captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour night: hurricane dorian wreaks havoc on the bahamas. we hear from the islands, as the massive storm moves closer to the u.s. mainland. then, at is driving migrants? amna nawaz sits down wh the acting secretary of the department of meland security following a visit to el salvador. plus, on the ground in afghanistan. how a massive bombing in kabul complicates u.s. plans for top withdrawal. and, grand design. a new exhibition of influential arti alexander girard's work aims to display his ability to meld sleek modernism with folk art. >> alexander girard liked to

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>> bnsf railway. of these institutigoing support >> this program was possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. urand by contributions to bs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: hurricane dorian is asnally moving again, after ravaging the bah the storm began swirling slowly closer to the u.s. mainlan today. it has lost some of its punch, but left utter ruin in i wake. john yang has been watching, from jacksonville, floda. >> yang: after hurricane dorian sat over the northern bahamas, residents woke uto find their homes surrounded by floodwaters. some had to flee through chest- high waters.

dorian's eye hovered over the northernmost island, grand bahama, for more than 20 hours, bringing almost total devastation. >> we're getting a lot of distress calls. persons needing rescued-- eeding to be rescued, but cannot get to them right now. as you can tell, we are going to need a lot-- a lot of support, ter this hurricane is over. >> yang: torrential rainsun ted homes, and submerged the grand bahama airport under six feet of water. , rian weakened to a category 2 storm this morni winds dipped below 110 miles an hour. forecasters say dorian is now o moving dangerously closee u.s. eastern seaboard, running parallel to the florida coast throh tomorrow evening, and then expected to continue north tord georgia and south carolina. while the storm's core is expected to rein offshore, heavy rains, strong winds, and dangerous storm surges are expected to reach land

more than two million people in florida, georgia and south carolina have been warned toev uate. >> our message for today is this: this is a very serious storm, and a western shift that fewwds land of just miles could bring enormous damage to our state. so we want everyone to heed the warning. and the best thing to do is, is to be safe. s don't bery. be safe, leave. >> yang: some parts of the florida coast ben to feel some the storm's wrath early this morng. outer rain bands and winds senta s crashing on shore. but in other areas, sunshine a surf lured people outdoors. residents spent the day outside, enjoying beautiful weather and ece high surf. given the dire fts beginning last week, some took the latest warnings in stride. >> just another storm.i' from atlantic city, new jersey, and we always have storms and all that, you know. just another storm to me. doesn't bother me. >> yang: others were on edge. >> at one point, it was almost

supposed to be a direct hit here. so, we were really gup for the worst of the worst,kn yo. it went from being at a really elevated, kind of antsy, scared moment, to, you know, being able to relax a little more, but at the same time, wanting it so go through e can get back to our normal lives. >> yang: it's that uncertainty that local emergency worrs are trying to address. linda stoughton is the director of emergency management atrg st. john's county, just outside jacksonville. >> we just want them to stay vigilant this time. do we worry about them saying, "well, it may not be this level oftorm?" yes, we do worry about that. >> yang: her team is monitoring the storm's path, and urgingre people tinatient as it continues to change. >> there is a level of patiencem that with this. the storm was stationary, moving at one mile per hour, back to moving one mile per so the storm is in charge of its timeline. we have to flex to that timeline

but be ready when it does arrive and take care of this, our home. >> yang: winds started picking up at the coastal city of st. augustinthis morning. the mayor, tracy upchurch, said the response to the hurricane had been efficient.t' >>very hard to predict what's going to happen, and the timing is very confusing as toee when we willthe effects. we've had beautiful weather, that's why ie been wearing sunglasses, it's been sunny all til just this moment. so keeping people focused, making sure they don't become complacent. >> yang: he warned residents not to assume they're in the clear. augustine we're beginning tot. feel the effects of the outer bands of dorian. the wind has picked up. the skies are thatening. we've had some rain squalls. everyone here, folks are hopingd thian stays far enough off shore that the damage will be limited to beach erosion along the coastal areas. but justnse, folks have boarded up homes, stores, and shop fronts all along the

waterfront here in st. augustine. judy? >> woodruff: john, we can see the wind has picked up. there you told us you have been talking to officials and people in florida, rescue efforts in the bahamas. tell us wat you've learned about that. >> well, the coast guard is workg hand in hand with bahamian officials this morningf a c-130 tookf from the coast guard station in clearwater. that's on the gulf side. it flew to andros island.as itilled with medical personnel and medical supplies. redros island is also whhe coast guard has established a base of operations forr helicopters search-and-rescue operations. already 19 people have been evacuated fromarsh harbor hospital in the northern bahamas and flown to nassau, the capital, where damage has been very light a >> woodruf we know they were waiting to get in there. and john, what about private relief agencies? what are you learning about what theye able to do now?

>> well, ocer pro have been talking to a number of private relief agencies. they're organizing. they're getting together.th 're planning to begin as soon as tomorrow flyingupplies to nassau, but the challenge is getting it to where it's needede airports are still underwater, and it's very difficult to reach those areas, but they will be using nassau as a staging area. >> woodruff: . >> yang: reporting for usor from florida where they are still awaiting the brunt of this storm. thank you, john. as we have seen, the damage from dorian in the bahamas appears catastrophic. ef and restauranteur jose andres is there with his nonprofit organization, world ntral kitchen, which feeds those in need after disasters. he and his group served meals in puerto rico after hurricane maria. i spoke to him by phonfrom nassau, the capital of the

bahamas, earlier today. chef andres,hank you very much for talking us with. first of all, tell us, when did you get to the bahamas? where are you? and what have you seen? days ago. to the bahamas three we came to nassau, the capital of the bahamas. we were six people, and we have one very simple mission, to be ready to be near the local government, the government of the bahamas, bema, the fma of the bahamas, and to start s learning and getting ready forsp the se. >> woodruff: and what do you have in the way of supplies of food and equipment that will need is?u to serve whatever the >> we've been geting a lot offr helpom the private sector, as well. we are here in the resort of atlantis. we happen to have here a restaurant in atlantis. they have been givg us all the help we can get.

the government... the island literally was underwater. this is like the caribbean ean, the caribbean sea took over the island. so we need to ink totally with a verypen mind. so we have a ship that will come from fort lauderdale hefully by tomorrow, and we have another ship here in nassau. we took very big freighters that will bring a lot of food we're going to be needing to cooker th we will bring big pots of food, and we'll create if necessary what will be aaremporkitchen in each island. at the beginning we're alsog goin be cooking from here from nassau and probably be bringing the food by helicopter in the early days and by boat daily until we are able to finally be cooking in those two islands. int we've been maksandwiches for the last two days, because

the sandwiches are almost like our perfect food. they are licaght and we bring many tusands in helicopters and trucks. what happs right now, you need to understand everybody is on rescue mission. it's a lotf people that they are on the island alone in their homes surrounded by water. >> woodruff: you told us you have been going to the bahamas for a long time. have ye ever seen anything li this? >> everything we see on the videos, everything we see on thh os is like nothing we've ever seen. we need to understand those two isnds, they are not vey big. they are very narrow islands, so they are so narrow and water is coming everywhere. we saw videos where there are literally like hundreds of homes in the middle of the caribbean sea with only water on the horizon. so the situation, many people't didnave anywhere to be safe. the water was so high that even

some of the shelters bece use so we know that in the hospital it's not only the hospital, but that's a temporary shelter for hundreds if not thousands of people some again, the situatio is hd the next days are going to be critical to be able to do a very quick response one all the search missions will be finished in the next two or three days. >> woodruff: last thing, chef andres, what can peohople do are listening to this interview right now do, how can they help? >> well, americans, and i'm so proud myself now as a immigrant, i can say i amam an ican, too, so proud that the u.s. is moving as quick as they and they've been already doing nice work. i know already de u.s. ai is here in the bahamas also ready ertise.g their exp so this is a way already the american people through these organizations are helping. i know many ngos will bemo

ving. but i'm going to be telling people is always the same. i know a lot of people are going toe requesting money. make sure that if you donate money, make sure it's thrig organization, that they are really doing work on the ground. >> woodruff: chef chef jose canseco, thank you very much for ealking with us. we wish you the best with everything you're trying to do in this horrible situation. >> well, tunk you very mch, >> woodruff: and look at okay. the latest with where dorian is headed, and some perspective on just how devastating a hurricane this was for the bahamas.n aham is the director of the national hurricane center. kengraham, thank you for joining us. give us the latest information you have on dorian. >> judy, it's still moving to the north. i was stationary over the bawments for so long was a devastating situation. it's bad enough to get hit by a cat 5 hurricane, so it's even

worse to have it just sit there. started to see it move at 1mph and then 5mph. it's still a big impact for florida and the carolinas in >> woodruff: how unusual is it that this storm has been sitting in one place and staying there for so long? >> yeah, it's presentry rare for a storm thistrong to doat. it happens on occasion, but it doesn't happen too often, especially a strong one like this. whenou lose all those steering currents, there's nothing to steer this and itan just park waits for the next system to ngeer, that's a devasta situation. think about 24, 30 hours of category 5 winds and battering water. 's a devastating situation for the bahamas. >> woo uff: before i ask you about the bahamas, tell us what you know about or what you can interpret as you look at where this hurricane may gonext. >> looking at that forecast, with time right along thlcoast. it's interesting, because the

core winds have decreased thughout the day, but they have expanded. we've seen the winds, the tropical storm force winds go from about 120 miles from the from the center.ay to 175 miles so much larger. with time moving ever so slowly, 2:00 p.m. on wednesday, still off the florida coast, and by the time you get into 2:00 p.m. we have it off the southup, a carolina coast and also on friday still moving hurricane. so right along the coast of south carolina, north carolina, so still some impacts with storm surge and winds and some rainfall for thearolinas. >> woodruff: so important for everybody to pay attention to alonthat east coast. but ken, i want to bring you back to the bahamas. it looks as if it's been catarophic the damage there. >> yeah, making landfall, you think about 180mph winds, even higher. some of the gusts over 200mph, devastating. you think about the sf up to 23 feet, 30 inches of rain, and the winds battering theco

tline for that long. absolutely devastating situation.iote life-thrng situation. so when we started seeing that move northward today, it's just relief that we can get at least the core winds away from the island. >> woodruff: you said it's unusual for a storm to sit this long in one place. ceare those conditions that we e likely to see again, are these the kinds otmospheric conditions that can repeat themselves? >> yeah, you can. you go back in history, you can find others who did the same thing. i can think of large storms, florence moving so slowly. i go back to betsy in 1965. you ow, very stong major hurricane slowing down, as well. so you can find it in history. when you lose those steering currents, it's a dangeroustu ion. you hope they're open over the open waters, but when you're other land, that's wheryou get the devastation. >> woodruff: you do have to look at history when you'reok g at these hurricanes. >> yeah, you do. every one of them are so different. they bring different types of if you think about this bringing

the devastation of the bahamas with this path, an you start seeing the storm surge, this is actually our stormge forcast for the future all the way from florida into georgia and the carolinas and even inland. you get to north carolina, you can see some of thestorm surge go miles inland. >> woodruff: well, paying close attention, and i know everyone there at the hurricane center is, as well. ken graham, the director of the national hurricane center, thank you. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, a new tropical storm, fernand, has formed in the gulf of mexico.ed it has sustainds of 40 miles an hour, and is moving toward northeastern mexico. forecasters expect i strengthen before making landfall. britain's prrie minister, johnson, announced this evening he will call for a new

neral election over brafit. that camr he lost a crucial showdown vote to opponents of leavingonhe european uithout a formal deal. he also lost his wn king majorityrliament. earlier, the opposition labour party leader jeremy corbyn lash out at johnson's ideas the house of commons. >> he isn't winning friends in europe, he's losing friends at home. this is a government with no mandate, no morals and, as of day, no majority. the attack on our democracy, in order to force through a disastrous no-deal brexit, is unprecedented, anti-decratic and unconstitutional. >> woodruff: in all, johnson's ruling conservatives voted against him today. he will still need a two-thirds majority in parliament to set an early election. the current deadline for britain to leave the e.u. is october 31. it now appears the gunman who

killed seven people around odessa, texas on saturday bough sault-style weapon in a private sale. news accounts today say that le him avfederal background check, which had blocked him once already, reportealy for mentalh reasons. that it will stop g announced ammunition for military-style weapons and handguns. we will return to the texas shoongs, later in the progra officials in southern california now say 34 people are prumed dead after a dive boat burned the coast guard called off the search f survivors today. divers have recovered 20 bodielo and they keping for 14 others. the sheriff said all the victims were trapped below deck. >> that does appear to be exactly what happened. that there... there was a stairwell to get down the main entrywayup and down, and there was an escape hatch, and it would appear as thou both of those were blocked by fire.

>> woodruff: five of the six crew members aboard survived by jumping into the water when the flames started. there is sti no word on what started the fire. in afghanistan, the death toll rose to at least 16, with 119 wounded, after a taliban suicide bombing in kabul on monday. rescue workers searched today amid wreckage and burned-out vehicles. the blast targeted the city's," "green villahere international aid groups are located.li the n said that it carried out the attack to show strength as peace tks with the u.s. ach an apparent climax. we will have a detailed report from kabul, later in the program. united nations investigators say the u.s., britain, and france may be complicit in war crimes in yemen a u.n. report today found that lithe three nations are en a saudi military coalition to kill civilians by air strikes and starvation.

the investigators also faulted shiite rebels, aligned with dan, for shelling cities using chd soldiers. >> woodruff: back in this country, a panel of north carolina judges rejected state legislative district maps. the ruling said that majority repuicans drew lines to elec a maximum number of g.o.p. candidates, and violated the rights of mocrats. the u.s. supreme court ruled in june that federal courts have say in political gerrymanderingl cases. today's state court ruling is expected to be appealed. and, wall street started the week with a sell-off. it began after factory activity dropped for the first time in three years, and the latest u.s. and chinese tariffs took hold on sunday. the dow jones industrial average lost 285 points to close at 26,118. the nasdaq fell 88 points, and the s&p 500 slipped 20.to stilome on the newshour: we discuss hurricane dorian an

immigration with the acting a deadly bombing innd security. afghanistan's capital complicates plans for e withdrawal of u.s. troops. the latest mass shooting in the u.s. prompts renewed calls toun reduceiolence. plus, we go inside a new exhibition of the work of artist and designer alexander girard. >> woodruff: we return to our top story, as hurricane dorian threatens thsoutheastern u.s. coasts. amna nawaz sits down with an official whose department is charged with watching the storm closely and preparing for itsan aftermath. >> nawaz: thanks, judy. with me now is acting secretary of homeland security kevin mcaleenan. mr. secretary, welcome to the nes. hour.

>> tha good to be with you, all that. >> nawaz: you have been receiving gular updates on the path of hurricane dorian. what's important for people to know about what we cou seen the coming hours and days. >> sure. i just came over fstrom fem headquartershere the national response coordination setor is fully activeith over 200 professionals monitoring every aspect of this situation with this very powerful storm. and i think the number-one thing to remember heres even if we don't expect it to make landfall now in florida, this is still a ry dangerous storm. it's a triple threat. we've got the wind field even though the wind speed has come down a little bit. we have the storm surge goi be significant all along the coastline, and it's also going to be a prolonged rain event. so we still need people to heed the warnings of emergency manage. professionals at the state and local level to, evacuate ifey e in a mandatory evacuation area and to prepare for potentially a prolonged impact from the storm. >> you're saying the fact it's been downgraded to a cegory 2, does that does not mean it will be less dangerous for people in it potential path. >> that's right. we have 27 counties under

ders inry evacuation o four states that are expected te that's almost six million people that are in the past, and they need to be listening to emergency managers watching the storm closelynd haing their preparation, their food, water, medicinepet food, everything on hand to weather a potential prolonged event. this storm could still make landfall up the coast, it's a category 2, 110mph nds. >> nawaz: it could change track at some pointtoo? >> of course. if it comes off track to the west, it could be a different experience. >> nawaz: people havbeen watching theseroj: pictures. they're calling it a crisis of epic proportions txpre. can yout similar devastation or destruction here? >> i don't think so. asen graham from the national hurrican centeexplained, that storm sat over two of the northern islands of the bahamas at 180mph winds for 24 to 36 hours. with very little movement. jst absolutely devastaelng those pictures. i got off the phone earlier today with theministrator of the u.s. agency for international development which

oversees the foreign disaster assistance the make sure they the department of homelandfrom security. ife can support in any way. you already see coast guard. they're there making res acu they've already life-flighted a number of people to safety in the first few hours, soon as they could get in wth the wind speed. we will continue to try thepp t our neighbors in the bahamas. >> nawaz: i want to ask about your level of preparedness. after hurricane maria in 2017, fema came under fire for lack of response. the actadinministrator later said you were short-handed. you have said you have 3,000 people deployed in advance of hurricane dorian's arrival.ou is that en? >> it's even more. i spent the last four days atdq eema hrters getting briefings and hearing from the state and local emergency managers on theilevel of resourcing. just to give you a couple of nap shots of the level o preparedness and response new york florida alone, there are 17,000 professionals from the power and energy industry ready

to get elericity back on after the storm coming from 36 states under mutual aid agrntee there's 5,000 national guard troops that have already been call up and are o duty in the four affected states. of course, there's a huge state and loc capacity that's fully engaged. so the fema coordination ofd suorhe predeployment of supplies that 3,000 people that are engage that's part of the overall response. the whole federal agency supporting the state and locals very robust plan in place.s a >> you have taken questions about this. announcement that you would be moving funds. you have not moved any yet, but it was about 270 million that were being proved from other agencies to imigration detention support. some of those funds would come from fema. you said theyould have no effect on the agency's response. are you still confident in that? >> i am very confident in that. we're not going to t awe loy o have an effect some licensed safety in this crisis with hurricane dorian is our top priority. so again, the disaster recovery fund for fema has$2ve5 billion in it. funding and a major disaster.

we have plenty of funds in that fund. >> nawaz: i recently had a chance to travel with you to el salvador, pivoting to anther k bject. you went to sp leaders about u.s. immigration priorities. you made a number of trips to is area known as the northern triangle. heom now is our report frhat visit. >> nawaz: alongside salvador's new president, nayib bukele...in ..secretary mcaleenan praised efforts by his host to slow the number of salvadorans coming to the u.s. >> since your inauguration just three months, c.b.p. has observed a 60% decrease in crossing at the u.s. southwest border for individuals from el salvador. >> nawaz: the pact, signed by the two nations last wednesday, aims to rther slow that t-migration, already fallen from 16,000 in may to 6,000 in pegust, with a focus on the root causes that forcle to flee in the first place. how do you measure success,

based on these kinds of agreements? >> we want to return to historic lows, so that, really we're not seeing a flow of vulnerable families and children sponding to weaknesses in the legal framework in the united states, or to the types of policy objectives that the president here is trying to counter-- forced migration, where it's either due to security concerns, or lack of economic opportunity. >> nawaz: and much of mcaleenan's visit focused on creating those economic opportunities. meeting young salvadorans at a u.s.-funded job training facility.om hearing alvadorans hired to help protect their own communities. and, meeting recently deported salvadorans, to learn what support they receive once back home. all part of a multi-pronged approach with a salvadoransaid prt eager to partner with the u.s., according to charles nsll, a latin america specialist at the brookingstution, who has tracked president bukele's first few months in office. >> he's got a message that serves him well and serves his relationship with the trump

administrationell, both. he wants to basically create an el salvador where el salvador ii deli on what it should ben, deliveringconomically, and essentially, a peaceful society, so people don't want to leav h and so, that message, andd that's one that actually jives very well with what the trump administration would like to see. reporter: but call says addressing economic insecurity alone won't keep salvadorans at home. >> the are lots of poor countries out ther there's poverty in mexico, there's povey in other countries in the region. what distinguishes this country from others, is the increditly high insecand violence in those countries. >> nawaz: auorities here in el salvador have managed to cut the murder rate d about half in the last three years alone, down to about 3,300 last year. but, the problem is far from solved, and the murder rate here in el salvador today remains one of the highest in the world. violence and economiinsecurity forced teodora guevara de bonilla's son, named manuel, to leave ten years ago. she was awaiting his deportion flight from the u.s. when we

meet her at this repatriation kinter, worried he may now neven see his u.s.-bor again. >> ( translated ): he's coming home separated from his family. i've spent nine years already without seeing him, so the same thing could happen to him. >> nawaz: in the same center where she waits, 20-year-old antonio velasquez and his two children, eight-year-old elmer, have just arrived.ld they were pulled off a bus bound for the u.s. by mexican authorities, he saysheld for a month, then bused back to el salvador. r single father, velasquez said he left el salva join his moer in texas, in search of a better life for his kids. >> ( translated ): i told them that we were returning to our country. that we came to see fami we have here and that our kids were no longer be with their grandmother. i came with my kids because my country has a t of poverty and

i want a better fure for my kids.: >> nawcretary mcaleenan, i want to ask you about some of what you saw down there in el salvador. some of those programs you were visitling,any of them were funded by the u.s. president trump announced that the u.s. would be cutting developmental aid to el onsalvador. an expert said it's hard to y you're addressing root causes when you cut out developmental aid like that, which is one of te sources of economic development. what do you say to th>>t? hat i saw in el salvador was not only a whole government deeffort, the pre has brought together his security agency, a minister of public security and a minister ofns de but also his social welfare agencies. trying to attack the problem from the mmunity level frgrom thnd up. that's part of what the u.s. embassy and teams like the u.s. naagency for intonal development and international narcotics and law eorcement bureau do wth el salvador they try to help support those programs that are working ingr ined fashion. that's had significant results as you noted. the murder ratesome down overhe 50% inast three years, a in the last three months, we've seen another market drop since

the pres so i'm there looking at what programs are efftive so i can be a good advocate for those programs with the department of state, with the white house, but also looking at wh dhs can do sitting alongside our law enforcement counterparts in elra salvador on ing, on techniques and tactics and on individual investigation, working on humlian smu and counter-narcotics. >> but some of those programs have taken years to have any kind of effects. numbers are coming down in terms of the number off salvadoransun leavinr the new presint. those numbers have been coming down for years, going back to 2016. that's when the dim started largely as a result of some of these funded programs from thes. so doesn't cutting this aid undercut your mission? >> i thinkn?orking with these governments and aid is part of the equation. we want to make sure we have accountable partners and that the programs are effective. there is a return on investment for the stated objectives. tawhat's really imp with el salvador is we have alie gnmentn the objectives. president wants to end forced migration in his term at.

means people should not have to leave for security reasons or lack of economic opportunity, d we're going to be there to support that. d nawaz: the president also said that he woke to see that migration number go down to zero. he doesn't want any salvadora to feel like they need to leave their country to find a better opportunity somewhere else. i asked you. you said you want to gedown to historic lows. when we followed up later, you saidpring 2017 is a good target for you. what is that number? where do you think the u.s. gets below a crisis level at the border? >> so in the spring of 2017 we hafewer tha20,000 people crossing. the majority of those were single adults. we were able to really focus on the criminal element. the smugglers tryoing t exploit our border. that's a level where we're playing on even footing. law enforcement is going againsm glers at the border. what we can't have is situations liere we have vulnerable populations, fa and children who are enticed by weaknesses in our laws and by human smugglers saying they will be allowed to stay if they go now coming to th border.tçmhp 3 itm a dangerous situation and

it enriches the most violent criminals in the hemisphere and it's of obviously not good for e countries leaving either as you heard from the president. >> $20,000 a month. that's the number you're working toward. yodon't thinwe will be below a crisis at the southern border? >> not at a will left where w feel like we're comfortable with the security of the u.s. border. >> is that a number you sold the president on, $20,000 is what u're aiming for? >> he talked about returning to lows.id the prt's executive order seeks to have us be so effective that nobody can successfully cross the border illegally. i think that's the ultimateha target is toe the resources in place to have the laws and policies in place whe we're very effective a in securing that very fast and sigficaly challenging border. spent a lot of time on the, i mexican side of the border, as well, there are liow backed up of families waiting for their chance to legoally cr into the eyes, and they say they're being made more vulnerable. by not being allowed to enter

e u.s., by metering or limiting the number of people allowed in legally, by beng rced to wait in mexico while their asylum cases unfold, they say they're atisk. people are targeting them because they know they're unstable and they have no protection there. you have asked mexico to take care of those people and you'ren not doing it some what are you going to do about that? >> first and foremost we've increased to a record level of people we're acceptingt ports of entry without documents. many of whom are seeking asylum. last year was a00% increase. we'll exceed that at the end of this fiscal year, as wel so our men and women are working very hard to provide access that are vulnerable at points of entry. partnership with the government of mexico. they are a transit country now as well a source country of migration. they have been working to oiprove their posture from an enforcement stan. we need them to do more. we need them to provide shelter and protection for people that are waiting in ts process and this program that they've agreed to manage with us.

>> nawaz: are you making those requests? >> abolutely. >> nawaz: you're holding them accountable. >> that's ourtixpec. we're trying to jointly manage this brder, like the $ billion in trade that crossesser day. our customs and border offi brs sitting siside with them making decisions on cargo. we think we need to be doing the same thi on the unrawfl and irregular side of migration flows. >>awaz: as the number of people crossing the southern border has falling, so has the number of people in immigrati detention. custody times are falling. at the same time, you have proposed detaining families d children longer than the previous 20 days put in place in children.est interests of you have described these places campus-like settings.hi why keepldren in any facility that puts them in mental and physicalharm. >> let me talk about the family residential centers which were cread in 2014 in response to the first surge of families and children coming to the border

under president obama and the department of homeland security at that time. these centers were built, purpose built to house familiesi during themigration proceedings. again, they have educationa facility, wreck --c rereational, they're appropriate settings. sometime child welfarexperts say indefinite detention exacerbates the chance children wi suffer some kind of trauma. >> i'm glad you mention that. this notion atef indite. there isn't a hard number in terms of how long that proceed canning take, but the average is 40 to 50 days. th is not an exthe ended period of time. it's done as expeditiously as possible consistens.with due proc we want to make sure people have an attorney if they want one and they have an opportunity to go through the process make their case. but what's -- you have to look at thve alterna amna. the alternative is families ae putting themselves in the hands of smuggling organizations paying $5,000 to $7,000 per person and facing difficu the journey, dying on the way, and having a situation on or border that'been unacceptable.

>> >> matt: we're talking about what happe once they've arrived.ve you're talking about detaining them for longer in facilities experts say is not good fore thildren. >> you need to have integrity in the system. when families are released in an alternive to detention, we don't see them showing up for getting a result fhatey're not court, meaning if you have a get it for five tven years,l not if you don't have one, you will not be reatriated which mens more people will be incentivized to take this dangerous journey, as well. >> nawaz: thank you for being here, acting secretary of homeland security, kevin mcaleenan. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> woodruff: in kabul, afghanistan's capital, 16 people died in a car bomb explosion last night.th target was "the green village," a compound housing i

mainernational workers. today, afghans protested outside the compound, demonstratingfo against thign presence in their country. the taliban claimedai responsibility for thek, even as they participate in peace talks with the united states newshour special correspondent jane ferguson is on assignment in afghanistan, and has been talking to civilians and officials in kabul today. she joins us now hello, jane. how significant is it do you think that this attack took place justs s we are told the taliban and the u.s. are making progress on this potential peace deal? >> hi, you ditch. it's no coincidence we've seen a massive uptick in violence in recent weeks and rentnt days here. there are peace talks between the united states and the taliban, but the tan had wanted to maintain pressure and to remind both the united stas and the afghan government here

in kabul of their strabengths. we've seen shows of strength throughout thweekendle those talks were right down to theleventh hour. two provincial capitals both saw assault by the taliban and then, of course, yesterday's enormous bombing. it has been a controversy surrounding these talks that they go on while there isn't actually a ceasefire at thisti . but we have seen a breakthrough with the u.s. special envoy to those talks arriving here to tell the afghan people that there has been in principle an agreement. >> woodruff: so jae, how much is actually known about what is in this deal, thede dtails? >> it's extremely murky at this stage. the afghan people don't know fo sure what is going to happen, and it will massively affect their future, but on national afghan television yesterday, they gave away some details of the proposed agreement. of course, he reminded everybody

that it isn't official until president trp signs it himself. but he said that initially there would be a 5,000-troop drawdown. that's from 14,000 american troops. and that f effective u.s. bases would be vacated. that's really theú we're starting to see as a drawdown. but there are still many, many questions about whas not being mentioned about what could be in this deal, such as whether or not there will be an kind of ceasefire. he said that there would be a reduction in violence, but specifically did not use the word "ceasefir" so there is a huge amnt of uncertainty here in kabul until people really find out what isth in proposed agreement and whether or not it will become >> woodruff: jannally, what about public attitudes. you say there is unturn. what is the public saying to you, people saying to you about the fact that this could actually happen? >> it depends very much, judy, on who you're talking to.nt you po out earlier there

that there were riots after tha boomsterday, and they were very much angryemonstrations against a western presence in that part of kabul. that's becauseeople have seen so much bloodshed. of course, we must remember that thousands of american lives have been lost in this war, butany more thousands of afghan lives have been lost. so there is a sense of anger whenever the taliban are targeting westerners and aghans die. you see a huge uptick in afghan civilian deaths just in the last few weeks and months. want peace.ere really, really they want an end to this war. but there is a severe fear, there is a very real fear that any american withdrawal, and this is particularly strong whenever you're talking tohe officials inovernment here, could be too hasty. you want the make sure that the americans don't leave in a wayou that c cause the afghan government to collae or could endanger the afghan curity forces that the americans and their partners here have spent so much time and energy and

money buildi upmo so there's a sense that, of course they want a deal, andt they w end to this war, but they want to make sure it's one that's done responsibly. >> woodruff: hard toieve the u.s. h been there now almost 18 years. jane ferguson reporti from kabul, thank you, jane. >> woodruff: when a gunman fired indiscriminately from his vehicle on the streets and highways of odessa, texas on saturday, he killed seven people and wounded 22 others. as william brangham reports, a local hospital quickly became the trauma center to treat many of the victims. >> brangham: theedical center hospital in odessa treated 13 of the shooting victims, cluding one who later died, and the young toddler who was hit by shrapn, and was later transferred to a hospital in lubbock. ssell tippin is the c.e.

of the medical center health system in odessa, and he joins me by skype. mr. tippin, thank you very much for being here. could you just take us back to saturday and help us understand how that day folded for you. >> like probably most everybody else, i was out of town with my family returning home from they bor weekend. inand i just started geg all kinds of messages and calls that there was an incident takin place here in odea ssand that i bad situation and we just kind of started talkinabout what our game plan was, started talking about our emergency management plans and just what we needed to do to,al first of secure the hospital and protect our employees and get ready for some patients an their families. >> brangham: as the chief ecutive of a small hospital, not to mention being a resident of odessa, hearing there is mass shooting under way in your

town has to be the worst nightmare scenario.e >>l, you know, my first thought was once i took my first phone call, i laid the phone down, and mym faily and i f and our cars said a quick prayer from the victims and their familiesnd just e shooting was stopped and we would be in the right place at the right time, and that the good lord would use us to take care of these patients coming in. i mean, this is something nobody wants to hear. you train for this stuff. you prepare. but you're rie ght. when tactual words come in that there is something of this magnitude going on, there's really no -- you just kind of go numb. there's really no feeling to itt you just knat you've got training and you rely on that training, and you get busy taking care of patients. >> brangham: on saturday night at your press conference, you were urging prandyersarmony for the community. what was it you were trying to

the people at that tim >> well, i mean, when you get in mes like, this you got the lean on your faith. you got the lean on each other. and my call that night was the same as it is riht now. healing starts with loving each other and with praying for each other and just being there when people need help,h and tat's what i was trying to get across. we have to take care of each other, and god has a plan for us all, and we can reach out the him any time and it was just time for us to call on the name the lord and just to reache out and be rady to take care of our community. >> woodruff:>> brangham: obvious has take an terrible toll on the victims, those who survived and those who lost their live, but we no from shst ootings this also takes a terrible toll on the first responders and the people who care for the wounded. you have been talking to your staff. how are they doing? how are they handling all of this? >> well, first ol, these people performed aazingly. when all this was going on, nobody was above anybody else.

everybody was pitching in, doing their role, playing their part, doing what wevs necessaryn going above and beyond that. but you know, it's kind of like post-traumic stress disorder when it all ends and people start calming dunn and they artrt going home and st realizing, i mn, there was a young lady that was killed in this that's the same age as my daughter, and the same age as a lot of our employees family. i think that was very tough for some of our staff to just deal with that, and we've had councilors on site.i we've had mals, you know, post-thatmontic stress animals on site for our staff just to be available so should they haveou that they're feeling some anxiety that we have somebody there to help them through. this we have also made that available to the victims andf theiilies, as well.

>> brangham: i know several victims are still receiving care. cod you give us a sense they're doing? >> we do have folks in our facility. most of thi are dong well. we have a few labels as critic. we have sme in serious condition. we did have some go home today and we're expecting people to just continue to recover and do well. we have one critical, one serious, and seven in fair condition right now. >> woodruff: all right, russell tippin, c.e.o. of the medical center health system in odessa, thank you very, very much. >> thank you, guys. god bless you. take care. >> woodruff: now, an exhibit celebrating the work of and ley 20th century designer, alexander girard.an his work fuses sleek modernism with the playfulness of folk art, creating a world of his own.

special correspondent kathleen mccleery's report is part of "canvas," our ongoing arts and. culture seri >> reporter: many children invent imaginary friends... but, when the late alexander girard was a young boy, he dreamed up an entire country, says curator laura addison. >> here's a map. here's the republic of fife. chronologically that he did. and it is a metaphor for everything he did thereafter. is where the girarfantasy land retrospective at santa fe's international folk art museum begins. girard drew stamps. forged coins. en concocted a secret language. >> he created worlds. a was an inventor of spac universes. >> reporter: in 1960, that, meant shaping the space for a chic new york ci restaurant, la fonda del sol in the time- life building. he designed nearly every aspect of the latin american eatery. >> nothing was too small and nothing was too large to tackle. klso not only did alexander gird work with the interior space, with the walls and the

treatments and the tables and the larger objects, he also did terything from matchbooks to the tea service match strikes to the napkins.ki the waiters' uniforms. the carts. >> reporter: in 1965, an even bigger design makeover for theda as-based braniff airlines. the new slogan: "the end of the plain plane."hi >> wd alexander girard to p do ours. we have blue planes, yellow planes, orange planes. you can fly with us seven times and never fly the same color twice. >> reporter: again, gira designed almost everything: including a brand new typeface used on tickets, baggage tags, and even sugar packets. >> the rebranding that he did in terms of logo, typography, that it came through at over 17,000 individual objects.te >> rep the aim, girard said, was to destroy the monotony of air avel. and he did the same for office environments. >> so, alexander girard was best

known as a textile designer.le >> reporter: it was at herman miller furniture in detroit that girard gained his reputation ast one of thecentury's most influential interior and textile designers. there, he worked with ray and charles eames, a married couple known for their slk modern chairs and tables, often upholstered in girard's fabrics. in the 1960s, cubicles were the latest in office design. girard createdanels to brighten the sterile workplaces. >> this is daisy fac she's a human figure morphing out of a tree. or perhaps it's the other way around. you see the branches coming out of her arms as and she had petals around her head, just like a daisy. graphically bold, veorful. pad it was meant to bring joy into your office. >> reporter: the common spaces, the restaurant, the office environmen how can what's there be considered art? >> well, alexander girard liked

to say, "art is not art if it is not synonymous with living." to him it was all about the joy in the making.bo it was human creativity. >> reporter: girard's creativity was inspired by his passion for folk art, such as the traditional tree of life. c visito see that exhibit across the hall, saysnt museum director khristaan villela. >> we're just steps away from the retrpective, and folk art was a very important part of his design practice. >> reporter: girard and his wife treled the world for decades, scooping up folk art.in 978, he donated more than 100,000 pieces, giving this museum the world'sonargest collec 10,000 objects are on display, all of them placed exactly where the designer instructed. >> this is a mexican village. the town of acatlan, which is in southern puebla in mexico. >> reporter: here, too, girard's treasures are assembled into miniature worlds. >> girard wanted things, like ak very large church, or a trn,

or a graveyard, or 500 cactuses, or a jail. and so he commissioned this entire scene and recreated it here. reporter: none of the folk art is identified by country, artist or date.pu that's oose. >> he wanted you to experience this as he saw it, and labels would be a way of interfering with that vision. it's also intended to be a space an immersivexperof, almost like girard's vision and of world folk art. hi reporter: 26 years afte death, girard continues to inspire designers, like raul cabra of oaxaca, mexico. and the relationsh us is girard that he creates a translation. and a translation of tradition into something that is design and something that is contemporary. and i think that's howhas influenced the work i do and many others. >> reporter: that includes the work of arsts aleishall girard maxon and alexander kori girard,

who grew up surrounded by their granather's collection. >> it was just such a lesson in w to see, you know, and how to understand different visual languages. >> reporter: the twoelieve the exhibit offers context on girard's legacy. >> people love to say how whimsical and warm and happy his works, and it is. but it's also the distillation of human spirit that is so universal, that he saw so clearly. in the end, we have far more similarities than we do differences, and i believe that he was pushing that through all of the projects that he did. >> reporter: "a designer's universe" is on exhibit in santa fe through october 27. it goes to the palm springs museum in california later this year. for the pbs newshour, i'm kathleen mccleery in santa fe, new mexico. woodruff: on the newsho online right now, we share a few ideas on how to help people

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