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. ♪ and with the ongoing support of these institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the news hour. with less than two weeks until election day, former president donald trump is courting voters tonight in the state of georgia. but he is also facing blistering new criticism from his longest serving chief of staff john kelly who's sounding the alarm on trump's fitness for office, something kamala harris pounced on today. here's lisa desjardins. lisa: in swing state georgia, south of atlanta, >> president donald j. trump. >> former president donald trump fielded questions in front of a

friendly crowd a faith town hall of christians. >> when you and believe in god it is a big advantage from people who do not have that. >> but overnight, far harsher words from john kelly, trump's longest serving chief of staff, someone at his side for nearly a year and a half. in scathing comments and audio interviews with the new york times, kelly said trump behind the scenes display the tendencies of a fascist. >> certainly in authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. he falls into the general definition of a fascist for sure. >> the retired marine general says he will not endorse a candidate in the election. >> that is an enemy from within. that is really, that is a threat to democracy. >> but said trump's recent comments about using the military against domestic political opponents motivated him to speak out. >> i think this issue of, of using the military to go after

american citizens is one of those things i think is a very very bad thing, even to say it for political purses to get elected is a very bad thing. let alone actually doing it. >> kelly, who said trump would likely try to govern as a dictator if given another term, recalled trump repeatedly praising hitler. >> he told me that hitler did some good things. >> the trump campaign called the story fabricated and he is totally de-crowned himself. harris address the comments. >> he wants a military who will be loyal to him personally. one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their owes to the constitution of the. united states. we know what donald trump wants, he was unchecked power. the question in 13 days will be

what to the american people want? >> republican vice presidential pick j.d. vance, kept the focus on immigration as he rallied voters in nevada. from inside the treasure island casino in las vegas. >> right now thanks to border czar kamala harris's open border, there are 425,000 criminal illegal aliens in the united states of america. >> and with a high five to his son gus, tim walz cast his early bell in st. paul. in wisconsin where early in person voting began yesterday, lines stretched out the door at polling places. >> i didn't vote for him to be the pester of my church. i voted for him to do the president of this country. he is a businessman. >> she's got a good head on her shoulders. she's very intelligent and she knows the difference between right and wrong.

>> while harris has largely been off the trail this week, her camping amped up star power. >> president barack obama. >> in detroit, eminenem introduced barack obama who a performed a few of the rapper's linees. >> my columns are heavy, knees weak. >> harris is set to face voters in the cnn town hall tonight. >> the harris campaign says the vice president plans to make a major speech next tuesday at the ellipse in washington dc, on why voters should vote for her over former president trump and the location is the site where trump give a speech on january 6, 2021 that preceded the violent attack on the u.s. capitol.

as we just heard, retired general john kelly who was one of donald trump's chiefs of staff told the new york times donald trump would rule like a fascist if reelected. he also spoke to the atlantic's editor-in-chief goldberg for a new piece that quotes donald trump as was having said "i need the kind of general set hitler had." thanks for being here. so, john kelly confirmed to you that trump has said he wished military leadership showed him the same kind of deference that hitler's nazi generals showed him. people who were totally loyal to him that followed orders. walk us through that part of your reporting. >> well, you know, we have known for several years from other reports, backroom reports mainly, that trump particularly in moments of high tension, think the 2020 george floyd

unrest, has expressed frustration that in a democracy generals can't just be order to do things that they consider illegal or immoral. he had frustration with obviously the generals he had hired into his cabinet, jim matus and so on. but he also had frustrations with the pentagon itself. and so, these expressions of desire to be more like hitler and have hitler's relationship with his generals came out in these moments of tension and around that george floyd area where trump has been cited as saying why can't you go shoot them in the legs is what he said to the former secretary of defense. when john kelly explained to donald trump among other things, that hitler generals tried to

assassinate him, donald trump showed himself to be impervious to that knowledge and said, no, no, that's not true. so, kelly grew more and more frustrated with his inability to understand his role or what hit ler did. >> john kelly's,'s do not exist in a vacuum because they are the latest in a line of warnings from former trump cabinet officials and top aides about how donald trump views the presidency and how he would exercise power if reelected. did john kelly express concerns about how donald trump would govern in a second term, especially given that there will likely be fewer guardrails and a second trump term then existed in the first one? >> that is the assumption that we have to make is that, that the kind of person donald trump put in in the first term, jim matus, rex tillerson, john kelly, he has learned from his quote unquote mistakes and will get people who are more compliant. he's looking for obedience.

this is the thing that shocks him about american generals and continues to shock him is that they swear an oath to the constitution, not to the president. that is what is looking for, personal loyalty. and we know that from many other discussions we have heard around him. in terms of what people are expecting in a second term, i think it is fair to say that not just john kelly but a wide swath of of people who worked in the national security area from john bolton to mcmaster, too many others, have expressed varying degrees of concern that the guardrails will be off next time, and that donald trump will try to do the things that he wasn't quote unquote allowed to do in the first go around. yes, they are extremely worried about it. which is why i think you hear more and more of this discourse over the last couple weeks. >> you also report that donald

trump, then president trump, and july 2020, he promised to cover the funeral costs of 20-year-old army vanessa geyon, who had been bludgeoned to death and then he inquired about the cost and we need. trump became angry. " it does not cost 60,000 bucks to bury an effing mexican." he turned her mark meadows and issued an order ,"dont' pay it, ff'ing he turned to mark meadows and issued an o -- ff'ing people trying to rip me off." >> my source was in the room. there were some people that were upset about it. i have connotes that reflect that shock. it is shocking if you worked for him for a while because there is a lot of emotion that coursed

through that white house. obviously other people including medicine cash motel, the chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense, are denying that this happen. and issued a statement saying that donald trump was very supportive of the family peer the fact remains he did not pay, but there's a split, mark matos has said that this did not happen. -- mark meadows came out and said this did not happen. but i have confidence in my sources. he was triggered by this in a couple of ways. we know the subject of mexico and mexican is a sensitive one, to go back to 2015 when he was warning the country about mexican rapists coming across the border. that has better through line. and this is the larger point of the story, he has difficulty expressing admiration in private

settings and admiration for soldiers. when he reads from a teleprompter he says the right things, and he has shown sympathy to certain groups of soldiers in the past, but his relationship with the military, this goes back to my reporting that he called world war i veterans who had lost their lives suckers and losers. he is a complicated relationship with soldiers and away we have not seen another presidents. >> jeffrey goldberg, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. here are the latest headlines. boeing reported as $6 billion loss for the latest quarter. even as striking union workers vote on a new contract for the company's ceo announced plans today to turn boeing around by improving company culture and

boosting airplane production. but that can't be done until 33,000 striking machinists return to work after six weeks on the picket line. they are voting on a new contract today with results expected tonight. she said -- he said he's hopeful about the outcome. >> the vote is important. it is more important in terms of our long-term getting back to building airplanes, delivering good airplanes. so, we've worked really hard to find that overlap where we have got a deal that the employees can feel good about and the company can be successful going forward. >> the deal offers bonuses and a 35% wage increase over four were years and stop short of restoring a pension plan that was frozen. the u.s. government is finding american airlines $50 million for the carrier's mistreatment of disabled passengers and wheelchairs. the transportation department says the company failed to

provide assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaged thousands of wheelchairs between 2019 and 2023. transportation secretary pete buttigieg said the company's conduct was not just undignified but unsafe. authorities say that american will only need to pay half of the fine because it is getting credit for money spent on improving its handling of wheelchairs. and for compensating those affected. secretary of state antony blinken touched down in saudi arabia today, the second stop of his latest visit to the middle east. in riyadh, he met with crown prince mohammed bin salman for two hours. the two discuss their common efforts to end the war in gaza. today, the israeli army said it arrested 150 suspected hamas militants in northern gaza. and forced more than 20,000 palestinians to evacuate. blinken and the crown prince talked about the fighting in lebanon where health officials

say 28 people were killed in the past 24 hours. israel ordered residents in the port city to flea hours before -- flee hours before unleashing a new wave of strikes. >> we took the children, grabbed her we could and fled. we came back and looked at our house at collapse. there was only a small bed for my son. what could there possibly be here? >> the u.n.'s children's ages he says the fighting in lebanon has forced 1.2 million people out of their homes including more than 400,000 children. the justice department has reportedly warned billionaire businessman elon musk's political action committee that it's million dollars sweepstakes may be illegal. last weekend musk announced a million dollars each day until the election and has given away three prizes but to qualify you must sign a petition supporting the first and second amendments

and you have to be registered to vote in one of seven highly contested swing states paid federal law prohibits people from registering -- paying people to register to vote. pennsylvania voters must be given a chance to vote on election day if their mail-in ballot is rejected. the decision could affect some of the thousands of mail-in votes likely to be rejected in the swing state due to voters making paperwork mistakes. those voters would be allowed to cast provisional ballots. in arizona, federal agents seized 200 guns from the home of a man of the democratic party three times. jeffrey michael kelly was arrested tuesday night at his home in suburban phoenix. he is also accused of posting bags of white powder labeled as poisoned near political signs. baseball is the los angeles dodgers great fernando valenzuela. he died last night in l.a. we look back at how valenzuela's

meteoric rise helped elevate america's national pastime. >> the youngest major league opening day starter since catfish hunter 15 years ago. >> in 1981, this 20-year-old mexican born lefty sent the city of los angeles and the broader baseball world into fernando mania. fernando valenzuela pitched a shutout that opening day, the first of his eight straight wins, five shutouts. known for the rare screwball pitch, he earned rookie of the year and the cy young that season, the only pitcher ever to be honored that way. he led the dodgers team to the world series. they called him el toro, the bull, and he made the all-star team six years in a row, winning awards for both his fielding and hitting. born into a mexican farming

family,the youngest of 12 kids, failing swell of was especially beloved -- valenzuela was especially loved by the latino community. >> i love him, the dodgers our, all right! >> in 1990, his last year with the team, he left dodger fans a particularly sweet parting gift. >> fernando valenzuela has just pitched a no-hitter. >> after a 17 year career, fernando vallas window served as a color commentator for the dodgers spanish-language radio broadcasts. last night, after his death, dodger stadium's scoreboard was alight with his memory. major league baseball said it will pay tribute to el toro friday night in los angeles before game one of the world series between the dodgers and the new york yankees. fernando vallas will it was 63 years old -- fernando valenzuela was 63 years old. >> local officials in arizona,

but efforts to undermine confidence in the election. recent food poisoning outbreaks raise questions about safety protocols. and u.s. intelligence confirms the presence of north korean troops in russia. what it could mean for the ukraine war. >> this is "pbs newshour." from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> the u.s. intelligence community is warning that russia and iran are planning to stoke filings from election day through inauguration and between now and the election, those countries plus china will intestine -- intensify interference. that is just one of myriad

efforts underway to undermine the already fraud election here. for perspective on all this we turn now to graham brooky, and the founding director of the digital forensic research lab. thanks for being with us. russia, iran and china have conducted influence operations for years. how significant is it that the intel community is now warning that russia and iran are set to stoke filings between the election day and inauguration? >> as you've said, all of those state adversaries that you just mentioned had been conducting interference operations for years and years and years, including the past election. the intelligence community has done a good job preemptively putting out these assessments. at the 90 day period, the 60 day period and the 30 day period

before the elections and we expect more updates. what is interesting about this assessment is that it is particularly focused on information environment in the immediate lead up to election day and in the post election period, as well as the period in between election day and when we know the results of the election. and what we expect from those state actors is, potential october surprises. things like, crossing the threshold from broad influence operations to china change the behavior or perception of the american public to interference, which includes that type of mobilization towards a potential for mobilization for encouragement towards things like political violence or disrupting electoral processes. >>t hat fake video targeting tim walz, is that the kind of thing that russia pops out and tries to promote? >> yeah. we expect that type of content. i would rate that type of video as not necessarily as

sophisticated deepfake. i would rate it as a cheap fake, because it has just enough amount of granular bits of truth, the person that is, the person in the video is purporting to be is a real person. but the narratives themselves are false. and so, it has just enough truth to be believable. it has just enough truth to be a viable narrative but it is patently false. that is something that takes a little bit of research. it takes a little bit of sophistication, and it is something that we expect from sophisticated state actors like russia. >> walk us through what russia, iran and china are trying to gain with these operations and which candidate each country prefers. >> well, the u.s. government rates each one of those countries that you listed as adversarial states, meaning they are against the united states and when what the united states is engaging on around the world. they are geopolitical

adversaries. their tactics and information operations or influence operations are little bit different. what we're seeing from russia is persistent activity to, i guess one that is common across those actors is that each one of those operations or approaches to influence activity is designed to drive americans further away as opposed to closer together. they are intended to prey on divisive issues in the united states and up ideological differences. that's the primary through line across all of those state actors but the tactics that they take are somewhat different. russia is very very engaged in more granular kind of social understanding of what is going on in united states. china typically with influence operations is trying to paint america as a force for bad or ill in the world as well is even more specifically china as a force for good in the world. and iran, given the geopolitical

events in the middle east in particular, would be seen as more of a spoiler and their influence activities. they typically as a state after are more willing to cross that threshold from influence to interference. just in terms of their general approach. >> in the minute we have left, there is 1.i want to underscore because u.s. officials say there is no indication of that russia, china or iran are plotting significant attacks on infrastructure as a means of changing the potential outcome of the vote. >> that is correct and that is an extraordinarily important point. the voting infrastructure in the united states is safe and secure. it is very diffuse across many different, co. at the state and national level. so, the electoral infrastructure is very is trustworthy. the influence operations are

more designed to influence public opinion. or interference operations would be more designed to influence people to do an action. there are any number of case studies where those state actors have tried to get american people to do something. they haven't always been successful which is another really important point. the specter of foreign influence his sometimes a lot greater than its impact. >> we appreciate your insights. thank you. meantime, today the justice department announced developments in four cases involving domestic threats to election workers. two individuals were threatened -- were -- now election officials in maricopa county in arizona are preparing for around two. our white house correspondent

has this report from phoenix, arizona. >> those are the high-speed dominion tabular. >> richard is ready for this election. >> the average ballot will have 80 tests. >> the recorder that runs mail-in voting and maintains registration says he's ready for processing 2 million absentee ballots and for signature verification. but he's also ready for the backlash. >> we're very aware of the fact that arizona could be one of the if not "the" last state waiting to be called, and if you say it's all coming down to arizona, then you can bet that whatever emotion was already baked into the equation is going to be increased magnitudes. so, this is our main lobby. >> since 2020, this republican has faced an onslaught from his own party. undermining his office and trust in each election. >> it is clear in arizona that

they must decertify the election. you heard the numbers, and those responsible for wrongdoing, must be held accountable. >> we seem to be caught in a doom loop where politicians feed these lies to voters and so then it creates a feedback loop to politicians incentivizing them to keep doing it. >> illegal votes. >> arizona became ground zero for elections and nihilism in 2020. >> we saw a coup being attempted in america. >> republicans led by donald trump spread baseless conspiracies around the accuracy of voting machines and lengthy vote counts. election officials faced death threats and intimidation. >> we the undersigned -- >> trump allies falsely claim to be arizona selectors in an attempt to overturn the 2020 results. then the states

republican-controlled senate seized voting equipment in 2021 and ordered a forensic audit of the 2020 election. but it found no significant discrepancies. reaffirming joe biden's victory. now, donald trump's leading conspiracy theory is that democrats are signing up noncitizens to vote. >> our elections are bad. and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they are. trying to get them to vote >> in arizona we have a lot of safeguards to ensure that does not happen on any significant scale. we not only requires somebody to be a united states citizen, but to a full ballot in arizona you have to provide documented proof of citizenship. >> have you ever found a noncitizen that actually cast a ballot? >> actually cast about? no. i have found. noncitizens who have registered to vote i don't know that i have found a single one of a noncitizen who actually voted. >> given the wealth of

disinformation around the 2024 election, arizona's democratic secretary of state adrian fontes has spent much of this cycle trying to prepare for the worst. >> i'm concerned about any conspiracy theories that are peddled by candidates and elected officials. it's like whack a mole for conspiracy theories. if it is right now that the mythology of non-citizen voting is going to be the conspiracy theory du jours, so be it. >> he sees his office slow rolling civics lesson as addendum -- >> folks are starting to realize the security and the transparency of our systems can be depended on. i think that is why a lot of the selections and nihilism is waiting and becoming less popular than it was in years past. >> but election deniers are back on the ballot this november. >> my goodness, do we love this man? >> kari lake is running for

arizona's open seat in the u.s. senate. lake repeatedly spread lies that the 2020 election and her last race were stolen. >> people cannot take this level of fraud much longer. >> lake is one of eight election deniers running for congress, either for reelection or for the first time in arizona this november. and throughout the state, a number of influential republicans are still convinced that the 2020 election was rigged. craig is chair of the maricopa county republican committee. he believes that mail-in ballots are a problem. >> we have to decide whether we want to trade our freedom for convenience or not. and the mail-in ballots because a detriment into our freedom. but we also have the issue now because we are a border state of the illegals crossing the border. and being registered to vote. and the mail-in ballots, it all

combines into an issue that keeps us up at night. >> his basis for his distrust comes from the widely debunked conspiracy that maricopa county counted 200,000 mail-in ballots with mismatching signatures in the 2020 election. do you think the elections, all the elections that have happened since 2020, at the state level, local level, that they are not fair and accurate? >> since 2020? i would have to agree with that. i don't have evidence that would support it not being the case. i don't see, being involved at the level i am, i do not see that anything has changed. >> do you think that 2024 is being rigged, because donald trump is saying it is. >> i don't have any reason to believe it's not. >> but you do not have any evidence that it is. >> well, nothing's changed.

we are still doing massive mail-in ballots. >> his claims including that of noncitizens voting have been refuted and rebuked by the republican led board of supervisors around the elections. >> for members of our own party to turn around to question our integrity, to question our commitment, not only to the republican party but to this country, it has been incredibly hurtful and frankly traumatic. >> bill gates, the for its chairman, had to seek help for ptsd after threats in. 2020 he's spent the last four years trying to systematically disprove many of the allegations of fraud in the county. >> to still be here is incredibly frustrating. but we feel like the more information we can provide the people, the more access we can give them to our elections facility, the more likely are that we can change people's hearts and minds. it's not easy because we know that unfortunately people have

been fed lies about our election system now for literally four years. >> for stephen richer, this november will be his last as the maricopa county recorder. earlier this year, he lost his primary to justin heat, a state representative who has refused to answer whether he believes the 2020 election was stolen. instead, calling the maricopa county selections a laughingstock on social media. what do you think that says about the state of the republican party in arizona? >> one of the cornerstones of being of good standing in donald trump's republican party is that you give credence to the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. i've always pushed back against that. that might have been to my disadvantage politically but it was the right thing to do. and so, i hope that whoever comes next can think about the future rather than thinking about past presidential elections.

>> today for the first time the u.s. government confirms that north korean forces are in russia to help fight ukraine. the u.s. said 3000 troops have traveled so far what it called a serious escalation. it also reveals north korea is expanding its alliance with russia to take on the u.s. and its allies. nick schifrin reports. nick: marching to fight someone else's war. russian cellphone video apparently shows north korean troops deploying to russia. receiving russian equipment. the first wave of what ukraine and south korea say will be 12,000 north korean troops. the u.s. says it is not clear how they will be used. but they are believed to be

special forces known as the storm corps, and if they join the battle they may suffer the consequences, says spokesman john kirby. >> if they do deploy, to fight against ukraine, they are fair targets. >> already, north korea has shipped russia more than one million artillery shells and ballistic missiles that pressure uses to injure and kill ukrainian civilians. north korea's willingness to send soldiers who could die on russia's behalf helps cement there a as the center for strategic and international studies. >> sending troops is about the biggest symbol of an alliance commitment that one country can make to another. so, it really shows that north korea is all-in with the russians in terms of this war in ukraine, this war in europe. >> in june, vladimir putin

visited joan young -- pyong yang to sign a treaty with kim jong-un. today, the u.s.'s largest concern is that russia will accelerate north korea's inter-chronic a lot of ballistic -- intercontinental ballistic missile nuclear program improve north korea's summaries. >> historically russia has been reluctant to provide really high and military technology to north korea. but, with this deployment of troops, kim can exact a higher price for what he's doing for russia. this could take the form of icbm technology, nuclear submarines, things that kim said he really needs to round out his nuclear weapons force. that would pose a direct threat to the u.s. homeland. >> the reds continue their advance over the rugged country. >> it has been 70 years since north korean soldiers fought in a war. their deployment to russia will give them invaluable experience

as the mansfield foundation. >> the north korean army lacks realistic combat experience. so deploying a special forces to russia and potentially into ukraine is going to give them invaluable experience of modern warfare, drones, interoperability, combined operations forces. this is going to be a real game changer for the north korean military as they try to build a more capable force. nick: today's announcement coincides with kim jong-un's first ever publicized visit to an icbm base. in the past, he has threatened force of north korea is threatened but today he's is trying to create a new strategic axis, willing to use force as a fellow travelers with america's other global adversaries. >> the june 2024 strategic partnership between north korea and russia, we're now seeing kim jong-un to find that as part of a global struggle against u.s.

interest. by sending combat forces to russia, they really seem to be saying to the world, a threat to russia is a threat to us. >> until then, ukraine fears that north korean troops will draw in russian forces to evict ukraine from russian territories within days. i'm nick schifrin. >> a deadly c coli outbreak is the latest in the number of cases. it is prompting questions over the safety of our food supply. stephanie sy has more. stephanie: federal officials are investigating a deadly e. coli outbreak linked to a mcdonald's quarter pounder's, 49 people have gotten sick and 10

states -- in 10 states and one person has died. mcdonald says it serves about one million quarter pounders every two weeks. the company believes the food poisoning is tied to sliced onions on the burger supplied by a single vendor. mcdonald's usa president spelled out in a video for customers what the company is now doing. >> we've taken steps to proactively remove slivered onions, which are used in quarter pounders from restaurants in select states. we also made the decision to temporarily remove the quarter pounder. the decision is not when we take lightly and was made in close consultation with the cdc. >> he also said mcdonald's other meet products are safe and will continue to be sold in those states. for more on this case and food safety i am joined by donald schaffner focused on the subject at rutgers university.

thank you so much for joining us. with this case, many of us will remember the jack-in-the-box hamburger outbreak of e. coli in the early 1990's. this case with mcdonald's doesn't seem to rise to that magnitude. still, as somebody who studies these incidents, how surprised are you that this outbreak is occurring at mcdonald's, essentially an american institution? >> i'm really surprised that it was mcdonald's that got hit by this particular problem. they take to safety seriously, they put a lot of pressure on their employees and on their suppliers to make sure that stuff like this does not happen. >> we should say that the outbreak appears to be in the past tense, occurring between september 27 and october 11th. is it normal to have that lag time between when people start to get sick from a food product and when the public hears about? >> the cdc is working all the

time to do whole genome sequencing. but it takes a while to put together a picture saying that all of these people are getting sick around the same time and sick from the same organism. and then they have to talk to these people and say, what did you eat however many weeks ago and what do you remember? and they put the pieces together and when they are sure, when they are confident are mostly confident, that is when they go public. and that is what happened recently here. >> as you know, the mcdonald's case is just the most recent outbreak of foodborne illness over the summer, we had boar's head deli meats contaminated with listeria. that has been linked to ten deaths. go back and tell us what we know about what happened at boar's head and how that contamination occurred and spread. >> the boar's head situation is very different than the current situation part first of all, it

is a different regulatory agent, beaten poultry are regulated by usda. they have inspectors continuously on site. it sounds like there were, based on freedom of information request, reading the notices issued to the plant, that plan had an ongoing food safety problem. where is this appears to be a temporary bullet. >> let's talk more about that. because there were repeat violations at one of boar's head production plants with reports revealing. and this will gross some folks out, but the reports revealed mold, insects and meet and fat residue found on the walls of the facility dating back two years. why wasn't that facility shut down? did somebody drop the ball at the usda? >> why wasn't the plant shutdown is a good question to ask the usda peer making meat -- making meat is a messy business.

having said that, having read those reports, this does seem like it was an ongoing problem. so, yeah, so definitely some questions usda needs to answer. >> there are victims when companies don't keep food safe. and of course, there are lawsuits, legal settlements. we can look at the stock price, mcdonald's down 5% today. are there enough actions being done to prevent foodborne illnesses from occurring and for there to be more accountability? >> the regulatory agencies and the fda could use more resources. especially with fda regulated products they really rely on the companies knowing what they're doing and doing a good job and we still don't know exactly what happened in this particular case. but there may be some implications certainly if i was somebody who bought onions and who bought sliced onions, i would be looking carefully at my supplier. if i was the onion supplier i

would be looking carefully at where i get my onions from. we need to figure out where this particular problem came from. and then once we know where it came from, we can put steps in place to prevent it from happening again. >> i'm just thinking through that, for the average consumer and might be difficult to know how to know whether a vendor of onions or any particular food is safe. so, i go back to the question of whether these incidents should concern us broadly about food safety and enforcement in this country. >> well, you know, i think that people are right to be concerned but at the same time, i will say that most everybody eats food every day and most people do not get sick most of the time, right? obviously we are concerned about the situations where stuff goes wrong. the thing is we have good rules in place but we need to make sure those rules are followed. we have adequate inspection resources and that companies know what their responsibilities are to make sure that everyone does what they need to keep the

food supply safe. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, stephanie. thanks. >> by many measures, advancements like seatbelts and airbags have made vehicles dramatically safer for drivers and passengers. but as our cars get bigger and bigger, what about the safety of those outside of our vehicles? we report on how federal regulators are looking at a pedestrian safety now and whether new rules can help curb the rising number of people killed on our streets each year in the u.s. >> so, these are all from her last summer. >> jessica hart is showing who me photos of her daughter allison. >> this is totally her, running through the water, just joyful in her own skin. >> i love how so many of these pictures, she's in motion, she's

jumping. >> she didn't need all the things to just have fun and run around and be happy. >> in september 2021, her life was tragically cut short. she was killed while riding her bicycle with her dad near their house in washington, d.c. ally was just five years old. >> they were going down the sidewalk, and she went into the intersection of a four way stop. she was in the crosswalk in the school zone, and the driver of a van didn't make a full stop and see her and hit her. and we think she died on impact. >> city law enforcement officials do not file any criminal charges against the van's driver who remained at the scene. ally was one of more than 8000 pedestrians and cyclists killed that year. >> it breaks my heart every day. her last moments were moments of

terror. and i wasn't there with her. and her dad was there. and it breaks his heart every second that he could not safer. -- save her. it is just, it's awful. >> over the past 15 years, pedestrian and cyclist deaths on our roads have increased dramatically. as of 2022 fatalities and crashes with motor vehicles were up. 80% but in september the national highway traffic safety administration proposed a new safety standard to better protect pedestrians, mandating that new vehicles be designed to reduce the risk of serious to fatal pedestrian crashes and test what happens when hoods make contact with heads. >> i feel like nhtsa has been

hands off on this issue and it has gotten, there has been a lot of real-world harm. >> angie schmitt is the author of "right of way, the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in america>' should regulators have acted sooner? >> yes. in europe and in asia they have required certain features to protect pedestrians for the front end of car since 2009. we are way behind them. and 8 -- these news regulations do not go as far as what they are doing in europe. >> the alliance for automotive innovation, trade group, is still reviewing the proposed rule and said safety is a top priority. auto makers of voluntary developed and introduced many crash avoidance technologies to help make roads safer for pedestrians and road users. part of what makes the u.s. unique is that our cars keep getting bigger, the average passenger vehicle has grown four

inches wider and 10 inches longer and eight inches taller over 30 years according to the insurance institute for highway safety or iihs. we do know that larger vehicles like suv's are deadlier for pedestrians when they are in crashes with them. >> jessica is the senior vice president for research at iihs. in a paper she and her co-authors found that taller front ends were associated with significant increases in pedestrian fatality risk compared with shorter front ends. >> when we see those tall blonde front ends, that is when we see the pedestrians are likely to be thrown forward. that is the feature we have seen has made the most difference in pedestrian injuries. >> while she thinks the proposed rules is a step in the right direction, she also points to another safety feature that can prevent some crashes altogether. on a covered test track in virginia we got a demonstration

of pedestrian automatic emergency braking, which will be required as a standard feature on all new vehicles by 20 to 99. -- by 2029. as the vehicle cruises at 25, a warning, then automated braking to prevent contact with the pedestrian. >> early on for pedestrian the systems did not perform as well. >> david is the vice president for active safety testing. he says in the tests, aeb systems have improved significantly. >> back then, not all cars were able to avoid, it was off and optional equipment on a lot of luxury vehicles. now the technology is pretty much standard and we are now recognizing other vehicles and pedestrians and motorcycles and other targets. even in ten years, we have come a long way. >> auto makers have raised concerns about the feasibility of meeting the 2029 deadaline,

but there will be significant lag before researchers expect to see an impact. >> up to 30 years, before all vehicles have it. and regulation takes a long time. >> she says we need in all of the above approach to pedestrian safety and rely on new technology. >> looking at designing roadways that are safer to cross, lowering speeds, those are all things that we can get to faster where we can chip away at these increases in deaths right now. >> back in washington dc, a study from the city's department of transportation identify the intersection where ally hart was killed as needing a crosswalk update in 2015 but the plastic signs and added visibility came after her death in 2021. >> nothing will bring her back for us. but when you still see drivers day after day slow and roll into

the crosswalk, and clearly not look for pedestrians, you just know that's not enough. >> jessica hart, i have you up first. good afternoon. >> jessica and her husband have become active with families for safe streets, a group with chapters around the country. made of a people whose loved ones were killed or injured in crashes. >> i hope that by sharing by what sharing to our family, what happened to our family and makes people realize it could happen to anybody. when you think about 40,000 people a year, every y ear dying on our streets and roads across the country. and still we just collectively shrug. i can't understand it. and it makes me just furious. >> but as new rules come into view questions remain about whether drivers will stop to

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