Fitzgerald 10 on the u.s.s. John McCain the Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling that blocked the trumpet ministration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA designed to protect children who are brought to the u.s. Illegally from deportation N.P.R.'s Carrie Johnson reports the government is signaling it wants a decision soon Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department will take the rare step of asking the u.s. Supreme Court to intervene in the immigration case because he says the issue needs to be resolved quickly and fairly session says it defies common sense for the doctor program to be mandated nationwide by a single judge in San Francisco he says the decision to wind down the program is clearly within the authority of the executive branch but California Attorney General Javier Basara who's suing the administration says the lower court ruling was a step in the right direction and he says thousands of so-called dreamers need relief from the chaos Carrie Johnson n.p.r. News Washington the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will reconsider rules on payday lending the rules take effect today at least start phasing in they require lenders to determine whether borrowers are able to repay debts and to cap the number of loans they can make to an individual borrower the rules were designed to protect people from endless cycles of debt emergency personnel in Montecito California are beginning a 2nd week of cleanup after a mudslide devastated the coastal town the death toll stands at 23 are still missing Jonathan bastion of member station. Reports rescue operations have been abandoned and crews are now concentrating on clearing debris and opening roads tons of what modern being loaded on trucks and dumped on nearby beaches officials say it's the only place to move the overwhelming amount of sediment but this move has angered some environmentalists. The mud is filled with oil ashen toxic substances all of which pose a threat to the sensitive coastal environment in fact Santa Barbara County health officials have closed a number of beaches because of high readings of bacteria Meanwhile the one on one Freeway remains closed for at least another 5 days which means some people in total could miss nearly 2 full weeks of work safety crews are also closely watching the weather is there is a chance of more rain on Thursday and Friday for n.p.r. News I'm Jonathan bastion in Santa Barbara on Wall Street today the Dow fell 10 points the Nasdaq lost 37 this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include with sabi cloud storage for a range of applications including disaster recovery videos and big data learn more about cloud storage $2.00 It was savvy dot com and the ne e Casey Foundation. It's All Things Considered on k. P.b.s. Some Kenny Goldberg in the k. P.b.s. Newsroom nearly 100 women are attending a conference in San Diego this week to learn what it takes to run for office their networking and learning the important tools for building campaign operations from communications to fundraising conference leader Liz Johnson is co-founder of the nonprofit a nonpartisan vote run lead he travels the country training women for leadership roles he says women's representation in local state and federal government offices has been stuck at 22 percent but the tide is changing people are looking for new faces they're looking for women to step up and the men and the women want more women to run for office the 40 conference at the catamaran resort wraps up on Wednesday the said Hugo judge involved in the Trump University lawsuit was back in his Indiana home town over the holiday to speak about the power of Dr Martin Luther King's message and the value of an integrated America k. P.b.s. Reporter Steve Walsh has a story judge Gonzalo curio was in the national spotlight when then candidate Donald Trump questioned whether the judge could rule on a class action lawsuit against Trump University because of his Mexican heritage he's off spoken federal judge actually grew up in Indiana he was back home this week as the features be here for Martin Luther King Day at a local college. This is perfect. For her. To ridicule people because. We're going to from. Curial did not break his silence about the Trump case Steve Walsh k p b s news survivors of last week's mudslides in modest Seato have joined a lawsuit that claims to California to ladies for that catastrophe and that Thomas wildfire The suit claims that the Thomas fire was triggered by Tool pull mounted transformers owned by something California Edison The suit also claims last week's mudslides were caused by a break in the model Seattle water district mainline this is k p b s news in San Diego I'm Kenny Goldberg. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro in Washington and I'm Kelly McEvers in Culver City California the secretary of Homeland Security says she did not hear President Trump use of all Garrity immigration meeting with lawmakers last week Kiersten Nielsen testified today at a Senate hearing and 2 senators who were in the hearing were also at the immigration meeting in question today's hearing got pretty contentious N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor reports Nielson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and spent a lot of her time answering questions about the president's language at the White House immigration meeting last week Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont pressed Nielson about the vote Garrity the president was widely reported to have used to describe African nations your honorable and President Trump use this word or east of stand generally similar or to describe certain countries I did not hear that word used in a certain amount there's one question he used anything someone had to that describing certain countries the conversation was very impassioned I don't dispute that the president was using tough language others in the room were also using tough language she didn't elaborate what that tough language was Trump also reportedly wondered why more people from countries like Norway weren't immigrating to the United States Nielsen said he was merely referring to a conversation he had just had with Norway's prime minister who said people in her country were hardworking not the overwhelmingly white population of the country in fact Nielsen testified she did not know Norway's racial make up Democrats on the panel used the hearing to vent their outrage over the president's comments Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey said he was seething with anger when the commander in chief speaks or refuses to speak. Those words just don't dissipate like mist in the air they fester they become poison they give a license to bigotry and hate in our country senators also press Nielson about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program known as Dhaka under which some 700000 mostly young people brought to the country illegally by their parents have been allowed to stay under an order signed by President Trump the program ends March 5th Trungpa said he wants to extend it but has also tweeted that Democrats aren't serious about getting a deal to extend it Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called the current state of immigration negotiations quote and s. Show and indicated he's been whipsawed by the president's changing positions Tuesday we had a president that I was proud to gothe with call my friend who understood immigration had to be bipartisan you had to have border security is essential you have for security where the wall but he also understood that we had to do it with compassion now I don't know where that go with that one in back Democratic Senator Dick Durbin who had previously confirmed trumps language at last Thursday's meeting indicated one sticking point in immigration negotiations was the president's insistence that Congress appropriate all the money he wants to build a border wall with Mexico this year rather than spreading the appropriations and construction out over a longer period is the president realistic when he says he wants 20000000000 so he can build the wall in one year I think the president is encouraging us to go as quickly as he can you know it's a very complicated issue building a wall for a whole variety of reasons and further complicating the issue unless a deal is reached on Doc there's a real possibility the government could shut down on Friday Brian Naylor n.p.r. News Washington now we're going to talk with one member of the House who has been working on a bipartisan plan to allow young immigrants to stay in the u.s. Will. Heard is a Republican from Texas and his district includes the largest stretch of border of any member of Congress Welcome back to the program thanks for having me on again for always a pleasure now the President Trump has rejected one bipartisan immigration proposal how does that affect the negotiations that you are a part of especially after he earlier promised to sign any bill that lawmakers could agree to well the strategy that we're taking here is let's put something forward that's thoughtful and makes sense and secures the border and has a permanent legislative fix for the 1.2 kids that were brought here by no fault of their own just like 1200000 other accounts aside 70800000 well the 1.2 is based on if you were here by January 1st 2014 and we're under the age of 18 that's the population that I'm talking about and one of the things that Congress has proven over the last couple years but they don't do well we don't do comprehensive and partisan well so let's let's take a different tack let's be narrow and let's be bipartisan and fallen a narrow problem build build Shreyas build momentum to address some of these other issues and are you confident that if you get that bipartisan deal the president will be on board last week he wasn't well look at the key for us here in the house is let's put legislation forward and let's make sure everybody's aware of what we're trying to do and we're trying to solve I think you know people are frustrated that's 28 you know we don't have operational control the border I know a little something about that with more border than any other member of Congress so we are in our bill we're saying let's secure the border by 2020 and let's let's fix this fix this doctor situation your proposal preserves DACA and also requires a mile by mile analysis of the border then authorizes physical barriers to be built in places where federal officials deem it necessary by as you said 2020 do you think that would satisfy President Trump and more conservative members of your own party who have been chanting build the wall for years now well you'd have to talk to President Trump on his opinion on. This but for me this is this this concept of a smart wall is something that I've been promoting for a while and nobody has ever really disagreed the key what we should be focused on is not an individual tool but we should be focused on outcomes and how do we get operational control of that border the reason we haven't done this in the past is because we haven't looked at all 2000 miles of border at the same time and so you can't have a one size fits all solution because every mile needs something different and so let's be smart about this let's be cost effective about this and that's what this this legislation this bipartisan legislation to tend to do President Trump has called for addressing immigration issues beyond the border and one of the things he said is that other countries are not sending their best people and that the u.s. Needs a merit based migration system instead of family reunification or a lottery Do you agree with him on that well look if you want to have those conversations let's have those conversations but we're not going to be able to come to some agreement if there needs to be a change or not by by January 19th so January 19th as you said midnight Friday is the deadline for the government to shut down how confident are you that lawmakers can pass a bipartisan bill to address immigration and fund the government by then well I think it's still a little premature to talk about a a government shutdown you know just in my short time here in Congress we've had these conversations a few times and I've always been willing to to prevent that from happening the good thing is appear no one is really interested in shutting the government down and so let's work together let's think about this Lucian in a bipartisan way so that we can get it off the table and start focusing on issues like infrastructure things like that do you anticipate another short term funding measure to avert a shutdown before an immigration deal get passed I think that isn't an option you know whether again between now and Friday to be a whole lot of conversations going on and you know all the options are are going to be on the table Republican congressman Well heard of Texas thank you very much thank you. What are the deeper messages in the story books we read to children that question inspired a team of researchers to set up a study specifically they wanted to know what can you tell about a country from its children's books Here's N.P.R.'s Mary Eisenman. If you're a kid in China here's the kind of book you might be reading it's called the cat that eats letters not just any letters sloppy ones. Or you know if the letter is missing a stroke Cecilia Chang is a psychology professor at University of California Riverside and so the only way you can stop their letters from being even is really carefully and practice every day it's one of dozens of books recommended by the education agencies of China and the United States that Chung and her collaborators analyzed for a study we mainly interested in exploring whether or not there are differences in that kind. Of values that are being conveyed in the story books their findings published in The Journal of cross cultural psychology the story books from China stress those learning related values a lot more than the books from the u.s. About twice as much take the cat story this is really you know is dealing with the idea of effort so you know children have to learn that they have to consistently practice in order to achieve a certain level by comparison Chung says a typical book from the us is one called the jar of happiness a little girl attempts to make a potion of happiness in a jar only to lose that jar she's really upset until all her friends come to cheer her up at the end of the story she came to realise Asian that happiness does not actually come from a job of potion but from having good friends Chung says this emphasis on happiness comes up a lot in the books from the us what are the implications well Chung notes that children in China consistently score higher on academic tests compared to children in the u.s. But it's not clear if that's due to different cultural values or teaching methods in the meantime chunks suggests there may be lessons in this for everyone Chinese parents might want to make sure all. That emphasis on hard work isn't coming at the expense of encouraging a sense of joy in their kids and you know happiness is also important when it comes to learning they can be a predictor of future chief and left American parents I want to add in some books promoting the idea that intelligence isn't something you're necessarily born with but also something you can gain through hard work because if that's your view when you're facing a really difficult challenge the more effort in instead of saying oh I'm just and I'm just going to give up oh and in case you're worried about that cat once the kids improve their handwriting at the end the cat is very hungry but then the kids take pity on him and write a few more sloppy letters. N.p.r. News. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Kelly McEvers we are in the middle of an unusually severe flu season here in California we've been hit especially hard State officials say at least 42 people have died from the flu and that's not including senior citizens the actual number is much higher and thousands of Californians have sought medical help overflowing hospital emergency rooms one of these hospitals is Loma Linda University Health near San Bernardino Dr Adrian cotton is the chief of medical operations there and he's with us now welcome thank you Kelly So 1st of all when we talk about an unusually severe flu season me just explain what that means exactly like how many people are you guys seeing every day so normally in our emergency department we see anywhere between 20240 patients for the last couple weeks we've been seeing closer to 290 and 300 patients a day and so this increase has forced you to do some things that are usually reserved for special emergency situations to sort of talk about some of those so the 1st thing people notice if they drive up to Loma Linda is they'll see a tent out in front of the emergency room that is not routinely there we put this tent up on January 3 of this year it can hold about 20 patients we've used it pretty much every day since January 3rd we've probably had $150.00 patients total that have gone through there and 10 like this is called a surge tents normally reserved for major disasters right yes I think we could call the fl