ago we didn't know if there were any planets outside of our solar system and today it turns out there's thousands more than 4000 confirmed accept planets what's. Writing about that is the more planets that we discover outside of our solar system the more likely it is that one of those could contain a form of white Ok Danielle Denton I never tire of talking off World News with you thanks so much my pleasure. And that's today's California report a production of k.q.e.d. Public radio sold Gonzales that great day. Michael Krasny with form ahead in just a minute on k.q.e.d. Here's Joe McConnell to end our 8 o'clock hour with traffic where starting the commute much the earlier Any get much way we started it with almost no problems at all except for loops and patchy dense fog and that's starting to burn away the kid transit systems have some delays up to 45 minute delay in the capital quarter train heading in from Sacramento of the 523 because of the earlier signal problems at 45 minutes late pulling into Senate Clara now and the 30 strain is delayed about 10 minutes all clear on 5 a day there were a bunch of problems stalls accidents through Oakland but they're all gone Joe McConnell for key committee support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Comcast business businesses today need high speed connectivity and technology solutions that enhance both employee and customer experiences Comcast business is committed to helping businesses of all sizes Business dot com Cast dot com and David Freeman good morning thanks for listening to. San Francisco and. North Highlands Sacramento. K.q.e.d. Public Radio in San Francisco Michael Krasny severances Co has selected a new district attorney Dean who won a razor thin victory over appointed incumbent Susie Loftus who conceded on Saturday who did the deputy public defender run on progressive reform policies like ending money bail he'll join us at 930 to talk about his vision for the office and his tense relationship with the city's police union. But 1st the Washington Post Philip book will join us to preview this week's public impeachment hearings that's all coming up next after the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi Singh the House impeachment inquiry enters a new phase this week with hearings that will be widely publicized across media platforms the Intelligence Committee will hear from key u.s. Diplomats investigators are trying to determine whether President trying to leverage u.s. Military aid to press the Ukrainian government to open investigations for his political gain we have more from N.P.R.'s to Mack weeks of dramatic closed door testimony will now be brought into full public view the committee will hear from u.s. Diplomats George Kent and William Taylor on Wednesday and they will also hear from former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie on Friday last week Democrats released transcripts from their closed door depositions those transcripts suggest that the White House leveraged u.s. Foreign policy to urge Ukraine to begin investigations into the Biden family and it's on the basis of these transcripts that lawmakers will likely start their questioning Republicans have argued that there was no quid pro quo between the president and the Ukrainian government to mak n.p.r. News.