by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions from your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome. tonight, israel and hamas appeared to be far from any cease-fire deal. >> the u.s. said they requested changes to the proposal. tell us more about what you heard from the u.s. today. >> there was a lot of things said. there is no sign that they were any closer to any kind of deal. secretary of state blinken

criticized hamas for waiting weeks to give their formal response. he criticized hamas for proposing changes that went beyond positions that were previously took. >> some of those are workable changes. some are not. at some point in a negotiation, and this has gone back and forth for a long time, once i continues to change demands. including making demands about things that have already been accepted. >> clearly he was questioning whether hamas actually wanted any kind of cease-fire. as for the changes themselves, they suggesting they are looking for a timeline for a permanent sees fire.

this proposal only requires israel to go for a temporary cease fire. and for it to continue as long as the sides are negotiating. hamas tall its response responsible. benjamin netanyahu has not formally endorsed the plan. clearly a lot of negotiating in public. >> how much concern is there about an -- escalation of the war. >> there is a huge concern. even if both sides don't want war, the exchange of fire has

been consistent. today in response hezbollah had a large salvage. we visited a small town and found a region on edge. >> across the region there is constant anxiety. this is the biggest town in the north. today it is all but deserted. much of the city is frozen in

time. supermarkets are closed and playgrounds are silent. and so the city staff who remain are often underground. they hold meetings in a bomb shelter. >> this same scenario. it is always better if we are the first to attack. >> that call to go on offense is shared with some senior members of the military. in response to eight months of rockets fired into israel. today israel identify more than 200 launches. hezbollah called this a response.

nearly 300 fighters and 80 civilians have been killed. this area has been directly hit more than 200 times. that has ignited wildfires. shrapnel in backyards, creating an earnings. across the north, 90,000 acres have burned. many residents will never come back. >> 40% of the people in my city did not come back. after the war. >> she is a city engineer. how do you know when to go to the shelter? last week, they promised that

hezbollah would be punished. >> whoever thinks that they can harm us and we will sit idly by is making a big mistake. >> he is frustrated with what he calls government neglect. >> if they really want to assist the area, it is expected that they would come here and listen to our hardships. listen to the evacuees. that is something that somebody would really want to help with do. >> evacuees live in 300 hotels across the country. 5000 have been displaced in tel aviv. her first home is a hotel. they are making the best of a situation that no one expected would last this long. all evacuees are coordinated.

>> there is no vision. nobody knows when we are going back. the uncertainty is the main challenge. how long? is it a month from now? >> they are not knowing when and how they will get back. >> he had stood regional council with 17,000 residents from dozens of villages. he said the map of northern israel has already been redrawn. >> this is a dead zone. there is no tourism. there is no salary. there is nothing. >> that anger comes from a sense of insecurity. he is the council security chief , counselor reminded of the

hostages. in the control room, he can monitor regional threats. >> look at the streets. totally empty. we don't see anybody walking here. ll empty. nothing. >> he predicts war, but would prefer a diplomatic agreement. he wants to preserve and protect this place so that residents can return. >> we want to do something. to make the people believe and feel safe again. >> last week, netanyahu sent senior officials to try to give him reassurance. but he still demands a plan for when people can return any remains angered and worried that any israeli action to make this area safe could lead to hot escalation.

♪ >> the republican-controlled house of representatives voted this afternoon to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress. at issue was his refusal to hand over her body over orderings of resident biden's interview with the special counsel about his handling of documents. republican lawmakers laid out why they want to the audio. >> the audio recordings are necessary to accurately evaluate the special counsel's assessment about president biden and determine whether the doj is applying to do this. >> the attorney general issued a

statement saying it is deeply disappointing that this house of representatives has turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon. the u.s. piled on new sanctions against russia ahead of the start of the g7 summit tomorrow in italy. they target chinese companies that help the war in ukraine and institutions that the business with sanctioned russian firms. more than 300 new sanctions will affect over $100 million of trade between russia and others. they want to turn frozen russian accents -- assets into help for ukraine. moscow has dispatched naval vessels to carry out exercises near yuba. they sailed into havana bay earlier today. they are expected to stay there until next week.

a nuclear powered submarine is part of the fleet. but they said that ships have no nuclear weapons. they have called this routine but added that russian exercises have ratcheted up because of support for ukraine. authorities and maryland say shipping traffic and the port of baltimore will soon return to normal levels. the channel fully reopened earlier this week nearly three months after the bridge collapsed that halted maritime traffic. maryland governor helped thank everyone. >> many said it would take multiple months for us to get to this point. some said even up to a year. this team did the unimaginable. instead of 11 months, we got this thing done in 11 weeks. >> officials say they hope to rebuild the bridge, which could come with a price bag of nearly

$2 million. they aim to complete the job in a few years. the southern baptist convention narrowly rejected a measure today to include in its constitution a ban on churches with women pastors. it fell short of the super majority needed. this reverses a preliminary bout last year in favor of the ban. one pastor said we showed the mechanisms we have are sufficient to deal with this question. the office of pastor is already limited to men. the oklahoma supreme court has dismissed a lawsuit from the last known survivors of the 1921 tulsa race massacre. they were seeking reparations for the destruction of the once thriving black district. the plaintiffs cited oklahoma's public nuisance law in arguing that the actions of a white mob

in 1921 need to affect the city today. as many as 300 people were killed and thousands of survivors were worse for a time into internment camps overseen by the national guard. today a court of how the district judge's decision last year saying that the plaintiffs grievances, while legitimate, do not apply to the statute. on wall street today, the dow jones slipped 35 points. the nasdaq jumped to 64 points to close with a record for the third straight day. the s&p 500 also ended at a new high. basketball hall of famer jerry west has died. a los angeles lakers legend, he was a liberal icon. his silhouette is understood to be the logo of the nda. -- nba.

he was enshrined in the hall of fame twice. he received the presidential medal of freedom in 2019 is expected to receive a third posthumous entry into the hall of fame as an executive and a consultant. he was 86 years old. longtime political correspondent and tv commentator howard feynman has died. he was a fixture of the washington political scene and one of the first on the to transition to broadcast cable news. he died at his family home in washington. he was 75 years old. >> those of us lucky to have known him know just how much he will be missed. our family is sending his wife and children are most sincere condolences. >> still to come, a new book

chronicles the plan to overturn roe v. wade and the consequences for women and abortion in america. judy woodruff travels to pennsylvania to sit down with americans divided over the israel-hamas war. >> this is the newshour, from our studios in washington and in the west, from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> inflation eased a bit more than expected last month, providing some welcome news for consumers. but federal reserve officials say they want more progress and do not expect to cut interest rates much this year. last year -- month saw the mildest inflation increase since 2021. that is excluding the more volatile costs of energy and food. hospital services and restaurant prices all climbed higher.

but there was a broader slowdown for other goods including gas, dairy, and airfare. >> polls show that inflation has consistently remained one of america's top economic concerns. today, jerome powell said he wanted to see more progress in the battle against inflation. after projecting as many as three rate cuts for this year, he said today they may only cut interest rates once later this year. >> we are looking for something that gives us confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down to 2%. that is a step in the right direction. you don't want to be too motivated by any single reading. >> an economist said that keeping interest rates a higher level could mean more pain for millions. >> those who get hurt are

everything from small and midsize businesses that are set to reprice their loans this year. and consumers, particularly low in, and younger borrowers who are seeing rates compound on their credit cards. they have already tapped them out to make ends meet and now they're having that compounding rate at a very high rate. you are seeing delinquencies rise as well. >> the inflation news finally contained a bit of good news about your auto insurance premiums. they have been rising for months and they are white inflation has had such a bite. while they finally dipped just a bit, they remain much higher than a few years ago. our economics correspondent takes a closer look at why that is. >> batteries skyrocketed. they probably gone up 20%. >> in the last year? >> in the last year. >> they run my neighborhood auto shop. >> it was 20 dollars less for

this tire a year ago. >> the bigger prices higher tech parts. >> your car probably has 15 different computers in it. >> and this stuff is expensive to replace. this can cost a lot. cameras, parking sensors, this stuff can all be damaged. you can see where the crack was. my wife glued the mirror in. >> she did a good job. >> i see your tape job. i would not give up your day job. [laughter] >> i don't intend to. no surprise that what is true in suburban boston is true elsewhere.

>> the cost of labor for vehicle repairs is increasing. >> which also crucially means that insurance rates go up. up 26% nationwide this year. 40% higher than before the pandemic. >> all of the technology that helps keep us safe are on the road means it costs more to have your vehicle repaired. in terms of labor costs, america has been ensuring -- experiencing a labor shortage. this is driving up the cost of your car insurance and delaying the time it takes to repair your vehicle. >> he is a regular. >> those companies are really taking advantage of the consumer in a variety of different ways. in general there is a lot of industries that are gouging consumers. >> what choice did they have given the lofty parts prices car

manufacturers have been able to impose? >> they are adding either technology or trademark logos. >> why do any to put a logo on it? >> for continuity. we want to get it back to the previous condition. eliminating that opportunity. >> for competition? >> exactly. >> that included branded parts. so the manufacturers have a defective patent. he challenged me to estimate the repair. a few scratches, a dent i cannot even see. i would have to tell you i would get the paint and try to do that myself. this i would not care about at

all. i would say the cost would be zero. 5 i would say $5,500. there is a lot to this that the naked eye will never see. parking sensors. a front facing camera. cruise control radar. there is a lot of tech in this car. >> that wouldn't even include replacing any damage sensors. >> we have that one headline. -- headlight cracked. that is how much it would cost. >> $10,000? >> insurance companies paper pricey parts. whose prices manufacturers control. >> say we order a bumper from mercedes. they will charge us for a deposit.

in order for us to get that money back, we have to give them the old one. the reason they do that is to eliminate the bumpers from the market. >> because repairing a modern car cost so much, dennis vehicles are often considered totaled. so cars that could last 20 years or more are strapped. >> a lot of the luxury cars, it is difficult to get into a repair. without totally get out. there are not that many options. >> even high water can short out the electronics and render a car not worth fixing. >> you can make a case that a car is now mostly a computer. >> she echoes the mechanics. >> when the car is involved, even in a relatively minor accident, if it turns out that a

sensor is damaged or something else related to the computer system, what might have been a new plastic bumper is now considerably more. >> manufacturers will do whatever they can to make sure that the replacement parts are theirs. >> they don't mean they are necessarily breaking the law but they are absolutely going to try to manage the availability of their product in a way that results in the biggest profit possible for them. >> as our cars and trucks become more computerized every year, the more potential for profit because the pricier the part. that explains these auto repairs. ♪

>> the trial of hunter biden highlighted his own struggles with addiction. a struggle that resonates with millions in this country. two thirds of all american say drug addiction has personally affected them or their families. more than 40% know someone who has died from a drug overdose. every individual story is unique but experts say there are common challenges. we are joined by a doctor who specializes in adolescent addiction. we are not talking about legal or political conversation around the trial. but the specific addiction piece that resonated with so many people. he said what struck you most was how people were talking about it. >> i've paid close attention to the trial not because i was particularly focused on the legal but on how we talk about people who struggle with

addiction. a lot of the coverage focused on hunter biden and described him as an addict. it really put the person's condition first before they are even a person. i usually talk about a person with a substance abuse disorder. a lot of the coverage should use this language and terminology that can be heard all and harmful for many people in america who struggle with addiction. >> two thirds of americans say they are impacted in some way. when you take a closer look at substance abuse disorders in america, american say they struggle with it. what should we understand about what is behind this increase? >> there are a lot of the things that go into.

we are in the wake of a pandemic that really affected people. it isolated folks and made it difficult for people to access health care. it worsened mental health. we know this can underlie worsening addiction. >> we have seen recently that opioid deaths have been in decline. has there been a shift in what kinds of drugs people are using or what they have access to? >> we have some reassuring recent data that shows a slight down take in overdose deaths. we are still at a point where over 100,000 americans died over year of drug overdoses. i take care of teenagers who struggle with addiction. teen overdoses are at an all-time high. we have had more than a million deaths since the turn-of-the-century. we should not get too excited

about a slight improvement in that. >> tell us about treatment. why the gap between the need we know it exists and what people are able to access? and how that access varies based on who you are. >> we have a lot of difficulties across the country. i see this all of the time with patients who are seeking out multiple programs to get treatment. many people in particular bounce around trying to find high-quality treatment. people encounter barriers because their insurance will not accept the program or maybe they cover for the program but they have large co-pays. all of this sands in the way of people getting addiction treatment. this is happening in boston, a relatively well resourced city. imagine being outside of the city like that. you can imagine there are a norma's geographic limitations

and what people can access across the country. particularly in rural areas. and by socioeconomic status. where people have insufficient insurance or might not have any insurance at all. we know there are big gaps by race, ethnicity, language, and other factors. >> you mentioned how we talk about addiction in this country. i want to talk more about the family and friends part of this peer what is important for them to understand? >> what really struck me about this trial is that hunter biden is in the limelight but he is someone's son. he is the president's son. it is a reminder to all of us seven somebody struggles with addiction, they are always someone's son or daughter or loved one. it is really important for us to remember they are people, they are human.

it is important we do what we can to help them feel as if they can go into treatment. when we use stigmatizing language, it sends a message across the country that those whose go with addiction are not welcome in health care environments or in their communities. that makes it difficult for people to access treatment. for family and friends to help them get into treatment. we need to show compassion to people who are struggling because when we use non-stigmatizing language, that helps people get into doors of clinics. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate your time. >> thank you. ♪

>> in the two years since the supreme court overruled the constitutional right to an abortion, conservative lawmakers and activists have continued efforts to reshape or limit reproductive rights. we take a closer look at that effort. we spoke with a new york times journalist, authors of a new book. reporter: thank you so much for joining us. i want to start by reading a piece of your book in which you write, this was the combination of a targeted and startlingly lucky campaign over ray to mulch was decade by an under the radar network of elite conservative lawyers and republican politicians in key positions of power. that network was determined to remake american culture. they had found the levers of

power and pulled them. who is this network and who are the leaders of it and winded actually start? >> i book looks at what we have called the final decade of the roe era. we look at that time because president obama's reelection was the lowest point for these activists. it was the first time in history when conservative christians have become a minority in american life. it looked like the culture was moving another way. gay marriage was about to be legalized. abortion was talked about more publicly. they started to see abortion is a losing issue. at that point they decided to call back. reporter: who are the leaders? >> we really reported about a

broad network of conservative christians, antiabortion activists, who basically went under the radar for so much of the american oblique. this is a network of lawyers, activists who have made ending abortion their life's work. there are state lawmakers all the way up to congress and the white house and eventually justices on the supreme court. what is so interesting about this network is they like to think in generational terms. they don't just think in political cycles. they are looking at, how do we make long-standing cultural change in america? what does that look like? it was such a day lose of laws and bills being passed. and local christian lobbyists, people who no one really had heard of, ended up being very

influential in reshaping the laws to help reshape the culture. >> one of the players in your look is a key leader in this interconnected web. he is the cochair of the conservative legal group the federalist society. walk me through his role and how he helped with the coordination. what exactly did he do? >> the federalist society is an association of conservative lawyers that reaches from members of the supreme court and law students. this was his life's work. what he did was help develop a web of lawyers to recruit people in law school, get them through the system, find ways to get members in judicial posts all the way up to the supreme court and build a body of more conservative judges who believe in this kind of jurisprudence and believe that roe was not a fair decision.

it was not a legally sound decision. reporter: he spoke to hillary clinton and she told me that democrats did not take it seriously. they did not understand the threat. i have heard that from a lot of democrats as well. maybe they did not see these young activists coming. why not? >> what they were fighting for during this era was public opinion. they were trying to destigmatize abortion. that is why he saw hillary clinton throw out the old term safe, legal, and rare. it should be a procedure like any other health procedure that women feel comfortable talking about. they had some success doing that, but while they were fighting for public opinion, the antiabortion movement was fighting for the levers of power. they were winning statehouses, getting sympathetic judges on state courts.

part of what i book finds is that ended up being more powerful than public opinion. reporter: you write in the book that the long term head of the susan b anthony organization and a key player in overturning roe is pushing for federal legislation that would ban abortion across the country. looking forward, do you think that this is a realistic end game for? something she is for knitting along with others who are part of her movement to actually make happen? >> it is complicated. the dynamics shifted overnight. now you have a very engaged group of voters who support abortion rights to come out and vote candidates who share their views. that makes something like a 15 week federal ban much harder to get through than it would have been previously. the right is no longer benefiting from this. where people were not paying

attention or they believed in the viability of roe. there is still part of the antiabortion movement for him the fall of ro was not the end but the beginning of the end. it was their first step in banning all abortion. reporter: is there a next target? is it contraception? >> part of the goal of this network of people, it is not just about abortion. it is all things about sexuality. what is the role of women, mothers, families? it is an effort to roll back the sexual revolution. that is make america great again. as america becomes more secular and christianity becomes a minority position in the country , but that means is you have a clash of values about a lot of issues. >> we uncovered internal

documents that laid out the case that they want to go after. it is much broader than just reproductive health. they are looking at how to increase religion in public life, in schools and town meetings. they are looking at trans rights and same-sex marriage. i think there are elements of the movement that would like to target some forms of contraception. but it a much larger issue. reporter: thank you so much for your time. ♪ >> far from the front lines of the israel-gaza war that has gone on for the last eight months, americans are grappling with new and old divisions that the conflict has created here in the u.s. judy woodruff recently visited

people on different sides of the conflict. after meeting resistance to interviewing them together, we held a couple of different conversations. this is part of the ongoing series america at a crossroads. judy: for the eight people we brought together, one group were more supportive of the israelis, the other the palestinians. the pain brought on by the attacks of october 7 and israel's war on hamas was palpable. >> there is a life before october 7 and a life after. judy: she is a mother of eight and an orthodox jew. she said her life would never be the same. >> everything that i do to parent my children, how i send them to school, how i conduct myself publicly, where i go, how i speak, what i look at on social media, everything has

changed. judy: a mother of two young children agrees. >> there is a deadly nation in my life. -- delineation in my life. my husband will be out and said, there is an invasion in israel is really bad. we both have so much family there. we started calling them to see if they were ok. they were hysterical. they were scared. >> israel is a small country. everybody knew somebody. not six degrees of connection, one degree. judy: he is an attorney from the philadelphia area. >> is awful. it should be condemned. israel has an obligation to defend itself.

what happened had to be condemned at the very same time that one had to look beyond the horizon to see a horizon somehow of how we make sure that this never ever happens again. >> but there is not unanimity among american jews. >> i was waiting at the images of body parts of children. i will never and see that -- unsee that. i don't sleep well. i have not slept alone a long time. judy: she is jewish and has worked extensively. she has been critical of the israeli government. >> people act like it is impossible but it is very possible and very easy to hold both morning and sadness --

mourning and sadness and worry for people who were attacked unsuccessfully. to know that the other shoe will drop. it will be so bad and so bloody. judy: we have seen an ongoing israeli response toward gaza. how has this affected you? >> it has changed my whole life. judy: she is a palestinian muslim american who is deeply so pathetic with gazans. >> it may be see the world very differently. when people are watching buildings being bombed by another country, parents holding their dead children, the international responses they deserve this. that blew my mind. that is what we are allowing to happen because we are all complicit in this. i felt responsible as well. i am an american citizen. i pay tax money.

that money goes toward killing palestinians. i am palestinian. reporter: a pakistani muslim american has previously worked on building interfaith connections in times of attack on muslims. they said israeli policies were at fault. >> everything we heard about the disparities between the nations, he became very obvious. there is no comparison. palestinians have live in camps for years. how much progress cannot entail? judy: a christian palestinian who came to the u.s. in 19 heavenly was clear to condemned the october 7 attacks. >> i saw a lot of palestinians refusing to do that.

for them it was a glimmer of hope. to me, it was wrong. we have to immediately take that step. some of us did that. judy: but he also stresses that israel shares his possibility. >> i do not condone october 7. but when you bring a people and take every bit of hope away from them, sometimes you have to do that. judy: at the same time, many jewish americans say they are trying to process the far-reaching impact of this war. >> i feel extremely scared. i am scared for my family. >> this is still happening.

the bodies are still warm. it is hard for me to say this is a time to mourn. we all need to mourn. i stand unequivocally behind israel. not just for the sake of israel but for the sake of palestinians. if hamas is not eliminated, it is just a matter of time until this happens again. judy: such a painful subject for each one of you. how is it affecting your friends? the people you see? >> it is challenging. i find in respect to certain social acquaintances, both on the left and right, there is a polarization that has set in that has made it very difficult to talk to them and understand

them because there is no listening. >> within the jewish community, we are not completely united. judy: she is a reform rabbi. >> there are a lot of people who live in this country in the american jewish community and americans and enteral who do not want that or conflict. who want to see this resolved. we have to engage each other. judy: she deplored the fact that part of the jewish-american panel would oppose her. >> it is disingenuous to me to say we want to have these hard conversations but be so nervous about having a dissenting jewish person in this space. to be honest, i feel like i am met with closed doors over and over again. with accusations and middle fingers and angry phone calls.

to have to be moved to another table when i try to have these conversations. >> she said her tightknit jewish orthodox community grew closer but she said she has lost friends outside of that. >> i would say i've lost a lot of friends for my views. i have been completely rethinking where to send my children to college. i would be perfectly happy if they did an online degree. and did not step foot onto a university campus. judy: she says while she has made new friends, she was also let down by old ones. >> i lost a lot of people in college. they did not reach out. they have no need their entire

lives. judy: he says he has been able to reach across religious divisions and forge new relationships. >> i made more friends in the last seven months than i have in the last 65 years. i have been to seders, hanukkah. judy: you have new jewish friends? >> yes. i have been to synagogues. i find out we have so much in common. judy: she said establishing ground rules helps. >> whenever it gets to a point of dissent, we tell each other we have had this rule from the beginning. we will not fight with each other. we will back off. then will we reconsider the conversation after everybody has calmed down. judy: this technique did not work with everyone in our panels.

some expressed disappointment for different reasons with the u.s. response. there was clear anger and resentment toward president biden. >> he visited israel in a time of war. he said his commitment to israel is ironclad. item thicket is now. he seems to be giving in to a small but loud minority. he seems to be putting politics before morality. he has put pressure on israel that has slowed down the war effort. it has cost lives. >> what a failure of an administration. i knocked on doors for him and he was running against trump. i feel that all of these communities have been thrown under the bus. to watch millions of people being starved and say nothing and continuously say i have a redline and stand back while

israel commits genocide and do nothing, what is the message? judy: there are a few sympathetic to biden. >> i very supportive of what president biden has done. i think he cares for israel to his core. he deeply respects israel. i think the pressure he is putting on israel is designed for the benefit of israel and the palestinians and i think it is only through pressure from the u.s. on both sides that we are going to come to a resolution. judy: the idea of reconciliation is still hard for some. >> i'm not minimizing that the importance of long-term discussions and patience and tolerance but there is another part of me that says this is great. here we go again. this is not our first rodeo.

we have hostages, soldiers being killed, generational trauma. >> there were glimmers of guarded hope. >> i believe in a two state solution. i believe very strongly this has been u.s. policy. the solution has to breed equitable and amicable. and agreed-upon by all parties. that has never happened before. >> this can never be sustained if it is not equitable. >> our hearts are big enough to have compassion for our own people and for palestinian people. innocent palestinian people. it is not that our hearts can be big enough but they must be big enough.

my jewish values tell me that everyone, every human being on this planet, is created in the image of god. we are not going to get to a solution by killing tens of thousands of people in gaza. judy: there is no mistaking the pain felt on both sides. we were grateful to each panelist for agreeing to sadow those and look forward to the time when they will also together. ♪ >> join us again here tomorrow night for the latest on the g7 summit in italy. that is it for tonight. >> for all of us here, thanks

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ceasefire deal on the table. >> for the first time, the u.n. backs a ceasefire proposal for gaza. we break it down with former u.s.