Point one k 206 and 97.7 k. Q Vo Calexico where news matters. That morning John McCain will lie in state today in the Capitol Rotunda will hear from his writing a magnitude of 7.3 devastated that city the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Corba Coleman the queen of soul gets her final sendoff today at a star studded funeral in Detroit N.P.R. s Debbie Elliott reports Aretha Franklin s life has been celebrated this week in her hometown the invitation only funeral will feature a celebrity lineup of musicians famous preachers and politicians but for the last 3 days it s been a wreath this band s paying tribute to people like Cheryl Shannon of Minneapolis who returned to her hometown to say goodbye my mom always played everything frankly growing up so we grew up with everything frankly and she as time went on her music still was evolving in generation after generation my son knows everything frankly and he s 30 so it just made it worthwhile to be a part of this to be f
He said that over the past several days he s been trying to do what Kim Jong un and he agreed to and that was to put these preparation teams together and he says that they received no response to our inquiries from the North Koreans in the past few days on this there seems to be broken down channel of back channel communication here that s N.P.R. s Michele Kelemen reporting the president is granting a full pardon posthumously to boxing legend Jack Johnson in 1913 the country s 1st black heavyweight champion was convicted by an all white jury of immorality because of his personal relationships with white women they say violated the man at and he had a conviction that occurred during a period of tremendous racial tension in the United States more than a century ago. Johnson served 10 months in federal prison for what many view as a racially motivated justice he was. Very rough very tough. The president was joined by Boxer Lennox Lewis an actor Sylvester Stallone known for his famous box
I m Robin Young I m Jeremy Hobson It s here and now Alabama is taking a major drug maker to court over the opioid epidemic Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall alleges in a new lawsuit that produce pharma the maker of Oxycontin fueled a public health crisis with deceptive marketing practices and Attorney General Marshall joins us now from Montgomery Attorney General welcome and what exactly is your case against the company. Well I think it s a broad based allegation one of which is if you look at the most current data Alabama s number one per capita in the country relating to opioid prescriptions almost $1.00 per person we ve seen our overdose deaths quadruple since 2006 and we continue to see the impact it has on communities throughout our state as a result of not only the addiction that we see more importantly the loss of life why do you think it s so bad in Alabama Well I think it s a great question and one that we ve just spent the last 4 months as part of an opioid council tha