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The Final Furlong Podcast
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"Interesting little race now to be honest and outlaw Peter definitely kind of justifies being at the head of the market. If I tilt there, we'd say we've all been caught, but the one that caught my eye is actually grand source. So John McConnell is a very shrewd trainer and he's probably in kind of that tier below the top guys at the minute. So you're willing to Gordon's et cetera. And. I would always be very kind of tuned into when he travels and he takes horses saying up north that probably wouldn't win in Ireland and he gets them to win on the northern circuit when the time is right. But I was just watching his entries during the week and I saw that at this fellow was entry enter for a grade three in quark and this is a great too. So I think he's very shrewd. I watched the replay of the cork win and I thought it was quite quite an interesting win in the sense that this village is really looked like the three miles and the stiffer it was the better he would be I thought it was jumping was niche, especially over the last two hurdles where he got away from the hurdle very, very quickly. Now we're not going to be blown away by the racing post rating. But just if people were to watch the replay, it kind of see that he looks like the type of horse that shelter might suited and the better the opposition to better he will actually run. And as I go through the race, we've got a 9 to one price on what is the 6 runner field. Joe McConnell also has an entry in the juvenile race earlier in the card in cheltenham. So it kind of feels that maybe he's brought the juvenile with him just for experience. And that this fellow would have a definitive crack off the grade two because he's chosen, you know, this one in terms of his options. Now, maybe
KQED Radio
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"Joe McConnell. Where do we go? You can go anywhere you want. And for the most part, you shouldn't have any delay. Just of course, the Altamont pass slow down the metering lights on to the Bay Bridge. There was a backup developing to the parking lot. But now that seems to be even better already. But over the next hour things will probably heat up getting a little slow in 2 42 Chhon heading towards Concord and the 6 80 interchange and Highway 1 21 Napa wrote in cinema Slowing down a little bit of that interchange because of an oil spill. Joe McConnell for KQED. Thank you so much. Joe. Support for KQED comes from San Francisco Opera, presenting Puccini's dramatic classic Tosca. She lived for art and love. Now she must sacrifice everything performance in his now through September. 5th sf opera dot com and Bank of the West Arctic Drilling is one of the dirtiest forms of fossil fuel extraction for the environment. That's why Bank of the West doesn't finance Arctic drilling. Learn more at Bank of the west dot com Mrs KQED Public radio. This is the California report. Good morning. I'm Saul Gonzalez in Los Angeles. The cow door Fire burning an Eldorado County has grown to more than 104,000 acres after spreading to the north side of Highway 50 over the weekend. That highway, which was closed is the main link between Sacramento and the late Tahoe area. Here's Cal Fire battalion chief Dusty Martin. I do not expect to have highway 50 opened in the near future until we can mitigate the threats. As the fire comes through, We've got trees and we've got damage to the roadway surfaces. And so we need to make sure that that's all safe and that fire isn't going to impinge the highway as As we got traffic flowing through there. On Saturday, a spot fire broke out in the mountain community of Kippers north of Highway 50, although it's been held about 200 acres The Calgary Fire has destroyed 345 homes and more than 24,000. People in El Dorado County remain.
600 WREC
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"Homes, according to climate Central. It's followed by Florida, California, Louisiana and North Carolina. From homes on the Jersey Shore. Do a 2000 Ton Historic waterfront building in San Francisco. As the water rises, so too must the real estate. The cost for lifting up a house ranges widely from about 10,000 to more than a million. Also booming RV. Reynolds bookings are up a whopping 846% this month. That figure released by RV share appeared appear RV rental market place last year. That site saw a huge influx of booking says people yearn to get outside amid the pandemic lockdowns. The company says 84% of Travelers a rented an RV last year. I want to do it again this year. Consumer and Business News Joe McConnell, NBC news radio. Looking back at the world of sports. It's the I heart radio weekend Sports Time capsule. What's happening, fellow sports fans and Sandy West. Let's start back this week in 1913 Washington Senators player Walter Johnson and his record scoreless streak at 56 innings Johnson scoreless inning streak in 1913 began on April 10th. Lasted 55 2 3rd innings pitch be through an impressive six shut outs in a row before finally being scored on by the Browns on May 14th 1913 jumping Way ahead this week in 1973 Nolan Ryan of the California Angels pitches his first no hitter beats the Royals three to nothing. This'll Week in 1985 Michael Jordan is named NBA Rookie of the Year. This'll Week in 1986 Reggie Jackson hits his 537th home run passing mix. Mantle for sixth place. This'll wake in 1996 Sammy Sosa is the first Chicago cub ever to hit two home runs in one anyway. This'll week in 2006. The New York Yankees down 19 nothing in the second inning match, the biggest comeback in Yankees history when Jorge Posada hits a game, winning two run home run with two outs in the ninth. For a 14 13 victory over the Texas Rangers on this weekend 2015 at the 148 Preakness, Victor Espinoza aboard American Pharaoh wins the race. They would go on to win the Belmont and capture the first Triple Crown since 1978 on that's just soda.
600 WREC
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"Diana Olick reports Ryan has is a foreman for Wolf House and building movers. He's lifted all kinds of homes from small ones. Just 7000 square foot mansions. A lot of work from Hurricane Sandy. And there will be plenty more. New Jersey tops the list of states with the most homes that based on projected sea level rise will see at least one major flood per year by 2050 more than 70,000 homes, according to climate Central. It's followed by Florida, California, Louisiana and North Carolina. From homes on the Jersey Shore. Do a 2000 Ton Historic waterfront building in San Francisco. As the water rises, so too must the real estate. The cost for lifting up the house ranges widely from about 10,000 to more than a million. Also booming RV. Reynolds bookings are up a whopping 846% this month. That figure released by RV share a peer to peer RV rental market place last year. That site saw a huge influx of booking says people yearn to get outside amid the pandemic lockdowns. The company says 84% of Travelers a rented an RV last year. I want to do it again this year. Consumer and Business News Joe McConnell, NBC news radio. Heart radio goes one on one with Tim McGraw to talk about choosing his acting roles. It's funny, it's just It's much like finding songs. You know, you have to go through a lot of stuff on something that you really like. And in my case, you know it's a big commitment for it's not just the six day week commitment that it takes two to do a movie, but there's a lot of prep time that goes into that. You know, if you find a role that you like, and in the movie that you like you wanna You wanna research and you want to You know, learn as much you can about what you're doing. And so it takes a lot of time that being said, if something were to come alone that that I just absolutely fell in love with and I would find a way to do it. Keep listening to I heart radio, four more Tim McGraw and all your favorite artists. Wednesday will bring snow again to the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada range and the northern Rockies with more than a foot of snow into Thursday for many sections of the Western mountains, snow levels lower on Wednesday, With the snow tapering off and ending Thursday Winter storm warnings in effect for many sections of the west and gusty winds will be a factor for the southwest and into the southern Rockies. There will be heavy in parts of Idaho and into western Wyoming Wednesday. Now the rest of the country was almost nothing puts on some sun from Los Angeles to Denver. Bright sun in Texas Dallas, A high of 73, Sonny. 77 Sonny in Houston north to Kansas City. Hi there near 67 with sunshine. Partly sunny for the central and northern Plains and into the upper Midwest. 47 Partly sunny in Minneapolis, cold in the Northeast highs only in the thirties. Wednesday there, Sonny. 39 in New York City son across the Middle.
KQED Radio
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"Allies and partners we're doing a lot of it. It's not something that we could do alone or by video call email or text and this'll kind of work has to be done in person for NPR news. I'm Jay Price at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is NPR news. It's 8 42 Joe McConnell is back with a look at something on the Richmond Bridge. Joe every pretty bunched up in the West End of the span heading towards San Quentin because of a car that ran out of gas. It has just been cleared up to the main street exit, but it's still bumped up on the bridge on North paid 80. His spare installed vehicle, Middle Lane, the backup solid back to a street, Hayward 11 North band, that oyster Point some rocks, fell out of the back of the truck and cracked the windshield of a car behind. They're off to the side, taking names and numbers, not really slowing traffic, though. Joe McConnell for captivity. Oh, that's so frustrating. All right, Thanks, Joe. Talk to you soon. Traffic support comes from good eggs. In fact, we'll talk to him at 8 50. I'm now for a perspective. It's been a tough year for San Francisco's eclectic entertainment community. But Connie Champagne hopes better times aren't just somewhere over the rainbow. Here's her perspective. I've been part of fairy music for 40 years In the 19 seventies, I discovered the Moo goo Hae gardens. This North Beach restaurant by day punk rock Club by night hosted that decades legendary musicians. My ripped Iggy Pop T shirt. I was hanging around with the best by the eighties I've sung in about 10 bands. Some for years, others for days. As the eighties became the nineties, I stumbled into the San Francisco drag counterculture, singing alongside artists who had a genius for style and witty lines. The brilliance of many of these performers was lost to the ravages of AIDS. So by the time the odds rolled around, I kept singing. But with all those names crossed out in my address book I felt a little too sad to rock out anymore. Nightclub owner suggested that Judy Garland cabaret act and to my surprise, it was a hit and I've been performing his duty for over 20 years. But live Cabaret doesn't play well with co vid and I haven't had a gig and more than a year. These days I work in a grocery store. Performing for an audience of one in my checkout lane. I've gone from counterculture to checkout counter a grocery store on T name My youngster co workers love hearing stories of the seventies. At least I hope they do when the city was filled with outrageous originality, not total e business solutions. I didn't think 20 years is Judy Garland would help me get through a pandemic. But they have and I'm hoping we all wake up from this bad dream soon to hear that playing playing playing of the trolley again and you'll be there and you And you and you'll be there. With the perspective. I'm Connie Champagne. Connie Champagne has been an actor, singer and entertainer in San Francisco. Since 1980. You can share your thoughts on her commentary online at kqed dot org's Slash perspectives. Support for perspectives comes from Leaf, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein seeking justice for the injured victims of fraud, whistle blowers,.
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"Frozen food you find at the grocery store. They haven't had any reports of consumers even suspicion of consumers being infected by this route in second Even under these very specific conditions with industrial scale shipping, Goldman says Transmission through this route is incredibly rare. So rare is to the Of negligible importance in the real world to most people, and so do you think this is something that like just could happen, But it's like you'd be more likely to win the lottery. That's that's a pretty good analogy. It's very unlikely that you would get anything coming from From food. This virus you we get by breathing In. So, Goldman says the original advice stands. You don't need to wipe down your frozen pizza box or wear gloves when you go to buy frozen fish sticks by clean Do Clough NPR news This'll is NPR news. It is 19 minutes after seven o'clock, and look who's here. It's Joe McConnell with traffic. With traffic, not really jamming up almost anywhere. There is a Bart delay, though, and it's about a 10 minute delay on the San Francisco line heading to the peninsula, SFO Millbrae. Actually another now, saying there is a delay to heading to the East Bay. But it's 10 minutes and equipment problem on a train in 24th Street. The soda. We had a Marine one of the north and their Marin would is over. They've cleared the crash that was there still have a slowdown in Morgan Hill because of the crash had done with an overturned vehicle. Joe McConnell for KQED. Thank you, Joe. Traffic support comes from European sleep works. And support for KQED comes from Netflix and the trial of the Chicago Seven. Nominated for five Golden Globes, including.
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"University has enacted stricter lockdown measures for campus housing University health services has reported 157 new cases in the last week. The university is now directing students in campus housing to remain in their rooms, except for basic needs. Here's U. H s representative Tommy Kate. So I think the father I think that place is just amplifying them with when and where we need to, and we've been able to see the trend of those positive cases going down. So we're really optimistic that me. We'll be able to contain the outbreak. The university has increased campus police presence that residence halls to enforce the rules. Anyone not complying with health guidelines may be disqualified from housing or suspended from the university. I'm Brian. What Take you, Edie News. And he is Joe McConnell. We're going to check the roadways now where we have to Joe. Well, the creek that's where they found the crash reported. It either conquer the wall in the creek, and it's six city south bound north. Main Street to middle lanes were blocked, but only briefly. They've moved it to the shoulder. But there is a little pocket of heavy traffic there. No other slowdowns. Even the Altamont pass looks fine. You might slope to 45 Miles an hour at the worst as you had a pass to grant Line Road and everything else is peaceful Transit on time. Joe McConnell for KQED. Alright, thanks, Joe. That one brought to you or support comes from good eggs and support for NPR comes from my drive. With remote PC, providing remote access to PCs, Max and servers from anywhere, assisting those working from home and also enabling remote assistance for customers at remote.
KHVH 830AM
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"Fax great race like a good neighbor. State farm is there. Investors are apparently looking ahead with optimism and driving indexes back up after the Dow lost 634 points on Wednesday. It had recovered most of that by mid day Thursday. Despite reports the 2020 was the worst year in 74 years, fourth quarter growth came in at an animal ized 4%. But that was a few tense less than expected, and for the full year GDP contracted 3.5% of full point worse than the last collapse. In 2009. Meanwhile, weekly jobless claims are improving. They fell 67,000 last week to 847,000, but they remain historically high. The wild trading battle between short selling hedge funds and day traders continues for Money losing game stock. The game store chain had jumped more than 700% in just five days, thanks to a group of investors on Reddit called Wall Street Bets. NBC Stephanie rules Following that, a few months ago, some guys on their realized that there were some very big short sellers in game stuff. And so what happened? All those individuals started buying up game stop driving up the price, And when that happens, it causes what's known as a short squeeze. Squeeze started reversing Thursday with Game stock trending way down as much as 50. 5% at one point after popular trading platform Robin Hood curb transactions in that company and other money losers such as AMC, BlackBerry Bed Bath and beyond. In Nokia. American in Southwest Airlines Air Big 2020 losers. Southwest lost more than $3 billion, its first annual loss since 1972 its second year in business. American lost almost nine billion, also a company record. Toyota is reclaiming. The crown is the world's largest automaker by sales five years after losing it two Volkswagen, but it wasn't a particularly good year for either. The Japanese automaker did sell 9.5 million vehicles worldwide in 2020, but that was about 11%. Fewer than 2019 and Tesler remains the number one automaker for market value, but it was losing ground Thursday. After Adjust, OK fourth quarter report. Consumer and Business News. Joe McConnell, NBC news radio. Find your I heart radio everywhere. There are hundreds.
KOA 850 AM
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"Better than expected, but still not good. The Labor Department reports new filings for unemployment benefits fell on Lee slightly last week. 787,000 just 3000 fewer, many economists predicted they would go over 800,000 again given the approval of the $300 weekly federal supplement, But 787,000 remains almost four times the pre pandemic weekly average. You might think Wall Street might react badly to all the political unrest and violence instead, so far, anyway. Stock traders air, shrugging it off Brian Sullivan reports. Tao did close at a record high, which traders showing little appetite for so called safe haven investments like gold Treasury bonds in the U. S. Dollar. And let's say that is because yesterday's events did nothing to change the political and economic outlook in the long term. The driving force behind the market's gains appears to be optimism over the prospect of a larger round of stimulus. Now the Democrats will control the Senate as well. Investors are also more positive about the rollout of vaccines, which would allow for the wider reopening of the American economy. I'm Brian Sullivan the U. S trade deficit at a 14 year high, But analysts say it's not a bad thing. Orders arising for both imports and exports. It's just that imports are outpacing exports. November data puts the gap of just over $68 billion.8 percent higher than October. Costco is reporting solid sales in December, driven by online shopping, the warehouse chain says. Total sales rose 12% last month, but e commerce sales soared more than 60%. The increased driven by frozen foods and liquor. The number of transactions at Costco was lower, but that was offset by higher spending overall. And Apple says a record $540 million was spent on APS on New Year's Day alone, and 1.8 billion was spent between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, most of it on games. The record spending is important for Apple because it's relying more on services to offset the ups and downs of sales of iPhones and other devices. Consumer and Business News. Joe McConnell, NBC news radio I heart radio goes one on one with Carlos Santana to reflect on how love is the only thing.
KOA 850 AM
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"Wrong direction after trending down for weeks. Jobless claims arising again the Labor Department report 742,000. New state filings for unemployment benefits last week about 30,000 more than the week before. Most economists expected almost no improvement, and now they think it will keep increasing at least for a few weeks is the pandemic. It's worse and restaurant and bar closings increase, among other business restrictions. Counting all state and federal unemployment programs. Continuing claims as of the end of October are down by about 800,000 just over 20 million compared to only a million and a half this time a year ago. China's president says his country is prepared to take the lead in the global economy Correspondent bills in for reports Jason Pig made the comment in an address to a virtual version of the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC. G called China the forerunner in driving the global economy and vowed to reduce tariffs and signed Morfogen trade agreements, a jab at the policies of the Trump administration. The United States is part of a peck. But President Trump is not expected to take part I'm Bill's in for Starbucks is brewing up the boost and pay for some of its employees. De Mutual has more CNBC reports, the coffee giant will raise hourly wages for baristas shift supervisors and cafe attendance by at least 10%. I will go into effect starting December. 14th starting wages also go up 5% help managers and to their staffs. Starbucks hasn't shied away from helping its workers in the past and already pays above minimum wage. Companies also offered catastrophe pay during the pandemic. I'm Dean, you tell, and existing home sales air blowing way past already high expectations. The National Association of Realtors reports an increase of 4.3% from September to October, and there were almost 27% better than October of last year. It's the highest sales rate since February of 2006. Consumer and business News. Joe McConnell, NBC news radio. I heard radio goes one on one with the goo goo dolls on their longevity and the future. I never thought we would put out. Turnout looks kind of keep him one of the time and just sort of stay there because I have a tendency to just sort of worry and panic about things might get too far ahead of myself. I could get down to the negative aspect of any situation. I might walk out in the street and get hit by a bus. You know, And I just want to try to make it a little more fun and a little more like because Yeah..
KQED Radio
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"In the Bay Region. The traffic flow is much better. Very few big problems, actually, no big problems and no meat Oring lights anymore. The Bay Bridge Joe McConnell for KQED, Your traffic support comes from Lucky and Lucky, California. When Dr Antonio Gomez became the first in San Francisco to receive a covert vaccine shot, it was lights camera action. But now the hard work of getting shots to underserved communities is front and center. I pulled up my sleeve and try to ignore the cameras. But there were a lot of them Plexiglass separated me from the nurse. I imagined being efficient. Official His hands were shaking as he drew up the vaccine. I think he felt all the attention and historic nature of the first covert vaccine administered in San Francisco. It was almost nine months since we had locked down to get a handle on this terrible pandemic. Once the needle was ready. I looked away because I didn't want him to feel the pressure of my gaze. People clapped pictures were taken. I sat in the monitoring area for the requisite 15 minutes watching us four of my colleagues got their injection had their picture taken, and each received a round of applause. In that moment, the sense of hope and relief in the room was palpable. A light at the end of the tunnel, even though we have so much more work to do before we get there. The vaccine is the first true beacon of hope. At this point in the pandemic, it re energizes us. The rest of that week was a world one with media requests left and right because I am fluent in Spanish and work its emphasis co general hospital. It was important to me to do Spanish language interviews and speak directly to the community most affected by the pandemic. That next people I've been working this community for more than 20 years. I know there is power and seeing and hearing a position, reassure the community that the vaccine is safe, effective and the best way to ensure the safety of the community. I want people to hear in Spanish from someone who reviewed the data talk to experts understood what he was putting in his arm and took the vaccine without reservation. Hakuna were pre med on San Francisco Caro ghettos and a stack of money. That single amusement park Tony that private sellers. That was ancestor tomorrow. I'm like, Oh, no suspect. Oh, sorry. Esto And then the locust have opinions on the home, bro. Give us a good Alice gets a good Oh, yeah. Focus. Put flour Cuando se also don't know Romanova kuna. Are you them? Antonella Saluda familias and because he told the committee that assault with the cover 19. What's on his commentary online at kqed dot org's slash perspectives. Support for Perspectives on Wednesday comes to us from Comcast dedicated to.
KOMO
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"That's Joe McConnell reporting. Come on news time 9 22. President Biden has a new goal when it comes to getting Americans vaccinated against Cove in 19, ABC s Stephanie Ramos reports. I think we may be going to get that to 1.5 million a day. Rather than one million today. Just gonna be a logistical challenge that exceeds anything we've ever tried in this country, But I think we could do that. I feel confident that My summer. We're gonna be well on our way to heading toward herd immunity. The president's confident but cautious warning The death toll could top 660,000 before we start turning the corner. We're still going to be talking about this. In the summer. We're still going to be dealing with this issue. In the early fall the race to vaccinate the world as pressing as ever concerns escalating as more variants of the virus reported in the U. S on Monday to state sporting occurrences of the highly contagious UK strain and overnight Minnesota announcing a local resident who had recently traveled to Brazil has the country's first known case of the Brazil variant. Madonna, one of the two vaccines currently used in the U. S. Now looking at how it's shots hold up against these new strains. The company's saying experiments show a protects against the UK variant, but that it provoked a weaker response against the South African variant and is studying a couple new options, including a possible booster shot. We need to keep watching it and testing against it and making sure until we've got it beaten back that we're planning ahead and we're being careful. On Monday, U. S pharmaceutical company Merck announced its ending development of two potential vaccines, saying while both looked safe in clinical trials, immune responses were low. But scientists across the globe are trying to get as many that Sean's approved as possible. According to the World Health Organization. There are more than 60 vaccines around the world currently in human trials, 11 of them in the final testing stages and nearly 200. Others are in pre clinical development. But overnight, Dr Anthony Fauci is saying the disproportionate available doses across the country are of great concern to him. There was some areas of the country with his vaccine. Lying around, and it's not going into people's arms. I just got off the phone with the city on a stage in which they have so many more people lined up. Want to get vaccinated and they don't have vaccine. So that kind of dichotomy and disparity eyes, something that we really need to address. Find out how to fix it and fix it. That's a BCS. Stephanie Rommel's Homo traffic from the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center. And Seattle. The earlier medical emergency on close an avenue sound that Michigan Street's been cleared away, and traffic is moving through that intersection. Once again. What's first traffic signals not working a Mountlake terrace at the end of the shop on five exit. The highway 104 you want to treat that as an always stop and Aggie BLM. The Berkeley Street on ramp to North bound five is closed her overnight roadwork and will reopen at 4 30 tomorrow morning. Our next Come on traffic at.
WTVN
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"Millimeter handguns. Jacquelyn Clark, the stores co owner, says the sharp uptick in sales began last March. Has continued ever since we were treated to covet and people's perception of a greater need for Personal and home defense. So the social unrest statewide last year the Colorado Bureau of Investigation conducted more than 500,000 background checks for gun sales, almost all of which were approved. It was the most in CBs's history and a 46% increase from 2019. Unfortunately, police say the increase in legal gun sales was matched by an increase in stolen guns. European aviation safety regulators are likely to give the go ahead next week to the Boeing 7 37 Max returned to the skies the U. S and Brazil already have. It would be another big boost for the planes worldwide come back after two deadly crashes. The rebranding of the CBS Alexis Streaming service is expected to start in March, Viacom CBS will launch its own Paramount Plus service on March 4th Latin America, although no US date has been said, yet Paramount Plus is expected to add new content to CBS all accesses existing shows. Consumer and business news. Joe McConnell, NBC NEWS radio I Heart radio goes one on one with Billy Joe from Green Day to hear about the importance of live shows in the stage production of American Idiot. It's flesh and blood, you know, And that's why I started going to live gigs to begin with, which was like that was like one of those moments where, as a kid, I was like, this is what I wanna do. I heard your records, and I heard all that and Deacon visualized being there and seeing it, but to see it live and coming across like that. It's like, you know, that's exactly what I.
KQED Radio
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"In Hong Kong, for instance, all arriving passengers are bussed to a convention center, and then they get tested there with all that wait a few hours until the results are no. If they're positive, they go into isolation. If they're negative, they're allowed to go do their quarantine. By contrast, the CDC is only suggesting that people self quarantine for seven days and get retested a few days after arrival. The U. S policy won't catch every infection. But Citron from the CDC says it could make a difference and managing the caseload. Right now we're in a critical race between infection and vaccination. And the bridge to succeeding in the time it takes to get her immunity and a successful vaccination going is to double down on all of our tools in our tool kit to suppress viral transmission, he says. It's no replacement for other public health measures, but it's one more thing that could help. In Quang NPR news. This is NPR news, and it's KQED news with Brian Want coming up in just a minute. Joe McConnell was some traffic news now with what is it, Joe? The ultimate past? Well, yellow impasse has gotten quite a bit slower it just in the last 10 minutes or so it's down to less than 10 Miles an hour as you head west on 5 80 just passed two of five. It is the last for long does pick up after Grant Line Road as usual, but It's all the sudden a big surge of people there and 6 80 north and also a slower than it was just 10 minutes ago approaching Highway 84 runner on Calvary's road, especially slow and that is road work with related which should be over by six. Joe McConnell for cake, you, buddy. And Joe's traffic support comes to us this morning from good eggs. Whether wise today plan on mostly cloudy skies than be coming partly sunny as we head into a bit of a warming trend, especially tomorrow in the meantime, today, temperatures are.
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"Unusually slow from through Skaggs, Alan all the way up to Sears Point. Joe McConnell for KQED Support comes from Rachael apart, a Wellness Resort and spa opened for hiking, mindfulness fitness classes and spa experiences in a garden setting on 4000 Acres near San Diego. Rancho Look Puerto calm. On KQED the time now, 8 51. This is the California report. Good morning. I'm Lily Jamali. The rate of hospitalization stemming from covert 19 statewide appears to be slowing down. Governor Gavin Newsom said it a briefing yesterday that since the week after Christmas hospital admissions for people with covert 19 have risen. But only by 6%. That's among the smallest increases We've seen over a two week period in some time. It's just a point of some optimism. A little bit of light. But Newsom says it's too early to tell if California avoided the worst of the holiday surge. Death rates related to Corona virus or still setting records and the rate of tests coming back positive remains high. The inland Empire, Los Angeles and the Central Valley continue to be major hot spots. An update on state home orders is expected today. But the governor says Thies regions and the Bay Area are unlikely to see orders lifted any time soon. In Sacramento, A state lawmaker is moving to repeal of 40 year old law requiring public school teachers on extended sick leave to pay for their own substitutes. KQED is Julia McEvoy reports, the policy was put into the California education code by the Legislature and the governor back in the 19 seventies. So if you are a teacher, and you are out on leave to fight cancer You have a child to take care of any medical emergency. You have to pay for the cost of your substitute out of your own pay. Senator Connie Leyva says This is wrong, and her bill, called the Protect School Employees and Medical Leave Act would make sure school employees could continue receiving their full pay while on extended leave. Over the years, district's and unions across the state have come up with sick leave donation banks as a kind of work around to help teachers in dire situations. Still, forcing.
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"For four years now. And have this happen at the end of his presidency. He just Diamandis and deserve it. You know, this is hard for someone who has watched the footage of President Trump rallying the people even saying he's going to go with them to the capital. You think of this is something that happened to trump? What do you make of this? So many Trump supporters that stayed home couldn't imagine their own in group members desecrating federal property. We're yelling at law enforcement. After all, they see themselves as the group that values these types of institution, so to make sense of what they saw on television, they'll come up with a variety of different reasons, such as it wasn't actually trump supporters who were orchestrating this rate, this much division about what is true. Is dangerous in a democracy. What is your research say about how to connect Americans across this kind of profound divide, people have to build relationships with their local community members in order to build trust. This is university professors. Doctors. Local politicians are society since its founding seems to have been built on the idea that reason prevails. I even saw From somebody on CNN say, you know, I used to think that fax matter, However, this doesn't seem to be the case. And they're right. If you drop a pen, you understand? Oh, if I like over pen, it's gonna fall. But most information that we get is not Firsthand like that often it's through testimony from other people, so it becomes very easy to dismiss information when it's coming from sources that we don't deem is credible. I'm glad you could come talk to us. Thank you so much. Thank you. Actually, Landrum studies conspiracy theories at Texas Tech University. You're listening to morning edition on KQED. 29 is the time on KQED. Let's go to Joe for look at traffic. Generally getting better by the minute, but a few new problems 80 westbound. You're Hunter Hill Rest area heading toward the Leo. It's broken down bus. It was in the right lane Brief of the cookies on the shoulder. I before westbound Alhambra and the Martinez area, there's a report of Something on fire. The fire crews are rolling with thick smoke coming from underneath the freeway and 6 80 south bound north of Highway for It's a report of a piece of ladder in the right lane. Joe McConnell for KQED Support for KQED comes from Genesis, a Global Cloud Contact center software provider. Genesis allows organizations of any size to provide personalized customer experiences that scale. G and E S. Y s com.
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"Here's Joe McConnell. All roads ahead are problem free. Just one hazard reported moments ago in San Matteo won one south of Poplar reported an orange cone and in the middle of the off ramp, and that is about it A Zafar his issues 0 to 80, south of Alpine, a traffic hazard. Not saying what it is, but something's in the middle of the road. Joe McConnell for KQED, the mystery. Thank you, Joe. Time Now, For a perspective on KQED. I'm Dave Freeman and 8 43, immigrant families, bland traditions and habits of their birth country with those of their new American home. For Selena gang. That memory resides in a box of birthday candles. Birthdays have always represented a contradiction for my family as Cambodian refugees who fled the killing fields of the Camaro Rouge regime. We, like many other Cambodians found a living in California's nascent donut shop industry back in the 19 eighties. However, birthday is like the donuts. My family sold the quintessential American traditions that didn't exist in our lives prior to my parents coming to the United States. My earliest birthday memories consist of a frothy strawberry cake from the local Asian bakery topped with eight spiral striped walls and candles. I had carefully selected them from the 24 Count box. The cashier had talked my mother into buying despite her misgivings about the additional cost. After lighting the candles, my family saying and off key rendition of the Birthday song while I stood awkwardly at the head of the table, uncomfortable with all the attention I was relieved when it was all over and I could escape. I don't remember anything about what the cake tasted, like, or if I even got any presents, But I do remember my mother, carefully pulling the pastel candles with their slightly burnt wicks from the cream diligently, wiping the frosting before taking them to the sink to rinse them off. The next time I saw them they had been dried and put back into their original box with the other 16 on use candles and every year like clockwork, my mother would reuse the same tapers and add just one new one for me. We're no longer struggling just to get by. But the ingrained frugality of our immigrant background. The gratitude for escape from genocide and war and the incorporation of traditions that embody American ideals is a constant reminder of how lucky we are. I have a three year old daughter now who will never grow up like I did the stories her grandparent's will tell her. We'll see miss foreign as the Cambodian language they speak. But as her fourth birthday approaches, and I prepare for families first ever collected video call in a year where she has only heard their voices, I pull out her own set of burnt candles and get ready to write a new one for her. With the perspective. I'm Selena King. Selena King works in the tech sector and is a writer and you can share your thoughts on her commentary online..
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With $1 Million, Exxon Mobil Corp Helps Fund Carbon Tax Campaign
"Though Bertelsmann's group prefers to call. It a fee not a tax more on that later. Burdensome says Exxon Mobil support will make lawmakers more receptive to carbon tax, but you may wonder why does an oil and gas giant like Exxon Mobil support a tax on its main products. Bertelson says one big reason is that companies want regulatory certainty they want to know what the rules of the game will be and that's unclear in the current environment. We're operating in what amounts to a game of regulatory pingpong in which you have one administration developing rules only to have the next roll them back. Another important reason. Exxon Mobil supports the plan is that while it would tax carbon. It would also remove most existing regulations on carbon emissions Bertelson says the carbon tax his group is proposing would be much more effective at. Reducing carbon pollution than the current regulations. The Americans for carbon dividends plan is based on a proposal from two Republican elder statesman. James Baker the third and George p Shultz both cabinet members. In Ronald Reagan's White House. One carat for Republicans is that the revenue from the tax or fee would be fully rebates to consumers Bertelson says the idea has received a positive reception from both parties on Capitol Hill with Republicans in particular. There's an increasing number of members of congress on on the Republican side that are looking to seriously engage on this issue. Of course, many Republicans are skeptical about both taxes and climate change. I think it is a step that's been Weber a former congressman from Minnesota. He's now a lobbyist and political consultant at mercury public affairs. But Weber says where the president in the White House who campaigned on reviving the coal. Industry, passing a carbon tax will be very difficult. I don't think there's any way of sugar coating her Republican today to embrace any new taxes difficult, and since President Trump was elected particularly attacks that focuses on fossil fuels is even more difficult. Greg Bertelson acknowledges the challenges and says the carbon tax has always been viewed as a longer term effort, but he says he thinks his groups carbon dividend proposal will become viable sooner than many people expect John ydstie NPR news, Washington. This is NPR news seven forty two now. And back we go to Joe McConnell for another look at commute conditions around the bay area this morning. Slower than usual conditions on how we seventeen still because of the earlier crash nor seventeen at the summit that was at they're out there at the five o'clock hour, it's cleared, but there are pockets starting as far back as vine hill, and it stays slow. It's wretches all the way around the reservoir. Also, six eighty northbound at El cantata, a new crash reported there on the shoulder at a crash earlier. Southbound also near stone valley road that may be out of the lanes. But it's backed up the concord behind that. Joe McConnell for K QB. All right. Thanks, joe. His report brought to you by Amtrak. And support for kqed comes from Korean air Korean air flights from San Francisco to Seoul servicing twice daily day and night Korean air connects to
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U.S. farmers to receive $4.7 billion to offset trade-war losses
"The federal government. Is cutting the first checks to farmers to offset trade losses the culture department is announcing four. Point seven billion dollars in total with most of the money going to soybean farmers initially it's part of the Trump administration's promise, of twelve billion. To help farmers get through the global, trade war meanwhile Trump's is farmers will be very happy with the tenant of new NAFTA replacing. Trade deal with, Mexico it's an incredible, deal it's an incredible deal for both parties, most importantly, it's an incredible deal for, the workers and for the citizens of both countries, are, farmers, are, going, to be so happy farmers. The farmers have stuck with may I said we're gonna do This Mexico's promised to immediately start purchasing as much product as they can they're going, to, work on that very hard but the deal. Doesn't yet involve Canada the third partner. In the North American, Free trade agreement pending future negotiations but the leaders of both Mexico and Canada have said all three have to be part of any new arrangement and congress. Isn't expected to approve anything that doesn't include,
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Puerto Rico bankruptcy judge upholds oversight board powers over government
"I'm Rachel Martin, good morning a federal judge has ruled that Puerto Rico does not have the final say when it. Comes to its own fiscal policy the final word belongs to a fiscal oversight board, that congress, created two years ago it's a ruling that will have far reaching consequences for, the island's financial future to. Talk about that. Let's bring it NPR's Adrian flurry toe from San, Juan Puerto Rico Adrian hey Rachel so this fiscal oversight board was created way before the hurricane when Puerto Rico was. Still suffering from all kinds of financial problems right yeah I mean remember it was a couple of years ago the government basically, said that it would not be able, to pay the more than seventy billion. Dollars that it owes to bondholders, into, that led congress to do two things that passed Allowing. The islands to effectively declared bankruptcy to restructure. That debt it also created this seven. Member board with. Huge power to make decisions. About the island's finances in order to to get this debt under control and turn the economy around listen to what the. Board's chairman Jose Korean told me in our colleague Michelle Martin back in June the. Government's function aside from taking care of the needy is to create the economic conditions whereby private enterprise. Succeeds and employees folks creates wealth that's that's the nature, of our, system, are, legal. Needs destruction reforms that will allow it to do so with the board sees one of its roles is being as forcing Puerto. Rican? Government. To implement, these sorts of reforms along with huge spending. Cuts in this you can imagine his has been big source of tension right so then their control was essentially a called into question because the governor of Puerto Rico and the legislature In Puerto Rico sued the oversight. Board, last month the governor and legislature don't believe that this federally, appointed board should be able to, force the, local government to implement these measures, they think they can recommend but not not require the government to. Do so until one example input Rico workers are entitled by law to a Christmas bonus the board wants this bonus eliminated and so in the budget that it drew up. For Puerto Rico did not include enough money for something the governor said, it did not have the. Right to do, it's just one example I mean the fundamental question here right is when it comes to fiscal policy to fiscal reform canvas. Board do that who has the final say the elected government to fourth three or the sport created. By congress and yesterday with, this federal judge ruled is that it's this appointing board that they have the power to overrule Puerto Rico's government when it comes to. To financial policy well so I can't imagine that government, in? Puerto Rico Governor there especially is very happy about this then no he was not a huge overseas but But he issued a statement saying that. It was proof that the Rico which is a u. s. territory is in fact more like a US colony he called it. An undignified relationship because you, know congress basically dictating policy he said without the islands consent on the other, hand the members of this oversight board some of. Whom are from Puerto Rico others. From the mainland US they welcomed the ruling and they said it, was time for the governor to begin. Implementing these cuts and austerity reforms to get Puerto Rico back. On on the right. Track so, what does it mean then I mean if you consider the fact that now the democratically elected government their. Their their power and control over Puerto Rico has been curtailed what does that mean for regular. Folks that's absolutely right what you just said it also means that for regular folks they can expect more cuts to services benefits even pensions some of these cuts have. Already, begun to public education the health benefits and we're talking about, an island where through where half of the, population lives in poverty in these, cuts Unconvicted, to slice pretty deep
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U.S. races to meet migrant reunification deadline
"On kqed public radio the. Time is, now nineteen past five live from. NPR news in. Washington I'm Louise Schiavone The Trump administration is racing to, me today's deadline for reuniting migrant families who were separated at the. Border but as NPR's Joel rose reports the government has also. Acknowledged that hundreds of families will not be reunited by the deadline federal officials say there are. Roughly nine hundred parents who cannot be reunified by. The deadline in about sixty cases the. Administration says that's because the parents have. Past criminal convictions but in more than four hundred cases it's because the parents. Are already out of the US either. Because they left, or were deported by. Day's end attention will shift to the hundreds of children whose parents, may have been deported Andrew how much time. We're unified parents in the US should have to decide if. They want to seek asylum. I just, ruptured at the US embassy in. Beijing earlier today China's says a man. Detonated a small bomb outside the compound. Today explosion the only person injured was the man accused of the blast Chinese police responded the embassy. Says there was no damage to its. Property world markets Dow futures are up on the tech heavy NASDAQ. Futures are lower after reported one, hundred fifty billion dollar slide and Facebook shares and while the US and you have diffused. Their trade, issues, China remains concerned about is'relations with the US leading Asian stocks lower I'm Louise Schiavone NPR news. Washington and here, in San Francisco I'm Matt Elmore thank you, so much for joining us for morning, edition today which we'll get back to shortly I Joe McConnell is away today Ted Stevens is in his place to bring us a look at bay area traffic I Ted good morning Matt let's, start on the Altimonte pass westbound five eighty five to Northland road it's stop and go traffic eastbound still. Doing work on the between Greenville road and grant line road It's only the. Left lane is open until eleven o'clock this morning, metering lights are off at the bay bridge but traffic is, starting to stack up to the end of the parking lot and. No delays on Bart trains, are, on time Ted Stevens for. Thanks Ted his. Report brought to you by beach blanket Babylon I'm Jeremy Hobson, Miami is known as the cruise. Ship capital of the world but. The ships are outgrowing the city's port facilities the three major cruise lines they've all. Been growing in terms, of. Ships is in port Miami hasn't. Had the opportunity did host some of. The larger ships so now they're planning to build three new terminals that's next time on here now The here and now program begins. At eleven o'clock this morning it in turn is. Followed at noon by the. Takeaway The Trump administration hits the deadline for family reunification border crossings decreased and shown. But that is to be expected Trump's family separation policy has made no difference what the numbers say about border crossings I'm Tanzania Vega and..
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Judge says government on track to reunify families split at border
"Is. NPR news Six fifty and before we bring, you the California report Joe McConnell is standing by with more about. The Wednesday morning commute Joe might be troubles on six eighty and Alamos southbound north of stone valley road a, report of, an injury collision there and blocking the right lane westbound ninety. Two foster, city boulevard another crash the eagles are on the shoulder ambulance on. The way as precaution not sure. If anybody's hurt yet the Dumbarton bridge toll plaza westbound of stall reported their action at a stall bits of debris flying around with yellow caution tape and your, where it came from but it's affecting. Traffic slowing things down Joe. McConnell for, KiKi, Dee. All right Thanks Joe his report is brought to you by compassion international and he'll update us again just before the. Top of the hour the time is now six. Fifty one good morning this. Is the. California. Report I'm penny Nelson national park officials are shutting down a part of Yosemite valley due to a massive wildfire. Burning just miles away the closure is expected to last through Sunday and is forcing the cancellation of at least a thousand. Hotel and camping reservations Cal fire. Spokesman Richard. Egan, on the Ferguson fire it's hard to say time-wise if or when it will reach the park but it is. Getting closer Sam campers are staying in parts of the park that have not been closed including these visitors from Mexico wherever Care more. About the bears than about the fire the fire now, covers more than thirty seven thousand acres. And is twenty six percent contained meanwhile the trader Joe's employees killed during a. Shootout with police Los Angeles, suburb on Saturday was struck by an officers bullet LAPD chief, Michael Moore made the announcement at a press. Conference yesterday KCRW's Jenny Hamill has more store manager Melita Corrado died when two LAPD officers exchanged gunfire with twenty eight-year-old gene Atkins after he crashed the. Car he was driving and ran into the trader Joe's in Silverlake LAPD chief more shared this with the public I'm sorry. To report that we've now determined through. Our forensic investigation that one of the ostrich rounds struck, MS Khurana as she was exiting, the market it was in close proximity to active chief Moore said the, two officers involved in the shootout were devastated by the news I know that it is every officers worst, nightmare to harm innocent bystander during Violent engagement the LAPD released videos of the incident Moore said he is waiting for the investigation to. Be completed before determining whether any action should be taken against the officers involved but he. Said, he's confident their actions were justified for the California report, I'm Jenny Hamill in Los Angeles onto the border story now a San. Diego based federal judge says a large number of parents, separated from their children at the US. Mexico border appear to be unaccounted for and may have been deported KiKi Dee's. Alex Hemsley has the update, at a hearing yesterday judge Dana Sabrina criticized the Trump administration, policy that resulted in over four hundred parents. Being deported without their children he ordered the government to provide more information about them attorneys for the government say they're still trying to locate those and. Other parents who may be lost in criminal custody somewhere in the US the ACLU represents the parents it's asking for a. Stay to give them more time to. Consult with and their children before resume Zooming deportations, league learnt is the organization's lead attorney. On the case a critical point is that baby given time to discuss as a family what they wanna do their face with. Momentous decisions about whether leaves their child behind whether to continue fighting as. A family they need time together of the two and. A, half thousand separated children more than sixteen, hundred are on track to be reunited with family members by the courts Thursday deadline the parents of at least nine hundred of them are facing, imminent deportation, for the California report I'm Alex Emslie, finally people. With intellectual disabilities are seven times more likely to experience sexual abuse compared with others that finding was. Revealed in an investigation published by NPR earlier this year. The series showed a hidden epidemic of abuse occurring in schools homes and treatment facilities k..
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U.S. aims to meet deadline on reuniting migrants, government says
"Just about nine minutes now before the hour of seven and before we get to the California report it's back to Joe McConnell and we go for another look at. Your ride to work today. Joe two, left lanes are now blocked in. The lower deck of the bay bridge eastbound before the island where there's a new crash had an earlier one at the Treasure Island. Exit this is a new one, and again two left lanes are blocked there the Golden Gate, Bridge is a fog advisory, just issued on eight eighty southbound. In Oakland, at Broadway. Is a. Report of. A. Will there's some smoke coming up there checking for the fire and, same thing in San Jose antiquity south north. Of seventeen. Smoke but it's coming from. The trees Joe. McConnell, rookie QB all right thank you Joe his report brought to you by Pacific catch west coast fish, house and the time is now six fifty one good. Morning this is the California report I'm penny Nelson well we start this morning with an update on the Ferguson wildfires. Still. Burning out of control near Yosemite national park for the seventeen thousand acres have been consumed By the, blaze and it's just five, percent contained firefighters there continue to. Face hot, and dry. Conditions with. More problematic. Weather. On the horizon on top of the weather there are the rugged, conditions to factor in here's Cal fire spokesman. Richard Egan. The terrain has been a. Significant problem it's. Pretty, steep terrain not really easily accessible by foot thirty six year old firefighter died Saturday after his bulldozer, overturned officials say to other firefighters were injured on Tuesday We turn now to our continuing coverage of. The children separated from their migrant parents at the US Mexico border the government must identify the parents of all kids five and. Older by today is an interim step. To meeting, a court deadline to reunite all the children with their parents by next. Week KiKi Dee's Julie small reports federal officials say they have custody, of two thousand, five hundred fifty one children who remained separated from their. Parents on Monday they told a federal judge in San. Diego they had identified the mother or father for nearly all those children and cleared more than nine hundred to return to their families attorney Spencer under with American Civil Liberties union says the government has. Yet to confirm any of. The kids have been reunited we are still. Waiting to get a, list of. All the people but under says the. Federal judge who ordered the reunifications made it clear he wants the government to act as fast. As possible I think they're, doing it hopefully quickly and they're doing it Batches you know. Another group of people each day is getting reunified. And then hopefully released for now the government is not allowed to immediately deport families that have been reunited in order to. Give them time to understand their, rights volunteer immigration lawyers, are mobilizing to be on hand to help represent the families for the California report I'm Julie small in San. Diego meanwhile on the legislative side California's Senator. Kamala Harris introduced legislation to require the federal government to immediately reunify all migrant families separated at the border in recent months this. Comes after a federal judge in San. Diego ruled, that separated children must be reunited by July twenty sixth the senators Bill. Unveiled earlier this week also requires many of the parents have separated, children to be, released while they pursue a legal way to stay in. The US k. q. e. d. Sonia Hutton reports in. Addition to family reunification and release of parents the Bill also So requires the. Federal government, to publish guidance on how it will do that that must include sustained and free. Contact between parents and children access to legal.
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NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says
"Right beside him an investigation is underway into the shooting of a Chicago man that led to protests over the, weekend NPR shero quarterly reports police quickly released. A portion of a police body Cam video of the incident the deadly encounter happened on Saturday when. Police approached Thirty-seven-year-old Horita Augusta's a local. Barber the video shows Augusta's had a holstered gun under his shirt as he fled police shot. Him police superintendent Eddie Johnson said he released the video quickly because he has an obligation to, keep the city calm and safe Nassar's plans to send astronauts from. The United, States to the, international, space station, for the first time since two thousand eleven may be delayed over safety concerns. SpaceX and Boeing or, contract with NASA to spearhead a commercial crew program to start getting US astronauts into space as early as next year with the use of their dragon and start liner. Spacecraft the Dow is up slightly you're listening to NPR news at eight twenty Joe McConnell Analysts here with..
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Dollar rises, stocks cautious before U.S.-North Korea summit
"A monday with jeff brown stocks tread water at the closing bell and just hours before an historic summit between north korea and the united states the dow up just six points the worst kept secret will be released on wednesday afternoon officially when the federal reserve likely will announce it's raising interest rates for the second time this year analysts now question how fast will these rates rise shares of boston scientific take off today after a report in the wall street journal says stryker corporation has made a takeover target walmart wine apparently so following the footsteps of target walmart is launching a line of ten wines source from california france and italy all with distinctive labels that will appeal to more upscale shoppers that has business reporter joe mcconnell china's washy biologics is setting up a manufacturing plant in worcester the company spending sixty million plans to hire at least one hundred fifty workers and lexington's translate bio partners with sanofi on a drug development deal that could be worth more than eight hundred million dollars that's.
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Comcast, Joe Mcconnell and Special Counsel discussed on Morning Edition
"The devil's half mile takes place on wall street not today's wall street it's wall street in seventeen ninety nine an ankle scams political corruption that sounds familiar that's next time on here now we'll bring you the here and now program beginning at eleven o'clock this morning here on now a news update from npr at seven nineteen from npr news in washington i'm dave mattingly president trump's former campaign manager paul manafort is being accused of trying to tamper with two witnesses in his ongoing criminal cases npr's carrie johnson says that's according to a court filing by lawyers for a special counsel robert muller manafort is free but under intense court supervision while he prepares for trial on charges of conspiracy in failing to register as a foreign agent the special counsel team says it has probable cause to believe manafort has obstructed justice by trying to influence witnesses in his case they're asking a judge to hold a hearing and consider whether his bail should be revoked the british government is clearing the way for rupert murdoch to purchase european broadcaster sky culture minister matt hancock in london says the deal requires murdoch to sell sky news i need to be confident that the final undertakings ensure the sky news remains financially viable over the long term is able to operate as a major uk based news provider and is able to take its editorial decisions independently for you from any potential outside influence murdoch's fox already owns thirty nine percent of sky for months ago comcast made a bid for the broadcaster stocks are higher this morning on wall street at last check the dow was up two points the nasdaq up thirty i'm dave mattingly npr news in washington twenty minutes past seven now and joe mcconnell brings us another look.
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Patricia Oliver, Florida and Richmond Bridge discussed on Morning Edition
"The ovation when they came onstage to pick up the diplomas oliver when patricia oliver came on stage she was wearing a t shirt that read this should be my son her family and those are the other three slain seniors ball created scholarships and nonprofit groups to honor their children although are now graduates many of the students for marjory stoneman douglas high school see they'll remain active in the movement to stop gun violence today parkland students who are part of the march for our lives movement announced they're launching a national voter registration tour beginning june fifteenth greg allen npr news sunrise florida this is npr news eight forty one now and joe mcconnell brings us more about the commute this morning joe the crash of the way of the richmond bridge is already cleared to the shoulder just took a few minutes so it's added to the backup from canal but it's not much worse than it always is the crash at the toll plaza the bay bridge westbound before the plaza crash on the shoulder westbound before the island a collision that had been briefly blocking a lane is still there off to the side of the road so a lot of rubber necking on the bay bridge joe mcconnell for k acuity.
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Ebola vaccination campaigns begin in Congo as many remain unfazed
"Now eight nineteen from npr news in washington i'm lakshmi singh by five to four vote the the us supreme court rules that companies can ban their employees from banding together challenge violations of federal labor laws writing for the majority justice neal gorsuch says in one thousand nine hundred five federal arbitration act supersedes a national labor relations act in the dissent justice ruth bader ginsburg warned of huge under enforcement of laws designed to protect workers the courts will hear three cases this week involving which locker rooms and bathrooms transgender people should be allowed to use npr's sheriff brady reports the first case a challenge to a ballot initiative takes place today in montana i one eighty three would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate rather than the one they identify with two other cases will be heard later this week in oregon and pennsylvania they challenged school district policies that allow transgender students to use bathrooms in line with the gender by which they live and identify health authorities have begun to plumbing an experimental bowl hlavac see to about six hundred people in democratic republic of congo here's npr's ada parole the world health organization says this will not be a mass immunization effort instead they're calling it a ring vaccination effort that means health authorities are identifying infected people and then vaccinating anyone who has come into contact with them and those who have come into contact with the contacts the vaccination therefore creates rings around the cases of ebola this is n p twenty minutes now past eight o'clock and before brian watt joins us with k k d news joe mcconnell's here with more about your ride to work this morning latest problem hobby four eastbound before leverage heading towards antioch a pittsburgh it's if you crash their car.
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US Supreme Court rules 5-4 on labor case
"News in washington i'm lakshmi singh by five to four vote the the us supreme court rules that companies can ban their employees from banding together challenge violations of federal labor laws writing for the majority justice neal gorsuch says in one thousand nine hundred five federal arbitration act supersedes a national labor relations act in the dissent justice ruth bader ginsburg warned of huge under enforcement of laws designed to protect workers the courts will hear three cases this week involving which locker rooms and bathrooms transgender people should be allowed to use npr's sheriff brady reports the first case a challenge to a ballot initiative takes place today in montana i one eighty three would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate rather than the one they identify with two other cases will be heard later this week in oregon and pennsylvania they challenged school district policies that allow transgender students to use bathrooms in line with the gender by which they live and identify
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Putin inaugurates bridge by driving a truck across to seized peninsula Crimea
"From npr news in washington i'm lakshmi singh pennsylvania is among four states holding primary elections npr's scott detro reports voters in pennsylvania are deciding races held against the landscape of last minute redistricting pennsylvania's primary campaign was shaken up when the state supreme court threw out the congressional map is unconstitutional justice candidates began filing to run the new court drawn map is friendlier to democrats and that plus five republican retirements has led to several jam packed primaries as democrats try to seize momentum in pennsylvania the first lady's expected to be released from the hospital in a few days the white house has malania trump was treated for a benign kidney condition the president of russia is green lighting a new path for getting supplies to crimea which the russian military occupied and seized from ukraine for years ago npr's lucian kim reports l'idee mir putin has opened a bridge that connects the crimean peninsula to the russian mainland president putin attended the opening ceremony by climbing into the cab of an orange dump truck and driving at twelve miles over the seat to crimea crimea is a peninsula that juts off of ukraine into the black sea after russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen supplies to be delivered by sea or air the fourbilliondollar bridge is more than just a prestige project because ease of moving people and goods will take crimea even closer to russia on wall street the dow is down one hundred seventy three points this is npr twenty one minutes now or make that twenty minutes past the hour of eight let's see what's happening with our commute this morning as we check back with joe mcconnell mathematically new problem for the nimitz freeway in oakland northbound eight eighty at high street crash in the right lane traffic already back up to two thirty eight and backed up before that now from about his spirit and five eighty s to thirty s backed up to five eighty but five through castro valley not too bad does turn bad though and five eighty westbound what you get to san leandro from about fairmont drive and up to lakeshore and i'm joe mcconnell for k qb all right thanks joe his report brought to you by speedy oil change and auto service and he'll update us again just about nine minutes from now support for k q e d comes from best.
Fuel prices are rising again, as automakers pull back on sedans
"The federal reserve is expected to raise them again next month the fed governors closed there may meeting this week keeping the status quo since they just raised the benchmark in march but the fed says the expanding economy justifies more rate increases this year gas prices keep rising to april's average was the highest in four years all thanks to hire global oil prices higher taxes and the more expensive summer blend gasoline's added together and this could be a painful year at the gas pump got to watch where i go now i've got to watch more travel and people will be watching where they fill up their tank loco stations like cosco macy longer lines while nearby stations charging twenty and fifty cents more gallon may be forced to lower their prices either way drivers will once again be looking for cheaper ways to travel whether driving more fuel efficient cars or simply readjusting their travel plans continued doing when i do i'll just rethink how i do it to make a combine them nbc's bob hansen reporting so why are suv's and up still selling so well given the higher gas prices analysts credit better fuel economy making them as or almost as efficient as sedans and more proof sedans are in trouble in the united states japan's largest car makers who all offered redesigned sedans this year all report a lousy april nissan's overall sales fell twenty eight percent honda was down over nine toyota almost five the few between the us and china over technology and telecommunications could escalate the wall street journal says the trump administration is considering restricting chinese companies from selling telecom equipment in the us based on national security concerns and a new analysis shows more people are switching to a new method of relaxation instead of wine they're choosing marijuana in the growing number of states where it's legal the rabbo bank analysis is the trend among both genders but especially among women the theory they're cutting down on the calories from alcohol consumption consumer and business news joe mcconnell nbc news radio and now the iheartradio weekend sports time capsule what's going on sports fans it's me bald freak ronnie here is always.
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"To travel whether driving more fuel efficient cars or simply readjusting their travel plans continued doing when i do i'll just rethink how i do it if i have to make a combined nbc's bob hansen reporting so why are suv's and pickup still selling so well given the higher gas prices analysts credit better fuel economy making them as or almost as efficient as sedans and more proof sedans trouble in the united states japan's largest car makers who all offered redesigned sedans this year all report a lousy april nissan's overall sales fell twenty eight percent honda was down over nine toyota almost five the few between the us and china over technology and telecommunications could escalate the wall street journal says the trump administration is considering restricting chinese companies from selling telecom equipment in the us based on national security concerns and a new analysis shows more people are switching to a new method of relax ation instead of wine choosing marijuana in the growing number of states where it's legal the rabbo bank analysis is the trend among both genders but especially among women the theory they're cutting down on the calories from alcohol consumption consumer and business news joe mcconnell nbc news radio i'll say democrats have been wanting to their entire constituency for a long time and i questioned that anyone is voting for the democrat party today and expecting a different result than what they have seen in the past i do question that decision and i intend to offer them a better alternative going forward kevin nicholson joined me earlier this morning on the dan o'donnell show explained the cognitive thought process controversy blasting the liberal group vote vets for manufacturing this controversy mocking cnn for making this a big deal and saying this is concocted by his political opponents when it was clear what he was referring to as i think can be reasonably inferred he was talking about the logical thought process that gets veterans to vote for a political party which clearly has since the iraq war and it became politically expedient to blast to the military as a way of blasting george w bush generally opposed everything the united states military did and to top that off a political party that sees itself as on by the constitution and rather looks to change.
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"March so another rate hike is unlikely this sin damage control at facebook takes center stage on his first day of the annual fa conference in san jose california where thousands of software developers anxious about the social networking giant's future are expected to be an attendance facebook ceo mark zuckerberg will address this gathering for the first time since his company was rocked by privacy scandal involving more than eight million facebook users this is npr news and at twenty minutes past eight we take you back to joe mcconnell for more about commute conditions today joe latest problem san francisco northbound at silver first reports.
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"It's the california report in just about half a minute after joe mcconnell and your traffic north to idiots stevens creek is our latest problem it's a hit and run crash in the middle of the slow traffic that extends northbound two eighty well behind that at the end of the crash it's backed up traffic still through san jose north eight eightieth whipple entertains collision there with a big rig in a car on the shoulder southbound eight eighty recovering from an earlier crash near a street still pretty slow from san leandro and i'm joe mcconnell for cake thanks joe his report at eight fifty one brought to you by positive coaching alliance good morning this is the california report i'm penny nelson the brother of an unarmed black man shot and killed by sacramento police last month has been arrested on felony charges and is being held without bail capital public radio's bob moffitt reports that the arrest comes as protests over stefan clark's death continue devante clark was booked the sacramento county jail on felony charges of making criminal threats assault and vandalism sacked pd sergeant vance chandler says clark has made numerous nine one one calls in recent days he has been calling our dispatch center and while investigating the all that how we discovered that these crimes were committed the arrest came at about the same time a group of eighty people delivered one hundred thousand signatures collected online to the local district attorney's office they demand she charged the officers who killed stefan clark the sacramento district attorney says it could be a year before the investigation is complete that's capital public radio's bob moffitt now onto labor issues after more than a year of failed contract talks members of the university of california's largest employees union says they are ready to strike sarah hosseini reports members of afs me thirty to nine.
Mississippi's last abortion clinic expands lawsuit on restrictions
"This is npr news seven forty one joe's here to bring us another look at some of our commute problems this morning joe is at least one new accident in fairfield on eighty westbound reported near airbase parkway was one of them that was original crash near west texas which is still there but on the shoulder slow traffic extends to before north tex symbols and evacuate you about cherry glen road the thirty seven grind is back normal which means slow but not as slow it was a backed up more in vallejo because of a crash near mare island but that has cleared it's a thinnedout in sonoma's county commute heading south through petaluma but marin is now worse from about agnosio to the civic center joe mcconnell for kqed joe's report brought to you by the crohn's and colitis foundation millions of americans rely on their local television stations for news but they may not know that there are bigger entities behind their local programming over the past few years sin claire has accumulated almost two hundred local stations in nearly one hundred markets the takeaway today we'll be looking at the impact on the content these stations are putting out and what what it means for us viewers and you can hear the takeaway beginning at noon today here on keiko from npr news in washington i'm windsor johnston advocates for reproductive rights are challenging dozens of abortion restrictions in mississippi which recently passed the nation's toughest abortion ban and pr ceremony caman has more on the lawsuit being filed today the state's republican governor phil bryant has said in the past that he wants to end abortion in mississippi he recently signed the most restrictive abortion law in the country that's already been challenged in court and now a new lawsuit is challenging dozens of other laws and regulations including a twenty four hour waiting period and what advocates describe as unnecessarily stringent rules for facilities that provide abortion the standoff between the.