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geoff: good evening. on the ""newshour" the intense phase of the war in gaza will end soon as u.s. and israel argues over weapons deliveries.
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broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the "newshour." israel today indicating it is close to ending the intense phase of its operations in gaza and would transition to a new stage of the war, that word came as israel's defense minister met with u.s. officials in washington here today and they continue the spat over weapons deliveries. what did israel say about the future of the war? >> for months, israel has described its operation in rafah as targeting the final four hamas battalions and the chief of the general staff said they were approaching the point of rafah's brigade was defeated. netanyahu described that as a transition from the intense phase of combat allowing israel
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to focus to the north, to lebanon. there has been extraordinary amount of concern about cross-border fire between israel and hezbollah in lebanon becoming a full-scale war and this weekend seeks to ground determined joint chiefs of staff warn that iran could come to hezbollah's aid from there is a war between israel and hezbollah and the u.s. could not defend israel like it did against iran's attack in april if hezbollah opened fire against israel. a warning sign by u.s. officials who are really concerned about escalation. but u.s. officials said it will help defend israel. geoff: u.s. said the best way to prevent expansion is to get a ceasefire in gaza. >> they are trying to bridge the gaps between israel and hamas, but there's been no public
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progress. there has been public doubts as you and i talked about whether israel and prime minister netanyahu would actually endorse the deal that president biden laid out that he said was actually created by israel. in the last 24 hours, netanyahu has made no fewer than three contradictory statements about the hostage negotiation including on israeli tv last night. >> i am not willing to stop the war and lead hamas intact. this is no secret and return to us some of the people but we will continue the war after a pause after completing the deal to eliminate hamas. >> first time he used the phrase partial deal suggesting he was walking back his own plan that calls for the release of 120 hostages currently held in gaza and negotiation towards a permanent ceasefire. last night, he walked that
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statement back saying it is hamas which oppose the deal, not israel. prime minister netanyahu said he will not leave gaza until they return 120 hostages link and deceased. today, he further walked his sunday comments back. >> we are committed to the israeli proposal that president biden welcomed. our position has not changed. >> three statements all in 24 hours. that left a state departments spokes man to respond this way. >> i think all of us that speak publicly make mistakes and when we do we have to clarify and i'm glad he did. >> at the end of the day, we are where we are. a hostage deal made public by president biden, negotiators continue to try and figure out the gaps since proposed changes. hamas said netanyahu's said he
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doesn't want this deal and hostage families said netanyahu was abandoning the hostages. geoff: he has accused the u.s. on multiple occasions. >> they have frozen only one weapon delivery, 3500 bombs that are unguided and that was back in may. u.s. official does describe this process, after october 7, israel and the united states worked together and went back and found many israeli weapons purses, some of them many years old that hadn't been delivered and what they did they worked to deliver all of those previous purses and that increase the pace of weapons' deliveries to israel to an unprecedented level to frankly an unprecedented level that israel was asking for in order to prosecute the war in gaza. once the orders were fulfilled,
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they had to create new orders through the u.s. government o defense contractors and that takes time. between the administration, between those defense contractors and notifications to congress. so the pace of delivery according to the u.s. official is slower than it was after october 7. the u.s. strongly denies it is withholding weapons and believes that netanyahu knows that. most analysts says netanyahu is playing domestic politics including with defense minister gallant who happens to be in washington now and you see him meeting secretary of state anthony blinken and he met with bill burns. gallant is a political rival to netanyahu and the two could fight overtaking credit over weapons' deliversries that comes out of the u.s. and netanyahu has a right-wing coalition and needs to stay in power and doing so at least the
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political decision making he has been making since october 7 is he works with the right wing and he criticizes president biden publicly. and that has been a winning formula that could keep him in power, especially as he continues to face years-old corruption cases, including one today. a panel accused him of undermining israeli national security in a case involving submarines and denied. geoff: thank you for walking us through all of us. appreciate it. geoff: in the day's headlines, ukraine and russia have been carrying out deadly strikes. two russian ballistic missiles left a huge crater in eastern ukraine and five people were
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killed and 41 others wounded. crime yeah after -- crima drones killed six. russia says the ukrainians used american-made weapons. that claim has not been verified. russia summoned the u.s. ambassador to discuss the incident. >> i will tell you what the ambassador said and that is we lament any civilian loss of life in this war. we provide weapons to ukraine so it can defend its sovereign territory and that includes crima and russia could stop this war today. geoff: european union nations agreed to send an initial $1.5 billion in profits from russian frozen assets. e.u. agreed on the plan but objections from hungary
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objected. dagestan are starting three days of mourning. investigators scoured an orthodox church and synagogue where the shootings took place. no claim of responsibility but local officials have blamed it on islamic extremists. here at home, flooding has hit the midwest and adding misery to a region dealing with oppressive heat wave. floodwaters went through sioux falls, south dakota. the swelling caused a railroad bridge to collapse. south dakota's governor warned of a long road to recover from all the damage caused by the rain. >> we have damaged roads and bridges. and burling, santa santa fe and
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a lot of commodities and different materials move on through out the state. and that river collapsing was a big loss for us that will impact us. geoff: national weather officials, nebraska, south dakota, minnesota and iowa received eight times the typical rainfall and more rain is forecasted. the ship that rammed the bridge in baltimore left. the dali had been stuck until it was refloated last month. the ship started moving this morning under its own power accompanied by a coast guard escort. its destination is norfolk, virginia. where it will undergo repairs. the supreme court will hear its first case involving medical care for transgender youth
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taking up a polarizing issue. the case involves an appeal of tennessee law that restricts gender-affirming care for minors. "without the prompt intervention, transgender youth and families will remain in limbo." today marks two years since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade. >> my body, my choice. geoff: they gathered on the steps to mark the university and criticized the ruling and exchanged verbal clashes vice president harris weighed in today and condemned former president trump during a campaign stop in maryland. >> today, our daughters have fewer rights than their grandmothers. this is a health care crisis. and we all know who is to blame,
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donald trump. geoff: former president nominated three conservative justices to the supreme court prior to the overturning of roe. he has claimed credit for the decision. civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit louisiana. the suit filed in federal court says that the state's main interest in passing the measure is quote, to impose religious beliefs on public school children regardless of the harm to students and families. the language of the law say it is foundational documents. they are due to be in classrooms. on wall street, the dough jones industrial average added 260 pints to close over 39,000. nasdaq hit records last week. s&p ended lower. still to come, amy walter and
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fran cease ka. the largest sources of ground water threatens farmers. and latoya ruby frazier's makes art come together in her first retrospective. announcer: this is the pbs "newshour" in the west from the walter cronkite from the arizona state university. geoff: thousands of car dealers have been forced to revert to pen and paper after a software company they rely on was hit by several cyberattacks. the outage has caused delays and invaccineses and raised major questions about whether data was compromised. >> the company was called c.d.k.
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global and provide software systems for 15,000 car dealerships in america and canada. for all their internal computer systems. we spoke with one dealer in the philadelphia area -- >> we are writing everything by hand and can't go into our back up systems and see what the warrant costs are or what things are going to cost and it is a manual process that takes a lot longer and sales part of that, that gets even craze year because that has compliance components, such as credit, red flags which integrates into c.d.k. >> very little has been said who hacked this system and demanding a ran some. someone helped us. chris krebs used to run the
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federal government lead federal agency and chief intelligence and public policy officer at sentinel one. can you give us your best understanding what is going on here? >> thanks for having me on. this is part of a larger surge in ransomware attack. we had united healthcare hit. this is another string in this eastern european and russian criminal gangs that are hitting u.s. businesses. my understanding is that c.d.k. was hit last last week and tried to restore operations and hit by a second attack. that is not unusual and we see that as organizations try to rush back and hurry back to get operations back up and running. they are in the process of containing, which means trying to get the operator out of their
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network and get safe, secure operations back up to support their customer. >> so this is not an attack on what we would call critical infrastructure. car sales are slow, but they will eventually pick back up again. you suggest these are criminals who have done this because they are trying to squeeze money out of the company, is that right? >> absolutely. the unfortunate part of all of this, the amounts that are being demanded by the cyber criminals is only increasing. we are seeing tens of millions of dollars of demands. we have no amount what they have demanded but 20 to 30 million in the average lately. and yet, you know what? this might not be critical infrastructure but it affects us or someone trying to go out
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there and get a new vehicle if their old vehicle broke down. it is part of a bigger mental attack on the united states and our people. >> i know that there's a lot of debate whether or not paying these are a good idea. where do youdom down on that argument? >> the unfortunate reeelt, it rewards them. and that's why the united states is getting disproportionately affected by ransom ware. you have it in the united kingdom and elsewhere and we pay at a higher clip, the bad guys are hitting our businesses pretty hard. i would suggest, though, that we think about this at a higher level where this is not just some random plils. it fits into russia in the
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kremlin's bigger strategy to attack the west and attack the united states. so we are talking about this tonight on tv. so we are experiencing this and being invaccinessed and we are scared of more and more cyberattacks. ultimately, this does play into putin's overall strategy. >> given the amount of these attacks, what is going on here, is it a very hard thing to defend against or companies not taking it seriously? what is the weak link here? >> it's a combination of factors. the three-legged stool of ransom ware. businesses continue to manage their networks in aay that is not entirely secure that gives the bad guys to come in and it may not be their own fault but the services that companies are using and therefore subject to
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exploitation. the second is the vulnerable and misconfigured network. they can use cryptocurrency to hold that. they can pull value out and take it to places where the third leg of the stool where they can't be held accountable, eastern europe and russia. what are we going to do about this. we need aggressive by law enforcement. we have seen the u.s. government and united kingdom go after a group and take them offline. we need more of that. >> chris krebs, always good to see you. geoff: on campaign trail this
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week, donald trump vowed to shut down the education department and endorsed a louisiana law mandating a display of the 10 commandments in public school but those are two changes that mr. trump is proposing including when it comes to vaccinations. >> former president trump has increasingly employed antivaccine rhetoric and this weekend was no different. here he is at an event by the conservative faith and freedom coalition on saturday. >> i will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory. i will never give penny to any school who has a vaccine or mask mandate. >> implications could be enormous. we are joined by a pediatrician and professor at the university
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of pennsylvania. thank you for joining the "newshour." first donald trump's campaign complained this was about covid mandates. they refused to specify to the press and they pointed to the former president's comments. trump has made this proposal a regular part of his campaign saying any school with the vaccine mandate will not get federal funding. what is the impact of rhetoric that attacks childhood vaccinations in this way? >> we eliminated measles by the way 2000. prior to that, prior to a vaccine, measles would cause 48,000 hoppizations, but we eliminated measles and what has happened because of the covid vaccine mandates there is
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pushback. so much so we had more than 300 cases of measles. and if we continue to do this and try to push back on vaccine mandates, you are going to the point you will see measles cases and children will die. >> if trump is elected, some of his allies are advising him to split the centers for disease into two agencies, what could he do to impact whether or not children get vaccines and what tools could he implement? >> there is a program which was launched in 1994 called for the vaccines for children program which pays for all children who are underinsured or uninsured which could be 50% of children. it would require a congressional act to overturn.
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what former president trump does is by damning vaccines claiming that they are unsafe or harmful, he has a platform and misuses that platform and scares people. >> in terms of a second trump administration, what about the potential of people he appoints to public health office. >> if you look at the c.d.c. or f.d.a., you have institutional memory. these are long-term federal advisers in the f.d.a. and c.d.c. have served us well. they could lose their jobs and replaced by people who express loyalty to trump. >> how damaging could it be if an antivaxxer is put in a position of power? >> it would be devastating. these agencies served us well. the f.d.a. and c.d.c. have served us well.
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how did we eliminate diseases and starting to step back. >> vaccine mandates are left up to the states and state public school mandates have been the biggest driver of early childhood, diseases like polio and measles and what are the implications if they don't get these shots. >> before vaccines, diptheria. whoopg cough killed children. polio before vaccines would cause 30,000 children to be paralyzed. german measles infected pregnant women and caused 20,000 birth detects. is that what we want and go back to that time? >> bottom line, you are concerned that the rhetoric could lead to an uptick in
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deaths amongst children when it comes to measles, correct? >> what happened over the last few years with the vaccine and mask mandates. every year, there have been hundreds of pieces of legislation pushing back on mandates and pushing and pushing to the point we are starting to see measles and in 2022 there was a case of polio in rockland, new york. this is a man who never left the country. these are not diseases you want to see come back. >> what do you think is driving this large breakdown of the public's trust in public health officials and health agencies like the c.d.c. and national institutes of health? >> there is a backlash against all federal agencies, the department of justice and f.b.i. there is a general distrust and in terms of this being largely a
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conservative phenomenon is this notion of individual personal freedoms. it's the freedom to catch fatal infections. >> thank you for your time. geoff: as voters head to the polls in three states, the israel-hamas war has been a key issue. it's a race that reflects the divide over u.s. support for israel. new york democratic congressman bowman is in a fight that is testing the strength of progressive stances on the israel-hamas war. >> we don't want our money going to war. they can't afford utilities, food and transportation. they want that money coming back
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to help us survive. >> he is facing a primary challenge from a familiar face in the district. westchester district lattimer. >> what i have offered is results not rhetoric. >> give you 30 seconds. geoff: while the two have battled, the race has centered on the war. bowman has called for a ceasefire in the early days of the war and what critics call is antiisrael rhetoric. >> that is not self defense but goes beyond self defense. gech. geoff: interest groups have spent more than $14 million opposing bowman.
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>> he repeated hamas lies denying that women were raped and babies butchered. >> most people want to see an end to the hostilities but don't want them to come with hostages remaining in hamas control because hamas is a terrorist organization. geoff: bowman was charged with a misdemeanor after pulling a fire alarm. he disputed that he was trying to delay a vote. bowman is taking an early lead. bowman's progressive allies have rallied behind him including at a saturday rally including senator sanders and congresswoman cortez. >> this election is whether or not the billionaire class will control the united states
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government on and our answer is no, they won't. >> bowman isn't the only one. most bush faces a similar primary challenge. for a closer look at tomorrow's primary and the presidential debate in georgia, we turn to of the cook political report and u.s.a. today. great to see you both. let's start with this new york primary race. new york democrats are no strangers to hard-nosed and super experience. but this race has opened a rift in the party, liberal wing in the party. incumbents usually have an advantage. it would appear except for bowman. >> that is unique and this is the most expensive house primary
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in history. and this coming from outside groups more than the candidates themselves. interestingly enough, while the rift is about israel, there is also a lot of talk in advertising about other things, namely, bowman, who is pretty new to congress, accusing him of not being supportive enough of joe biden on some of biden's key issues. and i think fundamentally, what this race really is about, was an opportunity, i think, for folks who were supportive of israel to have an opportunity to find a person within the democratic party who wasn't as supportive and works in this case. the reason he is more vulnerable, he is new and just elected in 2022 and these lines were redrawn. this district used to have a
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bigger portion of the bronx where bowman is from and now a smaller portion. lat imer represents 93% of the district. geoff: how much will this tell us about the strength of the democrats' left-wing faction? >> it is emblem attic of the conversation taking place over what it means to be a progressive in the post-bernie sanders campaign era. lattimer is a progressive champion in this race. as progressives have gotten successful and facts on president biden and his agenda there is this debate of what it means to be a progressive. in this election, the way it could have ram fix outside of this race, you look at states like wisconsin and michigan and
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percentage of the vote that got uncommitted or undeclared in the democratic presidential primary and that is a problem for president biden if those democrats do not feel compelled to vote for him because of his policies on israel. geoff: the bill political event of the week, debate, biden and trump hosted by cnn. an opportunity for both men to highlight competing visions. president biden intends to focus on three things, roe versus wade, attacks on democracy and both democrats' economic plan. what does that tell you? >> these are the issues he wants to talk about for a while now. because these arehe places where he is the strongest when it comes to the debate over abortion. one of the few places he has an
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advantage of trust over voters over donald trump. and the other thing for biden and we never had a debate this early and people who are checked out are not necessarily going to check in in june but may closer to the election. he is trying to move those voters who voted for biden in 2020 and sitting on the fence. we did some polling in battleground states. 18% of biden voters in those battleground states are not supporting him. those are people that should be the easiest for him to get back into his camp. i think talking about the issues that would appeal to those voters, many of them are younger, voters of color that will agree with positions on democracy and abortion rights and economy talking to them not
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so much about what the economy is like now, but what it will look like in four years from now and who is fighting for those voters. geoff: the trump campaign is trying to raise expectations for joe biden on this debate. how tall of an order that president biden has said that joe biden is cognitively impaired. >> what you should expect is more like his state of the union performance or 2012 debate performance against paul ryan. at the same time, the biden campaign has lowered expectations for trump by suggesting that he would come out there and have the debate performance he had in 2020 in the first debate performance rather than the one he had in second debate. a tall order to clear the
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expectations. geoff: this is the second anniversary of the supreme court ending abortion protections and overturning roe. how resonate an issue is this heading into november? >> biden campaign wants to make a focal point. it is important for many, many voters. but this is going to our own polling when we asked voters, given the choice, if you had to choose between joe biden setting economic policy for the next four years or donald trump setting abortion policy which would make you uncomfortable. 54% said they were more worried about biden and the economy than trump and abortion. polling by k.f.f. looking at women specifically. in states where there is an
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abortion initiative on the ballot, they say are they not only interested in voting but more supportive of biden. if you are the biden campaign, for those states like arizona where there is an abortion initiative on the ballot, you will get more votes. geoff: how are both leaning in this issue, the white house and campaign separately? >> they are sending surrogates like elizabeth warren to talk on this issue that will help them with suburban women. you would expect biden to focus. they ran several ads and tying it to their argument that donald trump is a threat to democracy. in the latest ad they showed footage from january 6. geoff: thanks so much.
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we appreciate it. tune into pbs 9:00 p.m. for similar you will cast for the presidential debate with analysis to follow. great plains' farmers and ranchers produce 40% of u.s. crops a beef. but they rely on a resource that has been drying up, water. ongoing series on climate change and water, "tipping point." >> this is a small glimpse of what the situation was. >> dry southwestern kansas where winds whip dust into the sky. it is difficult land to farm but
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peterson is. >> we are raising sixth generation. we have been through a lot of droughts. but i know what evidence to do has been tough. >> farms like peterson are a vital part. much of the grain he grows heads to the cattle feed markets powering the state's beefing industry. nearly a quarter of the steaks on our dinner plate come from kansas. >> we are dependent on agriculture and lifeblood. >> katie runs the ground water management district in west central kansas. >> our banks to the dealers, anything you see is related to agriculture. >> and the agricultural industry relies on one increasing squares resource. >> without ground water, we would ceas to exist.
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a massive reservoir that runs into eight states from south dakota to texas. as the darker color on this map shows, parts of the aquifer in texas, oklahoma and western kansas are in deep decline. that's a problem because the economy relies on water-intensive crops, mainly corn. >> we don't have the streams. and little bit unusual. what we do have is the aquifer underneath our feet. >> brownie wilson kansas geological survey measures wells. he has seen wells drop 100 feet since 2021. what we are doing now is not sustainable and track every year. the aquifer cannot support that
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pumping demands anymore. >> the depletion isn't uniform. the aquifer's topography; as an egg carton. and we call it salt rated thickness and some will have more than others. likewise, some areas will have more decline. >> peterson is one of those areas in southwest kansas seeing the state's steepest declines in ground water. >> i have abandoned half the wells. they are not fees i will to pump anymore. if i wanted to be a water baron, i could pump all year long and make something happen out of it. but i can't sleep at night doing that. >> you know how that ends. >> i know how that ends. >> the end of livelihoods? >> but what worries me morris the people and the communities. that's what you see suffering.
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see the communities drying up with the water. >> the overdraft of the aquifer is a result. >> climate scientist co-founded the pacific institute, a global water think tank based in california. >> farmers have brought a tremendous amount of land into production and that requires a lot of water. in part, climate change is reducing the amount of water going to recharge those aquifers. >> rising temperatures means more water and intense heat causes water to evaporate. there is a long established link between climate change and drought, like the one kansas experienced in 2022 causing record low prescription in seven western communities. >> what we are seeing in the aquifer in the depletion of ground water and central valley of california where every year,
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we see massive overdraft of ground water and in the southern parts of the san joaquin valley. we have to bring ground water back into balance or else there will be serious disruptions. >> farmers saw heavy water use as key to success, attitudes are changing. >> the green zone is optimal range for moisture for this crop. >> steve kromp ton uses a tablet to manage his sprinklers. >> when it rained, people would let their systems run and everybody is so conscious of that and get supplemental rain, no reason to keep it running. i like the way they spin around. >> he became disabled after a
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car accident. >> we can look at that thing on the internet and know what the level of moisture is on that ground. we know after a rain whether we can turn for a while and conserve some water. >> even though none of the wells have run dry, compton with all the other farmers in his county and three neighboring counties have committed to cutting their water use up to 25%. katie did yourham implemented water usage in her district following success with them in northern kansas. >> people can take local control. having conversations about what this meant and how it would affect them and the big question is what is going to happen if we don't do something. >> for compton, it's about being a good steward of the land and
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resources. >> the farmer loves the land and do whatever we can to maintain that type of life and able to pass that on. >> back down in southwest kansas which has seen the steepest declines, no restrictions are in place to control overpumping. >> everyone has the right to drive themselves into bankruptcy but somebody has to back off. that's what i did and i sought other technologies to be more efficient. the sadness of the losing the water. >> he has invested in a new irrigation system that uses water more efficiently and begun to replace corn crops, a resilient grain that can be used to feed cattle and people. peterson has reduced his water use by 15%. and for him, that means his sons may have a shot of carrying on
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the family business. >> conserving the water is a big part of them having the opportunity to be successful here. could have a sound economy around them to support the operation and that would be fantastic. >> whether or not the voluntary conservation efforts of farmers will be enough remains as uncertain as any given day's weather. for the pbs "newshour." i'm stephanie sy. >> latoya reub yes frazier come together. jeffrey brown has art and action and intersection of arts and democracy and part of our
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series. >> monuments are of a kind we are not used to seeing, art works to honor and bring about small d democratic. latoya ruby frazier calls them monuments of solidarity. >> we live in a world. and we just want to swipe through images and not pausing, slowing down or thinking about what the power of images actually are. i believe in the power of photography. the power of photography to reshape how we see ourselves in our families and communities and the world. >> frazier gained notice in a mask arthur genius award portraying herself, mother and grandmother in the larger context of america's industrial
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decline. she grew up in pennsylvania, a once thriving town where andrew carnegie built his first steel mill. the museum res troa expectative enhanced with silent videos and wall installation, a kind of poem listing various toxins. she shows the closing of a major medical center and her response to art to a leavey straws used her -- levi straws. strauss. >> ways we are able to show up for other people and people who may not be able to give us anything in return. >> if one wants to explore those issues in our culture, society and politics.
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why is the camera your way in? >> that's how i got my start. and that's where i am born and raised from and i always felt and i witnessed how people were forgotten and became invisible and people weren't telling those stories anymore. >> another story, flint is family, centered on the water crisis in flint, michigan and impact on specific individuals. told through photographs, texts written by residents and video which she tells her own story. she said do you drink that water? you see them drinking.
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my daughter will follow people. she's aware. i hate that she's aware. >> frazier is the artist but her work is a collective approach that empowers people normally seen as subjects. >> getting myself into their lives and social fabric of that community and then that's when we start to make the portraits together. in my case, the people that i'm collaborating with, they are the ones choosing to present themselves how they would like to be seen and choosing the time they want to be photographed, they choose the location and then they also choose to say what it is they want to say. so i work directly with them. i wear many hats in order to create this robust series of images and voices and story telling. >> also now bringing us into the work in an unusual way.
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here an installation of text of baltimore health workers, set six feet apart. >> it is very sculp turl. >> the intravenous pole. wait a minute. i recognize this is universal medical equipment. >> you transformed. >> modified it so it holds the artwork. >> this is work as monument. the workers she sees as undervalued and choose how they want to be photographed and giving their own voices through the text. >> this solidarity democrat advertisees the art and making the photograph and puts forth new ideas different ways to dream our economy and labor.
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>> the largest installation "the last cruz." photographs hung on a structure that replicates an assembly line in ohio. the story told of workers fighting a closure in 2018. >> instead of seeing the white crews car you see the men and women who were the laborers building that car and that connection is made between the product and the workers themselves. >> most recent work is titleled a pilgrimage, an homage to the famed labor leader with cesar. throughout the exhibition, she is showing how every day citizens have power to make their lives better and how
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artists and museums can expand to capture and show that. >> as an artist, important to be a witness in your time and mirror what is happening in your society and equally important to inspire people and let them know that they already have the power and can bring about that change and what better way to do it than through photography and storytelling considering we have apparatuses in our hands and pockets that can do it. >> she favors monuments of solidarity is on view. geoff gref join us tomorrow night why a growing number of young men are choosing not to go to college.
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