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thank you. >> good evening and welcome to the newshour. the supreme court is allowing full access to the abortion drug mifepristone at least for another 48 hours. the justices issued the order this afternoon and promised a new ruling by friday night. >> a lower of appeals court had wish i could access to the pill pending the outcome of a lull cpi the high courts action keeps those restrictions on hold for now. with the president is widely ed for medication abortions accounting for more than half of all abortions in the u.s. >> in other headlines two teenagers and a 20-year-old were arrested and charged with murder in alabama after a birthday party shooting that tilled four young people. it happened saturday in dadeville at a celebration for alexis dowdell. the local district attorney said today it is a tragedy that demands justice. >> it is her 16th birthday party . sweet sixteen. there is uncut cake and unburnt

16 candles that never got lit. lexi's brother was one of the victims. on her 16th birthday party, she knelt by her brother as he took his last breath. >> the two teenaged suspects will be tried as adults. authorities would not comment on a possible motive. a white kansas city men plead not guilty in the shooting of ralph yarl, a black teenager who mistakenly knocked on his door. andrew lester had his first court appearance he turned himself in on tuesday and is now free on bond. 16-year-old yarl was shot in the forehead and the arm but is now recovering. police and a texas are investigating end of the wrong place shooting. this time involving teenaged cheerleaders. it happened early tuesday east of austin. one of the girl said she got into the wrong car at a carpool spot that jumped out. she said a man followed her and

open fire grazing her and wounding another girl in the leg at the back. he has since been arrested. in sudan, the army and military rebels announced a second attempt at a cease-fire but fighting persisted. followed five days of heavy combat in khartoum where nearly 12 my and people live. our special correspondent is there with this report. >> across khartoum this morning, signs of a failed cease fire as gunfire act or. on the capital streets, bullets card walls told of heavy fighting. homes in residential areas were set on a blaze -- were set ablaze. japan announced today it would evacuate its this it is -- its citizens. a german effort to rescue 150 of its people failed because it is too dangerous to land aircraft. so far the united states has no plans for an evacuation.

urging its citizens to shelter-in-place. behind the conflict are two warring generals. chief abdel fattah burhan and paramilitary leader mohammed hamdan dagal widely known as hemedti. once allies, they staged a coup in 2019 coupling omar al-bashir, the longtime dictator. over the weekend there rivalry erupted into violence killing hundreds thus far. the usa -- the u.s. says government have targeted hospitals and humanitarian workers. today the balance of power appeared to shift with footage showing the airport under control of the army. >> it is a shock. no one was prepared. >> residents are trapped. they fear shortages and looting. >> i'm worried every night

people are going to walk into the house trying to take whatever food we have and whatever money we have and that has been happening all around khartoum. >> others have packed their bags facing an uncertain future on the road as their country teeters on the brink of civil war. for the pbs newshour, in khartoum. >> late tonight, sporadic gunfire and explosions continue to cause sudanese capital. tidenation says india's population is on track to become the world's largest by midyear. the days estimate projects india will have well over 1.4 billion people, about 3 million more than china. together they account for more than a third of the global population. within 150 thousand federal workers in canada went on strike today for higher wages. the strikers set up scores of picket lines in ottawa and cities nationwide. they demanded wages keep up with

inflation and rejected a 9% hike over three years. back in this country a federal judge in new york approved a congressional subpoena in a congressional subpoena in flight over investigating former president trump. manhattan's democratic district attorney alvin bragg has indicted mr. trump in hush money case. republican congressman jim jordan has subpoenaed a former prosecutor who once led the investigation. the judge today rejected alvin bragg did to quash the subpoena. robert f. kennedy, jr. launched a longshot bid today for the 2024 democratic residential nomination to he is the nephew of the late president candidate. his father was assassinated in 1960 eight during his own presidential campaign. in boston today, kennedy touted his record as an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine leader. he warned the nation is dangerously divided. >> nobody can see a safeway or good way out.

people are preparing for a dystopian future. one of the principal missions of my campaign and my presidency is going to end that division . >> president biden has that he plans to run for reelection but is not formally announced the campaign. on wall street stocks spent the day mostly treading water. the dow jones industrial average lost 79 points to close at 38,897 p the nasdaq rose three points. the s&p 500 was virtually unchanged. still to come on the newshour, ukrainian company uses open source technology to counter russia. judy woodruff's america at the crossroads series maps the nation's rising extremism 28 years after the oklahoma city bombing. who is eligible for a newly approved covid booster shot and went, plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour.

from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> with the u.s. supreme court set to weigh in to the battle over access to the abortion pill mifepristone, stakeholders are ramping of efforts for or against abortion rights. tomorrow we will speak with the republican lieutenant governor of arkansas, estate with one of the strictest abortion bands in the country. tonight we hear from congresswoman katherine clark. the second highest ranking democrat in the house of representatives. welcome to the newshour. >> it is good to be on with your pin >> you lead a group of more than 250 congressional democrats urging the justices to protect access to mifepristone. what are democrats prepared to do if the court restricts access even in the sais -- the states where abortion is widely permitted? >> i'm going to tell you the

democrats are never going to give up on fighting for freedom of the american people. that is what this issue is about. and it is -- this decision that is pending before the supreme court that is going to make a decision, will women be second-class citizens? will our power and privilege and liberty and equality be centered on just the very few who already have great wealth and privilege in this country or are we going to continue on the path to equality? that is how fundamental this question is to the future of our country. as democrats, we are committed to ensuring that reproductive justice is for all. it is part of health care. it is part of our economy. we are going to do everything in our power to push back against this republican extreme plan to have a federal ban on abortion. >> on the point of democrats doing everything in their power,

their advocates who you well know question that because they say the administration could be more aggressive. the administration could be tactically ruthless perhaps encouraging the fda to use its enforcement discretion and not going after manufacturers of mifepristone. they have used the discretion before with the pandemic. >> what i see is a gop that has been taken over by extremists. that is the issue here. the issue is not about whether this is really a debatable topic, whether this is something democrats should be doing more or less on. this is fundamental freedom. the biden administration, house and senate democrats understand that. the american people understand it. it is why we just although results in wisconsin we saw. it is why over the summer when abortion was on the ballot in places like kansas and montana

and kentucky. people came out and voted. they understand this is about fundamental freedom. and that is why democrats are going to continue to use every tool we have and to take this to the ballot box where we will be successful because the american people understand that when there is state control over your body, there is no freedom. >> but there are other tools the administration could use tiered i returned to the question. in your view, should they or should they not use them? >> this administration has extended protections for medication. they have made sure our veterans can access reproductive justice. they are working hand and glove with us to make sure this fundamental right continues. none of us are going to let women become second-class citizens in this country but i can tell you when i travel to

states like texas i hear devastating stories of the real impact of these bans on women's lives. women who have lost all of their limbs due to sepsis because they could not get treatment for a miscarriage. a 10-year-old who could not get the care she needed and had to travel across state lines. rape and incest victims who are being told that politicians will decide they will now become parents. so this is not an issue about something around the edges. this is fundamental freedom and democrats are in this fight with the american people. >> while you are with us, let's talk about the debt limit debate because house speaker mccarthy unveiled a republican bill to lift the debt ceiling. cuts federal spending to 2022 levels. it limits growth to 1% per year. it undoes president biden student debt forgiveness plan. it is likely to go nowhere in democratic led senate but is

there any part of this plan, the democratic leadership sees as a starting point and if not, how does this impasse get resolved? >> what we have here is a manufactured default crisis led by extremists in the gop appeared full stop -- the gop. . . what we need to make sure is we vote on a clean debt ceiling. that we avoid default with up to our responsibilities. be the adults the american people sent us the congress to be. that is exactly what democrats are doing and are going to continue to press. what we are seeing is shameful, reckless and dangerous hypocrisy from the gop. three times under donald trump they raised the debt ceiling. while they were cutting their revenues dramatically in order to protect the very wealthy and

the largest corporations. they ran up huge deficits under donald trump but three times raised the debt ceiling. donald trump himself said this should never be used to negotiate. so we know that they are not coming to this issue in good faith. they told us over the midterms this was about cutting social security and medicare. and using this manufactured crisis to do it did they have since been called out on that and now they are trying to turn to our veterans, our children, the hungry, foster kids, our planet to make sure that they are taking this funding and giving it back to the wealthy. we see it in their undoing of the irs funding we need so that people can get refunds so that we can crackdown on tax cheats. you can see they want to undo

the ira and the climate crisis that we were able to help avoid and build resiliency through that bill. >> congresswoman katherine clark, thank you again for your time. >> thank you. ♪ >> espionage in wartime is as old as war itself and the protection of idle information a key component of an effective military. but it may be time to update the old adage loose lips sink ships for the digital age and the russian invasion of ukraine. our special correspondent shows us ukrainians are using social and news media posts to cull -- information about the russian ever tears.

>> the base of the brigade. this is one of many ukrainian strikes in the summer of last year. most likely perpetrated using a guided rocket system supplied by the u.s., a technology that at the time helped turn the tide of the war in ukraine's favor. but the targeting for this attack started out far from the front line. here at this anonymous office block. where are we? >> the office of the molfar. >> molfar are an open source investigating company to target russian forces are the ukrainian military is using this intelligence to kill them. the ceo. >> we have a team of analysts. we have volunteers who just help us. we have a system where we pass all information from telegram

from contacts from all the social networks which are used by russian spin >> it is using online posts like this that they were able to locate the aforementioned brigade. this video shows the anniversary celebration posted on its telegram channel. here the unit commander is congratulated by the russian backed head of the donetsk people's republic. as of the commander is presented with three civilian drones it is clear the event is being held in workshop with characteristic garage doors. in another local media interview the dateline states the location is the city of donetsk. a passing truck gives away the existence of and adjacent main road and later we see a secondary white and gray building with makeshift wooden shelters in front of it sits by the workshop. another video shot at a different time shows ukrainian prisoners of war sat at the same wooden shelters being given

food. in the background you see the workshop that hosted the anniversary event. an armored fighting vehicle and a civilian structure with a spire adjacent to the facility. looking the other way you hind the commander is a brick building obscuring a blue-and-white hanger. more perusing of the local reporters telegram channel yielded clear shots of the white and gray building, the abandoned brick structure and the blue-and-white hanger. in addition, a distant power lines also observed in several other photos and videos seen by pbs. this gave enough clues to understand the base layout. according to the analyst. >> we analyze these videos and made a map of the approximate locations of these buildings and how they are located in relation to one another. with the help of google maps and street view knowing that the deployment is in donetsk, the

fighters have interest -- have indicated this, we established laces of deployment. >> finding the exact location was made easier by this video of a tank leaving the site. the local street sign suggested the general area to be easter donetsk. with the leads they had, they claim it took approximately two and a half hours to find the base. on google street view shot from the donetsk bypass in 2011, you can see the workshop here, the building with a red spider and the headquarters prior to the addition of the white and gray cladding. from another angle, you can see the blue-and-white hanger and powerlines in the background. they had a match and a pinpoint location on google maps. one month after the past their target report to ukrainian intelligence, the site was struck in august 22 according to local media reports and this drone footage. they did not know how many troops perished or if the

ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the strike. most people familiar think of citizen journalist organizations investigating military or criminal wrongdoing. what is new in ukraine is how these techniques have been reversed engineered to kill enemy forces and destroy enemy hardware. something i put to the analyst pitted >> >> it is strange because when i -- women have found the locations of russians, they will be killed in the future and it is strange to use this paired from the other side there is a war. we did not start this war. we are defending ourselves. i do not feel bad. i am happy for this. i am happy hour digital work can give results on the battlefield. >> if russian social media posts are helping the ukrainian war effort would it be better to keep quiet?

this creates more risks for you. why are you telling me this? >> the first goal is to show russians we are not afraid of them and they will get a lot of pain here. >> the russian ministry of defense has now cracked down on a russian journalist access to the front line and sensitive sites. it means they get less information from these sources but they claim still to get some actionable intelligence from russian media. instead their focus has shifted to social media posts and post on telegram by russian soldiers and the volunteers who support them. the weaponization of open source internet investigations has permanently changed modern warfare. for the pbs newshour, i'm jack hewson in ukraine.

♪ >> the family of tyre nichols who died in january after being severely beaten by five memphis police officers has filed a $550 million federal lawsuit against the city of memphis over his death. the family and their attorney spoke about the suit at a press conference earlier today. >> today, we have are sending a message that in his name and tyre's legacy we are going to have meaningful legislation and meaningful accountability to the point where we will not have any other individuals killed in the manner that tyre nichols was killed.

>> the five police officers charged with second-degree murder and his death have pleaded not guilty. the memphis police department declined to comment on the lawsuit today. we are joined by tyre nichols mother and civil rights attorney ben crump. thank you both for being with us. you said in the press conference today this lawsuit is not about the money. it is about accountability. what message do you hope it sends? >> what i hope it sends is that police think about their actions and what they are doing and learning how to take accountability for their actions. just like i said earlier, this is not about monetary because there is no money in this world -- there is not enough money in this world that can bring my son back but things have to change. and hopefully this will make a

change. >> ben crump, the dollar amount of this lawsuit, $550 million, how do you arrive at that figure and what is the intention behind it? >> our legal team were intentional with $550 million in damages. what we are seeking in this landmark lawsuit because it not only speaks to the value of the claim for how tyre nichols was savagely beaten to death but it also speaks to the conduct of all of these officers and the fact that they were policies of the police oppression units that terrorize black and brown communities. we wanted to send a message to city leadership across america who have these jump out boys as they are known in the black community that if you continue

to have these unconstitutional units, if it happens in your city, we are coming next to your city with a record set and an amount to make it financially unsustainable for them to continue to unjustly kill black and brown people. >> the suit in reading through it, it alleges negligence from top to bottom by the city in hiring the police chief, cj davis, the lax process for hiring officers. tell us more about what you were just talking about, the scorpion unit. the street crime unit that was disbanded after five of its officers were charged with tyre nichols murder. >> as we said previously, when you saw how those officers acted so carelessly as if this was just business as usual, it told you this was a pattern. this was nothing unique to them.

and then we find out this was part of the modus operandi of the scorpion unit. just like it was the red dog unit in atlanta when chief davis was there as we articulated in the lawsuit. we believe it was foreseeable that if you have these oppression units, flagrantly violating the constitutional rights and brutalizing certain people in the community, that somebody in a sale like tyre nichols was going to be killed and so this lawsuit seeks to prevent anybody else from being killed like tyre nichols was. >> in the absence of federal police reform, are sweeping lawsuits like this one with colossal damages attached, is

this a workaround to arrive at fair and just policing as you see it? >> you hit the hammer right on the nail. if the leaders cannot put politics aside for people, then we have to put the people first and find strategic ways of how we can make sure we prevent this from ever happening again. in every city in america practically, major city, you have these jump out units. if we are now going to pass the georgeact with the tyre nicholsy to intervene in congress, and we have to do everything we can on the local and state level to make it happen. we cannot wait. we cannot have the blood of anymore tyre nichols on our hand. >> it has been more than three months since your son's tragic death. how are you doing?

how are you making it through? >> it has been very difficult. people when this all happened, i was a little and now everything is starting to become real now. it has been a long three months. it has been a hurtful three months because as i tell people, i have three other children i have to stay strong for her. i tell people to keep praying for me because their prayers are the ones that are keeping me and holding me up. and i just try to wake up every day and deal with it day by day. and that is all i can do. and just make sure that i

continue to seek justice for my son's murder. >> what do you want people to know about your boy? >> that he was a fun-loving, outgoing, beautiful human being. he would give you the shirt off of his back if he felt you needed it more than he did. he loved his son. he was just a beautiful person and this was just tragic because this should not have happened to tyre. this just should not have happened to him. >> i deeply appreciate your time. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having us. ♪ >> today marks 28 years since

the bombing of the alfred p morrow federal building in oklahoma city which remains the largest active homegrown terrorism in history to judy woodruff reports how that act of political violence is being remembered and how the shock waves of extremism are still felt today. it is part of her series america at a crossroads about the country's deep divisions. ♪ >> this morning, a solemn scene. as family and friends of victims and survivors alongside citizens and public officials gathered at first church in oklahoma city to once again remember the lives lost, broken and forever changed at nine out to -- at 9:02 a.m. in 1995 when a norma's truck, slid in next door and what was then a federal government office building. as in years past, they observed

160 eight seconds of silence for each of the victims who died that day. >> my father, antonio tony c rea's. >> and read out their names one by one. >> my daughter, carrie and lynn and grandson, michael james linds iii. >> there is a breach in our country today. a division that must be healed. >> former chief justice of the oklahoma supreme court stephen taylor who presided over the trial of one of the conspirators called on americans to repair the breach. >> we have an obligation to be good citizens. an obligation to respect democracy. to respect our government. our elections. our law enforcement.

and respect for the social contract that we share with other citizens. never forget that these 168 were the victims of hate and violence and domestic terrorism. >> visiting the oklahoma city national memorial museum after the ceremony was dennis purifoy who 28 years ago was just starting his workday at the social security administration on the first floor of the murraya building when the bomb went off. >> to me everything seemed to happen all at once. i was knocked out of my chair, stuff fell on my head from the ceiling. everything went black. in fact, at one point, i thought am i blind because i could not see anything. >> this is what it looked like before. miraculously, he suffered only minor injuries but lost 16 of his social security colleagues that day. why do you think you survived?

>> two things. the bomb was on the north side of the building and i was sitting more toward the south side and there were rows and rows of cubicles between me and the bomb and i was sitting down. of my coworkers that died was 15, 20 feet from you but she was standing up and so she was hit with some debris and she died. >> in the immediate aftermath, early news reports suggested links to international terrorism but the investigation quickly led back home. to three american army veterans, terry nichols, michael fortier and with the mcveigh who planned and carried out the attack. following the persian gulf war and rejected by the special forces, mcveigh became disaffected latching onto a growing pro-gun antigovernment ideology that gained traction in the 1990's in the aftermath of federal law enforcement actions at ruby ridge idaho. and at the 1993 siege in waco,

texas where more than 70 died in fire as federal agents moved on the heavily armed branch the video and religious cult. timothy mcveigh was at waco that day observing from a hill nearby and exactly two years later would bomb the federal building in retaliation. >> i never did understand how he could think it would be -- how anybody could think it would be ok to attack people who were trying to serve the public. serve the american citizens. just doing a job to support their families and to help people. killing and is sent people like that, civilians if you will, how that would accomplish anything. >> were you aware that there was a buddy of belief in the country that had these strong antigovernment beliefs? >> no. i was naive and innocent like most people were i think. at people still are. >> none of us could believe it.

it was an hour or so before we realized it was not a gas explosion. it was a terrorist attack. >> carrie watkins is the president and ceo of the memorial museum. >> i think they decided they could have this attack on this quiet city in the middle of america and i think our challenge is more relevant today than it even was in 1996 when we started. >> the three men were prosecuted, found guilty and in 2001, mcveigh was executed. in the years immediately after the attack, federal law enforcement cracked down on american paramilitary extremist groups at focus did not last says michael jensen, a terrorism researcher at the university of maryland. >> the arrests really dismantled the paramilitary movement and it was on the ropes. you can see this in the arrest data from the time period but then 9/11 happened. all of the resources that were

being dedicated to tackling the domestic extremist threat were diverted to threats emanating from abroad. this was a really critical moment in terms of the development of the contemporary antigovernment movement in the united states because it gave it the space it needed to reorganize and to regroup and i think most importantly, to identify new leaders. >> jensen's new research shows a dramatic rise in this type of violence since the 1990's. from 1990 to 1990 four, there was an annual average of two attempted or completed mass casualty plots in america intended to kill or injure four or more victims from 2017 to 2021 that grew to an average of 40 a year with a high water mark in 2020. most were planned or carried out by people associated with right wing and antigovernment groups and movements, the same ideology

that propelled mcveigh. >> what we witnessed over the past five or six years is a tremendous increase in the rate of the mystic extremist activity in the united states. in 2021 alone, there were over 1200 individuals who were arrested for extremist relive crimes in the united states. a large number of these individuals participated in the january 6 attack on the u.s. capital birding to that she is capitol building. >> the study shows about a third had ties to extremist groups. groups like the proud boys, the oath keepers and the boogaloo and 3% or movement. any of which were founded veterans of more recent wars and played pivotal roles in the storming of the u.s. capitol that day. > what is really striking about oklahoma city is how little has changed in terms of those dynamics. >> we are talking about people who generally look like us, worship like us, they are our

neighbors. they are our cousins. there has been an inability to acknowledge us as a threat. >> frank is a former fbi agent who served as assistant director of counterintelligence for the bureau. >> i like to say with regard to january 6, that was not an intelligence failure. it was a failure to act upon available intelligence. art of that were legal constrictions and part of it was no one seemed to acknowledge that americans could do this to themselves and to our democracy. >> in the decades since oklahoma city, he says the ideology that inspired mcveigh has only spread aided in large part by social media. >> proud boys, stand back and stand by. >> and the mainstreaming of extremist ideology in a deeply partisan ideology -- to partisan environment.

>> i don't believe we are at a place where we can come to agreement on the scope and depth of the domestic terror problem in this country because the players that have to come to agreement, namely our elected legislators, have to come to some kind of middle ground where they acknowledge the problem and it seems to me we still are not there yet. >> are you saying it is politics? >> i am saying it is worse than politics because we have managed to politicize a national security problem. >> he points out the biden administration has created a national strategy for countering domestic terrorism. but he argues congress needs to act including finally criminalizing domestic terrorism to give law enforcement more tools to interrupt plots before they are committed. >> we still all these years after oklahoma city do not have a crime against domestic terrorism. we don't have a wall on the

federal books against domestic terrorism. >> just last month with multiple indictments looming, former president trump kicked off his campaign for 2024 in waco during the 30th anniversary of the standoff. trump did not mention the siege but open the event with a version of the national anthem sung by the j six prison choir, a group of men in prison for their role in the january 6 attack. and the former president continued to put forward antigovernment conspiracy theories. >> the abuses of power we are witnessing at all levels of government will go down as the most shameful, corrupt and depraved chapters in american history. >> just doing it in waco is a signal to some people the far right extremists. >> retired civil servant dennis

purifoy. >> i think it is a tragedy what happened in waco but also, it is evident to who knows anything about timothy mcveigh and his motivations, one of the things he did what he did in oklahoma city was what happened in waco. for trump to not acknowledge that in any way or to disavow it, it was disgusting to me. it still is. >> for me when i stand in this room and i see these faces, there is not a better reminder we all have a responsibility to serve one another and to listen and to keep talking. >> back at the memorial was em, carrie watkins says this place and this day should serve as a reminder of the many lives lost and forever changed 28 years ago to senseless violence. did you have any idea when you started this thing in the 1990's that all these years later the country would still be dealing with the kind of attitudes that

overtook timothy mcveigh and his companions? >> know, when we built this museum, we talked about there would be a day that would come when we would teach a generation that did not live through the story. it came very fast pit our educators have a huge job. this museum has an enormous mission, to make sure we teach the senselessness of violence in a way that every kid can understand it and is willing to consume it. it is a reminder that today in the midst of a divided country on the sacred ground we have to work to find common ground. and it is hard. >> it is very hard. a challenge for us today and for many days to come. for the pbs newshour, i'm judy woodruff in oklahoma city. ♪

>> the government has just approved a second dose of the covid booster for the elderly and immunocompromised. the bivalent booster shot targets the omicron variant. seniors 65 years and older can receive the updated booster four months after their first dose. people with weak immune systems can get additional shots of the vaccine after two months. to help us understand why this is a significant move in the fight against covid-19, i am joined by dr. jeremy faust, emergency physician at your command women's hospital in boston and the author of inside medicine on substate. welcome and thanks for joining us. these are targeted to seniors and the immunocompromised. does this make sense to you as the right move in this pseudo-post-pandemic world right now? >> thank you for having me. this move does make sense because it acknowledges there is

a large spectrum of risk out there. it is a one-size-fits-all approach. it would not make sense treating a 10-year-old with no medical problems with the same vaccine strategy as a 70-year-old who has cancer and is on chemotherapy. i think today's move addresses that discrepancy and allows for a little bit of nuance in terms of how we approach the next phase. >> at that same time we should note booster uptick has been very low. these shots do no good sitting on the shelves. isn't that an argument for opening it up to anyone who wants it? >> there are downsides to over boosting. in the high-risk population, what wins the day are the upsides. in terms of a short term prevention against severe hospitalizations and mortality, the benefit for the high-risk group, the severely immuno compromise, older populations in general does make it worthwhile because there could be a

downside of over boosting which is we are training our immune system to expect a particular virus and if we keep showing at the same thing over and over including half of this vaccine which still has half of the wuhan virus in it, we actually risk a longer-term increase in infections. i support the idea of zeroing in on the people who need that protection from the serious outcomes because we know that in short time it works very well. >> what about what is ahead especially for younger and healthy people? could we be seeing another shot being offered for them as we move through the summer and into another fall and winter season? >> the cdc and fda is signaling an annual kind of cycle for the general population, the younger healthier populations. i think that is appropriate. i think the value added of a booster for younger healthier populations has not always been that clear. we have always lumped in young and healthy with older and sicker when making the booster for all argument.

nowadays we are being more nuanced and offering it less often for the lower risk makes a ton of sense. i do think in june we are going to hear more about what they're going to put into a full booster and i suspect and i hope that it will be a booster that only contains virus that is currently circulating. the original virus really is not out there anymore. we are in an omicron world and we should be boosting against that virus. >> there has been and continues to be some debate over how we are counting covid hospitalizations and deaths. not necessarily people alleging nefarious intent that saying there is a difference between people who die with covid versus people who die of covid. they say we are counting both and that could be an over count. what do you say to that? >> the concent to understand is excess mortality. to understand not just are there covid dents but are there more deaths than there should be? we have seen their is constant

excess mortality that goes way up when we have a wave and comes down after the wave. we have very rarely seen a time where there were more covid deaths being counted than there were all excess deaths. if that were to happen you would start to think there is something to that argument but for the most part it has not happened. it happened at times. in terms of hospitalizations and other outcomes, it is very difficult people don't agree when they look at medical charts but actually when we do that kind of work i think we do see if anything we are probably undercounting covid deaths that happened that do not look like covid deaths. someone who dies at home but they never got a covid test but or someone who died of heart failure exacerbation and it is chalked up to heart failure or diabetes they never would've had the exacerbation had they not contracted coronavirus the week before it as long as we have excess mortality and covid deaths going

hand-in-hand, it is pretty hard to make an epidemiological argument that would support the over counting approach. >> still striking. over 250 people a day. that is dr. jeremy faust, emergency physician at egham and women's hospital in boston and author of inside medicine on sub stack. thank you. >> thank you. ♪ >> it is one ofemma watson of rs weekly has a look for all it -- our arts and cultures series, cannabis. >> behind the big green door of the providence art club, you will see contemporary galaxies -- never galleries, old world dining rooms and a collection of works by its members strike -- stretching back decades. dan has belonged for almost 40

years pin >> it seems you are in a time machine. there is some i'll be on's that comes from -- some ambience that comes even from the foyer. you look upstairs and you see time going by. >> in 1880 when women did not even have the vote and like artists were practically nonexistent, a group of progressive artists and community leaders in providence made a bold stroke. >> the art club here was founded by 16 people cared six were women. >> while women had a seat at the table, so did black artist edward mitchell banister, oil painter, abolitionist, philanthropist. of all the striking silhouettes of artists and patrons lining the walls of the club, his has a distinction. the number one indicating he was a prime mover of the art club. artist nancy thomas is the former president. why were they willing to rally around edward banister, a black artist?

>> i think they saw he was an artist of note. they recognized who he was. artists don't see black-and-white. it was his commitment to his work and everything he did to help create the new england cultural community. >> the narragansett bay and rural new england are prominent pastoral themes in banister's paintings. some on display here. many more at the smithsonian. >> his landscape scenes were very bucolic, very serene, very somber tones in his palette. >> his work was not good because he was an african-american. his work was great because he was a dedicated painter. >> that is all he wanted to do. >> she says banister's fierce dedication was fired up by an article he read in the new york herald in 1867. quote, the negro seems to have an appreciation for art while

being manifestly unable to produce it. end quote less than a decade later banister was the first african-american to receive a first prize metal award. it happened at the philadelphia centennial exposition. it caused a sensation when the judges announced the winner from hundreds of artists entered in competition. >> he went up to get his award and they were a little taken aback and said this cannot be right. he is a black man. they wanted to take it away and there were white artists who came in and said no. he is getting his award. and he did. >> banister's certificate is one of the art clubs most prized possessions. the art club is currently bestowing its own honor on edward banister. this is a miniature of what will soon be a public fixture on market square knew the rhode

island school of design. >> the wonderful thing about the sculpture is it is not a monument. he is not standing on a pedestal looking down at people. he is sitting on a bench kind of waiting for people to sit next to him. he has a sketchpad in hand. on the sketchpad is a sketch of his wife. >> the sculpture is being cast life-size in bronze. it is the finishing touch for a man whose talent and tenacity broke down barriers and led to the open doors at the art club today. for the pbs newshour, i'm pamela watts in providence, rhode island. >> and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm geoff bennett. >> i'm on the devise. half of the entire newshour team, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> 25 years, consumer cellular school has been to provide wireless service that helps

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