When they feel like I could be in the kitchen with her it wouldn't be weird and if I dropped an egg on the floor she wouldn't think it was a bad thing because she does that too I it's just real coming over here now news his 1st line from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the impeachment inquiry moves to a new stage in the House of Representatives this week House panels are considering whether the president abused his power in pressing Ukraine for an investigation into Democrats here's N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson the House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday focusing on the definition of an impeachable offense the fact finding phase of the impeachment inquiry is over now the House must decide if President Trump abused his power by trying to get Ukraine to investigate one of his potential political rivals and if that abuse of power warrants his removal from office a full House vote on impeachment is expected by the end of the year Mara Liasson n.p.r. News Washington the president who denies he did anything wrong is refusing to send his lawyer to the Wednesday hearing he says the whole process is a hoax Trump was talking to reporters at the White House as he was preparing to leave on a 3 day trip to London for a NATO gathering one of trance closest allies is fighting corruption charges in Israel the country's attorney general resubmitted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indictment to Parliament. Reports the Israeli leader now has 30 days to request immunity Israel's attorney general is charging Netanyahu with bribery fraud and breach of trust this is the 1st time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been indicted according to the indictment Netanyahu will stand trial in a Jerusalem District Court the indictment also names $333.00 witnesses who may be called to testify at the trial the charges are a blow to Netanyahu as he fights to stay in power after 2 inconclusive elections Netanyahu vowed to battle the charges and has refused calls to step down according to a poll last week 35 percent of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign and stand trial as a citizen that poll was by the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute for n.p.r. News I'm in Tel Aviv Russian journalists and bloggers are among those who face the risk of being bred. Good foreign agents under a new law signed today by President Vladimir Putin It allows a Russian government to extend controls currently impose on foreign funded media outlets under the new law any Russian who is paid to distribute content from those registered as foreign agents can themselves be subjected to greater government scrutiny shaken by shooting inside their school students that walk shot South High School in Wisconsin have been dismissed for the day after their school was placed on lockdown this morning a police officer shot and wounded a student who had pulled a handgun inside a classroom and then refused to surrender the weapon the student who is 17 is reported to be in stable condition Meanwhile students at a southern California high school are back in class for the 1st time since their classmates were killed and injured in a mass shooting over 2 weeks ago a 16 year old shot and killed 2 students and injured 3 other people before he took his own life from Washington this is n.p.r. News. Instead of scouring the shelves and diving into the bins bargain shoppers are scrolling up and down and sideways for the big deals much of which of actually been around for weeks but it is Cyber Monday so the online Bonanzas official shoppers are expected to spend a record $9400000000.00 on merchandise they bought online Adobe Analytics says that's 919 percent higher than last year the animated hit frozen 2 is putting the competition on ice and making history N.P.R.'s Trina Williams reports the Disney's sequel delivered the biggest $3.00 and $5.00 day numbers over a Thanksgiving Day weekend frozen to earned an estimated $85300000.00 since last Friday nearly 124000000 since last Wednesday. That's a record for both time period I suspect foul play or at knives out exceeded expectations we're going to bury Ferrari a while Ford versus Ferrari held strong. Fred Rogers. Beautiful day in the neighborhood finished 4th ticket sales down just 11 percent in sophomore year suppose it was self-defense. And green in slim and far fewer screams entered the chart in a close 5th the drama could move up when the final tally is released trying to Williams n.p.r. News u.s. Stocks trading lower this hour the Dow down more than 200 points since the Open at 27847 I'm Lakshmi saying n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include progressive insurance offering its home quote Explorer so shoppers can evaluate options in one place when buying home insurance custom quotes and rates are available online learn more at progressive dot com. Support for j.p. Are comes from our listeners and from d.e.i. Engineers d.e.i. Is an engineering firm located in Ashland providing structural engineering services to local architects owners contractors and developers d.e.i. Is known for their design solutions with a focus on efficiency and construct ability d.e.i. Has experience in building design using all types of construction materials and will work to provide solutions to their client's design teams challenges the information at d.e.i. Engineers dot com from n.p.r. And I'm Jeremy Hobson I'm Robin Young It's here now in Spain world leaders are gathering for a cup 25 this is the conference of the parties those signed on to the u.n. Treaty to combat climate change the 2015 pairs agreement was forged at Cup 21 President Trump is withdrawing the u.s. From that agreement yesterday u.n. Secretary General Antonio good terrorist pulled no punches he said the largest emitters aren't pulling their weight and the point of no return is no longer over the horizon. Is the environment correspondent for the b.b.c. He's in Madrid and Matt we should say that the Democrat Nancy Pelosi is leading a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to Madrid what this is a 2 week meeting it launches a year long effort What's the goal Well the main goal Robin is to try and advance the promises that were made under the Paris time agreement 5 years ago and to try and get all the major countries and the smaller ones as well to commit to new plans that will be put in place by the end of next year when this meeting moves on to Glasgow in the u.k. And that is the whole point of all that is to try and ensure that the global temperatures don't rise by more than $1.00 degrees which we're heading towards now by 2030 if those new stronger plans don't come into place and he said in his talks to reporters yesterday this is good terrorists we're here to find answers for Article 6 not to find excuses what does that mean. Yeah Article 6 has been a bit of a bug bear on this process for the last year or so it's about how you use carbon markets how you use markets to allow countries to trade some of their emissions to other countries so there's a lot of countries with vested interests in this the Russia Brazil done well in the past are selling these types of missions want to continue to be able to use these type of credits as they're called lots of other countries say look you're in the whole process if you if you try and keep the value in these things so there's a big dispute over that it's gone on for a year now and it might roll roll on through Madrid as well yeah this is apparently one of those contentious things that's going to be hammered out over the next couple of weeks and what about the big emitters China the u.s. The u.s. In particular with we know we have a president who has said he doesn't believe in even the theory behind all of this that the climate crisis is manmade and he's rolling back a lot of the Obama era environmental protections and regulations What's the sense there how does that feel there. I mean obviously this might be the last year in which the u.s. Takes part in this process and so I think for a couple of years now people have been quite bullish about it they've been saying oh well we'll be able to cope we'll be able to get on the world isn't just revolve around the United States but I think this year and right here this week I think there's a feeling that the big polluters the United States China Brazil and many others who have set their faces almost against climate change but their input is desperately needed if the world is really going to turn this corner bend the curve on this 1.5 degrees and I think the message from that seems been speaking here to say the United States is still in his is very welcome news for the conference but the reality is that in a year's time one day after the next presidential election the u.s. Is officially out unless perhaps as a change of occupant in the winter we should say the champion ministration is being represented by Marsha Byrne a cat whose principal deputy. Assistant Secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs met Tell us also about the language that we heard from terrors you know trying to get across that we're almost at endgame here on this issue talking about we have to have the political will to shift taxation from income to carbon tax pollution instead of people what's the sense there of how much they're going to be able to accomplish given that we've had report after report and it starts to feel like wallpaper Yeah that's certainly true I think what. Terrorism is trying to outline is a process the most radical set of proposals any u.n. Secretary general has ever come up with to try and deal with the problem of climate change and I think it props reflects his sense of exasperated frustration maybe he's feeling some sense of impotence but he seems determined to drive home his point that the world is not doing enough the ambition is not high enough and the time is incredibly short well and there are young people making that case as well as you briefly about teenage climate activists gratitude Berg of Sweden she sailed across the ocean to the u.s. Thinking that she was going to walk to Chile where this climate conference was supposed to be held it was moved to Spain because of unrest in Chile but now she had to hop back on her catamaran and sail back across to try to get to Spain is she expected to make it. Yes providing she can find her sea legs when she gets off the boat in Lisbon She's due to get in there tomorrow we think and she's likely to be here at this conference before the end of the week she's slated to give a talk to the to the assembly it's bizarre to think that the little known school girl a year ago in May Now well be the biggest draw at this event this week and perhaps next McCullough environment correspond to the b.b.c. In Madrid thank you so much my pleasure think about that when you're worried about your travel disruptions after Thanksgiving Well today Montana Governor Steve Bullock dropped out of the race for the 2 $1020.00 Democratic presidential nomination former Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak did the same yesterday which means 16 Democrats are still running for president joining us now is n.p.r. Political reporter want to Somers I wanna hate Jeremy So the next debate for the Democrats is December 19th and so far only 6 have qualified Joe Biden Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders people to judge Kamel Harris and Amy club chart do you expect more candidates to drop out of the race before then. Yeah that's certainly something that we're watching for of the d.n.c. Has put in place far stricter rules for about 6 to bait and there's only a give or take 2 weeks until that qualifying that line while not being able to make the stage doesn't automatically mean a candidate will drop out of the race something that we've seen happen with other candidates like a Julio Castro for example who's still in it even though he wasn't on stage it does deprive the candidates of a really important platform to introduce themselves to new support would be supporters a way to raise more money so that can have a when owing a fact and also frankly the calendar is just getting really late there about only a couple months until voting begins so financial realities could really start to set in for some of these candidates that haven't been able to break into the top tier and who don't see any viable path for their candidacy at this point no one candidate who's been kind of in the top tier all along is Joe Biden the former vice president he is still leading in the national polls he's on the 3rd day now of a weeklong no malarky bus tour in Iowa by the way the definition of malarkey is written on the side of his bus for people who don't know what that means early on in his campaign he was saying he didn't need to win Iowa what's the latest thinking . So I'm heading on that bus tour later this week and the former vice president is going for 18 counties in the state that's clearly a huge investment of his time at the Scrabble call moment in the race we heard the former vice president kind of talk about why he's doing this now over the weekend he made the case that this is the time to peak in Iowa 2 months before voters start to really before those 1st votes are cast this is when he wants to be making that investment and spending a lot of time there and make no mistake this is also coming as South Bend Mayor Pete booted judge is performing quite well in the state and many say that he and the former vice president are competing for that same lane of centrist voters for Primary Support Well let's talk about people who judge in an ad that is now airing in Iowa he is criticizing his rivals for their free college tuition plans he says they would benefit a lot of wealthier students here it is only want to make promises that we can look what I'm proposing instance plenty of old I mean these are big ideas we can gather the majority to drive those big ideas through without turning off half the country before we get off and how concerned are the other candidates about Buddha judges surge in the polls and what are they planning to do about it. I think there is quite a bit of concern and if you listen to the way he talks in that ad he doesn't say the name say Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren but you hear him clapping back to folks who have bold plans and big ideas and saying hey look I'm a guy who has this kind of big plans to now when I talk to rival campaigns about he British edge and how he's performing one of the biggest things they point to is the fact that while he's rising in the polls in places like Iowa and New Hampshire and polls quite well in other places with older white Americans he has almost no black ink from black voters who are incredibly important to a democratic path to the nomination and he lags behind some of his Reivers like Warren and Sanders when it comes to younger voters so that's why you see him this week focusing on southern states like North Carolina and South Carolina looking for new ways to connect with black voters aiming at that weakness that a number of his rivals have pointed out do you think that that weakness among black voters is unique to boot a judge or a lot of candidates kind of in the same level of polling when it comes to African-American voters that's a great point I actually don't think it's unique to him we've seen former Vice President Biden have sort of a strong fire wall with black voters particularly a commanding advantage in South Carolina but other candidates out there Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren also does not poll particularly well among black voters we've seen for months and her Bernie Sanders certainly improve his standing from his 1st presidential campaign but it would be unfair to say that people to judge is the only candidate who is lacking with that key demographic in the Democratic electorate Ok I want to finally ask you about the 2 new entrants into the race and how they're doing at this point that would be former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Yes So Michael Bloomberg is obviously jolt at this race just by the sheer amount of money he's been able to spend really dominating the television airwaves was joking with some friends who were home over the holidays that one of the only political candidates ads they saw on television over the Thanksgiving holiday was Michael Bloomberg he's focusing his spending in some of the early Super Tuesday states that he is targeting and those are places that some of the other candidates aren't spending as much time or money and yet as they focus on those folks for contests in Iowa New Hampshire South Carolina and Nevada asked for Deval Patrick he is starting to staff up his campaign has recently announced some new hires and New Hampshire and South Carolina 2 states he sees as key to his strategy because entering the race a lot later than many other candidates risking the possibility of not being able to get into those debates just says and have enough time or apportioning in these states that he's targeting that is n.p.r. 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It's here now who wouldn't want to be Trisha Yearwood She's a country singing legend who was great excitement early this year when she released every girl her 1st solo country album in 12 years here's a little of the lead single every girl in this town. Every girl in this town is somebody's daughter Trisha Yearwood also has a hit network show Trisha's Southern Kitchen now in its 15th season fans just love her recipes but also her breezy style I'm going to get to work on a smoky elite to go on top these potatoes which is super yummy So a Ali is basically fancy Manny's I had to look at I was like I don't really sure. And did we mention that she's married to some guy Garth Brooks I think only the best selling solo artist of all time this week Trisha Yearwood is hosting the c.m.a. Country Christmas show taking over from her friend and mentor Reba McEntire and she's found a few minutes to talk with us Trisha Yearwood Welcome thank you I'm so happy to be here what do you think it is you know your life experiences that have fused together and created the Trisha Yearwood who is this artist and also you know an artisan in the kitchen you know and I don't know really but I think what it is not to quote my own album but I really am sort of every girl I feel like I kind of represent most of us most of us who cook are not chefs you learn how to cook problem mom or dad and I came from a very small town and wanted to be a singer since I was 5 years old but didn't know anybody who was doing this so I kind of feel like I'm the one who gets to do it all for all of us and I'm as surprised and excited about it still 28 years after getting start. That I get to do it and I really am and I think that's probably why people relate as they feel like I could be in the kitchen with her it wouldn't be weird and if I dropped an egg on the floor she wouldn't think it was a bad thing because she does that too I it's just real Yeah well the girl with the wind in her hair up in the Ferris wheel when the fair comes to town or on the porch under the yellow light crying when the day goes wrong on Friday night and it's just a beautiful song Let's listen to another one this is Bible and a $44.00 he had a southern drawl on her. Never heard it was my favorite song. To be the last launch of this. Kind of my. Kind of my. Song written by Ashley McBride and she wrote it about her dad. Was a song for your dad as well yeah how so well my dad was. That southern drawl line really got me I actually asked Ashley if I could change that her lyrics said every song he sang was my favorite sound and I asked if I could say every word he said because my dad had this southern accent that was almost like Foghorn Leghorn maybe I have this like I'll say and and so he's gone now but his voice is what I remember so much about him it's still in my head and I think the power of a great song writers to be able to write something that is so personal to them I mean the song is about Ashley's dad and for to feel so personal to me and this is one of those songs that when I sing it live it really does connect with especially girls and their dad you know all. Heart and Soul and made of steel when I was listening to that lyric about your dad I think and Garth Brooks you had a hard act to follow you know because everybody's dad you know if you have that relationship that's your 1st love would you say Garth Brooks is anything like your dad absolutely I mean I do think that I think that's one of the things about him that I love so much is that my dad was my biggest fan he was a huge fan of country music he loved and got to see a lot of my career but I always felt like at the end of the day I was daddy's little girl he had my back and he he was there to take care of me and Garth has always said I don't want to take care of you because you need to be taking care of your independent you do your own thing but I want you to know that I'm here she need me and he is you know and one of the last things that my dad got to see was that I get engaged and my dad was like Ok I feel good now like I feel like I honestly feel like my dad thought Ok got this who I feel a song coming on tonight and when it's described that but did your dad have sparks that flew from his fingertips Let's listen to a little bit of a song that you have said is maybe something of a metaphor for your relationship with Garth Brooks It's called The Matador. The rules to the matador. Written for. The 5. 1 woman. Very. Hurt is cry. Moving. So we're picturing the matador and again you go on to say you know his rage is made of many things faithless women wedding ring snakes and snails and alcohol that sparks fly from his fingertips words like birds fly from his wooden image of a Garth Brooks on stage tell us more about what. What is that you know I don't know that he agrees with me on this I'm I've always been very dramatic even as a little girl before I even had any heartbreak I just would sing these you know songs that were so about heartbreak the Matadors written by Gretchen Peters who's an incredibly talented singer songwriter and for me you know what I felt was there is something about me he loves me more than anything in the world he loves his children more than anything in the world but there's something about being in the musical arena there in getting to do what you do and that is unmatched and it's something that no one can really share with you in that moment I think he and I being the same industry come as close as 2 people can to sharing the railing but there is something about watching him in the ring doing what he does and sparks do fly from his fingertips I mean it is something to behold but you know words like birds fly from your lips to how well what's that I mean do you talk about that do you each talk about something that nobody else I mean I mean you know it would be I think one of the things I mean everybody talks about 2 celebrities being married how hard that is an it is the only thing hard about it is because we both are really busy but I think we can that the advantage to being married to someone who does what you do is to be able to talk about what you do for a living and also to have kind of an unspoken understanding of the drive and the need and the desire that feature soul of why you really feel not even like you made a choice to do this but you're called to do it and so you've got to give each other the Pritam to be that because that's who makes him who he is and that's who makes me who I am now and that's hard for some people maybe not familiar with that center stage to acceptance who you know Plus you have to put up with his breakfast bowl which and are standing right cheese and garlic tortellini it is and you know what I got to say I've been I've been working on the cooking show and I've been releasing this album and I have been just really busy this fall and I haven't cooked at home very much and I told him yesterday or to couple days ago home I said the last couple times that I have walked into this kitchen and. Amazing you have been cooking not me and he is really good and he's just that guy and he the breakfast bowl is everything you would want to ever eat for breakfast that you could imagine in a bowl plus and you really need to eat that and then like you don't have to eat for a week because if it's a lot and it's a lot you have it in one of your cookbook I want you want to hear some more music including you did an album of songs that Frank Sinatra own let's just listen to a little of comply with me. How I mean to you at the point you're like What else can my voice do I mean is it fun for you to try something like that and see how part where you could go yes so much fun you know it's like getting out of your comfort zone a little bit is scary but also usually the most rewarding thing and I had always loved this music my mom was a 3rd grade school teacher and we would get home in the afternoons and sometimes before she'd have that little amount of time before she'd have to start dinner we would watch some of these old movies and musicals and listen to these songs and I always felt like man I love this music I feel like I wish I would have been born during that time in the thirty's and forty's to do this music and so I I did the record and I I went to Capitol Records where Frank recorded I used his microphone some of the guys in the band were had played with Frank and I was terrified you know watching the 1st day in a father going to all this little country girls here this is going to be so terrible and then when I sang the 1st song and they're like Oh Ok then we had the best time so I'm I'm so glad I got a chance to do it now I love to hear other things you experiment with that meanwhile the album every girl is just great and we want to hear a little of one of the other songs this is called love you anyway it's with Don Henley in part by the way do you think the end of a. The innocence was maybe one of the most perfect albums ever made perfect I love him so much yes you agree Yeah Ok we agree and he's back and you up to here with us . Kirsten. Sublime that's country music star Trisha Yearwood on her latest album every girl she also hosts Trisha's Southern Kitchen on the Food Network and she'll be hosting the c.m.a. Country Christmas show tomorrow night Trish I don't know how you found the time I think it was but thank you so much thank you. It's here now. 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And you are I'm Jeremy Hobson today is Cyber Monday as if I had to tell you that and we have reached the point where today is a bigger day for many retailers than Black Friday is that used to be the biggest shopping day of the year for more let's bring in Jill Schlesinger business analyst for c.b.s. News and host of Jill on money Hi Jill hello have any money left after the shopping this where was a little rough for me in a tween radio hits this morning what we're already getting some early retail numbers in according to Adobe analytics online sales increased by about 20 percent from last year while shopping at brick and mortar stores fell by about 6 percent is Cyber Monday even a distinct thing anymore or is it kind of like Cyber Week or Black November December what are we what are we looking at here we know that some large retailers started rolling out the deals as of November 1st so imagine this your goblins come down your wreaths go up and they've gotten very smart there is a distinct part of each of these days mostly because all of these large retailers have tons of data and they are dribbling out the deals based on the day so we know that today Cyber Monday you'll probably see the steepest discount on a television however an appliance may have been a better bet on Friday all these things said It is becoming a massive long holiday season for those who are paying attention I notice something interesting which is that on Thanksgiving Day almost half of the online sales were done on mobile devices which just made me imagine some people sitting at the Thanksgiving table looking down at their phones and by that but yes it's probably may have been cheaper than their therapy session that follows that yes I mean listen we're shopping everywhere so desktop smartphone tablet and it's all being tracked now some of us are actually surfing on our smartphones but purchasing our desktops and I think that that is really kind of this interesting trend that we are seeing. In that we want to shop where and when we want to shop and retailers are actually changing their business models accordingly they call it multi channel marketing essentially just making sure they are where we are and that's why you will see some of these things that pop up in your face in places where you never realized I guess there's no concern right now about a recession based on the fact that people are still spending so much money you know if there is a concern and certainly surveys will tell us that people are having some recessionary fears bubbling up but I think 2 factors that are really important number one we do still have a good jobs market we're going to get another Labor Department report out this Friday there are going to be more people employed they're going to see wages rise faster than the rate of inflation so that makes people feel confident you know we are likely to get something like $9400000000.00 in sales this day this Cyber Monday and that would be an almost 19 percent increase from last year so Jill with all of this online shopping let's not forget about all of those packages that have to be used to send things out and a lot of cardboard being used we remember that China isn't taking our recycling materials anymore Where's all the cardboard going that's a great question you know the cities across the United States are talking about something called the Amazon effect and we are seeing cities trying to scramble to figure out where to send their cardboard and their plastics and Minnes palette he said there just isn't enough domestic ability to supply paper mills to meet the demand and so unfortunately I think this is what's really piling up in a lot of our landfills is stuff that hasn't even been recycled that could be as Jill Schlesinger business analyst with c.b.s. 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This is here and now freezing rain and snow in the northeast have blocked millions of people from returning home after the Thanksgiving holiday Airlines canceled or delayed thousands of flights in anticipation of the weather but while humans can make plans to say safe during a storm our animal friends aren't always so lucky for more we're joined by Steve Rinella he's an outdoorsman and writer and the host of the Netflix show meat eater Steve welcome and I think you for having me on so when a storm system is headed towards a place we humans have very sophisticated weather forecasting that often gives us and of time to make preparations maybe evacuate what kind of capacity do animals have to sense and avoid storms man you know it really depends it seems on the kind of animal definitely fish have a lot of sensitivity to bear metric pressure and there were some studies that they worked on in Florida where they happened to have some sharks that were wearing the shark equivalent of a radio collar right in the head of hurricane Gabriel in 2001 they had 14 black tip sharks that were in transmitters and all 14 of them moved out to deep water off the coast of Florida ahead of hurricane Gabriel but then there's other species that is the is not really care when Hurricane Irma came through in 2017 and this hurricane hit in the past 13 miles away from a dear study area 135 mile an hour winds 12 inches of rain right and they had 60 deer were in g.p.s. Collars not only were none of those deer killed none of those deer changed their tune they acted on that day the day that it made landfall they acted just like they always act and they just went about their business like nothing was going on Ok so but for the animals that do notice that something is about to happen of apparently do you think that it is about barometric pressure and that pressure dropping and they know. That they've got to move That's the idea that most people have and it seems like fish are especially in tune to it you know the fish have a thing called a lateral line where they can with a sense pressure and can detect pressure changes that could be movement in the water near them but other things as well and some fish seem to become active and like to feed when there is a high pressure system other fish a high pressure system might send them off but it seems to be that it be bear measured pressure you know that's usually something that we with our instrumentation that we can monitor notice that we have a change in barometric pressure ahead of a storm if it's not that it's something that we don't yet understand about what it could be that they're picking up on and looking at there were some wild horse herds in the Outer Banks in North Carolina and people were watching these horses and very worried about what would happen when Hurricane Dorian came through and people noticed that ahead of the storm it seemed that the horses were moving to higher ground and gathering up in clusters because one of the things the horses will do is they'll gather up in groups maybe to stabilize one another and they'll face of the ropes into the wind and they were seeing this activity on the Outer Banks of somebody's wild horse herds ahead of the storm but in one case on Cedar Island even even that didn't save these horses because there's a herd of $49.00 horses on Cedar Island $28.00 of them were killed by a storm surge from Dorian So you know they seemed to detect that it was coming and took the right steps it wasn't enough but there are certain species that want to be a great winners from storms there had always been Burmese pythons in the Everglades maybe going back to the seventy's but that number jumped tremendously after some hurricanes destroyed some captive wildlife facilities and freed Burma's pythons and maybe enough of them to sort of critical mass and allow Burmese pythons the really take hold in the Everglades that brings us to another phenomenon that happens which is that. Sometimes because of storms animals are picked up and moved by water spouts right like it could be frogs that don't usually fly that end up flying and moving around in a storm yeah that does happen it doesn't happen to the degree to which we sort of as a society would like to dream of it happening and if you've ever seen the movie Magnolia which ends with this fantastic storm of bullfrogs but there are cases I mean even in 877 the New York Times reported on 8 alligators about 12 inches long being dumped within 200 yards near the Savannah River so I think of one hand you could look in a storm can come in one can feel empathy and pity in the short term for individual animals that could be you know suffer some kind of catastrophe and die in mass numbers but also there's this little bit of solace that could be phone and the idea that these big storms in these events are things that also distribute animals in some way allowing species to move beyond their geographic range and you know discover new places and evolve into new beautiful things down the road I guess from a global sort of wildlife perspective it's a bittersweet occurrence when we have massive weather events well so let me ask you then finally with climate change making these storms more frequent and more severe is that more better or more sweet for some of the animals who are going to be affected by them well I mean they're going to know a very large question and global climate change even if it does result in some distribution of species around life is not able to evolve quickly enough to be commensurate with the destruction that we would see in cases of the Arctic warming the oceans acidifying the oceans warming I personally I can't look to species distribution as being a bright spot in a climate change scenario but. You know it's almost taboo to say this but there will be certain species that win from global climate change that animals that maybe are restricted in their northern movements because of severe winters and as temperatures change they'll become big winners and some part of us might someday look and celebrate those winners but it's hard to find anything that like in a holistic sense seems optimistic or great to look forward to for wildlife in terms of scenarios in which we have more and more severe weather and more changes on our planet well and as somebody who spends so much time in the outdoors and focusing on wildlife and we hear about these things I think people think oh wow these these these animals they're smarter and more interesting than I thought but do you think that humans have a anough of an appreciation for the other species on this planet you know on the whole as a culture I would say that we're suffering from some disassociation with the natural world. You know we're increasingly urbanized I do worry about what that will mean in the future for the Conservation movement if in fact people do move away from the natural world and become less interested in preserving it. I think that that has implications but all in all I find like in my social circles or the people I spend a lot of time with they tend to be infatuated with animals and that infatuation will oftentimes lead people to think that they're actually smarter than we our more capable or more adaptive you know and better evolved to cope but again and again you're reminded of places and times where animals just make mistakes and that's an interesting thing to think about with animals is that they can hit a certain age certain you know different species like a deer going to 20 years of age but they oftentimes make a mistake way before that happens. And don't live that long and I think that it's interesting to star in a look at wildlife and that way as things like individuals who are out there you know attempting to cope with a constantly changing environment and constantly evolving threats Well I have to say I've always loved animals but as soon as I got a dog I see all animals in a new way now because I understand just what you're saying that they are individuals that are just living in this world in the same way that we are yes that is Stephen who is an outdoorsman and host of the Netflix show meat eater Steve thank you Hey thank you for having me on I appreciate it and while we are talking animals the Washington Post reports that British and Australian researchers had success in drawing fish back to dying coral reefs by broadcasting the sounds of healthy reefs using an underwater loudspeaker they saw twice as many fish flock back to the reef Here's one of the researchers Timothy Gordon climate change and warming seas of course more damage to current reef well wide in the last 4 years than they have in the whole of recorded history before that at the start of my Ph d. 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It's here now if the cement industry were a country it would be the 3rd largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world behind only China and the u.s. You may have heard this statistic and it's because the process used to mix cement mixing sand gravel a cement binder and water not only gives off c o 2 as a byproduct it requires a tremendous amount of heat that normally comes from fossil fuels but don't boycott your sidewalk yet because there is some good news Healy agend is a solar power company that's developed a new technology that could make industrial manufacturing renewable by using the power of the sun Bill Gross is c.e.o. And founder of Helio Jenny joins us now and Bill just take us through this because we know you brought some investors big investors including Bill Gates and the owner of the l.a. Times out to Lancaster California we've got something set up there what did you want to show them. Well we built a solar concentration field we're essentially making it of in a huge oven we set it at 2000 agrees Fahrenheit which is basically one 3rd the temperature of the surface of the sun and we're making this of an almost like a one acre magnifying glass it's a field of mirrors that are all perfectly computer controlled to reflect the sunlight to a single spot where we can make these high temperatures and now use the sun to power these industrial processes like making cement and steel making glass all of these things previously used a huge amount of fossil fuels and it wasn't solvable with renewable energy previously because electricity from solar panels can provide this kind of heat Yeah so we're really excited to try to reduce emissions and make these industrial processes possible with renewable for the 1st time so so what these cameras in combination with these panels these mirrors did was create with your calling a death ray where you could just focus it right on something you might need to hit like a cement mixer I'm imagining exactly exactly the the analogy would be this imagine if you went into a football stadium and you were sitting with a mirror at one end and you want to reflect the light to someone at the other end but now imagine all $50000.00 people each have a mirror and they're all reflecting into one spot where you need a lot of coordination a computer controlled to get that to happen perfectly and that's a technology we developed computer vision software that could take all these things and move them very precisely and accurately and you said we went out to Lancaster just a few weeks ago we've been building this all year long we fired up and the very 1st time we achieve these high temperatures these record temperatures and that's why we're so excited what about a cement company that's not in sunny Lancaster California very good question. Right now we are going after all the types of factories that have either land adjacent to them at Sony and can integrate with our process that probably is about half of all of the industrial opportunities so it's still a trillion dollar opportunity over time we plan to come up with the storage methods and other transportation methods so we can move the material maybe to the desert where the sun is great and then move the results back to where the people need but for right now we're focused exactly on what you said places that have the sunny land adjacent and that's still an enormous opportunity still more than 20 percent of global emissions happen from that and we're going to target that 1st well you know it is amazing how much c o 2 comes from cement and how much cement is needed I mean we just can't right now anyway live without creating cement well to to to house the 7 and a half 1000000000 people on earth and to build the roads buildings transportation everything for them the 2 biggest ingredients in our life are cement and steel and both of those release a huge amount of c o 2 because of the burning of the fossil fuels to make them and we're enjoying the fruits of the benefit of those great materials but out a huge cost to the planet $1.00 wonders what Joseph Aspin leads in England with think this is the early 1900 bricklayer who came up with this process and now you know cement is just one the most desired building material around the world and as you said causing this problem you've said that the applications for heated Gentz technology will be industrial mixing cement also steel but down the line this kind of concentrated solar power that you describe could be used to make hydrogen fuel people are now only dreaming about that why would that be such a big deal that is a huge deal so right now we use hydrogen in almost all of our fuel to date all of our gasoline has hydrogen hydrogen is the single best fuel there is the problem with it is it's clean when you burn it but it's dirty when you make it. Right now all of our hydrogen is made by burning and splitting methane to get the hydrogen if we could make completely green hydrogen that would be revolutionary How could you make her completely green hydrogen where you could split water if you could split water water is a molecule of 2 hydrogen oxygen but those are bound together very very tightly it takes a huge amount of energy to split them well how would you split them what you could burn fossil fuels to split them but then I would defeat the purpose but if you could split water with the sun that is the holy grail Well it takes $1450.00 degrees Centigrade to split water and we have already achieved more than that temperature so our goal long term is to use solar energy to split the water molecule make fully green hydrogen and that could really have an impact on reducing fossil fuel use and of course reducing c o 2 emissions that's Bill Gross founder and c.e.o. 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Even packs a moment chest he takes flight wounds to his left side and will ask where the d. Radicalisation imprisons never works after the news. This is the b.b.c. News Hello I'm Jonathan Izod President Trump says the u.s. Will reimpose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina Mr Trump said both countries were operating unfair trade practices Brazil's steel Institute said the move would damage the u.s. Steel industry since it depended on Brazilian semi finished steel imports Here's Chris Buckley Brazil and Argentina were 2 of the countries to be given exemptions when President Trump announced global tariffs on steel and other minium but in an early morning tweet he said he was not enforcing the import taxes and they would go into effect immediately Mr Trump appeared to link the change in policy to devaluations in the currencies of the countries saying it had made it very difficult for u.s. Manufacturers and farmers to export their goods both the Brazilian an Argentine governments are planning to raise the issue with Washington but the decision may also concern American businesses and consumers who alternately pay the tariffs on Trump's reelection campaign says it will no longer issue press credentials to reporters working for Bloomberg News the agency owned by the Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg Mr Trump's campaign manager Brad Pascoe said the decision had been prompted by the agency's recent announcement that it would not investigate Mr Bloomberg or his Democratic rivals but Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait dismissed accusations of bias insisting the agency had always covered Donald Trump fairly and would continue to do so in an open rebuke to President climate skepticism the leading Democrat Nancy Pelosi has told the u.n. Climate conference in Madrid that her delegation is there to send a clear message that the u.s. Congress is committed to take action on the climate crisis by coming here we want to say to everyone with your land. The United States is still and I delegation is here to send a message that Congress is committed to take action on the climate crisis is iron clad one member of the u.s. Delegation to the blockade by America's fossil fuel industry was hampering a broad consensus in favor of Climate Action.