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fled south from northern gaza over the last two days. more than 11,000 palestinians have been killed in the war. the israeli death toll was revised down today. israeli officials gave no explanation for the change. we have an update on another bloody day. some images in the story are disturbing. >> today the hospitals treating gaza city have become a battleground. this was the sea inside this hospital compound. inside, a doctor narrates the aftermath. family members act as nurses.

no dignity for the dead. >> there is no treatment. my dad is lying there. there is nothing more they can do. >> hospitals are also morgues. israel said that these victims were killed by a rocket. israeli troops appeared to be approaching from both the north and the south. the minister of defense. >> those terrorists who are staying in the basements can hear the thundering sound of tanks chains. they hear it and they tremble with fear. >> last night a projectile hit inside the compound. this has become a tent city

filled with thousands of families who consider it the safest place to shelter. not anymore. doctors say the projectile hit the courtyard. the israeli defense force that had no information about the explosion. by this afternoon, multiple hospitals appear to be surrounded or under attack. they fled multiple hospitals in north gaza by the thousands. those who could, walked the six mile journey to the safe seven. those who could not made the journey nonetheless. the old tried to comfort the young. this was the longest evacuation yet. >> what did all of these people do? the sick person, the one unable to walk. the old man whose son was

martyred at his house was destroyed. what did we do? >> much more needs to be done to protect civilians. >> antony blinken, as part of a visit to new delhi, maine one of the most direct american criticisms of israel. >> far too many palestinians have been killed. >> these are the gates to a living nightmare. >> those concerns are echoed by the international community. the u.n. human rights chief called for israel to be investigated. >> considering the predictable high level of civilian casualties, we have very serious concerns. >> the suffering goes on.

today the u.n. said the war has pushed 400,000 people into poverty in a area that for years has already been impoverished. ♪ >> in other headlines, president biden and the chinese president will meet next wednesday for the first time in nearly a year. this talk will come during an asian pacific summit in san francisco. the leaders will discuss ways to responsibly manage competition and work together. president biden has formally entered the first primary on the democratic presidential calendar. vice president harris filed the

paperwork today. she was in columbia joined by jim clyburn. his endorsement in 2020 set mr. biden on the path to victory. >> i am here to first and foremost thank everybody. because of what you did in 2020. we have come into office and with your support than a number of things that have been transformational for our country. because of the work of the folks here in south carolina. >> divided team -- the biden team wanted south carolina to kick off the schedule. the mayor of new york has confirmed that the fbi seized phones and an ipad from him earlier this week. it is part of an investigation into campaign finances. in a statement today, he said he has nothing to hide and is cooperating with the probe.

in northern france, severe flooding danger today after days of downpours. overflowing rivers have spilled into streets and inundated homes. some 200 schools have closed. miles of farmland are also underwater. >> i risk having oxidized strawberries. i risk having zero production. >> forecasters say the region will stay on red alert for flooding through saturday. the un's as catastrophic flooding across east africa is a once in a century event. unprecedented rain touched update illusions this week that killed 29 people in somalia. skies cleared today in mogadishu. but residential areas were still underwater along with 300 million acres of our land. northern kenya has also been

hard-hit. las vegas hotel workers reached a tentative deal today just hours before a strike deadline. it follows similar deals with other companies. negotiations are continuing with 24 smaller casinos. the big ten conference bands the coach of michigan from the final radio seasons games. it is punishment for using scouts to steal signs from rivals. on wall street, stocks recouped thursday's losses and then some as interest rate worries eased a bid. the dow jones industrial average gained. the nasdaq rose 276 points. the s&p 500 added 68. the national toy hall of fame has a new class of inductees.

they added the toy. it had been a finalist more than once. the other inductees are baseball cards, cabbage patch kids, and nerf phone toys. still to come, survivors of the hamas attack on a music festival cope with the violence that has consumed the region. a spectacular take on rebuilding local news. in the story of the country's first black generals. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> the israel-hamas war has led to the deadliest weeks for journalists in over three decades. we spoke with the committee to

protect journalists to understand what this means for people covering the war. >> the war has taken a heavy toll. almost daily, there are reports of journalists and their families killed in the conflict. this is the moment a veteran journalist covering decades of conflict stopped reporting to warn his own family. they were killed in an israeli airstrike. this has been the deadliest war for journalists ever documented among countless conflicts in the past two decades. i want to put to you and share it with our audience your numbers as of the river seven -- november 7.

eight journalists reported injured. but these numbers and this war into context for us. what does this say about journalist access and safety? >> this is the deadliest conflict for journalists that we have ever documented. and we have been doing this for over 30 years. last year we documented the killings of 68 journalists. it is incredibly dangerous. there are very few safe spaces. they are trying to report while they are in danger. >> i have to ask you about a recent allegation. claiming that the new york times and associated press were working with freelance journalism they say are aligned

with hamas. they both deny that. you have israeli athlete -- outlets doing that. how can viewers make sure that what they are seeing is the full picture and not just what hamas wants? >> there are a variety of media outlets operating in gaza. that has been the case for many years. international news outlets. what is really important is we have that plurality of voices that will help us. there are no international news crews that are able to get into gaza to operate. we are absolutely reliant on local palestinian journalists to be our eyes and ears on the ground to tell us what is happening. >> those disturbing numbers look

like this on the ground. he was reporting live outside of a hospital. he saw his own colleague being carried into the morgue. >> they are just emblems that we wear. they do not keep us safe at all. we are victims live on air. we are just waiting your turn, one after the other. our colleague was here just 30 minutes ago. he has been killed along with his wife and son and brother. >> he was one of the 39 journalists killed. i want to put up this graphic as i ask you this question. as i show you the names and faces of those 39 journalists and i ask you as the war roles on and the death toll mounts, what does that mean for our visibility into what is happening on the ground? >> i want to thank you for

humanizing those individuals. it is very easy for the statistics to become numbing. become meaningless. everyone of those statistics is a person with a family. as this rolls on, it means that our ability to understand what is happening in gaza and the west bank diminishes day by day. we need journalists to be able to understand what is happening in gaza. to be those reporting on the conflict. >> some palestinians we have spoken to look at these numbers and the previous killings of journalists before the war. a killing that the idf took a year to apologize for. they feel that journalists are being targeted. what would you say to that? >> what we know is there is a

clear pattern of impunity. in may of this year, we published a report on the killings of journalists. what we found was between 2000 and one and 2023, there were at least 20 journalists killed. no one has ever been charged or held accountable. it is really important that when a journalist is killed, it is investigated and those responsible are held accountable. >> thank you for joining us. >> today, there was a report that a 35th palestinian journalists has been killed. bringing the death toll to 40. the day that started the war was a day of horrific carnage and terror.

nowhere more so than at a music festival in southern israel. hundreds were killed and many hostages taken. we have been speaking with survivors of the massacre and those who rushed to help. the images and accounts in this story are disturbing. >> the final carefree moments of dancing until dawn. as the sun rose, they heard a sound they never expected. gunfire. they ran for shelter in the other place they could. for hours they hid, unable to block out the sounds of terror and murder outside. >> they tried to open the door. my husband said, this is it. we looked at each other and he told me he loved me. i told him i loved him. i close my eyes. >> the israel defense forces

finally arrived. >> they opened the door to hell. there were dead people in each car. they were hiding inside the car. my husband drove between dead bodies. >> she came back to find her van. seeing it has compounded her despair. >> you understand better what happened. >> many bear the scars. they were ambushed by terrorists.

>> they were shooting after me. >> they killed everyone. they even set the car on fire. only after five days that we realize he was dead. they found a really small piece of his brain. >> for nine hours, they hid inside a small bush, barely breathing. >> i heard everything. i was in despair. i believed i would die that day. i said goodbye to everyone. >> like many survivors, she was saved by an israeli citizen who ran straight toward the danger to help.

he found his country under attack. he grabbed his gun and began to drive. >> one of the terrorists came in front of me. i understood the situation. i said i am at war. >> he shot the militants and drove on. >> he is heard from a gunshot in his back. >> for hours, he drove back and forth, seeking out young people hiding in terror. there was an old friend from his army days. >> you know him.

you knew him when he was a baby. i said, i have not found him. i cannot see him. maybe later. i will call you later. they found him. i already knew. >> as he approached the central side of the festival, the tale of the horror began to unfold before his eyes. >> if somebody heard me, just look at me. i saw body after body. >> the further he walked, the darker the nightmare became. >> they burned them.

>> these kids were trying to escape. >> they burned them alive. >> he stayed to help the dead. >> i put this inside. >> you were covered in blood. >> of course. there were 100 bodies they took. >> he immediately rejoined the army after the attacks. but that day he was all alone. he is trying to process the burden of such loss. >> i think about my children. it breaks my heart.

it is not easy. i guess every parent in the world has seen so much death and blood in one place. in one moment. it is not humanity. >> each survivor is trying to find their way back to community. dozens of therapists have volunteered to help. >> the few people who came on the first day or hollow. it was like death was all around them. >> here they are slowly learning to feel safe again. to dance to the music they went to share in love. but ended in hell. >> so much evil. they sell so much evil and darkness.

it is hard for them to get to feel that they are allowed to be happy. here it is healthy and healing. >> in a country where everyone has been touched by this tragedy, many are not available for healing. >> what i see is not normal people. i wake up every day for the last few months. >> tomorrow he is being deployed to fight in gaza. his battle is far from over. ♪

>> now we will look at an illness that is dangerous for babies. made worse by a shortage of drugs to treat it. >> among children under the age of five, rsv leads to up to 300 deaths a year. it is the number one cause of hospitalizations for infants under a year old. it is good to see you. i would like to start with what it is that makes rsv so dangerous. what does it do to their systems? >> any viral respiratory infection -- can lead to mucus and thickening of the lining of the airwaves. you can get blockages of the airways.

especially among young infants. >> there are approved drugs to treat it. they are available as shots. his high demand the reason for the shortage? can we boost supply? >> there is a new antibody that is delivered as a shot. it is new at this season to help protect the youngest of infants. the challenge is manufacturing. the supply that we have available right now is the supply that we will have available for the season. it takes too long to manufacture more. >> the shortage has now led the cdc to issue guidelines saying who should be prioritized. who are they saying she get the shots first? >> the youngest of infants. under six months.

as well as other infants that might have underlying medical conditions that predispose them to severe rsv. pediatricians can help parents figure that out. it is also effective in protecting infants. that is being recommended for those between the ages of eight and 19 months as an alternative would a third option is to vaccinate pregnant women. they will produce antibodies to the vaccine and pass those on through the placenta and breast milk. >> what should we understand about the cost of all of these treatments? >> under the affordable care act, insurance companies do not have to cover this until a year

after the initial recommendation. the big insurance companies are covering this vaccine for pregnant women. already many pregnant women will have coverage. it has been challenging to educate obstetricians about the need to vaccinate pregnant women. to help reduce -- reduce some of the shortages. and educating pharmacists who work in pharmacies. that it is perfectly safe to be vaccinating pregnant women. >> a lot of parents as a headlines about the shortages. what is your advice on how they should proceed if their child is not eligible? >> if your child is not eligible, talk to your pediatrician about that. it is an alternative for the older infants.

it is the commonsense measures we take to reduce risk. if you are sick, stay away from other people. keep sick people away from your child the best you can. i know that can be challenging. masks do work. oh caregivers should be wearing a mask. handwashing is also important. a way to reduce risk in general is to open your windows and doors if you can. put in an air filtration unit. >> more broadly when you look at this, the issue of demand being so high for a drug seems to go against the trend of vaccine hesitancy.

skepticism in science we saw during the pandemic. >> there are a few things at play. some parents have really seen young children get very sick from rsv ended up in the hospital. it is very real for them. another issue is covid was politically polarizing in a way that rsv has not been. between those different factors, we are seeing a difference in demand and uptake. >> always good to see you. thank you. >> my pleasure. ♪ >> as the war in gaza continues, the biden white house is facing fresh pressure over its relationship with israel.

we turned to the analysis of our guests. good to see you both. i want to start with your reaction to israel agreeing to put in place daily humanitarian pauses. >> i think it is a start. israel has to do a few things. they have to defeat hamas. that is what you call the near enemy. but the real enemy is iran. a foreign policy expert made a smart observation. of all the nations of the world, who has had the most effective foreign policy? it has been iran. they have surrounded israel with a bunch of terrorist groups. they have to have help in the neighborhood.

saudi arabia, egypt. those regimes want to help you. but their populations are getting more and more curious about what is happening in gaza. you have to keep your allies with you. you have to be as humanitarian as possible. there are strategic reasons israel should be as humanitarian as possible. >> you talk about the moral and strategic reasons. the administration was pushing for a longer pause. they said these small pauses were the direct result of president biden having conversations with netanyahu. >> this is the public manifestation of ours is not weeks of private consultations.

trying to impress upon prime minister netanyahu you must have , if you're not going to do a cease fire, at least to a humanitarian pause. gaza is suffering. there is no water, food, fuel. none of the basic necessities. you must defend yourself against hamas. in a manner befitting democracy. there will be pauses over ours. they are pushing them to do the right thing. hopefully that will lead to more. >> what is your assessment in the way the president has

navigated these competing interests and pressures? >> i think he has done quite well. hamas has to be defeated. he might be alone in his administration in feeling that. he has been a force. there was relative stability. hamas is something different. the palestinian authority recognizes the state of israel. they have been trying to get to a two state solution.

the president has been very clear about that. he has been doing this in the region for a long time. >> with shift our focus to tuesday night's election results. abortion rights is politically popular to matter where it appears on the ballot. what were some of your other takeaways? >> that was the main thing. whether you are in a blue state. especially if you are in a red state. let's take logan or glenn -- governor glenn youngkin in virginia. he wanted control of both bodies of the legislature. that is what plays well.

they look at what happens and they say we have seen this in other stat. we don't want that to happen here. glenn youngkin did not get what he wanted in virginia. ohio republicans did not get what they wanted. now ohio has in the state constitution access to abortion. in kentucky, the governor was reelected with a powerful add of a young woman who looks at the camera and blames david cameron for wanting to institute policy that would or spur to carry her stepfather's child. for republicans to think that running on abortion will be a

winning formula in 2024, tuesday night should've been a wake-up call. >> you wrote a column where the thesis was evident that democrats can chill out. [laughter] >> we go for subtlety. it was an emotional roller coaster week. the election results come in. the democrats had a good night. we are in a different culture now. the country has been such a power -- sour mood. people blame the president.

they are venting, not voting. in this tenant climate, we have to understand that. >> joe manchin announced that he is not going to seek reelection. in some ways this is not surprising. what is the impact of the senate? >> the democrats are going to lose a seat that they pretty much thought they were going to lose. it will be a tough reelection. he most likely is going to lose. senator tester in montana and senator brown in ohio, that

gives the democrats more time and energy to focus on those races. and focus on taxes. that will be an uphill battle. to be the next senator from texas. but he could be that person. senator manchin getting out frees up some resources. >> what is the legacy that joe manchin leaves behind? >> he saves the biden administration. he said no way. if we had spent four trillion dollars, the inflation that we really suffered from would've been astronomical. the biden administration would be a much worse shape.

democrats do not like joe manchin but they saved him. >> i want to put a marker on these latest comments from donald trump. he threatens to weaponize the doj against his opponents of the is reelected. >> they have done indictments in order to win elections. they call it weaponization. the people are not going to stand for it. they have done something that allows the next party, if i have been the president, and i see someone is doing well i, say go down and indict them. they would be out of business. out of the election. >> i spoke with a washington post reporter this past week who reported that there are conservative lawyers who are writing executive orders for how he could do it. >> it has a name. it is called project 2025.

people who want to be a part of that administration if it comes in, they can send in their resumes to that particular project. what the former president is saying is things he tried when he was president. at the very end of his administration he was upset with bill barr because bill barr did not move to arrest joe biden. >> the word for it is authoritarianism. there is another plan. there are thousands of civil servants. there is a plan to get -- gut many of those. that would decimate our civil service. and lead to the complete

politicization of the justice department. so that is not just idle truck -- talk. that is truly scary. >> thanks as always. ♪ >> he is the founder and president of rebuild local news. a nonpartisan nonprofit working to counter the collapse of local news. he is also the cofounder of report for america. it places journalists and newsrooms across the country. he shares his take on how to rebuild local news. >> local news is in collapse. when you don't have local news, your lower voter turnout. more polarization. more misinformation.

it is a terrible thing for communities to not have local news. ♪ on the community level, local news organizations are often unifying figures. they have obituaries of interesting people who played an important role in the community. a review of the community theater. the things in the community that ties them together are given voice. 1800 communities right now have no source of local news. when there is a vacuum, it gets filled with misinformation. when you consider news that is very partisan or national in nature, you tend to think of your opponents as your enemies. when you have local news, you still have disagreements, but

you might actually see that person at the little league game or the supermarket the next day. we created report for america to put reporters in communities. the impact is amazing. a reporter got there and it turned out that the folks were complaining for a long time about not having clean drinking water. no one was paying attention. he started writing stories about the drinking water. people in the state legislature were paying attention. things like that happen all the time in communities throughout america. we need the local media sector to reform and get better at connecting with communities. and be more locally owned. we will need philanthropy large and small to support community media.

we will need some public-policy help. it has to be done very carefully. but it can be done. community journalism will not survive without the support of the community. that can mean subscribing to a local newspaper. engage with it. tell them what they are doing wrong. this is my brief but spectacular take on how to rebuild local news. >> you can watch more videos online at our website. this veterans day weekend, americans across the country will honor those who have served our nation in uniform. a new book explores the legacy of exceptional veterans whose contributions have gone largely unknown until now. we tell the story of a father and son, the country's first

black generals. he told me how watching a movie about the tuskegee airmen inspired him to write the book. >> i was invited to a screening of the movie. when the commander came out on screen, he was played by an actor. i was quite upset about it. i went home and i told my dad i was furious. he said one i tell you the full family story? i was so inspired. i immediately said i have to be the one to bring the story to the world.

so the true heroes can get their stories out into the universe. >> they were father and son. at the start of world war ii, there were thousands of americans enlisted. >> he was elevated to officer by president mckinley. he started his family. his wife died in childbirth. he takes his son on a plane ride. he said he wanted to be a pilot. he said i will help you live your dream. that is when he started training him to go through what it would take to graduate from west point. because of segregation. he knew his son would never get

the opportunity to live his dream. so he sells the family house and relocates to illinois so he can get the signature of the only black congressman in the u.s. they enter west point military academy without them knowing he was black area >> when he was at west point, he was obviously the only black cadet. he was ostracized, ignored. how did he cope with the? >> this is really the mental fortitude that makes me feel that he was the greatest general and west point grad of all time. when the administration realized they had lit a black cadet in, they immediately said we will silence him until he drops out. he called his father and said i

know they're going to silence me. he said there are 8 million blacks on the outside world who are rooting for you. put a date on the wall for graduation. no matter what anyone does to you, make sure you graduate at the top third of the class. no one spoke to him. he could not eat at the tables with other cadets. yet he was able to still graduate in the top third of his class. >> fast-forward to the time when fdr was trying to get reelected. that is what gave rise to the tuskegee airmen. >> that is exactly right. he worked with him directly.

he said you must ensure equal opportunity for black-and-white americans in the u.s. in the military, you must ensure equal opportunity. by allowing blacks to fly airplanes. at the time they were not allowed to do that. he talked about his son. he would go down to tuskegee and that would be the start of the tuskegee airmen. >> that is incredible. he had a consequential second act. tell me more about that >> he could not get a job in the private sector as a pilot. no one would hire him.

they were selling place in the private sector. the first assignments was how can we get commercial travel in aviation as safe as military travel? there were a lot of hijackings at the time. people were starting to fear commercial travel. now we see that in every airport. he also led the air marshal program. >> since this book landed on my

desk, i keep coming back to a picture. what is so striking to me is there grace and strength and dignity. it was amazing that they were able to succeed and thrive and contribute so much to this country who other conditions that were set up for their failure. >> he would tell me you have to use the system to defuse this is so. you cannot complain about something and fix something at the same time. if you want to evolve a policy, the first thing is you have to be part of the organization. then build a voice. they get a vote. over time, the impossible may seem long, but in time you can accomplish the impossible.

>> you did right by them both. >> thank you so much. ♪ >> be sure to watch tonight on pbs. they will discuss senator joe manchin's discussion -- decision not to seek reelection. and how abortion rights could help democrats in 2024. a look at a program that uses forces to help military veterans. that is the newshour for tonight. have a great night and a great weekend. >> major funding has been provided by -- ♪

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jeffrey: president biden still lags in the polls but the news is generally good for docrats. ballot measures protecting abortion win big this week in red and purple states. >> democrats are trying to scare women into thinking republicans don't want abortion legal under any circumstances. >> we were told that republicans would get tired of all the winning. how is that working out? jeffrey: but a surprising announcement from a key democrat throws the future of theenate into question. >> i will not be running for re-election to the united states senate. jeffrey: next. announcer: this is