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Not totally ruin your summer but piece by piece and environmental threat is piling up and all of us share a part of the blame. Worse yet, even those of us were trying to stop. It may not be doing as much good as we think David Pogue will report our cover story, no doubt about it, plastic is the miracle material blessing is incredibly useful. It has outstanding properties. Trouble is what happens once worked on global average recycling rate think is about so far have been 9% in these days. Even the plastic we put in the recycling bin may not be recycled and then you have to decide how long you hold on before you end up going to what coming up on Sunday morning. What will do with all our plastic. Guess he was talking this morning. It's late night TV talker Jimmy Kimmel in conversation with our Tracy Smith, Jimmy Kimmel's made a life out of laughter. But now he's getting attention from playing it straight. No American citizen needs an M-16. It's a bit of a risk that you're taking a lot of the audience is hard to get them back after tomorrow so this is Hollywood night and day with Jimmy this Sunday morning. I how are you, a surprising number of American women are at serious health problems or even death on what should be one of the happiest days of their lives. Karen Moriarty will have their harrowing stories. It's a trend that will likely stay on every mom to be the United States is ranked 46 when it comes to maternal mortality.

That's behind countries like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. Why does your dad send new mothers in the US are on the rise I had on Sunday morning will have those stories and more just ahead common and convenient household substance is piling up on both land and sea and nobody seems to know how to stop it.

Our cover story is reported by David Pogue in the 1950s a new material burst onto the scene, it would change the world forever stamp and material wide variety of products. Yes, it was plastic cheap, durable, sanitary, strong, and liked. So how many raw categories of plastics were literally thousands.

Fred Becky is the founder of Delta Pacific products which makes plastic parts for medical instruments, welcome to the factory that you were already to serve cafeteria lunch. Is this right almost everything. Plastic starts out as pellets, they come in every color under the sun, which is why Becky keeps them carefully in separate boxes is radio not to dump some of this and please don't Delta Pacific's clients specify the exact design of the parts they want here. Hot plastic gets injected into this heavy steel wool leader comes out is something like this after 65 years of making plastic pretty much mastered the art. What we haven't yet figured out is what to do with plastic once were done with loss really long time doesn't biodegrade. Roland Geyer serve environmental science at UC Santa Barbara studied how much plastic we throw away the sticks reaching all the way back gone off mass production binding 50 and it will add it all together. It's 8.3 billion metric tons.

If we take back and spread it out evenly over California entire state of California would be covered about 70% of our discarded plastic winds up in open dumps or landfills like this one. So once far and how long will some plastic winds up in an even worse place. The ocean every single year somewhere between five and 12 million metric tons.

Plastic waste enters the ocean plastic in the ocean has a tendency to break down into ever smaller pieces in these tiny pieces then get taken up even lower down in the food chain so we know that it ends up on dinner plates this plastic in my food that is elastic in your food.

Plastic and you will see sold and there is plastic coming out of the top. In fact, at this rate the world economic forum predicts that by 2050. Our oceans will contain more plastic than fish but waited most people recycle plastic, not exactly. Geyer says that as of 2017.

The world recycles only about 9% of all our plastic even if you're good about using your recycling bin. Your plastic may never actually get recycled its first stop is a material covering facility were middle-class, paper and plastic gets sorted everything last saw for the bottom many bottom individual bands of new is the cofounder of GDB international corporate recycling facility in New Jersey than it is going to another washing finding using then from there we go to another company which we make another product or maybe bring them of the it's easy and economical to recycle, clean, pure plastic, but well over half the plastic we throw in our bins is contaminated by food or paper labels or other materials for 30 years we've had an easy solution for disposing of that dirty plastic and what is the role of China and all China was buying the percent of all plastic scrapping the water that continued for said and then there was a movie made by somebody 2017 documentary plastic China illustrated the brutal truth about the contaminated plastic.

The developed nations were selling to China. It showed a desperately poor Chinese family, eking out a living by and sorting these mountains trash.

Bob is looking at what what what are some some national pride. We got the world's dumping ground. Yes, so the Chinese government announced a new policy starting on January 1 this year China stopped accepting other countries plastic unless it's impossibly pure sending any scrap it should not have .5, more than .5% of Florida micro got at least 99.15% that you are pure and then that was in his plant, but Gary showed me why I like for a lot of plastic comes to recyclers like Gary all mixed together impossible to separate cost-effectively.

So what happens now the plastic we used to ship to China not much. A lot of it's just piling up here in the states large volumes of the pipe. The plastic that nobody will buy waiting for Clay Warner is the recycling manager at Garson services in Salem and then you have to decide how long you the town had to ask the public to stop putting certain plastic types into the recycling bins initial reaction from the public without recycling. Meanwhile, small recycling centers are simply going out of business. If you are selling it to China that was on the blankets and cost money, so only still Roland Geyer points out that we have overcome environmental nightmares before we let it dazzling with managed tactical ozone depletion. I think humankind is a long history of creating fake environmental problems, but I think were also starting to have a track record of solving problems.

Some larger facilities like Spielberg arias decided to process the contaminated plastic themselves making money by selling it to China. No more money by keeping this here sorting and making plastic. This China problem is a blessing in disguise. In the big picture though it will take effort from every stakeholder to fix the plastics problem recycler Clay Warner says the government should play a part. I do think my own opinion that we do need to band Samuel Beccaria says the corporations play a part. There were no right all packaging would be made from recycled plastic and plastic parts maker Fred Becky says that plastic manufacturers themselves play a part. Yes the industry trying to address it. Polymers are being developed that you know the knives and spoons and forks that we see in some of the fast foods they've gone to those polymers which are biodegradable.

ASCAP ministers always got right so yeah that's right. You cannot imagine life without plastics, but cannot believe I would like this planet then this is what before there were podcasts there was television. Remember, see what's new under the sun every Sunday morning Jimmy Kimmel every weekday night but this morning is talking with Tracy Smith Rose for Jimmy Kimmel Hollywood is how weather is great restaurant I say fans of his nightly show been lining up here for the past years, and lately he's become more than just another late-night crowd Kindle turns 51 in November was always the lovable frat boy at 1130. But like another late-night host comedy on hold after last fall's Las Vegas massacre, maybe nuts, but I would like to think we can put politics aside and read it. No American citizen needs an M-16 or 10 of them and maybe that way we don't do this again, Kimmel's call for gun control after the shooting was both praise and criticize you heard there's one conservative commentator in particular who says who made Jimmy Kimmel, the moral arbiter I'm not you agree with the moral arbiter mean you have to watch the show. You have to listen to what I say is monologues written just before every show drawn fire from critics who bash him for everything from being wrong on gun control to being soft on Harvey Weinstein. It's a bit of a risk that you're taking. Talking about that stuff you might lose the yeah I saw was a study rapport. Some combination of those two things that went three years ago I was equally liked by Republicans and Democrats and went down by 30% or whatever and you know is a talkshow host that's not ideal, but I did I would do it again in a heartbeat.

So you don't mind if Republicans turn off your show they're not watching anymore and say don't mind me a love for everyone. I want everyone with the television to watch the show but if there so turned off by my opinion on healthcare in gun violence, then I don't know I probably will want to have a conversation with them anywhere. Truth is still marvels at the thought of anyone watching him on TV. Nothing in Jimmy Kimmel's boyhood was ever as fascinating as late-night TV. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Las Vegas. Kimmel grew up in David Letterman's 18th birthday cake even spelled out the words late-night and so did his Nevada life. When you discover David Letterman did not become kind of a dream of yours.

The idea of maybe someday being a late-night host never. I never imagined that there would be other late-night host never occurred to me that Johnny Carson and David Letterman would ever go off the air just never occurred to me. I'm a little slow. He spent 12 years in radio and got a foothold in TV with the common central game show when Ben Stein's money. Cosmetics giant is owned by financier Ron Perlman expected no help create a tire male behavior all mansion movies men don't want to see and girls on trampolines didn't understand that we're joking so to audiences for that show was in the audience that was very angry not being yeah I don't know. I think the we try to make it like there are a lot of angry people watching the show, but I think something like 40% of our audience was female so maniac want this job in 2003 ABC offered him a talkshow of his own seem like a good idea.

I quickly realized that it wasn't me. Well, about six months and I was praying that they would cancel the show is just overwhelming. Nobody wants to be on the show. The show was live from 9 to 10 PM every night is really like. I was depressed it was slog. Nobody seemed to be watching the show was very unpleasant all the way around. He stuck it out and survive in part on the strength of viral videos like the one where then girlfriend Tara Silverman talk about sleeping with Matt Damon this is Hollywood, very glamorous, all the real you feel like you deserve to be here now I guess so I don't know who deserves anything really. It's I was lucky enough to get a shot somehow miraculously do think back on how long the odds were that you did and he hasn't done it all by himself is two grown children from a previous marriage.

Kevin and Katie have both appeared on their dad shows head writer Molly McNerney became his bride.

In 2013 and therefore-year-old daughter Jane is almost a regular well all it was pretty much all fun and games until April of last year when the camels son Billy was born with a heart defect was a scary story and before going to what I want you know has a happy ending. Okay camels on-air story about his son's fight for life became a call to action on healthcare. If your baby is going to die doesn't have to. It shouldn't matter how much money you make that I think that something that whether you're a Republican or Democrat or something else. We all agree on that right what stays with you from the feedback that you got. I think it's the other families you know why people will tell you their stories. Heart operation is no joke, but no fans with cancer ongoing illnesses. That's what's you learned a lot about healthcare through this. What you learn about your own family about Molly. She was very weak through the whole thing is this: joking is when you really appreciate your family and Molly is funny because we weren't sure we want to have the second trial. I have two older kids and we really love our daughter obviously but we deftly learn that we want to have the baby was that became very very clear at that moment the preshow champ with his writers is a running joke ratings are taking up he might be walking in the footsteps of giants Jimmy Kimmel has found a way to stand out. This show are doing great. You're getting recognized next. There really is no next when you host the show like mine. This is it. This probably is, but I never feel like I do still feel like I snuck in I do sometimes I like to drive by neighbors house and have a big window like see you yourself on the television while people in their houses, watching the it's crazy you know it's vision is kind of a magical thing schoolteachers were made during summer vacation. Their students will forget much of what they learned in class. I worry that probably doesn't apply to the school kids department watched in action.

If you had to think of a good site for an archaeological you probably wouldn't think the children's workshop school and you almost certainly wouldn't think of Miriam's fishermen's third-grade classroom and you definitely wouldn't think of her coat closet to the pyramid. It's a classic rank that I am really lucky that this one student decided to investigate that one student is the student Bobby Scotto painter letter couple years ago when Bobby was in Miriam's class. He started wondering about a little crack in the closet floor in the world. I began poking around with this finger and turn the pencils insured hangers and then other kids got curious and they are totally into it. Which is why the past two years.

Now students have been excavating nearly every closet in this €100.

They're finding some really old things more recent and some much more recent, all uncovered with the kind of glee rarely seen in the gradeschool classroom while they are so into it hard for Miriam to keep up with the Indiana Jones would make your life a lot easier if you just said quit messing around the clock. Really glad that's probably what I said it's a little scary as a teacher to encourage you to do a project that you have no idea where it's going but on the flipside, she says it can lead to some wonderful less. In this case says the kids got really into history and archaeology and they got their own museum exhibit showing off everything from antique school supplies to animal mummies. All course, there are still many more.

Find we found all but no matter what they did there will never be a greater trust than the one that stands before them every day the teacher with that special gift for unearthing a passion might find staying awake all day is overrated. Here's our contributor Jim Gaffigan. I love mapping okay. That's right, I'm not a preschooler in my 80s but I love a good map on a daily basis. I've had many to nap days and those glorious math is one of the first things I think about when I wake up echoes wears coffee then when can I go back into that nice but that is what I worry about when I can't fall asleep at night as I toss and turn all I can think this is going to mess up tomorrow's nap time.

Think embarrassed by my daily math habit. I try to hide it or justify late at night. I need to nap during the day and most of the people in the audience at my shows don't get the map and they seem fine. Eventually I realized I just need a nap or well missed is that my heroic wife understands this. Sometimes you'll bring up my map like it's an antipsychotic drug.

I take did you get your nap today or after this maybe you should go in that I politely asked her to not bring up my nap in front of people I respect. I guess I'm afraid people will think I'm lazy for disappearing and halfway through the day. Maybe there's an explanation. Maybe I need a nap because I'm from brain.

You see, I'm just having a siesta. I knew there was a reason why love Truro coming soon mode obituaries a podcast on matters of death and life from Mo Rocca could possibly be true than American women giving birth are more at risk of life-threatening complications and women, and dozens of other countries and Moriarty has the stories behind the statistics… How Charles Johnson describes his wife Keira my woman that was a marathon runner that raced cars that was a skydiver. It never occurred to him that the greatest danger. Keira would face would be going to one of the best hospitals in California to have a baby and her second son Langston for us.

We were really actually expecting this experience. The second time around, be a walk in the park was a C-section because it was a problem right.

They suggested that one before, and they recommended that she have another staring at the first sign of a problem came in the late afternoon of April 12, 2016. Shortly after Keira gave birth I was sitting Baxter's bedside and I began to notice the catheter turn pink with blood. Dr. ordered a CT scan, a CAT scan, Johnson says he didn't worry at first something is not quite right, and I was aware that we've got a plan and she's in what I thought were great and has Karen feeling, kindness, lethargic on continuing to advocate asking Adam when we take her for CT scan 7 o'clock and Chronicles.

By 9 o'clock comes 10 o'clock comes to know CT skiing shortly after midnight. His wife was taken into surgery. She's holding my hand and she saying that she was scared and I'm telling her that everything is okay okay now/Thomas on the life of when I took your back surgery 3 1/2 L of blood in her abdomen and she coded immediately when you think about Chica her stopped Keira Johnson was 39 years old and her dad isn't just a personal tragedy. She's part of a disturbing national trend. The United States is the only industrialized country where the rates of maternal deaths have increased, not decreased, and so young women actually have a higher risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth and their mother stated Dr. Marianne 18 of that is Executive Director of Mark from others a program run by the pharmaceutical giant Merck to reduce the number of maternal deaths throughout the world.

She never guessed that one of the countries most in need was the US 60% of the deaths in the United States are preventable and where do we compare to other developed countries like Great Britain, Canada, the United States is ranked 46 when it comes to maternal mortality. That's behind countries like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan in the US that means at least two women are dying every day.

It's not just dance on the rise, so I'm your dad's 60,000 a year across the country when it was happening. It went on from anywhere from like 15 minutes to an hour.

It felt like my body just wanted to crumble. Amber McGlaughlin was 29 years old and eight months pregnant when she began to feel an excruciating pain that would come and go. She says her doctor was in alignment telling you don't seem fine to go home and rest a center 35 which are probably uncomfortable.

Go home and rest and I sent going home and coming in today.

Even then, the nurse practitioner hesitated and then relented, sending McGlaughlin for tasks I get hooked up to the monitors and a few minutes it felt like to they came rushing and he said where's your husband has about 10.

She had developed a rare condition that caused her blood pressure to skyrocket, putting both her life and her babies at risk. Myself, I was right.

This whole time wise it come to this. And so, at that moment I five years later it's one of the things that wouldn't nobody believes you when McGlaughlin son was delivered by emergency C-section. He weighed just 3 pounds. Was there a time when you really wonder what they ever get to see your son. That first day he was really struggling and they told us that he was at precocity and pleasure like that at risk. Part of what I was saying quote" I think I'm dying.

That's because I actually believe that my kidneys in my letter. So what's causing this spiky maternal dance. There are a number of factors. Women wait until they're older to have babies and often they begin their pregnancies less healthy with chronic conditions like obesity and high blood pressure and diabetes but some medical professionals say the real problem is how those babies are delivered. They play much of the increase in deaths and near death on a dramatic rise in C-sections section 2090% chance of the second time is a more complicated surgery and 1/3 time operating on another box of crayons and in those cases, women can lead to death. Dr. Neil Shaw is a professor of obstetrics and Harvard Medical School.

Pain is okay, and a practicing physician eyeglasses saying that some of these C-sections are just probably more than half of when complications do arise, says Dr. Shah, doctors don't always listen to their pregnant patients. I think there is a dimension of gender discrimination if a woman after birth goes into hospital with concerning signs of complication.

There are no rules for how quickly an obstetrician asked to see her.

In fact, a routine case that it will take hours and said to six indicate that it may not just be gender the plays a part in dangerous delays, but also race your woman of color in this country, especially if you're black your odds of dying in childbirth at 3 to 4 times higher on average our country talking about Access not talking about money or education. No skin to be hard to hear me believe black women less when they express concerns about the symptoms of having particularly around pain and that's the common thread in all the stories of the hearing in the media, including Serena Williams.

Even Serena Williams world-class athlete developed a binary embolism after giving birth to her daughter last September complications.

She says that had she not insisted on receiving a CAT scan. She could have died in hospital after a long time. Women with resources are at risk. Imagine what happens of women without access to proper healthcare.

My first proper potato visit was at 16 weeks. It was terrifying. I have been bleeding for about 11 weeks before I was able to get out understanding of why 32-year-old chela Collier works as a full-time substitute teacher in Orlando, Florida, but she couldn't afford health insurance when she became pregnant with her second child. I went to the emergency room and that's where I got my prenatal care for the first dream I racked up over $20,000 in medical bills diagnosed for visit and a misdiagnosing everything the time they were saying that it looked like I was having a miscarriage and there's 30-year-old asses the Keio who also lives in Florida. I have insurance but I've never been told no.

So many times by people who would like have no motion.

Sorry, no, no. Coyote said she initially was able to get prenatal care by agreeing to pay her entire deductible $2600 by her 28th week of pregnancy, but when that date rolled around, and she couldn't afford the full amount.

Her doctor refused to continue to see her.

I called 15 or so different clinics in the area. Everyone denied me. It was just a never-ending O how far along you all know, sorry we don't accept patients past 25 weeks to women are literally shot out left wondering the streets trying to find someone who will help them and running to the emergency room in lieu of prenatal care midwife Jenny Joseph moved from London to Florida nearly 30 years ago says she's deeply concerned by the number of women who were shut out of proper prenatal care. We are standing by the truly as mothers and babies are suffering and I feel like my little piece is to be able to make a difference in that in 2006, Joseph opened a practice specifically for them called the Easy Access clinic you it's run by nurses and midwives who include doctors when necessary. They turned no one away thinking you can come up with that will have a say no you can be indigent, you may not have many homeless still going to see you and the simple reason is because, can you maybe make what else would we do. There isn't any. I think ethical way to say no go away all two months after being refused treatment by her first. Dr. Ashley look Keio heard about the clinic. Joseph saw her the next day, displacing and doing week and where would I be without her. Both Kyle and Collier gave birth to healthy babies. In May, but this problem is not going away since 2000. Hundreds of hospital maternity wards have closed across America low-cost clinics like Genesis could help fill the need that she warns that may not be enough women set out hospital two days after they delivered and basically told to wait for six week postpartum check which is useless to them. Given that most of the postpartum concerns the morbidity and mortality occurs within the first couple weeks after the baby is born. But when tests do occur. Dr. ATM bad from Mark from others, says each one must be counted and investigated is not being done right now it's not being done in every state so that they're not paying attention to the issue. They're not only not going to know that there is an issue. They're not going to know how to solve it. More than two years after his wife Karen died. Charles Johnson is now a single dad raising their two sons in Atlanta.

Determined to keep her memory alive suing the hospital and speaking out hoping to put a face deeplyon an American crisis.

It's a measure to see these amazing gifts that she slept and so many things about our journey together that are bittersweet, but they're so painful because she's not sure what this anything care staff probably means other mothers will get better care.

I hope so when you going to hostile acts and they know about your Johnson story as in they know about what happened in and asked him directly what you doing to make sure the same thing doesn't happen. I'm Jane Pauley.

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