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"This is WNYC FM HD and a.m. New York. Good morning, Russia's president continues his threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The United States is assessing the threat level and planning how to respond. What does a nuclear expert have to say? Putin might hope he could coerce the Ukrainians into accepting his terms that it could coerce the west and to backing off. I'm Michael hill, it's morning edition from NPR and WNYC. President Biden visited Puerto Rico yesterday, promising to fortify communities that hurricane Fiona walloped. A Republican congressional candidate in a tight race in New Jersey gives a mixed up answer on abortion at a campaign event. And a new exhibit in Brooklyn explores police violence. It's Tuesday, October 4th, the news is next. Live from NPR news in Washington encore of a Coleman, President Biden visited Puerto Rico briefly yesterday. He got an update on damage from last month's hurricane Fiona. At one point, the entire island had lost power, and Pierre's Adrian farida reports Biden says federal aid is coming to Puerto Rico, not just for hurricane Fiona, but for hurricane Maria, which hit 5 years ago. He promised to work to speed that money up. He also pointed out that his administration has lifted the complex restrictions that the Trump administration had placed on some of that aid. How much of a difference this has made though is hard to sort out because the vast majority of the Maria recovery projects that still haven't even broken ground. And beers Adrian farida reporting, more than 100,000 customers in Puerto Rico still don't have power now, weeks after the hurricane hit. Ukrainian officials say their forces are pushing back Russian troops in major counter offensives on both the eastern and southern fronts and piers Jason Bobby and reports from the southern city of Mikhail I have that over the last 24 hours Ukrainian troops have made significant gains in the hair zone and Donetsk regions. Officials in Kyiv say that in the northeast of the country, their forces have retaken multiple villages east of the key railway hub of Le Mans, Russian military officials acknowledge the gains, but say that their forces staged a strategic retreat. In the south, Ukrainian tanks on Monday surged along the West Bank of the dnipro river, reclaiming territory that's been under Russian control for months, both these operations are in areas Russia claimed to have annexed last week. Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky and his daily video address acknowledged several newly liberated villages, but he warned fierce fighting continues in others. Jason Bobby and NPR news alive, Ukraine. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case concerning Alabama's new congressional map. From member station WBA, Richard banks reports the court's decision next year could affect voting rights for underrepresented minorities across the country. The map gives just one of the states 7 congressional districts, a real chance of electing a black representative, even though blacks are about 27% of the state's population. Evan Milligan, the executive director of Alabama forward filed the case. He argues that a second majority black district is not only essential for equal representation, but also for a healthy democracy. Having voting matter that are balanced to reflect the population that actually live in the communities represented in those maps is a critical step to bringing more people into the political process. Alabama defends its map, saying courts have ruled race should not be a major consideration in drawing voting districts. For NPR news, I'm Richard banks, in Birmingham, on Wall Street before the open Dow futures are up more than 400 points. This is NPR. On doubly NYC at 8 O four, good Tuesday morning, I'm Michael hill. 48 with light rain and then today rain in a high of just 49 in that revised forecast from the national weather service. The MTA's warning of some delays on B and D trains in both directions and two and 5 trains. The MTA plans to expand the number of buses equipped with cameras that automatically ticket vehicles driving in bus lanes, the agency will install new cameras on 300 buses in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island. That means bustling enforcement will cover half of all bus lanes in the city, violators will have a 60 day grace period once workers install the cameras and then after that, fine started $50 and go up to $250 with repeat offenses. The MTA hopes to have the cameras installed by the end of the year, we shall consider ourselves warned. The Long Island railroad says commuters can expect faster transit times thanks to the completion of a new ten mile third track, the new track along the railroad's main line runs from floral park to hicksville, governor Kathy hochul touted the project completion yesterday in Nassau county. What does this mean for long islanders? Well, it's great. They all start with the letter F if your delays, faster commutes, and more frequent trips. I think that just about gives us an a for all those, not enough, that's an a. Officials say the third track will increase LIRR service by 40%. The two and a half $1 billion project began construction in late 2018. New York State task force created after a 2018 limo crash has issued a safety report, recommendations include equipping the vehicles with side impact protection devices and taking them off the roads after a certain number of miles. In October 2018, Ford excursion SUV, which had been turned into a stretch limo crashed in schoharie, New York after blowing through a T intersection the driver in 17 people inside the vehicle were killed along with two pedestrians. The cool and rainy weather is sticking around through tomorrow, along with some gusty winds, and though the scattered rainfall may cancel some out or plants meteorologist
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"Forecasters are warning people in coastal Georgia and South Carolina to expect tropical storm conditions starting tonight. Moscow backed authorities in four occupied parts of Ukraine say that residents of overwhelmingly voted to become part of Russia, NPR's Jason Bobby and reports the results are being denounced as fake by Ukrainian officials. The ballots from the hastily called referendums were tallied incredibly quickly, especially given that the voting took place over 5 days across a war zone that spans 15% of Ukraine's territory. But soon after the polls officially closed leaders from the breakaway, then that people's republic announced that more than 99% of voters had said yes to joining Russia. The results in the other three occupied areas were similar with the yes to Russia vote ranging from 87% in favor and Harrison to 98% in Luhansk. Ukrainian officials say the entire referendum process is a sham in a pretext for Moscow to annex Ukrainian territory that's currently controlled by Russian aligned troops. Jason Bobby and NPR news, harkey, Ukraine. European officials say explosions are to blame for the big holes in two major undersea natural gas pipelines that run from Russia to Germany. The blast were powerful enough to be registered by earthquake detectors. Polish officials are blaming Russia for the explosions. South Korea says that North Korea has fired at least one ballistic projectile today. It's believed to be a ballistic missile, it flew east and fell into the sea. The North Korean launch comes as vice president Harris visits Japan. Speaking earlier, Harris chided China for failing to contribute to peace in Asia, such as trying to claim ownership over international waters. China has challenged the freedom of the seas. China has flexed its military and economic might to coerce and intimidate its neighbors. The vice president will fly to South Korea later today. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. On WNYC in New York at 6 O four, a good Wednesday morning on Michael hill, clear in 54 now today's sunny and a high of 70, expect delays this morning on northbound E trains and southbound D and a trains. In the news, 14 corrections officers at the Edna mahan correctional facility for women in Huntington county, New Jersey, have been indicted on several charges, including conspiracy and aggravated assault, double NYC's Louis C hockman, reports the officers are accused of beating inmates early last year, and then covering it up. Investigators say the officers targeted inmates they believe squirted officers with an unknown liquid through cell doors during several previous incidents. One inmate was allegedly punched 30 times even though she never resisted. Governor Phil Murphy has announced plans to eventually close the facility after reports of the attacks, but no timetable has been announced. A Justice Department report in 2020 also described years of violence and sexual abuse at the facility, and New Jersey has paid out millions of dollars in lawsuits related to abuse there. Governor Kathy hochul in New York and her Republican challenger Lee zeldin are not on the same page when it comes to debates, WNYC's John Campbell explains. Oakland zeldin have spent plenty of time debating debates in recent weeks. First came Zelda's challenge, he wants the incumbent governor to agree to at least 5 debates across the state before election day. But the governor has made clear, that's not happening. She's agreed to a single debate and she says that's enough. We're looking forward to having a good conversation and letting the voters see the real contrast between myself and an extreme individual who does not represent the values of New York. Zeldin says one debate is pathetic
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"In order to actually drive Russia out of our territory, we do need more weapons. More weapons, what we have got in peers Jason Bobby and in eastern Ukraine and our Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman here in the studio with me to walk us through this. Welcome to you both. Hey, Mary Louise. Thanks, Mary Louise. Jason, I will let you kick us off. You are in eastern Ukraine right now. I'll let you tell us exactly where, but this is where we've just seen this successful counter offensive. What does it look like? What are you hearing? Yeah, that's right. I'm in the city of harkey in the northeast of the country. And one of the things that we're seeing is a lot of military equipment that the Ukrainians seized from the retreating Russian forces during this latest counter offensive. You're seeing tanks being hauled off on flatbed trucks. You're seeing armored personnel carriers rolling through the streets. And you can tell that this stuff was seized from the Russians because the Russians have spray painted on almost all of their equipment, a white Z on the side of it. Some of the equipment has been completely destroyed. But you also see by the side of the road as you're driving through some of these recently liberated territories, Ukrainian soldiers are out there in the ditch trying to put new tracks on a stuck Russian tank, officials are saying here in Ukraine that they have gained dozens potentially hundreds of additional tanks during this counter offensive. There's also been a lot of ammunition that was left behind by Russian land forces. I was in this one tiny little town that had been right on the front line prior to the counter offensive. And residents, they were showing me piles of rocket propelled grenades and boxes of ammunition that the Russians had left behind as they fled. Tom talked to me about those Ukrainian lawmakers we just mentioned who came to Washington. You talk to one of them. Right. There are three Ukrainian lawmakers here. I spoke with one of them a Roman casino, who is also, by the way, an army colonel. And again, they won American tanks, longer range artillery. Now, Ukraine is getting tanks from Poland and a couple of dozen more will be provided by Slovenia, all those are Soviet era tanks, but the American tanks have greater firepower and are faster. That's why they want them. Now, with artillery, there's a system called high Mars, provided by the U.S. 16 of these highly accurate rocket artillery pieces are now in the fight. Now the rounds the U.S. provides can only travel up to 50 miles, but colonel caste told me they want rounds that can travel up to nearly 200 miles. And he said that's on the list. Let's listen to what he said. High Mars is only one of the items on that list and as we talked with the members of Congress, we emphasized that in order to regain our territories that are now under Russian occupation. We need more offensive types of weapons and so we were raising the questions about such weapons as tanks, aircraft, armored vehicles, things we need in order to successfully continue the
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"Good morning, Puerto Rico takes stock of the damage from hurricane Fiona, officials say the recovery is going to take months or more. Relief efforts are well underway. The Red Cross is working to provide comfort kids blankets, cleaning kits, but also black products and platelets to have them available to hospitals. I'm Michael hill. It's morning edition from NPR and doubly when YC. Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard Sue Florida's governor. They say he lied to them. Well, look at the effect of the summer's drought on fall foliage and a carbon dioxide shortage could mean less beer at the store. It's Wednesday, September 21st, and you know what that means. The news is next. Live from NPR news in Washington and korva Coleman, Russian president Vladimir Putin is calling up about 300,000 Russian reservists to go to battle in Ukraine. In a speech, Putin said Russia would defend its territorial integrity, and he appeared to imply that could include the use of nuclear weapons. Putin said he wasn't bluffing. President Biden will address the UN General Assembly today and piers Eric mcdaniel reports he is expected to use his speech to denounce Russian aggression in Ukraine. Top national security adviser Jake Sullivan previewed Biden's remarks during The White House briefing yesterday. The president will apparently call on the world to rebuke Russian leader Vladimir Putin's naked aggression. Sullivan also warned that Russia will hold quote sham referenda in parts of occupied Ukraine. We know that these referenda will be manipulated. We know that Russia will use these sham referenda as a basis to purportedly and these territories, either now or in the future. Putin will not be attending the General Assembly despite Russia's prominent role on the UN Security Council. Eric mcdaniel NPR news The White House. Meanwhile, Russia continues to fire missiles into Ukrainian controlled territory and piers Jason Bobby and reports from harkey, where multiple explosions rocked the city overnight. The mayor of harcus is a rocket attack in the early hours of the morning, destroyed the roof and upper floors of an apartment block on the western side of the city. The mayor says at least ten people were trapped in the high rise building. This despite Ukrainian forces pushing the front line over the last few weeks, nearly 75 miles to the east of the city. Russian artillery also hit targets in Ukrainian controlled areas along the southern front. Ukrainian officials say that 30 shelves fell on the city of overnight just across the river from those apparition nuclear power plant. The operator of the plant says some explosions occurred on the grounds of the nuclear facility itself. Missile strikes were also reported further west near criteria. Jason Bowie and PR news harkey, Ukraine, lawmakers are demanding more help for Puerto Rico struggling to recover from hurricane Fiona, flooding is receding, but the damage is catastrophic, only a part of Puerto Rico has gotten electricity back. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is angry about the island's dilapidated electrical infrastructure. He says that Congress appropriated $21 billion for Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria devastated the island 5 years ago. According to GAO of that $21 billion, only 2% of the money has been spent. 2% when the island was already devastated by Maria. And lay it open to even more devastation by Fiona since things weren't fixed. Is that outrageous? The lack
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"Officials say they have found mass graves in the territory that Ukrainian forces took back from Russia. The burial sites around kharkiv may hold hundreds of bodies and pairs Jason Bobby and reports. Ukrainian military officials say a single burial site discovered in a forest just outside his Hume holds 440 graves, photos released by the armed forces show mounds of earth amidst the trees marked with simple wooden crosses. President Vladimir zelensky and his nightly address said the site is being investigated by forensic experts and the exact number of people buried there will be more clear in the coming days. But zelensky said the newly found mass graves in a zoom are part of a pattern in areas that Russian forces have occupied a bull chip. Zelensky said assume now unfortunately joins bucha and mariupol has a side of mass casualties under Russian occupation. Russia leaves death everywhere, he said, any demanded that Moscow be held accountable for the deaths of Ukrainian civilians. Exactly who is in these graves and assume is still unclear. Journalists from The Associated Press who visited the site yesterday said one grave had a marker saying it held 17 Ukrainian soldiers, national police officials say they believe civilians who were killed in shelling of the city are also buried there. Over the last week, a rapid counter offensive by Ukrainian forces routed Russian troops in the area. It was a stunning defeat for Moscow and the largest military success so far for Kyiv since rappelling Russian forces from the capitol. As Ukrainian officials and international journalists gain access to recently liberated villages and towns, they're hearing widespread allegations of torture killings and other abuses by the occupying forces, residents in one village that had been under Russian control since February told us that men who tried to escape back to Ukrainian held territory were killed and strung up and in adjacent forests. So far NPR can't verify these accounts. But Oleg Senegal, the head of the car key regional military administration, speaking through an interpreter in the village of verbio earlier this week, said that each mass grave will be carefully exhumed by forensic investigators. That's our colleague Jason Bobby and who is reporting today from har
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"More cars from the tax credit. So electric sedans have to be $55,000 or less. It's a bit more for bigger cars. There's also a price cap for used cars. Finally, those all important EV batteries, not only must some of the components be in North America, a lot of what's in those batteries have to come from the U.S. or a trading partner. But so it sounds like these restrictions will disqualify so many cars which seems counter to the goal of getting more electric vehicles out there getting worse. What's the thinking? Well, this is part of a really big push to reorient the supply chain and bring production back to the U.S.. The administration wants to reduce dependency on China. I talked to Michael fisk from S&P Global about this. And he really views this initiative as a matter of national security. We've seen a lot of the challenges that have come from being reliant on the Middle East and for oil for the last half century or more. Now, I think there are some valid concerns about becoming overly reliant on Asian countries for the processing and manufacturing of batteries and battery related materials for the next decade or 50 years. And are you just briefly, what about the car companies? Where are they in all this? It's going to be very challenging for them to make this shift. You know, just finding new countries to do business with for those minerals in the batteries. That's a big undertaking. It will take time. But long term, if automakers do bring production to the U.S. and attract more customers, that could really catapult the EV market into the mainstream in ways we haven't seen before. All right, our zoo is funny. Thanks so much. You're welcome. There has been a lot of focus on how the war in Ukraine is affecting its most important industry. Agriculture. The country is traditionally one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil. But as NPR's Jason Bobby tells us, war is also having a devastating effect on Ukraine's second leading source of export revenue. Its iron and steel industry. During Soviet times, Ukraine was sort of the Pittsburgh of the USSR. It was the industrial heartland built around coal mines and big hulking steel mills. And in several parts of Ukraine, these mills still dominate the landscape, the local economy
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"And family. It's Thursday July 7th. The news is next. Live from NPR news, I'm Janine herbst, British prime minister Boris Johnson is planning to resign, according to British media reports, this comes after dozens of lawmakers quit in recent days over Johnson's knowingly appointing a lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct to a position of power within the Conservative Party. Johnson has been in office for nearly three tumultuous years and is expected to make a statement to the country soon. As investigators search for a motive in the deadly mass shooting at the 4th of July parade and highland park Illinois this week that left 7 people dead, dozens injured, authorities are investigating how Robert cremo the third obtained several weapons. Police say his father sponsored his application for a gun permit, months after he allegedly threatened to harm people, but state police director Brendan Kelly says there were no red flags that would have denied the weapon purchase. So the available evidence would have been insufficient. For a law enforcement Zika firearms restraining order from a court at that time. Cremo was being held without bail. In Ukraine, heavy fighting continues in the eastern part of the country as Russian forces attempt to extend recent territorial gains, and piers Jason Bobby and has more. After taking two key cities in the next region last week, Russian forces are now attempting to push Ukrainian troops out of the last significant population centers in the area. Ukrainian officials and slovenians are encouraging all civilians to evacuate further west. Heavy shelling by both sides continues along a nearly 200 mile front line, extending south from here in harkey along most of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian military officials say Russian artillery and fighter jets pound his positions overnight close to the city of trauma torsk. And even as Russia focuses on this front fighting has been intensifying in southern Ukraine with reports of multiple rockets hitting east of mikolaj. Jason Bowie and PR news, harkey, Ukraine. Mississippi's only clinic performing abortions has closed its doors as the state's trigger law banning nearly all abortions goes into effect today. Kobe Vance from Mississippi public broadcasting has more. The last patients of the Jackson women's health clinic finished their treatments yesterday afternoon. Now, signs are left thinking workers for their support. James Parker is with the pink house defenders, a group that is escorted patients as they visited the clinic. He says even with the clinic stores closed, abortions aren't going to stop. Safe regulated medical abortion will be pretty much stopped, especially for people who are poor and Jackson, which is 85% black. It's going to be
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"On civilians in the coming weeks in an effort to wear down the Ukrainian public and push zelensky to the bargaining table for peace talks. That's NPR's Jason Bobby and cremin shook Ukraine, Jason, thanks. You're welcome. All right, it's been a chaotic summer for air travel. Airlines have delayed and canceled tens of thousands of flights in recent weeks, even during this July 4th weekend. NPR's transportation correspondent David schaeffer joins us now. David, so first of all, tell us how busy the skies are right now. I mean, is air travel demand back to where it was before the pandemic? Well, not quite, but it is getting pretty close. The skies have been very busy this summer and over the last week or so, the number of people flying has been getting to near 95% of pre-pandemic levels. Joe Sweden is an airline industry expert at Chicago's depaul university. He's been tracking the number of people flying relative to the number of available seats. And he says the big problem right now is that airlines have far fewer flights than they did before the pandemic. So nearly every flight right now is completely full. When you just take a large plane of 250 people and you cancel that flight and have to find, you know, stand by seats or empty seats for those people. And a weekend that doesn't really have a low point, it puts the airlines in a really tough spot because the airlines will have a tough time rebooking passengers because they have so few seats available. So why are the airlines canceling so many flights? I mean, were they unprepared for this? How would they not know that after two years that we wouldn't want to go out in the world to get in fly? I mean, we've heard about staffing shortages, especially among pilots and weather. I mean, is that it? Yeah, you know, the airlines were preparing for a big surge in people flying again, but they were overly ambitious and added more flights to their summer schedules than they could staff because of a shortage of pilots and really every other kind of employee from mechanics to flight attendants too. And they've since cut a lot of flights from their schedules, but they're still stretched very thin. Pilots say they're working record amounts of overtime, but industry experts say the airlines still have very little wiggle room to stay on track when things go wrong like bad weather. Bill McGee is an aviation consumer advocate who used to work in airline operations. But I can tell you, David, that this is the worst I've ever seen in the 37 years. I've been around this industry. McGee says the airlines know that they're not going to be able to operate all the flights that they've scheduled, but they're often not canceling until the very last minute. And one measure of just how awful it is, passenger complaints about airlines to the DOT so far this year are up a whopping 300% over 2019. That sounds like a lot. Now, you said staffing shortages are only part of the problem leading to those a huge number of flight delays and cancellations. What else is going wrong? Well, you know, the airlines are also short on planes. They haven't returned to service all of those that they parked during the pandemic, but the airlines point to something else. They blame many of the cancellations and delays on air traffic control problems. They say one key air traffic control center in Jacksonville, Florida was understaffed recently for 27 of 30 days. And other centers have been short staffed too. The FAA acknowledges some staffing shortfalls and say they're being addressed, but the agency fired back at the airlines criticizing them for misusing government aid that was intended to prevent short staffing at the airlines. A spokesman says quote, people expect when they buy an airline ticket that they're going to get where they need to go. After receiving $54 billion in pandemic relief to help save the airlines for mass layoffs in bankruptcy, the American people deserve to have their expectations met. Soon we're just going to have to catapult to vacation locations
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"Changing world It's morning edition from NPR news I'm Rachel Martin And I'm a Martinez Speaking to reporters via video NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine has the upper hand in its fight against Russia Ukraine can win this war Ukrainians are bravely defending their homeland These comments come as the Ukrainian military is making advances in the northeast part of the country around the city of hakim Those areas are finally being liberated after being occupied by Russian soldiers for weeks NPR's Jason Bobby and reports In the village of Miley rahan on the eastern edge of harkey shop of all Sergei is cleaning up His house is a mess caused by bomb blasts shrapnel and Russian troops who camped in his living room Everything is ripped Everything is destroyed You can see sealing is burnt out Sergey who's 49 says he spent half his life working hard maybe he adds too hard to build this house He never thought the Russians were actually going to attack Ukraine And then two days after the invasion he had to flee to a basement and his aunt's house Soon the power went out for weeks Sergey and his family lived without lights or heat he says eating canned vegetables residents had stored in their cellars He says the Russians were like beasts They shot at people who tried to flee He says one soldier raped a young girl We can't confirm these allegations But for Sergey the Russian occupation of his village and his house fundamentally changed his vision of Russia I have a family in Russia Right now And here all my life I was speaking Russian Now I feel discussed to speak Russian and more I will do whatever I need but I don't want to speak this language anymore And I don't want to know about them This part of Ukraine is heavily Russian speaking Downtown harkey was just 30 miles from the Russian border But for Sergei the invasion he says permanently shifted his focus to the west I realized that we lived in the European village We had European roads We had European TVs We had the European community here Now we have simply nothing In the very first days of the invasion Russia launched an offensive to encircle har kiv fierce battles broke out particularly in the northern suburbs hundreds of thousands of people fled up until last week Russian ground troops continued to fire shells into residential neighborhoods on the periphery of har cave in offensive by Ukrainian troops that started weeks ago has now pushed the Russian lines back to the point where their artillery can no longer strike the city.
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"The upper hand in its fight against Russia Ukraine can win this war Ukrainians are bravely defending their homeland These comments come as the Ukrainian military is making advances in the northeast part of the country around the city of harkey Those areas are finally being liberated after being occupied by Russian soldiers for weeks NPR's Jason Bobby reports In the village of Miley Rahul on the eastern edge of harkey shop of all Sergey is cleaning up His house is a mess caused by bomb blasts shrapnel and Russian troops who camped in his living room Everything is ripped Everything is destroyed You can see ceiling is burnt out Sergei who's 49 says he spent half his life working hard maybe he adds too hard to build this house He never thought the Russians were actually going to attack Ukraine And then two days after the invasion he had to flee to a basement and his aunt's house Soon the power went out for weeks Sergey and his family lived without lights or heat he says eating canned vegetables residents had stored in their cellars He says the Russians were like beasts They shot at people who tried to flee He says one soldier raped a young girl We can't confirm these allegations But for Sergey the Russian occupation of his village and his house fundamentally changed his vision of Russia I have a family in Russia Right now And here all my life I was speaking Russian Now I feel discussed to speak Russian and more I will do whatever I need but I don't want to speak this language anymore And I don't want to know about them This part of Ukraine is heavily Russian speaking Downtown harkey is just 30 miles from the Russian border But for Sergei the invasion he says permanently shifted his focus to the west It's only at this stage I realized that we lived in the European village We had European roads We had European TVs We had the European community here Now we have simply nothing In the very first days of the invasion Russia launched an offensive to encircle har kiv fierce battles broke out particularly in the northern suburbs hundreds of thousands of people fled up until last week Russian ground troops continued to fire shells into residential neighborhoods on the periphery of har cave in offensive by Ukrainian troops that started weeks ago has now pushed the Russian lines back to the point where their artillery can no longer strike the city But for a home the damage has already been done A cultural center in the middle of the village volunteers are distributing hot soup that cabbage salad One of the organizers of the lunch laris coquina says.
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"This is NPR news This is listener supported WNYC 56 and partly sunny I see a lot of blue sky out there and some clouds this morning mostly sunny on this Wednesday as the forecast and a high of 72 year full forecast to come in just a few minutes At 7 30 WNYC is supported by theater for a new audience presenting the first New York production in 50 years of wedding band Alice childress's interracial love story set in the Deep South directed by aoi tempo now through May 22nd only tickets at TFA NA dot org Leadership funding for WNYC is provided by the Jerome L Greene foundation a proud supporter of New York City's major cultural institutions WNYC independent journalism in the public interest 93.9 FM and AMA 20 NPR news and the New York conversation Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly The Senate is expected to approve $40 billion in additional USA to Ukraine The measure cleared the house yesterday the money is to be used by key for military and humanitarian needs The World Health Organization says thousands of Ukrainians have died from a lack of adequate medical care since Russian forces invaded the country in February That's an addition to those killed by Russian attacks NPR's Jason Bobby is in Kyiv The head of the WHO's regional office for Europe says at least 3000 people with chronic diseases have already died in Ukraine over the last two and a half months as they've been unable to access ad good healthcare The WHO says people needing treatment for cancer and HIV are particularly vulnerable Meanwhile the mayor are says thousands more Ukrainians could die in his city alone from lack of access to sanitation and clean drinking water and proper medical care Many of the people remaining in Mario bowl he notes our elderly who were too frail to flee and he says disease and the collapse of the healthcare system could lead to another wave of deaths in the coming weeks in his beleaguered city Jason Bobby and PR news Kyiv Mexico's president is threatening to boycott next month's summit of the Americas in Los Angeles that if Cuba Venezuela and Nicaragua aren't invited by the Biden administration This is NPR news from Washington And it's WNYC in New York at 7 32 good Wednesday morning mid 50s partly sunny out there mostly sunny day with a high of 72 under some pretty gusty conditions We have delays this morning in the city on the one two and three trains are being rerouted uptown and there's a crash in New Jersey on U.S. one northbound near Edison township New York City schools are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases the education department reports more than 1300 new cases per day among students and staff That's on par with late January of this year K through 12 students have been able to attend class mask free since March even as cases have gone up citywide at the current level of COVID risk city health officials say people should mask up indoors unless they know everyone is vaccinated but so far the city has not reinstated a school mask mandate A new bill pending in Albany would allow sex workers to seek help from doctors and police without fear of arrest advocates gathered yesterday in the capital urging lawmakers to pass the bill they say offering sex workers and people who are trafficked immunity from prosecution would encourage them to seek medical care and report crimes Don roe directs girl vow and organization that advocates for girls impacted by juvenile justice poverty and the foster care system So how long are we going to wait to rescue girls women and sex workers who far too long have been eroded from a system of care victims without immunity are delayed and denied their truth Ben hadn't.
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"Thing that covers them from head to toe in public showing only their eyes For Saturday may 7th it's all things considered With some show Martin in Washington I'm Tiffany Hansen in New York also this hour supporters of abortion rights blocked plans for a rosary procession today from a local Manhattan church to a Planned Parenthood clinic Plus I'll have more on the state's redistricting plans coming up First news headlines Live from NPR news anjani herbst Ukraine's president is urging citizens to be hyper vigilant in the run up to Monday when Russia celebrates victory day and pierce Jason Bobby and lviv reports strict curfews are being put in place in some areas as Ukrainians brace for a possible increase in Russian attacks President Vladimir zelensky is calling on Ukrainians to be on high alert in the coming days The concern is that Russia may intensify attacks on Ukraine before Moscow holds military parades on Monday to celebrate the end of World War II So lenski called on people to actually take shelter when air raid sirens go off The area warnings have become so frequent that many Ukrainians now ignore them He also asked that people comply with local curfews several parts of the country will go under complete lockdown starting Sunday Night which only emergency personnel will be allowed on the streets People near the front lines and zappers and the strategic port of Odessa are being ordered to stay in their homes until Tuesday Jason Bowie and PR news lviv First Lady Jill Biden spent the day with Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest part of a four day trip to countries bordering Ukraine And pierce Scott detro is traveling with the First Lady Biden is a teacher and so is Romania's First Lady Carmen Johannes The two of them toured a Bucharest school that has taken in Ukrainian students As a teacher.
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"I'm Bill Curtis And I'm Peter sagal this week a highly intelligent capable woman had to sit quietly and listen politely while a bunch of men pompously explain things to her she already knew Fortunately she had majored in doing just that at Harvard will ask who relied on years of practice plus Dan snow the historian who helped discover the wreck of Ernest Shackleton chip talks about how he came in from the cold and Bill Curtis explains why while doing the show alone at home he still has a catered pre show dinner What am I going to do Not eat something We'll ask is really a little peckish on our quiz coming up right after This hour's news Live from NPR news in Washington I'm winsor Johnston As Russian forces intensify attacks on eastern Ukraine president volodymyr zelensky is calling for the west to supply his country with more weapons and PR's Jason Bobby and reports Ukrainian troops are bracing for a new phase of the conflict Ukrainian security forces are digging in around eastern cities fortifying sandbag roadblocks bulldozing defensive trenches and lining up steel anti tank barricades that they call hedgehogs along major highways military officials in Ukraine say that after failing to capture Kyiv Russia is now attempting to grab the south and east of the country Russian forces have succeeded in establishing control of a land corridor along Ukraine's south coast linking Russia to the Crimea region which it seized in 2014 Ukrainian forces are attempting to launch counter attacks president zelensky continues to plead with western leaders for more tanks aircraft and anti missile defense systems saying that you can't shoot down missiles with a machine gun Jason Bowie and PR news nipro Investigators have found the second and final flight data recorder aboard the Chinese passenger jet that crashed last week NPR's Emily fang reports 132 people were killed when the plane went down in the southern part of the country The recorders contain cockpit voice recordings as well as data about the aircraft before it crashed in southern China Investigators are hoping the recorders may help answer why the plane nosedive suddenly falling out of the sky at nearly the speed of sound and smashing into a mountain No survivors have been found making this China's worst aviation accident in two decades Authorities have been tightly controlling information about the crash They've held scripted press conferences and kept media far away from the crash site The national transportation safety board in the U.S. has appointed a representative and offered to help with the Chinese investigation China says it will complete its own investigation first then bring in outside experts Emily fang and peer news Beijing Wall Street is gearing up for a busy week with key reports coming on jobs and inflation As NPR's Rafael Nam reports the data could help determine whether the recent recovery in markets will continue After gaining for two weeks in a row stocks are seeing some momentum as we head to the end of the quarter This week will get a key report on inflation called the personal consumption expenditure price index or the PCE price index is the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation indicator Inflation has recently hit its highest in 40 years forcing the fed to raise interest rates earlier this month We also get the monthly employment data the.
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"They had no electricity They said they were getting water from a stream It says Mario bowl no longer exists There is no place to go back All the houses are destroyed Finally they managed to get out in a convoy earlier this week and it took them three days to get here Last night they slept on the floor of a restaurant They have no idea what they're doing next where they're going to go And Ruben off says they're worried that nowhere in Ukraine is now safe They are afraid that everything that is happening on the eastern part of Ukraine is soon going to be here the same in nipro And as I'm talking to them and they're recounting Mario pole they're both of them were starting to cry And then Ruben off says something about nipro being their honeymoon and at first I think he's joking but then he tells me no they got married on February 22nd two days before the Russian invasion And then they spent a month hiding from the shelling in mariupol And now they're here out in the sunshine sitting by the river and they laugh and say no this is our honeymoon right now That's NPR's Jason Bobby and a nipro Ukraine Jason thank you for your work You're welcome Daniel The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States as a whole has been on the decline in recent weeks And in many places mask mandates and other restrictions are being dropped But at the same time a new COVID variant has been spreading across the country BA two is a sub variant of omicron the variant behind the biggest spike yet of the pandemic just a couple of months ago So how should we be thinking about COVID as we enter yet another new phase in the pandemic To help us answer that we called Bill Hannity He's an epidemiologist and a professor at Harvard's TH Chan school of public health Doctor hannon's welcome Thanks for having me on the show Of course So first of all let's start with some basics Tell us more about this BA two variant How does it differ from the original omicron variant And is it more contagious Does it cause more severe illness Well the first thing to remember is the BA two is a different sub variant of BA one which is the original immigrant They're both army cron it's just their different flavors of it But BA two is actually quite divergent from the virus that was causing a lot of disease here a couple months ago It's very different indeed We don't really understand where these two came from My own bet is on a long-term infection in an immunocompromised host But because BA two is really quite different We have to be watching it very closely because we're still learning about its epidemiological properties And among those properties it does appear to be more transmissible even more transmissible than the omicron that we've seen to date I want to bring this down to the individual level because there are a lot of people listening who have had their two vaccination shots plus a booster but they got that last shot at this point several months ago So should those people be more worried as we have this new variant moving among us and as there's the potential for booster effectiveness to wane The booster effectiveness certainly does seem to weigh in against infection It seems to be pretty well preserved against severe illness Now I want to put a small caveat on that which is that because things are changing very very quickly we might be waiting a couple of weeks to actually get really secure data on this But right now it doesn't look like BA two is much more serious in terms of the disease it causes than BA one But the best thing that you can do as an individual and in particular for your over 65 years of age is to make sure that you're fully up to date with your shots that you've been boosted That's the very best thing that you can do in the face of a virus like this One more thing I want to ask about boosters what do you think about the reports that the Biden administration might be considering approving additional boosters for people over 50 or just for the population in general I think that a fourth booster is probably on the cards and probably on the cards for people who really need it to are going to be the older folks Even beyond BA two we can expect that there's going to be more virus in the fall and the winter And because those people might have a immunity that has waned a little bit we might want to give it a bit of a bit of a Philip in order to help it get through another difficult period with the virus For people as a whole in general I think that three shots is probably about as much protection as you're likely to get But as I say check back with me in a few months And sort of along those same lines people who are more vulnerable or immunocompromised people does BA two make you think that perhaps we should be taking more precautions on their behalf I think that that's certainly true that we shouldn't not forget that there are a lot of people in the United States who have conditions that predispose them to more serious infection if they become infected And if you see a very large surge coming into your community then certainly you should think about your neighbors because even though you might be cool with being infected they might not be And so this is something which should be looking out for your community Well that brings me perfectly to one other thing I wanted to ask you because many states businesses workplaces across the country are relaxing their mask mandates relaxing restrictions that have been in effect for quite a while I'm wondering what is your advice to people listening How should they keep wearing their masks What kind of precautions should they be taking I think it depends on the situation that you're in and depends on how much virus there is on the community at the time I was very little infection then wearing a mask and a lot of circumstances may not be particularly helpful Unless that is of course you are in a particular group who's very concerned about infection and you can have one way masking KF 94s and N95s are very good And people may want to use them because they don't want to get infected And there's a lot of reason people might not want to get them affected They might not want to be having missing their vacation which is coming up just for example So it's roughly the same message as has always been Look at what's going on outside your front door How much viruses are in the community What are the consequences of you or somebody you're in contact with getting sick Are they in a vulnerable group Is it something we can do to wear a mask which is a really easy thing to do seriously Are you really going to the grocery store to feel the fresh air on your face Are you going onto public transport to feel the fresh air in your face I understand that these are things that people can feel people have different attitudes to But then what you can do is make the contacts that you do make the special ones the important ones the things that really matter to you And those things we can get much much of that back even in the face of a virus like this To wrap this all together a final really big question What do you think comes next in this pandemic Right now BA two is becoming the majority of the virus population in the U.S. What that means is that we're going to see a bump in infections How large that bump is going to be well that depends on how much people are trying to stop it It depends on how many people have some immunity already because they were infected with BA one It also depends on in terms of its consequences on how many people are vaccinated and boosted The United States is not very well vaccinated and boosted The UK rode out its earlier omicron wave really quite well We can not say the same for the U.S. between two and three times as many people corrected for population lost their lives You really should be boosted That was Bill hannig associate Professor of epidemiology at Harvard's TH Chan school of public health Doctor hanage thank you so much for speaking with us today Thanks for having me Many Americans change the way they dress for work over the past couple of years And it was easy right Just look respectable on Zoom and wear what's most comfortable otherwise But will it last into this next phase of the pandemic as more.
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"Good morning Russian forces appear largely stalled in Ukraine as the U.S. and NATO meet to talk about how to hold Moscow accountable President Biden has said to want more sanctions National security adviser Jake Sullivan The west has been united The president is traveling to Europe to ensure we stay united To cement our collective resolve I'm Michael hill as morning edition from NPR and doubly NYC We'll get the latest from New Orleans after tornado killed at least one person in Ohio a redistricting fight is left candidates unsure where to put signs and voters confused about who's on the ballot And the new organization looks to help New York City families whose children were wrongly taken by child protective services It's Wednesday march 23rd the news is next Live from NPR news I'm korva Coleman a tornado smashed through the New Orleans metro area Tuesday night killing one person A lot of damages reported to cars and homes trees and power lines There are reports that several people are hurt Teams hope to get a better sense of the damage with daylight The severe weather hit Louisiana a day after more than a dozen suspected tornadoes touched down in central and northern Texas one woman there was killed Ukrainian officials say they've managed to get thousands of civilians out of combat zones over the last 24 hours but NPR's Jason Bobby and reports from lviv that efforts to get tens of thousands of others to safety have failed Ukrainian deputy prime minister erna Vera shook says that Ukrainian and Russian officials have repeatedly worked out agreements to send evacuation buses and humanitarian supplies into areas that have been cut off by the fighting Some of the convoys have been successful for instance she says they were able to get roughly 7000 people out of the besieged city of mariupol on Tuesday But another convoy to Harrison couldn't get past the first Russian checkpoint and had to turn around Things went far worse at a village west of mariupol where ver schrute says 11 buses along with their drivers were seized by Russian soldiers and now in her words are being held hostage Jason Bobby and NPR news lviv The UN General Assembly is expected to vote today on a draft resolution on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine a second resolution proposed by South Africa could also be voted upon Linda foci reports Russia is proposing its own resolution on the Ukrainian humanitarian situation to the UN Security Council Two separate General Assembly draft resolutions have been under discussion the first cost sponsored by the U.S. and some 20 countries makes clear that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the cause of the humanitarian crisis there The other proposed by South Africa does not U.S. ambassadors to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield said Tuesday that diplomats have been trying to blend the two proposals so as not to split a vote Linda Faso reporting A more contagious sub variant of the omicron strain of the coronavirus now makes up a majority of new infections in the United States and bears rob Stein reports on the latest estimates from the CDC The CDC estimates that this more contagious sub variant called BA two now accounts for more than a third of new infections nationally and more than half of cases in the northeast Helix a genetic company analyzing the virus for this CDC estimates the virus may account for as many as 70% of new infections in many parts of the country Public health experts are watching this sub variant very closely because it has sparked new surges in parts of Asia and Europe including the UK What happens in Britain often foreshadows what happens in the U.S. rob Stein and PR news You're listening to NPR news You're listening to double NYC at 7 O four good Wednesday morning 41 partly cloudy as the sun is rising there We might get some rain this afternoon in a high of just 49 New York lieutenant governor Ryan Benjamin was a member of the state Senate when he and his colleagues voted to eliminate cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felonies in 2019 Now he's back in governor Hogan's plan to roll back portions of those reforms including by granting judges greater discretion to set bail Benjamin defended the plan yesterday as a targeted approach and noted it would put more funding toward pretrial services The governor believes that we should have a scalpel like approach here we should only try to address things that we think will meaningfully deal with some of the issues.
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"Interest 93.9 FM and AMA 20 NPR news and their New York conversation From NPR news I'm Charles Snyder the Ukrainian port city of Mario pole is defying a Russian ultimatum that it raise white flags and surrender Russia is offered to open humanitarian corridors out of the city if fighters lay down their arms Ukrainian officials acknowledge a difficult situation but have rejected the offer Many areas including Mario pole remain inaccessible to aid convoys but NPR chase and bovine reports that humanitarian groups have been able to get convoys into several parts of eastern Ukraine The head of the UN refugee agency in Ukraine Carolina lindholm billing says that the UN and the Red Cross are trying to negotiate for safe passage into some of the hardest hit areas They succeeded in opening up a relief corridor to the city of sumi near the Russian border but have been unable to get access to other places including the besieged city of mariupol We didn't get the necessary kind of approval and go ahead from the parties In addition she says the UN has found that the road to mariupol is now heavily mined and aid vehicles won't be able to get in there until the explosives are cleared Billing says the most pressing short term need right now is shelter for even a night or two for people who are fleeing but she says the long-term recovery effort for Ukraine will take years Jason Bobby and NPR news lviv The Supreme Court says justice clarence Thomas is in the hospital the court says he's being treated for an infection and that his symptoms are easing Thomas is in the hospital as Senate confirmation hearings for katangi Brown Jackson get underway today This is NPR And it's doubling NYC at 7 32 good Monday morning and Michael hill 44 and mostly sunny on her way to a 60° high today under lots of sunshine We have delays this morning on NJ transit's main Bergen port jervis and north Jersey coastlines Mirror Eric Adams has signed an executive order that aims to strengthen fire safety enforcement and outreach in response to January's twin parks apartment fire in The Bronx that killed 17 people The order highlights an effort to increase coordination between the FD and Y and the Department of Housing preservation and development so the agencies can better enforce existing fire safety laws They will also ramp up outreach efforts to better educate New Yorkers on fire prevention and how to respond to fire emergencies Police are looking for a man who brutally beat a 43 year old woman in Harlem Lance Friday leaving her in critical condition the NYPD says surveillance footage showed them suspect stretching blue rubber gloves over his hands before assaulting and dragging the woman between two par cars near west a 123rd street The great granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev teaches international affairs at the new school in Manhattan and offered her insights on the Russian Ukraine conflict Nina crustier has written several books on Russian history she told the BBC about how propaganda played a role in Moscow rally on Friday that appeared to be staged by Russian president Vladimir Putin It was not a believable event but at the same time that's what I think current Russia is becoming it's back to kind of this traditional propaganda formulas when you don't need to believe it but you just have to participate in order to survive Says her great grandfather never saw Ukraine as an appendage of Russia as Putin has Action continues in the NCAA women's basketball tournament tonight in two teams in our region are hoping to make the sweet 16 next week 11 seat Princeton takes on number three seed Indiana at 8 tonight the tigers upset Kentucky over the weekend to advance to the second round and hour later second seat Yukon will tip off against UCF if both Princeton and Yukon win they will face off against each other in the sweet 16 on Saturday 44 and mostly sunny now sunny with a high near 60 today gusty a slim chance of showers after midnight tonight at low round 44 then tomorrow a near repeat partly sunny near 60 44 mostly sunny down at 7 34 Support.
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"Rules on how to handle pandemics Jason Bobby and NPR news You're listening to all things considered from NPR news There's a growing movement among cryptocurrency fans who say the Internet will look a lot different in the future People won't be relying as much on big players like Facebook Google and Amazon and the movement is called web three short for web three To help us understand this we're joined by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allen and Bobby first give us a better sense of how this all will work Yeah well to answer that I think we should take a few steps back So the very early days of the Internet are known as web one right The era of dial up AOL GeoCities CompuServe AKA the Stone Age right Then came web two with social networks and search engines like Facebook and Google Over time as we all know these companies became enormous and it's now hard to use the Internet without them that's when this new movement web three comes in It says let's build a brand new Internet that doesn't need these tech giants where new social media sites and search engines are created that are not tracking our data I talked to Matt dryhurst He teaches at NYU's campus in Berlin and he says the web three movement is about having regular people like you and me all the own a piece of the Internet along with the Mark zuckerbergs of the world This is a small group of people who own all this stuff and then there's us who use it and despite the fact that we contribute quite obviously to the success of these platforms we don't really have anything to show for it Right He's saying that web three is about owning a stake in the sites that we own Kind of like being a shareholder so that you know we all have a say in how these platforms operate Our big tech companies is going to get a run for their money in this environment I mean how would it work Yeah so it gets a little wonky when you get into the details So just try to bear with me You know all of our favorite sites according to this idea would move to what's known as the blockchain and don't tune out just yet Blockchains support cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin It's basically like a bunch of different computers all over the world keeping track of our data The idea is kind of like how Wikipedia is maintained by not just one person but lots of people at once So imagine instead of going to Google to try to find something online you might go to this other site And instead of being powered by a bunch of servers owned by Google this search would be on the blockchain And plain English it's that a bunch of different servers around the world It creates a record that can not be changed and it's not owned by one company It's own collectively by everyone and these advocates say you'll want to use these sites because we'll all be partial owners of them every time it makes a decision You can vote on it and every time this company makes money you could earn some cash What would take the concept mainstream Right So it's hard to say right now there's plenty of naysayers and I think listeners might know why because it might just kind of sound like a bunch of techno babble Is it really going to take off or is this just a bunch of nonsense right And yet Adi people are really taking this seriously I was recently at a tech conference in Lisbon and about half the sessions were about web three major social media companies have teams out here in Silicon Valley dedicated to the web three If you're a really cool tech person Audie what you do to show it these days is to put web three in your Twitter bio Is it ever gonna come to pass We'll just have to wait and see but it's the only thing that people out here in Silicon Valley are buzzing about That's inferior tech reporter Bobby.
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"At least twenty eight Haitian migrants are dead after their boat. When off our went rather down off the coast of the Bahamas as NPR's Jason Bobby and tells us the coastguard and the Royal Bahamas defense force found an additional seventeen survivors, the boat crowded with Haitian migrants sank about six miles off the coast of great avocado island in the northern Bahamas. According to local officials possibly after hitting a reef it's not clear, if the vessel was headed to the Bahamas or was bound for the US mainland. The US embassy in Haiti called it. Another tragic loss of life in tweeted illegal migrant and smuggling operations are dangerous and frequently end in tragedy Haiti is the poorest nation in the hemisphere, and the number of people attempting to leave by sea appears to be increasing the Royal Bahamas defense force says it's picked up approximately three hundred Haitians in its territorial waters in just the first five weeks of this