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"Stay connected stay informed good afternoon it's 131 i'm taylor van size with our top stories from our 24 7 news center first lady dr jill biden landed in seattle last night today she's going to visit the fred hutchinson cancer research center to highlight the importance of supporting cancer answer also survivors on the first ladies agenda couple fundraisers and then after that she's off to california there maybe a traffic impact and a couple hours from now here around the seattle area as she moves from one location to another of course have your traffic and weather every ten minutes on the force nine hundred and fifty two million dollars in opioid lawsuit money will flow to more than 100 governments in king county now the county is laying down guidelines for how the money should be should be spent northwest news radio's corwin hank explains the king county board of health commissioned a paper to make recommendations on how local jurisdictions should spend the nearly billion dollars from settlements reached with factures and retailers now the board has adopted a resolution that says the 125 eligible eligible local governments should adopt the papers guidelines which include quote uplifting the cases of people who use opioids seattle city council member lisa herbold serves on the board of expertise health uh that the they bring is really critical to our efforts to slow the the rate of overdose deaths the report recommends spending on overdose response and treatment post overdose care and long -term care corwin hake northwest news radio the takoma police department warns community members about a financial scam going around involving the trial of three takoma police officers in relation to the death of many alice detective say local businesses a reporter receiving phone calls requesting donations on behalf of the takoma police department but the takoma pd say quote it's not nor will it solicit funds from community members in this manner or this circumstance community members receiving such calls are asked to south sounds 9 -1 -1 non -emergency line and immediately and report that anyone with information regarding the scam is requested to submit tips to crime stoppers como forest preston phillips a fire damaged at least six units of a muckle tio apartment complex this morning como forest mohaira reports from the scene near harbor point boulevard one we spoke person to living inside who tried to put it out somebody came knocking on my door about three in the morning and i walk outside and it's the smoke and my neighbors sitting there yelling me tell me to grab a fire extinguisher and so i went back in my place to grab it open her door and the smoke was ready to take no one who was displaced suffered any injuries it's clear to firefighters that this fire started on a couch in one of the units but at this point they caught fire coming up allegations of racism and discrimination against latino students in the north south school district i'm carlene johnson the investigation is complete 134 traffic every 10 minutes on the floors here at northwest news radio your home for breaking news and traffic and weather here's kimmy klein in the high performance homes traffic center well no new accidents to report so i'm just watching our afternoon slow slow down start to really start to fill in and ever at north on i -5 are seeing about three miles of slowing getting towards and past highway two southbound five in seattle is busy between northgate and 990 we had an earlier crash on the east side southbound 405 and northeast 44th that has been cleared but it left some slowing from just south of 520 through newcastle and a lot of people wanted to avoid that so there he hopped on westbound 90 and that got busy outside the mercer island lid towards the i -5 interchange in seattle now we're still in good shape on i -5 around tequila and federal way not too bad around takoma but 167 is filled in south of highway 18 towards jovita boulevard we're looking great the whole stretch of state route 512 between lakewood and p wallop at some minor crowding in olympia on south on i -5 as you approach highway 101 and if we're headed towards bellingham some we have road work happening northbound five near lake samish it's been blocking the center lane this support sponsored by the washington state department of health get your flu vaccine and help create a flu -free washington more info at flufreewa .org sponsored by washington the state department of health your next northwest traffic at
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"Sound kitchen and bath pet decorator .com news radio 1000 FM 97 seven and streaming on your smart speaker your information station the united auto workers strike expanding to 38 more gm and stellantis facilities union leaders say they are far off from a deal with the two automakers abc's greff neft is in reno nevada where picketers are on the line and they say they're not bluffing about that. We tell our members to prepare local uaw head karina rezales among the 50 or so workers at a gm port in center reno walking the picket line their goals they say are simple fighting for fair wages a livable wage meantime uaw leaders say talks with ford are progressing senate majority leader chuck schumer says senator bob menendez will temporarily step down as chair of the foreign relations committee menendez and his wife were charged by federal prosecutors in a bribery and corruption scheme menendez says he's been falsely accused tropical storm ophelia now turning off the mid atlantic coast set to make landfall tomorrow storm warnings things and watches stretch from the carolinas to delaware i'm michelle franzen abc news newsradio 1000 fm 97 7 stay connected stay informed good afternoon it's 131 i'm taylor van size with our top stories from our 24 7 news center first lady dr jill biden landed in seattle last night today she's going to visit the fred hutchinson cancer research center to highlight the importance of supporting cancer answer also survivors on the first ladies agenda couple fundraisers
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"It's 12 31 i'm taylor van size with our top stories from our 24 7 news center first lady dr jill biden visiting seattle today as part of a west coast trip that starts in washington she landed here last night today dr biden visits the fred hutchinson cancer research center to highlight the importance of supporting cancer survivors through specialized care and research including survivors of childhood cancers and breast cancer as and part of the biden administration's unity agenda and what they call their cancer moonshot after that she'll deliver remarks at two political events for the biden victory fund in seattle biden will then visit california over controversial arrangement that sent inmates from king county's downtown seattle jail to a multi city jail in kent comes to an end after only three months more from northwest news radio's corwin hank the idea was to relieve conditions caused by short staffing at the downtown jail by sending some of its inmates to score the south correctional entity a jail operated by three south county cities the county would pay score three point five million dollars now publicola reports score and the county are calling off arrangement the there was a known issue from the start as this county council staffer pointed out one known difference in conditions for people housed at score compared to king county jails is that score does not have facilities for in -person visitation that was a red flag for public defenders and family members who would have limited access to the rehoused inmates critics also pointed out four inmates at score had died this year alone most recently on august 12th with the agreement ending a county detention department official tells publicola about twenty two people will return from score to the county's own jails corwin week newsradio northwest justice and accountability immediately those were the demands of the meeting last night as body cam video from the seattle police department continues to spark outrage through the community tough talk at a devoted to the public's relationship with seattle police i feel like this video has set us back in the work that we've done in healing those reactions directed at seattle's cops in person chanavi candula was hit and killed by an spd officer earlier this year a life honored by candles before this meeting even started then came calls for accountability and action by those knew who chanavi's family justice be served this is this is all we asked for that's the only way radio a pasco school bus driver gunned down in front of his own home i'm carlene johnson there every 10 minutes on the force in the high performance homes traffic center here's kimmy klein the hood canal bridge was closed cars to for just a couple minutes it's already back open again once again on highway 104 and highway three so we didn't have too many backups form while we waited there south on five in seattle that was very slow now from north gate all the way through the convention center towards 90 i we have some backups on the east side there's a crash south on 405 and northeast 44th blocking the right lane and the carpool lane so starting to back up further from almost southeast safe in bellevue otherwise our driver on rent and it's little just a crowded as north 167 merges on the north 405 around talbot road south on 167 just tapping breaks between ellingson road and jovita boulevard in takoma we're a little heavy past a crash that's on the shoulder of northbound i -5 at south 56 takoma or olympia is seeing some friday traffic on south and i -5 just approaching highway one and so is highway 18 eastbound over tiger mountain is busy today as you approach i -90 even things in everett are and filling i see on north and i -5 right around highway two the support sponsored by macy's backstage what you find macy's at backstage here's a hint fall finds for $25 and under like sharp lasers cozy sweaters cargo pants jackets and
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"97 7. Stay connected, stay informed. Good afternoon. It's 1202. I'm Taylor Vansice with our top stories from our 24 7 News Center. A cancer lab Tour tour and discussion with researchers are part of the agenda today for First Lady Doctor Jill Biden's visit to Seattle. Northwest News Radio's Ryan Harris joins us live now with more. Well, Taylor, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is one of Dr. Biden's stops where she'll tour a lab focused on metastatic breast cancer in breast cancer survivors, which is supported by a grant from the Defense Department. The First Lady has made several stops to assess the progress of President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot Initiative, including University Emory in Atlanta, where she reminded people cancer is personal for her as a mom who watched my son die of cancer. The one thing I never gave up on was hope. As a mother, mother. You can't. This work gives families the power to hold on to that hope just a little bit longer. Now, following the Fred Hutch stop, Mrs. Biden goes to Shoreline and Island Mercer for two fundraisers for the president's reelection campaign. Live at Fred Hutch, Ryan Harris, Northwest News Radio, Northwest News Time 1203. Somebody slammed an SUV into a Soto cannabis store early this morning. Police on scene tell us this shop was hit by a Hyundai Santa Fe SUV had been stolen. The shop's owner telling our photographer the suspects got away with a couple hundred dollars worth of items. This same Dockside cannabis was hit back in July and Dockside cannabis is Ballard location was just hit this past Monday. That's Como 4's Steve McCarron. Another Seattle pot shop was hit earlier today off of MLK Way, but it doesn't appear that the thieves were able to get into that one. A couch caught fire, flames did major with major damage to a Mukilteo apartment building this morning. Como 4's Mo Heide reports from the scene near Harbor Point Boulevard. Dicks units in Six this building were affected. Several families did have to evacuate. It took more than fires have put this out. Nobody injured, no word yet on the cause of the fire coming up. City officials and animal rights groups demanding answers after Spokane County's shelter put down 14 dogs in one day. ative into theoma is office is required as seven. It's new and it's blocking the right lane. So just starting to back up from the Valley Freeway, plus in Bellevue, I see an instant on northbound 405 around southeast 8th and it's off to the right shoulder but it's causing delays from factorial in northbound that direction. Meantime, southbound 405 not too bad but a little crowded approaching Coal Creek Parkway. We're seeing some traffic in Seattle north five around the Michigan curve towards I -90 and on south and I -5 between Northgate and the Ship Canal Bridge. Also noticing quite a bit of traffic on highway 101 today around Squim Bay. I haven't heard of any accidents or anything happening there so just plan on some extra time. Hood Canal Bridge is scheduled to close to cars around 1215 today for marine traffic and ferry riders you can expect a two -hour wait at the Kingston Terminal and the Point Defiance Tahlequah boat is 35 minutes behind. Your next Northwest traffic at 1214. our forecast now sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services here's Como Forest Theron's on. Mostly sunny skies this afternoon our temperatures
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"News news radio 1000 FM 97 .7 stay connected stay informed good afternoon 231 from the Northwest 24 -hour news center I'm Jeff pojolam here's what we're following the price of many Seattle hotel rooms will rise under a newly passed extension of tourism funding Northwest News Radio's Corwin Hank has the updates the full Seattle City Council has agreed to extend and expand the Seattle tourism improvement area a special taxing district that funds efforts to attract visitors funding comes from a tax tax on hotel rooms formerly a flat four bucks a night but now two point three percent of the nightly bill council member Sarah Nelson says the extension now allows the city tourism Bureau visit Seattle to to market not only to leisure travelers but to the business and trade show sector as well why is that important Because we've got a brand new expansion to our Convention Center and we want to make sure that people all over the country business associations nonprofits even internationally know that this asset exists Nelson says the new hotel room tax brings Seattle in line with similar taxing districts in Portland and there Corwin hake Northwest News Radio more funding will flow into Ballard now that the City Council extended is and expanded that neighborhood's business improvement area councilmember Dan Strauss says the existing BIA has allowed Ballard to successfully recover from the pandemic of higher foot traffic in 2019 I have reports from friends who have children who are teenagers who are choosing to go to Ballard Avenue instead of the mall newly passed ordinance allows Ballard businesses to tax themselves for another 12 years one of the cornerstone programs to fight homelessness in King County coming to an end the King County Regional Homelessness Authority announced it is abandoning the Partnership for Zero project it was first announced last year with a goal of fewer than 30 people living on the streets the Casey RHA says it was able to get 230 people off the streets and into housing as well as clear six encampments but now the 10 million dollars in funding has run out the downtown Seattle Association released a statement slamming the outcome of that project writing in partnership for zero was the right approach that was executed in all the wrong ways the DSA continued writing that the Casey RHA failed to deliver on its public commitment that's come before us Molly Shen first lady Jill Biden will pay a visit to the hutch this week dr. Jill Biden arrives in Seattle tomorrow night then on Friday she'll head to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center she'll the highlight importance of supporting cancer survivors through specialized care and research Biden then goes to play Saturday on time 234 let's get a check of the roads 10 every minutes on the floors in the high -performance homes traffic center here's Kimmy Klein. Earlier roadwork in Sequoia is now wrapped up and cleared away from South on 405 at the West Valley Highway where they were blocking the right lane for about two and hours a half but again everyone's getting through it's just really slow from Southeast 8th and Bellevue most of the way to the scene now it's also picking up traffic wise on the valley freeway in spots around Renton, Kent and Algona. Southland I -5 is getting slower right up the south center hill and in South Seattle just south of the Rainier Beach Station there is a car versus light rail collision that is partially blocking south on MLK Jr. Way at Norfolk Street and it looks like police are directing traffic through so you're getting through for now but it's very slow even westbound 9E is getting slower into Seattle starting at midspan on the bridge southbound 5 is heavy in a downtown starting at Northgate Everett traffic thickening up right on schedule like we normally see in the afternoon north on I -5 heading north of the Boeing freeway and it lets up just past Marine View Drive. This support sponsored by the Washington State Department of Health sick of sick days COVID vaccinations are available for kids aged six months and up schedule theirs today a message from the Washington State Department of Health your next Northwest traffic at 244. Forecast sponsored by Northwest crawlspace services here's Kristen Clark. The early morning rain has come to an end and now we're back to sunshine and the
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"I'm Michelle Franzen, ABC News. Newsradio 1000 FM 97 .7. Stay connected, stay informed. Good afternoon It's 1231, I'm Taylor VanCise. Now our top stories from our 24 -7 news center. A goal of almost zero and thank you for joining us here. Northwest News Radio's Corwin Hank reports the so -called partnership for zero is shutting down. With high hopes The King County Regional Homelessness Authority launched the pilot program in May of last year. The authorities former CEO Mark Dones noted at the time about a thousand people live unsheltered in downtown Seattle. That is unacceptable. People deserve better. They deserve to know that their community cares about them and is doing everything in its power to make sure that they have the resources that they need to define the pathways into housing. So far pathways have emerged for only 231 individuals and in May Dones was abruptly ousted. Now partnership for zeros funding is running out and in Dones's absence the Homelessness Authority is shuttering the program. It's a blow not only for the who many remain unhoused but for dozens of paid staff members who will be laid off. Many have what the program calls lived experience with homelessness. Corwin Haake, Northwest News Radio. A gun rights group is suing Attorney General Bob Ferguson and wants the case moved to what could be a friendlier court. More from Northwest News Radio's Jeff Pojala. The Second Amendment Foundation headed by conservative activist Alan Gottlieb long has clashed with the AG's office. This latest fight is over an investigation into the Foundation's finances and other activities by the AG's Consumer Protection Division. The Foundation accuses the Attorney General's office of targeting them because of their views on guns. They want the case moved to a state court hoping they'll get a more expeditious and even favorable ruling. It may or may not be an assurance of a friendlier court but we've been able to do quite a bit of litigation there successfully. That spokesman Dave Workman in a statement the Attorney General's office did not specifically address the lawsuit but did say they are undefeated against the Second Amendment Foundation in court. Jeff Pojal on Northwest News Radio. First lady Dr. Jill Biden to is pay going a visit to the hutch this week. Dr. Biden arriving in Seattle tomorrow night then on Friday she'll head to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and highlight the importance of supporting cancer survivors through specialized care and research. Biden will Then travel to LA on Saturday. Coming up after traffic and weather. Highway two would be a death trap in a major fire like they had on Maui. That assessment from locals who want traffic improvements now. I'm Carleen Johnson. Northwest News Radio is your home for breaking news and traffic and weather every 10 minutes on the fours. At 1234 here's Kimmy Klein in the High Performance Homes Traffic Center. In Tukwila we are dealing with some emergency road work happening right now. Southbound 405 of the West Valley Highway. to find You're going that right lane blocked by work crews and it's causing delays from Talbot Road out of Renton but also a northbound 7 for about a half a mile approaching that 405 interchange. That's also jammed up but things on Southbound 405 are also just busy right now around Coal Creek Parkway and right up the Kenny Dell Hill approaching Sunset Boulevard. Our floating bridges are still looking great between Bellevue and Seattle but there is an accident on the ramp from Montlake Boulevard to Westbound 520 right at the top of the ramp and it's partially blocking that so it's really backing up Southbound Montlake Boulevard from the U Village. Southbound I -5 also rolling slower between Northgate and Mercer Street and a little bit more just passing I -90 otherwise you're good to go all through Federal Way just a minor delay seen though around the Fife Carve on Southbound I -5 from Porter Way to the 54th Avenue exit. This report is sponsored by Qdoba Mexican Eats it's finally here National Queso Day to celebrate Qdoba is away giving a free large side of three cheese queso with your entree to drip your burrito use the code word drip at participating locations or online. Your next Northwest traffic at 1244. A forecast now sponsored by Northwest Crawl Space Services here's Como4 meteorologist Kristin Clark. A dry north breeze and
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"The covid 19 pandemic is not, I repeat, not over. In fact, he warns of a coming case surge with reduced mask use and greater mobility and mixing of people. It's reasonable to anticipate that we may be at the start of a hopefully a small fifth covid wave. Snohomish County recorded 384 new covid cases between July 4th and 10th figure that does not include likely new exposures from the long haul. Holiday weekend. Corwin Hike KOMO News. How did King County handled the covid outbreak? The auditor's office has a report out and we have more from comas Charlie harder, it turns out, different agencies within county government had varying levels of preparedness for a pandemic. Police. Garvey with the auditor's office says it was easier for some agencies to order PPE, for example, because they had knowledge of how to do it. Overall, the new report found positives and other things that could be improved for all of the areas that we looked into. County leaders and staff took many actions to ensure that county services continued under difficult circumstances. The auditor's office says. Lessons need to be learned here and applied the next time an emergency arises. Charlie Harder. Come on, Mills. The city, Seattle City Council is a vote away from severely restricting the use of less lethal weapons by Seattle police More from Commons Jeff Polozola, the Public Safety committee has passed a bill that limits and sometimes even prohibits the use of things like rubber bullets, pepper spray and blast walls. SPD's use of such less lethal weapons, as they're called, came under heavy criticism during last year's riots. But the Socialist member of the Seattle City Council Chama Sawant said the restrictions in the bill don't go far enough. I believe the City Council should hold out to fight for that legislation you're going to affect rather than pass this bill. Creating cavernous loopholes. The full council will vote on the bill sometime next month. Jeff Pooja like come on use some of the Giants and cancer research and treatment have formed a new local partnership. Cuomo's Ryan Harris tells us about its goals. The players already worked together. But part of the aim of strengthening the relationship with the merger of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, still tied in with UW Medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital is expected to take research and patient care to the Next level. UW medicine chief Dr Paul Ramsey says it's an exciting time with cancer research that could potentially cure and provide a path to personalized medicine. This restructure that we are exploring has the potential to connect that research that potential for cure that potential for a path for personalized prevention of cancer directly to the patient. So this is about accelerating the application of research. The key difference for you as a patient is that quicker connection with the science for Children a new build. Opening next year means kids can get their cancer care all in one place. Ryan Harris Co Mo. News. It's by 40 into the Beacon Plumbing sports desk. What's going on? Bill Swarm could see some baseball Rick last year. There was no major League All Star Game because of the pandemic. Tonight's Midsummer Classic was to have been played in Atlanta. Of course, MLB moved it to Denver because of Georgia's new voting law. It's full house, of course, Field tonight. The Angels two way player, Shohei Otani has made some all Star history..
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"The Covid 19 pandemic is not, I repeat, not over. In fact, he warns of a coming case surge with reduced mask use and greater mobility and mixing of people. It's reasonable to anticipate that we may be at the start of a hopefully a small fifth covid wave. Snohomish County recorded 384 new covid cases between July 4th and 10th, a figure that does not include likely new exposures from the long holiday weekend. Corwin Co. Mo news. So how did King County handled the covid outbreak? The auditor's office is out with a new report has come most Charlie harder, it turns out different agencies within county government had varying levels of prepared this for a pandemic. Police. Garvey with the auditor's office says it was easier for some agencies to order PPE, for example, because they had knowledge of how to do it. Overall, the new report found positives and other things that could be improved for all of the areas that we looked into. County leaders and staff took many actions to ensure that county services continued under difficult circumstances. The auditor's office says. Lessons need to be learned here and applied the next time an emergency arises. Charlie Harder. Come on news. Some of the Giants and cancer research and treatment have formed a new local partnership. Almost Ryan Harris tells us about its goals. The players already worked together. But part of the aim of strengthening the relationship with the merger of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Still tied in with UW Medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital is expected to take research and patient care to the next level. UW medicine chief Dr Paul Ramsey says it's an exciting time with cancer research. It could potentially cure and provide a path to personalized medicine. This restructure that we are exploring has the potential to connect that research that potential for cure that potential for a path for personalized prevention of cancer directly to the patient. So this is about accelerating the application of research. The key difference for you as a patient is that quicker connection with the science for Children, a new building opening next year means kids can get their cancer care all in one place. Ryan Harris Co Mo News Still ahead on the KOMO afternoon news. The Seattle Police Department may soon be severely restricted in how it uses less lethal weaponry. I'm Jeff Postell of the story next 3 34 Here's Marina Rock injure Now, with a check on traffic on the forest from the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center. We have solid traffic southbound 167 because of a collision just north of state route 5 16. So we have the two right lanes blocked and it's just really causing that bumper to bumper back out as backup as you leave Renton and try to head down towards Kent. South Bend four or five solid and Bellevue from 5 22. Newcastle South 25 really struggling from 85th through Seattle, down towards I 90 we have a problem in to quell a It is police activity following a shooting, so we have East marginal way. Both directions closed between 1/16 and Pacific Highway in Puyallup. Westbound 585 12 at Woodland. Collision off to the shoulder. Your next KOMO traffic.
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"To help with the investigation. Marisa Penaloza. NPR NEWS Washington Advisor Covert 19 vaccine may soon be authorized for young people between the ages of 12 and 15. The FDA is expected to approve the expanded use of the vaccine this week. Currently, it's available for those 16 and up. Meanwhile, the European Union struck a deal with visor on a new contract, putting the EU in line to receive a potential 1.8 billion doses of visors vaccine. The blocks 450 million residents threw 2023, a third of Americans are now fully vaccinated against Cove in 19, and new infections continue to fall across most of the US down nearly 30% compared to two weeks ago. Well, stone has more The outlook is promising infections and hospitalizations or on a decline. Even with the spread of a more contagious variant of the Corona virus. There are some out wires among the Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and the Pacific Northwest. Dr Joshua Schiffer Studies infectious disease at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. I think our degree of vulnerability is moderate. There's still enough susceptible people in the population for the virus to spread, though not nearly as rapidly as before. The pace of vaccination has slowed since peaking in early April. Majority of younger adults are not yet vaccinated. And those under 50 now make up about 40% of covert hospitalizations for NPR news. I'm will stone In Elizabeth City, North Carolina, for your name, say his name. A curfew has been lifted and protests continue over the death of Andrew Brown Jr shot and killed in his car by deputies trying to serve a warrant. Under a judge's new ruling family members will get to view more body camera footage of the incident next week. But once again it will be a fraction of the total DASHCAM video. The family protesters have called for all video to be released, but a judge ruled it couldn't be made public yet because of the investigation. This is NPR. In Maryland. A shooting and a fire in Baltimore County has left three people dead, including the suspected gunman to others injured. Police say officers responded to reports of an active shooter this morning and found a townhouse on fire and an armed man outside. We shot him. The fire spread to two nearby town houses. Police are still investigating the motive and also the timeline of the events. Agencies. The track sprays debris still can't exactly say where or when a large piece of space junk will fall to earth. NPR's Joel Palka has more. The debris is a rocket that was used to launch part of the Chinese space station into orbit last week. Normally rockets fall back to Earth right after their job is done, usually over water, but this one went into orbit. Since the orbit isn't very high. The Earth's upper atmosphere has been slowing the rocket down. Eventually the atmospheric drag will cause it to drop out of orbit That's expected to happen tonight. But since the tumbling rocket is traveling 18,000 MPH even a few minutes. Difference in the timing contains the landing location considerably. The most likely scenario is it will splash down in a notion. Joe Palka NPR news The co founder of the vans, company makers of the iconic Southern California sneakers that are loved by skateboarders has died. Paul Van Doren was 90 No cause of death was given He, his brother and two associates opened the business in 1966 and made until their own shoes, which caught on with scape borders after Sean Penn War,.
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"Live from NPR News. I'm Janine Herbst. Ah, cyberattacks shut down one of the largest refined products pipeline in the nation as NPR's Marissa Penalosa reports. It's the latest in a string of cyber attacks on the country's critical infrastructure. In a written statement. Colonial pipeline said that it was the victim of a cyber security attack, though the company didn't say who launched the attack, or what the motives were. The Georgia based company carries fuel along the East coast from Texas to New York. It transports more than 100 million gallons of fuel daily, including gasoline, diesel fuel. Home heating oil jet fuel and it also supplies fuel to the U. S military through its pipeline system, according to the company's website. The company said it contacted federal agencies and law enforcement as well as enlisting a third party cyber security firm to help with the investigation. Marisa Penaloza. NPR NEWS Washington Advisor. Covert 19 vaccine may soon be authorized for young people between the ages of 12 and 15. The FDA is expected to approve the expanded use of the vaccine this week. Currently it's available for those 16 and up. Meanwhile, the European Union struck a deal with visor on a new contract, putting the EU in line to receive a potential 1.8 billion doses of visors vaccine for the blocks 450 million residents threw 2023 And a third of Americans are now fully vaccinated against Cove in 19, and new infections continue to fall across most of the US down nearly 30% compared to two weeks ago. Well, stone has more. The outlook is promising infections and hospitalizations or on a decline, even with the spread of a more contagious variant of the Corona virus. There are some out wires among the Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and the Pacific Northwest. Dr Joshua Schiffer studies infectious disease at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. I think our degree of vulnerability is moderate. There's still enough susceptible people in the population for the virus to spread, though not nearly as rapidly as before the pace. The vaccination has slowed since peaking in early April. Majority of younger adults are not yet vaccinated. And those under 50 now make up about 40% of covert hospitalizations for NPR news. I'm will stone In Elizabeth City, North Carolina, his name his name. A curfew has been lifted and protests continue over the death of Andrew Brown Jr shot and killed in his car by deputies trying to serve a warrant. Under a judge's new ruling family members will get to view more body camera footage of the incident next week. But once again it will be a fraction of the total DASHCAM video. The family protesters have called for all video to be released, but a judge ruled it couldn't be made public yet because of the investigation. This is NPR. In Maryland. A shooting and a fire in Baltimore County has left three people dead, including the suspected gunman to others injured. Police say officers responded to reports of an active shooter this morning and found a townhouse on fire and an armed man outside. Police shot him. The fire spread to two nearby town houses. Police are still investigating the motive and also the timeline of the events. Agencies. The track sprays debris still can't exactly say where or when a large piece of space junk will fall to earth. NPR's Joel Palka has more. The debris is a rocket that was used to launch part of the Chinese space station into orbit last week. Normally rockets fall back to Earth right after their job is done, usually over water, but this one went into orbit. Since the orbit isn't very high. The Earth's upper atmosphere has been slowing the rocket down. Eventually the atmospheric drag will cause it to drop out of orbit That's expected to happen tonight. But since the tumbling rocket is traveling 18,000 MPH even a few minutes. Difference in the timing contains the landing location considerably. Most likely scenario is it will splash down in a notion. Joe Palka NPR news Co founder of the vans, company makers of the iconic Southern California sneakers that are loved by skateboarders has died. Paul Van Doren was 90 No cause of death was given He, his brother and two associates opened the business in 1966 and made until their own shoes, which caught on with scape borders after Sean Penn War apparent a movie Fast times at Ridgemont High..
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"In Washington. I'm Louise give Oniy. Ah, third of Americans are now fully vaccinated against Cove in 19 and new infections continue to fall across most of the US Down nearly 30%. Compared to two weeks ago. Reporter Will Stone has more. The outlook is promising infections and hospitalizations or on a decline. Even with the spread of a more contagious variant of the Corona virus, there are some out wires among the Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and the Pacific Northwest. Dr Joshua Schiffer studies infectious disease at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. I think our degree of vulnerability is moderate. There's still enough susceptible people in the population for the virus to spread, though not nearly as rapidly as before. The pace of vaccination has slowed since peaking in early April. The majority of younger adults are not yet vaccinated. And those under 50 now make up about 40% of covert hospitalizations for NPR news. I'm will stone The federal government has authorized another $21.6 billion in emergency assistance for covert era renters. The CDC addiction moratorium faces an uncertain future, but millions of people are not sure they're ready to lose that support. At the same time, the funding has been slow to reach those in need. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge spoke about these challenges with NPR tenants don't know their own rights, and so we're trying to educate. Tenants on for you to go. The same thing is happening with Homebuyers. Many of them do not know that they can go to their lender and re negotiate the alone if they need to that we have assistance in an amount of $10 billion for them. She says Hut has been assisting in the process through negotiations with landlords. Ah cyberattacks shut down one of the largest refined products pipelines in the United States. Latest in a string of cyber attacks on the country's critical infrastructure. MPR's Marisa Penaloza reports in a written statement. Colonial pipeline said that it was the victim of a cyber security attack, though the company didn't say who launched the attack or what the motives were. The Georgia based company carries fuel along the East coast from Texas to New York. It transports more than 100 million gallons of field daily, including gasoline, diesel fuel. Home heating oil jet fuel and it also supplies fuel to the U. S military through its pipeline system, according to the company's website. The company said it contacted federal agencies and law enforcement as well as enlisting a third party cyber security firm to help with the investigation. Marisa Penaloza. NPR NEWS Washington In Afghanistan, At least 30 people are known dead after a bomb exploded near a girl's school in Kabul. This is NPR..
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"NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish and Mary Louise Kelly. It took many months and tens of thousands of volunteers to gather the data showing The current crop of covert vaccines are safe and effective. But what if new vaccines air needed to deal with dangerous variants of the Corona virus, while waiting months is not an attractive option, so researchers are trying to come up with tests that can be performed using a blood sample. It will determine not only whether a vaccine will work. But for how long. NPR's Joe Palka has more on the search For these so called correlates of protection, Researchers at the University of Oxford are conducting a study that at first blush may seem somewhat odd. They are deliberately exposing healthy young volunteers to the coronavirus volunteers who have already had covert 19 once. Helen McShane is the chief investigator for the project. The reason we're doing the study is that we expect to see some level of protection against reinfection. The key question is how much What kind of immune response correlates with that protection. Here's the logic. When you get infected with the virus, your immune system produces antibodies that target the virus and fight it off. If you recover from the viral infection, then the antibodies did their job. What McShane and her colleagues want to learn is what level of antibodies something known as the antibody tighter. What level of antibodies is enough to provide protection against future infection? It maybe not possible to re infect people with an antibody level above a certain amount. Measuring antibody levels is done with a blood test and answering that question should be a significant help in coping with the covert pandemic. Because we can then use that level that cut off If you like to say OK, anyone who has that level of antibodies either induced by natural infection or by vaccination is protected. Knowing that cut off level that cut off tighter will be particularly useful for figuring out how long the protection afforded by a vaccine will last because we can say Hey, 18 months after you were vaccinated. You still have any body tigers that are within that range of protection? Chris how chins is with the U. S. Government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. How chins says the antibody cut off becomes what's called a coral it of protection. In this case, the levels of antibodies in the blood that will indicate whether a new vaccine will work without having to test it. In tens of thousands of volunteers. We're gonna want to be able to use the coral. It's a protection Conduct smaller studies that are going to involve the enrollment of hundreds of patients rather than tens of thousands of patients. How chins is involved in another effort to get at the antibody level needed to achieve protection. Researchers are comparing antibody levels and people who got the modern a vaccine but still got cove it with levels in people who got the vaccine but didn't get sick. That's another way to find the level of antibodies needed for protection. Unfortunately, how chin says that approach is taking a while because the majority of vaccine is so very effective. It's taken a very long time to collect enough samples from the vaccinated individuals who became infected. How chin says they now have enough of these so called breakthrough infections. Peter Gilbert from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is leading the data analysis team, he says he and his colleagues are loading the results into a database that will be able to basically push the button trashing the journal. Push the button Azad partnership. And that'll produce statistical reports containing the corals results. The coral it's will show whether there is a specific antibody level that will let you say with confidence. A new vaccine will work without testing it in tens of thousands of people have been in the field is waiting for those results. To give more confidence in being able Tomo approve other vaccines more quickly and more reliably, so we're getting close. I think we're almost there. Actually for vaccine developers that day can't come soon enough. Oh Palka NPR news. One of the Apollo 11 astronauts has died. Michael Collins was part of the three member crew who went to the moon on the first lunar landing mission. But unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, he never set foot on the moon. He stayed behind and piloted the command module as it circled above. Collins has died of cancer at the age of 90. MPR's Russell Lewis has this remembrance when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in July. 1969 Griffin And quality base here. The eagle.
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"Are effective at preventing covert 19 infections. But are they good at preventing the spread of the virus itself? The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has launched a study Determine exactly that. They've partnered with 21 universities across the country to enroll some 12,000 college students hope is to determine whether vaccinated people can unwittingly transmit the disease. Without becoming infected themselves. In a
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"Against the coronavirus are rolled out, Health officials still face a problem who gets immunized first, even if the Biden administration releases all available doses. For a while, at least supplies will be limited. NPR's Joe Palka says mathematicians can help determine how best to Dole out those shots. It's common sense to say that if you have a vaccine for covert 19, and it works well, you should use it first to protect people who are most vulnerable to dying from the disease. But it's also common sense to say well, we should take this great vaccine and use it to break down the processes of transmission by vaccinating the people who are most responsible for the spread. Thereby protecting everyone. That's Daniel Larra more of computer scientists at the University of Colorado Bio Frontiers Institute. The people most likely to spread. The covert 19 virus tend to be young and healthy. People most likely to die from it are mostly older and more frail. Anytime common sense points US in two opposite directions. That's where mathematical models can help us. Try to differentiate between One common sense solution and another and when you might choose one versus the other, Larry Moore makes these models tell the model things like how effective the vaccine isn't preventing disease or how much viruses circulating in a community. And critically how fast the vaccine is being rolled out, and the models will tell you where you can have the most bang for the buck as it were. Sara Moore says if vaccines were widely available, the models say it makes the most sense to give them to people likely to spread the disease. However, if the vaccine is rolled out slowly, which is currently the case And if community transmission is high, which is also currently the case. Then it becomes better to prioritize adults over 60 to minimize mortality. That's close to what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently recommending, although the CDC guidelines also called for vaccinating people likely to be exposed to the virus, such as frontline health care workers But even if a mathematical model suggests the most effective path, it doesn't provide all the answers. Public health officials need Mark Jet is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. You still have to make some difficult value decisions like you know how many lives in older people? Are you gonna save me like the younger people have me lies in different people, richer, poorer people, So there are some really Keep value decisions. But those I'm hearing in the fact that we have lived minted supplies of the vaccine, so we have to make hard decisions about who to give it to first right now. Modelers air trying to help public health officials decide if it makes sense to use a single dose of the Madonna and Fizer vaccines to extend the limited supply, even though the vaccine has only really been tested, using a to dose regimen. Laura, a truck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has a model that allows her to test various What if scenarios. Here's one scenario if the first does is highly implications And we have strange and social distancing interventions in place, then vaccinating with a single Those is optimal. The need for stringent social distancing is because while it's clear the vaccine prevents disease, it's not so clear, totally prevent someone from transmitting the covert virus. And the tough emphasizes that the single dose strategy on Lee works. If a single dose is efficacious, we should do whatever it takes to know what the efficacy of a single dose is. The truffle also says her model and others say it's important to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. If you don't roll of vaccine fasting off, the effect of the vaccine will be very, very limited, and, like many of us metropolis has a personal reason to want the vaccine soon, and if they roll the vaccine In six months or seven months. That means that I'm gonna be stuck in my husband and mother. Seven months. Mathematical modelers are people too, You know. Joe Palka NPR news. You're listening to weekend edition from NPR news. Texas Senator Ted Cruz played a key role in amplifying the false voter fraud claims that drove people toe overrun the U. S Capitol, But he denies any responsibility and aims the blame solely at President Trump. Like Missouri Senator Josh Holly cruises courting Trump's voters ahead of a possible presidential bid from member station K E. R A In Dallas, Bret Jaspers reports on the blowback cruise faces back at home. President Trump has continuously lied about widespread voter fraud. He's lost dozens of court cases attempting to overthrow November's election. Among those who have helped amplify those false claims is Ted Cruz here. He is in Georgia, about a week ago campaigning for fellow Republican senators, are they going to try to steep? Yes, but I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna win by a big enough margin. Ain't nobody stealing.
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"A truck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has a model that allows her to test various. What if scenarios. Here's one scenario if the first does is highly implications And we have strange and social distancing interventions in place, then vaccinating with a single Those is optimal. The need for stringent social distancing is because while it's clear the vaccine prevents disease, it's not so clear, totally prevent someone from transmitting the covert virus. And the truck emphasizes that the single dose strategy on Lee works. If a single dose is efficacious, we should do whatever it takes to know what the legacy of a single dose is. The truck also says her model and others say it's important to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. If you don't roll of vaccine fasting off, the effect of the vaccine will be very, very limited, and, like many of us metropolis has a personal reason to want the vaccine soon, and if they roll the vaccine In six months or seven months. That means that I'm gonna be stuck in my husband and mother. Seven months. Mathematical modelers are people too, You know. Joe Palka NPR news. Mm hmm. Mm. You're listening to weekend edition from NPR news and you're listening on KQED Public radio. Starting January 10th. When World War two ended, the U. S Army was concerned that future enemies might lob high altitude missiles are way So it wanted to know if radar could track them..
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"It was depressing and shocking, especially on a day like yesterday. The day of certification is usually a day of high energy. It feels like the first day of school with new members. Finding their offices is learning with the bathrooms are Bring their families used to walk those halls when he worked for former Democratic Senator Harry Reid. Now he's out with a book called Kill Switch, the Rise of the Modern Senate and the crippling of American Democracy. And sort of calls for impeachment by Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. I asked him what other kinds of action should be taken in the aftermath of all this. The reality of the situation is that you have to clean the wound before you can heal it. We need as a society to impose clear consequences on folks who perpetrated this kind of behavior. Is really no way to move forward. Unless we address these issues head on and show those who took this action that there are consequences for what they did. What does it mean to have consequences in a situation like this? Like, you know, the Senate If senators like Ted Cruz or Josh Holly feel like they are representing their constituents and what they're doing, Can anyone in the Senate really say anything about that? Listen for some of these bad actors. In some ways, they're getting exactly what they wanted. Josh Holly. As awful as what he's done has been. He is making a appeal to the hard core base of the Republican Party. He sent out a fundraising appeal yesterday. Based on his actions, he may be getting the sort of folk hero status that he is seeking here if someone is going to act on that level of bad faith And that is what they want to do with their career and those of the folks they want to appeal to, and it works. There's not a whole lot you can do, however, as a society and as a party for the GOP, they can take a clear stand here and say that folks who do this Not going to be welcome in their party and to not take action is to normalize the actions of folks like Senator Holly, One of the striking things about this week was seeing the Confederate flag inside the Capitol brought in by some of the violent rioters who had broken in. What was that, like for you? Given the racial history you write about in the book. It was incredibly depressing. There is a very ugly racial history underlying The Senate. I think that's true, you know, for for some many institutions in American life, but really, especially so for the Senate, so much of the structure of the body itself exists due to concessions to Planter class and the slave power back in the 18th and 19th centuries And then even through the 20th century, many of the rules that are currently in place. We're operating under were put in place in service of segregation of senators from the South. The book I talk about Richard Russell from Georgia, for whom a Senate office building Is still named today who declared himself in his own words that white supremacy was the primary cause of his life and that any man worth his salt would give his all for white supremacy. In the past, the president elect Joe Biden, has made a big deal out of his relationship. To the Senate, his relationship with other senators and his ability to move things in a bipartisan direction. What to you is the reality of the situation on the ground right now. You know things have changed a lot in recent years, and I think that President Biden spent most of his years in the Senate under very different circumstances. When President Obama was elected, there was still a relatively large number of Republican senators who came from Blue states. And vice versa. That polarization has really taken hold specifically in the Senate in a very firm way just in the last few years. The reality is that the kind of bipartisan cooperation that used to be Normal in the Senate. When President Biden was there just doesn't exist anymore. Now the prevailing environment is one of sharp partisan polarization and something called negative partisanship, which is that one side succeeds by making other side fail, and I think that is a dynamic that paralyzes institution. Recognizing that and facing that reality front on is something that President Biden is gonna have to do. Pretty early on in his term, Adam gentle Sin is former deputy chief of staff to Democrat Harry Reid. And the author of Kill, Switch, The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Thank you for your time. Thanks for having me on The UK is struggling to stop a new variant of the Corona virus, which appears to be more contagious and record breaking case numbers have driven Britain into another nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, here in the U. S states like California, Arizona and Rhode Island have staggering rates of infection. Some of the highest in the world and health officials are wondering is the new variant which has already been detected here in the U. S behind this latest spike? MPR's Michaleen Do Cliff investigates right after UK scientists reported they found a variant of the coronavirus that looks more transmissible. Scientists in the U. S. Went looking for the variant across the country. Trevor Bedford is helping to lead this effort. He's a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, He says Scientists have detected the new variant here. So it's definitely circulating, but the levels appear to be very low. A rough estimate from across the U. S would be about one in 1000 frequency. So One in thousands could get infections is due to the variance. That's only about 10.1% of all cases, but Bedford says he expects that percent to rise quickly. In England. The variant went from rare, too, dominating the outbreak in about three months. And so I'd roughly expect that kind of a similar timeline of three months out to go from initial arrivals in the U. S in December. 2 starting to kind of dominate the virus population and say, March. So on the surface, that sounds like good news. It means the U. S still has two months to slow down this new variant and prepare for it. The Bedford says the findings are worrying. They mean that dire situation already happening in some states isn't because of a more contagious virus. I think it's not At all really conceivable that this this more transmissible variant is has contributed to searching cases in the U. S. And following her wave. We're kind of we're just barely getting getting started with it. Some communities are seeing packed hospitals and overstretched health care systems with a less transmissible version of the virus. What's going to happen if a more contagious form? Starts to circulate widely even dominate the outbreak. Right now. Scientists don't believe the new variant is more deadly and it's transmissibility doesn't appear to be much, much higher. One study suggests a person sick with the older version of the virus infects about 10% of people they come into contact with. Person sick with the new variant infects about 15%, so a rise of about 5% points. That doesn't sound too bad, right? But remember, viruses spread exponentially. Case numbers grow faster and faster over time they accelerate. If you then crank that exponential growth up to a steeper curve, you very quickly started affecting many, many, many more people than you would have beforehand. And even though the percent that end up in hospital or dying stays the same A small percent of a big number is a big number. That's Emma Hot Cross. She's an epidemiologist at the University of Baron in Switzerland, she says the U. S needs to be thinking about how to minimize damage from this new variant. Right now, this is our early warning, because by the time you have something spreading exponentially in your country, it is much harder to get it under control, she says. What needs to be done will be different for each community. Activities that seemed relatively safe before like outdoor dining might not be a safe with the new version of the virus. She also says states can ramp.
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"Was depressing and shocking, especially on a day like yesterday. The day of certification is usually a day of high energy. It feels like the first day of school with new members. Finding their offices is learning where the bathrooms are. To bring their families he used to walk those halls when he worked for former Democratic Senator Harry Reid. Now he's out with a book called Kill Switch, the Rise of the Modern Senate and the crippling of American Democracy. And sort of calls for impeachment by Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. I asked him what other kinds of action should be taken in the aftermath of all this. The reality of the situation is that you have to clean the wound before you can heal it. We need as a society to impose clear consequences on folks who perpetrated this kind of behavior. Is really no way to move forward unless we address these issues, head on and show those who took this action that there are consequences for what they did. What does it mean to have consequences in a situation like this? Like, you know, the Senate If senators like Ted Cruz or Josh Holly feel like they are representing their constituents and what they're doing, Can anyone in the Senate really say anything about that? Listen for some of these bad actors, In some ways, they're getting exactly what they wanted. Josh Holly. As awful as what he's done has been. He is making a appeal to the hard core base of the Republican Party. He sent out a fundraising appeal yesterday. Based on his actions, he may be getting the sort of folk hero status that he is seeking here. If someone is going to act in that level of bad faith, and that is what they want to do with their career and those of the folks they want to appeal to, and it works. There's not a whole lot you can do, however. As a society and as a party for the GOP. They can take a clear stands here and say that folks who do this are not going to be welcome in their party and to not take action is to normalize the actions of folks like Senator Holly. One of the striking things about this week was seeing that Confederate flag inside the Capitol brought in by some of the violent rioters who had broken in What was that, like for you? Given the racial history you write about in the book. It was incredibly depressing. There is a very ugly racial history underlying The Senate. I think that's true, you know, for for some many institutions in American life, but really, especially so for the Senate, so much of the structure of the body itself exists due to concessions to Planter class and the slave power back in the 18th and 19th centuries And then even through the 20th century, many of the rules that are currently in place. We're operating under were put in place in service of segregation of senators from the South. In the book, I talked about Richard Russell from Georgia, for whom a Senate office building Was still named today who declared himself in his own words that white supremacy was the primary cause of his life and that any man worth his salt would give his all for white supremacy. In the past, the president elect Joe Biden, has made a big deal out of his relationship. To the Senate, his relationship with other senators and his ability to move things in a bipartisan direction. What to you is the reality of the situation on the ground right now. You know things have changed a lot in recent years, and I think that President Biden spent most of his years in the Senate under very different circumstances. When President Obama was elected, there was still a relatively large number of Republican senators who came from Blue states. And vice versa. That polarization has really taken hold specifically in the Senate in a very firm way just in the last few years. The reality is that the kind of bipartisan cooperation that used to be Normal in the Senate. When President Biden was there just doesn't exist anymore. Now the prevailing environment is one of sharp partisan polarization and something called negative partisanship, which is that one side succeeds by making the other side fail. I think that is a dynamic that paralyzes the institution. Recognizing that and facing that reality front on is something that President Biden is gonna have to do. Pretty early on in his term, Adam gentle Sin is former deputy chief of staff to Democrat Harry Reid. And the author of Kill, Switch, The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Thank you for your time. Thanks for having me on The UK is struggling to stop a new variant of the Corona virus, which appears to be more contagious and record breaking case numbers have driven Britain into another nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, here in the U. S states like California, Arizona and Rhode Island have staggering rates of infection. Some of the highest in the world and health officials are wondering is the new variant which has already been detected here in the U. S behind this latest spike? NPR's Michaleen Do Cliff investigates right after UK scientists reported they found a variant of the coronavirus that looks more transmissible. Scientists in the U. S. Went looking for the variant across the country. Trevor Bedford is helping to lead this effort. He's a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He says. Scientists have detected the new variant here, so it's definitely circulating but the levels appear to be very low. A rough estimate from across the U. S would be about one in 1000 frequency. So One in thousands. Corbett infections is due to the variance. That's only about 10.1% of all cases, but Bedford says he expects that percent to rise quickly. In England. The variant went from rare, too, dominating the outbreak in about three months. And so I'd roughly expect a kind of a similar timeline of three months out to go from initial arrivals in the U. S in December. 2 starting to kind of dominate the virus population and say, March. So on the surface, that sounds like good news. It means the U. S still has two months to slow down this new variant and prepare for it. The Bedford says the findings are worrying. They mean the dire situation already happening in some states isn't because of a more contagious virus..
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"This is all things considered. I'm Ailsa Chang and I'm Audie Cornish as yesterday's violent attack on the Capitol unfolded, one person watching was Adam gentle Seuin. It was depressing and shocking, especially on a day like yesterday. The day of certification is usually a day of high energy. It feels like the first day of school with new members. Finding their offices is learning where the bathrooms are. To bring their families he used to walk those halls when he worked for former Democratic Senator Harry Reid. Now he's out with a book called Kill Switch, the Rise of the Modern Senate and the crippling of American Democracy. And short of calls for impeachment by Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. I asked him what other kinds of action should be taken in the aftermath of all this. The reality of the situation is that you have to clean the wound before you can heal it. We need as a society to impose clear consequences. On folks who perpetrated this kind of behavior. There's really no way to move forward. Unless we address these issues, head on and show those who took this action that there are consequences for what they did. What does it mean to have consequences in a situation like this? Like, you know, the Senate If senators like Ted Cruz or Josh Holly feel like they are representing their constituents and what they're doing, Can anyone in the Senate really say anything about that? Listen for some of these bad actors, In some ways, they're getting exactly what they wanted. Josh Harley. As awful as what he's done has been. He is making a appeal to the hard core base of the Republican Party. He sent out a fundraising appeal yesterday. Based on his actions, he may be getting the sort of folk hero status that he is seeking here. If someone is going to act in that level of bad faith, and that is what they want to do with their career and those of the folks that want to appeal to and it works, there's not a whole lot you can do, however. As a society and as a party for the GOP. They can take a clear stands here and say that folks who do this are not going to be welcome in their party and to not take action is to normalize the actions of folks like Senator Holly. One of the striking things about this week was seeing that Confederate flag inside the Capitol brought in by some of the violent rioters who had broken in What was that, like for you? Given the racial history you write about in the book. It was incredibly depressing. There is a very ugly racial history underlying The Senate. I think that's true, you know, for for some many institutions in American life, but really, especially so for the Senate, so much of the structure of the body itself exists due to concessions to Planter class and the slave power back in the 18th and 19th centuries And then even through the 20th century, many of the rules that are currently in place that we're operating under Were put in place in service of segregation of senators from the South. The book I Talk about Richard Russell from Georgia, for whom a Senate office building Was still named today who declared himself in his own words that white supremacy was the primary cause of his life and that any man worth his salt would give his all for white supremacy. In the past, the president elect Joe Biden, has made a big deal out of his relationship. To the Senate, his relationship with other senators and his ability to move things in a bipartisan direction. What to you is the reality of the situation on the ground right now. No. Things have changed a lot in recent years, and I think that President Biden spent most of his years in the Senate under very different circumstances. When President Obama was elected, there was still a relatively large number of Republican senators who came from Blue states. And vice versa. That polarization has really taken hold specifically in the Senate in a very firm way, just in the last few years. The reality is that the kind of bipartisan cooperation that used to be normal in the Senate when President Biden was there. Just doesn't exist anymore. Now the prevailing environment is one of sharp partisan polarization and something called negative partisanship, which is that one side succeeds by making the other side fail. I think that is a dynamic that paralyzes the institution. Recognizing that and facing that reality front on is something that President Biden is gonna have to do. Pretty early on in his term, Adam gentle Sin is former deputy chief of staff to Democrat Harry Reid. And the author of Kill, Switch, The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Thank you for your time. Thanks for having me on The UK is struggling to stop a new variant of the Corona virus, which appears to be more contagious and record breaking case numbers have driven Britain into another nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, here in the U. S states like California, Arizona and Rhode Island have staggering rates of infection. Some of the highest in the world and health officials are wondering is the new variant which has already been detected here in the U. S behind this latest spike? NPR's Michaleen Do Cliff investigates right after UK scientists reported they found a variant of the coronavirus that looks more transmissible. Scientists in the U. S. Went looking for the variant across the country. Trevor Bedford is helping to lead this effort. He's a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He says. Scientists have detected the new variant here, so it's definitely circulating but the levels appear to be very low. A rough estimate from across the U. S would be about one in 1000 frequency. So One in thousands. Corbett infections is due to the variance. That's only about 10.1% of all cases, but Bedford says he expects that percent to rise quickly. In England. The variant went from rare, too, dominating the outbreak in about three months. And so I'd roughly expected kind of a similar timeline of three months out to go from initial arrivals in the U. S in December. 2 starting to kind of dominate the virus population and say, March. So on the surface, that sounds like good news. It means the U. S still has two months to slow down this new variant and prepare for it. The Bedford says the findings are worrying. They mean the dire situation already happening in some states isn't because of a more contagious virus. I think it's not At all really conceivable that this this more transmissible variant is has contributed to surgeon cases in the U. S. And following her wave. We're kind of we're just barely getting getting started with it. Some communities are seeing packed hospitals and overstretched health care systems with a less transmissible version of the virus. What's going to happen if a more contagious form? Starts to circulate widely even dominate the outbreak. Right now. Scientists don't believe the new variant is more deadly and it's transmissibility doesn't appear to be much, much higher. One study suggests a person sick with the older version of the virus infects about 10% of people they come into contact with. Person sick with the new variant infects about 15%, so a rise of about 5% points. That doesn't sound too bad, right? But remember, viruses spread exponentially. Case numbers grow faster and faster over time they accelerate. If you then crank that exponential growth up to a steeper curve, you very quickly started affecting many, many, many more people than you would have beforehand. And even though the percent that end up in hospital or dying stays the same you know, a small percent of a big number is a big number. That's Emma Hod Croft. She's an epidemiologist at the University of Baron in Switzerland, she says the U. S needs to be thinking about how to minimize damage from this new variant. Right now, this is our early warning, because by the time you have something spreading exponentially in your country, it is much harder to get it under control, she says. What needs to be done will be different for each community. Activities that seemed relatively safe before like outdoor dining might not be a safe with the new version of the virus. She also says states can ramp up contact tracing for the variant. Prepare for new restrictions and focus on vaccinating people as quickly as possible. Michaleen do Clough NPR news.
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"Fda has authorized moderna coronavirus vaccine that comes after the independent vaccines and related biological products. Advisory committee voted twenty. Two nothing with one abstention to recommend the fda did so dr steven paragon a committee member and infectious disease and vaccine expert at the fred hutchinson. Cancer research center said quote. There's no doubt in my mind. It looks like the benefits outweigh the risks. From what i've seen on quote the pfizer vaccine continues to ship but states are increasingly complaining of fewer doses than expected. Michigan governor gretchen whitmer and colorado governor jared. Police were disappointed on friday. I still cannot get straight answer out of the trump administration about why michigan like many other states is receiving a fraction of the vaccines that we were slated to receive. There are millions of pfizer. Vaccines many right here. In portage michigan that are waiting to be shipped and there is either corruption or an aptitude at is keeping us from saving lives and protecting people. Bad news is the numbers for that we're going to get from visor are lower next week. Not just for us for every state the what we had been told before and i do call upon the federal government. I saw visors for nouncement that they had doses waited in the warehouse and they just needed to be told where to send them We say send them to colorado but we encourage the federal government to get those distributed out. They're not doing any good in a fight. Your
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Berlin patient: First person cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown, dies
"Cured of HIV passed away this week, and we're learning that his influence on local research here lives on comas. Denise Whitaker has that story. Timothy Ray Brown was a Seattle native but living in Germany when he was cured of HIV through a bone marrow transplant. I interviewed him in 2013 after he moved back to Seattle from Germany, where he received that transplant and became known as the Berlin Patient. Brown passed away this week at age 54 still free of HIV, but his cancer had returned. His case continues to inspire researchers of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the first pioneers of bone marrow transplants back in the 19 sixties. And that research continues. Today. Dr. Hans Peter Quim tells me that what started with Brown in Berlin more than 20 years ago, continues to influence the research into many other diseases. Today, we knew by then, already that we could, in fact, modify a patient's own cells to making resistant to HIV, that really no launch this of HIV effort at that time, and my lab Ridgeway and microbe has really worked on are now using the patient's own cells. To make the patient's own cells resistant to HIV team just received a new grand from the National Institutes of Health to continue his research of the hutch. He's essentially kind of gene editing kind of taking jeans apart and modifying them, putting them back into patients. Researchers at the Hutch have expressed their sadness at Brown's death, but say his story really continues to give them and others suffering from HIV. Sickle cell disease and other blood diseases. But there is hope for more to be cured. Come on news time.
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Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
"Hello and welcome to the a sixteen. Z podcast I'm Lauren Richardson. covid nineteen pandemic has increased visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public suddenly scientists working on garage and Infectious Disease Dynamics have seen their public profiles expand rapidly. One such ientist is our special guest in this episode. Trevor Bedford an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. An expert in genomic epidemiology he and his collaborators built neck strain, which shares real time interactive data visualizations to track the spread viruses to populations. A16 Z. Biodiesel team partner Judy Savitskaya. An I chat with trevor about how genomic. -demia. Can inform public health decisions, viral mutation and spillover from animals into humans, and what can be done now to prevent the next big pandemic. But first we discussed the shifts and scientific communication to pre prince, an open science it topic we will dig deeper into on future episodes while these pre publication and pre peer review, research articles speed the scientific process by sharing results early they can also lead to misinterpretation and misinformation. Everyone loves the alliteration of the promise and the peril of P- reprints, and I think this is the perfect use case of that we've seen a lot of work here reviewed, but out in the world, and making a huge difference for the positive and really driving the science and the public health decisions, but on the flip side were also seeing a pre prince go visit that ended up, really had their claims tempered, and so I'd like to talk to you about kind of your personal experience with this, and how you think about that balance between promise and peril. Yeah? This obviously been very challenging as a working scientists. phenomenally helpful for my own ability to do science, we look at how quickly the things move in. This reprints space, my own understanding the pandemic of Stars Cova to is perhaps a month ahead of where it would be if I was just to look at the jury, the literature where the peril comes in, and how that interacts with public understanding and media, and so forth so part of the issue. I think that we do have things that they land is a preprinted. It's frustrating when that is attached to a press release compared to something or the preprinted, really aimed at the scientists and scientific discussion, and it gets around the scientific community without needing. Needing to have a press release, you also have this issue where you'll be other papers that appear that are in period. You journals, but are bad. Papers are wrong. Like just as silly example, snake flu paper, asserting that somehow it came from snakes that appeared in period you'd article and then by having that period stamp those get run with even farther by by media as like. This is true because it's. It's peer reviewed when Peer Review doesn't actually mean truth, it's sort of a false stash of honor, and so in some ways actually kind of like. Like the fact that the pre prints are tasked with big warnings that we don't know is during, and that makes media perhaps take it with a grain of salt. The way that all paper should be, but it is. It is still a very challenging action and I think like you could probably say that on average see period paper. It is more likely to be true than pre. By the various is big enough that you can't just rely on that badge to to make that decision. Yeah, there on that. I am a big fan of reprints, but I see the much more as a tool for the scientific community and not as much. Wider dissemination exactly. I mean I do that myself where I basically don't pay attention to P- reprints in say the medical countermeasures because I don't know what's going on there. I really pay more attention to what's published in GM in Lancet and so forth whereas into viral evolution worlds EPI modeling I pay attention to P- reprints and published articles, and I don't really pay attention even where their published I can just pay attention to the Dow, underlying science, and I don't need to to rely on the kind of external validation of things kind of your own peer reviewers. But. You need to have the training to kind of hone that the censor to some extent. In the field that you're an expert, and of course, that's going to be very finely tuned, so you're ready to go. I liked that framing a lot, and this then goes just as much for twitter as goes for for Bio Archive. If we go back to twitter and January, there was amazing period where there is full like really open scientific discussion at an as we went forward, the scientists got very. Very popular on twitter and everyone's listening into these conversations, and it has made people more careful, so they don't speculate quite as much and have that open science twitter conversation be a little more careful and more grounded.
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Hair Products May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
"It's pretty common for women to regularly dye their hair but a recent cohort study in the international journal of cancer shows permanent hair dye and strainers may increase breast cancer risk doctor in Mattoon and from the Fred Hutchinson cancer research center tells me the study followed people who used to these products over time to see who developed breast cancer researchers dead they said that they are here products contain more than five thousand chemicals and that a particular some of the newer ones may contain formaldehyde or other carcinogens overall the study found a nine percent higher risk of breast cancer for women who die their hair compared to those who didn't and particularly high among African American women women often using Kerr street nurses the group that's most likely be using chemical hair straighteners and they're the request particularly hot increased risk of forty five percent the food and drug administration says the study based on following a sample population does not definitively show a
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Better access to quality cancer care may reduce rural and urban disparities
"Better access. To cancer treatment could help reduce the disparity between cancer patient survival rates those who live in rural area Versus urban areas Komatsu Romero has the story decades of data from the centers for disease. Control and prevention show that people with, cancer in rural areas. Don't live as long as those in urban settings researcher Joseph Unger with Fred Hutchinson cancer research center? Says one statistic highlights how, hard it is for rural cancer patients to get? Access to quality treatment although twenty percent of cancer patients are from rural areas only three percent of oncologists treat in rural areas, he realizes that addressing the problem of limited rural access is. A huge undertaking it requires, policy, changes requires better access to afford -able healthcare insurance for instance. Unger says he. Hopes their study gives policy makers a