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--:-- Janine Hurst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Around 1,400 flights were canceled today after the Trump administration ordered cuts to flights at 40 airports around the country on a phased-in basis as the FAA deals with staffing issues with air traffic controllers who are working without pay.
--:-- Amy Held: A stressed system is stressing out flyers. Total headache, disaster nightmare. Richard Alvario's Philadelphia to Florida flight was rebooked twice. Working unpaid, fewer air traffic control workers are showing up.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The Senate, meantime, showing up for its first Saturday session in the shutdown. capping the week it became the longest in history, surpassing the record 35 days under the first Trump administration.
--:-- Amy Held: Mounting travel disruptions then pressured lawmakers and Trump to compromise. Now weeks before the Thanksgiving rush, with billions of dollars and millions of travelers on the line travel industry groups are imploring Congress to end this shutdown and avert what they say would be a crisis.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Amy Held NPR News
--:-- Janine Hurst: The Senate adjourned their session today without any deal.
--:-- Janine Hurst: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced workers' out-of-office messages during the shutdown.
--:-- Pierce Corey Turner: The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a public employee union that represents Education Department workers. Soon after the shutdown began, the Trump administration replaced workers' out-of-office email notifications with partisan language, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The union sued, and Friday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his decision that, When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights, and they certainly do not sign up to be a billboard for any given administration's partisan views.
--:-- Pierce Corey Turner: Cooper ordered the department to restore union members' personal out-of-office email notices, and the department did not respond to a request for comment.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Cori Turner, NPR News
--:-- Janine Hurst: Ukraine is working to restore power after Russian drone attacks on energy infrastructure caused blackouts in many regions. Residential areas were also hit killing at least six people
--:-- James Landale: A lot of the targets were energy infrastructure There's a clear attempt by Russia now to make living in Ukraine very, very hard. They want to make it very hard, particularly in the east, for people to get access to electricity and to get heating.
--:-- Janine Hurst: And that's not just a question of trying to damage Ukrainian morale, but it's also trying to damage Ukraine's economy. They just want to make it very, very hard to do stuff in Ukraine simply because they think that is a long-term strategy that could put some political pressure on the government here in Kiev.
--:-- James Landale: The BBC's James Landale reporting.
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--:-- Janine Hurst: Researchers say damage from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica last month was made worse by climate change. As NPR's Alejandro Barunda reports, it was the strongest storm to ever hit the Caribbean island.
--:-- Alejandro Barunda: Earth is about 1.3 degrees Celsius hotter now than it would be if humans had not caused global climate change by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels. That extra heat has so far mostly ended up in the world's oceans.
--:-- Janine Hurst: And a lot of the energy for storms like Melissa comes directly from the ocean. A hotter ocean leads to potentially stronger wetter hurricanes
--:-- Alejandro Barunda: That exactly what scientists at World Weather Attribution think happened Melissa had plenty of hot ocean water to feed on so it got huge In the end its rainfall intensity was about 9% higher, with wind speeds roughly 7% higher than they would have been absent climate change.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The storm caused more than 60 deaths in the Caribbean, though that number may rise over time.
--:-- Alejandro Barunda: Alejandra Barunda, NPR News
--:-- Janine Hurst: FedEx and UPS, two of the world's largest cargo airlines, say they temporarily grounded their MD-11 planes after one of them was involved in the deadly and fiery crash in Louisville Tuesday, leaving at least 14 people dead.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane's left engine detached from the wing, killing all three on board and 11 on the ground.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Both carriers say they made the decision on advice from the plane's manufacturer, Boeing, and out of an abundance of caution.
--:-- Janine Hurst: There are around 70 of those MD-11 planes in service.
--:-- Janine Hurst: I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
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