>> good evening. geoff: on the news hour tonight, a second apparent assassination attempt on former president trump, this time at his florida golf love, raises more questions

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like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the news hour. the man suspected of trying to assassinate donald trump while he was golfing has been charged with federal gun crimes. amna: it is the second apparent attempt on the former president's life in just two months, casting a shadow over the 2024 presidential race. >> and -- an fbi investigation is underway one day after the secret service thwarted an apparent attempt on donald trump's life just on the other side of these palm trees. >> yesterday afternoon, this country was reminded of the heightened and dynamic threat environment the united states secret service and its protectees face on a daily basis. >> it happened while he was playing golf, at his own course near mar-a-lago. no injuries were reported. law enforcement remained clustered outside the perimeter throughout the night. in washington today, president biden responded to what now appears to be a second

assassination attempt against trump. >> thank god the president's okay. the one thing i want to make clear, the service needs more help. and i think the congress should respond to their needs, if they in fact need more services. >> the secret service said an agent had spotted the barrel of a rifle, pointed from shrubbery that surrounds the golf course. it was about 300 to 500 yards away from where the former president was playing. the agent immediately opened fire and trump was rushed off the course. the gunman dropped his weapon without ever having fired it - and fled. >> the swift action of that agent doing his job, pushing out ahead, sweeping while the president was behind him several hundred yards and several holes away out of sight from the gunman did his job and that was what alerted the detail and the swift action is what triggered that. >> on social media last night, trump credited the secret

service's, quote "absolutely outstanding job" keeping him safe. the palm beach county sheriff said the agency did exactly what it needed to do even if security wasn't as tight as it could have been. >> at this level that he is at right now, he's not the sitting president. if he was, we would have had this entire golf course surrounded. but because he's not the security is limited to the areas that the secret service deems possible. >> soon after the initial encounter, local police and a chopper descended onto the scene. and body cam footage showed the moment authorities arrested the suspect on a highway about 50 miles from the golf course. a witness had tipped off police to a license plate number for the suspect's vehicle. he was identified as 58-year-old ryan wesley routh. officials recovered two backpacks and a rifle with a scope, which were left behind on the outskirts of the golf course. and phone records show routh spent nearly 12 hours near the property before being confronted. today, routh appeared in federal court, charged with possession

of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with a destroyed serial number. if convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 15 years in prison. a look at public records and routh's social media history paints a picture of a once trump supporter turned critic with a deep fixation on ukraine and its war with russia. routh self-published a 291 page book on ukraine and global politics where he talked about the end of his support for trump. he's been interviewed several times over recent years about his support for the ukrainian war effort and even traveled to kyiv in 2022 in an attempt to join the front lines. >> my initial goal was to come and fight. >> routh also has a decades long criminal history that includes several misdemeanor and felony charges. he will be back in court later this month for a bond hearing and arraignment. in a post on x, trump quickly blamed the incident on democrats , specifically the so-called

rhetoric of his opponent, vice president kamala harris. and he suggested without evidence that violence like the sunday incident evidence that violence like the sunday incident would get worse unless undocumented migrants are deported. harris put out a statement condemning the attack. a bipartisan congressional task force is already investigating the first assassination attempt on the former president, when, in july, a bullet grazed his ear at one of his rallies in pennsylvania. they were briefed on sunday's incident by secret service and are awaiting more details -- details. ranking member on the task force, democratic congressman jason crow, spoke about the task force's work this morning. >> the scope of our task force was limited to investigating the butler pennsylvania incident, so it is too early to tell whether those same issues were at play here or not. >> it's unclear how the incident

will affect trump's schedule with just 50 days of campaigning left to go. for the pbs newshour, i'm laura barron lopez. amna: the white house as president biden spoke with trump and conveyed his relief that the former president is safe. let's look deeper now i the challenges facing the secret service. acting director ronald rowe again for -- begin vowed to take a look at the agency roscoe procedures after the latest attempt on the life of former president trump. >> our methodologies work in there now and and we saw that yesterday but the way we are positioned now in this dynamic threat environment, it has given me guidance to say we need to look at what our methodology is, get out of a reactive model and get to a readiness model. amna: for more, we are joined by an investigative reporter with the washington post and author of zero fail: the rise and fall of the secret service.

let's start with what we learn from the acting director this afternoon. the suspect did not have a line of sight to president trump and did not fire his weapon. what are you hearing from your secret service sources? do they consider this a success? carol: they do in one respect, and that is that this gunman never got a shot off at the agents for at former president trump and that's a lot better than what happened on july 13. in other words, they had a heavy contingent of agents with trump while he was golfing on sunday. people who were on the lookout for problems in the fairways and in the rushes and the woods ahead of him, a hole ahead of him, and agents behind him making sure nobody was lurking behind trump as he golfed, and that extra presence ended up being successful in that an agent assigned to trump's

protection was a few hundred yards ahead of him before he was golfing and was able to spot this gunman and a barrel poking through the fence line. what i'm also hearing is that director rowe is concerned about the safety of donald trump going into this. two times now in nine weeks, he's been the subject or target of a gunman with a long rifle and a semiautomatic and that is disturbing. there are questions about whether the service can protect him on an enormous field that is called a golf course especially when it is porous, unsecured and not on a military base as some of the places where president obama and president reagan used to golf. amna: you heard the report that if trump were the sitting president the security would be different. you noted the success in this

case, no shots fired and he remained unharmed, but has former president trump's detailed changed at all since the last assassination attempt and should it change moving forward? carol: it absolutely has changed since july 13. i am told that he had a contingent with him on sunday that was at least equivalent to the protection level for a president. what's different, of course, is that they did not close off streets, the public streets that border this golf course in west palm beach, and that might have been done or temporarily done for some fairways he was playing through that are very close to these roadways. you know, a gunman, if he had been more successful, would have been tens or dozens of feet from trump if he had not been spotted ahead of time, and if he had been president, those roadways may not have had the same kind of access to the government -- to the gunman who camped out for

12 hours before donald trump arrived. amna: you have long reported on what you have learned from your sources about the resources issue, the personnel and staffing issues within the secret service. you heard the acting director talking about wanting more resources from congress and moving from a reactive to a readiness model. what does that mean and what would it take? carol: i just want to underscore how dramatic it is what acting director rowe said. there's been no director of the secret service who has suggested there was anything that needed fixing in the protective model or suggested that the secret service was more reactive than proactive. in the 10 years since i covered a series of huge security lapses and gaffes, no secret service director has said anything but my guys did a great job against terrible odds, some paraphrase of that shape. it is a very, very big deal what

acting director rowe said today, that he wants to review how the protective model works and rethink it and where it may not be working well. he's also the first director to say publicly, and he did not say as much about this today, but he has said this in other settings i have been hearing about privately, he's the first director in those 10 years to say we are going to need a lot more money. we cannot, as he said today, continue to do more with less. and that's an acknowledgment that just is not part of the secret service's dna. they are always of the mind, and i have met many directors, hey, boss, we have got this, everything's fine. this is the first time i'm hearing a director either of these two things. amna: in the 30 seconds or so i have left, how worried are the secret service sources you have talked to about continued attempts against either president trump's life or any of

the other candidates? carol: extremely worried. after july 13, there was concern about copycats, someone trying to repeat what matthew corrects did in butler, pennsylvania. the fact that this has happened again only ratchets of the anxiety level and makes them convinced it could happen tomorrow or next week. amna: carol leonnig of the washington post joining us. thank you. carol: you too. ♪ geoff: the day's other headlines starred in central europe, where authorities say at least 16 people have died in catastrophic flooding. a storm system is pounding the region with unrelenting rain. poland, slovakia, the czech republic and southern germany are the hardest hit. our report.

>> such is the size and scale of the flooding across central europe it's being called a catastrophe. in poland, raging rivers and torrential downpours have swallowed whole towns and villages in the southwest of the country, leaving people stranded on the roofs of their homes. this the only means of rescue. whole swathes of the continent submerged by some of the worst flooding to hit in thirty years, from austria to romania. the gushing force of the floodwaters sweeping away everything in their path, destroying lives and livelihoods. the death toll rising from the devastation caused by storm boris. the waters in klodzko in poland ripping through, leaving no stone unturned and no street and road untouched. the highest rainfall has been in

the czech republic. in the town of jesenik, they spoke of barely believable water levels. >> the water was rolling in here the flooding here is a disaster. it's really terrible. >> in lower austria, the area surrounding the capital vienna's -- capital, vno's, been display or -- the capital vienna's been declared a disaster zone. two elderly men died here after being trapped by rising flood water in their homes. a firefighter also lost his life. these are difficult, dramatic times, the regional governor said. the country and the people are under immense strain. and it could get worse in places before it gets better. more rain is expected today and tomorrow before drier conditions move in. and storm boris moves on, italy next in its path. sejal karia, itv news.

geoff: turning now to the middle east, where palestinian officials say israeli airstrikes killed 16 people today across the gaza strip. one of the strikes crushed a home in a refugee camp in central gaza, killing at least 10 people. meantime, political tensions are growing within israel amid reports that defense minister yoav gallant may lose his job. israeli media say prime minister benjamin netanahyu may fire the popular former general. gallant has become the prime minister's biggest rival in the cabinet. speaking in washington, d.c. today, israeli opposition leader yair lapid -- who is himself a netanyahu critic -- urged the prime minister to keep gallant. >> i expect him to run the country better than he does, in ways, and i sure hope he will not fire minister gallant, who is doing a good job under terrible circumstances. geoff: for its part, the state department said today the u.s. continues to engage with

partners like egypt and qatar to try to present a revised cease fire proposal for gossip, but no timetable -- for gaza, but no timetable has been provided. the state department has marked the two year anniversary of mahsa amini's death in iran to call on the country's new president to do more to protect women. the 22-year-old died after she was arrested by iran's morality police for allegedly not wearing a headscarf properly. in a joint statement with other nations, u.s. officials urged the new iranian administration to "ease pressure on civil society in iran and to end the use of force to enforce the hijab requirement." amini's death sparked mass protests around the world. a crackdown in iran killed more than 500 people. and some 22,000 were detained. a gas pipeline that exploded in the houston suburbs this weekend sent a geyser of fire into the sky. a nearby neighborhood and some schools were evacuated.

officials say some homes caught fire. firefighters tried to contain the flames. the operator of the pipeline says the gas feeding the flames was shut off, but that it could take hours or longer for all the material to burn off. officials said the focus is on keeping the fire controlled. >> all the resources that can be extended are here and present. again, we're just in a containment mode to any of the facilities that are in close proximity. geoff: one firefighter suffered minor injuries. it's not yet clear what caused the blaze. the head of the u.s. postal service says he is fully committed personally to ensuring all 2024 election ballots are delivered on time. those comments come after a group of election officials raised concerns last week about the postal service's ability to deliver millions of ballots in november. in a letter today, postmaster general louis dejoy wrote that some 650,000 postal workers are

committed to "providing a secure, efficient and effective way for citizens to participate" in the election. he added that in 2020, 99 point 9% of ballots were delivered within seven days. boeing says it is freezing all hiring and will consider temporary layoffs to offset the impact of an ongoing strike by factory workers. more than 30,000 boeing staff on the west coast are on their fourth day of a strike for better pay. negotiations are expected to restart tomorrow. boeing has seen a drop in orders for new planes after a piece of a passenger jet broke off in january, sparking safety and production concerns. on wall street, the dow closed at an all-time high ahead of this week roscoe federal reserve meeting. the index added more than 200 points, racing its losses from earlier in the month. the nasdaq closed lower on the day, losing more than 90 points. the s&p 500 made minimal gains. and a passing of note.

tito jackson, one of the five brothers who formed the jackson 5, has died. he was the third of nine children and what would become a legendary music-making family. that's him in the back left. he sang background vocals and played the guitar for the iconic group, which ignited the career of younger brother michael jackson. ♪ >> saying -- sing a simple melody ♪ ♪ geoff: known for defining hits like abc and i'll be there, the jackson five were inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame in 1997. tito jackson was 70 years-old. still to come, tamara keith and amy walter weigh in on the political applications of a second apparent trump assassination attempt. warnings about sea level rise turned into a collaborative art project. members of the multigenerational apartment community give their

take on family. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: the justice department and tiktok faced off in federal court today over a law that would require the app to break ties with the chinese-controlled parent company, bytedance, or be banned in the u.s. mpr's bobby allyn is covering it all and joins us now. what did the lawyers for tiktok's parent company argue in court today and what was the case the u.s. government laid out? bobby: they say this is a free-speech violation in two ways. it would violate the free-speech of 170 million americans who use the app, over half the population, and lawyers say would violate the free-speech rights of tiktok itself.

we know it is owned by a china-based parent company, bytedance, but has a u.s. into the in the los angeles area and lawyers say that company, too, when it makes cure ration decisions about what people see on the algorithm, is a type of free expression. the justice department said hang on a minute. tiktok is owned by bytedance and it is not just china but it's a country that is a foreign adversary. this is a country who can do espionage on u.s. citizens. this is a country that might be interested in the data of americans. because of that danger, it needs to be shut down by january 19. geoff: how do we know that tiktok is a national security threat? bobby: tiktok'stheoretical, that has never shown any bulletproof evidence that the chinese government has interfered in the app in any way. they cannot show they have ever used it for spying or to

influence the app, but on the flipside, the department of justice says they have done a lot of probing through the national security apparatus and have come h a compelling case that china has the capability to use tiktok against americans but the details of it must a classified. the department of justice say the examples of how this is happening is top-secret and they will not review -- reveal it to the public or to tiktok's legal team. that has upset the legal team and tiktokers, who are saying if this is so dangerous, show us the goods. where is it? geoff: i have seen some numbers that half of all u.s. adults use tiktok in some capacity. is that the case? bobby: about half of americans are tiktok. it's extreme a popular with young people. interestingly, public support for banning tiktok has been on the wane. it used to be 50% last year and

now it is somewhere around 32%, which shows the american public is kinda backing away from this idea that it should be banned. it's notable that both the president so campaigns of donald trump and kamala harris have active accounts on tiktok. trump, of course, said he wanted to ban and tried to ban tiktok in the white house, now he says it is on -- he says he is on its side. kamala harris is on the team essentially that is now actively trying to ban tiktok. so there's a real question, if this is such a national security threat, why are these two presidential campaigns using it? geoff: what do we know about how difficult it might be for bytedance to sell or spinoff tiktok? bobby: it would be very difficult for tiktok to sell because the chinese government is not going to allow it. it would require the blessing of chinese regulators and they have said repeatedly that tiktok is not for sale, so that is one hurdle, but assuming they change

their mind, it would be technically incredibly difficult to spinoff tiktok. 90% of tiktok's users are outside of the u.s., so imagine that scenario. there would be one version of tiktok that would exist in america and then all these other versions that would technically be competing with the american version. it would be a disaster from a business perspective. tiktok has said repeatedly it's not feasible. so, to them, this is not a divest or ban proposal but just a ban. geoff: if tiktok loses this case, if they are ultimately unsuccessful, what does the future of this app look like in this country and for people who built careers as content creators mainly on tiktok? bobby: if this is upheld, as soon as january 19, there will be a big crackdown. the app will be kicked out of the app store and will no longer receive software update. it's going to die a slow death and eventually will not be

usable at all on any devices within america. and doing business with tiktok would become a crime prosecutable under the law, so this is a very high stevie -- very high stakes situation. geoff: uncertainty around this case. do we know what happens next? bobby: by september, we should get a decision from these three judges on the supreme court in washington. either side can appeal for the whole appeals court to listen and it can ultimately be appealed to the u.s. supreme court, which may have the ultimate say as to whether tiktok survives in the u.s. or not. geoff: bobby allyn, thanks as always. bobby: thanks. ♪ amna: today, the united nations call for an immediate cease-fire in gaza, the immediate release of israeli hostages and for

humanitarian aid access to be unimpeded. nick schifrin speaks to the head of the u.n.'s humanitarian effort in gaza. >> a former dutch politician and diplomat with years of experience in the u.n. and throughout the middle east, she is now the un's senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for gaza. she has visited gaza often since taking over the job earlier this year, and today briefed the security council. sigrid kaag, welcome to the news hour. in that briefing, the security council, you said the war had turned gaza into the abyss. what do you mean? sigrid: everything is destroyed, life has halted. over 90,000 have been injured. in that group, you have a lot of women, children, who have sustained life changing injuries, so it is dystopian. it's also strange, when you go to gaza, i have been going in and out over 30 years, to see

that there are no buildings standing. the roads are destroyed. people are all huddled in tents. it's a life-changing experience for everyone in gaza and for those who try to work there, to render assistance. it is something that you cannot imagine but only describe. geoff: let me highlight one recent success before we get to some of the specifics. thanks to agreed pauses in the fighting, the first of two rounds of polio vaccines have been completed and have reached 90% of gaza's 640,000 children. how has the world health organization, unicef and unra managed to do that in the middle of a war zone? sigrid: this is basically because they agreed and worked closely with the israeli defense forces, and at the political level, have discussed this with the authorities, and there should be humanitarian causes. the parties to the conflict agreed and this gave the space to actually reach people safely and securely, but also meant we

needed the equipment to work, the vaccines to be in gaza, and thousands of volunteers to be in a position to do their job. it demonstrates that you need political will to achieve these kinds of operations, because it's highly complex and dangerous. geoff: you noted that the breakdown of law and order and looting of supplies are impeding assistance distribution and you also have said there have been denials, delays and a lack of safety for humanitarian workers. how short is gaza of the assistance it needs? sigrid: the gap is significant and varies from day-to-day. it depends on the volume that gets allowed in, the gets cleared and checked, but also the ability of communitarians to come to the crossings, to retrieve it, take it back to the warehouses. that's where law & order and safety and security are issues. it's not only a matter of supplies to the crossings.

it's also our collective ability to receive and distribute. and a lot more needs to happen in order to actually be affirmative in reaching those goals. geoff: the u.n.'s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says between september 1 and september 9, only 62 trucks per day entered gaza, but if you ask israel, israel's coordinator for government activities in the territories point out that commercial palestinian trucks are entering, 163 just yesterday. why can palestinians bring in trucks at a scale that the u.n. is unwilling or unable to do? sigrid: i'm not going to make a blanket comparison here. what's important is that gaza needs both. it needs humanitarian goods, because they are free of charge at the end of the day for the population, and it needs commercial goods. the commercial sector has the means with the idf. it can also be from egypt, the

west bank or israel. they often organize themselves also that they have security on top of the truck basically. as humanitarians, we cannot do that. we are both vulnerable but also dependent on the approvals given. the most important comparator i would say, for october 7,000 o truck that day -- october 7, thousands of trucks that day entered gaza. you can then easily conclude that this is nowhere near meetingthe basic needs of the population and the needs have only grown because the whole of gaza lies in ruins. geoff: as you know, israeli officials question why there's any u.n. or humanitarian aid sitting inside gaza. they point out the distribution problems within gaza you have struggled with. what have you not been able to overcome some of these distribution problems? sigrid: i would turn the question around. there are rules and responsibilities.

humanitarian workers need to be protected. they cannot be targets. the safety and security needs to be guaranteed. if the volume is too little or it's too unsafe because the fighting continues, humanitarians cannot work. you can see that in the statistic, the high number of humanitarian workers who have lost their lives. i wish it were as easy as statements. the complexity of delivering on humanitarian assistance in a war zone, which is gaza, and the density of the population and they are huddled together in around 11% of the gaza strip, makes this a totally different story. we need a cease-fire and unconditional release of the hostages in order to actually start to reach people in a serious manner. geoff: last week, there were strikes on a u.n. school turned shelter in tents in a humanitarian zone that palestinians say killed as many as 40 people. israel says that in both cases the targets were senior members of hamas.

do you believe hamas is using you in schools turn shelters and the humanitarian zone as shields for their militant activities -- activities? do you believe these strikes were justified? sigrid: i do not think it's a matter of what i believe. we know that what international law says. civilian infrastructure should not be used by any of the parties and it also cannot be a target. we need to be mindful of the protection of civilians always in the proportionality in the conduct of war. i'm not in gaza right now and i'm not an investigator but we know the duty, the obligations on the parties to the conflict are very clear. geoff: part of your title is reconstruction, and the israeli military allowed foreign journalists to visit rafah and the philadelphia corridor. it looks like a moonscape. what will it take to reconstruct

gaza? sigrid: one has to imagine a moonscape with a very desperate population, a population that is highly educated, that is keen to have their children learning again, that yearns for cease-fire and the ability to restart what was left of their lives, so everything is needed. the costs will be humongous. earlier damage assessments done in march indicate the initial cost of $80 billion. the cost of reconstruction will be more in political and financial terms from stakeholders, the private sector and investors. we need to start the plans now. they are available. the palestinian authority has designed them. the international community has them. it's a hard, long slog that requires everybody and to not forget about the population in gaza. when there's a cease-fire, the work is only beginning.

geoff: thank you very much. ♪ >> and he acted on it. there rhetoric is causing me to be shot at. there was a brief moment after the first attempt on his life in which it felt like politics was

caused. there's really none of that now. have we grown numb to this violence? amy: it was a very brief pause. as the republican national convention was starting, there was this question, is former president trump going to tone down his rhetoric? are democrats toning down there rhetoric? there was some of that. it did not last long. it was brief. this time, it does feel different. i think the campaigns are treating it differently. obviously former president trump is treating it differently. that's partly because the suspect did not fire a shot. this was although a close call, an assassination attempt, it was not -- there was not a video of violence happening. i think part of that, there is less shocked this time than last time and i think the political response is different.

after the first assassination attempt that the harris campaign immediately said we are pulling all our ads down. no one is pulling ants down now. the election is 50 days away and there just was not a beat or a pause. amna: we were polling at the end of july, two weeks after the shooting in butler happened, and we were asking people a lot of these same questions about who do you blame for this or is there -- should democrats -- i think we set specifically, we asked specifically about the rhetoric of extremism to blame for this attempt? americans were divided 50-50. what's interesting to me as they were divided regardless of party identification. usually that is such a partisan question. do you think democrats are responsible for this? part of the reason it was so evenly divided was you didn't see the participation of either

trump or democrats in this conversation. it was very much of a -- we are talking about this person specifically who took the shot at donald trump. we are not making this into a political issue. donald trump did not make it as blatantly political as he is now so i would expect that we will see voters kind of follow where the politics go on this. the other sad and sadly predictable thing in this poll is we asked people whether they have concerns for political violence continuing. so this is at the end of july. what do we think political violence will look like going into november? 86% said they expected this. yes. and postelection as well. and only 20% or something said they were shocked that something like this could happen. amna: that echoes what we hear

from law enforcement and national security forces as well. speaking of rhetoric, we should note the vice president will candidate on the republican side, jd vance, continues to repeat baseless claims about the haitian immigrant population in ohio. this was their exchange with diana basch. take a look. >> i have to create stories so that the american media actually pays attention to the suffering of the american people, then that's what i'm going to do, because you guys are completely letting kamala harris coast. >> you just said this is a story you have created. >> yes. >> so eating dogs is not -- >> we are creating -- it comes from first-hand accounts for my constituents. i say we are creating a story meaning we are creating the american media focusing on it. amna: his point is he's trying to get the media to focus on illegal immigration and harris is that harris's border

policies -- and harris's border policies. patients in ohio are here legally. why are they continuing to repeat these lies? >> vance was unapologetic in that interview and what was critical -- and was critical of the host for even suggesting that these threats that have been called into schools and other civic places in the community of springfield would have anything to do with the rhetoric of vance and former president trump, who have both continued to amplify this, not back down, certainly not apologize, but that is the way of the trump campaign, of the trunk political -- the trunk political ethos, to dig in. they are trying to get people to talk about immigration in a way that has people focused on dogs and cats and hatian migrants and

people who are here legally so it's an unusual way to talk about immigration, but the other thing is it was a week where former president trump had a bad debate, where he went on stage and said he had concepts for plans but not actual plans, where a lot of things went wrong for trump and he has been struggling for weeks to get any political oxygen at all directed to him in any way that is on his terms, and this is a way they could get political oxygen on their terms. >> the interesting thing about that was the amount of time donald trump talked about immigration was a lot. he turned almost every question to immigration. very little of it did he turn to the issue that the majority of americans say is their top issue, which is the economy and inflation, where a lot of republicans walked away from that debate saying they couldn't understand why he did not pivot more to an issue where he also has an opportunity to put the

harris campaign back on their heels, which is to talk about inflation that occurred during that administration, so he wants to talk about immigration because it is a very comfortable place for him and he has an advantage there. the other thing that vance said that i think is important, by focus on the media, saying it's the media giving harris a pass, trying to both shame the media and the harris campaign into doing more of these sort of sit down interviews. >> the other thing is that the trump theory of the case, the way he's going to win this race if he is going to win is by juicing his base, getting his base excited, reaching out to the very voters who got him into office. that's who they are messaging to. they are not trying to win swing voters with this message. this is all about the base. amna: i need to ask you about a recent cook political report move when it comes to the senate map. we know democrats are on the back foot defending incumbents in red states.

you just moved one of those races, montana, from a tossup to lean republican. why am what could that mean -- why and what could that mean? amy: montana is the weakest link for democrats trying to control their narrow senate majority. montana is the most republican state after west virginia that democrats hold, and jon tester, the incumbent, was able o hold on. he's been there since 2006 in part because he was able to rise above partisanship. he was not as associated with the national democratic brand. that's getting harder and harder to do in this era. he has a very strong opponent, probably the strongest that he has ever had, and polling is showing that, you know, he's running behind not just where a democrat needs to be to win over running behind his republican opponent, so this -- so as montana goes, likely also goes

the senate, so if democrats are not able to hold onto man -- onto montana, even if they win the presidency, holding onto the senate becomes difficult if not impossible. amna: thank you so much. ♪ geoff: scientists project sea levels around parts of florida could rise as much as eight feet over the coming decades. the majority of miami-dade county is roughly six feet above the ocean today. one local artist is doing when he can to sound the alarm. jeffrey brown reports from miami for our ongoing coverage of the intersection of art and climate change. >> you are at four feet. >> at a community event in northern miami, xavier cortad

a is reminding residents held honorable their homes are. each number represents how many feet a property sits above sea level. the idea, to make people aware and get them talking in a city where sea level rise is becoming an existential crisis. >> it calls out the problem. it literally creates this process where neighbor tells neighbor these are the facts. this is the quantifiable problem that we have. >> his underwater project starts with a visit to this website where participants enter their address and discover their home's elevation. after writing that number on a sign designed by cortada, residents place them in their own front yards. >> that's what my art is about. you invite your neighbor to get in a conversation with you about that, and together you begin to figure out what you can do about it. and enough of that happens, i think we can begin to move the needle on this. >> cortada grew up in miami, the child of cuban refugees. his interest in art began at a young age watching his father and

uncle paint. as a law student in the 1990s, he became involved in addressing a variety of local community problems, including drug abuse and gang activity, and began to see how art can be part of such efforts. a 2006 fellowship in antarctica, where he saw up close the impact of climate change changed his life, and his direct commitment to using art as a tool of activism. by 2022, he'd became the inaugural miami-dade artist in residence. >> i think art plays that role, and i think artists are thought leaders. i don't think they're decorators. i don't think they're object makers. i think i think they help frame, and invite society to see and approach things. >> a painter, sculptor, and university of miami professor, his objects tell a story of rising seas, as with these concrete elevation sculptures, which he places in public parks across miami. always, he wants to reach people where they are. >> i think that's the kind of area where xavier's work is

really important. >> jennifer posner is director of programs for the university of miami's climate resilience academy, which supports research and solutions to address climate challenges. >> he's able to reach communities in a way that brings attention to this and makes them aware of what's coming in an approachable way, in a, you know, in a way that they can kind of connect with. >> she says art projects like cortada's are especially important to reach the communities most vulnerable to climate change. >> the fact is that the communities that are most in need, that have been historically the most disadvantaged, overlooked, are the ones experiencing the challenges of climate change most acutely. it's one thing when we see maps on the news that show that say, in 20 years we're all going to be underwater. he's been so successful in making these hyper local connections for people. where do they live, how high is their elevation, and what does that mean for them? >> our planet is in a little bit

of trouble. >> a critical part of cortada's work -- connecting with younger generations on this day at a summer camp at a school in miami's north bay village. here, the message was in the form of a mural. >> this is the elevation the feet above sea level of your school -- >> taking it all income 18-year-old ezekiel and 13-year-old alyn. >> signs when you see, kids more engaged, the parents will be more engaged as well. and overall just help for, like, what's going on in our community. >> art to me is like a way to like, express yourself and like how you feel like your thoughts. so i believe that it was like a great way to portray that. >> cortada well knows the political and other tensions over climate change and solutions, but he avoids that framing. >> framing this as a partisan issue isn't going to solve the problem. what i'm trying to do is let your neighbor from another party

across the street understand that it is black-and-white. it's the elevation of your home. the science in many ways should be the owner's manual for this minute, that -- for this planet, that it shouldn't be politicized, because antarctica doesn't care who you're voting for. it's still coming. >> she believes artists can make an essential contribution. >> artists are ahead of the curve in this way. this is going to be a healthy entry point for policymaking. >> and for xaxier cortada, it's personal. >> the son of cuban refugees who have seen their entire island and governance and nation falling apart, understanding the only place i have ever called home will not be here within a century. >> he hopes to soon have thousands of yard signs and several hundred elevation sculptures across miami-dade county. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in miami. ♪

amna: older adults will soon outnumber children on a global scale, so in a new spirit is, our brief but spectacular team is exploring our evolving beliefs about age. tonight, we bring you the story of bridge meadows, an innovative multigenerational housing community in oregon that builds connections between foster youth, their families, and elders. here now are three generations of bridge meadows residents on how living in this vibrant community has transformed their lives for the better. >> when they told us about this place, we were looking at each other like, is that real? >> they are not ripe yet. >> i have been here for seven years. i still remember the first time

they called me grandma kathy. bridge meadows is an intergenerational living space where we have children that have come out of foster homes and then we have elders. my husband had just passed away and in 2016 we didn't have the income. and so i had signed up for low income housing. they told me about bridge meadows. bridge meadows gave me the opportunity to come into other people's lives. >> we're all set up here in a semi-circle. >> when we got married, we initially were very clear with each other. we wanted to be parents. of course, we ran into, you know, issues with fertility stuff and that kind of thing. >> and then i was like, hey, we got an extra room, we got space. we are a good couple and we have

love to give, and this community needs us. >> at this point, we've fostered 14 kids in total over the course of a number of years and adopted two. >> i'm nine years old. i'm going into second grade. let's -- >> when you're in the mix, when you're being a foster parent and doing all the day to day stuff. you don't always have the supports grandma kathy is a member of our community that we met early on after moving here. >> victor was this little guy just running around, just full of energy. i was holding him and he was a baby at the time. you know, i just looked into his eyes and i just fell in love with him. >> she helps us when we need, like, a little break. >> she is the biggest hearted person that you can imagine. >> part of the design is for me to provide support for other families.

>> the intentionality of the place means that there's always that understanding that we're all here to connect with each other. if ever you need that connection, it's there for you. our elder neighbors are dealing with elder issues. we have a community support specialist that their specific focus is to make sure that the elders in our community are being as well served as the families and the children. so that means if they needed a ride to a doctor visit that that that can be provided for them. >> well, i have eight of my own grandchildren and i'm so far away from them that i don't get to see them. and these little boys, they are just so special. and i'm just proud to be their grandmother. >> it's been transformative for our kids. my name is brian parker. >> my name is josie parker.

>> and this is our brief but spectacular take on family. amna: you can watch all about the stories in our brief but spectacular series on aging online at pbs.org/newshour. join us again tomorrow night when we will kickoff a series of reports on controversial efforts to mine the ocean floor. that is the news for tonight. i'm on the -- i am amna navaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> on an american cruise line journey, travelers experience the heritage and culture of the maine coast and new england islands. our fleet of cruise ships explore american landscapes, seaside villages, and historic harbors, where you can experience local customs and

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