ycaptioning sponsored b newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. onr the newshounight, the u.s. department of justiceiaues californver its immigration policy. we get reaction fromwo of the defendants: governor jerry brown and state attorney general xavier becerra. then, president trump plans to sign off on new tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. how the owner of a company that maeskes beer kegs he economic repercussions. also ahead, parched land and dwindling livestock-- a severe drought in somalia threatens the country's agriculture and many who rely on it. >> as far as the eye can see you would no see camels, goats and sheep. now however it's completely desolate. and that, is not norma >> woodruff: all that and more

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the nation's top law enforcement official made his case in california today, after filing suit against the state. william brangham begins ou coverage. >> california, we have a problem. >> brangham: attorney general jeff sessions served notice to california, in california: he's going to the mat on sanctuary cities. >> california, it absolutely appears tos using every power it has and some it doesn't to frustrate federal law enforcement. so you can be sure i'm going to use every power i have to stop em >> brangham: his law enforcement audience welcomed the pledge of support. but dozens protested today in sacramento after news that the justice department sued the state in federal court last night. the target: three california laws pasd last year that dress how the state interacts with federal immigration officials. one statut cooperating with those immigration agencies without a

court order, and requires them to alert workers of impending raids. a second limits police communications with federal authorities when immigrants are about to be released from custody. the third required the state to inspect federal immigrant detention facilities. sessions called the laws a violation of the u.s. constitution, and "common sense". >> stop protecting lawbreakers and giving all officers more dangerous work to do so that a politicians can score political points on the backs of officer safety. i can't accept that. >> brangham: that last point was aimed at oakland mayor libby schaaf who sounded the alarm last month about an imminent raid in her city by ice-- immigration and customs enforcement. >> residents should know that they do not have an obligation to open thors if an ice official knocks. >> brangham: ice detained more thanndocumented immigrants in those raids, but it said some 800 others avoided the roundup,

thanks to the mayor's warning. >> here's my message to mayor schaaf: how dare you. how dare you needlessly endanger the lives of law enforcement officers just to promote a radical open bders agenda? >> brangham: the jusce department now says schaaf's actions are "under revw." itad already warned that cities and states with other similar sanctuary-city laws might lose federal grants. but california governor jerry brown answered today that ns' new lawsuit amounts to a "political show." >> this is completely unprecedented for the chief law enforcement the united states to come out here and engage in a political stunt, make wild accusations, many of which are based on outright lies. that's unusual. >> brangham: brown and other political leaders in california warned they'll fight the feds in court. meanwhile, president trump praised immigration agents at a summit of the latino coalition in washington.

>> the border patrol and the ice and the-- all of the different people that are working so hard. law enforcement generally. they're working so hard on the drug problem. >> brangham: the president made no mention of the fight over sanctuary cities. for the pbs ur, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: we'll hear from he governor and the attorney general of california, after the news summary. in the day's other news, the white house signaled that president trump might back his plans to punish u.s. trading partners. he's talked of broad new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, despite objectioic by top repus and business groups. this afternoon, press secretary sarah sanders said tre might be exemptions after all. >> there are potential carve outs for mexico and canada based on national security. and possibly other countries as well based on that process. >> specifically what would they have to do? >> again, that would ba case

by case and country by country basis but it would be determed whether or not there is a national security exemption. >> woodruff: in a series of morning tweets, the president called forhina to trim its trade surplus with the u.s. the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, joined in. >> the trouble is execution of plan didn't dohat his instincts said to. they caused far more harm to countries that aren't rapacious in their trading, where we benefit from trading. canada where we have a surplus. western europe. they ought to put tother a real plan that works >> woodruff: meanwhile, the commerce department reported that in january, the u.s. trade deficit hit $56 billion, the worst since october of 2008. the chief of the u.s. forest service, tony tookounced this evening he's retiring, amid allegations of sexual misconduct. it follows a newshour stigation of widespread complaints of sexual harassment

within the f an ongoing probe of tooke's own behavior. in a letter to staff, he says he's been forthright, but that it's best he step down imme the secretary of the department of veterans affairs, davidde shulkin, came new criticism today. the agency's inspector general said "failed leadership" during the obama years endangered veterans' health care. shulkin was a deputy secretary then, and e report cited shortcomings in programs under his control. he said he does not recall bei told of the problems. the northeastern u.s. is under assault tonight from its second major winter storm in less than a week. blowing snow made for poor .sibility in delaware tod pennsylvania and new york even banned big rig trucks from some highways. and, the governor of massachusetts warned residents to be on alert. >> it's expected that at some poinmay have snow falling at a rate of as much as two or

three inches an hour. this could lead to whiteout conditions as far east as boston and potentacross the western and northeastern part of the state. >> woodruff: more than 90,000 customers are still without power across the region, after last friday's nor'easter. the storm has also forced cancellation of more than 700 flights. the accused gunman in the florida hool shootings was formally indicted today. nikolas cruz faces 17 counts of first-degree murder, plus 17 of attempted murder. his public defender says he'll plead guilty if prosecutors forego the death penalty. in britain, scotland yard confirmed that a nerve agent was used to attack a one-time russian double age, sergei skripal, and his daughter. skripal had lived in southn england after being freed in a spy swap years ago. but, officials stopped short today of directly accusing moscow.

rohit kachroo of independent television news, reports. >> reporter: tueay afternoon in salisbury last week. a local resident goes to buy milk, meat and scratch cards. the scene could hardly be any more mundane. expect this is sergei skripal, the former spy who would later be specifically targeted with his daughter. ght, investigators confirmed that they were poisoned by a nerve agent. >> in summary it is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent. as you know these two people remain critically ill in a hospital. sadly in addition, a police officer s one of the first to attend to the scene and ond to the incident is n also in a serious condition in a hospital. >> my message tohe public is that this event poses a low risk to us the public on the evidence we have.

>> reporter: the investigation is growing. the lice cordon expanding. new buildings were included today. veere is a sense of extreme urgency among inigators and ministers. the government's emergency committee cobra was convened today. >> our thoughts are with everybody affected. particularlyhe two people who are still in hospital. this is likely to be a lengthy d ongoing process. we need to make sure that we respond not to rumor but tall the evidence that they collect and then we will need to decide what action to take. >> reporter: tonight near mr. skripal's home, a tent was erected as officercollected evidence. he should be here hostinr his visiom russia, his daughter. instead they're both at the heart of a medical operation, a police investigation and a diplomatic crisis. >> woodruff: that report from

rohit kachroo of independent television news. uth korea's president moon in says he wants to keep sanctions on north korea, for now, despite a diplothaw. moon spoke to members of his mpling party today in seoul. he said it's itant to maintain pressure on the north, to try to make it give up nuear weapons. moon and north korea's leader kim jong-un e to hold a summit next month. there's wo forces in syria have cut eastern ghouta in two. war monitors based in london say it happened today in the damascus suburb. plumes of smoke rose above the area under heavy shelling. th human rights chief decried the bloodshed today, from geneva. >> recent attempts to justify indiscriminate, brutal attacks on hundreds of thousands of civilians by the need to combat a few hundred fighters as in eastern ghouta, are legally and morally unsustainable.

claims by vernment of syria that it is taking every measure to protect its civilian poon are frankly ridiculous. >> woodruff: at least 800 civilians have been killed in eastern ghouta, in the past three weeks. the u.n. security council has demanded a 30-day cease-fire. it called today for the truce to bemented. back in this country, texas' first-in-the-nation mid-term primaries brought a surge in rnout tuesday, for both parties. tmocrats surpassed a million voters for the fire since 2002. the g.o.p. contests had 1.5 million. breaks a record set in 2010. no democrat has won a statewide race in texas since 1994. the white house today dismissed new claims that a po film star had an extra-marital affair with president trump back in 2006. stephanie clifford, known as "stormy daniels," had previously denied an affair.

she reversed herself in a lawsuit aimed at throwing out a non-disclosureeal. she signed it just before the 2016 election, and received $130,000 from the president's lawyer. and, wall street struggled again to make headway amid trade tensions. the dow jones industrial average lost 82 points to close at 24,801. the nasdaq rose 24 points, and the s&p 500 slipped one. still to come on the newshour: i speak to california's governor and attorney general about the immigration lawsuit against their state. a view from an industry stakeholder on proposed tariffs. why fa is becoming more frequent in east africa, and much more. >> woodruff: we return to justice department's case against the state of california

over immigration. and are joined bd two of the nafendants: california governor jerryatrown and the s attorney general, xavier becerra. gentlemen, thank you both for joining us. governor brown, to you first. the trump administration is saying basically that the state of california is protecting lawbreakers. hat what you're doing. no. that's absolutely untrue, and as you've seen from t various indictments and the guilty pleas, the white house is ful of liars, and, unfortunately, our attorney general, with this political stunt, adds to thees f the white house. we're not protecting criminals. we have a l that says exactly the oms. and oany time jeff sessionsr immigration wants to work to help deport criminals in this state, we'll be glad to help him. but that's not what he's doing. he going after men, women, and children-- some who have worked 10 or 20 years picking our food, washing our dishers, building

houses. immigratione need reform for the whole nation. we don't need a gestapo-kind of tactic with vitriole spewing out of jeff sessions' mouth. it's not what our highest law enforcement officer should be doing. >> woodruff: attorney becerra, i'm going to read somethingrn at general sessions said in california in your state. he said, "i can't sid i'dly by when e authority of federal officers is being blocked by legislative actsby politicians in your state." >> that's not true. don't governor said, we block it. we allow the federal government to do immigration enforcement because thheir role. that's their province. we don't get in the way. but we don't expect them to try to coerce us to do federal immigration enforcement for them. we do public safety, and we do it whaell, and that's we'll continue to do. but they should not try to force us by threatening funds for ow law enforcement officers, our police and sheriffs, and by

threatening that, they think they're going to get to us cooperate witthem. that's not cooperation. that's coercion, and we're not going too there. >> and, by the way, we do cooperate. we cooperate through the state prisons, through jails. ice can come out here and pick up their man or woman whenever they want. they're going way beydthat. they're going to raids, they're picking up kids,rs mot fathers. what we need, jeff session, propose an intelligent immigration reform, and we'll work with but don't come out with these dined of gutter tactics, bring some of yourlly discredited politics from your background he. it's t right. it's not generous, and it's not christian. >> woodruff: governor, how are the people of the country, who may not knowe fine print of your state law versus the federal law, to understandhis? because today, for example, the attorney general said, "we admit 1.1 million immigrants lawfully trery year into this co for immigrant-- for permanent lega so he said, the good people of

this country are right to insist that we end-- that we create a rational immigration flow and protect the country from criminal aliens." he is focused on people who he ys are break the law, who he says your state, again, is protecting. >> that is is a lie. i'm choose might go words very carefully. the law explicitly recognizes the supremacy of federal law. we have explicit statutes of cooperation. we don't want to protect any criminals. but we do want to make sure we are a country of law and order, and that's some kind of authoritarian coming out here for a 10-minute speech, and then running back to washington, and then sending it out to the trump i mean, this is a serious problem with many of men and women and children'sives at stake here. and i call upon mr. sessions and mr. trump to act like americans, act like the good christians they claim to be, and work with us to get a good immigtion

law, and not to try to just hyperbolically scare the hell out ofad people ins of working with the biggest state in our country in cooperative way. >> woodruff: attorney general becerra, have you and others the state of california tried to explain to the u.s. justice department where you're coming from? because thet portrait-he picture being painted here in washington by the trump administration is diametrically different from what i'm hearing you and governor brown say. >> well, we have tried. and in fact, not only have tried, but we've had to file cases in court to try to make our case clear. in fact, 12 times we've had victories against e trump administration for this very reason. they portray things as they're not. then, when we finally have to challenge them in court because they're not willing to make chte ge, we win. and so if anyone has to change their ways, is fedal government. and i agree with the governor that if attorney general sessions would simply sit down withs, we could get this

resolved. every day, our law enforcement officers from o local officers to my division of law enforcement personnel, we'da workinto day with every federal law enforcement agency you can think of-- whether it's ice, f.b.i., d.e.a. we can continue to do that work. but we don't need to havetrolks ng to make a political statement here. that doesn't give exwus progress. te i agree with that. we're thrd by the cartels and the gangs and the dope coming in here and the guns going south. yeah, we need to cooperate to otect the public, to protect america, and sessions is just viding. he's sowing discourse at a time when we need toome together. he's building walls instead of bridges. that is the only way we will stand tall in a dangerous turbulent world we live in. >> woodruff: i ce back to e word of the attorney general, "it can't be someone who illegally come come crossese border, and arrives home free

emver to beed. it can't be the policy of a great nation to up and reward those who unlawfully enter its country without documentation." >> well, as he framed ti agree with that. but that's not what he's doing. look, the trump people have a record-- i think it's 1-- what is it 11,014 lies and misrepresentations coming out of the white use. sessions is in a cesspool of deception and mendacity. don''lbelieve him. work with him to deport criminals. our prison system does that every day. let's work together, pull america together, and not divide and throw out this red meat for the most extreme elements of their politica >> woodruff: attorney general becerra, what do you say to attorney general sessions' charge that california has, in his words, enacted number of laws designed to intentionally oeb struck the the work of our orn immigration enforcement

officers, to intentionally undermine their abilities to do their jobs. >> well, it's an intentional misrepresentation. if you just simply read the ws, most of those statutes say from the very beginni as required by federal law, we will do this." they actually point out the statute that the trump administration has tried to sue col, where we actually cite the words of the statute in thosens provisf law that we have in california that essentially protect the federal government's right to enforce immigration w. and so they continue to say these things. but the statutes that they point to, that restrict the ability of ice to do its work are the very statutes that say we exempt federal law, or we allow federao law ake precedent over anything that the state law says. so it's a clear misrepresentation by them. >> and by the way, the attorney general got a very tep response. i think out of 200 people, 10 people stood up after he gave and the most important police

chiefs support these bills. they don't support jeff sessions. woodruff: very quickly, governor, president trump is going to be in californ next week. do you have plans to meet with him? >> well, he hasn let me know. by the way, we called sessions' office, the attorney general's office "are you coming out?" they wouldn't even take the caif. but they nd the press. this is press-release politics pii don't know whether trump-- he can call me on the phone. i talked to him before about disaster relief. we had a very fine conversation. look, i want to complaint, but i'm not going to be complicit greatie denigrating the state of california. >> woodruff: governor jerry brown, attorney general xavier becerra, gentlemen, thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: psident trump's promised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have drawn

mixed reaction in washington, including pushback frotop congressional republicans. american businesses are also divided. hari sreenivasan spoke to one business owner about how the tariffs might effect his company. >> sreenivasan: paul czachor is c.e.o. of the american keg company. it's the only domestic manufacturer of steel beer kegs in the country. thanks for joining us. first, we hear the president is about to sign off on these taifers as early as tomorrow, perhaps. are you a fan of it? >> thanks for having me on. i would say that we are very eoncerned with the tariffs. i think when first started discussing this, we were cautiously optimist and now that's turned to a coasern. >> sreen: how come? >> well, today, our domestic-made kegs are priced higher than several imports, mainly from china. and if these tariffs g through, domestic steel will continue to crease in price, but all of the import kegs will still use

theow-cost steel from offshore, and those prices will stay the same. therefore, the delta will be even higher to purchase an american-made keg. >> sreenivasan: so how do you liough that? do you end up absorbing the cost to ride this out? >> i don't think we could live through that. i mean, the cost would be significant. if steel goes up by 25%, that's going to be significant increase to a stainless steel keg that's madeomtically. >> sreenivasan: you know, the administration's core reasoning for this is that it's been unfair for a long time, and it.e just trying to fix have you felt that kind of pressure when you've been running thises bus? >> i think wit what the administration is trying to do is fix a problem in theteel and aluminum industry, and not deepep-- i don't have a enough understanding to tell you how i feel about that, but i'm sure they're tryingo fix a problem. but the concern we have is for the downstreroducts, such as

stainless steel beer cegz, that's not going to help any downstream products. aise said earlier, those import kegs will still come in using the low-cost steel. sreenivasan: so what i hearing is is if this is bad for your business, what happens toy your ems? >> well, unfortunately, if it's-- if it's the worst-case scenario that weooking at, we would be forced to shut down, just because we couldn't compete using high-priced domestic steel. you know, the hoperom the administration is, you know, it's got to be a multistep process,omehow, we have to address the downstream products that are coming into this country with low-cost steel. i don't know how we can get that done, and i don't know if it can happen quickly enough. >> sreenivasan: i was going to say how do you do is that that wofed mean all the dnt products that are made with low-cost steel that come in, that we asu cng right now. >> we certainly will try to, you know, petition for se riffs on stainless steel kegs, but, ain, there are several industries that use steel for their domestic-made products, and i don't know how the

administration will address t multiple industries that will be impacted with this. >> sreenivasan: how many employees do you have now? >> approximately 20 please. y d, unfortunately, we had to let approximat employees-- let them go. we were 30 employees a couple of weeks ago. but we're already starting to see the steel prices domestically go up and we're starting to lose some business already. fo>> sreenivasan, you know somebody who doesn't understand this business, kind of break that down for us. how does the costf steel going up into your kegs impact your business so proundly that you ve to start making quds cutts? >> well, when we go out, our customers-- we have approximately-- in the u.s. there are approximately 7,000 craft brewers, wineries, and ciderries that will purchase those kegs. when we talk to our customers, they're certainly willing to pay a small price, or a higher for an american-made keg with eerican steel, american workers,cetera.

but that price, the delta, is continuing to go higher and higher. so maybe at $5 a keg, a cus is willing to do that to support american-made oducts. but $15 or $20, they're not willing to do that. >> sreenivasan: paul, what i'mhe hearing is workers that you have are exactly who the administration wants to sav and want to see their lives improved, but you're describieng a io where this is actually making it worse. >> yes and, you know, i believe e administration wants to fix several items, but they're going to have to, certainly, look at the down products as i mentioned earlier. and i'm sure there are many industries similar to ushat use domestic steel where it's going to increase, and not by au trivial amountby a significant amount in the case of stainless steel kegs. >> sreenivsan: how do you resolve this? what do you hope happens? >> well, i'd hope that we'd reconsider some of these tariffs, at least delay thernlg or look at the holistic view of how do we fix the downstream

issues >> sreenivasan: paul czachor, c.e.o. of the american keg company, thank you very much. >> i appreciate it, thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: a documentary series exploring the nation's opioid crisis. but first, somalia has long had a forbidding cmate: searing heat and dry desert conditions. now, relentless droughts have strippedons of rural herders of their animals, their only real wealth, and driven humans closer to the scarce water supplies. it is a living example of the effects of climate change. fromuntland in northeastern somalia, special correspondent jane ferguson and videographer alessandro pavone report our weekly look at the leading edge of science. >> reporter: dry, dusty, parched: desert sand is slowly

taking over somalia, devastating the lands. >> this is the channels that the water flows. reporter: so water should be flowing along here, when it rains? >> yes, it has two or three water channels and then it becomes full or half f depending on the quantity of rain. >> reporter: ahmed alishire runs the regional government's ministry of livestock. he showed us how people here in the puntland area used to store precious rainwater, in the days before the rains stopped comingg how ave water tanks like the been empty? >> in this location it has been empty for three >> reporter: three years? >> yes, three years. >> reporter: a crippliught in somalia shows no sign of easing. and it keeps happeningjust six years after the last major ght emergency, the rains

have failed again. temperatures have risen in east africa or the last three decades, and a report by the u.k.-based charity oxfam says there is growing evidence climate change is making drought more frequent and more severe. this has always been an unforgiving and harsh environment for pele, yet they have survived here for thousands of years by living as nomads, herding their animals to the best grazing places. around 80% of somalis make their living on the land. without enough rainwater, that way of life is fast becoming impossible. this part of the country is really famous for its livestock. as far as the eye can see you would normally see camels, goats and sheep. now however it's completely desolate. and that, it not normal. oud ali once had 500 she and goats. now, only 100 remain after most of them withered and died in the last two years.

if the rest of them die, what will you do? >> ( translated ): the only things we own are these sheep ytd goats. we don't have ng else. no farms or businessthe town and if the rest of these animals die in the drought we will only survive by god's will. >> reporter: the newshour travelled deep into rural ars of somalia worst-hit by the drought. on our journey we spotted this 20-year-old camel herder, also named mahmoud. tired and hungry, he was dving his animals to find water in a village near. he told us he had already lost a quarter of them. for many, it is much worse. in a remote spot we met with nomads who have lost 80% of their camels, goats and sheep. without animals to herd, they have settled in makeshift tents. their leader moussa ahmed

farrah, said in his 85 years, he's never seen shifting weather patterns this unforgiving. >> ( translated ): definitely there is a change. d to count on the rainy season and dry seasons. now it's not normal. it has changed. we hear on the radios that in the west and in industrialized countries there is a lot of polln into the atmosphere. >> reporte those pollutants are greenhouse gases, that trap heat close to the earth's surface, raising global temperatures. what would you say to the leaders of countriesare aie main pollutants to the environment, thecauses of climatchange? >> ( translated ): i don't know how my voice reach those people, but i would say to them you should manage your life and economy in a better way.

>> reporter: with their animals dying off, families like these are close to giving up do you think there is going to come a point where all of the people will have to leave to go to the cities? >> ( translated ): yes, it's is happening no people are gradually going to the towns and citi. if this drought continues, that will continue to happen-- people leaving the nomadic lifestyle and going to the towns. >> reporter: michael keating heads up the united nations mission in somalia. people are leaving the codotryside. that mean parts of the country side are not uninhabitable but uninhabited? >> i a bit of both really. i mean the doomsters would say bley are becoming uninhabi because you just can't sustain your livestock on them and you sustain your way of life. >> reporter: most of those who p leave for the cities end omshackle camps like thisne in the cital mogadishu. a winding collection of tents

and sheds, filled with familiesn who once roameomads, herding their goats, camels and sheep. makke mahmoud arrived from the counyside two months ago. she once had 100 goats, she told now, these precious few are all that remain ofer herd. one of them gave birth just moments she has nothing to feed the mother. with the drought comes conflict. in a country awash with guns very little security, some animal herders carry weapons, and fight over precious, fertile land. >> ( translated ): we farmers and the herders used to live amongst each other, but when the drought became severe the herders invaded our farms and made it into grassland. there was fighting and the herders burned our houses, so we left and came here >> reporter: haleem saeed used

to feed her family from the vegetables she grew on her small plot of land in central somalia. nowashes clothes in the camp to make a little money, but mostly relies on hand-outs. in the last year alone, over a million somalis have been forced from their homes because of the drought. climate change, says keating, means many people in the camps will never be le to go back to eir old lives. a way of life that sustained communities in trt of africa for thousands of years is no longer working. >> this is a global phenomenon that is hitting the rn of africa particularly badly. i think it's going to mean that the number of people who are going to be able to sustain emselves through nomadic pastoralism is going to be reduced. i mean some notion that everyone is going to go back to wret they oing before i don't think is the case. i think, you know somalia is already one of the most rapidly urbanizing countries in the that will continue.

i think what we need to do is plan for bigger urn centers. >> reporter: leaving the traditional way of life is n easy decision. nomadic animal-herding is not simply how people here make money. it's who they are. as t will have no choice but to change too. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson, in mogadishu, somalia. >> woodruff: now, a new documentary series showcases the pain and the many effects of the nation's opioids crisis. the centers for disease control and prevention reported yesterday that emergency room visits for sed opioid overdoses were up 30% compared with theear before. the series puts a human face on this crisis. jeffrey brown ha story,

part of our ongoing coverage of this issue, america addicted. >> brown: the series is called "the trade" and explores the opioid crisis in five parts and from multiple perspectives: the cartels growing poppies and producing heroin in the mexican highlands. american drug enforcement agents tryi heroin and synthetic opioids into ohio. and active users and their families struggling with addiction in georgia.

>> drugs not in my neighborhood. >> this stuff is everywhere. you know, access is everything. >> access is eveg and the way to get access is to developing you know deep, deep trust with our subjects, and that happens through a number of >> brown: matthew heineman directed "the trade" and recently spoke to me from new york. >> thie of the over the epidemic has always been well covered and in traditional media. and you know i felt like with my job and as i've done with previous projects to really put a human face to this. >> brown: heineman is best known for his 2015 oscar-nominated documentary "cartel land," which

provided an inside look at life along the u.s.-mexico border for those on both sides of the war on drugs. >> you know the conditions are that y don't get high, and we know you're high, so. with "the trade" he wanted to expand that project to show just far the drug war r, as with this atlanta family, the waltons, whose two sons struggle with heroin addiction. >> that's exactly what i'm here for. he's not staying here, scierl. >> (bleep)ry to get her home. >> well, how do you try to get her home. >> i can just give him gas money to get him out of >> you know when people think of addiction now and think of what it does to the individual adequate so often ravages not just the mind and the body of that person but the family. you know communities and that storylin really seen through the eyes of his mother jen who tries desperately to help her son and

has been doing so for many years despite his continued attempts of getting clean and then relapsing and attempts of getting clean. and you know this drug is so ucrd to kick no matter how love you have no matter how much support you have. it's just it's really, really difficult to get out of it. >> brown: according to the centers for disease control and prevention, the drug addiction crisis in 2016 killed more than 64,000 americans-- more than aids, gun deaths or car crashes at their own respecte peaks. "the trade," available now on showtime, explores the consequences on both sides of the border: in mexico tens of thousands of people killed or disappeared, mounting police corruption, a security state.

>> you know as long as there's a demand for drugs in the u.s., the supply of drugs coming from mexico and south america. and with that will come violence with that will come heartbreak. and with thawill come you know criminal enterprises that are taking advantage of it. >> the u.s. is fighting back with more border securitand raids on drug runners. >> it tears people apart. >> but in the trade, it's a never-endingmo whack-a game drug agents must play, and there's always another drug dealer out there. for heineman, that's one of the key takeaways. >> i don't think this crisis is going to be fixed with walls or barriers. i think we need to stop thinking of it as something that we can please stop thinking something

thshould continue to spend billions of dollars on to trying to fight it. sti think we have to reallt to think of it more and more as a health care crisis and start to you know really pour more and more money into treatment as opposed to just policing issue. >> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffren in washington. od>> woodruff: all five ep of "the trade" are now available to watch for free on ytube or showtime >> woodruff: and we'll be back shortly with something you won't want to miss: whatappened when an injured baby beluga whale was found off the coast of alaska. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your

>> woodruff: now to a newshour shares, a story that caught our eye. it's very rare for a beluga whale calf to become separated fromother. so, when a team of veterinarians disc one on a rocky, alaska beach, they went into overdrive to save the endangered whale, whose numbers have been declining in cook inlet. from alaska public media, valerie ent this profile of the woman who led the rare resc >> i was actually out in the y cook inlet doing a necro another beluga whale and a part of the team were leaving the thea when they spotted wha at first thought was another carcass, so they went check it out, but lo and behold it was a live calf. their first and see if it would go back into the water but unfortunately it wouldn't. my name is carrie goertz, i'm the director of animal healthka here at the alealife

center. we primarily care for seals and otters as well as walrus, so it's very unusfor us to have a beluga here. and there have only been a few beluga calves in north america that have come in for rehabilitation. initially, just like with any sick person, he was rather punky and didn't have a whole lot of energy. he obviously did damage to some is muscles, just bruising and what-not from laying on a beach instead of floating in the water and he did have pneumonia. fortunately is calf, we felt he had been with mom for a littlehile so he got that initial burst of ants and good stuff from mom. he also haarned some behaviors. he knew how to se and he very quickly learned how to

thsuckle from a bottle so helped him out in particular. the aquaria in the lower 48, have been extremy generous. sending staff and helping in numerous ways. yes, made it all the wa over. we had to check him out! my name is jessi i'm from mystic aquarium in mystic connecticut. i'm a trainer of cetaceans and pinnipeds there. it's definitely a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity. this is my first day in the water with him and it's amazing. the trust that he has for us and the willingness for him to come over not only for his bottle but also for the tactile and interaction is just awesome. >> over time, we've been able to let him spend more time on his own and we can tell also that when he's moving his head he's n rking on his echolocatioand exploring and he certainly likes spending time with people and

playing with them. caring for stranded animals, it's an opportunity to learn about the species and the essures going on in the population in the wild. this is the firsga from cook inlet we've been able to do a hearing test on. but it's also important for the greater population for scts and resource managers because one of the concerns of what might be a pressure for cook inlet beluga whales is wtheir ability to hear int's a very noisy environment. so having that information will tists better understand potential impacts to the population. llere has been interest across the nation and we robably be talking about him for a very long time. >> woodruff: when the young calf is healthy enough, he will be moved to a new facility, but will not return to the ocean since he's become dependent on humans for survival.

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