amna: good evening, i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight. more gun deaths in america, dozens of people are killed or wounded in shootings over the weekend. why doctors are calling gun violence in the u.s. an epidemic. then. turmoil in britain, prime minister boris johnson narrowly survives a no confidence vote from his own conservive party as the country considers the monarchy's next chapter. and -- green gentrification, how efforts to make east boston more climate change resilient are pricing out long-time sidents of the majority-latino neighborhood. >> people are getting displaced. there aren't enough economic opportunities for people with a middle to lower income or even a little bit above middle income. amna: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and i contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: gun violence ripped through multiple communities this weekend, which saw more than 10 mass shootings since friday. officials in philadelphia moved to charge at least two people in a gunfight that left three dead and at least 11 injured. meanwhile, police from

chattanooga, tennessee to phoenix, arizona to omaha, nebraska investigated fatal shootings. these all follow massacres in buffalo, new york and uvalde, texas in recent weeks. we'll return to the battles over gun access and safety, after the news summary. british prime minister boris johnson survived a no-confidence vote this evening, forced by dissidents in his own ranks. almost 60% of coervative party lawmakers backed johnson. that's more than the majority he needed, but still leaves him weakened. the prime minister faced scrutiny over office parties during strict covid lockdowns. we'll get take a closer look later in the program. in ukraine, russian forces continued with their campaign to break through ukrainian lines in the east. there was fierce new fighting in sieverodonetsk. ukraine said after initial gains, its forces are now under heavy pressure again. on sunday, president volodmyr zelenskyy visited frontline cities in the east. late at night, he delivered another video message to the nation.

>> i am proud of everyone whom i met, whom i shook hands with, with whom i communicated, whom i supported. we brought something to the military. we also brought you something from them. it is important. we brought confidence and strength. amna: zelenskyy said he is in talks so ukrainian ships can move grain. in nigeria, men who attacked our catholic church sunday escaped. they were responsible for killing at least 50 people in a coordinated attack. today, the site was taped off as the investigation continued. some of the gunman opened fire inside while others waited outside, shooting worshipers as they escaped. the u.s. said south korea testfired eight ballistic missiles into the sea today in

response to north korea firing missiles sunday. u.n. officials report more construction in north korea's main nuclear site suggesting a nuclear test may happen soon. india facing growing outrage from muslim majority countries after top officials made derogatory remarks about the profit mohammed -- propt mohammed. indian muslims protested today demanding one of the officials be punished. >> i am not requesting, but suspending him from -- her from the party is not enough. she should be charged as a terrorist and arrested and put into jail. amna: the muslim minority has faced increasing violence since the hindu nationalist party took

power in 2014. president obrador will skip this week's summit of the americas in los angeles. he disagrees with barring cuba and venezuela. guatemala, honduras and el salvador indicated they will also stay home. president biden had hoped the summit could rally support for migration controls. in this country, the former leader of the far right proud boys today was convicted of seditious activity in the january in six investigation. he and four others coordinated an assault on the u.s. capitol. wall street's week got off to a rough start. the dow jones closed at 32,925. the nasdaq rose and the s&p 500 added nearly 13. a passing of note.

a former member of our pbs family has died. he hosted washington week in review from 1994 to 1999 and spent decades covering politics for news. in later years he was a professor at depaul university and northwestern university. ken bodie was 33 years old. stilted,, rising crime galvanizing across san francisco voters to recall their district attorney. tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political headlines. rafael nadal captures his 22nd grand slam tennis title, the most of any man. plus, much more. >> this is "the pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite arizona school of journalism. amna: as we reported earlier,

another devastating weekend of mass shootings as lawmakers in congress and states consider new gun safety regulations. john yang has more. john: the trail of gun carnage since friday night stretches across at least 10 states, according to the gun violence archive, michigan, tennessee, arizona, new york, pennsylvania, south carolina, texas, georgia, nebraska and virginia. the toll, ateast 17 people dead and more than 50 injured. in philadelphia, a brawl on a crowded street saturday night turned into a gun fight, leaving three people dead and 12 more hurt. larry krasner is the philadelphia district attorney. >> i went to the scene myself the morning after the shooting to see what was there, and it was chilling.

no less chilling that it happened in more than 10 places around the country. john: many health care providers say gun violence is a public health issue. after the nra said physicians should stay in their lane, dozens responded with stories about treating gun shot victims with the hashtag this is our lane. one of them is dr. joseph sakran, a trauma surgeon at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore and himself a survivor of a life-threatening gunshot wound. thank you so much for being with us. so much attention comes to gun violence after horrific events like buffalo and uvalde. talk to us about the routine results of gun violence you see in your emergency room. joseph: thanks for having me.

you are absolutely correct. we often in america talk about gun violence as it relates to these and to get significant media and public attention. the reality is, mass shootings comprise less than 2% of the overall public health problem and every day in cities like baltimore where i work, we have high school students, pregnant moms, being slaughtered on our streets. we frankly have both the opportunity and responsibility to make sure those stories are told because that is what we are seeing across this country. john: you are a physician, you treat gunshot the m's, you yourself were shot at 17 years old at a high school football game. what do you see as a physician,

in your daily life as a survivor , about the surviving victims of gunshot wounds, their daily lives, their experiences, that get lost in coverage? joseph: that is so important. i come into this conversation as a survivor and a surgeon. we often talk about the physical injuries, but there is also the mental and emotional trauma that takes place. you can imagine what a child must think when they are in a classroom and watch their friends killed in front of them. it is horrific. we have an opportunity to change that. john: is there an extent to which there is re-traumatization when it fills the headlines? joseph: absolutely. every time this happens in not

only dramatizes the community, but it is re-traumatizing the entire country. look at what children in schools all across america are going through. 75% of them are worried the mass shooting will happen in their own school versus trying to focus on education. i think there is truth to this re-traumatization. for too long we have sanitized this conversation around gun violence in america and shootings. it is time to pull back the curtains and allow the american people to understand the tragedies witnessed. john: that was one of your goals of the hashtag this is our lane effort. can you talk about your goals and intentions? joseph: when health care professionals came out after the

nra told us we do not belong coming up with a solution across this complex public health problem, we were incensed because we are taking care of the patients and having to talk to these families of loved ones. for anyone to understand the complexity, they have to realize no one person or organization can solve it on their own. john: you began this effort four years ago and not much has changed. these incidents keep happening. is that frustrating to you, does that anger you? are you numb to that? seph: i have been working around gun prevention for longer than four years. if you look at what has happened in the past decade, it is

frustrating we have not seen change at the federal level, but let's not be mistaken. the country is not the same as it was 10 years ago. if you look, hundreds of pieces of gun legislation have been passed across the country. the problem is, we live in a nation with open borders. is it happening quick enough? not enough. every day we have children and others being killed because of gun related injuries. we must do better. john: dr. joseph sakran, thank you very much. joseph: thanks for having me. ♪ amna: we returned to the u.k. where prime minister boris

johnson survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence today. william brangham has more on what the move means for johnson's ability to lead. william: amna, this was seen as the most direct threat yet to mr. johnson, a rebuke by his own members for holding these parties while the rest of his nation was in covid lockdown. though he survived today's vote, many think he's left in a much weakened position, politically. but after the vote, johnson vowed to press ahead with the nation's business. pm johnson: although you may want to focus on me and on politics, [indiscernible] what we deliver and what we do. as a result of this decision by the party, which i welcome, we have a conclusion to something that has been dragging on for far too long and we have the ability to unite and deliver and that is what we will do. william: for more on this we

turn to robin niblett director , of the international think tank, chatham house. robin niblett, welcome back to the newshour. the prime minister survives this vote, but can you help us understand how he got to this precipice in the first place? we have seen politicians in the u.s. violate covid lockdowns, democrats and republicans, and they survived it here and why was this more severe? robin: it is a culmination of many items. boris johnson has always been a divisive figure within the conservative party, though he secured a historically large election victory at the end of 2019. he was always a divisive figure within the party ahead of it. it led to the rejection of theresa may as the prime minister during the brexit process. the minute it looked like he was

playing fast and loose with the truth, an issue that is affected so many, the covid lockdowns, where the government told people to follow laws abt social distancing, not mixing even in the workplace, to see the prime minister flaunting those laws, played into the narrative of him as someone that plays fast and loose with the truth. an elitist approach, that can get to the british public. this combined with the fact people are worried, having just returned from a spring break as we had, i half term recess for parliament, people heard the results of a report by a british civil servant that was delayed, has really hit home. the fact the prime minister in the prious police

investigation received a fine for breaking the law, the fact this happened under his watch and his apologies have been halfhearted, i apologized for what happens, rather than for what he did, is getting under the skin of mp's in particular. william: he makes it through this vote, but is he wounded politically? what does the future look like for boris johnson? robin: he is definitely wounded. the amount of mp's who voted against him, 148-359, that is a much higher number than i think people expected. there are 173 conservative members of parliament who have positions granted by the prime minister. you would expect him to have at least 175 loyal.

the country can see the party he leads is divided. close to half of it is very skeptical of his value as a leader and are worried about the future. this undermines his future agenda. at least on issues where there are parliamentarians who disagree. over the brexit treaty, immigration policy. when you have 148 members of your own pty voting against you, you can lose any close vote, it is a chance to over -- undermine his authority. william: this comes as the nation is celebrating queen elizabeth, the jubilee celebration. because of her health, she was only able to attend some of those events. we saw the next king, prince

charles, was stepping into that role. how is that transition going forward? robin: that will go forward when it goes forward. there is a clear succession process. prince charles will be the next king. to state the obvious, 70 years is the longest the u.k. has ever had a monarch. this is a monarch who has taken the country through s many changes, from a country emerging from the rubble of the second world war two on multiethnic, multicultural society. prince charles has been preparing for thisole a long time, but his capacity to earn the trust of the government wil need to be earned. it wl not simply carryover from his mother.

there are still hangovers of the u.k. and the head of state of a number of former colonies, they will be looking at that role and questioning if this has the pull it had before. it will be a difficult transition. william: thank you so much for being here. robin: thank you. amna: it is primary election day tomorrow in seven states and rising crime is an issue top of mind for many voters. that is especially true in a recall race for a progressive district attorney in san francisco. lisa desjardins has more. lisa: his supporters hoped chesa boudin would bring in safety and criminal justice reform.

three years later, the city's top prosecutor has been tested by a pandemic and a spike in crimes. many voters are not happy and tomorrow they will get to judge him and whether to recall him. understand this better i am joined by politics editor scott shafer with kqed in san francisco. there are a lot of layers to what is happening here. help us understand how mr. boudin got here facing possible recall. scott: he has a nontraditional background. he was a public defender, which is unusual for someone who had once been the top prosecutor in the county, but he won. his parents were members of the weather underground. from the time he was young they were incarcerated for a robbery that went bad and ended up with two police officers shot and killed. he got into office without much support from law enforcement in san francisco. on top of that he takes office

before the pandemic in january 2020. withhe t violence. add to that anti-asian he crimes. -- anti-asian hate crimes. a number of folks collected signatures for the recall to put it on the ballot, with help from republican donors and others. tomorrow voters will decide whether he gets to keep his job or not. lisa: millions have been spent on this recall election. what did chesa boudin promised to do when he ran for this office as district attorney and what has he actually done? scott: he promised to rebalance the scales of justice. the premise of his candidacy was, the criminal justice system is skewed against black and brown men in particular. if you look at the way the criminal justice system has

dealt with crack cocaine versus powdered cocaine, a lot of people, t just democrats, believe it needs to change. he wanted to go after low-level, nonviolent offenders, especially for drug possession, promise to end cash bail. he also promised, and this is important, to hold police officers accountable when accused of excessive use of force. he has done all those things. at the same time we have seen the crime rate go up with viral videos of smash and grab shoplifting. a lot of auto break-ins. it created headwinds for chesa boudin as he goes into this recall election. lisa: we have seen a lot of those headlines in san francisco. what is the reality of crime in san francisco right now?

how much has to do with chesa boudin? scott: san francisco mirrors the rest of california and the nation. if you look at the murder rate in california, some counties that are most conservative, like kern county, had the highest increase in murder. that is not because of a liberal district attorney. i don't think you can blame these trends on the district attorney here or anywhe else. they are bigger than any one person. he has been in office less than 2.5 years. you can't say they happened because he is the d.a. that said, he has not helped himself. he comes across as abrasive. in some ways this recall is about him as a person and a little bit about his policies. it is more so about how he handled the job, the kind of manager he has been. there are deputy da's who have criticized his management.

all of those things will be on the ballot tomorrow. lisa: what do you think we will learn from this recall electn? what does it say about these trends nationwide? scott: there will be attempts to spin this if he loses his job. even in liberal san francisco, they are retreating from liberal justice reform. san ancisco is still a liberal city. we have a liberal attorney general the ballot tomorrow as well. i am sure he will do well. a lot of the policies that chesa boudin and others have embraced are supported by large percentages of people in california. we need to be careful about over reading the results, assuming he is recalled. this is one election about one person at a time when law enforcement agencies across the country are grappling with big problems. amna: scott shafer, thank you.

scott: thank you. ♪ amna: it is a busy and high-stakes week at the u.s. capitol with lawmakers working to find a bipartisan compromise on guns and the january 6 select committee holding its first televised hearing to present its findings. to break down it all, i'm here with amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter. and tamara keith of npr. welcome to you both. i want to begin with this conversation on gun violence prevention measures and where it is in washington with lawmakers. we have had this conversation a few days -- it has been 30 years since the assault weapons ban in 1994, since there have been meaningful measures by lawmakers.

after each horrific shooting we say, will this be different? there is some optimism. will it be different? amy: it seems we are having two different discussions. for republicans the focus is about behavior more than guns, doing more to flag people who have mental illness, doing more with background checks. a republican senator leading this bipartisan group says, we are not going to do anything that would limit the magazine numbers or take away anybody's guns or put a ban on assault weapons. the issue is not about what type of gun legislation can happen, it will happen for republicans based on making changes to behaviors they can regulate. if you have had a domestic record, or something in your

record that raises red flags. when you hear from democrats saying, i will do what it takes to get [indiscernible] even though he would like to see more expansive gun reforms, he seems willing to take what republicans are going to give on those issues in order to get something through. amna: where is the president on this? sweeping reforms not part of senate talks. is he involved in these? tamara: no, he is not. he is giving them space to work it out on their own. there is the potential whenever a president gets involved that politics harden, that whatever deal that seems possible in smaller sessions stops seeming possible. he has called repeatedly, as he did in that speech, for a return

to an assault weapons ban. if that is not possible, at least raise the age to 21 to get an assault weapon. the senate is not talking about that. there are not 60 votes even for that. he is not going to get what he is asking for, but he does take the long view. he was involved in passing that assault weapons ban in the 1990's. he knew how long he spent working on that and falls back to that when he expresses optimism. a lot has changed since then. that makes it difficult. if the senate were to pass modest reforms that amy talked about, those would be the most sweeping reforms congress has passed. amna: that is worth noting. even incremental progress is

progress. even if they do move forward just on the red flag issue. a senator was ask about this and said if we don't get something done after uvalde, you would feed the narrative that we just can't get things done. will that help push things along? amy: that is a big piece of this. we have already seen from one republican in the house, for a republican to talk about guns in particular, saying, yes, i think we should have a ban on assault weapons, his district abuts buffalo, which had that horrific shooting. he has decided not to run for reelection because of the blowback in his district. amna: part of the political reality. the january 6 committee will hold its first public hearing thursday june 9, 8:00 p.m. eastern. we will have that live.

this primetime presentation, what are you looking for? amy: i am looking for what is new and different. it is not clear yet. they are promising there will be new pieces of information. more than that, members of the committee are promising a narrative that weaves it together, these disparate storylines. what i am looking for is whether they have any chance of breaking through. the public has only grown more divided. there are more and more americans who don't consider what happened on january 6 to be a problem. they see the people who were arrested and charged with crimes as martyrs. there is a dramatic divide with what happened and whether it is a problem. i don't know if this committee with its two republicans in

exile will be able to bridge that. amna: the audience they are aiming for, who is he talking about? tamara: the open minded people want to hear what happens next, how do we prevent this from happening again. they are not interested in relitigating what happens, but they want people held accountable for doing things that are against the law and to say let's make sure we find a way to prevent this in the future. they are not going to do this necessarily on nday, but to say here are our suggestions for ways for this to not happen again. and for those suggestions to sound reasonable and meaningful, that will be a challenge. amna: will the president be watching? tamara: i do not know.

he will be attending the summit of the americas in los angeles and has a busy schedule that may prevent him from watching that live. amna: have we heard anything from the white house about what they expect? there is obviously a political calculus to this. amy: they have other really big problems like inflation. watching focus groups as i have done, no one mentioned january 6, but they all mentioned inflation. amna: interesting to note. good to have you here. the city of boston faces two enormous problems, sea level rise in its harbor that is getting worse with climate change, and a dearth of affordable housing, pricing out many longtime residents.

solutions to one of the problems may compound the challenge of solving the other. researchers have called this green genritication. -- green gentrification. paul solman reports on the fallout in boston. paul in east boston, long home : to the city's latest wave of immigrants, sparkling new waterfront apartments where abandoned piers once rotted. a brief ferry ride away, downtownoston. convenient. stunning. >> we unlocked a part of the waterfront that had been fenced off from the community and reintroduced it to the people free to calm use the place. paul: and to folks dying to live here, says developer nick iselin. >> we thought there was not such a thing as a one million-dollar condominium in boston. paul: which came to a startling $1 million for just 1500 square

feet. but a major selling point for those who can afford it, the project is carbon neutral. as it says on its website, climate change ready. a newly created living shorele, with the stabilization of existing sea walls. new public open spaces support wildlife habitats, promote community gatherings, a kayak launcher, highlight recreational and programming opportunities. there are en a few dozen affordable housing units. what is not to like? are you from around here? >> i live here. paul: what about all these condos going up? >> they created a ghetto, a white ghetto. paul: he feels unwelcome. a group of students from east boston high school, possibly more so. >> last summer me and my friends

were skipping rocks and they said we were disturbing them. >> they are snobby people. >> they say you can't be here, but it is not private property. paul: in fact, it's a public area, with public bathrooms, mandated by state law. >> we finally got the leasing office. paul: but, challenges community activist kannan thiruvengadam -- >> do i know there is a public restroom i can use? those things have to be obvious, that makes a space welcoming. the sign is writing here. paul: public restroom in port said lobby. and if you can't find a bathroom, how public is the space? >> is it open? it is locked. in fact, guitar player rios and the students, off after a half day at school, were among the very few non residents on these 9 acres of public space.

>> we used to live here and we were forced to move out. paul: you could not afford it? >> we were forced to move out, there is a lot of gentrification. paul: gentrification the age-old , problem of urban redevelopment. >> people are getting displaced, there is not enough opportunity for people with middle to lower income or even a bit above. paul: this is gentrification with a new twist, green development greening. green gentrification, adding appeal to a project, and cost, implying -- >> there will be, little by little, a removal of socially more vulnerable groups, working class, middle-class groups. paul: researcher isabelle anguelovski champions climate control but enclaves like this, in her words -- >> become islands of resilience,

privatized. paul: while their 47,000 or so east boston neighbors are discouraged from coming near, if not forced out of town, as so many of the students we ran into were. >> i have to walk to school now, it is like an hour. paul: you walk an hour a day to school? >> it used to be 10 minutes. my shoes are messed up. paul: how long have you had those? >> a month. paul: meanwhile, those who get to stay will be at the mercy of time and tide. east boston, once five separate islands, is mostly landfilled. the sea level will rise 40 inches by 2070, creating a flood risk to half the neighborhood. low tide not a problem, but a few hours away, storm surges like one in 2018 which flooded

this complex. it got up to the sidewalk? >> it came onto the ground level. i could not step on without being in the water. paul: and the east bostonians behind the development? >> thiis a ramp. >> if rain falls, it will be here. paul: as for the promised amenities, that public kayak launch has become a tavern -- the living shoreline? >> this is meant to be the living shoreline. where are the kids, the grass, the blue hair? paul: the fact is this very , project is now vulnerable to climate change. nobody built in anticipation of the vulnerability because why? >> because they were not required to. the assessments had not been done. paul: so, any fixes? boston now has a new mayor, michelle wu, who ran on a platform of economic equity.

she has reverend mariama white-hammond to help implement it. >> i went to a little, all girls private school and the girls were afraid to come to my house, said they were worried they would get shot. paul: white-hammond actually protested this project when it was first proposed some seven years ago. >> we marched because we were deeply concerned the units built were not billed for the residents that were currently here. paul: but how does she see east boston development now, as the mayor's top climate adviser. >> it is not the melding of the old and new, it is the old being overwhelmed by the new. >> if people live near a good part, the prices are higher, which means poor people live in the places nobody wants to live. do not improve those neighborhoods? it is a real catch 22. my family has as much a right to live near a great park as the people who live downtown. the problem is, if i upgrade the

park in that community, property values rise. >> gentrification is a problem. it is happening for many reasons. market forces, people are getting displaced. whether or not we have green spaces here, that gentrification would be happening. paul: and thus the last question, to community activist la battaglia. green gentrification compounds the problem? >> it exacerbates it. paul: exacerbates the problem of choice venues versus this land. -- a problem facing choice urban venues all over this land. for the pbs newshour, paul solman in east boston. ♪ amna: we will be back shortly with a look at rafael nadal's history making performance in the french open. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station.

it's a chance to offer your support. which helps keep programs like ours on the air. ♪ amna: a group of divers is seeking to shed light on the dark history of the atlantic slave trade that forcibly transported millions of africans to the americas over more than 350 years. jeffrey brown has this encore story from our ongoing series, race matters, and our arts and culture series, canvas. jeffrey: under the sea, a magical world. if you look hard enough and know how to scuba dive, a living link to america's tortured past. >> combining the importance of ancestral memory and understanding how that applies today, combining those things

with scuba diving, that was a match made in heaven. attention everybody, attention on deck. make sure you are close to and with your buddy. jeffrey: he is part of diving with a purpose, black divers who dive underwater and have a larger mission, to search sunken ships from the international slave trade. >> the stories we tell our importance. more importantly, the untold stories. these and many other ships as we got more involved in the search became excitg because most people have not heard the story, including myself. jeffrey: diving with a purpose was founded in 1993. to join an ongoing effort to find the remains of the guerrero

, a ship that wrecked in the florida keys after a battle with the british warship trying to enforce anti-slave laws. 41 drowned. a story fellow from national geographic has written about slave ships and the divers looking for them. >> most people know the name of the mayflower, the ship that brought the pilgrims over to the americas. but who knows the names of the guerrero or the henrietta marie? it is helping bring those lost souls back into memory and honoring them and acknowledging them. jeffrey: robert's life changed

when she saw a photograph of the divers in the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture in washington, d.c. >> seeing a picture of black women on this boat in wet suits k'n'haowt w, but they looked so free and joyous, they reminded me of superheroes. i wanted to be like them. jeffrey: in 2018 roberts quit her job with a nonprofit and joined the dwp divers. according to a decade of research by scholars, more than 36,000 transatlantic voyages were made between 1501 and 1867. carrying some 12.5 million captured people to the americas. it is believed 1.28 million lost their lives and the journey

known as the middle passage. about 1000 ship wrecks have been recorded, but fewer than 10 have been located and studied. diving with a purpose is part of the slave wrecks project. it is hosted by the national museum african-american history and culture. roberts recalls coming across an anchor i'm in what were thought to be the wrecks of two danish ships. this one sunk off the coast of costa rica in 1710. >> it is surreal. to see this artifact from the 1700s and know the history attached, it is an amazing moment, to put my eyes on this piece of history. >> it is spiritual.

jeffrey: jay has made more than 1000 dives across the world. >> going down and searching for the ship, we are like crime scene investigators, because slavery is the biggest crime in the history of mankind. jeffrey: one of the best known wrecks is the clothilda, sunk in mobile bay, hidden because of its illegal voyage in 1860. there is a documentary, a book on its history, and another documentary premiered at sundance, fosing on the descendants of more than 100 enslaved brought on the ship from west africa. robes has a new six part national geographic podcast titled "into the depths to

explore past and present." >> i hope people come away knowing facts they did not know before. i hope they fall in love with these divers in the same way i had. i hope people are inspired to be a part of the work. >> it was a great year, outstanding work. we have to recognize our new advocates. jeffrey: diving with a purpose runs programs for young people across the country as well as in mozambique and costa rica. is there an understanding that a lot will never be found? >> yes, but as long as our young people take the mantle and tell those stories, that is what is important. jeffrey: for now, researchers and divers continue to search for the guerrero and other ships. for the pbs newshour, i am jeffrey brown. ♪

amna: at the age of 36, rafael nadal still making history, secured his 22nd grand slam title after beating norwegian casper ruud in straight sets. nadal has the most grantlfd male player. he won his first title when he was 17. the author of "seeing serena," gerald, welcome to "the newshour." nadal has a french open final record of 14-0. was it inevitable he would win again? gerald: i don't think so. he was in a tough part of it.

he would have to beat novak djokovic to make the final. and carlos alvarez, an amazing teenaged spaniard, he ended up beating djokovic. we all knew he was suffering from this chronic foot syndrome, which he has had since the beginning of his career. he is just a man who has learned to play in pain in ways that are remarkable. he has had a foot injury, knee injuries, wrist injuries, shoulder injuries. he plays a gritty and grueling style of tennis. especially on clay, which, points tend to take longer, they

tend to grind it out. but he is a master at it. he is also the most willful competitor tennis has ever seen. amna: this puts him in the pantheon. there is a debate in tennis about the greats on the clay court like nadal versus the hard court or grass champions. is it fair to say nadal is the best? gerald: i think we are in an era where you have three players, roger federer, rafa nadal, novak djokovic, pushing each other to greatness and i don't think each would be as great had the other two not been around. it is hard to separate. you could say that djokovic tends to be both of them on hard courts, federer is the best on

the grass court and rafa is the best on the clay court. i don't know if you could have had any one of them emerge as he did without the others. as others have said, it is a golden age in men's tennis and it is been a privilege to watch these last 14 years. amna: nadal is 36, has never been ranked outside the top 10 since 2005. he did say yesterday he will keep fighting to keep going. how much longer can he keep going like this? gerald: i would not want to make a prediction, but there will come a time when nadal is no longer playing tennis. he has said he will not take these foot injections he received before every match at roland garros the last two weeks

in order to alleviate the pain. there was anoth procedure he says he is going to have. if that does not work, faces the possibility of surgery. can you come back from surgery in your late 30's? i don't know. is that something he will want to do? this might have been a perfect drop of the mic moment for him, winning the french open, but he says he will fight on. he is a fighter. michael jordan is the only other athlete i have seen with it. it is a will not to lose. he plays every point like it is matchpoint. he does not want to lose. he does not ever give up. he has not given up. amna: he has not and he has been a privilege to watch. thank you for joining us. gerald: thanks for having me. ♪

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