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against the shoreline as strong winds whipped through trees. it has weakened from a category five to a category four storm. it could still devastate island nations with high winds and storm surge. the bind administration propose add new rule to protect u.s. workers from the dangers of excessive heat exposure. it would require employers to develop heat hazard plants. the measure will save lives. >> across the country, workers suffer heat stroke or even die just doing their jobs. this new rule will substantially reduce heat injuries, illnesses and deaths for over 36 million workers to whom lit apply, from farm workers to construction workers, postal workers, manufacture workers and so much more. >> dangerously high temperatures are afflecking swaths of california ahead of the fourth of july holiday.

sacramento and much of the central valley are expected to hit central highs today and tomorrow. in northern california, electric utility pg&e has shut down powr in an effort to prevent wildfires. the heat is expected to last into next week. the f.d.a. has approved a new drug to modestly throw alzh alzheimer. the ely lily medication can be used for early cases of alzheimer. it has been approved by the f.d.a. to treat the disease. donald trump's sentencing has been pushed until september 18. it was originally set july 11. in may, trump was con convict on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a payment to

adult film star stormy daniels. a manhattan appeals court has disbarred former new york city mayor rudy giuliani for repeating donald trump's claim about fraud. the former federal prosecute or and trump lawyer repeated and intentionally made false statement that is base lesley attacked and undermined the integrity of this country's electoral process. giuliani claim he didn't know the statements he had been making were not true. >> one day after closing out a momentous term, the supreme court announced several high profile cases lit hear in the fall. one challenging the food and drug administration's ban on marketing. flavored e-cigarettes products. and another appealing -- pornographic. and another challenge is on high capacity magazines a case that

could have impacted more than a dozen state laws. officials in northern state, a stampede has killed more than 100 people including many women and children. local media said some 15,000 attendees of a hindu gathering were trying to leave a tent meant to hold 5,000 people. relatives of the victims wept outside. a nearby center. they spoke of the carnage they saw. >> people started falling one upon another, one upon another. those who were crushed, died. >> i came to attend the event with 10 other people. none of them survived. >> gang violence in haiti has displayed 300,000 children in just the last four monthses. that's more than half of the nearly 80,000 people overall made homeless in the ongoing fighting. unicef says many kids are living in makeshift shelters with some forced to

joe: violent gangs to survive. those gangs control about 80% of the capital port-au-prince. defense secretary lloyd austin says the u.s. will send in an additional $2.3 billion in security aid to ukraine as he welcomed his ukrainian counterpart to the pentagon this morning ahead of closed door meetings, austin reiterated the bind administration for ukraine's support against russia. >> we will continue to provide the critical capabilities that ukraine needs to push back russian aggression today and to deter russian aggression tomorrow. this package will provide more air defense interceptors, weapons and other critical munitions from u.s. inventories. >> men time in kyiev, zelensky hosted victor or ban for his first visit since russia's 2022 invasion. he has criticize sized the military support for ukraine.

he urged zelensky to -- to a cease-fire. what history tells us about presidential immunety new laws an tracking gun sales highlight the divide between blue and red states. and a scottish oil town provides a test case for the country's pledge to be carbon neutral by 2050. >> this is the pbs newshour, with weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism from arizona state university. >> israel launched missiles in hazah. it's not the first time in this now nine-month war that israeli forces have claimed to clear hamas from an area only to return weeks or months later.

in the streets of hanyunis pain and prayer for the dead as residents mourn, palestinians kill overnight in israeli bombardment. the strikes came a day after israel order add mass evacuation in the city in response to a barrage of rockets it said it was fired from han yun es into israel. many of those forced to flee have been displaced multiple times. they carry only their most crucial belongings. >> god know where we will go tomorrow. sit tiger. this time we did not take anything with us. there's no time to carry anything. >> for wounded palestinians, there's also no place for life-saving care. the european hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals is now virtually empty. patients are being transferred to the nearby nassar hospital

already packed full. israel had largely withdrawn from han yunis is they're telling them to go to another location. this isn't the first time the israeli military has assaulted parts of gaza it said it had already cleared of hamas including gaza city and gebalea in the north. for months egypt and qatar has tried to negotiate but progress has stalled. the army is shore of emissions in gaza. but today, prime minister benjamin netanyahu denied the claim. >> we will end the war only after we achieve all of the goals. we do not give up no to the winds of defeat not from the

"new york times" or anyone else. >> we turn to daniel diamond, the author of "high price: the triumphs and failures of israeli counter terrorism." let me ask you about this policy now, this pattern, rather of the i.d.f. going back into areas it had cleared and left in gaza. what does it tell you about how the military campaign is going? is this kind of pattern to be expected in this warfare? >> this kind of pattern is to be expected because of frankly a flaw in how israel has approached gaza from the start. it's gone in. it's tried to kill hamas fighters, remove them. but it hasn't left enough forces to garyson much of the strip. and as a result when israeli forces leave, hamas reconstitutes itself. this is a lesson that the united states learned the hard way in afghanistan and especially iraq, which is that you need to have something governing the

territory you conquer and israel has filed do that. reporter: the stated goal as you know has been to eliminate @isl goal based on what you've seen? >> completely eliminating hamas is unrealistic. this is an organization that not only has over 25,000 firefighters and their arms before the war began, but also as extensive, social and educational religious networks in gaza. israel can reduce hamas's military strength, can make it harder for the organization to fight as a large coherent force. but hamas is going to be a presence in gaza at least for the short to medium term. and that's going to be very hard for israel to change. >> we cited that "new york times" report quoting an israeli army that they're fighting out of munition. benjamin netanyahu has denied those reports.

what do you make of that? >> the israeli military has to worry about three different wars. first is the war in gaza. it's using many munitions for that. my sense that it does have enough munitions to continue that on a day-to-day bays -- basis. israel has two other wars. one is the limited war that's going on across the border with lebanon where it's fighting the lebanese hezbollah. we've seen thousands of attacks across the border and well over 1,000 people died on the lebanese side, over a dozen israelis. and this is not only something ongoing but kit become a full bore conflict. if so it would daph what we've seen in gaza. hezbollah is a much more formidable force and the israeli military would need a lot of munitions and wants to keep a lot in reserve for that possibility. and as we saw in april is an

open shooting war in iraq. when this happened in april, israel used its missile defense forces and only had a limited retaliation. but the possibility that iran could be involved in a much bigger conflict is something that the israeli military has to worry about. reporter: we should know that one of the reasons israel continues to fight in gaza is because hamas continues to launch attacks. this latest israeli air strike was in response to such attack. how does hamas nine months into this war industrial the capability to carry out those kind of attacks? >> so hamas has prepared for this war for -- really for years. and we know that it has amassed massive ammunitions stockpiles, rocket stockpiles. we saw some of it on october 7th itselfs which involved massive rocket attacks on israel. it's not surprising that they've

kept some in reserve, probably in tunnels or other estimate facilities that are secured -- or other facility ies that are secured. hamas retained some capability including the capability to try to attack israel exact limb >> i have less than a minute left. i wonder if you can summarize for us based on u.s. war conduct you've seen in other nations. have you ever -- do you see any comparison there between israel is doing and what you've seen the u.s. do in other places? >> so the u.s. first went into iraq and was fighting insurgent there is it filed secure territory. what israel needs to do is establish a palestinian government. until it does that it's going to face significant problems. reporter: professor, thank you so much for your time and i

sight. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. amna: the supreme court's landmark decision on president trump's immunity from legal prosecution has potential to transform the powers of the presidency our jeffery brown takes a deeper look on how the ruling fits with history. >> how much power for the executive branch? what kind of legal restraints? those are question that is have been debated since the beginning of the country. but now by any account, there's been a major new development. we look at the past and potential future with historian heather cox richardson a professor at boston college. welcome back to the program. let's do stewart history. what do you see when you look at these early debates about presidential power that might help us think about now?

>> i want to be clear that there hasn't been much dispute about the power of the president since the founding of the united states of america. the people who framed the constitution as well as the people who wrote the declaration of independence were very clear that they did not want a king. that it was important for the chief executive to have guard rails around him at the time is what they thought. and that those -- that it was imperative that the -- the president always was answerable to the law. so we had alexander hamilton in federalist 69 being very clear that the president could be impeached. the president could be convicted of treason or bribery or high crimes or misdemeanors could be removed from office and crucially would always as he said be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. they contrasted that with the king. now, that really has not been in dispute as we now certainly we've got from 1974 when

president richard nixon stepped down because he had broken laws and received an accepted a pardon from gerald ford which suggested that he recognized that a president could be held liable for crimes. and we've had in the confirmation hearings of many of the supreme court justice who is yesterday overturned that central rule of law saying they too believe that the president should be under the control of the law. so this is not a question of we've jockeyed with this. this is a question of this is a brand-new development that undermines the central american principle that we are all answerable to the law. now no one is above it. no one is below it. >> the majority of the court said it's distinguishing now between official and unofficial acts. why is that not a reasonable demarcation line? why won't courts in the future be able to distinguish between

those? >> well, the -- that was an interesting part of the dec decision, now because as they said that we have never had to explore what an official act is for the presidency. what they did was they suggested that the people who would have to arbitrate that would be the court itself. so in a way what they've done is set themselves up as a people who get to decide whether or not what a president does is legal or can be -- can be prosecuted. but just to be clear, this has never come up before, in part because presidents have never been unconstrained by criminal prosecution. that's not to say that we didn't have president who is crossed that line. and we can have a great discussion about who they might have been been and who they might have done. think about what that looks like.

for example, you could say that as george w. bush did with his signing statement that regardless of what congress said about torture, he could engage in that. now, think about the things that a president could do and, in fact, somebody put on social media yesterday an a.i. program that said, say what crime you want to commit and a.i. will tell you how you can say it's an official act. think of what somebody who is not liable for criminal acts might behave. >> well, what do you fear now? we have a former president trump has a track record. his first administration he's spoken of things he wants to do in the future if elected. what do you fear and why do you think that these constitutional checks and balances that we have will not hold? >> well, they're gone. it's not a question. people are saying this might be a problem in the future. no, we're in the problem because

the rule of law -- law and order underpins our entire system, the idea that everybody should be treated equally in the courts. the supreme court just ripped that up. what am i afraid of? first of all, that people don't recognize what a big deal this is. this isn't an adjustment in the law. this is a change in our entire constitutional system. it says that there's one of the three branches of government that cannot be checked by the other two. and i don't think that people necessarily understand what that means. and all you have to do is look to any authorityian country and look at hungary. victor orbgban can do that. they can't say no.

we have just -- our supreme court has just done the same thing. >> heather cox richardson, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. ♪ amna: it's been more than two years since the supreme court ended the constitutional right to abortion. since then, nearly two dozen states have bandore stricted access to the procedure and to abortion pills. special correspondent sarah vane traveled to one of those states, tennessee to report on the disproportionate impact abortion bans are having on black women. it's part of our ongoing coverage of race matters. >> he's actually 14 in that photo. this was the year where he's graduating from the eighth grade. >> nicole blackman's son done yell was shot and killed two years ago.

an innocent by stander. nicole and her husband moved to a nashville suburb. after so many tries, i did finally get pregnant. >> blackman long had difficulty conceiving after having daniel. so she was elated when she became pregnant. but four months into her pregnant sit doctors said the fetus was growing outside of the body and she was becoming so dangerously ill, she hospitalized. the couple found out that tennessee lawmakers had outlawed abortion. >> when you learned that you were unable to end your pregnancy here in tennessee, what was your husband's reaction? >> he was devastated. you're putting your life on the line, you know, we just lost daniel. and i don't want to lose you. >> the couple considered driving out of state. but nicole was already too sick

to work with no paid sick leave. and her husband a housepainter would lose a week of wages. at 36, she vaginally delivered a stillborn baby. >> i did ask the doctors put a sheet in between me and the doctor because mentally, i did not want to be prepared to see the baby like that after just losing my son and i wanted to just have a memory in my head on how i wanted the baby to be in my head. >> and blackmon isn't facing these restrictions alone. 57% of black women between the ages of 15 and 49 or about 7 million women live in states from abortion is pand or limited. tennessee has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the done terrorism and black women are two and half times more

likely to die from pregnancy related causes regardless of their income. >> the republican legislature made a few limited exceptions to the total abortion ban last year abortions are now legal if a pregnant woman is facing death or at risk of irreversible damage to a major bodily function. pregnant women doctors say are still in danger. >> how long have you been practices in tennessee? >> since 2016. dr. rolanda lister is at vanderbilt medical center in nashville. >> one of the unfortunate challenges was not having choice for a mother especially when there's a lethal, fetal anomaly is the complication that is can potentially happen from continuing a pregnancy. >> complications like post-partum hemorrhage and preeclampsia, a high blood

pressure disorder that can lead to organ failure. >> it's hard to justify continuing some pregnancies that have very little to no likelihood of survival. >> it's not uncommon for her office to leave tennessee for abortion care. >> we provide them with phone numbers, foundation that is help with travel. we do our best to assist patients if that's what they have decided to do after hearing the unfortunate news about their unborn baby. >> last year, more than 17 1,000 patients traveled across state lines to end a pregnancy. that's more than double the number who did so in 2019. >> some people have been able to travel out of state to get abortion care. but for a lot of people, that's not really practical. >> lisa rungee is at k.a.f.f. >> most black women do not have

enough savings to be able to afford a $500 or more unexpected expense. so it's about getting the care and traveling potentially long distance. >> she said black women who are pregnant enter the health system at a disadvantage already. >> they experience discrimination and racism in all sectors of society including healthcare system. that has affected their access to care, their access to providers and treatment to providers for a long time. >> there are safe ways that you can obtain an abortion. it might not be safe. but there are safe ways where we don't have to use coat hangers or kostic services. >> tia freeman educates tennesseans about their options outside of medicals. she leads trainings on how to take abortion pills in a state where republican lawmakers have made doing so illegal. >> we're getting more and more

people who are scrambling to fight people they're in community with who know who might know someone who can help them out. we're seeing people continue unintended pregnancies because they don't have access to a clinic nearby. >> access has long been limited fo women in southern states especially for black women. >> a lot of people say roe is the floor not the ceiling. a lot of people were barred from care anyway. and black women between the ages of 18 to 59 have higher uni uninsured rates than their white counter parts. far more black women live in southern states that have not expanded medicaid under obamacare. without insurance, women's access to healthcare is limited and costly including prescription birth control pills and i.u.d.'s and routine guyn logical care. >> it's really important before, during and after pregnant sit but we know that in states that have not expanded medicaid, a

lot of people only gain health insurance once they become pregnant. and that's particularly for lore income people. >> freeman has had two abortions. she wants to focus on supporting her son financially and emotionally. and she's deeply committed to his future and her own. a landmark study that tracked 1,000 pregnant women for a decade found that # 2% of those who were denied an abortion ended up in poverty. nearly 20% higher than women like freeman who were able to obtain abortion care. >> i think that for black people abortion is a little bittory point of access because the blockages for yup ward mobility when people experience unintended pregnant estimate the lack of access to career option, college and education because of the high rate of maternal mortal tim >> for now, nichol blackman is the lead plaintiff for a

reproductive rights lawsuit p over its abortion babb. but she's take an painful step to protect herself. >> i did decide to have my tubes removed because i was scared of going through all of that all over again knowing that i'm going in a battle with no support from the doctors because the doctors' hands are tied. and that's not much that they can. do >> had you been able to have an abortion when you wanted it? would you have wanted to try again? try to get pregnant again? >> yes, i would have gave myself another chance at having another baby. >> who do you blame for what happened to you? >> i blame the law. i blame the law for being made not thinking about the different reasons women go through what they go through. not making it where women are able to make their own decisions when it comes to their body. >> decisions, she says that can

be life or death. for the pbs newshour, i'm sarah vane in nashville. -- varney in nashville. ♪ >> new and conflicting laws around the purchase of firearms are taking effect across different states this week. in california, the law now requires credit card companies to provide banks with special retail codes for gun stores in order to help track their sales. but just the opposite is happening in georgia, iowa, tennessee and wyoming where it's now illegal for banks and credit card companies to track that information. stephanie sy has more on that story and joins us now. stephanie? stephanie: amna, credit cards have been used to buy guns in some of the nation's deadliest mass show shooting.

in 2021, the shooter charged $11,000 to buy ammunition and tactical gear in 2016, the pulse night shooter in orlando put more than 20,000 on credit cards. and in 2017, after alas vegas massacre killed 59 people, police found four credit cards that the shooter used to pay for part of his $95,000 rampage. this new front intacting mass shootings has divided conservative and liberal states. for more, i'm joined by david lee who has been covering this for the "associated press." david, senior thank you so much for joining the "newshour." can you briefly remind us how merchant codes work >> those what you see in your end of year credit card statements that give you an idea of how much you spend on groceries or clothes? >> that's the most common way that a consumer would be familiar with these. a merchant category code is set by the international organization of standardization. that's a big mouthful but that's

a group that sets standards for a variety of fields across the world actually. so they have come up with a new four-digit code that can be assigned to stores that primarily sell guns and ammunition. >> how specific is this code? is it one code, and can a credit card company tell whether you bought a gun from wal-mart or a sporting goods store? and is having that information potentially sharing it a privacy violation? >> so these codes are shared by credit card networks like visa or mastercard with banks that issue credit cards and which have accounts with businesses. it's the banks that then internode side how to categorize particularly businesses. so until now, a place that sold guns say a wal-mart that sold guns was probably not categorized as a gun store, probably a general merchandise

store and still might be categorizedda as a general merchandise store. where this comes into play of stores that specialize in guns. when someone bias something from one of those stores lit show up as a gun store purchase. but they won't be able to tell whether you bought a gun, ammunition, a gun safe or perhaps hunting apparel like an orange hunting vest. >> so why do states like california believe this could combat mass killings? companies have the names of companies ever time there's a transaction. they already from what i understand values the right to flag that to law enforcement authorities for further investigation. why is this needed? >> so some state officials and gun control activists hope that by categorizing particular stores as gun stores, banks will

be able to spot unusual purchasing patterns. let's say you're not usually shopping at a gun store. but suddenly, you make a large purchase from a gun store. but not just from one but multiple gun stores in a short period of time that might raise ssuspicions. they could do further investigation and gun control activists hope potentially thwart a crime or a mass shooting. >> does it legal to unlawful government spying, which is what republican critics of this type of rule suggest it does? are you expecting legal challenges? >> well that is the fear from gun rights advocates. that's why republican legislatures have passed some sort of measure that limits or outright prohibits the assigning of gun store codes to particular

retailers. their fear is what might be suspicious to one person is not actually suspicious at all. let's take the example that for their job has to undergo periodic training. that person may buy a large quantity of ammunition for a weekend training session. may be perfectly legal but it could arise suspicions to one. scenarios like that that gun rights advocates are concerned about casting unwarranted suspicion on people that have done nothing wrong. >> what you have now is a pat work of law that is contradict each other with states like california saying they want this merchant code and other states saying they prohibit credit card companies from using these codes. how are the companies going to comply with this pat work of laws? >> well, visa and its latest manual that it distributes to all of its customers included

this new standard and put a footnote on there that said this is being distributed in complains with california law. but only the banks and financial institutions in california are required to assign this to businesses. so yes, the situation exists that across the country the very same store in one state might be categorized as a gun shop but in another state it might still be categorized as sporting goods store. >> it's a development that we'll don't follow especially as we reach peak summer when we often see a lot of gun violence in cities. david leve, thanks so much for joining us. >> glad to be here. ♪ amna: a major issue in britain's general election this week is the cost of living

crisis. fueled by speaking inflation after russia's invasion of ukraine. that in turn has put pressure on the country's pledge written into law to become carbon neutral by 2050. sam rep reports from aberdeen, scotland in partnership with the pulitzer accident. sam: for much of its history aberdeen anchored the local economy. >> then 50 years ago amid a global energy crisis, black gold was discovered in the north sea. >> liquid gold, call it what you like. now it has oil. >> it became the anchor of the oil industry. hundreds of off-shore rigs came in to reel in gas, oil and money. but with reserves dwindling and a global climate crisis, the united kingdom set a goal to

reach net zero by 2015, something highlighted in glasgow, scotland which set a 2045 net zero target. the city of aberdeen, se self-described as europe's oil capital pledged to become the energy capital. it's almost like another industrial revolution. >> maggie leads a nonprofit called the energy transition zone in aberdeen. it's intended as an incubator for new companies and emerging technologies like this experimental platform for floating wind sur wines. >> we see a managed transition that's more focused on energy production from off-shore winds from hydrogen and then the carbon catcher. >> half a mile away at the technical north eastern scotland college students train to work on wind farms.

>> t.j. prycely and chloe mcintosh like the adventure of working on remote platforms miles out to see for weeks at a time >> we're paid the money that we are because -- it's good money that we got into. >> brody is a renewable tech student >> i wanted to do mechanical work. and since renewables are the next yup coming thing and it's only going to be bigger, this would be the next thing. are it's a real exciting place to be a student in northeast scotland. >> if many students the choice of oil and gas or renewables is not hard. >> the skills are really transferable. traditional oil companies still exist. they need the employees. off-shore wind and wave power, they're looking for employees as well. >> 3/4 of our total energy need still come from oil and gas. so the starting point in our

journey to decarbonize is already a challenging one. >> john underhill directs the center for energy center at the university of aberdeen. he said it has been subject to detours thanks to global development and politics closer to home. >> in the period since cop 26, there's been a seismic event if you like. with events in ukraine, we now see that energy security and affordability have come right up the political agenda. perhaps at the expense of environmental sustainbility and -- and climate compatibility. >> gas prices and inflation overall sword after the invasion. creating a cost of living cr crisis. britain's government called for redoubled efforts to drill more in the north sea in pursuit of energy security. but to critics this was a step backwards evidence more of the

influence of oil companies than any security or climate concerns. >> the problem is with the same company making its profit out of producing fossil fuels, at the same time controlling the conversation about how quickly renewables are going to expand -- >> eric dellhausen who once worked in the petroleum industry now runs a group called aberdeen climate action. >> we need a different approach to actually do the things that bring these emissions down that take our energy demand down. >> >> little has been invested in lower demands. insulation for example retro figure britain's aging building and housing stock which account for as michigan as a forth of all its carbon emissions. >> the northeast college doesn't have a retro fit department yet. yeah? that's -- that's unbelievable. and because the oil industry

controls this transition funding it's pretty much impossible to get transition funding. four things that were to develop these jobs. >> and the jobs so far in renewable energy have brought little benefit locally. >> thousands of wind turbines dock the coast, an effort to decarbonize the energy source. but many people in aberdeen see something different. they see imported turbine almost al of which have been installed using foreign labor. workers on boats many paid farless than even the british minimum wage. >> those are terrible optics, aren't they? >> they are. they're terrible on tickets. >> david -- terrible optics. >> there's great work that shows we can learn from that >> he insister that is new homegrown jobs will be emerging like hydrogen, carbon capture

and storage and floating wind turbine that is can be in india waters but oil and gas will remain the most reliable source for decades and must re911 the mix. a total switch to renewables by 2050 is simply not feasible. >> you'll never get there more quickly enough. yes, could you could have winds. but we will have black outs. it's a recognition that while we use oil and gas and we will be on 2050, it is right that we produce our own. we've got to take control of renewables. >> jake malloy says fossil fuels will continue to be part of the energy mix because it's profit for oil companies. what's needed is grid expansion to transmit renewable energy, he says. that will create thousands of

jobs. >> what we should be doing is transitioning them into what has to be done to enable all of this that they're going to produce. >> they don't have the infrastructure for it just yet. you can produce it. for people -- what are people going to do when the wind drops? >> we've got nothing. zero >> we've not had a long-term energy policy in the uk since the 1970's. >> the professor said britain has taken it for granted for decade. >> we could make some of those net zero targets and much more easily by shutting things down with the cost that comes with that to jobs to security. the -- >> britain accounts for barely 1% of global emissions today. but as a developed economy cradle of the industrial revolution, many scholars say

its example will be watched across the globe. >> i'm fred desam lazero. >> and his reporting is a partnership with the under told stories project at the university of st. noms minnesota. ♪ >> a number of prominent musician including george gershwin, and john lennon before artartists in other mediums. you can grateful dead drummer. mike suray visited hart where his fans are glocking to see his art and to hear the band play in the summer residency. it's part of our culture series "canvas." painting is like music. but when i paint, i hear the music. i can hear the paints. they're full of rhythm.

and that's what i do. art is in the eye and area of the beholder. >> i like to create things from nothing to make things happen. and visual and sing, it doesn't matter. it's just the act of creation. >> for more than a half simplery, he's been part of creating music as a percussionist. more recently he's taken on painting as a second career both as an emotional release and as another medium for the fundamental role art place. >> i play with multirhythms, poly rhythms. so they're very similar. >> is it performance art?

>> it is. >> you are moving to the sounds in your studio? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah, when i paint, i have music going and i'm painting in rhythm. and i'm grooving and i'm having fun. >> rhythm is more than just an inspiration for his art, it's an integral part of his tech "newsweek" which he and others are calling vibrational expressionism. some of his canvass are the actual drum hettes and symbols he's per formed with over the years. they are placed on top of massive audio speakers to let the rhythmic vibrations move the paint around forming unique patterns that can't be created with brushes. >> paint brusheses are too limited for me. so i imagine i couldn't paint better than a -- a -- a billion other people. but this is a different kind of painting. >> i use buckets and all kinds of things from the tank from the ceiling that makes figure eights

and circular movement. >> technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. >> did jackson pollock inspire you at all? >> oh, yeah, he was one of my -- one of my idols. >> i can control the flow of the paint. it was no accident. >> and he was random. and i like random. and i like chaos. chaos, i embrace chaos. and so did -- so did pollock. but he only went so far. and i was going to take it further than that. take it into the vibrational world. >> his sources of good vibration come from as far away from outer space with his collaboration with dr. george smute. >> and as close to home as his own brains' reflections of different rhythm from his medical research with dr. adam

razale. >> they're interchangeable sound and lite. light is more powerful than sound. the eye is an organ more powerful. so naturally just graff stated - graff stat -- gravitated from the visual domain to the sonic domain. >> as is nontraditional is his own ex-position, he's create add pop-up gallery for his work at the venetian hotel so longtime dead heads can buy some of his heart like this guy from new york. >> now him more as amy suggestion but i take him as a full artist. his whole being is art. >> we're dead heads from way back. we want to see everything in this exhibit. >> robin and tim limon came from florida for mickey hart music

and his art. >> i've seen his art some other places. are you surprised by anything you see here? >> yeah, it's actually really good. i didn't expect it to be really good. >> everybody sees something different in the paints. and everybody hears something different in the music. and that's the beauty of both because there's mystery involved in it. >> when you put their out there they're not going to be necessary -- >> critics are long gone. it doesn't matter to me i hope they like it. if they don't, well, they don't. but i wouldn't stop me because i'm not doing it for the critics. i'm doing it for people and for myself. and you know, maybe for the world to watch. >> his art gallery exhibit is convenient for his other career and day job playing with dead and company at the las vegas sphere. yet another canvas showcasing both of his art forms simultaneously on the world's

largest l.e.d. screen. >> when i'm painting, i improvise in the grateful dead, dead and company. that's improvisional music. i love the jam no matter what it is. >> for the pbs newshour, mike suray, at the sphere in las vegas nevada. ♪ amna: prionka is a writer and filmmaker who's new memoir chronicles her search for home from cashmere to england to saudi arabia to michigan to rome and finally to los angeles. she gives her brief but spectacular take on what home means for her today. >> my parents met at its kind of like a hindu bar mitzvah.

it's call a make hall. my parents have been together for 40-something years. they're an incredible partnership. my father has this hilarious practical approach, which is he believes that all marriages should be agreed to in eight-year options. and he goes, do you still want to be married? and you say yeah or no. i mean,s the not the worst idea. >> my book is called. "bird milk and mosquito bones." i lived in kashmir. i lived there until i was two and a half and spent a big part of the year because of 9 because of mounting violence in the region, we had to leave. and we couldn't go back. i moved to london. we moved to saudi arabia. we lived in suburban new york. we lived in michigan. my maternal grandfather definitely created an army of strong sort of pathologically

assertive women. so that's all i knew was to gout on in the world with this confident, noisy attitude. he was always chain smoking. he waxed and twirled his mustache. he inspired me to be bigger than myself. what he taught the girls was to like themselves. they thought what anyone thought was irrelevant. the woman of my family took that edict and ran with it. food and language are everything to us. i mean, you have to understand, we were like tucked away in cold wooden houses. so all we do is food and eat. they don't write recipes. it's this is a delicious lam stew. i have a theory about mothers do not share their recipes. i believe that my mother enjoys

feeding me. so that when i have to take it, i have to call. it's a loving act. i moved there to the middle of my freshman year in high school. my parents loved it immediately. it's really hard for me to go through any segment of any day without thinking how lucky i have it and how i could be dead or in a refugee camp. if i would have been born 200 feet the right, i think books was for other people. at no point did i think it was my vocation. but i got to a certain point of my life where i couldn't hold the words any more. my name is preonka matu but this is my spectacular take of dreaming of home. >> you can watch more online at pbs/org/newshour. and i'm amna nawaz.

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