Unsent you have this loop of retaliation and a young woman who called herself Carlos stood at the barricades of university were students clashed with police and said that she has not seen it anywhere near as bad as it is now N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy in Hong Kong the National Weather Service says record cold temperatures are sinking into the eastern 2 thirds of the u.s. They're being felt from the Canadian border down to some southern states the Weather Service reports temperatures will average $20.00 to $30.00 degrees below normal and this is n.p.r. . Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Bryant University for 156 years dedicated to educating and inspiring students to excel as they become innovative leaders of character prepared to make a difference around the world learn more at Brion's dot edu Connecticut Public Radio News reports are made possible by Cleo and Attorneys at Law and Adams and Knight Good morning I'm Diane Orson the town of Canton is holding an informational meeting tonight about possible contamination at a local elementary school Connecticut Public Radio's Patrick Scahill reports firefighting foam was released on school property during a training exercise back in 2013 the release allegedly happened at Cherry Brook primary school when the Canton volunteer fire department was training on the grounds of the pre-K. To grade 3 school they released about 40 gallons of firefighting foam that's according to Jennifer Kerr tennis director of health for the Farmington Valley Health District that phone contained p Pfaff's a family of chemicals linked to a variety of bad health effects including liver and developmental problems Cortina says the concern is water Cherry Brook at such water from 2 wells located about 250 feet from where the foam was released those wells are now being tested for contamination we anticipate getting results in 3 to 4 weeks but in the meantime clean alternative water supply is currently being used at the school her Taylor says she's unclear why volunteer firefighters use the foam on school grounds the public meeting takes place at 7 pm at Cherry Brook Primary School in Canton Patrick Scahill Connecticut Public Radio a leading gun industry group says it believes the u.s. Supreme Court should have reviewed and dismissed a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a National Shooting Sports Foundation based in Newtown says it's disappointed that justice is on Tuesday allowed the lawsuit against Remington. Arms to move forward Remington argues a 2005 federal law shields gun makers from liability and most lawsuits Meanwhile state officials in Connecticut welcomed the court's decision 9 families who lost loved ones are suing the gun fan you Fact sure saying it knowingly marketed its products to people who might use it to kill or injure others the decision clears the way for the suit to proceed in Connecticut State Court Attorney General William Tong says the case could have ripple effects through many industries that's the point of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act That's the point of these unfair and deceptive practices laws is to get to the bottom of how they're marketing so it's not just Remington it's not just the gun manufacturers it's jewel it's the big tobacco companies it's the opioid industry we're trying to get to the bottom of how they use marketing to put people at risk Governor Ned Lamont also welcome the decision saying it's a step toward progress in the family's fight for justice this is Connecticut Public Radio support comes from the Mattituck museum in Waterbury students in grades 5 and up are invited to join the mad at Rosehill for a dynamic motion movement workshop Nov 18th 25th and December 2nd Matt museum dot org support comes from Highland Park market helping to simplify Thanksgiving dinner with chef prepared side dishes like mashed potatoes butternut squash stuffing and turkey gravy Plus store bake pies and signature desserts store locations and more at Highland Park market dot com. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Steve Inskeep in Washington d.c. Where a colleague and I went on a search yesterday through the halls of Congress. Here. Is a writer here we were looking for a particular room and this is a major here in a room with an oversized wooden door so walking into $1100.00 Longworth is a huge and ornate hearing room we have plaster Eagles in each of the corners we've got a got a chandelier above and over here the brown leather chairs on the diets from which committee members will hear for the 1st time public testimony in the impeachment inquiry we've been talking with a lawmaker who will occupy one of those chairs today Adam Schiff of California is running the inquiry he's called to diplomats to testify both have information about President Trump's request for investigations of political rivals in Ukraine the diplomats have already spoken in private but chairmanship knows it matters what they say in front of the t.v. Cameras as millions watch or listen here on n.p.r. All of us are going to have to consult with our conscience our Constitution and our constituents and making these decisions in both the House and the Senate and public opinion will be important yesterday on all things considered we heard the chairman make his case and he made some news raising the possibility of charging the president with various offenses including bribery that is one of the acts the Constitution names as worthy of impeachment shift knows however that Republicans have been trying out various defenses of the president and we asked about those defenses are talking to knew what evidence if any shows the President Trump himself directed all the elements of this affair well I'm going to defer to the hearings and let the American people make a judgment about that. For one thing I don't know that I have the time during this interview to catalog what the witnesses have said this far but I think you believe there is evidence that shows that a yes and I think what the. Public will see is that there aren't many facts that are truly in dispute here and of course the president's conduct on that call is not contested the fact that the aid was withheld is not contested many of these facts are not really subject to much dispute the a to petition of them yes but the facts not as much I'm thinking about the fact that you have Gordon signed on one of the diplomats involved here now has sent you a letter stating that he himself delivered this statement to a Ukrainian official that they must make a statement on investigations if they wanted to get the military aid but then he testifies and I'm quoting here I presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti corruption statement leaving room for an order that came from someone other than the president well I'm not going to go into specific testimony of but I can say that for weeks now all my colleagues in the g.o.p. Said well the Ukrainians never even knew the aid was being withheld How can there be any problem at the Ukrainians were unaware that the 8 was withheld there's no dispute about the fact that Ukraine found out about the aid being withheld when did they know when did the Ukrainians know well this the public will get to see in the public testimony but it's an important thing to push on now because as you know Republicans are saying the Ukrainians did not know as of the president's July 25 phone call that the aid was being withheld there is some testimony to that effect do you know when the Ukrainians found out the aide was being we know that there are now multiple witnesses who have related conversations with Ukrainians about their knowledge that the aid was being withheld before it was made public did they know they had a problem with military aid when the president of the United States called them and asked for investigations on July 25 Well 1st of all I would dispute whether it's really the issue about whether they knew before or after July 25 the fact or matter is they did find out and so whether they learned before that call or they learned. After that call they learned and they knew what the president wanted and ultimately they were prepared to give the president what he wanted that's I think the most important of the facts does it matter at all in the gravity of this the seriousness of it that the affair you just described failed it didn't happen the aide was released the fact that the scheme was discovered the fact that the scheme was unsuccessful doesn't make it any less odious or any less impeachable. If the president solicited for help in the u.s. Election if the president conditioned official acts on the performance of these political favors whether Ukraine ever had to go through with it really doesn't matter what matters is that the president attempt to commit acts that ought to result in his removal from office as you know the president and his defenders have said he was only thinking about the 2016 election is it any less grave in your view if it was only about 2016 but all the same facts apply Well you know I think the hypothetical is so at odds with the facts because we have the president's own call record and the president brings up 2 investigations he wants conducted one into this to bunt Crowd Strike conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2060 not the Russians that by the way is the Russians favorite narrative of the matter but the president also wanted a destination of the Bidens and this wasn't simply what was raised on the call although it is certainly the most direct evidence of what the president wanted but it was raised by the president's proxies people like the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. In deciding whether to go forward with impeachment of course you have to consider the ultimate result whether you really have a chance in the Senate. If you decide the facts are serious enough would it be worth it going ahead even if you know you're likely to fail that the president would not be removed. I've always thought that the strongest argument for impeachment was also the strongest argument against it which is if you don't impeach a president to commits conduct of this kind what does that say to the next president about what they can do and to the next Congress at the same time if you do impeach but the president to sequestered What does that say to the next president the next Congress there's no good or simple answer to that conundrum impeachment is not only a remedy to remove a president it's also the most powerful sanction the house has and if that deters further presidential misconduct then it may provide some remedy even in the absence of a conviction in the Senate but again I have to hope that my Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle will keep an open mind will do their constitutional duty will set aside the party of the president because otherwise why are they even there and what is their oath of office really mean. Mr Chairman thanks for your time thank you Adam Schiff who is the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and who is leading the public impeachment hearings that begin today you can hear them on many n.p.r. Stations so that you know N.P.R.'s invited all the Republican members of the Intelligence Committee to take our questions not one agreed we'll keep asking Alexei Nevaeh me is the face of Russia's political opposition however small that opposition may be he's running for president against Vladimir Putin he led protest rallies around the country and he investigated government corruption for years publishing his findings on social media this week in a volley released a new investigation that's gone viral with almost 2000000 You Tube views in 2 days and counting Here's N.P.R.'s Lucy and Kim from Moscow Alexina Vonnie is a master of social media the 43 year old lawyer rose to prominence as a critic of President Vladimir Putin through his blog he now posts investigations on You Tube that exposed the unexplained untold wealth of government officials his latest target is Moscow's chief prosecutor who's leading the Kremlin is crackdown on anti-government protesters. In the video no Vania standing outside his apartment building in a drab Moscow suburb has a fortune. He says he hasn't made any new videos in a long time with an office keeps getting raided by masked law enforcement agents who confiscated everything in a sewer now on the us come under increasing pressure following anti-government demonstrations this summer that were the largest in years he and his allies are being fined for Suppose a damages incurred during recent protests and Avani crowd funded n.t. Corruption foundation is being accused of money laundering and has been branded a foreign agent in his investigation this week now Vali tries to show Moscow's chief prosecutor that he's popped off is the one with the real foreign interests. In the use of drones. Film luxury properties Montenegro in Spain which he says are owned by the prosecutors family. Of all neatly cross referencing social media posts made by the family with local property records is investigation raises serious questions about what Moscow prosecutor could afford so much for in real estate when he makes $12000.00 a year what makes this story even more provocative is that Putin personally appointed the prosecutor which is probably why the Kremlin was quick to defend him saying a pov has a clean record Genest on a via a political analyst says the Kremlin has no choice but to stick with its man I don't want to what you're not I don't know any film yet he says the government's pressure on Vonnie and its allies will only increase but just by success on social media he is still struggling to become a household name across Russia in a large part because state television rules the airwaves a poll conducted last month found only 9 percent of respondents have a positive view of him 25 percent are negative 31 percent indifferent and another 31 percent don't even know what Novell need does what can I say. Not to understand a virus as authorities have not been of all new jail for good because that would turn him into a hero and help raise his popularity and money at new options for nagging him but I must admit this is what the Kremlin really wants is life so miserable for and I did finally goes into exile but not only a said before that he plans to stay in Russia and keep fighting the regime he's already followed up his video with a letter to Putin asking him to fire the Moscow prosecutor and have him brought to justice. N.p.r. News Moscow. This is n.p.r. News. Support for Connecticut Public Radio comes from our members and from Hinckley combining legal strategy with officials say to address your legal needs with offices in Connecticut and throughout the Northeast in line at Hank Lee Allen dot com with the Connecticut Public Radio weather report I'm meteorologist a garret r.g.s. I'm going to start off with some good news about today's weather it is going to be bright so after a cloudy day yesterday hopefully that blue sky helps to boost your mood a little bit today of course that sun is going to do little to help warm things up it's a day out of the middle of winter bundle up as you step out the door wind chills are feels like temperatures this morning are in the single digits those will rise only into the teens and twenty's this afternoon actual highs will be in the upper twenty's to low thirty's the wind is going to be gusty helping to add a bite to that cold air will be mostly cloudy and not as harsh for tomorrow with a high around 40 with the Connecticut Public Radio weather report on meteorologist Garrett r.g.s. Our weather reports are made possible by Mystic Seaport Museum and say brick home. Good morning This is Morning Edition on Connecticut Public Radio ahead this hour as the House impeachment inquiry gets underway in public what you need to know about the 2 career public servants taking stage they are not opponents of the Republicans nor are they are the Democrats more on what to expect from these men George Kent and William Taylor That's coming up on Morning Edition and you can listen to live coverage of the hearing beginning this morning at 10 on Connecticut Public Radio. Also later this hour some older residents are having trouble finding the high dose flu vaccine designed for them but health officials don't want people to wait too long before they get a shot more on what to do in 25 minutes stay tuned. The time is $721.00. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from pro Quest creators of pro Quest one academic unifying journals ebooks videos and dissertations across disciplines in one mobile enabled interface pro Quest dot com slash go slash n.p.r. 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News Good Morning I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene It is not easy to treat viral infections but scientists in Massachusetts think they may have found a new way to stop viruses from making people sick by using what amounts to a pair of molecular scissors N.P.R.'s science correspondent Joe Palca explains when a virus infects a cell in our bodies it hijacks the cells molecular machinery and make copies of itself those new viruses can go on to spread the infection through your body we need to be able to cut the virus at a fast enough rate to slow down replication or to stop replication from happening Cameron Myhrvold is a post-doc at the brode Institute in Cambridge Myhrvold works with so-called are in a viruses viruses that package their genetic information in our in a a chemical cousin of d.n.a. To cut the viral r.n.a. He uses a molecular tool called crisper in this case crisper cast 13 that can target a specific region of r.n.a. Cast 13 when it finds its target it can become very active and start to cut other are in it is finding the right target is key there's a lot of r.n.a. Is inside cells that are necessary for the cell to survive so it's important to find an r.n.a. Target that's unique to the virus you're trying to control Myhrvold says r.n.a. Viruses are particularly difficult to control because they're a bit like shapeshifters they tend to change their genetic sequences when you try to pin them down they really want to understand what the virus is doing in response to kind of 13 treatment variables colleague Catherine free g. Says what the virus does in response to treatment should be informative that could potentially teach us about what parts of the virus are particularly important for its function and that in turn will show the best places to target the virus in order to disable it so far Fiji and Myhrvold say they've only show their ed he viral treatment works and sells. But party's Sabbat he head of the lab they work in is bullish about using the crisper cast 13 system to treat viral infections in people there's still a bunch of things we want to work out but we feel pretty confident that this will work as a therapy if it can be delivered in the right way by delivering she means getting the crisper cast 13 tool into the right cells inside and then feck to the patient now crisper cast 13 specifically targets are in May so it will only be useful for illnesses caused by r.n.a. Viruses like flu and Sica But Janice Chen says researchers are now finding a variety of crisper as with different properties Chan is chief research officer at Mammoth Bio Sciences a company that hopes to capitalize on crisper technology having a broader crisper 12 boxes really important to figure out what is the specific need for any given application progress in building that tool box has proceeded quite quickly after all it's only been 6 years since scientists 1st became aware of how powerful a tool crisper could be. Joe Palca n.p.r. News a water bottle in company wants to sell Florida's most endangered resources water from its fresh water springs Nestle wants to take more than a 1000000 gallons of water per day from Jenny Springs But environmental groups say the spring is in an area where groundwater levels are already far too low N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reports. There are more than a 1000 fresh water springs in Florida providing drinking water important natural habitat and places for recreation not overboard but Steve wallboard splashes into the sea and it's a river for a day of tubing the reverse fed by several freshwater sources including Jenny Springs he's heard about Nestle's requests to begin taking more than a 1000000 gallons a day from the spring I think is probably bad I mean I don't know the whole issue you know I'd like to know more about the facts before make a decision I think it's bad I think especially bad it's going into individual use plastic bottles and you know if you get the water from somewhere it's a shame it has to be from the west so Nestle and many other companies have been sold Florida spring water for decades for the past 20 years 7 Springs the company that owns the land around Springs has had a permit allowing it to take nearly 1200000 gallons a day from its wells during that time working with other water bottle there's the company usually with crude less than a quarter of that Nestle now wants to increase the daily withdrawal to the full amount requested a set off alarm bells among environmental groups what we do in the state of the river is under attack. What are we doing to these things is under attack. In the nearby town of High Springs more than 100 activists held a demonstration recently opposing 7 Springs request renew its water use permit nearly 9000 people have filed comments with a local Water Management District most of them asking it to deny the permit request Ryan smart is with the Florida Springs Council it makes no sense to be giving away water a 1000000 gallons a day to an out of state bottling company at a time when our own River right here is. Suffering 4 years ago State Water managers determine that the flow in the Santa Fe River and nearby Springs had declined below level but sustainable and action must be taken to help the Aqua for recover Bob Knight the director of the Florida Springs Institute says his studies show the flow down 28 percent from historic levels it's clear that there past the point of harm and when they decide that the law says that they'll go into recovery which they did but unbelievably that recovery strategy includes issuing more ground water pumping permits 7 spring says it studies show extracting that much water from the spring will reduce levels in a nearby wetland by less than an inch the district is evaluating the permit request compared to water permits issued for dairy farms another agricultural users 7 Springs permit isn't that big but activists see Nestle a well known consumer brand as an opportunity to focus on the need to better manage the state's groundwater not is hoping Nestle will agree to help safeguard a precious resource they have the financial resources to do that what we need to do is actually reduce the amount of groundwater pumping to recover the Santa Fe River Springs and we need to reduce the amount of intensive agriculture that's around these springs that's leading to their pollution environmental groups are pushing for Florida to adopt something it doesn't have now a water use fee right now the only money the state collects for the water is a $1.00 time $115.00 application fee paid by the company doing the pumping $7.00 Springs Nestle won't say how much it's paying 7 springs for the water but Ryan smart of the Florida Springs Council says under the current system companies make millions of dollars from a public resource for which they pay little or nothing we're going to have to stop giving this water away and start charging a reasonable fee for it and water bottling is a great place to start Nestle says it's committed to using sustainable practices the company has worked with environmental groups in Florida in the past to protect groundwater from pollution and development activists are hoping for something similar and Jenny Springs Greg Allen n.p.r. News High Springs Florida. This is n.p.r. News. Support for Connecticut Public Radio comes from you our members and from Gateway community college Foundation providing transformational opportunities for students in our community. Gateway. Democrats say president abused his power when he asked for a probe into a political rival now key players involved in Ukraine public testimony for all of America to hear the president is not. Joining. The president. And all their furniture. Is a collection of products that help make your house furniture designed for years to come all the. Same. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly 2 witnesses will be testifying today on Capitol Hill as the House Intelligence Committee begins public impeachment hearings into President Trump and Ukraine the top u.s. Diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor and deputy assistant secretary of state George can't will be answering questions he has given hours of closed door testimony N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith says Committee chairman Adam Schiff has announced the lineup for next week's open hearings many of these are names that you've probably heard before at this point Gordon Sunland Alexander venom and Fiona Hill as well as 2 witnesses who Republicans had requested be called Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison they both deal with Ukraine policy but said that they didn't think that what the president did was a violation of any law a car bombing in Afghanistan's capital today has killed at least 7 people and wounded nearly a dozen others N.P.R.'s Day ahead dede says the attack targeted a convoy of private security vehicles in Kabul it came just a day after the Afghan president announced they would release 3 high ranking Taliban members in exchange for an American and Australian professor who were kidnapped 3 years ago in Kabul the bluff mysel a peace talks between the government and the Taleban they're expected later this month no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing this is n.p.r. News from Washington good morning I'm Diane Orson the United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a challenge to the Trump administration's decision to end a program that shields hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation as arguments were under way Connecticut Public Radio's Frankie Graziano visited eastern Connecticut State University to speak with students who are directly affected Janetta Lopez came here from Venezuela when she was 11 now she's the Student Government Association president at Easter this is a very. Difficult time for many of us that are undocumented that have benefited from Dhaka doctors short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals the program that's in dispute she says she doesn't just want doctor to continue on she wants it improved under the program deportation can be deferred but the deferral has to be renewed and that bothers Lopez as I stand here today and I thank you for everything that you've done everything that you continue to do to protect that I encourage you all to acknowledge that that is something that was not meant to be long term and it's not something that enables us to move forward and know that we will be Ok past the 2 year mark one of the people Lopez was addressing was state attorney general William Tong who showed up at Easter and to reaffirm the state's commitment to Dhaka 2 years ago Connecticut was one of 16 states that sued the Trop in ministration to save the program Connecticut is in the Supreme Court right now imploring the United States Supreme Court to find that the trumpet ministrations rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program their attempt to revoke Dacca is unlawful and wrong and cruel and pointless Tong says that if the Supreme Court rules against Dhaka it would be an unfathomable loss for the students and to their families Frankie Graziano Connecticut Public Radio Connecticut's new 10 cent tax on disposable plastic bags is generating less money than originally budgeted a new report projects the theory will generate $7000000.00 in the current fiscal year not the $27000000.00 included in the state budget office of policy and management secretary Melissa McCaw says the 75 percent drop indicates that consumers have adapted to the new law and our weather forecast a mostly sunny breezy very cold for this time of year highs reaching only into the upper twenty's or low thirty's Winchell's in the single digits this morning this is Connecticut Public Radio News It's 734. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Warner Brothers Pictures presenting the good liar a suspense thriller about the secrets people keep and the lies they live starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen the good liar rated are only in theaters Friday and from duel lingo a language app whose mission is to make language learning fun and accessible to the world with lessons in more than 30 languages including French Spanish and Chinese available in the App Store or it dual lingo dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene we're following chaos in Hong Kong that seems to be escalating police say that city is experiencing some of the worst violence since protests broke out in June anti-government demonstrators cause disruptions for a 3rd consecutive day subways were closed today and already officials have suspended school tomorrow n.p.r. International correspondent Julie McCarthy is there in Hong Kong Hi Julie good morning David So 5 months now I mean these demonstrations started peacefully though I mean what what is causing the changed now well one trigger was a student child say look he was found unconscious in a parking garage in circumstances that are unclear their murky and he died of brain injuries on Friday and protesters many of them suspect the police may have had a hand in child's death now that something police very much deny and directly on the heels of chaos' death a policeman shot a masked protester at close range which enraged Hong Kong years he's alive in serious condition but here's the nob protesters say they've tried peaceful demonstrations got nowhere in feel justified in using violence on the other hand police feel justified using harsher measures to counter that while and you have this loop of retaliation now a young woman who called herself Carlos stood at the barricades of university were students clashed with police and said this is as bad as she's seen it there is no memory and. It's actually it is not as it's just you know war Well I mean that's the power for 2 years obviously and it doesn't feel that way for people who live in the city I mean this was going on taking place on weekends originally now it's gone into week days and I mean does it feel like it's in a new phase here I think it's I think that's accurate to say it does feel more dangerous out there and protesters tell me about preparing themselves. To die they're tired police are tired which is when people overreact and here's what the universities are starting to sound like David. Bell firing tear gas on campuses was not done until now and what you're hearing were students at Chinese University of Hong Kong there still hold up to stop any police advance and as we speak students are stockpiling supplies and other universities anticipating clashes at their schools and protesters you know they're expanding to the weekdays because if you paralyze a transit system in Hong Kong on a Tuesday you'll get people's attention and what protesters hope to do is get fellow citizens to think about what's at stake and for them it's about more democracy and curbing what they see as police abuse what a lot of this is getting the message to the public about what's at stake and where is the public in all of this right now well you know nobody likes their commute disrupted but here's 19 year old Cecilia Lu and she says the spiraling violence scares her as saying this state is getting through a while. Because now they can all go to school all classes are still spending. Is getting all council others say there's no equivalency in the violence of protesters versus the police who have an arsenal at their at their disposal the protesters do not but others say nothing you know at the scene of Monday's shooting one woman came up to me and said report what's going on here and quickly turned away saying we're too scared to talk please report the reality here and she vanished N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy in Hong Kong thanks Julie thank you. Today's 1st public hearing in the bitter divisive partisan fight over impeachment features 2 public servants who work to be nonpartisan one is the acting u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor. Or the other is a foreign service officer with long experience George Kent So who are the N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports the White House calls them unelected radical bureaucrats and President Trump is trying to downplay the testimony they have given so far I never even heard of it safe I have no idea if they are there are some very fine fish you have some never suffers without offering any evidence trying calls William Taylor and never trump or retired ambassador bottled Newman though says Americans who tune in to Taylor's public testimony will see a public servant with 50 years of experience like I sort of the mom was a combat officer have served multiple administrations of both parties and I find it disgusting that people have never had the courage to go in harm's way are criticizing somebody who is circulation this way one thing that's clear from Taylor's closed door deposition is that he took copious notes and knows all the players in Ukraine he had been embassador there before deputy assistant secretary George Kent also has deep knowledge of Ukraine says Nancy MacHall Downey who used to run the Foreign Service Institute all of our diplomats are taught to take copious notes because we know that the details matter in depositions released publicly last week Taylor describes the cable he sent to Secretary of State Mike pump a 0 telling him it was in his words folly to hold up military aid to Ukraine at a time when Russia was watching retired career diplomat Tom countryman says Taylor took the job because he was told he would be upholding the bipartisan approach to help Ukraine deter Russian aggression when the president's action in delaying aid threaten to undermine the stated policy of the United States it's utterly appropriate for Ambassador Taylor to warn secretary Pompei all of the consequences of that action career foreign service officer George. And explained in his deposition why he was worried that the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukraine to open investigations that could be seen as helping Trump politically MacHall Downey was struck by that George Tenet made a very impassioned and evocative statement he said explicitly that politically motivated prosecutions undermined the rule of law can't told the committees that he spent much of his career trying to improve the rule of law in former Soviet states he also explained that Giuliani had aligned himself with corrupt Ukrainian prosecutors including one who helped to undermine a Ukrainian probe into a fake passport ring MacHall Downey who is now at Georgetown University says these are important details from public servants who pride themselves in being nonpartisan they are not opponents of the Republicans nor are they on the Democrats these public servants do not want to be in the spotlight some of these witnesses have faced threats and are the targets of conspiracy theories that includes Maria Vonn of it she was ousted from her job as ambassador to Ukraine facing what George cant described as a campaign of slander Tom countryman says this is hurting morale it matters for the same reason that it matters in a military unit you know in a Cleese department or in any other government profession where the job is protecting American citizens and that's why he's so distressed that the secretary of state has not publicly defended his employees including you have on of it shoot testifies in public on Friday Michele Kelemen n.p.r. 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To get the right vaccine. That there are no national shortages. But a delay in virus selection this year pushed back should. Make. Confirms Connecticut residents shortages in some places and as flu season as urging people to get some type of vaccine instead of waiting for a specialty since we are in the middle of November they should get whatever vaccine is available because we are starting to see flu ramp up in the state and it is important for them to get to receive a vaccine now and if parents are seeing shortages of flu shots for their children and health provider offices Bolduc says they should call the state immunization program to help locate available vaccine data show that flu activity so far is sporadic with more than 100 confirmed cases Connecticut Public Radio. You're listening to n.p.r. . It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene hunters are disappearing in the United States and for conservationists that may be bad news because fewer hunters means less money for wildlife conservation Stephen facade of the Kansas news service reports on the effort to attract younger people to hunting. I thought is crouching below the line of sunflowers behind him in skins the tree line a few 100 feet past the flattened field he spotting dogs for the young would be hunters sitting quietly on orange buckets so I thought everyone has a positive image of hunters and it's portrayed as a bunch of bloodthirsty people how Chase chasing down for innocent animals but I wouldn't be here today if I was in it for us the thrill of the kill Sackhoff says he hunts for the connection from the land and to fellow hunters plus an escape from a busy school. Arena filled world he's hoping to show that to a new generation of hunters here in northern Kansas. 14 year old Robert good always brought other stuff on by his grandfather Richard funk so don't shoot at the Never shoot the bird always. Or. Even should be high in the Dove hunts are supposed to be the exciting option for kids birds fly through quickly and often but today Goodall seems more interested in picking seeds from a drooping sunflower No you like it's a pretty boring for decades youth hunts have been the main way Kansas has tried to recruit new hunters but that hasn't increased their numbers across the country as order hunters are putting down their rifles younger hunters are picking them up and that's threatening conservation efforts because it's the sale of hunting and fishing licenses that provide most of the money for conservation efforts hoping to keep that money flowing kids as wildlife department has hired 23 year old panda fan charter last year to create a plan for recruiting new millennial gens the and women hunters my dad and brothers hunted and I didn't necessarily feel welcome to go out with them even though they invited me and not such a weird aspect of this is that many women do get invited they get asked at some point in their lives and we say no she's putting together women only one thing events that are run by women instructors The other problem was the reason to go hunting the traditional pitch and emphasize the state's grand hunting heritage 1st and conservation 2nd but fan shyer is flipping that she now stresses conservation because millenniums want to spend time and money on the causes they value like protecting the environment we're kind of the Go Fund Me generation we want to give our money to something that's important to us and when we invest in a business for example we want to know that their values align with ours Kansas is also taking in. Spiration from other movements like farm to table field to fork encourages Kansans to get some of their food from hunting Tim down just leaves a Kansas hunting group called quality deer management he says those field to fork efforts help them recruit nontraditional hunters one we look back on and words come from that has generally been a white male dominated sport and so we're trying to change all that what this film the fort program will finally get a much more diverse group eat local message is meant to appeal to the growing number of Kansans living in cities and along with keeping tradition alive and conservation coffers filled the state wants urban dwellers to spend a little less time in the city and more time connecting with the Kansas prairie for n.p.r. News I'm Stephen bizarre in Wichita. This is n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. 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So many of us would just jump at the chance to improve our memories right that would be amazing Arab village you to recall information can be really important to our performance so many parts of life everything from tests and schools to the ability to master a new task work well so scientists are experimenting with ways to get their minds to better hold on to the things that we have just learned at N.P.R.'s Elise you've got to try one of these experiments for our series about emerging technologies called Future you Hailes Hey good morning so what exactly do you do here well the idea behind this David is that there's something going on in our brains while we're sleeping that helps us hang on to our memories our brains essentially create narratives for what happened during the day our new ideas that we are exposed to while we're in deep sleep so this experiment what it does is it stimulates the brains of subjects they're studying while they're asleep now so far this research is still in the labs and it's not commercially available but the results have been really promising the experiment involves applying noninvasive electrical stimulation to our brains noninvasive electrical stimulation of that what is that so it's kind of a brain cap that you wear while you're sleeping I tried this out at the University of New Mexico where I went to visit the sleep lab Ok the researchers there introduced me to this experiment I have to learn how to play a custom video game and then at night I would sleep and wake up and then play the video game again and the researchers test to see how much my performance improves in other words they test your memory of how to play a game and why do they say video games is the best way to work on your memory this all has to do with why it was designed in the 1st place the u.s. Military is research arm DARPA funded this study with the original purpose of wanting to improve Folgers performance on the battlefield so the task I learned was a v e r game where you wear that the our heads. That involves spotting and shooting the target just to review if I get it it'll turn green and then if I miss a human target that it yeah so I played this game and I was tested after one night of sleep without any sort of brain stimulation and then the 2nd night that my brain while I was asleep and then I played the game again Ok can we talk about zapping what is what is happening Ok so the researchers put a brain cap on my head with wires and I've worn a series of these in the future your theory but I'm wearing that this time when I'm sleeping and when I reach that deep stage of sleep which is when your mind starts really consolidating memories and constructing narratives for what happened to you the research then tracked my brain waves and then sent electricity at the same speed as my own brain waves back to my brain and this is a closed loop that's supposed to improve that process of memory consolidation that already naturally occurs so the next morning when tested again many subjects showed as much as a 30 percent improvement and recognizing and remembering targets in the our game but how do they know that you're not just getting better at the game because you're playing the game well the researchers adjust the scores to account for any improvements just from practice Ok so what are the implications isn't this just one kind of study with a video game your series Future year is all about imagining how all this technology advancement could change our lives in 30 years so if they can successfully start zapping our brains more sleep improves our memory in that feels like it could be a big deal I asked exactly that question to the lead psychologist on this research at the University of New Mexico His name is Vince Clarke I think will get better being able to enhance people's ability to learn also things like pay attention doing sports you know medical treatments like reducing pain but since we are imagining the future here I also asked him what the downside of this kind of technology might be sure for example if your memories can be boosted could they also be a racist and here is what the. Clarke said about that you could force someone to have a memory that wasn't really true somehow although it take a lot more work than what we're doing now is just in the hands thing a natural process we're not really manipulating details about what you learned all that sounds bad I had the same reaction but the researchers tell me that we don't have to worry about this for a long while because it's like that quote that's often attributed to the writer William Gibson the future has already arrived it's just not evenly distributed that's a perfect quote with which to say goodbye to Elise here thanks always you bet and you can see this full experiment involving brain zapping and everything else for yourself as part of our original video series Future year with the least you you can find it at npr dot org slash future you or just go to N.P.R.'s You too John. There's just over a month left in this decade so we're asking artists to tell us things they loved over the past 10 years Hello this is Iggy Pop I want to choose sweetly for the North boy make artistic she ego trip songs all about. Something on the screen. To make artistic is not a household name. In this track he describes the experience of being a band from a poor northern tone was very excited that they're going to get nervy down and drive to play in the big city. Along the now so excited and. Sounds of the commonalities of most of the time the pretty quickly. And as the band get in their van they notice that there's a small brown beef that has attached itself to their windscreen and it's stuck in the windshield wiper and it doesn't leave them when they finish the gig it's still there and it makes the a tire journey home with. The windscreen. And we carry the. Song troll Shalott about hope and reality and although me a kiss on a train vocalist he's accompanied by a very very sensitive and tasteful guitarist and so it's very pleasant to listen to. Them. So there it is there for over 20. Because it shows at it's real. Pop the godfather of us. Support for the decade in music comes from American Mensa a high i.q. Organization people can qualify for Mensa by scoring in the top 2 percent on a standardized intelligence test learn more at American Mensa dot org slash joining . It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene good morning it's Wednesday November 13th and you're listening to Morning Edition on Connecticut Public Radio live from our studios at Gateway Community College in New Haven. Mostly sunny breezy very cold for this time of year highs reaching only into the upper twenty's or low thirty's today. 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Also natural gas extracted by fracking in the United States fuels a plastics boom in Europe and Asia and as antibiotics are more frequently failing to fight infections scientists consider new solutions It's Wednesday November 13th comedian Jimmy Kimmel is 52 years old today. And the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington encore of a Coleman after weeks of closed door testimony public hearings begin today in the Democratic led impeachment inquiry into some of President Trump's conduct N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reports lawmakers will hear testimony from witnesses including the top u.s. Diplomat in Ukraine u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor will be the lead off witness today in a closed door deposition last month Taylor's testimony supported allegations that President Trump used a military aide as leverage to press the Ukrainian government to investigate a political rival He also testified that he was concerned by an irregular informal foreign policy being run outside the typical diplomatic channels and P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reporting Bolivia faces the chance of new one rest following the departure of President Evo Morales an opposition senator says she has taken power until elections can be held in Bolivia N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves reports from her opponents call her move illegal you need an us is 52 a senator and a fierce opponent of his that's next in line of succession she's proclaimed to self Bolivia's interim president whether she has the backing to keep that job is unclear and just did this at a congressional hearing boycotted by that I was his Socialist Party they say she lacked a quorum wearing the presidential sash and his then went to a former presidential palace in the bows to create her cheering supporters at the same time supporters of butt out as tried to force their way into Congress to call on her to quit there were violent clashes with the police is now in asylum in Mexico was forced out of power for violating the rules in order to get a 4th now he's accusing us of committing an affront to constitutional government Philip Reeves n.p.r. News let us officials in Lebanon are reporting the death of a protester after nearly a month of anti-government demonstrations they came after Lebanese president Michel appeared in a broadcast interview N.P.R.'s reports said there will be delays in forming a new Lebanese guy.