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Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
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"Kpfk mornings with gail from the auto collision specialists studios. You know kind of scrolling through all the articles background on the fact that you've got Three three Broncos being inducted to a pro football hall of fame steve. Atwater will be inducted on saturday. Night followed by paint and manning and john lynch on sunday night but i loved the take of not ryan o'halloran in the denver post so many people to acknowledge. Thank an honor. He writes and so little time to do so ever since they were elected to the pro football hall of fame. The last two. February's former bronco's steve atwater peyton manning and john lynch have spent hours. Can you imagine trying to encapsulate years of playtime and memories into an eight minutes speech as they are inducted into the pro football hall of fame this weekend all of this to be delivered on a stage and can't know oh where would you begin. And how difficult would that be well. Needless to say the three of them have gone through numerous interest of those speeches now out water. A member of the class of twenty twenty well. his induction was delayed by the pandemic. He speaks once again. Saturday nights followed by class of twenty twenty one members nanning and lynch on sunday evening and they actually sat down with the denver. Post this past summer and a kind of went through the trials and tribulations challenges of capturing so many memories and having only eight minutes to do so now atwater who made eight pro bowls won. Two super bowls with the broncos will be presented by former teammate. dennis smith at water said he spent the summer quote. Moving stuff around close quote in his speech asked what his message will be. He laughed and said. Hey you'll see. When i get there going on to say i know i'll get a chance to acknowledge a lot of people who played a special part in my life and have their names heard because well steve atwater said it wasn't just me playing football. That got me here. It was the coaches. I had the mentors. The friends my family and my parents he said. Hopefully a lot of those people will be happy. Boy does atwater have drilled down. What does that cliche about There is no telling no limit on how far you can go if you're willing to spread around the credit and it sounds as though that's exactly what he's intending to do. Meanwhile peyton manning will be presented by his father archie. The only first ballot hall of famer among the broncos trio manning's election was revealed to him your member this january twenty second during a surprise meeting at the broncos home stadium with several former coach irs coaches including phillip fulmer. Tony dungy jim. Caldwell gary kubiak among others travelling to denver manning said that was a really special moment it made me reflect on all of the people once again giving away the credit who have been part of it since that moment he said it's been a great time going down memory lane. Manning said he had begun reaching out to friends..
The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
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"If you're new to the show tech's kpfk to that number. Here's a little side story. Jackson state coach. You may have heard of him. Dion sanders walks out of the south s. Wac media day event. After being called dion jackson state football coach dion. Sanders wants to be treated like alabama coach and six time national champion. Nick sabin according to clarion ledger. Pro football hall of fame cornerback. In second year coach demanded that reporters shouldn't call him by his first name before walking out of the media. Day event at the sheraton birmingham on tuesday. He says you don't call nick sabin. Nick don't call me dion. Sanders told nick suss from clarion. Few call nick sabin nick..
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"If you're new to the show tech's kpfk to that number. Here's a little side story. Jackson state coach. You may have heard of him. Dion sanders walks out of the south s. Wac media day event. After being called dion jackson state football coach dion. Sanders wants to be treated like alabama coach and six time national champion. Nick sabin according to clarion ledger. Pro football hall of fame cornerback. In second year coach demanded that reporters shouldn't call him by his first name before walking out of the media. Day event at the sheraton birmingham on tuesday. He says you don't call nick sabin. Nick don't call me dion. Sanders told nick suss from clarion. Few call nick sabin nick..
Houston Public Media Local Newscasts
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"Hera harsher penalties are coming texas drivers who hit and cause injury to a person in a crosswalk fort bend. County officials introduced the lisa. Torrey smith act yesterday which is named after the fort bend. Native in two thousand seventeen smith was killed while crossing neighborhood street and at the time no criminal charges could be filed but in september that will change fort. Bend county district attorney. Brian middleton assisted. Smith's family and drafting the soon to be statewide law. Drivers will face punishable fines and up to two years in prison pacific station k. Pf is selling its historic home in. Houston's montrose neighborhood as andrew schneider reports. It's an open question whether the station will find a new building or remain permanently homeless hey. Pf t just renewed its license so it's unlikely the station will be going off the air but there's a risk that the pacifica foundation we'll take the proceeds from the sale of the building and use them to prop up financially troubled stations on the east or west coasts leaving. Kpfk essentially homeless former k. Pf t general manager duane. Bradley says the station has been operating remotely since the start of the pandemic and theoretically could continue to do so. We kind of gotten used to not having that community space but knowing that it was still there and that at some point we could come back with somewhat reassuring. Kpfk has operated out of montrose for more than fifty years. It's one of five stations remaining in the pacific and network. I'm andrew schneider in houston harris. County approaches two million fully vaccinated residents health officials in galveston county are investigating an outbreak of cove in nineteen that cropped up at a church camp health reporter. Sara will earns says at least three cases have been identified as the highly contagious delta vary galveston county. Health district has now confirmed at least fifty seven positive cases among campers staff and those affiliated with the church ninety additional cases were self reported to the county and are waiting to be confirmed the majority of infections were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals. Six are considered breakthrough cases or infections among people that are fully vaccinated to help department says it's now contact tracing and offering guidance and resources to the congregation at sarah will ernst reporting there's renewed demand for cove in nineteen vaccines from people in texas prisons officials. Say that's because the prison system resumed contact visitation this month for inmates who are vaccinated incarcerated people and their loved ones can hug and kiss at the beginning and end of this type of visit and hold hands throughout it. Jamri jeremy diesels with texas department of criminal justice since the addition of contact visitation. We have seen a spike in the amount of vaccination requests. That are coming. The department of criminal justice has administered more than one hundred and twenty two thousand cove in nineteen vaccine doses to texas inmates that includes five madonna and johnson and johnson vaccines scattered storms across our region. Right now and it should be a wet one for most of the day. Seventy three degrees right now in the us campus. I met arab news. Eight seven support for. Npr comes from i-drive providing cloud backup full system. Backup and onsite i-drive appliance..
Houston Public Media Local Newscasts
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"Officials have yet to schedule a confirmation hearing for harris county. Sheriff gonzales to lead the nation's immigration department but our own brenda release says for now. The sheriff is focusing on the local uptick in violent crime. Here's county sheriff. Ed gonzalez has been tapped by president biden. Delete ice immigration and customs enforcement. Gonzales told houston matters. He hasn't heard details yet about his confirmation hearing any focused on doing his job locally including trying to tackle rising violent crime and road rage temperature shorts especially when the weather's hot and aggressive driving all of that just the perfect storm and more people seem to be packing weapons these days. Gonzales says his department has seen an increase in home and car break ins. He's known for being critical of many trump administration immigration policies and if confirmed will be in charge of one of the most controversial agencies in the federal government. I'm brenda res in houston. Speaking of crime. Man charged with murdering a six year old girl and her parents in southwest houston. Last week is now being held without bond. Initially a judge had set bond at around a million dollars for twenty old xavier davis but the decision was reversed yesterday according to fox twenty six davis faces three capital murder charges along with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly shot the victims in their apartment last wednesday pacific station k. Pf is selling its historic home in. Houston's montrose neighborhood as andrew schneider reports. It's an open question whether the station will find a new building or remain permanently homeless k. Pf t just renewed its license so it's unlikely the station will be going off the air but there's a risk that the pacific foundation we'll take the proceeds from the sale of the building and use them to prop financially troubled stations on the east or west coasts. Leaving kpfa t. essentially homeless former pf. T. general manager duane. Bradley says the station has been operating remotely since the start of the pandemic and theoretically could continue to do so. We've kind of gotten used to not having that community space. But knowing that it was still there and that at some point we could come back with somewhat reassuring. Kpfk has operated out of montrose for more than fifty years. It's one of five stations remaining in the pacific network. I'm andrew schneider in houston and a congressional committee plans to review why the texas land office initially denied harris county hurricane harvey mitigation funds. Back in may the county had asked for more than one billion dollars was awarded zero. The land commissioner.
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"Pelosi says she hopes to get the measure. Through Congress before current unemployment benefits run out and mid March for K P F a news I'm Daniel Witty. Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana has announced he will try to stop Congresswoman Deb Holland's confirmation as president Biden, secretary of the Interior Department, Savannah Mar of Mountain West News Service reports. Jane sits on the energy and natural resource is committee, which will have a first pass at vetting Holland. Dane says he'll vote against her confirmation, citing her past support of progressive policies on climate change. This could delay Holland's confirmation, but she's still likely to become the nation's first indigenous Cabinet secretary. Gerald Gray is the chairman of the Rocky Mountain tribal leaders counsel. He doesn't want to give the attempt too much oxygen. Oh, that's just talk political speak. That's what that is, but not all of Dean's indigenous constituents agree. Taking Perez is with Western Native Voice, a nonpartisan indigenous advocacy group in Montana. He's asking Danes to reverse course. Just eras. A puppet for sort of an agenda is both inappropriate and 72 counts. How dynamic this individual is. Pollen Senate confirmation hearing hasn't yet been scheduled. For the Mountain West News Bureau. I'm Savannah Mar. New Mexico representative Dead. Holland's nomination to lead the U. S. Interior Department is historic for Native Americans. As the tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna. She would be the first native American Cabinet secretary, but opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its congressional supporters has been mounting. Eric take a toff Reports Chili, defiant chair of the Confederated Sale Ish and Courtney tribes in western Montana, says the nomination also is important for the divided country, She says Holland has proved she could be bipartisan. It will bring her experience as a native American woman to the position. She has that holistic world view about the people in the land and the government really need and those changes that could come about when we do. Reach across the aisle. Holland has also made conservation our priority. While in Congress, she helped pass public lands legislation, including the Great American Outdoors Act in Americas Conservation Enhancement Act. Head of the Montana Wildlife Federation. Frank's philosophy, says Holland backed the recovering America's Wildlife Act, which would provide nearly $1.5 billion annually to states and tribes to restore at risk wildlife species. He says her commitment to nature goes beyond that, as well. She is a supporter has been a champion of what are called the 30 by 30 goals to conserve and restore public and private lands. It's a priority for hunters and anglers. The 30 by 30 goal aims to conserve 30% of US land by 2030 President Joe Biden has also committed to this Colin's past is meaningful for other reasons, Selassie adds. Her father was in the Marines for 30 years, and her mother is a Navy veteran. Flossie says. That's important for Montana, the state with the highest number of veterans per capita in the US, We represent a lot of hunters and anglers who are veterans as well. And our public lands our special place for folks who served in the next secretary of interior. It's important for that person to appreciate that, and we believe representative Holland does with sincerity. For public news Service. I'm Eric Take it off. In one of his first acts is new Chair of the Senate Energy Committee. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia today urged President Bind to reconsider his executive order that revokes presidential permit for the long delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline. Siding with Republican critics Mansion has yet to lead hearing since being named chair last week. But he spoke out on the pipeline controversy that spanned four presidencies. And a letter to Biden mentioned said Keystone XL and other pipelines continued to be the safest mode to transport oil and natural gas resource is And asserted they support thousands of high paying American Union jobs. His comments signal the tricky relationship the White House is likely to have with mansion. Moderator was urged by the act in a bipartisan manner on covert 19 relief and other issues, including climate chains. Mansion leads a committee that is crucial to Biden's efforts to address climate change. But his expects skepticism about some of the actions advocates they are needed. To reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Mansion A long time coal industry defender who once shot a copy of a climate change bill for a campaign ad, has worked to improve relations with environmentalists. He says he supports responsible efforts to address Climate change, but he's urged by to consider the effects of his actions on energy producing states such as West Virginia. You're listening to the evening news on KPFK in Berkeley KPFK in Los Angeles, KFC F in Fresno Online at KPFK died or gets an hour long newscast without interruptions. Also got a half hour.
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"She's professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She says that people have four fundamental questions when it comes to getting shot. Found was four domains, confidence in the importance and the effectiveness in the safety and is a compatible with my it least. Religious or otherwise. Interestingly, you really look globally the data on comparing it to actual vaccine uptake perception of the importance of the vaccine is actually the strongest predictor of vaccine acceptance. Dr Larson says the populations that are most vulnerable to covet exposure or serious outcomes for the disease, including native latter necks and black people, and people with low incomes are also the most likely to experience vaccine hesitancy. Most widely held concern across the population is about the safety of this shot and its potential side effects thing. Same time. If people believe in the importance of the vaccine, they're much more willing to tolerate a bit of risk. Dr Reid Tucks in is a member of the Clinical Center Research board at the National Institutes of Health and the founder of the Black Coalition against Cove. It It's a group of community organizations and health care professionals who came to build trust for the vaccine among black and brown communities and inform people about the risks of catching and spreading cove in He said that the disease of distrust can be deadly. We have to realize that there is a larger context that has to be addressed distrust of health care researchers distrust of the system of clinical care and distrust of the health policy movement. Ah, lot of that was because of the Tuskegee syphilis study of which are everyone, I'm sure is well aware of the horrors of that experience, but those remained prominent and frustrated our ability To respond from a public health perspective to the HIV AIDS crisis in the black community is Number one. We must have grassroots community engagement. If we're going to fight these kinds of challenges, Government cannot do it alone at the federal, state or local level. It must be community based organizations, people from the community who can translate and transmit Science messages in their own vernacular in ways that can reach and cut cut through. Secondly, you must have trusted science and clinical care voices. There is a huge desire for the black community to hear from trusted voices trusted black positions, and scientists and funding is a very big part of it. Unfortunately, what we see too often is major white philanthropies and other organizations with which Government already has a pre existing funding mechanism. They get the dollars and what happens is that the African American community has been taxed with doing the work we do, but having to do it with very little resource is and people sort of taking those community based organizations for granted. Jackson says organizing efforts have begun to make headway and raising people's confidence in the vaccines. But, he says once people do decide to get vaccinated. Systemic inequality in the health care system leaves low income and communities of color, waiting the longest for their shot. Our polling tells us that we've gone from a couple of months ago. Where was 60%? No, I will not take the vaccine to now. Our polling is telling the status down to 30%. The 70% are saying I need more information and I'm ready to go. Black folks are not in the back teen hesitant issue the way that we thought we would be anymore. So it is not an excuse. But it is hard to get black folks to come take the vaccine, and this is a referendum on America's competence to execute on a very fundamental problem. I'm Jr Summers for KPFK. And you're listening to the evening news on K p F a Berkeley or KPFK in Los Angeles, KFC F Fresno Online at kpfk dot or G'kar thistles CAT Brooks I'm an actor,.
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"They all receive special treatment to a degree that stunned and disturb the Obama administration's own inspector general. Over at that department. We're talking about shoving through green cards as political favors. An intervening the overturned in aisles. But a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in approving my orcas anyways, noting the importance of having a leader at the DHS. During a tumultuous time in the wake of the Capitol siege last month that left six people dead in his defense. My orcas has said he made decisions to right wrongs and visa applications for both Republicans and Democrats. Under Trump. The DHS was frequently in turmoil and mired in controversy. The agency carried out heavy handed immigration enforcement initiatives, most notoriously separating migrant Children from their families as part of a zero tolerance campaign and 2018. My or kisses, widely expected to roll back many of the trump policies. He rejected a proposal to separate families when he served under Obama and has pledged to end the inhumane and unjust treatment of immigrants, he said. But he also pledged to maintain border enforcement during his confirmation hearing. I'm Christina. Honest Ed reporting for KPFK. Have Democrats say Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters at the U. S. Capitol. They made the argument on a legal brief today that makes their most detailed case yet. For why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office. Texas Democratic Representative Sylvia Garcia told CNN that Trump very clearly incited the mob during his rally. And he said, and we find that we have to fight like hell. And that's insightful that's telling. People will go out there and do something so you better look at the totality of the circumstances and all the fax around the the actions that were taken. The document length Trump's baseless efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election to the deadly January 6th rioted the capital, it says. Trump bears unmistakable blame for actions that directly threatened the underpinnings of American democracy. Trump's lawyers also filed their defense brief today, Nick Harper reports. The nine Democrat House managers will argue in the upcoming impeachment trial that Donald Trump invited the riot, urging his supporters to storm the Capitol building and try and overturn Joe Biden's election win. Case will argue that Mr Trump will do anything to reassert his grip on power and should be denied any opportunity to run for reelection. His lawyers in defense say his continued baseless claims of voter fraud was simply him exercising his First Amendment rights, which constitutionally gives him the right of free speech. The trial is scheduled to begin next Tuesday. I'm Nick Harper in Washington, New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said on social media today that she hit in an office bathroom as the man repeatedly yelled, Where is she? During the insurrection at the U. S. Capitol. She also revealed a sexual assault in her past. As she talked about trauma, choking back tears of Casio. Cortez called out fellow lawmakers. Sick, who she says are now playing down the danger of the January 6th Trump supporter assault on the Capitol. These were the same tactics of abusers. And Um I'm a survivor of sexual assault. Mm. And I haven't told many people that in my life Mm. But When we go through trauma. Trauma compounds on each other. Cassio Cortez was reflecting on the terror of that day during an instagram live video, she said those urging Americans to put the day behind them and not recognize are not recognizing the impact of such an event..
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"The deployment follows a play from Portugal for international assistance as the country struggles with the surge of coronavirus cases. The Portuguese government has set up 850 special intensive care beds, four seat covered 19 patients, but on that, 850 it now says only seven beds remained vacant. Unemployment of German medical teams follows similar support efforts from Austria, where the government has said it will be flying sick patients from Lisbon to Vienna to provide care in the Austrian healthcare system. Friends. Marie Girl in California has reported another 481 coronavirus death a day after the statewide death toll topped 40,000. Even as the rates of new infections and hospitalizations continue to fall. The state said yesterday that the number of people in the hospital with covert 19 slipped below 14,850 a drop of more than 25% in two weeks. 18,974 new cases are about a third of the mid December peak of 54,000. Los Angeles County this weekend reported its second confirmed case of a more transmissible strain of the Corona virus first detected in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, officials are decrying anti vaccination protesters who forced the temporary shutdown of the inoculation center at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. L A Times are the L. A Fire Department shut the entrance to the stadium down as a precaution at about 2 P.m. Saturday afternoon, after was blocked by a few dozen demonstrators. Hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line or stalled for about an hour. L A Times says The protest included members of anti vaccine and far right groups. The vaccination center, one of the nation's largest, reopened shortly before three PM, the mayor's office said. Despite the 55 minute minute interruption, no appointments were canceled. No arrests were made. Law enforcement officials are investigating escalating threats of death and violence against California Governor Gavin Newsom, his family and the winery shops and other businesses he founded. Sacramento Bee reports that heard a voice mail and reviewed emails containing graphic, abusive language about Newsome violent sexual threats against his wife and a reference to his Children. The newspapers said One communication included a threat to burn down one of the winery's owned by the PlumpJack Group, the hospitality company. Newsome, founded in the 19 nineties, with Patrons inside. Be, says Newsome is no longer involved in the day they operations of that company. You're listening to The evening news on KPFK in Berkeley, Kpfk Los Angeles, KFC at Fresno Online K P F a dot or gets an hour long newscast available online at kpfk dot or gets also available as a podcast. I'm mark Miracle..
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"A group of people met and back his Minnesota Saturday and marched down streets and opposition of the pipeline just days after Biden took action to revoke the Keystone XL permit organizer say more than 200 water protectors took part in the March the indigenous environmental Network stream the demonstration live on Facebook. Db in the construction began on line three in early December. Indigenous people have been opposing the project at construction sites in northern Minnesota. A resistance camp was recently set up near Cloquet to try and slow construction, while supporters of the oil pipeline say the replacement is needed. The project creates jobs and boost the economy. I'm Antonio Gonzales. And you're listening to the evening news on K P F a Berkeley KPFK Los Angeles KFC F Fresno Online at KPFK that O'Rourke Federal judge today barred the U. S government from enforcing a 100 Day deportation moratorium that is the key immigration priority of President Biden. U. S District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas, which sued on Friday against the Department of Homeland Security memo that instructed immigration agencies to pause most deportations. Judge Tipton said the Biden administration had failed to provide any concrete reasonable justification for a 100 day. Pause on deportations. The judge's order is an early blow to the Biden administration, which has proposed far reaching changes sought by immigration advocates, including a plan to legalize An estimated 11 million immigrants living in the US without documents, Biden promised during his campaign to issue the moratorium on immediate deportations. He already represents a victory for text. This is Republican leaders who often sued to stop programs enacted by Biden's Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama. It also showed that just his Democratic led states and immigration groups fought former president Trump over immigration in court often successfully, So, too. Will Republicans fight with Biden in office? While Tipton's order bars enforcement of a moratorium for 14 days, it does not require deportations to resume at their previous pace. Immigration agencies typically have A wide latitude in processing cake cases and scheduling removal flights. The White House issued a statement saying the moratorium was wholly appropriate and response to his court victory. Excesses. Attorney Extend tweeted victory and described the deportation moratorium as a seditious left wing insurrection. An apparent reference to the January 6th deadly assault on the U. S Capitol by Trump's supporters trying to overturn the results of the presidential election. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Democratic lawmakers are introducing a bill. They say We'll root out racism in the nation's immigration system, ending mass deportations and preventing other practices like Sam family separations and the criminalization of migration. Supporters of the New Way Forward Act say it will And The immigration to deportation system and challenge systemic racism in immigration laws. Because two for Martinez reports a group of progressive Democratic lawmakers has re introduced a bill aimed at de criminalizing immigration and dismantling what they call systemic racism in the immigration and criminal justice systems. Democratic representative Jesus too weak. Garcia of Illinois is the author of the New Way Forward Act, He says President Joe Biden's immigration related executive orders and proposed legislation mark a positive first step. But that is only the beginning of what he calls needed Repairs. These last four years has tested us. But the truth is that our immigration system was broken Long before Trump stepped into office. The Trump administration shocking abuses shook us and expose serious existing injustices embedded In our immigration and criminal legal systems, Garcia says. Structural racism is intentional and has been codified into law. Reversing this damage requires us to do the same. It's time that we had the doctrine of criminalizing desperation in America, and we chart a new way forward. The New Way Forward Act has 39 co sponsors in Congress, including representatives Karen Bass of California. Ayanna Presley of Massachusetts and Pamela J. A Pall of Washington. Gioia Paul, the chair of the Legislative Progressive Caucus, is one of 14 naturalized citizens in Congress. She says. It's a relief that Donald Trump is no longer president. But now it's time to deliver humane immigration reform, including the New Way Forward Act. This legislation helps us achieve exactly that by restoring due process to immigrants, ending detention without bail separating policing from immigration enforcement. An outright repealing laws that make migration which is so essential as a remedy for the injustices and inequality around the world. We need to repeal laws that make migration a crime. The act includes provisions that would end the use of for profit immigrant detention centers and stop the use of local police to enforce immigration laws. Other provisions are aimed at ending family separations and ending mass incarceration of immigrants. Representative I honor Presley says to build is timely on the heels of the last election that rejected what she calls the cruelty and callousness off the last four years and make no mistake. Continue to find ourselves in the midst of a national reckoning was systemic racism and racial justice. As representative giant Paul in, Garcia both pointed out Um, and as the title of our bill indicates, we cannot recover to an unjust Pre cove it pre trump status quo normal that status quo. Normal was unjust, insufficient and inadequate. To begin with. This is the time to quite literally chart a new way forward, she says. Both changes needed to undo decades of harm. For too long. Our immigration and criminal legal systems have been deeply and fundamentally intertwined. Have contributed to our innovations, mass incarceration crisis, which is separated families and destroyed communities for generations. Today. The United States oversees the largest immigration detention system in the world, and as a result, we now spend more resource is on the criminalization of immigrants than any other. Then all other enforcement agencies combined, the lawmakers say, Fell formally introduce the New Way Forward Act in Congress Wednesday they'd author Garcia says the bill has been called radical. But he disagrees. But the truth is that de criminalizing immigration is not a radical concept at all. What's radical is caging school age Children that even old enough to know their parents names. What's radical is detaining thousands of refugees and dangerous conditions of squalor. We're simply asking for fair treatment for our immigration in our immigration system. Reporting for Pacifica Radio News, KPFK. I'm Christopher.
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"The face well over 600,000 families are going hungry. People are risk of being a victim. Job losses are mounting again. We need act. No matter how you look at it, we need to act. If if we act now our economy will be stronger and both the short and long run. That's what economists left right and center telling us Both liberal and conservative, will be better stronger across the board. If we act now we'll be better able to compete with the world. If we act now we better able to meet our moral obligations to one another as Americans. Reporting for Kpfk Pacifica Radio. I'm Aaliyah Ha's Bluntman. President Joe Biden's first day in office executive order. Extending the moratorium on evictions is a good start, but Congress could do more to protect tenants who have fallen behind on rent because of the Corona virus. Pandemic injury serious reports. The moratorium was set to expire at the end of this month on his actions from federally assisted or finance properties and on foreclosures on federally guaranteed mortgages. But the executive order extends it through the end of March in Thompson with the A. C l U says it needs to be expanded to cover all tenants and for the duration of the pandemic. We also need requirements put in place on landlords to make sure that they are not violating these important protections. He has a Congress needs to have emergency rental assistance in place before the moratorium is lifted. Some landlords have already challenged the constitutionality of the federal moratorium in court. Thompson points out that each passing month millions of tennis nationwide are falling further behind on their rent and what their emergency rental assistance funding in place. All we're doing is taking the can down the road for win this mass eviction crisis is going to hit. He thinks the federal government also should provide funding to help cities and states give renters facing eviction the right to be represented by legal counsel in court. Thompson notes Experiences in New York City's San Francisco Boulder. And, most recently Baltimore show that instituting a right to legal counsel for tenants helps keep people in their homes and all of these jurisdictions. These programs have been shown to reduce the number of convictions that actually occur in December. U. S Census data estimated that 16 to 25% of Pennsylvania tenants.
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"Country and the world. And it poses an existential threat. It will be a focus of President elect Biden in this entire administration. The hearing on Yellen's nomination was one of five confirmation hearings the Senate scheduled for the eve of the inauguration. Capital watches. Consider Yellen's confirmation process likely to move forward rather easily. Ah, full Senate vote on her nomination could come as soon as Thursday reporting for Pacifica Radio News KPFK I'm Christopher Martinez and his confirmation hearing President elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Called the pro trump mob attack on the U. S. Capitol. Horrifying Alejandro May or Kiss said authorities still have much to learn about what happened that day and what led to the insurrection. If I should have the honor of being confirmed, I will do everything I can To ensure that the tragic loss of life the assault on law enforcement the desecration of the building that stands as one of the three pillars of our democracy. A terror that you felt your colleagues, staff and everyone present will not happen again. If confirmed, the former federal prosecutor and senior homeland security official under President Barack Obama would be the first Latino and first immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Senate committees also held hearings today on national intelligence director nominee April Haynes, Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken and Defense secretary nominee Lloyd Austin. Senate remains under Republican control until three new Democratic senators are sworn into office. They are California's Alex Padilla is replacing Vice President elect Camel Harris and two Democrats from Georgia. Raphael Warnock and John US off Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and incoming Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer have been negotiating how to share power in the evenly divided Senate, According to media reports. Senate committees will have an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, although the committee chairs will be Democrats and Legislation will advance to the Senate floor, even on a tie vote in committee. You're listening to the evening news on KPFK in Berkeley, Kpfk Los Angeles. KFC it Fresno Online K P F a dot or This is an hour long newscast. There's each night at six. There's half hour edition on the weekends, all our newscast. Are archived online at kpfk dot org's They're also available as podcasts. I'm mark Miracle. A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that was one of the Trump administration's most momentous climate rollbacks. U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says the administration acted illegally under the Clean Air Act in easing federal regulation of pollution. From power plants. The rulings expected to give the incoming Biden administration a freer hand to regulate emissions from power plants, one of the major sources of climate damaging fossil fuel emissions. The decision came in a court challenge by environmental groups. Some state governments And others, The U. S. Supreme Court today took up a climate case that could affect the ability of cities and the Bay Area to sue oil companies for damages. Baltimore is seeking damages for the effects of climate change. Today's case was about Jurisdiction Baltimore once the lawsuit to be heard in state court, the oil companies prefer federal court where they feel they have a better chance of prevailing. The decision could determine the fate of similar lawsuits filed around the country, including by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. San Francisco's city attorney, Dennis Herrera, said in a similar case last year that the city had brought its lawsuit in state court because that's where it belongs. Herrera said at the time that San Francisco and Oakland taxpayers are already incurring the costs of dealing with the damage that fossil fuel companies knowingly caused. It is time for these companies to pay their fair share, he said. They should not be able to stick taxpayers with the bill for the damage they knew they were causing, said San Francisco's city attorney. President elect Biden is considering canceling the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline project as early as tomorrow day, one of his term, which could be good news for Native American communities. The Nebraska Living near crowded worker camps during the covert pandemic. Eric Gladys reports. Wesley for along with the Native American Rights Fund, says Indian country is at greater risk of illness and death from covert 19 due to a systemic lack of access to quality health care, which has led to higher incidences of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Because there's been a surge generational black of adequate healthcare in Indian country, you have very vulnerable populations who have preexisting conditions you have The cold mobility's that make the virus especially deadly, if you catch it, he says. The Rosebud Sioux tribe on Nebraska's northern border has less than five respirators for its 15,000 residents and zero respiratory therapists. Petroleum Equipment and Services Association, told High Country News. It was initially concerned about testing, quarantining and other covert related safety measures for workers. But the group is now confident that most operators have gotten the hang of things for long, his skeptical, pointing to a lawsuit involving Trans Canada now called TC Energy, while the company had announced safety measures, including mask wearing and social distancing. When construction started, Furlong says those protocols went out the window. People were grouped together and not wearing masks. I think of industry was really doing what it could to keep their employees and the people of the communities that they're operating in safe. It wouldn't be bringing in hundreds or thousands of people to live in very close quarters. It's the exact opposite of what should be happening during a pandemic. TC Energy spokesperson responded by email saying that the safety of its crews and the public are core company values for long notes. One challenge protecting tribes from outbreaks. A transient work camps is that official covert case counts are recorded in a worker's home state, Not in the county where they're working. This is Eric Gladys reporting for the Nebraska News connection..
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"My citizens, my constituents to vote in the presidential election and let's be clear. That's exactly what this objection is about. It's what it would do it would overturn the results. The presidential election of Pennsylvania, and it would thereby deny Pennsylvania's voters the opportunity to even participate in the presidential election. The Senate voted 92 to 7 against the objection. The house that was 282 to 138 against the objection to Pennsylvania certification. The two chambers then convened together again, and Pence returned to the task of opening the certificates of electoral votes from them remaining states, presenting them to the appointed tellers from the House and Senate in alphabetical order. After hours of roll calls and debate, he announced the contest winners Joe Biden and Vice President elect Kamila Harris. Formalizing Hiss and Trump's defeat. Proton protest took place around California yesterday, hundreds of people gathered outside the Capitol building and in downtown Sacramento, eventually drawing counter protesters. Gathering officially ended mid afternoon, though there was a heavy police presence and some skirmishes between the different groups, local media reported. 11 arrests in Los Angeles police declared an unlawful assembly after small crowds of pro and anti trump protesters threw punches during protests. Outside city home about 300 pro trump. Demonstrators rallied in San Diego in humble county to the far north. The local Democratic Party headquarters was vandalized. Yes. Today in an incident believed linked to the mob attack on the Capitol in Washington. This is the Pacific. A Evening news on KPFK, Berkeley. Kippy of Cake. Los Angeles, KFC, A Fresno. I'm Eileen Alphandery..
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"Can hear the entire interview archived online at K p ece dot org's This morning's edition off up front, media reports say Capitol police officer has died as a result of yesterday storming of the building. The individuals was not identified. If confirmed, the death would bring to five the number of people who have died because of yesterday's of them. It's AH woman who was shot dead in the Capitol building yesterday was identified as Ashley Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from San Diego Capitol police shot her is the mob tried to break through a barricaded door in the capital, where police were armed. On the other side. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and later died. The D C police chief said. Three others died and medical emergencies, The Philadelphia Inquirer said. One of the three was the founder of a pro trump social media site called Trump Room who had coordinated transportation for several dozen people from Pennsylvania to Washington, Police said. Both law enforcement and Trump supporters deployed chemical irritants during the hours long occupation of the Capitol building. See. Police officials also said two pipe bombs were recovered one outside the Democratic National Committee and one outside the Republican National Committee. Police found a cooler from a vehicle that had a long gun and Molotov cocktail on the Capitol grounds. Wasn't intellect. Joe Biden is selling to restore legitimacy to the Federal Department of Justice. He announced his picks for attorney general and other top jobs, including Judge Merrick Garland, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was blocked by Republicans. Garlands moved to the Justice Department would open up a vacancy for Biden to fill on the second Circuit Court of Appeals. Christopher Martinez reports President elect Joe Biden has chosen Federal Judge Merrick Look, this attorney general tapping the judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court was blocked by Republican senators at the end of the Obama administration. Biden announced his team for the Justice Department at his transition headquarters in Delaware, but not before blasting Trump and the rioters who invaded the capital building the past four years. We've had a president He's made his contempt for our democracy. Constitution. The rule of law clear And everything he has done. Be unleashed. And all out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset. Yesterday was what the culmination of that unrelenting attack as he announced his team. Biden presented a contrast with the Trump administration's approach to the Department of Justice. I want to be clear to those who lead this department who you will serve. You won't work for me. You are not the president or the vice president's lawyer. Your loyalty is not to me is to the law. Constitution. People of this nation. Guarantee justice. Such America Island to pick for attorney general is a moderate liberal judge who is not affiliated with either party Thies principles ensuring the rule of law. And making the promise of equal justice under law Real Are the great principles upon which the Department of Justice was founded, and for which it must always stand. They echo today in the priorities that lie before us. I'm ensuring racial equity and our justice system. Meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism. If confirmed, those are the principles to which I will be devoted as attorney general. As a moderate Garland may be easy to confirm with the new Democratic Senate majority. He also has good relations with career staff at the Department of Justice. Giving him a good shot at his goals of restoring independence to the department. But progressives are concerned that fighting did not pick someone more progressive for his new administration, Biden's pick to head the department's civil rights division, maybe more to their liking. Benita Gupta has worked at the end of the Legal Defense Fund and the A C L U as well is heading the DOJ civil rights division under then President Barack Obama. She quoted the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, who said Democracy is not a state it's enact. He vowed to act for justice every day. It will not be enough to restore what has been undermined or lost. This moment demands bold leadership. The Department of Justice as it has done throughout its storied history. We'll have to uncover and reckon with hard truths. Old people, companies and institutions accountable to our constitution and laws. Drive change where there is injustice and heal a nation that is starving for leadership and decency and hope. Kristin Clark is Buyten's choice for assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights division. She's a civil rights lawyer and the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. He says the nation is at a crossroads. If I'm fortunate enough to be confirmed, we will turn the page on hate and closed the door on discrimination by enforcing our federal civil rights laws by supposed intellect, Kamala Harris says the roles they will assume are especially important now because of the need to enforce laws in a more fair and humane manner. Will help protect the rights of every voter in our country, no matter what their background or where they live on, and they will restore integrity. And independence to the Department of Justice and rebuild the American People's Trust. In that most sacred institution. Biden's nominees to the Department of Justice will face confirmation hearings in the Senate. Departing for Pacifica. Radio News KPFK. I'm Christopher Martinez. This'd is the Pacifica Evening News on KPFK, Berkeley. KPFK Los Angeles KFC, A Fresno. I'm Eileen Alphandery. Still to come on tonight's news task Governor Gavin Newsom proposes.
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"Covert 19 spreads through droplets in the air, so investigators are looking into the functioning of the fan in that case. This is the Pacific Evening News on KPFK, Berkeley. KPFK Los Angeles. KFC, a Fresno. I'm Eileen Alphandery. At this hour, President Trump is headlining a Georgia Election Eve rally. It wasn't clear whether he would spend more time boosting his baseless claims of presidential voter fraud or the candidacies of Georgia Republican Senate candidates David Perdue and Kelly Leffler. They're both locked and tough. Runoff Battle's tomorrow against Democrats John Off Soften Rafael worn on. Both Ausaf and Warnock would have to win to flip control of the Senate to the Democratic Party. Earlier today, Democratic President elect Joe Biden rallied for the two Democrats and like Pence Vice President Mike Pence for the Republicans. Christopher Martinez. Reports Georges to Senate runoff elections Tuesday will determine control of the Senate. And to a large extent, the fate of Joe Biden's presidential agenda and Donald Trump's presidential legacy. So it's no surprise top party leaders are making their final pitch ahead of Tuesday's election. Vice President Mike Pence spoken to Georgia rally Monday morning. He praised the Republican incumbents Kelly Leffler and David Perdue, but he spent more time praising what he described as President Donald Trump's accomplishments. Such as supporting the military law and order and tax cuts. We need to send David Perdue and Kelly Leffler back to Washington, D. C. Because the Republican Senate majority could be the last line of defense to preserve all that we've done to defend this nation, revive our economy and preserve the God given liberties that we hold dear. Francis clearly focused on the national repercussions of the Georgia races and how they will affect the incoming administration. We need Senator David Perdue and Senator Kelly.
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"20 November election, but we know that this is just the beginning. We still have to get to election day and I don't count anything until it's done. More than three million Georgia voters cast ballots in the early voting period. Democrats are also bringing their heavy hitters to the state. Vice president elect Kamila Harris plans to campaign Sunday for Ausaf and warn Aiken, Savannah, followed by President elect Joe Biden, sharing a stage with the Democrats on Monday in Atlanta. California's minimum wage went up to $14 an hour in the new Year for employers with more than 25 workers. Employers with 25. Fewer workers must pay $13 an hour. Many jurisdictions, especially in Northern California, have higher minimums. A new coronavirus law also took effect today. It requires employers to quickly notify their workers of potential exposure on the job. Another new law presumes for the purposes of workers compensation that the virus was contracted on the job Unless employers prove otherwise. Cal Oshima's provide agricultural workers and employers in English and Spanish the best ways to prevent Corona virus infections. Food facility, employees must be allowed to wash their hands every 30 minutes and, additionally, as needed in the area of Criminal Justice League can't use karate ID restraints for chokehold. Youth up to age 17 campy questioned by police or waive their rights until they have a chance to consult with an attorney. The California attorney general must have investigate any time police kill an unarmed civilian. And county supervisors will have greater oversight of county sheriffs or independently elected. All those new laws taking effect today. Thistles The Pacifica Evening News on KPFK, Berkeley, KPFK, Los Angeles K F C F Fresno. I'm Eileen Elf in Derry. You can hear this newscast each night archived online at K P f a dot or g'kar Members of Oscar Grant's family. Racial justice activists and attorneys mark Today's 12th anniversary of the Seitel shooting of the Young African American man at the Fruitvale Bart Station in Oakland. They are pressing their demand that a second former bar police officer be held accountable and grants. Death grants Mother, Reverend Wanda Johnson, my family and I and the community have continued to not have Justice way are still crying and demanding not just the case be reopened, but that the officer Peroni be charged and convicted for his actions. Former.
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Marianne Williamson drops out of presidential race
"And a new poll shows democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders leading among likely caucus goers in Iowa well new age author Marianne Williamson becomes the latest candidate to drop out of the race from KPFA Berkeley and KPFK Los Angeles this is the pacifica evening
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Democrats warn U.S. aviation system is jeopardized by government shutdown
"KPFK safety is being threatened by the ongoing government shutdowns the unions representing air, traffic, controllers pilots and flight attendants released. A joint statement saying we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play nor predict the point at which the entire system will break, and this shutdown is 'cause air traffic controllers who often work regular overtime to work without pay leaders say it's ridiculous at aviation professionals are not getting a check and they're urging congress and President Trump to
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Suspect shot after 2 women stabbed in Vacaville house fire
"For any evidence. A man wanted for stabbing a teen and a woman who were found outside of a burning Vacaville home was killed in an officer involved shooting. Back of Bill police say thirty eight year old Nathaniel Holland was shot after an hours long manhunt through the city. A police canine was stabbed while trying to take Holland into custody at canine is expected to survive. No other officers were hurt. Well, the manhunt began around six forty pm after fire crews found two stabbing victims outside a house fire. Police say firefighters found the victims a sixteen year old girl and a forty three year old woman in the driveway. Then they found a four year old girl with burns to her face and chest, a twelve and fifteen year olds were also found that the home they are now in protective custody. Please believe that Holland lived in the home with the victims and they're investigating the relationship between them in. What's become an annual tradition covered? California is reporting a last minute rush of people signing up for health coverage already given one extension, but tonight's midnight deadline approaches. Spokesman James Kalari says the procrastinators are showing up in force yesterday. We had fifteen thousand people signed up in select a plan, so many people are signing up late the state's insurance exchanges giving people somewhat of a reprieve. You still have to start your application by midnight tonight. But after that, you'll have until midnight Friday to complete that application what we really want to make sure is that people get the message that they do need to sign a by today. And if they can't get it done by today than they've got through midnight on Friday to finish the process. It's estimated that once all the applications are complete nearly one point five million Californians will be insured through covered, California, George Sampson, NewsRadio KPFK, the ongoing battle between teachers in the Los Angeles. Unified school district may be getting a moderator. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors stepping in. Now, they're set to vote on a motion today to identify millions and funds that could be directed to the district to enhance healthcare for students. It also instructs the county's department of health services and public health to identify strategies to higher school, nurses, and other professionals if passed the county's department of mental health would need to find up to ten million dollars for that effort. Well, even with more women in the workforce, there are less likely to be the breadwinner in their family, Sacramento. There was one of ten major US cities with the highest rates of female, breadwinner. According to an analysis by magnify money. We have one of the highest rates of female breadwinners at thirty percent. So what gives Sacramento boost six hundred the top ten cities on our list our state capitals. And I don't think that's really coincidence because I think government jobs tend to follow sort of payback structures a little bit more closely. So there's probably a little bit less room for bias to come in. They tend to have better benefits, which can be very. Helpful to people who have families keenly McFadden with magnify money para fair number of women who owned businesses in Sacramento. I think it's about thirty four thirty five percent, which is which is pretty decent compared to the rest of the country. According to the analysis Sacramento also has a lower pay gap between genders with women earning just about fifteen percent less than men Dina Kodiak NewsRadio KF became the flag at San Francisco's Lowell high school is now lowered in honor of grad Carol Channing who passed away at the age of ninety seven this morning upon hearing of the legendary Broadway stars death, fellow lowlights held a moment of silence school staff. Say Channing who was a member of the class of nineteen thirty eight would often visit her alma mater and during her last trip to Lowell she performed a moving cappella rendition of before the parade passes by from Hello, Dolly students, say they'll always celebrate Shannon's life whenever they perform at the schools, Carol Channing theater. A rep for Channing says she died peacefully overnight one in four adults reach for their phone as. As soon as they wake up, the majority of those adults checking their phones within the first sixty seconds of waking Armagh, lentils the study by route metrics on that thirty one percent of millennials are checking right away compared to just nine percent of baby boomers, we see less and less of Email, text is social media. And that's about it. The rush that we broke down with watching videos gaming and listen to music podcasts, executive director of performance benchmarking. Kevin Hayes Lee says it's not an addiction. To you. And it allows you to fill you to connect to others and be comfortable in your space. Forty seven percent of people feel unsafe without cell service. The majority of those where millennials Casimiro hall, NewsRadio K, if if you're planning a summer vacation based on gorgeous pictures, you've seen on social media research it well because five of the most popular destinations are fighting back against what they call the Instagram affect so many people are booking holidays based on Instagram travel pictures, the governments are limiting tourism to preserve landmarks from selfie. Stick wielding visitors one site in Ireland scene in the movie Star Wars has limited visitors to just one hundred eighty a day after hosting seventeen thousand people in one day last year at much UP to the visitors must get a ticket to visit only five thousand or available each day and an area of Croatia. Visited by game of thrones fans now has limited their visitors as well. All right, five forty at NewsRadio cave.
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U.S. charges four in 'Panama Papers' tax evasion scheme
"Other Trump agitators that officials plan to subpoena include those related to his Washington hotel and its management Maryland. Attorney general Brian frosh said eighteen private entities, including restaurants venues and hotels, the compete with the Trump hotel are also being subpoenaed to illuminate the unfair nature of the Trump hotels competition, while news organizations have reported. How groups are presenting Saudi Arabia. Kuwait Bahrain in the Philippines, have hosted events at Trump's DC hotels since he took office the subpoenas offer the best chance to get a complete picture of which foreign and domestic governments are. Spending at the hotel how much they're spending and where that money is going. They're also trying to determine how Trump's hotel is affecting the hospital industry in DC and in Maryland the subpoenas seek to prove that hotel. Revenues are going to the president to his affiliated entities, including the Donald J Trump revolve revoke lable trust. Most of the records are being requested back to January first of two thousand fifteen. You're listening to the evening news and KPFA in Berkeley KPFK in Los Angeles. KFC f- in Fresno and online at KPFA dot org. The United Nations says curbing climate change will have huge benefits for people's health worldwide the World Health Organization said today that meeting the two thousand fifteen Paris accords goals would significantly cut global air pollution saving a million lives each year by two thousand fifty fuels that produce air pollution such as coal gasoline. And would are also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings came in and report released at the UN climate summit in Poland today. The study said the savings on health expenditure will far outweigh the cost of tackling global warming. The WHO said climate change will also affect drinking water supplies, the level of nutrients in staple foods, such as rice and the likelihood of natural disasters or measures to curb it like promoting cycling overdriving have proven health benefits. French president Emmanuel Macron today scrap to fuel tax rise amid fears of new violence. France has been rocked for weeks by nationwide protests and the worst rioting in Paris. In decades protesters celebrated the victory, but some said Macron's decision came too late, and there is no longer enough to quell the mounting anger at the president who may consider out of touch with the problems of ordinary people. Prime Minister Eddie ward Philippe, told lawmakers today the tax taxes no longer included in the two thousand nineteen budget. The decision has ramifications beyond France, the fuel tax rise was part of Macron's efforts to wean France off fossil fuels which are responsible for climate change causing greenhouse gases. The Fresno council of governments held a symposium Tuesday to mall over the findings of California's recently issued forth climate change assessment since its last assessment in two thousand twelve the state has experienced several of the most extreme climate related natural events in its history. Unlike the Trump administration's climate change denial many central valley leaders are taking the studies start conclusions. Seriously, one of those conclusions is at the San Joaquin valleys environment and economy will be dramatically impacted by the end of the century Vic between reports from Fresno
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Amnesty Says Panicked Civilians Fled Hospital in Hodeida
"And misty international says heavy fighting near a hospital in Yemen. Forced hundreds of patients to flee across the street some carrying their own medical equipment as shrapnel rain down on them. The rights group described the scenes of chaos from Sunday's fighting near the all throw hospital in the port city of data and mistakes. Lynn me said today that as the battle for control of her data intensifies both sides seem intent on a visceral the laws of war and just regarding the protected status of even the most vulnerable civilians a Saudi led coalition has been battling Yemen's Hootie rebels since March of two thousand fifteen and a war that's killed. Tens of thousands of people. The fighting is currently focused on data a port city through which impoverished Yemen imports seventy percent of its food and humanitarian aid the United Nations says hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the escalating fighting in the city William Dennis lab reports around back to have control data since two thousand fourteen but there's been an increase in fighting there over the past week as the Saudi led coalition seek to wrestle back control of the port city, the UN refugee agency belief four hundred forty five thousand people affect the area since June, but a major fairs the thousands, and now trapped in the crossfire data is the entry point for around eighty percent of Yemen's food imports and eight agencies warned there fully soaked on the city could spoke fannin UN now, call on all sides to allow civilians access to an emergency shows and warehouse. This had its access cut off because of the fighting. New york. You're listening to the evening news and KPFA Berkeley, KPFK, Los Angeles KFC, Fresno, online, KPFA dot org. This is an hour. Long newscast airing each night at six can hear the entire newscast archived online KPFA dot org and you'll find selected reporter pieces there as well. I'm Mark miracle with max Pringle, investigators working to understand why a gunman killed twelve people at a southern California bar said today, they have no new information to release. Authorities have not shared what motive might have led twenty eight year old ex-marine he and David long to snap Ventura County sheriff's officials urged patients, noting the large investigations take time they gunman shot and killed himself as law enforcement closed in on the borderline bar and grill last Wednesday night, a high school coach, Ian, David long says she repeatedly reported. Behavioral problems, but to no avail EV clue says administrators dismissed her concerns about Ian, David long clue says that long was a ticking time bomb constantly lost his temper and once assaulted a fellow coach a memorial was being held in Napa today for eighteen year old Elena house Louis who was one of the victims. After the recent rash of mass shootings, including the one Thousand Oaks physicians across the country are stepping up their efforts to combat gun violence. Eric ticket off reports the American college of physicians, the country's largest medical specialty organization says the failure to act meaningful gun control legislation undermines the country, and it's healthcare systems foundational values. Dr Melissa Hagman is governor of the group's Idaho chapter and says she's had difficult conversations with patients about firearms. She says gun violence is a public health issue and should be thought of as an epidemic mass shootings. Individuals shootings people who lose their lives due to. Domestic violence where there's a weapon involved if epidemic gets people's attention. I think that's the appropriate word. It just seems like something that our country is too great to be having as many deaths needlessly due to firearms each of the most deadly mass shootings. This year have left at least ten people dead. The American college of physicians recommends laws that prohibit people with a history of domestic violence from buying or possessing firearms extreme risk prevention orders that allow families to petition courts for the removal of a family members firearms and a ban on semi automatic and automatic weapons opponents of these proposals say they violate Americans second amendment rights Hagman says it's important not to conflate people who commit violence with firearms with those who simply feel strongly about a person's ability to have access and carry guns, and none of them that I've ever spoken to have ever wanted anyone to be harmed needlessly. So I think there is common ground for people to continue these discussions and to work towards legislation and other ways to keep people safer than they currently are the ACP hopes there will be a shift in the narrative on guns and also has developed policy research. Gently recognizing that hate crimes are a major public health issue for public news service. I'm Eric take it off Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said he would seek to tie a measure protecting special counsel Robert Muller to must pass legislation. If acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker does not recuse himself from oversight of the probe Schumer said keeping Whittaker in charge of the investigation would create a constitutional crisis and said if he doesn't recuse himself Democrats would push to introduce legislation to protect Muller's investigation Schumer and other top Democrats sent a letter to the Justice department that calls for the DOJ's chief ethics officer to disclose whether he had devised Whittaker to recuse himself from oversight of the probe. The Democrats cited Whitaker's past public statements which included an op Ed article in which he said Muller would be straying outside his mandate. If he investigated, President Trump's family finances. He also. Previously tweeted, an ex prosecutors opinion that described Muller Lynch mob and what she said was a worthy read, Los Angeles. Democrat Adam Schiff says the incoming chair of the house intelligence committee. He spoke to NBC we have every right to expect all of the employees at the Justice department to fall the ethics rules, and that means especially they turn in general, but, you know, wanna make this very clear if he doesn't recuse himself if he has any involvement whatsoever in this Russia probe we are going to find out whether he made commitments the president about the probe whether he is serving as a back channel to the president or his lawyers about the probe. Whether he's doing anything to fear with a probe. Mr. Whittaker needs to understand that he will be called to answer in any role that he plays. We'll be exposed to the public New York. Democrat Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary committee described Trump's appointment of Whittaker as an attack on the Mueller investigation and said protecting. That probe will be his committee's top priority. Last week word leaked out the special counsel Muller has prepared a number of sealed grand jury indictments including one charging President Trump's son, Don, jR, Karen Greenberg, director of the center for national security at Fordham university's school of law told the Sunday shows Philip mulberry. She believes the perception that Muller is closing in has rattled Trump accounting for his firing of Jeff Sessions and his appointment of Matt Whitaker as a successor and his outburst last week's post-election press conference. I think
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'Abolish Ice' Rallying Cry Raises Tricky Political Questions
"Abolishing is has become a, rallying, cry for the democratic party's liberal wing. Including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and upstart, house candidate Alexander or Cossio Cortez of New York who standard ten term. Congressman in New York democratic primary on today's upfront KPFA morning show veteran immigration activists Catherine tech Taqwa executive director of the national network for immigrant and, refugee rights told has Antonio Yukos's and Brian. Edwards St. Kurt that the problem is far, more complex than just abolishing ice a slogan is not a, strategy and that the slogan didn't quite capture the the, whole series of decades of policies that. Criminalise immigrants that really provide the mandate for is switches the instrument to carry Out this kind of community terror. That we've been witnessing and and it's all embedded within the, department of homeland security and the department of homeland security was created supposedly to guard our national security, and intertwined immigration policy within that context so to dismantle ice would be one thing but. It could another agency enforcement enforcing the same policies could take its place and the bigger hall really has to do with a transforming the policies which are complicated decades long that we we have that Really allow ice to carry out these kinds of practices so there's a lot of layers to what it means to abolish or dismantle ice and and even for for the general public but also for policymakers there's a question about whether in fact they can say we have introduced legislation. To abolish is but are they also prepared, to decriminalize immigration policy so I think we should do a little bit of, unpacking here just for the sake of institutional illiteracy because the the Republican attack on the apologize movement is this, means open borders In fact two different agency as I understand it customs and border protection. Patrols the border and the area. Around it intercepts people who've just crossed the border ice handles deportation proceedings inside the country they're the ones who go, pick, up people, at their home because of a speeding ticket they got five. Years ago they just trickled through the. System now and put in, jeopardy that's right the abolish ice movement is actually a relatively narrow focus on. That arm of the immigration enforcement apparatus right and you know as as slogans ago I think it probably does capture what is. Also taking place at. The board I'm I'm sure that's the intention and when most people here abolish is they're thinking, about the the agency border patrol as well and? Don't really understand technically you know the distinctions there are actually two eight sub agencies within ice there's one, for enforcement and removal from that's the one that we I think generally characterises As ice and then there's the investigative arm of of, ice, which which, also functions but it's true there those two and they work. In sync and increasingly what we've seen. Is that a lot of, the enforcement policies that Oriented towards. The border, have been, creeping inside so, you know, the border extends one hundred miles, so we're talking about enforcement even at the border that is regional in character jurisdiction of jurisdiction of of of the of the. Border patrol but it's you know it's it's again their agencies they're they're. Instruments of of policy and unless we change some of the. The laws that allow is an BP to to conduct itself in that way You know we will just be replacing one bad. Agency with another bat agency