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with information on the shooters. geoff: in dadeville, alabama, a gunman killed four people at a birthday party. in louisville, kentucky, two people died when someone fired into a crowd at a public park. we start tonight in alabama, where authorities have yet to release many details or name a suspect. >> to my young people out there, i want you to know you are not going through this by yourself. geoff: another community in mourning after four people were killed and at least 15 teenagers were shot when gunfire broke out saturday night during a sweet 16 birthday party in the small town of dadeville. bre hutchinson is one of the many victims, now recovering. >> i grabbed on to somebody. i don't know who and i was yelling for help and nobody would help me, so i had to like, gain my strength, and like walk outside after being shot. geoff: a gofundme account has been set up to assist help victims cover their medical expenses, and for the families who now have to make funeral arrangements. dadeville police have refused to provide many details about the case, but authorities are asking members of the community for help.

>> if you are at home right now or you know somebody that has any information about what occurred last night, i cannot stress this enough. ever how minor you think it is, we absolutely need you to share it. geoff: a county coroner today identified the four people who died in saturday's shooting as: 23-year-old corbin dahmontrey holston, 19-year-old marsiah emmanuel collins, 17-year-old shaunkivia nicole smith, and 18-year-old philstavious dowdell. dowdell was at the party celebrating his sister's 16th birthday, and committed to play football at jacksonville state university this fall. dadeville high school football coach, roger mcdonald. >> we went undefeated regular season and made it to the playoffs three years in a row and he was a big part of that. he was just a leader and as far as his ability, just an electrifying player, but just a special kid, always smiling, you know. yes sir, no sir, thank you.

well respected and just everything you want out of a teammate or a player. geoff: according to the gun violence archive, dadeville marks the country's 15th shooting this year where four or more people have died. today a bipartisan group of 162 u.s. mayors sent a letter to congress demanding gun safety legislation, asking the question, how many children must die, how many adults must die before our nation takes action to reduce gun violence? amna: anger also grew this weekend over a recent shooting in kansas city, missouri where a black teen was shot after showing up at the wrong house. residents are calling on police to charge the shooter. geoff: our communities correspondent in missouri, gabrielle hayes, has the story. >> justice for ralph. reporter: outrage fills the streets as america learned the name of yet another black teenager on a running list of those who have been shot. ralph yarl.

the 16-year-old high school junior hospitalized per se night after be shot in the head while trying to pick up his younger siblings. police say yarl mistakenly knocked on the wrong door and was shot there twice in the head and arm. yarl in stable condition, but a life-threatening injury. he is released from the hospital and recovering at home, his father told a local paper. his aunt joined protesters yesterday. >> my nephew is alive and healing. the individual -- that is not the story that individual intended us to tell. reporter: police have not identified who shot yarl, but the homeowner is placed on a 24 hour hold and then was released with no charges yet, pending further investigation. they are looking into whether the shooter was protected by missouri's stand your ground laws which allow the deadly use of force in self-defense. >> we recognize the frustration

this can cause. the women and men of the kansas city police department are working as expeditiously and thoroughly as we can. reporter: police have not yet shared the shooter's race. ben crump representing the yarl family, says he is white. crump questioned the police decision to release the suspect, calling him armed and dangerous. the shooting has deepened already existing wounds in kansas city, which organizers say has a long history of police distrust. >> we are not getting feedback, especially on a person of color, that is a issue with the police department and people of color in this community, north town, midtown, all of kansas city. it is a slap in the face, disrespectful. it literally shows us what you think of our lives. reporter: mayor quinton lucas

says he is in contact with the family. >> we are working hard to uphold justice and make sure police follow the law. reporter: a gofundme from his aunt described ralph as a leader in his marching band with aspirations to attend texas a&m and major in chemical engineering. for the pbs newshour i am gabrielle hayes. ♪ amna: in other headlines, a grand jury in ohio opted not to indict eight akron police officers in the kitty -- in the killing of jayland walker, shot at least 40 times last june after a traffic stop and chase. police say walker fired first and police opened fire when he

appeared to open fire again. house speaker kevin mccarthy pledged today house republicans will soon pass a bill raising the federal debt ceiling for one year, but in a new york speech he said they will also mandate a 1% cap on future spending increases that drew pushback from top democrats as each side accused the other of risking fiscal disaster. >> without exaggeration, american debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious, responsible action. yet how has president biden reacted to this issue? he has done nothing. >> he went all the way to wall street, and gave us no more details, no more facts, no new information at all. i'll be blunt -- if speaker mccarthy continues in this direction, we are headed to default. amna: the current debt limit stands at $31 trillion.

the u.s. treasury warns the government will hit that limit his summer -- and be uno pay its bills. also today, two senators returned to work -- one a veteran, one a freshman. republican minority leader mitch mcconnell was back on the senate floor after recovering from a head injury. and newly elected democrat john fetterman returned to the capitol following treatment for clinical depression. the judge overseeing the dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox news delayed the start of the trial in delaware today. he gave no explanation, but it was widely reported that settlement talks were under way. dominion accuses fox news of falsely claiming it rigged the 2020 election against then-president trump. the suit seeks damages of $1.6 billion. federal prosecutors have charged two men with setting up a chinese secret police outpost in new york city's chinatown. today's announcement was the latest in a series of such cases. they accuse the beijing

government -- officially, the people's republic of china -- of persecuting dissidents abroad. >> today's charges send a crystal clear response to the prc that we are onto you, we know what you're doing, and we will stop it from happening in the united states of america. amna: the justice department charged more than three dozen chinese national police officers with using social media to harass dissidents in the u.s. elon musk's space x called off the launch of its starship vehicle and super heavy rocket today. engineers at the south texas launch site found a stuck valve in the first stage booster, minutes before the scheduled blast-off. they could try again on wednesday. ultimately, the nearly 400-foot rocket and spaceship are meant to carry humans to the moon and mars. the 127th boston marathon is in

the books with runners from , kenya scoring a sweep. the race marked ten years since bombs exploded at the finish line, killing three people and wounding hundreds more. evans chebet won the men's race for the second year in a row. hellen obiri took the women's title -- in just her second marathon ever. on wall street -- stocks managed modest gains as quarterly earnings reports began arriving. the dow jones industrial average added 100 points to close at 33,987. the nasdaq rose 34 points. the s&p 500 was up 13. and a passing of note -- acclaimed jazz pianist ahmad jamal died of prostate cancer on sunday at his home in massachusetts. starting in the 1940's, he came to be known for a stately style in contrast with the popular bee-bop form of his youth. along the way, he inspired the likes of miles davis and herbie hancock and earned a long list of awards. ahmad jamal was 92 years old.

still to come on the newshour, house republicans target the manhattan district attorney bringing criminal charges against former president trump. a russian opposition leader is sentenced to prison for denouncing the war in ukraine. a new book gives a fresh perspective on the meaning of time. plus much more. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and from the west, the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: more than 180 people have died in the brutal battle for control of sudan. another 1800 have been wounded since fighting between rival military factions first broke out early saturday. the two sides are now digging in, shattering hopes that sudan could achieve a peaceful transition to democracy. plumes of smoke billowed above the khartoum skyline as shelling and gunfire pounded the capital

for a third straight day. the deadly struggle for power between rival military factions rages on. the sudanese army is battling a paramilitary group known as the rapid support forces for control of the country. rsf forces released a video today purportedly showing them in control of the sudanese military's headquarters in khartoum and an airport in merowe. the two generals were once allies who teamed up to oust long-time dictator and indicted war criminal omar hassan al-bashir back in 2019. the clashes, which erupted saturday, stem from a disagreement over how to integrate the rsf forces into the military. they now threaten to derail efforts to restore civilian-led government after decades of military rule. >> we have nothing to do with this. geoff: local residents like tagreed abdin are stuck in the crossfire. >> we're just caught in the middle and i don't have a

preference, i don't, you know, just this is our new normal now. geoff: millions of civilians are holed up in their homes across khartoum as gun battles rage in the densely-populated urban area. thousands of troops are positioned in nearly every neighborhood. the humanitarian situation in sudan was already precarious. but now it's even more so. those who are able to locate one of the few open markets find bare shelves. >> all the water, all milk, everything is empty here on the refrigerator. >> people right now want food, medicine, shelter, electricity. but above all, they want peace and security. geoff: special correspondent naba mohie is in khartoum. reporter: there is an electricity blackout. it's affecting everyone. patients cannot go to hospitals. the hospitals are not operating very well. and also ambulances cannot go everywhere because of the violence in the streets.

so it's a catastrophic situation for everyone, for children, for women, for elderly people at -- elderly people. geoff: at least six hospitals in khartoum were also forced to shut down after either being damaged or threatened by the violence. the u.n. secretary-general antonio guterres urgently appealed for calm as the u.n. security council met in new york united nations -- in new york. >> the situation has already led to horrendous loss of life, including many civilians. any further escalation could be devastating for the country and the region. geoff: the african union and arab league also held emergency meetings over the weekend. but so far, their efforts to end the bloodshed have not been successful. for more on what has caused this upheaval, and the prospects for ending the violence we turn to kholood khair. she's a sudanese policy and political analyst and is the founding director of confluence advisory, a sudan-based policy think tank.

you are in the capital city, what is it like? kholood: there is a constant soundtrack of different types of firepower and gunfire. we are hearing from small arms, small bullets, heavy artillery. even bombs dropped from planes. this is the third day running. it is getting pretty desperate. we are hearing a lot from people who feel stranded. they have not had electricity for more than 36 hours, unable to access medicine or hospital care. we have heard of a large number of fatalities and casualties as well. geoff: help us understand how we got to this point, mounting tensions between sudan's most powerful generals, backed by a formidable force, boiling over into an open conflict. . kholood: it is a contest for

power. both generals were friendly until recently. in fact, they staged a coup together in 2021. but their differences superseded having to reform forces. that happened around a framework agreement december of last year. the past four months we have seen ratcheting up of tensions that brought in troops from all over the country into khartoum. lots of bellicose language from each. one had to commit to an agreement they did not want and that precipitated an exchange of firepower. geoff: return to civilian rule was supposed to mark a new era in sudan. how does this deadly violence affects that goal? kholood: ironically, the very thing generals wanted to avoid, reform of the ways in which they run their troops and

institutions, as well as accountability for crimes, particularly those committed on civilians, those are the very things that will be front and center after this confrontation because people are shocked and dismayed at how this political contest, which has been fought in other parts of the country, is now fought in the middle of the capital. geoff: tony blinken is calling for an immediate end to hostilities in sudan. he spoke to top diplomats from saudi arabia and uae, two countries with significant interest in sudan. what more can the international community do? kholood: it is imperative countries do not just use influence on the generals, but leverage. countries in the region around sudan, egypt and the uae, have considerable leverage they should deploy to at least commit

to a cease-fire immediate term. we have to question to what extent of the international community, which has for a few months backed this unpopular deal. it allowed the generals to feel they could have this war. they have to question the way they engage with these generals who they reframed as reformers. anyone will tell you they are not reformers, very self-interested parties who want absolute power and should be treated as such in any future mediation. geoff: is there any resolution in sight? kholood: judging by the language of these generals, and remember this is only day three of the conflict, the language does not suggest either will give in voluntarily or cease -- or seek

a cease-fire. it seems an existential conflict they want to see through to the end. there is an uptick in activity from the sedan armed forces who have the advantage of an air force, i am not sure if you can hear, but there are sounds of bombardments we have been hearing the past 48 hours. i do not think we are seeing even the zenith of this conflict, let alone the resolution. geoff: thank you for being with us. ♪ amna: the republican-led house judiciary committee headed to new york city today for a hearing honing in on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. he's the prosecutor who brought criminal charges against former president donald trump earlier this month. the hearing was billed as a look at bragg's record on prosecuting

crime in the city. but it quickly turned into a fiery political back and forth between protesters, witnesses and members of congress. lisa desjardins has more. lisa: in the big apple today, drama cutting to the heart. >> do you feel safe in your city right now? >> the common denominator in most homicides across the country is a gun. lisa: the house judiciary committee holding a field hearing on crime in new york city. testimony was gripping and heartfelt. >> i am not working because i'm terrified for my life that someone in the gang will come after me for revenge. >> we care about letting our child go out to the park and play without getting shot in the stroller. lisa: but democrats immediately called out the event as a deceptive stunt aimed to undermine the prosecution of donald trump, also in new york -- donald trump by new york city. >> this hearing was called for a purpose -- to intimidate a district attorney for doing his job and upholding rule of law.

>> it is the gop leadership in congress doing what it has done best for the last six years, and that is to act as criminal defense counsel for donald j trump. lisa: quickly, the event about a deep divide, became a showcase of it. with protesters outside the room furious with republicans and trump. and the audience inside, many personally hurt by crime, railed at democrats as not respecting them. >> a bunch of lying phonies, every one of you. lisa: it was an impassioned and sometimes feverish collision over what and who is the problem. republicans say crime. >> we have to address the fact there are people who are willing to kill, to stab other people. lisa: major crime in new york city is higher than two years ago, but has gone down in the past year. democrats say all of this is about a different threat to the law, that jordan is using the power of congress to try to

attack the local prosecutor, district attorney alvin bragg whose office is around the , corner. >> everyone stands equal before the law. lisa: bragg is the one prosecuting former president trump on 34 counts of accounting fraud. trump has furiously counterattacked - charging that bragg is corrupt and the case political. jordan is a trump ally - and his moves here raise both the seriousness and the stakes for all branches of government. how unusual is this? rapallo: it's extremely unusual. it's unprecedented, i would say. david rapallo worked as chief investigative counsel for the house oversight committee under democratic chairman henry waxman. he says jordan, like all chairs, faces one key limit. >> under current law, a committee investigation has to serve a valid legislative interest. lisa: jim jordan in his subpoena of a former manhattan prosecutor, addressed that, writing that his committee could consider legislation to insulate presidents from political prosecution. prosecutor bragg had a fast response -- he sued. last week he asked courts to block jordan's subpoena, calling

it a brazen, unconstitutional move to intimidate investigators. at stake, not only the future for former president trump, but also of the legal system and congress' power long-term. >> i think the stakes are high, and i personally am a little concerned not just that the committee might lose the case, but it might result in a judicial opinion that is a terrible precedent for congress when it may want to conduct legitimate investigations in the future. lisa: the situation is a political volcano, and explosive, as it was in the hearing. >> we all know why you're here, so don't play the political games. you want to have a meaningful conversation. let's talk. lisa: this is just one of many investigations and throbbing tension points that congress brings back as it returns to washington this week. republicans are pledging to hold more hearings on crime in more cities. democrats say they are ready to respond, including with information about crime in

republican-led areas. amna: fascinating report. you are meant -- you mentioned the republican investigation into alvin bragg and the standoff that ensued. where does this leave that probe? lisa: there will be action this week. wednesday a judge in new york will hold the first hearing to determine whether or not chairman dorman can go ahead with his subpoena of former prosecutors. again, something unprecedented. these cases traditionally have taken months if not years in the federal court system. meanwhile the case against former president trump is expected to move to trial next spring. jim jordan may not get his subpoenas granted in time for that trial, the thing he is investigated. amna: you also mentioned limitations to what congress can do in these circumstances. help us understand what you meant by that. lisa: this is a fascinating area

of law that goes back to the constitution and 10th amendment which grants states all of the powers not specifically enumerated to the federal government. for years interpreted to mean states have oversight of district attorney's, states and local governments. going back to 1880, near the time of chester arthur, the supreme court made it clear, if congress investigate something it has power, but has to have a legislative or congressional purpose. some type of law it could come up with bearing on this. there are questions whether or not there is a role for congress in this area. amna: bring us back to the hearing room today. we did expect strong disagreement, but that descended into heated moments. you were in the room, tell us what you took away. lisa: we have seen a lot over the past few years and this is new york. new yorkers are not shy about their opinions.

i expected that today. what i did not expect is that sense of larger than politics cultural disappointment and dissidents -- dissidence. from all sides, years of disagreement and divide over issues you heard about, guns, crime, former president trump, what he represents, that the lack of resolution on those issues itself is pushing forth an even greater feeling of discontent. in that room that bubbled up past discontent and i almost saw a fistfight in that room. politics is feeding into this, but there is something more at play, the tempest in our country that seems to be going strong. amna: lisa desjardins reporting for us from new york, thank you. lisa: you are welcome. ♪

geoff: russia took another step in its crackdown against dissent today. in a moscow courtroom, the noted opposition figure vladimir kara-murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for denouncing vladimir putin's war in ukraine. as stephanie sy tells us, kara-murza joins hundreds of other russian opposition leaders and activists behind bars. stephanie: vladimir kara-murza was convicted of treason, received one of the harshest sentences for a political dissident since president putin came to power. he was arrested in moscow last april after delivering a speech to the arizona house of representatives, where he called the putin regime's actions in ukraine war crimes. as one of putin's fiercest domestic critics he was a key figure in the adoption by the u.s. congress of the global magnitsky act, which targets

human rights abusers in russia and around the world. before his arrest he survived two assassination attempts. for more in his sentence and the price of speaking up in russia today, we turn to the president and ceo at the center for european policy analysis. thank you for joining the newshour. the judge himself was under magnitsky sanctions for human rights violations. it was a closed-door trial. put this sentence into context for us. >> of course vladimir, who i have known many years, is a courageous person. he went back to russia, he is a british citizen and legal u.s. resident. his family is here in the u.s. he went back to russia to fight for a russia that could be free. this sentence passed down by a sham court was not a trial. this was a sentencing event.

he was charged with high treason for what? for calling what the putin government is doing, a brutal war in ukraine. it is likely after the sentence he will be transferred to a harsh penal colony. this is the highest so-called crime the russian government could charge him with. the judge being sanctioned himself for human rights violations under the magnitsky act, cannot be called impartial in this case. stephanie: his wife reacted at an event hosted by the washington post today. she said this sentence is the high recognition of the effectiveness of vladimir's work. this sentence shows they are so afraid of him. does kara-murza's conviction neutralize the opposition to putin? or did he have enough impact on fellow russians?

was he effective, that the fight for human rights and democracy can continue without him? >> vladimir himself has said he feels his only failure, and i am paraphrasing, has been the convince enough of his russian citizen colleagues, friends, people of russia, that the regime they are living under is one that cannot be sustained, it is repressive. of course it is difficult to see a positive path forward. there are political prisoners in russia. vladimir kara-murza faces a bleak reality. 25 years is a life sentence for him. he remains courageous in the face of what many would be beaten and defeated by. his wife has been crusading on

his behalf and advocating both the british government -- he is a british citizen, and the u.s., where he has been residing with his family, to raise greater condemnation to push back on the russian government's sentencing to do whatever we can to elevate his case to a global stage. stephanie: tell us what you know about his health. he had been previously diagnosed with something called polyneuropathy which i understands affects the nerves, linked to previous poisoning attempts. what is his current condition and is he getting medical care? alina: visits by his legal counsel as well as by independent medical professionals has not been happening, to say the least. what is clear is vladimir is very ill. he does have a serious neurological condition that has been the result of a previous

poisoning by the russian government, 2017. that requires a lot of medical care, physical therapy. after that poisoning he walked with a cane for a very long time. it is our understanding based on the information we got, that condition has worsened rapidly and significantly. he has trouble walking, is having trouble using one of his arms. even this sham trial had to be postponed from march because he was not able to go into the courtroom. we need him to at least be able to see an independent doctor who might help him receive access to medical care. this condition, and of the conditions he is living in, will likely be fatal. this truly is a life sentence for him that he is unlikely to survive if this continues. amna: we just reported a few

days ago another popular opposition leader, alexei navalny, serving an 11 year sentence in a penal colony, is suspected of having been poisoned again. what does it tell you about putin's state of mind and political calculus now that two of russia's most powerful opposition leaders are in prison? alina: very similar to alexei navalny, the sentencing of vladimir kara-murza. there is no execution date, but this is a slow death they are both sentenced to. what that tells us about the state of russian society is, people are gripped by a deep fear. both individuals have name recognition in russia. they are known people. maybe not to all russians because information is so controlled by the government, but they are prominent activists, journalists in their own right.

the kremlin is trying to make an example of them. the russian government has done this to average russian citizens who dared speak out against the kremlin's lies about what is happening in ukraine. it is concerning, but what i think we are seeing in russia is the emergence of a north korea-like government. stephanie: alina polyakova with the center of european policy analysis, thank you for these insights about your friend. alina: thank you. ♪ amna: after more than three decades behind bars, for a murder he says he did not commit, i'm man released on house arrest during the pandemic is now going back to prison. as william brangham reports, many questions remain about whether florida is locking up an

innocent man for the rest of his life. part of our ongoing series, searching for justice. reporter: today was supposed to be a day of celebration for the 65-year-old crossley green. a chance for this grandfather to be with his family and celebrate his continued freedom. after 32 years behind bars, green was freed in 2021, awaiting repeal of a murder conviction he says he is not guilty of. for two years he has been living in titusville, florida under house arrest. crosley: this is my first day out like this in the afternoon away from home, out to a park or anywhere. william: did you have to get permission to do this? crosley: yes. it means a lot to be away from the house and just enjoy myself.

watch this. william: on his way here he got terrible news. he is being sent back to prison to serve the rest of his life sentence. so green put on a brave face, but decided to wait to tell his family. crosley: i want to enjoy my day with my kids. i want them to enjoy their day. >> the crosley green case in my believe is a racial hoax, just pure injustice. reporter john torres of florida today has covered the case since 2009 and hosts a podcast about it. >> somebody was killed and a black man was blamed. william: in 1989 a man named chip flynn was shot in an orange grove in florida. the woman flynn was with, his

ex-girlfriend kim halleck, told police an unknown black man shot him. >> he had been shot, asked who he was, who did this. all he would say was, i am hurt, take me home. william: diane clark was a patrol sergeant with the brevard county sheriffs office. she was first on the scene and spoke wth chip flynn before he died. he never said a black man shot me or a stranger shot me? >> no. he never said who shot him. that is what we were trying to get out of him, so we would have something to go on. all he would say was, i am hurt, take me home. william: acting on a tip, police arrested crosley green. police knew the 31-year-old because he was a small time drug dealer. >> this is where kim halleck and chip flynn were parked in a lovers lane area. william: at trial john torres

says three witnesses testified they heard green confessed to the killing, only to recant it, alleging he had been coerced. despite being no physical evidence tying green to the crime, he was convicted of kidnapping, robbery and murder. >> he was picked up, and all white jury sent him to florida's death row. there is no physical evidence. every witness has recanted. there is nothing that ties crosley green to this case at all. the one witness who survived the attack, she told police several accounts of what happened that night. responding officers who showed up to the scene of the crime all believed it was her. >> there is no way he shot him, he did not do it. i will say that to my last breath.

it will probably haunt me until the day i die. william: clark and her fellow officers told prosecutor chris white halleck was the likelier suspect. while newshour's attempts to reach her were unsuccessful, she told the washington post, i testified to the truth. green needs to go back to where he belongs. you have all these reservations about the story this woman, halleck is saying about an unknown black assailants. did you share those with the prosecutor? >> yes. i personally do not believe this is any black man. you need to look at kim hallock. i feel she is involved in this. it is in the notes, but did not matter, i guess. william: green's lawyers said he was initially given a plea deal, admit your guilt, and be given a lesser sentence. crosley: i would never take a plea deal for something i did not do.

i don't care if they offered me three years, i would not have touched that plea, because i did not do that crime. william: for nearly 20 years crosley green was on death row in florida. but in 2009 lawyers got his sentence change to life in prison. lawyers say they made a key discovery. thomas says prosecutor chris white never shared with green's defense team the notes he took about his meeting with diane clark and the other officer. >> he writes in his notes, diane and mark think the girl did it. william: that's a singly? >> -- that succinctly. if we put those two white responding officers on the stand at his trial and used the information developed from these notes in this trial, before an all-white jury, we believe it

would have changed the outcome of the trial. william: in 2018 a federal court agreed, ruling that omission is known as a brady violation, withholding material that could have helped green's case. it ordered he be released or retried. the state of florida appealed. prosecutor chris white, now retired, told the newshour he has no doubt crosley green is guilty and that a judge and jury agreed. about the written notes he did not turn over he wrote, officers opinions as to guilt are inadmissible in evidence. it never crossed my mind i had to disclose theirs. three years later during the pandemic and still waiting on the state's appeal, green was released on home arrest into the welcoming arms of his family. over the last two years he started life again. he got a full-time job, devoted

himself even more to his faith, found a loving partner and got engaged. he says he still believes in america's justice system. crosley: i have thought a lot of times that god did this for a reason. god spared my life, i am still here. he got some plan for me, because i am not sad, not angry, and don't hate anyone. that is all in the past with me. i am just looking forward. william: the 11th circuit court reinstated crosley green's life sentence. when the supreme court refused to hear his appeal, his legal options ran out. crosley: my lawyer called me when i got off work. william: now he has to tell his family he has been ordered back to prison. crosley: the judge made a decision that i surrender

myself. i'm ok. but i need you to hold me up. keep standing up. keep holding me up. william: his family says they are still struggling to understand how this is happening. >> there is no evidence, yet you are sending him back to prison again. tearing our hearts open all over again. >> i don't understand the system, i really don't. they have failed us so many times. what is next? william: green's lawyers say his only chance is parole or a grant of clemency from governor ron desantis. crosley: i am taking every moment i can take to feel love and do the things i want to do.

i hope the good lord would bless me again, give me my freedom again, which i think i am truly going to get. william: you do? crosley: i can't say when, but i'm going to get it. william: this afternoon crosley green surrendered himself to police in florida and will soon be released to prison. for the pbs newshour, i am william brangham. ♪ geoff: we are all used to being on the clock and often ruled by it. a new book by jenny odell takes on the very notion of time, and points to a life beyond the clock. it's a follow up to her best selling title: "how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy." jeffrey brown has the story from san francisco, for our arts and culture series, canvas.

jenny: i feel this is a therapeutic contrast to the more deadening sense of clock time where all time feels the same time, time is just kind of stuff. jeffrey i mean, part of it is : just getting away from the clock. jenny yeah, like literally get : away. right, right, right. jeffrey: it is easy to get a sense of timelessness on a walk at the golden gate national recreation area at fort mason, overlooking the spectacular san francisco bay. but jenny odell actually wants us to focus on time, just in a new way. she met us recently at the long now foundation, a non-profit aimed at fostering longer-term thinking to talk about her new book, "saving time: discovering a life beyond the clock." jenny: there is a sense of not having enough time, rushing against the clock. and being worried about the climate, a sense of impending doom. this longer historical timeliness. and then for any human being, there's also the

sense of mortality and being worried about that kind of sense of time. and all of those felt really painful to me. jeffrey: and during the pandemic the period when she was writing, when time and place took on a new strangeness. odell, 36, is an oakland-based artist and writer who's taken her work into some unusual places including a bay area dump where she examined and displayed the history, the past life of a given piece of trash, from how and when it was made to now. jenny: i'm really obsessed with seeing something new that was right in front of you the whole time. that's kind of like my favorite thing. and so sort of an odd angle on the familiar or everyday. jeffrey: that's kind of what you're telling us we should do? jenny: yeah, with time, exactly. it's like, what could be more commonplace than time? jeffrey: her first book, "how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy," challenged a social media obsessed culture to refocus and pay attention to life around us, including the natural world.

it struck a chord and became a surprise bestseller during the pandemic, when activities like gardening and birdwatching took on new popularity, but she says there was a problem. jenny: a lot of people who read that or heard me talk about it agreed with the concepts, but had a kind of objection about time, which was they couldn't imagine having the time to do the things that i was talking about. jeffrey: that is the issue, right? jenny: that is the issue. jeffrey: odell knows many people do not have the privilege of controlling their own time. but she does believe that understanding the relatively recent history of, say, time is money -- think of the shelves of productivity guides, can help individuals and society. her book takes the reader to the oakland port, to examine the industrial model of time. and into the woods to consider nature's time, as on her own

walks on local trails. jenny: there is a type of flower that grows sphere called the douglas iris that comes up, it's one of the earlier flowers. and one year i saw it a little bit, what i thought was early and then i just, i had this moment of realizing that the douglas iris does not know what february is. jeffrey: a more prosaic example of individuals making more of their own time. jenny: i interviewed someone who was an admin for a working moms facebook group, and she had the insight that it would probably make a lot of sense for her to get six other moms together and each one of them would make dinner for the other people in the group one night a week. if they do these things together, everyone would have more time. jeffrey: though we all like to save time, odell is focused more on saving the meaning of time itself. still, i could not help but notice something. i see you're wearing a watch. i'm wearing a watch. we are both on the clock in that sense. you advise us to take it off? jenny: no. someone recently asked me,

should we, should we smash all the clocks? and i said, no, we should just put them in their place. right? like, no, it's a tool. my hope is that it is not the primary way that you think about time. jeffrey: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in san francisco. ♪ amna: jennifer doudna is a nobel laureate in chemistry and professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology at university of california, berkeley. she has also been a pioneer in crispr gene editing. tonight, doudna shares her brief but spectacular take on the future of her field. jennifer: early in my work on crispr, i had a dream one night about a colleague of mine asking me to explain crispr to a friend of his. and the friend turned out to be hitler. and it was hitler with a pig

face and a horrifying look that made me imagine some of the worst aspects of what genome editing could bring about if it were used irresponsibly. and i woke from up from that dream thinking that it was so critical that we as scientists think together about how we use our technologies responsibly. i like to describe crispr as an editor for the genome. it's a way of changing the code of life in a precise fashion, very much like we might edit a document. with crispr, we can literally alter a single letter in dna all the way up to a large segment of that text and that means that we can now correct disease-causing mutations and help address climate change. some of the ethical considerations around crispr focus on human health, especially, uh, altering human embryos.

and the reason that is such a profound use of the technology is that it results in changes that are made to a person that are inheritable. and so we have to really be thoughtful about how we would deploy a technology for that purpose. the other area where there's a lot of talk is using crispr for environmental applications, meaning altering whole sets of organisms. i think there's an extraordinary opportunity to address challenges of disease and, and frankly, preventive medicine that haven't been possible in the past. on the flip side, i do worry that the use of crispr and other technologies could get ahead of themselves. so it's very important that scientists and technologists and engineers stay on top of this as these technologies develop. in early october of 2020, i got a phone call. it was a call from the nobel foundation in stockholm, sweden, telling me that i had won the nobel prize in chemistry that year with my colleague emmanuelle charpentier.

and what happened very shortly after that was that i realized that for many people, especially women and girls who reached out to me, it was a symbol for them of what might be possible for all of us to achieve. and that's what means the most to me about it. today, we're facing so many challenges in our society: inequities, challenges to our health, challenges to our environment. and with crispr we have a technology that can, in principle, address all of these things. it's a wonderful tool that we can use to manipulate ourselves and our environment in ways that will benefit the planet. my name is jennifer doudna and this is my brief but spectacular take on the future of crispr. amna: you can watch more brief but spectacular videos online at pbs.org/newshour/brief. geoff: before we go, a news update, prosecutors filed two

felony charges against a man who shot a black teenager in kansas city. 16-year-old ralph yarl trying to pick up his younger brothers when he mistakenly went to the wrong house. amna: the 85-year-old white man is it charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. a warrant has been issued for his arrest. geoff: that is the newshour for tonight. i am geoff bennett. amna: and i am on the nevada -- i am amna nawaz. thank you for joining us. >> funding for the pbs newshour provided by -- >> a proud supporter of public television. on a voyage, the world awaits. a world of flavor, diverse destinations and immersive experiences, a world of entertainment and british style. all with white star service.

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