♪ judy: good ening.m i'dy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, the surge continues -- the u.s. faces another spike in covid infections following thanksgiving holiday as restrictions are increasingly re-imposed nationwide.ak the team shape. the transition of power continues as president-elect biden names the advisers who will inherit the virus-ravaged economy. plus, uneasy peace -- armenia hands over control of two regions of war-torn naanrno-karabakh as part of armistice with azerbaijan. >> for the azerbaijani milita' that'stationed here, ever since they were children they were told nagorno kabakh was

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by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions from viewers like you.wi >> w join judy woodruff and the full program after t latest headlines. dr. scott atlasd has resig just days before his temporary job was set to end. tehe repy clashed with dr. anthony fauci. he questioned the effectiveness of masks and rled against closures. hen said he always relied the latest science and evidence wiout any consideration or influence. a second major pharmaceutical company is pushing tonight for approval of a covid-19 vaccine. moderna says it's applying for emergency use permission in europe and the u.s. that news comes amid wornings of eveninfections from thanksgiving gatherings.

in new york today, governor help hospitals inclung callingto in retired doctors and nurses. >> we are now worried about overwhelming the hospital t system, and se numbers expect they will, you will see serious stress on the hospital system. [trt :15] -- stress on the hospitalst . >> in southern california, los angeles county began enforcing a strict stay-at-home order today. we'll return to the pandemic, after the news summary. president-elect joe biden formally announced top econoc advisers today. he'll nominate janet yellen, former chair of the federal reserve, to et treasury sey. and today first, mr. biden:'s women of color for 2 other key positions,ra nanden to run

the office of management and budget and cecilia rouse to chair the council of economi advisers. we take a closer look ter in the program. meanwhile, thelections chief in georgia announced probes of alleged efforts to register ineligible or dead voters for 2 u.s. senate runoffs.or but a's secretary of state brad raffensberger again rejected claims that president trump lost the state becausef fraud. >> there are those who are exploiting the emotions of many trump suppters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation and, frankly, they're misleading the president as well, apparently. >> georgia has certified that president-elect biden won the state by about 12,700 votes. today, arizona certified a biden when by a little more than 10,000 votes. and, wisconsin finished a partial recount, confirming another biden victory. in iran, funeral services were held for the founder of thetr c's military nuclear program -- the country's nuclear

weapons program. he died last week in an ambush that iran blames on israel. state tv showed mourners paying their respects to mohsen fakhrizadeh.to security official said the israelis used remote-controlled weapons in the attack. israel has not commented. the rebel leader in ethiopia's tigray region is insisting that fighting goes on even after losing his capital. ethiopia's army seized the city of mekelle over the weekend, after nearly a monthfighting that killed and displaced thousands.ec u.s. stary of state mike pompeo spoke with ethiopia's prime minister today and called for aease-fire. still to come, the u.s. braces for a spike in infections following the holiday. president-elect biden names his picks to advise him on the economy and spend. the trump administration's attempt to immigrants from the census

reaches the supreme court. and much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from wbt a studios in washingto-- from weta studios in washington inand the west from the walt cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: even as pes grow about the distribution of vaccines in the coming months, covid-19's impact continues to ripple consequences.s. with enormous more than 138,000 new cases reported over the pastand over 800 deaths. hospitalizations remain very high. more than in all. 90,000se26 staterecords for covid-related hospitalizations during thanksgiving week. william brangham has a conversation about theatest. william: judy, ovethe weekend, that with holiday gatherings

fections could grow , significantly between now and christmas. the surge in pandemic cases and hospitalizations and deaths come with newuestions about the three new vaccines on the horizon. dr. celine gounder is an epidemiologist and professor of infectious diseases at the new york university grossman school icine. she is also a member of president-elect biden's covid advisory team. very good to have you onhe newshour. the country.celerating can you give us a snapst as you see it of how things are going right now? dr. gounder: the u.s. was already having a surge in cases before the thanksgiving holiday. the problem with thanksgiving or any other such holiday is you are bringing together people, family and friends from all across the country, different generations.

what we were seeing in the weeks coming up to this, much was being prunagated by r people, and now those folks -- while we often see this kind of spread rippling out, tople really pt on fast-forward. william: do you think of that as an equivalent or greater risk than the sort ofngng things we know of as high risk behaviors? gathering and bars, stores, and otr gatherings. >> we know that small gatherings

are high-risk. it is -- the way i think about coronaviruses, it's a virus that hitches a ride on our love and our trust for other . and it's precisely the people we're closest to that we are least likely to take measures to protect ourselves. we're less likely to mask around them. we're least likely to avoid contact with these people. and so we're at we're at much higher risk of infecting them unbeknownst to us or o accidentally infecting us. william: we are also, mentioned, seeing a rise in the death toll and although we've made incredible strides inor caringeople who develop really serious covid-19 infections, why are we seeing that death toll also rising? is it just because there are so many cases out there? dr. gounder: yeah, this is exactly the conversation we were having earlier this year about flattening the cngve. the chalis that when health systems are overrun, when doctors and nurses are so short so many patients, it's very difficult to deliver the same level of care to monitor

patients as closely, and it's precisely in those situations that the risk of dying shoots up. and so we're already seeing hospitals overrun right now. rewe'eading into a holiday season when we are usually operating on skeleton crews so that doctors and nurses can themselves spend some ith family and friends over the holidays. and it is against that backdr at we are now in danger of having an even bigger spike. william: obviously, the one biti oft news we've been seeingws is this bout the vaccines. i mean, if you think about 2020, at the beginning of this year, we identified this novel virus, and now at the end of the same year, we've got three possible candidate vaccines to targetth virus. i an, that is unadulterated good news. the qution, of course, with limited amount of doses initially, how those get rolled out, who gets them. from your perspective, how should we prioritize who getsfi thost precious shots?

dr. gounder: right. well, you know, the ideaitere is to prie for impact, to really protect those at highest risk. so obviously, doctors and nurses, especially those caring for patients with coronavirus, argoing to be at extremely high risk, particularly given that in some parts of thetr co we're still facing shortages of personal protective equipmen so your masks and your face shields anyour gowns and your gloves and so on. so first line health care providers are certainly among those first in line, other fire responders lts, probably law enforcement, firefighters, those kinds of folks. wd then beyond that, peop severe complicatiot wouldk of include the elderly people living in nursing homes, as well as communities of color that have been hit disproportionately hard during is pandemic, where we've seen some of the highest rates of cases as ll as deaths. william: all right, dr. celine gounder, thank you very, very much for being here.go drder: my pleasure.♪

judy: as we ported earlier, president biden announced his economic team today. he named a diverse group that features 4 women in top roles, including former federal reserve chair janet yellen as his choice for treary secretary. reporter jim tankersley of the new york times has been closely.ese developments he covers economics for the paper and is also author of the land." book, "the riches of this thanks so much for being with us again. what did these choices as a group tell you about biden's priorities? jim:ch thanks so or having me. this is a group very focused on workers and labor. it may be one of the most union

friendly groups of top economic -- top economic advisors in the white house in a long tim in terms of policy, a group very committed to the idea of getting the economy up and running as fast as possible to boost worker ges. about pushing additional deficit spending by the government to get there. judy:ca speciy with regard to covid economicelief, can you tell anything by looking at this group of what might happen? jim: they have been very clear, a number of them, about the sort of things that need to be done to help people, businesses, state and local governments during this pandemic.

aid to states, small businesses, governments that have big budget holes. programs toly give fa and paid leave. i think you will see all of those policies pushed early on by the policy team. judy: let's tane specifics. yellen at treasury, the firstd woman to hat job. what do we know based on her record of what to expect from her? jim: janet yellen is a labor economist by training and really pushed the federal reserve when she was chair to push interest a rates lo focus on growth. a focus on inequality, workers. one of the things she has bee focused on t last couple of years is tearing down the barriersf discrimination. ig deal for her

the economics profession, something she talked a lot about having enormous nsequences for the broader economy. judy: cecelia, rou who president-elect biden says he wants to lead his council of economic advisors. not as well-known as others but what do we know about her? jim: if she is confmed, she would be the first black economist to head the council of labor -- council oic advisors. she is aaborconomist, a real expert ia variety of things. just like janet yelle she has focused a lot of academic work on the effects of e scrimination. the some common themes. judy: then, to head to the office of management andudt, your attendant -- neera tanden,

who has been around, someone who i think is familiar for people who watch what is going on in washington. jim: she runs the center for think tank.ogress, a liberal she has been an advisor to hillary clinton. she is somebody who has pushed agenda items.of liberal policy she is more of a political ayer than the other two. the omb if she is confirmed on things like climate chae, alth ce, not shying away from running budget deficits to stoke growth. a real departure from what many progressives tught they'd be getting if biden appointed a rmore moderate, lon term deficit hawk democrat to that :position. ju what about with regard to senate confirmation?

all three of these positions is quired senate confirmation. jim: i think janet yellen appears likely to be concerned -- be confirmed based on the comments we have seen from republican senators. she has been confirmed by the senate before. celia rouse i think is likely to be confirmed also unless republicans find things in her academic work they object to. neera tanden, a more political player and someoneho's twitter feed has offended some republicans, some republican senators have said they don't like that she has taken after republicans in public comments. a lot will depend on whether omocrats control the senate republicans do. judy: one other thing. if people look to see the

differences between this team andhe trump economic team, pretty significant difference? jim: for sure. difference for how they approach the economy. the trump team came in with a big focus on how they spur more business to the economy, to make is this is happier and spend more money on investments. this team is much more focused on workers, how they support rkers, how they bolster them and make it easier for people to work and make that payoff with judy: we thank you so much. ♪ president trump's immigration

policies and the cenre back at the supreme court today. as johyang reports, the case has the potential to shape congress and presidential politics for years to come. john: every 10 years, workers fan out across the country to count the nation's population. >> counting everyone in your home, helps support your neighborhood for the next ten years, by funding things like schools, hospitals, and busses. john: the constitution requiresf a counhe whole number of persons in each state to determine how many representatives in congress and how many electoral votes each state will have until the next census -- a process called apportionment. >> it can help us all, in lincoln's word "to better judge what to do and how to do it." john:p in july, president tr

ordered that undocumented immigrants be excluded from that press for the first time i history. he said including them would reward states adopting policies that encourage illegal immigration with greater representation in congress. >> toretically, it would shi seats away, house seats away from states with a higher share of unauthorized immigrants and shift them toward states with a lower share of unauthorized immigrants. john: npr correspondent hsi lo wang covers the census. >> a justice department attorney during a court hearing was asked, is this memo referring to a state like california? and the justice department attorney said, yes, this memo referring to, as an example, california to shift away house seats from cifornia to another state. john: today, acting solicitor general jeffrey wall got toughou questions the president's policy from mr. trump's latest supreme court pick, justice amy coney barrett. justice barrett: if an undocumented person has been in sathe country fo20 years, even if illegally, as you say, why would such a person not have a settleresidence here? >> i'm not disputing at all that

illegal aliens form ties to the community in the sense you're talking about. but they're not the sort of ties that are sufficient to qualify you within the apportiment base. g justice samuel alito pressed new york soliciteral barbara underwood, who aruged against the policy, on who should be counted. >> a tourist who is here on a valid visa? >> no. >> a tourist who overstays her visa and is therefore here illegally? >> that person is a resident like any other undocumented person. john: justice stephen breyer suggested the president's order could also affect the distribution of about 1.5 trillion dollars in yedily federal sp on programs like medicare, head start, and school lunches >> i think, are there not many statutes which divide funds among the states on the basis oa poon and then they say somethg like, quote, "as shown by the most recent decennial census." john: even if the justices rule

that president trump may exclude undocumented immigrants, it's not clear how he would do that. last year, the high court blocked his attempt to add ahi citizequestion to the census. today, questioned by justice t alit government's attorney acknowledged the challenge. >> to exclude the 10.5 million seems, to me, a monumental task, to do that without sampling. to take 300 million-plus names and determine individually for each of those people, whethe they are lawfully in the united states and i would think you would be able to telhether that remains a realistic possibility at this point. >> i think it is very unlikely that the bureau will be able to identify all or substantially all illegal aliens present in the country. john: another complication -- the calendar. the pandemic has already put the >> it's not clear if president

trump will have control of these numbers from the census bureau that he could try to alte right now, their target date is january 26, after inauguration day. this is a process right now that's on track to take place during the biden administration. john: given the uncertainties, several justices asked whether it would be better to wait. chief justice john roberts -- would be excluded,n't knowaliens what the effect of that would be on apportionment. all these questions would be resolved iwe wait until the apportionment takes place. so why aren't we better advised to do that? >> well, it's sort of a practical as well as a substantive concern here. john: marcia coyle is chiefin waon correspondent for the national law journal. >> every court has to decide whether it'got a case or controversy, somebody has been injured and how to provide relief for that jury. and so if they don't know all toe facts they need to kno determine that, then the case

could be what some would say, not ripe for decisio john: nonetheless, the trump administration is asking the supreme cot for a speedy ruling. for the pbs newshour, i'm jo yang. ptjudy: in late ber, war again broke out between armenia and azerbaijan over the coveted enclave of nagorno-karabakh. last week, as part of an armistice, ethnic-armenian forces handed over territory to azerbaijani control. p it wt of a russian-brokered deal that ended an ugly six-weekar, and re-established moscow's footprint in all of its southern, former republics. with the support of the pulitzer center, special corrpondent simon ostrovsky traveled to the region again for the newshour.

simo so this is what victory looklike. walls spray painted with names of azerbaijani soldierand the cities that they hail from in an ethnic-armenian town in nagorno karabakh. the streets are empty of anyone who lived here. they fled as fighting reached this area back in october. their belongings now strewhe throughout ttreets and the contents of their homes upturned. [singing] [applause] simon:ng the only people remai are azerbaijani forces, relling in their hard-won conquest, enjoying the spoils of war. for the azerbaijanmilitary that's stationed here right now, it's probably difficult to imagine what it feels like to be in this area. because, ever since they were

children, they were told nagorno-karabakh was part of azerbaijan, but they'd never actually seen it wit, their own r d now ey're here. >> thank you to esident. he gave the order and we attacked. unfortunately people were martyred. with the blood of the martyrs, we reclaimed these lands. simon: these lands have been contested since just before the breakup of the soviet union when their armenian residents clamored to join neighboring armenia. that sparked anti-aran a pogroms and thll-out war. when it was all over by 1994, they'd carved out a self-declared republic that encompassed las far beyond the karabakh region's soviet-era borders which were purged of their azerbaijani residents. armenians were also forced to flee areas that mained under azerbaijan's control. all of that changed in the six week war that ended on november 9 with armenians on the run from an advancing azerbaijani army.

newshour was only allowed to visit this area with a police escort. for armenians, seeing images of the azerbaijani mitary in their towns as they display the flag of their age-old enemy turkey, a brutal and difficult new reality to come to terms with. hadrut within the karabakhf heartland, stands a small arynian church, its cemeter vandalised. the soldiers say they hope the armenians never come back. >> no, they can't come back.ot they canome back. god willing the president will create good conditions here. our lands have been returned, now it's about the future and good places will be built. simon: while azerbaijanis celebrate their territorial gains, there is another country whose maneuvering has renewed its influence in the region ter a long absence. russia has for years armed both

azerbaijan and armenia, and when war between the two erupted on september 27, it stepped in as a mediator, successfully ending the bloodshed. der the deal it brokered, nearly 2,000 russian peacekeepers will patrol the areas of nagorno karabakh that haveemained under ethnic-armenian control, as a guarantee against further azerbaijani hostilities. moscow now has troops stations in various roles, from occupier to peacekeeper in all three south caucasus republics of georgia, armenia and azerbaijan tfor the first time since ruled them in the soviet era. azerbaijan has in turn invited military observers from its ally turkey, but it's unclear how many will arriey and whether 'll have a mandate to carry weapons. this too is what victory can look like. it's towns like this one with landscapes reminiscent of

hiroshima, that are at the heart of azerbaijan's grievances towards ethnic-armen. when the first karabakh war ended in 1994, armenian forces took control not just of their own enclave, but seven rrounding districts that had previously been populated by azerbaijanis. negotiations over these areas continued for decades afterwards but armenians never allowed the azerbaijanresidents to return. instead ey leveled these cities, picking them apart for raw materials and turned the surrounding lands into a vtwt minefield n themselves and the rest of azerbaijan. aghdam is one of two districts armenian fors have handed back to azerbaijani control so far under the russia-brokered armistice. thonly building left intac here is the central mosque. all of these soldiers herear for the mostare from aghdam, this very region that we're standing in right now. most of them have never seen this area before because it's been held by ethnic armenian forces until just a couple of

days ago. as this place is rebuilt we will move here. o>> they kill mothers and sists on this land. how can we forget that? i'm ready to drink their blood. simon: one sore point for many in azerbaijan as they reclaim heeir territories is the state of their culturatage sites. this place here, a former museum, has been used for livestock. azerbaijanis were also angered by pictures they saw of armenian residentdestroying property ahead of the handover. after loading vehicles with thirr belongings, many set t houses on fire to make it moreul difffor azerbaijani refugees to return. sevil gambarova is carpet weer from aghdam which she fled 30 yee s ago. today ves in one of the

housing complexes built for some 750,000 internally displaced people from the first war. she's making a souvenir rug with the image of the central mosqu of her hometown. >> they kept pigs in our mosques. they burned our houses. they left no stone unturned. god won't forgive this. , ey lived, ate and drank in our homes for 30 yead now they are leaving them in bad condition. god is great. justice has been restored. our victorious army won. simon: a few weeks ago, this town, hadrut, was populated byrm ethnicians. azerbaijan took it in fierce fighting that lasted weeks, the ethnic armenian population had to flee. the question now is, will those residents ever come back, an even bigger question is, does erbaijan want them to? azerbaijan's president has signaled he would be willing to create conditions for armenians

to live under his ru >> we see karabakh as a profperous, safe, secure are azerbaijan where people live in azerbaijani and ar where communities live side by side. simon: but aenians will need more than verbal assurances if they a live safely in the territories he now controls. perhaps the best documented alleged war crime of the conflict took place here in the center of hadrut. two armenians, a soldier and an elderly maappear have been dred in armenian flags and executed on this spot in october. i asked one of 'sident aliyevs top aides if incidents like this one would be investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice. >> absolutely, and we do regret that such kinds of incidents happened at the soldier level, the individual soldier level. in no way is it justifiable.

in no way can it be justified. yesterly azerbaijan's gene prosecutor office made a stronger statement that all of deos, they are going to be investigated and who areco guilty of se will be brought to justice. simon: whether azerbaijan follows through on these towards reconciliation witheps armenians will determine whether the peace here is lasting or if before blood is spilt on these mountains again. for the pbs newshour, i'm simon ostrovsky, in nagorno-karabakh. ♪ judy: over the holiday weekend, we learned more about those who will surround president-elect biden in the white h cse, even as trent president ramps up his claims of election fraud. here to analyze it all, our politics monday team, amy walter of the cook political report ano

hopublic radio's politics with amy walter. and tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the npr politics podcast. we hope you had a great thanksgiving. let's talk about what joe biden has done, putting the teams together. we saw the national security team. today, more names from the economic team. give us a sense of the political forc at play to this point. amy: when i look at the team around him, there is the team that needs to be senate confirmed versus the team that does not. of the six that need senateon confirmaonly one of them is a white male, the others are either female or a person of color, so mark both female and a

person of color. this is the first time in recent memory that a democratic inpresident has com office without a democratic senate. g so, gettose folks a nfirmed ifferent story than for the last democratic president. president obama came into office in 2009 with 57 seats. it will be very important for bid's picks to be able to pick off some republicans. we are already seeing that there is one person in particular that has been getting some pushback at least on twitter as well as itat seems fro least one reblican senator. and that is neera tanden, his pick for the office of in 2016, the omb seat that went

to mick mulvaneyas also one of the most contentious. mulvaney barely won based on the fact that republicans had 52he seats inenate that year. judy: what about on the democratic side? how are the features -- the fissures in the democratic party opening up for closing as biden makes these announcements? tamara: there has not been ssive amounts of pushback. many of these people are widely accepted. they may not be as progressive as some progressives would want but they are a nmorate as some of the people that could have picked. certainly, they are known qualities. g gock to neera tanden, the

president-elect's pick for omb director. she is generating e most heat on the left and the right. part of that is lessbout what she stands for. she currently leads the center r american progress. she serveds progressive bona fides. people who supported centre bernie sanders in 2016. she was very strongly in in an outspoken way behind hillary clinton, and that meant she tangled with people on twitter. right now, republican senato's have returned to capitol hill and are starting to talk t reporters. what everyone of them that i have gotten tape of have said is that she has been very outspoken on twitter. as amy said, senator john cornyn

from texas said that she is a nominethat would be radioactive. say she has a compelling life story and if she is given a hearing, and that may well depend on senate conol, but if she is, they believe she will perform well and it would be difficult for republicans as a whole to take a nominee that has a compelling life story and has experience in multiple administrations and confidence in them. judy: joe biden talked in his mpaign about wanting a administration that looks like america. this is so far a pretty diverse cabinet group you made the point earlier about cabinet versus the white house. the first woman of color to head the council of economic advisers and so on. >> the first woman it would be secretary of treasury.

a communication team. do get control of the senate, it would be narrowly, 50-50. but if it is not, the challenge for president biden to win ocar some repub. i think we will a be spendi lot of time looking at senators like lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins from maine. they have bucked the president and their party even on donald tru's nominees. judy: speaking of president trump, the president is still insisting on a regular basis that he won the election, it is ly by fraud that joe biden

won. even after they certify the results. my question is, what is this t sayithe people who supported president trump? they are citizens under the joe biden presidency. what is that going to mean for joe biden as he tries to fold the country together? >> that will be something joe something he has begun working onhen you go back to some of his public comments, trying to ke clear that he sees himself as a precedent for all the remarkable thing with what is happening with president trump is that there is reality

and then there is what president trump is dng. the professional lawyers who worked on his campaign are not putting their names on any of forts right now to clai fraud or overturn the election results. it is not the well-knownpr essional lawyers who are doing this. as senators are returning from thanksgiving break, essentially republican senator's not: joe biden president-elect biden- not calling joe biden president-elect butis saying will all be over soon. i am detecting more of a sense from republicans that they have moved on, that they are moving onto a joe biden presidency. voters, that is a different story. judy:enors may be moving on

but they are still confirming' president tr's nominees for different jobs and judgeships. >> we live in aon time't ever waste political power when you have it. given how much in the last 20 years -- being able to have power and use h it when youe got it, it may be on any minute now. there is a lot of short-term abthinking, very littlt the long-term institutional success. president in a century on his way out the door to be having this kind of benefit from the senate. we are watching at all. u thank th. ♪ dy: stay with us to remember a

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the evenings at home, we would create websites. then we realized that all these bsites we were creating, they didn't really have a way to market themselves. that's what led us to start a service called link exchange. we started hiring friends. that whole strategy of hiring friends and friends of friends worked really well until we got to about 20 people. and then we basically t of friends. we had to start hiring people rough resumes and interviewing better to pay attention to company culture. not everyone we hired was good for the culture. byhe time we g to 100 people, i dreaded getting out of bed in the morning to go to my own company. lythat' what led us to sell the company to microsoft, we sold link exchange in 1998 for $265 million. i started making a list of all the things that i wanted to buy and i realized that i didn 't actuale that much on the list. i was really more interested in helping build stuff.

what i got involved with zappos, wanted to make sure that didn't make the same mistake again, so that's why from their beginnings, zappos has always anid a lot attention to co culture. zappos was founded in 1999 in san francisco, and in 2004 we endeup moving the entire mpany to las vegas. we decided we wanted to build se zappos bnd to be about the very best customvice and customer experience. we would take thousands and thousands of phone calls every day. we view as actually our best relationship building opportunity, everyone's being inundated with thousands of marketing messages every day. when you have a phone call with someone, you actually get to connect wi them one on one. one of our core values at zappos is to create fun and a little weirdness, we really recognize and celebrate each person's individuality and we want their true personalities to shine in the workplace. most people there are a different person at home, on

weekends hanging out with their friends than they are in the office with you're the same person. your coworkers aren't just coworkers, but they're are actual friends, not because we're forcing you to be friends, but because that's what you want because you have the same values. u want to make sure that the values still include enough room for diversity. i am by defaultretty introverted and quiet and shy, andhe when i meet someone for first time, i have gotten feedback that because i'm not talking asuch, they think i secretly hate them or i'm judging them or whatever, whereas i'm just shy, i guess. judy: inspiring storyrom tony hseih, who died on and that's friday. the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe and see you soon. >> major funding has been provid by --

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