Hurricane Flo: "Disaster is at the doorstep."

Puff, puff passing in the golden years. [NPR]( Daily Headlines Wednesday, September 12, 2018 FIRST UP [Does the Catholic Church need a “new beginning”?]( [Pope Francis will meet at the Vatican with leaders of the U.S. Catholic Church, including the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, to discuss clergy sexual abuse.]( Andrew Medichini/AP After weeks of relative silence, Pope Francis has agreed to meet a delegation of U.S. church officials in Rome to discuss the Vatican response to the growing clergy sex abuse crisis. [Read more](. [New NPR/Marist poll says support for Trump is falling in the Midwest.]( The president’s approval rating is 39 percent and is eroding in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota — a troubling sign for Republicans less than two months before November's elections. [Read more](. [Hurricane Flo: "Disaster is at the doorstep and is coming in."]( North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper advised residents to beware of the impending Category 4 storm, which is carrying sustained winds of up to 130 mph as it heads toward the eastern seaboard. [Read more](. [Puff, puff, passing in the golden years.]( [Baby boomers who use marijuana seem to be using it more often than in previous years, a recent survey finds — 5.7 percent of respondents ages 50 to 64 said they'd tried it in the past month. The drug is also gaining popularity among people in their 70s and 80s.]( Manonallard/Getty Images A new study finds that increasing numbers of middle-aged and older adults are using marijuana — and using it a lot. One surprising finding: About 45 percent of those over 65 who use the drug said they got started after age 21. [Read more](. DIGGING DEEPER [After experiencing abuse as a child, Sally Field says she internalized that ]( Casey Curry/Invision/AP Sally Field wasn't sure she'd have the guts to publish a memoir Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field excels at playing vulnerable, emotionally available characters, and her new memoir, In Pieces, is an intensely personal account of her turbulent life and career. Field tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that [she divided herself into parts to survive an emotionally, sexually abusive childhood and to succeed as an actress](. Field waded through years of old letters and journals to write her memoir, and reminisces about playing sunny, girl-next-door Gidget and strong-as-steel women in films like Norma Rae and Places in the Heart. Writing also allowed her to finally face what she had previously avoided for fear of pain, like suffering years of emotional and sexual abuse by her step-father, getting an abortion in Mexico as a teen when it was illegal in the U.S., and toughing it out Hollywood. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( THE DAILY GOOD [Jose Andres' new memoir, We Fed an Island.]( When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, celebrated chef José Andrés sprung into action. Andrés and his team prepared sandwiches and hot food for people around the island, sometimes serving more than 150,000 meals per day. [Terry Gross talks to Andrés]( about his new memoir, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time, as well as some of the more entertaining aspects of food and his imaginative culinary innovations. TODAY'S LISTEN NPR In news that should surprise exactly no one, [people lie when they're dating online](. It's one of the downsides of being anonymous on the Internet. Listen to the Planet Money team as they cut through the falsehoods and fibs of looking for love in all the wrong places. (Listening time: 9:49). BEFORE YOU GO [Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are studying barn owls to understand how the brain maintains focus.]( Meredith Rizzo/NPR - Kids with ADHD are easily distracted. Barn owls aren’t. Seems their brains have figured out [how to ignore unimportant stuff](. - Appreciating rapper [Mac Miller’s unfinished legacy](. - Happy 10th anniversary to Planet Money! Here are the staff’s [10 favorite episodes](. - Mac-heads take note: [A rare Apple-1 computer goes to auction]( later this month. The estimated starting price is $300K. - A deadly strain of [African swine fever]( has cropped up in millions of pigs in China. - Watch out for the vending machines in Long Island. A few claiming to sell pens were actually [shelling out crack pipes](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's newsletter was written by [Korva Colman]( and Jill Hudson. You received this message because you're subscribed to our News emails. | [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | NPR 1111 N. CAPITOL ST. NE WASHINGTON DC 20002 [NPR]