geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. tonight on “pbs news weekend,” the latest on the deadly shooting at a nightclub in colorado springs. then, climate solutions -- oslo, norway's unique approach to controlling the city's carbon emissions. and, our weekend spotlight shines on acclaimed artist, kadir nelson. kadir: the work that i create, i intend for it to remind people of the better parts of themselves. then i think that kind of, i've done my job as an artist. geoff: all that and the day's headlines on tonight's "pbs news weekend." >> major funding for "pbs news

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geoff: good evening. there is shock and grief tonight in colorado springs, after a gunman opened fire late last night inside a gay nightclub. at this hour, five people are dead. 25 more are wounded. there is a suspect in custody, identified by police today as a 22-year-old male. several firearms, including a long rifle, were recovered at the scene. police praised the actions of at least two patrons, who subdued the suspect withininutes. people inside the night club last night are mourning the lives lost, and what it means for the lgbtq community. >> it's a place of welcome, a place of peace. a place for us to be ourselves, and, now look. what are we going to do? geoff: the club is calling the

shooting a hate attack. local officials say the motive is under investigation. for the latest from colorado springs we're joined by haley sanchez of colorado public radio. thanks for being with us. haley: thank you for having me. geoff: and haley, colorado governor jared police, as you well know, he said in a statement toda quote, every state resource is available to local law enforcement and that he is eternally grateful for the brave individuals who blocked the gunman. you spent the day reporting at the scene. what do officials know about what transpired? haley: well, we know right now is that five people have died and 25 people are injured. that's a little bit more than what we originally thought. the gunman is named anderson lee aldrich. he's 22 years old and he entered club q just before midnight on sunday and shot people with a rifle. two people at the club fought with the gunman and stop him from shooting anyone else and he was arrestithin minutes. we don't know the motive behind the shooting, of course, club q has called it a hate crime.

but authorities have not yet confirmed that. and there are still w victims being treated at nearby hospitals. geoff: haley, you live in colo springs. you grew up there. what are you hearing from people in the community today? haley: it's just really heartbreaking. i think club q is about one of two gay clubs in colorado springs, so it's sad that people went there seeking community. people have been gathering outside of the site, leaving flowers and signs. one of my colleagues met with a chaplain and former police officer who was playing a bugle at the site. and he said his partner and him has thought about going to the club last night, decided against it, but they have friends who work and perform there and they're still worried about those folks. there will be vigils later this afternoon and this evening, and there was a church service where they honored. it's an lgbtq friendly church and they did some victims at their regular sunday service. geoff: haley sanchez with colorado public radio. hayley, thanks for sharing your reporting with us. hayley: thank you so much.

geoff: in today's other headlines, the u.n. climate summit, cop27, came to a close today with a breakthrough deal. the creation of a fund that will help the world's poorest nations recover financially from future climate disasters. but, major questions remain about who exactly will pay for the fund, and how it will operate. a committee of 24 nations is set to discuss those questions over the next year. donald trump is back on twitter, though the former president says he won't use the platform. mr. trump has been banned since the january 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol for continually spreading lies about the 2020 election. new ceo elon musk reinstated mr. trump's personal account after conducting a twitter poll. and,tern new york continues to dig out from record snoall today as this historic snowstorm blows through the region. the heaviest snowfall today rolled in from lake ontario, sparing the buffalo metro area, where over six feet of snow has already fallen.

new york governor kathy hochul says hundreds of people have been rescued and two people have died from cardiac events. the fifa world cup, which has been mired in controversy for months, kicked off today in qatar. it's the first time ever the global tournament has been held in the middle east. but the host nation would not prevail in today's opening match, falling to ecuador 2-0, and becoming the first-ever host country to lose its opening game in world cup history. and, president biden turns 80 years old today. no president has ever served in the office into his eighties. the white house says the president celebrated his birthday with a family brunch hosted by the first lady. and still come on "pbs news weekend," a look at the city of oslo's solution to curbing carbon emissions. and my conversation with award-winning artist, kadir nelson. >> this is "pbs news weekend,"

from weta studios in washington, home of the "pbs newshour," weeknights on pbs. geoff: we are taking stock of this major moment in political history. this past week, former president a third bid for the ite house as he faces multiple federal and state investigaons. that is as democrats eye a generational shift in house leadership. speaker nancy pelosi, who is 82 years old, announced that she will not seek reelection to leadership. her heir apparent is 52. beverly gage is here to help us put this in perspective. she is a professor of history at yale university. so what is your assessment of this moment, having a twice impeached former president who trd to overturn an election he lost, running again for the white house, combined with the rise of copycat candidates who

endorse his antidemocratic tactics? beverly: we that really have not seen this one before in american history, i can say that much officially as the historian. although, the mere fact of running again is not actually so strange in american history. before the 1970's we had lots of candidates who would lose, run again as their party's nomination, try again, and often lose again. we have not seen that so much since we went to a popular primary system in the 1970's. so there are some precedents for what we have seen, but not too many. geoff: is there anything in american history that can speak to this moment in gop politics? beverly: i think we are really seeing something like a war for the soul of the gop at the moment. we have pretty distinct factions who will be presenting pretty

distinct candidates in the gop primary. trump of course being one of them. one of the big outstanding questions is how many others they will be if the rest of the republican party, particularly the republican establishment which does not like trump and does not want to see trump win again, are going to come together around any particular candidate. it reminds me a little bit of what happened in 1964, when there was a really powerful faction behind barry goldwater as the conservative candidate. there were lots of establishment republicans who did not want him as the candidate, and there was a realloor fight, because that is how you pick your presidential candidates, in 1964 over what the future of the party itself was going to be. geoff: on the democratic side, as we said, there's a generational shift happening in leadership. institutional convictions can be a real impediment to the younger

generation, especially in congress where power is built on seniority that takes years to accrue. beverly: right. at the moment we have a whole generation, really two generations of democratic politicians who have been waiting for their moment in the sun. pelosi stepping aside for the democrats is really going to make that kind of generational shift possible. as you say, tehre's -- there are lots of aspects of the ways we structure our politics that tend to favor people who are older, people who stay in office longer. quite famously the white south, when it was in the democratic party, really consolidated its hold on the senate in particular because it had so many members who just went back year after year and term after term, and ended up with a lot of concentrated power. so this is a big moment for lots of democrats who have been waiting to play some really

major either ship role. -- leadership role. geoff: president biden turns 80 today, and some are questioning how old is too old for him to be running for reelection. but democrats do not exactly have a generational star waiting in the wings to rocket to power. beverly: that does seem to be the case, and it would be incredibly unusual -- not entirely unprecedented, but extremely unusual, for biden to step asi after one term. we have a couple of examples. harry truman could have technically run again. lyndon johnson of course stepped aside. but each of them had had more than one term in the presidency becauseheir predecessors had died in office. so we don't have so many examples of pele who are voluntary one termers, and i would be surprised if biden does that in the end. geoff: dr. beverly gage, so

great to speak with you. beverly: thank you so much. geoff: as the un's climate summit wrapped up in egypt today, niators made headway on some issues but stalled when it came to cutting global emissions. that's with a recent report showing the burning of fossil fuels is on track to rise 1% by the end of this year. we're going to take a look now at a country on track to be nearly emission-free by the year 2030 -- oslo, norway. every year, the capital city calculates how much emission-producing activity will contribute to greenhouse gases, and then implements a carbon budget to keep those levels lo this week, lisa desjardins spoke with heidi sorensen, the director of oslo's climate agency. lisa: heidi, oslo has been able to significantly reduce your emissions in just about two decades.

the big question is how, and then the more specific question is, industries aren't forced to comply, so why are they? heidi: i think one of the reasons is that it got this climate budget going. that was important because we actually have every year's budget telling what has to be done by whom, when, and when needed at budgetary cost. so there was a way of getting from just the policy targets and votes into concrete action and results. lisa: it sounds like it was sort of -- broad statements weren't enough. you had to target by specific parts your society and say, here's what you have to do. how did that work? heidi: it works at the municipality every year. put forward this carbon-based climate budget and every entity in that community has been become stakeholders in this climate budget. they know actually what to do. and three times a year they want

-- they must report to the climate agency how are they doing with their climate measures so we can adjust, see if they have to do all the things and get into dialog when things are getting difficult. so we have been able to reduce and are aiming to reduce the climate emissions by 95% from 2030. lisa: i know part of this too is that in order to get city contracts, for example, some industries had to meet those targets. they weren't forced to do it, but if they wanted the city's business, they had to show they were cutting emiions. you know, ideas like that are prty controversial here in america, in part because of the idea of sacrifice, government involvement. was this controversial at first in oslo, and what do most citizens there think of it right now? heidi: some measures were controversial when first inoduced, but now a majority of the population thinks that the climate measures has given them a better city and are better suited for all.

one of the things that was the where we were abt the business on board was the way we have to use public procurement as an very active tool to get around and reduce the emissions. so we have been able to develop technologies such as zero emission construction sites that actually has removed quite a lot of the emissions from oslo. lisa: how are you doing with that goal? that's an ambitious goal you had, 95% emissions reductions by 2030. where are you? are you on track? heidi: we are not fully on track. our latest calculation says that we will reach 62% by 2030 with the measures we have identified and adopted so far. so we still have a way to go, but we are quite optimistic. there is definitely a possibility that we will be able to reach those 95%. there are eight more years to go. lisa: you've done better than national leaders in this country and global leaders around the world who just can't seem to agree on goals. you think cities should be

the ones leading the way here on climate? heidi: i think cities are leading on climate. i think many american cities do wonderful things as well. and frankly speaking, the people living in cities are often more progressive and want to do, see concrete action and be a part of developing solutions. and i think that's necessary and will be needed the most is to demonstrate that actually combating climate change will create a better city and a better life for everyone. lisa: one last question. climate news is often distressing, continues to be distressing. i've spoken to some of our politicians here who almost seem to be disengaging, almost a sense that perhaps they can't fight where we are with climate right now. how do you answer those fears that perhaps we've gone too far already? heidi: we have definitely gone far. but there is also definitely a way to move forward so we can have less damage from climate

change when we otherwise would have. but the most important thing, i ink, is that climate issues has been about sacrifice and sacrifice. i think we should start looking at combating climate change as a way of creating better lives for everyone because that is the core oit. if you combat climate change, we actually create a better life for everyone. lisa: i know that's been the experience there in oslo. and heidi sorensen, thank you so much for telling us about it. heidi: thank you for having me. geoff: finally tonight, it's time for our weekend spotlight, with acclaimed artist kadir nelson. perhaps you've seen his work featured on the cover of the new yorker magazine, or hanging in the u.s. house of representatives, lining the walls of a museum or gallery, or popping off the pages of one of his more than 30 children's books. kadir nelson's work is unmistakable. his oil paintings, superlative.

his rich palette and exceptional technique evoke both modern urban realism and masterly works of turn of the century american painters. i spoke with kir nelson while he was in washington, d.c. for the unveiling of his portrait of humanitarian chef jose andres at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery. he explained how he sought to capture andres, whose world central kitchen serves hot meals around the globe to people in areas hard hit by natural disasters and conflict. kadir: well, my idea was to show, or depict jose andres in his environment. being the activist that he is, the philanthropist, an incredible chef, and how all of that has kind of come together in his world. whate emphasizes that he wants to feed the people familiar food. he looks at food in a way that's very -- it's very intimate, very personal.

and it's a way to not only sustain people, but to uplift people, to carry them through these difficult moments that they're faced with. geoff: can you walk us through your technique? i mean, how do you envision something like this in your mind's eyand actually bring it to fruition? how do you make this happen? kadi well, first i had to meet jose and his family and try to get to know him, to understand him and his mission and what's important to him. i think we were having dinner, of all things, and he mentioned that his mother was like a force of nature. and i thought it was really interesting because jose often ows up after this force of nature has occurred, so i thought that it would be a really good idea to depict jose kind of showing up after this storm has occurred. geoff: you started drawing and painting at a fairly young age. and it was your uncle and a high school art teacher who taught you technique.

is that right? kadir: my uncle mike, who lives in maryland, he essentially identified my gift at a very young age and encouraged my parents to support it. so my uncle gave me, you know, a lot of instruction, art instruction. my mother and my father, they gave me a lot of art materials to work with. when i got to high school, i was kind of further ahead than a lot of the kids, because i had that instruction at a very early age, and i think it really helped propel me forward into the world of art. geoff: let's look at two more of your works. this is "sweet liberty" and "distant summer." and what strikes me about these two is the play on patriotism. kadir: so, the one on the left, "distant summer" seemed like it was very appropriate for that moment because i did this painting during the pandemic, so it was really my take on what it would be like for kids experiencing social distancing during the pandemic.

one of the last images for 2020 i did was of this one, "sweet liberty," which was released around the time of the very controversial election in november 2020, and they end up becoming somewhat patriot, patriotic because of course, they're red, white, and blue. but the one on the right is specifically very patriotic because it's a commentary on the election. geoff: how do you describe your style? kadir: you know, i think it's very difficult for me to describe my style. i think wha's identifiable is my palette. and then also, i would say a lot of my work is figurative and it's emotional. all of that playinto, or is heightened by l the tools that i use -- lighting, composition, color, and so forth. so it's harder to describe my style, but i think it's pretty identifiable. geoff: and this was the cover of rolling stone in the summer of 2020, inspired by the famous delacroix painting.

and at the center of your piece, you have this heroic african american woman wita flag bandana around her neck and a little boy. what was the intention, the idea behind that? kadir: i had heard someone describe my work as very american. i think that's very true. it's certainly a theme that often comes up in my work. of course, being in america as an african american, i think very much informs my work. and i think a lot of it kind of came to a head during the pandemic when, you know, a lot of my work used to be very historical. and then became more contemporary as i began doing paintings that were set in real time. so, shortly after george floyd was murdered and all of the protests began happening all around us, it made a lot of sense to create artwork that spoke to that moment. and that's where this painting came from. geoff: you mentioned the pandemic. let's look at "after the storm,"

because this is really a celebration of theuman spirit connected to the pandemic. kadir: this painting was done right at the beginning of the pandemic when we all thought we were going to be kind of shuttered in for only two weeks. and i felt that it was very important to create a painti that was kind of full of light and celebrated humanity in a moment when i think the intimacy of social contact was missing in our lives because we were all, you know, in quarantine and kind of not really able to hug one another, shake hands. for me, it was like creating an image that gave people some sense of security, a reminder of humanity, and something to look forward to, to kind of carry us through that moment. geoff: your work hangs in museums. it hangs in galleries. you are sought after by collectors. but your art is also very accessible. you do album covers, have done album covers, too.

there was drake's album cover, and then you also did an album cover for michael jackson. what was the story behind the one for michael jackson? kadir: you know, i'd done a painting that hung in a recording studio in los angeles that used to be owned by marvin gaye. and the man that was kind of refurbishing this studio wanted to make it a shrine to marvin gaye. so iid a whole bunch of paintings of marvin gaye. michael jackson actually recorded there. and he would often go to the studio just to look at the paintings and, you know, also record, you know. so, he saw the paintings and called me and asked me if i could do one for him. but, you know,igger. geoff: michael jackson wanted you to do what you had done for marvin ge. but bigger is better. kadir: that's right. that's right. unfortunately, he passed away before i could really get going on it, but i end up doing the painting anyway for the guy that owned the studio.

and then drake ended up later recording there and saw those paintings and thought, you know, i would be a good fit to create the artwork for his album cover. geoff: as you see it, when is art most effective? kadir: i think art is most effective when it stirs something up inside of people. the work that i create, i intend for ito remind people of the better parts of themselves because i feel that if you see something that reminds you of something that is beautiful about yourself or integris or something that reminds you of your inner strength and it pushes you to move in that direction, then i think that i've done my job as an artist to, you know, for that purpose. geoff: kadir nelson, i appreciate you. appreciate your me. and thanks so much for coming in.

kadir: thank you so much for having me. geoff: he is a singular talent. and that's our program for tonight. i'm geofbennett. for all of us at "pbs news weekend," thanks for spending part of your sunday with us. have a great week. >> major funding for "pbs news weekend" has been provided by. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy.] >> you're watching pbs.

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