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News 8 in Washington I'm Jack Speer officials still don't know what caused today's deadly highway bridge collapse in Italy one man was under the structure when it came down calling Americal he survived a large section of the bridge in the city of Genoa gave way today killing at least 26 people and injuring 16 more N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli has more on this highway bridge it soars over the city it runs over shopping centers factories homes the general on the line railway line and the potential of a the river in general is really sort of an unusual Italian city it's a major urban area with elevated highways that cut across this densely inhabited area in the highways also the major road linking France in the Italian Riviera and vacation spots for their cells N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli officials there say there was a violent cloud burst at the time of the bridge collapse and some witnesses report the bridge was hit by lightning lawyers for a former Trump campaign chairman Paul Mann afforded rested their case without calling a single witness as N.P.R.'s Carrie Johnson reports man afford to sighted not to testify in his bank and tax fraud trial the judge asked Paul metaphor to he was satisfied with his lawyers and whether man of work wanted to testify metaphor responded No sir in a firm and slightly husky voice made of court has decided not to put on a defense instead his lawyers concentrated on challenging the government witnesses especially metaphors former business partner Rick Gates' Closing arguments are set for Wednesday then the case goes to the 6 man 6 woman jury Carrie Johnson n.p.r. News Alexandria Virginia the White House is defending President Trump statements on Twitter about former aide Manigault Newman saying she is quote shown a complete lack of integrity with her criticism of the president and her new book press secretary Sarah sander saying that Twitter messages by Trump referring to manacled Newman as quote crazed and calling her. Dog reflect his frustration with her comments a look at the president this has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone's lack of integrity mental Newman responded by saying Trump has absolutely no respect for women or African-Americans she has alleged a tape exists of Trump saying the n. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish We begin this hour with a report of widespread clergy sex abuse in Catholic churches throughout Pennsylvania a grand jury investigation released today gives details on 301 priest who allegedly abused more than 1000 children Pennsylvania attorney general Josh appear Oh says the abuse and the cover up went all the way up to the Vatican there have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church but never on this scale for many of us those earlier stories happened someplace else now we know the truth it happened everywhere and for more on this investigation we turn to Katie Meier of member station. And a warning we will be discussing some disturbing details Katie joins us from Harrisburg and Katie what more can you tell us just about the scope of this and the time span Sure so the grand jury spent about 2 years looking into these allegations covered 6 dioceses across Pennsylvania and the instances of abuse date back to the 1940 s. The grand jury also says it thinks there are significantly more than the 1000 victims that named because the cover ups were so widespread and so thorough What details have you learned about these allegations. So in every one of the diocese there are some really graphic stories of abuse and one that was particularly striking was in Pittsburgh there were there was a case there at least 4 priests forced at least wonder one underage boy to pose naked on a bed in the rectory and posed as Christ on the cross they took pictures of him and they shared them amongst themselves on church grounds this is part of a collection of child pornography that the priests kept and there there were other specific stories too some of them were more shocking than that one so the report actually names these priests as abusers does it identify anyone else yes so there are there are a number of higher ranking trench officials that are in here this includes months in years there are a Bishops a system bishops there are cardinals. The attorney general noted there were a couple officials who were promoted during and after they covered up abuse and one of those high profile Cardinal Donald Wuerl He served as the Bishop of Pittsburgh at the time and he's now the archbishop of Washington d.c. Now I understand there were also a number of people who said they didn't want this report released tell us who they were so about a dozen anonymous clergy members petitioned the state Supreme Court to block the report from coming out they said they were named in the investigation and so by doing that at the Night them due process because they had been charged with a crime the state Supreme Court did want the report to come out but it said it would release a redacted version so it blacked out some names much of this abuse happened 2 years ago and we know that the statue of limitations can run out on prosecution How is that being addressed in this case the attorney general says In any case where the statute of limitations hasn't expired prosecutions are under way now but the report makes a number of recommendations to change state law so more prosecution can happen when the clock has already run out so the state could if it chooses open up a 2 year window for people whose abuse is. Outside of the statute of limitations but at the time clear if that will happen there's been some significant pushback from lawmakers who say that would be unfair to the Catholic Church and could bankrupt churches reporter Katie Meyer of member station. Thank you thank you today's report out of Pennsylvania is hardly the 1st detailing extensive allegations of sex abuse in the Catholic Church we have heard these stories at least since 2002 when the Boston Globe revealed in massive cover up of sexual abuse in the Boston Archdiocese So why has the Catholic Church had such a hard time responding to this issue well here to consider that question is N.P.R.'s Tom Gjelten who covers religion for us and Tom I wonder what in particular jumped out at you just listening to the findings of this report well as you heard from Katie Meyers report I mean to say this report is horrific is an understatement I mean it's so graphic hundreds of priests raping children described in great detail and the notion that these guys were considered men of God is just beyond belief but they were that you know it got me was the attitude of the church and the bishops who oversaw these priests let me read just this little section from the report the abuse was occurring not only by its own people but on its own property children were raped in places of worship in schools and in diocesan own vehicles the bishops weren't just aware of what was going on they were immersed in it and they went to great lengths to keep it secret and yeah that was something that struck me listening there this focus on Church and bitch and Bishop responsibility is that different than we have seen before Well yeah because I think often the abuse has been seen as something done by individual priests that's how the church has generally responded to this back in 2002 after the Boston story broke u.s. Catholic bishops gathered in Dallas and approved a package of reforms that called for punishing priests. But it really didn't address what to do about the bishops who supervise them and spoke about this today with Terry McKiernan He's the president and founder of an organization called Bishop Accountability and in his view this report today with its broad sweep really leaves the church in crisis this is incredibly uncomfortable for the Catholic Church it's always still has problems and has problems with the priests when it dealt with them at all now the whole system is on due and remember Mary Louise this report comes just a month after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the former archbishop of Washington in response to allegations that he had sexually abused minors and seminarians over several decades is it clear that church leaders recognize this as a crisis I mean including and up to the Vatican well at some certainly do Cardinal Sean O'Malley the archbishop of Boston who Pope Francis appointed to lead a commission for the protection of minors says this scandal is threatening quote the already weakened moral authority of the church here in Washington Cardinal Wuerl in a recent interview said this is a grave moment for the church now of course Cardinal Wuerl was named in that Pennsylvania report is having some responsibility for this cover up but he put out a statement late today in an angry statement accusing the Pennsylvania attorney general of deliberately misquoting him as for Pope Francis 3 years ago he approved the creation of a tribunal to judge bishops who were covering up sexual abuse he appointed that commission for the protection of minors and he took action against bishops in Chile who were accused of covering abusive priests but the tribunal never got organized the commission's recommendations have largely been ignored and in Chile the authorities apparently weren't impressed by what the pope had done just today they conducted a series of raids into church offices looking for evidence they say the church did not turn over to them Well let me circle you back to the question I introduced you with which was that. So why why has this been so hard for the for the church to deal with well Mary Louise the Catholic Church is 2000 years old and it identifies itself with tradition and permanence I think change is just something that's really hard for the Catholic Church to deal with also remember a Catholic doctrine teaches that priests and bishops and cardinals and the pope are the representatives of Christ on earth so it's very hard thing for them to to take action against them this scandal is forcing the church to confront a reality it's not comfortable confronting context and history there from N.P.R.'s religion correspondent Tom Gjelten thank you Tom course the economy of Turkey is at the center of global financial concern its currency has lost some 40 percent of its value this year that includes a steep slide this week causing prices to rise Meanwhile tensions with Washington led President Trump to slap heavy tariffs on some products from the NATO ally N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reports on how the economic problems are viewed in Istanbul in 2010 when it changed u.s. Dollars for Turkish lira the rate was about one and a half lira to the dollar Those days are well into. The money changers large sign show the lyric currently hovering near 7 to the dollar which is great if you're a tourist spending hard currency like saod visiting with her husband from Jordan but the price is good dad said so much extensive made but the Turkish consumers and shop owners it's a different story now that our son says he's happy to talk but 1st he wants to make one thing clear people's money out of his pocket to prove it's all in Turkish lira saying President rigid type ear to one asked people to sell their foreign currency and did he says everyone is absolutely right to stand up to Donald Trump and his punitive tariffs better to get him up and just get initiation issue you know I'm 63 years old an heir to one is the best prime minister and president I've ever seen. But when asked if the currency crisis is having any effect on his friends who were in the shops on this part of the street our son says he knows most of them and there's plenty of reason to worry he says Thank God the tourist keep coming giving a little bit of that would be a bit of a you know the way things are these days I think Arab tourists didn't come to shopkeepers will be going hungry I swear if they didn't come people would be going hungry the biggest source of tension at the moment is an American pastor Andrew Bronson who's on trial for espionage in western Turkey the u.s. Wants him released and wasn't satisfied when Bronson was moved from prison to house arrest that prompted Trump to order tariffs on Turkish steel increased to a painful 50 percent air to one took to the stump to voices angry defiance you thought often of trying to stun the characters started out again. You work with us from Afghanistan Somalia and NATO and then you go stab your partner in the back you call if acceptable to one added more threats today speaking of boycotting u.s. Products such as Apple i Phones But as the currency stays near historic lows more questions about everyone's handling of the economy are being heard Omar a 42 year old manages a shop selling Turkish delight in tea declined to give his last name for fear of retaliation but he says heir to one's economic vision seems to consist of a series of mega construction projects which Homer sees as a giant waste of money there isn't been a shot of a dotted all to pick something up I don't believe the currency crisis was caused by foreign interventions fundamentally it's the result of a wasteful economy meanwhile many people here don't see the currency crisis as a reason to panic and there are no runs on banks or shortages in the shopping markets and despite the tough talk from air to one people think there may yet be movement in Pastor Brunson's case he's been visited by a senior u.s. Diplomat and his lawyers made another plea for his release whether a resolution to the Brunson case would bring an end to Turkey's currency crisis though is far from clear Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News all things considered here on 91.5 k. Or c c Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station coming up in the next half hour of the program we head to Italy to learn about a the collapse of a bridge there and then it's on to the u.k. Were a man drove a car across traffic and into a security barrier outside the Houses of Parliament in London this morning 3 people were injured and what British police are treating as a terror attack those stories coming up right after the local evening news cast at 535 here on 91.5 kias you see now you can tune into 91.5 k. Or c. C. Without lifting a finger just tell your smart speaker to listen to 91.5 Care Cthulhu and you'll be the boss of technology. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish President Trump is fighting back against Omarosa Manigault Newman using 2 of his go to weapons insults with offensive language and legal action manacled Newman who was the highest ranking African-American on the White House staff before she was fired in December has now written a tell all book and is accusing Trump of among other things using the n word years ago on the set of his reality television show The Apprentice and a tweet today Trump denied that any tapes of him using the racial slur exist and said the word is not in his vocabulary The president also called Manigault Newman quote wacky and deranged and a dog n.p.r. White House reporter Ayesha Rosco joins me now to talk about this hey there Asia even while President Trump is trying to defend himself against this charge of racism he uses words like dog and lowlife to attack her so is this hurting his attempts to persuade Americans that he doesn't attack people based on race for people who are concerned about Trump's language it definitely undercuts Trump's defense of himself when it comes to issues of race Manigault Newman raised this question in an interview with m.s. And n.b.c. Basically if he'll say this about her publicly what is he saying about her privately and he already had a heavy lift his approval rating among black Americans has been low it was since he was running for president and a lot of this had to do with him pushing this conspiracy theory about former President Obama that he had been born in this country that's not true and that was seen as a racist dog whistle against the 1st black u.s. President and it's not just black people who are looking at these issues a c.b.s. Poll came out this week that found that 58 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump's Ham handling of race racial issues and race relations the larger context for trance comment about manic Newman is that this isn't a one off for him that he's been attacking. Athletes attacking Le Bron James Maxine Waters and other prominent black figures we can ask this question of many things but why is he doing this this is always a question with trouble is he acting intentionally because he thinks his language appeals to his base or is he simply acting on instinct and not really thinking about the political ramifications a White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says that the insult for Manigault Newman was not about race and basically Trump says offensive things about a lot of people the president has said similar things about a number of individuals certainly that are not African-American or any other minority. I can simply talk to about the policies and the person that the president is and Sandor says the person that Trump is is is someone who is working for all Americans she pointed to the decline in unemployment for African-Americans a strong took office and to a support for prison reform which would help black people who have been disproportionately affected by the justice system did Senator say whether she's actually talked to the president about whether he's used racial slurs she was asked this it was an interesting answer she pointed to what Trump said on Twitter because she said she hadn't asked him directly she says she hasn't heard him use the word but she would not guarantee that there's not a table of them saying it she said quote I can't guarantee anything there was also some legal action taken today to try and stop manacled Newman from making further allegations right as she continues on this book tour what's going on the trunk campaign filed an arbitration action against her in New York basically trying to stop her from talking about the campaign she did sign a non-disclosure agreement when she joined in the campaign was not going to not do the administration so she did tell the a.p. In response that she would not be silent so it seems like she's going to fight this and so now you have this legal action playing out and then you have man of God you know men who is also alluding to releasing more of these secretly. Recorded conversations with the White House and campaign officials so you may have more of that coming out. Covers the White House thank you so much thank you to Florida and the state declared a state of emergency this week because of a slow moving natural disaster red tide Red Tide is a toxic algae that has persisted off Florida's Gulf Coast for nearly a year and recent weeks that algae bloom has worsened killing fish and turtles and dolphins it's also affecting tourism on some of the state's most beautiful beaches from Anna Maria Island N.P.R.'s Greg Allen has our report. Walking along the shore here at Manatee beach there are lots of dead fish here all different times the smell from the fish there's something even more it's kind of an acrid smell that can make you cough the smell is terrible and it's affecting my lungs and coughing not so much him but I am in yeah I just it's sad to see all the dead fish very bands well planned a day at the beach with her husband James they live nearby and usually go swimming but not today after getting a look at the dead fish in the murky slightly ready shoot water they're leaving I would even walk along the edge of it no I don't think it's a culprit here is a microscopic organism called Corrina brevis the algae are found almost exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico and occur naturally they're ready for 1st noted in the Gulf by Spanish explorers in the 1500s the algae produced a powerful talks in that high enough concentrations can affect marine life and humans there have been several red tide events in the Gulf over the last 20 years but Vincent love Co a staff scientist at motoring Laboratory in Sarasota says this one is especially intense right now we're seeing counts that come in the category of high which is over a 1000000 cells print leader and that's pretty much all up and down the coast somewhere between 10150 miles of shoreline being covered right now in Manatee and Sarasota counties more than 100 tons of dead fish have been removed from the. Beaches at most marine biologist Rebecca Hazel Corn says strands of marine mammals and sea turtles have spiked recently you start to see bait fish wash out then you see larger fish then you start to see your tar band on your group are then you start to see your sea turtles and your manatees and the highest on the food web it's going to be the dolphins when it starts affecting those guys so far at least 12 dolphins are dead more than $150.00 sea turtles even a $26.00 foot long whale shark all researchers believe because of red tide another major problem is the aerosol the algae produce an airborne toxin that can blow miles inland and causes respiratory irritation that's been a particular problem on Longboat Key were beach front condos can cost millions the public works director there Isaac Brahman says his crews have removed tons of fish from the canals but there's nothing they can do about the pervasive irritating odor you know if it's if people have a an adverse reaction we advise them to stand doors they want to visit the mainland etceteras Now that's just a matter of waiting it out waiting for it to move offshore. Siesta Key near Sarasota bills itself as America's number one beach but it too has been hit by Red Tide smells not bad on this day and there are a few dead fish crews are out early each day cleaning the beaches for the water is murky signposted says Red Tide swimming not recommended even so dozens of people are in the water Jack bossman was visiting from talent with his family we were just debating on that if we should stay or leave and go somewhere else because by the lifeguard Scott rubrics says he's seen a few other red tides this bad in his 24 years on the job he spends much of his day talking to visitors who need them from other countries about Red Tide they can tell not is not recommended but they want to do it a much these people including myself when I was young I swam in the lakes I swam in the Mississippi River it's just a matter of how healthy you are and how sensitive you ride to that rubric says Siesta Key is still the gem of Florida's west coast but because of red tie. Visitors are way down he says about 6 or 7000 people are usually on the beach on a weekday Today there's about a 1000 Greg Allen n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is running for reelection in North Dakota which voted big for president trying to guess if people want somebody who's going to vote for trouble 100 percent of the time and then you know that doesn't bode well for my reelection then again she is willing to sound more open than some Democrats toward the president's Supreme Court nominee the politics of a red state Democrat tomorrow on Morning Edition from n.p.r. News Morning Edition with local host Abigail Beckman tomorrow 5 to 9 am here on 91.5 here c.c. Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station coming up on 530 Good afternoon I'm Mike Purcell a little show sunshine 83 degrees right now in downtown Colorado Springs coming up momentarily headline news from n.p.r. 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News in Culver City California I'm doing Brown fire crews here in California are getting a better handle on a number of large wildfires burning across the state but as Capital Public Radio's Randall White explains it's still a very dangerous situation at more than 305000 acres the Ranch Fire near Clear Lake is now the single largest fire in state history and was the site of the state's 6th firefighter fatality on Monday 42 year old Matthew Birch head from Utah died from injuries on the fire line Cal Fires Heather Williams says the number of fatalities so far this year are a concern 2008 we did have 13 fatalities this year were standing at 6 but we're only halfway through the year so we have to keep that in mind that it's only August we still have a few months to go and conditions continue to be very dangerous for fire personnel cooler weather and weeks of containment operations have made it possible to reopen Yosemite Valley it's been closed to visitors since July 25th because of the Ferguson fire for n.p.r. News I'm Randall White in Sacramento in Pennsylvania and almost 2 year grand jury investigation into clergy sex abuse has identified more than 1000 victims that number comes from 6 Roman Catholic diocese in the Pittsburgh area the grand jury report says the real number of abused children might be in the thousands Bishop David Zuby says the claim spans 7 decades I have cried with them. And I have cried for them over the damage done to them and their families by men whose lives should have been committed to protecting their souls from any kind of harm Zuba is head of the diocese of Pittsburgh the report faults former longtime Bishop Donald Wuerl for inadequate church investigations and concealing information when priests were reported to law enforcement world disputes the claims and now leads the Washington d.c. Archdiocese You're listening to n.p.r. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish one minute it was there and the next a chunk of a major highway that links Italy and France was gone collapsed the Marandi bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa buckled today during a sudden storm cars and trucks crashed 150 feet straight down into the river and rubble below Italian authorities have confirmed more than 2 dozen are dead and that number is likely to rise the collapse prompted a desperate search for survivors and questions about how this happened we're joined now by Mitt. A reporter with the Italian newspaper La Republica he has been in Genoa today surveying the scene and Metol you were actually at the site of the bridge collapse earlier can you describe what it looked like. Everyone. Arrived to these morning and the image of the collapse of the bridge these. Particular. Bomba of the fallen over the bridge I arrived more or less of an hour after the collapse or and this shit machine or seemed to be from an American movie under the bridge and the reason they're even and the night away and in the morning there were several white sheets to color the bodies of people that you know the 1st time in my life that I saw something like that and you mentioned white sheets covering the bodies of the victims what is the status of the rescue effort are any survivors being pulled from the wreckage. Now in this moment and for all the nights are there are 200 people firefighters policemen the tried to find other people back to the hope of finding survivors in the low because. The fall of from the bridge a very very high What have you learned so far about what might have caused the collapse. We don't know in this moment there is on. The bridge or was and there are mines around for several years today I saw some newspapers local newspapers that 20 years ago wrote that the bridge or was a big stick more people know that these bone to bone tomorrow and these are the name. Was very very dangerous. So this bridge even though it was only built in the 1960 s. Had a reputation for being dangerous you're saying and I understand there had been some renovations in recent years. These bridges in the past there was a big construction who's very important to me to lead them around the engineer was an important designer but the expert for ear. To this project had been badly designed and there is the problem what kind of impact is this also going to have just on transportation to and from the city into the region. Problem is because these bridges connected to the moon and India we. Know it was going to rule for trade. And tourism knowledge. Is related using Genoa is basically isolated Is there any other way other than this bridge Yeah there are some local routes but the problem is that these routes are very very slow and for the moment for example the harm or. The biggest are. You completely elated because the cam your own appear to be down in these. Little roads that's. What the Italian newspaper. Thank you for speaking with us thank you thank you. British police are trying to learn more about the man who drove a car into a security barrier at the Houses of Parliament in London early this morning the incident which is being investigated as a terror attack left 3 people injured none of their injuries are life threatening if terrorism is found to be the motive today's crash would be the 5th attack in the British capital and less than 18 months N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from the scene I'm standing between Westminster Abbey and Big Ben and it was here around rush hour this morning that the man who's in his late twenty's. Crossed the median . And then appeared to try to hit several police officers who had to jump out of the way before the man crashed the car into a barricade in front of parliament. Jason Williams who was here at the time described what happened next to Britain's Sky News specialist for these. Over rides . With rifles Droughns they've removed the man. And are presume Aristotelian police didn't name the man who is in custody but said he was a 29 year old u.k. National the car which is privately owned came from Birmingham to London late Monday night I'm surprised the terrorist attacks were all over the retired research chemist to live south of London like many here she relaxed since the last attack on the city a botched 2 bomb 11 months ago that in 2 previous attacks here were perpetrated by Muslim extremists police have given no motive for today's attack despite this morning's violence real was outside of parliament this afternoon showing her relatives the sites you know they did so twice about. We didn't have my. Set is safe it's just. But it's on law it's happened again so soon I think that was a typically pragmatic response today from many Londoners who lived through the ira bombings going back to the 1970 s. And traditionally take terror attacks in stride or a fellow Penn too she runs International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute a London think tank you know keep calm and carry on is something that is perennial I think the Brits and London is a city pride themselves of she said one reason there may have been a low in the violence until now is because British police have become more aggressive and proactive in targeting people they suspect of planning attacks you know if they didn't have a bomb on them or a gun on them it was sort of difficult to piece together exactly what they were doing now I think the police have decided that you know actually we will disrupt people much earlier because of the nature of plotting that we're seeing the ease with which can happen and the inspirational kind of effect that a successful attack can have that we have to kind of disrupt more than 80 people were killed in a truck attack in the French city of Nice in 2016 ever since vehicle tax like the one today have become the method of choice for many terrorists in Europe Frank Langfitt n.p.r. 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From getting rid of weeds and insects in your garden to growing a bumper of corn crop pesticides can help people get the most out of their plants but Harvest Public Media's Madalyn back reports there are issues with the chemicals of sometimes they drift off course and may cause health problems pesticides aren't just in fields they're in courtrooms around the u.s. There have been several lawsuits filed over die Kamba which for the last few years has drifted into unwanted territory killing crops like soybeans and pitting neighbor against neighbor a California jury just decided that the pesticide round up caused a man's cancer opening the door to similar suits and this summer 9th Circuit federal judges heard a case against a pesticide used on crops that the Environmental Protection Agency was set to ban because it may hurt children's mental development the agency didn't follow through which so. Aming Lee frustrated Judge Jacqueline when how long can e.p.a. Sit on this in August the judge has told the e.p.a. It has 60 days to finalize the ban all of this has some people who live next to crop fields worried Yeah I would be interested if there are issues or health concerns That's Laura whether all her family lives next to a cornfield in Champaign Illinois and had the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting put an air sample are outside their house it's one of 6 in eastern Illinois to find out which pesticides might be drifting on to houses playgrounds and schools superintendent Scott Watson agreed to host one at a school in Bismarck about an hour away from Champaign he's interested in the results but says pesticide drift isn't something he usually thinks about I grew up in the country where I live drove farmers I work with farmers and stuff grow up as a kid so I'm used to it. And you think that when you you could go outside that they're safe and you hope that stands true but you just never know some states like California mandate buffer zones for certain pesticides keeping a distance around schools and waterways in much of the Midwest state mandated buffer zones don't exist but pesticide labels which are approved by federal agencies often do have certain setbacks in any pesticide this being sprayed it's extremely important to read that label ahead of time in troika Zire would know he's with Monsanto in western Illinois he says there are other things to look for on the label to wind speed the height from which the pesticide is dropped and the type of nozzle used to spray on a windy day try to throw a ping pong ball at somebody and it blows away pretty easy where you can toss a basketball right to them and it's the same concept with spray droplets small droplets or high winds can throw pesticides off course but if some drifts into a yard because I are says it breaks down pretty quickly by design and small doses are blessed. Sickening chemicals found around the home but direct exposure is a health concern which is why large scale pesticide applicators wear heaps of protective equipment and have to get a license to spray University of Iowa is a leader in pesticide drift research Jenna Gibbs a scientist there says many of the pesticides notorious for drifting in Iowa either have some e.p.a. Backed evidence of causing cancer or too few health studies to know for sure we do know that all of them are pretty irritating compounds they're taking to the respiratory system and to the scan into the eyes that's high enough levels though last spring she and other researchers put 13 air sensors around Iowa City all of them found measurable levels of pesticides used in farming even near downtown but according to preliminary findings we don't feel like they're high enough to be a concern this didn't include testing during the summer when potentially more toxic pesticides used to kill insects are often sprayed from planes but there are plans to research that in the future Gibbs uses pesticides on her own farmland and knows the challenges farmers face and she expects research and technology to lead to better pesticides and possibly robots more we rely on robots and drones maybe we have some device that can go out and target really really close in space and spray only specific areas the future is nearly here companies are working on a roundup replacement farmers have already started to use less of the newly banned pesticide and those robots are hitting the fields testing out pesticides Breyer's metal and back Harvest Public Media Harvest Public Media reports on farm and food issues in collaboration with public media stations across the Midwest for more information go to Harvest Public Media dot org. Abortion rights advocates hope to block the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court it's incumbent upon citizens like you and me to get out of the country sounds for the sake of future generations Meanwhile Kavanagh supporters have also mobilized for the fight a closer look at that situation coming up in the next half hour of All Things Considered we'll get that report at 610 here on 91.5 c. Programming on 91.5 k. R.c.c. Is supported by Cafe Red Point salads smoothies a Psion keen wobbles just north of Penrose hospital in the Lincoln Center organic ingredients prepared with health in mind online ordering at Cafe Red Point dot com by the Colorado Health Foundation dedicated to improving the health and health equity of Coloradans the Colorado Health Foundation invests in issues that matter and works towards improving health Colorado Health dot org 10 minutes in Tel 6 o'clock 83 degrees here in downtown Colorado Springs. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish Nebraska did something today that hasn't happened in the state for more than 20 years it executed an inmate who was on death row it was the 1st time the state performed a lethal injection and thought to be the 1st time in the u.s. That a common painkiller has been used in the process the grand Gerlach of any news has the story the execution began at 10 o'clock Central Time this morning and it wasn't until about an hour later that word came that Kerry Dean Moore was dead the 1st of 4 substances were administered 10 24 am. A Lancaster County coroner produces more as time of death 10 47 am That's Nebraska corrections director Scott Frakes reading a statement after Moore was executed by lethal injection for murdering 2 cab drivers in Omaha in 1979 That's right 1979 Moore had been on death row for 38 years before today Nebraska went more than 2 decades without carrying out a death sentence but it wasn't for lack of trying after switching to lethal injection in 2009 there were years of long legal delays and botched attempts to secure execution drugs then in 2015 the state legislature repealed capital punishment former state senator Colby coersion of Lincoln helped lead the effort he spoke to any news in 2016 and the practical reality of the death penalty in Nebraska is this we haven't used it and there's a reason for that and the reason is we can't the ship for sale and it's a broken system but later that year a ballot initiative brought the death penalty back with strong backing and financing from Republican Governor Pete Ricketts and a statement today Rick it's called the Death Penalty a critical tool for law enforcement death penalty opponents say they'll try again to repeal it another 1st for this execution was that Nebraska included a version of the opioid Fenton bill in the process alley during Anderson is a pharmacy professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center she says that using Fenton ill may give people a different perspective because while the drugs used in lethal injections are usually unfamiliar famille has been making national headlines for its role in causing overdoses it causes people to stop breathing if used in large doses and now the state has chosen to use this as a side effect to and someone's life while this may have been the 1st lethal injection into brassica It may also be the last for the foreseeable. Future one of the other drugs in the execution cocktail is set to expire in a few weeks corrections director Franks has said no new suppliers have been found for n.p.r. News I'm Greg or lock in Lincoln Nebraska a Massachusetts state prison is expanding the graveyard where it buries inmates who die in custody the number of state inmates over the age of 55 in prisons across the u.s. Has quadrupled since the 1990 s. And the most recent Justice Department reports show this is largely due to longer prison sentences for violent crimes and an uptick in people over 55 being sent to prison as more inmates age and die behind bars it is costing taxpayers a premium crisper from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting starts this story at a prison cemetery north of Worcester Massachusetts in a clearing in the woods gunfire rings out from a nearby firing range over the hillside. The most jarring thing about this prison cemetery isn't the gunshots but the grave markers crosses made out of white plastic plumbing pipe no names only numbers some 90 men are buried here and with one of the highest percentages of aging prisoners in the nation Massachusetts is making room for more very humble. Enough to monitor that's carry Keith the director of treatment at the state prison he's also in charge of burying prisoners whose bodies go unclaimed by family about 3 or 4 a year this isn't a bad place to spend eternity but. I think you'd want to someone at least a cry for if a local funeral home charges the prison $1000.00 per burial but a new law in Massachusetts passed in April could spare the state that small cost and millions of dollars more spent caring for the oldest and sickest of inmates It's called medical parole all but 4 states in the us have such a provision also known as compassionate release but it's rarely used in Massachusetts the parole is an option only for prisoners who can. They are physically or cognitively incapacitated but even Cary Keefe isn't so sure that murderers should get that chance the kind of saves money it's fairly obvious the person can't do any. Kind of serious destructive behavior but they've got to pay attention intemperate with with the demands of justice pushed back is also coming from the state's Republican governor who doesn't want to see some sex offenders or 1st degree murders released and the governor's appointee the head of state prisons decides who gets out of a receptive. To put their government here. In a state prison in Massachusetts and social worker Elizabeth Lauder watches over a special assisted living and nursing unit for inmates like this 82 year old prisoner shuffling down a hallway around louder many of the 38 men locked up here are slumped in chairs maybe post stroke or incomplete quadriplegia that just require our full care dressing changing and diapering and then we have patients who suffer from dementia they are just confused Massachusetts doesn't track the cost of caring for these inmates but it's prison hospital spends more than $283000.00 a year to care for a sick inmate 4 times the cost of housing an inmate in its maximum security prison studies by Pew Charitable Trusts found that older prisoners with chronic illnesses cost at least $2.00 times more than other inmates when prisoners need specialty care in offsite hospitals officers go along to guard them 2 to watch have one sit at the door with a gun and the other one sits right next to your bed thing you're the latest chained to the bed that's 71 year old Joe L'Abri Ola who's been in prison 4 and a half decades serving life without parole for murdering an alleged drug dealer a crime he says he didn't do. His health problems include chronic lung disease that he blames on exposure to Agent Orange when he was a soldier in Vietnam he now gets around in a wheelchair. They're pushed by a younger inmate more than anything he doesn't want to die the hind bars dying in prison has a special aura to it you're not surrounded by people who love you there's nobody going to hold your hand on the way out the door Peter could tuj in a county sheriff in Massachusetts is adamant about a solution for the worst off inmates he says let him go to your terminally ill or your medically incapacitated you should have to be in a jail number one and you don't need to be in a jail number 21 big question left hanging is where they go and who pay for their care in many cases backers say federally funded Medicaid or Medicare would cover costs Pad jail and the state senator who helped write the medical parole law says some local hospice organizations are willing to take in prisoners it's going to allow people to die and or more humane circumstances. The growing number of incapacitation elderly prisoners who works dreamily expensive and hard to care for could be cared for him much less expensive environment but in Massachusetts getting one of the sick or dying prisoners released under the new parole law could be tough the state just rejected the 1st petition for medical parole from an inmate with pancreatic cancer for n.p.r. News I'm Chris Brown and that story comes to us from member station in Boston. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. 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