As a tool in the fight over immigration policy. With the physical and financial damage caused by Hurricane Michel I don't. I'm not saying. Georgia has become a film production destination what's at stake if Hollywood boycotts over its new abortion law after news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the last remaining clinic that provides abortions in Missouri won't be shutting down just yet N.P.R.'s Arun McCammon reports a judge issued a stay this afternoon hours before the license for the health center in St Louis was scheduled to expire Planned Parenthood is locked in a dispute with state officials over health regulations and the state is declining to renew the license needed for the clinic to continue offering abortions Republican governor Mike person who opposes abortion rights says he has serious health and safety concerns Planned Parenthood says the state is arbitrarily enforcing the rules for political reasons a state judge has granted Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary restraining order that will allow the center to keep operating as usual the judge did not weigh in on the dispute itself a hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in St Louis Sarah McCammon n.p.r. News the White House is doubling down on his decision to use the threat of tariffs to pressure Mexico to halt the flow of illegal immigration from Central America press secretary Sara sander says he ministration has been pressing the Mexican government to do more we're asking Mexico to enforce their own walls to help stop the people coming in from Central America we've seen a basket of influx of people coming from that region and they have certainly the ability and the legal authority in which to deal with the president trumps threatening to start imposing a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods that enter the u.s. Beginning on June 10th he says those tariffs will increase every month up to 25 percent in October as long as illegal immigration across the southern border continues unchecked trends getting pushback from members of his own party Iowa u.s. Senator Chuck Grassley who's worried about the impact on agriculture in his state calls Trump's action a misuse of presidential tariff authority businesses are also a little anxious the u.s. Chamber of Commerce which represents the interests of more than 3000000 businesses says it may mount a legal challenge to block President Tran from imposing escalating tariffs on imports from Mexico the chamber's executive vice president you know Bradley warns the tariff is quote exactly the wrong move. A key Democrat says there is justification for moving to impeach President Trump but 1st more members of the public need to be convinced it's necessary Danny Lewis of member station when y.c. Reports over the next few weeks New York congressman and House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler will hold a series of televised hearings on the results of the Russia probe in an interview with New York Public Radio he said he believes walking the public through the special counsel's report will drum up support for impeachment the American people right now do not support it because they don't know the story. They don't know the facts we have to get the facts out we have to hold a series of hearings you have to hold investigations NAVL says moving to impeach Trump during the 2020 Alexion could serve as a warning to future presidents for n.p.r. News I'm Danny Lewis in New York this is n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include f.x. Presenting their weekly a new television series from the New York Times one story every Sunday in pursuit of the truth premieres this Sunday at 10 pm on f.x. With episodes framing the next day on Hulu. Meantime As for 04 for Connecticut Public Radio Why Marie Hardman Connecticut's House speaker says he's trying to craft a last minute deal with the state's 2 tribes on a wide ranging gambling bill that could include a Bridgeport casino Joe where a similar it said today he has met with Mashantucket Pequot to end Mohegan tribes members of the Bridgeport delegation and others to reach agreement on a bill that could include sports betting Internet gambling and the possible casino era similar wittes referred to it as a Hail Mary pass he admits it's an uphill battle a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers say it's all but certain that Connecticut will raise the legal age to buy tobacco and east cigarette products from 18 to 21 the bill is already passed the House and is expected to pass the Senate this afternoon before it goes to the governor for his signature Democratic senator may flex or says it's particularly important to address the issue as more and more young people take to ease cigarette sort of a ping we don't know the full effects of the use of thinking products and other similar products we don't know the full impacts on the health of our young people the way that we do cigarettes but what we do know is that these products are tremendously addictive Connecticut would become the 15th state to make the age of legal purchase 21 legislation allowing up to a year of workers' compensation benefits for 1st riffs sponsors with p.t.s.d. Has cleared the state Senate the bill was advanced to the House of Representatives on a unanimous vote the legislation stems from an agreement recently reached between the Connecticut conference of Minas apologies and the unionized police and firefighters the p.t.s.d. Diagnosis must be made by a licensed psychiatry just or psychologist. Support comes from pain care's Connecticut recycling program with more than 140 drop off locations in Connecticut where residents and businesses can recycle their leftover paint more at paint care dot org by Wright use it up recycle the rest with pain care. It's 4 o 6. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish the financial markets took a tumble today after President threatened to impose tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico Trump wants the Mexican government to stop the flow of illegal immigrants from Central America into the u.s. He said he would impose a 5 percent tariff on June 10th and then steadily raise it if no progress is made out of talk about the economic impact of these latest tariffs we turn to N.P.R.'s Jim And Jim let's start with how the markets reacted today. Yeah well the markets are are worried because the economies of the United States and Mexico have become really intertwined as a result of NAFTA Mexico is now the 2nd largest market for u.s. Products after Canada we sell a lot to them they sell a lot to us now Trump already risked disrupting that relationship by renegotiating NAFTA last year the Us Mexico and Canada were able to come up with a revised agreement and it really looked like things were were getting back to normal and then yesterday Trump disrupted everything all over again by imposing these new tariffs for reasons having nothing to do with trade and the markets don't like it can you give us an example of how these economies are intertwined. The auto sector for example let's say you have a car that's made in Mexico and sold here it has many thousands of parts they may be made in Canada these parts may be made in the u.s. Or Mexico maybe even a 4th country and these parts go back and forth over the border multiple times before the car is finished so we have this elaborate supply chain for autos that's been built up and if you start to slap tariffs which are a kind of tax on these parts every time they cross the border it gets you know not only really complicated but really expensive especially if if Mexico retaliates with tariffs of its own this president trying to have the legal authority to impose these tariffs or does Congress have to get involved yeah I was wondering that too and I put the question to Matt Gold who was a trade official in the Obama administration and he said Trump probably does have the authority to do this Congress has delegated to the president the power to impose certain temporary tariffs but Gold says this is almost certainly of a violation of international law and we're definitely violating both the World Trade Organization agreements that we have in Mexico and the NAFTA agreement that were her. With Mexico and very very major ways with very very scary long term potential impact and Gold says the u.s. May have some legitimate issues about immigration but tariffs aren't the way to deal with it it's better to deal with it through some diplomatic channels only he says Trump at this point just doesn't have that much credibility with the Mexican government any previous American president Republican or Democrat would have had a good enough relationship with the Mexican government to be able to solve this problem without such a dramatic and self damaging measure Can we talk more about their relationship Palos Mexico reacting Well the response from Mexican president Lopez Obrador was pretty subdued he said he would send a government official to Washington to discuss the matter and there has been a bit more pushback from other places the Wall Street Journal says trade representative Robert light hisor is actually opposed to the new tariffs he is worried that they will jeopardize passage of this revised NAFTA this u.s. Mexico Canada agreement which already faced a pretty uncertain future in Congress also Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley said today what Trump did was a misuse of the president's tariff authority Iowa of course is a big agriculture state and farmers there sell a lot of products to Mexico so they will be heard especially if Mexico decides to retaliate with tariffs of its own that's N.P.R.'s Jim Jim thank you you're welcome the trumpet ministration says it will impose those tariffs if Mexico doesn't stop the flow of migrants at the u.s. Border immigration experts question whether that's something Mexico can do as N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports reports Mexico's enforcement is already stretched thin by the flow of migrants from Central America the White House says Mexican authorities could easily halt the flow of migrants crossing their country and route to the u.s. And the head of the Border Patrol union agrees Yeah cause we've seen it before and we already have a history of this. And it has worked so this presumably would obviously work again that's Brandon Judd speaking today on N.P.R.'s Morning Edition Mexican authorities help limit the surge an unaccompanied children coming to the u.s. In 2014 for example by discouraging them from traveling on law Bestia the freight trains that migrants used to travel the length of Mexico former border security officials say cooperation from the Mexican government has been important in the past but those same experts are skeptical that the trumpet ministrations ultimatum will suddenly stop the huge numbers of migrants crossing the southern border each month this that massive problem and Mexico doesn't have the border security infrastructure that we have us John sandbag is a former head of u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Obama he says Mexico's immigration forces are much smaller than their u.s. Counterparts they too have been overwhelmed by the huge number of migrants from Guatemala Honduras and El Salvador most are families and children fleeing from violence and poverty Omaha served as Mexico's undersecretary for migration during the Bush and Obama administrations he says Trump's demand is unreasonable asking mix equal to be turned. There has to be pulled that we do in affinity. To try to at least have a chance to save that money is asking for something those who built the chief the White House says Mexico could quote quickly and easily unquote stop migrants from crossing its southern border with Guatemala n.p.r. Has reported that Central American migrants move easily across that border on foot through the jungle or at official checkpoints where smugglers have paid off immigration officials from Mexico to really grapple with this problem experts say it would have to beef up its immigration forces and root out corruption but that will take time and an outsized effort President Trump keeps going for the quick fix but there isn't a quick fix and there's no quick fix in what the u.s. Government can do when there isn't a quick fix some of the mess and government can do Andrew Sealy is president of the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute in Washington essentially what you see is the u.s. Government hasn't been capable of figuring out how to respond to this massive flow and Trump seems to be throwing the ball to the Mexican government to do it but they also are not in a position to do much more Sealy says the Mexican government already does cooperate with u.s. Immigration authorities it's deported tens of thousands of Central American migrants and allowed thousands more to stay in Mexican border towns while they wait for their day and u.s. Immigration courts under the Trump administration's controversial remain in Mexico policy John sandbags is right now the Mexican government takes back its deported nationals quickly the administration to be very careful here because it makes no doubt that the cooperation thing can get a lot worse very quickly making a bad situation at the border even worse Joel Rose n.p.r. News Washington. Much of the central u.s. Is under water this week for major rivers in the middle of the country are at various stages of flooding they've also been multiple outbreaks of deadly and damaging tornadoes all begs the question is this what climate change looks like joining us from Arkansas where the Arkansas River is flooding is N.P.R.'s science reporter Rebecca her sure and Becky 1st just describe where you are which you seem well I'm sitting right next to the Arkansas River and the water here is so powerful you can hear in the background the waves are crashing is a fence on a beach actually a public park and this is a big wide flat river usually has a lot of barge traffic and when it floods the water gets high but really what it does is it gets wide it spreads out as far as it can and in a place this flat that means it floods your home all the way up to the rafters in some places I've been and it floods roads which is a problem because even if you live and you work on high ground your power to work or school might be blocked by high water so the governor of Arkansas says that's going to cost the state $23000000.00 a day so taking a step back this question about climate change is this flooding happening because of climate change well in short yes sort of this river is high because of extreme rain so when it rains here now it rains more than it used to in the past and that's in line with what we would see under climate change conditions the National Climate Assessment predicts that when it rains it's going to rain more in the future because warmer air can hold more moisture and actually already we're seeing that in the Midwest and along the east coast sometimes 50 percent more rain is falling in a single rain event than used to really or the sentry I hear a lot of pain managers use the word unprecedented it's the kind of rain that we just haven't seen in the past what does this mean for places in the Midwest and south. Well there's a lot of stress on infrastructure that really was not built to hold this so all along the river along rivers like this there are levees. And in places like this they were actually built to make sure there's anough water for barges to ship things down the river they really were not designed to hold back flood water at all and they really weren't designed to hold back this amount of water for this long the water has been high for days it's going to high for weeks more so you can imagine it's really nerve racking when your whole livelihood is behind a pile of sand that was not even designed to keep it safe in the 1st place from something like this what are emergency officials doing. Well it's really hard for emergency officials here I've talked to a handful who have said that because this such a slow moving disaster you know multiple rain events the river rising relatively slowly over the course of weeks it's hard to convince people to leave sometimes for example I met a man who had evacuated with his 4 kids his neighborhood was under threat from the river but he can't get his sister in law to evacuate because she says well this is never happened before why would it happen this time and now the river has cut off access to the neighborhood so even though her house isn't flooded she can't get out and then there's the hurricane season that starts in the Atlantic tomorrow and of course hurricanes are changing as the earth warms this is sort of a classic Ok table climate affected weather system they're getting larger and wetter they're dropping more rain thank hurricane Harvey in Texas and 2017 Think Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas last year this year the Weather Service predicts a normal year of putting that in scare quotes that means $2.00 to $4.00 major hurricanes but it only takes one of those having the u.s. To do a lot of damage so it all adds up to just an enormous amount of flood danger for a lot of Americans That's N.P.R.'s science reporter Rebecca her Sure thank you thank you thanks. Small towns in Florida. Panhandle are working through major financial and bureaucratic challenges left behind by Hurricane Michel this county is not a big money is that rich can so you're fighting that and right for the money to get the cleanup Ari Shapiro reports on 2 communities struggling to rebuild that story at $435.00 and now with the Connecticut Public Radio weather report here's meteorologist to Garrett r.g.s. After a couple of gloomy and cool days the weather turned around nicely on this final day of May temperatures made up close to 80 that's a few degrees above average for this time of year and the good news is there are no downpours in our evening forecast leave those umbrellas at home if you have evening plans you may want to grab a jacket if you're going to be out after about 9 o'clock you may notice a bit of haze in the sky that's actually smoke coming from wildfires up in Canada so for tonight it's partly cloudy some late night fog a low of 55 to 60 most of the weekend looks good I can't rule out some rain later on Sunday that's the most likely time for wet weather so tomorrow is nice we'll see a mix of sun and clouds 75 to 80 coolest at the beaches that on Sunday Mostly cloudy with some afternoon and evening rain with highs in the seventy's with the Connecticut Public Radio weather report on meteorologist a Garrett r.g.s. . On this week's On the Media a new Trump administration official is in charge of assessing climate research and he said to see a clip from 2014 of them popped up comparing the regulation of carbon dioxide to the Holocaust it's all on this week's On the media from w n y c. Listen and tomorrow morning at 6 support comes from Chelsea Groton bank Chelsea Groton has the products services technology and people to grow with your business helping customers for 165 years Chelsea Groton dot com slash grow that business remember f.d.i.c. It's for 20. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Paramount Pictures with Rocket Man a musical journey through Elton John's breakthrough years starring terrine Edgerton now playing in theaters from Jones Day an integrated partnership collaboratively providing legal services for more than a century 43 offices 5 continents serving clients as one firm worldwide learn more at Jones Day dot com and from the archives foundation dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony with one another and the natural world. From n.p.r. News it's All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro Friday afternoon means it is time to review the week in politics this week several more state governments moved to restrict access to abortion special counsel Robert Muller spoke publicly for the 1st time since he was appointed 2 years ago and last night President Trump made trade threats against Mexico saying he will tax goods that cross the border into the u.s. We're going to talk about all of that with Guy Benson of town hall and an experiment of the Young Turks Network Welcome to both of you and I thank you for having me Ok let's start with trade the White House says these tariffs will start in June at 5 percent increase every month on all goods coming into the u.s. And when Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was asked last night whether President Trump understands that American businesses and consumers will pay these increased costs here's a move and he said Americans are paying for this right now illegal immigration comes at a cost the American taxpayer is paying for what's going on at the border guy do you think this argument are going to hold water when Americans have to start paying more for things so not even close this is I think both bad politics and perhaps even worse policy right the Republican Party is already splintering on this understandably so and this comes with the backdrop of negotiations with China over trade I think a lot of people are more open to the idea of taking a harder line on China now you're opening up another sort of front in this whole fight with the neighbor to the south a huge trading partner while you're also trying if you're the president to get Congress to be convinced to pass the new NAFTA right the u.s.m.c. All right and then with all of that in play you also have what we just heard there the response from Mulvaney trying to play down the fact that this is affectively a tax increase on u.s. Consumers it's like they're trying to figure out ways to hurt themselves on their strongest issue of the economy but and American consumers do seem to have absorbed the chair of the tariffs on goods coming in from China without much pain why wouldn't the same to be true of goods coming in from a. Well I think right now American consumers are just feeling the very tip of the iceberg and the situation is going to become much worse if Trump continues on with this nonsensical a nuanced approach at this trade war so we have to keep in mind if you look at the bigger picture wages have remained stagnant for the vast majority of American workers and once you put the rising cost of goods on top of that issue American consumers are certainly going to feel that and I just want to quickly add that whether it has to do with Trump's wall at the border or if it has to do with who ends up paying for these tariffs at the end of the day Americans are paying for Trump's failed immigration policy and it's about time that the Republican Party stands up to trump over these failed policies I'm really happy to hear you know Guy Benson come at this from a more critical perspective because the way Mulvaney is trying to spin this is absolutely ridiculous there's actually been a lot of Republican criticism I mean Chuck Grassley has a very powerful Republican senator from Iowa has been critical of the move c n b c is reporting that even prominent members of the president's own administration oppose the tariffs in another part of the program we're going to hear from the Bradley of the u.s. Chamber of Commerce and this is just part of what he had to say about a senator to get his ition of these terraces been proposed by the administration would do nothing to solve the very real problem at the southern border if anything in weakening the economy it might make the problem worse the president does have a pattern of threatening to do things because of a crisis and then declaring the crisis solved and not doing a thing he threaten the guy do you think that's possible in this case yes I do because we've seen it a few different times and to be clear I think that there is a crisis at the border something needs to be done about it I think Congress should act I have a serious problem as do many Republicans I'm hearing from linking trade policy punitive coercive trade policy with that problem especially on this ludicrous accelerated timeline you know it is it makes no sense so am I How do you see this number. I don't know how this is going to end because as we've seen over and over again Donald Trump is quite a bit of a wild card and he is the type of person who has thin skin a big ego and will retaliate against anyone who tries to go against him on any of these policies let me give you one specific example Larry Kudlow his own economic adviser in an interview on Fox News admitting that American consumers are going to absorb the cost of these tariffs and Kudlow was apparently met with viciousness by Trump as a result of conceding the obvious and he did so so sheepishly because he knew how Trump would react I don't know how this is going to end right now it doesn't look like it's going to end well let's turn away from tariffs and talk about Special Counsel Robert Muller's final statement as he resigned from that position and I'm curious whether both of you think this statement on Wednesday changes the political dynamic for Democrats on the question of impeachment several Democratic presidential candidates said Wednesday that they think their party has a constitutional obligation to start impeachment proceedings one of them was Senator Kamel Harris we must put country before party on a fundamental interest that is about the integrity of our democracy but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still urging her party to go slowly many constituents want to encourage the president that they want to do what is right and which gets results but gets results and I do think Pelosi can continue to resist the pressure from within her own party. I think that she will certainly try to continue to resist and it's hilarious because on one hand she argues that she resists Donald Trump and his policies but in reality she's resisting doing something incredibly important about a constitutional crisis she's worried that this will hurt the Democratic Party and she's using what happened to Bill Clinton as an example of that but the reality is Bill Clinton's you know impeachment situation was very different from what we're dealing with with Trump now do I think that the Senate is going to you know actually do the right thing considering that it's completely dominated by Republicans right now no I don't think they'll do the right thing but it doesn't matter to allow someone to break the law to obstruct justice with no consequences is absolutely unacceptable whether it's a Democrat or Republican president guys you think this is a turning point for Democrats I do because between Justin Amash coming out the Republican from Michigan being the lone Republican to endorse impeachment proceedings beginning and then Mahler's statement what you called his final statement that's what he hopes I think we might hear from him again because there are questions I would like for him to answer he might get subpoenaed there does seem to be a sense of momentum behind this notion of kicking off the impeachment process I think Nancy Pelosi is political judgment here she's very smart on these things tactically I think she's right I think the polls show by double digits the American people are opposed to impeachment but whether she can call off the dogs that are getting louder and louder with her party I think that remains to be seen and finally I want to ask about Louisiana being the latest state to pass a strict anti-abortion law and a do you think we've seen the return of the culture wars here absolutely we've been embroiled in the culture wars for quite some time now and this nonsense about how you know the right wing is doing this to save children is just so incredibly hypocritical especially when you consider the large number of children who are food insecure right now we have 12000000 children who are food. Food insecurity 40000000 Americans overall we have 40000000 Americans living in poverty one in 6 children living in poverty it's just unacceptable we have so many real issues that we need to face right now that actually do harm the lives of children but we just keep ignoring the guy with the last 30 seconds I want to give you a final word Well many believe that abortion and this is the lives of children so that's a significant point from the pro-life perspective within the movement what I think is interesting about Louisiana's heartbeat law is that it was passed with this broad and diverse coalition including many Democrats and signed by a Democratic governor I think it's likely to be struck down but that is an interesting I think encouraging thing to many pro lifers Benson of town hall and an experience of the Young Turks Network thank you both and have a great weekend thank you so much. And this is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro a new Star Wars themed part of Disneyland opens today next how the music for the park took. Place apart and so we asked him if he would compose a theme and he came back with the 5 minutes and for. Now the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown President Trump is trying to pressure Mexico to do more to crack down on migrants crossing into the u.s. Illegally at the southern border he's threatening to place a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports unless Mexico does something to stem the flow of immigrants from Central America Bloomberg senior White House correspondent Margaret Talev tells N.P.R.'s here and now the auto industry would be hit hard the sectors that are the most concerned people talk about this in terms of affecting the supply chain because it's not like stuff is just made in other countries and brought here and that's the end of it there's a lot of back and forth flow particularly when you're talking about Mexico so the thought is that the auto industry could be very hard hit and Chuck Grassley an Iowa Senator Grassley very concerned about the impact on agriculture in his state also in saying that this is actually a misuse of the president's tariff authority Trump says the tariffs would gradually increase up to 25 percent until quote the illegal immigration problem is remedied the u.s. State Department has suspended funding for project meant to counter Iranian propaganda Twitter account affiliated with us has been attacking Iranian American activists N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports one recent tweet criticized a researcher at Human Rights Watch It was looking ended the effects of u.s. Sanctions on Iranian Iranian American journalists academics and others have also been criticized by the Iran just information project it was launched late last year to counter Iranian propaganda the State Department says the bulk of its work has been in line with that goal but officials say they identified some recent tweet that fall outside the scope of the project so it is this spending the funding until that changes officials wouldn't say who the contractor is or how much money is at stake Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department stocks finish sharply lower on Wall Street this is n.p.r. . The time is 432 for Connecticut Public Radio Hardman hundreds of middle and high school students from across Connecticut will gather this weekend in Wallingford for Expo fest they'll present science technology and engineering products are projects rather created in response to a given challenge Connecticut Public Radio's Ebony Jackson reports students also pitch business ideas and showcase their films that Mervyn says when people think of middle and high school kids doing cool and sophisticated science or engineering work they usually think of a science fair in a lot of ways Expo fest looks much more like a Silicon Valley startup competition I mean you walk around at the 60 or so trade show style boose and you'll see prototypes and websites and apps and computer science programs and kids fabricate full models of not totally complete working solutions for their innovations Merv is the director of skills $21.00 which presents Expo fest each year students work in teams at 1st with the guidance of a teacher but gradually teachers that back and some of the project results are remarkable says Marrus the top computer science winner last year was from New Haven's engineering in Science University bagman school they designed an incubator for babies that were born with neonatal opioid addiction they wanted to provide an incubator that would really support their development in terms of what they the temperature what they heard and saw there was hardware and software programming a full blown prototyping it's really one of one of the coolest projects we've seen over the years students pitch ideas to judges in a shark tank like environment kids will also present films in response to challenges and how to comedy animation and news Ebony Jackson Connecticut Public Radio Expo fest takes place Friday and Saturday at the Toyota Oakdale theater in Wallingford to learn more visit our website w npr dot org. 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This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish the country is finally getting a break from severe weather today hundreds of tornadoes touched down earlier this week in states from Texas to New Jersey and record flooding is expected to continue along the Arkansas River throughout the weekend but there are many places still recovering from disasters like hurricanes that happened months ago natural disasters don't distinguish between places that have money to rebuild and those that don't a big city like Miami or Houston has tools to bounce back from a hurricane you just don't find those resources in a place like Parker Florida which Musgrave is the mayor of this small town in the Florida Panhandle population 450100 percent of our structures were damaged in one way or another back in October the eye wall of Hurricane Michael passed right over Parker It was a Category 5 storm one of the strongest recorded storms ever to hit the continental u.s. In the days and weeks directly following the storm it was difficult to drive around because you lost all your landmarks you had passed by a street you knew used to turn on all the time and you find yourself who I missed it and I have to turn come back now a new hurricane season starts tomorrow so I visited the Panhandle to see how people are recovering and one of the things that stood out was how much more difficult it is for small towns like Parker to rebuild the level of change is just beyond comprehension Parker is only 2 square miles right on the water near Panama City it used to be known for its sprawling old shade trees the storm knocked down around 80 percent of them the way the system works is that Fema pays for most of the cleanup costs after a natural disaster generally local governments have to front the money and get reimbursed long term federal money for housing and other reconstruction projects is supposed to come from Congress but partisan fighting has delayed the disaster relief bill Meanwhile the cleanup in Parker cost more than the annual. Budget and Mayor rich Musgrave says Fema still hasn't reimburse the town in the meantime he hasn't paid the cleanup crews they have been very gracious and kind and not asking for demanding payment of certain bores So I'm just kind of holding back yeah but at some point the chickens going to come home to roost So you're saying that because the federal government has not reimbursed your town your town has not been able to pay the companies that did the hauling and they've just been gracious enough not to knock down her door and say we deserve to be paid our You're exactly right so the question I have is at some point we're going to have to lay out enough cash and do we have enough ready cash left to pay the bills I mean it's a valid question and I don't know the answer to that yet Parker has to fill out the same paperwork as a much bigger city but they don't have as much staff to do it all filling out project work sheets and writing grant applications Parker has a few dozen city workers total that includes librarians and firefighters local businesses and Parker are fighting to get back to normal to a safe haven when most buildings are damaged and there isn't money to repair them it's tough for business owners to find a place they can reopen no local business means the city doesn't get as much income from utilities and taxes which makes it even harder for a place like Parker to get back on its feet well right now right no competition as far as restaurant there's no restaurant I mean there's nothing Julia Ahmed reopened her pizzeria not fully in a new location just last month we make our dough fresh every day we make our own sauce we use fresh ingredients the storm passed by in October yes the business reopened in April correct Did you ever imagine it would take that long you know in fact I kept posting on Facebook will be open at the end of January will be a family work and it just kept going on and on here on the coast there's tourism and an air. For space the towns can lean on to help propel the economic recovery rural communities have even bigger challenges so I drove 50 miles north from the coast Mariana is a small town of about 6000 people about an hour's drive inland a lot of people here work in farming timber when you walk down the main street you can see buildings that are demolished and others that have had the facades partially ripped off to see that building in the story this one down there is one of the next thought that literally fell into the street. That shook everybody out because you know it was these buildings are over 100 years old to see that kind of power humbles you. Like Cindy Smith owns a few businesses on Mariana's Main Street including Smith and Smith jewelers where I met her this count is not a big money is not it's not a rich county you know so you're fighting that in right for the money to get the cleanup Mariana's annual budget is $5.00 or $6000000.00 a year but one of the biggest industries is temper and many of the trees have been knocked down one of the biggest employers is a federal prison that's been closed since October when they moved all those inmates out we provide all their services water shoer and natural gas well you're talking about a $1000000.00 in revenue that just kind of went out the doe Maryanna city manager Jim Dean has had to make some tough financial decisions if everything in town is damaged and tax revenue isn't coming in like it used to what do you fix 1st you know you're going to have to be very selective in what you do are you going to put yourself so for in day it that you're going to be paying off debt from this storm before you even begin to provide a baseball field for your kids to play baseball on before you buy a new police car before you buy a fire truck coming just because you're picking up trees just because you're picking up trees so you feel like the system was not designed for a place like Marion or. Less she is just a bigger challenge for. Us and the programs become more complex and it just it becomes a daunting task to try and meet some of the requirements next week Congress is expected to finally pass a disaster relief bill and President Trump says he'll sign it but Jim Dean says the fact that it's taken more than $230.00 days only adds to his problems that money could potentially have already been on the street there could be projects underway there could be projects there in the design and Fazer b.n.b. It out right now but we don't have applications because the money just getting started we don't have any design work done and so we sure are not at a point where we can be at the project Yeah so if we would have done this $200.00 days ago we'd probably be in a lot better position but you know. That's Jim Dean the city manager of Mariana Florida. 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Time is 444 for Connecticut Public Radio Hardman many educators agree that pre-kindergarten in early reading proficiency are factors in setting children up for academic success one woman in Kansas City Missouri is on a crusade to make sure children have that success as part of our sharing America profile series Michelle Tarin Johnson introduces us to Annie Watson each rule it is red isn't it any Watson is always juggling 2 things educational policy issues and kids on this day in April her kids are tackling the jungle gym in a playground not far from train tracks. Jockey Danny began to water bottle maybe in the band where would you like to sit here with us or do you want to go play Watson is a former teacher and now works an educational nonprofit as a parent an advocate she says that quality education is a luxury for many you know I often say as I move farther and farther out of the classroom I'm also moving closer and closer into it as they have children and are choosing schools at the park with her husband and her 3 children Watson says she believes empowering parents is also about empowering children starting with their own Watson's 4th child is due in August it is a girl though I am my oldest would remind me and everybody else that gender is a contract and so anatomically we know the body part but we have not met this child yet once the baby arrives Watson's children will be at 4 different schools and care providers during the workday as part of a 2 income household Watson recognizes the privilege of being able to spend 75 percent of her own take home pay on quality early education but for so many families that is simply not an option education as a portal to greater equity in the community is part of what drives Watson particularly her work to turn the page k.c. a Nonprofit dedicated to getting the. All kids in the city reading back their growth if you're not reading professionally by 3rd grade the likelihood that you graduate from high school is significantly less the likelihood that you're incarcerated at some point as well is increasingly higher saying days when she could be spending the day with her own family she helps lead Morgan ization that offers classes for parents and caregivers and how to be better advocates for education policy folks who are living with and taking care of our kids don't always have the loudest voice or a seat at any given table and so how do we change that facilitator tenacious male critics watching that getting it started any. Played at integral part in convening and pulling all of this together in I'm finding our fellows recruiting our parents and really getting on plugged into the community and the greater Kansas City communities Watson who is Asian American says that at one point of her life she wanted to be a high powered d.c. Political fixer along the lines of fictional character Olivia Pope on the t.v. Show Scandal and I didn't ever intend to be an education if I didn't like children raising them or only child and so the thought of young children really scared me recently Watson found that the path she took away from politics as an educator brought her right back to it Watson was one of the architects of the Kansas City Missouri mayor's campaign to fund universal pre-K. Education in the city through a sales tax she was at an election night watch party to hear the news that the initiative on the ballot failed This is Mayor Sly James conceding the loss and the city's going to go on and it's going to go on well. Thanks for being here and thanks for listening this was the 1st time Watson had to deal with education as a political issue but she says as she continues to move forward in her work political defeat doesn't change anything we will dig deeper into what best practice can look like what we want for our city what that means for kids and continue to come up with solutions for how to get there and coming up with solutions will continue to motivate Watson Yeah it's all tied in together for me and there's like 247 kind of in the lists sort of thought process and. An effort it's just all the time it's all the time a conversation with kids and work it's all it's all jumbled up into the same should continue to juggle that jumble advocating for children and education and welcoming a new baby to her growing family for case 2 you are in chairing America I'm Michelle Tyrion Johnson and this story is part of sharing America profiles a series about women of color doing local work that highlights in the issue of national importance sharing America is a Force Station Public Radio collaborative covering race identity and culture. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish the state of Georgia has become one of the movie capitals of the world these days it produces more feature films per year than Hollywood but some of the biggest media companies like that flicks Disney and Warner media said this week that they might consider leaving Georgia because of its new restrictions on abortion Brin Sandberg of the Hollywood Reporter has been covering the situation and she joins us now welcome to All Things Considered thank you for having me 1st of all to start how did Georgia become competitive in this industry right how did we reach a point where Georgia could be competing with the New Yorks and alleys of the world to lower production companies it's definitely been a massive industry for Georgia in the last 10 years because about a decade ago is when they instituted these new very generous lucrative tax incentives which gives productions up to 30 percent back the pending on how much they spend and whether they're willing to put a Georgia peach logo in their credits and that sort of thing but it's really significant money back for these major studios in Hollywood and what does it got back there was a record $455.00 films and television productions that were shot in Georgia in the last fiscal year and they represented a $2.00 you know $1000000000.00 in direct spending which they estimate brings in $9500000000.00 in total economic impact so these numbers are really huge and they have been a huge destination for feature films and not just not just any sort of feature films expensive blockbusters the biggest of those being Marvel's Avengers movies which shot at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta which is a big production facility as we mentioned studios in media companies have sent some warning signals how likely though is a natural boycott these laws are sort of been spreading and production people here in Hollywood are sort of taking a wait and see approach and this abortion ban isn't so. Take effect until January of 2020 so we have this sort of in between time where a lot of studios and producers and executives are trying to figure out what the best course of action is and do they keep projects there in the meantime should it be overturned before it's in acted then Hollywood doesn't really have to worry about pulling out their productions that's the business side of it that people make a lot of the politics of Hollywood is there a sense that people actually support the idea of a boycott. I think that there is a bit of a political divide depending on who you talk to you'll get different perspectives and different strategies on this issue you look at what j.j. Abrams and Jordan Peele did with their upcoming h.b.o. Show Lovecraft county that they're about to shoot in Georgia they said they were going to continue on with production in the state and that they were going to donate 100 percent of their episodic fees to the a.c.l.u. Of Georgia and fair fight Georgia which are 2 organizations who are working to oppose the law and overturn it in court so their perspective was that you know they talked to a lot of people on the ground in Georgia and felt that it would only be hurting the local crew and the actors and local production companies and all these people who really need these jobs if they were to just relocate at the 11th hour so if you look at an Amazon show called The Power that Reed Morocco is making and ended up deciding to look elsewhere after this this legislation was passed so you're seeing a lot of different strategies and there is definitely discussion in town here about whether a boycott is the most effective one that's Prince and bird of the Hollywood Reporter thank you for speaking with us thank you so much for having me and now to the galaxies the new Star Wars land at Disneyland opens today fans can pilot the Millennium Falcon and wander the distant planet of bot to brought to life as Tim grieving reports with a cosmic soundscape. The Red Rock of Frontierland transitions into black and. Petrified wood pocked with Blaster holes as I enter by 2 and luring me through the school underpass like a siren song is unfamiliar music by a familiar composer soon you're hearing the opening principal theme of John Williams compose for the land Matt Walker is the head of music for Walt Disney Imagineering But here it's kind of boiled down to its essence just to create this suggestion this. Welcoming into the land as I walk into the 14 acre land music actually goes away for the most part and the trees I can hear the chatter of alien insects and birds and the king of a property. At the Droid depot where you can actually build your own little robot a chorus of familiar bleeps and bloops reverberate around the rock. And the marketplace bustles we have Barker's We have animals we have chimes we have people that live in the apartments above j.k. Kessler leads audio and sound effects at Imagineering his task was to turn galaxies edge into a living land through sound more than a 1000 tracks of audio play through thousands of speakers dotting the land we just start with what we want to hear as we walk from place to place where how are we going to create this living land you will almost never see a speaker and then there are parks because we're so good to integrating those with our our set people Iraq or people the absence of music is striking classic showtunes New Orleans jazz jungle drums and futuristic synthesizers felt other Disneyland's but the Planet of the 2 was conceived entirely differently says John Dennis Executive Creative Director of Music at Imagineering like most real places because it doesn't play everywhere the way it wouldn't say a traditional fantasy park music here is motivated it's it's directed it comes from a source it doesn't you know we don't have an orchestra playing out of Iraq so you might hear a job pop song coming through the radio at a shop. Or when you pop into Opus cantina where yes you can actually order alcoholic drinks a Droid named Rex spend some of the hottest tracks from around the galaxy. But this being Star Wars Of course you'll hear more John Williams just not his classic themes pumping 247 the 87 year old 5 time Oscar winner who's composed roughly 20 hours of Star Wars music still had to be convinced so the musical Imagineer is led by Matt Walker brought Williams to their magic shop in Glendale it was fun to see John Williams. Kind of rediscover his teenage self as we were plunging him into lightspeed or you know dropping him in an elevator shaft and and then talk about how can we set this place apart and so we asked him to you know if he would go away and compose a theme and he came back with a 5 minute symphonic told by one. That 5 minutes sweet performed by the London Symphony Orchestra was adapted by others to suit the various needs of galaxies a to hear some of that familiar John William Sound I boarded the life sized Millennium Falcon to pilot the interactive flight simulator ride smugglers run. I bang the ship up pretty bad but we made it back safely to the strains of John Williams as new fanfare got back to. The retreat for good data I thought oh yeah even when you lose here you can't help feeling like a hero with that music class for n.p.r. News I'm Tim grieving and a land far far away. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from c 3 died a i c 3 died a software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence that enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn Morrissey 3. 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