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John McCain, diagnosed with a deadly form of brain cancer just five days ago, returned to applause on the Senate floor Tuesday, where he cast a crucial vote to move forward on repeal of the Affordable Care Act and urged his colleagues to regain their sense of bipartisan cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the longtime Arizona senator, two-time presidential candidate and perhaps America’s most famous former prisoner of war, warned that he “will not vote for this bill as it is today,” describing it as “a shell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain said he would attend the Senate for a few days and then go home to Arizona to recuperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have every intention of returning here to give you all reason to regret the nice things you said about me,” he told his fellow senators, addressing the outpouring of support he’s received since announcing his diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a remarkable moment, to see McCain, whose daughter described him poetically as a “warrior at dusk,” take his place again in the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” where he has represented his Southwestern state for 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain, with surgical stitches clearly visible above his left eye, admonished both Republicans and Democrats to work together in the old way and to stop trying to make laws “behind closed doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that it was easy to fall victim to the urge to win instead of doing what is right. “Merely preventing your political opponents from getting what they want isn’t very inspiring,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he advised strongly: “Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the television, radio and internet. 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If the full repeal isn’t brought to the floor, or if it fails, then it’s on to the Senate’s version of no-holds barred — a “vote-o-rama,” where anyone can bring any amendment to the floor and have it voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be kind of like doing the work normally done for months in committees out on the Senate floor in a matter of hours and days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”A1BV4vIZp3nWCZPcR9pkrpepufcyYqww”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is just the latest chapter in Republicans’ difficulty replacing the ACA, also known as Obamacare. Legislatively, they have been plagued by starts and stops during the Trump presidency, unable to get their differing ideological factions on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obamacare is the law of the land,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declared after the House’s health care flameout months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, through arm twisting and legislative tweaks, the House eventually passed a version that tinkered with the ACA. 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"content": "\u003cp>This summer, scientists in California are releasing 20 million mosquitoes in an effort to shrink the population of mosquitoes that can carry diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds counterintuitive. But the plan is to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes, which will then mate with wild female mosquitoes. The eggs the females lay won’t hatch, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is called \u003ca href=\"https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-field-study.html\">Debug Fresno\u003c/a> and it’s being undertaken by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s holding company. It’s the company’s first field study involving sterile mosquitoes in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say the goal is to cut the population of \u003cem>Aedes aegypti\u003c/em> mosquitoes — the species responsible for spreading Zika, dengue and chikungunya. \u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em> have been present in California’s Central Valley since 2013 and have been a problem in Fresno County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a terrible nuisance, a terrible biting nuisance. It’s changed the way people can enjoy their backyard and it’s a threat for disease transmission,” Steve Mulligan of Fresno County’s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/07/19/scientists-plan-to-trick-zika-carrying-mosquitoes-into-breeding-themselves-out-of-existence/?utm_term=.488aede6eedb\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week for 20 weeks, the company plans to release 1 million of the sterile, non-biting male mosquitoes in two neighborhoods in Fresno County. The male mosquitoes are bred and infected with \u003cem>Wolbachia\u003c/em>, a bacterium that is “naturally found in at least 40 percent of all insect species,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46021/title/Bacterium-Blocks-Zika-s-Spread/\">The Scientist magazine\u003c/a>, though it’s normally not found in \u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, we hope to see a steep decline in the presence of \u003cem>Aedes aegypti\u003c/em> in these communities,” Verily says in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phenomenon called cytoplasmic incompatibility, “matings between \u003cem>Wolbachia\u003c/em>-infected males and uninfected females results in embryo lethality or low hatch rates,” William Sullivan and Scott L. 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They plan to study the \u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em> population density and number of eggs hatching in the experimental areas and compare to control neighborhoods to measure the experiment’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the bacteria-carrying mosquitoes have been released into the wild in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MosquitoMate and the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District \u003ca href=\"http://fkmcd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=d8c2b636e93b40b4b940e6042ef286c6\">released 75,000\u003c/a> \u003cem>Wolbachia\u003c/em>-carrying mosquitoes each week for several weeks this spring in the Florida Keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year in Fresno, MosquitoMate and county officials released \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15972950/mosquitoes-google-alphabet-verily-debug-wolbachia-bacteria-fresno-california\">about 800,000\u003c/a> of the mosquitoes. This experiment is a 25-fold increase on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily says it developed “automated mass rearing and sex-sorting processes,” which enable it to breed and release so many of the mosquitoes in such a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em> is an invasive species to Fresno County, and officials told the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> they don’t predict an impact on the local ecosystem from reducing or eliminating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method Verily is using to cut the mosquito population differs from the experiment the British company Oxitec proposed last year in the Florida Keys. In contrast to the mosquitoes being infected by bacteria, Oxitec has released males that are genetically modified with “a gene that causes the mosquito’s offspring to die in the first two to three days of life,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dallasnews.com/news/zika-virus/2017/07/14/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-wipe-zika-dallas-county-oppose-local-trials\">The Dallas Morning News\u003c/a>. Many Florida Keys residents \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/20/502717253/florida-keys-approves-trial-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-fight-zika\">bitterly opposed\u003c/a> the proposed experiment last year; some Texas residents are reacting similarly to a proposed trial there, the \u003cem>Morning News\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the spring to the fall of 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/s0620-virus-carrying-mosquitoes.html\">38 additional counties\u003c/a> in the U.S. reported evidence of the \u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em> mosquito, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the beginning of 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/zika/reporting/case-counts.html\">more than 5,300\u003c/a> symptomatic cases of Zika were reported to the CDC in the U.S., though the vast majority stemmed from people traveling to affected areas. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week for 20 weeks, the company plans to release 1 million of the sterile, non-biting male mosquitoes in two neighborhoods in Fresno County. The male mosquitoes are bred and infected with \u003cem>Wolbachia\u003c/em>, a bacterium that is “naturally found in at least 40 percent of all insect species,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46021/title/Bacterium-Blocks-Zika-s-Spread/\">The Scientist magazine\u003c/a>, though it’s normally not found in \u003cem>A. aegypti\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, we hope to see a steep decline in the presence of \u003cem>Aedes aegypti\u003c/em> in these communities,” Verily says in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phenomenon called cytoplasmic incompatibility, “matings between \u003cem>Wolbachia\u003c/em>-infected males and uninfected females results in embryo lethality or low hatch rates,” William Sullivan and Scott L. 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That would make people far less likely to sign up with participating insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives generally oppose the subsidies, calling them a bailout of the insurance industry and arguing that the Obama administration didn't have the authority to pay them. \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/trump-obamacare-markets-subsidies-cut-240684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump has repeatedly threatened\u003c/a> to cut off those cost-sharing subsidies as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the future of cost-sharing subsidies up in the air, some states, including California and Pennsylvania, have allowed insurers to submit two sets of proposed premiums. One filing reflects continued federal funding of those subsidies, and a separate one assumes they are eliminated and their cost is included in health plan premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pennsylvania, premiums next year without the subsidies would increase by an average of 20 percent, compared with 9 percent if they remain intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller says the market in her state would be in good shape were it not for the uncertainty over federal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing right now keeping everyone on edge is what's going to happen in Washington, D.C.,\" Miller says. \"If things calm down in D.C. and if we don't see further changes, then Pennsylvania's market really is stabilizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Covered California officials said the two different rate filings its health plans submitted will be released Aug. 1. The exchange may announce that same day what the final premiums are, or it could postpone the decision for several more weeks if Congress has begun to pursue fixes to the ACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5rsh2AhtmI5avdhhlSQpij2OqvMsdJsd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This decision is based on the ongoing federal uncertainty around the repeal and replacement attempts of the Affordable Care Act and the dramatic potential impacts such uncertainty has on the rates and on California consumers,\" exchange officials said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/pdfs/CoveredCA_Consequences_of_Terminating_CSR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent analysis\u003c/a> commissioned by Covered California estimated that premiums for silver-tier plans would jump by 16.6 percent if the federal government stopped paying cost-sharing subsidies. That would be in addition to normal increases meant to cover rising medical costs. 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Such a fund would be similar to one that existed during the first three years of the Affordable Care Act exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurance industry executives welcomed the talk of bipartisanship, but they said action must be taken quickly to resolve key issues affecting consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are running out of time, and we need a resolution on what we are charging for 2018,\" says Gary Cohen, vice president of public affairs at Blue Shield of California in San Francisco, the \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/blue-shield-has-highest-share-of-enrollees-in-covered-california/\">largest Covered California insurer by enrollment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen, who helped launch the exchanges in 2014 as an official in the Obama administration, noted that the Republican bills in both the House and Senate included money for reinsurance that can help lower premiums industrywide. 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One filing reflects continued federal funding of those subsidies, and a separate one assumes they are eliminated and their cost is included in health plan premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pennsylvania, premiums next year without the subsidies would increase by an average of 20 percent, compared with 9 percent if they remain intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller says the market in her state would be in good shape were it not for the uncertainty over federal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing right now keeping everyone on edge is what's going to happen in Washington, D.C.,\" Miller says. \"If things calm down in D.C. and if we don't see further changes, then Pennsylvania's market really is stabilizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Covered California officials said the two different rate filings its health plans submitted will be released Aug. 1. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10:30 a.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Detwiler Fire burning near the town of Mariposa in the foothills west of Yosemite National Park has destroyed 45 structures and is threatening another 1,500 homes and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,100 firefighters are battling the 5-day-old conflagration, which has charred nearly 70,000 acres (109 square miles), according to Cal Fire. The blaze is 10 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 5,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in several small communities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency yesterday to speed aid to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have over 3,100 firefighters that have come throughout the state to our community to protect our community and to work on maintaining our community by this aggressive fire fight,\" said Jeremy Rahn, a Cal Fire battalion chief from Madera County, at a community meeting last night in Oakhurst. \"And a lot of these firefighters have been out for very long hours, doing what they do and we just wanted to let you know that everybody's hearts are in the game here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the community of Planada, 20 minutes to the east, 18-year-old Chrissy Tiner stood outside the Red Cross shelter at Cesar Chavez Middle School with her German Shepherd, Haley. She and her family had to leave their home a few miles outside the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we could see flames we were like, it’s time to go. It’s not like here in Merced where they’re a distance away. Our hills -- you can walk there. They’re like a mile away. So when you can see flames coming over the hill you know they’re close,” Tiner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Smith, 74, and his mom have slept at the same middle school shelter the past two nights. He said the fire smelled like a big campfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we made it out OK,” Smith said yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/07/2017-07-20a-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/gettyimages-818640044-1219a3846bd3c27698c5991cecdf852841d1c5c5-s800-c85.jpg\" Title=\"Detwiler Fire Has Evacuees Not Only Worried About Homes, But Their Jobs\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Stanfill, who works at a Burger King in the area, voiced his frustration at the Oakhurst community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're supposed to get paid on the 21st,\" Stanfill said. \"It's really, really frustrating and really, really scary because we don't know if we're going to get paid. As far as I know, we're not going to get any lost wages because we're not working, because it's been shut down. The earliest we've even heard anything about going back in is the 25th. It might even be longer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanfill is worried about paying his bills. He says the ordeal has been hard on his two young daughters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're scared out of their mind,\" he said. \"They're worried they're going to lose all their toys. We had to leave one of the cats behind. They're upset over that. What's going to help us? Who's going to help us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Vanessa Rancaño and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detwiler Fire \u003c/a>has grown to 48,000 acres and remains only 7 percent contained as of late Wednesday, according to the latest updates from Cal Fire authorities\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials told a community meeting for evacuees in Oakhurst Wednesday night that the Mariposa County fire has destroyed 29 structures and threatened at least 1,500. That damage estimate could change as more detailed assessments are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,000 firefighters are working around the clock on the monster blaze that has forced thousands of evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state of emergency\u003c/a> to help speed aid to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire officials wouldn't speculate about when they believe the fire will be under control and they could not tell the group of evacuees when they can expect to to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, veteran firefighters talked about the tough conditions they faced with this wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's moving really fast,\" Cal Fire Capt. Steve Estes said. \"I haven't personally seen this fire behavior in over 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estes says this is his 30th fire season with Cal Fire. \"We're doing 24-hour shifts. We're pushing all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Steve Bruno said they've doubled the number of firefighters battling the fire since Tuesday. 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And all the rain this year means a lot of grass and brush to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a rapidly moving fire. You have mountainous terrain, plentiful amounts of dry grass and brush, and lots of drought-stricken trees, high temperatures and a brisk wind,\" Bruno said. \"The combination of those factors cause any fire to take off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FireWeatherLab/status/887774749278953472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire grew so much that base camp was moved Tuesday from Mariposa County Fairgrounds to the Merced County Fairgrounds, about 45 minutes from the edge of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base camp is like a mini city for firefighters. There are mobile showers, a laundry center and mobile sleeping trailers where firefighters sleep in what one guy described as \"coffins.\" As Bruno put it, this is where the firefighters can get anything they need, \"from a tube of toothpaste to thousands of feet of hose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are fire crews from all over California here. Many of them just got put on this fire, having already spent weeks fighting other California wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been on the road since June 25,\" said Estes of Cal Fire. \"I have a girlfriend, and she lived with me through the Soberanes Fire, and she's reliving that. I was on that fire for six weeks. It's tough for me. My son's on a backpacking trip, and I can't join him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mariposa County Sheriff's Office is currently providing evacuation advisories \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/mariposa-county-sheriffs-office/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrissy Tiner, 18, fled with her family Tuesday when they saw flames cresting the nearby hills. She came to a Red Cross shelter set up at a middle school in the town of Planada east of Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as we could see flames we knew it was time to go,\" she said. \"When you can see flames coming over the hill you know they're close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her family evacuated from their town about 5 miles east of Merced along with the family dogs, goats and most of their chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went back roads because the fire blocked our escape route,\" she said. \"The sheriff was sounding pretty panicked saying there were no ways out of Mariposa. But from where we live there was an easy way out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiner said ashes were falling like snowflakes and she woke up Tuesday with a sore throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were just keeping an eye on the falling ashes. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines says they don't know yet if their home was hit by fire. She said when they left embers were falling from the sky and one landed in the yard igniting a small brush fire on the family property that her father put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For myself, I am dependent on Jesus and I just listen to his voice,\" she said. \"The only way your faith is totally increased is through trials like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Vanessa Rancaño contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post by \u003ca href=\"//www.npr.org/people/463234136/laurel-wamsley%E2%80%9D\">Laurel Wamsley, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"//npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wildfire in the foothills near Yosemite National Park has already consumed eight structures -- and is threatening 1,500 more in the tiny town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town's 2,000 residents have been \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/mariposa-county-sheriffs-office/\">ordered to evacuate\u003c/a>, due to the blaze known as the Detwiler Fire, and Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19881\">issued a state of emergency\u003c/a> for Mariposa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1672\">posted\u003c/a> on its website that \"firefighters experienced extreme and aggressive fire behavior\" on Tuesday. \"Firefighters on the ground as well as aircraft are actively working to contain and suppress the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/887691105063452672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Detwiler Fire has burned more than 45,000 acres and is just 7 percent contained, and it threatens \"culturally and historically sensitive areas,\" the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't seen these conditions in a long time. It's a wind-driven, slope-driven, fuel-driven fire,\" Cal Fire's Jerry Fernandez \u003ca href=\"http://abc30.com/news/strong-winds-and-steep-terrain-making-detwiler-fire-difficult-to-contain/2228517/\">told\u003c/a> Fresno's ABC affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa is approximately 150 miles east of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Info_CIIMT1/status/887674601970352128/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fthetwo-way%2F2017%2F07%2F19%2F538090510%2F-extreme-and-aggressive-california-wildfires-force-thousands-to-evacuate\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,000 people have had to flee their homes due to the fire, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-wildfire-threatens-yosemite-20170718-story.html\">reports\u003c/a>; temperatures are expected to drop a few degrees on Wednesday, but humidity and winds will likely continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Koby Johns says the cause of the fire is unknown, but its speed is due to the region's drought being followed by heavy rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lots of tall grasses, lots of bushes, and they essentially provide like a ladder to the trees,\" Johns told Valley Public Radio's Ezra David Romero. \"A lot of those trees are dead oak trees, and then you have fire spreading from tree to tree.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http://firetracker.scpr.org/detwiler-fire/embed\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drone Grounds Helicopter Fighting Another Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the city of Saratoga near San Jose, the pilot of a water-dropping helicopter was forced to ground the aircraft when a drone appeared unexpectedly, Ryan Cronin of the Santa Clara County Fire Department told the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really put them in a precarious position,\" he said of the drone. \"We didn't appreciate that much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires have been especially prevalent this year. Fires have burned 4.4 million acres so far in 2017, compared with 2.7 million acres over the same period in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm\">according to\u003c/a> the National Interagency Fire Center. Large fires are currently reported in 12 states, all in the western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Stanfill, who works at a Burger King in the area, voiced his frustration at the Oakhurst community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're supposed to get paid on the 21st,\" Stanfill said. \"It's really, really frustrating and really, really scary because we don't know if we're going to get paid. As far as I know, we're not going to get any lost wages because we're not working, because it's been shut down. The earliest we've even heard anything about going back in is the 25th. It might even be longer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanfill is worried about paying his bills. He says the ordeal has been hard on his two young daughters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're scared out of their mind,\" he said. \"They're worried they're going to lose all their toys. We had to leave one of the cats behind. They're upset over that. What's going to help us? Who's going to help us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Vanessa Rancaño and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detwiler Fire \u003c/a>has grown to 48,000 acres and remains only 7 percent contained as of late Wednesday, according to the latest updates from Cal Fire authorities\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials told a community meeting for evacuees in Oakhurst Wednesday night that the Mariposa County fire has destroyed 29 structures and threatened at least 1,500. That damage estimate could change as more detailed assessments are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,000 firefighters are working around the clock on the monster blaze that has forced thousands of evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state of emergency\u003c/a> to help speed aid to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire officials wouldn't speculate about when they believe the fire will be under control and they could not tell the group of evacuees when they can expect to to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, veteran firefighters talked about the tough conditions they faced with this wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's moving really fast,\" Cal Fire Capt. Steve Estes said. \"I haven't personally seen this fire behavior in over 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estes says this is his 30th fire season with Cal Fire. \"We're doing 24-hour shifts. We're pushing all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Steve Bruno said they've doubled the number of firefighters battling the fire since Tuesday. Bruno says about 5,000 people have been evacuated from the foothill town of Mariposa and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11576164\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11576164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_4098.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire engines and firefighters at base camp at the Merced County Fairgrounds.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There has been one injury so far -- an inmate firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our priority is structure defense in rural residential areas of Mariposa and surrounding communities,\" Bruno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the conditions this year are ripe for fire: Years of drought and a bark beetle infestation have left a tinderbox of dead trees. And all the rain this year means a lot of grass and brush to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a rapidly moving fire. You have mountainous terrain, plentiful amounts of dry grass and brush, and lots of drought-stricken trees, high temperatures and a brisk wind,\" Bruno said. \"The combination of those factors cause any fire to take off.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story is for mature bees only.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seducing a honeybee drone—one of the males in a colony whose only job is to mate with the queen—is not too difficult. They don’t have stingers, so you just pick one up. Apply a little pressure to the abdomen and the drone gets randy, blood rushing to his endophallus, bringing him to climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re really accommodating,” says Susan Cobey, a honeybee breeder on Whidbey Island, Wash. “One ejaculate is about 1 microliter, and it takes 10 microliters to artificially inseminate a queen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Y7TXOzoCrWtiybZGX436TyHD5Ty0BWPR”]Since 2008, Cobey has done her share of bee abdomen rubbing as part of a research team from Washington State University traveling through Europe and Asia. They’ve collected sperm from native honeybees in Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia – countries where honeybees have favorable genetic traits, like resistance to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">varroa mite\u003c/a>. The deadly parasite has been cited as a major factor in bee deaths, along with genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure, according to a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2013/05/02/usda-and-epa-release-new-report-honey-bee-health\">report from the USDA and EPA\u003c/a> in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varroa mites are an invasive parasite from Asia that sucks hemolymph (bee blood) from adult and larval honeybees, weakening their immune systems and transmitting \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">deadly pathogens\u003c/a>, like bent wing virus. If left untreated, a varroa infestation can kill a colony in one year. First detected on U.S. soil in 1987, varroa has spread quickly, infesting upwards of 50 percent of American hives. Last year, 33 percent of U.S. honeybee hives died. That’s troubling for the plight of honeybees and U.S. agriculture, which relies on pollinators to produce\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf\"> one-third of the food we eat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The buzz on American bees: too much inbreeding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the WSU research team, the root cause of the U.S. honeybees’ vulnerability to varroa is a dwindling gene pool that has left them short on genetic traits that help honeybees resist varroa elsewhere in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees aren’t native to America,” Cobey says. “We brought them here. But the U.S. closed its borders to live honeybee imports in 1922, and our honeybee population has been interbreeding ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WSU has monitored the genetic diversity of honeybee queens in Washington and California since 1994, showing a steady decline. Dr. Brandon Hopkins, the team’s expert in freezing and thawing bee sperm, likens honeybee breeding to a poker game played with an incomplete deck of cards. “There’s no way to get a four-of-a-kind if there aren’t four aces in the deck,” Hopkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1838831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1838831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1920x1252.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-960x626.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Hopkins, a cryopreservation specialist, works in Washington State University’s fruit tree orchard in Pullman, Wash. As a doctoral student at WSU, Hopkins perfected a system of freezing and thawing bee semen for use in artificial insemination. \u003ccite>(Shelly Hanks/Courtesy of Washington State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The imported semen has restacked the deck. WSU’s crossbred honeybees already test positive at a higher level of genetic diversity than the first queens tested in 1994. “This doesn’t mean they are superior in performance to the other bees,” Hopkins says. “It means we have a better chance of finding rare and unique traits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that honeybee breeders selected for bees that produced more honey, grew more populous hives, and were gentler to handle. Now, they want honeybees that can resist varroa. Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. It’s also the industry most susceptible to fallout from the varroa epidemic in bees: California’s almond groves serve as an incubator for the growth and spread of varroa mites across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 800,000 acres of almonds in California,” says Patrick Heitkam, owner of Heitkam’s Honey Bees in Orland, Calif. “It takes two hives to pollinate one acre, so that’s a need for 1.6 million hives. There are only 500,000 hives in the state, so the rest are trucked in from around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond trees bloom in January, a time of the year when most honeybee varieties are dormant in their hives. But an Italian species of honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera linguistica\u003c/em>, which evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, is active when the first almond blossom pops in late-January, making them the most popular variety in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is, Italian honeybees are extremely susceptible to varroa mites, because their hives grow so big, so fast and so early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Italian honeybees rear their babies and varroa mites nearly one-for-one,” says Dr. Robert Danka, a research entomologist at the USDA’s Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rouge, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons from mighty Russian stingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the WSU team, Danka has also looked to the Old World for an answer to varroa mites. Between 1994 and 2000, he traveled to the Russian far east, where a local honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera\u003c/em>, has developed resistance to varroa. They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. The queens are used to long Russian winters, so they are slow at building up their hives, meaning only a small number are ready to fly in the almond groves come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Survival of the fittest bees\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Danka says the Russian honeybee offers proof that a European subspecies can develop varroa mite resistance through natural selection. That evolutionary process is interrupted in commercial beehives, because of the “prophylactic use of miticides,” Danka says. “We’re maintaining varroa-susceptible bees through chemistry. If we took away all those pesticide treatments – and to be clear, I’m not advocating for this – the results would be horrific. But in a rather short period of time, only varroa-resistant bees would be left.” And those bees could be the basis of a new population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Shakespear, the commercial honeybee keeper in Yakima, Wash., would rather not spend money treating his hives for varroa mites. Starting last year, he diversified his business to include hives of Carniolan honeybees, \u003cem>Apis mellifera carnica\u003c/em>, a subspecies native to Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queens he bought were the great-great-great granddaughters of a honeybee drone that Susan Cobey found in the mountains of Slovenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe these new genetics can deal with the varroa mites naturally, rather than having to rely on chemicals,” Shakespear says. “It’s time to start widening our gene pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryantbell.com\">\u003cem>Ryan Bell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in Washington State. 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Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. 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They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined 17 other attorneys general Thursday, suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department over her decision to delay regulations cracking down on for-profit colleges that mislead students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama-era regulations were supposed to take effect July 1. They would have allowed loan forgiveness in cases of misconduct by schools and made it easier for states to punish bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it’s Corinthian Colleges or Trump University, no student deserves to have their parents' -- or their own -- hard-earned money fraudulently taken away from them with nothing in return,\" Becerra said in an interview with KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general is referring to President Trump's now-defunct real estate training program and Corinthian Colleges, which shut down and eventually filed for bankruptcy after Becerra's predecessor sued over its predatory practices. Then-Attorney General Kamala Harris -- now a U.S. senator -- secured a $1 billion judgment against Corinthian Colleges on behalf of students. Then-President-elect Trump also settled three lawsuits alleging fraud and illegal business practices last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These regulations do, for America's parents and kids going to college, what we simply expect to happen anyhow -- which is that our students get educated, not ripped off, when they go to a college,\" Becerra said. \"The regulations were the product of these cases against sham universities like Corinthians, and essentially try to provide these protections to avoid this sort of defrauding from occurring in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the Trump administration is \"not above the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you’ve completed a process for enacting a law or regulation, then it must be implemented and obeyed,\" he said. \"The Trump administration ... doesn't have a right to selectively decide which laws and regulations it will execute and which it will abandon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit -- brought by California, 17 other states and the District of Columbia -- accuses DeVos of breaking federal law and giving free rein to for-profit colleges by rescinding the Borrower Defense Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit asks a U.S. District Court to declare the Education Department's delay of the rule unlawful and to order the agency to implement it. The states say they have pursued \"numerous costly and time-intensive investigations and enforcement actions against proprietary and for-profit schools\" that violated consumer protection laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Borrower Defense Rule was adopted by the Obama administration last November and had been set to take effect this month. It was created to make it \"simpler for students at colleges found to be fraudulent to get their loans forgiven,\" as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/17/531930366/devos-rolls-back-for-profit-college-regs-harvards-president-to-step-down\">NPR's Ed team\u003c/a> has reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large amounts of money are potentially at stake. As the states' complaint notes, \"taxpayers invested $32 billion in for-profit schools in the 2009-10 academic year, more than the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State during that time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule was put on hold in June, less than one month after DeVos said her agency would re-evaluate it. The states say DeVos moved too quickly to quash the rule and did so without public comment, particularly compared with the rule's genesis in public hearings that began in September 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos called her move \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-devos-announces-regulatory-reset-protect-students-taxpayers-higher-ed-institutions\">a \"regulatory reset\"\u003c/a> when she announced that the Department of Education would convene new public hearings on the rule that are scheduled to be held next week. The secretary said the rulemaking process had \"missed an opportunity to get it right\" and created \"a muddled process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states in the new federal complaint disagree, saying that DeVos is trying to use a lawsuit filed by the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, a trade organization, as \"a pretext\" to avoid legal requirements for a federal notice and comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since Day 1, Secretary DeVos has sided with for-profit school executives against students and families drowning in unaffordable student loans,\" Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a news release about Thursday's court filing. \"Her decision to cancel vital protections for students and taxpayers is a betrayal of her office's responsibility and a violation of federal law. We call on Secretary DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education to restore these rules immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Borrower Defense Rule was negotiated after two large for-profit chains — \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/27/402560783/the-largest-for-profit-college-shutdown-in-history\">Corinthian Colleges\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/502601724/what-former-employees-say-itt-tech-did-to-scam-its-students\">ITT Technical Institute\u003c/a> — shut down hundreds of campuses following regulatory crackdowns in recent years. The rule would allow borrowers to have their loans forgiven if a state has successfully taken action against a for-profit school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"4PE0wrN7qiOZTvodokLqBeHhQisQXPqf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nearly 16,000 borrower defense claims are currently being processed,\" the Education Department said last month. Despite the postponement, DeVos said, \"promises made to students under the current rule will be promises kept.\" She added, \"Some borrowers should expect to obtain discharges within the next several weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to providing relief for students, the rule would also empower the Department of Education to seek money from schools where loans were forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For-profit schools receive the vast majority of their revenue from the federal government in the form of federal student loans and grants,\" the civil complaint notes. \"In 2009, the 15 publicly traded for-profit education companies received 86 percent of their revenues from taxpayer-funded loans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general who filed the lawsuit are from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These rules served as critical protections against predatory for-profit schools that exploit hard-working students — students who are simply trying to invest in their own education and future,\" said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. \"When Washington abdicates its responsibility to protect New Yorkers, we won't hesitate to step in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting by KQED's Marisa Lagos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, near the end of California's devastating drought, Tom Moore stood on the banks of the depleted Kern River in Southern California and looked out at the slow-moving waters dejectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call that a creek,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/03/397325268/californias-ongoing-drought-hits-water-recreation-businesses\">he said of the mighty Kern\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is the owner of Sierra South, a whitewater recreation company in Kernville. And with the drought, there wasn't much in the way of whitewater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, how things change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wet winter and near-record snowpack have left the Sierra Nevada buried in a deep, lingering snow; \u003ca href=\"http://freeskier.com/stories/go-skiing-in-california-fourth-of-july\">ski resorts\u003c/a> in Northern California are still open. But as temperatures have risen, melting some of that snow, so too have the state's waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a creek,\" Moore says, looking out at the Kern River on a recent hot summer day. \"This is a raging river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NathanRott/status/880253349295120388\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in the water's behavior has been good for Moore and whitewater sports enthusiasts -- professional kayakers are flocking to the Kern. But it's also proved dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern River has claimed the lives of eight people since March. The Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kern-river-4th-july-20170705-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> that over the long holiday weekend, one more person died and two others went missing. And on Saturday, crews pulled out the body of a swimmer lost to the raging waters more than a week earlier. That body was identified as belonging to Michael Ramirez, a member of the Orange County underground hip-hop group Rebellion Warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency workers worry there will be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the same river [people] may have visited last year,\" says Sgt. Zack Bittle, with Kern County Search and Rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534877196/535348114\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water is 10 times stronger than it was a year ago, Bittle says. Riverbanks are less stable. Vegetation and brush that had grown on low shorelines during the drought are now submerged, creating invisible, underwater hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't recommend going in the river this year. It's just insane,\" Bittle says. He adds that if you must go in the water, to be sure to take an expert guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power of the Kern River is partly due to geography. The Kern River draws its waters from the base of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental U.S., more than 2 miles above sea level. From there, the snowmelt races down narrow canyons and chutes, past Kernville, to the flat, flax-colored floor of the Central Valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drop in elevation and surrounding geology give the Kern River oomph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NathanRott/status/879878082366132224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issues with snowmelt aren't unique to Kern this year. Up and down the Sierra Nevada, waterways are flooding with snowmelt. Further up California's Central Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kings-river-flooding-snowpack-20170626-story.html\">homeowners were evacuated\u003c/a> when the King River breached the riverbank. Reservoirs are near full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding matters is the fact that water officials aren't entirely sure how much snow there is left to melt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we noticed during the heat wave is that the area of snow that is still covered up there didn't really reduce from one extent to the other,\" says David Rizzardo, of California's Department of Water Resources. \"There was just an incredible amount of depth. There's still probably easily 5, 10 feet of snow in some of these places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water officials don't really have any historical perspective to look at for guidance either, Rizzardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/879777170905858048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, California's snowpack was 5 percent of normal. It was the lowest ever recorded. This year, the state had one of the biggest snowpacks ever recorded — \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6815\">larger than the last four years combined\u003c/a>. The jump from one to the other has made it really difficult to forecast what rivers and the landscape are going to do. The concern water officials have is that this could become the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the worries with climate change is that we see extremes more often,\" Rizzardo says. \"And the extremes are even more extreme than we've seen in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitewater recreation companies like Moore's firm are well aware of the unpredictability. They're booking rafting trips and padding their wallets for possible thin years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MYgvjGDQuqXyRnkNnGiDjrmWeeImTpX3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some customers have been scared off by the recent deaths and the river's strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Vantol is not one of them. The San Diego native is smiling as she hops off a raft and wades up to the shadowed banks of the Kern River on a recent day. 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"content": "\u003cp>For a first-time visitor, Anderson Street in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood looks pretty gritty and industrial: old brick workshops, small factories and a steady rumble of delivery trucks driving by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But step inside some of the old, soot-stained buildings and you're in a world of high-end art, with paintings worth thousands of dollars on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last couple of years, about a dozen art galleries have moved to vacant industrial spaces on and around Anderson Street to escape escalating rents in other parts of the city. Their arrival in the largely Latino neighborhood has angered some residents and neighborhood activists. With about a third of its 90,000 residents living below the poverty line, they argue the community has more important needs than art galleries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534443389/534516212\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A laundromat, a homeless shelter, affordable housing for people who make less than $20,000 a year, maybe get some parks, and some gardens, \" says Leonardo Vilchis, who is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis fears the art galleries on Anderson Street could represent just the first wave of gentrification in Boyle Heights, a wave that could force longtime residents out as other businesses arrive and rents rise in their wake. Some observers have dubbed this connection between art and gentrification \"art washing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Put in an art gallery with paintings that cost tens of thousands of dollars and the audience that comes to this place starts looking for other kinds of amenities,\" says Vilchis. \"They look for the brewery, for the coffee shop, for the place to hang out. All of those things increase the cost and the value of the local neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09213-dc9c625c760ce4d1667c335db0d34177ae02c896-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva Chimento, of Chimento Contemporary, admits that before her gallery's opening night she was pretty clueless about this part of Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>You know like when you cross the state line there are empty fields that is like 'No Man's Land.' It's not Arizona, it's not California it's just 'No Man's Land.' That's where I thought I was,\" Chimento says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Hipster Trash'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Boyle Heights is a community with a long history of protest dating back to the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s. And anti-gentrification activists are using some of that same energy in a campaign to force the galleries to leave Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their tactics include protests in front of the galleries and the posting of mock eviction notices on the businesses' doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group has even posted flyers showing a human skull in gun sights and the words \"Boyle Heights is not safe for hipster trash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the door of a gallery was graffiti-tagged with the words \"F*** White Art.\" That prompted an ongoing hate crime investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis doesn't apologize for these actions, saying that they're the only way Boyle Heights' poor and working-class residents can get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also likens the presence of galleries in the neighborhood to a kind of cancer and believes compromise is impossible, even with gallery owners who say they want to help the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>What you need to do with cancer is you've got to do surgery, right?\" says Vilchis.\"You need to start killing the cells that are creating the cancer. So to say, 'OK, I'm a cancer cell, but I want to be good,' doesn't change the fact that you're a cancer cell. You need to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how are the gallery owners reacting to such tough talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not intimidating,\" says Mihai Nicodim, owner of the gallery that was graffiti-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09734_wide-ae920878b95fca4f73c5650de2a7bc600fd2a851-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.' \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicodim opened his Boyle Heights Gallery in 2015, but he's a longtime figure in the L.A. arts scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Nicodim says.\" I've been here in the downtown area for the last 25 years, I'm not going to go away because someone tells me to just go, you know? I'm home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gallery opponents recently scored their first victory. Citing persistent harassment and trolling, one art space in Boyle Heights closed this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate its closure, Vilchis and his fellow anti-gallery activists held a party in front of the building, complete with a mariachi group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the battle for Boyle Heights continues, gallery owner Eva Chimento is already thinking about her own long-term future in the neighborhood. But she says it has more to do with escalating costs than protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, when my lease is up, I may be moving, too,\" Chimento says. \"I might not be able to afford the rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can follow Saul Gonzalez on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaulKCRW?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@SaulKCRW\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 KCRW. 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All of those things increase the cost and the value of the local neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09213-dc9c625c760ce4d1667c335db0d34177ae02c896-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva Chimento, of Chimento Contemporary, admits that before her gallery's opening night she was pretty clueless about this part of Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>You know like when you cross the state line there are empty fields that is like 'No Man's Land.' It's not Arizona, it's not California it's just 'No Man's Land.' That's where I thought I was,\" Chimento says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Hipster Trash'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Boyle Heights is a community with a long history of protest dating back to the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s. 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I have every expectation that the Senate — I don’t know what day —but I have every expectation the Senate will move this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker nodded to the political pressure the party is under to deliver on their signature campaign pledge. “Every Republican senator campaigned on repealing and replacing this law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hapQ6Vi3wewi0oe57liVFWkEYjgs7zWs”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate bill repeals the individual mandate to carry health care coverage and the employer mandate for businesses with at least 50 employees to offer coverage. It also repeals most of the taxes enacted under the ACA, which mostly affect high-income earners and corporations, in addition to rolling back federal subsidies and the expansion of Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would allow people up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ plans, and it would bar insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. 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