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contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the federal reserve ramped up efforts to fight inflation with a notable interest rate hike today. officials voted to raise the benchmark rate by three quarters of a point, higher than expected a week ago. reserve chair jay powell acknowledged the ongoing series of hikes meant to tamp down inflation might also slow growth later this year. he fed projected unemployment would rise to 4% by 2024. paul solman reports on the fed's plan to get more aggressive. paul: today's interest rate boost, the most rheumatic's 1994. >> inflation again is priced to the upde. some indicators of inflation

expectations have risen and projections this year have moved up notably. we thought strong action was warranted. paul: it's to combat inflation americans have not seen take off, on 40 years. rent through the roof, the price of eggs up 42%, unaffordable use minivans, and filling up for the trip to the store you can no longer afford, up 50% from last year. it cost me $80 to fill up my typical subaru. the typical american household is spending $400 to $500 more per month for the same stuff they bought last year. the fed was planning a more modest hike, but friday the consumer price index paying 8.6%. >> clearly today's basis point increase is unusually large and i do not expect moves of this size to be common. our focus is using tools to

bring inflation back down to our long-term goal. paul: high interest rates are the fed's key tool. >> what the fed is trying to do is raise interest rates to make credit more expensive perhaps holds and businesses to borrow and spend and through that mechanism bring down the amount of spending going down in the economy and try to bring down inflation. paul: but will it? are the forces, pandemic, global supply chains, war in ukraine, simply greater than anything a central bank like the fed can cope with? >> there is no playbook the fed can follow looking past the last , 30 years. paul: rising inflation has sent

stocks tumbling, the s&p down more than 40% from its record high, a so-called bear market that puts wall street into hibernation. the question, how long will the inflation last? and how critical is the fed containing it? some critics contend the fed has done too little, too late. are you one of those? >> it is easy to criticize. they are in a very difficult position. paul: but they are playing catch-up? >> that's probably true. inflation picked up very quickly and there is always a lag between the increase in interest rates and the way that can slow spending and from slower spending to bringing down inflatio paul: the last great inflation surge was in the 1970's. the then fed chair is credited with crushing it and the economy

by raising interest rates as high as 20%. it is being said chairman powell is trying to pull something similar. >> it remains to be seen if a severe recession is critical or if there is a slowdown in the economy shy of a recession that can do the trick to bring inflation down. if anyone says they know for sure, they are lying to themselves or to you. paul: if the fed had done too much too soon, it could have choked the economy during the pandemic, freaking out markets, inducing a recession. >> chairman powell at his press conference tay was emphatic. he is determined to bring inflation down and to prevent inflation from getting embedded in people's expectations. he said it over and over again and i think he means it. paul: could he really have moved much earlier in the midst of a

pandemic? >> weave 8.6 percent inflation and it's hard to escape the fact the fed' target is 2%. they probably could have moved sooner. i think they made up for it. it is a remarkably sharp shift in fed policy in the last six months, the fastest i have seen since paul boelter. paul: what's ahead for the fed? more hikes this year as he tries to tamp down inflation before it becomes self-fulfilling. for the pbs newshour, paul solman. judy: wall street rallied after the fed's announcement. the dow jones industrial average gained 303 points, 1%, to close at 30,668. the nasdaq rose 2.5%. the s&p 500 added 1.5%.

president biden pushed oil companies to produce more gasoline and cut prices. he wrote to industry executives restating his charge they are profiteering, and he said the crunch families are facing deserves immediate action. the industry blamed mr. biden's policies for curbing production. a white man accused of fatally shooting 10 black victims at a supermarket in buffalo, new york will face federal hate crime counts. payton gendron was charged today as u.s. attorney general merrick garland visited the memorial for the victims in buffalo. he said there's a moral obligation to act. >> the fear they will go to work or shop at a grocery store and be attacked by someone who hates them because of the color of their skin. judy: garland did not rule out

seeking the gap penalty. he already faces a mandatory life prison term if convicted. the michigan police officer charged with ordering patrick lyoya was fired today. christopher schurr shot him in the back of the head after a struggle in april. the grand rapids police chief recommended he be dismissed. a federal grand jury has indicted the california man accused of plotting to murder supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. nicholas roski was arrested last week near kavanaugh's home. a conviction could carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. there are new questions about georgia republican congressman barry loudermilk, leading a tour of the u.s. capitol complex one day before the january 6 attack. the january 6 committee relead video showing some in the group photographing stairwells and tunnels.

the chair suggested it mit be suspicious. loudermilk said it was an assent. >> if you go to that stairwell, there is a golden eagle sconce. that's what he was taking a picture of. these are folks who have never been to washington, d.c. and were here to visit their congressman. judy: the capitol police said there was nothing suspicious on the video. the committee said one man on the tour was outside the capital the next day making threats against democrats. a federal judge convicted a man and his son today for january 6 crimes. photograph shows the father carrying a confederate flag. he and his son were found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding at disorderly conduct. the nation's top pandemic expert dr. anthony fauci has come down with covid. the national institutes of health said found she has mild

symptoms. he is 81 and has been vaccinated and boosted twice. fda advisors endorsed moderna and pfizer vaccinations for children under five. shots could begin on monday if they win final approval. united states has announced its largest military aid package yet for ukraine, including rocket launchers and heavy artillery. secretary lloyd austin confirmed the aid. and we need to ship it to outgun ukrainian fighters soon. >> you can never get enough and never get it quick enough. we are going to work hard to make sure we are doing everything humanly possible, continued heaven and earth. judy: in ukraine, russian forces capped up a heavy bombardment after ukrainian troops rejected an ultimatum to surrender. extreme heat gripped states from

florida to the great lakes for a second day. forecasters warned readings in the 90's and higher could generate severe thunderstorms tonight. the heat could ease tomorrow. record flooding this weekend around shenandoah national park may have altered the landscape for good. images show a local river shifted course after heavy rain. the water also washed out roads, damaged homes, and drove visitors away. video from sunday showed a rockslide striking one car as it left the park. no one was hurt. president biden has issued executive orders on lgbtq rights to discourage conversion therapy to change sexual orientation or gender identity. it is a response to state laws seen as being anti-lgbtq.

what parents need to know about the newly approved covid vaccines for children under five years old. the u.k. tries to push forward with its controversial plan to deport asylum-seekers to rwanda. why a minnesota bank building ranks among the united states' most dominican architecture, plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios and in the west from walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: nearly half the party has chosen nominees for america's midterm elections. yesterday's primaries made clear that for many republicans, loyalty to donald trump is key to success. the biggest win for the former president came in the palmetto state, where tom rice, one of 10 house republicans who supported trump's impeachment, was pushed

out by russell fry. annie linsky has been following yesterday's results and joins me now. let's talk about the south carolina house races. there were do i wanted to ask about, one the resounding rejection by tomice in the republican primary. he never backed down in his criticism of president trump. annie: he essentially doubled down, employing a different strategy than other republicans we have seen get the ire of trump. he voted to impeach the president and continued to talk about it on the trail. he said to one of my colleagues calling truma tyrant. the president reads this coverage closely. he continued and attracted a trump backed challenger and we saw him lose.

we had gone into yesterday thinking perhaps it had gone into a runoff but it was a resounding defeat. judy: a different story and another south carolina district, nancy mace. she didn't vote to impeach president trump but she did side with president trump saying he could not refuse to certify the 2020 election results. president trump didn't like that , he went after her, but she continued to say nice things even though she wasn't endorsed by him. annie: and had a different result. she also had a primary challenger backed by trump self it's not as though trump accepted the olive branch. but on the trail, her posture was different and s even went to trump tower and famously reported -- recorded a video explaining why she is with him and why his supporters should back him. she bowed down to him in a way

rights did not and you saw very different results where she was able to stay in power. what's emerging as a potential playbook for republicans who cross trump in some ways. if they stand up to him, they better quickly turn around and try to make amends. judy: depending on how they read their constituents. let's talk about nevada, a couple statewide races. this is where former president trump's endorsement is a clear plus. adam wax all running for the senate, eagerly endorsed, lashed himself to president trump. really interesting secretary of state candidate. annie: coming out of nevada, donald trump did have a royal flush. every person he endorsed and it

up advancing the waxhall seat is particularly interesting. he was backed not only by trump but also by donald trump junior who and the last days of the campaign campaign with him. you are seeing donald trump junior establishing a power base of his own. he did the same thing in ohio where he went big for j.d. vance and there was success there too. the secretary of state race is really the one to watch. we are not used to paying close attention to secretary of state races. most people probably didn't know what that potion did before 2020. in this case, the secretary of state candidate who is an election denier and has

organized other election deniers around the country to run -- judy: he has played an active role, jim marchant. annie: pro-democracy groups are watching that race closely and are worried about his advance. nevada is a swing state and he will have an incredible amount of influence over how nevada's election is run in 2024. judy: the role of a secretary of state typically is to oversee elections, which could had huge consequences. you have been doing interesting reporting the last few days about in a few places around the country, democrats, we know they are running ads against republicans, but they are running ads in some places for republicans who they think may be a weaker opponent. annie: thisas been a tactic i

have been astounded by. you have democrats in the january 6 committee hearings talking about the importance of drawing a line between, as biden calls them, ultra mag of candidates. some of the committees are running ads to help promote the far right candidates, believing they will be easier to beat. the democratic strategists i have talked to say this is dangerous and y have to be careful what you wish for. you'll remember heather a quentin thought donald trump would be easy to beat and that was not the case. when you play these games you need to be careful what you wish for. judy: we have seen it before in american politics, but right now it is something we are keeping a very close eye on. annie linsky, thank you so much.

a bipartisan group of lawmakers on capitol hill has agreed to a framework to reform the electoral count act, the law that governs the way congress counts and certifies electoral college votes during a presidential election. it has become a subject of scrutiny after the january 6 attack. for more, i am joined by congressional correspondent lisa desjardins. remind us of what this act does and what this group is looking to do. lisa: this act goes back to the 1980's after the tumultuous 1876 election lead to different problems with competing slates of delegates and electors. this law was put in place to have a clear process for how the electoral college certification

was done. it spells out congress's role, exactly what happens and what was supposed to happen on january 6. because this particular law, rarely brought up, is murky in some ways, it led to questions on january 6 and conspiracy theories that it could be changed and opened the door to objections in congress itself. let's look at what this framework would do. right now in order to trigger a challenge to an electoral count, it requires one member of the house and one of the senate to challenge any state's electors. this framework would radically change that to require 20% of each chamber must object to the electors to trigger a challenge.

also the electoral count act states the vice president as president of the senate announces the count, but it's vague. it's not clear what the vice president's limits are. no one ever had a problem with that until the 2020 election. this would make it clear the vice president oy has a ceremonial or ministerial role, as some folks are saying. the agreement would have some money for security for state elections officials, something the two of you were just talking about. judy: tell us about the timeline. what you are seeing now is a framework, not legislative language yet. annie: one reason it has taken longer is there are not really experts on this. no one from the arthur or glover cleveland administrations is still around.

i was told by one senator they think they can get text ready for this by august. the question is when there would be a vote. i believe we would have to see a vote after the election itself, one because democrats think this kind of bill should include voting rights and they might have a problem if it doesn't. republicans no this kind of bill may raise iron from the trump side of their party. while this could be ready to go before then, we may not see a full vote in the senate for a few months. judy: this is not a law that had gotten a great deal of attention before. it was taken for granted. remind us why this is something that matters so much. lisa: i think you segment just now showed exactly why this is going on. there are candidates running now

for congress who denied 2020 election and would use something like the electoral count law. this shows the primaries until now. the states that are red is how many republican nominees for the house denied the 2020 win by joe biden, or question it. these are people who under current law would have the right to object to another election if president trump runs again. this is not just theoretical. the eltoral count act could very much affect the next election. vice president pence's role, one of his closest advisors has been speaking out about this and what was leading up to january 6. he spoke to frontline for an upcoming document here is what he said about the theories. >> the plan was to overturn the

election through the exploitation of what i have called the institutions of democracy and the instrumentalities of our democracy. we know now there is no question about it. they knew exactly what they were doing and they believed it. lisa: he will be one of the witnesses at tomorrow's committee hearing. judy: it doesn't get any more critical than this. lisa, we thank youas we reportes for children uer five could be available as early as next week now that the fda has given its stamp of approval.

many parents and caregivers of the youngest have long awaited this and argue they have had to wait too long. but even so, there are big questions about how widely the vaines will be taken up. william brangham has the latest. william: that fda committee unanimously approved kids' vaccines from both madrona and pfizer today. pfizer's is given in three shots, moderna's in two - and at slightly different dosages. there are approximately 18 million kids in this age group who wod be eligible to get the shots. for some insight into this moment, i'm joined by dr. andrea singh. e's the chief of pediatrics at park nicollet clinics and hospital in minnesota. welcome to the newshour. could i get your reaction to today's development? >> i am very excited. as you said, there have been 18 million children in our country that have not had the option of a vaccine. this unanimous approval is

exciting news for a lot of parents. william: do you feel confident the safety data is clear for both vaccines, that this is the right call for kids? >> i am very confident. it meant a lot there was a unanimous vote of confidence in the data submitted thus far. as always we have to continue to look at the data as more kids get the vaccine and make sure what we see in this initial sample size is holding true. i feel comfortable offering this vaccine to my patients and family members that have not had this option yet. william: what about choosing which vaccine? does it matter, moderna versus pfizer? does the two verses three shock factor into your recommendations? >> it's a good question. these vaccines were not studied head-to-head so you can't make a direct comparison.

i think some families will choose to do the two dose series of moderna, which is a higher strength. to go with pfizer, which is a lower dose, but three vaccines kind of spread out. william: i'm sure there is a slice of parents calling your office to make appointments as quickly as possible to get their children vaccinated, but not everyone is as eager. how do you talk with a parent who is more in the camp of wait and see, not sure i am going to do this yet? >> it's a super important conversation and i encourage parents if you are sitting on the fence, make that appointment with your health care provider so you can have that discussion because it is important to talk through it with a professional that kno no science and background and your own child' personal history.

he showed set of families were calling right away to get the vaccine as soon as it was approved by 38% were in th cap you are describing and the rest said, not for us. i have been talking with my families of younger children f months, even years about the pros and cons of a potential vaccine for this age group. one thing that is super important to call out is there is a misconception that covid isn't dangerous for children. a lot of kids have had it and have been fine so they don't need the vaccine. the data shows while only 3% of covid cases have been in this young child age group, those kids tend to get more serious complications, hospitalizations, and long-term issues.

it is really important to vulnerable groups. william: what if a parent says, my kid recently had covid and have gotten overt so don't they have protecon and don't need the shot? >> everybody's body does mount some immune response after a covid infection. the length of how long the immunity lasts varies from person to person. we in the medical community recommend getting the vaccine series started even if you have had an infection. william: what about this other risk some people might have heard about, particularly with males, the heart condition myocarditis? does the data indicate that is an issue with the vaccine for kids? >> it is an important topic they discussed in the review of the data.

fortunately there were not cases of myocarditis in these studies that have been done. it is something we have to watch closely. what we can extrapolate from the older kids that have gotten myocarditis related to the vaccine is you are five to 10 times more likely to get myocarditis from covid illness than from the vaccine. when we hear this stuff, it's super scary. we only want to do the right things for our kids. n atfo cinioxt to put the viruses cause myocarditis. that is well known in the pediatric medical community. obviously we don't want to be the ones inducing it. fortunately it didn't seem like that was common in the data that was studied. william: dr. andrea singh, thank u so much for your help.

>> thank you so much for having me. judy: in the united kingdom, prime minister boris johnson and his conservative party are facing criticism over a new migration deal with rwanda. as part of a resettlement plan, migrants who arrive illegally on british shores would be flown 4000 miles south to rwanda for processing and resettling. but the first flight, scheduled to depart yesterday, was canceled. amna nawaz has the story. amna: the plane was ready, the tarmac clear, but the first flight was canceled and it's before takeoff. over 30 where expected to be transferred under a sweeping new immigration policy, but a ruling

by the european commission for human rights halted deportations. still in the house of commons today, the british home secretary said the government will press on with their plan. >> we believe that we are fully compliant with our domestic and international obligations, and preparations for our future flights and the next flights have already begun. amna: in april, the uk and rwanda brokered a deal to send asylum seekers on one-way tickets to the east african nation, where their asylum applications would be processed. proponents say this would deter criminal gangs from trafficking people and stop illegal migration into the uk, much of it across the english channel. >> the argument is that if people think they're going to be sent 4000 miles away, then they won't attempt to make the crossing. amna: daniel sohege is an expert on international refugee l and campaign manager for the group love146 uk, an international human rights organization. he says the policy is in line with the government's post-brexit agenda. >> they want to reduce the number of people coming into the

uk seeking asylum and control borders is the line which is used quite often. ever since the brexit referendum, this has been a major key point for the government and they've just gradually increased the hostility of immigration policies. amna: under the new policy, the uk has offered rwanda over 150 million dollars to house refugees in facilities like this one, with up to five years of support. rwanda is already home to over 130,000 migrants and refugees, and yesterday yolande makolo, a government spokesperson, defended the deal. >> we don't think it is immoral to offer a home to people. something that we have done here for more than 30 years. >> shame on you! amna: in the u.k., the issue has divided public opinion. cross-country protests erected earlier this week urging governments to drop the deal.

activists also worry about rwanda's human rights record. the head of the un's refugee agency, fillipo grandi - denounced the plan as irresponsible. >> i think we have been so clear over the last few weeks that we believe this is all wrong. this is all wrong, this deal, for so many different reasons. amna: british prime minister boris johnson says he is standing his ground. >> what we are going to do, mr. speaker, is continue to take the tough decisions to take this country forward and decisions that are on the side of the british people. amna: a july hearing will dide the policy's legality. meanwhile, the fate of many asylum-seekers in the uk hangs in the balance. for more i am joined by zoe gardner from the joint council for the welfare of immigrants. the organization is among those representing the deportation of deportees. your group represented two

people on that flight yesterday, canceled just a few minutes before it was scheduled to take off. take me inside the flurry of case-by-case appeals that unfolded. how did it come down to the last minute? >> it's extremy stressful, not least for the refugees themselves and their family members in the u.k. seeing the people they want to be reunited with snatched away. it comes down to the last minute because the government only has to provide notice of a deportation five days before it happens, so they claim there are last-minute legal challenges. the reality is people don't have the opportunity before that and it goes down to the line very often. amna: tell me about what the deportation to rwanda has meant for them. >> one of them is a kurdish iraqi and one of them is a

syrian young man. the syrian man was targeted by the regime in syria. he had to run away at a moments notice. there is no safe route to travel to the u.k. to claim asylum but he has two sisters living here in the u.k.. when my colleague told him about the letter, he was like, i have received this letter but what does it mean about my life? she said it means you are going to be sent to rwanda. he said, once rwanda? it takes an enormous callousness not to engage with the humanity of that situation, a refugee who has escaped war, coming to seek protection and we are sending him on a one-way ticket around the world to a country we can bribe economically to take in the people we don't want. it makes the rwandan government, which is not a democracy, not a

country where political dissent is tolerated, it gives them a propaganda coup. they can say they are working with united kingdom government and it makes them look good, but it makes us look terrible. the right place for refugees trying to get to the u.k. is here in the u.k. amna: many refugees are allowed in. you have the u.k. creating a special visa program to welcome people from ukraine who are fleeing more, and on the other hand you have this deportation flight, which consists of people from iraq, afghanistan, sudan, and the u.k. saying you are not allowed to stay here, you have to go to rwanda. how does the government answer something that seem obviously like a racist double standard? >> it absolutely see like a

racist double standard to people across the u.k., and it absolutely is. they sent in place a visa for immigrants coming here and within that, 100,000 people in the u.k. offered up their homes to welcome people in ukraine fleeing that war, fleeing syria. putin has attin suncokesitmmie n ukraine but those people have no visa route to come to the u.k. so they are enforced into desperate journeys that enrich smuggling gangs. we need to introduce safe routes for an accessible asylum system for all because we welcome the warmth that has been shown to ukrainian refugees, but it isn't right that people from the middle east and from africa and, you know, black and brown people are being treated so differently and so cruelly. amna: what is happening politically and culturally in the uk right now that would create conditions where this

kind of policy is accepted and politicians think that this is the time to push forward with it, as the home secretary says that they will. >> the prime minister's position is actually really hanging by a thread right now. he's been exposed for having broken the law, the laws he made during lockdown to protect us all from the covid pandemic. he broke the law during his time in office, and then he lied to us about it and said there were no parties, when it turns out there was party after party during lockdown. and obviously the faith of the public has just gone way down in terms of trust in our politicians and trust in the prime minister. and so he's trying to shore up his position, change the conversation, talk about something different. look over there. there are some foreigners. we should blame them for our problems. so i really do hope that the courts will find that this is ry clearly against the letter of the refugee convention and therefore, that it's illegal. amna: zoe gardner joining us tonight. thank you for your time.

>> thank you. judy: the atlantic hurricane season started june 1 but people in southeast louisiana are still recovering after being hit last year by one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the state. communities correspondent roby chavez went back to visit the rural coastal areas where hurricane ida's 150 mile per hour winds left behind a housing crisis. roby: nine months after hurricane ida hit her neighborhood in terrebonne parish, precious shepherd still has no electricity. >> still running a generator. not being able to store food the way i used to. eating fast food daily. it's like i'm still living in a storm. roby: after ida, this entire affordable housing complex was

deemed uninhabitable and most of shepherd's neighbors moved away. >> it feels like a ghost town. i had nowhere else to go so when i came home and seen my unit wasn't as damaged, i was like, well, you know, stay home. roby: and amid a driver shortage, her school bus driving job was busier than ever. but the single parent's $23,000 a year salary is hardly enough to cover the daily cost of eating out or the gas-guzzling generator. >> it normally runs about 16 hours before it runs out of gas and have to be filled. roby: and how much does that gas cost? >> about $50 to $60. roby: that's per day. in an area with a poverty rate around 15%, ida has had a lasting impact on those who can least afford it, especially when it comes to stable housing. ursula ward stayed here because she feared she couldn't easily access healthcare elsewhere. >> i have heart issues. i have fibromyalgia and i have

digestive issues. i would have to go try to find those kind of doctors in a new location all over again. roby: but with most of her neighbors gone and no working street lights, she doesn't feel safe at night. >> it scares mwith the darkness back here, not knowing there is anybody there, not knowing who is watching me when i am leaving and coming home. roby: it's unsettling for ward, who lives by herself. >> do you feel left alone here? >> i'm very alone. i cry most of the time. like, right now, i'm starting to get emotional, but i'm trying to, like, not cry right now. it's just hard. it is just like kind of hard to deal with. roby: in hard-hit cocodrie, a coastal fishing village south of new orleans, heather young, her fiance, her children and grandchildren are among about 8000 louisiana households still in trailers provided by fema and the state. >> it's been like the hardest

thing i'vever did and been through. losing everything. we throughout all our clothes, toys, furniture, appliances. everything had to go. roby: the family of seven set up camp next to their ravaged home on the water, where young's fiance works as a fisherman. >> i have never actually seen underneath the tarps. and the other day i did and i just cried. it's very heartbreaking to see home like that. roby: just down the road, cecil lapeyrouse's store has been an anchor of this community for over 100 years. >> your biggest item here is gasoline. gasoline, bait, refreshments. roby: but the store remained closed while 70-year-old lapeyrouse spent his retirement savings on repairs. >> it's a lot of work plus a lot of mental stress. roby: and how much monehave you kind of put into the recovery?

>> close to probably a hundred, close to $100,000. roby: that's out of pocket cash. >> out-of-pocket. roby: lapeyrouscould no afford insurance, so he said he spent his own money at a time when the shuttered store brought in no income. but at least his house is livable. >> we never live like this before. roby: in raceland, cherakee bradley is making do in a badly damaged home. her mom, who lives nextdoor, says she needs help to fix her home too. >> she wrote a letter to fema and got denied. and they keep telling that she has insurance and she doesn't. roby as for cherakee and her three kids? >> [00:02:51]their solution was to find someone to stay with or a relative, or that's it. but who? because everybody's suffering right now. roby: fema says it has paid out over $1.2 billion in recovery

funds, including more than $700 million for housing assistance. but residents and advocates say it's still not reaching some of the most vulnerable. >> recovery is a very long and difficult process. it takes years roby: fema federal coordinating officer john long. >> we can't wave a wand and put things back the way they were. there are unmet needs. there was not enough affordable housing before the disaster. and so when a hurricane comes and destroys that, it just becomes a very difficult situation, and that's part of why recovery takes so long. roby: what do you say to your own people that said, we are struggling? >> it's always a struggle. and i can't tell you that we dropped any one particular ball. there are a couple of hundred people, just fema people, working to coordinate and and make this entire mission work. roby: adding to the difficulty,

says lafourche parish administrator mitch orgeron, critical infrastructure still needs to be fixed. >> we have some pump stations that were damaged. we need to be able to pump the water when it rains. roby: forecasters expect this to be an above-average hurricane season and that could mean trouble for places like coastal louisiana where so many people are still reeling from hurricane ida. even in non-hurricane storms, heather young feels unsafe in her temporary trailer. >> if the wind gets too bad, it feels like you're going to flip. roby: so it's shaking. >> if the wind is bad, it does. roby: so you don't even stay in there sometimes. >> we take the kids and come to the car. it feels safer in there because it don't shake in case we'd have to leave. roby: you can just get going. fema has long mourned nobody should ride out a hurricane in a trailer. >> we make a pnt of telling people whethey move into a fema unit, if the parish tells you to

evacuate, evacuate. roby: with so many still in trailers, orgeron says they'll have almost double the number of people to evacuate if a hurricane hits lafourche parish. >> one of the things that we have to consider is, is how do we move those people if we have a hurricane? certainly can't ride a hurricane out in a camper. it certainly weighs heav roby: cecil lapeyrouse's grandfather built his store in 1914. >> it's a big tradition, it's heritage. that's the big thing of what's making me go and keep going. roby: he finally reopened on memorial day but he says he simply can't take another destructive hurricane. >> i'm not going to try and redo it aga. you know, because i mean, this is a lot. i wouldn't do it again. roby: commercial crabber chad nezaro, who is still rebuilding his house, told us the same thing. >> the last last three years i've evacuated seven times for storms and then ida was the worst, obviously. i'm not sure i could take another one down here, to be honest with you.

roby: with so much uncertainty remaining, this hurricane season the state plans to have extra evacuation shelters due to the high number of people still dealing with unstable housing. for the pbs newshour, i'm roby chavez in coastal louisiana. judy: it turns out that the national farmers' bank in owatonna, minnesota is one of the most significant architectural works in the nation, part of the prairie school of design. kaomi lee of twin cities pbs went to see why this 1908 building, on the national register of historic places, continues to attract tourists from around the nation and the world. it's part of our arts and culture series, canvas.

kaomi: there is a building that looks like a jewel box, terra-cotta flourishes, not afraid of color. it's now a wells fargo bank but it started out under a different name. >> there is no more significant building in the united states. this is one of probably the top 10 most important buildings in the whole country. that is because of louis sullivan. kaomi: sullivan was a brash architect in chicago all about antiestablishment architecture. he had some successes and problems with money and drinking. but his ideas found a fan in a banker. >> he came up with it. it is form follows function. the shape of the building should grow out of the function of the building. we have a perfect example right here. it is a bank for farmers. kaomi: bennett wanted it to be a

place farmers would feel at home, not a greco-roman stately building with columns, and that was right of sullivan's allie. >> this is all about the people. it comes from the bottom, not the top. this is a bank people loved to bring their money to. kaomi: sullivan's drinking left most of the work to another and his artistry is everywhere, like in this beautiful art class. >> there are two design elements i think are most interesting and one is this form, which i see about 20 of in each of the windows, and there are dozens more. they look like this. they have four lobes sticking out and they represent humankind. i think of them as a representation of the human soul. he is putting these

representations of humanity inside of a growing thing, inside of a plant. he is showing us the relationship between humans and nature. kaomi: they are made of terra-cotta, an ode to plant life. they almost grow from the ceiling. and there is another theme. >> you see little boxes inside other boxes, in the windows, in the president's office. we have complicated boxes within boxes within boxes. this grows from an idea called the fourth dimension. kaomi: dimensions of length, width, and height were known, but at the time a fourth dimension of space was an exciting eerie, a metaphor for expanding consciousness, and it was on elms lee's mind. although he carried most of the weight, helmsley was not

entirely absent. the bank cost $125,000, a huge sum in 1908. what's extraordary is much of the original works remain today. some beautiful original features are gone. this is a reproduction of one of the iron teller cages, possibly the most revered design element in the entire bank. sullivan fired helmsley the following year and a bitter parting. the bank went belly up 18 years later. the building has remained beloved by the community. >> people have been proud of this bank ever since. they think of it as their town symbol. it is the most important thing in the world that exists in owatonna. judy: my apologies, it's owatonna.

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