amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the “newshour” tonight, the extended ceasefire in the middle east allows more hostages to be released while the u.s. pushes israel to avoid displacing more civilians in gaza. amna: abortion before the texas supreme court. a group of women make the case that the state's lack of exceptions for pregnancy complications puts their lives in danger. geoff: and a look at what's causing nurses to burn out, and the risks that poses to patients' health.

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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. geoff: welcome to the "newshour." today was the day the war could have resumed in gaza, with an initial truce set to expire. amna: instead, it is the 5th day of a pause in fighting, the 5th day of hamas releasing mostly israeli hostages, israel releasing 30 detained palestinians, half of them women, and more aid arriving into gaza. nick schifrin begins our coverage. nick: as a 5th day of armistice allowed the 5th release of mostly israeli hostages from gaza, and 30 palestinians from military detention in the west bank, there is a diplomatic push tonight to extend the pause. in doha, cia director bill burns met with his israeli counterpart david barnea. one of their goals, expand the hostage release agreement beyond the foreign workers, and israeli women and children so far released, to the more than 100

israeli male hostages being held in gaza. hamas has indicated it is interested. the negotiations are mediated by qatar. >> we are hopeful that in the next 48 hours we will be getting more information from hamas regarding the rest of the hostages. nick: in israel, public sentiment is mixed. >> we need all of them back home. if a truce is what will get them home, yes. >> in two days we should stop the ceasefire and go back to war and get rid of hamas. [please stand by]

and finally decided to evacuate south. they would walk for miles. the injured, the vulnerable, the grieving. this is fatima. >> 19 members of my household, hundreds under the rubble. we are from sabra. three families i swear, killed. nick: this is amal. she says her son died in an israeli air strike. >> they are treating us like animals. they tell us to raise our hands in the sky while walking. take our belongings from us. we are suffering a lot. i can't take my breath because i keep walking. nick: a un-led consortium today estimated israeli airstrikes had damaged or destroyed 60% of all of gaza's housing. a senior administration official today warned that any israeli operation in southern gaza, would have to be quote a "different type of campaign" and "avoid significant further displacement."

more than three-quarters of all of gaza is displaced, helping spread disease, the w.h.o. said today. >> so eventually we will see more people dying from disease than we are even seeing from the bombardment if we are not able to put back this health system and provide the basics of life, food, water, medicines, and of course, fuel to operate the hospitals. nick: meanwhile in southern gaza, today's hostage release included for the first time those held by palestinian islamic jihad, a group labeled by the united states a terrorist organization. we also learned more today about how the hostages have been held. israel's channel 13 aired an interview with ruti, or ruth munder, who was held overground in gaza, and released with her daughter keren and grandson ohad, who reunited with family on saturday. >> we were held in a suffocating room, you were not allowed to open the curtains, we were not allowed. i just opened the window for some air. nick: at one point hamas commander yahya sinwar visited, to promise the hostages would survive. >> we slept on chairs, without a mattress. we covered ourselves with a sheet.

that's all we had, and not everyone had a sheet. the boys slept on the ground, because we wanted them nt to us, so they wouldn't be alone. nick: their son was killed. amna: you have been reporting on this truce extension. tell us about the negotiations behind the scenes. could it be extended further? nick: that is what the u.s. is hoping for. u.s. officials say the goal is to expand the category of hostage that hamas would release. so far it has been women and children. we think after tomorrow there will be about 20 or so women and children left to be released including two americans. after that the u.s. says the goal would be to get elderly men released. and then civilian men out. the last category in the most difficult by far would be female israeli defense force soldiers were hostages as well as mail israeli defense forces.

at each step israel would have to extend the category of palestinian they are willing to release from its prisons. that is the core of what u.s. officials are trying to negotiate with hamas mediated by qatar. try and figure out how hamas can expand the categories and how israel can expand the categories of detainees and presenters it would release. the u.s. says it wants that no matter how long it takes. but it does say it's goal is mirroring the israeli goal. to get hamas out of gaza entirely. even though those goals are not necessarily compatible. get all the hostages out while at the same time allow israel to complete its military mission as israel defines that military mission. on that front as we have said, u.s. officials went much further than they have so far, warning israel about the military operation, saying the military operation in the south cannot

displace as many gazans had it did in the north. cannot damage or destroy as many buildings as they did in the north. they said if israel does not change their tactics it will be beyond the capacity of any humanitarian support network to cope. but strategically the u.s. supports what israel is trying to do, trying to get hamas entirely out of gaza. amna: we will see how those words get actions on the ground. nick schifrin, thank you for your reporting. nick: thank you. ♪ geoff: in the day's other headlines, hunter biden countered a subpoena from house republicans with an offer to testify publicly before congress. the house oversight committee wants a closed-door deposition for its impeachment inquiry into president biden. but in a letter to committee chair james comer, hunter biden's lawyer said, quote, we have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even

distort the facts and misinform the public. comer then accused biden of wanting to play by his own rules, adding, that won't stand with house republicans. in the republican presidential race, the powerful koch network formally endorsed former u.n. ambassador nikki haley today, lending her an army of activists and a huge fundraising boost. the conservative group, led by billionaire charles koch, argues that former president trump cannot beat president biden. haley has been rising in polls but remains far behind mr. trump. a rescue drama that gripped northern india for 17 days is finally over. 41 trapped construction workers emerged from a collapsed mountain tunnel today. they were greeted with jubilation after being pulled out one-by-one, then were taken for medical evaluations. officials say no one was seriously injured. >> they all have come out from a different environment and

conditions, so we will work as per the advice of the doctors. we will send them home but first they will be kept under medical supervision. no one is in critical condition. geoff: rescuers had to bore and drill through nearly 200 feet of rock before they were finally able to get them out through a series of welded pipes. the workers had survived on food and oxygen supplied through narrow steel tubes. american journalist evan gershkovich will stay in russian pre-trial detention until at least january 30. a moscow court issued the order today. the wall street journal correspondent appeared briefly at the proceeding but did not speak. he was arrested in march on espionage charges, but the u.s. says he is wrongfully detained. and here at home, the holiday shopping season is off to a strong start. the national retail federation reports more than 200 million shoppers took advantage of thanksgiving weekend deals. and the data-tracking firm adobe analytics says spending jumped nearly 8% from a year ago. the numbers were well above expectations.

and on wall street, stocks nudged a little higher after a strong report on consumer confidence. the dow jones industrial average gained 83 points to close at 35,417. the nasdaq rose 40 points. the s&p 500 added 4. still to come on the "newshour," the late former first lady rosalynn carter is honored at a service in georgia. and a program in louisville, kentucky amplifies unheard voices through the power of publishing. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: the texas supreme court today heard arguments in a case brought by a group of 20 women who say they've been denied emergency care because of the state's abortion laws, some of the nation's most restrictive. they argue that the medical exceptions in the state's abortion bans are too narrow to protect patients who face pregnancy complications.

the case marks the first time patients denied abortions have sued a state since roe was overturned. taylor edwards, who is one of the plaintiffs, and molly duane, their lead attorney, join us now. thank you both for being with us. taylor, tell us your story about why you had to leave texas and go to colorado to receive care. taylor: thank you so much for having me. i guess i can start my story back -- i went through a long ivf journey to get pregnant in the first place. it was our third embryo transfer that worked. we were highly monitored throughout the pregnancy and everything was going really smoothly until we got to our anatomy scan. at our anatomy scan we were given a fatal diagnosis. she was essentially never going to live if she made it to birth. having to sit there with your doctor and them tell you we cannot help you, here is a number to call, that is what we were left with after that

appointmt. and so we had to call out-of-state it we had to new mexico first. we had an appointment with the clinic and three hours before we were supposed to board a plane to new mexico they canceled the appointment due to a shortage of medication and so we are left to scramble. i was 18 weeks pregnant and i was worried i was going to be too far along and was a whole thing. i tried to find another clinic in new mexico that was available and there was none. we had to rebook everything to go to colorado just to receive medical care. it took a feat to get through all of that logistics, and traveling is stressful enough even when you are just going on vacation. going through the most traumatic experience of your life while traveling is another layer. geoff: did the doctor in texas explicitly say they could not provide care because of the state's abortion laws? taylor: yes. he said my hands are tied. if this happened 1.5, i could have provided you in abortion

here with your doctor. geoff: how common are the stories? molly: her story is horrible but you not -- but not unique, unfortunately. this is happening daily in places like texas along with all the other states. 13, 14 states in the u.s. where abortion is now banned. while there are technically medical exceptions on the books, as taylor's experience shows they do not function in practice. geoff: so what is the ultimate goal with this lawsuit? molly: the goal is so that people like taylor will not have to go through the extreme trauma that she went through. we have in this case, it began with five women and it is now up to 20 women which shows how widespread the problem is in texas as well as other states around the country. and the goal is to help women and to make sure that doctors can actually provide medical care just what an abortion is. it is standard reproductive medical care that women and

pregnant people routinely need for any number of reasons. and in some ways this lawsuit is very small. it is about being able to make sure the medical exemption functions in practice. in other ways it is quite large because taylor and her co-plaintiffs are showing an unbelievable amount of bravery and self-sacrifice to tell their stories publicly so that the public can understand abortion is health care and what is happening in states across the country is unconscionable and should not continue anymore. geoff: what are the penalties for physicians who violate texas's abortion laws? molly: we are talking about life in prison, loss of medical license, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil fines. so quite understandably physicians are terrified. they don't know when or how close to death a patient needs to be before they can provide abortion care. they have been begging the state

for guidance for years and it has fallen on deaf ears. so here we are. courts are places that can vindicate constitutional rights. taylor has constitutional rights just like everyone else in texas. geoff: the assistant ag in texas makes the point that the problem, if there is one, lies with the doctors. here is what she had to say. >> a woman is bleeding or has fluid running down her legs, that woman would clearly qualify for the exemption. if she has to come to court to make that happen is not the state's fault. geoff: what is your response? molly: my response is the state has been saying over and over again the exemption is clear and yet they have never once told us what they think the exception means. in fact, contrary to what they said today, they have made every attempt to show the amniotic fluid does need to be running down a patient's leg before they can come to court.

what taylor said her doctor said to her is verbatim what i have heard from every single one of my clients, which is my doctor said that her hands were tied. who tied them? the state of texas. geoff: taylor, how did you hear about this lawsuit, and why did you feel compelled to join it? taylor: as soon as we got home from colorado i contacted multiple news agencies. [please stand by] geoff: how are you and your

husband doing now? taylor: we are hanging in there. i am actually currently pregnant. four months after we lost our daughter. so that has been a new experience. it has been tough. being pregnant in texas is really scary. and i don't have any living children, or i would not have gone through this again, because it is a really scary time to be a pregnant person in texas. taylor edwards, thank you for sharing your story with us, and molly duane, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. molly: thanks. ♪ amna: a series of private and public memorials are being held for former first lady rosalynn carter this week. today, she was honored in atlanta, georgia. as in her life, faith, service, and duty were at the center of rosalynn carter's memorial.

as family, friends, and dignitaries filled glenn memorial united methodist church to pay their respects to mrs. carter, who died in her plains, georgia home, on november 19 at the age of 96. >> today, let us affirm together the faith rosalynn lived so beautifully. death, though real, does not have the last word. amna: her husband, jimmy carter, now 99, made his first public appearance since september, joined by fellow former president clinton and president biden. and a rare convening, as every living first lady gathered in atlanta to remember one of their own. some of mrs. carter's favorite hymns peppered the service.

and bible verses wove her beliefs throughout. >> serve one another humbly in love, for the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command -- love your neighbor as yourself. >> when great souls die, the air -- amna: tony lowden has been the carters' personal pastor. >> we breathe briefly. our eyes are filled with hurtful clarity. and our memories suddenly sharpens, examines the words unsaid and promises of walks never taken. amna: speakers recalled a dedicated servant, first lady, global humanitarian, and fierce advocate for mental health and social justice. kathryn cade was a longtime aide and friend of mrs. carter's. she serves as vice chair of the carter center board of trustees. >> what a remarkable woman she was. wife, mother, business manager, political strategist, diplomat,

advocate, author. yet what i remember most about her was her tireless dedication to taking care of others. amna: the newshour's judy woodruff covered the carters and reflected on their decades-long friendship. judy: what we witnessed was a first lady who saw her role as going well beyond the essential warm and welcoming host, to being a close and trusted yes advisor. in essence, an extension of the president himself. a first lady who understood the weight of her words and especially her actions. without rosalynn carter, i don't believe there would have been a president carter. amna: and daughter amy shared a letter her father wrote to rosalynn 75 years ago, while serving in the navy. >> while i'm away, i tried to convince myself that you really are not, you could not be as sweet and beautiful as i

remember. but when i see you, i fall in love with you all over again. does that seem strange to you? it doesn't to me. goodbye, darling. until tomorrow, jimmy. amna: the carters' grandson and georgia politician jason carter remembered his late grandmother. >> my grandmother doesn't need a eulogy. her life was a sermon. and it was a mighty testament to the power of faith into the power of a deep and determined love. amna: tomorrow, the carter family will hold a private funeral at their home church in plains. rosalynn carter's final resting place will be a plot within sight of the carter's home porch.

and you can watch the former first lady's full memorial service on our website, pbs.org/newshour. geoff: last year, nearly half of all u.s. health workers reported they often feel burned out. that's according to a new federal study. research suggests that nurses are especially vulnerable and that can affect the care they provide. in a collaboration with the global health reporting center, with support from the pulitzer center, stephanie sy reports from columbus, ohio for our series, "critical care: the future of nursing." stephanie: it is a typical weeknight in sarah kincaid's home, rushing to find her daughter's soccer cleats. keeping her four-year-old busy. policing the family's herd of du cks. kincaid is also a full-time nurse in columbus, ohio, a 40 minute drive away. >> my patients know i celebrate with them.

when we hit milestones they made a change with their diet, they quit smoking. we houthi and holler and dance around. stephanie: what all that passion along with obligations at home and a lack of administrative support can take a heavy emotional toll. >> nurses are especially vulnerable because of the caring role we play. i was experiencing extreme levels of stress and anxiety. went on maternity leave and during that time i was like, i don't know i want to go back. stephanie: nurses suffer disproportionately from mental health conditions. even before the pandemic the risk of suicide among female nurses was nearly twice the risk than the general population. and 70% higher than among female physicians. today hospital nurses are much more likely to report burnout than their physician counterparts. at ohio state university, she is

sounding the alarm. she is a nerve -- nurse herself and the first chief wellness officer of any u.s. emergency system. >> it is absolutely urgent. my studies have shown the more depressed and burnt out you are, the more preventable medical errors that are made. so not only is it unhealthy for our population, but it adversely impacts health care quality and patient safety. stephanie: she says she is taking an evidence-based approach to creating a culture of wellness across ohio state's spitals and academic colleges. >> i have a philosophy, in god we trust. but everybody else better bring data to the table. stephanie: you are a data person.

i like that. >> absolutely. so, nurses who believe their organization has a culture that invests in their well-being, there is much less burnout, much less depression and stress. stephanie: a culture of wellness may sound intangible but she says it results in tangible benefits. more than three times the investment at osu. when is the best time to present that content and material? >> it must begin with our students. self-care is a necessity, not a nicety. stephanie: an urgent necessity. nearly 18% of newly registered nurses quit the profession within the first year. taylor is a psychiatric nurse

practitioner in training. she teaches a cognitive spills -- called mind strong. it's benefits are backed up by 20 studies. >> we also measure levels of stress, anxiety and depression with validated survey tools and we consistently see those three levels decrease after taking mind strong. stephanie: if i owned -- it found her questioning her success as a student nurse and struggling with what she calls passive suicidal thoughts. >> really boost your self-esteem. you keep giving yourself the positive influence, i am a good nurse, i am caring, i am making a difference. that reminds you of how great you are. stephanie: there is an outsized need for support programs like this one. a national survey of 7000 nurses

earlier this year found two thirds were not receiving any kind of mental health support. nurses' 24/7 schedules can be part of the problem. >> i remember working night shift and there were a lot of things night shift did not have access to. >> it has to be available to meet nurses where they are. stephanie: along with mind strong, ohio state offers a peer-to-peer wellness counseling program. >> i talk to students about wellness. >> these things work. mindfulness decreases stress and anxiety. cognitive behavior skills building. that is all about teaching people to catch, check, and change automatic, unhelpful thoughts. stephanie: ohio state is also making some innovative new investments. including golden retriever shiloh, one o therapy dogsf 37

who visit the medical center center not for patients but clinicians. one factor pushing nurses to the brink, the pressures of a profit-driven health care system. >> the amount of time we are spending to get to know the patient, developing a plan of care patient-centered, that should be valued financially more than the number of people coming through that office. stephanie: kincaid says less time to see more patients and high drug costs, among other industry pfit incentives, can run counter to a nurse's most sacred duty. >> you have this moral obligation to assist patients in achieving their health and wellness. when you can'td o that because of systems that are in place, that is where that distress comes from. that is where that frustration, that burnout. there is only so many times you can hit your head against a wall. stephanie: researchers call this

feeling moral injury, and find it can lead clinicians to depression and even ptsd. some stressors are hard to see, except for the people who deal with them every day. ease of use issues with the electronic health record systems have also been linked to higher rates of burnout. nationally, more than one third of nurses surveyed said they spend excessive time working on inputting stats in a computer, on breaks or after shifts. >> when you think about why people went into nursing, it's because they love people. but a lot of the joy in taking care of people has been taken away in large part because of many tasks that need to be done. >> while i think the conversation regarding wellness needs to continue, i think we

need to go beyond just a conversation. we need to take care of our nurses. we need to take care of our health care providers. stephanie: taking care of nurses so they can take care of us. for the "pbs newshour," i'm stephanie sy in ohio. ♪ amna: ordinary people with extraordinary stories. that is the ethos behind the louisville story program, which is celebrating 10 years of amplifying unheard voices and untold stories. jeffrey brown went to kentucky to see the power of writing one's own story. it's part of our arts and culture series, "canvas." jeffrey: the beauty, the power, the precision of thoroughbreds on the racetrack, familiar images of churchill downs. but there's another side to life at the home of the kentucky

derby -- the so-called backside. that's the term for where 22-year-old merlin cano hernandez has been working since she was 11, alongside family members who've come over the years from guatemala. >> a lot of people don't know about what goes on here. all of the different roles everyone plays back here and how that it's like, the most important one for what happens at the front. jeffrey: for many workers on the backside, work can start as early as 4:00 a.m., sometimes seven days a week, grooming, training, walking the horses. >> there's like so many people that i think like i can't count them with my hands. for me, it was really important and really amazing to be able to tell, like, the readers, a little bit of how it is to like, work back here. jeffrey: cano hernandez is one

of 31 contributors to the book, "better lucky than good: tall tales and straight talk from the backside of the track," published in 2019 by the non-profit louisville story program and distributed to readers here and around the country. the program was created to tell stories by and about its community. among them, "in heaven everyone will shake your hand," which features the work of self-taught artist julie baldyga. "the fights we fought have brought us here," from 10 young writers from the high school muhammad ali attended. and "no single sparrow makes a summer," the stories of young louisville women who collectively speak nine languages and have lived in seven countries. ravon churchill helped write "i said bang: a history of the dirt bowl," the crown jewel of what locals call the most basketball-obsessed city in america. it details the annual summer basketball tournament held in west louisville since 1969. there was much lore from the early days, including one

tournament in particular that attracted thousands, but he says -- >> there's no pictures. there's no video. there's no way to document it. so we wanted to be able to for the next generation of, you know, dirt bowlers and people who, you know, enjoying louisville basketball in the summer. so we will go back and look and be like, hey, this is where i started. i didn't really know what to expect because not a lot of people i know sit down and read books these days. so i didn't really know what to expect but the response that we got was overwhelming. jeffrey: behind these efforts is a small team led by darcy thompson, executive director of the louisville story program, who on this day was literally sifting through history to tell the story of louisville's 20th century black photographers whose work has been hidden unprotected in basements and garages, inaccessible to the public. >> we link arms with folks like that who want to tell the stories of their communities.

we want to offer those stories, and we accompany them in the process of developing nonfiction like documentary, books, radio stories, exhibits, in which they document the richness and vividness of their communities from the inside. jeffrey: and it really becomes about voice. individual boys -- voice. which somehow you have to help bring out. what's the key to that? >> that's a great question, because we you know, someone who is a little newer to this kind of process, you know, they develop a writing in school and often have been sort of told to write in ways, certain ways that may not be their voice. we will basically, you know, encourage them, you do not have to worry about the sort of formal things. just kind of let it out. not push them away from their voice. jeff: operating in this small basement office of spalding

university, the team works to curate the past. deputy director joe manning was taking old recordings of gospel music gone missing, hidden in closets and attics, and digitizing them as part of "i'm glad about it: louisville gospel restoration project." in the mid-20th century, the city was a hotbed of gospel producing and recording. ♪ manning took us to see fifth-generation gospel singer wilma clayborn, who ran a record label called grace gospel and a record store by the same name in the 1970's and 1980's. she was rehearsing with her grandson, recording and performing artist jayson clayborn, and spoke of the history she wants to put into the book. >> the talent in louisville was so powerful. we moved to a store. it was owned by a church. and we rented the -- it was two or three rooms, and we set up

the records. and i said, well, we got the records. we've got to have gospel music in there. so that's what started the gospel music industry in louisville, for me. there were no other stores that were selling gospel music. that was taken here in louisville after a program. if you don't write the history or tell somebody the history, the history is lost. and i found that the history of gospel music has been lost pretty much. jeff: another story being worked on, the incarceration of cheketa tinsley and others, for a book in process titled "tracing grout lines in cinder blocks." >> louisville story program allowed me to kick the door off the hinges. jeff: tinsley grew emotional at the realization she would be recognized as a published author. >> it makes me say that i am one, because i have so many

journals that i have written in private. and, you know, because i was afraid to share my writings with people. >> it helps our city know itself. jeff: know itself? >> yes. really know. and then our role is also to shout from the rooftops. you need to listen to this. you need to read what this person wrote. you need to understand all this. ♪ jeff: darcy thompson ended this day gathering material from another generations-strong gospel family. the pimpleton singers, known for carrying on the gospel quartet tradition. one more part of the city's history, now being preserved. for the "pbs newshour," i'm jeffrey brown in louisville, kentucky. ♪

geoff: over the last five years, more than 170 churches have joined the reverend dr. heber brown the third's mission to address disenfranchisement and food insecurity. tonight, reverend brown shares his brief but spectacular take on nourishing the mind, body, and soul. >> one of the thurn -- one of the things i learned about thing a pastor is so much of my work went beyond sunday morning. i was sharing life with people and as i shared life with members of my church i learned so much about the pressing matters of their lives, like their health and finances and food needs and their households. and that pulled my heart to do something more and do something different with respect to how i showed up as a pastor.

i was a pastor for 14 years and after 14 years i left the ppulpit, went to the farm. so my ministry continues, but now i'm kind of a preacher and a farmer all together. while i was pastoring pleasant hope baptist church, i noticed that many of the members of our congregation were being hospitalized repeatedly for diet-related issues. when i noticed that pattern and i recognized that the nutrient-rich food that we needed was too expensive for me and our members, we started growing our own food. i watched that garden transform the lives of the people of that church. the magic was in the garden and in the food. i was led to establish a national organization called the black church food security network. the church has served as a hub for the african-american community, and so it only makes sense to utilize the existing assets of the church in order to address our food and health

concerns. now, we're upwards of 250 member congregations and more than 100 black farmers in our directory as well. the misconception that the black community is wholly deficient when it comes to addressing health challenges and food insecurity is a dangerous one. because what i have seen is that in these same communities where there is high prevalence of diabetes and kidney challenges and heart disease, there are also the ingredients to help address and overcome those very challenges. what we do have in black communities is relationships, heritage, history, and yes, faith institutions, many of which have been around for 100-plus years, that can serve as a stable bedrock and foundation for the co-creation of a more just, ethical food system that's better for people and the planet.

i am reverend dr. heber brown iii, and this is my brief but spectacular take on nourishing mind, body, and soul through african-american church communities. geoff: and you can much more brief but spectacular videos online at pbs.org/newshour/ brief. amna: and we will be back shortly with a story about a native tribe in minnesota that welcome home their ancestor's remains more than a century after they were removed. geoff: first, there is a chance to offer your support which helps keep programs like this one on the air. ♪ amna: for those of you staying with us, we have an encore report on what was once the most popular sport in the u.s., cricket. it was overtaken by baseball in

the years after the civil war but it is now seeing a resurgence thanks in part to thriving south asian american communities who revere the game. this story originally aired on pbs news weekend. it's game day in germantown, maryland. players warming up, parents settling in on the sidelines, and the unmistakable sound of summer in america, the crack of bat against ball. but it's not baseball that brought these crowds out today. it's cricket. on this sunday, two local youth cricket academies are squaring off. those are the mavericks in red and the jaguars in blue. one of the first batters up for the jaguars is 12-year-old aakash venkatesh, whose journey to cricket was a long one. what was your first sport? >> soccer. amna: and then after that? >> tennis. amna: then after that? >> badminton. amna: was there any sport you didn't try? >> football because too much contact. amna: i hear that

>> with other sports, i'd played it, i had fun but then it got boring after a couple of weeks. with cricket i just felt that spark. amna: a spark fanned into an all-consuming passion by his parents, including mom sunitha, who dutifully drives aakash and big brother adithya to dozens of matches every year across maryland and virginia. >> we just love it. i see the games going on. i see parents cheering, supporting the kids. the loud keeps going on. amna: cricket keeps this family close. it also filled every corner of their home, from trophies lining the shelves. >> one of these ones i hit 100 and this one here. not this one. this one. this one here was -- amna: so are many, you get them confused. to a makeshift practice pitch in the basement. much of that enthusiasm comes from dad, venky, who grew up loving the game in india.

>> i started playing cricket right when i was probably eight or nine years old, and had a dream built around cricket. one day i wanted to be a cricket player. amna: when the couple moved to america, more american sports took center stage. >> we introduced them to all the american sports initially. they tried tennis, soccer, basketball, swimming, but after a couple of weeks, the energy died down, and cricket was the last sport that was introduced to them. amna: and this time it stuck. >> we all played at some point or watched it. sometimes we'd like put it on the tv, and then watch it all together. it's just a fun thing to do together. amna: the family trains together, honing the boys' skills in a game that's now catching on across the country. and it's not as easy as it looks. cricket was invented in 17th century england and spread

across the globe with the british empire, arriving in australia, the west indies, and india by the 18th century. the game is played on a 360-degree field with batters on one team trying to score runs by hitting the ball past fielders and a pitcher known as a bowler on the opposing team, all while protecting their wickets from the ball. it remains most popular in former british colonies like india, pakistan, south africa, and australia. so why is this old british game taking off in the united states? >> a confluence of things is happening. amna: aishwarya kumar of espn says immigration to the u.s. from cricket-obsessed nations is one reason. >> the south asian american population is exponentially increasing. it was 3.4 million back in 2010. and it's 5.4 million now. amna: another is live streaming cricket, keeping fans connected to the highest level of play like the indian premier league, no matter where they live.

>> there is a global movement around, ok, we can stay in india and australia and still watch cricket that's happening in the u.s. amna: another reason. money. as the audience has grown here, so has the financial investment. >> a lot of resources are being poured into building stadiums and actually like making sure that there is infrastructure in place and resources in place to develop something from scratch and get people excited here. amna: that something, major league cricket, or mlc, launched this summer, an american competition hoping to win viewers around the world. >> we think for the casual american sports fan who's never seen a game should come and take a look at one and i think they'll be hooked. amna: vijay srinivasan is co-founder of the league. >> it's not the traditional image of cricket that many people in america have, which lasts several days. and you know, there's people dressed in white clothes and sit down for a cup of tea and wait for lunch and so on.

amna: the league, featuring six teams from across the country, was a passion project for srinivasan. he founded a live streaming cricket channel in the early 2000's, which showed him there was a viewer base in the u.s. hungry for elite competition. this season sold out most games, and srinivasan says there are plans to build more stadiums and infrastructure. >> that's going to change the landscape for cricket hugely in this country. and hopefully with the cricket world cup coming to the u.s. next year, it's going to be a very different picture a few years from now. amna: a picture that may feature future pros like aakash and adithya, who is now trying out for the under-19 team usa. so i'm going to ask you both a question and i want you to both answer at the same time on the count of three, ready? who's the better player? one, two, three, go. [laughter] >> at the moment? i'm excited, because i mean now like the cricket here is getting

a lot better. so at the end of the day if we become like a great nation in cricket, we might be rivaling up against india, pakistan, those kinds of teams that it's going to be fun. amna: what's it like for you as a parent to watch your children succeed in this sport that clearly means so much to you? >> it's kind of a dream come true. nothing else apart from that, and i can say i'm living my dream through them. amna: a dream carried across an ocean and a generation that found new life here in the u.s. ♪ geoff: a native american tribe in minnesota recently welcomed home five of its ancestors, more than a century after their remains left the state. their burial sites had been looted by a white landowner who took them to connecticut. the remains sat in a basement until state officials stepped in, hoping to right a wrong.

as native american heritage month comes to a close, reporter kaomi lee of twin cities pbs has the story. kaomi: on this october day, despite the bitter wind and cold, a homecoming occurred. some 120 years after being removed from their graves in minnesota, five dakota ancestors finally came home. dozens of members of the prairie island indian community gathered at a burial site an hour south of minneapolis. it was a sacred ceremony, one we were not allowed to film. the ancestors were carried down the hill as drums rang out. a ceremonial fire was lit and their remains were placed on scaffolding in the open air. this lasted four days, as is custom, until their final burial. >> it's a feeling of excitement for many. kaomi: franky jackson is with the tribe's historic preservation office and was one of the organizers. >> what it allows them to come

together as a community and put together this burial practice to welcome relatives back. >> it's an unusual story. there aren't many instances where human remains that were excavated in the 19th century have survived this long. kaomi: historian paul maravelas researches the area where the ancestors originally were buried, lake minnetonka, on the western outskirts of minneapolis. >> lake minnetonka has a heavy concentration of mounds. some archaeologists claim that it's one of the most dense areas of mound-building in southern minnesota. kaomi: in 1875, an attorney from connecticut named carrington phelps acquired an entire island on lake minnetonka. he renamed it phelps island and built a lodge. it was also home to two native american burial mound groups. the lake was considered sacred to the dakota and other tribes who used it as their final resting place.

>> almost 500 mounds at lake minnetonka that were counted and mapped in the late 1880's. most of these were excavated at lake minnetonka by 1890. there wasn't a sense they should have been preserved as we think we today. kaomi: and were they novelties, souvenirs, people grave digging? >> absolutely. kaomi: in 1902, phelps lost ownership of the island. he had already moved back to colebrook, connecticut a few years earlier. it's believed he took with him native ancestors who were buried on the island. their remains were given to the colebrook historical society a decade ago when his descendants sold the house. according to the colebrook historical society, the family made no effort to hide the fact that he brought the bones back after he destroyed the mound. over the years, they showed them to people as if they were souvenirs. they eventually made their way to the connecticut state archaeology office. that agency complied with a federal law called the native american graves protection and repatriation act. it requires institutions that

are federally funded or located on federal land to identify and return indigenous ancestral remains and objects to the native nations to which they belong. but 33 years after it became law, anthropologists like carlton shield chief gover says compliance is falling short. >> museums have too much stuff that has remained unanalyzed, unstudied, since it was recovered in the 1930's and 1940's and no one's touched it since. we still have so much that's remained unanalyzed. kaomi: a propublica investigation this year found that a handful of american institutions, including prestigious museums and government entities, still had not repatriated large numbers of native american ancestors. the law doesn't address native remains in private collections, as was the case with these ancestors. that helps explain why it took so long to return them to minnesota. >> the relatives that are coming back now, that's one example of the tribes working collectively

to reconcile relatives outside of minnesota. kaomi: franky jackson says bringing home their ancestors has been rewarding and worth the effort. >> to play just a small role in that is incredibly rewarding and satisfying, but more importantly for those who reside here in minnesota, it is one of those ultimate acts of sovereignty to reclaim our relatives in this way. kaomi: for the "pbs newshour," i'm kaomi lee in welch, minnesota. ♪ amna: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. thanks for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by. >> consumer cellular, this is sam. how may i help you?

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