October 19, 2018: Hour 1

October 19, 2018: Hour 1

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Bloomberg News White House correspondent Toluse Olorunnipa and NBC News senior politics editor Beth Fouhy join Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson and Peter O’Dowd to review the week in politics, as the disappearance of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi continues to reverberate. Also, the World Bank estimates there could be more than 140 million “climate migrants” by 2050. While that migration would be unprecedented in scale, it would not mark the first time people have been uprooted by climate change. And Amazon recently debuted a microwave that connects to its smart assistant Alexa. But it’s not the only company hoping to connect the “internet of things” inside your home. That and more, in hour one of Here & Now’s Oct. 19, 2018 full broadcast.