amina: good evening' i'amina nawaz. on the newshouronight, withdraw fallout. pres decision to remove troops from syria as the violence escalates in the u.s. house votes to ndemn the move. then, taking the stage. after a dozen democrats square off in primetime,s analysi the debate. plus, millions ofns america struggle with the daily ravages of alzheimer's, but breakthrough medicine is spreadingthope in battle against this cruel illness. >> we neeto be doing more of these phase one trials. we need to take 99 shots, 100 to find one th is good, i'm fine with that.

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and with the ongoing support of these institutions. this program was madesi pe by the corporation for public contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amina: a president and his agenda under assault on two fronts. the u.s. withdrawain syria and the impeachment inquiry cap president trump odefensive today. he spent much of the day exhorting impeachment and insisting his shift in syria was the right move. president trump, after meeting with italy's president, dismissed cricism of his withdrawal from syria and the ensuing turkish incursion. i'm not going to get involved syria.ween turkey and amina: the president likened kurdish fighters to the islamic

state fighters they helped the u.s. fight in sya. >> the pkk is probably more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis. amina: mr. trump insisted he is makingng good on a long-standing promise to get u.s. troops out of long-running wars and he played down fears that russia will fill the vacuum. >> syria has a relationship with the kurds. thl come in and they will fight. they may bring partners in. outhey bring russia in. if russia is going to help, that is aa:ood thing. am those words drew sharp criticism from a trump ally, republican senator lindsey graham. >> to rely on russia and iran to protect us is quite frankly insane. the president fired back. >> lindsey graham would like to stay in the middle east for the

next thousand years. east.t to get out of the middle still, the president spatched mike pence and pompeo two on kara this evening tore p turkish president erdogan for a cease-fire, a plan erdogan dismissed before turkish parliament today unless the rds withdrew from the border. >> operation piece spring will last until weo down to 30 or 35 kilometers to the iraqi border as we have previously declared. there is no doubt orisesitation ab we will have no open doors on this matter. amina: all this as president trump's other critical challenge ground on with another key impeachment inquir in the michael mckinley, a senior advisor to mike pompeo, a luptly resignt week. he was reportedly telling congressional investigators that his departure was driven b ta concern ovhe treatment of

marie yovanovitch. she was recalled may amid agitation inside the white house that she was disloyal to the president. also on the hill, a surprise appearance from the former u.s. envoy tool ukraine, kurtr. george kent told lawmakers yesterday that volcker was part of a group that took over the ukraine policy. gerry connolly said the group alsoe included gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union, and rick perry they allegedly dubbed themselves the three amigos. athouse democrs are pushing on with their probe even as speaker nancy pelosi said yesterday the house would hold off on a vote to formally authorize the inquiry. today house republicans accused process.ing an unfair kevin mccarthy said they are being denied access to closed testimony and transcripts. >> somehow we are supposed to

trust what comes out of that? eyand eny members of congress to even read what goes on. they deny members of congress from the ability to sit inside that committee. amina: the investigation continues tomorrow with ambassador sandland testifying behind colusa -- behind closed doors. at a white house meeting, mr. trump clashed with top democrats after a bipartisan vote in the house condemned his actions in syria. >> i think the president was very shaken up by theact that 354 -- that means the majority of the, republica voted -- what we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown. amina: for more on the developments today, i'm joined by our own yamiche alcindor, who eehastracking developments from the white house, and nick

schifrin, who is following the diplomatic storylines. wede heard the pre defending his decision in syria to pull back troops. how is that defense complicating or impacting pol hical challen's facing now? yamiche: presidentde trump's sion to withdraw troops from syria is complicating the political landscape republicans to back him, as democrats a forging ahead with their impeachment inquiry. the white house held a meeting with republican and democratic leaders and that meeting went into chaos, into partisan attacks. nay pelosi said the president had a meltdown. she said people should pr for the president's health because he's essentially not mentally stable. schuck schumd the president was attacking nancy pelosi, callin her a third grade politician. the white house is saying that president trump ally very measured and that democrats

walked out of the meeting and didn't get the work done. but all this is because president trump is feeling anxious about the fact that the house overwhelmingly voted to condemn his actions in syria. amina: that meeting was late today at the white house. you got your hands on are letter thatdent trump sent to president erdoga tell us about what was in that letter and what kind of response it is getting, especially from members of the presidential party. yamiche: the president is really alienating and angering republicans at a time when he needs republicans on the hill to on his side because of this impeachment inquiry. the president released a letter to the president of turkey dated it says, let's work out a good deal. it will look upon you forever -- history will look upon you forever as a i dev good

things don't happen. don't ba tough guy. that is president trump g trying e republican something to say, i'm being tough on turkey. republicans at the white house are backing the president. kevimccarthy saying the president was trying toet thin done and nancy pelosi was politicizing the meeting. what iser clear is is bipartisan condemnation of the president's actions and they are looking at a sanctions package above what the president is doing in turkey. republans are pushing back on his ideas and actions in syria. amina: nick, let's fill in some context. it is not just syria that members of congress are angry about. what else is trump facing? nick: congress reflects the national security consensus that we see since the end of world warth i the u.s. should play a leading role in the world and

that the u.s. military is a key tool tosu pu.s. interest. today that has led the u.s. military to have bases in over 70 countries. president trump referred to that number today and he criticizes and questions the idea of how the military has been used and he advocates for the restraint of the u.s. military. he gave onef the most clear explanations of the kind of trump doctrine when, as we saw in yr piece, when he was responding to criticism. >> we are going to bring our eat soldiers back home where they belong. we don't have to fight these endless wars. lindsey graham would like to stay in the middle east for the next thousand years fighting other people's wa. the people of south carolina don't want us to get into with turkey or with ria. thck: president trump is not the

only one makin argument. last night, senator elizabeth owarren a said, the u.s. should come out of the middle east. amin we are hearing the president say, i ran on this, but the criticism he's facing isn't justrom members of congress. nick:hi from largely withi own government because of that foreign policy consensus. officials i talked to all advocate a policy that they say syria is a perfect example of. small military footprint all over the world and those special operations forces will be training local forces who can pursue u.s. policies. syria is an example. that is instead of sending troops to ir and afghanistan. these people believed syria was a good version of it and that it was sustainable. they also arguet is necessary.

because if the u.s. is not in placese l syria or afghanistan, there could be vacuums and terrorists could plot against the united states. one last critique from people who argued for restraint tay. they said, if you are going to strain -- restrain the military, you need tore de the budget, increase the budget and focus on the state tepartment and igence. they say president trump hst decreased the department budget. amina: tensions there. yamiche, meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile on capitol hill the eighth make -- the impeachment inquiry continues. who else do we know was on the hill today? what do we know about what happened there? yamiche: there was some critically important testimony going on related to the impeachment inquiry. michael kinley was here on

capitol hill talking about what he thinks was the unjustified removal of the former ambassador to ukrai. sources tell me he said that he said that people's careers. were being upended because of political reasons. more ofoing to s this gordon sondland is supposed to be coming to the hill tomorrow. he is the current ambassador to the european union. he is seen as an ally to president trump. at the same time, these testimonies have been surprising in a lot of ways. billaylor is a career official. he's the person who sent th text message that he thought it auld be crazy to withhold from ukraine for political reasons. he is coming to capitol hill next w testify. these are all things we need to watch as the president continues to be very angry about this

impeachment inquiry, saying democrats are using this to hurt his pridency. amin jampacked day in washington. yamiche alcindor and nick schifrin, thanks to you both. ♪ >> time stephanie sy with the latest headlines. general motors and united auto workers reached a tentative yield today. terms of the four year contract were not released, but uaw said it won major gains for workers. union had demanded higher wages, better pay for new hires, and a promise to build more vehicles in the u.s. s union leadet tomorrow. while autoworkers were ending their strike, teachers in chicago are getting ready to go on strike after failing to reach

a deal on a contract. some5,000 teachers are expected to participate. classes are canceled tomorrow. one of california's largest hospital system has reached an emagt to settle a lawsuit related to high prices. in a cas watch nationwide, sutter abusing its market power to overcharge patients. tails are pending its final approval in february or march. sadbo news in the world ong. patrick day died today four days after sustaining head injuries in a fight. conwell wrote a heartfelt post on social media after the match. saying, if i could take it all back, i woul patrick day was 27. the u.s. special envoy on iran says the withdrawal from syria does not undermine the strategy to exert maximum pressure on iran.

senators from th sides warned the pullout will aid the syrian regi and its iranian allies. brian hook disagreed. >> the president's dision is t going to change our iran strategy. iran doesn't have thet money t it used to. iran is going to face a dilemma. they can either support guns in syria or prioritize the needs of their own people at home. >> president trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with irant ear and has imposed economic sanctions. there were signsoday that a new brexit deal may be close. britain and the european union held talks into wednesday evening. s the lead france and germany said an agreement could be sealed tomorrow. the leader of spain's catalonian region called for an end to the

continuing violence there. in barcelona, thousands turned out and battled ryan police. protesters set fires in the streets. the city is enduring its third night of violence. the violence began after nine separatist leaders were convicted of sedition. in hong kong, chief executive leader carrie lam criticized votes in the u.s. congress backing pro-democracy demonstrators. she warned it could hurt american interest in hong kg and noted there are more than 1400 american businesses inhe >> i don't need foreign parliaments tell us how important hong kong's human rights freedoms are. these are the core values of hong kong. >> earlier, prdecracy lawmakers jeered and blocked lam as she tried to give an annual speech. she eventual spoke via video

link and insisted hong kong is still a free society. a protest organizer was attacked by unknown assailants with hammers. still to come on the newshour, analysis of the critical moments from last night's demoatic debate. hope in the darkness opening a newe frontier in ght against alzheimer's and much more. ch♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism. amina: we turn now to the democratic presidential race. 12 candidates faced off last night in ohio. yamiche alcindor was there and is back now with this report. >> i want to give a realibe check to eli. yamiche: the attacks on elizabeth wren came from all

sides. >> senator warren said we can't be running vague campaigns. >> sometimes i think that senator warren is more focused on being punitive or pitting some part of the country against the otherin instead of li people up and making sure this country comes together. >> i'm really notion that anyone thinks i'm punitive. yamiche: the massachusetts senator has been gradually rising in the polls. gawhen she declined to go into the detail about the cost of her medicare for all plan -- >> cost will go up for the wealthy, for bigorrations, and for middle-class families they will go down. yamiche:on more moderate voice the stage pounced. they included amy klobuchar. >> the difference between a plan and a pipeom dam ishing you can get done. yamiche: and pete buttigieg. >> your signature is to have a

plan for everything, except this. yamiche: i past debates, buttigieg stayed away from direct conyeontations. iglast he launched several sharp back-and-forth. >>hi respectfully, i that is dead wrong. yamiche: that included exchanges with tulsi gabbard over u.s. policy in syria. rehe also spon gun policy with beto o'rourke. >> don't need lessons from you on courage. political or personal. eryone on this stage is determined to get something done. yamiche: the candidates did agree on one critical issue. ortheir supporthe impeachment inquiry facing president trump. >> he has committed crimes in plain sit. >> he yamiche: yamiche: should be removed. last night also marked tom steyer'irst appearance on the debate stage. >> impeaching and removing this

presidentng is somethe american people are demanding. yamiche: also a big topic, president trump accusing former vice president joe biden and his son ofru c business dealings in ukraine. those unproven claims helped spark the impeachment inquiry. >> my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. yamiche: biden went on the offensive. >>he president and his thugs have proven that they are flat lying. what we have to do now is focus on donald trump. yamiche: biden criticized the president'so decision t withdraw forces from syria. that decision allowed turkeyo launch an attack against the kurds who helped the u.s. fight isis. >> w have an erratic, crazy resident, who knows t a damn thing about cooei f policy.

yamiche: it was also the first dete since vermont senator bernie sanders suffered a heart attack. >> we are going to be mounti a vigorous campaign all over this country. yamiche: sanders announced a rally in new york. >>ra we are going to have a yaspecial guest. che: that special guest is alexandria ocasio-cortez, a member of the so-called squad of liberal congresswome she and rashida tlaib of joiigan are expected to omar of minnesota in joining sanders. sanders hopes to get the endorsement of the last member of the squad, congresswoman presley of massachusetts. amina: will last night's debatee change t presidential race? i'm here with two newshour regulars, amy walter and stu rothenberg.

welcome to you both. sthree hof debate last night. if there was one candidate that everyone had their sites trained , it was elizabeth warren. how did that go for her? amy: she was the target of every single person on that stage. we saw the clips about medicare for all. that was a big component of the attacks, how her plan would get paid for. actually bernie sanders plan. but she was also attacked for her sort of my way or the highway approach, her an to breakup big tech. it was pretty clear that she is seen now as, if not the front runner, ateast flacco front runner with joe biden. there wasn't a moment where you thought, boy, that was a pretty terrible answer, or she looked really rattled there is no doubt that her opponents and pres coverage is going to continue to focus on

this medicare for all plan. how she responds to it i think may change. that was probably the least impressive moment. amina: what did you make of that? she took a lot of heat for that. stu: s y did. it was asked toe or thmes. i kinda felt like she fell off the horse, but she got back on pretty quickly. unlike kamala harris in the second debate, when she kind of disappeared for the rest of he not in this case with elizabeth warren. she was as feisty and aggressive as ever defending herself. amina: that whole fight over medicare for all, you've talked about this before. some of e fundamental choices within the democratic party right now. stu: i feel like we are coming to a head here, a critical

point, whereby democrats have to choose. do they want a populist proge like sanders or warren, or do they want somebody who is progressive, but isn't -- is pragmatic. not my way or the highway. this is a decision i think we've been waiting for for months already. it kind of felt like we are getting to the point where democratare going to start making those choices. and other choices, older candidate or younger candidate. these are the critical choices we've been waiting for them to make. amina: now that we are getting closer and closer toall. well, we are in the fall. but yes, now that we are getting closer to when people start voting. there is always been the two lanes, the sort of pragmatic,rmn the f joe biden, which is

a return to normalcy, just go back to where wee wth obama and get rid of trump, versus the big structural change of warren and sanders. yesterday was, he said, there's a third way. you don't have to buy into just is or just that. pick me. i'm younger and i'm more of a visionary, not a washington inside i'm going to be different from joe biden. i'm not all about returning to normalcy. i don't think there's such a thing. at the same time, i don't have annt iest in getting into these protracted fights on pocy, whether on guns or medicare for all, or on immigration that some other people on the stage want. really setting up a way for voters who might not feel those lanes to have a place to

go. amina: you mtioned you were going to watchth buttigieg i debate. he's raised a million dollars since that performce. you've also been following the money. the adline for those fundraising numbers was yesterday. amy: more than this debate performance, the money is going to be really the story going buttigieg did have a breakout night, but he also raised a lot of money on that third quarter. joe biden, the front runner, at least in the polling, has only $9 million in the bank. that is not a very good place to be. stu: isn't that also a problem for elizabeth warren and bernie sander', hs not the kind of person to just go away. as long he has the money, as long as he gets some haendorsementshe things are

useful -- i'm not quite so sure, but long as he thinks they are useful, he is likely to stay in the race. they are not competing for identical groups of voters, but similar. amy: also, you saw from the outsidome of those lower polling candidates. for them to punch througt time did you notice anyone else? u: amy klobuchar,d thought she good job. she was very aggressive. herself as someone who istioned realistic, pragmatic, and can work with republicans, or at least put forward policy proposals that are reasonae and she's willing to compromise. i don't know if the is anywhere for her to go as long as joe biden is in the race. nobody else stood out to me. ngi keep waior kamala harris

to bust out again, but she didn't. it is just hard to stand out when you have th focus on three or four people at the top of the list. amina: they all seem to be positioning themselves, even buttigieg, for what happens if one of those front runners is no longer in the contest. n specifically joe biden if you are pete buttigieg, and if you are elizabeth warren, you are hoping bernie sanders is unable to turn that money into actual votes. amina: over the course of the night, president trump's name was introduced again and again. one of the main questions for primary voters is, who can beat donald trump? didet anyonehemelves up as the man or the woman who can stand up to president trump? y: joe biden on ps ling still le that question. it has been dropping, the percentage of democrats who

believe he caneat donald trump. ngizabeth warren has to break through that cei the fact that she was a target last night should serve her well case, i know ho to deflect that and punch back, and stick with my m. different a.racted by all the stu: i don't think the electability argument wille decided until early 2020 after the iowa caucuses. let's see who does well. lielecta will be important, but we don't know what it is going to look like. amina: still a long way to go and anothera debate jusnth away. stu: i can't take another o. [laughter] amina: good to see you both. ♪

amina: stay with us. coming up, the nationals clinched the pennant. washington, d.c. is finally headed to the world series. icand a cl psychologist gives his brief but spectacular take on treating opioid addiction. nearly 6 million people in this country have alzheimer's disease. no c treatme fully stop it yet, but researchers around the world are trying to crack the complicated puzzle. tonight, miles o'brien reports on iriguing research and a different approach to battling the disease. f someat work is funded by retired senator jay rockefeller. this story is part of our at the leading edge of science. >> hello, everybody. >> to know judy pollock is to love her. she brims with energy, kindness,

and humor. >> at first you >> would never know. > i can't remember what i did yesterday, but i can remember stacy from 30 years ago. eventually her disease reveals what it stealing. her memory. >> can i have my key >> at age 61, judy is five years into her new normalqu after obdiagnosis. she has alzheimer's disease. >> i would go to say something and it just didn't come out. probably just like i'm talking now. it i difficult to have a fluent conversation. >> she was a neonatal nurse practitioner with a doctoral husban mark is a neonatologist. so they dove into this case, the

one that came home with a lot of professional insight, along with personal anguish. >>is we need to fight she's not going to sit here in a chair and slowly deteriorate. one of our good friends said, the first person to be cured with alzheimer's is alive today that became my morning prayer. >> that convicouon is what t them to this moment20, october 16. the place is the jw ruby memorial hospital in west virginia, the of their professional lives for decades. but on this day, the gurney was turned and patient judy pollock made medical history in a clinical trial. a team of scientists, engineers, and practitioners deployed a

device to take aim at a big barrier to progress in the fight against alzheimer's, the blood brain barrier. blit is a semiperm sheeting that repels harmful germs while allowing essential nutrients in. the barrier also prevents most medications from getting through because of their larger moleculasize. >> if you can open up the blood brain barrier, you have entry into the brain. >> a neuroscientis's executive chair of the rockefeller neurosciencetu ins at west virginia university. he is leing a i teament on breaking through judy's blood-brain barrier saflyy and revers >> you can deliver much less doses, which improves the safety profile. >> temporarily open the barrier using a combination of m.r.i. anpet scans and injection of

tiny mrobubbles and a llion-dollar helmet that sends outus precisely f beams of acoustic waves. using the imagery, thousands of ultrasound waves are aimed at th hippocampus. the ultrasound vibrates the e bubbles in oodstream and the breach the barrier. it a isirst, and it worked. they can see the proof. >> contrastge does not normally cross the blood brain barrier, but here it i showsin the hippocampus. >> an m.r.i. shows judy's protective blood-brain barrier is once again closed. temporarily obrning the bloon barrier may be a more effective means to get drugs where they are needed in thet brain, bufor alzheimer's,

there are no effective drugs, despite more thanca 700 cli trials. >> some of them so farave me people worse. >> associate director of the alzheimer's disease research center at the mayo clinic in nnesota. >> it is extremelyte disheng to have to sit in front of people to say, i'm sorry. >> researchers believe two proteins areus the likely of alzheimer's. in the brains of those afflicted,bnormal tau caccumulateating so-called tangles inside neurons. be-amyloid forms in clumps. for many years, alzheimer's researchers were focused on those. >> we need to look beyond, lloyd. we need to be doing more phase i trials.

we need to take 99 shots, 100 shots on goal to find one that is good, i'm fine with that. >>. what if drugs weren't required? researchers haveul found focused asound alone can clear away plaques in mice. early data sugsts the technique may be doing the same for judy a>> to others. >> this area had ae decre compared to this area. >> is unclear why this happens. the ultrasound might trigger an immune response or the brains lymphatic system. in the case of the mice, their behavior and memory function improved. >> hopefully we can get replication of the animal studies. >> it is possible micmay not be a good model for humans in this case. arly all those failed trials

began with promising results in the animals. thbut after three ultrasound treatments, judy and mark are >> i feel that i have morer. cognitive awareness. i can't tell right nowhat i'm doing, but i'm better than i was before. >> to try and separatthe data from the hope, the team is subjecting judy to some objective memory tests. >> car, bwn, tree, bed, shirt. rtell me what youemember. >> car,ed -- i was thinking about listening to it and then i st -- i don't know. >> neuropsychologist mark says

it is too early to say if judy's symptoms have improved. >> it is hard to tell what is true change and what is just fluctuation. even your memory is better some days than others. judy's is going to be even more effective. >> none of this seems to slow judy down. she is determined to power through, to stay in the game as much as the disease allows. ll drives herself to the gym for regular workouts. >> i'm not very good at this. >> and to her mother's house for a game of yacht c. >> she is doing better. i can tell. i used to have to show her everything. >> she still goes to the neonatal intensive careni to share lunch and love with her felonglleagues and

friend while she is there, sh volunteers her time as a cutler for premature babies. >> this is what keeps me going. hi, little one. e> w this ist helps her fight the sadness and boredom that comes with this relentless, cruel disease. but the stark reality tugs hard. >> i'm fine at home, fine doing my daily routine. but this is going to get worse. it is going to happen. >> i think there's still a lot of tangles, but i have to believe there's some slight improvement, which for me is a victory. if we get ahour more, that is well worth it. >> judy pollock is courageously fighting to make and keep her memories, and maybe it might

lead to a memorable impact on a dreadful disease. for the pbs newshour, miles o'brien in morgantown, west virginia. ♪ amina:st now, thy of a chef working to reintroduceiv n american culinary traditions that existed long before euroans arrived. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports from minnesota. it is part of the series, agents for change. fred: t with well-known native rituals. organizers at this community center want to draw attention to the long forgotten native culinary heritage. taking center stage was sean

sherman. a chef better known by his brand , sous chef -- sioux chef. >> there's some dandelion, three different kinds of mushrooms. fred: he uses native ingredients common to the americas for hundreds of years before white settlers arrived. >> part of our challenge was to cut out colonial ingredients. we stopped using dairy, wheat flour, sugar. fred: it is also a way to push back against processed foods that hand otrs blame for grave health consequences in the u.s. today. >> the foods most of us are eating today are killing us. they are the sources of our diabetes, our disease. fred: mary is a professor of dicine who practices at a nearby reservation. she says poor diets are linked

to two leading causes ofam death g native americans, cancer and heart disease. >> native peop die 10 years sooner than white folks. fred: sean sherman grew up poor in the black hills of the pine ridge reservation in south dakota b andan his career in minneapolis, working for years in restaurants where he learned various cuisines. i realized there was n native foods. nothing that represented the la we were standing on. fred: he set out to change thate researching ral food systems, and compiling it all into a book. 201genous kitch won the james beard award for best american cookbook. >> what were my lakota ancestors eating, how were they getting

oils sugars?s and fats and it took me quite a few years of researchg. it became a passion. fred: with his business and life partner, he travels around the world to promote healthier and traditional diets, appearing at events like the duluth food expo. traditionally harvested wild rice is added to the medley, dished o>> in samples. it is very different from what i normally eat. it was very fresh. >> it was absolutely phenomenal. to think you could put dandelion ain a food have it taste amazing. >> there's no argument, fresh organic ingredients like these are good for you. the problem for many people, especially in nativemm ities, is affordability and access near where they live. >> between the cost and the time

that it takes to prepare them, that is more costly. the's a huge problem of poverty in our community. people are working more than one job. they come home and they are tired. fred: fresh foods and produce are scarce on reservations. sherman and thompson wa to tackle t challenge of so-called food deserts. >> even if some of those gas stations just have one shelf of fhealthy indigenous options to choose from. >> isn't it true that those chips would be a lot cheaper than the healthier options? >> it i cheaper on the front end. if you look at the cost of treating all those illnesses, it wipes that price right out.fr : there is a cheaper option, they say. >> people can just go into their backyard. fred: we tag along at an organic

farm near minneapolis as sherman and thompson pick berries, plums, sones jokwild herbs, and reeds. fred: back in st. paul, they with papa -- with the ingredients they gathered. >> is like autumn on a plate. >> that i as unlikething i've ever tasted in my life. >> around here you can't get more minnesota than those foods. they've been here longer than minnesota was a concept. fred: most of his income today comes from a catering business. they plan to open a nonprofit kitchen to train native chefs next year. for the pbs newshour, this is fred de sam lazaro reporngng on and eaff the land in st. paul, minnesota. amina: fred's reporting is

partnership with the under told stories project at t university of st. thomas in minnesota. ♪ amina: it has been a long time in the making, but washington, d.c. finally has a baseball team going to the world series for the first timeince 1933. we are based here in so we are not going to pretend there isn't a little hometown pride in this story. but wiiam brangham is here now to look at the nets unlikely run to the fall classic in the good vibes around this region. >> and there it is. william: it was the mt thrilling night for baseball fans in the nation's capital in 86 years. ld>> there will be a w series

in d.c. william: the nationals squeaked into tna playoffas a wildcard team. >> base hit to write. william: after a wbr over the ewers, they took down the heavily favored last angeles fododgers re sweeping the st. louis cardinals on theird way o the series. this result was almost blunthine just five months ago when the nats were in second to last place at the bottom of the national leae. if you look at where we came from and what we had to accompli to get here, it wasn't easy. i'll be the first to say, i never doubted these guys. amy: baseball fans in washington,ad d.c. have h their hearts broken many times, dating back to the earliest days. the last time a d.c. team won calvin coolidge was president.

>> first in war, first in peace. william: the author of, you've got to have heart. before they whether national, d.c.'s team was the senators. after years of mediocrity, they left for minnesota. >> that team, as bad as it was, was about to turn the corner. when they got to minnesota, they became a really good team. washington got an expansion team. william: 11 years later, that team also left d.c. and for 33 years there was no professional baseball in the district. 2005, the montreal expos this success came as a surprise to many lost superstar bryce harper to

philadelphia in the off-season. but now they've managed to rally longtime residents and new fans alike. >> i've seen the city come around baseball. it wasn't here from day one. >> people greet eachth other whn see you in the jersey, when they know you are going to the game. it is just a whole different atmosphere. william: ia town best known for the sport of politics, the nats have managed to climb above the fray. >> baseball brought unity, not separation. when we are in that stadium, republican, democrat, that doesn't count. william: longtime political colonist al hunt has followed d.c. baseb>>l for decades. it is a dark time in washington now.

when i came to this town, it wak just as one of the few things that kind he community was t washington redskins. the redskins now are dysfunctional and disgraced. the washington nationals now are serving that same purpose. wiiniam: the nationals will take on either the houstonstros or new york yankees in the world taseries sing next week. i am william brangham in washington, d.c. amina: on avera, 130 americans die every day from opioid overdoses. treating addiction is proving to be a major challenge. tonight's brief but spectacular features clinical site charlotte just dr. nahv deep kahng -- clinical psychologist k dr. nahv

deng. >> the opioid epidemic is the greatest health crisis of our generation. weng are talbout numbers on par with a plane full of people falling out of the sky every we are looking at deaths over the next several years tt are on par with the civil war. i originally grew up in cincinnati and basically lived there most of my life. we have a lot of folks who struggle to get access to care. people would have frustrating experiences of calling a place and getting wait times in the range of 30 to 60 days. there was a time when it took 53 days to get into addiction medicine services. that is unacceptable. health care general has understood how to treat addiction for a long time, but have we carried forward those methods and applied them at great scale? what we did was take that

literature, translate it into prtice, and make sure there's a full continuum of service. anytime someone is looking for care,o they have able to access it. we put organizations together that find people a way to get access. we have this false narrative that peoplchoose these behaviors, so why should we put this energy into helping the nobody chooses a life of addiction. rsthey are disorf the brain that affect their family and their social network. if we apply the health care response, we can make a impact just like with any other chronic health care condition. the future is pretty simple. what we are talki about is mainstreaming addiction treatment. just like you go to the doctor for any otheric chrealth care condition. you should be able to see your doctor for opiate useco disder,

all use disorder, and they should be able to treat it. our mission is to have a community level understanding of addiction as a chronic medical condition. what that will allow us to do is makeure that prevention efforts are funded and make sure that people in recovery have every opportunity that everyone else does to work, to be with their family, to pursue their dreams. that is what we arseeking to do. not just track people who are diane, but start helping people who are living with substance abe disorders. this is my brief but spectacular take on rethinking addiction treatment. you can find mo episodes of our brief but spectacular sers at pbs.org. e on the newshour onlght now, the fatal shooting of tatiana jefferson by a police

officer is anothert j the debate about use of deadly force. weook at how the lack of data can make it more diff ult to determine trends and solutions. all m that ane is on our website, pbs.org. that is the news hour for tonight. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you. >> major funding for the pbsas newshoureen provided by -- >> consumer cellularco offers no ract wireless plans. swhether you are a talker, texture, or a bit of everything, our service team is here to find a plan that fits you. >> bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions.

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