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the delegates, and the nation, will hear from joe biden, the party's presidential standard bearer for 2 n0. it followsht when biden's former boss, and his n running mate, set the stage. once again, amna nawaz begins our verage. >> i accept your nomination for vice president. >> nawaz: an historic moment, delivered without applause to mostly empty convention hall, under the pall of a pandemic. california senator kamala harris's formal acceptanced speech cape penultimate night of the convention. the daughter of jamaican and indian ifiigrants is the t woman of color on a major party ticket. tonight, the convention finale, joe biden's moment te claim the pr hasought r more than 30 years. the proceedings will also feature former biden campaign rivals-turned-backers, a reminder of a crowded democratic primary when debate stages were ll and auditoriums packe among them? entrepreneur andrew yang,

former sou bend indiana mayor pete buttigieg, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg and new jersey senator cory booker. officials reportedly considered by biden to be his running mate, will also speak on his behalf tonight: atlanta mayor k lance bottoms and illinois senator tammy duckworth. they all follow a night when the party made its policy pitch to anlikely voters on what wa overwhelmingly female broadcast. the women featured last night dcluded business owners,a recipient, and a mother whose son was shot and disabled. >> one shot changed our lives forever. >> nawaz: and the pring leaned heavily into issues like the economy, climate change and gun violence. an appearance by former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords, who suffered a severe brain injury after being shot nearly a deca ago, made for a powerfu >> we must elect joe biden. he was there for me. he'll be there for you too.

join us in this fight. vote. vote. vote! >> nawaz: and a parade of prominent democratic women, from house speaker nancy pelosi to massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, urged voters to turn out. the party's 2016 presidential nominee, hillary clinton, who lost to president trump in the electoral college but won the popular vote, underscored the point. million more votes and stille lose. >> nawaz: and in lmarks from philadelphia's museum of the american revolutio former president barackhibama delivered harshest rebuke of his successor yet. >> donald trump hasn't grown to the job, because he can't.ue and the conseqnces of that failure are severe. because that's what is at stake right now. our democracy. >> nawaz: president trump anticipated the remarks, . eeting earlier in the evening, "welcome, baracke you on

the field of battle!" >> nawaz: meanwhile, ala harris stepped onto the stage and into the history books, she shed her own family story, about how she was raised, alongside her sister, by a single mher. >> she raised us to be strong, proud black wome and she raised us to know and be proud of our indian heritage. >> nawaz: the vice presidential nominee then pivoted to taling systemic racism, painfully exemplified by the way covid-19 has vaged black and brown communities. >> this virus, it has no eyes. and yet, it knows exactly how we see each other, and how we treat each other. and let's be clear, is no vaccine for racism. we've got to do the work. >> nawaz: that work with joe biden on the virtual campaign trl resumes tomorrow, afte his formal acceptance speech

tonight. for the pbs newshour, i'm am nawaz. >> woodruff: and we turn now to our lisa desjardins and yamicher alci hello to both of you. lisa, you are in wilmington. you've spent a lot of time looking at the career of joe biden, the trajectory of his life, really. what are you expecting to hear? what should w be expecting to hear from him tonight? >> you know, judy, tonight's theme offially is this -- america's promise. that's an important word fooe biden, "promise." the twoict autobiogra books he's written have the word in . one in 2007, "promises to keep," the other he wrote after his son's death, bo, "promise me, dad." so the idea f keeping promises is what we'll hear from hi, and we'll hear more about what we've seen in his books and sketched out his career, ideas of family.

whole family, whic calls ad his family of strong personalities. also the idea honesty, positive values, a positive vision for america is something the campaign is taltking aou something we'll see throughout biden's byo aphical sketc and i think we'll hear him spea about his son bo as well. a lot of folks talk about him runninfor president in 188, but he filed papers to run in thew nempshire primary four years earlier, 1984. he's beeinking about this night for 36 years. here's his moment, in his home se clearly, this will be an emotional time, but this is a about almost his entire career. >> woodruff: in connection with all tat, what areou hearing about highlights, messages from e convention tonight. you're there in wilmington.

what do you expectho see tere? >> we'll have a series of other candidates who opposed vice president biden ithe primary, pete buttigieg, one who says he sees himself in. the progr went aittle long last night. senator booker was oinally set to speak last night, he will speak tonight. i think we hear about the idea of a psitive vision. we'll see how much they go after wesident trump ort not. speaking of thahave seen a few protestors. we hatle video earlier, a dozen some they had creative signs. one of these signs saying totn p is like 50. you can hear them a little from our position. no clashes, no problems with police. also another creative trump supporter hired a plad is flying around the site of this speech with a banner that ads

"joe biden is losing it." but, again, this is not like other conventions where we've seen clashes or sort of intensity. i've talked to some of these protesters and trump suprters, an right now there's a lot of positivitych they don't want joe biden to be president, but there tension about it as they show up here. one other thing we're expecting ve soon to see cars rolling to this lonely parking lotor the drive-in. we expect vice president biden may come out after his speech and speech to the crowd, gathered pandemic style in their cars. >> woodruff: interesting, and i know we'll want to come to you when all of that is going on. separately, yamiche, the incumb there was news from his corner, one of his former top avisors, strategist at the white house, stevsteve bannon was arr aested. heused of fraud. tell us more about that.

>> that's right, fedeceral prors in new york today indicted steve bannon, former white house chief strategist, and senior advisor to prn,ident trump's 2016 campa along with three other conservative associates. prosecutorsay they're charged with defrauding donors, using what prosecutors called a build the wall."we the people it told people, donate your money and we'll use 100% of your money to build a wall on thern soutorder, that continues to be a chief goal of president trump, he campaigned on it and continuesalk about it during his presidency, but prosecutors say steve bannon, in particular, used up to $1 million or more on personal experiences and that would mean hotels, travel, personal credit card debt. steve bannon was in court todayn pled guilty. he's accused of defrauding the voters president trump is to win back. the president's son is someone who was also part of the

fundraising campaign, sing he is someone who supported it. however, he is not charged at all. >> woodruff: quickly, yamiche, what is the president saying? >> well, the president's saying he had nothing to do with this, that he didn't like it whehe heard about the idea of a private wall being built or private money being taken into account to build a wall. he said mexico would pay for this wall. he continues to say that although mexico hasson. a senior trump advisor tells "newshour" this looks like political targetg of steve bannon. the president was incranton, pennsylvania, where joe biden grew up, making the cjoe biden is smeone who's bad for pennsylvaniawill cancel famil and culture and he was htting back at joe bid as vice president biden prepares to give his speech tonight. >> woodruff: he will have all week to make his case.

we'll be coming back to both of you throughout the night >> woodruff: house speaker nancy pelosi was one of several high-profile wome to address untry last night at the democratic national convention, sharing her suppt for the biden/harris ticket. and, speaker pelosi jos us now from san francisco. madam speaker, thank you for being with us. again, we heard you say last night, you've seen, a i'm quoting first hand,tr presidenp's disrespect for facts, for working families and for women, in particular. what were youeferring? >> i was referring to hist policies t know are anti-women and his conduct but let's just talk about the policies, if we will. what he probably doesn't, that

when women succeeds, america succeeds, so we want to protect a woman's right to choe and to preserve roe v. wade. we want to hav guarantee of afrdable quality childcare, unable to unleash t full pow of women. we also want to have strength in social security and equalayl for eqork, and who's standing in the way? mitch mcconnell and donald ump, to name a fe of our women-oriented priorities to unleash the power of women >> woodruff: you have been -- you're in san francisco butd you've attenny conventions, a lot of us have. this is different, by necessity. but do you think we're looking at the way conventions are going to be, going forward? >> this is my 15th convention, my first when i was 12 years old going with my father, mayor of baltimore, my whole family, telling americans we take the whole family to a cnvention, where would we go?

but that was interesting. but i do think it was beautifully, magnificently handled, and as the chair of the convention in san francisco, 1984, as chair of the host committee of the covention, i've played every role. i have been chair in one convention in the pltform committee, of the delegate selection committee an chair of the whole convention, and i can they did to pull this off, and it was magnificent. i had the privilege of thanking the staff earlier today. i think our future is probably a hybrid because this was great. it had an impact, it had succinctness, it had clarity, but it didn't have our llaboration of seeing each other, which i still think is something that's very ortant to thetrength of the party. but if i had to choose one wy, actual or virtual, i would choose virtual, but i think hybrid is the way of the future where we canave the benefit of

both the impact as well as the collaboration. >> woodruff: that's very interesting. you are con seeing the house of representatives. you've got some travel ahead of you. that's this saturday. you're going to be trying to pass a bill that will forbid the postal service for cutting back on services that would imped voting by mail. my question is do you expect to get republican support for this? while you say republicans are ruing on this issue and are scared, how confident are you that once this bill passes theup's ing to abide by it? >> well, all we can do is put it on his desk. i think we will have some republican support from whate th hen saying. we'll see how they vote. but this is something that touches -- hits home for america's families. the post office is -- the postal service is over 90% positiveth rating froamerican people, higher than any agency of government. it is asmerican as our

constitution, and it's writtenn in the stitution that we will have a postal service and congress shall minister tota ishing the roads -- the postal roads, et cetera. so it's as american asur constitution, apple pie, motherho, baseball, postal service. right now, we have a situation where members across the cotry, democrats and republicans, are getting reports of delayed mail. our veterans exec nearly 100% of v.a. prescriptions go through the mail. last year, 1.2 billion prescriptions went through the mail. that was in 2019, well before the coronavirus h. compounded by the time of an election where people want to vote by mal so they t have to risk their health in order to vote, fore th post office to be

pulling in the post office boxes and taking down the sorting machines and not increasing the overtime hours and the rest, we'll have a bill to correct all of at. >.>> woodruff: at this at this , how confident are you there will be a fair vote in november? >> i know as the former chair of the california democratic partys that republiery successfully vote by mail, they do.wa they've led thon this. so across the country, democrats and republicans are supporting our callor more funding, for vote by mail as well as mo funding for those who don't want to vote by mail to be able to eafely vote by having mor places, more distancing, more hours, more days where peo ple

can the polls and vote. republicans are against that,a but, ain, we don't agonize, we organize, and we're going to make sure that everyone has a plan well in advance to vote, to vote early, to eure that their vote is counted as cast. the postal serviceants to stand in the way of that. we'll make sure that we can overcome it. >> woodruff: let me ask you about covid relief beore the congress. you have been struggling to strike a deal, as we know, with republicans on this. this week, more than 100 democrats in the house signed au letting you to pass a smaller relief bill than what you have out there. you had agreed to go froli 3 tr down t2 trillion. but they want to expandme unempl benefits. but basically, they're saying after the dofuratio this covid emergency that they would scale the support based on what the situation is in every state. but my questionwhere do you stand on what they're asking you

to do?he >> well,re asking us to do -- aa lwpolicy standpoint haveys supported the stabilization, that means that if you say, when unemployment reach as certain point, that you would automatically have unemployment benefits. that's a very positi initiative. i have encouraged that and welcomed that suggestion. i don't think, strategically, it's where we should go right now because the republicans would like to pass something and say forget about it -- forget about state and local, forget about our investments in stopping the virus forget about other initiatives about feeding the food-insecure country in our country, vote by mai initiatives and the rest. so, again, i think that's something we should pass. i don't thk the timing i for us to do it right now. the republicans could take that into the senate, put poison pills all over it, and it's hard

to vote against extending unemployment benefits. and again, i think, serwhelmingly, our membho would not want to extend as i say, it's something i fully support, and the stabilization, but not necessarily in the negotiation. >> woodruff: but to clarify then, you don't really see an opening to get this thing solved in the coming few days? >> no, i do. i don't thk it's done by giving them an out. i think it's done by making them cone in to thotiation because, really, the most central point of it all where people's needs are met the most is the issuete of snd local we don't think one state should pay for another state's concerns. well, we in california have been ying for other people's concerns for a long time, so for people in new yk and the rest, that's the american way, we do it with great pride and not with any resentment.

they have said it's a tax issue, why should pple in one state help people in another state. welcome to the united states of america. i appreciate what my members are doing. i support fuly th, but i don't necessarily think the timing of it is right now. i think that's something that wn do when we we will get it signed without poisoned pills. >> woodruff: two other very being accused of interfering again in this year's presidential election. senate intelligence committee report, you're very familiar wit. they're saying russians are continuing to spread disinformation. democrats say this information was planted with republicans like senator ron johnouson. doave information to back that up? >> yes, we have been briefed but not to confirm or deny anything. what we' saying is the intelligence community should be putting forth what it can

without jepardizing sources and methods, of course, but there is no question that the russians are 24-7 trying to undermine the integrity of our ections. the intense community knows that and have stated that, but we have further evidence that they can state more fully so that whether wittingly or unwittingly, those who might use that information have t fullest knowledge and that the public knows what the russians are up to. i think the americapeople are clear, they'd rather decide that they decide who the president of the ited states is than vladimir putin, with his thfiltration of our social media, witr putting forth false info, mation -- can't really go into so much of it, but it's very wrong, the

administration knows it's wrong, and the president does anything but invite it, and then they try to maket -- what is some equivalence countryto make is doing that, this country is doing at. there nothing like what the russians are doing. we don't want anybody interfering in our eltions but let's don'take it look like it's on par with other things. it is a major assaulton ur democracy and has a bigger agenda. it has the agenda of undermining democracies and they've done it in our country and other counies throughout the world. we should not allow this to happen in our country and be accomplices to their undermining of knock si. w druff: speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, thank you very much for joining us., >> my pleasuank you.

>> woodruff: the speaker's home state of california has suffered a devastating week. a bltering heat wave, intense lightning storms, and now, far too many wildfires, all of it taxing overwhelmed firefighters and residents who are being forced to evacuate in the middle of the pandemic. stephanie sy has the story. >> sy:hick smoke blanketed parts of northern california for another day, as ferocious wildfires threatened thousands of homes in their path. firefighters are struggling to get them under control. the steep terrain, tinder dry brush, and scorching heat are mplicating their efforts. amid gusty winds, a helicopter pilot on a water-dropping mission died when he crashed in western fresno county yesterday, the first known fire-related fatality. ews are simultaneously battling more than two dozen from wine country the state, francisco bay area on down to

southern california, and smaller blaz are flaring up. many of the fires were sparked by an unprecedented amount of lightning earlier theek. were reported in an of justikes 72 hours. the extraordinary conditions were triggered by severe thunderstorms coupled with and nevada, and mo fromzona a tropical storm off the coast of mexico. john gardiner described the terrifying scene near his home in vacaville, out 35 miles southwest of sacramento. >> this is just eerie. you know, you could hear this swirling or swishi of ai just going crazy and explosions going off. almost sounded like bombs. >> sy: overall, authorities estimate hundreds of tusands of acres have already been burned, along with nearly 200 structures, cluding homes. firefighters have not been able to contain the blazes much yet. and, in two counties, the fire

grew by 15,000 acres overnight. thousands of people have now been ordered to evacuate. victoria gregorch was one of them.ay she fled tueight when a fierce blaze came barreling towards her neighborhood. >> it was coming up over the hill behind me, just raging in a big red line and just coming quick. coming down the street, the rst house was on fire, a then my neighbor's house was on fire and was gone. and i thought for sure mine was gone, but it>> not. sy: all this, as residents are contending with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and a dangerous triple-digit heatwaved >> who wave thought that 2020 would be like this? it's just insane. so, just hug your family tell people you love them, and stay safe. >> sy: the extreme heat is straining the state's energy supplies, leading to rolling power outages. california's main power grid operator is urging residents and busisses to conserve energy avoid further blackouts. to make matters worse, the air

quality has become dangerous in san francisco, with ash and smoke from at least seven fires burning to its north, east, and south.e pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy. >> woodruff: russia's leading opposition figure lies seriously ill in a siberian hospital tonight, the victim of a possible poisoning. alexei navalny is a crusading an-corruption activist, aspiring politician, and has been a thorn in the side of vladimir putin and his lieutenants for a decade. here now, nick schifrin. >> schifrin: on a video posted to a russian news site, the conscience of the opposition, unconscious, on a stretcher. aalexei navalny h been domestic fligh when a

passenger filmed him moaning in agony. he was rushed to this remote hospital in siberia, and put on a ventilator. his spokeswoman said h tea had been poisoned. doctors called his condition stable, but serioussl >> ( traned ): doctors are really working on saving his life. >> schifrin: the 44-year-old lawyer is the country's most prinent opposition figure. he calls the ruling united russia party "the party of crooks and thieves." >> ( translated ): we do not owe the government anything.e it is vernment who owes us. they build an authoritarian regime that doesn't give us anything back. schifrin: he's an anti- corruption crusader whose most famous video exposed mansions, yachts, and land that he said t belongprime minister dmitry medvedev. >> ( translated ): medvedev can eal so much and so openly because putin does the same, but on a greater scale.'s thinhealthft. >> schifrin: he's inspired some of the largest protests in modern russian history, and targeting.rom government

a possible previous poisoning attempt, and arrests that blocked him from runningor he's been doused wh milk byem krn allies who beat up his staff, and an assailant sprayed him with green dye and chemicals. >> ( translated ): even if i look like this, does that mean thate will accept money that's been yachts?nd used to buy i don't think so. >> schifrin: in russia, the pst itical assassinations and attempts is long. in 2006, crusadingussian journalist anna politkovskaya was murdered. litvinenko, a former k.g.b. agent who accused putin of ordering politkovskaya's death, was killed in london radioactive tea. in 2018, former double agent sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the u.k. they survived. and the most infamous recent example, opposition leader boris nemtsov shot dead on a bridge next to the kremlin in 2015. nemtsov's deputy, vladimir kara- murza, told me in 2017, that he was poisoned twice. >> within a space of 15 to 20 i minuteent from feeling

completely normal like i am now, to having a really rapid heart rate, sweating, palpitation, started vomiting, and then i just lost consciousness. kidneys, i think, went first, then it was the heart, the everything.stomach, the liver, everything just shut down. isso i have no doubt that as a deliberate attempt to murder based on my politicalactivitiesy activities in the russian opposition.on kremlin's spokesmaed talk of poison "speculation."r re on all of this, we turn to catherine belton, whoived in moscow for 15 years and isga now an invesve correspondent for reuters. she is the author of the recently-released "putin's people: how the k.g.b. took back russia and thetook on the west." catherine belton, welcome to the "newshour". i laid out aemong list of n critics who've ended up dead or targeted. navalny says he's been targeted before. why this att?ack now

>> it certainly looks like it's a sign of the kremlin's increasing power. i think they're watching events in belrus with complete horror. it's their worst night mare what's happening there, this sudden show o people power, the power of the ople and people areisort of shedding off r fear to have the rime and they're protesting en masse, and i think the kremlin is watching very wary and there are great parallels between poschenko's rule in belarus and president putin's as wel. navalny has been traveling about russia's regions ahead of local elections next nt he has been tweeting enthusiastic support for the protests in belarus. he tweeted. one tweet was would you like belarus? here, here's a list ofat cand for the elections next month. he's also been exprsi enthusiastic support for the strikes in belarus where workers have gone ontrike, it's a very

powerful tactic, he said, for strong lynn the regime which is fure pow especially when protesters are being beaten up, and wenow that 's had talks with russian trade union leaders in the past. i think the kremlin is sending a very stong signal to navalny so that he could bk off and anyone else in the opposition who would think of picking up the mantle, i think the kremlin is jusct inreasingly paranoid and it's acting with impunity to protect it interests. >> reporter: you talked about other opposition fgures pick picking up the mantle. there are large protests in the far east in russia. how much of a threat do they pose to putin? >> i think president putin i really entering uncharted territory now for his rule. he's been blessed with good luco fo of his presidency. presidency had fast rising oil

prices which helped him reallyt improve livingdards for the population, andn the was -- once the economy was flagging, he was able to pull off the annexation in crimea ch had wide support from the population and boosted his ratings. but now he's facing not just a stagnating economy, bt russia's deep recession nost becauseto a to have the pandemic but because of low oil prices and beofcaus the very poor investment climate, because of presidt putin's operatives have been scaring off any businessmen whwant to inves because their businesses can be seized any minute by the security services. so he's ally facing a kind of new world for him where, in a couple of months' time, there have been predicted waves of lockdown and low oil prices and it really could behat he could

face sort of greater unrest. he's already facing the longest running and biggest protest of his rule in russia's far east where the population is unhappy at how the kremlin has tried to very heavy-handedly remove a popuor localvernor by javing him. so these protests e already in their sixth week in the far east. so things are looking quite tricky for putin after a very long time of being able to get away with all kinds of things. >> reporter: catherine belton, we'll have to leave it the. the book is called "putin's people." thank you very much. >> tnk you for having me o

>> woodruff: let's turn back now to stephanie sy in o newshour west bureau, who has today's headlines. >> sy: thanks, judy. the u.s. economy is giving new ryidence of an uneven reco iow unemployment claims ticked back over one milast week. they had fallen below that mark a week earlier, for the first me since march. but the virus has surged again, and confirmed infections have topped 5.5 million nationwide, with nearly 174,000 deaths. the man spearheading the pandemic fight, dr. anthony fauci, had outpatient surgery today to remove a polyp on his vocal cord. the problem started with a bout of flu last winter, and made his voice raspy. fauci said it never healed because he's been giving nearly non-stop briefings and interviews on the coronavirus. n federal judge has ag dismissed president trump's bid to block a subpoena for his c personal aporate tax records.

he had claimed it was overly broad.th subpoena is part of an investigation in new york ofd allesurance and bank fraud at the trump organization. after the ruling, mr. trumpn claimed agat he's being persecuted. >> we don't do things wrong.th bu'll say, "let's inspect every deal he's ever done. let's get papers from ten years, every paper, every deal he's maybe we can find where some lawyer made a mistake, whereth didn't dot an i, where they didn't put a comma down some place, and then we can something." this is a disgrace, and it should never, ever be allowed t. happen aga >> sy: the president's lawyers immediately appealed the ruling, likely sending the case backreo the u.s. s court. the high court already rejected mr. trump's initial claim of total immunity. the united states formally demanded today that the united nations "snap back" all sanctis on iran. secretary of state mike pompeo cited iranian violationsf the

trump administration withdrew from in 2018. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin is back to fill us in. , schifrin: two years agoe trump administration withdrew from the iran nuclear deal. but today, secretary of state mike pompeo argued the u.s. still had the legal authority to use a security council resolution that endorsed the deal to punish iran. >> iran will be back under nctions for ongoing nuclear activity, such as the enrichment of nuc be applied to a nuclear weapons program. >> schifrin: since the u.s.nd withdreweimposed unilateral sanctions, iran has enriched uranium and stockpileda enriched uranihigher levels than the deal allows, although still below levels required to make a n bomb. but the other signatories: u.k., france, germany, china, and ssia, say because the u. withdrew, u.s. does not have the legal authority to take today's step. those countries can't stop theap s. from ng back these sanctions, but some say they won't help enforce them.

and then therere political consequences. european officia say that ioday further strained rel with the u.s., and even former national security advisor john bolton, who led theffort to pull out of the nuclear deal, argues that today's step could degrade the power of the security council veto. today, iran displayed ballistic missiles and a new cruise missile-- all weaponnot covered by the nuclear deal-- and called today's u.n. move illegal. administration officials insist they do have the legal authority, and can overcome any political consequences. they also believe iran is likely to respond to these sanctions, and that could reduce the chance that a president biden could resurrect the nuclear deal next year. stephanie?y: >>hanks for that, nick. north korean leader kim jong-un acknowledged today that histr couny's economy is under severe strain, partly due to u.s. sanctions. kim told leade of his workersat party he sanctions, along with covid-19 and recent floods, have derailed plans for economic growth.is therord that greenland's

ice sheet lost a record 586 llion tons of ice last year, more than double the annual averageme the finding from a new satellite study which shows the ice melt is enough co cover all ifornia in more than four feet of water. researchers ble a combination of climate change and an occasion weather effect that sends warmer air over greenland. and on wall street, stocks managed modest gains.s the dow jodustrial average was up 46 points to close at 2739. the nasdaq rose 118 points, and the s&p 500 added 10. still to come on the newshour:at the of michigan reaches a settlement with victims of the flint water crisis. and, one on one with senator cory booker, ahead of his speech on the final night of the democratic national convention.

>> woodruff: the water crisis in flint, michigan exposed major health and environmental concerns for residents of that ewty. it also promptedcrutiny about the access of clean drinking water for millions ofpe le around the country. as john yang reports, flint is still grappling with the o consequencthat situation, and now the state will provide some financial relief for the ci's youngest residents. >> yang: six years after the flint water crisis began, crews are still replacing ad pipes that made so many residents sick, and people are still relying on bottled water. >> we wake up, we brush our teeth with bottled wat we drink bottled water. we're out of bottled water? it's "pack bacup, let's get in the van and go get some more bottled water." >> yang: today, chigan officials announced a preliminary agreement to pay flint residents $600 million tot settle lawfiled against the state.

governor gretchen whitmer, who took office just last year: t we reached this settlem because further delays were unacceptable. and i want to acknowledgdethat flint res have been beyond patient. we recognizehe settlement may not completely provide all that flint needs. >> yang: in april 2014, officials appointed by the state tried to save money by shifting the source of the city's drinking water from lake huron to the flint river. but the more corrosive river water wasn't treated properly. as a result, lead-- which can cause brain damage in children-- leached into the drinking water. from the city's aging pipes. under the proposed settlement, nearly 80% of the money would go to those who were younger than 18 when the crisis began. the state would also set aside a fund to pay local schools for special education students,nu whose ers have gone up more than 50% since the crisis gan. ariana hawk's esn developed show

elevated lead levels. >> it's devastating. it's very hard to deal with on a daily basis. it's hard to en just deal with as a parent, becaus sometimes, i feel like i c do better. m but it's nfault that the water is like th. it's not something that i asked for. it's not something that i chose for my kids. >> yang: the city stopped king its drinking water from the flint river in 2015, but the effects, medical and otherwise, still linger. the settlement must be approved by a federal judge, and doesn't affect other lawsuits against the federal e.p.a. and engineering firms involved in the water project. in addition, a state criminal investigation is ongoing. flint pediatrician dr. mona hanna-attisha s one of the first to sound the alarm about the war, and has emerged as a leading advocate for the well- being of the city's children. dr. hanna-attisha, thank you so much for being with us. >> always great to be with you. >> reporter: 80% of the money from this fund is going to go to

children affected by this. is that a fitting acknowledgment of the disproportionate effect this has had on the chiofldre flint? really reassured hear at that the settlement process listened to the cnim's voices, it was very much informed by the community, but it almry much respected the science oft what happened in flint. that there's no safe level of lead, that there's a population-wide lead exposure and the youngest children will be the most impacted by this trauma. you see that reflected in the rsettlement. orter: they've also set up a fund to fund special education in the local schools, which has mushroomed since this crisisg bean. >> yeah, that is fantastic news. our schools are already under resource, underfunded. the pandemic has added another layer of educational inequities

for our kids. so to provide extra resources for our schools, especiallfor our kids who have special needs and need more support is >> reporter: $600 million may sound like a lot but when you consid flint's hop pplation is about 100,0, it may not necessarily be a lot for individuals, although there are all sorts of things that havetto bemined before they figure out who gets how much money. but beyond the dollars and cents, is there a significance or symbolic value in the state saying, yes, we are going to pay is money in this case? >> john, that's a gr ome to appreciate as a physician in flint, the concept of restorative justice being so critical for healing and health and recovk y. you can th the flint water crisis as a wound, as a scar,

d without that symbolic gesture of justice and haccountability, it's verd for the people of flint to move forward. so we are grateful to everybody that realized that, without restorative justice and some form of damages given to the people impacted, it's very difficult for us to move forward. >> reporter: you've also said this settlement is not the end to have the story. what more needs to be done? what more insort of long-term resources does the city need? >> from the moment o recognizing really the scope of this crisis, a top layer of inequities that we had flin our work has been holistic, to wrap our children wih evidence-based, science-basedl practices to htheir development. that's what we do in flint through the work in our clinic to give children prescriptions and childcare services and healthcare services and expanded

medicaid. this is long-term work and we're trespecting the science hat kids need to be health ysm this settlement is great, but we also need the nher log-term investments that have been federal resourcesetate and continuation of the registry to follow folks over time. >> reporter: give us a sense, six years on from this isis acginning, and there's still -- they're still reg the water pipes. they say they probably will hope to end some time later this year. what you're saying among you patients, what effects are you seeing among your patients in flint? >> that our children are still suffering, issues with health and development and that, onc again, it's great we have these resources because they're meeting these unmet needs that are ongoi in regards to this crisis. >> very good. dr. mona hana-attisha from flint, michigan. thank you very much. >> thank you, john.

>> woodruff: senator cory booker challenged joe biden for the democratic party's presidential nomination during the primary, but night, he'll tell the country why he supports his former rival.na and r booker joins us now from newark. senator booker, so good to see you again. let me ask you about this convention. d whatyou think about it? you were there four years ago, there was a lot of excitement on the part of democrats,t it didn't turn out so well. what's different this year? >> well, clearly, a global pandemic and an unconventionals convention result. but there's something actually really beautifnd, i've fouin that the panorama of america we're seeing is even more spectacular and the peoe you're able to weave in to the narrative are really touching, an so, frostening to an incredible woman who operated an elevator and saw joe biden's common decency to even when wa nominated, the way we went around the united states of america including to our

territories, i tell you, it was very emotional and very powerful. >> woodruff: i want to ask you about the platform and one of thmany interesting thngs you were talking about during the primary, so-called baby bonds where you would give $1,000 to every family, to every baby, build on the savings, espllec for those who are less advantaged, that did not end up uh in thae pltform. is that something you have been lobbying joe biden and kamala harris on? >> to joe's credit, i wasse imprwith him on the campaign trail that he actually paid attention to the policies of his competitors. he talked to me specifically about baby bonds when we were backstage during one of the debates. this is what i love about joe den, he is intellectually curious, looking fr good ideas. he put together a group to meet uo are progressives from party and more centrists of our party got together an putting to a list of ideas, and baby bonds

made the list, so i was encouraged by that. so i'm actually hopeful that we can do big ideas that can help level theconomic playing field. >> woodruff: senator, the airst three nights of this convention have red, i think it'elirebrates d divfaersn america, whether by race, lgbyo, just think across the board, there have been bigender, immigrants, it's been a very moving presentation. but for years, we'veeard analysts look at d. j. party, certainly since the last election, say what about the appeal to working cla voters, especially white working class voters especially in pennsylvania, wisconsin, and mi m whichonald trump took away from the democrats four years ago. what about those voters? what are they hearing at this convention? >> i talk to union leaders and h they know the been duped by a president who made a lot of

promises he did not follow through on we have so many americans from all bacrounds that are working union jobs and this is a able to get an infrastructuren bill done not to mention histr ht assault on the right to organize, as you see the republican party continuing to push right to work stanttes, ue to fight against collective bargaining, canting to hang out the pensions ofa lot of these unions. there is a clear understding that if you're a working class american, if you are arker, that we are seeing the work class gro sw, middle clarink and poverty persist. even just the simple idea that people should make a living wage and you and i both kow that the minimum wage is now below th poverty line. it wasn't like that when it started in the 1960s.

a lot of good jobs in the past, even a janitorial job, the average one was a middle class job back in the day, now it's not. you see these encroachments on to working people where they find themselves not being able to afford rent ori chldcare or prescription drugs. many people are feeling like th're an economic insecurity. joe has an agenda, a really bold one to make wok pa, to make this nation be a nation that centers wo and the middle class and the growth of unions to reverse some of the disastrous trends we have been seeing going on since the 1980s. >> woouff: senator cory booker, we will be listening for you tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you, always good to be on. >> woodruff: and na nawaz is back with a look at the other highlights we can expect from the final nigat of the demo convention.

>> naz: that's right, judy, addition to senator booker, we'll be hearing tonight from anotr high-powered, jam-pack slate of democratic speakers, all leading up to remarks from the nominee himself, former vice president joe biden.t der the theme of "america's promise," we'll also hear from more of biden's primy rivals. that includes former new york city mayor mike bloomberg, south bend, indiana may pete buttigieg, and entrepreneur andrew yang. also listed among the speakers, two officials reportedly vetted as possible running mates for biden: atlanta mor keisha lance bottoms, and illinois senator tammy duckworth. tonight's keynote, of course, is the 2020 democratic nominee for president, joe biden, fulfilling a dream he first had more than 30 yrs a. and as they have every night so far, judy, organizers say the voices and stories of everyday americans will be featured throughout. judy, democrats will take thr pitch back to the public one last night, in this historic, virtual, national convention.

>> woodruff: we're looking forward to it.an on the newshour online right now, what's happened to the normal pageantry of the political conventions during thc pand we look at the history of the balloon drop, and why we mightth not miss i year. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour.ne and that is thhour for tonight. please join us starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern for our s coverage of the final night of the democratic convention. we'll have a panel of experts,i' an speak with joe biden's former rival, vermont senator bernie sanders, about whethe the democrats are doing enough for the progressive wi of the party. m judy woodruff. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you shortly. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> the women's suffrageen centennial mov ce

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