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1.18.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of Today's Washington Post for Saturday,
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January the eighteenth of twenty twenty five, and your readers
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are Berry Dane and Alice Stainer. With the reminder that
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RADIOI as a service for those blind or with difficulties
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holding a reading printed material. So I will start off
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with the front page of Today's Washington Post. On the
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very far left, Supreme Court takes dispute on storybooks. Montgomery
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County case may affect how gender sexuality can be taught
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by Justin juvenile and Nicole and Asberry. In the center
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of the front page is a picture of thousands of
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chairs just lying on the ground, and the back of
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one sole person in a hoodie sitting on an upright
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chair looking down towards the Capitol and the worker. Oh,
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it's still very hard. A worker catches his breath Friday
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at the National Mall as he and others remove the
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chairs they had previously set up. Donald Trump will now
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take the oath of office Monday in the Capitol Rotunda,
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as temperatures outside are forecast to potentially drop below twenty degrees.
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To the right of that, oh, it does show a
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beautiful blue sky and the Capital is in the far
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distance and you see chairs line on the ground and
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hundreds of chairs still upright on the dark grass. Israel
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agrees to Gaza truce. First hostages may go home next week.
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Ceasefire paves way a few humanitarian aid to flow. By
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Jerry Sish and Claire Parker on the bottom left below
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the fold bird flu Leap will be early test for Trump.
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Serious cases in Canada. Louisiana show stakes for new healthcare team.
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This is by Leina h Son. And then Justices uphold
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TikTok's ban or sailed and with TikTok to be shut
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down in the United States as soon as Sunday, professional
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content makers are rushing to prepare for a world without
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the app that redefined their livelihoods. And it's a picture
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of three different people that are apparently very involved with TikTok.
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And then now for the sports part, for these commanders
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lay twins not dumb luck. Washington practices for decisive moments
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in games, and it shows. And this is Nikki Jarbala
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and that is about the Washington Commander's football team. So
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Gareth are yours for the front page.
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Speaker 2: Lead story reads The headline reads Supreme Court to hear
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a case I'll optay out of lessons with LGBTQ plus books.
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Parents in Montgomery County, Maryland want to be able to
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opt out of instruction on gender and sexuality that they
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say goes against their religious convictions. The article is by
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Justin Juvenile and Nicole Asberry. It reads the Supreme Court
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agreed Friday to hear a case about whether public schools
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must give parents of elementary school children a chance to
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opt out of instruction on gender and sexuality that they
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say goes against their religious convictions. The case stems from
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a challenge by group of parents in Maryland's largest school system.
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Group objected to Montgomery County Public Schools prohibiting parents from
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taking their children out of lessons that use storybooks with
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LGBTQ plus characters and themes. Parents who are Musslim, Roman, Catholic,
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Ukrainian Orthodox file suit in twenty twenty three, saying the
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policy violates there For Amendment.
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Speaker 3: Rights to freedom of religion.
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Speaker 2: The case puts the High Court at the center of
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a contentious national debate over how to teach and treat
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gender and sexuality play in schools, which has spurred fights
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over books, bathroom views and on which teams transgender athletes
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should be allowed to play. Eric Baxter, an attorney for
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the families, said into statement that the school system's decision
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to disallow op outs was cramming down the controversial gender
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ideology of three year old People's Beckett, a public stress
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institute that pushes for religious liberty, is representing the families
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and has been involved in other cases on LGBTQ plus issues.
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The court must make clear parents, not the state, should
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be the ones deciding how when to introduce their children's
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sensitive issues about gender and sexuality.
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Speaker 3: Baxter said.
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Speaker 2: Montgomery's Country Schools declined to comment, citing the pen englishation,
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but the district wrote in filing to the High Court
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that an adverse ruling could have been longstanding legal president
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the guides.
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Speaker 3: House Schools teach.
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Speaker 2: Petitioners seek to understand unsettled a decade's old consensus that
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parents who chose to send their children to public schools
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are not deprived of the right to freely exercise their
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religions simply because their children are exposed to curricular materials
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that their parents find offensive. Attorneys for the schools rote
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during the twenty twenty two twenty three school year, Montgomery
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County Schools introduced to a reading list of books that
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included LGBTU plus characters, a part of an effort to
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be more inclusive in its diverse student population.
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Speaker 3: The lists were.
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Speaker 2: Intended for students from pre kindergarten to the twelfth grade
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and were created with procial feedback. The schools system required
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teachers to read at least one storybook a year from
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a group of titles that included Pride.
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Speaker 3: Puppet, which is about a gay by parade.
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Speaker 2: Intersection, Allies which is about a group of children discussing
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their differences, and Love Violent, which is about a girl
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who has feelings for a female classmate. The storybooks are
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not used in any lessons related to gender and sexuality,
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the school district wrote its filing, Nor does any student
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ask or expect that change his or her views about
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his or own her, own or another student sexual orientation
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or gender identity. Instead, the books are made available for
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individual reading, classroom read allowance, and other educational activities designed
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to foster and enhance literary skills.
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Speaker 4: Literacy sills the parents wrote in court documents that the
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Montgomerys School Board also issued guidance that inspeuct the teachers
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to emphasize that not everyone is a boy or girl,
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and that some people identify with.
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Speaker 2: Both, sometimes one more than the other, and sometimes neither.
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As teachers started using the books in the classroom, some
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families wanted to opt their children out of the discussions
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due to concern that the lessons and subsequent discussions would
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conflict with their religious views. The books that targeted elementary
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aged students were particularly controversial. Originally, some principles let families
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pull their children out of the classroom and the books
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were read, but in March of twenty twenty three, the
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school system central office announced that opt outs would not
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be permitted.
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Speaker 3: More than eleven hundred parents signed.
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Speaker 2: A petition asking that the district to restore the opt
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out right, and hundreds protested to the decision. Maryland is
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one of forty seven states in the District of Columbia
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that have opt out or opt in provision for sex
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education in schools according to their parents' filings. In May
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of twenty twenty three, a group of parents filed a
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lawsuit against the school system, alleging that the district violated
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the First Amendment rights, and the decision went against a
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district policy that allow us where we may just got commendations.
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The parents are not asking the school system to drop
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the curriculum. Other parents did not support opting out of
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the curriculum. After the lawsuit was filed, the school system
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quietly stopped teaching two of the books referenced in the
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lawsuit because of concerns that it would require teachers to
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explicitly teach vocabulary terms outside of the context of a lesson.
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According to a district database, the parents who sued the
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district asked a federal judge in Maryland for a preliminary
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injunction to restore the opt out provision, but the judge
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denied the requests. Ru parents were unlikely to succeed because
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they could not show that quote the no ofp that
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policy burdens the religious exercise. That ruling was upheld by
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a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals from
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before circuit in Richmond, before the parents petitioned the Supreme
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Court to hear the case. Oral arguments in the case
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will be scheduled later. Mark Eckstein, the Montgomery County school
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Board's parent and LGBTQ plus advocate, so he wasn't surprised
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the Supreme Court degree to hear the case, given that
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discussions around gender and sexuality of royaled the school communities
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across the country. I strongly believe that the district court
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will correctly and I'm hoping there will be a vigorous
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defense of the wisdom of that decision and see Montgomery
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County Public Schools policy, he said. Montgomery is one of
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a number of school districts where controversy has flared over
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books dealing with sexuality engender. In twenty twenty three, a
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Georgia teacher fired after she read a book about gender
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conformity through her fifth grade class.
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Speaker 3: She sued.
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Speaker 2: A group of parents in Dearmore, Michigan, sued the school
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district in twenty twenty two, seeking to remove books from
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the school libraries that felt had inappropriate sexual content. Hundreds
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of mostly Muslim parents also protested at a school board medium.
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The effort was part of a broader push to pull
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some books from schools and libraries. The American Library Association
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found more than forty two hundred book titles were targeted
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for removal from schools and libraries in twenty twenty three,
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greatly outpacing the twenty five hundred targeted the year before,
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Almost fifty percent of the titles dealt with gay and
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minority themes. The Supreme Court has moved in recent terms
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to expand religion in education and the rights of the religious.
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In twenty twenty two, a divided court ruled that Washington
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State discriminated against a football who prayed at midfield after
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a high school football game. The same year, the High
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Court rule van could not exclude religious schools from a
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voucher program that provides public assistance for an education. Last year,
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the High Court rule with the Constitution's free speech provision
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shields some businesses would be required to provide services of
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the same sex couples after a web designer argued she
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should I have to do such work because of her
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religious produce.
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Speaker 3: Alice back to you.
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Speaker 1: I am going to read about how moving Trump's inauguration inside.
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Speaker 5: Spurred and all out scramble.
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Speaker 1: The sudden weather induced change forced to scramble for hundreds
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of thousands of people who had spent months planning for
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the swearing in of the nation's forty seven president. This
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is by Emily Davies, Michael Bryce Sadler, and Ellie Silverman.
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President elect Donald Trump on Friday ordered his inauguration moved
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indoors for the first time in four decades. A sudden
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weather induced changed that forced a scramble for hundreds of
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thousands of people who had spent months planning for the
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swearing in of the nation's forty seventh president. Law enforcement
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officials called emergency meetings. Members of Congress learned about the
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change in the media, then fielded hundreds of calls from
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confused constituents who had tickets to the festivities. Workers inside
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the Capitol rotunda, where Trump will now take the oath
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of office, quickly got to work assembling a new podium,
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and scores of people from across the country who had
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bought flights and booked hotels reconsidered their trips to the
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nation's capital. I wasn't worried at all, said Shannon Randall Holme,
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a forty one year old from Tampa who had ordered
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ski pants and ice grips for the bottom of his shoes.
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He was scheduled to fly d to DC on Saturday,
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which would be today. I figured it gets cold up north,
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but the Arctic blast looming over the historic Monday event
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was less mid Atlantic and more Siberian, threatening temperatures below
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twenty degrees and howling winds that could make it feel
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like the single digits. Trump said on truth Social that
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the inaugural parade would move from the streets of Washington
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to Capital One Arena, though local and federal officials declined
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to comment on updated plans for the I don't want
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to see people hurt or injured in any way, Trump wrote.
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Everyone will be safe, everyone will be happy, and we
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will together. And this is in all caps, make America
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great again. The two hundred and twenty thousand tickets distributed
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by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, a bipartisan
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group responsible for planning the event, will now be quote commemorative.
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The host Sergeant at Arms set in an email Friday
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to lawmakers and Hill staff, adding that the majority of
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ticket to guests will not be able to attend the
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ceremonies in person. The Capital One Arena, where Trump said
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supporters could watch the swearing inn conced up to twenty thousand.
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The President elect cares deeply about the size of his rallies,
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and after his last inauguration Day, claimed that factual reports
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contrasting his smaller audience. With Barack Obama's inauguration in two
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thousand and nine, you believe how long ago that was
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proved a media bias against him. Trump on Truth Social
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said the smaller indoor ceremony would be a very beautiful
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experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience.
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The Pride Marching Band at Missouri State University is among
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the group's scheduled to perform during the presidential parade. It
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would be the first inaugural event for the band, which
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has also performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and
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at NFL Games. One of the bands three drum majors,
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Marcellus Winserl, twenty three, is responsible for keeping the three
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hundred and fifty person group organized. From the front of
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the pack, he was about to board one of the
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group's seven charter buses when he learned that the parade
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might be moving indoors. He thought of what he expected
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the procession to look like for him and his bandmates
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playing music on the same street where the president lives.
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It would have been cool seeing our band marching there
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with the sounds and sights, said Winserl, a senior music
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education major Despite his disappointment, Winzerl said when the drum
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Majors relayed their news to the bandmates, there was no grumbling,
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in part because freezing weather can make instruments sound flat
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and more difficult to play, but mostly because they all
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would have been bitterly cold. He said, that probably would
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have been the most uncomfortable parade experience I've ever had,
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but we were prepared mentally and physically. The Pride Marching
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Band made their way toward d C regardless of the uncertainty.
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Speaker 5: They stopped at a gas station.
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Speaker 1: In Finton, Missouri for a snack, which was yogurt, parfet
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beef and trees sticks for Rinzl, preparing to drive through
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the night to Washington. In online forums Friday, hundreds of
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people debated whether to bail on their trips to d C.
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I made the most of an event now better catered
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to a TV audience. Some people said they planned to
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pick up their now defunct tickets for scrapbooking purposes. Others
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suggested gatherings in hotel lobbies and at nearby bars with
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big screens. Some wrote that Trump, who is from New York,
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and Vance, who is from Ohio, should have been used
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to the weather and proceeded outside as scheduled. So this
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is so my thing is this, One person wrote, We
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can stand outside capitalljan Arimna for hours to see it
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on screens inside, but can't stand outside for a couple
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of hours with tickets still. As of Friday evening, Could
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Tai Could Kenyata Robinson, president and CEO of the Mount
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Vernon Triangle Community Improvement District, an area just northeast of
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Capitol One Arena, said that a nearby hotel remained one
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hundred percent booked for Sunday night. As of Monday, the
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district was expecting about eighty percent of its thirty five
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one hundred and eighteen hotel rooms to be full Sunday night,
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according to data from str Global, a hospitality analytics firm.
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Most hotels do not offer refunds for events like inaugurations,
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when rooms tend to be prepaid, said a spokesperson for
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Destination d C, the city's marketing arm. It was not
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just visitors who were flowmooks by Trump's Friday announcement. Longtime
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local officials said they were similarly caught off. God d
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C Council Chairman Phil Minderson, a Democrat who planned to
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attend the inauguration as the guest of d C Mayor
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Muriel E. Bowsel, also Democrat, said he found out a
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bit the venue change from my staff looking at tweets.
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As of Friday afternoon, he did not know the status
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of his ticket or where he.
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Speaker 5: Would be Monday.
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Speaker 1: The move indoors could shift the center of gravity from
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the National Mall to the Capitol One Arena, while thousands
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of Trump supporters were already scheduled to convene for a
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victory rally Sunday.
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Speaker 5: The stadium is in the heart.
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Speaker 1: Of downtown Washington, nestled amid residential high rises send restaurants
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and bars, potentially complicating security efforts. Tony Zoux, general manager
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of Lunar Hall d C, a food hall, was done
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to learn from a report on late Friday afternoon that
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Trump's inaugural parade may take place just one block south
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of his restaurant. That's crazy, Zeus said with a laugh,
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adding that he had already hired extra security for the
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weekend to handle the crowds. This inauguration comes after a
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high stressed period for police and officials in the district,
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who have worked overtime to manage the January sixth electoral account,
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former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral, and winter storms at
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closed schools and federal offices. It also follows the New
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Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans and a Tussela
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cyber truck explosion in Las Vegas, incidents that sent law
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enforcement agencies around the country in the high alert Anthe
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Googly Mee, chief of Communications for the Secret Service, said
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in this statement that we account for various contingencies, including
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implement weather, and that public transportation and pedestrian impacts should
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be expected in the area around the Capitol Ie Arena.
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Officials have long anticipated protested this year's or inauguration to
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be smaller than the ones that drew hundreds of thousands
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of people.
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Speaker 5: Wearing pink knit hats.
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Speaker 1: To demonstrate against Trump eight years ago, but some planning
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to protest said Friday that they were undeterred by the weather.
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The group expected to protest Monday under the name We
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Fight Back, which includes pro Palestinian coalitions, labor unions, and
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socialist movements, still plans to rally at Meridian Hill Park
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before marching to Black Lives Matter Plaza. The coalition approses
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Trump and policy priorities that one organizer described as a
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billionaire agenda, which is a far right extremist agenda. Just
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because the weather is a little colder doesn't stop their
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urgency of a popular mobilization in support of immigrant families,
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said Brian Becker, the executive director of the Answer Coalition,
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one of the groups organizing the demonstrations. He was also
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one of the organizers for a protest during Ronald Reagan's
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second inauguration in nineteen eighty five, which was also moved
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indoors because of frigid weather. This isn't the first time
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something like this has happened, where the government goes indoors
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or councils, and a progressive movement stays outside and continues
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to mobilize and protests, he said. Home meanwhile, said his
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decision was easy. His hotel room was non refundable, his
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mother in law was boarding a plane from Cincinnati to
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babysit his four year old son in Florida, and before
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him was a free weekend with his wife in the
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nation's capital. Only now he plans to leave his ski
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pants at home. Paul Kin and Liz Goodwin contributed to
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this report. I worked for the inaugural committee for President
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late President Nixon in DC and had my younger sisters
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come up for the inaugural events and we had such
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a good time and I still have so many mementos
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of that event.
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Speaker 3: Gary, you well, thank you for that history. Lesson else, No, Yes. Article.
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Speaker 2: Next article is headlined bird flu almost killed this team.
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It's a cautionary tale for Trump officials. The case of
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the Canadian team and the death of a Louisiana man
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are stark reminders of bird flu's capacity to ignite serious illness.
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Speaker 3: By the time is why Lena h Son.
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Speaker 2: By the time the thirteen year old arrived the main
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Children's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia in early November, a
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bird flew infection had robbed her ability to breathe.
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Speaker 3: Pneumonia shrouded her left.
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Speaker 2: Lung, her kidneys were failing, her blood platelets plummeting. Within
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four days, the previously healthy King team, whose initial symptoms
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were pink eye and fever, had deteriorated so dramatically the
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doctors at BC Children's Hospital had to deploy a battery
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of medical interventions to say of her life. She was
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put on a mechanical ventilator to help her breathe. When
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that wasn't enough, medical teams turned to a last resort
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treatment and for seventeen days kept the adolescent alive with
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machines that forced air and out of her lungs and
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oxygenated her blood externally to give her lungs a chance
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to heal most of them. More than five dozen people
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stricken with avian flu in the outbreak and the ongoing
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outbreak in the United States and Canada had mild symptoms
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and rebounded quickly. But the case of the Canadian team
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the only patient in North America to survived such a
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serious affection after a battery of sophisticated medical interventions and
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the death of this month of a Louisiana man or Stark.
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Reminders of the virus's capacity to ignite serious illness and
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the clues left in their lungs show that the H
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five N one pathogen possesses genetic machineries it could make
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it easier.
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Speaker 3: To infect humans. The developments arise.
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Speaker 2: The developments arrive as the nation enters the heart of
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the respiratory illness season and as a new administration prepares
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to take office. Two senior health officials who served in
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the first Trump administration have called on President loc Donald
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Trump's team to prepare for quick action and for taking office.
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Speaker 3: Trump has an opportunity to show how public health safeguards
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can be judiciously matched to genuine risk, strengthening national security
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and mitigating threats before they fully emerge.
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Speaker 2: According to Lucinda Boreo, a bio defense expert who served
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on the National Security Council, and Scott Gottlieb, former Food
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and Drug Administration commissioner, who wrote in a recent op
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ed in The Washington Post, health officials say that the
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risk of widespread human to human transmission of avians with
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influenza remains low because except in a handful of cases,
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the virus has not developed the ability to spread easily
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among people. But the longer the virus circulates among people
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and animals, the greater the chance for mutations that make
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illnesses more severe and transmission more efficient. The virus has
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spilled over from cows to in fact, poultry and other animals,
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including house cats.
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Speaker 3: Most of the.
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Speaker 2: People who have fallen ill are dairy or poetry workers,
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all of them recovered. The Louisiana man who died this
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month was hospitalized in December and became the first person
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to succume to avian influences in the United States. He
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had contact with sick and dead birds and backyard flocks
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on his property. The weeks and months had a critical
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The prevalence of seasonal flus typically orders of magnitude higher
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between January and March than in the spring and fall.
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That creates greater opportunities for people, especially dairy and poultry workers,
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to be infected with seasonal flu and bird flu at
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the same time. When that happens, there is an increased
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risk the genes from the two flu strains will reassort,
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swap genetically shop genetic material, and form a variant that
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can pass on dangerous mutations. Cases of bird flu detected
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in mammals. In addition to birds and poultry, more than
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four hundred and sixty cases of age five and one
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bird flu have been detected in mammals since May of
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twenty twenty two. Age five and one bird flu is
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turned up in lions and bears and mice, as well
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as ocean dolphins and seals. The odds of a co
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infection with pandemic potential will be uncomfortably high. In the
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coming weeks, said Jeremy Foules, an emergency room position at
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Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who described the potential
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for an H five N one pandemic in a recent
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medical and public health columnist. He writes three times a
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week that possibility collides with the story of the new
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administration that wants to preside over a strong economy and
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that recognizes a pandemic weary population wants to turn the page.
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Experts said, they're not going to want to cry a
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wolf on something that might not turn into an emergency,
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said Michelle Simonieu Arthur of a report for the Center
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of Strategic and International Studies on the need for the
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United States to step up its response to H five
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N one. Still, with the threat of more bird food
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infections looming, health authorities and political leaders will need to
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embrace measures requiring depth in swift management. Simoni said, you
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need strong White House coordination to make sure that all
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the information from the public health side and from the
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animal side is talking to one another to see how
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the virus is moving between people.
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Speaker 3: And animals, because.
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Speaker 2: That's what really where the risk is for the US population.
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Simuu sand that means more testing a farmer, more surveillance
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of animals and waw milk to detect outbreaks earlier, and
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perhaps asking higher risk infected people to stay homeowner than
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they might think is necessary, measures that stoke fears of
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economic losses. I think it's fair to say that there
31:30
was a lot of resistance to testing the milk at
31:32
every level at DA Commissioner Robert Palace said in an
31:36
interview referring to the delay the mandatory raw milk testing,
31:40
it had to reach a point where there was enough
31:43
consensus that it was feasibly active, it was feasible to
31:47
actually make it happen. Public health experts have called them
31:51
federal government to apply more compensation to rangers and farm
31:55
owners and their workers as a way to encourage detection
31:59
of the virus. That may be difficult under a Trump
32:02
administration that has found to scale back the roles of
32:07
the federal government, even for liberal states. If you pit
32:11
public health interest against versus livestock and agricultural I will
32:16
tell you who's going to win. Ninety nine percent of
32:18
the time. No one is going to dare to do
32:21
something that's going to have an economic impact, said one
32:24
state health official who spoke on the condition of anonymity
32:27
for fear of alienating the incoming administration. The H five
32:32
and if the age five and one explodes into a pandemic,
32:37
the federal government needs to be ready to roll out
32:39
treatments and vaccines. The health team assembled by Trump is
32:43
largely untested and managing health emergencies and possesses limited infectious
32:48
disease expertise. Some of Trump's pick have questioned vaccines and
32:53
other public health interventions. They may wrestle with whether to
32:57
impose measures such as masks and lockdowns that they criticized
33:02
during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts said officials at health agencies,
33:08
including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the
33:11
National Institutes of Health, are concerned about budgere cuts. Trump
33:16
has said he would disband the White House Pandemic prepared
33:19
in his office, although it's unclear whether he can do
33:22
so because it was created by Congress. This month, the
33:27
bides the administration announced it was committing an additional three
33:30
hundred and six million dollars toward battling the avian flu virus,
33:34
with about one third of that money going to states
33:37
and localities for increased monitoring, testing, and outreach to people
33:41
at highest risk of exposure. Of the two point five
33:45
billion administration has devoted to fight bird flu since this
33:48
past spring, one point five billion has been spent by the.
33:52
Speaker 3: Department of Agriculture.
33:54
Speaker 2: The USDA program for widespread testing of wal milk to
33:57
detect which jerry herds are affected clues participation from more
34:01
than half the states.
34:03
Speaker 3: The program began last month, nine months after the outbreak
34:06
was detected. Animal public health experts.
34:10
Speaker 2: And officials have grown increasingly concerned in recent weeks because
34:14
more human cases have been found in more states and
34:17
more people have been sicken with respiratory illness through contact
34:21
with poultry or unknown stance.
34:24
Speaker 3: Age five N.
34:25
Speaker 2: One virus emerged more than two decades ago and spread
34:28
globally through migratory birds, infecting animals on every continent. Since then,
34:34
Colostal one thousand people have been diagnosed with the viral
34:37
ailment in twenty four countries, with nearly half of those
34:41
illnesses resulting in death.
34:43
Speaker 3: Into the World Health Organization.
34:45
Speaker 2: It is now widespread in gairy coal in the United States,
34:49
affected more effecting more than nine hundred herds in sixteen states.
34:55
Top federal health officials warned in a recent editorial that
34:59
will not a clear onunderstanding of how the virus is changing,
35:02
spreading and infecting people, the United States will be unable
35:05
to properly protect communities from a pathogen that has proved
35:09
to be a formiable challenge to.
35:11
Speaker 3: Human and animal health.
35:13
Speaker 2: The editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine about
35:17
H five n ward's emergent threat was written by jam Mazarro,
35:21
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
35:25
and Michael chief of the Institute's Respiratory Diseases branch. Mazaro
35:31
said the case of the Canadian team and the extensive
35:34
care shoe required found echoes of the coronavirus pandemic. We're
35:40
counting our ICU bends and we're seeing hospitals overwhelm were
35:44
transfers from places that did not have ICU capacities. In Mazaro,
35:49
who was director of the Infectious Disease Decision at the
35:53
University of Alabama and Birmingham during the pandemic, a shudder
35:58
as the thought of revisiting that, it is really challenging
36:02
to sustain that level of care. If it's beyond a
36:05
single person. The team received the highest level of support
36:09
that can be provided to someone with respiratory failure, said
36:12
David M. Godfaul Goldfarm, one of her doctors and an
36:16
author of a case study in her illness and treatment
36:18
published December of the thirty.
36:20
Speaker 3: First in the New England Journal of Medicine.
36:23
Speaker 2: This patient was essentially admitted in a state of multi
36:27
organ failure, said Timothy Yuki, chief Medical officer of the
36:31
CDC's Influencer Division and another co offerer. Among critically ill
36:36
these five N one patients, mortality is high. Unlike almost
36:41
all other human cases of bird flu in the current outbreak,
36:44
officials don't know how the team became infected. Even more
36:48
troubling mutations from the virus and her lungs that show
36:53
worrying signs that increased transmissibility. It is unclear whether the
36:57
mutations emerged while the girl was sick, or if they
37:01
were present which became infected, which we need to be
37:04
more alarming. It's a terrible virus and I'm hoping not
37:08
to have to see this again in any patients. Gold
37:10
Farm Satura Yuki said the thirteen year old infection probably
37:15
came from poultry. Wild birds because the virus detected in
37:19
hers closely related to viruses circulating in wild birds in
37:23
British Columbia. It is also the same version of H
37:26
five N one detected in the Louisiana patient. The girl
37:31
who has wild asthma and azerbies went to one emergency
37:36
room on the number of the fourth and was sent
37:38
home without treatment, but developed the cough, vomiting, and diarrhea.
37:43
By the time she returned to the room three days later,
37:46
she was having difficulty breathing. The next day she was
37:50
transferred to VC Children's Hospitals Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Testing
37:55
quickly confirmed that she had H five in one virus
37:59
and in high amounts the gold fox sent doctors were
38:02
puzzled because she didn't have potential risk factors she was
38:07
an agricultural worker or in contact with infected animals, but
38:11
he spotted something on her chart pink eye, a definite
38:15
alarm bell. Because conjunctive conjunct, conjunct, conjunct connect conjunctives is
38:25
not common with seasonal flu, it has been a feature.
38:30
Speaker 3: In H five N one.
38:32
Speaker 2: Unlike most influential infections, which remained in the respiratory tract,
38:36
the virus had spread from her eyes to her alarms, kidneys,
38:40
and other organs. Most alarmingly, the virus was in her blood,
38:44
meaning the pathogen crew wreck havoc throughout her body. To
38:50
battle her infections, doctors restored to extraordinary measures. They gave
38:55
her three anti virals and placed her on a life
38:57
support machine known as ECMO. It pumps blood from the
39:01
patient's body to an artificial lung that day as oxygen
39:04
and removes carbon dioxide, replacing the functions of the law.
39:09
The blood machine then sends the blood back to the patient.
39:12
Because doctors saw evidence her immune system was starting a
39:16
destructive overaction known as a cycling storm, her medical teams
39:22
took another step not typically used to treat influenza. For
39:26
three days, they filtered her blood in hopes of her
39:29
removing the molecule or cyclone that could worsen her condition.
39:34
The Kinti's also required a more gentle form of continuous
39:38
dialysis from about a month. She's about as sick as
39:41
you can get and survive, and you can only survive
39:45
if you're that sick in a modern pediatric ICU, said
39:49
Andrew Pavia, who leads the pediacric in Vectoro's Disease Division
39:53
at the University of Utah. In a statement issued to
39:57
the hospital, the family decided the org. They said, this
40:02
has been a life changing experience for our daughter and
40:04
for our family. I'm very grateful to have her home
40:08
with us, they said, Alice, back to you.
40:14
Speaker 5: Well.
40:15
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban or sale law slated
40:21
to start Sunday, which is tomorrow after the Justice is ruling.
40:27
The Popular App said it was set to shut down
40:31
in the United States one day before Trump's inauguration. Here's
40:38
a picture of a young woman with the keep TikTok
40:44
sign in front of her. She's holding it, she's bundled up,
40:49
and she's in front of the Supreme Court, which has
40:52
its flag at half staff for the late President Jimmy Carter.
40:58
Her name is Sarah Boss twenty seven holds a pro
41:02
TikTok sign in Washington earlier this month, ahead of the
41:06
Supreme Court arguments over a federal law that would ban
41:10
the Popular App in the United States if the company
41:13
does not divest from Chinese ownership.
41:17
Speaker 5: This is by Anne E.
41:18
Speaker 1: Merrima and Christiano Lima Strong. The Supreme Court on Friday
41:26
upheld a federal law that effectively bans TikTok in the
41:30
United States on Sunday unless the wildly popular video sharing
41:35
app pulls off an unlikely last minute divestiture from Chinese ownership.
41:41
The unanimous decision was a major blow for TikTok, injecting
41:47
deep uncertainty into the app's future, with the deadline to
41:51
sell the platform.
41:52
Speaker 5: Just two days away. Of course, now it's just.
41:55
Speaker 1: One President elects Donald Trump, who is vowed to use
41:59
his power to save the app, will be sworn into
42:03
office a day later. No US law has ever shut
42:08
down a popular social media platform before, let alone one
42:13
with more than one hundred and seventy million users in
42:17
the United States who rely on the app for news, entertainment,
42:22
and self expression. Trump had asked the Supreme Court to
42:28
delay implementation of the law to give him an opportunity
42:32
to act once he returns to the White House.
42:36
Speaker 5: With the Court.
42:37
Speaker 1: Declining that option and no sale of the app seemingly imminent,
42:42
the ban is now poised to take effect the day
42:45
before Trump's inauguration. TikTok said late Friday it will go dark,
42:51
with other late intervention by the Biden administration halting the
42:55
law's enforcement.
42:58
Speaker 5: The court's unsun twenty.
43:00
Speaker 1: Page decisions said the banner sail does not violate the
43:05
free speech rights of millions of TikTok uses in the
43:08
United States, and that Congress had a good reason to
43:14
single out TikTok for special treatment. The law was passed
43:19
in April with bipartisan support and signed by President Joe
43:23
Biden in response to national security concerns about the Chinese
43:28
government's potential influence over the platform. The Justice has said
43:34
the US government was justified in targeting TikTok and its
43:38
China based parent company byte Dance because of the apps
43:45
scale and susceptibility to foreign advisory control, together with the
43:50
bath swaths of sensitive data the platform collects. There is
43:57
no doubt that for more than one hundred and seventy
43:59
million Americans, TikTok offers a distinct and expansive outlet for expression,
44:06
means of engagement, and source of community. But Congress has
44:11
determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well supported
44:17
national security concerns regarding TikTok's data collection practices and relationship
44:24
with a foreign adversary. The opinion says justicifs Sodomayor and
44:32
Neil M. Gorsuch wrote separately, agreeing with the court's judgment
44:37
about the constitutionality of the law but expressing some concerns.
44:43
In response to the court's decision, White House Press Secretary
44:47
Carrie Jean Pierre said that Biden believes TikTok should remain
44:54
available to Americans, but under new ownership, and that implementing
44:58
the law must fall to the next administration. Deputy Attorney
45:05
General Lisa Monaco, whose department would oversee enforcement of a band,
45:10
said insuring compliance will be a process that plays out overtime.
45:16
Without elaborating, Justice Department leaders stopped short of saying they
45:21
would not enforce the law, which TikTok said in a
45:25
statement did not provide enough clarity and assurance to stop
45:30
a ban from taking effect. The company posted on x
45:37
Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a definitive statement to
45:42
satisfy the most critical service providers assuring non enforcement, unfortunately,
45:49
TikTok will be forced to go dark. On January nineteenth, Trump,
45:58
who said Friday he discussed TikTok with Chinese President Shi Jinping,
46:03
said in a social media post that the court's decision
46:08
was expected and that everyone must respect it. His decision
46:13
about the fates app's fate, he added, will be in
46:18
the not too distant future, but I must have time
46:21
to review the situation.
46:23
Speaker 5: TikTok's CEO, sho Zi.
46:26
Speaker 1: Chiu, thanked Trump for his commitment to work with us
46:30
to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the
46:33
United States, and said the company would do everything to
46:39
keep the app alive for years to come. TikTok creators
46:44
behind the lawsuit urged the federal government to find a
46:48
way to allow the app to continue operating as a
46:52
vital outlet for creativity, public discourse, and joy. Their lawyer, Jeffreyisha,
47:00
asked the Justice Department to pause enforcement of the law
47:04
and said, in his statement, our country's commitment to robust
47:09
free expression of all kinds demands no less. Pam Bondy,
47:16
Trump's attorney general pick declined to commit to enforcing the
47:20
law during her Senate confirmation hearing this week. In its
47:25
ruling Friday, the Supreme Court acknowledged the challenge of applying
47:29
long established legal rules to rapidly changing technology amid a
47:34
compressed timeline, and said it was acting cautiously and narrowly
47:39
in resolving the TikTok case, but free speech advocates criticized
47:45
the decision, saying it would expand government censorship. Jamil Chaffer,
47:51
executive director of the Night First Amendment Institute, said that
47:56
while TikTok's future will ultimately be determined by politics, the
48:02
court's decisions has weakened the First Amendment and markedly expanded
48:08
the government's power to restrict speech in the name of
48:11
national security. The case was heard and decided on an
48:16
expedited schedule as a deadline approach in THEIRS, challenged the
48:21
company and TikTok creators said the government's national security concerns
48:26
do not justify an unprecedented sweeping restriction on the First
48:30
Rights Amendment of TikTok users. But the court accepted Biden's
48:35
administration's argument that the law does not impermissibly target speech
48:40
based on its content and instead is aimed at preventing
48:44
the Chinese government from using the app to collect vast
48:47
amounts of sensitive data among millions of American users. In
48:53
addition to privacy concerns, The Biden administration argued that the
48:58
law was crafted to in sure China cannot control TikTok's
49:02
video recommendation algorithm to covertly manipulate content to sway public
49:09
opinion in the United States, but the justices did not
49:13
endorse that claim to resolve the case, saying the data
49:18
security concerns alone could justify congressional action. In a separate opinion,
49:25
Gorsetch agreed with the sort's decision to uphold a unanimous
49:29
ruling in December by the US Court of Appeals for
49:33
the DC's Circuit, but said he had reservations about the
49:36
rushed process. Gorsech wrote, whether this law will succeed in
49:44
achieving its ends, I do not know. A determined foreign
49:48
adversary may just seek to replace one loss surveillance application
49:53
with another. All I can say is that at this
49:57
time and under these constraints, the problem appears real and
50:01
the response to it not unconstitutional while Trump is challenged.
50:09
While Trump has pledged to rescue the app from the
50:12
ban or sale law, how he plans to do so
50:16
remains unclear. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the President
50:21
elect is exploring unorthodox ways to aid the platform, including
50:26
issuing an executive order once he takes office that would
50:29
suspend enforcement of.
50:31
Speaker 5: The law for sixty to ninety days.
50:34
Speaker 1: Legal experts have questioned whether an executive order can stop
50:38
a law passed by Congress. Still, the President elect has
50:43
repeatedly given TikTok's allies cause for hope, including inviting the
50:48
company's CEO to attend his swearing in ceremony as an
50:53
honored guest. She is also slated to attend at least
50:57
two other celebrations for Trump ahead of his inaugural Monday,
51:01
including a reception for the incoming cabinet and a dinner
51:05
for Vice President elect jd Vance this weekend. Under the
51:10
TikTok Law, known as Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled
51:16
Applications Act, app store giants such as Google and Apple
51:22
and internet hosting services could face massive fines if they
51:26
continue to carry TikTok on their products beyond the Sunday
51:30
deadline for devestment. Infractions could cost companies five thousand for
51:36
each user that continues to access TikTok, which could add
51:41
up to billions of dollars in penalties.
51:45
Speaker 5: While the law is.
51:46
Speaker 1: Aimed at forcing app stores and internet hosting services to
51:50
stop carrying TikTok, executives inside the company have discussed pulling
51:56
the app offline for US users on Sunday to highlight
52:00
how disruptive a band would be. According to a person
52:04
familiar with their thinking, who spoke on the condition of
52:06
anonymnity to share internal plans, The Information first reported on
52:13
the possibility, but the person familiar with the discussion said
52:17
no final decision had been made. TikTok employees in the
52:22
United States were sent an email Tuesday saying the company
52:26
was planning for various scenarios and that its offices would
52:31
remain open even if this institution hasn't Even if this
52:36
situation hasn't been resolved before the January nineteenth deadline, even
52:43
a temporary band could lead to a major user exodus,
52:46
from which it would be difficult for the company to recover.
52:50
According to TikTok, even though the app would probably remain
52:54
on the devices of users, in the event of a band,
52:57
it could become inoperable. Lack of access to updates could
53:02
degrade their use of the site. TikTok's web site could
53:06
also cease to function on Internet browsers this week ahead
53:12
of the court's decision, Many users calling themselves TikTok refugees
53:17
began shifting to competing video apps, including the Chinese owned
53:22
Red Note and Byte Dance owned Lemon's eight byt Dance
53:28
could still stave off a TikTok band by selling the app,
53:32
but the company has insisted it does not plan to
53:34
do so, and the Chinese government has said it opposes divestiture. Still,
53:41
potential suitors are lining up bids. Chinese officials are reportedly
53:46
considering allowing Elon Musk a Coos Trump ally to buy
53:52
TikTok's US operations, according to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
53:57
TikTok has denied those reports. Business Magnet Frank McCourt and
54:03
Shark Tanks star Kevin O'Leary mounted a separate twenty billion
54:07
dollar bid. Drew Harwell contributed to this report, Gary, we
54:14
have just about three or four more minutes.
54:21
Speaker 3: Well it looks like, yeah, my phone's gone off again.
54:27
I'm anyway, Well, I guess I don't know what it's on. Anyway.
54:30
Speaker 2: Israel backs Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, and I wish
54:37
could start on Sunday. The ceasefire agreement reached with him
54:40
Off provides with a swap of Israeli hostages for Palestinian fusoners,
54:46
and a surge of humanitarian aid and ugada Jerusalem. The
54:50
articles by Jerry and Claire Parker Israeli government early on
54:55
Saturday proved the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, the calls for
54:59
the societ of fighting in Gozam and the release of
55:02
the first three Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners
55:06
as early as Sunday events today or tomorrow. A significant
55:10
increase in humanitarian aid, including as many as six hundred
55:15
trucks of food, intense medical supplies fuel per day, is
55:19
also expected to begin flowing into the devastated.
55:22
Speaker 3: On Clive on Sunday.
55:24
Speaker 2: Humanitarian worker se that number of trucks far exceeds what
55:29
has been coming in, which has been one hundred and
55:31
fifty trucks.
55:32
Speaker 3: The terms the deal had been.
55:34
Speaker 2: Resistant for months by far right members of Prime Ministers
55:38
Benjamin Yahu's coalition, who argued that the truth would be
55:43
premature and results of the release of Palestinian militants who
55:47
had attacked Israel. Ultimately, the agreement was endorsed Friday by
55:51
that Yahu's inner war cabinet, with only Finance Minister of Bizelle, Schmutz,
55:57
Schemutrits and National Security Minister Or have been rear voting
56:01
in opposition. After a lengthy debate that stretch past midnight,
56:06
the wider cabinet of government.
56:08
Speaker 3: Mays was also voted to ratify the deal.
56:11
Speaker 2: This is a vital step to or fulfilling the highest
56:14
covenant between the state and its citizens.
56:17
Speaker 3: Israeli President Isaac.
56:19
Speaker 2: Hertzog set in a statement on Friday after the deal
56:22
was backed by the War Cabinet, there is no greater moral,
56:26
human juice Israeli duty. We must bring all of our
56:30
hostages home. A Most officials also confirmed that last minute
56:34
disagreements with Israelan resolved or when. On Friday, the militant
56:39
movement tatted the seas far and social social media as
56:43
a dignity agreement and characterized it as an exchange that
56:47
we yield the release of prisons from various Palestinian factions.
56:51
Speaker 3: We renew our salute to our people.
56:53
Speaker 2: In the Gossips Strip and their steadfastness was in first
56:56
credit after God and completing this deal. Jared Javeri, the
57:00
head of the Hamas's Office of Martyrs and Prisoners, said
57:03
in a statement we asked God to heal the wounded
57:06
and grant our people freedom and liberation.
57:09
Speaker 3: In Israel, where.
57:11
Speaker 2: Polls showed roughly seventy percent of the population supported a
57:15
hostage deal, its completion marked the political victory for net Yahoo,
57:20
who had spent days trying to convince his far right
57:22
allies to back the ceasefire. That Nahu told his ministers
57:28
that he had assurances from President elect Donald Trump that
57:32
fighting could resume if Hamas did not fulfill it's part
57:35
of the agreement, said a person familiar.
57:38
Speaker 6: With the matter who spoke from the condition of anonymity
57:41
to discuss private offs that Yahu also ceded to demand
57:47
from his right flag with his government freeing Israeli settlers
57:51
in the occupied West Bank who had been accused of
57:53
attacking Palestinians and detained by Israeli security forces as a part.
57:59
Speaker 2: Of the released the old have decided to release the
58:02
settlers currently held in administrative detention and send a clear
58:06
message of support and encouragement to the settlement movement, said Israeli.
58:12
Said israel Cox meant, in Yahoo's defenseman, it is better
58:16
for Jewish settler families to rejoice them for families and
58:19
reuse really, it is better for Jewish settler families to
58:24
rejoice than for families of release terrorists. Israel's military and
58:29
its hospitals are preparing to receive hostage is held in
58:32
Gossap with medical and psychological services, and Egyptian officials said
58:37
they are preparing to receive Palestinian patients from Gaza when
58:41
it's southern Rafel order causing opens also on time.
58:47
Speaker 1: Well, then with that, I will say thank you for listening,
58:52
and please continue the listening for programming on radio.
58:55
Speaker 5: I stay warm. Monday is supposed to be just horribly cold.
59:01
Speaker 1: Here, so stay warm and we will be back next Thursday.
59:05
Have a good weekend.