Free and Fair Trade in North America is in a much more stable place than it was yesterday the trumpet ministration announces a new trade deal to replace NAFTA We'll look at how it differs from the old agreement this Monday October 1st on All Things Considered. I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm also Chang this hour the latest on the f.b.i. Investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh the bureau has one week to look into allegations against him we realize the deadline is short but we've done it many times we can accomplish this last the High Court starts a new term with only 8 justices and a new book looks at who's staffing parts of the government that tend to fly under the radar like the Departments of Energy and Commerce and matters a lot who's in these places and it's a problem when the person knows nothing it's an even bigger problem when the person has an incentive to screw it up those stories after the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer President Trump is celebrating what he calls the biggest trade deal in u.s. History prime minister Justin Trudeau is also talking up the benefits of the new continental trade agreement agreed to in principle late last night as Dan carbon shock reports Trudeau also briefed provincial leaders this morning Trudeau's as the United States Mexico Canada agreement will modernize and stabilize the economy and guarantee a higher standard of living over the long term the Canadian prime minister says the agreement still needs to be ratified by all 3 countries but util says he and his American and Mexican counterparts agree that this trade deal would strengthen their close partnership not everyone in Canada is pleased representatives of the dairy sector say it will undercut their industry by opening up the Canadian market to American products and there's concern that the tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum are still in place but the head of unifor the Auto Workers Union says overall u.s. M.c.a. As it's now known will provide benefits for Canadian workers and the economy for n.p.r. News I'm Dan carpenter can to Rotto top Republicans say even as the f.b.i. Investigates allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh nominee will be confirmed later this week South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he's disgusted that Democrats continue to attack Kavanaugh with the allegations still being investigated if they do this then you. Call him every bad name in the world and get upset because he pushes that then God help them that. It's not if he's not the problem for the people who did this to him and probably while President Trump says f.b.i. Agents should interview anyone they deem relevant to the Kavanaugh investigation in a White House ceremony a former Green Beret medic received the Medal of Honor for helping to save wounded comrades during an intense firefight in Afghanistan N.P.R.'s Greg has the story of the veteran who's now facing another battle for survival Staff Sergeant Ronald sure you. It faced relentless fire for more than 5 hours when it tried to attack a remote mountain village in Afghanistan shock Valley in 2008 Sure treated the wounded put them in a makeshift sling lowered them down the mountain and helped them evacuate by helicopter and then he returned to the battle President Trump praised him at the White House not a single American died in that brutal battle thanks in great measure to Ron's heroic actions sure now a Secret Service agent is facing another fight for his life he's been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer Greg Myre n.p.r. 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A state audit is finding police across the state of Missouri are unclear as to the whereabouts of upwards of $1300.00 registered sex offenders including hundreds who would fall into the most dangerous category as based on an audit released today by state officials says just over 1200 or around 8 percent of the nearly 16000 registered sex offenders in Missouri are currently unaccounted for Britain's ruling Conservative Party had tough words for the European Union to its annual meeting over the weekend in Birmingham as N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to cried when he sees as the hard bargain the was driving and compared the international organization to the Soviet Union was set up to pretend freedom it was the Soviet Union but still people leaving in the lesson from history is clear if you turn the e.u. Club into a prison the design to get out of it won't diminish it will grow and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape the e.u. 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Is dedicated to covering southern Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West your membership directly funds are journalism Thanks for supporting 91.5 k. R.c.c. Programming on 91.5 k. Or c. C. Is supported by your optics the Colorado I wear gallery in the Promenade shops at Briar gate in Colorado Springs and in Metro Denver in Cherry Creek north Greenwood Village and Aspen Grove more at your optics dot net your optics the art of optics. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm also Chang and I'm Ari Shapiro It looks like North America will remain a free trade zone after all late last night Canada agreed to join the u.s. And Mexico in an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement it will no longer be called NAFTA but rather the u.s. M.c.a. N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports President Trump has long railed against NAFTA calling it one of the worst trade deals ever negotiated but in the White House Rose Garden this morning Trump celebrated what was billed as a new and improved trade deal Trump called it a positive step for both the country and the world once approved by Congress this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of a country with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed in signing on to the deal Canada agreed to open up its long protected dairy market at least a little bit Trump says that means new opportunity for American dairy producers to sell their products north of the border into looting milk butter cheese yogurt and ice cream to name a few I want to be very specific but Canada is still expected to buy more than 90 percent of its dairy products from Canadian suppliers former u.s. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack who now heads the dairy Export Council says the New Deal is an improvement for American dairy farmers but not by much we're looking at an incremental increase in Access We're not certainly looking at an opening wide of the market but we are seeing an increase more importantly perhaps the agreement is designed to prevent Canadian dairy farmers from dumping surplus skim milk powder on the world market that what the u.s. View is as artificially low prices in exchange for these concessions the u.s. Agreed not to scrap a NAFTA era process for resolving trade disputes even though Trump wanted to preserving that arbitration process was a top priority for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau when your trading partner is 10 times your size you need rules. You need a level playing field the u.s. And Mexico had reached a tentative trade deal more than a month ago but Canada didn't agree to sign on until late last night just hours before a White House deadline while Trudeau cautions there are still hoops to jump through before the deal is finalized the threat of a trade agreement that left Canada on the sidelines has been averted what I can say is that free and fair trade in North America is in a much more stable place than it was yesterday markets rallied on the news with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining nearly $200.00 points Trump Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto are expected to sign the deal within 60 days just before Pena Nieto leaves office it will then be up to the incoming u.s. Congress to decide whether to approve the agreement the president's trade representative Robert light eyes or says he expects that he'll win backing from a lot of Democrats as well as Republicans Celeste Drake who oversees trade policy for the a.f.l.-cio says while she still has a lot of questions about the fine print the administration has been attentive to the concerns of organized labor whatever else is going on in other parts of the administration ambassador my advisor has been very serious about listening to our ideas and wanting the support of working families White House aides say the New Deal is a vindication of the president's hard nosed negotiating tactics which have included stiff tariffs on u.s. Allies and the threat of even harsher protectionist measures the deal leaves intact for now u.s. Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico as well as the retaliatory tariffs on u.s. Exports the North American neighbors imposed in response Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington President Trump also feel that questions about his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his press conference in the Rose Garden I want them to do a very comprehensive. Investigation whatever that means a call. Going to the senators and the Republicans and the Republican majority I want them to do that we're going to take a closer look at that f.b.i. Investigation in a few moments but 1st let's examine some of the things that Kavanagh said last Thursday under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee These are statements that he asserted as fact but their statements some people have disputed with us now to walk through some of the questionable moments during Kavanagh's testimony is John Greenberg He's a staff writer at Politico Fact and a former n.p.r. Reporter welcome good to be with you and I want to start with a statement Cavanaugh made about what other people at the gathering Christine for describes from 36 years ago what those people say they remember Take a listen Dr Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated it is refuted by the very people she says were there including by a long time friend of hers refuted refuted Cavanagh is saying those people have refuted Ford's recollection of what happened is that accurate not quite accurate because the bulk of their statements are that they don't remember now the letters vary in terms of how emphatically they don't remember and how exactly they deny what they think was happening in that summer but there is a big difference between not remembering I had refuting and it's why having f.b.i. Investigators get involved might help the senators drill down on this Ok let's turn to another statement this one where Cavanagh has been asked about drinking while he was under age the drinking age was 18 in Marilyn's for most of my time in high school it was 18 in d.c. For all my time in high school all right John did Cavanagh get the law right was 18 the drinking age at the time in both places Brett Kavanaugh got it wrong for Maryland in Maryland the drinking age in the summer. 1982 went from $18.00 to $21.00 so at the time it would be very likely that Brett Kavanaugh being someone who was a less than $21.00 was not drinking legally at least for half of the summer there are also moments where Cavanagh talks about how much he drank back then he repeatedly mentioned that he liked to be here but he says as much as he liked beer his drinking was not out of control Here's how he put it I liked beer I still like beer but I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone how firmly can Cavanagh insist he never drank to the point of blacking out has there been any evidence to challenge that so far we've heard from people who went to high school with him college with him who said that yeah he drank a lot and that he would be a very sloppy drunk but how is anyone to sort this out I think that it's extremely difficult because the whole nature of this is very subjective it's not the sort of thing that lends itself to a fact check per se I think it's it's right there on the margins of unless the guy was taken to the ra e r And there's an official record of that this is going to be extremely difficult to pin down John Greenberg is a staff writer at Politico Fact thank you very much my pleasure. Now let's look at what the f.b.i. Is trying to find out during its weeklong investigation of Brett Kavanaugh the president formally asked the bureau on Friday to reopen its background check of the Supreme Court nominee and that means we are now 3 days into the probe n.p.r. Justice reporter Ryan Lucas is here in the studio hire and other let's start with the big sticking point so far which has been the question of the scope of the investigation do we know what the f.b.i. Is looking into exactly we don't exactly know what they're looking into no Democrats as we've heard have complained that the scope of this is kind of being curtailed reined in by the White House they say that the administration has put strict limits on what the f.b.i. Can investigate Democrats at the f.b.i. And the White House today a list of 24 people that they say that the Bureau should should talk to the administration has pushed back against this they've said that they do want a full investigation they've made clear that they also don't want to fishing expedition today the president said that he wants what he called a comprehensive in best a Geisha and he reiterated again that he wants it done quickly and it is the White House that has the final say on what the f.b.i. Gets to look into in this background investigation that said Trump said today that while he has final say he's listening to what the Senate Republican leadership wants to have checked out what they want looked into and then he's directing the f.b.i. Based off of what the Senate says and what has the Senate Republican leadership said they want the f.b.i. To look into well they initially said that they wanted the f.b.i. To look into what they called credible allegations of sexual misconduct that was always vague enough kind of ill defined enough that the questions about scope were almost inevitable on this question a senior Senate g.o.p. Aide pointed to comments that Senate Senator Lindsey Graham made over the weekend Graham said that the f.b.i. Would talk to witnesses that Christine Bussy Ford mentioned in her testimony last week that includes Kavanagh's friend Mark Judge Graham also mentioned Deborah Ramirez she's the 2nd woman who came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh those allegations date back to their time at Yale in the early mid 1900. Yes And those are the only people that Graham mentioned So as I mentioned this is day 3 of the F.B.I.'s weeklong investigation do you know much about what the f.b.i. Has been doing in those 3 days so far well the bureau itself has not provided any any clarity on this but N.P.R.'s learned that the f.b.i. Has interviewed Ramirez she's given the f.b.i. a List of people that she says either witnessed the alleged incident or heard about it contemporaneously Beyond that though it's pretty much cricket's the bureau has not reached out to Ford at this point it also hasn't reached out to a 3rd woman who came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh That's Julie sweat Nick and then there are a number of possible witnesses who could have information about the various alleged offense in question one of course is Kevin his friend Mark Judge we've talked a lot about him judge has said he'll cooperate with the f.b.i. Has his lawyer today declined to say anything beyond that and at the same time more of Kavanagh's high school and college acquaintances are speaking out tell us about what they've said most recently well in the last 24 hours a former friend of Kavanagh's at Yale came out and publicly disputed disputed Kavanagh's representation of his of his drinking as a young man this is Chad Ludington He's a history professor at North Carolina State now and his comments don't relate to allegations of sexual misconduct but really about how much Cavanagh drank and what led it in says is that he frequently drank with Kavanagh when they were at Yale says Kavanagh was a belligerent and aggressive drunk but at the same point time the White House has put out statements from 2 college friends who say cabinet did not behave that way they don't match those allegations don't match the Kavanaugh that they knew it's important for Democrats to talk about Kevin is truthfulness about his drinking his truthfulness and his testimony that it's something that should be looked into when the president says you know what I believe what Kevin has had to say N.P.R.'s Ryan Lucas thanks Ryan thank you. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm also Chang and I'm Ari Shapiro there's been a lot of books written about chaos and dysfunction in the Trump White House the latest book by Michael Lewis looks lower down the food chain and parts of the government that don't get as much attention like that apartment of Commerce and the Department of Energy the book is called The 5th risk Michael Lewis welcome back to All Things Considered Thanks for having me in each part of a government that you look at you tell the story of what happened during the transition between election day and the inauguration and in each case the story is pretty much the same what happened well what happened was before the election the Obama administration had spent the better part of a year in 1000 peoples' time creating especially the best course ever created on how the federal government works and what the problems are new to these departments with the idea that the day after the election hundreds of people from the new administration would roll in and get the briefings and learn what the problems were and how they dealt with them and the trouble Mr ation just didn't show I mean across the government parking spaces were empty and nice little finger sandwiches that have been laid out when I need in briefing books when open to the point where when I roll in a few months later I'm the 1st person who's heard the briefing that the Trump administration was supposed to get and when the trumpet ministration ultimately did send some people or one person there was a pattern in the kinds of people who showed up. Well the real pattern was everybody who showed up was a trump loyalist and very few of them had any kind of qualifications for the jobs they were being sent into and the spirit with which they approach was. Kind of a hostility to the enterprise give us an example of what happened when people eventually showed up at a place like the Department of Energy which you write about so the department energy could just as easily be called the department nuclear weapons I mean that's where the nuclear weapons are tested it's where they're assembled I mean the stockpile is overseen in the department energy so they're shocked there when the day after election no one shows up and they're shocked when the guy who's in charge of the nuclear weapons packs up his boxes and goes home and nobody says anything and there's nobody to replace him eventually kind of a month after the election the Trump people sent in one guy who was a fossil fuel industry kind of a lobbyist who was there mainly to root out any interest in the department energy in climate change and in developing alternative energies but he he comes for an hour listens politely and leaves and so the the whole conversation that might have happened about what we know how we manage the nuclear stockpile didn't really happen and then a little while later an odd assortment of young people who are kind of personally connected to the Trumps friends of the trumps Suns for example start to turn up inside that apartment but they the people the outgoing people generally had the impression that a trumpet a stray she did have any idea what they did and be weren't terribly curious to know why should it matter to most Americans if an agency that they really think about is run by people who either have a benign disinterest in the agency or an active opposition to what the agency is supposed to be doing I mean let's take a. Example inside the department commerce there is the National Weather Service the National Weather Service has over the past few decades gotten extraordinarily good at predicting the weather I mean it's just gotten it's gotten better and better and it saves lives lots of lives every year with hurricane and tornado forecasts the person that the trumpet ministration has appointed to run this operation is the c.e.o. Of Accu Weather whose campaign for the last couple of decades to prevent the National Weather Service from communicating with the American public so that Accu Weather can make more money doing it this is a catastrophe for anybody who is in the path of dangerous weather so it matters it matters a lot who's in these places and it's a problem when the person knows nothing it's an even bigger problem when the person has an incentive to screw it up at one point in this book you write there is an upside to ignorance and a downside to knowledge what is that upside to ignorance so if you want to do things like eliminate investment in alternative energy to generate short term benefits for the fossil fuel industry if you want to limit a National Weather Service ability to communicate with people to make profits for Accu Weather it really helps not to think too much or know too much about the long term costs of what you're doing because you can just focus on the short term gains and I think that's like a big theme in this administration and the way it's running the government that it's looking for lots of short term wins at the expense of the long term and assuming we all will just not pay very much attention to the long term and I think the deal they do with their conscious is easier to do because they just don't understand about the long term are these problems that a new administration would be able to easily fix after 4 or 8 years by putting experienced professionals in these jobs. You know we have an interesting problem right now because in the 1st year of the Trump administration 20 percent of the senior civil service quit. And those are people who have made a career out of those are people who know really know really know the jobs and the importance of the jobs and on top of that Trump still hasn't filled half of the top 700 jobs in his own government so there's been a draining of expertise out of the federal government the question is how hard would it be to put back together I don't really know the answer harder every day you end this book in Elk City Oklahoma with a woman named Miss Finley and she says for the last 10 years I prayed for a tornado to come and take that barn I didn't think it would take the House to explain why you ended on that note. Well 1st let's explain why Miss family wanted her boring go on it her husband killed himself in the war and she imagined this to active destruction would come in kind of ease her pain she would have to stare at the barn any longer. And which she doesn't imagine is that with the same tornado that's going to come take her board is going to destroy your house and she didn't want that and I thought it was a kind of a lovely metaphor for what voters imagine or how their imaginations work or how the human imagination works it imagines the destruction it wants it imagines the destruction it wants to inflict on the things it doesn't like about the government it doesn't imagine all the collateral damage it doesn't imagine the damage it will actually do and I think this failure of the imagination is somewhere near the center of what we're going through right now. Michael Lewis his new book is the 5th risk thanks for joining us today thanks for having me. 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And we're working on some other deals that are going to make them very happy also but this is a very very big deal for our farmers the deal is also designed to encourage more auto production in the u.s. The agreement leaves in place for now u.s. Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum as well as retaliate Torrie tariffs that Canada and Mexico imposed the deal still needs final approval from Congress the u.s. 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Agent he's conducted plenty of background probes into federal judges and he want to me through how he would go about this one if he were on the team investigating kavanah 1st I would spend a lot of time trying to locate the home perhaps Dr Ford could ride around with agents we don't have much time in and we have to do it quickly if we can limit the neighborhood or the general area and we might be able to find the house there are also real estate records available that the f.b.i. Would investigate a little let me just start with the 1st example you would actually have Christine by the Ford in a card with you and just drive around the neighborhood and see if that jogs her memory to point out the house I absolutely would Elsom and you would try to look for you said floor plans of houses in the neighborhood match or the description from her memory I would and her memory is there is in the living room right inside the front door stairway to a bedroom home once in a bathroom across the hallway we're looking for that what else would you do Judge Kevin offered some written calendars from his high school years what would you do with those calendars how an interview everyone on the calendar and that crucial time period is summer middle of the summer or so July 1982 and what else what else do you think is manageable to do within one week well to do quickly we could do a polygraph of all 3 people involved in the alleged sexual assault judge Cavanagh Mark Judge and Dr Ford you could polygraph all 3 of them high there are allegations that involve Kavanagh's. Havior well under the influence of alcohol during his younger years is it relevant Would it be relevant to you if you were on this investigation to do a thorough probe of his drinking habits in high school and in college yes in this instance not in all would want to interview him extensively about the his drinking habits high school college and law school of it want that on the interview do you think the f.b.i. In one week can turn up information that has not already been turned up by Senate staffers who have kids did a background investigation and cannot what tell me why do I do because of the training the f.b.i. Gets we while the staffers are good people and they work hard to backgrounds the f.b.i. Does this as its mandate we do it all over the country frequently in the agents assigned as case agents on backgrounds are well trained have done it many times if it turns out the f.b.i. Finds information that raises questions about the fitness of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court does the f.b.i. Have a responsibility to pursue those additional leads Yes I would pursue them if I were the case agent I definitely would of course with this week's deadline and limited scope according to President Trump I don't know whether we would be permitted to go forth with those additional interviews do you think the f.b.i. Has a responsibility to ask for additional time if additional information comes up about issues that weren't at the forefront at the beginning I think the f.b.i. Could request additional time if they found new evidence new information about the why the background is being conducted I think the f.b.i. Could request it however President Trump must approve the request. Jack Owens is a former f.b.i. Agent thank you very much for you welcome thank you even as the fight over Kavanagh's nomination to the Supreme Court continues the court began a new term today and it did so with only 8 justices Republicans had hoped to see Judge Kavanaugh in time for the new term of course that did not happen n.p.r. Legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg was at the court today and has this report that they played out like a Hollywood movie with the action moving back and forth between the 3 branches of government at the White House today the president held a sun dappled press conference to talk about his new trade deal but inevitably he faced Cavanagh questions among them given how partisan Kavanagh's performance was last week could the president assured the American people that Cavanagh would deliver impartial decisions if he's confirmed to the court the president never really answered the question well you'll have to ask him that question but I can tell you he's been treated horribly Meanwhile behind the scenes at the Capitol the Republican leadership was trying to limit the f.b.i. Investigation that was forced upon them last week when 3 key Republicans said they would not support kavanah unless the f.b.i. Background investigation was reopened but what that investigation entails it remains an open question with a Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stressing the limited nature of the investigation and President Trump saying he wants a comprehensive but short investigation while all these machinations were taking place the Supreme Court opened a new term and began hearing arguments once again as in 2016 the court has only 8 justices back then Senate Republican Leader McConnell blocked any hearing for President Obama's nominee to the court for almost a year but back then Justice Anthony Kennedy a conservative who sometimes sided with the courts liberals was still on the court now he has retired so today for the 1st time in well over 30 years there was no justice. Like Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor both appointed by President Reagan who sits ideologically at the center of the court and today the liberal conservative split was apparent in the 1st case to be argued a challenge to a regulation under the Endangered Species Act The central player in the case is the dusky go for a frog which sounds a bit like this. The species lives in only one place in Mississippi and is in danger of becoming extinct when the a family pond that it lives and breeze in is gone a feral ponds dry up periodically and have no fish so the frogs legs don't get eaten at issue in the frogs case is whether the Fish and Wildlife Service can designate an area in Louisiana where the frogs once lived as a critical habitat so that at some point in the future the frogs may be moved back to this area where there are more ephemeral ponds where House or the timber company which leases the land has challenge the designation as a potential threat to any future development plans after the argument on the steps of the court Noah Greenwald the endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity explained why Congress in acted the Endangered Species Act in the 1st place the web of life that we ourselves depend on it's built of species you know ecosystems are made of species we all depend on species for our food for our medicines for clean air for clean water warehouses lawyer did not come to the microphones but inside the court the 4 liberal justices pointed to language in the Endangered Species Act that allows reasonable actions like this one and the courts for conservatives complain that the Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't say what reasonable is a 4 to 4 time I would mean the lower court ruling stays in place meaning warehouse or loses how fast the court gets a 9th justice depends on how quickly the Senate can hop along. Nina Totenberg n.p.r. News Washington. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. A drug commonly used to treat the bone thinning disease osteoporosis could protect many more older women against bone fractures that's according to a big new study published today by the New England Journal of Medicine n.p.r. Health correspondent Rob Stein has the details as we age our bones tend to get thinner and thinner and die and Reed of the University of Auckland says millions of older people break a hip a spine or some other bone and it's often the beginning of the end and a frail older person having a fracture can be the final straw that interferes with being able to live independently and move them into an institution and the problems just getting worse what's happening at the present time is we are all living longer our population is progressively aging and so fractures and older people is becoming a very major issue people diagnosed with the bone thinning disease osteoporosis can take drugs to prevent fractures but there's been a big debate about people with less frail bones and in fact most of the fractures that occur in older people occur in the much larger number of people who have moderate losses so Reid and his colleagues tested a drug long used to treat off your proses on 2000 women 65 and older with just the early stages of bone loss a condition known as osteo peny for 6 years half guard infusions of the drug half got a placebo we saw about a one food reduction in total numbers of fractures from about a 50 percent reduction in spine fractures and no sign of any serious side effects in fact the women getting the drug were less likely to suffer heart attacks get cancer maybe even die so I think what this means is that we can broaden the group of people to whom we can offer these medications and pay for we can reduce the total number of fractures occurring across the community more effectively other experts agree this is an extremely important paper that's Ethel Cyrus at Columbia the reason this is so important. Is that we have been uncertain what to do with the great number of people primarily women over the age of 6065 who have osteopenia you now know you have a drug that you can use that has been shown to work in such patients it's a big deal a lot of doctors and patients got scared away from these drugs because of reports they could actually cause hip fractures and unusual jaw problems but Michael econo of the American Society for bone and mineral Research says the new results should make people rethink that we are overly worried about exceedingly rare side effects and under worried about common things like fractures I think you have to start looking at where the big picture is but others are more cautious this one study is helpful and it's suggestive but one study in and of itself does not necessarily mean truth that's Robert McLean from Yale he's president elect of the American College of Physicians we're not going to reconvene and immediately change the guidelines but everyone agrees that older people should talk with their doctors about the new study to see if taking a drug to cut the risk of breaking a bone makes sense for them or not Rob Stein n.p.r. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm else itching It's October and this month we're looking at our bodies the way technology sees them in All Tech Considered. Smart watches that detect heart problems airport security systems that match our faces to our passports as this type of technology becomes more common it's forcing us to make some tough decisions we start in India it has 1300000000 people but no equivalent of a social security number so the government has struggled to deliver benefits to people who might be illiterate or live in remote rural areas it created the biggest biometric id system in the world and N.P.R.'s new Mumbai correspondent Lauren Frayer recently joined it she has this report do I look straight ahead so I look into this machine and it's standing on the inside of my on my irises moving to India means joining the world's biggest bio metric database called Har I've been assigned a unique 12 digit number linked to my fingerprints photo and iris scans the data is stored on government servers odd Harwich means foundation in Hindi started 8 years ago with a big patriotic p.r. Campaign Khaleesi much a puppy pension. Is commercial shows elderly people smiling is hard helps them collect state pensions the system is voluntary but in just 8 years the government has managed to enroll more than 1200000000 people the vast majority of the country even those hardest to reach downtown Mumbai is discovering the last guy scrapers headquarters from some of India's biggest banks but just to push this story there are 25 children in this circle under a highway underpass I mean it's my niece and say they believe that money should come by. I grew up on the street she has no address no birth certificate she was basically invisible to the state until the charity Save the Children helped turn will in I'll be. Glad that I see that we're doing the India enough thing without harmony she says she's proud to be counted to become official she used out her to enroll in school she studies and night under street lamps and got the highest marks in her last spring to make up the matter how it can be used to bear a 5 year identity when you do anything with the government get married pay taxes or draw welfare and also when you open a bank account sign up for a cell phone contract or set up an easy wallet on line the system is designed to cut fraud it's hard to counterfeit your irises but it requires electricity to scan people's biometrics and internet to check them against government databases in downtown Mumbai you might have those poor places you often don't need. A shook to mar scoops and measures out rice rations in rural jar cond one of India's poorest states more than half of Indians are eligible for free or subsidized food the government says add Harz help to purge hundreds of thousands of fake names from ration lists and from voter rolls. To get people lined up outside Mr Kumar's tiny stucco shop he scans their fingerprints with something that looks like a credit card machine it runs on batteries and a cell phone signal no Internet the Internet but he says the network is shaky he walks across the street lifting his machine up overhead until he finally gets a signal he sets up shop instead on the steps of a template. So you're putting in the ad her number. And now this lady will put her finger on the scanner it checks her out her number against her fingerprints in a government database and prints out a receipt for her ration a bag of rice. The net. Customer. Is not as lucky as fingerprints are worn for manual labor Mr Kumar tries to scan them 5 times but he gets an error message the problem with imaging. Most machines in rural India only scan fingerprints not irises So Mr Guia goes home without food technical difficulties like this are blamed for pushing some of India's poorest into starvation says economist John dreads who lives in Jharkhand where at heart is mandatory for food rations he says he's counted a dozen such deaths in recent months I would actually prefer to call these the situation because they're all cases of people who went hungry for days who would have survived if they had had some resources this is the interesting thing that the most vulnerable people those who are also more likely to be excluded by the system when at heart scanners breakdown there's supposed to be a backup system on paper but at the ration shop we visited the paper log was blank on used they could be some implementation issues that nobody should be denied benefits either for lack of other conditions and then Daniel economy is a tech billionaire who left the private sector to create at heart for the Indian government he told n.p.r. This past May that the benefits far outweigh any glitches last January a data breach prompted many Indians to question that though investigative journalist Ratchanok Kara discovered that the laptops of some odd hard enrollment workers had been hacked Kara managed to buy access to up to a 1000000000 people's ad hard data for less than $7.00 My only concern is that if he should implement this project which. We should not be scared scared that the government may not be able to keep people's data secure and it's not just a task for the government one of the ways India managed to enroll so many people. By partnering with banks utilities and cell phone providers many of which require So now your data resides with all of those companies to privacy activist Maciel Pa says it's impossible to know how many data breaches of occurred there are reports almost every day book when it comes to others the way it was told that in India 1000000 millions of people have been compromised by the process I see this is a major national security it is concerned privacy activists took their case all the way to India Supreme Court and last week the court ruled that private companies can no longer ask for your data it also said schools can no longer require biometrics for admission but the data is already out there and being used by marketing companies possibly by political parties in India though these are mostly concerns for the educated urban class. Not far from the ration shop in Jharkhand migrant workers take refuge from the monsoon in sagging thatched huts covered with blue tarps among them is nice said Davy who believes it was the hunger that killed her uncle who recently died before he could get not her cardinal. But she says the rest of the family rushed to enroll after his death local officials told them it could help them get welfare Debbie has not been able to get benefits yet but she hopes this sophisticated biometric system might one day help her Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News in rural Jharkhand India. Support for All Tech Considered comes from ultimate software provider of cloud based h.r. Payroll and talent management solutions for the modern workplace learn more at ultimate Software dot com ultimate software people 1st. And from c 3 i.o.t. Powering enterprise digital transformation with artificial intelligence predictive analytics and i.o.t. Solutions learn more at c 3 I o t a I. 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Should look into whatever the Republican Senate wants it to he said he believes Kavanagh was truthful in his testimony and that his family has been treated horribly but he also said he has no backup plan of cabinet should withdraw or be rejected by the Senate I hope that he gets approved I hope that the report comes out like it should like I really think it should I think it will I hope I hope but look I'm waiting just like you the president said he was surprised how vocal Kavanaugh was about.