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The champions of the wnba. And simone biles did it again, making history while reinforcing that she is the greatest gymnast of all time early today starts right now good friday morning im phillip mena good to be with you im Frances Rivera breaking news out of northern syria, tens of thousands of people are fleeing a growing war zone turkey has escalated its invasion into syria. Turkish military have been shelling pounds and villages in airstrikes and ground attacks the scenes at local hospitals just devastating and civilians get caught in the cross fire the death toll continues to spike. So far over 100 kurdish fighters have been killed and nine civilians. Joining us from iraq is bill neely. Bill, the humanitarian crisis is exploding there in the region. Reporter yeah, francis, the latest figures from the u. N. Are that 70,000 people have now fled remember, they said 60,000 had fled in the first day alone. Were now on day three there is heavy fighting so i think you can expect that to
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By mona gable. So welcome, mona so mona is a freelance writer based in los angeles. Her work has appeared in the atlantic outside the l. A. Times and many others. Her article in los magazine, the hugo problem, was a long reads best of 2015, and shes in conversation today with author erika hayasaki, who is also based in southern california. Most recent feature stories appeared in the New York Times magazine, wired the atlantic, others, a former national for the l. A. Times. She teaches storytelling at uc irvine. Shes an associate professor in the Literary Journalism program. Her books, the death class and somewhere have been released in 2014 and 2022, and she was named an npr best book of the year. You thank you. And i gotta i wonderful to be together with my longtime the of your work friends and im so excited for the outdoor world and i was going to ask you to just by reading a little bit okay all our. Yeah okay actually i should put my glasses right now. Get comfy. Yeah. You want to s