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News in Washington I'm David Mattingly some White House officials met with Senate Republicans yesterday to get an idea of what an impeachment trial of President Trump might look like the talks occurred as legal scholars were testifying about impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee N.P.R.'s Claudio course Salis reports White House counsel Pat simple Loney and Legislative Affairs Director Eric healin were among those who met with Republican senators behind closed doors on Capitol Hill Elance said the White House is still holding out hope President Trump won't be impeached but if he is says he'll end the president wants his case made fully in a Senate trial and that President Trump is very eager to have witnesses testify the underlying impeachment rules of the Senate for the president a full suite of rights to argue his case facts and on the merits Huling called the process thus far fatally flawed and said the Senate trial can remedy that cloudy Sallis n.p.r. News the Capitol a new rule from the Trump administration is expected to result in almost 700000 people in the u.s. Losing food stamps beginning next April N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler says the role imposes stricter work requirements for those receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program the Trump administration says it wants to encourage people getting Snap benefits to work more so they become less dependent on government aid starting early next year most childless adults under the age of 50 will be required to show that they work fallen cheer or go to job training at least 20 hours a week or else they'll lose their benefits the changes expected to save the government about a $1000000000.00 a year and I hunger advocates say that's because it will deprive hundreds of thousands of people of much needed food aid they say that many low income people are unable to find enough work some opponents are considering legal action to stop the new. From going into effect Pam Fessler n.p.r. News Washington the u.s. Navy says it's still investigating a motive for yesterday's deadly shooting at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii the military says an active duty sailor whose submarine was docked at the base opened fire on 3 civilian employees at the bases Naval Shipyard killing 2 of them the others hospitalized the sailor then shot and killed himself Kristian Castillo works at the base and heard a bunch of shots going off in the area and we were told by my chief to hunker down stay indoors and just be safe from personal weapons are not allowed at that base later today the state of Tennessee is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1991 by setting her car on fire it's believed he would be the 2nd death row inmate who's blind to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated nationwide 43 years ago this is n.p.r. News from Washington. A nationwide strike is underway in France nearly every train is idle teachers have walked off the job and the Eiffel tower is closed today some airline flights are also cancelled unions are protesting the government's plan to overhaul the country's retirement system $6000.00 French police are deployed because of a major protest March there's extra security at the presidential palace with much of the anger focused at French President Emanuel McCraw on the Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco is expected to set its share price at about $8.50 the company expects to raise more than $25000000000.00 in its initial public offering N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam says the i.p.o. Is launching in one wake for the past couple of years selling shares of a ram Co has been heralded as the key to kick starting Saudi Arabia's economy but efforts to publicly list the oil companies stalled over concerns about transparency low oil prices and a backlash over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi consequently a ramp was valuation came in lower than hoped it's only being listed on the local Saudi stock exchange and shares are going for less than originally expected still a man who is one of the most profitable companies in the world and even though expectations are scaled down around coal is now on track to becoming the world's largest i.p.o. Jackie Northam n.p.r. News stocks in Asia and of the day higher following a day of gains on Wall Street the Dow added 146 points the mast acros 46 I'm David Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene So did President Trump's dealings with Ukraine rise to the level of an impeachable offense for 3 constitutional scholars who were called by Democrats to testify yesterday the answer is clear if what we're talking about is not impeachable the nothingness of beach if you conclude that he asked for the investigation of Vice President Biden and his son for political reasons that is to aid his reelection then yes you have bribery here impeachment is complete when the president abuses his office and he abuses his office by attempting to abuse his office a 4th witness a legal expert called by Republicans said the Democrats just hadn't met the burden of proof for impeachment All right let's bring in n.p.r. Senior political editor Dominica mountain r.-o. Who was listening to it all yesterday hey David So do we learn anything new here yeah I mean I think that aside from the fact that this was you know nice conversation about you know legal framework around impeachment we did get a window into what the Democrats might be thinking about articles of impeachment 3 specifically the Democrats really mentioned one abuse of power and bribery which was lumped together to obstruction of Congress and 3 obstruction of justice which was interesting because it included the obstruction allegations laid out in the Muller Russia investigation which we haven't heard about and while normalising who's a former ethics lawyer in the Obama White House was the one asking questions for the Democrats and he was clearly testing those out he was trying to fill in how and why as Democrats believe Trump committed those things here's a Harvard law professor Noah Feldman who raised the stakes and like many others and yesterday invoked a couple of the founding fathers you know we may meet there Hamilton and they will ask us when the president of United States acted to corrupt the structure of the Republic What did you do and he was talking. About he said whether we go to the good place or the other place well University of North Carolina professor Michael Gerhardt called what did I say her a finely obvious abuse of power Jonathan Turley who you guys mentioned in the intro didn't see it that way and that was plenty for Republicans here is to really you need to stick the landing on the quid pro quo you need to get the evidence to support it it might be out there I don't know but it's not in this record and of course the witness who was called by the Republicans I mean beyond beyond having him testify Dominik I'd do it does it look like Republicans are really digging in I mean are they getting more bold in their defense of President Trump absolutely they felt they had a good day yesterday and you can see that as the hearing went on I mean they were much more comfortable much more confident that some g.o.p. Members became Some were even defending Trump's phone call which they hadn't done during the intelligence hearings very much in the motivations of that call with the Ukrainian president's Lewinski not even Turley would say that that call was perfect but g.o.p. Members yesterday were saying basically there's nothing to see here and they're trying to muddy up the other professors called by Democrats so what happens now well later this morning we're expecting to hear from the Democratic and Republican House leaders Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy we're waiting to see what judiciary winds up doing with those articles of impeachment and you know this all sets up the potential for a House floor vote on impeachment by Christmas with a Senate trial in January all right n.p.r. Senior political editor medico Monckton our thanks so much the Monaco You're welcome Ok So as for one key figure in all of this the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani where is he exactly Well he has reportedly surface to in of all places Ukraine Giuliani's trip comes as Ukraine's president tries to disentangle himself from the u.s. Impeachment drama this is President of a loading there's a Linsky talking last month about Bout's the Ukrainian gas company where Joe Biden's son sat on the board I think everybody. Bridge is still tied in both the response we have all what our cars free we have. Independence we have all of the problems and for Zelinsky those problems include his own falling approval ratings All right let's bring in N.P.R.'s Lucy and Kim who is in the Ukrainian capital I was the Good morning Ok so the impeachment saga continuing the United States House Judiciary Committee taking over could lead to articles of impeachment against President Trump what how are people in Ukraine reacting to all of this well I think there's a one word answer to that question exasperate president the Lansky won a landslide last spring that was based on Ukraine's frustration with the 5 year conflict with Russia with corruption and with a lack of economic opportunity and the one thing that Selenski didn't expect was that Ukraine's friendship with the United States would be called into question he really expected the u.s. To have Ukraine's back just yesterday at a press conference he reiterated that he wants to focus on Ukraine's problems and priorities and stay out of the impeachment scandal I asked a political commentator here in Kiev named even jack of you know how we should understand Selenski position. Has to keep smiling face although he understands perfectly well that trump rates Ukraine and loves Russia but still his responsible leader of his own country has to be nice with the United States because he is the biggest and the strongest country in the world and he doesn't want to have any additional problem with America's hold he doesn't want to irritate Trump So he's trying to be nice and so just in other words Zaleski is in a much weaker position compared to the American president so certainly isn't going to do anything to rock the boat additionally is it going so far as if I think his ability to govern or or for his government to do its job. Well in that same press conference yesterday Zaleski was asked that question and he said no it doesn't affect our government it effects the u.s. Go. And a lot more Selenski right now is under enormous pressure to limit to deliver on peace with Russia and on bread and butter economic issues as you mentioned polls show his approval ratings are ready falling down from about 70 percent default to just above 50 percent now next week Selenski has his 1st meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and going into it so Lansky earlier was expecting a lot more backing from the u.s. I spoke to Ukraine's minister for Euro Atlantica integration which includes NATO His name is Dmitri Akula But this is what he said about American support. We particularly appreciate the support that Ukraine enjoys boasts among Democrats and Republicans this is the most fundamental to ask for us to make sure that they should if Ukraine is something that unites parties not divides them so there's a real war here in Kiev will now lose that bipartisan support in Congress Well I got to ask you this I mean if if the Lewinsky is trying to get away from this impeachment scandal and focus on stuff at home it doesn't help probably the Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani shows up in the country New York Times is reporting this but what do you know about what Giuliani is doing there well we know very little in fact no reporters here have been able to find him one reporter said he checked all the cigar bars here in Kiev last night and didn't find him so what the New York Times is reporting is that he was trying to get meetings with 2 former prosecutors here in Kiev to former prosecutors who have largely been discredited here because of allegations they were involved in corruption so again from the point of view of the Ukrainian government this visit is highly unwelcome because he again brings in American political scandal to Ukraine where there's a new government very much trying to turn a new page N.P.R.'s Lucy and Kim and Kid Thanks so much looking Thank you. Write in France people are bracing for a total shutdown today right transport workers teachers hospital staff even are among the people walking off their jobs in protest this general strike was called after French President Emanuel clashed with unions over plans to change the pension system the broader context of all this are the so-called yellow vest uprisings which have happened over the past year that started over protests about a gas tax then became this whole movement about economic struggle All right N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley is covering this story and joins us from the streets of Paris Hi Eleanor Hi guys so in. We've been talking about President. His dealings with President Trump but there's meetings in London it sounds like in France this is the big story I mean this massive shutdown like today absolutely Well you know I'm out at a major intersection next to a subway train station that's closed today and it feels like a Sunday morning not a Thursday morning David it's a shocker I think that people were so worried so bracing for chaos and paralysis that they stayed home you know 80 percent of the trains and metros are not running today and I was watching t.v. And they said usually on a normal day there are 100 miles of traffic jams on the beltway around Paris today there were 15 miles of traffic jam so it's completely like. But actually I think that's an ominous sign that people are hunkered down for the duration of this thing asked what set this off in the 1st place remind us well what set off is anticipated pension reform because he hasn't even done it yet he's just at the consultation stage with the unions but just sort of like you know a shot across the bow a warning shot you know don't take away our what we have you know take us back but you know what I think more deeply this is about deep anger against society he has no political opposition opposition basically David in the Parliament but in society there's deep anger there are people who think he's ultra capitalist and he wants to create this society where everybody competes and struggles there are others who saw all that police violence against the yellow vests and they see an authoritarian violent side so I think it's much more a reflection of that. But I just think about the empty streets you're describing people hunkering down for this to be you know. I mean how is life going to be affected well for completely affected today you say but we've been seeing all week like bicycle sales shops sold out of their bikes and they never sell out of their bikes in December you know so everyone's trying to buy today and scooters people have taken the day off they're telecommuting you know I was under the Metro Last night just as the strike was beginning and I met. Easy Jet pilot stand me he says he's on standby today and he's not going to move from his house here's what he told me. Because the schedule to. 80 percent of the traffic of the. 5 or 6 lines going to be just out of order but we used to that we used to those in France. Just. Casual December 1st is making changes. We don't really want change in France we don't really like that so the unions want this strike to go on and on for weeks to shut Michael and his reform down. Thanks so much You're welcome David. And this is n.p.r. News. I'm. Climate Connections. In Long Beach California some electric buses can charge along their route without cords or wires when a bus reaches the pine Ave station it parks over a special charging path all passengers get on and off the charger transfers energy to a receiver on the bottom of the bus Michael Maskell Eris c.e.o. Of wave the company that makes the wireless system in Long Beach we automatically detect that the vehicles there automatically start to charge so it's completely hands free and automated wireless charging systems use what's known as inductive charging to produce electricity across a magnetic field wireless phone chargers and even some electric toothbrushes work in the same way mass killer says wireless charging is not only convenient it may ultimately make switching to electric buses more cost effective by doing en route charging on the order of 5 minutes every lap we can roughly double the range of the vehicle so they don't have to go back to the depot to charge and they don't have to use 2 buses to achieve the same thing that one bus can do with our charger so wireless charging could help speed the transition to a clean transportation. Climate Connections is produced by the Center for Environmental communication learn more at the connections. 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The clinch close at the feet of the age rounded Southern Appalachian Mountains slowly descending towards Tennessee its water is sharp cold and gin clear which is good because what we're looking for lives on the rock crested river bottom of the woods are walking along and this is a matter like how long the day it's always the something will die very recently that is Jordan Richard a biologist with the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service and it doesn't take long for him to find what he does not want to see him. As a present shell is just laying there you can see it's not very good and that's what it's going to be buried in by the way he calls a palm sized object from the water Thanks that's a dead Richard is holding a freshwater muscle less edible version of a salt water cousin the lines river bottoms across the country plain water and providing habitat to other species its shell is cold brown and glistening but the milky white muscle inside is turning a grade Brown at its edges the color of decay biologist Rose Apple log brings over another muscle and similar condition that's that smell. Al Yeah it's rang her so that's been dead maybe. A couple days stay or 2 they find another dead muscle and in no. Other time I stop right there on my 5 and then more after that standing mid river a bit later Richard lifts his gaze from the water and looks up stream at seemingly nothing in for take uncle not a good wife thanks which I'm pretty used to I'm pretty used to what they tell me I do think maybe I'm going to say I was getting completely like I'm going to have missiles but. Thanks so much for the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that hundreds of thousands of freshwater mussels have perished since the dieoff was 1st noticed in 2016 biologists and fishermen were finding fresh dead mussels week after week after week and not just here unexplained freshwater mussel die offs have since been documented in Oregon Washington Wisconsin and Michigan there's even been one in Spain. A major concern each our own for the future health of our farmer Emily Blevins is a conservation biologist with the Xerxes society for invertebrate conservation a nonprofit that focuses on some of the world's more let's say under loved critters and young people who come to get quite as exciting about lack back. But many of those species are critically important to the natural world take freshwater mussels they're filter feeders that remove algae sediment and heavy metals from passing water there's research and can remove arms calls from the. Flame retardant. From the lava so think of them as nature's equivalent to a British filter cleaning the water we drink while also providing suitable habitat to countless other species The problem is freshwater muscles are also one of the most imperiled species on the planet dozens of muscle types have already gone extinct in North America wiped out by water pollution human develop. Menton habitat loss the current die off is just one more threat widespread and fast moving and it's cause Richard the biologist says that's the challenge it could be a 1000000 things but because of limited time and resources we had just taken she's what we think is the most likely the ends and start running them down meditation years were the better team at the University of Wisconsin that's working with Richard and Blevins has detected a virus and a bacteria that are statistically associated with the die off but they're not willing to call either the culprit just yet climate change is stressing ecosystems and threatening species around the world but it does not seem to be the driver here so with the clock ticking and a cause unknown the team in Virginia has something of a contingency plan hatchery or nursery more or less her fresh water must. Live in. Doesn't show in here like. Tim Lee is a must recovery coronated with the Virginia Department of game and Fisheries he's walking us through what's essentially a long shed mind with p.v.c. Pipes trucks and dozens of shallow black buckets half filled with sand these buckets are home to a who's who of endangered mussel species. Coming home not to be confused with the endangered Cumberland monkey face nearby Over here we are told it would prefer over here because 50 that's more than probably live in the wall that we have put out there this facility is a last line of defense for some fresh water mussel species plane and other biologists are reproducing them here and then keeping them safe until they're mature enough to be brought back into the wild when the recent die off started on the clench they brought a bunch of pheasant shells here from an unaffected part of the river the mussels could be used as a baseline healthy sample to use as they search for the die off cars but in a worst case scenario where they die off. Continues unabated they could also be used as stuff to stand idly by and this was more the way. To the best weekend Bolton produced progeny so the species isn't going for inside the hatcheries office away from the troughs and pumps lane and Richard say they know muscles aren't as photo genic as a rhinoceros or is easy to communicate as the plight of the polar bear the Richard says freshwater mussels and many other lesser known species are like the foundation of a house that everything lives in it's not sexy to care about the foundation of your house when you could renovate your kitchen but if the foundation is crumbling and you ignore it by the time you notice the problem is you fall through before it's too late to do anything about it and everything else falls through to basin Rott n.p.r. News having done Virginia. This is n.p.r. News. 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Meeting on Capitol Hill I don't believe they are very lax I don't believe they're driven by ever they're driven by. A partisan and. Directed ultimately at the American people or voting to a lack of Republican senators met with White House officials as law professors testified before the House Judiciary Committee the 3 called by Democratic lawmakers testified the president abused his office and his July phone call with the president of Ukraine a 4th called by Republicans disagree an investigation is underway into why an active duty u.s. Navy sailor shot civilian employees at Pearl Harbor his Naval Shipyard in Hawaii Jackie young with Hawaii Public Radio says the sailor took his own life after opening fire and active duty sailor at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii shot and killed 2 civilian employees and injured a 3rd the sailor was assigned to the u.s.s. 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News death row inmate in Tennessee is scheduled to be executed tonight 53 year old Lee Hall was convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1991 after he set her car on fire with gasoline it's believed hall will be only the 2nd inmate who's blind to be executed in the u.s. Since capital punishment was reinstated nationwide in 1976 Hall is to die by electric chair Tennessee's Supreme Court and Governor Bill Lee have declined to intervene in the case I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News Washington. Support comes from the Nature Conservancy in Connecticut keeping the promise to protect the whales and waters on which all life depends including bringing the benefits of nature to our cities learn more at Promise Kept Siti dot org And on Facebook scientists agree that in order to slow global warming we need to cut carbon emissions but the transportation sector the highest emitter in the u.s. Has not successfully cut back now a regional cap and trade initiative could change that in the northeast. 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News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. France is used to labor strikes but the situation right now is exceptional transport workers teachers health care workers these are just some of the folks walking off their jobs today even the Eiffel tower is closed people are protesting the changes that President Emanuel McCall wants to make to the country's pension system N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley is standing on a street corner in Paris with the latest Hi Eleanor Hi Rachel what's going on everything's shut down how's it feel well you know I expected to come out and find complete chaos and pandemonium and it's exactly the opposite I mean front of a train station at a busy intersection Usually of course the train station is shut it feels like a Sunday morning not a weekday morning and I think the people were so worried they were bracing for so much paralysis that they stayed home or maybe they're you know striking 80 percent of the train service is out today and I was watching t.v. Earlier and they said on a normal day there's 100 miles of traffic jams on the beltway around the city and today there's just 15 so everything is moving smoothly However we do see the protests marchers gathering at the ground you know are the protest March starts in a couple hours and so that could be a big March but right now the city is very calm Ok So explain this plan plan about pensions it's got everyone so upset. Well actually he hasn't even done it yet he's in consultations with the unions to do it but this is sort of like a warning shot for the different you know the unions against micro be careful you know France has a complicated system everyone pays and you know for the payout but people are living longer and there are fewer workers supporting each retiree so it needs adjusting it needs reforming people know this but they say his reform is bad and unfair you know he wants people to work longer people do not want to have to work longer you know Rachel more deeply it reflects just an anger in a dislike of society he basically has no political opposition in the parliament but there's a broad and deep anger against him after the protests last year he's authoritarian he's arrogant so I think it's reflecting some of that everybody has joined in sort of like to go against him so what does that mean for him I mean you referenced the yellow jacket the yellow vest movement this was about a fuel tax in that became this broader thing there's a lot of I heard directed at a man around the crown right now. Exactly now let's be clear these strikes today are organized by the unions these are the unions they're not the elements but the elements are hoping that I'm sorry the unions are hoping that the yellow vests will join in and make it a massive you know strike and protest that will go on and on everyone is saying today we don't know how long this is going to last is it just today in fact that the quietness today that could that could be an ominous sign that it's going to go on for the duration so they want it to go on and I spoke with Ed we play now who is head of a new site Media part here's what he told me my. Reality but there is a very strong opposition. To very. Very much into society I mean lastly Eleanor France is known for its strikes how successful are they typically. Well Rachel everyone is comparing this to $995.00 which was the mother of them all that that was when the 1st 3 weeks there was basically no transport everyone went to work on bike and on foot but they were in solidarity and together and guess what it was against a retirement pension reform and they brought it down and actually the prime minister at the time and he really never quite recovered after that all right we'll see what happens here N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley with us from the streets of Paris Eleanor thank you. You're welcome. I President Trump and Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau got into something of a dust up at the NATO meeting in London it started with a hot mike incident and quickly devolved into name calling as n.p.r. White House correspondent Tamara Keith reports let's start at the beginning on Tuesday President Trump and Trudeau sat down for a meeting with a small pool of reporters led in for what's normally a pretty quick exchange of pleasantries It's an honor to be with a friend of mine who just had a great election victory was filled regulations think you don't but Trump was in a talkative mood so he opened it up to questions the back and forth lasted a full 30 minutes then later that night at a reception Trudeau was holding court with the French president and the British prime minister apparently complaining about how long trump talk to reporters. And the video goes viral it's what's called a hot mike powerful people caught on tape when they think no one can hear them mikes are just a hot mess Heather Conley is director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Yes it was certainly at the expense that the president had 2 very long press conferences. That day but I think it you have to take it as leaders interacting at a reception having some fun when I ask former Trudeau foreign policy adviser Roland Paris about it he doesn't even really want to go there throughout the talk about the Professor of International Affairs at the University of Ottawa says that what Trudeau and the other leaders were discussing in the viral video was an astonishment with Trump's approach to diplomacy that many have expressed publicly before the actual content of what was said was much milder than the then then the criticism that Trump is is dealing with on a day to day basis inevitably President Trump was asked about Trudeau's remarks and Trump shot back well he's too fat. If. You think that's where he threw her out of the 3 days I fired you're going to get everything oh this is a. Whole nother thing I think that's a good start stone and this is. The 2 percent relates to an increase Trump wants in defense spending the toothpaste comment is similar to a criticism President Trump lobbed at Trudeau after a meeting last summer in Canada after he left the g 7 Trump caught wind of something Trudeau had said and tweeted from Air Force One that Trudeau had been so meek and mild during the g 7 meetings only to turn around and complain about Trump in a press conference very dishonest and weak Trump added Peres says it was a real low point Trump called Trudeau weak and dishonest and he was threatening to trash Canada as auto industry he had imposed with aluminum sanctions on Canada all of those conditions have been dealt with largely saw I thought it was actually a terrific terrific meeting between the 2 leaders and then came the viral video but neither Conley nor Paris thinks there will be lasting damage to the relationship for one thing both leaders badly want a joint trade agreement with Mexico to be ratified Trudeau for his part was contrite when asked about the kerfuffle he tried to keep the focus on what had generally been viewed as a successful NATO meeting with Trump endeavor to keep the focus on the substantive issues that were discussed and the positive news that we move forward is something that we're all going to try to do a little harder and at around the same time President Trump was at a luncheon when he too was caught on a hot mike always funny what it said to gays to face you know if it wanted to go on the microphones weren't quite gone yet so the whole world could hear how satisfied Trump was with his sweet burn on the Canadian prime minister Tamara Keith n.p.r. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin the latest battle for your grocery business is happening online curbside pick up allows customers to order groceries on the Internet and then pick them up at local stores so which consumers are bracing the service and why might retailers prefer it over online delivery here Sally Herships and cart of course with the indicator from Planet Money there is a war going on in the grocery store the grocery industry is huge sales in the u.s. In 2017 for $674000000000.00 but the margins are razor thin so retailers have to do whatever they can to get your business and one of the ways they're trying to do that is by offering something called curbside pick up that's when you order your groceries either online or by the phone and then you go to the store to pick them up and more and more stores are offering this service there are about $23000000000.00 of orders for groceries placed on line each year that is according to course 8 research and right now that 23000000000 is even least split between curbside pick up and delivery they are neck and neck but grocery stores would so much rather that their customers use curbside pick up for so many reasons in big cities stores are desperately trying to stay ahead by offering you delivery but there's another battlefront the smaller cities the suburbs places with a lot of sprawl and parking lots and rural areas that is where curbside pick up is increasingly the weapon of choice so that's where we're headed to the battlefront to the grocery store parking lot where in Arlington Virginia at a Harris teeters this is where Jenny Ross child is about to pick up her groceries she works full time as a public librarian she also has the recants 2 of whom are under the age of 5. And spent a long day there hungry but we need to get the food so we can eat it if there's no food at home there's. Already an employee out here he has a clipboard and he asks Jenny for her name her family uses curbside pick up about once a month think the 1st time I ever use this was because the kids were sick and he didn't want to bring sick kids into her she start so the guy appears and he puts the groceries in Jenny's trunk and that's it she just has to sign her receipt and leave Jenny loves curbside pick up it's just super convenient but retailers also love it for so many reasons one of the most important is because delivering groceries is expensive even if it seems like it's not think about all the costs that go into delivery there's the cost of hiring a human being to walk down the aisles push a cart take out the groceries that you ordered online then take them outside and load them into a truck and then the driving there is gas and tolls and insurance add it all up and it's expensive so delivery doesn't always make economic sense in a lot of places but curbside pickup can have its problems to the economics for retailers haven't been totally figured out yet a lot of stores charge just 4 or $5.00 for a pick up but just like with delivery they still have to pay a human employee to walk up and down the aisle and fill a cart so curbside pick up is cheaper than delivery but it is still an added cost Sally Herships card of Garcia n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin I'm David Greene and I know well King Good morning Rosa Parks is the woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus it was 955 it was the segregated South and it was the start of the monk a Marine bus boycott from that moment on Rosa Parks became an icon in the civil rights movement but for a long time we haven't known much about her as a regular person is that Rosa Parks on a yoga mat a few days ago I went to see a new exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington d.c. It's called Rosa Parks in her own words and it shows a very different Rosa Parks than the woman we learned about in history class she was a radical She maintained a calm demeanor but the nice the surface was always that militant spirit and that that boy her and that guided her throughout her life Adrian cannon curated this exhibit and she says that militant spirit was instilled in Rosa Parks when she was a very small girl the right of self-defense was stressed in the home you can see in that early schedule early childhood incidents and experiences she opens it with talking about the Klu Klux Klan riding through the community terrorizing black families burning churches and homes in the aftermath of World War One and that she sits up at night fully dressed with her grandfather keeping visual over the home they often set up all night long because they couldn't take the chance of being caught off guard and she says that she wanted to see him kill a clue clucks or she says that she says that as a child the 1st one that entered our house would surely die this when I was 6 or 7 I talked to Carla Hayden the current Librarian of Congress to learn more about the exhibit this exhibition Rosa Parks in her own words gives you the impression that title gives you the impression that there's a story that's been told about Rosa Parks but it's. Not quite the whole story people have a view of Rosa Parks as this very sad day woman with a purpose and that's they are kind of image and she was just tired and what this exhibit does is show you that there was so much more to Rosa Parks in terms of her belief and civil rights her determination and also the hardships that she endured because of that do you think she was concerned that she had become a one dimensional figure because she was she must have seen herself described as a demeanor seamstress and and thought What the heck that's not and I think that you when you look at the photographs in the exhibit you look at her writings you also can imagine that every now and then she probably had a very small smile when she thought of that. She get to know Rosa Parks as a person and not as icon and she is so relatable in that way you feel like you're visiting one of your grandmothers or your aunt and you want to hear more from her and you just start speaking in a different way when you get into the exhibit as well who was she as a little girl she was feisty 1st and anecdote of her. Being just a little bit not violent but she thought about it and it becomes clear as you walk through the exhibit that her family were feisty people these were not folks who sit by and let things happen to them and when you think about what was going on in the fifty's I was alive then and I in fact I talked to my Any Your own mother recently and she remembered in 1955 we were in Tallahassee Florida and things were pretty rough at that time and so to have a young person with these. This determination to. Fight for rights and to be part of a movement was with birth took a lot of courage there was the risk of physical harm she would have known that yes and at that point you get a sense that she was making a decision a conscious decision that she was going to do what she could to help others and she was going to take the birth which is a lot gutsier frankly than just I'm sure it's going to get then just that is what I hope that people will get from the exhibit and that they will realize that she was in Brees or Stokely Carmichael and younger activists than Angela Davis' mom and she lets a very she her to supply a did she wrote a lot the the exhibition is called Rosa Parks in her own words and I thought that was metaphorical but in fact she wrote a lot she was a little she kept what looked like diary entries what in there surprised you did you read anything that surprised you well the strength that comes through but also the forcefulness in her writing telegrams through and the repartition and it's almost a stream of consciousness aspect and so she was demure shoes lady lie right in her writing you can see that there were these deep feelings and emotions that she was expressing and yet hardly a picture where she's not smiling and I found that impressive she seems to have a cheerful heart I had not seen you know I had seen the pictures of her around the time of the boycott she would have been in her early forty's we see pictures of her younger and and older and then much older and she has a serenity about her doesn't she and she seems to enjoy being very well for isn't it and there's a you. Before video and of photographs of her inner core just ground floor length kind of sequinned inlays and it's pinning her favorite color and she is just happy as a lark she just looks wonderful read the essence award show us beautiful and you can see that that was that was something that made her happy here colleague Adrian cannon they carried her described Rosa Parks in our interview as both a militant and a radical. Lots of people when they're young can be described that way was Rosa Parks that way in her eighty's and she certainly was and you can see her as I mentioned with Stoke we Carmichael and in other instances where she's with people who are doing. Breaking things presidential candidates Jesse Jackson so she was active politically and she was right up to the minute she was at the 1000000 Man March. And participated in that so perks kept her hand in the game but. 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News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman White House officials have privately met some Senate Republicans to discuss a potential impeachment trial in that chamber next year President Trump has instructed his aides that he wants witnesses to testify for him if that happens the meeting came as the House Judiciary Committee heard from legal experts on Wednesday 3 experts argue Trump has committed impeachable offenses a 4th expert says the impeachment inquiry is woefully inadequate u.s. Navy officials say a sailor opened fire in the Pearl Harbor military installation in Hawaii on Wednesday Rear Admiral Robert Chadwick says the sailors shot 3 people we have confirmed that 2 are deceased one is in stable condition in a local hospital I can also report the shooter was generally been identified as a active duty sailor assigned to u.s.s. Columbia is also deceased find apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound the victims were all civil employees the shooter's motive is not known unions are on strike across France N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley reports members are protesting President Emanuel McCrone proposals to reform French retirement plans it's being billed as the largest social movement since a legendary 3 week transport strike paralyzed the country in 1995 teachers train plane and bus drivers and hospital workers are just some of those why.