On the next Morning Edition from n.p.r. News tomorrow morning at 5 point one. Stadium in Atlanta is set to host its 1st ever boxing match very limited in person crowd the fight will feature social media star turned boxer Jake Paul versus former mixed martial arts champion then ask. And there will be no public sale of tickets due to coated with organizers instead to hand selecting fans and guests to attend the novelty matches from the seeing group that brought together former champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr for an exhibition last year both of those men are in their fifty's the pay per view match is set for April the 17th. Till I heard more from All Things Considered marketplace at 630 and a reminder that we're back from 7 to 8 with more All Things Considered on 90 point one. Live from n.p.r. News I'm Jack Speer it was clear today jury selection will be a drawn out process in the murder trial began former police officer Derek. It's the biggest challenge so far in a case that rig $98.00 a racial justice movement and is known around the world by mid-afternoon 2 potential jurors were chosen both white and several were excused the defense. Of color in the 2nd instance the state argued the defense was removing potential jurors based on race but the judge disagreed and accepted attorney's explanation that he wanted to remove the potential because of his martial arts training and the fact that he had formed an opinion based on the video. To the ground one potential juror express discomfort with serving on a jury any case the world is watching heavily guarded and fortified. N.p.r. News Minneapolis defense officials say the Pentagon is set to approve an extension of the National Guard presence at the u.s. Capitol for around 2 more months while additional details are still being worked out defense secretary lowed Austin expected to grant final approval for Guard troops to continue providing security there amid ongoing threats the Guard presence increased following the January 6th arming of the capital by individuals loyal to former President Donald Trump Guard troops were slated to leave the Capitol Friday a federal magistrate judge is ordering pretrial detention for a former political appointee in the Trump State Department who is facing charges in connection with a capital riot N.P.R.'s Ryan Lucas has more Federico Klein served as a mid-level political appointee at the State Department during the Trump administration he was arrested last week and charged with 6 counts connected to the capital riot including assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon prosecutors say Klein battled police at the Capitol on January 6th they say he can be seen on video using a riot shield to violently shove an officer at one point now a magistrate judge in Washington d.c. Has ordered that Kline be detained pending trial after determining that he poses a danger to the community more than $300.00 people have been charged so far in connection with the attack on the capital Ryan look at n.p.r. News Washington the number of Americans who continue to feel a financial impact from the coronavirus pandemic remains high with one in 4 feeling the financial strain of the loss of a job or income within their household a year into the pandemic new survey conducted by the Associated Press North Center for Public Affairs research particularly hard headed been black and Latino households as well as many younger Americans not weathering their 2nd major financial crisis in their adult lives but half of those surveyed said that experience at least one form of household income lost during the pandemic yesterday was the tech stocks that got hammered today they roared back to life the Nasdaq was up 464 points again of 3.69 percent the Dow gained 30 points today to close at 30. 1832 the s. And p. Rose 54 points this is n.p.r. From w a b e News in Atlanta Good evening I'm Jim Burress or time now is 6 o 4 Georges 7th District u.s. Representative Democrat Carolyn Bordeaux is condemning bills in the state legislature that would cut back on absentee ballots and voting hours during the house's weekly news conference in Washington today Bordeaux's said this isn't about politics it's about protecting working people who don't have the time or ability to leave their jobs in the middle of the work day to go vote we only let people who vote 9 to 5 we're going to lose hundreds of thousands of voters who vote early in the morning made in the afternoon or on weekends or views no excuse absentee ballots to vote Bordeaux says it was originally Republicans who approved no excuse absentee voting in the state but she says quote now they're changing their tune and politics is the reason why. Georgia's courts have the Ok to resume jury trials a mediately as long as courts have adequate precautions in place against the spread of the corona virus in an order signed today Georgia Supreme Court chief justice Harold Melton extended a statewide judicial emergency but the latest order allows courts to call new jurors and hold jury trials if that can be done safely. Atlanta's as much a cup half full kind of place as it is a cut path empty type of city turns out Atlanta sits right in the middle of a new ranking of America's happiest cities the website Wallet Hub pegs Atlanta as the 90th happiest city in the u.s. Sandwiched between Riverside California and Huntsville Alabama the ranking gauged the joviality of $31.00 factors ranging from the rates of depression to income growth to how much time residents devote to leisure if you want to visit one of the unhappiest cities in the nation and you won't have to drive too far Augusta Georgia comes in at number $180.00 only slightly happier than Cleveland and Detroit there's more like local news at our Web site and that's w a b e dot org This is w a b ina news. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the wireless Foundation working to develop and share practices that can improve learning and enrichment for young people and the vitality of the arts for everyone ideas and information Ed while this foundation God or. Slight haze 64 degrees at 6 o 6 this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Mary Louise Kelly earlier today we invited 2 old friends to come to the phone hello to Dr and on the other line his colleague and boss Dr Collins I can hear you fine yes good morning Hi Francis I don't know Tony found She is chief medical adviser to the President Francis Collins is director of the National Institutes of Health they talk every day and we invited them to talk together to us as we all mark one year since the pandemic up in our lives Dr Collins says he remembers exactly when he realized things were about to get really hard the moment for me was having to tell 40000 scientists working at the National Institutes of Health that we were going to have to close down most of our operations that were not absolutely essential for patient care and I sent a lot of really talented young scientists trainees back to their places of residence for quite a period of time and that was heartbreaking for Dr found the moment when everything changed he was in the Oval Office a handful of advisors had gathered one year ago this week to tell the president it was time to ban all travel from Europe President Trump was behind the resolute desk and we were in chairs movable chairs that were essentially circled around the desk and I remember very clearly he turned to me and said Tony is this something that you really feel we have to do and I said yes Mr President we have to do that and he agreed. Well what fun. Lowed I don't need to tell either of you has been it's been a year and I I keep thinking what it has been like for you to be the public face of the fight against a virus that you both were trying to understand in real time. Will get to hope and that maybe where maybe we're starting to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but if I may ask was was there a low point for each of us this last year played out. Well the low point for me Mary Louise was the fact that we were trying to deal with a true public health crisis of unprecedented magnitude and impact and the data were evolving in real time and as scientists we had to I know I had to I'm certain Francis was in exactly the same boat because we were speaking to each other literally every night whereas the Science evolved you wanted to make recommendations and or guidelines that reflect the science when the science changes in the sense of the data is new data and new information what you try to do is modify things and be humble enough and flexible enough to be able to give information the low point is that when you try to do that we would doing it in an arena of such divisiveness in society where anything that was said undertook a political connotation of it can you give an example of a message that you were trying to get out there and you could see it was not landing Well here's a typical example that I think most people know about now is that we put a lot of effort when we realize that the economy was in serious trouble that we had to very carefully open up the economy open up the country but we needed to do it very carefully so Dr Burke Sanaa and others put together these guidelines that people have to have an indication that there was a decline in cases before they opened up as it were we carefully articulated that to the American public and then unfortunately soon thereafter the president said liberate Virginia liberate Michigan and people took that as a signal that they didn't have to pay attention to the carefully craft. Guidelines that's one concrete example of the frustration that we felt you know this Francis I mean I think Tony has outlined it very well the frustration that we all felt gosh we were all working 100 hours a week and in many ways still are trying to do everything possible to come up with the solutions for this crisis in terms of therapeutics and vaccines and yet the simple measures that really should have been instituted much more broadly and adhere to were so difficult to get people to actually appreciate and that really was one of the hardest parts of this whole sad year. Do you think either of you that scientists did enough to speak up to set the facts straight to make sure that the public messaging wise as accurate as as you were able to make it again underscoring we were learning about this virus in real time all of us I guess you could say we didn't do enough because the message never really completely settled in the way that you would have hoped and I don't think any of us quite expected it was going to be that hard you know Mary Louise I think one of the diagnoses that comes out of this last very difficult 12 months is that we seem to be in a society that is so polarized that even objective truth doesn't necessarily have a chance that is a very disturbing aspect of what we've learned over these 12 months and if our nation has a path forward to get into a better place it has to take that on that we have to be a nation that actually values truth and not just opinions we didn't do very well with that over this last year No not at all is that one of the things that I am stunned by this idea that some people don't want to get vaccinated because they actually think that Bill Gates and I have put a chip in the vaccine and we want to control their thoughts and I thought that this was just a few people have felt that but when you go around in the community of people who ahead. It's in about that they they they re that in this town dingly they believe it and this Francis said we never as scientists would have have anticipated that there would be such an egregious distortion of reality that is very frustrating from a scientific standpoint it becomes extremely problematic when you try to implement a public health effort that could be lifesaving and when you don't implement did well people die that's serious. I wrote on Twitter that I was going to be interviewing you too and I asked her questions people had a lot of people I will say the most common response was a lot of people just want to say thank you I want to thank you for your service. So I thought on and add my own thanks thank you. They also want to know do you sleep. It sounds like the answer's no Tony I think you sleep even less than I do and I sleep less than almost anybody I know the answer is not so much there is one gentleman who wants to ask Dr Fouchier if you have plans to redeem yourself with a better 1st pitch at Nationals opening day this spring right well into a better and better place this spring then last well I hope so but we'll see what happens I hope that as the vaccines become more readily available and that the level of infection diminishes dramatically that we do have a really healthy enjoyable baseball season but that remains to be seen I hope we're going in that direction a lot of people look to you both for cues on what it is Ok to do you have both now been vaccinated at both doses have either of you book travel planned a dinner party started to think about what it will look like to emerge from from lock down well this is Frances with the c.d.c. Guidelines having come out. Yesterday encouraging people to begin to think about that I had my 1st conversation with my 2 daughters just 2 days ago about whether maybe since they are both on the line to get vaccinated because their health care professionals we might be able to get together my 2 daughters and my wife and me in the same place after everybody's gotten through their 2 weeks post the 2nd goes and actually hug each other and I would be so happy for that moment to come so yeah in that regard a little planning but not gotten into a big travel plan myself just now Dr fact you have got your yes same thing you know the c.d.c. Recommends that you only do necessary travel and you do it very carefully right now everything that I'm doing and that I'm consumed with is right here in the Washington Bethesda area you know as my role now as the chief medical advisor to the president I need to be right where I am right now you will have seen there's been there's been a fair bit of criticism of these latest c.d.c. Guidelines that they are too timid too limited. For including from scientists and doctors I'm looking at Dr Lena wins Twitter feed saying quote We're missing a critical opportunity to incentivize Americans to be vaccinated we have to give people some hope are you sympathetic at all to do that for you and I think I'd insist still you can't get on a plane even if you've been fully vaccinated you know people are desperate for some glimmer of normal life you know Mary Louise I am sympathetic with that feeling and we're in constant discussion with the c.d.c. They have a lot of experienced epidemiologist who are trying to make these decisions based on a combination of real data which they collect in real time every day with modeling studies as well as a good dose of what we refer to as real time common sense the. These guidelines that came out are not the final guidelines at all yeah you know Mary Louise This is after all one of those circumstances those so you don't want to make mistakes just as we're beginning to see how a way forward here if we're been on a marathon since this all started a year ago and you know when you're running a marathon you don't want to stop at the 24th mile if you want to be sure you finish well here I think that's kind of the per picture we have right now we just have to stick it out here for a few more weeks and months to make sure that we get to that finish line in a way that saves the maximum number of lives so a patience I hate to say it is still needed but I think give us this summer the early fall this is going to be a very different country in a very good way and we will all be able to sort of look at that and say we got through it together and boy am I ready for that of all I am I ready for that I think we are. Well thank you to you both thank you thank you that's Dr Francis Collins director of the National Institutes of Health and actor Anthony director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president. 618 the time now and you're listening to All Things Considered on 90 point one w a b e I'm Jim Burress It's a pleasure to have you along on this Tuesday evening on the commute home tonight several mishaps will start in Fulton County where a disabled vehicle blocks the right lane on the Downtown Connector northbound at the Fulton Central Avenue exit in Fulton County that you're right lanes are blocked on I 20 eastbound at Martin Luther King Jr drive due to a wreck watch out for a mishap in the right lane on I 285 eastbound in Jonesborough road and another right wing blocked is due to a disabled vehicle on I 20 westbound at Lowry Boulevard in Douglas County the shoulders out of service I 20 westbound near lead road and a couple of problems in the same area in Cobb County in both directions of I 575 a chance teen road reports of wrecks. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ari Shapiro many people moved to a new place when they started working from home during the pandemic but not everyone cleared their moves with the bosses 1st N.P.R.'s Laurel Wamsley has more Kate Ray and her husband had just moved into a one bedroom in Denver last March the apartment had floor to ceiling windows a gorgeous proof deck and it was really convenient to their jobs it was brilliant for about 2 days and then we'll the pandemic the pool closed within like 48 hours of us moving in the gym closed all of the amenities close they felt trapped and they hated the constant gauche ations of the elevators a few months later wastewater started flowing into their apartment from the unit above it was gross but it allowed them to break their lease we purchased a house in Cloquet Minnesota site on scene got some movers moved into the house that we have now Ray has family in northern Minnesota and she's now pregnant the couple told their employers at 1st that it was just temporary through her maternity leave we kind of withheld information about having purchased a house for example I think we both had fear of what that would mean for our employment conditions but also because we couldn't really admit to ourselves I think the level of commitment that we were making in the level of crazy life changes that that were happening and to quickly they're not alone in jumping 1st asking permission later some remote workers have moved to new states to be with long distance partners some suddenly had the freedom to live in a warmer climate or a mountain town David Lewis is the c.e.o. Of operations and an h.r. Consulting firm in Connect