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victims after tornadoes tore through the region last night. at least nine people died, receivable in albecame. amna: the storms also left widespread wreckage and knocked out power to tens of thousands. following a long night, the damage began coming into sharper focus after daybreak. >>n selma, alabama, evidence of a tornado's power on vivid display. the twister ripped away parts of selma country club. >> you could hear the roar, glass going everywhere. you could hear the roof being torn off right over our heads. >> oh, my god. >> social media video showed the storm carving a ragged path of destruction. it hurled aside cars and wrecked buildings but selma's mayor said last night that the damage could have been even worse. >> we were blessed. we died some major bullets.

selma is just one of the communities hit by in storm. amna: the hardest hit of those communities lay 40 miles to the northeast in otaga county where all of the state's tornado deaths occurred and in hale county where authorities save about 50 homes have been destroyed. doris hill's home and business are among the wreckage. >> i just moved from that house in september. that house is gone. ain't nothing left on that house but the steps. am that: the federal emergency agency estimate had in tornadoes may have touched down at least 35 times across several southern states. meanwhile on the other side of the country, californians continued cleaning up from days of releftless rain storms while bracing from yet another system moving in from the pacific. local officials in monterrey county, located in the central part of the state are watching

the salis river, now at risk of overflowing. nearby communities are under evacuation orders but some residents are opting to weight it -- wait it out. >> we sandbagged. amna: so far more that have -- than half of california's 58 counties have been declared disaster areas. amna: and the drought that has criticalled the -- grimed the westn u.s. is far from over. i'm joined by jeffrey mount from the california water policy, focusing on water solutions. jerey, welcome to the newshour. california has been enduring a devastating multi-year drought. many people will see the downpours over last several days and thinkurely that drought is over. is that the case? jeffrey: drought is in the eye

of the beholder. this is something important, kind of missed in the news. if you're in san francisco and you rely on your reservoirs for your water supply, the drought is over for you but if you rely on ground water in the central valley or anywhere in the state, it takes years to rebuild the losses we've had in ground water over the last three years, really over last 10 years. so no. if you're a fish, this is great but you're not going to rebound. it's going to take years of rain to actual recover from in last 10 years of dry conditions. >> does any of this, the relentless rains memphis that problem at all? jeffrey: let me be clear, we are pointed in the right direction. we just haven't arrived yet. it would take years, like we had in the late 1990's here in california. we had a spell of five consecutive wet years. that really helps a lot but one year doesn't get all the -- us

out of the drought complete'4". >> is this rain being stored in some way that can make a difference towards the future? >> absolutely. right now tough appreciate, for more than 1500 dams in california. our largest resident virginias are a long way from being -- reservoirs are a long way from being full. it's silver lining for the drought. because it's reducing flood scares downsteam. we're restoring water in our surface and restoring rim water, which is important. >> and another storm system is moving in. do you see this as a brim or is this the new normal for you? jeffrey: one of the issues about climate change, it's no longer an existential future threat in california. it's here. we're seeing dryer dry years and

welter wet years. you can't attribute what's happening right now to climate change but it is consistent with what we're seeing and that is these atmospheric rivers by juiced up by the warm air in the pacific. this is what the future probably looks like and, in fact, i would argue the future is here now. >> obviously we've seen the storms have an enormous impact on the ground. we see challenges still ahead with the drought. you live in california, right? what does all this mean for how you, people in your community live? jeffrey: first of all, as you know, we have the most variable climate in all of north america here in california when it comes to precipitation. people run around like it's some exotic event when it rainings. but it rains like this here about once every 10 years. what happens is we get very excited about it, reworry about

it and then forget about it by the summer. this year enough flood damage will have occurred that i'm hopeful we look at that issue instead of just the drought. you have to handle the wet years better as well as the dry years. to our quell credited as a state, we're working in that direction. >> are you seeing the right institutional and policies p into place to meet the wetter wet years and the dryer dry years? >> i'm at the institute of california. we make recommendations on policy. there's a lot we can do but we are pointed in the right direction on our policy changes. we still have a lot of warning ahead of us. >> jeffrey mount from california's water policy center. thank you for joining us. jeffrey: my pleasure. ♪

>> invanessa ruiz with newshour west. here are the latest headlights. treasure sector janet yellen warned congress that the debt limit will be reached next thursday. after that she said the treasury would take extraordinary measures to shift funds around and prevent a national default for a few months. the white house urged congress to quickly raise the limit. now set at $31 minute 4 trillion. >> there's been a bipartisan cooperation when it comes to little bitting the dealt ceiling and that's how it should be. it should not be a political football. this is not political gamesmanship and this should be done without condition. >> the new house republican heeledders have, they'll demand concessions for spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. on the war in ukraine, russia's

defense ministry issued a new claim that a small town in eastern ukraine has fallen after weeks of fearless fighting. the capture would mark moscow's biggest victory since last july. ukraine insisted the battle is not over. severalunch civilians were said to be trapped there. a top official in china is warning that rampant covid-19 infections may not sub side for two to three months and predicts it will spread from cities to the countryside, raising new fears. police in south korea are speaking -- seeking manslaughter against 23 officials following a deadly crowd surge last october. nearly 1 0 people died at a crush at a halloween party in

seoul. they expected more than 100,000 revelers but assigned fewer than 150 officers to the event. the man accused of assassinat ing notre dame japanese p.m. shinzo abe has been folly charged with murder. police say he acted because of abe's apparent ties to a controversial religious group, the unification church. today the chief secretary condemned the assassination. >> it's absolutely unforgivable to perform an act of such violence. >> the suspect was charged after a six month mental evaluation found him fit to stand proud. a brazilian committee advised prosecuting brazil's leader for any responsibility he had in the

riots. saying brazil's current president was not duly elected and word tonight that officials a at a virginia elementary school knew that a 6-year-old might have a gun before a teacher was shot and wounded last week. the superintendent in newport news says at least one administrator was nephewed and had the boy's backpack searched but did not find the handgun. the revelation came during an online meeting with parents last night. also, the trump organization was fined $1.6 million in tax fraud. the company was convicted of schemes to let tom executives avoid benefits on things like luxury cars, apartments and tuition fees. former president trump denied knowing anything about it and reef in texas this evening.

dallas zoo officials announce they found a missing clouded leopard following a day-long search for the animal. police say the fence round surrounding it enclosure was cut intentionally. the cat was later found not far from her enclosure. still to come, cancer deaths drop significantly but more frost at a time cansers spark concerns. also, brooks and capeheart weigh in and a smalltown owner getz her brief but spectacular take on helping people. announcer: this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> cans earn deaths in the united states have dropped 33% the past three decades, according to a new report from the american cancer society. among the reports, highlights,

cervical cancer rates dropped 61% for women in their early 20's in parts -- part thanks to the h.p.v. vaccine but advanced prostate cancer diagnosis have risen. for a closer look i'm joined by karen kdsen, c.e.o. of the american cancer society. karen, thank you so much for joining us. let's start with that good news. a 33% drop in cancer deaths since 1991. that translates to an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted? how'd we g.e. there? >> that's right. so 1991 was a high-watermark in this country when we peaked for our cancer depth rates in the u.s. so since that time the advancements in cancer research by the american cancer society, the government and other entities has born fruit in new strategies for cancer prevention

for early detection as well as new treatments and in some cases cure for the 200 diseases that we call cancer. >> so we have with better screening now, fewer smokers as well but i want to highlight that specific 65% drop in cervical cancer rates. that's for women in their early 20's. cancer kills some 4,000 women every year. how much of that decline do you attribute just to that vaccine? >> we see a specific rhythm because it's specific to that group of women, that precipitous decline in search cal cancer incidents so those women would be the first to have received vaccination against the human papilloma virus. so this is the first world results we have to show that it does reduce incidents of mortality from cervical cancer.

we believe this also pour tends that in outlying years we'll see that same decline for those vaccinated for over p. -- h. of h.p.v.-induced cancer, head and neck for both men and women. >> also, a 4.5% increase annully in advanced cancer prostate diagnosis. what should we understand about that? >> this is a call to arms for men and their clinical prov providers. prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed maly nancy of men considering for almost 1/3 of all new cancer incidentings an tis paid this year. unfortunately prostate cancer, although highly survive is detected early is clearly being detected too late.

we can see that with the shift of nigh notice -- diagnosis to men with more advanced disease. and it is therefore no surprise that pros at a time cancer is now perched as the second leading cause of cancer depths for men in this country, considering for 2 -- 34,000 anticipated deaths this year so we're anxious for these cancers to be caught earlier and for men and their health officials to be more aggressive in their screening. >> why the racial disparity and how do we close it? >> black men have a 70% increased risk of pros at a time cancer compared to white counterparts and a two to fourfold increased risk from depth to prostate cancer as

compared to any other group in the united states. screening rates amongst black men and white men are approximatelily identical so we can't ascribe this to differences in screening. in fact, screening is low unfortunately for all men across this country. that needs to change. so what's causing this disproportionate burden on black men? especially for black men it's an area where research needs to come into play but certainly access to quality cancer care and screening my also come into play and we also know that black men are vastly underrepresented in clinical trial for prostate cancer, which we know is the most advanced form of care. so the more levers we can pull the better but for men overall, we need to do better. >> when you take a big-picture look at this, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the united states behind heart

disease. two miion cases, 600,000 deaths expected this year alone. it's a miraclessed picture with the latest numbers but where are we in the fight against cancer? >> i would say we're in a period each of those00 diseases we call cancer tells a different story. there are areas like cervical cancer where these wins now inthursday -- infuse enthusiasm for additional prevention strategies and othereds like prostate with -- where we need to understand much more or early on set colon cancer, where we don't understand why it's on the rise. we have much more to learn and implement so that we can reverse these trends and end cancer as we know it for everyone. >> karen knudsen, c.e.o. of the american cancer society. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much for having

me. ♪ geoff: new york city mayor eric adams took office a year ago with the focus on driving down crime. his first year was marked by challenges, from the covid pandemic to a home zaleski crisis and an economic downturn. the mayor has just released a knew budget proposal as he shapes his second year in offers. mayor eric adams joins u now. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you very much. it's gooding with on with you. geoff: and i want to start with the request you issued today for new york state to help with the burden, the influ of migrants, asylum seekers who have found their way to your city. morehan00 arrived in one day last week. more than 36,000 since this past

spring. how has is this affected the city's social safety net and how do you aim to address it? >> it is a major impact, not only to our safety net but also our recovery coming after the pandemic and making sure? we could provide the basic services for everyday new yorkers. as you indicated, 36,000 peoe showed up on your door steps and we did what any new yorker would do. we provided for them not only housing, a place for them to sleep, food, health care, we educated a substantial number of children and also rialed the necessary mental health support that is needed but we need help and that is why we're calling on the national government to not put this burden or -- on our cities. el paso shouldn't be going through this, washington, houston, new york. none of our small or large cities should be experiencing this. geoff: new york city has always been a city of immigrants.

you have said you want new york to remain a sanctuary city. how that is that perspective changed if at all given the number of governors from red states and even colorado, a blue state, who have bugse immigrants to new york. you have said that has pushed the city to the breaking point. >> no, that's truly and prior to this current crisis, new york state was already receiving a large number of migrants and asylum seekers. this has always been the gateway for those who want to experience the american dream but that dream shouldn't turn into a nightmare when you're placed on bullings without necessary care, no covid testing, lack of proper food and just rest to take care of your basic human needs. that is not who w are as americans and i was extremely disappoied when the governor of colorado joined the red states and sent buss here to new york. we had a conversation with him and he has agreed to work with us and coordinate to make sure

that we add our voices to the national government solving this problem in a real way, a decompression strategy that the entire country could absorb this influx. geoff: let's shift our focus and talk about crime. you focused intenselyn public safety. last year new york saw a major tropical storm in homicides but burglaries rose over 20%. what are you going to do to tackle that? >> if you look back in february february, we were going at a 40% increase. we were moving in the wrong direction from 20 1 and we knew we had to turn it around and we did a series of things, including putting in place an anti-gun unit. beginning after our subway safety plan and then going after some of those drivers of crimes and we saw a different direction

in the last six months of the year. we saw crime start to tick down. we removed over 7,000 guns off our streets of a 27-year high this gun arrests. we went over ghost guns and substantial increase but we also looked at preventive measures because police can't do it alone so we put in place real initiatives to prevent people from going down the pathways of crime. we'll continue that. i cannot take my hat off niche for the commissioner seoul. she -- sewell. geoff: a few months ago you unveiled a plan to take cities off the streets and subways but putting police and hospital personnel to hospitalize mentally imto care for help this is -- themselves even when they

do not pose a threat to others. do you see this as a health issue or a police issue? there are advocates to -- who say the city needs to approach it from a health and housing standpoint, not a policing standpoint. >> we cannot be so id i seic that -- idealistic that we're not realistic. far too many people took that announcement we put in place as stating anyone with a mental health illness would be automatically compelledded to go to a mental health facility and that was just untrue. if you are an individual that you cannot take care of your basic needs and you are a danger to yourself, that is a humane obligation for us to take care of these individuals. i spent january and february visiting many people on the streets living in camps and encampments, living in their own

human waste. drug paragraph nehlia -- paraphernalia, how could i ignore that? this is not a police-led initiative. this is led by outreach workers and mental health professionals. people want to paint it as though we're telling police to do this and no, we're not. we are stating if we come together and combine our forces and give clarity on what our outreach workers can do, we could start savinghe lives of individuals. geoff: what do you do to those workers who say there aren't enough beds for some of these patients and the police officers arer not trained for this? >> i say they're right. my health professionals are right, there are not enough beds. we are looking into opening a

thousand more beds. that's why we're looking at the state. we need -- need you to assist it. that's why when i ran for office, i stated to we had to get the beds back online that we took offline after the covid pandemic and you're right, police officers, if we send you out there without the proper trainer, we're doing something unjust to you. that's not what we're doing. we're training our police officers exactly away -- what to look for and also officering telemedicine sin so that those health officials can give good information toake someone in for an oh, and this is the right thing to do. new yorkers know. that we can't continue to watch people all over our country, not only new york, live on streets when we know they can't make the

right medical decisions for themselves. geoff: mayor adams, thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> thank you, take care. ♪ amna: today at the white house president biden welcomed the prime minister of japan as he ended a tour of top industrial and military allies. japan is wary of a rising and muscular china. the two leaders pledged to work closely together on military matters, which includes the remaking of a fabled american military branch in the pacific. here's nick schiff rich. nick: in the air above japan this week, japanese paratroopers trained for an air brown assault. for years they've been called the self-defense forces but now they're jumping into a new future and with the u.s. transforming their military to

prepare long-te for war with china. japan promises to double defense spending by 202. and purchase and develop miiles that can strike deep into other countries. >> the stents of investment in the military instrument of power i think is historic. in the post war period, jam has never put this much resources all at once into building its military power. >> smella smith is a senior at the foreign relations. she has 70 years of history, since imperial japan surroundered is at a weather she would. >> what we've often seen in the past in japan, you have a certain amount of public hesitancy to engage in too much investment in military power. that has dissipated. the japanese have realized that they need to be ready in case theyave to fight. >> japan says north korea's

nuclear and missile program presents a more imminent threat than ever before. russia shakes the foundation of the international order and china poses the greatest strategic china. >> the posture of china has made many japanese feel they are behind the eight ball, so to speak. >> so japanese prime minister fume fume this week -- fumio kishida launched his tour. culminating in the white house today. president biden said the two countries have never been closer and praised japan's shift on defense. this new policy was set forth by japan and i will be beneficial for the deterrence and response capabilities of the alliance. >> and the u.s. is saturdaying

its commitments. the u.s. n promises any attack in space would trigger a mutual defense provision. the u.s. will increase training on japan's southwest islands, some of which are 1200 miles from tokyo but just 100 miles from taiwan's capital and the u.s. will repurpose their regiment. dined to -- designed to be more mobile, better equipped for reconnaissance and fight from outward islands. >> the few, the proud, the marines. >> the marines portray themselves as the best the best. capable of responding quickly anywhere on the planet. including for the last 20 years fighting land-based counterinsurgencies. to focus now on china and maritime campaigns is what a current expander -- commander calledded a revolution.

>> from vietnam to the global war on terrorism. with threats involving in the -- evolving in the spacek, it's time to adapt again. >> the first island chain susceptible to missiles. >> you're there side by side, shoulder to shoulder with the partners and allies the u.s. has. you're not leaving them, not going back to the rear. >> in week secretary of defense lloyd austin provided his most public support. >> these will bolster supports in the region and allow us to defend japan and itself people more effectively. >> a senior u.s. official told me the marines' move represents a significant posture change and

the results in a alliae. we've spoke on the a half doesen four and three-star generals like yourselves who have voiced concerns about the marines' plans. what are your worries about the vulnerability, the sustainability and the access for these marines being formed in the pacific? >> the marines have always been an offensive organization. the few times we've been on the definition it hasn't gone well. in the second world war, the marines had a defense battalion on wake island. they weren't able to resupply it or provide any support and, of course, the island fell with tremendous cardinals and prisoners. we're talking about putting marines on the first island

chain in the western pacific. there is no ability logistically an even the marine corps are admit this now, to support them. >> i spoke to theurrent marine commanders on okinawa and they acknowledged some of your concerns but pointed out that they'll be supported by if navy and the air force. will that be possible? >> no. there have been articles written where the actual numbers have been done and it's over 900 metric tons a day, even with the marines and the joint forces they can't keep them supplied. >> let's talk about the overall strategy when it comes to china and defense officials i speak to in the pacific say they support these changes because they need the marines and the army to operate within the first island chain and make chinese targeting much more complicated sings the chinese are trying to keep the navy and the air force out.

doesn't that make sense? >> no, the marine corps in their initial document said this would be a low observable unit. i've looked at all of the equipment. there's not one item of equipment that has any stealth or low observer capabilities. now the marine corps is saying we'll tell people where those units are as a deterrent to the chinese. which is it going to be? low observable? but none of the equipment in that unit has stealth-like capabilities. the chinese are going to target these right at the outset and take them out. >> marine leaders say they do acknowledge some of the concerns you're raising but that if the marines are going to play a major part in the pacing challenge, china will have to make bold changes and that they're working to solve some of their vulnerabilities. what's your response to that? >> the mistake is divesting

as you know, the marines have gotten rid of all their tanks in the process of getting rids of cannon artillery cutting squadrons. why would you cut these things before you have the capabilities they claim they'll have in the future? so we'll have a vulnerability gap of anywhere from eight to 10 years for an unprovable proven capability. >> a -- defense official told me that the emphasis items you're talking about that have been cut are more relevant to invading a.f.c. rather than taking on china, which the defense department identifies as the future threat. >> all i can say is look at ukraine. they're primed for artillery. they're looking for arm our, tanks. they want fixed-wing close-support aircraft. helicopters. those are the things the marine corps has cut or was well on the way to us canning. the marine corps in the western

pacific will be a missile force with no infanry maneuver units on the ground. what people any to have marine corps will not exist. they're rapidly cutting i so instead of being a force able to deploy worldwide for contingencies, it's going to be sittg in the islands for defense. it's an untested concept but we're making the structural cuts and culting the weapons before we have in capability that i don't think will even exist. >> was from aay for the marines to become for relevant to the fight in the pacific without losing that global response capacity the i? >> yes, what the marine corps has lulls done, it's been a global response force. it had amphibious ships, air alert forces. it was on scene. all of those capabilities are being cut for a promise in the future that those of us who already resisting this argument

against it don't ever think will come to fruition. >> colonel, thank you very much. >> appreciate it. ♪ >> questions swirl around president biden's handling of classified documents. house g.o.p. little provides cover for a disgraced new york congressman as his colleagues back home demand his resignation and the world reckons with an attempted coup in brazil. we turn to brooks and capeheart. nimes columnist david brooks and jonathan capeheart, associate editor for the "washington post." good to see you both. jonathan, democrats found themselves in a real tough spot in trying to handle the revelation that is president biden mishandled classified documents. the latest reporting is that there were roughly 20 documents found in his private home in

delaware and a private office here in washington. some marked top secret. he is now facing arguably the worst political crisis of his presidency. >> worst political crisis? can we just put this into? we're talking about this because of his predecessor, former president trump and his classified documents problem. hundreds of classified documents, at the highest classified marks and we're talking about 20 classified documents from when joe biden was vice president of the eyes. this is apples and basketballs. these two objects are spear cal in nature and that's all they have in common. and i think we need to -- i know politics doesn't do nuance and most people don't do nuance but we have to do nuance in this case. this happens more frequently than we realize or everyone want to appreciate. plenty of national security lawyers and experts have ge on

the record to say that this happens more often than not. the other thing, and the biggest difference here and why i downplay this notion that this is a big political crisis for the president and that is, the sitting president, his people found the documents, brought them -- alted the archives. the archives alerted the justice department. they then go and do another search and bring forth more documents. they have been corporating and transparent whereas when we talk about the former president. the reason why we even know that there were all those documents there was because he kept defying the national archives' questions to return the documents and the d.o.j., because war chives had been in touch with the archives, conducted a search. people call it a raid. i keep my feet on the ground,t was a search. but the f.b.i. just doesn't

search someone's home without cause. that is not what happened here. the former president stands accused of basically obstruction of justice, that is not what's happening here with president biden. geoff: david, understanding the key differences. the volume, and the very different possibles of both men. what do you see as the political fallout because this is a huge opening for house republicans who are feverish liquor focused on investigations right now? >> i guess i would say not as bad as trump is not the mal standard our sunday schoolteachers are dreaming for us. it's not as bad as trump. it's not in the same ballpark. apples and grapes or something, but it's bad. people who have had clearances say it's very clear, if you have classified documents,ou have them in a separate room, an entirely different computer system. they make it very clear of where

you can't take them, which is out. a lot of people get their careers ruined when they are sloppy with this stuff. what joe biden or somebody in his office did, we don't know, what you say -- was sloppy and pretty irresponsible. we know some of the documents had to have been removed least twice because the office in d.c. was not open when he left the vice presidency. should we prosecute him? i don't know but i can't imagine the standard for hillary clinton -- unless you behave in away that is unpatriotic and ma lyrics, we're not going to prosecute but should bother us that we now this have three top officials, clinton, trump, and biden, who seem to have done this and that's not how government is spoused to work. >> the secretary said that when president biden's lawyers realized that the documents were

there, they turned them over toot car -- archives. apparently the documents were made before the midterm elections. should this has been -- have been made publicly aware of this? >> by whom? >> by the who us? >> i don't know, as a journalist would i want the white house to release the information? absolutely. they should have. did that -- they? no. did the justice department? no, but does the justice department tell us everything that they're doing in realtime? no, they do not. we can quibble overhe timeline and wag our fingers at the white house for not being forthcoming in terms of when they told the justice department about the documents or wag our fingers at them for not telling the american people sooner but we're talking about it now because they're being transparent and forthright -- well, cbs broke the story but they've been

forthcoming ever since then and i think we should hold them accountable -- keep telling us what you know. politically it might not be wise for them to tell us everything they know in realtime because facts change and we should keep that in mind. geoff: david, has the way the white house handled this undercut presint biden's public commitment to transparency? >> yeah, it's fishy. they told the national archives on november 2 so they told other people when they got the documents back and the election was a few days later. that sounds fishy to me. we'll find out when they do an investigation. as for whether it will have some broad affect on biden's reputation, on his administration, i tend to think not. to me, as presidential scandals go, it's pretty small beer but

it does make it a lot harder to prosecute donald trump. geoff: you two were sitting here with amna talking about the second-year anniversary of january 6 and then two days later we saw an attempted coup in brazil. what does all of that stay, suggest, about the future of democracy around the globe? >> it says that democracy is under assault. this gets back to what president biden had been saying during the capable but also in america's support for ukraine, that this is a bat between democracy and awe stockcy and democracy has to win but it's not just under attack in ukraine. and the fact that followers of bolisonaro, a former follower of donald trump and the big lie and the fact they acted out on their own version of the buying lie should be troubling and

something that worryings us because of what it means for democracy b also it should remind americans about the power of the president of the united states to impact not just people around the world but leaders around the world. i wonder if followers of bolisonaro would have done what they did if he did not have an ally in donald trump who attacked the press, coddled dictators rather tn other democracies around the world. talking down to people in his own country, a rhetoric of hatred and in some cases violence when that is coming from the oval office of the white house. that sends a message, not just to the amecan people but to people around the world and other leaders who will see, oh, if the united states is going to move away from small deed diagrammatic ideas, why

shouldn't? i >> several years ago i had a meeting with steve bannen in his capitol hill lair, wherever it is. it was lik meeting with trots can i in 1905. he was going around the world finding trump-like figures and he was speaking altheir rallies, they were trading information and he saw this as a global movement as cad -- radical or popular how authoritarianism. he wouldn't have put it that way but it is. the method it has chosen as a global movement is authoritarian and a large majority of the people in brazil would sport a cuchara right now. on january 6, our law enforcement people behaved bravely and confidently against the outrage.

that did not happen in brazil. that shows a weakness in their law enforcement system. geoff: the other story dominating the headlines this past week was that of george santos who faced scrutiny after admitting he fabricated parts of his background and resume. republican leaders have called for him to step down. house leaders in washington have not. what does that say about the future of the republican party >> the republican party is broken. i'm old eugh to recognize when the republican participant reprotected the life of david brooks. people who had values they stuck by, lived by and led by. in the old days, george santos would have been driven away from his seat, out of the party because those leaders would have said you do not represent our party, our caucus, you are an affront to your constituent --

constituents and you should resign and that person who have the moral fortitude and courage to go out there and say i resign but because of the slim majority that kevin mccarthy has, there's no way he's going to come close to saying what i just said. >> also shows the political shame zaleski these days. >> shame zaleski is contagious and donald trump was -- shamelessness was contagious and donald trump was shameless and it will rot out your party from the inside in a way that will be not beneficial so i think it's in their favor to expel the guy. >> thank you and have a great weekend. >> tnk you, you too. amna: rose rustan has been the manager at arrow hardware and

paint in st. peter, minnesota, for 30 years. she's become a community observer and leader in this town of 11,000. tonight she shares her brief but spectacular take on life as a hardware store clerk. >> we had a little old man once come to the counter and his faucet was dripping. i said all you need is this little 39-cent washer. no, i don't. i go, yeah, that's really all you need. it's 39 cents. no way, so i took a penny out of my pocket, slapped it on the counter and said belt you a penny that i'm right and he goes oh, big bettor. took another penny out, slammed it double or nothing. next day came in and slapped four pennies on the counter and, i'll never argue with you again. ♪ im the store management of arrow hardware and paint in st. per, minnesota. my mother was in retail and my

dad was an auto mechanic so i didn't go too day care. i either went to the all the repair garage or lewis east gate, my mom's place of work. i was taught if you're smart enough to take it apart, you better darn well be smart enough to put it back together. every day is different but every day is the same. you come to work, you see people come and go. you help people fix things, you hear about their problems. it's more than just selling products. it's being a good person, listening to people. our customers become their friends. we've seen people with their first pets, their first children and they all come to the counter and they share their stories with us. when i was hired there were about 15 employees and two females. i was in charge of clothing, gifts and housewares and then over time, i like to learn so i

started learning more about the guys' departments. i never felt they had to prove mist pianos -- myself to my coworkers. it was never a competition. we were always a great team working together, learning off each other. so in 1998, the store manager left and then my coworkers wrote the owner a letter, that do not overlook rose just because she's female. you should give her a shot. and 30 years later, here i am. it's empowering to be able to help other people with things that they're unsure of. i have no plans on retiring as long as i like what i do. i love customers. it's home, actually. my name is rose rustman and this is my brief but spectacul take on life as a hardware store clerk. geoff: ms. rustman has some words to live by. if you're smart enough to take it apart, you better be smart enough to put it back together.

amna: i love that. everyone has a story to tell. we thank you, rose, for sure -- sharing yours with us. you can watch more videos narrator: at pbs/newshour/brief. geoff: join our colleague laura barone lopez later on tonight. amna: and tomorrow, a look at the health and financial costs of looming price hikes of covid vaccine. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. have a great weekend. announcer: major funding for the pbs newshour has been priseressed by -- ♪

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