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by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. more americans are leaving gaza as evacuations pick up speed following complicated negotiations. a deliveries to the more than 2 million civilians in gaza are trickling in, but the need is far greater, and as layla malala allen reports israel is continuing its ground campaign in northern gaza. correspondent: israel intensified its ground operation today, releasing this video it says it shows troops operating deep inside northern gaza. israel defense forces chief of staff confirmed soldiers are now engaged in urban warfare. >> idf fighters have been operating in gaza city for the past few days, encircling it from several directions, deepening the entrance of the idf into gaza and deepening our

achievements. correspondent: as israel advances -- >> [indiscernible] correspondent: president biden appeared last night to call for a " pause in the fighting to facilitate a deliveries." john kirby clarified today. >> what we are talking about are temporary, localized pauses in the fighting to meet a certain goal or goals. get aid in and people out. correspondent: secretary of state antony blinken spoke to the enormous civilian death toll in gaza. >> when i see a palestinian child, a boy, a girl pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child in israel or anywhere else, so this

is something that we have an obligation to respond to, and we will. correspondent: gazans desperate to escape the fighting crowded the border crossing again today. more foreign nationals were allowed to leave. suzanne finally got out. she left with mixed feelings. >> right now i am between ice and fire. i do not know if i will ever see the family i left behind or the friends i left behind before i die. correspondent: as people went out to, aid trucks went in. also running low, fuel. the hamas run because her ministries as the main generator in a hospital failed today. >> [indiscernible] correspondent: israel claims hamas is diverting fuel from the hospital. israeli authorities say they released and intercepted phone call where the managers talk about giving fuel to hamas.

israel defense forces chief of staff expressed willingness to provide fuel to gaza under strict supervision. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that was not yet a commitment. as gaza continues to be pounded by airstrikes, the army signal it is ready to step up its attacks against hamas, saying israel's air force is only using half of its aerial capability. the idf bombardment already seemed unrelenting on the ground. aerial footage showed massive destruction at a refugee camp after a strike on residential buildings today. residents and another refugee camp dug through this pile of debris that was once a home. >> this house was bombed without any warning. correspondent: the fate of those civilians, unknown. geoff: israel says many of its

airstrikes target hamas commanders. the network of tunnels is making the fight deadly for israeli troops. 20 israeli soldiers have died in just the last three days. nick schifrin reports on the tunnels and why they pose such a major challenge. correspondent: they emerge from the darkness into the light only long enough to strike. hamas propaganda videos show fighters exiting tunnels to fire at nearby is really tanks -- israeli tanks. these are guerrilla tactics. they are using drones to drop mortars, helping make the gaza ground innovation deadly and difficult. buried deep underground, hamas has a built what israel assesses is a tunnel network 200 to 300 miles long. dug by hand, it is called the

metro where hamas fighters can move weapons in themselves safely. the tunnels have ventilation and electricity and are the single most important asset. >> hamas has a built tunnels leading under an integrated into all of gaza city. correspondent: john spencer chairs urban warfare studies at west point and has visited the tunnels in israel. >> they use them for everything they can imagine -- you can imagine, to smuggle all the rockets and weapons they have, to infiltrate israel on october 7, to replace rockets that do not need people in hidden openings at the tunnels. >> israel will stand against the forces of barbarism. correspondent: israeli leaders have indicated their goal is the destruction of hamas militarily and politically. that will require the destruction of the tunnels. >> they cannot accomplish their political goal without fully destroying all hamas tunnels so

they can never be used again. that is a military capability that cannot be allowed to exist, because it is how hamas did october 7, and how it was able to launch 2000 rockets in a single day. correspondent: that goal is challenging when tunnels are difficult to detect, let alone eliminate and israel says that they are located under heavily populated civilian areas, including the largest hospital. >> they built many of their tunnel entrances and exits beneath protected sites like hospitals, schools, mosques because it restricts the use of force idf can take without going through calculations. correspondent: the u.s. has the face of the challenge of urban warfare in the past, fighting al qaeda in iraq and fallujah and leading a coalition that liberated mosul from the islamic state 10 years later. joe petito is a retired army colonel. >> the better parallel is the

vietnam war. correspondent: the vietcong created more than 100 miles of tunnels to survive u.s. airstrikes, resupply fighters and sneak up on american troops. >> the first implication of the tunnels was psychological. the fighters were popping up out of the ground almost like there were mystical creatures who could bypass the laws of physics. correspondent: the last things u.s. troops in vietnam wanted to do was enter the tunnels. >> the defensive unit had every advantage, awareness, speed, intelligence, ability to withdraw. it is very hard fighting. this is claustrophobic. this is a war in a phone booth. correspondent: pacino most recently served in central command responsible for the middle east. >> the plan involves sufficient intelligence to target

generators and ventilation systems. by cutting off fuel into gaza they feel they can choke out those tunnel systems. in so doing, shutting them down without having to send large forces into the tunnels. correspondent: palestinians point out blocking fuel and electricity blocks hospitals from saving lives, and israel continues to bombard neighborhoods like this refugee camp in the name of destroying tunnels and killing hamas leaders. probably sitting in say hundreds of civilians died and will continue to die in a war that israel warns will be long. >> the idf would like to fighting to take 30 days and then turned to the south. the fighting in the south will take months, so this will be a long process. correspondent: a process of that will see heavy fighting above and below the gaza strip. ♪

geoff: former president trump's adult son denied knowing about financial documents at the heart of a civil fraud trial. the judges will will they inflated the value of trump organization properties. donald trump, jr. testified for a second thing at the trial in new york city and again to for any problems. afterwards his brother eric denied knowing that the documents in question even existed despite receiving emails asking him to weigh in. an extreme storm hit western europe today claiming seven lives and leaving millions without power. waves pounded the english channel and smash the rocky cliffs of southern england. western friend some people braved winds gusting to nearly 130 miles per hour, the strongest in generations. >> this is unprecedented in france. normally this is a tropical type

of phenomenon, but it has

reached the coast. it should be happening so much further down, but the planet is so upside down. it is like a mankind is paying for what they have done.

geoff: the storm disrupted air entering travel in forecasters weren't of severe flooding as it moved inland. the u.s. is targeting russia's war effort in ukraine with a wave of new sanctions aimed at enablers. the penalties imposed affect more than 130 companies and individuals from turkey, china, and the u up in 1970.

the biden administration promises a strategy to combat islamophobia. a new documentary tells the personal story that inmates who join a prison running club, and the controversial legacy --

they would find that money by cutting money to the irs. the cbo and others have said that actually would increase the deficit, because less money for the irs says that less revenue for the united states. the point is that republican speaker mike johnson as really passed his first test, passing through a buildup his state was not as sure earlier today. members of the white house staff i am told by democratic sources made phone calls to try to defeat this bill today on the house floor, do try and keep democrats from voting for it. in the end 12 democrats supported this bill and there is trouble ahead, because on the senate side they would like to bill that includes ukraine money

, and they do not want to send in this way. president biden said he will veto this particular bill, so those will be the more difficult tests for speaker johnson coming up ahead. one aid package has moved through one chamber. geoff: as you take through the test facing the new house speaker you can also add avoiding a government shutdown. congress has two weeks for a new deal. what does it look like? >> the house will stay because house lawmakers say they will stay to make up the time they lost for the past three weeks. they are still there right now. it is not clear, however, despite all of the time that they may be spending if there is a plan going ahead to avoid a shut down. right now, that house speaker has yet to formalize what he wants to have happen. it looks like you once a short-term funding go through january, and we are not sure what the senate will do. i guess the tone is good is what i would say, but until we see

real plans moving forward, there is still the possibility of a shut down in two weeks. geoff: in the senate there is a renewed bipartisan effort to break the blockade that senator tommy tuberville has put on top military promotions, and there is pressure coming not just from democrats, but i was watching the floor action last night. it was republicans, many military veterans, and it is clear their patients as run out. >> today something new, we saw three confirmations. look at the list of military commanders confirmed today. the chief of naval operations, the air force chief of staff and the assistant marine, don -- coomidant. the marines have been without a number one or number two without that boat today. tommy tuberville who is hold held up this operation. it was lindsey graham talking about a fellow republican tommy

tuberville. >> there is a reason this is not been done this way for a couple hundred years. no matter whether you believe it or not, this is doing great damage to our military. i did not say that lightly. i have been trying to work with you for nine months. if this keeps going, people are going to leave. >> you know what a rare situation that is, but especially in the senate where both parties stick together, but here many republicans have reached a boiling point. he says he will not allow military promotions to move in large blocks. geoff: the house yesterday took a rare vote to expel new york congressman george santos, but he managed to keep a hold of his job. how? >> this is a fascinating vote. new york republicans brought up this resolution to expel george santos overlies lies, deceptions

and 23 felony accounts he is charged with. one of the republicans leading that move to try to expel mr. santos. >> there is not enough time to go through the litany of lies that mr. santos has engaged in during his campaign and during his time in congress, including just recently a claim that his five-year-old niece was kidnapped by chinese communist party spies. >> that was something santos said to a times reporter. santos made an argument that he is innocent until proven guilty and that he needs to process and his case should move to the courts, not through the house floor and making that argument did win over members. it takes a 2/3 vote to expel a

member of congress and does happen five times in congressional history. he survived. geoff: thanks as always. ♪ geoff: this week the fbi director warned of a heightened risk for potential violence against arab, muslim, and jewish americans in the wake of the israel-hamas war. lauren lopez starts our conversation about the rising threats with a look at a white house effort to counter islamophobia. correspondent: the white house is working on the first of its kind strategy to protect the muslims and those perceived to be muslims because of their race or ancestry, and it says the plan will be drafted by white house officials in coordination with community leaders. founder of the inner-city muslim action network joins me now to discuss. thanks so much for being here. what is your reaction to this

announcement by the white house to craft a national plan to counter islamophobia? >> the announcement is actually one that the community can completely understand and appreciate. the timing though was one i have been on record for challenging only because at this moment so much of the anti-muslim hate and islamophobia is directly associated with the dehumanizing language that unfortunately has become part and parcel of this really just absolutely terrible bombing on gaza in the last few weeks that has led to it child being killed every 10 minutes. correspondent:'s and speaking of that comment last week when i asked president biden about the death toll provided by the hamas-controlled gaza health ministry, which is a figure state department officials also go by, he cast doubt on it. pres. biden: the notion is that

palestinians are telling the truth about how many people have been killed. i am sure in his sins have been killed, and it is the price of waging war. correspondent: you were in a meeting with the president not long after he made those comments. did he say anything that reassured you during that conversation? >> i directly in fact address that quote with the president and told him how unacceptable and approaches it was quite frankly for so many that have visited with him with a person that can identify with human suffering, which i think he has done fairly well for communities across the globe and people who have suffered from individual tragedy. he acknowledge that and give us a form of an apology. what i was hopinto hear from the president and the white house, but, which we have not heard from last week which was a much more explicit enforceable retraction of that type of language, because it is

precisely that type of language coupled with the silence on language that has been used by israeli war ministers, like the defense minister who called all palestinians human animals that is perpetuated this form of art or dehumanization of palestinians that completely is associated with the much of the spike in violence that many people in the community have had to endure in this recent set of days and weeks. correspondent: since that meeting with the president, president biden as called for a humanitarian pause. he did that yesterday. do you agree with that? >> i think we asked him to call for a cease-fire. we are very grateful, i live in a state where senator durbin as become the first high-ranking senator to call explicitly for a cease-fire. it really at this point, we need the president, we need anybody

of good conscience to realize that when we have escalated to the point where a child is dying every 10 minutes in gaza, where water, electricity, fuel, generators are being shut off, people are dying in hospitals that whatever you want to call it on this moment, it cannot be just a temporary pause. we need to get people who are brave enough and courageous enough to call for a cease-fire. he also called for the release of the hostages, which makes sense if there is a peaceful resolution to address injustices that continue to stand in the way of a meaningful, peaceful resolution for palestinians and israelis. correspondent: in the last 24 hours we have heard more and more is a homophobic language from conservative public figures like fox news' jesse waters as well as congressman brian mast of florida. >> arabs that live next to jews

that will only lift next to them so long as they can find a way to vent them, murdered their babies, bring them alive. some folks have said it is not all palestinians. i think it is a lot more palestinians than what they are giving credit for. >> i want to say something about arab-americans in the muslim world. the west and western technology has created the middle east. we respected their kings, we kill their terrorists, ok, but we have had it with them. correspondent: are you worried that language like this could result in violence in the 30 seconds or so we have left? >> absolutely, and that is why i think the call for a conference on some of linking it to the rise of anti-semitism, these things are absolutely interlinked, and we have to be explicit in our condemnation of both.

i stand with the call for that and the creation of it, but we have to address the current political realities that are animating so much of this, and our communities have to see that our fates are interwoven together, and that is happening right now. there are courageous jewish community members every day that are calling for a peaceful cease-fire alongside muslims and people of all faith, and that is an illustration of how our communities can come together. correspondent: thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. geoff: in addition to the spike of islamophobia a wave of anti-semitic incidents have swept the world since the start of the work. an ambassador is the special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism, and she joins us now. >> thank you for having me. geoff: incidents of anti-semitism have surged globally since the october 7 attack by hamas insert in israel.

in this country adl reports anti-semitic incidents have risen by 400% in the two weeks following to attack. london's own police force a 14 fold increase, and we also saw what happened in russia as the angry crowd search for jews to harm after a plane had arrived from tel aviv. how is the administration confronting the scorch -- scourge of anti-semitism? >> the president, the vice president, the secretary of state's have been absolute the unequivocal in their condemnation of this. this is something separate and apart from what is going on in e middle east. it is tied to it, but to attack jews, and i just came back from paris. in france they have seen more anti-sitic events in the past three weeks since october 7 and they saw in all of 2022.

to attack jews, jewish institutions is not to take a side the middle east conflict. it is to be anti-semitic, and the administration has been unrelenting in condemning this, and i have gotten strong support for my colleagues. geoff: are the condemnations, the denouncement of anti-semitism, is that sufficient to meet the moment, or is more required? >> it is not sufficient. there is a limit to what government can do. you really need a whole of society approach. that is one of the reason i and so many of my colleagues and colleagues in other countries who deal with this issue have asked government leaders, civil society leaders to speak out and condemn this. this is unacceptable. i used to talk about a surge in anti-semitism in this first began, and that i talked about a

storm. this past week i have been talking about a tsunami. you see it on university campuses. i have been to rome, paris, germany. we see it in this country. unrelenting expressions of jew hatred. a stronger word is pure and simple jew hatred, and that has nothing to do with the middle east. it's like people just felt the cover is up, i can say whatever i want. geoff: when it comes to the anger over the deaths of what are believed to be thousands of palestinians as a result of israel's bombing of gaza, what is the difference between legitimate criticism of israel's government and anti-semitism? >> in democracies, take israel, for example. the national sport is not football. the national sport is criticism

of the government. every israeli citizen knows what it's government should be doing better. it is not a criticism of government or policies. it is when you justify hatred. in so many instances, you mentioned the instance in russia when the plane, they were saying where are the jews? there were not seeing where are the israelis. in australia we saw a demonstration. we have seen that in berlin, paris, london, and in this country. that is not about the middle east. that is about anti-semitism, and hating jews. geoff: is there a difference between right wing anti-semitism and left wing anti-semitism? >> it is ironic. anti-semitism is ubiquitous. it comes from every place on the political spectrum as we have

seen in the past couple of weeks, and in my confirmation hearings. it can come from christians, muslims, atheists, jews. it comes from everywhere, and on some level of the far right and far left often meet on the issue of anti-semitism. you need different tactics to address these groups, but i do not know if you can change these people on the extreme. the people i went to reach when i am going overseas speaking to different groups and different governments, civil societies are the people who might say there is something to this. i want to be exposed to them to what this hatred can do. no genocide ever began with people picking up guns or machetes. it begins with words and escalates from there, and words against the jews, jews should die, we need a jew free society. you here in this country and

what you hear abroad are fodder for that hatred, and it does not go away. it just builds and builds. geoff: a pleasure to speak with you. >> even on this topic. thank you so much for having me. ♪ thousands of runners have been training for this week's city marathon, and one of them is representing a club inside san quentin prison. the group is featured in a new documentary playing on the prison tv network. our special correspondent as the story of the film for our arts and culture series canvas. >> you are going to be locked up for the rest of your life. you have got to have ways to cope. correspondent: the new documentary 26.2 to life

chronicles the prison running club training for its marathon inside the prison's exercise yard. >> it allows you to feel like you are doing something normal. correspondent: the first time film director wanted to break down the viewers into own preconceptions of inmates serving indeterminate and in many cases life sentences. >> i only knew about prison life from what we see in hollywood movies and tv series and popular culture, so when i first walked into san quentin my initial perception was really off. correspondent: christine spent six years visiting, volunteering, and documenting this with inspiring the habilitation program started by a veteran marathon runner and coach. >> we named the club of the 1000 mile club. the idea was to have the inmates

run 1000 miles while they were at san quentin. >> we are going in 10, 9, 8 -- correspondent: the culminating marathon is only one of the film's story arcs and more up a backdrop for the equally dramatic back stories of the runners. let's talk about the three characters to play the most prominent roles. >> marquel was somebody i met on the first day that i visited san quentin, because he was the fastest man in the club. he was the gazelle, and i was immediately struck by his very gentle and soft-spoken manner. >> they have a lot of programs here and outside people, that is still prison. it gets violent. >> marquel looks awesome. >> even though this was a film about running, i wanted to look

at the clubs in prison life form a more diverse perspective, so well marquel was the fastest runner, rason was the slowest runner. he has a wonderful sense of humor and a different way of looking at things. >> i decided to put in something positive and let these people decide they were right about me. correspondent: tommy is serving a 57 year sentence for murder and gain related activities. >> this does not happen every prison. all i did was hang around gang members and do drugs and sell drugs in her people. now i am around coaches that are like my mom and dad growing up, good people. correspondent: i originally met his wife miriam and thought this would be an amazing opportunity to show what being a father or husband from prison is really like. >> despite the prison marathon's

six 90 degree turns, marquel wins the race in a little over three hours. , completed his lapse in under four hours. and rason predictably finished last. >> final lap here. [applause] >> i am supposed to be a failure. correspondent: the film does not overly play up the race for primary drama or conclusion. the rest of the story is even more inspiring. >> my goal is to run under three hours, maybe qualify for boston here. >> i knew that he had been denied parole twice, but shame on me for thinking dreams do not and cannot come true. you have that goal and to maintain that dream from inside i think says a lot about is mental and spiritual fortitude.

correspondent: marquel was paroled on his third attempt after serving 17 years of his life sentence for second-degree murder. he has run the boston marathon twice, once in under three hours and has been sharing his story in the film with juvenile offenders around the country. >> i am an ambassador for lifers, incarcerated men and formerly incarcerated men, and what i experience and go through can help change policies in a way that people are being treated, even from the outside or the inside. correspondent: marquel works full-time at a local supermarket while training for new york and other marathons and spends evening's back inside san quentin now as one of the volunteer coaches. california's governor newsom commuted rason's sentence after serving 23 years in prison. >> we call this the bottleneck.

you go from dirt to asphalt, and if you step on a rock at 22 miles it is going to get your attention. correspondent: tommy is the current president of san quentin's 1000 mile club. his release date is 2045 unless he gets paroled sooner. >> i did not want to make an issue film. i would like for the audience to after having seen it for them to decide if they think our approach to incarceration can be improved or not. correspondent: perhaps its most captive and important audiences have been at the first san quentin screenings. the film is renewing the conversation about sentencing and rehabilitation, starting with the director of california's adult prisons. >> your discipline and your honesty and your commitment will inspire people to look at the incarcerated in a different

light. >> people who are at the highest levels of the department of corrections and in state government can see the potential that rehabilitation does work, and hopefully that the film can be used as a tool to advocate for more of that. >> not only is it helping you from a mental aspect of the physical, it is also spiritual and it is all combined. it is more hands-on with the people involved in helping you to reach your goals. ♪ geoff: two major sports stories now, the death of a legendary basketball coach and the texas rangers world series win. john yang is more on both. correspondent: as the rangers won the first world series for

the franchise last night, the sports world lost a complicated polarizing figure, bobby knight with his teams' 900 wins. kevin blackstone is a journalism professor, an espn panelist and a sports commentator for the washington post. i think you covered knight when he coach at texas tech. what are your thoughts? >> the first thing i remember is he is the greatest coach i have ever been that close to in any sport period. when he got to texas tech they were coming off a 9-19 season and had not been successful in a couple of seasons. he came right in, put his imprint on the team, they went 23-9 and went straight to the ncaa tournament. he altered the uniforms a little bit to look like the old indiana hoosiers, where he made his fame

. he could put his imprint, is mark on a team just amazingly, and he ran this motion offense, which means he did not have to rely on any put together player to be a score. he ran great defense. he was a genius of a basketball coach. correspondent: what made them so successful? >> i think his ability to make people believe in his system, and it had been so successful for so long, and how could you say otherwise. remember, this is a guy who went all the his years wrecking up all of those wins at army and for the longest at indiana and finally at texas tech, in all of those years, he had one nba all-star player, and that was isaiah thomas. that is how good of a coach he was. that season he went 32-0, the

other season right next to that went 31-0. that is one loss in two straight seasons. he was just a tremendous motivator. obviously you could say he was a bully, and we know about that, but enough players hung around long enough and put up with is often boarish behavior to make in the winter and themselves winners. correspondent: i went to talk about that behavior. when he was at texas tech we have a tape of him after a 2006 game when as the texas tech athletic director said knight quickly lifted a player's chin. >> i have said nothing publicly about it, nor do i intend to, and that is the attention that it deserves. does anybody have a question about basketball? this is a press conference for a basketball game. correspondent: what does that tell you about them? >> he ran the show.

he also intimidated the media. he got his way with everyone and everybody. boarish behavior was something he saw and others. he never recognized his own. when he got to texas tech, i got a call from his secretary, and she said coach night wanted to talk to you. i knew him a little bit, and he got on and said i just want to let you know, anytime you went to come out and take it a practice just let me know. i said i would love to be able to do that, but your practices are closed to the media, and things have happened in your practice before that i would have to report, so i will have to violate your code of secrecy for your practices. and he just said, ok, and we finish the conversation and we both went on. there is no question about it,

he ran the roots. there is an infamous, kind of comical incident within evolving the chancellor of the university who chased down at a grocery store because he was angry about something that he had perceived that the chancellor had said about him. that is just the way she was, there is no apologizing for it, but that made him as much of the coach off the school floor is on the school floor. correspondent: commanding presence. i went to turn to the world series now. texas rangers, first world series in their franchise history, which goes back to beating the washington senators. two years ago they lost 102 games. how did they turn around so quickly? >> how did they do that? by the way, that is owed to anyone else in major league baseball that you can microwave championships in just a couple of seasons. they did it made a -- mainly

with offense. this is one of the more prolific offenses we have seen a major league baseball in the last 10, 12 years. they did it by getting healthy at the right time of the year. the only won 90 games in the regular season, which is one of the lowest total sever for world championship, but they have a lot of players banged up during the season, all of whom it appears it became healthy during the postseason, certainly during the world series, so they were able to do that. they made the right moves at the trade deadline, getting montgomery as a pitcher, who filled out the rotation fantastically. and they believed in themselves, and they were also able to take advantage of this new post season, which is expended and gives everybody an opportunity to pull off the miracle when -- win. you think about what they did with the defending champion just

on the highway with them, the houston astros, who they lost -- during the postseason in order to get as far as they got. they got everything right at the right time of the season. correspondent: what does it tell us about money, the payroll? they have the ninth highest payroll in baseball, but there were still eight teams above them that did not win the world series. >> you cannot necessarily buy a championship into baseball or any sport anymore because of the way seasons are, because of the way injuries crop up and the talent pool is a little bit deeper now. so they did not have to rely on talent from some other team, and some of the guys that they had really came to the fore, like carter who was a rookie who played very well, and of course, garcia who became a postseason

hero with the home runs he was able to hit. he was a guy that they brought along, and he is a two time all-star, and he shelled out during the series. correspondent: kevin blackstone, thank you very much. >> thank you, john. ♪ geoff: after it first debuted on tv more than half a century ago the og nature show is back airing on nbc. stephanie sy has a look at the return of wild kingdom. >> it was fourth of july weekend when she made a surprising and most patriotic discovery, this. >> there is an equal and they guard. correspondent: linda thought the presence was auspicious. >> we believe the eagle flies highest to the creator, so the

eagle takes our prayers to the creator and delivers blessings back to us. correspondent: she soon discovered this eagle could not fly. >> when she raised her wing i could see blood on her and i knew she was not going to leave. correspondent: linda drove the bird to an animal welfare organization north of seattle. >> i talked to her the entire time. i was saying i am going to help you. correspondent: her bald eagle encounter is featured in an episode of wild kingdom: protecting the wild, it is a reboot of the original nature show first broadcast 60 years ago. >> welcome to wild kingdom. correspondent: naturalist morrow perkins and jim fowler got up close and personal with wildlife. >> it was a template many other shows follow. correspondent: peter gross return for the reboot. >> it would be an opportunity

for me to affect as many attitudes about conservation as i could, and had no idea that i would be standing here with you know hoping to influence attitudes and the next generation about conservation. correspondent: the next generation includes his new cohost, a wildlife ecologist inspired by the original program. >> i used to sit on my grandparents' living room floor and watch my shows and i would tell my family i went to begin nature show host when i grew up. correspondent: grant said filming animal kingdom came with an animal encounters. >> i can say that i have been bitten by a bat. correspondent: the show comes at a time with wildlife is more threatened than ever. an estimated 40% of animals are at risk of extinction. >> human development has bisected so much of their habitat. that is the main thing. correspondent: for now, the crew

is focused on stories right in our backyard. in the united states with hopes to highlight wildlife abroad in a future season. gross went to educate viewers about what they can do. >> this is such a good example of why people should put stickers on glass windows to prevent birds from flying into them. this generation of artists as growing up hearing so much doom and gloom about the state of our natural world. i think the messages it is not too late. if we all become proactive, some of these species will be resilient with our help and can make a comeback. correspondent: take the bald eagle, once threatened with extinction and protected by the endangered species act, its population has since recovered and are growing. >> the fact that we are talking about a highly endangered species committee list disappeared that is off the endangered species now is a great story for us to be telling. correspondent: the story of the

eagle she found in her yard shows threats remain. >> there was a wound on her shoulder. she had been shot. correspondent: this is a wildlife veterinarian. >> that is metal and these are bone fragments. correspondent: linda could not believe it. >> it made me angry to think about our national bird being shot on independence weekend nonetheless. correspondent: according to the doctor shootings are all too common. what would've happened had she not been brought in? >> she would not have been able to survive. she cannot avoid predators, humans, dogs, so she would have succumbed to the injury. correspondent: the doctor enter team were able to treat the wound. they cleaned the gunshot and to bone fragments. she was also treated for lead poisoning. >> the most common reason is

there is lead in the ammunition and an eagle is a scavenger and they will adjust that. correspondent: in the months that followed the eagle did physical therapy. as she recovered the team studied her flight and stamina. >> can she flight from the ground to the highest virtue, and she finally did that last week. correspondent: early one recent morning at a park south of seattle with wild kingdom cameras rolling and linda unhinged to watch -- >> i am ready. correspondent: she opened a crate holding the fully rehabilitated bald eagle, this national symbol of freedom sword back into nature -- soared back into nature. >> it is like my girl is free and back where she belongs. correspondent: gross hopes stories like this is for the next generation of wildlife

enthusiasts into action. >> each person can make a change personally to preserve our natural world. correspondent: that the rest of wildlife are real, but the message of wild kingdom is there is hope. geoff: such a great story, and that is the newshour for tonight. i am geoff bennett. thanks for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- ♪ the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions, and friends of the newshour, including -- >> architect, gatekeeper, mentor. your financial advisor taylor's to help you live your life. life well planned. >> actually you do not need

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