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tonight, another american community is grappling with the aftermath of another mass shooting. this time it was at an outlet mall outside dallas, texas. the gunman was 33 years old. he killed eight people and wounded seven others before a police officer killed him. three of the wounded are in critical condition. none of the victims have been publicly identified yet. the oldest is said to be 61, the youngest just five. shoppers scurried for safety as the gunman opened fire during a busy shopping day in the middle of texas's high school prom and graduation season. >> i heard about 10 pops going off. there was a guy dressed in all black wearing a vest, has an assault rifle, shooting at people. >> witnesses said they heard dozens of rounds fired. >> i get out of the store. i keep walking.

all the doors were locked. >> they police officer was at the mall for an unrelated incident. he rushed to the scene, where he shot and killed the gunman. an all-too-familiar picture. bystanders with their hands up being led away as police secured the area store by store. according to the gun safety group every town, more people have been killed in mass shootings in texas than any other state. a week ago, five people were killed after asking a neighbor to stop firing a gun because a baby was sleeping. just one week away is th anniversary of the uvalde school shooting. texas officials rejected has anything to do with the states relatively lenient gun laws. the governor today. >> wneed to recognize a reality. what we have seen over the past year or two is an increased

number of shootings in red states and blue states. states with easy gun laws as well as states with very strict gun laws. >> as the tragic cycle of gun violence touches another u.s. community. according to the gun violence archive, this was the 20th mass murder in which four more people were killed. in brownsville, texas, on the mexican border, an suv plowed through a crowd waiting at a city bus stop, killing seven people and injuring 10 other it was outside a migrant center. the director says most of the victims were venezuelan men. the driver was arrested and police are trying to figure out whether it was intentional or an accident. hot, dry, and windy conditions in western canada are fueling wildfires, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate from their homes. alberta is under a state of

emergency. fires have destroyed 20 homes. dozens of flyers are still out evuations have been ordered in parts of neighboring british columbia. last night's kentucky derby in data and agonizing week at churchill downs. seven horses died in the days leading up to the derby, including two in races yesterday. it is more bad news for the embattled racing industry. animal rigs advocates are pressing to do away with it altogether. online sports betting is eating into racetrack revenues. california is one step closer to being the first state to pay reparations to the descendants of african-americans who were enslaved. a special task force voted to recommend that the state legislature improve the plan, which would include a formal apology for slavery area. it would also be open to eligible residents.

still to come, how language translation technology is causing problems for afghan asylum refugee seekers. and the native hawaiian who blazed a trail in serving and swimming. -- surfing and swimming. >> from our studios in washington, home of the pbs newshour weeknights on pbs. >> as conservative lawmakers push anti-lgbtq legislation, some of it aimed at young people, there is new data underscoring the mental health and psychological challenges youth are facing. the trevor project wants to end suicide. it surveyed more than 28,000 lgbtq people ■aged13-24.

41% said they had seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months. 56% said that in the past year, they wanted mental health care but could not get it. and nearly two out of three said that hearing people talk about proposed laws banning discussion of lgbtq people in school may their mental health much worse. we spoke with young people around the country to hear their perspectives. >> i am 18. i live in texas. >> i am 19 years old. i live in florida. >> i am 17 and i live in florida. >> i am 15 years old. i am a bisexual teenager living in southern rural illinois. i see these attacks. it is very scary.

>> i really do worry introducing myself as a trans man. there is so much animosity toward who i am. i lived in a purple area when it comes to politics. i have been openly supported and openly called slurs at my school. >> i don't know who is on my side and who is not. two is going to tell me that i have to fixel mndyshelp me. >> a lot of this stems from embracing mike weir and is -- my queerness. >> i have not found a therapist i would be comfortable with. >> a lot of people have learned about mental health professionals and older people not believing what we tell them. >> it is very hard for me to get

a proper diagnosis, especially with my socioeconomic background. >> people will leave mean comments or threats of violence on social media. those kinds of things, i tried not to let them get to me. >> knowing that my identity is something so special that it is under attack makes me fight more. >> a world where lgbtq+ people are accepted looks like love. >> we would not have to worry walking down the street holding the hands of our partner. wearing what we want or proudly presenting as who we are. >> if everyone was accepted for who they are, they would be nothing wrong that could happen. i feel like that can only produce good. >> it is a world that is realistic. we need to make it that way. >> lgbtq use describing the challenges they are facing.

he is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the university of california, san francisco. among that population, suicidal ideation or thinking about suicide was wise as i as the general population. why is that? >> it seems like the greatest driver of that is stigma. these kids are constantly being told that they are wrong or less than. those things take a dramatic mental health toll. a lot of these trans kids are dealing with gender dysmorphia. those treatments are harder to access. >> i think it is worth pausing to ask what that is. >> it refers to somebody having a gender identity, their psychological sense of their gender, that is different than

their sex assigned at birth. not all trans people have the same experience. there are people who have a different gender identity than their sex assignment at birth and they are ok with their bodies. their other ds who had blockers. >> given the political environment where in, this has become a pawn in political fights for what is that do to young people? >> there was a time when there was not a lot of political attention on trans youth. it has become new in the last few years. dominant media messaging attacking lgbtq youth. they are hearing things like your identity as a mental illness. you are dangerous onto other kids on your elementary school sports teams. you are a sexual predator. the kidsere this constantly and it seeps into their subconscious. what if i am just mentally ill?

what if i am dangerous? you can see how that gas lighting can worsen mental health. especially if they don't have anyone to talk to. there are so few pediatric mental health providers available, let alone those comfortable talking about lgbtq issues. >> the survey found that these youth are at higher risk for attempting suicide than their peers. what can people working in schools or communities do to help them? >> at the macro level, talking to politicians. if you see a bill introduced attacking lgbtq youth, reach out to your representatives and say you oppose it. at the micro level, some of the best predictors of good meal health are support from peers, schools. if usa parent can create an environment that home where it is clear that they are accepted, if you see some thing on the news that a bill is introduced that would attack fans youth,

sailed to -- say out loud to your family, that is unfair, they deserve to be loved and supported. one small comment like that might stick in your child's mind. work with schools to address bullying. the trevor project found that 52% of these kids were harassed in school. make sure schools are dealing with that. they have bathrooms there comfortable using. they can change for gym. >> you mention schools. obviously there are a lot of places in florida that are leading the way with these laws. other things teachers and administrators can do in their particular school or classroom? >> it is really dangerous to not have kids not have access to accurate information on gender identity and sexual orientation. in their adolescent years, a lot of exploring happens. that is development delete normal. they score -- explore intimacy.

you don't want them doing that in secret. they can do things that get them into dangerous situations. at the same way you want to create an environment in your home to know the lgbtq people are accepted, you want to talk about gender and sexuality and it will not be shame or rubble. we will just talk about how we can keep you safe. >> in the voices we just heard, some of them talk about the reluctance they may feel to seek until health care. why do you think that is such a hard step to take? >> for a lot of reasons. a huge shortage of suppliers. these kids also have to deal with a double stigma. struggling with mental health and struggling with being lgbtq. they have to tell their student -- parentshey have to access that therapy. they have to tell the therapist. it can be really scary t tell a therapist of that. you do not know what their views

are going to be. a lot of child psychiatrist do not take insurance. it is only the families who can pay a few hundred dollars a session who can access care. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. ♪ >> since u.s. forces left afghanistan in 2021, the humanitarian situation there has gotten worse by the day. this past we, the biden administration took steps to allow some afghans who fled the taliban to extend their temporary stays in the u.s. for those still applying for asylum, it is proving increasingly difficult. we have more on how some claims are getting lost in translation. reporter: infghanistan today, over 28 million people, two thirds of the population, were our humanitarian assistance.

6 million people are living in near famine conditions. women and girls remain incredibly vulnerable under taliban rule. all of these factors leading many afghans to seek asylum here in the u.s. now machine learning technology is being used to translate the dozens of languages spoken in afghanistan. a new investigation by a news organization details how various translation technology is creating computer errors that put asylum-seekers lives in danger. we rarely spoke with -- recently spoke with a translator who concealed her identity for the safety and well-being of her family. >> this is costing transtors their jobs and quite literally jeopardizing asylum cases. a recent example of this is a translation done by a machine that was mistranslated.

this created an inconsistency between the asylum seeker, the interview, and what was written on the application. this was enough for the judge to reject the case. reporter: joining me to dcuss this is the author of the investigative story and the policy director of respond crisis translation, which provides translation services for migrants and refugees. thank you both for joining me. why does the u.s. government say it is using this technology and how widespread is it? >> there was a backlog of 1.6 million asylum applications. one way this technology is framed as a way to speed up the processing of these applications. what are reporting showed is it is also a way of cutting corners

in terms of cost, especially that has longtail impact on the translations. that becomes concerning when we are dealing with the safety and security of incredibly vulnerable communities like afghan refugees. >> you are part of this community. what are you seeing? what are some of the problems that you are experiencing? >> i think we have seen a variety of problems with the translation technology. with the app that is used at the border, there are only a few languages that can be used. we have received reports that the haitian creole program is mistranslated because they only use machine translation. we see several instances of mistranslation in critical

asylum documents that can result in seriously jeopardizing the cases. reporter: what are some of the most common problems that happen when these programs are used to help with the afghan asylum process? >> machine translation really struggles with idioms, cultural nuances, different dialects and slang. those are complicated with pashto and dari. one expert said it really struggled with military rank. that is concerning because so many refugees entering the asylum process worked closely with the u.s. military and allied forces. that is essential to their claim of a credible fear of persecution. these kind of mistakes that may seem trivial when we are talking about google translate, we know asylum review is a rigorous

process where some of the small inconsistencies can jeopardize a claim. reporter: as it happens, many of the people who were trying to flee the taliban in the summer of 2021 were people who were providing translation and interpretation services for the u.s. can you tell me about wha your organization is doing to help those people and also it is a missed opportunity for the u.s. government to not try to take advantage of the brainpower? and help them help us in translating some of these linkages? >> i would shy away from framing it as a missed opportunity. i think it is a failure on the part of the u.s. government. this is a missed opportunity to provide paid work for families in afghanistan where translators may have multiple members, up to 11 family members, that they are supporting on one income.

that is what we observed. our organization is working very hard to provide paid work and finding ways to circumvent what can only be described as an collapse economic system. that is something that bigger companies and the u.s. government can figure out a way to do. reporter: you have clearly laid out some of the problems of using this technology. are there any solutions here or is the overarching response and play not to use these automated translation services? >> ai is largely unregulated sector of the tech industry right now. that includes machine translation. we are often relying and expecting right now for private companies to moderate -- monitor harm. we need to put the onus on agencies and aid organizations to more closely investigate uses

of this technology. not necessarily private companies that might be competing for contracts. >> our position is that we do not use machine translation. especially in the case of dari, which is in under resourced language. persian is a language with a dialect continuum. there is the persian spoken in iran, afghanistan. i find it completely inappropriate. that would be the position that translators working in crisis centers would hold. reporter: thank you both so much for joining us. >> thank you. ♪ >> finally tonight, as part of

asian-american and pacific islander heritage month and we are highlighting people whose contributions of often been overlooked. tonight we spotlight at olympic swimming champion and thfather of modern surfing. his legacy can be seen around the world. he was a true son of hawaii. completely at home on the ways. he first gained natural -- national attention as a swimmer, overcoming competitors and racism at the first hawaiian swim meet. he shattered the world record for the 100 yard freestyle by a full 4.6 seconds. mainland officials refused to acknowledge this. locals raised money for him to roof his -- prove his talent as an olympian. at the 1912 olympic games in stockholm he won a gold and

silver. he won golds and another silver. his achievement in the pool brought more attention to his serving exhibitions -- surfing exhibitions. he to the world a sport a known outside of hawaii. he showed that surfboards could save lives. in 1925, while serving in southern california, he paddled into a stormy ocean and rescued eight people whose boat had capsized. this was the inspiration for the rescue boards that lifeguards use today. he also had something of a movie career. between 1925 and 1955, he had small roles in more than a dozen founds -- films. he later began a 26 year career as sheriff of honolulu. he is in three sports hall of fame's.

surfing, international swimming, and u.s. olympics. he died in 1968 at the age of 77. but he still has a presence on waikiki beach. a bronze statue erected for the centennial of his birth invites visitors to ride his wave. ♪ now online, and instagram story on the steep incline in eighth grade civics and history test scores. all of that a more is on our website. that is it for this sunday. for all my colleagues, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for pbs news week and has been provided by -- >> consumer cellular offers wireless plans to help people do more of what they like.

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