And what we saw in 2016 in the United States N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt British Prime Minister Johnson says questions are now settled about Bracks it he'll move decisively to pull the u.k. Out of the European Union by the end of January u.s. Consumers kept a somewhat tighter grip on their pocketbooks last month N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports retail sales in November fill short of analysts expectations the Commerce Department says retail sales rose just 2 tenths of one percent in November well below what forecasters expected the bigger suggest growing caution among consumers who spending has been one of the major pillars propping up the u.s. Economy Internet retailers are taking a larger share of the consumer dollar online sales rose 8 tenths of a percent in November electronics and appliances ales were also up but elsewhere spending was more restrained department stores and clothing stores saw their sales decline in November consumers also dial back spending in bars and restaurants forecasters had expected stronger sales given the healthy job market and modestly rising paychecks Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington on Wall Street the Dow is down 36 points you're listening to n.p.r. . Congressional negotiators have reached agreement on a spending package worth $1.00 trillion dollars to fund the federal government a deadline is coming next weekend without spending legislation the government will partially shut down n.p.r. Has learned the package contains more than $1000000000.00 for its southern border fence President Trump saw more than $8000000000.00 for a wall Pakistani officials have reported 4 new cases of polio in the country's north Pakistan is grappling with a surge of polio cases this year after it had nearly eradicated the disease and P.R.'s Dia had deed reports from Islamabad the cases bring the country's polio count to $110.00 for the This comes after a multi-million dollar a years long program by the Pakistani government the un and large aid groups to try eradicate the virus and in twenty's. Tain the country only had 8 reported cases but they showed up after the current Pakistani government led by the prime minister Imran Khan came into power earlier this week vaccinator was gunned down after conducting a 3 day drive and some militant groups falsely state the vaccine is part of a Western conspiracy to make Muslims infertile to you to date n.p.r. News Islam about a New Zealand military team made a risky trip today to a small island to recover 6 bodies of people killed this week in a sudden volcanic eruption the death toll which stands at 8 people is now going to rise several people were badly burned in this week's blast 2 people remain missing on Korver Coleman n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from Progressive Insurance offering a way it's a buy home insurance with their home quote explored tool custom quotes and rates are available online learn more at progressive dot com or 1800 progressive Now that's progressive and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is Climate Connections. Each winter tens of thousands of volunteers head outside with binoculars to count and identify birds and their communities are taking part in the Christmas Bird Count a National Audubon Society program now in its 120th year Brooke Bateman a senior scientist at Audubon says this annual census provides important data about how bird populations are changing over time the signs that I do around climate and would not exist without the people that go out and do community science and collect data for birds across the country data from the Christmas Bird Count is used by Audubon the e.p.a. And other organizations studying how bird habitats are shifting in response to the changing climate but the bird count is more than a way to gather data for many it's a beloved Daniel tradition I come from a family of birders my grandmother was a bird or my father feeds his birds at his feeder and my daughter. I still remember when my daughter was able to find a ticket. And get it added to the list of birds that we had seen particular talent and she was 4 at the time and it just was really exciting to Sara that with her so the event provides a way for bird lovers to get outside and help exam science. Climate Connections is produced by the Center for Environmental communication learn more connections. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin King good morning the u.s. And China looked to be on their way to the 1st phase of a trade deal phase one that would avoid another round of tariffs that was set to take effect this weekend President Trump tweeted about the agreement calling it quote an amazing deal for all Chinese officials confirmed an agreement in a news conference they said both sides have committed to work quickly to put details on paper for a formal signing ceremony N.P.R.'s chief economics course by. Scott Horsley is with me in studio is Scott good morning oil so over the last 24 hours there have been conflicting reports about what is actually in this agreement do we know anything definitive Now both sides have been pretty stingy with the details and of course in the past we've had a lot of hyperbole about an agreement that didn't actually pan out so we do want to be careful but we did get a fairly cryptic news conference from the Chinese side of this morning that was followed by some celebrate or tweets from the President Trump and then finally a one page readout from the u.s. Trade representative the put a little bit of meat on the bones Here's what we think is happening on the basis of that the next round of tariffs which were to kick take effect on Sunday on $160000000000.00 worth of Chinese imports those tariffs have been suspended the most recent round of terror which took effect in September and about $112000000000.00 worth of Chinese imports those are going to be cut in half it had been a 15 percent tariff that's going down to 7 and a half percent and then the remaining u.s. Tariffs on about $100.00 x. Amount about $250000000000.00 worth of Chinese imports which were 25 percent those tariffs are going to stay in place for now not exchange for the tariff relief the president says China has agreed to quote massive purchases of farm goods energy and manufactured products but we haven't seen any explanation of what massive means there and then China is also expect to provide some more protection for intellectual property which is something they were already sort of in the process of doing Ok in the tariffs you mentioned the ones that the u.s. Was getting ready to impose this weekend those were a big deal because they were going to hit a lot of consumer goods right during the holiday shopping season right and unlike some of the previous tariffs these were going to fall on things that ordinary people like like laptops cell phones children's toys and now they wouldn't of affected items that are currently on store shelves the tariffs are assessed when cargo containers arrive at the port but there was a worry among retailers and other businesses that just the news of another round of tariffs might have put a damper on holiday sales during a very important. Season we got news just this morning that November sales were a little below expectations so there's a you know some concern out there that consumer spending is a huge pillar propping up the u.s. Economy so there's going to a lot of relief now in the business community that those December 15th tariffs that were going to take effect on Sunday have now been postponed indefinitely or so we have been talking about this trade war for 18 months now does this agreement mean that we are finally done. No the trade war I think is not over but we do have I guess a temporary truce it remains to be seen how much additional stuff China actually buys from the us thus far we haven't seen that quantified the president has floated some astronomical figures that probably aren't realistic but nobody is putting hard numbers on that right now if there are also other items that the kind of big ticket items that are still out there to be resolved the reason that the president launched this trade war initially was all about intellectual property and in the force transfer of technology the u.s. Trade representative statement does make some reference to those items today and some structural changes that China supposed to make but details are are pretty thin right now Ok that battle may not be won Scott Horsley thanks so much you're welcome the long slow Breck's at story has just sped up British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his conservative party just won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections this morning he promised to end 3 years of political paralysis in the United Kingdom over its exit from the European Union and he says it's going to happen fast I will put an end to all that moans and we will get Brett sit down. By the 30000 of January no ifs no buts maybes the vote represents a major shake up in British politics we've got N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt on the line from London good morning Frank and good morning Rachel no doubt a huge win for Boris Johnson how did he make it happen Well he you know that it's interesting the conservatives picked up 47 seats this is the biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher's win in 1987 in the way he did it was just what you heard that line he said Get Bracks it done he had a laser like focus on this slogan and it was very effective and the reason for that is also what you were just mentioning earlier and that is over 3 years of political paralysis people are exhausted here I've been traveling around the country for the last number of weeks talking to voters and not only were people who voted in 2016 in the referendum to leave the European Union who wanted out of Europe those. People it really appealed to that line from Johnson but even people who want to stay in the European Union felt that the country just needed to move on even if it would do economic damage even if they were against this they just felt enough is enough and I think that that message really was the most important thing that Johnson did in the campaign I mean what happened to labor I mean they they ran on a very different kind of platform but he did it and I thought they would do bad Lee I didn't think they would do as badly as they did Rachael it's the were showing since 1035 for them so they have dug a deep hole for themselves and there are 2 things that happened here one is that Jeremy Corbin remarkably understand why did it he would not take a position on Bracks it which of course is the biggest issue to face the country in decades and the reason he did that is he had voters Labor voters on both sides who had different feelings he didn't want to alienate either side so his platform which was very hard to explain on the doorstep as people say here and in British politics and when you're kind of pitching to ordinary voters he said what we'll do is I'll get a new withdrawal agreement on that renegotiate this with Brussels and then we will take it back to the people for a referendum either to accept it or stay in the European Union that just did not sell the other thing is that Corben politically is pretty far to the left here he wanted to nationalize the rail roads which are problematic and has a point but he was also talking about tuition free universities which is very appealing but people weren't sure they could pay for it and he also his negative ratings were 61 percent in a recent poll so he really was a drag on the party. Explain how this changes British politics I mean Johnson really carved together this surprising coalition representing a real change in the political and I mean I think the political landscape is completely revamped and what I'd like to focus on is what's known as the Redwall up north of here in the north of England and in the Midlands even northern Wales Labor had this sort of traditional heartland industrial coal mining factories things like that that they. Always been able to rely on and a lot of them had voted to leave the and so Johnson was able to really go after that area and pick up very big when the other big story of election night was the strong showing of the Scottish National Party which ran on a platform of holding another referendum on Scottish independence how likely is that well not any time soon but this is a very serious issue and I think people are expecting in the next couple of years you're going to see a constitutional showdown between Nicolas sturgeon leader of the Scottish National Party and Boris Johnson N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reporting from London thank you so much happy to do it Rachel. Half as many newspaper reporters will head to work this morning compared to a decade ago Americans are making local political decisions with less and less information but Frank Morris of member station Casey who are reports there are signs of a turnaround at one Kansas news site. The Shawnee Mission Post covers a quarter of 1000000 people from this small clean colored house street in suburban Kansas City headquarters world headquarters a West off is the director of sales and subscriptions it's been 10 years the 1st year we made $500.00 and you know I don't know how many tens of people read this as the tiny web publication battled for a foothold hundreds of newspapers bit the dust including the one that used to cover the same suburbs way back on coverage penny muse Abernathy at the University of North Carolina says news deserts spread across the country what is at stake is our democracy itself and we all have a stake in whatever replaces the 20th century version of the newspaper print advertising largely funded the old model digital ad revenue has never come close to replacing it for papers or digital sites so in a last ditch move to save the shiny. Machine Post publisher j. Center tried putting up a paywall Oh you tried everything we could think of to avoid having to take that move this was 3 years ago honestly he wasn't that hopeful even with all the readership we had we hadn't been able to figure out a way to make it work and we're going to probably have to shut it down just like the norm was not that you paid for local news at that point but people did pay Ok. Welcome and today Center is calling the staff together to plan for next year and a big expansion in news coverage we're in a totally different position as of this year we will make more money from subscribers that we do from advertising is Never happened never centers $2700.00 subscribers are paying up to $72.00 a year for its content but summer he hopes to hire another full time reporter tripling his new Stefani year and a half just one gains in subscription revenue there has been a sea change from advertising dependence to subscription dependence Jim directs the Linn fest Institute a nonprofit group helping news organizations develop new business models he says leading national newspapers have been relying primarily on subscriptions not ads for years and coverage benefits if you are 1st and foremost seeking I balled scale for advertisers you're more likely to focus on. The car dash on the other hand focusing on subscribers means doubling down on local governments and schools civic journalism I am surprised and incredibly heartened by the fact that we've been able to figure out how to make this work here but kind of like where you know a Saqlain sticking out of the ashes of a forest fire the Shawnee Mission post isn't the only one a few other suburban sites are thriving on subscription revenue and the news organizations are bringing in more money from special events donations or grants of course. None of this makes up for the collapse of so many print newsrooms but if the new funding models expand coverage that's good news for everyone here News I'm Frank Morris and. This is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning more than half a 1000000 people in this country do not have homes it's a crisis and you see it especially clearly along the West Coast there are tent cities along sidewalks parks and highway underpasses and they are at the center of a huge legal fight a federal appeals court has put limits on how far cities can go to enforce bans on camping as N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel and Kirk Siegler report this case could be headed to the Supreme Court Boise Idaho is maybe an unusual place to start this story the homeless crisis is overwhelming the big cities on the West Coast but Boise bills itself as one of the country's most livable cities touting its good schools its safe leafy neighborhoods and access to the outdoors yet it's this prosperous mid-size city that's at the center of a divisive legal battle over whether people can sleep on public property the case goes back nearly a decade when Pam Hawkes and her then partner were homeless here she says many nights they had no other choice but to pitch a tent in a wooded area along the Boise river I was like I just need somewhere to lay my head over night and it's not like we left here we always packed up and we always kept it clean yet police routinely ticketed her for camping in public or each talks in Spokane Washington where she's since moved she was on a city bus on her way to a job interview trying to press 31 they call it being in public which then I feel it makes me feel like I'm right Max downtown is Ok In all reality I was tried my time to stay out of view of the public eye hawks and a half dozen others in a similar predicament sued the city of Boise and last year they won a federal appeals court ruled it's unconstitutional for cities to ticket people for sleeping in public if there are no shelter beds available this is now the law of the 9th Circuit that covers much of the West Boise is appealing to the u.s. Supreme Court but for now from here to Seattle to cities in California you can't just. Criminalize people like hawks for not having anywhere to sleep with 24th to go. Boise's of all rights attorney Howard bellowed off still keeps copies of the dozen public camping tickets Pam Hawkes got she couldn't pay them so she'd spend the night in jail cell it off represents the plaintiffs the only way to deter a homeless person is to give them a place to. That's the. Underlying problem even though the homeless population in Boise is much smaller than in big cities the underlying tensions are the same the cost of living here is soaring Boise is now one of the nation's fastest growing cities and there's an extraordinary affordable housing crisis homelessness was a deciding factor in an unusually heated may oral race here this fall that ended up bitterly dividing to Democrats the message that one was Lauren Maclean's part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention if we want to prevent cancer we have to prevent. We've got to address. This community the losing candidate was the city's longest ever serving mayor Dave he took heat for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal the case but Peter argues Boise needs the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of encampments that he said have taken over West Coast cities like Seattle and Los Angeles where my colleague. At least here in downtown l.a. 3000 people sleep on the streets every night in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos tents and makeshift homes made with tarps and cardboard lined the street league. People camping on the sidewalks or shoving their belongings into plastic bags shopping carts backpacks or roller bags pushing them out of the way before sanitation workers get to their block to fill garbage trucks and power wash the sidewalks. It's a city program to keep areas with homeless encampments like Skid Row often referred to as the homeless capital of the nation clean. No ploy to harass the homeless make and we don't we don't suppose that's one round he looks on shaking his head he's standing on the corner where he slept for 3 years before getting into housing last month he got hit by a car couldn't work and so like 150 people every single day in Los Angeles County he fell into homelessness good target it because. It's like cockroaches instead of human beings who are no longer human beings down here no more people are cockroaches to society no one to be. On the streets that's l.a. City attorney Mike Fuehrer he says he's against criminalizing homelessness but the Boise ruling is too broad l.a. And dozens of other municipalities filed supporting briefs in the Boise case I want the Supreme Court to issue clear. Need there to be certainty in jurisdiction's like ours as to how we can regulate constitutionally conduct on our sidewalks for example he worries will the city be burdened with nightly counts of the number of homeless people vs available shelter beds he says the city has to balance the rights of homeless people with those of business owners and other residents they complain about the growing number of tent cities garbage human feces and use needles he says cities and states are working to build more shelters and affordable housing but as that work is done Los Angeles has to be able to police the streets so that our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody and occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement and he has questions about how I can do that under this ruling the crisis is visible outside here is downtown office and back on Skid Row where I meet General joke on conditions. Or worse today. On works of the local nonprofit called the Los Angeles Community Action Network he says for years he's watched the city follow the same pattern one ordinance after the next and. Criminalising being homeless instead of completing badly needed housing projects the courts tickets confiscation of property are not solutions he says to stop the growing crisis so people everybody you know about the last 71 percent of the people whose whole lives in the city lost their lives because the root of this is now it's all that's according to the latest County homelessness count the numbers are up for debate and so is how to solve the problem in the last year homelessness jumped 16 percent in this city and whatever the Supreme Court decides to do won't change that reality there was N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel reporting from Los Angeles and N.P.R.'s Kirk Siegler in Boise the Supreme Court could decide whether it will take up the Boise cases early as today. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News and good morning taking a quick look at the weather forecast for this morning both on the coast and in Linn the high the forecast calls for rain with highs near 55 degrees the south winds up to about 90 miles per hour rains expected to continue tonight showers expected between $10.00 and 4 pm or 4 am rather with lows around $45.00 degrees showers continue to continue to be likely on Saturday and Sunday Sun and sunny skies are expected to return with highs in the low to mid fifty's overnight lows in the low to mid forty's and that includes the lake port area as well as well as you can and . Willett's. Life from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the House Judiciary Committee has approved 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on party line votes Mr Chairman there are 23 ice and 17 knows the articles agreed to the clerks read out to chairman Gerry Now the resolution has been sent to the full House to Democratic leadership aides tell n.p.r. It will be next Wednesday the president stands accused of inviting a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 election by pressuring Ukraine to investigate political rivals troponin Republican allies in Congress argue the charges are politically motivated the president predicts he'll be cleared in trial in the Senate where the g.o.p. Is in control talks between the u.s. And the Taliban are on hold after Wednesday's attack on a u.s. Air Base in Afghanistan in Kabul Jennifer glass has a story he was special representative says he expressed outrage to the Taliban after its fighters attacked Baghran Air Base north of Kabul on Wednesday killing 2 civilians and wounding dozens of others including 5 soldiers from the Republic of Georgia part of the NATO coalition. Says the Taliban must show they are willing and able to respond to the Afghan desire for peace so talks with the Taliban have been paused for their leadership to address the issue negotiations on a withdrawal of u.s. Troops and an eventual ceasefire were halted by President Trump in September after a Taliban attack killed an American soldier they resumed earlier this month for n.p.r. News I'm Jennifer glass in Kabul this is n.p.r. News. A federal judge in Utah has ruled that people born in the territory of American Samoa should be recognized as u.s. Citizens John rate of member station has a story anyone born in the u.s. Territory American Samoa has been labeled a u.s. National not a citizen despite paying taxes Nationals aren't allowed to vote or run for office but not anymore says Utah us District Court Neal we're represented the 3 plaintiffs in the case he says the ruling is a big win especially as President Trump has stated before that he's considered ending birthright citizenship not just for American families but it's a big when for the Constitution for the United States and our history as a country that supports that we're says the federal government is likely to appeal the decision but for now those born in American Samoa and living in Utah are citizens and can register to vote in the 2020 election for n.p.r. News I'm John Reed a more than 100 year old Detroit plant is no more it's been demolished to make room for a jeep factory the d.t.e. Energy plant was opened in 1915 as a coal fired operation it went out of commission over a decade ago the new as Democratic presidential candidate says he's got a plan to do away with all coal power plants that would help reduce carbon emissions across the economy by half in the 1st decade like a Bloomberg says he wants to move the nation toward phasing out fossil fuels by 2050 or as he put it as soon as humanly possible I'm Lakshmi saying n.p.r. News. Well. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Charles Schwab believes in asking questions and being engaged Charles Schwab own New York tomorrow learn more at Schwab dot com from Simon and Schuster publishers of the American story conversations with Master historians David Rubenstein discusses the story of America with David McCullough Doris Kearns Goodwin and others available now where books are sold. And from the e.c. Mc foundation at e.c. Mc Foundation dot org. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm now Will Cain good morning as we've been reporting the Conservative Party has won a decisive majority in elections in the United Kingdom earlier this morning we talked to a lifelong member of the Labor Party the party that is essentially the losers here Kate Hoey announced she was stepping down from Parliament last month she's in favor of Bracks it and she was frustrated with her party's leadership for refusing to take a position either way on the biggest issue for British voters Well it's a devastating result for the Labor Party much much worse than any of us thought I knew that we were going to lose up in our. Labor seats that have never been conservative before have fallen and we are in a situation where there's going to have to be a written branch look at everything that's gone on and particularly why we were so had such a ridiculous policy on the referendum result which asked us to leave the European Union and we had no and that we heard earlier from our correspondent Frank Langfitt about voters as you say in the industrial north of the u.k. Turning against the Labor Party traditionally this party was their ally why did they lose these voters Well of course it was an election about leaving the e.u. And they had many of those seats and voted by big majorities to leave and 3 years later they had in Labor M.P.'s in Parliament doing everything they could to stop it for straightening it delaying it they saw that they didn't trust the party to get a sight Boris Johnson is a great campaigner I worked with him when he was mayor of London and he knew how to get to talk to people in the north he said a lot of time much more than any other conservative leader in those heartland and people in the end many of them will have just lent their vote to the Conservative Party and hope that veggie they'll get a Labor Party that they can vote for again but it was enough to get that majority and that's what we needed to stability because not of the European Union those that we're not going to revoke Article 50 we're not going to have a 2nd referendum. We're going to get out and they will have to change their attitude to to the negotiations and we will get I hope within the next year a good free trade deal with the European Union and of course then we will be discussing with the United States to get an even closer relationship with you as well this is a really interesting point you made about some people in areas that traditionally go for the Labor Party loonie their vote to the Conservative party while it was a labor gets its act together How does Labor go about winning those people back what specifically as a strategy would you suggest Well 1st of all we will get a new leader now that leader is going to have to be radically different from the current leader likely to be difficult yet Jeremy Corbett because our membership is very much molded at the moment in Jeremy courtly image about wouldn't have his history and the things that people attack for so we will need to get a new leader but then we're going to have to you know winning back trust is a slow slow process and of course it was a pencil these are Conservative M.P.'s not representing states that will have all the difficulties and problems and housing benefits and housing issues that they will be bringing back to bars Johnson on you know he then is going to have to look at conservative policies so it is a it is a radical shift something that if the conservatives play their cards right the lever doesn't get a real change then it's not a fait accompli that Labor will automatically when the seats back the Bracks party of course did its good job of what they did was make sure that labor people who couldn't switch right to the conservatives voted for the Bracks party and so the Bracks at party actually helped convince conservatives win this result as well what do you say to people who sincerely want to remain in the European Union who think this will be a disaster is it as simple as you guys lost well and you know when we lost to them and when we had to join the common market and we got a referendum 2 years later last we had to wait over 40 years for another referendum . So I would tell them perhaps they might have to wait not a very long time to have another referendum we could make it work we could be a successful independent country like United States working cooperating with the rest of the world Kate Hoey thank you so much for your time Kate Kate who retired as a member of parliament with the Labor party last month. A group of doctors from across the country marched on border patrol stations in San Diego this week they want to vaccinate detained migrants against the flu but that is against the rules set by Customs and Border Protection Max Rivlin of member station p.b.s. Reports. The group is called doctors for camp closure which advocates for better health care for migrants more than 30 doctors marched to the San Diego sectors Border Patrol headquarters with $120.00 doses of flu vaccine the group had asked in writing months ago to be allowed to vaccinate detainees before flu season was denied by c.b.p. San Diego based Dr Julie Sierra has been providing health care for migrants on both sides of the border and to Quanah And in San Diego for the past year so we're completely ready the minute they say yes we're ready to go in and give 100 flu vaccinations we have everything we need consent forms information forms in multiple languages we have people that can give the vaccinations it's just they just have to say yes Border Patrol does not offer vaccinations for its detainees in a statement to n.p.r. Border Patrol stressed that it has never been a c.b.p. Practice to administer vaccines and this is not a new policy on Twitter the Department of Homeland Security account called the doctors radical political activists in November a letter from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to members of Congress recommended that Border Patrol begin flu vaccinations over the past year 3 detained migrant children have died from the flu while in Border Patrol custody in Texas and New Mexico Border Patrol maintains that they were only aim to hold people for 72 hour. Hours and vaccinations are infeasible Marie Deluca is an emergency room doctor in New York who came down to take part in the vaccinations and protest in San Diego this week she was skeptical about Border Patrol's reasoning as a law enforcement agency of their choosing to detain people in crowded conditions which means that they're actually placing people in a situation where infectious disease is more likely to spread so they're actually creating this problem a report this week from the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and imperial counties and San Diego State University looked at conditions inside Border Patrol facilities in California researchers interviewed 350 adults who had recently been released from Border Patrol detention Professor Jill has been shade is a co-author of the report which found the Border Patrol does not comply with its own standards of treatment which were adopted in 2015 they say that everybody should have a medical screening that as far as we could tell did not happen at least not by medical personnel So 2 thirds of adults were never screened by medical personnel and 43 percent of children personnel on top of that as been saved says detainees reported deeply unsanitary conditions there were widespread reports contagious disease. Fluids on the floor and we also had reports that. Immigration officers wear masks. During this week's protest along the border for doctors who came from across the country to offer vaccinations were arrested but local doctors pledged to use the 120 flu vaccine doses they brought for undocumented migrants on both sides of the border for n.p.r. News I'm actually learned San Diego. This is n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. Committed to the idea that while most things in life run out from clean shirts in the morning to a favorite dessert at night lifetime income in retirement shouldn't learn more it a dot org slash never run out. And from c. 3 dot a i c 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence and enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3 ai. Good morning support for Casey why x. Comes from our members and medic see no coast clinics in addition to health care services men c.c. 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And K.'s the wiser. From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting this is the case. From Friday December 3rd. And homegrown duo the real Sarah is have come a long way since they 1st sang together nearly 10 years ago at Herb school in Ukiah their seamless harmonies and musical adroitness have led to backup gigs with artists like Motley Keller Williams and rising up. Their songwriting chops and drawn attention they'll perform tonight with guitarist Alex to grassy and pass and they've been toying with bass player generally but it began with 2 voices Sarah Larkin when I met Sarah. And we sang together just something just clicked it was this really musical synergy that was just so effortless like we just totally got each other and we both have you know a lot of musical history a lot of training and I think we both had such a desire to cultivate and like spark that love of music and we both have really wide vocal ranges and so she can take the lead and I'll take the harmony or vice versa either of us can go low and once we started sharing each other songs and then getting into songwriting it was just that was it I mean it's just kind of we've been sort of inseparable musically sensors just as both of us have been this sort of way that we feed each other musically that's been really it's been hugely influential We didn't plan this find ourselves in this funny position of. Being successful in our pants because we were just in this creative flow of making our music and putting it out there and really it's been the demand. And of our friends and family and fans to keep going that has made it what it is the now we're at a point where we've pretty much committed our entire everything to this band and now we get to kind of choose where we want to go and that's pretty exciting actually but it's kind of a new thing that we're just feeling like Ok what if we actually said Ok these are our goals. So I meet Sarah Larkin has sold her nursery in Boonville and Sarah Ryan's work is flexible enough to allow for the demands of the bins it business I have not been able to let go of the day job personally but I have only had it more overhead in my life in terms of you know I have a 14 year old and so I've been running a preschool out of my house it's a it's a Waldorf inspired preschool it's for mornings a week so it really goes fairly well with my music career I get long weekends and summers off and we plan our spring tour around my spring break from my school and this last year was kind of a level up I got a substitute teachers so we started doing a full tour and a substitute teacher comes in and it's a wonderful local lady and the kids really love her so I don't know if just kind of cultivated a life where I can do both this is band interesting you know trying to figure out how to make it as a musician we hear a lot of doom and gloom stories you get a lot of questions like Oh can you really make a living doing that well it be harder in San Francisco and we see a lot of our friends in musical peers down there really struggling to make it work but living in Mendocino County not only makes it more financially affordable but it's such a beautiful place to be and it's so inspiring So it's this great juxtaposition of like going on the road doing our work coming home to this beautiful place and having ourselves be nourished and filled back up and getting the inspiration to write and work and kind of continue the women do everything themselves from booking gigs to promoting the band on social media that takes time and energy and they're concerned about preserving the space for writing songs when I 1st started writing it was it was all about release of emotion I would get a very intense emotion and I would. Had to process it and that was how I would process it you know we're touring so much and it just turns out that when you're so busy performing in Turin you don't have a lot of time for introspection and songwriting loss of cool songs come in the shower I get songs in the car all the time while I'm doing other things I constantly have my phone with me and I'm recording voice memos even while I'm driving down the road if something comes to me I have to learn to really try to capture that melody and sometimes I don't get back to it for a long time but some real cool ideas can come from just inspiration from everyday life this is 2017 Whaley's afternoon with the dirty birds showcases their diverse songwriting talents they're 2018 now headed for the hills recorded in one day on one microphone displays their roots as acoustic musicians they're now looking for a female producer to work with them on a 3rd release we're not called the real Sarah's for nothing sort of a joke how we got her name but all of us were like we really put our real selves out there were real people were very approachable were very vulnerable really honest really. Open hearted and heartfelt in what we do and I think our audiences really comes through in our music comes through in our songwriting a lot of our our stories are our own stories our own experiences and I think we put that out there in a real way I think people really get that and so we're looking to work with and collaborate with people who really get there not just to be a mercenary but really feel like the world needs what we have to offer. I wanna. Make them for k.z. Way x. News I'm already doing it for our stories including photos and more visit k.z. Oh ard. Good morning this is the California report and I'm Saul Gonzales in Los Angeles the Trump administration has given the green light to allow for new oil drilling leases on federal land and 8 California counties under the plan the Bureau of Land Management would allow oil and gas drilling leases on over a 1000000 acres of land from Santa Barbara to Bakersfield as well as the Sierra foothills but before drilling could move forward applicants would have to prove drilling is economically viable environmental groups are blasting the lease approvals now to a legislative response to one of the worst boating catastrophes in California history there is a major boat fire and rescue operation underway right now off of Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day of this fire 34 people died aboard a charter dive boat off the coast of Santa Barbara when the vessel caught on fire now California Senator Dianne Feinstein and congressional representative Salut Karbala and Julia Brownley are proposing an overhaul of federal voting regulations that includes requiring boats to have to escape routes improve fire alarm systems and new mandatory safety rules for the storage of cell phones and other electronic devices the proposals come in the wake of revelations that the Coast Guard exempted hundreds of older vessels from current safety standards and now let's turn to bureaucracy as if we needed one more reason to be fed up with the d.m.v. There are reports out this week saying the agency is responsible for inaccuracy in hundreds of Californians voter registration records Brian Anderson has been following the story for The Sacramento Bee last April the d.m.v. Launched a motor voter program and it basically automatically registers Californians to vote when they visit the d.m.v. Unless they choose to opt out and because of some computer problems last year people were defaulted to no party preference Anderson says so far it's happened to 600 people if you're concerned you can update your affiliation online over the phone or in a county election office and there's still plenty of time to. Register before the 2020 election as we in 2000 in 192020 we're going to bring you some conversations about some of the biggest issues confronting California this morning we start with traffic and how that relates to where we live and work I talk about these issues with transportation expert Ethan l. Kind he's the director of u.c. Berkeley's climate program and the author of the book real town when it comes to transportation in the eternal struggle to get from point a to point b. In California How is 200-1000 in terms of making progress there well not good I mean if you look at the metrics we have declining transit ridership so fewer people are taking public transit that's a problem and then we also have increasing driving miles which means that people are now spending more time in their cars on average they're driving longer distances so that's not a very good outcome from these 2 metrics that we're looking at in terms of people's daily quality of life why is that after we've had so much messaging about the importance of mass transit about the importance of getting out of your car and reducing your mileage Why is that happening Well it's ironic because I don't think it's actually about our transportation system so much as about our land use patterns and I think what's happened is that you see more and more jobs in locations where there simply aren't enough housing being built in those areas so people are forced to live very far away from where their jobs are and are doing longer commutes as a result So basically if you look at where all the high growth areas are they're out in the sort of ex-urban parts of our metropolitan communities we're not building enough near where our jobs are coming in so a Southern California example that would be laid the Illinois empire and Los Angeles Northern California example of the same or said in the Bay Area absolutely Tracy in Stockton here in the Bay Area people are commuting and Pleasanton to Silicon Valley to Oakland San Francisco and you see the rise of these super commuters people who are spending more than 3 hours a day commuting by car and usually by themselves looking ahead then to 2020 What do you think is possible to. Due to change some of these problems as you see them well there's a big state bill that's going to be voted on and January and that would be a bill that s b 50 by State Senator Scott Wiener that would essentially require minimum standards of zoning around major transit stops to essential allow small scale apartment buildings near existing transit that would remove one of the biggest barriers to growth which is eliminating these really restrictive zoning codes that limit the amount number of units that can be built in a certain area the number of parking spots the height limits all these things that local governments do to prevent apartment buildings from getting built so you can tighten up the permitting and allow for more relaxed zoning for these very transit friendly climate friendly types of projects that can create a major change in our land use patterns going forward and I think it's very achievable in the legislative cycle this year it all kind thanks so much thank you great to be with you again that's transportation environment expert Ethan l. Kind and speaking of traffic who are the safer drivers men or women now there's real data to answer that question Elise when it comes to drivers in Los Angeles reporter Ethan ward with cross town a news organization at u.s.c. Annenberg crunched the numbers using l.a.p.d. Data Melly p.d. Makes this information public is there for everyone to see and we analyze like nearly half a 1000000 clues reports between 200-2018 we found them in were responsible for 6 out of thin accidents in the city of l.a. That $6040.00 split was more or less consistent each year so cross town has declared male drivers cause more crashes the site didn't speculate as to why but Ward says it might be quote over confidence support for the California report comes from Strauss family Creamery celebrating 25 years of environmental leadership collaborative farmer relationships and minimally process to 100 percent organic dairy products learn more at Strauss family Creamery dot com personal capital offering for. 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Great day. Community calendar for the part through the 16th comes from our members please join us for the. Party an end of year meeting on Saturday the board of directors meeting begins at noon followed by the. Please bring a dish to share in your own place settings that will be at the Anderson Valley. 33rd Willetts holiday craft fair is this weekend at the Willits Community Center Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday 10 pm. There's a cookie walk and holiday bazaar at Fort Bragg's town hall on Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm. The afternoon of wooden wool crafting takes place on Saturday 1 pm at the Mendocino County Museum in Willits. A variety of styles are on display at dance ology this body dances with over 60 dancers performing at space theater in Ukiah on Saturday at 3 and 7 pm and Sunday at 3 pm Big Brother in the holding company. Theatre in Lakeport on Saturday at 7 pm. Mendocino ballet brings to life 2 acts of The Nutcracker on Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday 2 pm and Cotton Auditorium for. The Ernest block bell ringers concert for the coast is on Saturday 3 pm Arts Center. Both schools holiday craft fairs on Saturday 10 am to 4 pm in Preston hall Mendocino. There's an Xmas blues concert with Suzy Thompson Meredith Axelrod and Del Rey on Sunday 6 30 pm at the Casper community center. Symphony of the redwoods Opus chamber music concert series presents to Sopranos songs of nature and passion on Sunday 3 pm in Preston. And I Monday the 16th temporary and Dave Jensen speak about winter birds of the Mendocino Coast 7 pm at the Casper community center please let us know about your event at least 2 weeks in advance and check out our complete events calendar. This is. 90.7 f.m. . 91.5 f.m. And Fort Bragg. Point one f.m. We also stream live that case. 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