K.p.c. Education or pork house Stokes will join us for that 1st though 2 swings to Mrs No Deal hours ago the u.s. Senate made 2 bids to reopen the government both were unsuccessful this on day $33.00 of a partial shutdown in Southern California federal employees are feeling more than a pinch at this point including air traffic controllers their union along with the pilots union and flight attendants union released an open letter today saying air safety is on the line let s check in again with Alex narrows he handles takeoffs and arrivals at airports across Southern California think about l.a. X. Ontario in Van Nuys he s also representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association that union covers about 20000 workers across the country Alex welcome back they are a Martinez thank you for having me back 1st off I didn t think we d be talking again but we are for what s your reaction to the failed us Senate votes today to reopen the government it s disappointing our union org
Housing remains an issue more than 2 months after the October storm hundreds of people displaced by Hurricane Michael are still waiting for temporary housing Fema is working with local governments in the Panhandle to provide trailers and modular units for people who can t live in their damaged homes but the program has only helped a few dozen people and more than 1400 have asked for help the situation prompted Florida Senator Marco Rubio to send a letter to fema asking the agency to expedite things he wrote quote families in northwest Florida have not seen an appropriate response to their housing needs and fema must immediately act to address this concern Florida officials estimate insured losses from Hurricane Michael will top $4200000000.00 Debbie Elliott n.p.r. News on the heels of yesterday s big plunge on Wall Street Asian markets followed suit today Japan s Nikkei dropped by 5 percent The Shanghai Composite also closed lower today most other markets including exchanges in the u.
Really good. That us. You bring. This to. The world and our own memories show with Kenny Rogers may have become an international superstar because of the 1970 s. Hit song The gambler but over many years his fans have developed an even closer relationship with him because of his holiday Nisha Rodgers performed an annual ritual for decades his Christmas and hits tour and his last one was in 2015 the same year he would least his 6th holiday album it s called once again it s Christmas Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin spoke with Kenny Rogers on his farewell tour thank you so much for being with us Mr Rogers Oh you re more than welcome and you know this song once again it s Christmas will it has a special feeling for me because it was written by Don Russell who was the drummer with the Bobby Doyle 3 of the jazz group I was with when I was very young and started out and then he wrote this in 1968 and it sounds like a standard it s a perfect Christmas song and no one s done it before
Ground hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged for n.p.r. News I m Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai Thailand a court in Tokyo today granted bail to Nissan Motor Company executive Greg Kelly has been held since November 19th charged with underreporting the income of his boss former Nissan chairman Carl is gone Kelly s bail was set at $70000000.00 yen the equivalent of 635000 dollars Officials say it has been paid in cash and going remains in custody charged with understating his income and breach of trust Japanese stocks plunged today after yesterday s sell off on Wall Street and the u.k. Average lost 5 percent to close at 900100 $55.00 benchmarks in Shanghai Thailand and Taiwan also declined markets in Hong Kong South Korea Australia and Europe are closed today for Christmas u.s. Stock markets are also closed today they are on track for their worst December since 1931 during the Great Depression 20 years after a landmark tobacco settlement states are spending
John Lennon. Yoko Ono. Happy Christmas War is over for Joan in East born it s woman it s off to 12 o clock let s have our Christmas midnight classic let s hear because we have strong. Was. Now was a coffee troika played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra that was our Christmas midnight classical do another one for 12 o clock next week on the show into the last 55 minutes of the program is David Alan here with the late night B.B.C. Local radio for the south we are around the world on line Elmore on digital as well good to have you with us on our special Christmas program when every single time we play is either a Christmas song or a carol and we ve got plenty more good music to come and we also have another track a final track from our featured album of the night which is a legendary Christmas by John Legend We ll also take a look at the birthdays for Sunday as well and now a bit of that necking cold now before I play this one going to say hi to Gillian. He says I David Love the sh