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station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the "newshour." the department of justice is warning that america's elections are once again under foreign assault. more on that shortly. >> we start tonight's program in georgia where authorities say a gunman opened fire at a high school killing four people, two students and two teachers. at least nine others were injured. police say they have arrested a student who is the suspect and investigators say they don't yet know a motive. this morning about an hour outside of atlanta, all too familiar scenes of chaos. ambulances and police cars racing toward appalachia high school in georgia after reports of an active shooter. dozens of emergency vehicles and a medevac chopper descended on school grounds. as students sought safety on the football field. all the while, parent worried

sick. >> i'm shocked because, this is -- stuff like this never happen here's. going to school, during school, after school, whatever you do, just pray. you never know when stuff like this is going to happen. >> nearly 2,000 state of the unions attend the school. the new school year kicked off about a month ago in early august. this afternoon, county officials identified the shooter a as colt gray, a 14-year-old student at the school. he'll be charged with murder as an adult. >> our school resource officer engaged him. the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, it would end with an o.i.s., an officer-involved shooting. >> judd smith is the faroe county sheriff. >> this hits home for me. i was born and raised here. i went to school in this school system. my kids go to this school

system. i'm proud of this school system. but i want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. >> in washington, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said president biden had been briefed on the situation and called for action from congress. >> students and teachers deserve to know that their schools are safe. they should focus on learning, not lockdowns. >> and the shooting reverberated on the campaign trail. vice president kamala harris began an afternoon event in portsmouth, new hampshire, on a solemn note. >> this is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies. and it's just outrageous that every day, in our country, in the united states of america, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive. >> donald trump writing on his social media platform said in part, our hearts are with the victims and loved ones of those

affected by the tragic event in winder, georgia. another school shooting, another community tonight in mourning. >> now to the day's other top story, foreign efforts to interfere with the u.s. presidential election. >> in a press conference this afternoon, u.s. attorney general merrick garland outlined what he called sophisticated disinformation campaigns undertaken by russia and other adversaries promoting lies via fake news outlets and real social media influencers and garland issued this warning. >> the justice department's message is clear. we have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government. we will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by russia and iran as well as china or any other foreign malign actor to

interfere in our elections and undermine our democracy. >> joining us now from the white house is national security council spokesman, retired rare admiral john kirby. admiral kirby, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> these efforts, it's safe to say, are a long way from russian intelligence hacking and dumping emails like they did with the d.n.c. in 2016. before we dig into specifics today, big picture, briefly what does all of this say to you about how russian election interference has evolved over the years? >> they've gotten more sophisticate. they've gotten more organized. frankly they've gotten more funding. the support right at the top of the kremlin, we believe mr. putin is aware of this scheme or these scheme, i should say, there's more than one. but they've gotten a lot more clever. and unfortunately for them, we've gotten pretty clever too. we've gotten pretty smart as well. we were able to detect and monitor these threats and take

action to hold them accountable. >> one of these schemes, as you put it, the department of justice has charged two employees at a russian state controlled media outlet, rt, saying they poured $10 million into an effort to distribute content with hidden russian government messaging. what type of messaging are we talking about and where might people have seen it. >> a great example of the messaging is blaming ukraine and the united states for the terrorist attack that happened this moscow several months ago that we all know was conducted by isis. even isis acknowledged that they conducted that attack. on that concert hall. so that was one example. another example is continuing to put out information to undermine ukraine's fight for its own democracy and for its sovereignty. it is messaging and disinformation, propaganda ta tries to undermine public support for what ukraine is trying to do to defend itself.

and a range of other things that russia wants to do to portray the united states as some sort of evil actor in the world. there's a series of initiatives that they're undertaking, again to undermine faith and confidence in democracy writ large, certainly undermine faith and confidence in america's democracy. >> one of the other schemes laid department of justice seizing 32 internet domains they say were used to spread russian propaganda with the aim of influencing voters in the u.s. and foreign elections including the u.s. 2024 presidential election. i want to show for our viewers the websites were designed to look like u.s. information and news sites like these that you're seeing right now that look exactly like "washington post" articles but they are not. admiral kirby, can these kinds of sites be taken down faster than they can keep going up? is it safe to assume the information is still out there? >> we're going to keep having conversations with tech companies about making sure they're aware of these threats

and these actors out there. we have to rely on them to take the decisions that they deem are appropriate to their own policies and procedures. but we are going to keep having that conversation with tech companies. but i think what you're seeing here, i'm glad you mentioned the design agency and what they've been doing. on one hand you've got them using rt, a former propaganda outlet, now a full-on influence organization, to work through funding companies. even a company here in the united states. to get them to push information out in the vein of a legitimate media outlet and working at a tactical level with social media influencers, many of them as the attorney general laid out are simply made up. fictional persona. but they're going at it from a media outlet perspective. they're going at it from an individual social media user perspective. >> when it comes to influencing especially the 2024 presidential

election, attorney general garland said they're seeking a preferred outcome here. what's the preferred outdismom what do you see the russian propaganda working toward? >> they are working toward undermining u.s. policies. the kinds of u.s. policies that this administration has been laboring so hard to pursue around the world. shoring up alliances and partnerships in the indo-pacific. supporting ukraine, obviously. >> is that to say they're working to undermine the democratic candidate, in this case, kamala harris? >> i don't have specific evidence i can speak to about undermining a particular candidate but we have seen in the past where mr. putin certainly has shown a proclivity for one particular candidate, but again, i don't want to get ahead of where we are right now. where we are right now is, we know that they are using these tools, these vehicles this funding, to tsao discord and try to increase disunity here in the united states.

>> wouldn't it help people, though, to spot some of this is disinformation if they knew it tends to lean one way or another? >> that's one of the things we did today. why the attorney general went public. that's why we here at the white house laid it out. the state department. the treasury. part of the aim of educating the american people is to disclose what we're seeing out there and the kinds of content they're putting out there. as i said in my opening statement today in the briefing, it can't just be the government doing this. we need the help of american citizens to bear a hand here and to carefully and scrupulously take a look at what you're digesting, the news information you're getting online or elsewhere. to try to make sure that you're getting the absolute best, credible, most accurate information you can. >> it is also worth pointing out, people start voting in this election very soon. within days. and the last day of vote, election day is just over 60

days away. a lot of this content has been out there for a while. had millions of views. are these steps and actions coming too late to have an impact? >> we hope not. the timing today was driven by the scope of the investigation that the attorney general talked about and he made it clear it's an ongoing information. there may be additional actions here coming. i don't know. but it was driven really by the stat towfs the investigation. that was what was really on our minds. and as soon as we could package all that information up and get it out in the public domain we wanted to do that. >> that's national security council spokesman admiral john kirby joining us from the white house. thank you, sir, good to see you. >> thank you. >> we start the day with other headlines from ukraine, where

volodymyr zelenskyy accepted the resignation of a minister. four other ministers submitted resignations. it's said to be the most significant overhaul of zelenskyy's cabinet since the war began. zelenskyy, who was in ireland today, said it was time for a change as the war against russia drags on. >> i am very grateful to the ministers and the entire cabinet team, working for ukraine and the sake of ukrainians. today we need new energy. these steps are connect. they are only connected with strengthening our state in various areas. international politics and diplomacy are no exception. >> russian strikes killed at least seven people and injured 50 others in the western city of laviev. the long-range strikes come a day after one of the deadliest attacks on the war, a missile attack on a ukrainian military

academy that killed more than 50 people. in the middle east, israel's operation in the occupied west bank shows no sign of letting up after more than a week of deadly raids. 33 people have been killed so far. most of them were militants. they have seen the most fatalities including a 16-year-old girl laid to rest today. her father said she was shot by israeli forces yesterday when she opened a window curtain during a raid. israel says it's looking into the incident. >> all the neighbors are witnesses. she didn't go to the roof. she didn't hurl a stone. she wasn't carrying a weapon. she is 16 years old. the only thing she did is she looked from a window and the soldier shot her in the forehead. >> meantime in gaza, the u.n.'s children's agency says a polio vaccination campaign has now

reached some 189,000 children. unicef called the program a rare bright spot in the ongoing war and says it hopes to expand the campaign to harder-hit -- harder-hit areas. in the u.k., an investigation into the grenfel tower it's aer found the tragedy was avoidable. they found mistake necessary government, the construction industry and firefighters were to blame. the independent investigation started soon after 72 people were killed when a fire broke out at the apartment block in west london during the early hours of june 14, 2017. british prime minister starmer said his government is sorry for the loss of life and vowed to act on the report's findings. >> i want to start with an apology on behalf of the british state to each and every one of you and indeed to all of the families affected by this tragedy. it should never have happened.

>> the report clears the way for a law enforce. authorities to finish their criminal investigation of the disaster. the effort had been put on hold to avoid any conflict with the independent inquiry. prosecutors are not expected to announce any charges until the end of 2026. a global human rights watch dog has implicated vrenz way lease security forces on the -- in the deadly crackdown on protests after the country's elections in july. human rights watch outlined evidence to linked the country's national guard to some of the killings that took place as people protested the outcome of the vote. president niclas maduro said the protests were an attempted coup. in an effort to distract from the election, maduro went on tv to declare christmas is literally coming early. >> september is coming. and i said it smell liebltion christmas. that's why this year and homage

to you, in gratitude to you, i'm going to decree, christmas starts on october 1 for everyone. christmas is here with peace, happiness and security. >> separately the pentagon said today that a u.s. navy sailor has been detained in venezuela after traveling there on personal business. official says the visit was not authorized. the navy says it's working with the state department to monitor the situation. in northeastern nigeria, locals say at least 100 villagers were killed. wile the death stol in dispute local police say more than 50 extremists opened fire on a market and people's hoanls sunday night before setting buildings on fire. the radical islamic group has killed thousands of nigerians since launching an insurgecy in 2009. it's also displaced more than two million people. on wall street today, stocks ruggled to find their footing.

the dow jones industrial average added just a few points, largely unchange. the s&p 500 ended a bit lower n the day. there were more victories team u.s.a. at the paralympic games in paris. ox san in a masters sped to victory in the paracycling timed trial. shot putter nicole broke her previous world record with a throw distance of just over 14 meters, easily clearing her path to goal. and the u.s. women's cheel wheelchair basketball team won a close game against great britain propelling them to semifinals. still to come, a contemporary artist takes the ancient tradition of basket weaving in new directions. and a retired scientist teaches others how to experience nature without sight. >> 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. >> today in new hampshire, vice president kamala harris unveiled more of her economic plans. proposing tax breaks for new small businesses an a change to the capital gains tax. >> if you earn $1 million a year or more, the tax rate on your long-term capital gains would be 28% under my plan because we know when the government encourages investment it leads to broad-based economic growth and it creates jobs which makes our economy stronger. >> that is a smaller increase on investment income tax than what president biden has called for in his latest budget proposal nesm which i -- the economy and inflation are top prior first voters and on the trail harris and former president donald trump have highlighted their different approaches if elected in november. our white house correspondent

has been covering both candidates' plans and she joins us now. laura, always good to have you here. let's start with vice president harris. walk us through the key points in her economic plan that she says will lower costs for everyday americans. >> in addition to the capital gains tax she propoadz, today she announce shed wants to do a $50,000 tax deduction on expenses for small businesses. that's an increase in the tax break from $5,000 for startups. she has a goal of 25 million new business applications in her first term were she to win. it's built on other key proposal she is has already outlined, outlined as early as last month, of her economic proposals that include the construction of three million new housing units. 25,000 -- $25,000 down payment assistance for first-time home buyers. a federal ban on price gouging food and groceries. and wants to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. she wants to permanently expand

the child tax credit to $6,000 for middle and low income families for the first year of their child's life and made the promise that president biden made which was to not raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. so ultimately a lot of her proposals are very similar to president biden's. >> what about when you compare them to former president trump? >> economic policy is not necessarily a regular part of trump's stump speech but he plans to fix inflation on day one. >> on my first day back in the oval office i will sign an executive order directing every cabinet secretary and agency head to use every tool and authority at their disposal to defeat inflation and to bring consumer prices rapidly down. it will be a whole of government effort to raise the standard of living and make american life affordable again. >> donald trump has provided little specifics on how exactly

he would lower inflation but here's what we do know about his economic policy. he said that he wants to cut taxes for corporation, lowering the rate from 21% to 15%. eliminate tax on tips and social security benefits. institute a 10% to 20% tariffs on all foreign goods with an extra focus on china imposing tariffs of 60% on chinese imports. he wants to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent, the 2017 tax cuts which saw the corporate rate be implemented at -- tax cut be implemented at 21% and individual tax cuts across all earners, especially top earners, those tax cuts will expire next year. he wants to make them permanent. >> when you take a step back, big picture, when you compare the harris vision and the trump vision, what are the key differences? >> the biggest differences are on their house, taxes, tariffs and mass deportation of migrants proposals when it comes to how it will impact the economy.

we spoke to multiple economists including mark zandy, chief economist at moody's. he joked if you put 10 economists in a room, they'll come out with 20 opinions but he cited warnings from 16 nobel laureate economists saying that trump's plans would increase inflation and that's what moody's found. >> president trump's policies would lead to a somewhat diminished economy. not a recession but a diminished economy. slower growth. higher -- somewhat higher unemployment. ultimately higher inflation and higher deficit, debt. if you're a high net worth household you'll do better under president trump but i think if you're kind of a middle income american, lower income american, you'll do better under president harris. >> one of the similarities mark zandy said is that proposal to eliminate taxes on tips. both have said they want to do. but a lot of economists say that people who necessarily rely on

tips for their well being don't pay that much in taxes to begin with. so they question the impact. and overall the attitudes of the two candidates are very different on the economy. on the -- on trump's campaign arguing that his is about a less globalized approach and that he wants to promote investment. harris is more focused on the middle class. specifically parents and housing. >> as you talk to the experts and they look at both sets of policy proposals, what do they say could be the biggest impact of those proposals? >> one of the proposals that multiple economists raise was trump's plan for mass deportations of millions of undocumented migrants. j.d. vance, his running mate, said that's their housing plan. that ultimately u.s. citizens are fighting for housing with migrants and do porting millions of migrants could make housing more affordable. we sphoak michael strain, an economist with the conservative american institute, and he said that would be detrimental to the

economy. >> what that would do ve move hundreds of thousand, maybe even more, undocumented workers from workplaces. when you walk into a grocery store the price of fresh produce would go up. the price of a hotel room would go up. the price of a restaurant meal would go up. and maybe the price of home construction. >> he said ultimately the way to fix the housing crisis is to build more homes but also when it comes to impacts on the nonpartisan penn-warden model found that trump's proposals increase the national debt more than $5 trillion over 10 years by comparison's, harris' plan would add over $1 trillion over the same amount of time. >> what about when you talk to voters. this is the number one issue for them, what do they think of this plans? >> this is consistently the top issue for voters across the spectrum.

a new nbc poll found that gen z voters, cost of living is their top issue. we spoke to a number of votes for the states like pennsylvania and wisconsin. robert nics who voted for trump in 2016 and 2020, said that he feels trump just says whatever people want to hear and he doesn't like trump's 3r0 posal on tariffs. we spoke to ethan throant voted for trump in 2020 but is disenchanted with him now and said he's not necessarily a fan of either candidate's policies. he said trump's policies are too vague, but harris' federal ban on price gouging is something he's skeptical of. >> lawyer remark great reporting. thank you. >> thank you. >> today's justice department indictments alleging ongoing russian efforts to spread

disinformation come just two months before election day. moscow's attempts to interfere in u.s. and other elections are nothing new. though their tactics and strategy are constantly evolving. before today's announcement, special correspondent simon estrefosky sat down with an investigative journalist who uncovered other russian efforts to tsao doubt and chaos, this time using artificial intelligence. >> russia's foreign intelligence service has a new plan to influence western countries in this election year. russia's c.i.a., which goes by its initials too s.v.r., plans to use art official intelligence to mask a sophisticated effort to internear a third straight u.s. presidential election. first a quick tour of 2016. >> russia if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> russian intelligence hacked this democratic national

committee and hillary clinton's campaign chair, thousands of emails were then dumped in a coordinated fashion to influence the race. that's not to mention the operations of russian troll farms that created thousands of digital sock puppet soldiers to repeat, repeat, and repeat messages that boosted donald trump at hillary clinton's expense. >> an information war on the rest of the world. >> the man who helped uncover this effort is an investigative journalist who unmasked many intelligence operations. perhaps most famously he found those who poisoned navalny in 2020 and helped navalny who died in a russian prison this path february, confront one of his assailants. you discovered a program that the russian security services are trying to develop. what is this program actually

about? >> access to a mailbox belonging to a senior intelligence officer working under cover of a commercial company in russia. that mailbox contained reports that criticized the handle og they have global propaganda effort by russia, saying we're losing to the west, we're losing to ukrainians. everybody loves ukrainian, everybody hates russia. we have to change this. they decided to use a.i. to make it indistinguishable from the regular flow of information we're getting. >> we know russia has been trying to pit western societies against themselves at least since the 2016 election. what's different about this new effort you've discovered? >> they will infiltrate western organizations, some of them organizations that are in defense of western values. they're going toin filtrate pro-ukrainian organizations and within those organizations create dysfunction. they're going to make unreasonable demands of western

leaders. making western societies tire and get annoyed with these ukrainian demands, in quotation marks. they're no longer going to defend russia, they're going to cause disruption in western societies. >> they're no longer trying to convince our societies that russia is great, they're just going to use various different mefort des to make us angry at each other, angry at our ally, angry at ukraine? >> that's exactly. so that's bad news and good news. the good news is part is they realize the ship has sailed in trying to convince the rest of the world that russia is a powerful good. >> who's taking the lead on this snrojt who is running it. >> this is the foreign intelligence various of russia. and -- >> s.v.r.? >> s.v.r. they are criticizing the other agencies as having failed so far. the proposition to the kremlin is let us take care of this, we know how to do it better. initially we thought it was one proposal that may not have been accept. but followup documents show the

program has been apreusmed kree re-kreutment has started. there's even a document, a letter to thed of the s.v.r., which is allocating particular people to the program who will work under kremlin initials. >> is there anything you can tell me about how you got the information? >> since the war started, the source of russian databases is harder to get and easier to get. harder because there's a clampdown on providers. but easier because there's whistleblowers and activists, russian hackers that hack their own officials. the letter is what happened with that. the owner of the program admits to being a high-level s.v.r. officer in his own c.v. i made available to you. >> in his resume. >> in his resume. >> his resume states he's worked for the foreign intelligence service of russia since 2001 and

oversees 40 agents. lists among his achievements the roll utah of 1,500 propaganda campaigns that supported achieving russia's goals in the international arena. he also boasts of receiving a medal in 2019 for developing new sources of information for the country's top leadership. he was able to obtain his i.d. badge from an email attachment, revealing s.v.r. agent's face for the first time. >> he had an i.d. for the common people and for the real bosses he admits to having worked for 19 years as a senior officer at the s.v.r. the s.v.r. officer delegated to this program, seconded to this program, his name is andre, and he has a diplomatic passport. we expect he'll be able to travel to western europe and the united states. maybe not after this program. >> i read in one document that

you got access to that they plan on hijacking our personal communication device. what does that mean? >> they plan to do insertion of advertising which is in fact hidden as news and in this way bombard the target population with things that sound like news but are advertising content. they plan to disguise that advertising content on a person-to-person level as if it is content from their favorite news sites. we haven't seen that in action. but it's an intent. they claim they have the technology to do that. they are very explicit they're not going to use russia related platforms or separate platforms. they're going to infiltrate the platform the target already uses. that's what sounds scary. if they developed anything like that, we would not know that one sentence from what we use and read in the "new york times" has been altered. just for you. as a reader. to mislead you in what the content, the neefng article is.

>> then the target is you and i and the yen public. >> the target is the general public. on the mass but custom, custom made scale, they specifically talk about using a.i. to customize the message based on the biases and preferences of each individual user. and while before they couldn't do that even with a troll farm run by a group of 1010,000 people, it can only customize 10,000 targets. now you can do that with tens of millions of people. >> the documents hacked from the inbox describe in stilted bureaucratic language an ambitious plan to shake the so-called main adversary, the west, to its very foundations by secretly influencing key figures with now disinformation techniques this. text reads, it is proposed that the theme of our campaign and countries of the main adversary by instilling fear in recipient, the strongest emotion in human psychology. >> the same team from russia's

foreign intelligence that's behind this global program is doing specific hit jobs on specific enemies of the russian state. this -- these hit jobs go under the cover program name that means ice pick. because ice pick is what stalin organized the assassination of trotsky with last century. and there's no doubt that this is the meaning of this character assassination tool. >> now it seems like they're being much more targeted in trying to essentially send disinformation to specific key individuals around the target. >> they have a term in russia, to make them unhandshakable. somebody nobody would want to engage with on a day-to-day basis. >> the program's goals are prodder than kremlin opponents and is one more thing for u.s. news consumers to watch for leading ups to the election.

>> the ancient native tradition of weaving baskets is grabbing the attention of the art world with one artist taking the form in new directions. jeffrey brown takes us to maine for arts and canvas. >> that one right there is a large, healthy brown ash. see how similar it looks to the white? >> we're with jeremy frey looking for ash trees, which has been important in the basket making tradition for centuries. >> that's a perfect basket making tree. no knots, no branches. i'll be making a basket out of that someday. >> you will? >> dwrea. >> these days the fruits of his

work can be found in a different set, art museums. in his first solo show, woach, and the portland museum of art and in other collections. baskets of colors, shapes, sizes made over the last 20 years, with refinements frey introduced such as fine weaves and double wall baskets, one within another. >> if you dug way down there's color under there. >> i didn't see. >> i did that for me. >> all of it building on sench roifs knowledge and craft. >> weaving is so simple. it's up down, over under. it's a simple, binary process. ones and zeros. how do you make that more? >> the making of baskets, weaving, has been going on for a long, long time. >> yeah. >> all over the world. >> yeah. >> you like being part of that history? >> i do like being part of that history. i had this thought the other

day, in thousands or tens of thousands of years, of nearly every culture in the world doing this, no one has ever done what i've done. >> he refers to the baskets as woven sculptures. with this exhibition he's played with form in new way, creating flat print a kind of basket vortex that spiral into the wall. and a video capturing the making and fiery loss of a basket. >> i have this duality going. i want to exist as a contemporary artist. but i also have a native side to me that is always going to be present in this -- and this work comes directly from that. it's like balancing that, doing that in a respectful way is important. but also, you know, stating, this is me. >> a member of the passamaquoddy nation, he grew up on the reservation near maine's board we are canada. he can trace basket making back seven generations in his family.

in the studio are baskets made by his grandfather. but frey himself didn't come to it until his 230s when he sought to get past a rough time of drug use that had begun in his teens. drug use would lead to the loss of many of his friends. his mother suggested he take up weaving to stay focused and keep busy. >> i remember it being very frustrating. probably partially what i was going through but also trying to learn the techniques. the tension of the wood tends to want to spring apart at times. >> sort of a metaphor for life, isn't it when you're telling me what you're going through at that time, resetting your own life. >> yeah. challenging myself. i didn't know it at the time but i think the act of weaving helped save my life. >> learn traditional techniques and then began developing his own. every basket a result of weeks and months of work.

pounding. spraying. straightening. splitting. gauging. cutting. dyeing. weaving. in addition to ash he works with sweetgrass for braiding. cedar bark. and porcupine quills for the tops of baskets. all of it he has gathered or harvested himself. >> why is it important to do it this way? come into the woods, fine the exact right -- >> for me so some people buy their materials. but for me i fine that when you harvest your own material, there's something spiritual about that. but beyond that you get exact quality you want. having that connection, it's -- it's part of basketry. >> he learned first from elders, including members of the maine indian basketmakers alliance, intent on furthering and preserving the craft. he began taking his work to craft marks and fair, gaining

attention and winning prizes including 2011 best in show at the renowned santa fe indian market. and the art world, eager to expand its bound roifs contemporary art, began to take notice. the portland museum of art's co-curator of this show. >> baskets of the kind are seen within the dichotomy of art and craft. art versus craft. so much of what jeremy frey is doing is achieving -- attuning people to the extraordinary vision and genius behind these works. that absolutely deserves to be considered within a quote-unquote fine art context. but not abandoning the incredible craft roots and processes that bring it to life. >> but even as basketry begins to reach new and growing museum audiences, it faces an existential threat the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle

decimating the ash trees. >> you can tell the same story with another material but it won't be ethis same story. you can make the image look similar but it doesn't have the history, the cultural significance. the material isn't necessarily going to behave the same way. >> for now, frey is harvesting more trees than he needs an storing them against the grim future. while also enjoying the attention he's getting in what he admits is a very unexpected, even surreal, present. including the packed opening for this exhibition. dism it was intense. overwhelming. still doesn't really feel like it happened. like i'm still -- i don't know. at the end of the day i feel like a guy in his studio making baskets. yeah. it's pretty cool. >> the next stop for jeremy frey's exhibition woven is at the art institute of chicago

where it opens october 26. for the "pbs newshour," i'm jeff ry brown in portland and eddington, maine. >> we'll be back shortly with the story of a retired scientist who started guiding a unique nature walk after losing his sight. >> but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support which helps to keep programs like the "newshour" on the air. ♪ >> for those of you staying with us, ask many preteens what's at the top of their wish list and there's a good chance the answer will be skin care in. this encore report, special correspondent and "washington

post" come um nist katherine explore this is growing concern about this boom. >> none of emma scott's -- one of emma scott's must-have products is glow recipe toner. >> it smells good. >> sort of fruity. >> her preferred body butter, sol de janeiro. in her skin care fridge -- >> i like this mask. >> and butter balm. >> it's a limited edition. i was like, i really want this. >> scott does a multistep skin care routine every morning an every evening. >> in the morning i'll do a face wash. a toner. a moisturizer. and my elf tinted s.p.f. >> move over barbie. today's betweens are obsessed with expensive skin care, products usually marketed to a much older, wealthier clientele. households with betweens ages 6-12 spent almost $2.5 billion

on facial skin care last year, an annual increase of more than 7%, more than double the average. this is scott's skin care crew. a group of friends and fellow skin care enthusiasts who meet daily. usually online. to bond over their beauty regimes. >> i don't moisturize my hands. >> the girls' parents are getting up to speed. >> i don't use a whole lot of anything. it's been ieye opening for me. >> amy is emma's mother. >> sometimes i get her leftovers. i have started to use a gel moisturizer she turned me onto. >> and you got her leftovers because she didn't like it? >> no, she was just sick of using it. she's always looking for the newest thing. >> get ready with me for the day. >> the newest thing as seen on social media. >> first i'm going to use these crops and then the oil. let's do it. >> youtube and tiktok team with

skinfluencer content. there are get ready with me videos of step-by-step routines. >> i love that stuff. it makes my skin feel so good after putting that stuff on. >> unboxing videos and p.r. hauls showcase the latest products. >> glow recipe. look how this box opens. >> she see this is person opening this product and it's like oh, i have to try that. it's very expensive. it's trying to say, let's talk about this. is it really worth it? >> the most popular place to shop for skin care, sephora. >> first things first, we need to see if they have the new sol de janeiro body cream. >> there's a girl i watch who goes to sephora a lot. >> you're kidding me. >> she'll buy all these products. >> how much do you think emma has spent this year? >> it's got to be hundreds.

>> the pink one. >> we tagged along with the skin care crew on a recent visit as they browdz, tested, counted their money, and spent. >> thank you. >> amy scott insists emma use her own money or gift cards from her birthday and other holidays. while this trend is certainly a boon for sephora, others reason sold. >> we're seeing 10 and 11-year-old girls bringing a shopping bag of a 12-step routine they do in the morning, a 10-step routine at night. >> nava greenfield is a dermatologist in manhattan. >> they may say, i want beautiful, flaws re, perfect skin. i'm like, you already have that there are few times in life skin will be more beautiful. >> got to keep those wrinkles away. >> greenfield blames influencers for convincing teens they need lotions and potions that contain

anti-aging agents like rhett knoll. >> ever since i took my mom's rhett knoll i'm aging backwards. i look so young. >> just like adults will use drr skin and what they're -- what they think is going on with a rush, teens will too. >> it's dr. tiktok, not dr. google. >> yes. >> it's not just young girls who think they need ex-tensive skin care. >> i have adolescent boys coming in and asking about botox. >> what do you tell them? >> i tell them, you don't need botox. i tell the girls too, you have perfect skin, i can't help you. >> i think it's wanting to fit in. feeling connected to their friends. being part of a new trend and craze. >> but psychotherapist sonia rodriguez says the high cost can be a stressor. >> this is a huge issue. a lot of parents can't afford this. and the kids feel like, i can't keep up with my friends. >> postpandemic betweens are

also hyper aware of how they lack on camera. >> i think now with social media and the pressure that kids are constantly feeling with all of the products that they're seeing, how people are look, the air brushing, there's so much pressure on kids to look a certain way. >> emma scott says her primping routine is just a hobby. >> doing it with my friends, it's fun. and i feel like it's relaxing. i can sit up here, watch a movie and have a facemask on and do all that fun stuff. >> amy makes sure her daughter carefully weighs each purchase. >> she'll says this at sephora. i want to see what it is, i want to buy it. why do you want to buy it? because so and so has it. that's no reason to buy something. >> dr. greenfield admits there are some benefits to the skin care craze. >> it's wonderful from my perspective that people are thinking about their skin and people are taking the health of

their skin very seriously. more so than we ever used to. but it's important to strike a balance. if their goal is to have healthy skin, well, that's about a cleanser, moisturizer and sunscreen you don't need more than that. >> despite what you might hear from dr. tiktok. for the "pbs newshour," i'm katherine rampel in greensboro, north carolina. ♪ >> finally tonight, the story of a man who found meaning in darkness. in this story, from kpbs's corey suzuki and carolyn corelis, we visit the tijuana river estuary in southern california where a volunteer is leading a tour that encourages visit dwrors experience nature a little differently. >> good question.

yes, this is lemonade bearing. the reason i know it's lemonade berry is because the leaves are thick and leathery, almost like the tongue of a leather shoe. i've learned to identify almost 40 plants just by touch. and also smell. my name is ron peterson. i'm 73 years old. i'm a retired scientist and engineer. i live here, i am blind. and we are here at the tijuana estuary, this is one of my homes away from home. there are several nature walks, there's several bird walks. one of those nature walks is mine. i'm a docent for this nature walk called the eye-opening experience without sight. where a blind person leads a nature walk and introduces visitors to the native plants with the emphasis on the other

four senses besides sight. let's start over here with a very special plant right over here. everyone take a whiff and tell me what you think. >> i don't love it. >> we have an i don't love it. midwest people don't care for it all that much. and this plant is actually called bladder pod. i think you can see why it has the name bladder pod. one reason i know this is buckwheat, i can -- i've worked here as a volunteer for about nine years. planting native plants and clearing trails. but then five years ago things kind of went south for me. glaucoma. i lost my vision. i couldn't work here anymore. i couldn't do the things that i was doing. a couple of years ago the idea came along that since i had already learned many of these plants by sight, i could learn

these plants by touch. and smell. and then share that with people. >> oh, wow. >> it's the wonderful feel and the special smells and there's even sounds. come on closer, folks. come on closer. the shape of these leave, if there's a strong breeze, they'll vibrate a little bit. it's really an aerodynamics thing. and that vibration causes the tree to kind of shimmer, some people murmur. in the breeze. feel this and smell this wonderful plant. the thing about giving to others is not only is it a good thing to do, it's the right thing to do. but also it takes the focus off of yourself. so you don't feel sorry for yourself. but it has helped me to wake up with a smile on my face.

to wake up looking forward to the day. and feeling like i accomplished something. at the end of each day. that i did something for someone besides me. >> and that is the "newshour" for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. >> i'm geoff bennett. for all of us here at the "newshour," thanks for spending your evening with us. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >> on an american cruise line's journey along the columbia and snake rivers, travelers retrace the route forged by lewis and clark more than 200 years ago. american cruise lines' fleet of modern river boats travel through american landscapes to historic land marks. where you can experience local customs and cuisine. american cruise lines.

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