Ebola Outbreak Testing and NBA Finals

This message comes from Capital One with the Venture X card. Earn unlimited double miles, a three hundred dollars annual Capital One Travel credit and access to airport lounges. Capital One What's in your wallet? Terms apply. Details at Capitol . one Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump Thursday said the U. S. canceled planned military strikes against Iran because a peace agreement is imminent . However, he said a naval blockade will remain in effect until the agreement is finalized. NPR's Mara Lyons reports the president has made similar claims for several months that the war is close to an end. For months since the war began at the end of February, President Trump has constantly been saying both that a peace agreement was at hand or alternatively, he's about to bomb Iran so hard their civilization will be wiped out and never be restored . It just keeps on going like groundhog day. He's literally promised that a deal is near dozens of times. When asked if negotiators had secured an agreement on the possibility of Iran having a nuclear weapon, the president said ,es Y, conceptually , there's no confirmation for Iran a deal has been reached. The U. S. Department of Transportation is no longer enforcing a key civil rights law after a rule change published on Thursday from member station KQED in San Francisco, Azul Dustrom Eckman reports The DOT is dropping disparate impact protections . That's the part of Title Six of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four that says federally funded projects can't discriminate against protected classes even if it's unintentional . Laurel Pageget Sekins of the nonprofit firm public advocates says Title VIII forced everything from transit agencies to highway projects to ensure they weren't causing unintentional harm. Very devastating that tool is being taken away given the long history in the United States of transportation infrastructure being inequitable. In an executive order last year, President Trump said he would eliminate disparate impact protections , calling them unconstitutional. For NPRs N,ew I'm Azul t Dalstra Eckman. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency over the New World screw worm and its potential impact on the livestock industry. Brad Burt with member station W Z reports state experts are calling on all Texans to help monitor for the flies. Animal health experts say vigilance is the first defense from the flesh eating new world screw worm but Texas cattle ranchers like Dase Duke outside Coleman aren't too worried. He remembers when a screw worm would show up in cattle when he was a teenager. I experienced it, but it's been a long time ago. You definitely know when you have it because it's God awful smell, it's dead animals smell because it's rotten flesh. Agriculture officials warn of a possible one point eight billion dollars impact on the Texas cattle industry. That's on top of the rising cost of fuel and materials, drought, and an industry consolidation leading to the smallest US cattle herd in seventy five years. For NPR News, I'm Brad Burt in Lubbock. Wall Street rallied on Thursday. This is NPR . Testing delays are partly to blame for the size of the Ebola outbreak, as NPR's Jonathan Lambert explains testing capacity is improved, but it may not be enough about. For a month before the currentol eba outbreak was declared, tests kept turning up negative. It turned out the most common testing machine couldn't detect the species of a bola that was spreading, called Bundab o. That delay allowed the virus to spread undetected. Abdi Mahamoud, Director of Health Emergency Alert and Response at the World Health Organization, says the situation is somewhat different now. Their diagnostic capacity has improved significantly from where we are three and a half weeks ago. In part, that's because of the arrival of a testing machine that can detect Bundavujo. It's currently in use across seven labs where Ebola is spreading, but Mahamud worries that if cases continue to climb , there may not be enough testing machines to meet demand. Jonathan Lambert NPR News The New York Knicks can clinch the team's first NBA championship in fifty three years Saturday when they play those San Antonio Spurs and T exas. The Nicks lead that best of seven series, three games to one. In New York Wednesday, they pulled off the biggest comeback in NBA finals history, dominating the third and fourth quarters and erasing a twenty nine point