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News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst President Trump plans to visit House Republicans on Capitol Hill today as they prepare to pass a sweeping tax code overhaul N.P.R.'s Nell reports the House vote comes as a separate bill is under consideration in the Senate Finance Committee President Trump is scheduled to join House Republicans at their weekly party meeting inside the Capitol Trump is expected to deliver a final pitch to Republican lawmakers ahead of a long awaited vote on the House tax legislation this will be Tom 2nd visit to the capital in recent months to discuss taxes with Republican lawmakers the house aims to vote on a tax overhaul shortly after the morning get together with Trump the Senate Finance Committee hopes to complete work on its tax legislation later this week that bill includes a provision to roll back penalties under the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate Republican leaders plan to pass that bill in the full Senate after Thanksgiving Kelsey's now n.p.r. News the Capitol the opioid Demick cost the u.s. 95000000000 dollars last year that's according to analysis from Alter a nonprofit health care research group from member station w b u r in Boston Martha the nigger has more almost half of the $95000000000.00 is the lost earning power of $53000.00 people who overdosed last year the figure also includes spending on health care criminal justice and child welfare. Analysts Corey Ryan says opioid epidemic costs dwarf spending on prevention and treatment so this provides evidence to advocates for more dollars and also provides a great understanding of where those costs are coming from Ryan says employers hospitals and other private institutions carry most of those costs the analysis does not include emotional cost any decrease in property values or the long term health effects on children when a parent dies after an overdose for n.p.r. News I'm Martha beating her in Boston 3 more women have come forward alleging that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually harassed or assaulted them in. Now 8 women have made similar accusations Moore's attorney Philip you're a d. Insist the allegations are false and that Moore is innocent on these types of cases there's always someone who is alleging in the other person and in those cases when it's true it's horrible for the person making the allegations but when the allegations are made and it's not true it's also horrible for the person who goes out Legations or directed against Morris campaigns as it's starting to investigate women who have made claims against the candidate Republican leaders of urged him to drop out of the Senate race he has refused a number of Americans filing 1st time unemployment claims rose slightly last week the Labor Department says jobless claims rose 100028 seasonally adjusted 249000 Wall Street is trading higher at this hour the Da is up 186 points 23457 The Nasdaq is up 82 points as a 1.2 percent jump at 6787 the s. And p. 500 is up 20 points this is n.p.r. This is 89.3 k. P.c.c. Good morning I'm Alex Cohen California has a budget surplus a new forecast from the state's nonpartizan legislative analysts office or l a o finds California East saving enough money to weather a couple years of moderate recession here's a report author and Hollingshead California's budget outlook is very positive this year but there are some uncertainties looming on the horizon particularly with respect to federal decisions on taxes and health care the L.A.O.'s analysis did not include how those federal decisions could potentially change the budget The report estimates of the state will expand its record reserves provided that the economy continues to grow and that lawmakers do not significantly increase spending by the year 21000 California could have almost $20000000000.00 in reserve funds their port says that's enough to last 2 years of a moderate recession with out budget cuts there's plenty of research about the difference early childhood education can may. For kids a new study finds the effects on academic performance can persist for years and might save a lot of money for school districts. Nearly has details the study from the American Educational Research Association finds that participation in high quality early childhood education helps in 3 areas it increases graduation rates reduces special education placement and fewer students get held back. U.c. Irvine Professor Greg Duncan was one of the researchers to have a child an extra year in a grade and some other $1000.00 to the cost of educating that child researchers looked back at 50 years of studies that tracked how little kids performed into grade school most of the early education programs serve children from low income families California has started to reinvest in subsidized preschool for those families but the funding remains far below prerecession levels researchers say upping those investments could save money down the road Governor Lee childhood I'm pressed Keneally following a conviction for torture and 1st degree murder the penalty phase of the trial of a gay day will begin Nov 27th that's when jurors will be asked to recommend the death penalty or life in prison without parole for the defendant the 37 year old was found guilty of killing his girlfriend's 8 year old son the boy's agonizing death also led to a murder charge against his mother and criminal counts against social workers accused of ignoring his plight Gabriel Fernandez was routinely beaten shot with a b.b. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin good morning after much debate over taxes the House will vote today on its version of a bill to overhaul the tax code President Trump is going to be on Capitol Hill this morning to rally support for the legislation the House plan would lower the cap on mortgage interest deductions and would cut the corporate tax rate it's expected to pass in the house but similar legislation in the Senate is still in doubt with at least one Republican senator already publicly coming out against it joining us in our studios this morning to talk about today's vote is Congressman Ron estas he's a Republican from Kansas Congressman thanks so much for coming in well thank you for having me on how much work does President Trump have to do today to rally the troops and get the votes you need and well I don't nobody has to do a lot of work I mean there's been a lot of work leading up to this the president's really been engaged with both members of the House and members of the Senate to to focus on building this framework so that we can actually get tax reform we should say though it hasn't been completely smooth sailing even in the house there are Congress members in states like New York New Jersey California who have had issues with one part of this bill that would eliminate a particular deduction you think you're going to find even with those defections Yeah I think what you know you have to compliment chairman Brady of the Ways and Means that you know they presented his framework to us and then talked through with us in the Republican conference about here's how it would work and and as part of that dialogue back and forth the said Ok here's some things that are that are tougher to do in individual districts and so they've actually made some changes over over the last few weeks in terms of looking at how to make that more workable and addressing some of those issues and concerns from different members one of the things I want to remind everybody is that there is a lot of change in the deductions as we've gone through this reform process but at the end of the day we want to look at what your total tax bill will be and I know I did that for myself personally I just kind of did that got the postcard. Out and actually redid my 2016 taxes and even though my taxable income was higher based on the changes but because the tax rates were lower the actual taxes owed were lower and so everybody needs to look at the total picture so let's talk about the math the bill has been sold as something that would pay for itself but a whole slew of respected economists major Think Tanks argue that the numbers don't add up when it comes to this they say the economy would have to grow 6 to 8 percent faster over the next 10 years to create anough revenue to then pay for these tax cuts the White House the White House itself says at most the economy's only going to grow between 3 and 5 percent yeah I think what one of the things about the economic calculations is you almost have to extrapolate and guess what's going to happen in the future over the over those 10 year period so one of the things that we're looking at as part of the reform and not just tax cuts it's also reform looking at how do we get some at economic growth you know the last 10 years or so we've only had 2 to 2 and a quarter percent growth whereas traditionally from now into World War 2 we've had between 3 and 4 on an average and and actually once we get up above 3 you'll see a lot more engagement in the economy and a lot more a lot more dollars in people's pockets because a payroll and you do assume that they that the economy is going to grow between 6 and 8 percent to pay for this that would be astronomical I've not seen those $6.00 or 8 percent estimates coming from from those economists you mentioned so I'm not sure where where that's going to come you know that's not overall you know we're expecting more of 3 to 4 percent which which is a more traditional which we've seen since World War 2 So where does the money come from then I mean when you think about this as someone who is a fiscal conservative concerned about the deficit presumably where's the money coming from to pay for the cap Well what what I guess I'd add I can't track down the numbers that you mentioned in terms of the economists say and 68 percent so I'm not sure. Where they're coming up with those numbers is the end of the Tax Foundation Committee for Responsible fiscal budgets that I haven't seen those numbers that they've looked at what what we've traditionally seen and going back you know just for example going back to President Reagan's tax cuts and in 1906 you know led to huge economic growth from the late eighty's into the ninety's and that's the the expectation that would have happened here same thing with President Kennedy's tax cuts in early sixty's as well let me ask about something else or colleagues in the Senate have added a measure to their tax bill that would repeal the individual mandate for health insurance which is a key part of the Affordable Care Act requiring people to buy insurance or pay a penalty what do you make of that conflating the tax bill with health care and I think $1.00 of the one of the issues with the Obamacare is that it's just so complicated with all of these items pulled into it some pieces that are regulation some pieces that are related to taxes and you know most of us must self included ran on a platform of repeal in replacing Obamacare if you look back to when Obamacare was passed basically it broke the insurance system you know there were 85 to 90 percent of the people that had insurance that kind of covered what they needed it was that 10 to 15 percent that didn't and instead of focusing on them if focused on the insurance for everybody and so they had to force an individual mandate on people which is really just a tax on people to buy a product which is so you think this is a good move for the cent I think we should not be taxing individuals just to buy a product now I don't know how the exact final product that's going to be coming out of the conference committee the Senate passes that version and that includes that and then we'll pass our version from the house and get into conference committee and work through that last question the House bill would phase out some individual tax cuts but make corporate tax cuts permanent What message does that send to the public as your party makes the case that this is about building up the . Itll class well I think if you look at the tax bill the overwhelming number of taxes are being changed as being permanent for both individuals and businesses there are some items for both businesses and individuals that are. Being phased out there are some that don't start in year one and we want to make sure that we have as many that are permanent as possible all right we have been joined in our studios this morning by Congressman Ron estus of Kansas thank you so much for your time thank you this week a big name in the tech world left his job amid accusations of sexual harassment His name is Steve Jurman son and people in Silicon Valley know him well as an investor in the likes of Tesla and Space x. His case underlines the reality of the tech world companies there remain dominated by men but in Silicon Valley some women think they found the best way to fight harassment take charge of the company Here's N.P.R.'s Laura Sydell every day new entrepreneurs flock to Silicon Valley with fantasies of turning a startup into a $1000000000.00 business last year over $6000.00 new companies got close to $60000000000.00 in venture capital funding according to the venture capital database pitch book but the percentage of that funding that went to women was a little over 2 percent less than each of the last 4 years which is what makes a company like Pham Inc unique it does research that looks at how technology and media can engage people to make positive choices it raised 5000000 in venture funding but it wasn't easy getting that money says co-founder Rachel Payne It was a surprise to me that it was more challenging to raise money given our stage and level of experience than earlier in our career and some of them quite frankly offered out the advice that it's because we're women and this wasn't just any 3 women one co-founder has a degree from Harvard in mathematics and a Ph d. From Cal Tech the other has a master's degree in computer science and lead engineering team. Google Payne has an m.b.a. From Stanford and this wasn't her 1st startup Payne's been in tech for 20 years and along the way she's seen and experienced harassment and bullying because she's a woman yet she doesn't want to complain publicly there's any hint of something like this of which many pieces by the way could be guilty then you're definitely going to have problems raising money it's hard to imagine a situation where you're being embraced for speaking out get it's clearly a complicated equation for pain who considers herself a feminist she wants women to speak out and yet she believes part of the route to getting rid of harassment is for women to succeed yes absolutely we would need more people especially women to reach places in power to actually make this difference because then they don't depend on someone else for their power and they won't tolerate it pain is not alone in staying quiet about her experience in the last couple of days I spoke with half a dozen women who would only talk off the record about verbal and physical harassment by C.E.O.'s venture capitalists and colleagues of big tech companies one woman who did speak out is Ellen Powell in 2012 power brought a lawsuit against the prestigious venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins how then a junior partner says she was discriminated against and experienced sexual harassment but few believed her there is still a skepticism of you know if we haven't heard any of these stories how can they be true Palestra case and she says it's definitely hurt her career but it began with some in Silicon Valley are calling the power effect despite potential career setbacks more women are telling their stories I think. Nobody wants to tell these stories it is like your worst experience and you go out and you share and you hope for change and palace says she is seeing change though it's slow we do see there have been people who are getting far there are people who are being moved out and people are being a little bit more transparent about why but in the valley were so much money is at stake Power says it remains hard to push out any big star who's made people rich Laura Sydell n.p.r. News San Francisco. You're listening to Morning Edition on 89.3. M. Alex Cohen authorities are now investigating a new threat against 2 of the 4 Orange County schools who were previously named this week in an on line shooting threat allegedly made by a student who was later arrested the news school shooting post which was also delivered via social media was traced back to put in a park and came to the wrong person had been arrested in connection with the violence threatened earlier at the 4 schools 3 generations of actors sit down for a family talk about what has and hasn't changed for women in Hollywood I was angry and I was hurt that I had nobody to say Ok we'll help you but how brave you and I are. Early 65 I'm Kelly McEvers our conversation this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News join us this afternoon starting at 4 o'clock on 89.3 k. P.c.c. . Glad you're joining us for Morning Edition right here on 89.3. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying President Trump is rallying congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill this hour to push through tax legislation which would mark their 1st major legislative victory this year the u.s. House is poised to vote and pass its version that calls for dozens of tax cuts and pays for those cuts by diminishing numerous deductions or credits N.P.R.'s America much narrow ports on the prospects for the g.o.p. Sweeping legislation the Republicans at this point believe that they do have the votes in the House and in the Senate there are of course some problems potentially with some of the folks in the Senate who now that they're trying to repeal the mandate for the Affordable Care Act and there that you're looking at people like Lisa Murkowski Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona and whether or not they decide to go against this given that they sank the health care bill the last time around the latest air quality data for southern California find the number of smog days has gone up the past 2 years we have more details from Daniel Carson heat wave the past 2 years have lasted for days sometimes weeks the sun and high temperatures cook emissions from vehicles and stationary sources such as power plants the result more ground level ozone pollution air quality regulators say it's uncertain whether longer heat waves in Southern California will quote become the new normal because of climate change u.s. Stocks are slightly higher this is n.p.r. News Good Morning from k.p.c. News I'm Alex Cohen the f.d.a. Has approved a high tech pill that will that doctors track whether patients with certain mental illnesses are taking their medications. Robert Grove a has more Robert sued his brother has schizophrenia he remembers how his brother got violent with him once when he stopped taking his medicine and what happened is like his body chemistry changed and that's when as behavior took a downturn Masuda says his family would welcome the tracking pill the new pill has a sensor this. Size of a grain of sand when a person swallows the pill the sensor sends an alert to a smartphone app some ethicists worry about privacy issues they also question the pills used in patients who are prone to paranoia and delusions you don't just in the a tattletale u.s.c. Professor Alexander is an expert in medical ethics he says his biggest concern is that a tracking pill doesn't address what he sees as a bigger problem we don't do a very good job educating people about why they're being given pills the f.d.a. Says the pill has not yet been proven to increase patient compliance covering health I'm Robert Corona mass murder of Charles Manson is reported to be in a Bakersfield hospital this morning though the severity of his condition is unclear the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is declining to provide details on grounds that would violate the inmates privacy rights this is 89.3. It's a $22.00 support for n.p.r. 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But civil war soon followed the Taliban took over in the ninety's Americans arrived in 2001 and President Obama sought for them eventually to leave now Afghanistan's chief executive of Della tells us he is pleased that President Trump strategy lifted all deadlines the fact that it is not be used on a time frame if this condition beast that's a very important element of defense Abdullah Abdullah as chief executive position makes him equal to Afghan president after Afghani He's in Washington this week to meet with top trump administration officials u.s. Supported Afghan troops now lead the fight against the Taleban but Afghan authorities have stopped providing numbers for how many soldiers or police are in the field and how many casualties they suffer Why is that sometimes perhaps that is insufficient communication timely communication about the number of casualties sometimes some of how the spokesperson miscommunicate which we have to take care of it did is no doubt that money off the main challenges has been high number of casualties amongst security forces but did form process has a started in has picked up since the formation of the unity government but can you provide us an accurate figure for the number say of Afghan troops that are fully trained fully equipped in the field in fighting the Taliban so it's 320000 is the total number but amongst them are the special forces whereas the numbers will be doubled in the coming 3 years so what is the number now of the number is now $15000.00 so you're going 215000 so you'll double that and those are your most effective most highly trained forces so is that a sufficient number that one depends on the situation on the ground sometimes there are definite a few months in a date on when the security is taking care. There will be demobilized and that is proving to be one of the 5th to freeze of the ting with certain sacrum census let me ask about the governing arrangement in Afghanistan some people in the United States will know that it is an unusual arrangement that u.s. Chief executive are to share power with the president Ashraf Ghani some people may also have heard that last year you said President Gandhi was not fit for the presidency and that he was not consulting you in a proper manner Have things improved I was saying that the national unity government was formed under certain circumstances and I think it was that i decision to go for it in as it's all those who had voted for 2 main candidates want to present it in the unity government I wouldn't say that it in works and not Tenchi in a very smooth mounted the situation is complicated Nevertheless it is a unique experience an odd history of 2 competing sides decided to work through that but last year you said that period of 3 months or so had passed where it didn't seem that you'd been able to even meet the president if you look at the last 3 months of even meeting with him absolutely and that situation has been taking care of security in return sensitivity Mattison gentlemen all of them they visited Afghanistan and they were witness to a unified position so that particular situation as being addressed by both of us. Would you expect that you will run against President Gonna in the next election Oh you want me to make an announcement Absolutely I make some it's a news program Unfortunately I may disappoint you today we don't have breaking news I think that this is the child Old focus has to be to make it successful for all of us should we simply accept that the permanent condition of Afghanistan for the 1st see. Future is going to be war and no I hope that one impact of the policy would be to force Taliban to come to the negotiating table there are 2 ways of looking at the situation one is to wish to a way which I don't think that it happens in the us of world one is to make you have base if it's to find a way out which I think the current administration is doing that use administration . On the ground in the Afghans are making best efforts to put an end to this war chief executive of very much for the time the u.s. Because he is the chief executive of Afghanistan. More than a 1000 people gathered for a funeral in Texas yesterday they were there remembering 8 of the 26 lives lost in that mass shooting in Sutherland springs all 8 were members of one family. Of Texas Public Radio. The name Holcomb is very recognizable Wilson County Brian Holcomb was 60 years old he was filling in his past here at 1st Baptist the day of the shooting he and his wife Carla were killed that Sunday along with other members of their family Brian and Carla on the shot that provided canvas Onix David worked with Brian in that industry there was not a bad in his body every single time I encountered Tam or picked up tar he was always had a smile on his face and was just happy genuinely happy and genuinely interested in whatever's going on in your life that can be said for the entire Holcombe found according to friend Jimmy Fezzan it's a great loss because of their well known and very nice people the service at the City of Lords will have been. Center was open to the public nearly 3000 people attended the caskets were placed into and and some were decorated to match the personality of each person. Christa Holcomb was $36.00 and pregnant she and 3 of her children Emily Gregg and Megan Hill were killed her unborn child is counted among the dead Susan Schanzer is a longtime family friend she was just a gentle sweet soul and very soft spoken with everyone including her children 36 year old Mark Holcomb and his infant daughter Noah were killed their friend 33 year old term McNulty was also killed her 2 children survived the Holcomb's and the hills were buried in a private ceremony at the Sutherland spring cemetery for n.p.r. News I'm Joy and Flora. This is n.p.r. News. 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That's where Tweeden anchors a morning talk show she says Franken wrote a skit for the pair during a 2006 tour to the Middle East and insisted that they practice a case during rehearsal tween says she tried to resist but that Franken forced himself on her and stuck his tongue in her mouth a copy of the photograph posted with the article according to c.n.n. Senator Franken has apologized we'll be hearing more about this on Morning Edition from n.p.r. Political editor Dominic want to narrow that story coming up California finding Anthem Blue Cross $5000000.00 claiming the health insurer has routinely violated state law by mishandling customer complaints. Michelle Faust has details the state department of Managed Health Care says it had previously fined anthem for more than 2000 violations of state law governing consumer complaints it says it has found hundreds more violations and calls the problem systemic Agency Director Shelley were large says anthem is violating state law by repeated failure to accurately identify and address and really grievance generally insurers have to respond within 30 days to consumer complaints the state regulators cites one case in which a consumer with a serious illness failed to get results even after $22.00 calls to the company and them says it strongly disagrees with the state's findings it did say regulators found some legitimate problems and it's taking steps to address them covering health I'm Michelle Faust taking a look at traffic on the 10 west at Robertson Boulevard there's a motorcycle crash it's blocking the 2 left lanes it's backed up to Western Avenue you can expect delays there of up to one hour. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore pose a special challenge for some evangelical Christians that's because more positions himself as one of their own so what to do when multiple women accuse him of misconduct and Stets or is an evangelical who holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair at Wheaton College she is on the line from New York good morning sir good morning thanks for having me Ok there's quite a list of accusers it's gotten longer even in the last day so what's an evangelical case for sticking with Roy Moore Well 1st I don't hold that evangelical does reset with World War I think the accusers are credible in the Washington Post as a credible source but I do think for some they have kind of tuned out from the what they call the mainstream media and they've therefore don't believe the accusations in many many cases and therefore they have all maybe hardened their support in some ways some saying they've known more for decades and therefore I think I think they're saying no we just don't believe the accusations but it's like the Hold on a 2nd here yes to say I don't believe the made up the media this is actually people from Alabama talking and you can go online and watch the video of many of them talking yourselves so to say the media is doing no question which is again why I said as I start with I believe these allegations are credible I believe more should step down for the good of his party much more important for me for the damages caused me to the reputation of evangelicals but I think for many people in their their views Harden we saw the same thing when they were credible accusations against President. And their views hardened and people of course supporters harden their views I think that's unhelpful I think ultimately we need to believe people I think as a pastor of many years when someone comes to me telling me they have been abused or harassed I want I immediately said Well tell me I believe you what do we need to do to whom do we need to go we need to go to the authorities and more I think Christians need to act like Jesus in the midst of this show mercy be focused on hurting the hurting and help them through the pain and I think that the opposite reaction has happened for many people and in Alabama and elsewhere this must be tricky because if you're evangelical Of course you believe we're all sinners that everybody makes mistakes to say the least and that you try to forgive them when you can but it is interesting to note surveys that evangelicals in particular have been much more forgiving according to surveys of politicians who commit indiscretions including those who don't even apologize I mean President Trump comes to mind yeah actually what's fascinating is they didn't used to be so before President drum came along they were actually much more strict and stern on politics and politicians indiscretions but then they sort of change your views I wrote an article about it in her state today and intitled of this is what it looks like to sell your soul for a bowl of drop not saying that every person who voted for Trump has done that but if you change your view of ethics in order to support a candidate that's the definition of selling out and selling your soul and I I think I understand people who have voted one way or the other but I think you do so with a consistent ethic because that's what Christianity is it's not a political whim it's what we believe it's the good news that Jesus died on the cross for a sin and in our place and in this new life are supposed to have consistency and I think that's why a lot of people are questioning of angelical right now and I think a lot of evangelicals are questioning what do we need to do differently to have a consistency of gospel ethic and gospel truth why would so many evangelicals change their views for a parent partisan political gain when I think it's a question I'd like to ask I mean that the poll you're quoting is a p.r. Poll that really was quite stunning between the 2 and looked like it's actually a year old and when it 1st came out but I think ultimately the. Intervening variable between there was President Trump and when a one percent of white evangelical supported President tribe I think they needed to recalibrate their ethical stance to do so I think that was an unhelpful even sinful recalibration I'm not saying that every person a vote of a resident or up is sinful or has made a decision but I am saying that to change your views on morality in order to support a candidate is deeply troubling and as Eventually we use insider language you need to disciple people better so that they actually think biblically not politically about every issue Mr Setzer thanks very much pleasure talking with you I thank you Ed stats or holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair at Wheaton College World leaders have been meeting in Bonn Germany over the past several days trying to work out next steps in the Paris climate agreement President all Trump says the u.s. Will withdraw from that deal though that can't happen till 2020 N.P.R.'s Christopher Joyce reports on what the rest of the world is doing in 2015 governments met in Paris and promised to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases now they're in by figuring out how to do that while diplomats they go sheet in private green businesses and environmentalists crowd the hallways the u.s. Government sent a small delegation they made one presentation on the value of clean coal that was disrupted by protestors California Governor Jerry Brown was there to explain that American states and cities are able and willing to reduce emissions even if the federal government is not when cities and states combined together and then join with powerful corporations that's how we get stuff done and we even have characters like this here to make it that dialectic of heckling by environmental protesters is a regular part of these meetings but Brown's message that states and cities will reduce emissions on their own has been welcomed as a partial stand in for a federal effort as governments negotiate and protesters protest climate scientists are increasingly skeptical that the Paris deal will do what's needed. Is with the new Climate Institute she. As new research shows the targets set in Paris are weak as are efforts by countries to meet them what we actually find is that the large number of countries in the category 3 targets and even weaker implementation countries like the us Russia and China the past agreement set a goal don't let the planet war more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above what it was before the industrial revolution this latest analysis echoes others even with the parents deal the way things are going global temperature could rise by over 6 degrees by the end of the century and scientists had even more bad news this week global emissions of carbon dioxide the main greenhouse gas are going up that's after 3 years where they remain fairly flat environmental scientists Robert Jackson that Stanford University says the increase is mostly from China this year for several reasons their coal use has ticked back up by about 3 percent and their only gas use has risen even faster China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases emissions in the us went down this year but not by much and the u.s. Remains the 2nd largest source and India looks like its emissions will grow a lot they rose by only 2 percent this year but Jackson says that won't last I expect India's emissions to rise faster again they still have hundreds of millions of people without electricity it's a tough nut to crack one thing the delegates and bought appear to agree on the pledges made in Paris will have to get tougher Christopher Joyce n.p.r. News. Well live or local l A's n.p.r. 89.3 k. P.c.c. I'm Alex Cohen a modern day tattoo owes a lot to Long Beach and a place called the pike you know I remember being a young guy I can hear in these old guys telling their stories Senator Cruz to me that now I am our own soul guys telling a story. Legendary artist Mike Mahoney is part of a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum called tack. 2 will get a sneak preview in about 10 minutes time if you'd like to see some great images from k.p.c. See listeners that follow me on Twitter I'm. 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Trip in 2006 Leeann Tweeden an anchor a k b c radio in Los Angeles includes with her account a photo in which Franken is seen groping her she says she was asleep at the time Franken acknowledges he should have done it and apologized president traps on Capitol Hill as House Republicans prepare to pass a bill that overhauls the federal tax code N.P.R.'s Nell reports a measure being put before the House is separate from what the Finance Committee in the Senate is considering President Trump is expected to deliver a final pitch to Republican lawmakers ahead of a long awaited vote on the House tax legislation the House aims to vote on the tax overhaul shortly after meeting with Trump the Senate Finance Committee hopes to complete work on its tax legislation later this week paving the way for a vote in the full Senate after Thanksgiving growing concerns on the Hill about the way Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is running the State Department N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen says Democrats and Republicans are worried about low morale and attrition Republican John McCain and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen are the latest to weigh in and a joint letter to tell us and they raise concerns that his management decisions have significantly depleted experience personnel at the State Department and they warn that America's diplomatic power is being weakened at a time when we're facing complex global challenges this is n.p.r. News and this is a 9.3 k. P.c.c. I'm Alex Cohen a report out yesterday suggests that West l.a. Silicon Beach isn't the only high tech hub in Southern California. David Wagner has more on the other one it's Orange County one way you can tell the cost of office space the commercial real estate firm c.b.r. Easy finds that office rents have grown faster in Orange County over the past 2 years than in l.a. Or San Francisco c.b.r. Use Curt Strassmann says Even so rents are still. Cheaper in Orange County you know the San Francisco area is going very very well and West l.a. Is extraordinarily well but Orange County has been you know kind of a hidden gem so tech companies have been expanding into Orange County especially Irvine Strassmann says these firms are finding plenty of skilled workers there who don't fit the city to eling millennial stereotype they want the same thing as baby boomers for the most part I want to buy a house in want of a yard I want to have some kids and a lot of them move to the suburbs even with the shift to Orange County tech job growth is still stronger in l.a. And San Francisco covering the economy I'm David Wagner the Automobile Club of Southern California says today that this year's Thanksgiving holiday will be the busiest one for travel among locals since the year 20073870000 southern California residents are expected to get away next week for the long weekend that's a 3.6 percent increase over last year support for n.p.r. 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Political editor de medical Manzanar is here in our studios Dominica Good morning Good morning Steve So what exactly happened to Leeann Tweeden Well she says as she by the way a Leeann Tweeden is a radio news anchor on k b c in Los Angeles she was on this u.s.o. Tour in 2006 to the Middle East Al Franken was part of that tour and Franken was performing a comedy routine for the troops and she says that he asked her to be in the skit with him and that they had to practice a kissing scene that he wanted to put in place and then he forcibly kissed her and she was not happy with this and pushed him back and she goes on to say that he got angry after that that he insulted her and then there's one more thing in a photograph right there was a photo now that's making that's circulating which shows Franken then stare at looking at the camera kind of laughing while his hands are overheard are on her chest while she's asleep she's got a helmet on and a flak jacket and that's been making the way around around the Internet wearing the helmet in the flag jacket right because they're traveling with the military of course so what exactly is Franken said about this so Franken doesn't deny that his office put out a statement saying I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way but I send my sincere asst apologies to Leeann as to the photo it was clearly intended to be funny but it wasn't I shouldn't have done it and you know she says that she wasn't aware of this until she looked through the photos and writes in her essay I couldn't believe it he groped me without my consent while I was asleep I felt violated all over again and barest belittle belittled humiliated it's hard to miss the political context in which this accusation has Mez been made and I'm absolutely you know the Senate and House are both moving toward trying to make sexual harassment training mandatory. We heard that from House Speaker Paul Ryan after we had 2 female members of Congress testify that there are men in Congress a Democrat and a Republican they didn't identify the man who are guilty of sexual harassment they've introduced what they're calling me to legislation part of that hash tag that's been going around about women speaking out about who've about their own encounters with sexual harassment and of course Republicans are in a situation where they've been having to answer questions for days about the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama Roy Moore in the various accusations against Roy Moore and now we have a Democratic senator who's in the crosshairs so to speak yeah I don't think that this is something that you know applies to one party or the other and we have Mitch McConnell the Senate majority leader putting out a statement on Al Franken saying that he wants to refer this to the Ethics Committee and that he hopes the Democratic leader will join him on this regardless of party harassment and assault he says are completely unacceptable in the workplace or anywhere else and we should remind listeners that Mitch McConnell has asked Roy Moore to step aside and says he believes the women in that case the medical thanks very much you're welcome that's n.p.r. Political editor Dominik Oman to Nuoro this morning on an accusation against Al Franken the Democratic senator from Minnesota that he committed sexual assault on a woman he was touring with more than a decade ago. This is n.p.r. News. The supporters include the Netflix film Mudbone from director d. Reese winner of the Gotham award for best ensemble cast stars Mary j. Blige Carey Mulligan Jason Mitchell and Garrett Hedlund in theaters and on Netflix Nov 17th. High. Thursday Nov 30th at the University of Redlands for free speech versus hate speech be part of the conversation r.s.v.p. . In person. This is Morning Edition on 89.3 k.p.c. See I'm Alex Cohen birds they're just like us kind of using a new method for sound analysis cognitive scientists that you seem or said listen closely to birds chirping they found that some so-called speech patterns were a whole lot like our own Capital Public Radio Sammy Kayla prepared this report. That's a part of orca playing in the Puget Sound Professor Chris hello is listening through computer speakers in his tidy office what you can hear is that there seems one sound and then another sound comes in the other sound comes back and what we can imagine is that there is something unique ation going on here between the arch Kello has spent the better part of this year listening to singing whales and trailing birds but what he's listening for can't be captured by the air alone if somebody is very excited or maybe they're very somber It will change the timing of your voice and that's the at some level that's the essence of what our method is picking up on he and fellow researcher a mesh Balasubramanian developed a barcode system for sound it captures spikes in volume during audio recordings and turns each spike into a line often these volume peaks are happening so fast that we can't hear them but by looking at the lines the scientists can tell when a lot of information or motion is being conveyed at once they call it a temporal hierarchy Balasubramanian says this method could help answer a question that scientists have been mulling for a long time is there something that is common between language and music and other forms of communication that say other species engage in and part of what this work shows is that there is something that is common across these things which is this harder type of structure that it's not just that humans have you know phonemes that become so bills that become words have become sentences they're new paper also uses . Music as a comparison tool take a bit of jabs. On the bar code that looks pretty similar to a cocktail conversation between humans and also resembles the orchid pot in all 3 recordings the researchers found the same densely clustered pattern that doesn't tell Kello what's being set just how much information is being shared and whether a conversation is taking place but we're measuring is the coordination the ability for the species to sort of work together to solve problems not everything is layered so intricate Lee take the humpback whale. And the homage thrush. They're both solo singers the bar codes are simpler and remarkably alike there's something about the way that they're singing that has a very peculiar shape very different than all of the other recordings that we've been listening to and yet exactly the same as each other and we we need to figure this out why is that and if you're wondering about the temporal hierarchy of your house Pat Don't get too excited the researchers did analyze some cat recordings. But they didn't find anything or hobbling. Human language is much more complex and the Mirror said researchers found some surprising quirk said in the bar codes like this one if you're talking about a friendly topic that you have common ground that you have shared interests our bar codes converge so your speech becomes like my speech and my speech becomes like your speech however in a debate conversation in a polarizing conversation what we've shown is that our barf roads do not converge so what does this all mean the scientists say it opens doors to lots of further research automatic sound classification the ability to tell if something is music or speech without actually listening to it is one possibility and grad students are already working on comparing bar codes between languages going forward Kelo and Balasubramanian might tune into another animal. Sammy Kayleigh Capital Public Radio News now to something animals definitely don't do but we have for 5000 years inject into into our skin an exhibition called Tattoo originated in Paris had a museum called k. Bromley it opens here this weekend at the Natural History Museum I recently got a preview from the museum's Gretchen Baker who showed me things like Thomas Edison's electric stencil pen which inspired the 1st electric tattoo machine you'll see some of the more common and modern electricals tattoo machines but then you also see a good range of the hand poking and hand tapping tools from different indigenous cultures across the world that are still in use today made out of things like quills and stuff right quails cactus spines different things from plants different things from animals some sort of sharp implement that could carry the ink into the skin once at the punctured of course one of the tricky parts about mounting an exhibition about tattoos is they're kind of best seen on living breathing human beings and you can't hit someone to stand here for hours upon hours of the museum but you've come up with a really interesting alternative. If we're standing in front of a tack today silicone arm can you explain what this is and how it was made so when Capon the 1st conceived of the exhibition they decided to commission 15 living artist to ink a new tattoo design on today's silicone body parts so they worked with a prop house in Paris to develop a very special recipe of silicone and then worked with live models to cast arms torsos legs different body parts and the one that we're standing in front of it's an arm with a massive octopus b.c. Its tentacles kind of draping over the shoulder and wrapping around the forearm I didn't get a chance and this was done by I like to know to female tattoo artist Carey Barba did the artist see anything about what it's actually like to tack to silicone magine this isn't something they do every day so they talk about feeling a lot like skin but that it doesn't also doesn't respond like skin and so they sometimes they felt like they were a real live human being and they would start to say things like oh excuse me I'm just going to I'm going to start here I'm going to start here I'm going to realize they were just talking to a silicon arm at Southern California Long Beach to be exact to lose really home in many ways of the modern tacked to movement what was going on in Long Beach back in the day so right around 1900 they built this amusement zone at the Long Beach pike and then about 20 years after that when the Navy established that as a home base for the Pacific fleet you had this confluence of a lot of people coming to the pike for entertainment you had a lot of the sailors coming home from service and over time this concentration of tattoo shops sort of flowered there I mean it was illegal in Boston and New York at the time so really the West Coast is where you would come to get inked and a lot of the times these were guys who were doing the flash art at the right they find a picture up on the wall that they like and boom next thing you know it's on their chest visitors to this exhibition. We'll also have the opportunity to actually get to here at the Natural History Museum I love this idea what can people do here so we built out a an actual touch to parlay here with the help of the Department of Health of course this is the only it's awfully fully permanent tattoo parlor and so what we did is we invited 20 l.a. Artists to create original Flash based on natural history museum content so when you go into the parlor as a client of one of the artists you can choose some of the flash that they've created based on our our Natural History Museum content is there I'm kind of envisioning like a lot of people have the l.a. Dodgers insignia tattooed on them is there an any a really cool piece of tech to art that you can get well that the smile of Don the sabertooth cat makes frequent to parents and some of the artists flash you see a lot of plants a lot of birds Hawks Eagles those kind of things so things that you should could see kind of walking around l.a. Or flying around l.a. Could end up on your skin and I don't have a tattoo myself but having spent a lot of time at this exhibition now when I see tattoo on people's bodies I wonder you know what are their stories for visitors you know regardless of whether or not you have a tattoo I think to come in here and and see tattoo as a nearly universal story it's a it's almost a human impulse that we see it all across the world across time and also to see it as an incredible art form it's one thing to draw pictures on a piece of 9 by 11 paper but then quite something else to wrap that image around someone spiced up. You mentioned you don't have a tattoo this exhibition that runs through April and there will be a tattoo you know where I'm going with this a parlor here on the premises has there been a moment we think maybe I should get one if you want to get one 0 I'm on the verge I'm on the bridge every day. So save a change maybe that'll maybe that'll put me over the edge Gretchen Baker speaking with me at the Natural History Museum of last Santa listen about their new exhibition it's called Tattoo thank you so much for taking the time thank you you mind if you show me yours see a picture of my latest tattoo and share yours with us had to k.p.c. Or keep b.c.c. Supporters occlude Lincoln Square productions presenting let it fall Los Angeles 1982 to 1992 the documentary directed by John Ridley about the rising tensions that led to the l.a. Riots awards eligible opens Friday of legalese musical. This is 89.3 p.c.c. Pasadena Los Angeles community service of Pasadena City College named by the Aspen Institute one of the top 10 community colleges in the United States learn more at Pasadena dot edu. 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