The link in the supply chain is agricultural equipment in other big rigs tractors earthmovers and the like made by classic American manufacturers like Caterpillar and John Deere their export sales to foreign customers are falling says Elizabeth Vermillion at c.f.r. a Research now you have tariffs in trade and slowing global macro economic headwinds plus u.s. Farmers are so uncertain about the trade future will China buy their soybeans will India buy their apples that they're holding back on buying new farm equipment for next year I'm Michel Hartman for Marketplace the devastating California wildfire known as the camp fire ignited a year ago Friday It killed at least 85 people and leveled the town of Paradise the fire has been blamed on faulty electrical equipment from the state's biggest utility Pacific Gas and Electric liabilities from that fire helped push p.g. And e. Into bankruptcy last January and now there's a battle over how p.g. And e. Should emerge from Chapter 11 and who should run it 22 California mayors have an idea turn it into a publicly owned cooperative utility Here's Marketplace's Justin ho on what that might look like p.g. Any answers to its shareholders who want a nice return on their investment publicly on cooperatives we're going to very different way says Jeffrey Connor of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association wished in a way that consumers don't become law that elect a court to guide the direction of the electric utility or rather they have to shareholders Californians are tired of having their lights shut off and the group of mayors says p.g. And e. Isn't doing enough to prevent wildfires more than $7000000000.00 paid out dividends to shareholders the company is under attack did it basically. To upgrade. That Samak Cardo the mayor of San Jose he says a public takeover would save money no more dividends for $1.00 and the public co-op would be exempt from federal taxes the cardio says the. Savings will help the companies say clear brush from around its power lines there was going to take a lot of dollars there are about $900.00 publicly owned utilities in the us nothing at the scale of p.g. And e. Which serves more than $16000000.00 people economics professor Severin Borenstein at u.c. Berkeley says if those customers were to own the utility they'd be assuming a lot of risk in the event of more wildfires or other disasters so that taxpayers who are behind you know what utilities are on the hook p.g. And e. They climbed an interview but in a statement it said changing the structure of the company would not improve safety and said its facilities are not for sale I'm just Inhofe or marketplace on Wall Street today economic activity declines markets shrug We'll have the details when we do the numbers. When Facebook announced plans to introduce a new digital currency called Libra it rattled financial regulators all over the world in fact today a draft document from the e.u. Says the European Central Bank should consider issuing its own public digital currency and what tech companies getting into banking financial services and payments regulators have a lot more to contend with Yelena McWilliams is the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation also known as the f.d.i.c it is in charge of banking insurance yes but also monetary oversight and consumer protections I spoke to her at a recent financial technology conference Yelena Welcome to the program thank you for having me it's a pleasure How do you think over time the actual fundamental role of the bank might change like you see a lot of companies saying you know we're payments processors do you think banks will still be processing payments in the future will they make all their money on consumer loans like. What you know how do you see as there is so much competition things the roles starting to stratify I think it's it's very interesting that the place and time we're at right now and one of the things that fascinates me is what are the banks of the future going to be you know is what is the a.t.m. Of the future going to look like what is the teller of the future going to look like a joke it's going to be kind of here's your deposit and here's your cup which you know would you like Whole milk or soya milk I want that machine well. Well we have to think about the sticker on that machine but you know. The question for us on our regulatory side is are we going to be standing in the way of that innovation or are we going to be open minded enough while making sure that the banks are safe and sound and there's adequate protection can we talk about Libra 1st 2nd we can talk about a specific currency because of our of our regulatory framework but I'm happy to talk about generally crypto crypto assets and cryptochrome 6 I mean where do you see this going how long is it before a central bank or a government issues a crypto currency so I know there are talks underway as to what the role of the regulatory bodies into space is right as a regulator you want to make sure that innovation is able to foster but at the same time there are certain developments such as the craft assets that have the possibility to undermine the whole central banking system of a country might one of the things that needs to be decided you know is it an asset or is the security is the currency if it's truly a currency then we need to start thinking about the implications of that including what does it mean for the boss at the shore and so I'm open minded while at the same time making sure that the regulatory agencies are working together so that we don't have. A fragmented I'm sorry approach to to how we regulate and look at this development are there do you think other innovations that can answer some of the needs that you know labor points out which is global seamless pay. And system the ability to serve the unbanked in an in an easy and digital way so every time we see a destructor I always ask why why were they able to step in and do this what was lacking in the market place that you know somebody planted the seed and it was fertile ground and the seed grew into this product and so as I look at the crypt occurences encrypt the assets the issue of real payments real time payments comes into place one of the things that I want to make sure that we don't do is either bless something we're not sure about and we don't understand its implications for the consumers in the marketplace. But also we don't want to encourage this courage actually we don't want to discourage you know they should and it's a fine i feel like I'm on a seesaw every day and I'm trying to figure out how to create that balance where we do enough to encourage innovation but we don't do something that would cause the system to irreparably going to disarray I mean it must be difficult you see these companies kind of plowing ahead you know you see people saying the u.s. Is so far behind on black chain and I actually I would imagine that almost every regulatory body feels this way but you don't want to get left behind but you don't want to. Do it wrong and the stakes when it comes to global monetary policy are way higher right now how stressful is this for you well it's stressful All right laundry doing laundry is stressful as well in my household. Here's the bottom line so laundry is as stressful as labor I can write that down and then use labor then use Libra as it's all right of course here here's how I look at this today extended these currencies and crypto assets and log chain are developing to help society be better but we need to take the big picture into into equation here right central banks of the world have a very easy job of saying no immediately and stopping all of this in their tracks though the fact that that has not happened should tell you that it's a positive development I think because the regulators are at least taking the time to understand the implications while analyzing the impact on the system and so it's stressful because you don't want to make a mistake and so we need to change the regulatory agencies because if you really think about it we're dealing with a 21st century technology with a workforce from generally to 20th century based in some cases of some regulatory agencies on the last and organic statues as were given to us by Congress in the 19th century Eleanor McWilliams as chairman of the f.d.a. I say thanks so much for the time thank you so much. There is more to my conversation with Mike Williams from the conference we talked about digital only thanks and competition in your the whole thing on the Marketplace Tech podcast. 91 percent of venture capital investment goes to men most of whom are white and did we mention 90 percent of venture capitalists are men too but by only investing in people who look like them vs. C's are leaving a lot of money on the table as much as $4.00 trillion dollars to be exact that's according to a new report from Morgan Stanley Carla Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management there Carla Welcome to the program thank you very much for having Miley so I want to move up the money chain when you put out a report like this from Morgan Stanley are you speaking not just a venture capitalist but also to their investors the limited partners who arguably are the ones who are holding the purse strings We hope so Molly and that is part of what we're trying to do is to say not only are you b C's missing it but perhaps if you're missing it you may be leaving some money on the table for your limited partners and I wonder do you think that's where the Ultimately the change has to come from like L.P.'s all suddenly introduced you know diversity riders if every pension fund that was going to put some money into venture capital said Hey my pensioners want you to do the best you possibly can and that means investing broadly is that what it's going to take Well I'll tell you I do think that that would be powerful there's no question that limited partners have power in this equation to also move the needle with the distribution of capital to women in multicultural entrepreneurship question and you absolutely started to see some of that in the private equity industry where L.P.'s certainly did make a difference so I think the same could apply here that's very reasonable so what do you think it is what is keeping venture capital from flowing I mean you know the data's pretty clear on the mountain a any of this industry and. And all of those things but when you really talk to these guys what do you think is keeping venture capital from flowing to a broader set of founders I tell you I think up until now there's been a dearth of data that suggested that in fact there might be a differential with respect to returns and that they were in fact missing something of value I think in the last 2 years there's been a lot of data that has been released that talks about the value of companies that have more women internally so now I think there's far more data out there that is supportive of the argument that in fact there is something to Miss so I think that that is in fact going to start a little the needle but I think when things have been bumping along you know in fine form and there was nothing to counter that argument there was not necessarily a motivation on instigation to change it right yeah and you don't necessarily so but a lack of data really only allows bias to continue right I would I would say that's fair it makes it easy for it to exist let's put it like that because it's hard to counter the argument Yeah well you're proving a negative I guess the survey says that women earn $0.78 per dollar invested and men only earn 31 person $0.31 that should be enough evidence right we should suddenly I'm sure that in the next year we will see a flood of new investment. And multicultural founders right. I won't I won't necessarily say it would be a flood but I tell you we would be you know we would certainly be very happy to see that happen if this one report made that kind of difference in the industry we'll take that all day. Carla Harris is vice chairman of Global well at Morgan Stanley thanks so much for the time thank you so much Molly appreciate it. Coming up we've been told by billions of dollars of advertising money that our car is our identity. Trying to undo the work of those billions but 1st let's do the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 30 points 110th percent to close at $27992.00 the Nasdaq picked up disappoint basically flat finish $8434.00 and the s. 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This is Marketplace I'm Molly Wood farming and ranching are tough jobs and lately so much tougher historic flooding this fall has taken a huge toll for farmers in Montana where wheat is their biggest agricultural commodity the trade war has seriously limited export options of wheat into China and so with that said Here is today's installment of our regular series my economy My name is Michelle Erickson Jones I am my farmer from Broadview Montana we raise wheat barley corn some dollars as well as forages and a small cow calf operation. And there's definitely you know a lot of things that I love about being a farmer but certainly being able to you know raise crops raise food work on the same land that your family's been on for multiple generations is something that is rewarding. Throughout the country we've had excessive rain across the Midwest in Montana there's been a lot of problems getting harvest completed combining that with our low prices as well as our challenges in the export market is made for pretty difficult time for for agriculture as a whole. Trade was affected us certainly on our input side you know the cause of steel has risen with steel and aluminum tire so there's also been other inputs that have risen with some of the other tariffs We've also been impacted by the tariffs into China China was a rising market for wheat and especially for bring me and soft white we out of Montana and the Pacific Northwest when the trade war started in March of 2800 they stopped buying we and they actually did not return to that market until just last week they finally bought soft white wheat but that is the 1st purchase of wither they've made in over a year and a half and that's been a substantial loss for us in the weed industry. Overall they were roughly a $450000000.00 market a year for Montana specifically they were about a $65000000.00 market a year and they were one that we had targeted for expansion not to lose our market share. We have excess we in the world we've there's considerable We stocks in the world and. When we combine that with stagnating demand then that is a that's a considerable issue for us and it is had an impact on our prices which has an impact on our ability to be profitable our ability to expand and make purchases and you know contribute to the rural economies. You know there's a lot of uncertainty and want to future in farming looks like you know we've made it through a period before our farmers obviously made it through the thirty's or made it through the eighty's 'd you know I suspect the agriculture will find a way to make it through. It may look different or parts of the countryside may look different than they did before this. Michelle Erickson and Jones she's a wheat and grain farmer in Broadview Montana we need you and your stories to make this series work so take a 2nd and let us know how your economy is doing and marketplace dot org. Cars and Trucks are the biggest single source of greenhouse gas emissions in this country one obvious solution to that is fewer cars on the road now carpooling has long been the holy grail for how to solve that problem but it's also really hard to accomplish and after 10 years trying to help drivers of void traffic the navigation app ways is trying to get its users to carpool together now and Bardeen is the c.e.o. Of ways Noah thanks for coming on thank you for having us so I want to talk to you 1st about carpooling most people know ways as a mapping company you're about a year into this. Car pooling experience and for those who don't know about it how does it work so carpooling is basic an attempt to actually do something about traffic so carpooling tries to do is match you up with people that live close to you work close to you and leave more or less the same time you leave and it creates this kind of small communities of people who live next to each other work with each other and leave their card home one day the other person drives etc and by allows them to leave their car and take cars off the road how do you connect you're not hiring drivers right clear you're connecting people who are already driving with people who are interested in getting a ride correct So this is not a business and we limit the the amount of reimbursement that you get to $0.58 a mile which is the reimbursement for wear and tear on your car and fuel and so you can't make money here and this is not Ober this is not a lift it's not a taxi but we can do is help yourself help your neighbor and help the environment but also individually for you you're driving anyway the carpool lane or the age of dealing can save you up to 30 minutes in California 14 minutes on the East Coast on every day commute and there's the kind of things you can access once you have more people in your car so now right now you said you're not making money off of this but you would presumably have to make it profitable in the future right how would that work so today the rider actually pays a small fee and that goes to the driver right to cover the costs right now we're not taking any piece in that even more sometimes we're actually subsidizing sometimes we're paying more to the driver that we are to the right or to create the density to get people to try for the 1st time long term we will take a piece of that transaction some kind of a fee off that money that's going in and out of our system. Is the key going to be there in the future that it would have to be cheaper than it were say so that's always the case we price herself much closer to public transit than to taxis there's a way for for masses of people to cost effectively move to the suburbs and the cities so it's obviously priced much much cheaper than anything you would have in the sort of taxi world what is the hurdle in convincing people to do this I live in California where we have something called casual carpool which is based on you know predicated on this exact concept I think of something similar in d.c. So I have done this thing where I get in a car with strangers but I can tell you my whole family freaked out about it like how do you convince people that this is a safe and good idea that's exactly the challenge I mean the government's been trying to convince people to car pool since the 2nd World War and it makes complete economic sense but it's a hassle there's it's a hassle and lumpia won't do it more than that we've been told by by billions of dollars of advertising money that our car is our identity right that this is who we are and we've been told by our parents not to go into a car strangers so what we try to do is limit the friction make it as easy as possible to you we give you all the information of the people you can see who they are you can decide I only want to ride with someone from my gender I only want to ride with someone from my company I will give you all the tools to make the decision and you're in control at the same time these are people that live next to you and work next to you they probably have a lot more in common with you than you think. You know I wonder to one of the sort of standing criticisms of way is because the focus is really on finding a better route or more you know a quicker route. That it's funneled traffic on side streets or there's the ways left where you're in l.a. And you suddenly have to make a left turn where there's no stop like it is removing more cars from the road also a way to sort of counter that problem which is that there used to be streets that nobody knew about that all of a sudden everybody knows about thanks to Ace so you know we're kind of been branded as the problem here but the problem is not really us the problem is the fact there aren't enough roads and we can see the data itself and there are multiple apps the provide routing now everyone's going on surface streets where you hear a lot of people complaining about driving through their neighborhood but they're happy to drive to someone else's neighborhood right as society would take advantage of all the infrastructure that we have and these roads out there carpooling is obviously the next step about removing the cars and long term if we don't do that no amount of surface streets are going to help because we just have too many cars none of roads now embodying is c.e.o. Of ways Thanks so much for coming in thank you for having me. This final note on the way out is just a shameless diversion into a new category of thing I'm calling stunt foods the latest comes from Pringles parent company keylogging is now selling a friend's giving turducken kit which includes Pringles chips in turkey duck and chicken flavors meant to be stacked and chips flavored like cranberry stuffing and pumpkin pie on this side I'm just going to tell you now none of your friends are coming over for that. Marketplace is supported by life long life law. Norton offers cyber security solutions to help keep Packers on a consumer's devices learn more at. The open source digital experience company. Experiences for some of the largest brands around the world more at dot com And by Raymond James offering personalized wealth management advice and capital markets expertise with a commitment to putting clients' financial needs 1st James dot com All right we got to go I got a turducken Pringle's party to get to the Dow Jones advance 30 points today the Nasdaq was basically flat. $503.00 points that is 110th of a percent our digital and On Demand team includes Janet win. And Tony Wagner as is our executive director on demand and. We'll see you back here tomorrow. This is a pm. On the next insight a conversation with journalist Mark air x. About the forces that led to the campfire and its intense destruction we 1st recorded and aired this conversation in August but there's so much history and backstory in Mark's work for the California Sunday magazine that it's timely now as we approach Friday's one year anniversary. Join us for insight. 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News in Culver City California and to Wayne Brown House impeachment investigators are requesting testimony from a new witness Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson has more on what they hope to learn the 3 House committees have sent a letter requesting a deposition with White House chief of staff Mulvaney saying that Mulvaney may have played a direct role in the scheme to withhold a meeting at the White House and $400000000.00 in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a public announcement by the Ukrainian president that he would open an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter the House letter says such an investigation would only benefit President Trump's personal political interest while jeopardizing u.s. National security however it's unlikely that mall they me will agree to testify since he has already ignored a subpoena for key White House documents Mara Liasson n.p.r. News the White House and Chicago an attorney representing a group of black customers who were asked to change tables at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant because of their skin color is urging the company to make major changes to avoid a discrimination lawsuit the group was celebrating a child's birthday when they were asked to move because a regular customer didn't want to sit near black people Tony kind of Lambert says he's glad they fired some employees after the incident in Naperville but says Buffalo Wild Wings can do more to send a message that we are expected that they will be good corporate citizens and that they will take this opportunity to do the right thing they have an opportunity to be trailblazers right now where they can show other corporate community participants what it is to stand up to racism The incident comes a few months after a clerk at a Naperville gas station was fired for telling Hispanic customers to go back to their country. Stocks finish modestly lower today on Wall Street after several record setting rallies traders remain optimistic about the chances the u.s. And China will close the 1st phase of a trade war truce this is n.p.r. Accordance Iberia is ordering a Jehovah's Witness to serve 6 years in prison comes 2 years after the Russian Supreme Court branded Jehovah's Witnesses extremists N.P.R.'s Lucianne can report on the latest phase of the crackdown on the religious group a court in the college town of Thomson Sergei clean up to 6 years in prison it said he had continued having a regional Jehovah's Witnesses branch in defiance of the Government's ban cleanups is only the latest in a string of convictions of Jehovah's Witnesses across Russia Human Rights Watch the persecution of the group is increasing as part of an escalating crackdown President Vladimir Putin last year called the pressure on Jehovah's Witness is complete nonsense but after Sergei cleam of conviction Putin spokesman said the quote was simply following existing Russian law Lucy and Kim n.p.r. News Moscow new orders for u.s. Service companies grew at a faster pace in October after hitting a 3 year low in September although some companies say they are still having trouble finding enough workers due to the historically low unemployment rate the Institute for Supply Management says 13 out of 18 industries surveyed reported growth in business activity the rebound could ease some of the market anxiety of the trade standoff between the u.s. And China which has put the squeeze on American manufacturers as well as farmers stock Spanish modestly lower on Wall Street today the Dow lost 30 points or 110th of a percent the Nasdaq dropped one point this is n.p.r. News. 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Comes from the station and from little pos forts a monthly subscription service for kids each package includes games souvenirs and activities from a new country designed to spark curiosity and cultures around the globe at little passports dot com slash radio and from stars presenting the original series Dublin murders based on the novels in the woods and the likeness by Tana French Dublin murders premieres November 10th at 8 pm on Stars. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm healthy Chang in Culver City California and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington d.c. In August a 9 page letter landed on the desks of the chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees this was the whistleblower complaint now at the center of the impeachment inquiry so far the a Didn't to t. Of that whistleblower has been kept secret This is despite the efforts of President Trump the whistleblower. To be revealed because the whistleblower did false story so what are the implications of outing a whistleblower that's a question I want to put to Jesselyn Radack who has been a whistleblower back when she was a lawyer at the Justice Department she filed a complaint that the government was mistreating John Walker Lindh the man known as the American Taliban Well just one radar now represents whistleblowers as an attorney and she joins me now welcome thank you for having me I wonder if you can boil it down just to the essence to a few sentences what is your answer to President Trump why not name this whistleblower because anonymity is the backbone of every whistleblower protection law that's out there right now people obviously are very reluctant to come forward because they fear precisely the kind of retaliation that President Trump is unfortunately exhibiting whistleblowers are already childes and a variety of different ways but to have the president of the United States making these kinds of threats will make anyone think twice under the laws designed to govern when someone files a whistleblower complaint what protections legally is the whistleblower supposed to enjoy most of these laws basically say that when you make a disclosure the government may not retaliate against you and usually that would include. Things like demotion or firing or. In recent cases unfortunately referring people for criminal prosecution to the protections for whistleblower depend on what part of the government they work for or is the scenario different if you work at CIA versus Justice Department versus the Pentagon are and so on absolutely it may be counter-intuitive but professionals in the national security and intelligence agencies have believed was so blower protection in other words the most consequential whistleblowers that we've seen are precisely the ones who have the least protection national security and intelligence revelations have revealed the biggest secrets of this government including torture secret surveillance and drone killings. Do we assume that all whistleblowers are automatically telling the truth or are some of the protections you have described do they stop applying if it comes out that the whistleblower was making something up a whistleblower only has to have a reasonable belief now if the whistleblower is outright lying then obviously you don't need to go forward with their complaint and they could actually be prosecuted for making false statements what are the legal consequences if someone reveals the identity of a whistleblower there are no consequences there are no in Foresman mechanisms so when someone does retaliate against it was simpler and part of that retaliation can include revealing their identity there is no consequence. I can hear I think in your voice the emotion as you discuss the son of somebody who's been a whistleblower do you have any advice for this current whistleblower The amazing thing about this current whistleblower is that they are still employed that they have strong congressional support that they are represented by counsel they also seem to have the support of the media which has also been a huge challenge because usually the government declares someone a traitor or a turncoat and we still see that narrative you still see the trader versus hero to be going on. That is just she was a whistleblower She's now a whistleblower attorney with expose Facts dot org Thank you thank you Republican voters are keeping a close watch on their Republican senators in particular where they stand on the impeachment inquiry and whether they're sticking by President Trump Colorado Senator Cory Gardner will have a tough race in 2020 so Colorado Public Radio's Ben to Birkeland wanted to find out what his conservative constituents think Cory Gardner joined most of his Senate Republican colleagues and signed on to a resolution condemning the House impeachment process but he hasn't come out strongly on whether President Trump did anything wrong here's what he said last week well my position is taken very seriously the investigation is taking place to not fall for the partisan talking points and make sure that we into a political circus and actually have this done fairly and transparently in October a clip of Gardiner dodging a reporter's questions on the substance of impeachment went viral do you believe it's appropriate for the present nightstands to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political run yes or no all of this video from Denver's Fox 31 racked up more than 2000000 views Unfortunately though it was. It is a very political process take if you look at Al Green in Texas member of Congress has said we need to impeach President Trump now because you might not be able to beat him in November that's about politics that's not what the serious investigation should be about but it is a bit is it is it a very good question and some conservative voters are frustrated that Gardner is only addressing the impeachment process. At a community gathering in Castle Rock a city south of Denver 70 year old self described fiscal conservative Claire let's says she doesn't believe Trump committed impeachable offense and wants to hear Gardner address that I'd like to hear something from him back in him I just feel that a lot of the politicians say look out for themselves she thinks the increase is a waste of money when Congress could be working together but isn't sure whether she'll vote for Gardner again I'm going away to latch on this impeachment thing that I'm going to race everybody that worked against President Trump Republican Wade Frary plans to vote for Gardner but wants him to say more to I think you should support the president and. And so I'd like to hear more from him. For he says he disagrees with Trump on a lot of occasions but calls the inquiry a sham Stephanie Ross Kelly supports the impeachment inquiry She's a Republican but back to 3rd party candidate for president in 2016 financially if you like our economy really bad here's an outrageous person it's hard to get past that part as Kelly says her vote for Gardner hinges on how he and other lawmakers conduct themselves during the impeachment inquiry I don't think I like her quite. Think that surprised me but here's their line with the Republican Party but I think our family is falling in a more moderate where we can pretty much sway it our way other voters we talked to in this Republican majority County said they don't care as much about Gardner's position on impeachment their mark. President Trump. Every statewide office. Considered from. It's a delightfully twisted music experiment get a bunch of rock n roll warriors to spend a week at a ranch in the desert in California to encourage them to write songs and play together capture the results. Josh Homme in front man of Queens Of The Stone Age has been hosting these retreats since the 1997 among the guests this time Billy Gibbons of z.z. Top Les Claypool of Primus and Stella of war paint the highlights have been released as Desert Sessions volumes 11 and 12 Tom Moon has a review. Josh Homme has been making records for a long time and he's tried just about everything to cultivate a vibe in the recording studio he says his favorite method involves getting strangers together in the middle of the desert through remote location encourages musicians to shed their professional armor and try things they wouldn't under normal circumstances. Playing for fun like in the garage when you're 1st starting out even a long time a renewed Welling professional like Billy Gibbons who's approaching age 70 gets. The credits all for clues about what goes on at Rancho de la Luna in addition to drums on that track Carl aids are plays quote unquote hand boop boop synth Meanwhile Stella most gala play stand up chimes and room service. In other words stakes are low nobody gets blamed if a song flames out they just go outside watch the sun and then try something else. Brand new dreams say. I'm living on this just as well. As other. Things. And that leads to something else. To the to. The to. Citigroup. The to Josh Homme he says he thinks about intangibles like chemistry when he's putting together the crew of well known and unknown musicians he sees himself less as conductor than facilitator and he describes the interaction as quote unquote borrowing friction from each other you can hear that in his vocal on this track. There was. A previous Desert Sessions went heavy on prog rock jams this one is more focused on songs the group chemistry changes from track to track nothing feels overworked or over thought the musicians sound like they're discovering the songs as they go along they're not trying too hard to make magic happen and that's precisely why magic happens that was Desert Sessions volumes of 11 and 12 Arbor viewer is Tom the little. Little. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. It's $348.00 this is. 1.3. In the Valley tonight clear skies alone are 4778 for tomorrow and Thursday. It'll be partly cloudy tonight around $29.00 degrees for the next couple days expect highs near $63.00. Support from. The Sacramento region and success means practical strategic solutions for information practices and resources. And from the California Health Care Foundation presenting trade offs a new podcast that tries to make sense of our costly and complicated care system. Or. Waking up early in the morning isn't everybody's cup of tea and sometimes I'm not really into it too but people want to know what happened around the world in their neighborhood and in the community by the time your alarm goes off we've got the news that you depend. On the morning news anchor for. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm also a chink and I'm Mary Louise Kelly President Trump has long threatened yesterday his administration formally announced it and to me your just after the presidential election the u.s. Will pull out of the international climate agreement signed in Paris back in 2016 to get a sense of what this timeline means for the u.s. And world climate policy we have invited Todd Stern into the studio he's a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was a special envoy for climate change under President Obama welcome thank you very much glad to be here so what do you think will be the biggest impact coming out of yesterday's news that the u.s. Is definitely going to be pulling out of the Paris climate deal well look it's not going to be surprised to other nations around the world they were certainly hoping that despite what the president had said back in 2017 that the u.s. Would decide not to not to go out with the president or decide not to go out but it will be very unwelcome news it will be damaging because when the United States as the big player that it is in the world and with the capacity to influence other countries to convene other countries to lead other countries when the u.s. Is out a big important part of the energy in the system a kind of juice in the system just disappears so what happens to the Paris agreement without u.s. Involvement how would that work now while the pair's agreement will still be there and what is crucial now is we're talking about moving toward something like net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 right that's a huge challenge and when the United States is not there when the United States is not part of those every 5 year periods of countries putting a new targets it's everything is just going to work less well it's going to be less ambitious Now there are American companies that are still doing business in countries that have decided to be bound by the Paris Agreement So how does the u.s. Pulling out of the agreement affect those American companies. Well you know I think that American companies that are global will continue to do global business and they will continue to do global business in countries that are part of the agreement but it does not help to be from a country that will be looked at as a pariah country with respect to climate change given what the Trump administration is doing you use the word pariah Europe has long threatened to tax products from countries that have less stringent climate rules the u.s. Will be one of those countries now so might we see u.s. Exports in Europe getting taxed now penalize Yeah look I think that that is a possibility and I think countries will certainly look at that I think it's also as a matter of kind of real politic if you will countries are going to look at a decision like that and try to calibrate what that's going to mean with respect to their overall relationship with the United States beyond climate change because however difficult however undiplomatic if you will the United States may appear to be and may in fact be with regard to in relation to other countries they still are going to be looking to see how much grief do we want to take on our own head for putting a border tariff adjustment for example attacks in effect on u.s. Products now present as promised since the beginning of his term that he was going to pull out of the Paris agreement but the u.s. Has continued to send delegations to international climate talks do you expect that will continue and I mean to what end like how influential could those efforts be I think they won't be influential at all the president could continue to stand a delegation to climate talks for reasons other than Paris but that a there wouldn't be they wouldn't have much clout because United States would be very little respected in this world and more importantly the. They could not participate at all in the ongoing elements of the Paris regime and let's face it the Paris regime is where I've sat this is this is the focus of climate change activity and in the international sphere going forward. Todd Stern is a fellow at the Brookings Institution thanks very much for joining us thanks so much appreciate it now let's visit a coastal community battered by storms around rising waters and following permafrost It's the village of new talk in western Alaska several 100 residents have been trying to relocate for decades now some people finally are moving as Greg Kim of member station. Reports. It's moving day in Newtok where roading land has already claimed several homes and the river is banging on more doors new talk is sending some of its residents across the neglect River this year to its replacement village Mokhtar that felt like it was never going to happen Lisa Charles said her grandparents told her about the plans to move when she was 16 that was in 1904 and after a while she pretty much forgot about it to me it started to become reality one of the places where we are still very picking started to fall into their ever part of the reason it's taken so long is because the federal government has no comprehensive policy to relocate communities that bear the brunt of climate change and the cost to move new talk has been estimated at over $100000000.00 over decades only part of that has come through and bits and pieces from various federal agencies in the meantime the village of new talk sorely in need of funding itself has been neglected new talk tribal administrator Andrew John explains that's because the plan is for it to be abandoned the funding agencies did not want to invest into. A dying infrastructure many homes in new talk are single room 4 walls packed with multiple generations there's no running water and people use 5 gallon buckets as toilets called honey buckets so far they've only raised enough money to move a 3rd of the homes the ones most at risk of falling into the river are being flooded that means families will be separated indefinitely as her dad packs for Mark to Vic 15 year old Joanne David is staying in new talk with her on she says she doesn't want to go to the temporary school and mocked it because it doesn't have school sports. Another little stuff growing up and learning by ourselves when it gets dark in new talk people walk to the south side of the village to look across the river. In mock civic light up like stars for those who get to move this year it's only a 25 minute boat ride away. The difference is striking relocation coordinator Romy caddy shows off the brand new homes. This is 1400 square feet 4 bedrooms complete with kitchen refrigerator thermostat control by next year they'll be running water and flushing toilets. Sitting on the bare floor with their 3 grandchildren Albert Tina Charles says she's happy but she wishes it didn't have to come to this if only there was no. No flood. Stated being there but we'll get used to it outside her new house Albertine and has her own patch of tundra on that hillside her feet rest on solid ground unfamiliar but safe she bends down picks a leaf floats it to her notes and Ales for n.p.r. News I'm Greg. Alaska READY READY. This is n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. 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Process both sides really asserting constitutional rights and at this point there's not a real way to resolve it so you have a court decision that says this is what the Constitution means and this is where the authority is and the Corky keyboard instrument popular in the sixty's makes a comeback 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer and transcription released today by House impeachment investigators Witnesses describe a concerted effort to work around President Trump's demands for Ukrainian investigation in exchange for military aid N.P.R.'s Claudio were Salis reports one witness has revised his testimony is now essentially confirming a quid pro quo the u.s. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sonnen said he delivered a message to Ukraine that u.s. Military aid was contingent on a corruption probe that's according to the revised transcript of someone's testimony as part of the House impeachment investigation the transcript a former special envoy to Ukraine curve Volker shows he told the committees he did not see a quid pro quo he described him a oval office meeting where Trump railed against Ukraine and repeated a de bunked theory that Ukrainians interfered in the 2016 elections Bowker recalled Trump said quote They tried to take me down cloudy Salis n.p.r. News the Capitol or today the White House is not prepared to let President Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney answer questions from the House impeachment inquiry that's according to an administration spokesman spokesman Hogan Gridley in a statement saying quote past Democrat and Republican administrations have not been inclined to permit senior advisors to lead to the let the president proposed dissipating such a ridiculous partisan legitimate proceeding and neither is this 1000 choreographed Mulvaney to appear for a deposition Friday arguing that past White House chief of staff have cooperated with prior congressional investigators parliament Trump spoke with his Mexican counterpart today offering u.s. Assistance in finding the gunmen who ambushed and killed 3 women and 6 children in northern Mexico as well as injuring 5 other children as N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn reports are a multiple Americans among the victims Mexico's president says he appreciates president Trump's offer of assistance. But that Mexico's institutions will find justice in the case the women and children were attacked in a rural region of northern Sonora state they are part of an extended religious community many are relatives of settlers who broke off in the early 1900 from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and settled in Mexico to practice polygamy one of the 3 ambush vehicles.