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NPR Host Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. More than 1 million federal workers will soon miss another paycheck due to the government shutdown. As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. Community organizations, organizations are being flooded with requests for help.
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Andrea Hsu
The Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL CIO created its Federal Worker Solidarity Fund earlier this year to help federal employees who'd lost their jobs in mass layoffs. Now, with tens of thousands of federal workers in the region going without paychecks during the shutdown, applications for emergency assistance have soared. Sig Milas is the group's director.
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It's folks asking for food assistance.
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NPR Host Shea Stevens
It's rent, mortgages, it's utility bills and car payments.
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Andrea Hsu
Elsewhere in the country, credit unions have seen a surge in applications for short term interest free loans, which they're providing to help their federal employee members bridge the gap until the shutdown ends. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
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NPR Host Shea Stevens
The U.S. senate has again rejected two competing bills to pay some federal workers during the shutdown. Meanwhile, some furloughed workers are being called back to to work to manage open enrollment for Medicare supplemental insurance plans. President Trump has called off a federal surge in San Francisco that had been planned for this weekend. As NPR's Cat Lansdorf reports, Trump says the decision follows his conversation with tech industry executives.
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Cat Lansdorf
Trump says he got calls from Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, among others, asking him to hold off. The president also posted that he had a phone call with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, a Democrat, about crime in the city. Lurie has confirmed that call and says that he told Trump that crime is down and San Francisco is, quote, on the rise.
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Nate Rott
But having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery.
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Cat Lansdorf
U.S. customs and Border Protection agents began arriving at Coast Guard facilities in the area this week, with protesters gathering outside. Trump has also said he wants to send National Guard troops into San Francisco, something he's done in several other Democratic led cities. Kat Wansdorf, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR Host Shea Stevens
California wildlife officials say they've seized thousands of pieces of elephant ivory and suspected rhino horns in Los Angeles county. Details from NPR's Nate Rock.
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Nate Rott
California prohibits the sale of ivory and rhino horns, as do 10 other US states because of the trade's horrendous effects on wildlife. Poaching of elephants and rhinos has caused steep declines in populations globally. Law enforcement officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife say they found what appear to be at least nine rhino horns, thousands of pieces of elephant ivory and several large, intricately carved tusks and a sea turtle shell. Officials say they've linked the suspected trafficked animal parks to an LA county business. They say they're going to forward that information to the local district attorney, Nate Rott, NPR News.
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NPR Host Shea Stevens
You're listening to NPR. More than 30 people have been arrested on federal charges of colluding with gamblers who bet on games. Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Bill, Miami Heat point guard Terry Rozier and center Jontay Porter, who previously played for the Toronto Raptors, are implicated in the scandal. Billups is accused of rigging poker games run by organized crime groups. The Trump administration has finalized its plan for expanded oil and gas drilling on one and a half million acres in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan calls for at least four lease sales over the next decade. Environmentalists consider the pristine Alaska wilderness the crown jewel of the nation's public land system. Broadway musicians and producers have reached a tentative three year contract agreement averting a strike that would have shut down 23 musicals. Jeff London reports. It was a dramatic last minute turn.
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Jeff London
Of events following an all night negotiation. Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians and the Broadway League, the Association of Producers and Theater Owners came to an agreement at 4:30am According to the union, the three year deal provides both meaningful wage and health benefit increases while maintaining strong contract protections. The union had been working without a contract since Aug. 31. The agreement still needs to be ratified by members, as does an agreement between producers and actors who settled last week. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York.
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NPR Host Shea Stevens
US Futures are flat in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR News.
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