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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the newshour. fierce fighting between israelis and palestinians continues tonight as air strikes and artillery pound gaza after saturday's hamas invasion of southern israel. the death toll has continued to mount. more than 1000 israelis and 900 palestinians have been killed in four days of attacks and counter strikes. among the dead are 14 americans killed by hamas. other americans are now confirmed held hostage by the terrorists in gaza. again from israel, layla manon allen starts our coverage. >> love ones mingling with the scream of sirens and the boom of

rockets. families on both sides of the gaza border barely have time to bury and mourn the dead after they face the threat of more violence and death. a 29-year-old policewoman was one of eight people in the community who were buried. five of them police officers. one hamas militants stormed the police station on saturday, she was shot by a sniper as she tried to seek shelter. >> i didn't have a chance to say goodbye to you. the last words i heard from you were screaming in terror. >> the israel defense force has stepped up their campaign to eradicate the threat from hamas. to stop the terror attacks by land and air, the u.s. promised israel unconditional support and pledged more munitions and the movement of an aircraft carrier battle group closer to israel. in addition to the $3 billion a year it already sends in military aid. president biden confirmed

american citizens are among those held hostage by hamas and emphasized u.s. support for israel. >> 75 years, the security of jewish people around the world, so the atrocities in the past could never happen again. let there be no doubt the united states has israel's back and we'll make sure the jewish and democratic state of israel can defend itself today and tomorrow as we always have. as simple as that. >> on the ground, israelis are battles. at the border area pot biggest hospital, doctors have not slept for days, trying to save the wounded who lived long enough to make it there. >> being the closest hospital to gaza, we have been trained by the events, we have been treating more than 500 injured.

that is an incredible number. we are used to mass casualty events, we have prepared for mass casualty events. a big event is considered 30 injured. >> he's from less than a quarter of a mile from the gaza border. after spending hours fighting from -- hiding from the fighters, he headed straight to work and has been working 20 hour shifts with his colleagues. >> since sunday morning i'm here. >> you have been treating your own friends and neighbors? >> absolutely, many of them. >> he believes the community will rebuild, but some things will never be the same. >> the main thing we have lost, especially people in the surrounding area of gaza, is our sense of security, may be our illusion of security. >> any fear there is more to come. the israel defense forces have

recaptured the entire border with gaza. we can hear gunfire in the background. an evacuation order suggests to some that a ground invasion is planned. as some clear out of town, others are refusing to budge. >> no, they can't tell me to go away. >> she said she trusted her government to protect them and it didn't, so why would she listen now? >> and of years saying, benjamin netanyahu is even worse. terrorists, slaughtered soldiers. where is my prime minister? where is my country? i'm not going anywhere. >> moments after we left, another gun battle broke out between security forces and militants. even as reticence residents of these embattled border towns make the choice whether to stay or go, facing more violence to come, the rockets fall without end. in these israeli towns a few miles from the border with gaza,

when the sirens sound, there is less then 15 seconds to take cover before the rockets fall. there are reinforce shelters all around, but often there is not time to get to them. the rocket bombardments make gaza a -- israel's state-of-the-art defense and warning system cannot handle them all. many fell with no warning today at all. just across the border in gaza, civilians have no shelters at all. and today, israel's rage intensified. the israeli military said it all but destroyed the district every mao, and administrative hub for the government. bombs reportedly targeted the house of the hamas leader. waves of airstrikes continue to pound the strip neighborhood by neighborhood. in the process, raise entire districts to the ground. palestinian journalist -- shared this video from her apartment in gaza.

the view shrouded in smoke. streets like this one are deserted. cultured in gray ash and lined with mountains of crushed concrete. >> the situation is very scary. >> are newshour producers spoke to us from the ground. i was after a bombardment shredded the area. wax we are standing near the building that was being attacked this morning. more than 15 people were killed in this building. two journalists were filming here and were killed during the attack. all of the building was destroyed. >> the u.n. reporting 187,000 gazans have been displaced. fleeing their homes and moving towards the sea, where a naval blockade awaits. many have nowhere left to go. >> we had fled to escape from death, we came to find death. if we stayed at our houses, we

died. if we go on the streets, we die. >> in the quiet between strikes, palestinians carried the dead. honoring them with funeral processions through the streets of gaza city. the ripple effect of this war are being felt across the middle east. israel has deployed tanks with the border of lebanon, where residents fear violence could escalate. and there are concerns of possible escalation between israel and iran. iran's supreme leader denied held -- helped plan the attack a book the attack. >> supporters of israel have made false statements, including islamic is ron -- iran is behind the movement. they are wrong, but we defend palestine. we are proud of them. >> the violence rages on and people on both sides of the border feel they have nowhere left to go. after a lifetime of war, all they can do is sit and wait as another ramps up on their

doorstep. that is what is so strange and terrifying about the situation on the ground. people on both sides of the border are already at war, under bombardment every day. they are afraid of what they are talking about the next bigger war they think is coming. the first shipment of promised u.s. munitions turning up, and the israeli defense forces are ramping up calling of service to 360,000 people. >> you spent the day at the center of the strike zone. tell us what you saw. >> we did. the way things work here, the gaza strip is a long strip south of israel. as you get closer to it, these large towns and cities with hundreds of thousands in them, they are seconds within which rockets are launched within gaza you have time to take shelter. the closest place is under 10

seconds. people were trying to bury the dead, multiple funerals, people also in the streets trying to help feed people who have lost their homes, who have been evacuated. and all the while, the sirens go off. you have the time to take shelter. there's a lot of shelter on the israeli side of the border. it is such a rapid amount of time, you often cannot get to them. when you get close to the border, sometimes the systems will not even work because they are so overwhelmed, so many rockets coming in. we saw several times rockets coming in straight over our heads, having to hit the ground with no warning. >> after four days of heavy airstrikes, what is the situation like for gaza? >> the situation is absolutely dire. humanitarian organizations have been calling out begging for humanitarian corridors to be created. people are not really doubting in those organizations that israel needs to take action. the hamas attack's were

unprecedented, something that was done they can never allow to happen again. how they do it is the problem. because it is a densely packed, less than 30 mile hour -- 30 mile strip. many buildings have civilians. they have nowhere to go. they have been fleeing from the border site, where rockets come in constantly. there is a naval blockade on that side where there is artillery fire. so there is nowhere to go. crossing into egypt, the one place they could actually go to get humanitarian assistance if allowed through, it was hit yesterday. there is no way for more than 2 million people to get out of this place. we are probably looking at a military incursion on the ground. people are absolutely terrified. >> the last time you were there to report and early july, young people and soldiers protesting against the government. now they are at war. how has that dynamic laid out? >> that is also interesting. all of the young people who say

the right wing government is doing things israeli liberals don't want, and they don't want their kids to die for a cause they don't believe in. everyone has rallied because they are at war. many say that is the reason that is happening. moving soldiers into the settlement areas of the west bank away from where they should have been protecting things on the gaza strip. that is why they are angry it was not foreseen. they have missed this massive operation that has killed nearly 1000 israelis. >> layla milana allen reporting from tel aviv. thank you to you and your team. the war between israelis and palestinians has upended president biden's foreign policy efforts. to his plane how the administration is responding, we are joined by our white house correspondent. president biden gave this impassioned condemnation of the terrorist attacks during his remarks today from the white house. what was his message? >> he forcefully condemned the attack and stated unequivocally

that the united states and his administration stand behind israel, the israeli people, they also made clear distinguishing between hamas' horrific actions and the impact it has had on palestinian civilians. >> there is no justification for terrorism, no excuse. hamas does not stand for the palestinian people's right to dignity and self-determination. the stated purpose is dni shea -- annihilation of israel and the murder of jewish people. they use palestinian civilians as human shields. hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed with no regard to who pays the price. >> another notable message from the president was that he and his administration officials compared the attacks to the very worst of isis terrorism. >> what moraes white house doing

to -- what more is they doing to find the civilians? they are working with partners to recover the hostages, including intelligence sharing. jake sullivan, the national security adviser us in the white house briefing there are at least 20 missing. not all of those 20 missing americans are necessarily hostages. and we don't know the number of american hostages hamas has taken in addition to aiding israel, the white house is sending munitions, air defense. they are trying to come up with as many contingency plans as possible for scenarios in case this conflict escalates. >> was told by u.s. officials and israeli officials talking about this idea of creating safe passage for gaza civilians. what more did you pick up in that reporting? >> the president stressed he used the term abiding by "law of

war." that is a message he was sending, something he talked about in his conversation with prime minister netanyahu. they also talked about making sure as israel takes action against gaza and against hamas, that civilians are not deliberately attacked. that is something the president has been talking to him about. i also asked sullivan about what you mentioned, whether or not the administration is trying to help civilians find passages out of gaza. he did not give specifics about border crossings, but he said it is a primary focus of the administration and something they're working towards. >> there is a role for congress, what are they asking lawmakers to do? >> a big focus is to see former treasury secretary jack lew confirmed to be the ambassador to israel for the u.s..

they are in close touch with senators to make sure that confirmation happens as quickly as the senate returns. they will be seeking additional funding for israel. but the white house did not say whether or not they were going to try and tether that aid to funding they want to see go to ukraine. they want to renew their ukraine -- request, but don't want to push it as one package. >> thank you for sharing that reporting with us. one of the most notorious incidents of this weekend's attack on israel was one of its first. on assault on an all-night music festival in southern israel. hamas killed more than 250 people and took an unknown number hostage. nick schifrin speaks to two survivors of this terror in the desert. >> the camera footage may be silent, but speaks loudly of

horror. a gunman taking a hostage. another ensuring the victim was dead. the awful aftermath. what had been an all-night party had become a nightmare for thousands, including roscoe and. >> we started to hear all of the rockets. the gunshots. people screaming. we go under the stage of the festival. one of the people hiding with me saw a terrorist and told everyone to run away. that is what we did. the terrorist shot at us, and i saw a lot of people die in front of my eyes, murdered in front of my eyes. people getting shot in the head, in the shoulder. a lot of dead bodies. we go to hide in a bush in the

creek. we were in the bush something like six or seven hours. a lot of the terrorists went around us and searched for people to kill. people from gaza, raped girls -- after they raped them, they killed them and murdered them with knives, or the opposite, killed. and after the rape, they always laugh at them, like -- i cannot forget how they laugh in these situations. >> his friend maia is missing. his friend karina was killed. >> you are a soldier, you fought. have your seen anything like this? how terrifying were these moments? >> i don't think i can explain how it was terrifying. > shelley and her husband

suffered the dissent from historic rave to terror. >> it was unbelievable. we ran away from the missiles, but after this, we understand we need to run away from terrorists. >> they can think of one thing, surviving or their children. >> i asked if it was the time to say -- because we didn't know what was going to happen. we have two children, three and five. i just want to be home. we did not say i love you, we did not want to do it, to say goodbye. >> what have you told your children happened? >> nothing. what can you say to a five-year-old? what are you going to say?

when the sirens are on, we go to the safe room and we have candies, we play, we let them know it is ok. that it was thunder. very big. my daughter asked me if this was the time to go to the safe room. she is three years old. it is crazy. >> survivors don't only feel fear, there is also anger. you are being called up next week, possibly to fight. how do you feel? >> i think i need revenge. to live with myself. they killed a lot of us, my brothers, my sisters. we are a big family in israel.

we are brothers and sisters. one big family. and if they did something like this, i have to revenge. >> how do you think these attacks will change israel? >> if gaza was on the map, after this, it doesn't continue to be on the mat of israel. that is going to be the change. >> israel's government vows that revenge will reverberate for generations. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. ♪ >> and the other headlines, searchers in western afghanistan began scaling back the hunt for

survivors of saturday's devastating earthquake. the taliban government says at least 2000 people were killed in the caracas region. some were still combing through the rubble to find remains. others spent long hours digging mass graves for the victims. >> it was 5:00 in the morning when i arrived here. so far, i have buried 30 dead bodies, so many graves dug, more than 500. we did graves and people bury the dead bodies. ask the taliban reported more than 2000 homes and 20 villages flattened in the quake. it left thousands injured in an area with one government run hospital. in russia, evan gershkovich will remain in jail through september. he lost an appeal to be released while he awaits trial on espionage charges. he appeared in a glass cage used for defendants. the journal and the u.s. state

department denied he was spying for the u.s. when arrested during a reporting trip last march. russia lost its bid to regain a seat on the u.n. human rights council. moscow's kennedy finished third behind bulgaria and albania in voting and the u.n. general assembly. the assembly suspended russia from the human rights body last year after it invaded ukraine. police in san francisco are trying to figure out why a car crashed into the chinese consulate building monday. they shot and killed the driver but gave no other details. cellphone video showed the aftermath with the car in the lobby. no reports of anyone else being hurt. the chinese called it a violent attack and amended a swift investigation. a new federal indictment charged congress and george santos with 23 criminal counts. in addition to previous counts, he's accused of stealing the ids of campaign donors and making unauthorized charges to the credit cards.

santos acknowledged lying about his background during his election campaign last year. on wall street, stocks rose as interest rates used. the dow jones industrial average gained 134 points to close at 33,739. the nasdaq rose 78 points. s&p 500 added 22 points. word mary lou and is gravely ill with pneumonia. her daughter posted she's been in intensive care for more than a week but gave no other details. she's 55 years old. she won a gold medal and four others at the 1984 summer games. and a passing of note, he was van ellis died in denver. he was one of the last known survivors of the tulsa race massacre in 1921, when a white mob stormed his neighborhood and killed as many as 300 black people. he spent decades appealing for justice. he spoke of his experience before the house judiciary committee when he was 100 years old.

>> we were made to feel our struggle was unworthy, that we were less valued than whites. that we were not fully americans. we were shown in the united states, not all men were equal under all. >> no financial reparations have been awarded to the survivors of the massacre or the descendants. hughes van ellis was 102 years old. a rise in overdose deaths raises questions about oregon's's decision to decriminalize some drugs. dred scott, the enslaved man whose court's case -- court case changed history, is honored with a new memorial. and jay-z's lyrical prowess displayed in a library in his hometown. >> 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. >> house republicans are gathered behind closed doors to pick their next speaker. lisa desjardins spent the day polling republican members and joins us from capitol hill. are the republicans circling in on a consensus choice? >> it is not clear that they are. they have two candidates, the house majority leader, number two, steve scalise of louisiana. jim jordan, congressman from ohio. and house judiciary chairman. what is happening as i speak to you is those men are giving speeches to their conference, taking questions in a forum i'm told can get pretty fie. and we are not clear how long it will go. there will be closing remarks. there will not be a vote until tomorrow. when the same group of republicans will meet to hold a

secret ballot vote. they have dozens of endorsements. but they need 217 votes in order to become speaker of the house. there's only 221 republicans. there's a knock -- not a lot of give. they have to have unanimous endorsement. also in play, they want to change the rules so they will only nominate a speaker with 217 republican votes behind closed doors. trying to avoid the 15 ballots from earlier this year with kevin mccarthy on the house floor. >> jim jordan and steve scalise are well-known among members of the house republican conference. what pitch are they making? >> they are essentially from the same generation. have been here about the same amount of time. both well-known leaders. what i'm hearing from them and their allies. steve scalise pitching himself

as someone who is a strong conservative. touting himself as a good fundraiser. saying he's got deep relationships in the conference. he is the current number two. for some members like ralph norman, steve scalise is fighting a form of blood cancer. it was found early and he has good chances of recovery. that is something members are thinking about. jim jordan is also well known. his group is saying he's a unifier. he's going to his more trustworthy. that is related to kevin mccarthy. the lack of trust members have with him. he's also hawkish on israel and crime. he says he will lay out his vision for how to deal with the next spending and funding deadline. he is also known as confrontational.

that goes both ways. some in the base love that about him. he was accused of knowing about sexual assault and the arresting of a coach -- he denied knowing anything about that. some wrestlers have stuck to their story saying he did. >> you got the ousted house speaker kevin mccarthy seeming to crack the door open on returning. where is he? >> he cracked the door open yesterday. now he closed the doors. the farmer speaker said he was open to coming back. but in the past little bit, he told reporters he's asked members not to nominate him. he's not chosen who to support himself. it makes it a little easier for house republicans having kevin mccarthy a play could have made things complicated. some members told me they would like kevin mccarthy to come back.

i'm not sure he's completely out of the realm of consideration, but he said he wants them to take him out of nomination for now. >> in the 30 seconds we have left, how has the violence in the middle east affected the search for speaker? is it focusing the minds of lawmakers? >> the stakes have been raised incredibly. there could be more funding requests coming soon. having the temporary speaker in place means no bills can pass through the house. the temporary speaker can perhaps ask to be given temporary powers. there is no talk about that. this is uncharted territory. it is not clear what the temporary speaker can and cannot do. for now, he's doing nothing. that's before legislation can move at all. >> thank you as always.

it has been more than two and a half years since a first of its kind law went into effect in oregon that decriminalized small possession of most drugs, including opioids and meth and vitamins. stephanie sy reports from portland, on what is working and what is not working with a law advocates hope can change drug enforcement. >> in downtown portland under a light rain, a small crowd gathers for what has become an annual event. remembering those who died from drug overdoses and those who have survived them. >> i hate with all my heart gets bigger every year. >> in the last year alone, over 1400 oregonians have succumbed to overdoses. fueled largely by the explosion of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl. >> fentanyl has changed the game. >> she's drug users health

services supervisor for outside in, a nonprofit in portland. >> they will dispose of any used injection of quitman they have. >> services include distributive safer injection supplies like clean needles, but also glass pipes and tests that detect fentanyl in other drugs. narcan, the open yard reversal drug, is also available. >> smoking supplies are definitely our biggest draw currently. >> harm reduction services are a cornerstone. the law also allocated funding for legal marijuana sales taxes to organizations like outside in. >> they have done a lot for our community, and it will only do more as they move forward. we are moving to this new system centering health and hope. >> since the law went into effect, overdose deaths have risen by 66%. advocates say the problem is fentanyl, not decriminalization. they point out nearby cities like seattle have also seen

large increases in drug overdoses. >> we passed it at the worst possible time, because we can't pull apart what is covid impact that comes from 50 years of disinvestment because of the war on drugs, and we have decriminalization happening at the same time. >> he runs bridges to change, one of the largest recipients of funding from the law. money he says has been slow and coming. >> in the last 12 months, we have been able to procure and stand up about 238 beds. some are still in the process, some are being built. >> services include housing and peer counseling for those with substance use disorder. measure 110 does not pay for traditional inpatient treatment facilities, which are funded by medicaid or insurance. even before measure 110, oregon had one of the largest gaps in care for people with substance

use disorder. >> everybody is expecting results from the passage of the law. but they don't understand how long it takes to stand these things up. i'm constantly trying to fight and secure to continue. because it has been under attack so much. >>'s and 110 in jeopardy? >> yes. it has been in jeopardy since it started. >> less than three years ago, less than 3% of voters supported decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of hard drugs. the tide has quickly turned. a poll from august found 56% of voters now support a total repeal of the law. >> i think decriminalizing highly addictive, highly dangerous drugs is a terrible idea. >> he's a portland city commissioner and one of those oregonians who had a change of heart about measure 110.

what he says he's not ready to support a full repeal, he concedes some drugs need to be re-criminalized. >> portland managed to do this entirely wrong, we both decriminalized drugs, but did not increase access to treatment. >> the commissioner points out portland has many acute issues. rising homicides, homelessness, and in economically struggling downtown core. he says fentanyl runs through them all. cracks do you view the fentanyl problem is related to measure 110? >> it clearly is. one of the things -- i hate to say it, but i'm afraid it's true. portland has clearly become known to the drug cartels as a great place to set up a business dealing fentanyl. >> he acknowledges fentanyl is a growing problem up and down the west coast, but portland's small police force, down some 120

officers since the racial justice protest, compounds the challenge. we saw firsthand how officers are stretched thin, riding along with portland central bike squad which patrols a 124 square block area in downtown. led by sergeant jerry see odor, the bike squad gets a tip about a possible drug drop and approaches a parked suv. ultimately, they don't find probable cause to conduct a search and let the vehicle and its occupants go. measure 110 may have legalized possession of small amounts of drugs, but dealing drugs is still illegal. and his squad captures a lot of busts on its popular instagram account. including weapons and the ubiquitous blue pills that contain fentanyl. do you think 110 increased demand? >> it is too hard to tell.

because fentanyl hit when 110 hit, when covid was here, it was the perfect storm for a drug epidemic like we'd never seen before. >> as part of measure 110, police are directed to write tickets when they see summing -- someone using. they have a phone number to get a health abuse substance assessment, but most tickets are ignored and only a few dozen people have completed the assessment. >> everyone has a breaking point, but they will not go until they are ready. if i give the same person 100 tickets and out of 100 they were maybe it is my time, is that enough? i don't know. >> riding closer to downtown, they spot a man in a mask jaywalking. it turns out he has an outstanding warrant for a weapons offense. in his backpack, they find tools which could be used for robbery. >> when is the last time you used? >> it has been a while.

>> a couple of days? are you dope sick? >> he described himself as an occasional fentanyl user and said he was on a waitlist for inpatient treatment. >> it has been like eight weeks. >> eventually the 25-year-old is taken to a county jail, only to be denied booking and released because of an abscess in his mouth. three days later, the same man was charged with stabbing two black teenagers in a racially motivated attack. >> we have a city that is in disarray. business trying to come back from all of this. >> struggle lisa schroeder is dealing with every day. she's executive chef and owner of mother's bistro, a restaurant in downtown portland. >> measure 110 is destroying our city. the drug problem is killing our city. i see it firsthand.

it is leading to the crime, the vandalism. it is leading to people feeling unsafe in our city. >> she's serving on a state task force to revitalize downtown portland, where foot traffic was about 37% of what it was in 2019. >> i used to be able to say i can count on death taxes, and weekend brunch. now we don't even have a weight on weekend brunch. it is unheard of. >> she argues some efforts funded by measure 110 are misguided. wax giving foil and pipes, how is it harm induction? i think we need to get a handle on this and come up with solutions that will help people instead of aiding and abetting the problems. wax a sentiment the commissioner has heard from his constituents. he's thrown his hat into the ring for mayor. >> turning around the fentanyl problem has to be job number one. 110 is something we imposed on

ourselves and we can fix it too. >> bridges to changes acknowledges the law, but says measure 110 is not the problem. >> it is this political football. we are going back and forth. part of me is like a free criminalization happens, nothing will change. even if every dollar we needed to create capacity dumped into the system, it will take five or 10 years to make it in. >> frustrated oregonians are not waiting. last month, the coalition put forward a proposal to unwind the central tenets of the law. recriminalized in position and requiring treatment. what some had hoped would be a new chapter in the war on drugs may only be a footnote in the increasingly deadly opioid epidemic. for the pbs newshour, stephanie sy.

>> the name dred scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. 106 to five years after the supreme court case that bears his name, his ralph site is a memorial befitting that legacy. our newshour communities correspondent has the story. ♪ >> in a st. louis cemetery, the dedication to writing historic wrongs. >> it just didn't do justice to his history. >> a new headstone sits at the grave of dred scott. once an enslaved man who went down in history as a plaintiff in an infamous 1857 supreme court case. >> many people thought to emancipate themselves by falling across the river or underground

railroad in whatever facet it may have looked like, emancipating themselves. dred scott and many others pursued it through legal pursuits. >> sicily hunter is a historian in st. louis. >> he went through several court cases which ended up coming until the supreme court, the highest court of the land, which determined his faith along with his wife and children, they were not considered to be citizens. therefore they could not be emancipated. >> the scott versus sanford decision sparked outrage and drove the nation closer to civil war four years later. lynn jackson is the great-granddaughter of dred scott and harriet scott and founder of the dred scott heritage foundation. she began fundraising for the new headstone after seeing how many people wanted to visit her ancestors grave. >> it was so low, it was difficult to find.

i also wanted to be sure we had space to inscribe on it so when people come from all over the world to see his resting place, which is one of the top three, if not the top most requested gravesites at calgary, there would be something to really see. >> scott's grave went unmarked for 100 years after the case was decided. the picture here is lynn jackson with her family and 1957 at scott's grave. >>'s story started and ended here. but a lot of what he did affected the whole nation. this is one story in thousands we need to acknowledge and understand. >> in maryland, a monument to the justice who authored the decision to deny scott's freedom was removed completely in 2017. >> when roger connie wrote the dred scott decision, he was

saying african-americans are not worthy of citizenship or even full personhood in the country. it is way past time, it should have never been here. >> sonia sotomayor spoke about the scott case last year. >> dred scott lost his 11 year battle for freedom in the courts. yet he won the war. that is why i think we have to have continuing faith in the court system, government. >> dred scott died a year after his case was decided. but his descendants are making sure his legacy stays visible. >> even though i knew what it was going to look like and i put it together, i still had tears because it became this reality that the world can now see. >> for the pbs newshour, gabrielle hayes.

>> right now in new york city, find the unlinking -- unlikely perry of the library, one of the largest in the country, and hip hop's elder statesman, jay-z. christopher booker reports on a timely exhibition as part of this year's 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. it is part of our arts and culture series, candace. ♪ >> wrapped around the outside of the brooklyn public library central branch, rap lyrics for the last 20 years. inside the grand lobby, the hands of the man who wrote them. jay-z. this hand gesture in the shape of a diamond originally represented his rockefeller record label. it is now synonymous with the rapper himself, says a longtime

friend of his and ceo of his entertainment empire, rock nation. >> anywhere you go in the world, any concert, places he goes, people know what that means. ♪ >> famed for his lyricism, he's one of the world's best selling artist, with over 140 million records sold. the first rapper to be inducted into the songwriters hall of fame. he's ranked by rolling stone and billboard magazine as one of the 100 greatest artists of all time. now he's commemorated in a sprawling 40,000 square-foot exhibition in this library that continues to serve patrons. it is not exactly a normal experience in the library. but the free exhibition curated by roc nation is consistent with the public library's mission must as its president, linda johnson. >> this career was built on the

written word, literacy is everything to us. jay-z is a very important work tonight, and we like to honor our own and we are proud to be affiliated with him. >> it is called the book of hov, short for jay hova he explained. >> one time i was recording in the studio and i was not writing, he was like how are you doing this? god must really love you, it is like a religious experience, then he's like jay hoba. it started as a joke and it stuck. >> it is all instruments, the accordion. >> featuring thousands of pieces of memorabilia and music and art spread across eight spaces. visitors can trace jay-z's journey from his early days at the brooklyn public housing complex, he survived dealing drugs, to the world stage. >> we are telling a story of

people who don't necessarily think their stories will be found. we are saying come into the library and find your own story. whether in the exhibition you are walking through, or in the books on our shelves. >> in the main atrium, covers of jay-z's 13 solo albums, from his self released debut to his most recent. ♪ >> collectively, it is an anthology of his life before and after superstardom. >> he says he's speaking for the people. the voiceless. >> through a side door. >> this is the real equipment use at the time. >> there is a full skill replica of manhattan's baseline studios, where jay-z wrote and recorded some of his seminal albums. thus space was made famous in the 2000 four documentary fade

to black. >> sometimes you work with people because they are legends. other times, they are just hot. >> as hip hop's first billionaire, the exhibition shows how his story is more than just music. after being rejected by all of the major music labels, he founded roc a fella records. his business empire expanded. >> he's an artist and entrepreneur, a person and a writer, but he seems to basically walk this unbelievable line. >> i think his career defies those definitions, as does the experience you have here. >> the elaborate exhibition started with them home comp. johnson wanted to recommend -- commend jay-z at a prickly -- brooklyn public library gala. >> i started yammering away about all of the reasons the library was deserving, the most democratic institution in our society, free, open, and

accessible to everybody. all of a sudden she says how many square feet is that building? and i said 350,000 square feet. all of a sudden the nature of the conversation changed. >> perez had spent years looking for different venues to showcase his vast collection. >> nothing ever felt right. it did not feel right. did not feel like it belonged. when i heard linda speak, it was like the perfect place she was describing. a public space that lends itself to everyone. >> on the day we visited, visitors praised the space. ronald fields was in town from atlanta. >> when i googled it had to double take. it is really cool that it is here. i wish we had something that this back at home. >> thomas has listened to the rapper for 20 years. >> the library is the premier institution for making accessible the finest examples

of our country's culture. > has the library ever done anything of this scale? >> not even close. the door count has tripled, the new library card registrations have doubled. everything has been magnified. >> a limited edition of jay-z library cards at branches across the bureau -- borough have become the merge of the moment. while jay-z is bringing more people into the library, he continues to bring younger generations into the arts. >> the first beat i rapped over was a jay-z beat. he gave me the template. i put in my words. that was the beginning of it. >> he grew up in brooklyn listening to his brothers jay-z cds. >> it was like real education. listening to the lyrics, learning how to use my words, how to say things without saying them. it taught me poetry. ♪ >> he turned down record labels

to stay independent. he keeps all of the profit from the millions who stream his music each month. he also owns a fashion and edged payment brand. >> do you think that was possible, or even a path that you saw without jay-z? >> i think jay-z really gave us the confidence. it was not big when he was coming up for artists, especially hip-hop artist, to be independent doing their own thing. because he exists, we all exists. >> back at the library, tanya echoed that sentiment and echoed another legendary local rapper, the late 80's malls. >> i think the word of biggie said who would have thought hip hop would make it this far? that is definitely real. ♪ >> the exhibition has been extended until december 4.

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