Hollywood Writers Reach Deal To End Strike, Shutdown Implications, Prison Deaths
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TV and movie writers reached a tentative deal with hollywood studios that could end the nearly five months union members .

still have to ratify the deal, which union leadership called exceptional.

So what's in IT? I'm Steve escape with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from N. P. R. news. Other negotiations are doing so well in washington, a deal to keep the government open beyond the end of this month appears .

less and less likely come at a time when we are seeing other threat in the U. S. economy.

How would a government shutdown affect the U. S. economy?

And what's happening inside a north CarOlina federal prison? And epo investigation reveals that this one facility accounted for a quarter of all depth of people in federal custody in the past ten years. Stay with us. We will give you the news. You need to start your day.

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Your favorite late night T V shows might soon return with new episodes and new content.

Writers and hollywood studios yesterday reached the attention tive deal, wait a minute, saying those jokes on the late nights ws are scripted anyway. If approved, the deal would end the nearly five months work stoppage. Union members still need to ratify IT pr.

metate. The new barco has been reporting on the writer strike since may, and she's with us now from less Angels to tell us more medals. welcome.

Thanks for joining us. sure. good. Good morning. What do we know about this deal?

Well, the writers guild of amErica seems very excited. The screenwriter celebrated together last night. I've seen their cheers posted on social media. And in its statement to members, the union called the deal exceptional, with meaningful gains and protections for writers. Screenwriter ers now have to vote to approve the deal after carefully reviewing the details.

And they hammed out issues they have been at odds over, like higher residuals tied to the success of shows we run on streaming platforms. They wrestled over having minimum writing staff for every T, V show, which would increase the number of episodes each season. And they agreed on language protecting writers work and credits from being replaced by artificial intelligence.

What do you think IT took to finally come to an agreement here?

In the final stretch, negotiators were joined by top executives from four hollywood studios, disney bob egg, David zhu from Warner brother's discovery, ted around us from netflix and donor lingle from nbc universal. Those heavy hitters met with the guilt at the offices of the alliance of motion picture and television producers at their offices inside the galleria, well known suburban shopping mall in the valley.

But these past five months have been very acrimonious, with a lot of finger pointing by both sides. The studio heads melt with the W G, A once over the summer, and the writers complain that they were chastize and not listen to the ceos had to deal with their investors, and publicly they worried about their bottom lines. The studio delayed film and TV premiers despite a mutually agreed upon media black out.

They're been a lot of rumors and leaks to the trade publications, writers on the picket lines and on social media. Aster and negotiators not to cave. And meanwhile, everyone in the industry union or not has been out of work.

So given all of that, when we'll production start again.

well, that's the big question for everyone in hollywood. Maybe everybody who watches movies and TV wants to know that to. The answer is as soon as possible. The writers may have made a deal, but they still have to approve IT and the actors union sag after remains on strike against the studios over very similar issues, and other actors are waiting for the amptp to get back to them.

And if that happens soon and the writers can work their magic, and all the people that takes to make a TV show happen can get started again. Some insiders say there might be time to sales the winter TV season. And we see those late night and daytime talk shores come back right away.

You know, mr. I went to several picket lines on friday, and I talk to a number of screen writers, including brian Nelson. Here's what he had to say.

Whatever deal we make may be the template for other deals going forward. Specifically, of course, the next people online being sag after .

Nelson says the writers will support everyone else who supported them. In fact, the screenwriters planned to continue picketing only in support of the actors who are waiting in the wings. So everyone in hollywood is waiting for a happy ending to the saga that .

is impressed mentally till work out in los Angeles mentally.

Thank you. Thank you.

So one new deal has been reached in hollywood, but one still hangs in the baLance. This one in the nation's capital.

yeah, september twenty five, which means congress only has about five days left to avoid a government shut down, given the infighting in the republican party, IT looks less likely that a deal can be reached in time, which leads to the question of what effects of government shutdown could have on the U. S.

And here is David. Girl is with a snow to talk about all this, the morning, David. So let's point this out again.

The people who get your social security check, exile, who process your passports, all these functions of government won't be getting paid. These people won't be getting paid. But what could the other economic conflicts of a government shut down? B.

ah, I want to diminish the difficulty of that, both the people and businesses. Keep in mind though that when there is a shut down, everyone does get paid eventually, but get hundreds of thousands of government workers wouldn't get paid. The government wouldn't be able to pay for what it's bought.

That has a direct effect on the economy. All kinds of knock on effects. The severity of a shutdown will depend on how long IT last, if there is one.

And if we were to go on for a couple of days, couple of weeks, well, the fallout from that would not be huge. But if IT would last longer than the U. S.

Economy would take a bigger hit. The financial services firm, E, Y, as a shutdown, would take one tenth, the percentage point off of GDP every week. Greg deco is the chief economist to B. Y, who tells me a concern of his is when this could happen.

IT comes at a time. A when we are seeing other threads in the U. S. Economy, Michael.

the economy is facing all kinds of headwinds right now, and the federal, err, fight against time inflation hasn't ended well.

So tell us more about those potential headwinds.

It's a long list of them. According to fedsure jero pal, growth is already slowing soon. Student no payments are starting back up for forty million barrow's.

Auto workers are on strike. Energy Prices have been rising pretty steadily. One other thing is during a shutdown, policymakers would not be able to get any new economic data.

That's because the government officials in charge of that data wouldn't be able to work. And as I look at my calendar here on my desk, Michelle labor department is scheduled to release its next jump support on friday, october six. So just a few days after the fiscal year ends and we're supposed to get new inflation da less a week after that.

I was saying more about that though. How would something like not being able to get fresh data become a significant problem for the economy?

So IT depends again on how long is shut down last, but IT could be a big problem or after the last fed meeting that you're reiterated key and his colleagues are making decisions about raising interest rates based on the data if the government can collect those data and distribute them, greg deco says fed policymakers would be in a real bind at their next meeting.

This lack of data in the middle of a government shutdown would essentially mean the economist investor in polity maker would be flying partially blind.

flying partially blind, which would be a real chAllenge through the fed, which is, of course, hoping to pull off that soft landing, getting high inflation under control without trigger recession .

OK quickly as you can. If there's a shut down, what effect is that going to have? And how investors who do have a lot to say about the economy, how they view washington and decision making .

gather frustration. There's fatigue also during past shutdowns, the reaction has been pretty muted. Ale phillips is the chief political economist at goldman.

sex. It's difficult to say that this will be a major negative for the market, assuming that IT follows the pattern of previous shutdown s but of course, those political .

divisions aren't going away anytime soon. So it's crisis after crisis, and that could take a tommo that's in par.

David girl, David, thank you.

Thank you.

A new mp r investigation has revealed a disturbing pattern here.

The five thousand people who died in the past decade, violent federal custody, one out of four died in the same prison.

And I just make Anderson is with us now to explain what's behind those numbers make. Good morning, good morning. So let me just clarify one thing. There are more than one hundred twenty federal prisons, and we are talking about just one. So tell us what's going on there.

yeah. So IT is a prison in north airliner, is called the butner federal medical center. And to an extent, more death there makes total sense.

It's a prison hospital, and it's the beer of prison's main cancer treatment facility. Cancer is one of the B, O, P, S. Leading causes of death. So that explains a lot of IT, but IT doesn't explain all of IT. When we started looking into the experiences of individual people, people who got really sick in prison, people who died in prison, we've found stories of inmates all over the country going without needed medical care. And sometimes when they finally did end up a butner for advanced care, IT was too late to do much for them.

Tell us about some of the .

stories you found. Yeah, well, we've found more than a dozen in me. It's who waited months and some of them even years for medical care. One inmate who ended up a button that we ended up focusing on his name was jeffrey remind rs, and he found a lump in his testicle. He asked to see a doctor, but he didn't get an ultra sound until more than a year after he started complaining. He was eventually diagnosed with the final stage testicular cancer, and when I interviewed him this year, he had been released from prison early, essentially to die at home. And he felt sure that he would have been different if he had been on the outside.

I know myself that the first place I go, I go to the doctor, this will not happen. And i'm i'm angry. I'm angry because I didn't has a gift as far yeah and he .

died just eleven days after he talked with me.

Um okay, with mic. But there is a prison hospital. So are these men women? I guess both are getting Better. Are they getting Better care once they get there?

Yeah, just man, actually, and not necessarily. We found problems there. Two, one man in prison, their Frank car. He waited more than a year for heart surgery. When I talked him over the phone, he sound and.

Witness people die, and I don't want this one.

this statistic. And he did end up getting his surgery. But another man we found waited five months for surgery to treat skin cancer. By then, IT wasn't feasible anymore. Another inmate died after staff failed to give him his anti eba PC medication and last fault, too, but their inmates died in the night after they didn't get timely medical attention. And I should note that the B, O P declined a request for an interview, but they said they are, quote, committed to providing safe and effective health care.

Where are you able to talk with anyone at the prison?

yeah. So current and former staff at bna told me that they think understaffing is the main reason for these delays in care. Of course, one way to fix that would be to hire more people.

Another way would be to lower the prison population. But part of the problem is we just don't actually have that much insight into what happens inside prisons. That's according to malle dich SHE directs the prison in jail innovation lab at the university of texas at Austin.

There are so many things that we don't know about our presents. How dangerous are they, how much violence there, how well does the health care system work? Things that you would just assume we would know.

So until there is independent oversight, it's hard for anyone to recommend concrete steps .

o that is np make Anderson make thank you so much for this reporting.

Thank you.

And that's up first for monday, september twenty fifth. I A shall .

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