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Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean says it is 70 percent contained but he says firefighters will continue to work we are going to be doing this the next few days so they re trying to provide for that aspect in reference to making sure those lines are taken care of prevent any embers Casserly rolling debris popular spot fires Meanwhile the huge Kincaide fire burning north of San Francisco is now more than 3 quarters contained You re listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. 3 states have elections tomorrow in Virginia Democrats battling to take control of the legislature got endorsements from former President Barack Obama while President Trump tweeted support for Republicans and pavior of member station v.p. M. In Richmond Virginia has more Virginia s odd year elections are often seen as a bellwether for the national political mood and because of that and because we re almost the only game in town we have tons of out of state money flowing in political analyst Bob holes where says that s
Blocked major roads in Beirut and other parts of the country the leaderless movement to remove Lebanon s ruling elite has brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets since October 17th Hariri has resignation fulfilled one demand of the protesters but many are pushing for broader reforms Lebanon s government is organized along religious and sectarian lines the protesters want to replace it with a nonsectarian system for n.p.r. News I m Naomi s Avalon this is n.p.r. News from Washington traffic restrictions are in effect in New Delhi as India s capital deals with dangerous levels of pollution me to pot talk reports from Mumbai officials say the air quality is dangerous for everyone not just children and the elderly starting today private cars that run on gas or diesel will be allowed on New Delhi streets only on auto even days depending on their license plate numbers dozens of flights had to be diverted from Delhi because of the think Grace small that envelops the city school
40 years ago today a sit in at the u.s. Embassy in Tehran turned into a hostage crisis that lasted 444 days I m David Greene and I m no we ll King we ll look back at the Iran hostage crisis with one of the Americans who was held captive . Changes to drug laws in Oklahoma mean that hundreds of inmates will be released from prison and in New Delhi India air pollution has gotten so bad that schools are closed and flights have been diverted It s Monday November 4th Ralph macho The Karate Kid is 58 years old today. And the news is next live from n.p.r. News in Washington encore of a Coleman the whistleblower from the intelligence community whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Trump has offered to answer written questions from Republican lawmakers at b.r.s. Bobby Allen reports the offer comes after weeks of attacks by House Republicans the whistleblowers legal team has confirmed to n.p.r. That a direct channel has been opened between the whistleblower and House Rep
People feel very. Dismissive just saying that they just can t get into it so what s that all about today we re going to talk about country music and why people resist it and whether or not country music deserves its reputation as kind of a bastion of conservative. Progressive. Well you get the idea our position I think is going to be the Country music is a little bit more protean and complicated than that that the artists are sometimes very different from their audiences don t even meet an African American country musician all of that s coming up after the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying President Trump is denying that he made an inappropriate promise to a foreign leader in a phone call this summer N.P.R. s Mara Liasson reports the allegation is at the center of a dispute between a House committee and the intelligence community according to reports in The Washington Post an intelligence official was so concerned about the president s quote promise that the