captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening, i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, searching for survivors-- rescue teams continue to comb through the wreckage of the surfside building collapse. then, extreme conditions-- the pacific northwest grapples with a record-breaking heat wave and devastating drought. plus, battling dbetes-- how the pandemic has a disproportionate impact on americans living with the disease. >> during covid we were all told, stay safe, isolate, withdraw. those are the opposite of what i would recommend to someone who's attempting to properly manage their mood and their diabetes. >> nawaz: all th and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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>> nawaz: the confirmed death toll from that tragic condo building collapse in surfside, florida has now risen to 10 people. but more than 150 others are still missing. it's dangerous work as rescue crews maneuver on top of a precarious pile of crumbled concrete and twisted steel, desperately searching for signs of life. in surfside, florida today, officials pled for patience... >> it's not going to happen overnight, it's a 12-story building. it's goingo take some time. >> nawaz: day five of relentless rescue work, and an agonizing wait for families of the missing. >> we're going to continue and work ceaselessly to exhaust every possible option in our search. i repeat, the search and rescue operation continues. >> nawaz: no survivors have been found since the hours after the building collapsed last thursday. aided by teams from israel and

mexico, rescuers continued combing through the rubble with cranes and by hand. miami-dade fire rescue chief andy alvarez said more than 80 workers at a time are trying to tunnel into spaces where survivors might be found. >> we have found voids within the building that we've been able to penetrate, mostly coming obviously from underneath the building through the basement of what used to be the garage. >> nawaz: it's a painstaking process. radar, sonar, and sniffer dogs are being deployed, searching for signs of life. families of the missing e being bussed in to visit the site. pascale bonnefoy's father, claudio bonnefoy and his wife, were in the building. >> ( translated ): we are just processing all this but this is starting to make me angry because reports from years are emerging about serious structural damage to the building. >> nawaz: a 2018 report by a consulting engineer hired to inspect the building said failed waterproofing of the pool deck caused “major structural damag”"

to concrete slabs underneath. it also found serious deterioration in the underground parking garage. but, a month later, according to minutes from a board meeting obtainedy npr, a surfside town inspector told residents the building was in “very good sape.” questions remain about how those findings were both presented and handled at the time. surfside's mayor charles burkett promised to get to the bottom of it. >> we directed our staff to go ahead and scan every shred of documentation the town of surfside has. the number one priority today is to rescue people out of that rubble, number two is to support the families and then we'll get to that, but just know that is in the works and we will be 100% transparent. >> nawaz: while rescue teams have been searching the rubble for the better part of five days, hope is fading for many of the families gathered in southern florida. i'm joined now by mayor gabriel groisman of bal harbour, florida. he has been at the site of the scene for several days, speaking to search and rescue teams and spending time with the families

of victims. >> nawaz: mr. mayor, thank you so much for making the time to be with us. we should note right off the bat, you have a bit of a connection to that building. it used to be your home years and years ago. what has been like for you to see it in the state it is right now? >> mayor: it has been horrendous, like it has been for everybody. i grew up in that building in the '80s. it was my first home in south florida. but more than that, the community we live in,y municipality is just north of surfside, but it is really just one community. we all know many people in the building, either directly or indirectly, and it really has been a really devastating couple of days for our entire community. >> nawaz: tell me about the families. i know you've been in touch with them. we're on day five of the search-and-rescue operation. it is still search-and-rescue, but as we noted, hope is starting to fade. what are you hearing from them? what is the sense among the families right now? >> the sense among the families is both despair,

but also hope. one thing that is consistent with all of the families is hope. everybody is holding on to hope as much as they can. in a way that's all we can do, that's all they can do. but, of course, there is feelings of desperation and sadness and, you know, the room where the families are in at the hotel, it is one that is filled with very high level of emotion and intention. but they are holding on to hope, every singlone of them. >> nawaz: we heard from the officials today, of course, they are using all of the technology available to them, the radar and sonar and the sniffer dogs. they're looking for dogs for the voids where people may still be alive. how long will the search-and-rescue continue? >> the search-and-rescue will continue until they find everybody. i've visit thee the site the

morning and sometimes three times a day. and you see the progress they have taken to removing the large pieces of debris, which is not an easy task. they're working right under a 12-story building, the part of the building that is still standing. so it is a very dangerous task. just yesterday a worker fell 25 feet. what hasn't been reported, which is a testament to the miami-dade fire and rescue, that job -- the hero fell 25 feet and climbed back up to the pile and continued working. that is an example and testament to an incredible fire rescue we have in miami-dade county and the state and all of the international help we're getting. >> nawaz: mr. mayor, i know the search-and-rescue operations continue, but the big question for everyone watching is: why and how? how did this happen? is there anything that you've learned in the last five days? >> what we've had in the

last five days is speculation. there are a lot of old buildings in south florida and a lot of sold buildings across the country. many buildings have reports of cracks and things that need to be renovated, concrete renovation, etc. i'm confident in saying that nobody would think any of those things would result in a building collapsing. but now we're learning that likely it could. my municipality and every municipality across the state of florida, at least those on the beach, we're looking closely at the buildings that we have, the older buildings, to make sure that we're doing everything we can to ensure their safety. right now the mark is 40 years for recertification, but in my city, right after this i have a meeting to discuss what we should be doing for the buildings that are maybe 10 years earlier than that, maybe 30-year-old buildings what can we do to make sure this will never happen. >> nawaz: that is mayor

groisman, the mayor of bell harbour, florida. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> nawaz: in the day's other news, secretary of state antony blinken defended u.s. airstrikes on iranian-backed militia groups in syria and iraq. the pentagon said sunday's strikes targeted the militia's operational and weapons storage facilities used to carry out drone attacks on u.s. troops in iraq. during a visit to rome, blinken said the u.s. acted in self- defense, and sent a ear message. >> the president is fully prepared to act and act appropriately and deliberately to protect u.s. interests, to protect our people, to protect our personnel and again i would hope that the message sent by the strikes last night will be heard and deter future action. >> nawaz: hours later, a u.s. military spokesman confirmed multiple rockets targeted u.s. forces in syria.

but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. president biden welcomed outgoing israeli president reuven rivlin to the white house today. mr. biden reaffirmed u.s. support for israel, and insisted that iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon on his watch. he also said he looks forward to meeting the new israeli prime minier naftali bennett soon. the u.s. supreme court today refused to hear a dispute over banning transgender students from using school restrooms that reflect their gender identity. the justices rejected a virginia school board's appeal, leaving in place lower court rulings that found the policy was unconstitutional. the case was filed by a former transgender student who was barred from using the boys bathroom at his high school. on the pandemic, covid ces are surging rapiy across australia as the highly-contagious "delta" variant spreads. lockdowns were ordered in parts of sydney and rwin to help contain new clusters. only five percent of australia's population is fully vaccinated.

meanwhile, the biden administration announced it will ship two million doses of the pfizer covid vaccine to peru, and 1.5 million doses of the moderna vaccine to pakistan. ethiopia's government declared an immediate cease-fire today in the country's tigray region. that area has seen nearly eight months of fighting between army and rebel forces, resulting in the world's worst famine crisis in a decade. the halt in violence will give humanitarian groups time to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people in need. a new report out today from the united nations' human rights chief is calling on the world to end systemic racism. the report focused on centuries of mistreatment toward africans and people of african descent. it also found high levels of racial profiling and excessive use of force by law enforcement in north america, europe, and latin america. in a video message from geneva, michelle bachelet said reparations alone are not enough. >> we need a transformative approach that tackles the

interconnected areas that drive racism, and lead to repeated, wholly avoidable, tragedies like the death of george floyd. states must show stronger political will to accelerate action for racial justice, redress and equality through specific, time-bound commitments to achieve results. >> nawaz: the global report was initiated after the death of george floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer in minneapolis last year. a u.s. federal judge today threw out anti-trust lawsuits against facebook filed by the federal trade commission and several state attorneys general. the judge said they were "legally insufficient" and did not prove that facebook was a monopoly. the f.t.c. alleged that facebook was abusing its power to eliminate its smaller competitors. the judge dismissed the mplaint but left open the possibility that the f.t.c. could re-file another complaint. the f.c.c. says it is, quote, "assessing the best

steps forward." e-cigarette maker juul has agreed to pay $40 milion to north carolina to settle a lawsuit claiming it marketed its products to young people. the state accused the company of downplaying the harm its high- nicotine product can cause, and creating an "epidec" of addiction among teenagers. simir lawsuits are pending in 13 other states and the district of columbia. the national collegiate athletic association's division one council today recommended allowing college athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness. the recommendation comes three days before new laws were set to go into effect in several days making that possible. the the nc.a.a.'s board of directors is expected to vote on the recommendation wednesday. and, stocks were mixed on wall street today. the dow jones industrial average lost 150 points to close at 34,283. the nasdaq rose 140 points to close at a record high. and the s&p 500 added 10. still to come on the newshour:

the pandemic's disproportionate impact on americans living with diabetes. tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political news. peter osnos reflects on five decades as a reporter and editing four u.s. presidents. plus, the sweeping history of african-american food captured in "high on the hog." >> nawazthe pacific northwest is getting hit for a third straight day with record-setting triple digit temperatures. it's a heat wave straining the capacity of the region and forcing people to find relief where they can. stephanie sy reports from oregon. >> sy: another day, another record-breaking high across the pacific northwest.

in portland, oregon, temperatures hit 108 degrees on saturday. then, 112 on sunday. today, highs were expected to reach 114. in ashland, oregon, people and their pets took shelter at a cooling center offering air conditioning and cold water. >> i think it's a public health emergency here and on the west >> sy: mayor julie akins warned the heat can be dangerous. >> the most vulnerable in the heat wave are the most vulnerable all the time and the heat wave exacerbates that. so we're talking about unhoused people, we're talking about people below the poverty line, people who don't have a.c. or fear running their power bc they can't afford. >> sy: excessive heat warnings are in effect across oregon and washington state, as well as parts of california, nevada, idaho and montana. the national weather service estimates temperatures are up to 30 degrees higher than they normally would be at this time. scientists believe human-driven

climate change increases the odds and intensity omore extreme heat waves. meanwhile, utility companies face soaring demand leading to power outages for thousands. many homes in the region don't have air conditioning at all. allan shepherd does have a.c. in his r.v. where he lives with his grandkids, but it's been unreliable since the weekend. >> we let the kids run down to the showers and that cools them off for a while. we do have a.c. but when it gets so hot, it breaks the breakers. >> sy: shepherd has lived in the r.v. since his mobile home burned down in a wildfire last september. now some of the same dry conditions coupled with the unprecedented heat are dredging up familiar fear for folks like charlie and lenore shiveley, who also lost their home to a wildfire last year. >> we've been discussing that among ourselves of building back

in a wildfire area that's like a whole year and a year and a half or two could go by and the same thing could happen. and so it's like we're in our 70s and it's like, let's start over again. >> nawaz: and stephanie joins me now from the city of ashland in southern oregon. is good to see you. fill us in a little more on the picture about what you're seeing on the ground, the impact of these extraordinary temperatures? >> reporter: amna, we're at the epicenter of what is the most intense heat wave in this region in recorded history. it is 109° here in ashland, oregon. it has reached is peak. i've been out here for about 25 minutes, and i can feel my heart starting to race. it is not just here. this heat dome is covering much of the western united states, all the way up into canada. the fact is people here are ju not prepared for this, they're not equipped for it. about two-thirds of oregon households have air

conditioning, and that is one-third that doesn't have it. in seattle, those households are even fewer. so we are seeing a lot of people trying to find cool places to be right now in this extreme heat. >> nawaz: stephanie, we see you're stand i standing acrs the street from a fire station. how are officials handling all of this? >> reporter: they setting up cooling centers throughout the state, at libraries and convention centers, where people who don't have a.c. can seek relief. we have seen people go through there. just to emphasize how dangerous this heat can be, we did hear of one man with a developmental disability that showed up at the cooling center here in ashland last night with symptoms of heatstroke. he did have to be hospitalized, was released, and had to stay in shelter. but it is the unhoused people they're looking the most carefully at, that they're most concerned about, they're the most vulnerable. you see the economic

disparity. people who have a little money are booking hotels. hotels are booked out for people seeking relief in the next couple of days. >> nawaz: we reported before, and we all know there is a difference between weather and climate, and we're talking about the extreme temperatures right now. what does it mean about the larger and longer-term concern for folks out there? >> reporter: this current weather pattern, amna, is just one aspect of what officials here in oregon have deemed a climate crisis. this state is extremely scarce of water. they're in the middle of a 20-year drought, and we're at the beginning of wildfire season. a year ago, wildfire season here in oregon was devastating. towns were lost. homes were lost. we interviewed people today that are still living in r.v.s in those parks, without homes rebuilt. so they're still covering. firefighters here are really hoping they don't see any new sparks of wildfires during this extreme heat wave, which isn't supposed to lift

until tuesday. we can look at any one weather pattern and say there are a lot of factors that contributed to it, but without any prompting, several officials that we spoke to do point to human-caused climate change, and they see this as an example of an alarm bell ringing in a coc cacophony of alarm bells in oregon, and that the warming trend needs to be reversed with immediate action. that's what we're hearing. >> nawaz: a disturbing trend, and worrying conditions on the ground. that is stephanie sy, braving 109° heat to bring us that report from oregon. stephanie, good to see you. please stay safe. >> reporter: thank you. >> nawaz: as states climb their way out of the pandemic, it's tempting to think that in some ways we can put the last year and half behind us and move on. but for many families of kids with diabetes, that's not an option. as john yang reports, covid-19

has left a lasting mark on both their physical and mental health. >> yang: numbers are a big part of nine-year-old jackson scamehorn's everyday life. not his video game scores; he's focused on his blood sugar levels. >> i'm at 203 right now, going up. which that's high. >> yang: jackson has type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that prevents his body from making insulin; that's the hormone that regulates sugar, or glucose, ithe bloodstream. >> you have to do your short- acting. >> yang: each morning, he and his mom heather carefully calculate how many sugars and carbs he can eat throughout the day, and how much insulin he'll have to give himself to process them. >> for me, 20 carbs is about 1 unit and 30 carbs is one and a

half units. >> yang: so it's a constant balancing act between blood sugar and insulin. >> yeah. >> yang: jackson's diabetewas diagnosed in february. >> it was about 9:00 p.m. and then i took him into urgent care. >> yang: he'd been lethargic and nauseous. tests found that his sugar levels were dangerously high. >> the doctor said actually his numbers are worse than we thought. he has cranium inflammation and he's in diabetic ketoacidosis. he needs to go to i.c.u. >> yang: ketoacidosis happens when blood sugar is too high for too long. >> yang: how high of an alarm does that represent? >> code red. it's you know, because it can it can lead to coma. it can lead to brain swelling. it could lead to death. >> yang: pediatrician henry rodriguez is clinical director at the university of south florida diabetes center. he says during the pandemic, more kids have showing up in emergency rooms with dangerously high glucose levels. >> if you think about the amount

of time pre-covid that children spend at school versus at home, you know, at school, they're in fairly a fairly structured environment. you know, caretakers, teachers recognize, you know, if sally, for instance, is getting up repeatedly to go use the restroom, that's a cardinal sign potentially of a high blood sugar and diabetes. >> yang: stress can also raise glucose levels. and jackson's mom says remote learning was very stressful. >> he had a lot of anxiety, switching classes, switching teachers, so i feel like the know, it didn't cause... i don't think, but it might have raised his glucose numbers because of the stress and put him into diabetic ketoacidosis. >> yang: 13-year-old hailey platz was diagnosed with type one diabetes when she was four. she says this past year has been awful. >> i've been a straight-a student my whole entire life. my grades dropped. i struggled to pass this year because it was covid, and i'm

better at school like i do way better at school. and my depression, was just i had no motivation or anything. >> yang: normally, hailey would be looking forward to diabetes summer camp-a chance to connect with other kids with diabetes. >> they can relate a lot. and you don't feel like you're not the only person going through it. >> yang: but this summer, camp is online-only. >> when i found out that was canceled, i was devastated, obviously. >> during covid we were all told, stay safe, isolate, withdraw. those are the opposite of what i would recommend to someone who's attempting to properly manage both their mood and their anxiety and their diabetes. >> yang: psychologist julie reich says even before the pandemic, children with type 1 diabetes were more likely to suffer depression. covid-19 has only made things even worse. >> when you're depressed and you have no comorbidity, it's still an issue or problem in the sense

that you frequently neglect a lot of self care. >> sometimes when, like, i go super high and minsulin is like running out and like my pump dies, i feel like, oh, i can just do in a minute. but turned into like hours, maybe a day. and i didn't do it. and my pump just shuts off and i go super high. >> yang: it's almost like a cycle. you feel badly so you don't take care of yourself. >> yeah. >> yang: of that blood sugar, you feel badly and it just sort of compounds on itself. >> yang: a recent study from the university of south alabama found diabetic kids' average blood sugar levels increased during quarantine, likely due to the change in routine, more snacking, lack of exercise, d increased stress. the worst outcomes were among black and economically disadvantaged children. that's worrisome because high glucose can lead to long-term health complications like heart disease and nerve damage.

the pandemic has also caused a strain on parents. hailey's mom, heather platz, who also has type 1 diabetes, has been racking up extra hours as a hospital nurse because of covid. >> i get the text messages, the emails about them being short- staffed all the time. and it's balance between, like wanting to help them out, needing the money to get the overtime and being home for my family. >> yang: the money helps pay the high price of managing her and hailey's diabetes. even with insurance, vital medical supplies can cost thousands of dollars a year. platz considers herself one of the lucky ones because she has insurance. the american diabetes association estimates that during the pandemic, 12% of people with diabetes had their health insurance disrupted by job loss. and 25% rationed medical supplies to save money. >> it shouldn't be like, oh, your insurance isn't as good or you're not. you're underinsured. so you can't have these fancy gadgets

that could save your life. you know, it's just not fair. >> yang: since being diagnosed, jackson scamehorn has become pretty good at harmonizing his sugar intake with insulin injections to ke his blood sugar stable. that's allowing him to do more of the things he loves, like playing in the pool with his little brother, landon. >> i'm back to going outside a lot. i last about five hours outside. five hours before i want to lay down now. >> yang: helping him get back in the swim of things. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in tamp florida. >> nawaz: a breakthrough on infrastructure has led to optimism about bipartisanship on capitol hill, but also a fresh set of challenges that come with compromise. our politics monday team is here to analyze it all. that's amy walter of the cook

political report. and tamara keith of npr. >> nawaz: and welcome to you both. tam, let's talk about the fresh challenges. >> tamara: well, last week there was a bit of celebration, there was a bipartisan bill, mr. president, walked ou with a group of senators, and it gave way to republican anger after president biden said he would only sign it if it was paired with a larger reconciliation bill. he walked that back. and he said this: "i gave my word to support the infrastructure plan, and that's what i intend to do. i fully stand behind it without reservation or hesitation." there is more. here is senator romney on sunday. take a listen. >> i am totally confident that the president will sign it if it comes to his desk. the real challenge is whether the democrats can get their act together and get it on his desk. and i think the battle that is going on is not with republicans. >> nawaz: tam, what is

going on? is the infrastructure bill still on track? >> tamara: the only reason senator romney was able to go on a sunday levision show saying he thinks things are on track is because president biden issued that walkback. and president biden relly did seem to be issuing a veto threat. he obviously didn't mean it, but when he said that he needed both bills on his desk to be able to sign it, it made it sound like he wasn't going to be willing to support this bipartisan infrastructure deal that he had just announced unless he also got this second track item, this american families plan, which would have to pass the democratic vote alone. this, all along, has been like he is going to have to do a high-wire act while spinning plates in both hands. because he is trying to keep democrats, who have the narrowest of margins together, while at the same time getting republicans on board to

pass this part that is the bipartisan infrastructure plan. and you saw a plate fall. and now he has picked it back up and they are spinning again. this is not going to be easy. it was never going to be easy. and this past four days was a signal of that. >> nawaz: amy, how does is the president do it, keep the rest of the plates in the air? what are we likely to see? >> amy: tam, that was great, plates spinning versus plates in the road, which has to do with infrastructure, which was what i was going to use. tam is exactly right, the reality for getting both of these through is still there. you still have speaker pelosi saying we absolutely must have a reconciliation bill. that is likely a democrats-only bill that has the extra funding foret --for things like educati, child care, climate, before we go and pass

something like a bipartisan infrastructure bill. we talk a lot about, you know, the memories of the last time there was a democratic president, and democrats were in charge. and there were many democrats, for example, who voted for something with the intention of seeing it voted on the senate only to be told that once we don't have the votes in the senate. so they want to be very clear on the house side that they're going to get what they asked for. the other big road bump is, of course, the 50/50 democratic senate, and already we've seen that joe manchin's name, again, is front and center. he has come out and said he likes the idea of supporting another big spending domestic program, but not at the rate, not at the cost, that senator bernie sanders is suggesting, somewhere close to $6 trillion. so this number is going to be moving around a great deal between now and the end of the summer. it just means that there

is a lot of tis very delicate work that needs to get done over the summer. traditionally this is when members like to go home. they're not really used to working over the summer recess. and, again, the closer we get to the end of the year, the harder it gets. members start to focus on their re-elections. we're going to hear more about redistricting. and the politics are going to start getting in the way. they really want to try to move this as quickly as possible. >> nawaz: tam, there is clearly challenges ahead in the democratic caucus on the reconciliation bill, and even with infrastructure, which seems like it was a success lasteek. are there still 10 republicans backing that? >> tara: it seems like there are still 10 republicans backing that. but the issue that arose when president biden said that those two things were linked, which, as amy points out, democrats in congress really do believe that those two things are linked, and pelosi and schumer will control the schedule, not the white

house. but what happened with republicans is it became clear that their idea that, oh, the american families plan may not be able to make it. joe manchin may think that if it is linked, then their hope, their plan to fight against the american families plan while supporting infrastructure that is broadly popular, then that would have gone out of window, which is why they pushed back. >> nawaz: speaking of speaker pelosi, we saw her introduce this bill in meyer hands. this will allow them to start moving forward to form that select committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection. we knew this was coming. we have a couple of highlights, here is what is in this right now: 13 members total, eight by majority and five with minority input. speaker pelosi appoints the chair, and that chair has subpoena power, and there is no deadline for that report. amy, i'm going to go to you first. a couple of things that

stand out, that chair has subpoena power? >> amy: the chair has subpoena power. and the one person that is getting a lot of tension is k kevin mccarthy. there are reports about a very heated discussion that mccarthy had with president trump has the attack on the capitol was happening. i'm sure there are many democrats would ke to hear him under oath tell that story and what the president's reaction was to this. and the other thing that sticks out is there is no timeline to get it done. remember, the reason there is a select committee is because a bipartisan commission was rejected, and so one of the things that the bipartisan commission would have had in place is that this report is done by the end this year. without a deadline, it means that this can drag out through 2022, and we know that in the past these sorts of commissions have been used by the parties to put the other side on their heels.

benghazi is the most recent example. it was really designed to put the focus on democrats, put them in a very -- in a not particularly good light. the obama administration, particularly. and hillary clinton specifically. we'll see if democrats decide to do the same here. and a lot is going to depend on who pelosi decides to put on this committee. is they going to put the kinds of folks who like and relish getting into those sort of political battles? or maybe some of the mo more -- i don't know if mellow is the right word, but ones who are a little less interested in having the fight for the fight's sake. >> nawaz: mellow is not a word we hear often when we talk about politics. how is this likely to unfold? what is your take-away? >> tamara: what stands out to me is this idea of input from the minority leader. will kevin mccarthy be

able to pick the republican members, or will he not? and we'll learn more details of this as this develops. but, also, who will be on the commission, whether they will approach it as a fact-finding mission or whether the various partisan members of the commission will, you know, use it as an opportunity to highlight the divides that already exist? i mean, the reality is that this select committee is going to have a very difficult time breaking through in our extremely divided politics, at a time when reality is in question. where there isot an agreement on truth or reality or what happened, just the base facts of what happened on january 6th. >> nawaz: and we're seen former president trump out this past weekend as well, continuing to message on this. amy, real quick, before we go -- >> amy: i just wanted to say that's the other question then: will

speaker pelosi put a republican on that committee, somebody like liz cheney or adam kinzinger, who has spoken out against the president, to show maybe that will make something breakthrough, rather than it jst being democrats versus republicans. we'll see. >> nawaz: we will see. amy walter, tamara keith, good to see you both. >> nawaz: now to a man behind many best sellers, including books by four u.s. presidents. judy woodruff recently sat down with peter osnos about his new memoir, "an especially good view: watching history happen." >> woodruff: peter osnos, thank you so much for joining us. you have had an especially good view, as the book is titled. is is a book full of stories. your parents narrowly

escaped hitler taking over poland. you right abut being a college student, going to the american south during the civil rights movement. you were stationed as a reporter in moscow and london and here in washington. but then you made an abrupt turn and went from journalism to book-publishing. so which is closer to peter osnos, the reporter or the book editor? [laughter] >> well, what i discovered was, as a reporter, you go out, you get the story, you write the story, and you go home. as a book editor or publisher, you go out, you get the story, the gets written, and then you have to sell the story. and that is different -- a different experience for a journalist. i'll always be a reporter, but somewhere along the line, it turned out that i kind of liked the process of making the book available in addition to

acquiring it and editing it. >> woodruff: when you covered washington, it was the 1960s and the 1970s. it was a pretty glamorous time to be a reporter. you worked for izzy stone and ben bradley at the "washington post." describe what washington was like then to, say, a young journalist today who doesn't have any memory of that? >> it was an amazing era. it was ben bradley's "washington post," and in that time, the opportunity to learn was so profound. they sent me to vietnam at the e of 26. they sent me to moscow after that. it was an incredible education. and all along the way, when i understood -- and this is really important -- posts were in place where the newsroom values were the ones that counted most.

because we had such a strong commercial base in washington, we were for and about washington. and what changed over time is today the "washington post," sure, it's in washington, but, boy, is it global. it is all over the world. >> woodruff: as we mentioned, you turned from years and years of being a reporter to being a book editor. you were based in new york city, but you worked with, what, presidents from jimmy carter to bill clinton, barack obama. talk about what they were like as writers. what was it like to work with them? >> well, i had four presidents. and two of them, when i worked with them, i didn't expect ever, in a million years, to b presidents. the first president i worked with was jimmy carter, and i did a bunch of books with him. he is an incredibly authentic human beg. and bill clinton, i did his campaign manifesto in

2, and the book for his '90/'96 campaign, which we kept secret, and it came out just before the election, and people were stunned. i knew what other people didn't know, it wasn't really all that explosive of a book, but it was done, and i was very glad to have the chance to seek the charisma that clinton had. and then barack obama, donald trump. barack came to me as a very young man. his book had been tuned down. he missed a deadline at simon & schuster. and they said, do you want to take this young guy, and i said, of course i do. i was very impressed, we published the book, and it was 10 years later after it originally came out, when he spoke at the convention, and the book and barack took off. i got the guys together who worked with me on the book, and we said this is historic, one of the great books written by someone

who became president. i worked with trump for five years on two books. what i saw then, what i watched carefully, but from a distance ever since. >> woodruff: this is well before he ran for president? >> this was 1987. we published "art of the deal," which was the book that put him reamly on the reale map. it sold 1 million copies in three months, an extraordinary number of books. what i then knew and saw 30 years later is that donald trump has some way of reaching people, some way of reaching a certain kind of people who find him thrilling and inspiring. and what i saw was a young man that lives above the store, as he did in the white house. he didn't smoke, didn' drink. was very focused on what matters to him. and you've got to

recognize the degree to which donald trump, for 40 years, was in new york real estate construction, gambling, boxing, and wrestling. and no prosecutor ever touched him. he had an extraordinary capacity to navigate the complex world he was in. >> woodruff: peter, you were also very open to take time in this book to talk about your own experience in recent years with depression. it is something that is hard for others, i think, to acknowledge. what made you decide to write about it, to be open about it? >> at this very kind of advanced stage of my life and career, i came to understand that stress is something that everybody at one point or another to one degree or another. and we need to understand that. we need to anticipate that it is not all going to be

smooth. in my really very fortunate life, i wanted to explain, to the best ability that i have, to stress, difficulties, wrinkles is what i call that chapter, is inevitable. you're going to go through it. and you will -- how you manage it is going to determine a lot about what happens next. it is a phenomenon that is universal, stress and the consequences. >>oodruff: peter osnos, i know many people will thank you for being candid, for being open about an experience that so many americans, so many people, have experienced themselves. the book is "an especially good view." peter osnos, thank you so much. >> thanks so much, judy.

>> nawaz: hi on >> nawaz: "high on the hog" tells the sweeping history of african-american food, first as a book, and now in a highly acclaimed four-part series on netflix. special correspondent charlayne hunter-gault talked with some of the show's creative team about why this approach has sparked such interest. the story is part of our "race matters" series and our arts and culture series, canvas. >> “high on the hog” begins in dan-tokpa market, benin, west africa tracing the history both of african-american food and the slave ade from there to the united states. a journey that helped host stephen satterfield explore his roots. >> i just feel like the experience of seeing my own likeness reflected in the hair, i see my own style in the garments, and how we wear stuff. >> and in our swagger. >> and in our swagger, our ingenuity, our resourcefulness.

>> the show's title is based on the breakthrough book published over a decade ago by historian and writer dr. jessica b. harris, whose work i've applauded in the past. >> yams, peas, beans, black eyed peas, fava beans. all of those things that now join us are things that came with us. >> harris guides satterfield in the first episode. >> i felt so nurtured and so honored to be a part of her work and legacy in this way. >> executive producers and creative partners karis jagger and fabienne toback studied and marked up harris's book for months. >> yeah, hers is crazy. >> every post-it, every note. >> mine is crazy, too, >> looks like some of my books. how did you find her and how much help was she in your initial crtion of the series?

>> well, a dear friend of mine sent me the cover of the book and he said, “read this, it's going to change your life.” i sat and read it in one sitting, you know. karis and i have been working together for about a decade now, i gave it to her and we just like read it and cried and this is the culmination of many, many, many years of her work. we really wanted to treat it with the utmost care and consideration. >> like its source material,“ high on the hog” acts as a historical corrective, pushing back on the erasure of the contributions african-american chefs and cooks have made. like james hemings, a paris- trained chef, and for most of his life, was thomas jefferson's slave. hemings helped introduce mac and cheese to erica. but, this legacy was largely unknown, even to his own descendants.

>> you must have grown up eating mac and cheese. >> well sure, we all did didn't we. >> yeah, we all did, right? how did it feel when you realized that you were a descendant of the family that helped popularize the dish in the u.s.? >> i didn't learn that until recently, and now that i know that, i'm wondering where my royalties are. >> a few decades after hemings' death, free black entrepreneurs in philadelphia like robert bogle went on to found the nation's first professional catering businesses. these companies became a fixture of high society and served black and white clients into the twentieth century. >> my family was one of the first pioneers of that, the dutrieuilles. so this is one of the first photos that i saw where i was like “wait a minute, people lived like this? how come i don't know about this? what is her story? what are they doing?” so i love this photo.

>> she looks amazing. >> it says so much. >> i think the thing for us with the book was to constantly keep weaving the hard stuff with the joy. that's the route that we were taking, because i think without one, it becomes overwhelming. >> that, that's such a great phrase. you use the hard stuff with the joy. and, you know, black history at the moment is being challenged throughout the country. are you hopeful that the show will in some way add to the dialogue in a positive way? >> absolutely. when we looked at developing this book into a series, you know, there are there's indisputable facts in the book. it's not an opinion piece. we feel like there's these are stories of people that are deeply woven into the nation and our nation's food.

we wanted to illuminate these histories so that they have some sort of memory or recollection from where that mac and cheese, how it came here. >> “high on the hog” doesn't only look back. it is also firmly rooted in the present. jagger and toback started their own food blog, “hey, sistah” to find innovators and stalwarts of modern black food culture, many of whom the show brings together. >> it's about community and a way to come together. and i think that's something that we show in the show a lot. every episode focuses on a communal table and a communal meal. and for me, that's what food is. it's about having my family come together, having my friends come together, breaking bread, learning things. and, you know, that's where i get my joy. >> the show was produced and led by a mostly black creative team,

including academy-award winning director roger ross williams. >> there's so much power in each of us and connecting our own personal, ancestral historical identities to the food we eat every day. >> did you have in mind a certain audience as you participated? what was in your own mind as you pursued this? >> we wanted black people to feel seen and embraced and inspired and loved by this work. what you have is something very unique for black people in which our stories are put into our hands and our care without needed additional context, without filtration. that is not to say that this is only for black people. i think that there's a lot to be garnered for the ways in which

we can simultaneously celebrate the contributions of a particular culture, but also as human beings appreciate those contributions for our collective lives and societies. >> in these racially divisive times, satterfield and executive producers toback and jagger all feel optimistic about the power of inclusive storytelling. >> we see negative cycles all the time. and i think we just have to we have to keep being hopeful that we manage to get out of them. a lot of things have changed since emancipation and unfortunately, a lot of things are the same. but let's keep being hopeful. >> for the pbs newshour, i'm charlayne hunter-gault. >> woodruff: and on the pbs >> the mayor of miami-dade says 11 people are confirmed dead in the surfside condo collapse.

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