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"Mike Spencer told the Kansas City star that he and his neighbors have been complaining about the dangerous crossing to the railroad into the state for years. There's no reason for this. To have, I mean, my heart goes out to the families. It's just a tragedy and it don't feel like it should have happened. Missouri's Department of Transportation confirms the crossing was on a list to receive safety upgrades, but BNSF says that the state is not taken the first step of contacting the railroad yet to do a diagnostic review of the crossing. Chair hominid says the NTSB has been recommending for years that passive grade crossings like this one be eliminated or made safer. And it's very frustrating for our investigators. Very frustrating. When they are on scene and they know what it would have prevented this. And he says there are 130,000 similar passive railroad crossings nationwide. At grade crossing collisions killed 236 people last year. David schaper NPR news. This is NPR news. This is WNYC later on morning edition, vice president Kamala Harris is calling on abortion rights supporters to turn out in numbers and vote in the midterm elections. There is no daylight among us who understand the seriousness of this moment. More from the vice president coming up at about 15 minutes. Support for WNYC comes from Mount Sinai with expert cancer researchers working together to uncover more about the complexities
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"And begin to warm up a bit across the Midwest and the south Or is it says there are no major winter storms forecast for next week David schaper NPR new Chicago The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today on North Korea Pyongyang fired another ballistic missile last Sunday That had the ability to reach Guam Linda facile reports North Korea tested 7 missiles in January the most it has ever launched in a single month Security Council members had a meet behind closed doors to discuss North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch which violates UN Security Council resolutions prohibiting such tests the U.S. has been pressing to strengthen UN sanctions against Pyongyang without success two weeks ago for example Russia and China blocked a U.S. bid for the Security Council to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 5 North Koreans alleged to be involved with the country's missile program No Security Council action is expected from today's session for imperial news and land of sulo and New York You're listening to NPR news You're listening to WNYC in New York at 7 O four a Friday morning at Michael hill rain fog now 52 in the city falling temps will freeze The Rain and ice streets and roadways alternate side parking suspend it through Saturday but pay the parking meters we have delays this morning on the one two three and 6 trains in the city and on NJ transits northeast quarter flight aware is reported more than 60 flights have been delayed or canceled at Laguardia and Newark ahead of the storm President Biden came to New York City yesterday to discuss the federal government's role in combating gun violence across the 5 boros speaking at NYPD headquarters the president told police they have an important role to play The answer is not to defund the police is to give you the tools the training the funding to be partners to be protectors and community needs you and mayor Eric Adams says he and the president have shared goals He wants to end the gun violence in our city and in our country In the future built on equality and opportunity because the lack of the two feeds the gun violence that we are seeing Mayor Adams and President Biden then headed to the queen's bridge houses in Long Island city to meet with violence interrupters later today mere Adams will talk with Brian layer about his meeting with President Biden on gun violence Tune in this morning at ten to the Brian layer.
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"By Sunday across the region Officials say people should keep off roadways until then to let crews work to clean it all up Amy held and PR news The federal aviation administration is clearing the way for Verizon and AT&T to activate more high-speed 5G cell phone towers near airports as the safety regulator determines the most commercial aircraft are free of 5G interference But NPR's David schaper reports many smaller regional jets are still restricted at some airports because of safety concerns The FAA was initially concerned that signals from 5G towers would interfere with radio altimeters which are critical instruments for planes landing in poor visibility But in a statement the agency now says Verizon and AT&T have now provided more precise data about the exact location of their wireless transmitters and about how 5G signals interact with the sensitive aircraft instrument helping alleviate safety concerns And the FAA is now determined that 5G interference is not a problem for about 90% of commercial aircraft But the FAA is still not cleared certain types of smaller regional jets to fly into certain airports with visibility is poor and that's forced to cancellation of dozens of flights this week David schaper and PR news In Vietnam tens of thousands of people have followed the funeral procession for revered Vietnamese Buddhist monk and mindfulness advocate taking it Han the BBC's Michael bristowe reports Since his death a week ago at the age of 95 the body of the zen master has been lying in state that his funeral procession Buddhist monks dressed in yellow and brown robes followed his body Take newt Han was exiled from Vietnam for decades because of his opposition to the war with the United States He returned home only four years ago by then he established monasteries and meditation centers around the world often called the father of mindfulness his reach in Buddhism was seen as second only to that of the Dalai Lama This is NPR Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says legal action will be taken against Turkish media that disseminate content that damages the country's core values He did not specify what constitutes damaging content but is consistently criticized Turkish media for being out of step with conservative Islamic values The Sundance Film Festival wraps up this weekend NPR's bob Mandela reports jury prizes and audience awards were announced last night With its 84 feature film screening virtually this year the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah was a quiet affair top jury prizes in dramatic categories went to nanny the story of an undocumented woman from Senegal who is separated from her own child while working for a privileged New York couple and to utama about a Bolivian family struggling with drought brought on by climate change Audience awards went to Cooper reefs romantic dramedy chacha real smooth and to the documentary Navalny these story of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also won the festival favorite award Bob Mandela NPR news At the Australian open in Melbourne park Australia's own ash Barty won the women's singles title today beating American Daniel Collins It's been 44 years since Australia celebrated a Grand Slam women's single champion Its party's third Grand Slam she has yet to win the U.S..
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"Then graduate becoming mostly sunny today in 46 for a high one of our warmest days recently Wind chills though during the day and early today 20 to 30 gusty out there as well The right late night rain likely and some snow on around 33 Some of that snow will stick around for the morning commute and then tomorrow rain and snow by early afternoon and a slight chance of snow between one and four maybe one to three inches temperature falling to 35 o'clock It's doubly in my seat it's 32 apart out there 5 5 46 It's morning edition from NPR news I'm Debbie Elliott Martinez Verizon and AT&T are rolling out long awaited 5G service across the country today except near many airports The two telecom giants agreed yesterday to limit the service amid concerns at 5G could interfere with safety equipment on some aircraft NPR's David schaper reports According to former federal aviation administrator Michael huerta 5G presents a problem for a critical navigational tool called a radio altimeter It's a piece of equipment on board modern aircraft that enable aircraft to know their position relative to the ground And this is important when you're dealing with an inclement weather situation where you may not have the visibility that you would have on the blue sky day in order to ensure that aircraft can land safely About a year ago the FCC auctioned off a segment of radio spectrum for 5G to Verizon and AT&T for tens of billions of dollars That spectrum is next to the frequencies used by radio altimeters on planes and helicopters At the FAA worries that 5G signals will interfere with older altimeters NYU electrical engineering professors had rappaport who heads the research center NYU wireless explains it this way It's kind of like when the television sets would get interfered with 30 or 40 years ago by a CB radio Same kind of thing exists with radio altimeters and some of the older aircraft today The FAA says the potential for such interference would make some aircraft altimeters useless at the safety regulator warned it would restrict certain older aircraft from landing at certain airports As a result airlines say they'd be forced to cancel reroute or delay hundreds of passenger and cargo flights a day they warned of catastrophic flight disruptions and that the nation's commerce will grind to a halt But AT&T and Verizon have already agreed to delay deployment of 5G twice so the FKA could further study it The wireless companies insist 5G towers will not interfere with aircraft altimeters at sub experts agree Jank or soy is a Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse university In my opinion that should not be that much of an interference because the separation between the two bands is substantial It's not really they're not very close to each other The wireless companies say 5G is deployed in about 40 other countries without aircraft interference problems But in most of those places the spectrum used for 5G is further away from aircraft radio frequencies At 5G is operated at low power near airports with transmitters pointed away from airplanes Soy says those solutions might work here They should be able to resolve these I'm kind of puzzled that just has not been taken care of before But there's a reason it has it according to former FAA administrator huerta This problem emerged largely because of I think a lack of effective communication between the FCC and the FAA before the spectrum auction was actually run at the end of 2020 The FCC approved the sale of the radio spectrum to Verizon and AT&T over the FAA's objections But we are where we are And I think what really has to happen is very detailed technical analysis between the two industries and their regulators to ensure that 5G can be safely deployed across the U.S. Still 5G service could lead the FAA to restrict flights at some airports especially when there's bad weather and a few international airlines have canceled some flights into the U.S. as a result David schaper NPR news This is NPR news This is listener supported WNYC Later on morning edition in Ukraine civilians in their 40s and 50s are volunteering for defense battalions to help protect their cities I am here because I am Ukrainian There is a war going on because Putin actually is the Hitler of 21st century More on the role of these forces might play if Russia amounts of full scale invasion coming up in about 15 minutes Clouds give way to some sunshine today with a high of 46 wind chills 20 to 30 and then tonight light rain likely and snow and low around 33 through some of that snow might just stick.
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"Problem The radio off terminators on our aircraft determined not only the height above the ground right In real terms not just pressure out to the real terms above the terrain As we come in for a landing or we're taking off But the tide to many other systems in our aircraft The FAA warns that if Verizon and AT&T roll out their 5G networks as originally planned it would prohibit instrument landings using altimeters at certain airports in poor weather conditions That would force the airlines to delay divert reroute or cancel potentially huge numbers of flights But not everyone agrees the situation is that dire It's really not a sky as falling problem like you might read in the headlines Electrical engineering professor Ted rappaport is founding director of the research center NYU wireless The issue is that some of the older planes and older aircraft equipment that were built may be 30 or 40 years ago do not have very good band pass filters They don't have very good filters on their receiver Rappaport says it's kind of like the time when CB radios would interfere with TV sets The solution he says is simple to have 5G cell phone towers near airports reduce the power and direction of their signals and not use the frequencies closest to those used by aircraft altimeters while airlines and aircraft manufacturers work to upgrade their old equipment He and the wireless carriers point out that 5G service has been successfully implemented near airports and other countries though the FAA says those countries already mandate that cell towers near airports operate at reduced power as well as other mitigation steps Both sides have until January 19th reach an agreement on 5G service without one the airline industry may try to stop the 5G rollout in court David schaper NPR news At the U.S. Supreme Court today the conservative supermajority seemed ready to invalidate one of President Biden's vaccine mandates and paralegal affairs correspondent Nina totenberg reports At issue in the nearly four hour argument where two regulations one that imposes a vaccine mandate for all workers at hospitals nursing homes and other medical providers that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funds The other is a separate vaccine or test mandate for private sector companies that employ 100 or more workers But even as the justices debated some pretty dry sounding statutory and procedural issues the pandemic itself crept unalterably into the courtroom Two of the lawyers challenging the Biden administration rules made their argument via telephone because they have COVID and just as Sotomayor a lifelong diabetic was not in the courtroom choosing instead to participate from her chambers In the first case the vaccine or test mandate for most private sector workers that ran into a buzzsaw right off the bat Chief justice Roberts immediately cast out on the regulation issued by the occupational safety and health administration osha This is something that the federal government has never done before right Justice is Gorsuch Cavanaugh Thomas and Alito indicated even more strongly that in their view the regulation at minimum when too far The osha statute contains language giving the agency broad powers to enact emergency regulations when it deems it necessary to protect workers from grave danger but those four justices strongly suggested that Congress would have to specifically authorize a vaccine or test mandate in a new statute The chief justice and justice Barrett were less categorical in their approach but both were clearly skeptical of the regulation The court's liberal justices were quite simply incredulous When justice Thomas for instance questioned the necessity of the mandate or test regime justice Kagan had this reaction This is a pandemic in which nearly a million people have died It is by far the greatest public health danger that this country has faced in the last century And this is the policy that is most geared to stopping all this Justice breyer noted that technically this case is before the court on an emergency basis because the business groups and states that oppose the regulation want the court to block a lower court decision that allowed the rule to remain in place Are you really asking us to block the regulation in the public interest briar asked Is that what you're doing now to say it's in the public interest to stop this vaccination rule with nearly three quarters of a million people New cases every day To me I would find that unbelievable Lawyer Scott Keller representing the challengers noted however that states can impose their own vaccine mandates That prompted justice Sotomayor to counter that some states have made vaccine and mask mandates illegal The osha rule she said is exactly the kind of national rule that Congress provided for in this statute In the second case involving healthcare workers the courts conservatives did not seem as unified in their hostility As the chief justice observed this regulation was different because it's based on the long established principle that when the government funds a program in this care Medicare and Medicaid it can put conditions on how the money is used the chief justice put it this way We're dealing here in this case with healthcare With Medicare and Medicaid and what could be closer to addressing the COVID-19 problem than healthcare I mean people already get sick when they go to the hospital but if they go and face COVID-19 concerns well that's much worse And infuriated justice Kagan put it more bluntly The one thing you can't do is to kill your patients Today's special session which are on an expedited basis because the osha regulation is about to go into effect and the Medicare and Medicaid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has been blocked by a lower court so the.
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"Most crushing I'm Michael hill It's morning edition from NPR and WNYC Survivors of abuse by ex USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar have reached A380 million dollar settlement with the organization Consumer prices are rising at a pace not seen in nearly four decades and Pfizer says its new pill has good results at keeping people at high risk of illness from COVID from getting worse It's Tuesday December 14th the news is next Live from NPR news in Washington on Corvette Coleman Drugmaker Pfizer says its data show its pill that helps fight COVID-19 is very good at preventing at risk people from getting sicker Pfizer says the drug called pax livid cut the risk of COVID hospitalization or death by at least 88% And pierce ping Huang says it has to be given within three to 5 days after COVID symptoms appear The drug was tested on people with what's called mild to moderate COVID meaning they're sick but they're not sick enough to be hospitalized but they do have COVID And these are people who because of age or medical condition like diabetes or lung disease we're at high risk of getting really sick It needs to be given soon after someone develops symptoms within three to 5 days because that's the stage when the virus is making copies of itself and spreading throughout the body and the drug is designed to stop that process And peers ping Huang reporting President Biden is planning to go to Kentucky tomorrow to survey the damage from the deadly tornadoes that race through the state on Friday night At BR's David schaper reports from Mayfield Kentucky that Kentucky officials now say at least 74 people were killed dozens more were injured and thousands are now left homeless.
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"Plans to stage a diplomatic boycott of February's Winter Olympics in Beijing but American athletes will still compete U.S. officials will just cheer them on from afar And pierce on Goldman reports a Biden administration says its protesting ongoing human rights violations in China White House press secretary Jen Psaki says the boycott will happen due to China's ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses Xinjiang is home to China's Uyghur minority who have reportedly been subjected to forced sterilizations imprisonment and family separations According to Psaki the U.S. simply can't treat these games as business as usual U.S. athletes will take part in the games in a statement U.S. Olympic and Paralympic committee CEO Sarah Herschel and doesn't mention the diplomatic boycott but says quote we greatly appreciate the unwavering support of the president and his administration and we know there will be cheering us on from home this winter Tum Goldman and PR news The president's getting ready for a high stakes virtual meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin tomorrow about Russia's military build of near Ukraine but the parents of Trevor Reed a former U.S. Marine serving a 9 year sentence in Russian jailer urging President Biden to also appeal for their son's release Read and another former marine Paul Wheeler jailed on charges that both have denied The administration is ramping up COVID-19 safety requirements for air travelers and PR saved shaper with details The U.S. is requiring all incoming air travelers even those who are vaccinated and U.S. citizens to prove that they are negative for the coronavirus on a test taken a day or less before their flights departure The previous rule was a negative test taken within 72 hours of departure The CDC says the shorter time frame will provide less opportunity to develop infection with the omicron variant prior to arrival in the United States Airlines and airports were bracing for long lines and possible confusion over the new rule as it could force some travelers to miss flights until they're tested Several other countries are imposing similar testing requirements on travelers including the UK David schaper NPR news With just weeks left in the year for the Senate to approve the bill back better spending package largely aimed at shoring up the nation's social safety net the president today talked about the prescription drug component of the Democrats Bill We pay the highest highest prescription drug prices of any developed nation in the world That may surprise you but may surprise you we pay about two to three times what other countries paid for the same drug Biden is hoping to sign the $1.7 trillion package before Christmas Separately congressional leaders have announced that the late senator ba Dole will lie in state at the U.S. capitol on Thursday told out yesterday at the age of 98 It's NPR news from W ABE news in Atlanta I'm Emile Moffat We have light rain 62° at four O four good afternoon Atlanta fire rescue has shut down several intersections in the edgewood and Kirkwood area of this afternoon because of what it's calling a major ammonia leak Firefighters say the leak is coming from the Schwann plant which has been evacuated Officials say all residents in the area near limon lane in the intersection of Decca avenue and oakdale road and Arizona street should shelter in place residents should also close windows doors and turn off ventilation and HVAC systems Officials have not confirmed any injuries from the leak ammonia gas is toxic and can be fatal if too much is inhaled We will continue following the story is more updates come in Former senator David perdue has jumped into the race for Georgia governor W a's role valley reports Purdue will first have to get past a fellow Republican incumbent Brian Kemp Former U.S. Georgia senator davide launched his run for governor with a video on social media.
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"One else is in custody Yet but we are working an angle on one other person that may have been assisting me White says that third person will likely face charges in the days to come he says James and Jennifer crumbly did not resist arrest when they were found unarmed by law enforcement from Pyrenees I'm Alex mcclelland in Detroit Prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the Kremlin saying James crumbly bought the gun that was used in the shooting and that the two ignored warning signs as the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads public health officials are urging travelers to be extra cautious It appears David schaper reports at some suggest people may want to rethink holiday travel plants There is much that is still not known about the omicron variant including the severity of illness it causes but it's already led to global travel restrictions It even a border closings And that's why some public health experts say those planning to travel overseas for the holidays should reconsider The international travel is even more is a much higher risk than domestic Doctor Robert Murphy is a Professor of infectious diseases at northwestern university Who knows where this thing is going to go It's highly transmissible just like when Delta entered the population And basically anything could happen Murphy says those planning domestic holiday trips can wait and see what has learned about the next few weeks before deciding whether to travel David schaper and PR news Several European countries are working to open a joint diplomatic mission in Afghanistan that would enable their ambassadors to return to the country The BBC's electro nasmyth reports The Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan sparked a mass diplomatic pull up by western nations its interim administration includes several figures subject to U.S. and UN sanctions but it's widely recognized that a diplomatic presence on the ground is needed and the EU has been holding talks with the militants what it calls operational engagement rather than recognition Francis Emmanuel Macron says a joint mission of a number of European countries will happen as soon as possible Security is still a major issue and the protection of staff and premises will be Paramount This is NPR news President Biden is pledging to make it difficult for Russia's Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine He spoke to reporters before leaving The White House for a weekend at Camp David saying he will not accept Moscow's red lines in that he anticipated a long discussion with Putin a phone conversation for next week is being negotiated It will be the first between the two leaders and months It ends up thousands of Russian troops have been deployed near Ukraine's borders and U.S. and Ukrainian officials are warning that economic sanctions are on the table against Russia Climate scientists and weather forecasters are warning about a lack of snow flaw and much of the western United States and the Colorado.
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Demonstrations Continue for Seventh Straight Night in Brooklyn Center
"Continue this weekend in the minneapolis. Suburb of brooklyn center. Where a white police officer shot and killed a twenty year old black man. Last sunday about one hundred demonstrators were detained. After protests outside. The police department turned violent last night. Npr's david schaper reports. Tensions remain high as the trial of former police officer. Derek chauvin wraps up. Since last sunday after one of its officers shot and killed twenty year old dante right during a traffic. Stop the brooklyn center. Police department building has become a fortress surrounded by two rows of heavy concrete barriers high fencing and razor wire with national guard soldiers standing watch kim griffin of a community group called a mother's love says such a militarized presence only deepens the divide between the police in the community to me is to engage the community and and more habit to me. It's just inviting more violence. More destructive behavior protests are expected to continue here almost around the clock
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Alaska, American, Southwest, United Airlines pull Chicago-based Boeing Max jets
"No problem with some of Boeing 7 37 Max airplanes is prompting several carriers to pull dozens of the Jets out of service. NPR's David Schaper reports. Boeing says it's electrical problem yet today says Boeing notified the regulatory agency about the electrical problem late Thursday that it could affect the operation of a backup power unit. Alaska American Southwestern United are among the airlines pulling close to 70 of their 7 37 max planes temporarily out of service to address the problem. It appears to be related to a change in the production process and effects only some recently manufactured 7 37 Max jets. The problem is not related to the M cast flight control system. Which is blamed in part for causing to 7 37 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.
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Airlines pull Boeing Max jets to inspect electrical systems
"Boeing 7 37 Max Airplanes is prompting several carriers to pull dozens of the Jets out of service. NPR's David Schaper reports. Boeing says it's electrical problem yet they A says Boeing notified the regulatory agency about the electrical problem late Thursday that it could affect the operation of a backup power unit. Alaska American Southwestern United are among the airlines pulling close to 70 of their 7 37 max planes temporarily out of service to address the problem. It appears to be related to a change in the production process and effects only some recently manufactured 7 37 Max jets. The problem is not related to the M cast flight control system. Which is blamed in part for causing to 7 37 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people. David Schaper.
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United Airlines Plans To Begin Training Pilots at New Academy
"United Airlines says it plans to hire 10,000 pilots over the next decade, and half of them will come from its own new pilot training Academy. MPR's David Schaper reports from Chicago. The airline is also committing to making its pilot ranks much more diverse. Airlines were facing a long term pilot shortage before the pandemic, and they still do now. Even though air travel Amanda's only beginning to recover so United has developed its own flight school, and spokesman Josh Earnest says the airline wants half of new pilot recruits to be women or people of color. In some ways, what's really important about this is that this commitment will allow us to open the door. To an exciting and lucrative career opportunity that has previously not been available to earlier generations of women and people of color, at least to many of them. United is offering scholarships and working out outreach. It is now accepting applications to the pilot academy.
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COVID-19 Relief Package Includes Billions For Transportation Sector
"All right how often did you fly. Or maybe the trainer buster in the pandemic. Yeah the transportation sector has been hit hard but anyone who rides in trains planes or automobile should benefit from the one point nine trillion dollar cove relief package. Npr's david schaper reports. It was a year ago this week. The us what unlocked down highways and airports were suddenly almost deserted. People travelling overseas scrambled to get flights home at mass transit. Trains ran nearly empty in the virginia. Suburbs of washington. Dc forty six year old. Sandra vigil had been driving buses packed. with sixty. to seventy people are more. We ended up taking towards the end of march. He was like one two people per ride. If you had any people at all last march twenty ninth vigil says she about ninety five percent of her loudon county. Transit co workers were furloughed. Her's lasted four and a half months and unemployment wasn't enough to make ends meet. A lot of fail behind are not rental car payments. Because he was either eating or paint a car or paying the rent and thing they lakeville transit systems across the country so ridership plummet ninety percent or more in revenue fell with it yet. Mass transit is essential especially for many low wage workers. Again bus driver. Sandra vigil in order to keep the buses running and to keep us working. We needed this money. The relief bill includes thirty billion dollars for transit. It also includes one point seven billion dollars for amtrak enough to bring twelve hundred furloughed employees back to work and restore daily service on long distance routes and there's funding to help states continue fixing crumbling roads and bridges offsetting. They're lost gas tax revenue as for airlines. I have fantastic news year. That's american airline ceo. Doug parker in a video message to employees about the plan which includes another fourteen billion dollars payroll support. That's good news for the thirteen thousand american employees who were facing furloughs april. First so if you have one of those worn out notices we sit out in february. Tear it up. There aren't going to be any furloughs at american airlines in april and with vaccinations on the rise. Hopefully never again. Ceo parker says the last three weeks have been the airlines best. Since the pandemic hit with bookings and passenger volumes up that's happening at other airlines too so much so that after months of hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars a day the ceo's of delta and united now expect to reduce their daily cash. Burn two zero this month or next while southwest is on track to break even by june. Of course that's relatively easy to do. When tax payers are essentially covering much of your payroll airlines have now received more than fifty billion dollars in federal payroll grants since the start of the pandemic. This was hugely important. And as a pilot for american airlines at spokesman for the pilot's union. The last thing i wanted to be is on our heels when everybody was ready to get back. Flying tiger says if pilots had been furloughed. They need weeks. If not months of training before being able to fly passengers again. You do not want to be staring at the recovery and turning around and seeing the flight deck empty. Because you weren't able to train. The pilots quickly. Enough joe sweet. Herman transportation professor at chicago's depaul university. Says this government aid is crucial is pretty clear that the airlines were such a desire straight federal assistance and a big way we would have lost an airliner to sweden and says the federal aid helps airlines amtrak transit agencies and highway departments continue critical operations while adapting to a post covid world a world that will likely lead to more operational changes in the near.
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"Of year that many of us pack our suitcases for a spring break trip, But things this year are still far from normal. There are crowds on beaches in Fort Lauderdale on a few other places, but overall travel numbers are still down. As NPR's David Schaper reports, Many are getting the summer travel bug. For many college students Spring break used to mean earning a couple of extra bees as it beaches and beer. But this year, many colleges and universities are canceling the annual week off and one that isn't the University of California. Davis is paying students 75 bucks to stay home or on campus. Many family trips to resorts and theme parks are also being put on hold as a new survey on behalf of the reeling travel industry shows disappointingly only 12% of respondents said they're planning travel for spring break. Roger Dow heads the U. S Travel Association, which commissioned the poll. What is a little more concerning to May is just last week. That was 16%. So it's down from last week. When we were thinking everything was starting to go in the right direction, Tao says. Recent bad news about new Corona virus variants appears to be cooling. A mini industry warm up is more people have been traveling. The T S A says the number of people passing through airport security checkpoints tops one million more often than not these days, but that's still less than half of pre pandemic levels. Hotel occupancy rates are also creeping back up. But the travel industry continues to take a beating now, says nearly 40% of all U. S jobs lost due to the pandemic are in leisure and hospitality. U. S economy just can't recover unless the travel industry is healthy and recovery and travel won't fully recover until the pandemic is under control. What many Americans appear to feel that day is coming. And their online travel searches show they're itching to hit the road. What we're beginning to see in the beginning of 2021 is a recovery from the deepest part of that depression and demand. Haley Berg is an economist with the airfare and hotel price tracking APP Hopper and she says searches for flights are up substantially across the board. Demand for domestic travel since January is up, 58%. International travel is up about 20% and those numbers are growing faster and faster each week, Berg says. TRAVEL SEARCH activity surges in sync with new cycles, For example, when President Biden last week promised enough vaccines for every American adult by the end of May Travel searches skyrocketed. We're fully anticipating a big surge in demand late spring and through summer, there is clear pencil demand for travel. Audrey Hendley heads American Express Travel, which released a report this week on global consumer travel sentiment. And she says many people are not just searching. They're ready to book even if they knew they have to cancel their trip in the future, And we're calling that shift. That book now figure it out later mentality. That's the result of airlines and hotels, offering more flexible changin cancelation policies as it's still unclear when some countries may reopen their borders and lift travel restrictions. And even though more people are getting vaccinated every day, the CDC still urges Americans not to take any nonessential trips. But even with so much uncertainty about the future of travel, Hendley says, many people find being bitten by the travel bog and planning. A vacation is good for the pandemic weary soul. David
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While Some Spring Breakers Swarm Beaches, Many Stay Home, Dreaming Of Summer Travel
"Of year that many of us pack our suitcases for a spring break trip, But things this year are still far from normal. There are crowds on beaches in Fort Lauderdale on a few other places, but overall travel numbers are still down. As NPR's David Schaper reports, Many are getting the summer travel bug. For many college students Spring break used to mean earning a couple of extra bees as it beaches and beer. But this year, many colleges and universities are canceling the annual week off and one that isn't the University of California. Davis is paying students 75 bucks to stay home or on campus. Many family trips to resorts and theme parks are also being put on hold as a new survey on behalf of the reeling travel industry shows disappointingly only 12% of respondents said they're planning travel for spring break. Roger Dow heads the U. S Travel Association, which commissioned the poll. What is a little more concerning to May is just last week. That was 16%. So it's down from last week. When we were thinking everything was starting to go in the right direction, Tao says. Recent bad news about new Corona virus variants appears to be cooling. A mini industry warm up is more people have been traveling. The T S A says the number of people passing through airport security checkpoints tops one million more often than not these days, but that's still less than half of pre pandemic levels. Hotel occupancy rates are also creeping back up. But the travel industry continues to take a beating now, says nearly 40% of all U. S jobs lost due to the pandemic are in leisure and hospitality. U. S economy just can't recover unless the travel industry is healthy and recovery and travel won't fully recover until the pandemic is under control. What many Americans appear to feel that day is coming. And their online travel searches show they're itching to hit the road. What we're beginning to see in the beginning of 2021 is a recovery from the deepest part of that depression and demand. Haley Berg is an economist with the airfare and hotel price tracking APP Hopper and she says searches for flights are up substantially across the board. Demand for domestic travel since January is up, 58%. International travel is up about 20% and those numbers are growing faster and faster each week, Berg says. TRAVEL SEARCH activity surges in sync with new cycles, For example, when President Biden last week promised enough vaccines for every American adult by the end of May Travel searches skyrocketed. We're fully anticipating a big surge in demand late spring and through summer, there is clear pencil demand for travel. Audrey Hendley heads American Express Travel, which released a report this week on global consumer travel sentiment. And she says many people are not just searching. They're ready to book even if they knew they have to cancel their trip in the future, And we're calling that shift. That book now figure it out later mentality. That's the result of airlines and hotels, offering more flexible changin cancelation policies as it's still unclear when some countries may reopen their borders and lift travel restrictions. And even though more people are getting vaccinated every day, the CDC still urges Americans not to take any nonessential trips. But even with so much uncertainty about the future of travel, Hendley says, many people find being bitten by the travel bog and planning. A vacation is good for the pandemic weary soul. David
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"I'm Oprah Turns 67 Today News is next. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. The White House is continuing to negotiate another congressional coronavirus relief package with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. One of them is Republican Senator Ron Portman of Ohio, He warns it would be a mistake for President Biden to try to get a bill done without GOP support. As NPR's Susan Davis Biden's asking Congress for a $1.9 trillion package that includes stimulus checks and a minimum wage increase. That's a nonstarter for Republicans who say it should be more narrowly targeted to things like vaccine distribution and reopening schools. Democrats are considering using a special budget process that would allow a bill to get through the Senate without GOP support, Portman told NPR that could have long term consequences for the president. I think you you said, a really bad tone, at least for For months and maybe for the first term the first two years. At least, Democrats could move forward without Republicans as early as next week. Susan Davis NPR NEWS Washington pharmaceutical maker, Novavax says Early results from a British study suggest it's coded 19 vaccine is effective and preventing disease. Stanley ERK is the company's CEO. In the UK trial. I should point out that we got 89.3% efficacy against the combination of the code, 19 strain and the UK variant. The Novaks study involves 15,000 participants in Britain. It's still underway. The UK variant has been detected in more than 20 states in the U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress needs to fund long term security measures at the U. S. Capitol in the aftermath of the deadly assault of January 6 without naming anyone, Pelosi is alleging some lawmakers are a security threat. Speaking yesterday, Pelosi referred to the enemy within the House of Representatives later, Pelosi said she was referring to lawmakers who want to carry guns on the house floor and have threatened violence. The annual march for Life rally is being held today in Washington, D C. NPR's Tom Chilton says this year's march will be mostly a virtual event. The merch for life rally held each year since 1974 typically brings thousands of anti abortion activists to Washington. President Trump addressed the rally last year. The first president to do so in person this year will be different. President Biden is a strong supporter of abortion rights. This week, he rescinded a rule that banned the use of federal funds for foreign groups that provide abortion services or even information. March for life organizers are nevertheless pushing ahead. Some prominent religious leaders will address the arm line rally, including Southern Baptist leader JD Greer and Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Namen, who chairs the U. S. Catholic Bishops Pro Life Committee. Tom Dalton. NPR NEWS This is NPR news from Washington. U. S Army says nearly A dozen soldiers have been injured during a field training exercise at Fort Bliss in Texas. In a statement, the Army's first Armored Division says two of the soldiers are in critical condition after ingesting an unknown substance. The army has not released further details. American Airlines canceled about 200 flights yesterday to carry out emergency nose gear. Inspections on planes operated by its regional carrier. P. ECE operates flights under the American Eagle name. MPR's David Schaper has more The problem, according to a statement from American Airlines is with the nose gear door on P ECE is Bombarda regional jets. The FAA says it was an issue that required immediate attention. So P ECE removed most of its planes from service so it could conduct inspections. There's no word on how long the aircraft may be grounded. American says it is working with passengers to re book them on other flights. Yes, A fly's American flights under the American Eagle brand name. The bulk of its flights go into an out of Americans hub in Charlotte, North Carolina. The FAA says PS voluntarily disclosed the matter. And that the regulatory agency is working with the airline to address the situation. David Schaper NPR News stock markets in Asia ended lower today. Despite yesterday's rebound on Wall Street when the Dow gained 1% Analysts say investors remain concerned about emerging variants of the Corona virus and what they might mean for the effectiveness of covert 19 vaccines. Right now, Dow futures are down 270 points. I'm Dave Mattingly. NPR News in.
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"The Trump administration's operation Warp speed may not be able to deliver on reserves of covert 19 vaccines for booster shots next week. Oregon Governor Kate Brown has tweeted General Gus Purna, chief operation officer of the federal campaign informed her that there is no federal Reserve of doses. Brown calls it a deception on a national scale. It remains to be seen. How this will affect President elect Biden strategy to ramp up vaccinations in the country by opening up 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days, European leaders are already roiled by news of fives and buying tech have decided to deliver fewer vaccines to their countries in the coming weeks. The companies say the reduction will be temporary so they can upgrade production capacity. Two billion doses a year. A new, more contagious varying from the UK is circulating in Europe and in the U. S. And another variant has been found in Brazil will pandemic related risks were already expected to have an impact on inauguration events. But after last week's insurrection of the capital, the National Mall is now closed and security forces at all levels are in place. Here's the C police chief Robert Conti. It's all hands on deck for our entire agency, because our entire agency has responsibility for the entire city. Meanwhile, investigations are mounting into last week's massive security failure at the capital. NPR's Carrie Johnson says the Justice Department's watchdog has questions, Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the review of Justice Department actions leading up to the siege on the capital. He plans to investigate whether the FBI properly shared threat information with the Capitol police and local law. Law enforcement. The review also will look at how the FBI, the 80 F and the U. S. Marshals responded to pipe bombs and violence of the capital, January. 6th. Prosecutors have already charged more than 100 rioters with crimes. They continue to investigate broader conspiracies such as whether people with military and police training may have coordinated the attacks. Carrie Johnson. NPR NEWS Washington Security measures are escalating and air travel after several incidents of unruly behavior on flights to and from D. C last week. Here's NPR's David Schaper, her flight home from Washington last week. Democratic Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Boost Oh says she witnessed Trump supporters harassing and intimidating other passengers and the crew. So she applauds. The FAA is do zero tolerance directive ordering swift enforcement action against unruly passengers and in light of my unsettling experiences last week I am so glad to see the Federal Aviation Administration rapidly mobilized staff and take additional steps to ensure that air travel remains safe for everyone. The FBI is warning of the possibility of more violence around the bide inauguration. So some airlines are temporarily prohibiting firearms in checked baggage. David Schaper.
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"Really a consideration. What is the thing that determines whether not an aircraft can be flown at low risk is whether that's properly maintained. Former crash investigator Anthony Brickhouse says the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will also hold vital clues. They give us information. As to what was happening on a specific aircraft in the minutes before that shouldn't happen and actually during the accident, well investigators we released preliminary findings on what may have caused the plane to crash in the coming days and weeks, it could take them a year or longer to reach any final conclusions. David Schaper NPR news Thanks so much for listening to morning edition on your local member station. The conversations we have, don't stop here. You can keep them going on social media Find us on Twitter. I'm at Rachel NPR know Ella's at Noel King. Steve is at NPR Inskeep and you can find Tanya at Tanya, mostly. This is NPR News, and Joe McConnell is here on members supported KQED. It's 7 29 with another look at Interstate 80. 80 westbound of the crash. Reported passwords Been Parkway is actually passed Hilltop Drive and the back of this almost the Appian way. The left lane is reported blocked by that one still of the crash to 1 80 westbound. You're San Pablo Avenue on the shoulder. Although the backup there is dissipating since there's a new crash behind that no change in 12 at Kelly rode in Napa still have both directions blocked by an overturned big rig crash. It's been there since 3 30 this morning. And the access to 12 Jamison Canyon off of 80 is still shut down. Traffic diverted to American Canyon, Joe McConnell for KQED traffic support comes from European sleep work. Support for KQED comes from good eggs, sourcing groceries from local producers and delivering them throughout the bay from Sandra fell to San Jose, from Rodeo to Pleasanton learned Maura good eggs dot com. Certainly fresh groceries delivered areas. The morning fog today, then some clearing look for highs in the fifties and sixties..
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"Shifting our focus overseas. Now divers and Indonesia say they've located the black box from a commercial jet that crashed over the weekend. Authorities there say all 62 people on board were killed. It was an older model of the Boeing 7 37, not a 7 37 Max. NPR's David Schaper has more The plane took off from Jakarta's international airport Saturday afternoon and a heavy rainstorm, according to the tracking service flight radar 24 climbed to just under 11,000 ft and four minutes But then suddenly went into a steep descent plummeting more than 10,000 ft in less than 30 seconds. Well, that is definitely abnormal. Anthony Brickhouse is a former plane crash investigator for the NTSB and now a professor of aviation safety at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. So the fact that they dove that at that clip is obviously concerning Then there's something that investigators will focus in on. Todd Curtis is a former Boeing safety engineer and now runs They don't have the maneuverability of Let's say a fighter aircraft. If you start going in a very, very high velocity toward the ocean, you can't pull the aircraft out of the dive, and Curtis says What's left of the plane will hold important clues. Debris has been recovered from the ocean surface and from the floor of the ocean. That debris could indicate what the sequence of events was when it came to the airplane breaking out. This particular Boeing plane was 27 years old. But Curtis says that might not matter for large airliners like 2737. Age is not really a consideration. What is the thing that determines whether not an aircraft can be flown at low risk is whether knots properly maintained warmer crash investigator Anthony Brickhouse says the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will also hold vital clues. They give us information. As to what was happening on a specific aircraft in the minutes before that shouldn't happen and actually during the accident, well investigators we released preliminary findings on what may have caused the plane to crash in the coming days and weeks, it could take them a year or longer to reach any final conclusions.
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"Shifting our focus overseas. Now divers and Indonesia say they've located the black box from a commercial jet that crashed over the weekend. Authorities there say all 62 people on board were killed. It was an older model of the Boeing 7 37, not a 7 37 Max. NPR's David Schaper has more The plane took off from Jakarta's international airport Saturday afternoon and a heavy rainstorm, according to the tracking service flight radar 24 climbed to just under 11,000 ft and four minutes But then suddenly went into a steep descent plummeting more than 10,000 ft in less than 30 seconds. Well, that is definitely abnormal. Anthony Brickhouse is a former plane crash investigator for the NTSB and now a professor of aviation safety at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. So the fact that they dove that at that clip is obviously concerning Then there's something that investigators will focus in on. Todd Curtis is a former Boeing safety engineer and now runs They don't have the maneuverability of Let's say a fighter aircraft. If you start going in a very, very high velocity toward the ocean, you can't pull the aircraft out of the dive, and Curtis says What's left of the plane will hold important clues. Debris has been recovered from the ocean surface and from the floor of the ocean. That debris could indicate what the sequence of events was when it came to the airplane breaking out. This particular Boeing plane was 27 years old. But Curtis says that might not matter for large airliners like 2737. Age is not really a consideration. What is the thing that determines whether not an aircraft can be flown at low risk is whether knots properly maintained warmer crash investigator Anthony Brickhouse says the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will also hold vital clues. They give us information. As to what was happening on a specific aircraft in the minutes before that shouldn't happen and actually during the accident, well investigators we released preliminary findings on what may have caused the plane to crash in the coming days and weeks, it could take them a year or longer to reach any final conclusions. David Schaper NPR news This'll is NPR news. And you're listening to morning edition on W. N. Y C. I'm David first coming up later today on the Brian Lehrer Show New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz talks about what far right extremists are planning to do in the days leading up to And on Inauguration Day That's the Brian Lehrer Show. Starting at 10 O'clock here on W N. Y c 34 degrees Now it will be sunny all day today. A high of 42 degrees. Tonight. A low of 33. It will be mostly clear and then more sunshine tomorrow. Ah, High of 44. It's 6 30. Support for W N. Y. C comes from Apple TV plus presenting the Apple original film Wolf Walker's Ah Young apprentice hunters life changes when.
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Black box from Indonesian jet recovered from ocean floor
"Shifting our focus overseas. Now divers and Indonesia say they've located the black box from a commercial jet that crashed over the weekend. Authorities there say all 62 people on board were killed. It was an older model of the Boeing 7 37, not a 7 37 Max. NPR's David Schaper has more The plane took off from Jakarta's international airport Saturday afternoon and a heavy rainstorm, according to the tracking service flight radar 24 climbed to just under 11,000 ft and four minutes But then suddenly went into a steep descent plummeting more than 10,000 ft in less than 30 seconds. Well, that is definitely abnormal. Anthony Brickhouse is a former plane crash investigator for the NTSB and now a professor of aviation safety at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. So the fact that they dove that at that clip is obviously concerning Then there's something that investigators will focus in on. Todd Curtis is a former Boeing safety engineer and now runs They don't have the maneuverability of Let's say a fighter aircraft. If you start going in a very, very high velocity toward the ocean, you can't pull the aircraft out of the dive, and Curtis says What's left of the plane will hold important clues. Debris has been recovered from the ocean surface and from the floor of the ocean. That debris could indicate what the sequence of events was when it came to the airplane breaking out. This particular Boeing plane was 27 years old. But Curtis says that might not matter for large airliners like 2737. Age is not really a consideration. What is the thing that determines whether not an aircraft can be flown at low risk is whether knots properly maintained warmer crash investigator Anthony Brickhouse says the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will also hold vital clues. They give us information. As to what was happening on a specific aircraft in the minutes before that shouldn't happen and actually during the accident, well investigators we released preliminary findings on what may have caused the plane to crash in the coming days and weeks, it could take them a year or longer to reach any final conclusions.
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"Boost the efficacy of the vaccine to about 95%. Marna Covert ICU Nurse calls her slightly sore arm a huge relief. I am just much more afraid of coded that I am the vaccine. I've seen people die. I've seen people very, very sick. Orchestrating this to shot vaccine is not as simple as it might seem. It has all the complications of the first shot like a limited shelf life. Once it's thought out, and people getting it need to show up at the right time, which requires careful record keeping and coordination. We have seen good coordination, good vaccine supply That's peace, Health Hospital executive Charles Prosper, he says. There was a brief delay this week in the shipment of second doses, but they've got extras a buffer just in case that has actually kept us in good shape, with no risk of individual. Missing their second dose. But supplies are less certain. In some places. Florida is telling hospitals not to hang on to any and they're counting on manufacturers delivering the second dose is on time. Certainly it creates some angst. Mary Mayhew is president of the Florida Hospital Association. The bottom line is demand is absolutely far exceeding supply. Second doses of the earliest vaccine from Fizer are being given in Florida. But the second chance of Madonna vaccine, which are due to go into arms in about two weeks, have not yet arrived. Everybody wants to have the staff scheduled have the appointments and it is just simply challenging to manage all of that without having The certainty of when that will arrive because the U. S vaccine rollout is going slower than promised. Some scientists believe the second shot should be skipped. For now, they argue that would get more people at least some protection quickly, But the FDA says that strategy is not rooted solidly in the available evidence. Dr. Glenn Morris directs the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. A real problem is getting enough doses into enough people and more says in some parts of the country, including Florida, where websites have crashed and crowds have gathered outside the clinics. That could warrant delaying the second shot. In other circumstances, It may not be necessary and the better part of valor is to go ahead and proceed with the standard dozing regiment, Dr Mark Frederick at the University of Michigan studies. Other vaccines that require multiple doses, he says, Just getting people to follow through with a second shot is hard. Even when supply isn't an issue, we can't let the last leg of this remarkable covert vaccine journey this so called second dose problem. Stop us from completing the quest to get our lives back and people need to get those second dose is at the same time. The U. S. Is trying to rapidly expand the number of people getting there first. For NPR news. I'm will stone Boeing settle the charge of criminal conspiracy related to 27 37 Max plane crashes, The company will pay $2.5 billion without pleading guilty. Here's NPR's David Schaper. Federal prosecutors say key Boeing employees to siege safety regulators about a new flight control system on the plane that investigators say played a major role in both deadly crashes. There's some really damning language in there about sacrificing safety, you know for profit. Basically, Carl Tobias is a law professor at the University of Richmond. It did not find widespread. Fraudulent behavior in the company. But these two central employees did engage according to the government in very bad conduct. Prosecutors say the deception by those two Boeing employees quote impeded the government's ability to ensure the safety of the flying public. By singling out just the two employees. Critics say the Justice Department is letting blowing off the hook. I find this find to be inadequate, given the egregious nature of the defense. Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio chairs the House Transportation Committee, which found widespread evidence of management failures at Boeing. He calls the settlement to slap on the wrist and an insult to the 346 victims. 24 year old Samuel Rose Stew, Mo died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March of 2019. Her father is Michael Stew, Mo. This is the Boeing Protection Agreement. Studio points out that Boeing's criminal fine is just $243 million. Most of the breast almost $1.8 billion is compensation that Boeing has already agreed to pay airlines that purchased the 7 37 Max, There's nobody being held accountable. Personally. In a statement, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun calls it a substantial settlement of a very serious matter that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our values and expectations. David Schaper NPR news This is NPR news. It is 19 minutes after seven o'clock. The U. S economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, marking the first net loss of jobs in eight months. Businesses that depended on in person contact of struggled during the pandemic. That story coming up next. Also traffic coming up next Joe McConnell is here. Joe seemed to be running a traffic break on 5 80. L demand past eastbound in your grant line Road where there was a crash reported about 25 minutes ago. And they're trying to clear the vehicles over to the side of the road. They're not causing any kind of a slow down there. Yet in the westbound side is just a little bit sluggish. Not bad at all, might still be a stall in Fairfield 80 westbound near North Texas. It was being pushed from the left lane to the shoulder. And try. The traffic impact.
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Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle charge over 737 Max crashes
"Charge of criminal conspiracy related it to 7 37 Max plane crashes, The company will pay $2.5 billion without pleading guilty. Here's NPR's David Schaper. Federal prosecutors say key Boeing employees to siege safety regulators about a new flight control system on the plane that investigators say played a major role in both deadly crashes. There's some really damning language in there about Sacrificing safety, you know for profit, basically Carl Tobias, his law professor at the University of Richmond, it did not find widespread fraudulent behavior in the company. But these two central employees did engage according to the government in very bad conduct. Prosecutors say the deception by those two Boeing employees quote impeded the government's ability to ensure the safety of the flying public. By singling out just the two employees. Critics say the Justice Department is letting blowing off the hook. I find this find to be inadequate, given the egregious nature of the defense organ Democrat Peter DeFazio chairs the House Transportation Committee, which found widespread evidence of management failures of Boeing. He calls the settlement to slap on the wrist and an insult to the 346 victims. 24 year old Samuel Rose Stew, Mo died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March of 2019. Her father is Michael Stew, Mo. This is the Boeing Protection Agreement. Studio points out that Boeing's criminal fine is just $243 million. Most of the breast almost $1.8 billion is compensation that Boeing has already agreed to pay airlines that purchased the 7 37 Max, There's nobody being held accountable. Personally. In a statement, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun calls it a substantial settlement of a very serious matter that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our values and expectations. David Schaper NPR news
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"With a heavy police and National Guard presence, keeping watch a small but loud group of protesters brave the Cold Wisconsin night expressing outrage over the prosecutor's decision. Did not bring criminal charges against the officer who fired seven shots into Jacob Blake last August. Leading the march with the 29 Year olds. Uncle Justin bleed the impact of this verdict. Is gonna have ramifications all over this state and all over this nation, and we will not let it rest until we get justice for Little Jake and all the little Jakes around the nation. The shooting left Jacob Blake partially paralyzed, his family will go to Washington and coming weeks to push for policing reforms. David Schaper NPR news in Kenosha, Wisconsin. U. S futures contracts are trading and mixed territory. This is NPR. Add 604. I'm Cherry Glaser with KCRW news hospitals in California have become so swamped by the Corona virus pandemic. That the state has ordered those with room to expect patients from others They're out of intensive care beds. The public health order issued last night could lead to patients being shipped from Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley to Northern California. Officials have warned that some hospitals may have to start rationing or prioritizing care even expected. Post holiday surgeon Coben 19 cases overwhelms the health care system. We are worried that case numbers can, in fact increase again a similar to what we saw. 2 to 3 weeks out from the Thanksgiving holiday. That's only county public health director Barbara Ferrer. She says Kobe hospitalizations here have passed the 8000 mark, including more than 1600 people in intensive care. Some hospitals have had to close their doors at times because they've become so overwhelmed, leaving ambulances waiting for hours to offload patients. Here's l. A fire department paramedic Tanya Crab speaking to KBC. How do you explain that to the patient?.
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"Good morning. Everyone. Low clouds is a strong possibility, followed by some patchy fog along those highways to keep that in mind heading out the door today very similar, like conditions. In comparison to yesterday, we'll talk about in the lower sixties along the coast mid sixties inland with Sandy goes most accurate forecast. I'm Vanessa pause for ABC 10 News. Now. Chilean Ramona 34 degrees CARLSBAD, 47. Downtown. Mostly cloudy and 47 cocoa news time 5 30 to President Trump facing accusations of abuse of power over leaked phone call between he and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rapids. Burger Fox is Griff Jenkins has more from Dalton, Georgia. The president's coming here to North Georgia because early voting shows. The Republicans need a strong turnout, and he's coming on the heels of a firestorm following the leak of that audio obtained by The Washington Post off the president, pressuring Georgia's secretary of state bread Ravan's burger to secure enough votes to overturn the presidential results. I guess one of the nine Uh, 11,780 Votes, which is one more that we have, because we want to, say presents worker confirmed the call the Fox news and it's causing division. George's GOP chairman, David Schaper, took to Twitter saying this quote mind boggling, George's secretary of state and his lawyers would secretly recording released confidential settlement conference with the president. Now. The White House has yet to comment on the leaked audio. The president holding a rally in Dalton, Georgia, to get more Republican voters out to the polls tomorrow in the Senate runoff election there. President elect Joe Biden is also holding a rally in Atlanta Well, meantime, a key ally of President Trump says he will not join fellow Republican lawmakers in objecting to certifying the election results. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton says the move will not give Trump a second term, he explained if Congress tried to overturn the electoral College vote for President Biden It would exceed Congress's power and set unwise presidents. He claims such action would embolden Democrats who he says what to erode further our system of constitutional government Congress will meet Wednesday to certify results from the states. No going to your son, 5, 34 San Diego Congressman Scarab J, said San Diego Democrat Rather, Sarah Jacobs is now the youngest California representative in Congress. Jacob's, along with their Eliza and the rest of the 117th Congress, were sworn in Sunday at the Capitol. The 31 year old replaces Democrats Susan Davis in the 53rd eye, says a Republican representing the 50th and takes over for Duncan Hunter, who had to resign. President Trump recently pardoned Hunter and his wife. Jacob's tells Kogo nears The biggest issue facing the nation right now is the lack of trust in government and institutions. Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulkner has signed a petition to recall Governor Newsome on Facebook, Faulkner said Every Californian fed up with the governor's hypocrisy and failures should sign the recall petition. 70 Melvin is the San Diego coordinator of the recall Gavin 2020 campaign and tells reporting partner 10 News. I'm proud of him for taking us. Stand on that because people are listening to you know their leaders and former leaders. Even Milton, calling out do some for attending a dinner party at a fancy restaurant while telling the state to stay at home and avoid gatherings rules for the even not for me. He's a hypocrite. More than 900,000. People have signed the petition to recall Governor Newsome organizer's need to collect almost 1.5 million signatures by mid March to get it on the ballot. Walker says he's considering a run for governor Joshua Lipton. KOGO NEWS Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, blaming two factors for the rapid spread of coronavirus in his city. One is just simple density where the densest metro area in the United States Carcetti tells CBS's face the nation. The other is the virus is spreading among households, he added. It's a tough time and people can't let their guard down. Los Angeles County has surpassed 800,000 infections and has more than 10,600 deaths. There are several laws taking effect in 2021 that you need to know about one new law requires an investigation by the state attorney general. Any time police kill an unarmed civilian. Others allow more oversight of sheriffs and require evaluations of peace officers to include any racial bias. Another bill signed into law says homeowners in fire prone areas must further reduced vegetation within 100 FT. Of structures. And yet another, says employers most quickly notify workers of potential coronavirus exposure. Phil Farrar, KOGO news San Diego County, starting New Year on a dry note with the desserts officially in a drought, But Rainier months are still ahead..
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United Airlines to begin trial of free passenger Covid tests on London flights
"United. Airlines will soon become the first of this country's carriers to test passengers for covid nineteen on transatlantic flights. NPR's David. SCHAPER report Supreme Flight Rapid Response Testing will be done on a trial basis on some flights from Newark to London. The fifteen minute molecular corona virus tests will be given to all passengers on three to London flights a week for free but it won't exempt them from the UK's requirement that all incoming travellers quarantine for fourteen days upon arrival. If the pilot program is successful though united hopes to convince governments to lift such quarantine orders for travelers who test negative NPR, savage
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Can Airport COVID-19 Testing Encourage More People To Fly?
"So if you're itching to travel the airlines for their part are going to say go ahead and do it many airlines are requiring masks there disinfecting cabins they're touting their hospital great air filtration systems. They're even starting to Cova tests at the airport. Here's NPR's David Schaper. Imagine. A Hawaiian vacation with the lush islands, sparkling beaches. It's the kind of trip people planned for way in advance and then cove. It got in the way we had a trip from last spring that Battie added his wife and four kids postponed their dream vacation back in. March. When Hawaii began requiring every traveler to self quarantine for fourteen days upon arrival that essentially shutdown tourism after all who would wanna fly all the way to Hawaii just to be trapped in their hotel room for two weeks. But the bad he had a family finally landed Honolulu's airport last week after it opened to those who test negative for the corona virus, we got a rapid test. It took about thirty minutes you know. The NASAL SWAB tests. Everybody's clear. Ever excited in airlines are excited to to get paying customers back on their plane. So they're now offering passengers preflight cove in nineteen testing for some destinations united was the first to announce on the spot preflight testing at San Francisco's airport for Hawaii bound travelers for results fifteen minutes it cost you two, hundred, fifty dollars. There are also cheaper forty eight hour in home or clinic testing options and other airlines are following suit now even some. Airports are getting into the COVID testing game. We do the test right here in the main terminal Tampa. International Airport CEO. Joel Lapointe says his airport is offering travellers to any destination two kinds of tests. The rapid test which will give you results in fifteen minutes cost fifty seven dollars, and then the more accurate our test costs a hundred and twenty five dollars and you get your results within forty eight hours a few other airports now offer testing. To, Henry heartfelt heads the atmosphere research group travel industry research firm what the airlines and airports are trying to do is remove every possible obstacle. People have when they start to think about taking a trip but some public health experts our concern because not all of the tests are reliable and what that means is that the likelihood that they will actually identify a positive case in an a symtomatic individual is fairly low Mercedes. Cardin is an epidemiologist at. Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. You could get a negative test but in fact a day or two later, your viral levels could surge and then you're really quite infectious and so I fear that it provides a false sense of security to do the on the spot testing the less the business travel association's joining others in calling for more widespread airport cove in nineteen testing in an attempt to jump-start industry decimated by the pandemic
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Congressional Inquiry Faults Boeing And FAA Failures For Deadly 737 Max Plane Crashes
"A sweeping congressional inquiry has found damning evidence of failures at both Boeing and at the Federal Aviation. Administration in the development and certification of the seven thirty seven Max, the report says these failures contributed to to Max plane crashes killing three hundred and forty six people. Here's NPR's David Schaper. The House Transportation Committee investigation finds that there was no singular technical flaw pilot failure that led to the deadly 737 Max plane crashes. In Indonesia, in October of two, thousand, eighteen Ethiopia, the following March instead it describes the circumstances that led up to them almost like. A perfect storm calling it the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing's engineers lack of transparency in the part of Boeing's management and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA. The report details Boeing's flawed design of a new automated flight control system on the plane and mistakes and using outdated and faulty assumptions of pilot response, as well as a culture of concealment keeping information from the F., a. its customers, and the pilots would fly the plane. There's something big came out of this. That's just is mind Boggling House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter Fazil Inquiry and says, what's mind boggling is at both Boeing and the FAA contend they followed proper procedures at vowed the seven thirty seven Max to be compliant that the bureaucratic were it was compliant but the problem is it was compliant and not say and people died the report also details how Boeing employees were under enormous pressure to keep costs down in the plane on. Schedule Aviation Subcommittee chairman. Rick. Larsen says misguided priorities of senior management drove. A number of troubling decisions in one case, senior management when as far as installing countdown clocks in conference rooms making clear to Max employees meeting production timelines rather than safety was a top priority. The congressional investigation is one of many into what caused the lion air and Ethiopian Airlines. Seven thirty-seven Max Plane Crashes Christine Negroni is an aviation journalist and author of the book, The crash detectives and she says, while much of this information isn't new. Poll, what is to me astonishing about the report is the depth, the thickness and the jury of both FAA and bowling knowing that there were problems with the redesign of this airliner and the oblivious -ness of both parties in recognizing that this was a problem that needed to be addressed and thing to grow any fines. Remarkable is that a number of people did raise. Safety concerns about the seven, thirty, seven Max. But those were either inadequately addressed or just dismissed by Boeing many of them never seeing the light of day at the FAA and that's an especially painful realization for the families of those who died in the Max crashes. It angers us to see how how much. Boeing did to cover this up and how much FAA is done. To help them cover it up Michael Stu Mos daughter twenty, four year old Samya arose to mow was on the plane that crash last year Ethiopia, he believes evidence in this report now shows that the first plane crash in Indonesia was preventable within covering up to keep the Max in the air after the lion aircrash so that it crashed again in Ethiopia and killed my daughter. was unforgivable in a statement a Boeing spokesman says, the company has learned many hard lessons from the plane crashes and its mistakes and has made fundamental changes to the company's safety culture and protocols. As a result. The House Transportation Committee is now drafting legislation to improve at a oversight and certifying planes. A Senate committee is expected to take its own at a reform bill later today. David. SCHAPER NPR news.
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Airline Workers Brace As Federal Aid Runs Out This Month
"Employees at the nation's airlines are getting nervous many pilots flight attendants mechanics in customer service agents have been kept on the payroll since March only with the help of federal aid that funding runs out at the end of this month, and if it's not extended tens of thousands of them could be out of work on October first from Chicago. NPR's David Schaper reports. Several dozen flight attendants, pilots, and other airline employees masked up as they chanted and marched around the Federal Plaza Downtown Chicago Wednesday to draw attention to what they say is a dire situation. So I'm I'm coming up on four decades of service and I have to tell you I have never seen anything like this in my career with United Airlines United Flight Attendant Jeff Highs says he's not just talking about the calamitous drop in the number of people flying because of the pandemic lot. The impending mass layoffs year and his co workers are facing. Unless twelve thousand of our members are at risk for involuntary furlough and that's just one group of employees at one airline. Industry Wide Cub October. First layoffs could top forty thousand, and that's in addition to the tens of thousands have already taken early retirement or other incentives to leave their airline jobs voluntarily. The initial corona virus relieffactor past March Congress and the trump administration included twenty five billion dollars in grants to airlines to keep paying employees for six months. But now that time is almost up Democrats some Republicans and the president of all said, they favor an extension of the payroll support program but the airline aid was left of the latest relief package proposed this week by Senate, Republicans and the uncertainty weighs. Heavily on airline employees, we're in this limbo right now other holding is a Chicago based flight attendant for American Airlines. Are we going back to work in October? Are Do we have to figure out and find another job? You know we're kind of time crunch right now what our backup plans going to be airline employee unions held a similar rally outside the Capitol in Washington DC to put pressure on Congress. While their bosses at the airlines fret to right now we're fighting for survival make no bones about it. Kallio. Heads a group airlines for America. He says after a brief uptick air travel this summer that peaked over the Labor Day weekend demand is already slumping again is more profitable business travel bookings remain down close to ninety percent is going to be a different world people are to see you're already seen. Fewer flights come October. First, you're going to see a further reduction in the number fledge that are operating Kellyanne other. Say it may take four to five years for the airline industry to fully recover if it ever does wouldn't another round of payroll support funding for the airlines just delay the inevitable of mass layoffs warmer airline Executive Robert. Man Who is now an industry consultant argues the jobs are worth saving. Job in the airline is probably support somewhere between seven and eleven jobs. Elsewhere, the economy is hospitality in these support technologies in other transportation boats in man warns in a couple of airlines may not survive the pandemic without more federal aid. To Gut check question how much of an economy? Do you want going forward congressional and White House to go shooters? We'll have to try to answer that question this campaign season in which the two parties agree on almost nothing. David Schaper, NPR News Chicago.
Weekend Edition Sunday
George Floyd protests spread nationwide
"Civil unrest rocked dozens of cities across the country last night as demonstrators continue to express outrage over police killings of black Americans triggered by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody last week in many cities peaceful protests in the day turned into violent clashes with police at night fall in Minneapolis last night National Guard troops joined local and state police in a massive show of force to quell violent protests there but NPR's David Schaper reports there were relatively few reports of buildings being looted or set on fire after previous nights of chaos a few hundred people marched peacefully to protest the killing of George Floyd continuing for well over an hour past the state imposed curfew but as they cross the Mississippi River bridge from Minneapolis and St Paul reading police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd protest groups in other parts of Minneapolis and St Paul Minnesota Miller feeders of the word is used a heavy police presence in more than four thousand National Guard troops to strictly enforce the curfew in the streets appeared to grow more calm as the night wore on this after several previous nights of mayhem of some neighborhoods torched in scars David Schaper NPR news Minneapolis National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets of Los Angeles early today as the city cleans up after a night of violence NPR's wildly psych how tell reports California governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles county like many cities across the country peaceful protests turned dangerous Floyd Lewis of LA watch the actions from a safe distance very cannot be exploding police cars and police chasing people up and down the street this has to be a man's life was taken for no reason fluoride was murdered anarchy must not rein in our CD he says but adds people need to be able to peacefully
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U.S. airlines face deadline to apply for federal payroll grants
"York several airlines are submitting applications to meet this hours deadline for government assistance American and south western mom those confirming they've applied for a piece of the fifty billion dollar federal aid package the president signed into law last week NPR's David Schaper reports the pay wall grants and loans come with significant strings attached airlines taking share of twenty five billion in payroll grants cannot lay off employees for the next six months airlines getting those grants or loans or both must keep flying to every city that they served at the beginning of March the airlines are also prohibited from buying back stock paying shareholder dividends of paying executive bonuses and the airlines must also say how they plan to pay back taxpayers for the eight NPR's David
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Trump asks U.S. travelers to be patient amid chaos, long lines at airports
"In a tweet president trump urged travelers returning to the U. S. from Europe to be patient as they wait in long lines to be screened for the corona virus trump weighed in after thousands of arriving travelers waited in airport lines for at least four hours and that led to sharp criticism of the federal directive as NPR's David Schaper reports public officials in Chicago and other cities are complaining travelers returning to Chicago's o'hare airport reported standing in tightly packed corridor smash together with thousands of other people for up to four to six hours as they waited to be screened for cove in nineteen symptoms this is utterly unacceptable Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says conditions made it more likely that anyone affected would spread the virus putting lives at risk the federal government must immediately and significantly increased personnel devoted to our airport screening and rather than sending ice into the streets St screeners to our airports acting homeland security secretary Chad wolf says of the tweet the department will be increasing screening capacity
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Boeing Will Temporarily Stop Making Its 737 Max Jetliners
"Boeing is going to temporarily stop making. It's seven thirty seven Max airplanes. This decision comes nine months. After regulators around the world banned the jets from flying lying following two crashes that killed nearly three hundred and fifty people. Despite being grounded Boeing had continued cranking the planes out of its factory near Seattle anyway but that is going to a change next month Dave shaper covers aviation for. NPR He joins us from Chicago. Hi David Good Morning David. So why this decision from Boeing. And why now. Well you know Boeing. Hiring is facing a couple of how hard realities one is at the head of the FAA last week told Boeing CEO. Dennis Muilenburg in no uncertain terms to just stop predicting that the F. A. A. Approve the return of the Max to service imminently. It's it's not happening. And maybe it's an effort to show an independent streak that the agency After the agency was accused of being too cozy with the company but FAA administrator. Steve Addiction told Wallenberg F the FAA sets the timeline not bowing in agency safety. Experts will take all the time they need to get its analysis and testing of Boeing's fixes for the plane done right and won't rush the plane into a return to service. I'm hearing that means that the plane will likely remain grounded until at least February or March and it now appears Boeing's getting got the message. Well how much of it also might be the company just realizing how much money they were losing. They were continuing to make these planes and not selling them. Yeah that's the second hard reality Boeing is facing you. Could they're burning through cash. Etta significant rate according to some estimates commits about two billion dollars a month the company did slow production a little bit back in April reducing the number of planes produced from fifty two a month to forty two but now it has about four four hundred finished Max jets just sitting in storage at cannot deliver them to customers and cannot get final payment. Richard Lafayette is an aerospace industry analyst for the Teal Group. It's been really painful for Boeing. They've been maintaining production paying suppliers to build fifty two per month while they build at forty two per month and not bringing in revenue. This is very painful From a balance sheet perspective. You know it's important to note David. Just how big of a deal. This is for Boeing seven thirty-seven Max is the best selling commercial airline in airliner in the company's history it had five thousand orders for the planes before it was grounded and it's a very profitable was anyway a very profitable profitable part rob product in a huge part of the company's future tied to this plane. Okay painful for Boeing. What about the people who were there? David I mean. This plane is assembled at a plant in Renton Washington outside Seattle. Twelve thousand people work there. How are they going to be hit by this well? Boeing is saying that there will be no furloughs and no employee layoffs at at least at this time. statement announcing the decision to suspend production says the company plans to have affected workers. Continue either seven thirty-seven related worker. Be temporarily temporary assigned to other Boeing factories in the area but there still is a fair amount of anxiety in and around the plant. We had Ashley Gross of Member Station K.. And ask around about about the impact. She talked with Veronica Medina whose family owns a Mexican restaurant called Toreros it a strip mall called the landing right across the street. From the huge Boeing plant. Well obviously being right here at the landing. It's very significant. We get a lot of lunch. Crowds we get you know. Renton General Very dependent on Boeing's wellbeing Medina says even if the employees aren't laid off if they aren't going in and out of that factory across the street her business may suffer. Well obviously it's going to be a head I don't know how big but I think as a city as a business owner. I think we will feel let David. What about the economy? The economy is gonNA feel here. I mean you've got to have the supply chain that that feeds this big factory. There could be a lot of sectors. Let a companies that could be it could be affected. Yeah I mean there's a lot of companies that could feel this more deeply not so much in Seattle but in places like Wichita Kansas where supplier spirit aerosystems zero systems makes the fuselage and other parts 737 Max and scattered out just around the country. But around the world suppliers Boeing may do something to help. Soften the blow for them. But many of these companies may be forced to to furlough or layoff workers themselves. It's not clear how significant that impact may be N._p._R.'s. David Schaper in Chicago. Thanks
Morning Edition
FAA analysis flagged 737 Max risks before crashes
"You know when the CEO of Boeing testified recently before Congress he faced criticism for the crashes of two Boeing seven thirty seven MAX planes today it is Steve Dixon's turn the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration is testifying before the house transportation committee that committee is looking into the crashes the FAA is accused of overlooking Boeing's design flaws when certifying the plane and peers David Schaper reports well many air travelers say they won't fly on a seven thirty seven Max if and when the plane returns to service J. Hamann god will but the London residence as only after regulators in Canada Europe and other countries served by the plane said he no longer trusts the FAA thirty nine the American federal agency didn't actually do its job this time that kind of pushed to something that shouldn't have been posted another traveler recently passing through Chicago's o'hare airport Rishon Bernard of Washington DC says he too is concerned that the FAA seems to have failed to provide adequate safety oversight when you have influential players in the market place like bowling in essence you can't have going checking itself right and were you can't have going putting pressure on the relationship that they have at the FAA to get things passed with over the last decade and a half many aviation experts say that's exactly what's happened we're now in a situation where ninety eight percent of all the regulation of Boeing is done by Boeing itself with its own employees Paul hides it is with flyers rights dot org and sits on advisory committees to the FAA the level of quality has gone down dramatically at Boeing the oversight has sought has been reduced a recent report by Hudson's group details how the FAA's increasing delegation of oversight responsibilities has compromise safety the FAA has to take back control from blowing their to no longer piece of regulation as the investigations into the seven thirty seven MAX crashes in Indonesia in Ethiopia find evidence of Boeing downplayed the risks of a new flight control system on the Max at that the FAA failed to catch those flaws the regulatory agencies reputation around the world is taking a hit for decades the FAA established a high benchmark for aviation safety globally and built a strong relationship with its regulatory counterparts in other countries actually really created aircraft in that relationship that's Melissa Garcia and aviation writer and analyst based in Denmark who notes that aviation authorities in Canada Europe India South Africa and elsewhere are now pushing back in doing their own reviews of Boeing's fixes and revisions to the seven thirty seven MAX individual regulators are not comfortable doing it co sign now rapper stamp of the FAA views on this and in recent weeks the FAA has been flexing more regulatory muscle over Boeing FAA administrator Steve Dixon is said the agency will not be rushed in to recertify the seven thirty seven MAX repeatedly telling employees they should be thorough in their testing and analysis and take all the time they need points that Dixon will likely highlight before Congress
Fresh Air
Boeing CEO apologizes to crash victims' families
"Top executive face tough questions about two deadly seven thirty seven MAX plane crashes the first of which happened one year ago and here's David Schaper reports the CEO admits the company made mistakes and got some things wrong in developing the aircraft Boeing CEO Dennis Wallenberg appear emotional as he offered sympathies to the families of the three hundred forty six people who died in the two crashes behalf of myself and the Boeing company we are sorry deeply and truly sorry Wallenberg insists the company is learning and improving as it fixes a design flaw on a flight control system on the seven thirty seven Max but under questioning several senators became outraged by some of the CEOs responses and as I sit here today my anger has only grown Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal accusers Wallenberg providing half truths and a pattern of deliberate concealment