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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Biden went from the dragon slayer to the one who brought the dragon back.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
He was explicit in the video announcing his campaign. He wanted to make Donald Trump a one-term president.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Biden won the election in 2020 in the midst of the COVID pandemic, promising stability and competence at home and abroad. And in his first two years, Democrats also controlled Congress, and they passed significant legislation.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
White House Communications Director Ben LeBolt points to the American Rescue Plan, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Chips and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
But many of these things will take years to come to fruition. The semiconductor factories opening, the transition to clean energy, and all the jobs that come with that. And so there will be a lasting impact here long past the moment that the president leaves office in January.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
And that delay may mean that Biden's single term in office will be perceived more positively in the future than it is now. But it certainly didn't help his bid for reelection in his own self-assessment. Biden now argues that he's leaving the country in better shape than it was when he started. The unemployment rate is much lower than it was when Biden took office. Crime is down.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Wages are up, but so are prices. And globally, alliances may be stronger, but war is raging in the Middle East and Ukraine.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Right. And I don't think you can overstate just how pivotal that debate against Trump was over the summer. Biden showed his age and froze in a way that shocked even his close allies. And by the time he dropped out and endorsed Vice President Harris, there were only about 100 days left to go.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Presidential historian Tevi Troy told me that on Election Day, Biden's legacy flipped from the guy who defeated Trump to the one who enabled his return.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Biden went from the dragon slayer to the one who brought the dragon back.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Another historian told me Biden's legacy is now very much tied up with Trump's. Which Biden policies Trump is able to reverse and whether Trump's second term is seen as a success.
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Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden's Complicated Legacy
Well, Biden's allies are looking to a different president, hoping that he will be more in the mold of LBJ, who history books look back on more fondly than when he left office.
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Ukraine's Drone Use, H-1B Visa Uncertainty, New Species In 2024
When I saw, I was like kind of mesmerized by it.
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Ukraine's Drone Use, H-1B Visa Uncertainty, New Species In 2024
When I saw, I was kind of mesmerized by it.
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
the agreement is designed as a win-win partnership, which gives us hope that such an agreement will actually be implemented in the long run.
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
The agreement is designed as a win-win partnership, which gives us hope that such an agreement will actually be implemented in the long run.
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
The civilians, you know, 26 of them, they belong to all parts of the country. And it's the first time such a big attack has been mounted on civilians. So there is a lot of anger among the Indian public. They've been begging for blood right now.
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
India and Pakistan don't just walk into a war by accident. There is this entire expectation that somebody is going to talk us off the ledge. that talking off the ledge is the responsibility of the international community.
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
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Economy In The Next 100 Days, Ukraine Minerals Deal, India And Pakistan Tension
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
And so we tend to see things in the world through our own ideology and political persuasion. So Republicans now are looking at the world and saying, this is what we voted for. Democrats are saying, no, this is anti-democratic.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
However much you dislike where it's coming from, can we sit down and have a serious conversation about, you know, what is Harvard doing with its admissions policies? And do students feel safe on campus?
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
It's way too early to say the United States is sliding into competitive authoritarianism. Trump's actions would end up having this effect, but only if they remained uncontested.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
These populist leaders managed to engineer new constitutions that seriously concentrated power. That was the breakpoint that put those countries on the path towards competitive authoritarian rule. But in the United States, that's out of the question.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
I think he's doing immense amounts of damage. I think he's perhaps, and it does not give me pleasure to say this, unalterably changing our norms in a way that is going to free up Future presidents from both parties will feel more free to do the kinds of things that Trump has done. And that will, frankly, threaten the rule of law.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
And even if we don't move towards competitive authoritarianism all the way, you don't really have to believe that that will happen to be very nervous about the future of American democracy.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
I think many Americans have a cartoon vision of what authoritarianism looks like. They think it's sort of jackboots in the streets and prison camps in rural parts of the country. They don't recognize that for many people, indeed most of the population most of the time, authoritarianism is sort of banal.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
This was the problem that I felt like I left back home, and it's here. Coming from a country where occasionally they sort of disappear activists from the streets, this felt like a very familiar pattern. The lack of faces, the lack of uniforms, the arbitrariness of the whole process. Some authority figure says, come with me, and then this person vanishes.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
It felt a lot like this was the problem that I thought I'd left an ocean away, and suddenly there it was.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
A key lesson that we learned is that resisting is not enough. I really believe that people who are pro-democracy, who are pro-human rights, really have to think hard about how to attract and how to reach new audiences. And I think that starts with understanding their grievances, listening to what they care about, and really responding carefully to those.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
After four or eight years, we realized that what we need to understand is why people don't care so much or don't care enough about these anti-democratic measures.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
So what we learned is that people are disillusioned by democracy.
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Is America becoming an autocracy?
We were saying, oh, so this is the local issue that you are interested in because this is something pressing for you. Let us help you. Let us work with you, with our expertise, acknowledging that you have expertise on a topic that is important for you. So we have seen much more engagement like this that is actually interesting and relevant for people.
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Mining's New Frontier
For us, we don't want to be used as guinea pigs for trial and error because these metals that are going to be dug out of our ocean will not benefit anyone from here because nobody here is using electric cars or this green energy and all this. So you are taking minerals from the poor people and you go and enjoy your luxury life, but
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Mining's New Frontier
These people are going to be affected in a long-term destruction to the marine ecosystem. And that is something that we are very concerned about. So to me, it's really emotional discussing this issue. It's our place. It's our home. We have to defend it.
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Mining's New Frontier
Because all our efforts on campaigning against simple mining, we thought it was a dead issue now.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
So you're saying when the home builders want a piece of legislation passed, they know who to call here. They know exactly who to call. In the spring of 2023, more than a year before Helene hit, the state's main building group, the North Carolina Home Builders Association, pushed for legislation called House Bill 488.
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The bill made changes to the state's building code that the homebuilders supported, as the group explained on their YouTube channel.
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More than 40 organizations publicly opposed the bill, saying it would leave the state more vulnerable to storms. Still, some lawmakers took the lead to get it passed.
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At the time, Mark Brody was a state representative and chair of a committee that oversaw land use. We read through hundreds of pages obtained through open records laws, including emails between Brody and the Home Builders Association in the run-up to the bill's passage. In one, Brody goes over the draft language of the bill.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
In another, Brody asked the home builders, guys, is this how we want it to look? I asked Representative Budd, why is the legislature doing this?
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The homebuilders were Brody's top donor in the last campaign cycle, according to state finance records. The group spread half a million more dollars around to other state and local officials. Brody did not respond to NPR's request for comment, but the homebuilders did give us an interview.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Chris Millis is a top lobbyist for the North Carolina Home Builders Association.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
I met up with him at the organization's Raleigh headquarters.
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It was hard to find people who thought the recovery had turned out well, even people who decided not to rebuild at all, like Joe Tyrone. He's a local realtor known for organizing one of the nation's first large-scale home buyout programs in Staten Island's Oakwood Beach neighborhood.
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Millis told me the association has never opposed mapping in the mountains, and it believes statewide steep slope legislation is unnecessary and counterproductive. because they say many local communities already have such rules and that they can best establish regulations that reflect their community's needs.
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He said the Bill 488, which is now law, will enhance safety while preserving efficiency and that building code enforcement remains robust and fully intact in the state. He said the bill did not eliminate or diminish any existing inspection authority.
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In this email that is sent to you, the lawmaker lists the nine things that they're putting in the code, and he's asking you, let me know if I missed something. I mean, why is the lawmaker, who's the chairman of this committee, asking you what he's missing when he's changing the codes?
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Are you guys experts or are you advocates for an industry that wants to build in a way that makes them more money?
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Millis said the group donates to lawmakers who, quote, understand the importance of safe, affordable and attainable housing for all. The North Carolina Home Builders Association, though, is just one state group. The National Association of Home Builders, based in Washington, D.C., spent almost $3.5 million last year alone lobbying Congress.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
I wanted to understand what exactly the industry has been pushing for. And there was one more person I had heard about. He had been on the board of the National Association for 25 years. But he was hard to track down because he lives in the Colorado mountains and doesn't have a cell phone. Well, hello. Ron Jones built houses for 50 years.
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He's known for building ambitious homes in difficult places, including one perched 80 feet down a cliff near Albuquerque. He says he joined the homebuilders because he loved what he did, and he hoped he could encourage his colleagues to build in a different way. I asked him what he thought about the homebuilders, saying they're just trying to keep homes affordable. What do you think of that?
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Jones says three times a year he would sit in board meetings at fancy hotels around the country, listening to his colleagues reject rules that would make homes safer, last longer, or be better able to withstand the storm.
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He says he and other board members would accompany the lobbying team to Capitol Hill, and they would tell lawmakers that elevating a home in a floodplain was unnecessary, that building codes did not need to be updated frequently. And remember those outdated FEMA flood maps that prevent the federal government from enforcing resilient building more widely?
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Jones says the National Association lobbied on those, too, because they can drive up the cost of insurance.
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Jones says he left the group in 2019 when he felt his opinions were failing to make any difference. He says he wanted to build safe engineering marvels, the best of what humans are capable of building. And he says that was not what the association was interested in.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
In a statement to NPR, officials from the National Home Builders said their group, quote, advocates for common sense and cost effective codes that make homes safer and more energy efficient.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
They said unnecessary regulations, quote, provide limited protection from natural hazards while driving up the cost of housing for hardworking families at a time when the nation is already suffering through a housing affordability crisis.
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The group said new homes built to modern codes are, quote, already energy efficient, safe and resilient, and that communities need to focus on improving older homes and infrastructure, which are less resilient. In recent months, the Trump administration has cut staff and grant programs at FEMA.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
It's taken steps to stop enforcing some rules for flood prone areas and has ended some funding to help communities update building codes. Back in North Carolina, for those who died in Helene, it's too late for building codes, programs, and grants anyhow. And it's too late for buyouts or infrastructure projects.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
For weeks after the storm, Shalana Jordan walked the banks of the Swannanoa River, searching for her parents, Nola and Robert Ramsor, hoping for some kind of a clue. I had to look. Like, it was silly to think that I could do that on my own, but I had to look. Finally, six weeks after the storm, the state medical examiner's office called to tell her both her parents were dead.
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In those weeks that Jordan spent searching, she always found herself stopping at this one bridge just down the river from the trailer park, lingering next to the pile of debris. the cars and homes and pieces of people's lives, the medical examiner said it was there, at the bridge, that they found her mother. Laura, thank you so much for your reporting. Thanks so much for having me, Aisha.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Along with the federal government, the state spent more than $200 million buying out more than 500 homes on Staten Island, intending to turn the area back over to nature. As we drive around, it seems in some ways it worked. Where hundreds of homes once stood, there are long stretches of empty lots punctuated by a few isolated homes. But these holdouts?
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They mean the roads and the power lines have to stay. And as Tyrone pulls around the corner, he points to several empty lots with a chain-link fence around them. There have been rumors. So why does this have a fence?
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This youth soccer league, which has more than 4,000 players, bought six acres of buyout land from the state. They plan to build a soccer complex with bleachers. There's talk of a clubhouse. And everyone's going to need somewhere to park. Is this what you thought was going to happen when you sold your property?
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That's the vision then-Governor Andrew Cuomo had promised. Wetlands and oyster beds that would soak up stormwater like a sponge.
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Bridget Wiltshire lives across the street from one of the proposed soccer fields.
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What do you think, if you're looking around here in 10, 20 years, what are you going to see?
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State and local officials have always said that would never happen. But 13 years is a long time. Vito Fussella is the borough president of Staten Island.
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So taxpayers spent a lot of money buying out these properties. Was it all for nothing?
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What if those people come back but they end up under 18 feet of water and their homes are destroyed and more people die?
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Few people in these neighborhoods seem to be living in fear. Homes continue to sell at a brisk pace, and prices keep going up. Many of these houses are elevated, but few are high enough to avoid the massive surge of water that hit parts of this area. New York City's comptroller, Brad Lander, says 30 percent of New Yorkers now live in the floodplain.
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Do you think that New York is ready for the next storm?
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The person who oversaw New York and New Jersey's recovery from Sandy was Craig Fugate. He ran FEMA as one of its longest-serving administrators.
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I told him we had been driving around some of New York's hardest hit areas. There are some neighborhoods that are rebuilt right next to a neighborhood where 70% of the people did take a buyout next to a neighborhood that hasn't changed at all and is hoping for a seawall. I mean, what's the plan here?
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In 2012, Superstorm Sandy sent more than 12 feet of water over communities along the coast of New York and New Jersey. It was one of the worst flooding events in New York's history. Recently, we headed back to some of the neighborhoods we first visited in the aftermath of Sandy.
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Fugate said FEMA and other federal agencies had to compete with those developers when they would create programs to elevate homes or buy homeowners out. But what was more frustrating, he said, is that often local officials preferred the developers' plans. just south of Staten Island around the Raritan Bay on the Jersey Shore. I met up with Sean LaTourette.
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He's the state commissioner of environmental protection and in charge of getting people to build differently. I asked him how it was going.
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We're standing on top of a massive earthen levee as workers complete the final section of a new seawall in Port Monmouth, the kind many communities are hoping for. But they're expensive and take years. And LaTourette says coastal areas also need to protect themselves by elevating new homes five feet. But he's facing resistance.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
Special interests. We were starting to hear a lot more about special interests back in North Carolina. In particular, the development industry and home builders, who it turns out hold a lot of sway.
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And even though 13 years had passed since the storm, it almost felt like they were trapped in time, midway through a recovery. Here on Staten Island's seacoast, the community used to be tight-knit, with families living in little bungalows. Now it feels desolate. After the storm, some residents used recovery money to elevate their homes really high. Others took a buyout from the federal government.
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Unprepared: There is No Plan
We returned to Swannanoa early this spring. It had been five months since Helene, and we headed straight to the trailer home park where Shalana Jordan's parents, Nola and Robert Ramsor, had lived, next to the river. The remains of their trailer and all the others were gone. A few piles of debris were ready for pickup, and recently, the property had been put on the market.
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Don't miss this high-visibility land, the real estate flyer said, with abundant river frontage that, quote, can be rebuilt as a mobile home park. Nathan Pennington came to meet us. He's Buncombe County's planning director, and he spends his days thinking about flood rules and floodplains. He points across the way, up at those duplexes we'd heard about in episode one that survived the storm.
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Contractors were almost finished with the cosmetic repairs.
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Did you see a difference between the houses that were built to modern standards and the ones that weren't during the storm?
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Now that you know where the water is coming, are the rules going to change for what you can do here?
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I asked him why the community wouldn't want to adopt new standards, new rules to help protect whoever lives here next.
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One of those folks is Congressman Chuck Edwards, who told us earlier property owners should make most of those decisions for themselves.
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He says this isn't just affecting housing along the rivers.
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Twenty-three people died in landslides here during Helene. And some scientists say while it's hard to know when landslides will happen, there's a lot of data to show where they'll happen. On a recent cold, rainy day, as thick gray fog covered the horizon, I headed into North Carolina's mountains with geologist Rick Wooten.
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We made our way up a steep path to the site of an enormous landslide that tore the mountain down to the bedrock.
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Their homes were leveled. And some did nothing. Their houses sit right as they were the night of the storm. It's kind of sad. Resident James Sinagra calls it the jack-o'-lantern effect. Imagine the teeth, jagged and irregularly spaced.
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Water trickles down 400 feet of now barren rock. And in the valley below, family homes lay smashed. Eleven people died in this landslide.
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Wooten has spent two decades mapping landslides, helping to create a database that predicts where they'll occur. This hillside was marked in the database. But he says funding for the project was cut off at one point for seven years. Ten counties still haven't been mapped.
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I went over to see Susan Fisher. She was a lawmaker in the statehouse at the time of the funding gap and co-sponsored a bill to create statewide safety regulations on mountains. Her bill and another similar bill made it through the committee without a problem. And then what happened? It just dies. In the years that you've had to think about why these bills died, who do you think didn't like them?
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I think that anyone who was representing developers or homebuilders didn't want that bill. Why? Because it's money. People are spending money to have houses built on top of ridges. These developers and homebuilders across the nation, they're often powerfully organized. And I wanted to understand just what kind of influence they have here in North Carolina.
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So I headed to the statehouse in Raleigh, and in a hallway overlooking the grand staircase, I met up with Representative Laura Budd. She's opposed bills pushed by the homebuilders' lobby. Do people talk about the homebuilders around here?
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Bud said a lot of individual homebuilders want to make strong, safe homes. She even represents some of them in her law practice. But at the statehouse, as an industry, she says the lobby pushes for less regulation.
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Do you think they've had too much power in this state? Way too much power.
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India and Pakistan Agree Ceasefire, Food Stamps Data, Nuclear Reactor Watchdog
And ultimately, when they felt that the situation is escalating and the Americans intervened directly as well as through their Arab allies, and then eventually they convinced both the parties to de-escalate for a ceasefire.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
Well, there had been signs that President Trump was taking a second look at this planned acquisition. It came up when the Japanese prime minister visited the White House in February. And then last month, President Trump ordered a new national security review. Then last week, he announced he was on board with the deal in a social media post saying it would add $14 billion to the U.S.
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economy and create 70,000 jobs. And significantly, he described it as a, quote, planned partnership that will keep the headquarters of U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
We don't have many. So I called a bunch of industry analysts whose job it is to advise investors, and they said they haven't been able to get clear answers either. But all along, Nippon has made it clear that they aren't going to make this kind of investment unless they are acquiring U.S. Steel and its assets. Gordon Johnson is CEO of GLJ Research.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
And given the expected purchase price, he says it is a very good deal for U.S. steel shareholders and executives. Another analyst I spoke to said their best interpretation of the facts is that Trump is calling it a partnership to avoid looking like he reversed himself on this. And another, Phil Gibbs at KeyBank Capital Markets, put it this way.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
It has to be purposely opaque because there have been so many missteps, misfires, lawsuits, political interference. And then we finally get to what looks like a conclusion. And we're even questioning the conclusion.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
I will also note that U.S. Steel hasn't filed anything with the Securities and Exchange Commission about this latest version of the deal.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
You know, a major theme of the first few months of his second term has been bringing foreign investment to the U.S., onshoring manufacturing, creating American jobs. And there are a few things that he relishes more than announcing a deal. Pennsylvania, of course, is also a state that delivered him the presidency. So he's going to call it a win.
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Trump's US Steel Reversal, Court Win For Harvard, Musk Leaves DOGE
But as you know, maybe it's popular locally, but the United Steelworkers Union is quite dubious of this announcement and what it will mean in the end for jobs. Democratic politicians from the state are offering very tentative statements, saying the devil is in the details, and they don't yet have the details.
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You're welcome.
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School Funding, Venezuelan Deportation Hearing, Key Bridge Inspection
These bridge owners need to be looking at recent vessel traffic. Things have changed over time.
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School Funding, Venezuelan Deportation Hearing, Key Bridge Inspection
These bridge owners need to be looking at recent vessel traffic. Things have changed over time. Vessels have gotten bigger, heavier. At one point in the 1950s, we had vessels that had just 800 containers on them. Now we're talking 24,000 containers.
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Scene From Vatican City, Life Of Pope Leo XIV, China Trade Talks
Export controls on chips in particular, and then chip-making equipment. So things that would allow them to accelerate the domestic development of AI.
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Scene From Vatican City, Life Of Pope Leo XIV, China Trade Talks
Export controls on chips in particular, and then chip making equipment. So things that would allow them to accelerate the domestic development of AI and artificial intelligence.