Hold hearings today in the impeachment inquiry because of the memorial for Congressman Cummings on Wednesday testimony from one witness in the inquiry was delayed for nearly 5 hours that s because a group of Republican lawmakers barged into the secure room where witnesses are being questioned they want the questioning to be made public the National Weather Service has issued high wind warnings for much of northern California creating extreme fire weather threats California utilities are shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers so power lines won t blow down and start wildfires this is drawing criticism James Gore is the Sonoma County California executive he says people want to know who is losing power and why the irony is that as I talk to you right now my brother who lives across the street from me doesn t have power and I do people just a block down from me some of them up lost their power entirely and others 3 miles away do have power so one of the things that every
American sanctions on Turkey that had been imposed just 9 days ago taking credit for the cease fire and saying countries in the region need to take more responsibility for security there Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul Spain has removed the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from a controversial national monument it was built in the 1950 s. Under Franco s guidance using hundreds of his political prisoners as Lucy a been a Vegas reports Franco s remains will be reburied north of Madrid by around a 100 people were waiting in the cemetery where Franco will be reburied holding Spanish flags that said thank you for. The coffin was taken to its new resting place by a funeral procession that included found those living relatives and a priest who blessed as remains the Spanish government had passed legislation to remove those remains last year that faced many obstacles from the Catholic Church and found close family you re listening to n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. St
Syrian Kurdish fighters don t want large numbers of people to leave so they re not letting go through the official border crossing instead most families are boring money or paying their life savings to smugglers to take them across by foot into Iraq N.P.R. s Jane Erath This is day 6 of a strike by public school teachers in Chicago Sara Karp of member station w b e z says more than 300000 students are affected by the walkout which is over pay and class sizes and nature Hakon says her son got a school work done in the 1st few days of the strike and now is just enjoying his days off but she says she s ready for him to go back to school I m at that point now Ok The key is still need to go back to school however if this is what it s going to take so that the parents can override see a difference in the schools then I m willing to go ahead and sacrifice thousands of parents are sending their children to schools which are open in staffed with administrators yet even some teenagers say they r
Last night some tenants were evacuated from their units during the police investigation but we re all allowed to return to their apartments just after midnight and detectives have not released any suspect information but destiny is hospitalized in critical condition after being hit by a Metro Goldline train at the Allen station in Pasadena around 3 o clock this morning firefighters had to free the person according to Pasadena Fire but there s no other details on that incident is under investigation and Kurdish rebels say the Turkish military is ignoring the cease fire in northern Syria that the u.s. Helped broker with Turkey yesterday during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompei o correspondent Arwa Damon reports from the border between Turkey and Syria there were various reports of gunfire being heard as well as selling and the Kurds are accusing the Turks of the hitting a hospital inside the town as well saying that Turkey is basically violating thi
It in and his son in exchange for u.s. Military aid Windsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington the White House meanwhile has notified the house the trumpet ministration will not participate in what is calling Democrats illegitimate in Pietschmann probe and apparently divided Supreme Court is considering whether federal civil rights laws protect. People from discrimination on the job just as no Gore said during the arguments said he views the case as close the courts for liberal justices appear likely to vote with a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for HIV It s discrimination in employment on the basis of sacks whether that should be broadened to encompass both sexual orientation and transgender status and a report from the Senate Intelligence Committee finds the Russian government targeted the African-American community its 2016 election interference operations the report which is a bipartisan effort from a committee with a Republican majority also from the findings of the m