Lee Storm Preparations, UAW Strike Continues, Ukraine Latest
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Lee is no longer a hurricane, is a post tropical cyclone, high winds and rain.

People in new england and atlantic canada are hungering down, waiting for .

the storm .

to pass aso. And this is up first from mp. r. news.

The united other workers' union is doubling ling down. There are still on strike.

They want higher wages and Better benefits.

One of our workers would have to work four hundred years to make what a CEO makes in one year. That will those C. E, O, S.

but ukraine hasn't taken back as much territory as I wanted, and winter is coming.

So where does that leave their .

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IT was big. IT was scary as IT made its way up the atlantic as a category five hurricane.

Now forecasters say lee has weakened and is more like a nora. It's been downgraded to post tropical storm strength.

It's been portioning into the gulf of maine with eighty mile an hour winds, but is expected to weaken more as IT passes over colder water in the gulf. Charitable scale of main public radio has been watching and joins us now for important carrel.

Thanks for being with us. You're welcome.

Scott. And this is still a massive storm is expected to make lain fall in innova. Gosh, a later today. What's made expecting?

Well, the wind is really picking up at this point, and that's the big concern for most of the state. This is a still a massive storm with a three hundred mile long wind field capable of bringing down trees weakened by heavy summer rains on the power lines. Downtown east main, which is the most northern and eastern tip of main on the atlantic, will get the brunt of these impacts later today, with up to four inches of heavy rain and waves of to twenty feet that will bring a storm search and flooding.

Have they have been trying to get ready forward in in some of the coastal al communities?

Well, harbor masters and Fishermen opened on the coast of been pulling boats side of the water all week and bringing them to save harbor emergency management directors. And in coastal towns have ensured public works departments and first responders, already twenty four seven, declare roads and open shelters, export on island with a deport and puzzling fishing community is about as download as you can get up. Pear, in main, its por authority has packed all of its fishing vessels into the east port break water, which is the concrete pier that can provide safe harbor. The executive director there are, Chris gardener, says mariners here are used to nor restart, not tropical storms with winds that can change on our dime.

We have two large peers on opposing sides of our island. So we we watch the weather. We see where the prevAiling winds are going to be, and we move assets around as needed to kind of stay out of the prevAiling wind. Now the interesting thing, the storm is the fact that where that goes over as those wind directions may change. So if there is a unique ness to this IT.

is that what written being told to do curl .

residents have been advised to have adequate food, water and medicine on hand, charge their phones and stay put. They should know two evacuation routes inland, and generator should be run fifteen feet from their homes or not in enclosed areas. They are planning creative ways to write out lead.

Today, one family says IT will play scramble with flash lights if they lose power. Another woman plans to cook jumblies if SHE has power. The end on great diamond island in casco bay is planning a storm party with guests that are staying in. Writing out the storm .

main is so fame for its strong belie what's been put into place in emergency assets by the state.

the state emergency management agency has its emergency Operation send a running all weekend, and will coordinate with county and local em mais on storm response. Utilities have brought in hundreds of crews from other new england states and canada to handle outages, and governor genet mills took the unusual step of asking president biden for a preemptive disaster declaration, which he did grant, that will also make fema resources available to help the state respond and recover.

Curl boost cape for main public. Thanks so much.

You're welcome.

They added, other workers are tested, their strength with the strike.

That union used to be a titan today is a lot smaller and so other perks of membership, but the union wants .

to change that done. Just give me thanks for being with this.

Happy to be here.

Cut what i'd been like.

But have you seen, yeah, I mean, I talk to executives at the detroit auto show. I went out and spoke to people on picket lines and pitch blackness. There is one image from this week that will never forget.

There were two events right next to each other and downtown detroit last night. One was a big U. A.

W. rally. Bernie Sanders spoke huge emphasis on the vast and growing gulf between the haves and have nots in america. And then literally next door, Scott, there was a glitzy charity event at the auto show of four hundred dollars ahead for a ticket. People addressed sed to the nines and Floral gowns with drinks walking around the cars and right outside red t shirt. People in the streets with with picket science, which is separated by some glass and some mounted police officers.

UID your last one on strike in in twenty nine. Would you see that different this time?

A lot of things are different. The union leadership is different. They're being unusually transparent. They're having updates about the talks back and forth. It's unusual to strike all three companies that once the unions never done that, it's also unusual to start with just a few plants and then threatened to grow over time, which is how they're doing these strikes. All of that is different, more fundamental.

The union is asking for a lot more in these talks with these strikes then they have in any recent negotiations of what, well, they're more pay, obviously, but also pensions, cost of living adjustments, health care for retirees, pay for workers at shattered plants. And those are things that the union gave up, things the union used to have to give back to the company. And the great recession, things that the car company people say are way too expensive to to give back brand.

And bell was on the picket line this week. He is only actually worked at forward for three years, so he wasn't around for the great recession. But all these workers know this history.

They gave up wages. They gave up a their retirement funds. They they gave a lot to the company, uh, because the company was in a big situation, they were faced in bankrupcy .

and that stuff they gave up. They can still see IT around them. Just in law works at .

that same plan from a line family that then in the U A, W, they have pitches and stuff like that. And it's just like kind of sucks like, well, because you came later, you just don't get IT. So I would really like to see the pension back.

I heard a variation of that from so many people.

What made them decide that now is the time to make the big push?

Well, there is the new leadership. There's also the huge profits that companies to have. The automatic ers have done great the last few years, so there's money on the table.

Inflation has workers ready to push for more? You know they are not happy with the offer of a ten, fifteen even as twenty percent raised. It's not as good as I would have sounded you know, four years ago.

There's also a lot of support for unions right now from the public, from the by administration. And other unions have had some big wins, which is sort of motivating or inspiring for union. So overall, the U A. W. Sees this as an opportunity ity, maybe a unique one to secure some gains into the future.

What could be hit? Well, it's unpredictable.

Uh, there's real frustration on both sides. And I should mention the car companies are frustrated with the union. They say they're not being reasonable, not answering their their offers.

person. Biden says he's sending two key members of his administration to help with negotiations. And there is the threat that additional plants could close at any time.

We don't aware, we don't know. win. The union strategy here is to be .

unpredictable. And thanks so much for being with us. Thank you.

When ukraine launched a major military offensive in june, expectations ran high.

but ukrainian forces have made only limited advances against russian forces and winters on the horizon.

Epr, greg miry is with us now to take stock of the ukrainian effort high. greg?

Hi.

I issue. So greg, you've reported extensively from ukraine. Um what are ukraine's prospects for taking back more territory before weather turns bad? Well, it's certainly possible.

But if ukraine I is going to make a major break through before the winter sets in, IT needs to happen fairly soon. The top U. S. General mark mili, the chairman of the joint chiefs, address this question recently in an interview with the BBC. The ukraine are still plug away with steady progress, and there's still a reasonable amount of time, probably about thirty to forty five days worth of fighting, weather, life. The creative forces are trying to advance on three separate fronts in the south and east, and theyve move forward miles in several months of heavy fighting, but they're still well short of their own stated goal, which is to push about fifty miles to the southeast coast and split the russian forces in two, leaving them much more vulnerable. So far, the russians remain deeply and trends really contesting every .

bit territory. So I I mean, if if the front lines don't change the next few weeks, like does that mean that we're looking at a steel mate over the winter?

That's certainly a possibility. I issue. And to take a step back, russia launched a full scale invasion in february of last year in lots of territory changed hands last year.

But since the beginning of this year, very little territory has changed hands. So IT does raise the question of what comes next, or even how the war might end. And I spoke about this with Charles caption. He's a former diplomat and national security official.

When this offensive reaches its limit, which you will probably do when a couple of months when IT gets money, what do we do then? The ukraine is suffering terrible loss of life. And as a consequence, one has to ask, might ukraine be Better? All trying to get a cease fire in beginning the process of rebuilding?

So capture was part of a small, unofficial group that met quietly this year with russian officials, and he face considerable push back for raising the possibility of a ceasefire or permanent agreement at a time when the U. S. Ukrainian governments are still very much focused on the battlefield.

I is there reason to believe that either the ukrainians or the russians are even interested in negotiation.

We're really not seeing that. President vladimir's illinoi, the ukrainian leader a who be in the U. S. This week at the united nations, says it's unrealistic to negotiate with russian leader lady mir.

He says ukraine's goal is to reclaim all its territory, and the russians still hold about fifteen sixteen percent of ukraine's land, and most ukrainians agree. The polls show that eighty percent more of the ukrainians want to keep on fighting to drive out the russians, even if that means a protracted war. And that was certainly my experience talking to ukrainians recently, and that's for putin.

This past week, he met with north korean leader kim john noon in order to secure more weapons. Now you don't Normally think of north korea as a land of above dance, but they do have our tillery shells, and that's what put needs. He seems to believe we can outlast ukraine, and that the U. S. In urol tyre of supporting ukraine and the war will sort of eventually break in his favor.

What we've been talking about, fighting on the front lines, but but what else are you keeping an eye on?

Well, attacks behind the front lines inside ukraine. You know, just this week, ukraine claimed a couple of significant attacks in crimea, the peninsula in the south, where IT says that inflicted damage on the russian submarine and russian warships. So ukrainy is now regularly hitting russian supply lines, and amo dumps miles behind the front lines using missiles from the west. And bit by bit, this makes IT harder for russia to resupply its troops in ukraine.

What about reports of attacks inside russia itself?

So that's something we're seeing with increasing frequency. Ukraine is now making its own drones, which can reach moscow s three hundred miles away. Uh, several times they forced russia to temporarily shut down airports in the capital. So it's hard to measure exactly how much impact this is having on russia's overall war effort, but it's clear that ukraine's ability to Carry out these long range of taxes expanded dramatically over the past year and continues to get stronger.

That's in pr. Greg, mary, greg.

thank you so much. Sure thing I issue.

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