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President trouble addressed the nation about Afghanistan tonight and I'm David Greene and I'm Elsa Chang the day has finally arrived the eclipse this ng will be blocked by the moon but will you be able to see it how to be safe about it and another naval collation this time a missile destroyer in the oil tanker and several sailors are missing also a group of graduates from the conservative school Liberty University will return their diplomas to protest the school's ties to President Trump It's Monday August 21st it's the birthday of Sergey Brin the founder of Google Trends $44.00 and the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly search teams are looking for 10 Navy sailors missing from the u.s.s. John McCain after it collided with an oil tanker that happened in the South China Sea east of Singapore the Navy says the destroyer has significant damage to its haul N.P.R.'s Anthony Kuhn says this is the 2nd collision involving a Pacific based Navy ship in 2 months the guided missile destroyer u.s.s. John s. McCain was on route to Singapore when it ran into a $600.00 foot long oil and chemical tanker the ship belongs to the Japan based u.s. 7th Fleet which announced the incident the Fleet said the u.s. Ship sustained damage on its port side the extent of the damage and the cause of the collision are under investigation last week the Navy relieved the commanding officer of the Navy destroyer u.s.s. Fitzgerald of his duties he and several officers were held responsible for a June 17th collision with a tanker that killed 7 crew members Anthony Kuhn n.p.r. News Beijing several sailors aboard the ship were injured joint military exercises involving the u.s. And South Korea are underway the annual drills began today they'll continue for 11 days North Korea is calling the exercises reckless President Trump addresses the nation tonight about Afghanistan and how the u.s. Military will proceed in that country over the weekend the president tweeted he had reached a decision after reviewing options with his national security team a day earlier it's not clear if Trump intends to send more American troops to Afghanistan the Pentagon proposes sending nearly $4000.00 additional u.s. Troops to help Afghan forces deal with the Taliban and Isis linked militants House speaker Paul Ryan takes part in an open town hall meeting tonight in his home district in Wisconsin Marty Michelson what member station Wu w.-m. In Milwaukee says it's been almost 2 years since Ryan's done so Ryan has. One Republican and 2 Democratic opponent so far in the race for his seat next year they have criticized the House speaker for not holding an open town hall meeting in his district since October of 2015 Ryan has instead opted to hold invite only town halls at businesses in his district last month Ryan defended the move at a press conference I don't want to have a situation where we just have a should remain fester shouting fest where people are being bussed in from out of the district to get on t.v. Because they're yelling at somebody that does nobody any good c.n.n. Will be broadcasting the event live in Racine a Democratic stronghold and Ryan southeastern Wisconsin district for n.p.r. News I'm Marty Michelson in Milwaukee people across the u.s. Are preparing for today's solar eclipse millions are converging on the path of totality for the best view it's about 70 miles wide covering 14 states from South Carolina to Oregon this is n.p.r. News from Washington. Authorities say a Florida man was driving the wrong way on the New Jersey Turnpike when he crashed head on with another vehicle the 21 year old driver from Florida was killed in his s.u.v. 2 people in the s.u.v. That was hit were treated for injuries described as non-life threatening say police say they don't know why the Florida man was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes the 1st round of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement is over officials from the u.s. Canada and Mexico met last week in Washington Rodriguez servant is with member station k.j. Mexico City Bureau says the next round of talks takes place next month in Mexico in a statement published on Sunday that Canadian Mexican and American delegation say they're willing to expedite their revision but in. 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And finding empathy today's world that's coming up next on point from n.p.r. . Listen to on point this morning at 10. 30 bodies got an opinion on the economy remember the last time a 100. Times a week and that's precisely why we're not trying to get one in with so many voices out there sorting through the news could be a full time job. When we sift through the news of the day so you don't have to throw shows in the morning afternoon on the weekend we've got you and the economic stories that. Listen to Marketplace weekday evenings at $630.00. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Elsa Chang And I'm David Greene in a televised address tonight President Trump plans to lay out his strategy for Afghanistan it's been nearly 16 years since the u.s. Invaded the country making it the longest war in u.s. History it's a war that's to be devil generals diplomats and now 3 presidents for President Trump It's been a month long decision in the making Here's Defense Secretary James Madison on Sunday the for teaching process which sufficiently rigorous. If not the way in with the preset fishing turned joke what questions to be asked what if it would be very whatever the president decides the u.s. Faces a stalemate in Afghanistan the Afghan government controls just over half of its territory with the Taliban and the Islamic state taking parts of the country that the u.s. And coalition forces had once secured and also let's bring in n.p.r. White House correspondent Scott Horsley and also n.p.r. National security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly good morning to you both morning good morning Scott before we get to the substance and policy just let's at the stage here this television address tonight comes after what was a really tough week for President Trump I mean is this a way to turn to a new subject and turn the page and move past all that chaos we were right David this was really not a restful working vacation the now president is coming off of you had not only another staff shakeup but all the controversy surrounding the president's comments on Charlottesville the ensuing defections of business leaders from some White House Advisory Councils and very vocal criticism from members of Congress none of that is necessarily driving this decision on Afghanistan and the decision to hold a primetime speech tonight but certainly the president and his team would be happy if this televised address were to eclipse some of the negative coverage I see which is there a $6.00 to $10.00 and then there was of course the firing of his chief strategist Steve Bannon who felt. Really strongly about winding down our troop levels in Afghanistan right Scott you're right also Steve Benen to describe himself as an economic nationalist and so he was a verse to any really big and costly troop buildup in Afghanistan he also advocated outsourcing some of the Afghan operation to private contractors although it's not clear that would have saved the u.s. Government a whole lot of money it's also not clear just how much influence man and I had in his final days at the White House it was widely noted that he was left off the a list of advisers who took part in that big powwow on Friday at Camp David where this just strategy was discussed and of course we now know that when that meeting at Camp David was held Bannon was already on his way out the door Ok so we have all the secrecy about what the strategy is actually going to be I mean it's got you mention that Steve Benen was against a troop build up Mary Louise what are the options I mean is the troop build up one of the options what exactly is the president considering you know I mean the president was presented with the whole smorgasbord of options all of which have their risks none of which are easy and they ranged from radical options like going all in a really significant troop increase to the opposite of that saying 16 years is enough or cut bait Ripon out where it appears the president has landed is in the middle of those some sort of modest troop increase we're talking maybe 4000 maybe 5000 additional troops now nobody thinks you're going to win the war by sending in 4000 additional troops but the hope is that that makes you put you in a position to buy some time maybe make a little bit of progress create a space where a political settlement kept down the road but hasn't the u.s. Already tried that option to ramp up at least slightly in Afghanistan and Afghanistan do they have it's remarkable how much this sounds like a continuation of what the Obama administration was trying it in their final years I think that means what to watch for tonight is how President Trump Framus the strategy. And sending 4000 troops isn't a strategy it's not your in state so what's the end state how does he describe u.s. Interests with the u.s. Goal is in Afghanistan that's where to look to get a sense of when as we've as we just said it's the longest war in u.s. History when this might actually wind its way toward a close Scott what about what the country wants and particularly what President Trump's supporters want I mean he is you know with his poll numbers he has been clinging to this base of support could this do something and impact that obviously depends on what the decision is I think there would be maybe some pushback from the base if there were some really large scale troop escalation of the kind we saw when President Obama addressed this back in 2009. There might be also resistance if there was a whole lot of dedication of additional u.s. Funding for Afghanistan but a more modest increase of the sort that Mary Louise is talking about I'm not sure that's going to lead to any real resistance from the president's base even if it does generate some some negative headlines from from Steve Bannon who's now back at Breitbart News the president tweeted perhaps optimistically over the weekend that man it would be a tough smart new voice at Breitbart and he added fake news needs the competition. Mary Louise I mean Steve Benen is out now are we going to learn anything tonight about who actually has the president's you're right now well it's perhaps not a coincidence if as expected the president comes out and announce his some kind of modest troop increase that he does that a few days after Steve Bannan exit at the White House I mean what tell us something it may tell us that the generals who Trump clearly respects so we now have John Kelly as his chief of staff we now have h.r. McMaster is his national security adviser we have Jim Maddis over at the Pentagon all people with significant combat experience all of whom we are told it appears have lined. Behind this strategy have a modest troop increase and that may mean that in this one aspect of national security policy their voices are for the moment the ones being heard and since you cover national security before we let you go just when I ask about a story we're going to be surely following all day there's been these reports of a u.s. Navy ship and an oil tanker colliding off the coast of Singapore what do we know at this point yeah that's right this is a u.s. Destroyer which did collide with an oil tanker about 3 times its size this is off the coast of Singapore the ship was out on patrol in the South China Sea and it was headed toward port in Singapore when this happened 2 things worth noting one is 10 Navy sailors are missing 5 are injured so there is a search underway right now for survivors trying to see what they can do the 2nd time the 2nd thing worth mentioning is this is the 2nd time that a Navy ship has collided in this area of the world just in the past few months this happened a couple months ago 7 people died so this will raise questions for the Navy overall in the 7th Fleet in particular the voice there of n.p.r. National security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly and also White House correspondent Scott Horsley Hey thank you both You're welcome. So finally it is time to break out those solar eclipse glasses if you manage to get a pair did you get apparel so I did not but sitting across from me is someone who did Joe Palca today is the great American eclipse guys. Excited about the solar eclipse. Solar Eclipse is a must see phenomenon the wind is completely walking the saw and turning day to night day Rama a pretty cool of course this one is extra special today the total eclipse will crawl across the continental u.s. From one coast to the other for the 1st time in nearly a century it starts in Oregon and then it creeps diagonally across to South Carolina all over the course of a couple hours and we're all going to be watching this and so N.P.R.'s science correspondent Joe Palca is in the studio in Washington with Else I am out here in Southern California at n.p.r. West what Joe what is your what do you wear on solar eclipse today Ok I guess I should change your yeah no no for me it's the usual garb but I do I am equipped with a pair of glasses that are as you said they're special glasses for looking at the Sun This is a very important thing for people to understand. Don't look at the sun there is only one tiny about last about 2 minutes during this eclipse where you're safe look at the sun and that is if you're in the path of totality and the sun is completely obscured by the moon you can look and that way then you'll see the corona which is this wispy atmosphere of the sun that's the only time it seems to look at the sign that is very specific the rule should be don't look at the sun Oh I don't look that's the same and if you have a pair of dark glasses you know into all these will be good enough no I have that this also can see now I am wearing these glasses which are officially eclipse classes and I also wave at me I'm waving at you can't see anything you can see hasn't popped out of on top of his eye glass right there so we're looking for your eyeglasses but you cannot wear anything that isn't certified as specifically for an eclipse they are special classes they cut out most of the light and the good news is that most of the entire country will be able to see a partial eclipse so if you have these glasses and you want to look good for you but only some people be in the totality Right right you only few people get or are a small number of people actually get to see that maybe actual Well small number maybe I mean there's actually 12000000 people that live in the path of the totality you know people but unfortunate a lot of them will be in cloudy weather which is upsetting as the sun unfortunate. That the West Coast Oregon Idaho Wyoming looking pretty clear parts of Tennessee and Kentucky look good but the rest of the country mm little dicey for the totality I love when you say like a weatherman Joe Palca is this going to when we get anything like the same time tsunamis are another one serious this is 2024 in the u.s. Senate any 1000 if you can't way you can go to South America well go there with you want to reporting trip absolutely Ok it's a date that is N.P.R.'s science correspondent Joe Palca thanks Joe You bet and you can follow live coverage of the eclipse on your local member station and also at npr dot org enjoy it. This is n.p.r. News. On the next fresh air how young Winston Churchill earned distinction and tested his mettle in war she wanted to be and then most difficult most dangerous battles he could find and he wanted to be noticed she wanted to stand out we speak with Candace Mullard about her new book hero of the empire the Boer War a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill join us. Listen to fresh air today at noon join the conversation at the Hartford Public Libraries Center for Contemporary culture at 5 30 pm on Thursday September 7th for the Connecticut Health Foundation's health equity and Access forum and this town hall style conversation moderated by w. N.P.R.'s John Dankosky will discuss whether structural bias and stereotyping are factors in our health care system admission is free and registration is required to go to see p.b.s. Dot org for more information. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly efforts are underway to find 10 sailors missing from the u.s.s. John McCain The Navy says the guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker in the South China Sea east of Singapore joint military exercises are under way involving the u.s. And South Korea the annual drills kicked off today met ongoing criticism from North Korea state media in Pyongyang described the exercises as reckless with tensions high on the Korean Peninsula N.P.R.'s Elise you is in Seoul the joint drills are called Luci freedom Guardian and they will take place from August 21st to August 31st they involve computer simulation and are designed to prepare for unplanned events like military strikes the exercises involve more than 17000 u.s. Troops and more than 50000 from South Korea the latest survey from the National Association for Business Economics finds most analysts believe the Federal Reserve will continue to hike interest rates steadily over the next year or so Richard De Kaser is with the n a b perceive that interest rates are exceptionally low well below what would be considered normal in the context of the normally. So they see the fairies are bumping interest rates a quarter percentage point this year and somewhere in the city of 3 quarters of a percentage point in 2018 Stocks in Asia ended the day mixed I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington. Support for Morning Edition on w n.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Elsa Chang Today in Your Health calcium and the Navajo diet but 1st the big day is finally here in mere hours folks in 14 states will get to see a total solar eclipse it's the 1st one visible from coast to coast in the u.s. In nearly 100 years the rest of the country will enjoy a partial solar eclipse N.P.R.'s Nell Greenfieldboyce has this important reminder about safety Ralph Chu has seen 18 total solar eclipses He's also an optometrist and vision scientist at the University of Waterloo in Canada and he says pretty much every time there's a solar eclipse somebody gets hurt the ones we're really concerned about are the people who have never seen an eclipse wish for or just decided you know today's a nice stage or go take a look at a solar eclipse and I probably don't need to do very much to get ready to do that then I get worried he says you really can get blurred vision or blind spots after watching partial eclipse is without protection even if there's just a little crescent of sun left in the sky I've seen a couple of patients over the years where you know you've got very distinct crescent shaped scars from looking at a solar eclipse where you can almost tell when they looked so it is never safe to look at a partial eclipse without special eclipse glasses or filters and most of the country will only see a partial eclipse choose says the risk of eye injury is even greater if you look at a partial eclipse unprotected through a telescope or binoculars or a camera lens the damage can happen extremely quickly it is also not safe to look through binoculars or telescopes while just wearing regular old eclipse glasses those devices need specialized filters but it is all right to put eclipse glasses over your every day. Prescription I wear Chu says in past eclipses it's younger people who seem more likely to ignore safety warnings it does tend to be young males teens to early twenty's the ones who don't think about any protection for a number of different circumstances so parents warn your kids now if you're lucky enough to be in the thin stretch of land across the country that's going to see a total solar eclipse it's Ok to look with your naked eyes during totality the couple of minutes or so when the moon is completely covering the sun In fact it's more than Ok it is spectacularly beautiful and there's nothing else like it it's kind of like falling in love and you can't describe what that is unless you've experienced it Rick Feinberg is with the American Astronomical Society he's seen a dozen total solar eclipses so far going through life without seeing a total eclipse of the sun would be like going through life without ever falling in love It would be a terrible shame not to have that fundamental wonderful experience when the sun completely blinks out take those safety glasses off but the instant a sliver of late returns put those glasses back on now Greenfieldboyce n.p.r. News all right getting calcium in your diet is essential to keeping your bones strong but when you do if you can't do dairy Well Navajo graduate student at Northern Arizona University got interested in that question when he came across an old study suggesting that Navajo women are less likely to break their hips than women of European heritage he found the surprising because most American Indians are lactose intolerant so he set out to find where the Navajo get their calcium Lorimer a list of member station reports from Flagstaff from the time he was a child was told the traditional Navajo foods were good for him a lot of these practices are just done because they're just passed down when I ask . The wife and also my grandma do this a lot of the same on the show something we were just told to do that the Big Gay wanted proof and he eventually found it it turns out a small study in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association says one ingredient in traditional Navajo food Juniper ash is a great source of calcium the Navajo burned Juniper branches collect the ash and stir it into various dishes it started out as part of a ceremony and now it's added to many traditional foods became wanted to do a more comprehensive study so he analyze the amount of calcium in $27.00 samples of juniper from all over the Navajo Nation an area the size of West Virginia 1st he decided to burn Juniper outside his apartment in Flagstaff I let my landlord know beforehand say hey I'm going to be building a fire outside or in our yard just so you know I burned up a picnic table a little bit big a discovered that one gram of ass has the same amount of calcium as a glass of milk and that is good for Navajo bones. Really Pete teaches young people about the benefits of traditional Navajo food I recently visited her home on the Navajo nation in the tiny town of jetted 0 to learn how to make one of the most popular foods that includes Juniper ash blue corn mush. Ok so the 5 cups of water and work on let that heat up tell its boiling peeps says before the white man came the Navajo subsisted and beans corn squash and mutton our body wasn't built to you know consume the kind of food that came with the Anglo and now we have so many house problems with our people you know one in 3 Navajo people suffers from diabetes according to the Indian Health Service and obesity rates are 3 times the national average Pete says many Navajo forgot the traditional ways when they were forced to go to government run. Boarding schools Ok what I usually take some of this hot water. And out onto it. She mixes in the corn meal and scatters finally the Cornish produces the volcanic bubbles telling us it's ready. Gives thanks to Mother Earth for the corn. To she switches and then she suggests adding either salt or sugar then we eat this Craig every Wednesday of Cream of Wheat. Really good do you think you can taste the ash. For n.p.r. News I'm. On the Navajo Nation. Support for your help comes from Novo Nordisk dedicated to research and innovation to help millions of people living with diabetes learn more at Novo Nordisk dot us. This is n.p.r. News. Wal-Mart wants to do its part to reduce greenhouse gases it's good for our business our customers are interested in the work that we're doing on climate and many of our stakeholders they've been calculating the climate price tags of their products with surprising results why are we seeing bread have high emissions I'm Kelly McEvers climate costs and the grocery aisle afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Good morning I mailed the change a man in Shippensburg Pennsylvania real party last week things went well until the police in knocking on his door with a noise complaint no big deal right morning the sled the dead he turns up the volume on this song. That was once again in the officers of burn when I tried to buy a theme song to the show Cops which I'm going to do the police came back and change the morning to a citation It's Morning Edition. This is. The Emperor penguin. The deepest dive ever recorded for an emperor penguin is 564 meters the record duration just 27 minutes on a single breath biologist Jessica Mir travelled to Antarctica to study how they achieve these feats she learned they can hold relatively more oxygen in their bodies than humans or other terrestrial animals and they use the oxygen with incredible efficiency Here's Jessica if you look at something as simple as heart rate you can start understanding a lot about what's going on with the animals physiology and oxygen usage during the dive Mir and her colleagues fitted emperor penguins with backpack recorders to measure their heart rate at rest the rate is about 70 beats per minute similar to a human but before and after plunging into icy water it increases significantly ramping up to effectively load oxygen then when diving the heart rate also takes a dramatic dive so in a long dive which was about 18 minutes we had a heart rate down to 3 beats per minute and then around 6 beats per minute for a sustained 5 minute period so very very impressive you can find links to meters work at bird note. 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Fitzgerald collided with a much larger container ship off the coast of Japan 7 crew members died in that incident and the investigation is ongoing but the u.s. Navy has already relieved the Fitzgeralds commander and 2 other senior leaders of their duties Joining us to talk about this latest collision and its implications for defense in the region is David Larter a Navy veteran and staff writer for Defense News welcome. Thank you for having me well 1st walk us through what we know happened so far any updates on the injured and the missing so there's no updates yet on the missing for the sailors were medically evacuated or medivac from the ship earlier in that in the day they time over there and. So far the effort to turn any of that tend to think that's been unsuccessful so far as we know ok.e. You were on a team of Navy navigators right I mean how can something like this happen how can a u.s. Destroyer with all of his technology and sensors collide with a tanker it's it's almost and it's almost hard to understand there are a lot of safeguards and the fact that it has happened twice just this summer is deeply troubling there are watch standers on the bridge which is the area at the closest to the highest point on the ship where generally the officer of the desk conning officer the person that's in charge of making orders to the guy that steers the ship is up there. They were in a very busy shipping late they're getting ready to head into the Straits of Malacca so they would have been probably if not manned up at a higher level just getting ready to man up at a higher level because they were just outside what's called the traffic separation scheme which is which is like a highway the sort of the lanes that the ships get into to either enter or exit port it's tightly controlled and when you do that on Navy ships you manned up a special what's called a navigation detail so if they weren't there they were getting ready to get there most likely so it's hard to understand how it would happen there are other radars there's lookouts there's people that are whose entire job virtually your entire job is making sure you don't hit a ship when you're not actively fighting a war and I understand that. This is now the the 4th incident in waters near Asia involving a u.s. Naval vessel this year does that seem like a lot to you for incidents it does I I can't recall around like this. You know because these are all 7th Fleet ships that 7th Fleet the u.s. 7th Fleet is based in Japan it's known as the forward deployed naval force they are supposed to and as the name implies they're considered always deployed when sailors take order to f.t. Enough ships in Japan and their families move out there it's with the understanding they're not going to see each other very often it's a very high operational tempo environment the ships are supposed to be the highest train the most ready and the most deployable ships and what would be the implications of a collision like this for stability in the region I mean imagine that this was a ship they could have come into play with North Korea was a ship a major player it is according to Missile Defense Agency and I just looked this up both John King and Fitzgerald are what's called the listed missile defense ships So yes it's not good that 2 of the ships that we have out there that are there to specifically shoot down ballistic missiles are now out of commission due to a collision Ok David loiterer is a staff writer for Defense News he joins us via Skype thank you very much for joining us David thank you. A growing number of graduates from one evangelical university are preparing to return their diplomas to protest their school support for President Trump alumni of Liberty University organizing this effort calling Trump's divisive comments about the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville Virginia as N.P.R.'s Sarah McCammon reports there specifically condemning liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr has continued support for the president Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia has long been associated with conservative politics school president Jerry Falwell Jr was an early evangelical supporter of then candidate Donald Trump back in January 26th seen just days before endorsing his candidacy for the Republican nomination Falwell praised Trump in my opinion Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught me a great man Falwell's support for Trump has dismayed some Liberty students and alumni Georgia Hammond is a 2006 graduate who's now an attorney in Phoenix she says she was troubled by Trump's comments about Charlottesville after denouncing white supremacy President Trump later said there were some very fine people in the crowd of neo nazis and white nationalist protesters when Jerry Falwell Jr characterize those comments as bold and truthful. That really was at fault was like a sop in the face of a different level than what we had previously been concerned about Falwell followed that statement with a 2nd tweet of his own the next day calling white supremacists the k.k.k. And other hate groups pure evil and un-American Hammond says Falwell's continued association with the president is a betrayal of Christian values and embarrassment Chris gone are a former Student Government Association president and 2006 graduate who still lives in Lynchburg says he's eager to send back his diploma the president of the United States. Nazis and wants promises and in defending the president's comments what Junior is speaking himself and the university represents yesterday on A.B.C.'s This Week Falwell responded to gummer's statement as 1st reported by n.p.r. They completely misunderstands my support my support for the president is his bold 'd and truthful willingness to call terrorist groups fire their names and that's something we haven't seen in presidents and visit her let's say but some graduates say they're not satisfied with that response Andrea Chappelle of Douglasville Georgia says she plans to sign on to a group letter from multiple Concerned Alumni she wants to send Falwell this message refund of the doubt and to think that what you say because you are the president of the school we do have a voice and we want to be heard and we want to be respected liberty alumni are organizing their protests through word of mouth and a Facebook group that's been growing larger in recent days they're planning to put their letters and their diplomas in the mail on September 5th Sarah McCammon n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. Next on being civil rights icon Ruby sails on reckoning with the spiritual crisis of white America. People think he's speaking to the. White people don't believe the white people. I'm Krista Tippett. Being tonight at 11. Next time on Ask Me Another we're joined by former u.s. Poet laureate. And before she was surprised. Honorary degrees she was naming characters in her own comic books we had our typical superheroes. Join me on N.P.R.'s hour of puzzles word games and trivia. Listen to me another Sunday afternoons at 2 o'clock. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly French media are reporting one person has been killed after a vehicle rammed into 2 bus stops in the port city of Moore say one person is under arrest House speaker Paul Ryan takes part in an open town hall meeting tonight in his home district of Wisconsin Marty Michaelson with member station Wu w.-m. In Milwaukee says it's been almost 2 years since Ryan's done so many constituents have criticized the House speaker for not holding an open town hall in his district since October of 2015 Ryan says he doesn't want people from outside his district bustin to disrupt such a meeting instead he's opted to hold invite only town halls at businesses in his district Jerry Lewis is being remembered by friends and colleagues as a comic icon an innovator and a comedic genius who was died yesterday at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 91 his publicist says Lewis died of natural causes Oh I came up here that brandy and why many gates and late that night you may hear a very I think that very well exactly they're. Well quite a body I'm sure. Louis' career in t.v. And movies spanned decades including films such as the bell boy The Nutty Professor and the King of Comedy Lewis was well known for raising money for muscular dystrophy Hi I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. 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News I'm Miles the Chuang And I'm David Greene the comedian filmmaker and philanthropist Jerry Lewis of the nasally voice an epic pratfalls has died here he is with his longtime partner and straight man Dean Martin Oh I thought I had my and if I did your line before I did then oh I'm here. Iowa learned out then yeah yeah yeah why why well be everybody bad and I always got the but I do you even the man I think McCoy and I don't need a god they call me a work out but if you get mad at them and I don't know why do you and I make we can have all they go out boy wow. His classic goofball character stumbled through movies like The bell boy in The Nutty Professor in real life Lewis was almost as well known for his philanthropy launching an annual muscular dystrophy telethon to help children but he also the habit of courting controversy and let's talk about this with biographer Shawn Levy he's a film critic and author of many books on the movies including king of comedy the life and art of Jerry Lewis I welcome to the program I thank you just listening to that voice wow I mean so many movies long career also on television look at how do you define the art of Jervas boy you know for a long time it seemed like the art of jury Lewis was anything he set his mind to in the 19 fifties and sixties he was the highest paid entertainer on t.v. Movies and in nightclubs He had top 10 singles on the radio he performed at state fairs you performed all around the world he directed films he was it was a dynamo What was it what was the appeal I mean it's someone who can come across as such a classic goofball but so beloved Well he played he played a young innocent character and that translated internationally and I think in the end across the generations of audiences and also even though we think of him as a squealing voice he was a physical comic so that's like silent movies or cartoons and there's there's an element to that that that kills everybody because it's so easy to get the joke. What about the controversies I mean he had this legendarily bad temper and also stuck his foot in it you know criticizing female comedians yet he was he could be very thin skinned with employees with his partner Dean Martin with journalists especially and over the years he had notable run ins with the press and he also as time went on became kind of a curmudgeon. Things he said in 1960 sounded very different when he said them again and 20 or so so but he was he was extremely stubborn if he thought it he thought it would tell the world what about his work with the Muscular Dystrophy Association which he became so well known for that did that shape him as a performer. I don't know if it shaped him as a performer but it certainly shaped to Ms a man that he probably worked nonstop I mean day after day for muscular dystrophy causes and initiatives for 60 years literally every day of his life I would say he raised some $2000000000.00 through his telephone's another fund raising work and he was in touch with families all over the world all the time so it truly was part of him author and film critic Shawn Levy His latest book. Confidential explores the glamour of movie making in 1950 s. Rome thanks so much for talking to us this morning I really appreciate it thanks very much. This is n.p.r. News. Support for Morning Edition on w n.p.r. Comes from the state of Connecticut's lender for college loans committed to helping students and families finance the cost of higher education funds available at a low fixed rate visit Czeslaw dot org Today that c h e s l a dot org. 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But today we go to another country that has been dealing with the phenomenon of fake news for years Ukraine is where Russia tested and then rolled out fake news tactics that is pumping out propaganda and simultaneously working to undermine people's faith in a free press so what can Americans learn from your Ukraine's experience Gregory Warner went to find out he's the host of our new podcast rough translation it's a show that follows conversations we're having in the United States and here's how they play out in some other corner of the world I asked respond any change go he's a journalist in Ukraine what Americans could learn from Ukraine's battle with fake news their very 1st lesson do not ignore these problems because it allowed Russian media to influence local people to kill each other story that civil war begins in 2014 after a pro-democracy revolution in the capital Kiev. Protesters demanded the government take steps to join Europe and become less dependent on its eastern neighbor Russia and when this protest succeeded and the production president fled Russia fought back with news tricky to Chicago he didn't marshal it on at least the 4th grade of course one would turn on his t.v. To these Russian channels that millions of Ukrainians are watching at the time and hear warnings about neo nazi fascists roaming the streets people saw on t.v. That they are in danger and they need to protect their families they need to protect themselves from fascist interior. But they want all factions to hear respond could look out his window and see the streets were peaceful barricades on the square in Kiev were now covered with fresh flowers but Ukrainians who were not in the capital of the time got scared in parts of Ukraine people rose up against the post revolutionary government quoting the Russian news stories about fascists they begged Russian troops to save them so respond conceived a plan to fight back he and some other journalist got together to publicly d. Bunk these fake stories which at the time felt really scary to me actually demand the I'm kind of put in my life on the line Margot Gunter was tapped to host a show that would be bone fake news and she knew it would be her face on the screen that any Kremlin agents might take note of yeah God might need critical I need to take in for an hour what did you tell yourself before you went on the 1st time I'm doing this because I think this is what should be done. This nasty job was well that it was faking it was the show's got stopped fake This was years before Americans were using the term fake news it's a round up of all the false stories you might have missed that week welcome to stop fake There's also in English version the broadcast for foreign audiences and I'll be helping you to tread through this week's load of informational and that's that Ukraine is poised to an after new language law which will ban Russian and you can hear that many of the stories only Ukrainian are about Russian speakers being persecuted in Ukraine because of pending legislation on the Ukrainian language to understand what was going on here it helps to think if you crane is kind of to Ukraine's east and west so the East borders Russia it's got more Russian speakers while the west borders Europe it has more Ukrainian speakers response says it was easy for Russian news to insert itself into this divide they want one part of the country Russian speaking to hate another part of the country Ukrainian speaking now at 1st stop fake was a success beyond what responded Margot even imagined. The debunked stories they were a hit on social media other news outlets in Ukraine picked up their stories and more than that the stop they crew of volunteers they felt like they were winning the war a war for truth and then the real war came in eastern Ukraine separatists rose up to reject the government in Kiev and they got help from Russia and his response Watch this real war splitting his country bam it was it was kind of his thunder strike to why had he thought back to this one little story that he did bunked months before it said that thousands of Ukrainians had fled across the border to Russia Yeah so I called the Federal Immigration Service off Russia I think that let me take the phone call for stopped and asked the the person from federal immigration service if it's true or not I don't. Need it. Was it true that even though Ukraine was peaceful at that time thousands of people in the east were abandoning their homes for refugee status in Russia she told me no this is not true we have just. Several phone calls and we are we have nothing unusual thousands of Ukrainians were not fleeing to Russia because why would the Ukraine was not at war but she told me that we have received an order from Moscow to prepare places for a few G.'s So there were no refugees but they started preparation process for a few G.'s responded thought that the news wasn't true Actually it just wasn't true yet yes sometimes they just preparing you for events that still have a not happened up till then he'd known that fake news could inspire fear and distrust he'd seen that but now it seemed to him to plant ideas in people's heads fake news today could become tomorrow's reality and so now. If you drive out to the frontlines of the war in Eastern Ukraine you see a place that this fake news phenomenon can leave journalists are seen as the instruments of war. You know it's a great career some people even waved me away as I introduced myself as a journalist with my interpreter there saying that Felt's leaves the don't come to this. Sort of look from the one who arrive and have been sheltered when journalists arrive that's when the shells fall they say you know when they find out I'm American they relax a bit they tell me it's Craney and journalists are really worried about a while back in the capital Kiev respond blames the Russian journalist for bringing the war in other words depending on which side media you believe you think the other side's journalists are going to bring you harm. Or better to hear my interpreter in times Kiva tells me that every town he goes to on the frontlines are artists and I know you will believe little there talk to. Your point journalists arrived of all starts when journalists arrive at the war starts 3 years since Ukraine began its fight with fake news the country's real divisions are as bitter as ever and the one institution that might have been seen as the go between the press reporting one side to the other they're not seen as reporting a war they're seen as helping to wage it. That's Gregory Warner host of N.P.R.'s new international podcast rough translation and you heard him on Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Alpha Chang And I'm David Greene. 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