And now in their fifty's were 16 when another student was shot dead at their school they were blamed convicted of murder and sentenced to life then this year prosecutors took another look at the case and found major flaws including withheld evidence and false witness testimony on Monday a judge apologized and declared the men innocent and Alfred chestnut Ransome Watkins and Andrew Stewart walked free Mary Stuart was there to embrace her son this is the part had been a bit hard not start in about 20 some years this is one for ransom Watkins says most of his family has died since his incarceration fostered their rock we also. Need to put it to how Amy Held n.p.r. News officials in Washington d.c. Have lifted lock downs at the u.s. Capitol and at the White House after a stir of security activity initiated when an aircraft entered restricted airspace concerns about the unauthorized aircraft prompted the military to scramble fighter jets but now an all clear has been issued this is n.p.r. News and 7 o 4 I'm cherry Glaser with k c r w news fire crews in Santa Barbara County are fighting fierce winds as they try to get control of a wildfire threatening homes in Goa Leda the cave fire as it's being called broke out around 4 yesterday afternoon and quickly grew to more than 3000 acres burning mandatory evacuations the fire started were about topic you know so and it made a real quick run down the hill but being pushed by those 15 gusting to 30 mile an hour winds in some spots even higher that Santa Barbara County Fire spokesman Mike Eliason speaking to Channel 5 The forecast calls for even stronger winds today perhaps about 50 miles an hour there's no containment at this point Santa Barbara officials have to clear it emergency and ask for help from neighboring fire agencies officials say the fires also threatening Southern California Edison main transmission lines the provide electricity to the southern portion of Santa Barbara County in spite of the high winds Edison did not shut off power in the area as it has in some recent cases. A real estate development company that lost a multimillion dollar home in the recent Getty fire is now suing the l.a. Department of Water and Power This comes after the l.a. Controllers office released a report suggesting that the utility approved new measures to prevent wildfires case here W.'s Jerome Campbell has that story attorneys representing b.w. Partners l.l.c. Say the utility company failed to present to get the fire from sparking by not managing the vegetation around power lines a preliminary investigation from the l.a. Fire department revealed the fire was caused by a broken tree branch blown into a power allied something that video footage has supported Mayor Eric Garcetti called it a quote act of God officials estimate nearly 20 homes were damaged or destroyed in the fire a spokesman for l.a. D.w.p. Did not directly respond to the lawsuit but instead pointed back to the same investigation that report also says the wind carried the branch 30 feet which far exceeds the clearance zone set by state regulations the get a fire broke out during a period of high winds and low humidity. The chancellors of u.c. Berkeley and u.c. Santa Cruz said they want to do away with using the s a t n a c t as admission requirement is case here bashing reports they say the test provides another barrier to admission for under-served student who's the comments came during a forum last Friday when school administrators emphasized how performance on these standardized tests are tied to a family's income and parents' education as universities have grown more and more competitive in recent decades the pressure to score high on these tests has mounted and as a result the number of high profile test taking scams have surfaced this isn't the 1st time the uses of thought of doing away with the S.A.T.'s any C.T.'s last year you see President Jenna Politan a created a task force to analyze the research on them the goal is to make recommendations on whether to keep or discard the tests the group is expected to issue a preliminary report early next year we'll have more on the story coming up later in the program support Fran p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin good morning for a president who has gone to war with his own intelligence community and members of his own diplomatic corps It seemed only a matter of time before he would clash with the military establishment here overseas and here we are the tension between President Trump and ousted Navy secretary Richard Spencer started over the handling of a war crimes case the Navy had moved to strip Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher of his Navy Seal status after he was convicted of posing with the corpse of an ISIS fighter in Iraq Navy secretary Spencer tried to quietly strike a deal with the White House that would allow Gallagher to stay a seal as long as the president stayed out of the disciplinary process and when Defense Secretary Marc aspart found out he fired Spencer The former Navy secretary is now speaking out here's what he told David Martin of c.b.s. News about the ramifications of the president's interference What message does that send to the troops what message does it say that you can get away with things we have to have good order and discipline it's the backbone of what we do we're joined now by Peter fever he's a professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and a former National Security Council official Thanks so much for being with us this morning they want to so we we heard Spencer in that clip say that the president's interference sends this message to troops that they can get away with things but Spencer was reportedly negotiating a side deal with the White House in which the outcome of this disciplinary proceeding would be pre-determined that he would guarantee to President Trump the Gallagher could keep his seal status if the president stayed away what kind of message does that send to to the military. Well Secretary Spencer was manage to run afoul of both his bosses President Trump thought he was foot dragging on in terms of not implementing what Trump wanted with Gallagher case and Secretary Asper his direct boss thought Spencer was doing an Enron and cutting a side deal with the White House that was different from the United Front that the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley were presenting and so Spencer ended up being without any allies and under the president's prerogative to fire anyone who serves at his pleasure Spencer had to go I want to play a clip of what President Trump said about this case yesterday 106 you know for our armed forces and there's never been a president. That has like the fact that we spent 2 and a half trillion dollars on rebuilding Iraq how do you see this do you view this is the president quote sticking up for 4 u.s. Forces or was he interfering in a military process under minds the military's own values and standards. Well the to me the most striking feature of this is the extent to which the president was ignoring what appeared to be the unanimous advice of his senior military and civilian leadership who had recommended a different course of action the president. Rejected their advice but did so in a very public way that undermined the effect their effectiveness their ability to lead the troops and to have the trust of the troops of the troops could know they could stand up and present their views to the White House and by doing it in such a public way the president managed to undermine his own team and I think that's going to be the longer term. Consequences of this affair the president won his battle but victory might be. A pyrrhic one where the costs exceed whatever gain he got just to be clear though he didn't he would he's allowed to do this his constitutional powers as Commander in Chief allow him to override those military officials certainly in the issuing of pardons and clemencies there's no doubt there was some debate about whether he could force the military to grant a certification the seal status to Chief Gallagher But clearly Secretary esper believed that the president had that authority and under the Constitution the commander in chief powers arc are quite fast so probably the president had the right to do even that but under the principle civilian control President Trump has the right to do these things that doesn't make them right he has the right to be wrong in other words but when a president exercises that right to be wrong on matters that the military care deeply about the president tends to pay a price and I do think there the price will be paid in terms of a loss of trust between the military and the president and that trust is the essential ingredient for healthy civil military relations a number of Republicans from the national security community you among them signed letters in 2016 opposing Donald Trump's Canada see in this presidency you viewed his positions on issues like torture and war crimes as a threat to American democracy 3 years on do you think those threats have materialized. Well on balance looking at all he's done. It has not been as bad as I feared but it's not been as good as I hoped and in the narrow question you're asking me about today about the president's role as commander in chief you know very few presidents start out with a good thing or feel for the commander in chief Roy It's just unusual it's a very different role from what most presidents have done before they became president what is of concern today though is most presidents grow in that job and in the 3rd year they're in and only get better then headed in the 1st year and it's not clear that that's the case the President Trump Peter fever is a professor of political science at Duke University thank you so much for your time this morning we appreciate it thank you. The opioid crisis has put doctors in a tough spot when they prescribe drugs like Oxy coed owner Fenton all they risk contributing to addiction when they don't do that patients in pain may suffer a medical school in Washington state wants to help future doctors decide what to do N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton reports when Matthew Brown gets out of medical school he'll be able to prescribe opioids but as a teenager he was addicted to them the 1st time I reused an opioid I felt the most confident and powerful I'd ever felt so I said this is it and I want to do this the rest of my life opioids took away Brown's anxiety his inhibitions his depression and they were easy to get I just started breaking into houses and I found it amazing how trusting people were leaving windows open and doors unlocked and I found a lot of prescriptions Viken in Oxycontin Tramadol the drugs were everywhere because at the time doctors and dentists were writing lots of prescriptions even to Brown I didn't need 20 Viken in when I got my wisdom teeth out so I just saved them round stopped using more than a decade ago now he's a 1st year medical student at the city. Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima Washington and he brought his story to a summit on opioids held at the university Ed Bilski is a pain researcher and the university's Provost He says one goal of the event was to get past the angry rhetoric it can get very hostile Bilski is heard people in the addiction community blame pain patients for deaths caused by an overdose and on the flip side pain groups are saying that views these drugs and now I can't get access to something that did give me some semblance of quality of life and now it's been taken away so Bilski had a question how do we get them into the playing each other for the conditions that they're in acknowledging that they have these similarities and whose barriers that they face and working toward solutions together step one make sure groups listen to each other so in addition to people like Brown the summit included people like Katie Bachmann she's a 3rd year medical student who get severe migraines it feels like your head is going to explode and simultaneously for me someone is stabbing me in my right temporal area and on top of that you can't tolerate lie and the Nasi and vomiting is just it's just miserable migraines almost forced Buckman to leave medical school but she's been able to continue with help from a primary care doctor who gets her situation if I'm lucky enough to have the migraine between Monday and Friday from 8 to 5 I can call him and get a shot of them are all an opioid that's rare though Bookman's usual remedy is Benadryl and fluids and her migraines have largely disappeared since she started on a new preventive drug a few months ago but Buckland still remembers times when she was treated with suspicion when she showed up at the hospital one time I had a doc before he even came in or just himself as as my caregiver he just popped his head in said well you're not going to be receiving any narcotics today those are contraindicated and migraines then there were doctors like Tom Eglin and. The participant in the summit Egland is a faculty member at the university and works in the emergency department at Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital so he knows what happens to drug users who take Fentanyl thinking it's going to be something less potent they're going to arrest try to arrest so you know if they're lucky somebody or an investor you know has the locks on or can reverse that but Eglin also sees patients who need an opioid they may have a kidney stone a fracture or a bad burn pain is the primary reason that people come to the emergency department . Typical they were always writing prescriptions for pain medications Eglin says the hard part is knowing whether a patient with no detectable injury is seeking drugs sometimes it's obvious but the majority of the time it's not just difficult it's impossible and anyone says that may not be the most important point whether they're addicted or whether they're migraine sufferer they're still there for pain relief and most people who are addicted still have the perception bad pain Eglin says people addicted to opioids and people with chronic pain have a lot in common they face stigma they often struggle to get treatment and they need doctors who understand their problem. That's a lesson medical students Katie Buckman and Matthew Brown have taken to heart Buckman says her experience with migraines will make her a better doctor I'll be able to empathize at a different level because I have experienced severe pain and Brown says his own history with addiction will help him treat people with that problem but he says even someone trying to stay away from drugs may need an opioid for certain types of pain my mom actually asked me a question recently it was about would you prescribe an opioid to a person in recovery I very quickly said yes a qualified yes Brown says the prescription would have to be appropriate and the patient would need to be taking active steps to avoid relapse Jon Hamilton n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. On this Tuesday you are listening to. You. 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Diplomats and other officials testified during an impeachment inquiry people saw different things supporters and critics of the president for example offered their own interpretations what William Burns saw was courage Hereward discipline professionals who are fulfilling their oath to the constitution they were speaking the truth when they were asked to by the Congress however inconvenient may be for an administration at home for much risk to themselves or to their own careers William Burns was for many years one of the top u.s. Diplomats whose many posts around the world included a stint as embassador to Russia now Burns is out of the diplomatic service running a Washington think tank the impeachment story gets burns thinking of how the United States is showing its face to the world in the Atlantic he argues that the president is degrading diplomats the u.s. Needs to face complicated problems around the world from Ukraine to Russia to China I think what we've seen over the last 3 years as an acceleration of a longer term trend in which were hollowing out the institution of diplomacy what we've seen is a kind of bureaucratic arson where you're sidelining career expertise not surprisingly we've had the lowest number of young people applying to join the Foreign Service in 2001000 than any time in more than 2 decades so we need smart effective diplomacy more than ever and yet at this point we're really hollowing it out and you see that as a pattern I mean some of the you know the most recent incidents involving the u.s. Navy as well we should mention when you refer to the Navy you're talking about a Navy Seal who was accused of war crimes and convicted of one of them and was supposed to face discipline and the president said that's not going to happen and ultimately the secretary of the Navy had to resign for disagreeing with the president that's right and this fits in with the pattern you see with diplomats it's a pattern of not sabotage from within. It's sabotage from above essentially it's narcissism that's driving policy it's the vanity of an easily manipulated president when you accuse people of disloyalty deeply unfairly in an institution like the State Department you know a wa