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Story since bluff We're not here to call bluff we're here to find the truth to uphold the Constitution of the United States this is not a game for us this is deadly serious the White House has been using the issue to stonewall House investigators when it comes to document requests and witness testimony a lot of Democrats say helps them build a case where obstruction of Congress trial Snyder n.p.r. News Washington today House Democrats will hear from a former u.s. Ambassador as part of the impeachment inquiry Michael McKinley was a top aide to Secretary of State Mike pump aoe until last week that's when McKinley resigned and Oklahoma judge has admitted to making a 100 $7000000.00 math error when he gave his verdict in the state's opioid case from member station k.g. O. You Jackie $48.00 reports in August Johnson and Johnson was ordered to pay Oklahoma more than half a 1000000000 dollars at a hearing Tuesday Oklahoma judge that Baldwin acknowledged that he meant to order Johnson and Johnson to pay the state 107600 dollars for one portion of the addiction costs not the 100 and $7600000.00 written into the decision his announcement could mean the judgment will be cut but it's unclear how much Johnson and Johnson will ultimately have to pay Oklahoma the judge will rule on other legal objections to his verdict at a later date Jackie $48.00 reporting the National Weather Service is warning that a strong storm is developing off the coast of the mid Atlantic states it will bring very heavy rainfall to the area today and surge into the northeast by tomorrow you're listening to n.p.r. . Turkey's president says his country will stop its military offensive into northern Syria against Syrian Kurdish fighters only if they put down their weapons and pull out of the designated border area president. Says his country won't give in to world pressure to stop its military actions vice president Mike Pence is flying to Turkey today Swedish automaker Volvo is announcing its plans to help reduce carbon emissions company representatives made the announcement in Los Angeles where Volvo's 1st all electric cars being unveiled this morning from member station k.p.c. See Sue carpenter reports Volvo says that within 5 years most of its cars will be electric and Samuelsson as president and chief executive of Volvo cars he says the company will introduce a new electric vehicle for each of the next 5 years when there will be an all electric to elect the version. That we are selling Samuelson says Volvo his goal is to take concrete actions that align with the Paris climate agreement of 2015 but am Selema global warming to $1.00 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels where the 600 companies have pledged to do their part to limit global warming Falvo plans to be fully carbon neutral by 2040 for n.p.r. News I'm Sue carpenter in Los Angeles the Washington Nationals are going to their 1st World Series they defeated the St Louis Cardinals last night 74 to take the National League Championship Series the Nats will take on either the New York Yankees or the Houston Astros in the World Series I'm core of a Coleman n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include I drive maker of remote p.c. Providing real time remote access to computers anywhere and featuring remote p.c. Vision and augmenting reality support to learn more at remote p.c. Dot com. Today on This American Life Stacey is standing on a street corner in Brooklyn wearing this cost her. Feathers rise up in the back 7 was coming out of this some stones came off just know if you're going to do it carry some crazy. We go inside one of the biggest parties in New York City people are masks rivalries go back years later today this. Program questions everything except your intelligence coming up in the space time continuum never understood the space is one thing time is another thing time is things changing things happen in space so no space. Time and things just the way they are in space without getting into when you disagree with Einstein and modern physics the strange time continuum. First. Public radio. On the next valley addition to violent incident shook the sick community in Bakersfield this year now a women's group is running a resource hotline in English and shopping and one father in Fresno who lost 2 children to gun violence has a strategy for fighting it in his own neighborhood is a working we follow him to find out I'm Karen Klein and I'm Daniel tune into Valley edition Friday morning at 9. I mean to Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep How is the White House going to defend itself against an ongoing impeachment inquiry some White House officials and people connected to the White House have declared a congressional investigation to be unconstitutional have said they will not cooperate Rudy Giuliani the president's personal lawyer says he does not have to comply with subpoenas his lawyer wrote a letter saying the impeachment inquiry was unconstitutional and baseless and then that lawyer resigned vice president Pence has issued a more nuanced statement suggesting that he may be able to provide some documents in some circumstances the White House Counsel's Office has said there is no need to cooperate with an illegitimate inquiry and yet witnesses connected with the administration continue to appear before a House impeachment inquiry So what's going on Steven Groves is on the line he has a special assistant to the president until recently was in the White House Counsel's Office and is now deputy press secretary Mr Gross Good morning morning thank you ever for having me on I want to begin with Rudy Giuliani's statement the statement made by his lawyer who then resigned saying it was unconstitutional and baseless to to investigate in this way and saying that he doesn't have to provide documents for various reasons really direct question because you're a lawyer in the United States can someone decide to ignore a subpoena. People can ignore or not comply with 'd subpoenas you know if they're asking for materials that the person issuing the subpoena are entitled to like for example if someone subpoenaed you and said I want all the communications between you Steve Inskeep and your lawyer you don't have to necessarily comply with that subpoena I mean you might you might have to litigate and have a judge decide whether your attorney client privilege can be overcome by the subpoena but the subpoena alone. Is not something that cannot be challenged in the United States in other words you can save Sumi. You can or the person issuing a subpoena can realize oh I'm asking for attorney client privilege serial here maybe I'll pursue other documents that are covered by a privilege Well I want to understand Giuliani's position and I recognize that he's outside the White House you don't directly speak for him but yeah course have to have some understanding of this Giuliani has publicly said in the last couple of days I don't care if people look into my business dealings in the Ukraine and of course Giuliani had business dealings in Ukraine while also representing the president of the United States in seeking an investigation of people connected with Joe Biden and Joe Biden himself he said I don't care if people look into my business dealings they can look into it all they want but then his lawyer drops this letter saying that we won't cooperate if there is nothing to hide why not cooperate. Well you're quite right that as a private citizen not working in the u.s. Government I don't speak for Rudy Giuliani and then more to the point the letter that you referenced in the opening issued by the White House counsel you know that that doesn't apply to people you know outside of the administration I think that. There may be some things that were subpoenaed from Giuliani that touch on attorney client privilege if they were communications that he had with the president but otherwise you know it's up to Giuliani to decide whether he's going to be complying with a congressional subpoena and would you urge him to cooperate and comply with a legitimate subpoena was definitely not my place to urge him about complying with the subpoena that's something that he and if he retains another lawyer as you pointed out they'll have to decide that or or deal with Congress in their own way or have to go to court if the subpoena is going to be enforced or of Congress tries to hold them in contempt these are all decisions that you Leon you will have to make I'm trying to understand the White House specifically the White House's strategy here as well because the White House counsel as you know for whom you worked until recently has taken what to a layman seems like the same view this is an illegitimate inquiry we don't have to comply with anything and yet people who are in the administration still are testifying showing up complying with subpoenas producing documents when asked Are is the White House doing anything to try to stop them. The White House has been clear on its position that you know in the past when impeachment Cory's have been opened there's been certain processes that everyone has agreed to whether it was Nixon with a Democrat Congress or Clinton with a Republican Congress there's been a 4 vote opening of formal inquiry and then most importantly in both cases. Men and de minimus due process rights were afforded to both President Nixon and to court today but I want to suffer the same because we have discussed this but you're in a situation now where you've said the house is being unfair we don't have to cooperate and yet people are cooperating are you trying to stop them in any way. I believe without getting into anything that's like internally deliberative witnesses has been informed about executive privilege and informed about classified information. And they have gone and participated or sad for depositions or interviews hopefully they you know are you know know what their obligations are as current or former employees of the federal government the city revealing executive privilege in revealing classified information. But. You know we're going to go forward with this inquiry as as best we can given the Democrats. You know lack of transparency lack of formality and you know we'll see how this thing pans out in the end but right now the White House is clear that it's not going to participate in an illegitimate sham process which is really what this is but you're only going so far in stopping other people who are working for the u.s. Government from participating when you say we're going to go forward as best we can that's what I hear you saying and that's what seems to be happening. Well we don't want people to be hurt we don't want people to be held in contempt you know the Democrats are are issuing subpoenas like hotcakes and you know we have an obligation to protect classified information and executive privilege information and we'll go forth and this thing. You know as best we can and we intend to go forward not to Mr Gross thanks for your insights really appreciate it thank you Steve Steven Groves is a special assistant to the president of the United States n.p.r. White House correspondent Frank Gore join us has been listening along with us and Franco What do you hear there well I mean he's following the administration line he's talking about. You know that the administration is you know is not going to cooperate with what it sees as a sham investigation criticizing Palosi and Democratic leadership of giving out subpoenas like hotcakes but I found it interesting that you know he you know said that the administration won't cooperate or at least the White House won't be quite cooperate but as you pointed out we're finding out that many members of the administration are sitting down for these interviews and the White House is is only going so far to try to stop them we haven't had court battles over the testimony of various u.s. Diplomats for example know exactly I mean this is this been fair it's very fascinating particularly you know we have someone coming up we just had told her we just had we have mechanically coming tomorrow Party today it's you know the next few days are going to continue to be very interesting N.P.R.'s Frank or Don yes thanks so much thank you authorities in Fort Worth shared more details yesterday about the killing of a Tatyana Jefferson She's the 28 year old black woman who was shot by a white police officer who had been called to her house to do a welfare attack Jefferson's young nephew told investigators that his aunt heard a noise outside and pointed her gun at a window right before the officer outside shot her that officer who resigned from the department Monday has now been charged with. Murder N.P.R.'s law enforcement correspondent Martin costy reports on what the case says about the state of police training and the problem of officers who are too quick to shoot in the last few years there's been a push to teach police to get better at avoiding split 2nd decisions about using force the mantra is time and distance deescalate get back up and avoid surprises but in the body camera video of the Fort Worth incident you see Officer Aaron Dean in the dark sneaking around the house. Whispering to his partner as he approaches the fatal window the question is always going to be how does a person on the other side perceive that Walter Katz has worked in police oversight in California and Chicago and now he's a private consultant for departments he says thinking about perceptions is vital to good policing understanding that when you're near a residence and Texas where a lot of homeowners have firearms understanding how would somebody react to hearing a potential problem are outside their home at 2 30 in the morning creating unnecessary risk or escalating a conflict he says that's the kind of thing that he sees more often from inexperienced officers who are often stuck on overnight shifts the officer in Fort Worth had been on the job only a year and a half but even if he lacked experience he likely did have extensive training according to Kim Vickers Vickers is executive director of the Texas Commission on law enforcement and he says the officer is sure to have had training in deescalation and shoot don't shoot scenarios I would almost guarantee you there officers on the 4th police department if they've been there any length of time have gone through multiple times of those trainings still vicars says it's not easy to break policing of certain bad habits such as the so-called warrior style of training which has come under intense criticism from groups such as Black lives matter it's a style of training that's fallen to official disfavor but some police departments still hire consultants who use video clips of cops being ambushed and killed. To impress upon officers the potential dangers posed by civilians Vickers says he tries to discourage departments from too narrow a focus on this kind of mentality we're just real slow to change and it's hard the Swat stuff and all that stuff is is impressive and it's sexy and it's hard not to fall into that and policeman Tallaght is what Cory session blames in the case of the Fort Worth shooting sessions vice president of the Innocence Project of Texas he got the training he got the training the tragedy Sessions says is that the officer didn't follow the training he made a judgment instead of just following what the written policy is you just knock on the door hello such as if there is a silver lining here it's that he believes this incident has increased pressure on city officials to create a civilian review board for the Fort Worth police one of the last big city departments without one Martin n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep a lot of Americans are using gender pronouns differently this is pretty simple or it was in the past she him her But many people are embracing what they see as a morning clues of way of speaking using gender neutral pronouns like they and them for people who are gender non-binary and don't associate female or male This is in fact changing workplace norms in many places but that shift can be tricky N.P.R.'s Yuki Noguchi reports as a child Joshua Byron realized dressing up as Princess layer was unconventional for a boy it wasn't until young adulthood that Byron 1st encountered the concept that someone could identify it as something other than male or female the idea of being gender neutral or part one part the other felt like it fit so Byron who's $24.00 came out as gender non-binary to friends 3 years ago Byron wanted to be referred to in the 3rd person as they or them as in they meaning Byron asked their friends to honor their wish but they didn't feel comfortable asking the same of people at work I had a very supportive friend group and then I would sort of go to work and I would not think about that part of myself that changed 2 years ago after Byron applied for a teaching job in New York a reference outed Byron as non-binary the new employer had no problem with it and hired Byron but being out at work meant fielding endless questions from colleagues is this really a thing how could a plural pronoun refer to one person as well as more invasive personal inquiries I think people feel really in Times about you know I guess as a who to understand if you like how can this be how can this be I think this is breaking some rule norms about gender have been changing studies show more people especially young people identify as something other than male or female Some employers are already shifting policies United Airlines gives customers the option to you. As non-binary when booking tickets retirement company t.i.a.a. Instructed employees to introduce themselves to clients with their preferred pronouns the law firm Baker McKenzie earlier this year benchmark its staffing targets to 40 percent men 40 percent women and 20 percent flexible including non-binary people and I brown the firm's director of global diversity and inclusion says the policy is designed to reflect the shifting demographics these are prospect of policies and as we go forward we know we have non-binary colleagues and some workers themselves are making changes doing things like including their pronouns on business cards and email signatures that can raise eyebrows and sometimes coworkers don't understand what the pronouns are referring to Laura Jacobs a New York psychotherapist says these changes are new and somewhat rare how to handle non-binary people is still something that I don't think most of players really have a sense for how to handle Jacob's counsels many transgender and non-binary individuals personally Jacobs identifies as both That's right Jacobs identifies as either he she or they Jacob says the workplace is still a very gendered place challenging moments that the person has to deal with can start right from the application process employment forms for example often include only to check boxes male or female references from old jobs might be unaware of a new name or gender identity and often Jacob says employer health insurance requires a person to choose you had to be binary in order to get care and that that was and forced by the medical community needle community and so on and then there were the inappropriate questions from coworkers everybody wonders what's in our pants no where does this get more personal than the bathroom for transgender populations bathrooms or places associated with uncomfortable staring harassment and even violence they've also. And at the center of political controversy 3 years ago North Carolina passed a law requiring people to use bathrooms corresponding to their assigned gender at birth that law was struck down but Mark Morrison says bathrooms remain a hot button issue for employers and for coworkers who don't feel comfortable sharing bathrooms with transgender people Marson is director of Human Resources it allies for health and well being a community health clinic he recently participated in an online discussion with other age or executives about making the workplace gender neutral a good 60 if not more percent of the conversation was about bathrooms at that time Marston says he was rethinking his company's restroom policies in the process he was also educating himself about the sensitivities of people who are gender non-binary I quote unquote forced myself to go into the what was the women's bathroom and I realized it doesn't matter Marson realized a bathroom is just a bathroom he ended up relabeling them simply restroom and restroom with urine from a workers' perspective this change can signal acceptance for Joshua Byron it's a central emotional issue. Scott Yeah not of the. Byron's current workplace offers gender neutral bathrooms but many do not and for Byron things like restroom labels and dress codes become a litmus test for how their manager might react how strictly masculinity might be enforced but changing long held gender paradigms isn't easy the terms used by non-binary people can be difficult to understand in fact it can be confusing even for people who identify as non-binary take me Shapiro to Pierro prefers they and them pronouns but this is where it gets complicated though Piro recently met someone who used both female and non-binary pronouns the. Piro stumbled in conversation interchange with a then she and her I don't think they took offense but it was an embarrassing moment for myself though Pirro is 25 and works as a teacher in Seattle among middle school students the peers says gender norms have already changed one student recently called the Piro by the wrong pronoun they felt like oh this is something that I grew up with that I should know not so much and as young people join the workforce they will likely keep pushing for workplace culture to change even more Yuki Noguchi n.p.r. News Washington. And if you want some tips on navigating a diverse workplace N.P.R.'s life kid has a story for you which is on N.P.R.'s or. It's n.p.r. News. And doesn't Democratic presidential candidates took the debate stage Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly despite pressure from the White House and Republican lawmakers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is dismissing calls for a formal House vote to authorize the Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Trump Here's N.P.R.'s John Snyder President Trump and Republican lawmakers have been using the lack of a vote to brand the impeachment inquiry as illegitimate the White House characterizing the process as unfair and has been stonewalling requests for documents and witness testimony but a formal House vote is not likely right now speaking to reporters after meeting on the issue with the House Democratic caucus House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it's not about calling the administration's bluff on Capitol Hill today a former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompei o schedule to give closed door testimony as part of the impeachment probe protests from opposition lawmakers forced Hong Kong's chief executive to suspend her annual address today in the legislative chamber N.P.R.'s Emily Fang says Kerry Lam delivered her speech later by video Lammas forced to cancel her live speech after Pan Democratic lawmakers wearing black chanted slogans and heckled her down from the podium Lam delivered her address by video Instead she has lost broad public support after more than 4 months of anti-government protest sparked when she proposed a hunk on extradition deal Dow futures are down 56 points this morning this is n.p.r. News from Washington. NASA says its 1st all female space walk will take place tomorrow or Friday instead of next week outside the International Space Station and journey or say the failure of a lithium ion battery charger is prompting a more immediate spacewalk the Washington Nationals are heading to their 1st World Series last night the Nats beat St Louis $7.00 to $4.00 to complete a 4 game sweep of the cardinals in the National League Championship series N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman says Washington scored all its runs in the 1st inning and held on from there the 1st 2 rounds of Washington's increasingly special postseason were nervous affairs the Nats needed a late inning comebacks to win the do or die wild card game in the division series that followed that was in the case against St Louis Washington took a 3 games to none lead in the series and then exploded for 7 1st inning runs in last night's clinching game for. The 36 year old how we can drink was named the series' most valuable player he missed much of last season with an injured Achilles tendon finance breakthrough into their 1st World Series follows recent playoff underachieving they lost in the Division Series 4 times in the last 7 years Tom Goldman n.p.r. News the Nationals will play either the New York Yankees or Houston Astros in the World Series the Astros lead the Yankees 2 games to one in the American League Championship Series Game 4 is tonight at Yankee Stadium I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington. On this week's Balli Edition podcast when it comes to California's overhaul of groundwater management many small farmers are wondering when will they get a seat at the decisionmaking table. Time or they're not represented in these and they are very vulnerable to being put out of and Bakersfield may take a different approach to the homelessness crisis by using empty jail beds to enforce drug laws you know almost is not an excuse to commit crime and all we're doing is is arresting people who are committing crimes plus we dig deep into the Bakersfield sound with a new 10 cd collection that group of musicians having the opportunity to go to Capitol Records and record alternately that when you see Buck Owens get signed to an artist download the valley Edition podcast your connection to the San Joaquin Valley anytime anywhere. For n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Capt Terra for helping people find the right software for their business from applicant tracking to workflow software visitors can access more than 1000000 software reviews and compare products more it kept Tera dot com and from the financial services firm of Raymond James offering personalized wealth management advice and banking and capital markets expertise along with a legacy of putting clients financial wellbeing 1st learn more at Raymond James dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep Turkey's president is not responding as the United States might hope to calls for a cease fire President Trump 1st cleared the way for a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria and then urged Turkey to stop president. Told reporters yesterday quote We will never declare a cease fire today or tomorrow and said Turkey would stop its military operations but only if Syrian Kurdish fighters flee a border region by tonight a u.s. Delegation led by Vice President Pence has been ordered to visit Turkey and try to figure things out and in the meantime the fighting has caused a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Syria which N.P.R.'s Chana RAAF is covering from the nearby Kurdistan Region of Iraq Jane hi there what are you learning so this is genuinely a humanitarian crisis across the border in Syria it was already vulnerable and now aid groups have pulled out saying it's just too dangerous to work there that means that clinics are closed food distribution has been slowed or halted water is in short supply there are people massing at the Syrian side of the border trying to get across to the Iraqi side and some of them have one days to safety so all of this of course is in the space of just a few days as Turkish forces advanced and u.s. Forces withdrew one European aide worker we talked to told us we plan for several contingencies but we never planned for them to happen all in the space of a few days Ok so you said Syrian people in Syria are fleeing toward the border with Iraq the country where you are what do you see what do people see when they go to that border and look around and the n.p.r. Team at the border this week met families desperate to cross over to Iraq and not everyone is allowed to there was an extended family of more than 20 people including children who were turned back by a border guard Let's listen to a bit of that. Music on who is going to get I'm not going to belive in God and what I'm going to. Go. So one of the men is saying there's a man in the car who's about to die and the Kurdish Guard is telling him that they don't have proper I.D.'s I can't let them cross at the end they drove out to spend the night in their car in the desert you would like I suppose people to have help from humanitarian relief organizations in this circumstance and yet some of them are pulling out why are they saying they're doing that well pretty much they're all saying they can't guarantee the safety of their personnel of places where they operate are being shelled so they have almost all withdrawn their international staff and local workers have gone home to their families or they fled Doctors Without Borders is one of the main organizations working in northeastern Syria and we spoke by phone with Robert onus the organizations emergency director he says water problems are particularly concerning near the border so not only do you have people being displaced with very little because nobody was prepared I think for this eventuality but also they are going into an area where access toward to read heavily restricted and that's on top of the fact that many of the humanitarian organizations that were working in the area of either had to reduce or or suspend their activities so a lot of those aid workers have flooded over here to Iraq to sit it out basically in border towns they're waiting to see if they can go back but they're not expecting to be able to soon Jane thanks for your reporting really appreciate it thank you so much that's N.P.R.'s general. There are startling revelations in Ronan Farrow new book catch and kill excerpts of the book were released a week ago including more details about the systemic abuse carried out by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein Farrah writes that Weinstein's enablers include Feroz own former bosses at n.b.c. News N.P.R.'s David Folkenflik reports that N.B.C.'s top news executives are now under siege on Monday n.b.c. News president no Oppenheim called Running Pharaoh's book catch and kill a smear a lie and a conspiracy theory here's another thing you could call it a disaster for n.b.c. News no journalist who looked at this had any doubt that it was newsworthy and for me personally it kept me up at night that I was sitting on criminal evidence that suggested people were getting hurt in an ongoing way as Pharaoh describes it and b.c. Slow walked and then ultimately smothered his exposé of Weinstein back in 2017 for a spoke with my n.p.r. Colleague Lou Garcia Navarro late last week there were assurances made that the story would be killed and that Harvey Weinstein was laying siege to this news organization Pharaoh's reporting ultimately appeared in The New Yorker in his book fair wrote that Weinstein's friends at the National Enquirer sent reporters to dig up dirt on a frequent tabloid target started a show host Matt Lauer for alleges that Weinstein sought through the Enquirer to intimidate n.b.c. From it during the story about him even as Weinstein lobbied news executives directly and b.c. Fired Lauer in November 2017 when a former producer accused him of rape and accusation Lauer denies saying it was consensual the severity of that accusation was only disclosed in Pharaoh's book not by executives the revelations in Pharaoh's book have eroded the faith many n.b.c. News staffers have had in their leaders according to 2 veteran n.b.c. Journalists rich McHugh was a supervising producer for the n.b.c. News investigative team he collaborated closely with Farrow doesn't make any sense that you let one of the biggest stories of the year if not more walk on. The door like an investigation we've spent so many thousands of dollars on just go bye bye and we're going to New York and put a bow on our reporting McHugh tells n.p.r. That news executives ordered them to stand down to stop reporting before telling Pharaoh he could go elsewhere with the story make you ultimately left the network I told them from the beginning I said You guys are on and it's well Ireland here and you know someone says we must stop this is going to continue and b c would not give interviews for this story n.b.c. News chairman Andrew Black rejected Pharaoh's account in a statement last Wednesday News president no Oppenheim held sessions with staffers Thursday and attendees says n.b.c. Nightly news anchor Lester Holt was among those asking skeptical questions on Monday morning Oppenheim issued a memo contending Farrow amid a distorted and lied about key facts Oppenheim cited timestamped e-mails and texts and an earlier review conducted by the chief attorney for N.B.C.'s parent company Time argued the story wasn't ready and that n.b.c. Did not wilt in the face of threats but McHugh asks Why did n.b.c. Work so hard to discredit what the reporters turned up and failed to find ways to get their story ready for prime time Monday night s n.b.c. Primetime host Chris Shays spoke out my own news organization is embroiled in a very public controversy over its conduct and then he told viewers this one thing though is indisputable Ronan Farrow walked out of n.b.c. News after working on the Weinstein story and within 2 months published an incredible article The New Yorker that not only one Pulitzer but helped trigger a massive social and cultural reckoning that continues to this day has argued that n.b.c. News followed the path of least resistance n.b.c. Is owned by the huge media conglomerate Comcast since Friday I've repeatedly asked a senior Comcast spokeswoman to lacking Oppenheim the top executives of n.b.c. News still enjoy the full confidence of their bosses more than 4 days later no word back David Folkenflik n.p.r. News New York. This is n.p.r. News later today on This American Life Stacey standing on a street corner in Brooklyn Koster covered in rhinestones and there's the rise of the back 7 coming out of this some stones came or just know if you're going to do it carry some crazy will wish you to go inside one of the biggest parties in New York City people in masks rivalries that go back years later today this is my. Public radio. And for the last 3 talk the program the questions everything except your intelligence coming up in the space time continuum I never understood the space is one thing time is another thing while time is things changing things happen in space so no space no time could there be space no time and things just the way they are in space without changing in time then you disagree with Einstein and modern physics the strange time continuum thanks I want to love. First tonight at $7.00 Public Radio. From Silicon Valley to the San Joaquin Valley what happens in California matters to you and Lily Jamali host of The California Report inviting you to join me weekday mornings for the latest news from across the Golden State now with expanded coverage at New Times 6 50 am and 8 50 am here on Valley Public Radio f.m. 89 your n.p.r. Station. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin the threat from climate change is massive companies are now trying to grasp those risks and some of them are turning to high tech tools for answers Here's N.P.R.'s Dan Charles the company Ingredion makes as you might guess ingredients starches and sugars in all kinds of manufactured food from soft drinks to be yours to frozen meals this is Brian Nasheed gradients director of sustainability the company makes these products from special kinds of corn I mean we use millions and millions of metric tons of corn around the globe lots of things can go wrong in the supply chain bad weather broken machinery but lately Brian Nash's corporate bosses have been asking him to look at a new kind of risk what might go wrong in a warmer planet and that could be anything where climate change is impacting the crops that we purchase to water availability driven by climate change he says lots of companies are doing the same thing because investors are worried any publicly traded company I think is under increasing pressure from the investment community to articulate what we see as our upcoming climate risk companies are now looking for experts to help them figure it out and the Danish engineering firm Ramble which built its reputation designing bridges and ways to manage traffic sensed an opportunity and so did one of the firm's scientists soon Kemble cook I raised my hand because that the job with my prospects perience I just jumped at the chance to get back into doing this years ago she'd been an academic researcher working on computer models of the global climate she loved the feeling of being able to simulate something that's in the atmosphere and really seeing it unfold in front of you was thrilling these simulations climate models really can give businesses information about future risks she says cares how they work so a climate model in many ways is like a weather model a weather model is what generates those videos you see on t.v. Weather forecasts storm. Moving across the map it's basically a computer program that takes current weather conditions and calculates how forces like heat or air pressure will drive winds and temperatures over the next few hours or days the climate models are just bigger they factor in forces like rising levels of greenhouse gases which trapped more heat or changing currents in the ocean but still you're starting with current conditions and just turning the model loose letting mathematical equations calculate whether decades into the future you know you'll see storms form at sea and then come ashore of a California now every time you run one of these models from a slightly different starting point the weather plays out differently but if you run them over and over collecting all these possible versions of the future you do get a sense of what's the new normal normal highs and lows normal rainfall and how that's different from what we're used to now so Campbell cook and her colleagues at ramble are trying to boil that down into estimates of particular risks in particular places like here you'll see more flooding here you'll have trouble growing corn Katie Leskie a consultant Rampal who helped create this tool called has Atlas says the sales pitch is pretty simple it's really easy to make the point that as our climate changes by getting increased damages from events like flooding and wildfire this tool helps people prepare for that future but they still have to convince businesses that this tool can deliver information that specific and accurate enough to help them make decisions ingredient that company that makes food ingredients is not yet convinced the company worked with Rampal to see what the models might say about ingredients supply of corn in the future they decided the results were still too vague and uncertain at least for now but ingredients executives also say if these tools for predicting climate risk get better there will be a huge demand for them Dan Charles n.p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin after the $911.00 terrorist attacks in 2001 the CIA started scrambling to ramp up its counterterrorism operations that included an infusion of young recruits many of them women into an agency long dominated by older men 3 women in the thick of this battle have now each written books about their secretive work laying out the successes and the shortcomings of the war on terror N.P.R.'s Greg Myre really has their stories when the September 11th attacks hit Amaryllis Fox was about to start her senior year in college the next day she drove to New York to see the smoldering rubble and asked herself what can I do just a few years later she was an undercover CIA officer tracking extremists one of the things that I think we all forget is how incredibly young so many of the intelligence officers really are Tracy Wilder was a sorority sister at the University of Southern California and a news junkie who joined the CIA just weeks after graduation in 2000 the terror attacks the following year accelerated her training to be completely honest with you and I had been placed in the counterterrorism center not because I was spectacular but because I was young and and so a lot of us sort of newbies were placed in the Counterterrorism Center these 2 women along with the 3rd Neda Bakos all have new books that present in detail how they went about this work like how to create an undercover identity as an art dealer or how to trade coded messages on a Starbucks gift card and as Tracy Walder explains it's not easy blending in as a young blond American in the Middle East sometimes I would have to travel in trunks of cars just because that was the way that it was and I was going to stick out no matter what they all had distinct roles NATO Bakos entitle her recently released book The target her which was also her job description Her mission was to learn everything possible about extremist. Als or Kawhi a key leader in the Iraq insurgency you're looking for information that you can act on so you give it to whatever action arm that that we have a time and in my case quite often it was special forces czar Kawhi was ultimately killed in a u.s. Drone strike in 2006 Amaryllis Fox writes in her book Life undercover about making her way through the congested streets of Karachi Pakistan for a clandestine meeting with extremists she's trying to learn about a possible attack they want to discuss u.s. Drone strikes that are killing civilians there are electric moments walking into meetings and there are moments of the intense drama that we associate with the war on terror with the spy world this war also marked a major shift for a spy agency run by older white men who had specialized in Russia after September 11th the focus turned to radical Islam women were part of this rising generation last year Gina Haskell became the CIA's 1st woman director here she is speaking this past April it is. A great time to be a woman at the agency they had of operations a woman they had of analysis is a woman head of science and technology is a woman. You might sense a conspiracy here but the 3 women authors don't see a conspiracy they see a skill set that many women bring again Amaryllis Fox some of the traits that we tend to associate with feminine characteristics you know intuition emotional intelligence and to multitask these are things that make really excellent operations officers these books are also filled with frustrations NATO Bakos was on a team looking into possible links between al Qaeda and Iraq the leader Saddam Hussein we really didn't find a connection between Iraq in any you know larger international terrorist organization that would have really been a. It was a threat to the United States which was not what President George w. Bush's administration said when it launched the war against Iraq there were moments in my career when I just wanted to go out into the street and yell exactly everything that I've told the policymaker that they aren't telling the public and it's incredibly frustrating around the same time Tracy Walters team made poster size a graphic showing that Saddam likely did not have weapons of mass destruction if that work was sent to the White House and later morphed into the poster that Secretary of State Colin Powell famously used at the United Nations to argue that Saddam did have such weapons obviously we were horrified Well could we do about it . Wasn't much but I do think that part of that star alone with the whole the u.n. Case was used sort of in her. For the Iraq war like all books by former CIA employees the manuscript had to be reviewed by the agency the one by Amaryllis Fox recently caused a stir amid reports that it had not been cleared for publication yet it was published as planned on Tuesday all 3 women left the CIA by 2010 and have moved on with their lives Amaryllis Fox sometimes travels to Iraq to work with those scarred by violence Neda Bakos is at a social media company in Seattle Tracy Walder whose upcoming book is called the unexpected spy teaches a course called spy craft at an all girls school in Dallas some students have followed in her footsteps I have had girls now who were at State Department CIA. In the compartmentalise world of the CIA These 3 women say they've never met if they ever do they'll have a lot to talk about Greg Myre e n.p.r. News Washington. Last night the Washington Nationals did something that has never been done in franchise history here's how it sounded on t.b.s. . They won the league championship which means they made it to the final round of the playoffs the World Series the Nationals are beating the odds as of late May their chance of reaching the World Series was rated at 110th of one percent their odds had improved considerably by the time they faced the St Louis Cardinals in the league championship series here in Washington yesterday afternoon a friend of mine a St Louis native bravely wore around his cardinals cap but it did no good as the Nats swept the Cardinals 4 games to none afterwards Nats coach Davey Martinez had a one word reaction. No need to elaborate there Davey. D.c. Has not sent a team to the World Series since 1933 back when the home team was the senators that season started with a special guest throwing out the 1st pitch. Of the bridges mile but we'll forgive him everybody knows us by the end of all President Franklin d. Roosevelt 86 years ago the senators lost that series as for who the Nats will be facing that is still yet to be determined the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees face each other in Game 4 of their series tonight. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep and I'm Tom. This is family Public Radio f.m. $89.00 n.p.r. 4 central California p.r. Fresno pay p.r. X. Bakersfield online it. And you can listen to it on your smart speakers and also on the family Public Radio and. a family spent 12 years seeking a proper diagnosis for a sick child and u.s. Tariffs on China hit goldfish It is Wednesday October 16th this day in 2002 President George w. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war in Iraq. The news is next line from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm core of a coma.

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