♪ ♪ amna: good evening. geoff: on the news hour tonight, former president trump sentencing in this hush money case is delayed until after the election. how that could affect the presidential race. amna: the united states adds a modest number of jobs in august,

a mixed picture for the economy. >> the issue we have been grappling with is the job market is cooling but it started from a level that was probably too high. geoff: with many schools in ruins, teachers in gaza struggle to educate children in makeshift classrooms. ♪ ♪ announcer: major funding for the pbs news hour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the news hour including jim and nancy build there and the robber and virginia schiller foundation. the jude are -- the judy and peter blum kovler foundation, upholding freedom by strengthening democracies at home and abroad. >> the john s and james l knight

foundation fostering engaged communities. more at kf.org. announcer: and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. ♪ announcer: and friends of the news hour -- ♪ announcer: 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 news hour. the 2024 presidential campaign is entering the final weekend before the critical for debate between donald trump and kamala harris. amna: while the vice president does debate prep, the republican

nominee was in federal court fighting to overthrow a tilting verdict while the other keys faces a delay. reporter: the former president began his day with a familiar legal battle. the new york city -- in new york city trump and his lawyers asked a court to overthrow a verdict that found him liable of defamation. she accused him of raping her nearly three decades ago. today donald trump lashed out against the accusations and once again claimed without evidence that the lawsuit was politically motivated. >> i'm running for president and i have all of these cases all of a sudden coming out. and they are fake cases. and they report back to doj. reporter: in another courtroom, illegal win in another case. a manhattan judge delayed sentencing in his hush money

case. by afternoon donald trump was back in north carolina making his case to the fraternal order of police. >> with your help we will restore public safety to our streets and we will bring back law and order to our nation. reporter: his democratic opponent spent her day in pittsburgh out of the public eye gearing up for next week's presidential debate. they had dashed her campaign -- announced that in august they had raised a stammering sum of money, nearly triple what donald trump has. harris begins the home stretch to election day with 404 million dollars on hand to spend. days after announcing her support for harris, former representative liz cheney said harris has a vote of another prominent republican, her dad. >> you care to share with us who you might be voting for? >> dick cheney will be voting

for kamala harris. reporter: as a campaign enters the final two month sprint, voting can officially begin. for the pbs news hour, i'm john yang. ♪ geoff: we start the days of their headlines inside a georgia court room. a teenager charged in wednesday shooting that killed four people made his first court appearance today and so did his father. they were arraigned separately in back-to-back to back hearings while families of the victims were seated in the front row. the suspects father, colin gray, faces charges of involuntary manslahter and second-degree murder for providing a far run to his son while knowing he was a threat to himself and others. the 14-year-old suspect will be tried as an adult.

both will remain in custody after their lawyers decided not to seek bail. southern california is sweltering in the peak of a late-summer heatwave with some places expected to soar above 110 degrees. excessive heat warnings are in effect until monday with triple digit temperatures on deck all weekend. with data out today showing it has been the hottest summer ever recorded worldwide. the european climate service copernicus says that puts 2024 on track to be the warmest year observed in human history. scientists attribute the heat to climate change. the white house is calling on israel to investigate the death of an american citizen in the occupied west today. witnesses say the 26-year-old woman was shot by israeli troops during an anti-settlement protest. dr. say she was struck in the head and later died and a hospital. the idf wrote that it's troops

fired towards the main instigator and it is looking at reports that a foreign national was killed. the u.s. are her terry of state said u.s. officials are gathering more information -- u.s. officials are gathering more information. >> i have no higher priority than the safety and protection of american citizens around the world wherever they are. this is something i take the utmost seriousness. when i have more info, i will share it and make it available and when necessary when -- will act on it. geoff: as israel appears to have withdrawn from several west bank refugee camps after a military operation that lasted a week and left dozens dead. residents of the janin camp describes the distraction as aware as they have ever seen. defense secretary lloyd austin

says they was will provide $250 million of additional weapons to ukraine. he made the announcement in germany today. ukrainian president pushed for permission to use long-range missiles -- long-range weapons. u.s. officials fear of such attacks could escalate the word. speaking to reporters today secretary lloyd austin defends the administration's position. >> we said all along there would be no one capability that will in and of itself be decisive in this campaign. each time we point out that it is not just one thing, it is the combination of capabilities and how you integrate those capabilities to achieve objectives. geoff: the meeting comes after a series of russian airstrikes this week including today's missile attack on a city in the eastern part of the city. regional officials say 50 people were injured. the chinese government says it

will no longer allow international operate adoptions of its children except in the case of blood relatives adopting the child. a foreign ministry spokesperson said the decision is in-line with the spirit of elective international conventions. more than 160 thousand chinese children have been adopted by overseas families since 1992 and about half from -- by americans. the state department is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of american families with pending applications. on wall street stocks tumbled after new jobs report sparked new worries. the dow jones industrial average dropped more than 400 points. the nasdaq fell more than 400 points and it is now more than 10% off its record highs. yes and p 500 closed out its worst week since march 2023. it is the sprint to the finish for the paralympic games in

paris. today's saw some impressive performances. a british cycling star, sarah story, added a 19th gold medal to her storied career. she won her first paralympic gold as a swimmer at the barcelona games in 1992. china's that a new world record in the qualifying heat in the four by 100 relay -- universal relay. it features two men and two women each with different disabilities. team usa's hunter woodall told cohen gold in the men's 400 meter and his wife herself a gold medalist in the paris ames was there to cheer him on. and a passing of note. celebrate a brazilian musician, sergio mendes has died. the grammy winner arranger was one of the country's biggest stars bringing bass anova to a global audience. ♪ ♪ ♪

geoff: his biggest hit was a cover of a song with his group brazil 66. he was still performing in 2023 but spent months dealing with the effects of long covid before his death. he was 83 years old. bill to come, deibert -- david brooks weighs in on the political headlines. the u.s. special envoy for sudan on efforts to aid civilians displaced by the civil war. and the start of the football season raises more questions about the sports risks. ♪ >> this is the pbs news hour from wep a studios in washington and in the west from arizona state university. geoff: the latest jobs report shows the labor market is definitely cooling-off. u.s. added 142 thousand new jobs

last month. the unemployment rate dipped to 4.2%. the report was better than july but with revisions and other data coming out this week, it shows a job market that is notably cooler than this last winter. this is being closely watched as the fed prepares to cut rates later this month. austan goolsbee is the president of the bank of chicago. it is clear from the dated that the job market is slowing down. what is your overall read of this report? and what it says about the strength of the u.s. economy? >> the issue we have been grappling with for a little bit now is the job market is cooling but it started from a level that was probably too hot. so what we need is to get it stabilized at a steady state, full employment kind of a level. there are a couple of warning signs here that as though job

market keeps cooling, and if we get more months that are below what we expected like this month or they revised what were already disappointing months in the previous two months downward, the more we see that, the more nervous we might want to be on what is happening on the state of the economy. geoff: how aggressive should the fed be when it comes to cutting rates at the meeting scheduled later this month? >> i'm not allowed to speak for anyone else on the committee, only for myself. i think we set a high interest rate more than a year ago and we have been sitting there with this high rate this whole time. and the conditions, more than a year ago when we set it, are different -- were different than they are today. the inflation rate is something like half what it was back then and we set it that high to try to get rid of inflation.

and the job market has cooled civic -- has cooled significantly. i expect multiple rate cuts over the next several meetings. if you look out over the year, you only want to be this tight as a central bank if you are afraid that the economy is overheating. this is not what overheating looks like. if anything, it is over cooling. geoff: there are some economists that say the fed is behind the curve and rate cuts won't help the economy in time and any rate cuts need to be significantly larger. where are you on that? >> i think the hardest thing for a central bank ever is to figure out exactly the timing. so, what we are trying to determine is, are we behind the curve? are we on the curve? what is to come? it is not just a backward looking thing.

we do not chatgpt style say -- well, if the job market number is x then that means y at the next meeting. i think we have to take seriously the idea that if you look at the long arc of the data, it is pretty clear what is happening. inflation has come way down and the job market has cooled. if we don't start moving a pace at getting the rates back to something like normal, we are going to increasingly have problems on the real side of the economy. geoff: a question about one aspect of the long arc of the data, if you look at the jobs revisions downward come in the last three months we have been creating 115,000 jobs per month, down from last winter. are you confident that we are not heading into a possible recession? >> that is the fear.

i don't want to express confidence about predictions -- the job of a central banker is to worry about everything. but that is the primary worry. with the slowing of the job creation and the rise of the unemployment rate, that it won't stabilize at something like where it is right now. if everything stopped and the unemployment rate was 4.2% and we had 100 50,000 jobs a month and that continued, that would be fine. that would be a steady state, full employment type rate that people have expected. the great fear is that it just keeps cooling and gets worse and that is what we have to try to guard against. geoff: i want to ask you about the commercial real estate sector. there are questions about whether the problems in that sector might spread. some analysts believe some office buildings will never recover to their pre-pandemic levels and you will have banks

and investors eating the losses. how do you see that? >> the office sector has been troubled. no question. you go to the downtowns of a lot of big cities and the vacancy rates are higher than what they were pre-pandemic for sure. part of that has to be sorted out -- how much will people be working from home, hybrid working and what are the demands for a space. the important thing after silicon valley bank collapsed, there was a fear that the office real estate issue would come to a head and be a real credit crunch on the banking sector. that largely did not happen. i think it is a safety and soundness supervision and it is a core function of the fed and the bank examiners are on top of these issues. and that is not separate from what happens to the rates. if the rates are coming down, it

makes it easier to refinance buildings to incur whatever losses have to be incurred and get on with it. we will have to see how those play out in the context of the rates. geoff: austan goolsbee is the president of the reserve bank of chicago. thank you for being with us. ♪ amna: it is back to school season and last night we brought you a report on israeli children displaced from their homes and schools by the war and violence. but in gaza, 620 5000 children have no school to return to at all. most of gaza's i've hundred 60 schools ve been damaged or destroyed and more than half been -- have been directly hit by israeli forces. nick schifrin reports with our producer in gaza, the few

remaining schools are now shelters for the displaced. reporter: in central gaza, a classroom is a tent. and the students displaced children of war. proud to contribute, eager to learn in class rather than from the conflict they have been forced to endure. >> we are trying to relate -- we are trying to provide relief for children through education and play. reporter: he is a net -- he is an elementary school teacher, himself displaced. >> as educators, we are trying to help students remember what they have learned and at the same time try to relieve them from the pressure they are under despite ongoing bombings and displacements. reporter: in a neighboring tent,

these triplets with their younger sister have a message for the kids around the world starting school this week. >> we are supposed to go to school. everyone has gone back to school except for us in gaza. you are so lucky. reporter: they have lost their home and been misplaced multiple times but have held onto their dreams. >> i wanted to be a doctor because i want to help people who are not feeling well. >> when i grow up, i want to be a teacher so i can teach kids and they can learn. reporter: and so the triplets leave their canvas home in this camp which has been their refuge for months, they cross a few steps over the sand to arrive at their canvas school. last rooms like these are all that gaza's children have in a work where the u.n. says that more than -- enrolled in schools have been killed. gazans save the entire

educational infrastructure has been eviscerated. the u.n. says 85% of gaza's schools have been directly hit or damaged. and in this war and in every war in gaza, u.n. schools transform to shelters for nearly 2 million displaced. like this school in this camp. classrooms once filled with students are now home to families where -- who have nowhere else to go. dishes rather than drawings. a kitchen and a bedroom all piled up in the corner. >> when we used to go to school, they would teach us that school is our second home but now it is, in fact, our only home. reporter: she was studying to be a dentist, at one of gaza's top schools. it was seen here before the war and today. the u.n. says all of gaza's 12

universities have been damaged or destroyed. israel blames hamas for fighting from residential buildings and using schools turned shelters as cover. despite it all she tries not to forget what she has learned or what she has lost. >> gaza was beautiful with its people, busy streets and food. we want to go back to that because we cannot get use to the situation that we are in. we are not resilient. we are forced and obliged to live this way. reporter: her mother -- >> it is as if we are dying slowly while still alive. we want these young kids and students whose lives were taken away from them to be able to live again so they can get up, get dressed, wear their uniforms coming in roughest and go to school. to see their teachers and

friends to study and excel. reporter: but those are dreams deferred. unicef estimates that all of gaza's children need mental health and psychosocial support. they have seen too much and had to grow up too fast. muriel is four. >> our home was to. there were injured people everywhere. there were rocks, little tiny rocks. i wish i could go to kindergarten and for the war to end and have a new home. reporter: but for so many, there is no going back. back home, back to school, back to what childhood is supposed to be. for the pbs news hour, i'm nick schifrin. ♪ geoff: donald trump has granted

a political reprieve -- is granted a political reprieve. kamala harris picks up some new republican support. on that and more we turn to the analysis of brooks and atkins storer. jonathan cape is away this evening. great to see you both. as i said, former president donald trump will not be sentenced in his new york criminal case until after election day. the judge explained his decision to delay the sentencing was in part to avoid any appearance of affecting the outcome of the presidential race. in addition to being a political analyst and opinion writer you are a former trial attorney. did the judge get this right? >> i think he did. he could have gone either way. there are arguments in either direction. the one thing a judge wants to do is make sure the ruling he

makes stick. and the fewer, the less obfuscation worker falafel happens -- or kerfluffle happens before the election. we are talking about something that is going to be less then a prison sentence. at best, probation and some fines. i think it was the right decision to keep it out of the political sphere entirely. geoff: you could argue though that this does affect the election in the sense that donald trump's criminal conviction will not be at the forefront of the camping in the final weeks to election day -- of the campaign in the final weeks to the election day. >> i have to believe it will affect the election. when the conviction in new york,

potentially with a sentencing -- i've not seen that much movement. people have their views of donald trump's morality pretty locked down. sometimes for those of us in this business it is worth reminding us that it is sometimes misleading to follow the campaign from day today -- day to day. voters are looking at the fundamentals. a lot of these events just come and go. geoff: donald trump is drawing attention about the way he answered a question about his child care plan. he asked how he would handle childcare legislation if elected president. here is part of his nearly two minute long answer. >> i think when you talk about the kind of numbers i'm talking about -- childcare is childcare -- it is something you have to have. when you talk about those

numbers compared to the kinds of numbers i'm talking about i taxing foreign nations at levels they are not used to but they will get used to it quickly and it won't stop them from doing business with us. they will have a substantial tax when they send product into our country. those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers we are talking about including childcare. geoff: your reaction? >> to paraphrase the former president, i don't know what he says and i don't think he knows what he is saying either. childcare is a gimme question. everyone cares about access to affordable childcare. it is a key point to our economy. and the fact that he starts wandering off about tariffs in china that have nothing to do with it shows he either has no plan or he has not given this any thought or both. i also think that if the

democratic party had a family talk about the cognitive abilities of joe biden, it is long past time that the republican party confront the same thing about donald trump. something is going on there. geoff: there is the way that he said what he said but also the substance of what he was saying. the notion that tariffs will take care of childcare costs. we should say that donald trump is polluting a 10% across-the-board tariff on everything imported into the u.s. economists across the political spectrum say that is a tax on consumers that will raise costs across the board. what is your take on how and what he said? >> he has been not understanding tariffs for about 10 years now. he things somehow you put a tariff on, the chinese will pay for it but as you said, the american consumer will pay for this.

he just doesn't understand what a tariff is. and he doesn't understand his basic fundamental policy. there have been a lot of bad policy ideas thrown around as there always is. i'm not a fan of how kamala harris wants to tax --. the single worst policy idea is the trump tariffs. that will raise costs and inflation. it will be a tremendous setback to the economy. and he says it because it sounds good like he is being tough on china. the policies are about sending an emotional image. geoff: back to your point, kimberly, about how president biden can mistakenly refer to the president of egypt meaning the president of mexico adding to this image that drove him from the race. while donald trump can ramble

through a statement like that and be ignored. >> as people see it more and more especially juxtaposed to kamala harris who whether you like her policy or not, she is speaking in complete sentences about her vision for the american future. nuc donald trump asked -- and you see donald trump asked a question about childcare and he cannot stay on track about it. think about leading a nation at this current time when we do want to keep the economy on track and there are threats domestically and foreign. people forgot about donald trump for a while but i think seeing this again is a stark reminder that there is a clear division and difference in this area. geoff: liz cheney this week said she is voting for kamala harris. that there has never been an individual in our country who is as great a threat to our

democracy as donald trump is. and speaking at the texas tribune testable, she said her father -- tribune festival, she said her father is also boating for camel -- voting for kamala harris. >> your father, do you know who he will be supporting or voting for? >> dick cheney will be voting for kamala harris. geoff: dick cheney, stalwart conservative, no one can accuse him of being a rino republican in name only. he served four republican presidents. what is the significance of their dual support for kamala harris? >> maybe a swinging left. for a lot of republicans, character comes before policy and i think the chinese are

among those republicans. and there were a lot of bush republicans got that was an article of faith. how interesting a decade the 2010s where when the republicans had a hostile takeover from outsiders. it left the bush people i know thinking, i cannot support this. 80% of the bush people and president bush and dick cheney are among them. the democrats had an attempted hostile takeover in bernie sanders but it didn't take. the republican party has left behind a lot of republicans like dick cheney. geoff: do you think this show of support will makea difference? >> i think it can in a certain segment. if you are talking to people disaffected republicans who might consider holding their nose and voting for donald trump

or staying at home, it is showing them there is another way. if they don't like what trump stands for and what he wants, there is way in this election to do something different and try to illuminate him from the political arena entirely. geoff: does the support from the chinese make it harder for a door w bush to stay on the sidelines or a chris christie or a chris sununu or a bellmawr to say that kamala harris is worse? >> bush is the happiest on the sidelines. kimberly said a lot of people thinking -- i can't vote for either of these people. janie gives -- i think it will help a certain segment. geoff: what are you watching for in the debates next tuesday? >> i hope they talk about the

supreme court. as long as kamala harris keeps her prosecutors stands, she will be able to handle donald trump. >> she hasn't done it so you don't know. for donald trump, everything is an alpha male dominance issue. he is physically bigger than she is and he will use it whether it comes across as obnoxious or aggressive and may only -- i probably already have my opinion on that. geoff: we will have special coverage on tuesday night. have a great weekend and thank you so much. ♪ amna: u.n. backed human rights investigator is accused both sides in the sudanese civil war of war crimes. and advocated for an independent

and impartial force to protect civilians. as a series of reports we have presented here on the news hour have shown, the area is devastated with more than 10 million people misplaced and tens of thousands killed. nick schifrin speaks with a u.s. diplomat working to address what has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis. reporter: the civil war are rubbed in more than 500 days ago between the sudanese armed forces and the rapid forces. today's call reflects the desperation to help civilians caught in the middle especially after u.s.-backed these talks in geneva failed to end at the fighting. i am joined by a u.s. special envoy to sudan. welcome back. eight as i mentioned, -- welcome back. as i mentioned, the geneva talks did not create a path to peace. >> we did have success opening

humanitarian supply routes. over 8 million pounds of food have moved. 3000 tons last week and areas that have not seen emergency food distribution for four months. on the issues of humanitarian access, we made significant progress angst to president biden and secretary blinken. protection of civilians where we have seen terrible atrocities on both sides, we got a code of conduct commitment from the rapid support forces. we have much more to be done. the goal is the cessation of hostilities. reporter: how do you end the war next? you try to get the sudanese armed forces who did not show up to geneva and the rapid support forces together again? >> we built it team of partners in the region along with the african union and united

nations. we are working with both the ri stuff and the army on important, life-saving steps to try to address the famine and civilian protection. that is why we are able to build a larger coalition. reporter: you described taking the same steps you already have but with all due respect they haven't worked. you have had previous talks in jeddah. can you focus on some of the external actors fueling this conflict? can you get the uae to stop sending weapons to the rsf? can you get the actors that have been trying to put their thumbs on the scale to stop doing so? >> we are pushing hard to extend the arms embargo to all of darfur. we believe it needs to be extended and see greater enforcement. the united states continues to raise the cost to individuals committing atrocities on both sides.

we are trying to build more partners coming in that can be part of doing that. reporter: you have any leverage at all over external actors, many of whom are u.s. partners when many of those capitals are hedging two months before the election? >> we have been very clear that we call on the external actors to stop fueling the war and to be supporters to the peace efforts. we will continue to lean on those efforts. reporter: you have described a lot of the actions that the u.s. has taken but have you threatened sanctions on the individual leaders? >> we have continued to increase the sanctions on both leaders. we have made those explicitly related issues, for example atrocity prevention and we will continue to have that be a central part of the strategy as

we look to raise the cost of those imposing the suffering on the sudanese people. reporter: you mentioned at the crossing between chad and are for her. the agreement to get aid across the crossing only last for three months. how will you extend it? >> we want to continue to show that this is a life-saving effort. it is something the sudanese people want and are appreciative of those leaders in and out of the country that are helping to get food and medicine to these famine stricken areas. we believe if we can continue to show those results we can extend the efforts going forward. we have a lot of people to reach that haven't been reached since the reopening spirit reporter: u.n. back investigators calling for an impartial force to protect civilians. force being the operative word. is that an idea you endorse? >> there is an understanding that we cannot keep doing the same things expecting a

different result. the scale of the crisis is being imposed on the people of sudan but also the region. recommendations coming out of the u.n. report are important and timely as we head into the u.n. general assembly and should consider them and build support for a wide range of options. reporter: let me read you a statement -- the u.s. administration has never come here. we have an envoy that have not -- has not put a leg in sudan. if you are serious, meet us in our country. >> i have traveled to sudan before. i tried to come to port sudan but was blocked. more recently we put a trip together that our diplomatic security team said would require me to just be at the airport.

we communicated that and they rejected the offer. we respected them rejecting that. every week i'm meeting with sudanese people from all 18 states. i meet with hundreds of sudanese virtually as well as thousands from the refugee and diaspora community. we will continue to meet with the sudanese people. geoff: thank you very much. amna: fans and families while packed the bleachers tonight in high school stadiums across the country as football season kicks off in earnest. after at least seven deaths tied to the sport in august including three teenagers that sustain fatal brain injuries, questions are being raised about the safety of the game. william brangham has more.

reporter: one of the deaths was a boy named cohen craddick, a 13-year-old from west virginia who suffered a head injury after making a tackle in practice. his father is advocating for the guardian caps. he wants his son's teammates to stick with the game. >> i told them that this is about -- that this is a bad accident and to keep moving forward. i did not want them to have the weight of my son on their shoulders. i wanted them to play for him. i don't think we need to take away football. i just think we need more safety measures out there to protect our kids. for more on the risks and rewards, we are joined by christen wednesday, the cofounder of the concussion legacy foundation. welcome to the news hour. we just heard from that father

who tragically lost his son to a traumatic brain injury and football. help us understand these numbers. why is it it seems that tackle football exert such a heavy toll? >> i'm focusing on traumatic brain injuries. i can't be that surprised that a few kids die each year playing football. there will be a billion head impacts created by football this fall. it is almost a miracle that there is only a few deaths. helmets have done a good job preventing deaths but they don't prevent every possible brain injury. and what are those impacts going to do over time? we will lose a couple now but more will suffer long-term effects down the road. geoff: is it that the science indicates that a repeated concussion -- percussion to the

brain over time has real problems as well? >> and that is the area of research i am focused on for the last 20 years. i took 10,000 head impacts and survived like most do but i didn't realize until after i stopped playing that that laid the groundwork for the potential for me to have chronic encephalopathy. these unfortunate dots give us a window into the fact that our brains are vulnerable. what we are finding is that if you have a long football career and take thousands of head impacts, the longer you play the greater the odds that you will develop a did -- a degenerative brain disease. geoff: what do you say to the many parents that say -- i hear

about the risks and they are isolated. there is so much upside, sportsmanship, camaraderie, exercise, the spirit this brings to young athletes. how do you help parents weigh the benefits with these risks? >> children will die in these activities. some have died randomly with heart disorders. the deaths don't tell us what to do. i tell parents that we want our kids playing team sports. they do wonderful things for their physical and neurological and mental development. what we don't need and what we have but should get rid of is our children getting hit in the head hundreds of times a year. not every sport has that. and those that do introduce a risk of concussions that can change kids and a risk of cte.

yes to sports but no to head impacts. maybe try another sport at least until their brain has had a chance to develop and grow. i would consider 14 to be a good guideline. no head impacts repetitively before 14. let their bring grow and then you can take greater risks when the kids understand what they are getting into. geoff: what else practically can parents do? is there any evidence that any type of additional protection can protect the head during tackle football? >> better helmets are better at protecting against concussions and brain injury. there is mixed evidence on the additional pads on the outside. i would recommend that parents have a conversation with their child's football coach about how they practice. the conversation we are not

having at any level outside of the nfl is -- we can change practice and get rid of half of the head impacts and risk if we just make a commitment to teaching kids how to play football successfully without them getting hit in the head every day. the nfl has almost eliminated hitting at practice and that is because the players fought for it. 12-year-olds cannot go up against their coach. but that is by far the number one thing that we can do to make football safer. change practice. geoff: chris of the concussion legacy foundation, thank you for being here. ♪ geoff: we will be back shortly but first take a minute to hear from your local pbs station. amna: it is a chance to offer

your support which gives programs like this a chance to stay on the air. ♪ ♪ geoff: for those of you staying with us, we take a second look at a burgeoning fashion sector. megan thompson reports from our arts and culture series. reporter: it was what you might expect of a high-end standing room only fashion show, stunning clothing, booming music and a decked out crowd recording every minute on their phones. what made this runway show different, the clothing was created by indigenous designers from the u.s. and canada. the event was put on by the southwestern association for indian arts. >> fashion week as the first indigenous fashion week house in the united states.

we have been invisible or minimal in some of these industries. we are creating a platform to highlight these voices in the world. reporter: over four days designers, models, media and more than 2000 fashionistas and fans packed photo ops and pop-up shops. 17 designers presented at two different runway shows. >> the original design is based on indigenous culture. reporter: 10 years ago amber produced a single runway show during its annual indigenous art market. she said interest has grown so much she had to create this much larger event but a native art historian says what is happening here is not necessarily new. for thousands of years indigenous people have been creating couture. >> you do not get more couture

than hunting an animal to make this pristine, beautiful exquisite material to make a one-of-a-kind garment. reporter: some designers put a modern spin on traditional materials like beards and feathers. a canadian, helen -- >> one question was -- you have to be indigenous? it is for everyone. reporter: for creators that do not have brick and mortars stores, the event gave them a chance to sell directly to customers. orlando designs luxury women's and men's where all hand made at his santa fe studio. his work is inspired by the stars which hold important spiritual and cultural meaning for the navajo. >> the stars show up in my work through beadomg and embroidery. reporter: his new collection

which he plans to launch next year is called stargazer. >> it is a ship traveling a galaxy. i want to represent my heritage without being literal in translation. a challenge is my work not being native enough for non-native people and also native people. >> there are expectations of what a native designers should be i have run away from that concept my whole life. reporter: patricia michaels has been in the business for 40 years and she has always dealt with stereotypes including in 2013 when she was the first native american on a long-running, hugely popular tv show project runway or she made it all the way to the final. >> living matter is important to us so many of the images i had -- i had painted silks and

different fabrications of textiles and they are ideas that come from nature. >> amazing. reporter: she recently made a dress for an actor that started in killers of the flower moon. >> i thought of an eagle headdress and that is the biggest honor. i took it from the men's head and i flipped it and put it at her core and i wanted her to feel like she was in flight. >> i remember when it was sheen full to be wearing anything indian and now, to see what has happened with our industry -- reporter: excitement and interest can lead to cultural appropriation when non-native designers profit from native patterns or motives without recognition. ralph lorenz came under fire for

using indigenous mexican designs. >> we are working to get native people in every department. reporter: a filmmaker and model has been working with ralph lauren. the brand announced its first artist in residence. a navajo weaver who has created to collection so far. he hopes fashion events like this will continue the progress. >> i hope this opens the eyes of the fashion world into our i dashed into our world and creates a bridge where we can collaborate with different brands as designers. reporter: this is her first runway show as a designer. the collection is and owed to the 1970's when federal law guaranteed native americans the right to religious freedom. >> i wanted to imagine -- what if we weren't always fighting. what if we could have some joy?

what would we wear to a disco? reporter: when saturday's runway show began, her looks where the first to come down the runway and seven more designers followed. for many of the spectators, the show was about more than just beautiful clothing. >> i'm speechless. >> this is history in the making. reporter: patricia michaels' designs ended the evening. her signature garments receiving a standing ovation from a devoted crowd. >> i see how it has evolved so every native tribe now can have their story told in a very contemporary sense without ridicule and with celebration. reporter: for the pbs news hour, i'm megan towson in santa fe, new mexico. ♪

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