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Our correspondent Jason Beaubien is on great where food and water are running low I'm Rachel Martin and I'm no we'll King what a peace deal in Afghanistan and Taliban terror attacks some top U.S. Officials are doubtful. Also this hour we look at a shambolic week in British politics the storied Conservative Party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher is in deep disarray as lawmakers fight over the best way to exit the European Union it is Friday September 6th the birthday of actor Idris Elba He's 47 years old today. And the news is next. Live from N.P.R. News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst hurricane Dorian has moved north and is now slamming the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina the category one storm hammered coastal areas along the way with rain and high winds as N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports Dorian is threatening low lying towns that suffered major flooding last year. The Noose River splashes over its banks in Newburgh North Carolina and ominous signs for a town that saw major flooding from Hurricane Florence a few blocks away Jeanne Kauffman is out walking his dog during a break in the rain he says Florence damaged a lot of properties here including his house we had 7 feet of water in our street down the road here we're told is not going to be that bad so we're staying Dorian is expected to bring heavy rain and dangerous storm surges to much of eastern North Carolina Joel Rose N.P.R. News New Bern. Meanwhile search and rescue crews continue to look for survivors in the Bahamas where Dorian hit as a Category 5 hurricane leaving at least 30 people dead hundreds of others missing officials say they expect the death toll to rise forecasters will be looking closely at a monthly jobs report from the Labor Department this morning as they try to assess the strength of the U.S. Economy N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports the economy has been sending mixed signals in recent days about the toll taken by the ongoing trade war Forecasters expect the report to show another solid month of job gains in August though perhaps not as strong as in the 2 previous months manufacturing in particular has seen a slowdown the much larger services sector has been less affected by the trade war but senior economist Sara house of Wells Fargo Securities says she'll be on the lookout for signs that factories weakness may be spreading we've certainly seen a divide where in the manufacturing sectors we can do much more notably but we have seen some softening and that the broader service sector as well while Job growth has slowed since last year the unemployment rate remains very low around 3.7 percent Scott Horsley N.P.R. News Washington Iran's state news agency says Tehran is lifting restrictions on its nuclear research and development N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reports it's the latest response to President Trump's pressure campaign against Iran experts are still awaiting details on what R. And D. Work Iran intends to resume but this latest move to exceed limits under the 2050 nuclear deal comes on top of 2 previous breaches it appears aimed at Europe which is so far failed to come up with a satisfactory means of keeping trade with Iran alive Washington wants to bring Iran back to the negotiating table which Tehran says won't happen under pressure N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon U.S. Futures contracts are trading in positive territory Dow futures contract up about 3 tenths of a percent Asian markets were higher by the Bell the Nikkei and the Hang saying up both more than a half percent this is N.P.R. News it's 4 minutes after 7 o'clock for W.B. News on Chris Riddell. Plenty of sunshine in the forecast today temperatures in the upper seventy's and lower eighty's again right now we have a clear sky above us with temperatures close to 50 Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman says he supports parts of Governor Mike De Wine 17 point plan to curb gun violence in Ohio State House correspondent Joels has more Portman says he thinks more needs to be done to make sure people with mental health problems are in the federal background check system to flag gun purchases I think we can do more to tighten it up and by understanding is that the president and others are willing to work on this together because if it's not bipartisan it's not going to talk Portman says he supports Governor Mike De Wine's version of a red flag law that would let police take guns away from people determined to be dangerous to themselves or others but there are questions as to whether there is enough support for it among Republicans in the state legislature to pass it Joe when it's at the Ohio Public Radio statehouse news bureau Athens police responded to 2 armed robberies early yesterday morning according to a release the 1st robbery happened on Rufus Street near Nelson drive just after midnight and the 2nd robbery happened around 1235 at the intersection of West Union and south Schaefer according to police reports on the 1st robbery the suspect made off with the victim's wallet which contained $200.00 in cash they took a smartwatch from the 2nd victim valued at $600.00 the suspect reportedly took off in early 2000 black 4 door vehicle anyone with information is asked to contact the Athens police department. 10 t.v. Chief me year old as mike davis is set to be arraigned this morning gone a charge of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor w.b. N.-s. Reports a davis was arrested at his home yesterday morning and is currently being held in the franklin county jail investigators with the franklin county sheriff's office sam the internet crimes against children task force so they received a tip and had been investigating for weeks members of the ice cac task force served a search warrant on davis' home yesterday morning's seeking electronic devices including computers laptops and tablets authorities then came to us and z's davis' personal laptop and for thumb drives from is bag law enforcement officials say that investigators were looking into thousands of images that date back years authority say an ohio man impersonated a licens practical nurse for nearly 4 years using a stolen identity that some of his patients eek and that some of his patients a cared for were children the ohio attorney general's office says 27 year old a martez morris was arrested yesterday after being indicted last month than franklin county on charges than including gauging in a pattern of corrupt activity identity fraud tampering with records medicaid fraud and a danger in children official say state investigators found evidence more stole the identity of a license practical nurse sand was hired by to home health agencies in the cincinnati area official say he posed as a nurse from September 2015 until August of this year time a said minutes after 7 o'clock i'm chris riddle with w o u b news you can find more news online a double you go you be dogs were g. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors includes higher rack family owned and operated for 40 years since $9979.00 tire rack has been committed to helping people find their right tires for their vehicles war ed tire rack dot com It's MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin hurricane Dorian is now looming over the Carolinas but we still don't even know the full extent of the storm's impact on the Bahamas the death toll there has risen to at least 30 but authorities warn that figure is likely to rise as search and rescue teams managed to gain access to some of the islands on Abaco and grama Hama buildings have been obliterated whole sections remain underwater all of which makes the rescue and recovery effort dangerous and complicated eco Gibson is a founder of Bahamas Eve X. Server says it is his job to help find stranded survivors and bring them to safety we reached him between search and rescue runs Mr Gibson thank you so much for taking the time this morning thank you. First if I could just ask you did to just describe what the effort looks like right now how many people have you been able to help at this point we've been able to transport. 60 people on the priority right now a shift to get all of the injured people out there so a large number of injured people on the ground that are sustained you know loss regimes injuries and legs on its head you name I'm sure we're just trying to do what we can choose. To go to get those people to Michael to settle these U.S. Coast Guard has been doing an amazing job helping us on that and the problem is we're just trying to coordinate your structure and all of those people that needs to be airlifted out before we focus on efforts going if I can ask more details on the rescue efforts where are you extracting people from are you and how are you finding them. So the people that we've been coordinating with you know somehow gotten word out through other patients that have been airlifted giving their locations and the G.P.S. Coordinates and we've just been coordinating not Nieman US Coast Guard and word of mouth on the ground we can get to these people and the kinds of injuries you said there's a lot of lacerations Presumably this is from falling debris what can you say about the injuries or saying. Yes I mean the injuries it's all you know if you think about it from the debris still in the tunnel water movement you know very very quickly visibility you know for the water has really reduced so you know the city magia knows a lot of people have got brushed by certain debris is in parts you know people being stuck in their home things floating around that they can't physically see so legacy you know just common get on the lawn those personnel that really needs to be flown in from medical attention what if I can ask what is their emotional state I mean everybody has up spirit thankful for 1st of all a life and just the ability to be reunited with their families because you know that was a part of it's it's it's it's a really traumatic experience and I think they're most grateful to be alive and I think you know to blame and people there really was Illian and you know they're there adequate about getting into rebuilding for now just you know just being thankful for the life in itself is there a specific story you could share with us someone you met during the so when you were able to help. The one that sticks in my mind is the mother of. The loss of her own child in the storm but still was one of the victims. When Like I said I really give you a really can't say much of the thought that a lot of people lost their lives a lot of a lot of people lost their children and this is tough this is really tough where are where the people staying the people who you were able to help in rescue so those people you know they leave the hospital they have some of them are from these additionally with the government stepping in to assist social services everybody's doing a great job or not and so we're just trying to get every other Bahamian to open the doors just you know do the right thing right now I imagine you've seen hurricanes there before and especially in your line of work how does this one measure up. It's a totally different category entirely. Canning or up my mind around the significance of different difference right now I mean literally entire communities oblivion I mean just gone Nico Gibson is the founder of Bahamas Eve X. Server says which is helping with search and rescue missions on the islands thank you so much for taking a few minutes to talk with us thank you. Jury selection is under way in the trial of the former Dallas police officer Amber Geiger one year ago officer Geiger was off duty when she says she mistakenly entered her neighbor's apartment thinking it was her apartment and shot 26 year old Botham Shon dead in his living room Geiger has been fired from the Dallas Police Department and she is going to be tried for johns murder N.P.R.'s Wade Goodwyn has the story 31 year old Amber Geiger was coming off a double shift the night she killed bottom John Geiger lived on the 3rd floor of a modern apartment building but on this night she mistakenly parked on the 4th floor she was weary still in uniform as she walked down a well lit interior hallway to John's apartment exactly above her own he is in his house and he is where he's ought to be not doing anything wrong Paul Coggins is the former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas here in Dallas Coggan says nobody knows for certain how Amber Geiger got inside John's apartment she says his door was ajar so she pushed it open it was dark inside and she saw a man in the living room the off duty officer pulled her service revolver and shot John in the chest while a football game played on T.V. . RINGBACK Carl Rochelle I get the gun off duty officer can I get a Geiger says she turned on the lights and that's when she realized she wasn't in her apartment she calls 911 The audio was obtained by Dallas T.V. Station W F A A During the call Geiger's voices panicked breathless on an off duty on here I thought I would get my partner and I saw the guy thinking that he would think it was my apartment as she describes what happened Geiger appears to realize how bad it sounds I'm screwed she says and her cell phone only not using the word screwed more than 20 times she repeats I thought it was my. Apartment near the end she adds one final detail laying the foundation upon which her defense will almost certainly be built I'm so tired she tells the dispatcher attorney Paul Coggan says that while a civilian might not have realized the 911 call was being tape officer Geiger certainly did and I'm also expecting the prosecutor to focus on the fact this is an officer who's going to be aware that this is tape recorded so if there are statements that are favorable to her they may have been put on there intentionally by her knowing that she's made a huge huge error here and is trying to color it you know black people of America are killed by police and some of the most unbelievable way been Crump is one of the attorneys for both them John's family the issue of race hangs over the case coloring all the evidence below it the family has no doubt in their mind that she shot both because she saw a black man and she star criminal the key elements of the case aren't in dispute the question the jury must decide is was this an accident or murder who hailed from St Lucia was an up and coming associate at Price Waterhouse Cooper in Dallas and a leader in his local church when Geiger was not arrested for several days John's family was outraged the question of whether Geiger is getting preferential treatment is now front and center and both I'm John's mother Allison has made it her mission to get justice for her son went to 6 Yes Oh that he had done so much so if you extrapolate what he could have done had he reached my age then you would have seen how much I have lost so I'm calling on the Dallas officials whether they'd be the D.A.'s office I don't know the Dallas system please give me justice for my son. Amber Geiger's defense team has asked Judge Tammy camp to move the trial out of Dallas County to one of Dallas's whiter more conservative suburbs but Judge Camp has decided the court will try to seat a Dallas jury 1st before she rules on whether or not to grant the defense's change of venue motion Wade Goodwyn N.P.R. News Dallas. Health officials in New York state say they have a new focus in their investigation into the cases of severe respiratory illnesses that have been linked to vaporing there are more than 200 reported cases in the U.S. Of people falling seriously ill and then ending up hospitalized after they have used cigarettes Here's N.P.R.'s Allison Aubrey among the people who've gotten sick some have handed over the vague being cartridges they used and investigators in New York have analyzed the samples in a lab what they found are very high levels of vitamin E. In the products that also contain T.H.C. Or cannabis health commissioner Howard Zucker says these products are not coming from approved medical marijuana dispensaries in New York but appear to be black market cartridges purchased off the street this is the situation of people buying products that have been laced with the market we all have in amounts of vitamin D. Vitamin E. Is common as a dietary supplement it's also found in lotions but when it's vait especially in high concentrations Zucker says it could be harmful vitamin E. Inhaled deep in the long can cause problems the people have gotten sick have shown up in emergency rooms with shortness of breath and chest pain and suckers says imaging of their lungs points to inflammation this is an inflammatory process in along the body is trying to fight off a foreign substance deep in the long vitamin E. May be one explanation for the cluster of illnesses cases have been reported and at least $25.00 states and 2 deaths are linked to the V.A. Being induced sickness is one in Illinois and one in Oregon Zucker says the investigation is ongoing we have not ruled out any other substances officials at the F.D.A. Say no one substance including vitamin E. Has been identified in all of the samples tested around the country they just he says more information is needed to understand whether any specific product or substance is link. And Snow Hill Creamery offering grass graze non milk yogurt and raw milk cheddar cheese information that's no bill Creamery dot com. It's high school football season and that means the award winning gridiron glory is back on the W.B. T.V. Airwaves we take a look at high school football games going on all the cross the region and you'll find that tonight at 1130 on W B T V Coming up later this morning at 9 o'clock we'll have the B.B.C. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin President Trump a sudden recent days that the U.S. Will remove thousands of troops from Afghanistan in return for some 5000 troops leaving the country the Taliban has reportedly agreed not to provide safe haven for extremist groups like Al Qaida and ISIS but the top American general for the region insists that the U.S. Will still need some kind of force on the ground to combat terrorism in that country Here's N.P.R.'s Tom Bowman different Mackenzie during a trip to the region says he hasn't yet received orders from the president to reduce the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan currently at about $14000.00 those forces are now training Afghan troops fighting the Taliban as well as Al Qaida and I says terrorist groups and Mackenzie says that even with a peace deal they'll continue to be a need for some type of counter terror effort to make sure those terrorist groups do not try to mount attacks on the U.S. Or Europe we believe that ISIS and al-Qaeda even have aspirational dream to doing that and some foreign pressure is going to be necessary going forward we can explore what that's going to look like it could be a broad variety of things but I don't think you can lay that on contested asked whether U.S. Counterterror forces need to remain inside Afghanistan Mackenzie would only say quote There are a lot of possibilities out there the Taliban are insisting that all U.S. Troops must eventually leave Afghanistan in exchange for a pledge not to harbor al Qaeda again it was that safe harbor in Afghanistan under Taliban rule that allowed al Qaeda to plan in Mt the $911.00 attacks that killed more than $3000.00 Americans some defense analysts and lawmakers including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina argue that simply a pledge from the Taliban to break with al Qaeda is not enough they say the U.S. Must continue to maintain a Counterterror Force in Afghanistan to make sure A terrorist groups don't gain strength in the past few days U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad who's leading the negotiations with the Taliban say there's a deal. Awaiting President Trump's approval but their deal has been met with skepticism from the Afghan government Tom Bowman N.P.R. News Amman Jordan All right more than 1000000 Americans have donated their genetic information and medical data for research projects it's great for science when this information is available but how should it be shared N.P.R. Science correspondent Richard Harris looked at 3 different philosophies the 1st project involves 3 quarters of a 1000000 veterans every day 4 to 500 blood samples from this group shows up in a modern lab in the basement of the Veterans Hospital in Boston Louis Silva is the center's associate director this area that you're we're standing and we can process both robotically of the samples and we also have an area just or my left where we can process the samples manually. So what you're hearing now is actually the shaking or the agitation that's taking place to be able to help and isolate the D.N.A. The D.N.A. Is tagged with a code number in sent out for analysis Silva explains that the sample marked with a barcode is stashed in enormous freezer here for future use half of that inventory is kept locally and the other half is sent to our secondary by repository in Albuquerque only V.A. Scientists and their collaborators are granted access to the vet's medical records and genetic information Dr Michael guy's Yano who is principal investigator of the 1000000 veteran program says so far there are 30 projects involving this huge dataset the participants are mostly men over 60 and the studies emphasize health issues of concern to vets in areas of schizophrenia bipolar disease and P.T.S.D. Cardiovascular disease diabetes hypertension contrasts those 30 studies to more than a 1000 studies that are underway using the much more accessible data set at the British based U.K. Bio bank which is arguably the world's leading resource of this sort the U.K. Project has had no secure. Ready or privacy issues but still guys IANA isn't about to let the V.A. Did it be that readily accessible I don't think that we completely understand all of the security risks as we move into this new era so I think we're being quite cautious the data are being ported to Department of Energy computers with the hope that more scientists will eventually be able to make use of it we view this as a national resource and it's a national resource and Ollie will help veterans that will help all Americans and and mankind our 2nd example involves what is largely an extended family descendants of settlers in Utah earlier this year Internet and health care in Utah announced it was going to sequence the complete D.N.A. Of half a 1000000 of its patients which they say will be the largest collection of its kind company scientists Lincoln Nader says these people are a rich and unique resource we have families who have been here for 3456 generations and we've taken care of families for multiple generations so we have health information health histories on those families and patients family trees provide a great shortcut for understanding the genetic basis of disease and to plumb this information Intermountain has an exclusive deal with a company in Iceland decode genetics which is owned by pharmaceutical giant Amgen decode will do the sequencing and get to scour that information with an eye toward developing new drugs it would be natural for decode Nam John to do that given their expertise and experience there Conversely if there's an opportunity to implement some novel discovery or finding into clinical care in around health care we'll take the lead on that our 3rd and final example is an effort by the National Institutes of Health to recruit a 1000000 Americans for a long term study of health and genetics Stephanie to Vanni who is deputy director of the all of us program describe something quite different than the homogeneous population from Utah we do have a very strong all around diversity and making sure the. The participants to enroll in the all of us research program reflects the vast diversity of the United States they've been budgeted a $1000000000.00 in taxpayer money so far and they expect it will take another 5 years to recruit their 1000000 volunteers so far she says they are getting excellent diversity in the sample we set up from the beginning when we consented our participants that all different types of researchers would be able to ask for access to the data we're not limited to just folks that work at a certain institution or even who live within the United States I mean we will be open for foreign researchers and we will be open for folks in the private sector and the government and academia and even ultimately citizen scientists they still need to work out exactly how they will provide this access Well assuring privacy and security but the goal is to make it as accessible as possible figuring that the more smart people who can see the data the more likely they are to make discoveries that can benefit us all Richard Harris N.P.R. News. This is N.P.R. News. Coming to. Talks about her friend Patsy Cline Patsy. And I was so she was kind of like a sister to me and I'd go to her house and trash her spine go Big Bang only outfit sounding boy I was in heaven and she as I like to say in the kindest sense of the word she was I'm going to one of the stories engine burns country music for nearing Sunday September 15th. Only on P.B.S. . Thank you for joining us for Morning Edition on your N.P.R. Station public media you can find more information about Ken Burns country music on our website. Or. Morning Edition is made possible with support from Hurley he move in and storage an agent of Mayflower providing moving services throughout central and southeastern Ohio information at Hurley he movin dot com That's H E R L I H Y moving dot com It's 730 the news update from N.P.R. Is next live from N.P.R. News in Washington I'm Windsor Johnston hurricane Dorian is lashing North Carolina's barrier islands the category one storm continues to make its way north after battering the coast of South Carolina with heavy rains and high winds Jack Beven a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center says Dorian is expected to maintain its strength for the time being with storm risk really pretty much for the state of winds but 90 miles per hour we do anticipate that it will weaken but that's like a change much of the next few hours a fortnight of key parish Forecasters say Dorian is expected to produce widespread flooding and dangerous storm surge in some parts hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Carolinas remain without electricity U.S. Senator Mike Lee is set to lead a series of talks in Moscow today after 2 other senators and his delegation were barred from entering Russia as N.P.R.'s Lucy and Kim reports the Republican from Utah is due to meet with Russian lawmakers and American business leaders Senator Lee has decided to go ahead with his visit even after Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chris Murphy of Connecticut refused Russian visas U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman tells N.P.R. The blacklisting was unfortunate the last congressional delegation visited more than a year ago when 8 Republican lawmakers travel to Moscow before President Trump's Helsinki summit which would be near Putin as N.P.R.'s Kim reporting from Moscow This is N.P.R. News from Washington it's $73014.00 W.B. News on Chris Riddell A Carroll County man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 14 year old boy whose body was found in a shallow grave on a Washington Township farm in April. The daily Jeffersonian reports Matthew little was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a grand jury indicted him on 15 criminal charges stemming from the death of Jonathan Menard of Delroy in art was reported missing April 14th his body was found 5 days later although the boy's body was found in April it wasn't until July that Carroll County coroner Mandell Hobbs ruled Minard died from a phenol overdose. To retire coal miners have sent a cease and desist letter to the U.S. Senate campaign of Amy MCGRATH The 2 retirees were shown in a campaign ad for the candidate that the Schimmel from W K Y U has details Randy robins and Albert Hall say they didn't know a video of them would be used for a political attack advertisement until after it was already being broadcast the ad featured a reenactment of a 10 hour bus ride to Washington D.C. By coal miners advocating for black lung benefits the McGrath campaign says they are reviewing the letter spokesman from the grass campaign Terry Sebastian says all of the miners were informed that they were being filmed for an ad that your retired miners dispute that and say they thought the video of them was being used for a documentary relating to the work of the Black Lung Association the ad was already scheduled to stop running on September 16th Sebastian said the 2 coal miners who sent the letter also signed up to receive McGrath campaign shirts and hats in the cease and desist letter both miners are described as being personally offended by seeing their images being used in a political attack ad that they say doesn't reflect their personal feelings or beliefs counsel for both retired coal miners is calling on the McGrath campaign to stop using what they say is the unauthorized use of their images I'm back a Schimmel in Bowling Green Marietta Police Chief Rodney hope is asking people attending this weekend's Ohio Rivers turmoil festival not open to carry their weapons with the people expected in town for the 3 day festival and recent incidents of gun violence across the country chief up says his officers will be highly visible throughout the event hotel W T A P quote It's a free country but I would ask that this would not be an appropriate venue to make a political statement with an open carry of weapons the Ohio River thermal festival runs today through Sunday it's 734. Support for N.P.R. Comes from this station and from C. 3 dot A I C 3 dot AI's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3. And from Apple music now with post Malone's song Centro pay on the new music daily playlist a curated playlist that refreshes daily and allows people to follow current artists now on Apple music. This is MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson had a very bad week but there was one especially low point parliament passed a law that will force Johnson to ask the E.U. To delay Breck's it if there's no agreement in place by next month but Will Johnson do that here's what he told a reporter last night I'd rather be dead in a ditch so you had designs us Prime is that the guy and also that I just think I really cost a $1000000000.00 pounds a month it is absolutely nothing you know is the point of the delay I think it's it's totally stately pointless you'll notice he did not answer the question about whether he'd resign rather than ask for a delay or it drew Gina Wright is a senior researcher at the Institute for government in London thanks for being here Ms Right now I think he the law that Boris Johnson says he will ignore will probably go into effect on Monday what happens if he ignores it. So obviously I think a bit of context is really important here we know that the prime minister wants to be the U.K. Sleepy at the end of October do or die and that he doesn't want to off to you for a delay if no deal is reached but of course what you have is this tension with the prime minister wanting to leave I'm prepared to call for an election to unlock the deadlock in Parliament 1st if the opposition who wants an election but not the full government has committed to a delay so it really is complicated it is complicated and now other countries are getting involved this morning the prime minister of Finland which holds the rotating presidency said there will be no new negotiations over Britain's exit of cream and so if the E.U. Is not going to negotiate and the U.K. Is not going to accept the current agreement is the only option that the that Britain crashes out of the European Union Well certainly the odds of crushing Our have a recession quite dramatically as the past couple of months but we know that the only way to. Void a crash out is on the pulse a deal or to stop the process altogether now we know the majority of and he's in Parliament wants the government off for today and they said if you're serious about reaching a deal then we need more time but of course the prime minister is committed to leaving at the end of October so there really is that tension so what can what can the prime minister do well I think there are 4 ways to really get that election that he really wants the 1st is we know that the government on Monday is going to put forward another fight on whether or not to hold an election but it's pretty certain at this point the chief of M.P.'s which is what is required to have in any election won't support it he won't get that 2 thirds majority the other thing he could do is try and find some poem entreaty coal to get around the election rules again very tricky he could put a confidence vote in him self that's another option I mean it would be it would be strange but you know everything is possible in this begs a debate or he could resign and all of those 4 might lead to a new election which with then to him sort of in you know kind of ensure that the cape does leave at the end. Wow just I was born on here let me let me ask you from 2000 feet about the Conservative Party because this is the party of Winston Churchill it's the party of Margaret Thatcher and now it is the party of Boris Johnson What does that future look like. I mean that's the next question is obviously a really big name for the conservative we know that the prime minister has lost his majority in parliament so he went from one to minus 43 obviously the prime minister was very clear that this fight this week was an important one and that those who would vote would be sanctioned and to a certain extent it wasn't a shock but critics have been saying look the conservative policy is leading It's both church appear what does this mean if they can't have a diversity of views I think it's too early to say really have this what will these rebel M.P.'s be welcomed back into the party at some point down the line possibly will they not and then HOW to the electorate react if there were to have you know if we ought to have an election before the end the year I think it's too early to say but it's certainly a very big moment for the conservative policy the country so split over breakfast that some people in Britain have said this cannot be resolved through a democratic process what do you think about that. Well that's also you know the sort of the big question around bikes and this is a legal process the technical process but it's also a highly political animated process and I think the challenge for government is the one that that was the challenge all along which is how do you find a deal that's acceptable to the E.U. And also to assist patient number of parliamentarians here in EK We don't know I will have to say do you know Wright is a senior researcher at the Institute for government in London thanks so much. 3 years ago a warehouse fire killed dozens of people in Oakland the building was home to an artist collective known as the go Ship 2 men were each charged with $36.00 counts of involuntary manslaughter yesterday a jury acquitted one of the men and failed to come to a decision on the other years Jeremy Siegel from our members. It was during a late night party in concert when the fire ripped through the GO ship many of the victims were artists and the incident highlighted the Bay Area as skyrocketing rental prices in the precarious circumstances it forces on some residents prosecutors argued that the building was illegally converted into an unsafe living space and master tenant Derek Al manna and Max Harris who's been described as the go ship's creative director acted negligently the defense argued that their clients were scapegoats for the city of Oakland which they say didn't inforce building in safety regulations they also suggested the possibility of arson after months of testimony and arguments jurors acquitted Harris of all charges I was always under the belief that Max Harris was innocent and I did what I had to do to get him home defense attorney Curtis Briggs says he's relieved but he and Harris don't want to lose sight of the victims our hearts are with those families and everybody has been victimized by this tragedy for Al Manar who held the lease on the building jurors were hung with 10 voting to convict into saying he's not guilty I've been here like almost every day for over 5 months for the Kerry to come back the best stress trying to marry lost her 22 year old son Alex in the fire and says she thinks both Harris and Al Manar should have been found guilty everybody think. I lost myself she won't let. Them go I am not happy Alameda County Chief Assistant District Attorney Kevin Dunn Levy says his office respects the decision of the jury and that they know it's difficult for family members since the beginning of this case. Our hearts have been with the families of the 36 victims that. People tragedy a hearing on a possible retrial for Derek is set for next month for N.P.R. News I'm Jeremy Siegel in Oakland. Good morning. Chris riddled with the news. A man convicted of a federal hate crime for destroying a rental property owned by a biracial couple in Cincinnati has been sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison 43 year old Samuel Wade pleaded guilty in January to criminal interference with the right to fair housing He was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Cincinnati prosecutors say with it after breaking into the couple's home in November 26th spray painted walls with swastikas racial epithets and White Power authorities say an Ohio man impersonating a license practical nurse for nearly 4 years using a stolen identity and that some of the patients he cared for were children the Ohio attorney general's office says 27 year old Martinez Morris was arrested Thursday after being indicted last month in Franklin County on charges that include engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity identity fraud tampering with records Medicaid fraud and the danger in children. Little's assuming dozens of opioid makers and distributors saying the company has misrepresented the benefits and dangers of painkillers the complaint filed and warned circuit court in south central Kentucky includes all settles from Bowling Green Pikeville Madisonville and several county hospitals the civil suit filed last month alleges the opioid epidemic has forced hospitals to add services hire additional security and provide increased training to staff. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin some time ago a couple of psychologists were having lunch together at a cafe in Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts they did what millions of us do as we chat with other people they put down their smartphones on the table next to them the host of N.P.R.'s Hidden Brain podcast Shankar Vedantam is here to explain what happened next Shankar welcome Hi Rachel I am dying with suspense tell me what happened to the phones are ringing No just the opposite Rachel this is like that Sherlock Holmes story about the dog that didn't bark the phones were silent but the 2 psychologists noticed something about themselves Here's Adrian ward he works at the University of Texas Austin We almost felt like this gravitational pull towards our phones even though they weren't ringing we felt this pull our phones were sort of calling out to us even though they were were silent I mean this happens to me all the time right you put your phone down you think oh it's cool but you're drawn to the thing you can't help yourself almost exactly and now this caught ward and the other researcher Martin boss thinking if their brains were occupied at least a little by feeling the phones were calling out to them what effect might this have on their mental abilities so along with co-authors Kristin do you can I lead Niecy they conducted a series of experiments they had volunteers come in to take cognitive tests but there was a catch some volunteers were told to leave their smartphones in another room some were told to leave the phones in a bag or a pocket and others were told to leave their phones on the desk next to them as they took the test now all the forms were on silent but big differences so much between the volunteers as they took the test especially when it came to understanding and solving novel problems what we found is that people did better on these tasks that the farther their phones were from them so those who had their phones in another room did significantly better than those who had their phones on the desk right in front of them and then those who had their phones in their pockets or their bags were sort. In the middle between those 2 groups I mean that is amazing right so the proximity matters exact devices that we're so tethered to precisely no warning us colleagues are not saying that our minds turn to jello just because our phones are sitting next to us this seeing the devices have a small but persistent effect it's something that we seem to be doing to ourselves all the time right now and so a small effect billions and billions of people are experiencing almost every minute a day seems like a pretty big effect when you think about the fact we take our phones with us everywhere the bottom line Rachel is that the devices we carry around with us are really powerful the seductive but the fact is so useful and so fun also means they can have unintended effects on us and we would be wise to guard against those effects N.P.R.'s Shankar Vedantam He's the host of N.P.R.'s podcast Hidden Brain thanks so much Ocker Thanks Rachel. 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This is MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning picture this in the early 1950 S. a Young guy is working at a desk deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York it's not exactly a corner office and he complains to his wife that he has no future there at the Fed He's not a banker he's not a lawyer he is a lowly economist that is what life is like for economists in the 1950 S. Nobody respects them in part just because economics was a new thing in the world the idea that people could manage economic conditions could improve economic conditions these were new ideas in the world I mean it's just stunning to think about that era it was so different that is Binyamin Applebaum he writes about economics for The New York Times and he's written a new book called The economists Our that traces what he calls a revolution in the way we think about economists this quiet but really important revolution that happens really beginning in the late 1960 S. And the early 1907 days where economists begin to gain tremendous influence over public policy in the United States in fact that young economist who told his wife he had no future at the Fed That was Paul Volcker he became one of a small group of economists who made themselves indispensable to U.S. Presidents Volcker rose to become the chairman of the Federal Reserve in the Carter and Reagan years so I asked Applebaum had a bunch of economists go from nobodies to being important people and he said it's pretty simple in an era of real economic problems they promise solutions by the early 1970 S. It's really becoming clear that something is wrong with the American economy people worry about their own future their children's future and economists are enormously successful in asserting that they can fix the problem and their answer is basically that government needs to reduce its role in the economy that bureaucrats need to take their hands off the economy and allow markets to allocate resources government needs to. Trust in markets and this idea came from many economists but there was one economist in particular in your book you write about him a lot and that's Milton Friedman Milton Friedman had this very very simple idea that proved to be enormously popular and along the way Milton Friedman became kind of a household name he's a remarkable person he is this elfin libertarian who commands any room that he's in even though he's often the smallest person in the room and he's enormously successful essentially in proselytizing this idea that the solution to almost every public policy problem is for government to get out of the way and it has enormous appeal I think in part because of its modesty he's not saying Milton Friedman should be in charge of the economy he's saying neither I nor anyone else should be in charge and for a generation that is confronting the failure of the economy this has enormous appeal so at the heart of your thesis is not necessarily that Milton Friedman was correct you talk about these really negative unintended consequences they come from this idea that the market is always right in 2019 when we look back at the legacy of Milton Friedman and others like him with their faith in the markets where does that leave us now economists really emphasized that there was a tradeoff between efficiency meaning getting the economy to grow as quickly as possible and equality meaning that everybody shared in the rewards of prosperity and they argued that government needed to focus on efficiency and that the goal of public policy should be to make the economy grow as fast as possible get as big as possible but by ignoring inequality by deciding basically that government should stop trying to equalize the distribution of prosperity or the opportunity is to prosper it really contributed significantly to the rise of massive inequality in our society you've been writing about economics for years and I wonder when you were researching this book were there any moments where you said oh that's not what I thought it was tell you what I did. Not appreciate when I started this process I did not understand the extent to which economists in the seventy's were responding to real problems to a real breakdown in our system of governance and economic policy the extent to which these free market ideas really gained prominence and popularity because of a broad perception that what we were doing had failed that is the thing that makes me want to spring to the defense of economists I mean I was unaware or only aware in a very vague sense that in the seventy's this country hit inflation at like 11 percent 12 percent which is unthinkable now right we haven't seen we haven't seen inflation like that in years our money has been stable in this country there are so many other countries that don't have that luxury it makes me think don't these guys deserve a lot of credit for the fact that my dollars going to be worth in a year about a dollar as opposed to $0.70 I think they do deserve a lot of credit I think it's a classic example of a revolution that went too far and the gains are real the benefits are real economists brought a lot of discipline to policymaking in a lot of ways they improve the quality of public policy but by sort of embracing that idea to the exclusion of any other priorities by saying we're just going to focus on efficiency by advocating for economists to take the wheel and excluding other points of view we ended up in a really problematic place what about the opening of markets worldwide the phenomenon of globalization the massive shifts that took place with globalization I mean don't those play a role in inequality can you really lay this at the feet of a handful of guys who influenced a handful of presidents I don't mean to assign sole responsibility to economists. But I do think they played an important role there obviously were forces at work beyond the control of any policymaker you know manufacturing has spread much more evenly across the face of the globe prosperity has spread much more evenly across the face of the globe. That's been a really good thing for billions with a B. Of people and none of that should be minimized but I do think it is the case that economists in the United States and in other developed nations made that process much more painful for the average American that the policy is that they implemented or convinced policymakers to implement had the effect on the whole of concentrating the benefits of globalisation and relatively few hands and of leaving many Americans to suffer the consequences well what do you think should happen now I mean economists are pretty firmly installed where they are they do have the ears of presidents What do you think should happen I'm not advocating for getting rid of economists to be. Again they'll be thrilled to know absolutely I think that our problem is inequality and the solution is to make inequality an explicit focus of public policy not just is this good for society as a whole which is a meaningless abstraction but who actually will be the beneficiaries and if the answer is you know that that wealth concentrates at the top we ought to reconsider those policies Binyamin Appelbaum thanks so much thank you Binion Applebaum is author of The Economist's hour. This is MORNING EDITION from N.P.R. News our theme music was inspired by B.J. Lederman I mean well King and I'm Rachel Martin. Thank you for joining us for Morning Edition on your N.P.R. Station W. Row you be online at W B dot a word jury on this week's On the media a media storm around the gun debate yesterday Wal-Mart announced that it is now taking sides in the gun debate also an actual debate. Believes climate change is a hoax. 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News in Washington I'm ginning Herbst hurricane Dorian is bearing down on North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds heavy rain and several reported tornadoes flooding is also a problem Jack Beven with the National Hurricane Center says Dorian is a category one storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles an hour we're getting reports of hurricane force winds on the North Carolina Outer Banks also bringing heavy rain near where the eye is currently in the extreme eastern North Carolina and the storm surge of the above normal tides the result when a hurricane affects the coast North Carolina's governor Roy Cooper says the state is prepared $38.00 or 8 hours North Carolina.