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LaGuardia Airport following Sunday night's deadly runway collision involving an air-candidate
“regional jet and a fire truck. Two pilots aboard the Jazz Aviation Flight were killed when”
the jet slammed into the truck while landing at LaGuardia on a flight from Montreal. At the time the fire truck was responding to a call about an odor on a united jet at the airport. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating along with investigators from Canada. Our two countries work very well together. There's a well-worn path where we collaborate together when there's aviation crashes in either of our countries.
There were 76 people aboard the plane. Several passengers were seriously injured. A flight attendant was thrown from the plane still strapped in her seat and survived without serious injuries. President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security has been approved by the Senate, former Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma was confirmed
“in a 54-45 vote, mostly along party lines. Mullin replaces former DHS Secretary Christy”
Nome, who was fired by Trump. Here's NPR Sam Greenglass. Mullin is inheriting a department at the center of a national debate about immigration after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year. While I still has billions of dollars at its disposal despite the funding lapse, employees at other agencies under DHS like TSA are going without pay. And absences are causing long wait at major airports. Some lawmakers hope their
colleague will be a steadier hand compared to his predecessor, Christy Nome, who Trump ultimately
fired. But most Democrats still opposed his nomination saying they don't believe a change in leadership isn't enough of a course correction. Sam Greenglass and Piano's Washington. President Trump was in Tennessee yesterday where he touted his administration's efforts to
“lower crime in Memphis. It's one of the cities where Trump deployed members of the National”
Guard as NPR's deepest shiver on reports. Some city residents join members of the administration on stage in Memphis to a lot of the president for his efforts to cut crime rates, Trump himself declared crime in the city, quote, "Fixed." But for years prior to our involvement Memphis had become known for something else being the murder capital of the USA, then not a good title. It was averaging far more than one murder per day with a crime rate higher than Columbia
Mexico City or Baghdad in the year I shouldn't be saying this. It's a good news, it's been fixed. The city has seen a decline in violent crime. The issue will likely be a major focus for Republicans in the midterm elections. Deepish of our arm and PR news the White House. This is NPR News from Washington. Authorities in Washington DC are describing yesterday shooting of a U.S. park police officer
as an ambush by two men. The chief of the park police says the officer was seriously wounded when the two up and fire on the officer as he was driving in an unmarked vehicle. Says the officer was working on an ongoing park police investigation at the time. No arrests have been made. California's attorney general is suing the Trump administration over an order that compels oil to flow through pipelines on the state's central coast.
Capriela Fernandez with member station KCBX has more. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit against the Department of Energy, challenging an order he says unlawfully let's Texas base stable offshore restart oil production. The order was issued under the Defense Production Act citing a national energy emergency. But Bonta argues they're violating the state sovereignty of California and they're invoking the Defense Production Act based on a so-called
national energy emergency that doesn't exist. The site has been non-operational since one of the pipelines burst about a decade ago, spilling thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean. Cable says the pipelines have since been repaired. The case is now before a federal court. For NPR News, I'm Gabriela Fernandez. A jury in California has found actor and comedian Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972.
Drivers in the civil case in Santa Monica are awarding Donna Mutsinger nearly $60 million. I'm
Dave Maddingley in Washington.
