captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: yemen erupted in more clashes today, even amid celebrations of president ali abdullah saleh's departure from the country. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on political unrest in the arab nation. >> brown: then we get an update on the confessions of new york democrat anthony weiner, who admitted sending lewd photographs of himself and inappropriate messages to women online. >> ifill: judy woodruff examines new promise in the world of cancer treatment, drugs to prolong the lives of skin cancer patients, and another that helps prevent breast cancer. >> brown: education correspondent john merrow looks at how we judge good schools and

bad ones. >> do you believe what you read could educational quality be like beauty in the eye of the beholder or does a test score say it all? >> ifill: ray suarez explores apple's entry into online music storage, a service unveiled today by the company's c.e.o., steve jobs. >> brown: and margaret warner remembers the lifend aareer of former secretary of state lawrence eagleburger. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: nd >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the economy. >> create jobs, keep people healthy, and improve schools. >> ...and our communities. >> in angola chevron helps train engineers, teachers and farmers, launch child's programs. it's not just good business. >> i'm hopeful about my country's future. >> it's my country's future.

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saleh's abrupt departure. saleh was injured friday in a rocket attack on his compound. he traveled to saudi arabia for medical treatment the following day. immediately creating a power vacuum in the arab world's poorest nation. yemen's vice president, who is serving as acting president for now, said saleh plans to return within days. it was unclear if the saudis would allow that, but even if they do an opposition spokesman said saleh's time has passed. >> thank god. we are now about to form a council to manage the country in this transitional period. we do not care if saleh returns to the country or not. this transitional council will gain its legitimacy from the people of yemen. >> ifill: pressure continued on saleh. he has reneged on such agreements three times in the past six weeks. even as popular uprising and tribal warfare gathered steam. in washington today, secretary

of state hillary clinton repeated the u.s. position urging saleh to step aside. >> our position has not changed. it continues to remain the same. we think an immediate transition is in the best interest of the yemeni people because the instability and lack of security currently afflicting yemen cannot be addressed until there is some process that everyone knows is going to lead to the sort of economic and political reforms that they are seeking. >> ifill: the u.s. interest in a secure yemen is acute because of the presence there of an increasingly active main offshoot of al qaeda. hopes for stability in the form of a fragile cease-fire appeared uncertain today as six people died in gun fights in the city. je b boon isbo in the city for global post. >> uncertain is anr understatement. the protestors seem to be people who are confiden for

the end of the conflict. the tribesmen and security forces are still fighting in the city. there's still sporadic gun fire in the night coming from check points or just from skirmishes in the streets. no one is exactly sure where yemen is headed for. >> ifill: and away from the city and the coastal city, seven soldiers were killed in clashes with armed men. militants seized government buildings there last month. and in yemen's second largest city, there was renewed heavy fighting. as many as 50 people have been killed there in the last week. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, lewd photographs and messages. treating and preventing cancers. evaluating schools, storing digital media and remembering one of the country's top diplomats. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the government of syria reported today that armed groups have killed 120 security troops in a northern town. state tvoraid it was an ambush.

burihun gmatss troupghsaid soldiers have killed at least 42 civilians in that town since a crackdown began there on saturday. separately, israeli troops killed nearly two dozen syrians on sunday, when pro-palestinian protesters charged the israeli frontier in the golan heights. the area was quiet today as syrian police kept protesters away. in iraq, u.s. troops suffered their worst loss in more than two years. five americans were killed near sadr city in eastern baghdad, when rockets hit their compound at a joint u.s.-iraqi base. they had worked as advisers to iraqi security police. the remaining 46,000 american troops in iraq are scheduled to leave by year's end. defense secretary robert gates warned today against withdrawing u.s. forces from afghanistan too quickly. the pullout is currently set to begin in july. gates visited eastern afghanistan to thank the troops for their service one final time before he retires at the end of this month. he said they need time to finish the job they have begun.

>> we are still on track and frankly making a lot of progress in breaking the momentum of the taliban, denying them control of populated areas, degrading their capabilities, enhancing the capabilities of the afghan national security forces and going after taliban... going after al qaeda. but my view is we have to keep the pressure on. we're not quite there yet. >> sreenivasan: gates' comments came amid reports that president obama's advisers are considering whether to speed up the u.s. withdrawal. separately, nato reported three soldiers were killed in afghan fighting in the last 24 hours. two more died in a helicopter crash. missiles fired by u.s. drone aircraft killed at least 16 people in pakistan today. pakistani intelligence officials said the targets were suspected militant hideouts near the afghan border. the u.s. has carried out more than 30 drone strikes in the region so far this year. but the pace is well below that of 2010. the former head of the international monetary fund, dominique strauss-kahn, pleaded not guilty today to charges he

tried to rape a hotel maid. he appeared before a state court judge in new york city and then returned to the town home where he's been living under house arrest. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum has officially entered the 2012 presidential race. he announced his bid for the republican nomination today in somerset, pennsylvania. santorum said the american people want a president they can believe in, the kind they thought they elected in 2008. >> president obama took that faith that the american public gave him and wreckd our economy and centralized power in washington d.c. and robbed people of their freedoms. i'm ready to do what has to be done for the next generation. with the courage to fight for freedom, with the courage to fight for america. that's why i'm announcing today that i'm running for president of the united states. ( cheers and applause ) >> sreenivasan: santorum served two terms in the senate, but lost his 2006 reelection bid.

with his announcement today, the republican presidential field stands at seven declared candidates. portugal has become the latest european nation to change governments as fallout from the spreading debt crisis. the ruling socialists lost power to the center-right opposition in sunday elections. the socialist regime had agreed to painful austerity measures, in return for an international bailout. and in greece, more than 60,000 people marched in athens on sunday, opposing further cuts in public spending. the prime minister said today he might call for a referendum on the issue. concerns about the u.s. economy kept wall street on edge again today. the dow jones industrial average lost 61 points to close near 12,090. the nasdaq fell 30 points to close at 2702. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: and we turn to the bizarre tale of new york democratic congressman anthony weiner. he went before cameras and reporters today to admit sending sexually explicit photos and messages to several different women. weiner had spent the better part of the last ten days lying about his actions.

in a new york city hotel ballroom late this afternoon, he took full responsibility. last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted to twitter, i panicked. i took it down and said that i had been hacked. i then continueded with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake. to be clear, the picture was of me, and i sent it. i'm deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife huma. and our family. and my constituents, my friends, supporters and staff. in addition over the past few years, i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook, email and occasionally on the phone with women i have met online. i've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. for the most part, these

relation... these communications took place before my marriage so some have sadly took place after. to be clear i have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. i am deeply regretting what i have done. and i am not resigning. i have made it clear that i accept responsibility for this. and people who draw conclusions about me are free to do so. i've worked for the people of my district for 13 years and in politics for 20 years. i hope that they see fit to see this in the light that it is which is a deeply regrettable mistake. for my use of twitter, i mean, it's not... it's something that i found useful. facebook is a way to get out the message but i certainly wouldn't obviously do the things that i have done that led me to this place.

>> brown: for more, we now turn to "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. i said a bizarre story. he was under pressure for a week here denying what led to today's confession. >> there's a conservative blogger named andrew brightbar. we've discussed him before in the context of the campaign season last year. he posted early today some additional photos, not the photo that anthony weiner was just talking about there which he fully admit to sending last week but different photos with a different woman, explicit photos bare chested that were emailed out to somebody. what's also happening, jeff, today is that some of the women who were on the receiving end of these messages started coming forward to start talking publicly about this. it was kind of crashing around him. his lie about not sending these messages or his account being hacked wasn't holding up anymore so he felt compelled to come out. >> brown: he decided this was only going to get worse. >> he had to come clean. >> brown: that was quite a queen. 45 minutes or so of many

questions he stood there answering. >> before he started andrew brightbar that blogger hijacked his press conference, walked in and sort of starteded boefting about the fact that he was right about this all along. then anthony weiner did take to the podium. you're absolutely right. he stood there for almost a half an hour taking every question on this to the point of you could start feeling sorry for him a little bit even though he's clearlyed admitting he was wrong. you could sense the pain he was experiencing. there's no doubt that trying to answer every single question today was part of a strategy here because he had failed to do throughout the last week. >> brown: tell us a little bit more about anthony weiner. a young legislator who made a name for himself in the health care debate and had a fairly high profile. >> he's a riseing star in the democratic party, a top-tier contender to become the next mayor of new york. he had run for the democratic nomination in 2005. he fell short then.

before that he was an aide to chuck schumer then a new york city council member. this is somebody who especially got a national name for himself during the health care fight of 2009 and 2010. he became a liberal favorite to go on toe vee and defend the health care low. >> brown: it's interesting to hear him talk about at the very end about twitter and social media. we have talked about the use of these things in politics these days. on the one hand there's nothing new here. i mean there's a powerful man who has done something but now we live in the age of twitter and social media. >> you know, the base story line here is not new. we've seen it time and time again. but what is new is the technology. and it's not just, you know, george allen in the moment about video camera cameras in 2006. this isn't just being caught. this is yourself not being able to control hitting the send button and not thinking through all the actions. in today's instantaneous world anthony weiner had quite a following on twitter. he thought that somehow he

could use that for personal reasons and that will never intersect with his public life. what we saw here was yet again another politician had personal failings that totally infected their public existence. >> brown: you said i guess he thought. what could he possibly be thinking? all these things go out and they're public. >> as you can see today he wasn't thinking. in terms of the consequences of that. he said as he was trying to come clean he said as he was thinking through these issues in the last ten days the moment he told the first lie last week that he had been hacked, he said today he knew instantaneously he wasn't going to be able to maintain that lie. >> brown: you mentioneded nancy pelosi. >> the house minority leader ordered the house ethics investigation. this is to look into whether or not he broke any house rules. perhaps he used a government computer or a government black berry in any of these texts and photos that were sent. they'll look into that. basically to put an ex-lambation point to make sure there isn't anything else to learn.

>> brown: he has a while before he goes before the voters. >> he's not resigning. >> brown: david chalian, thanks a lot. >> sure. >> ifill: next, some hopeful news in the field of cancer treatment. judy woodruff has our story. >> woodruff: "astounding" and "unprecedented" aren't words you often hear from the country's leading cancer specialists. but two studies released this weekend have oncologists excited about the prospects of treatment options for people with advanced cases of the deadly skin cancer, melanoma. two new drugs, with two new approaches, have been found to help combat the disease. the drug vermurafenib targets a mutated gene that tells cancer cells to grow one goes after a gene mutation that accelerates tumor growth. the other stimulaterothe immune system to fight the cancer. 84% of those taking the gene- targeting drug were still alive after six months, reducing the death risk by 63%.

21% of those taking the immune- boosting drug were alive after three years, compared to just 12% on chemotherapy or a placebo. in other cancer news, a drug used to prevent recurrences of breast cancer was also found to reduce the risk of it occurring in the first place. and screening for ovarian cancer was found not to reduce the risk of dying from the disease. all of this was released at the american society of clinical oncology's annual meeting in chicago. to tell us more is that group's outgoing president, dr. george sledge. dr. sledge, thank you for being with us. let me ask you first about the melanoma treatments. do these qualify as a breakthrough? >> judy, these are genuinely exciting. i've been in this field for 30 years. during that period, the standard therapy for melanoma has been a drug that is both toxic and relatively ineffective. it's akeem owe therapy drug.

it has a response rate of about 5% in patients with advanced disease. one of the two drugs that you mentioned, the drug that is the inhibitor of the growth factor pathway gives you a response rate of 48% so it's nine to time ten times as effective as shrinking the tumors compared to the older therapy. a genuine advance and genuine excitement in the field over this. >> what is so different, dr. sledge, about the way these drugs go after the cancer? >> well, our older therapies were non-specific therapies. they basically targeted cell division in the cancer cell. the new therapies are true targeted therapies so the drug that inhibits the growth factor pathway, we actually can measure a very specific mutation in patients who have melanomas in their skin. if that mutation is there, we then apply the drug that targets that mutation. total change from how we did business ten years ago. part of the emerging trend in cancer medicine of going after

very specific molecular targets. >> woodruff: and is one of these two approaches more impressive than the other? >> well, we don't know yet. we don't have a head-to-head comparison. oncologists when they have two new drugs that improve survival-- and both of these drugs improve survival-- probably the first thing we'll do is to combine them to see if we get even better improvement. neither of these drugs will in and of itself is is likely to cure melanoma. we'll want to do novel combinations with them to see if we'll do better. we'll want to move these drugs up front to patients with earlier stage disease to see whether or not something that improves survival on the one hand may actually improve the cure rate when used in an earlier stage of patients. >> woodruff: why has it taken so long to find these approaches? >>. >> very simply we just didn't understand the biology of melanoma until very recently. the mutation, for instance, that we're going after with this new drug was one that 10,

15 years ago we didn't know existed in melanoma. this is part of the pay-off for the nation's investment in cancer research over the past several decades. we're now beginning to understand for just about every cancer what makes these cancers tick and therefore how we can interrupt the growth of these cancers. >> woodruff: as you suggesteded a minute ago, dr. sledge and i was reading today not everyone can benefit with melanoma can benefit from this. there are limits to the benefits that it has. explain who can and who can't expect to try this drug. >> for the drug that interfere s with the growth factor receptor pathway there's a very specific mutation in the protein called b-raf. it's one of the drivers of growth in met static melanoma. only 45-50% of patients have this mutation. we can measure the mutation in

the tumors of patients with melanoma. if you have a new patient you're a candidate for the drug. if you don't have the mutation and this is half the patients with melanoma, the drug simply doesn't work. >> woodruff: let me turn you now, dr. sledge, to this breast cancer finding. the drug is called aromason stopping the production of estrogen which we know fuels tumor growth. help us understand how that works and why that's important. >> this is a drug that's been around for a while. it was developed in the mid 1990s. we used it to treat both metastatic breast cancer to prevent recurrence in early stage disease. it's a drug that works in women who have gone through the menopause by lowering estrogen levels in their blood. now we know that many breast cancers develop as a result of chronic estrogen exposure. so if we take a group of women who we know to be at high risk for developing breast cancer and give women this drug for those high-risk women, it roughly cuts in half their

risk of developing a new breast cancer. >> woodruff: but what's new here is that you've now learned that women who have had not had breast cancer before can benefit from this. >> that's absolutely correct. this is knots a treatment for breast cancer. this is a preventive agent now for breast cancer. >> woodruff: finally, let me ask you about i guess this news is less hopeful with regard to ovarian cancer. explain that to us. >> well, we had hoped for many years that by using blood tests that can detect ovarian cancer or by using ultrasound to look at the ovaries of women who are at high risk for ovarian cancer that we might be able to detect these cancers early. in a government-sponsored trial which took a large group of women and either did a screening with the blood test-- what's called a ca-125-- along with ultrasound screening or neither of those. and then followed the women for a prolongeded period of time, up to 13 years in this study. unfortunately the results of

this trial are that the extensive screening does not improve the woman's likelihood does not lower a woman's likelihood of dying of ovarian cancer. i think what this says is back to the drawing board. these are early crude tools. we need tools that are more precise, that detect the cancer at an earlier point in time or alternative we just simply need better treatments for ovarian cancer once it develops. >> woodruff: what does that say about the diagnosis for ovarian cancer? >> it still represents a very dangerous disease. now there were other studies at the meeting that we're looking at new agents for the treatment of ovarian cancer. one in particular in two separate studies was shown to significantly prolong the period that women remained in remission. with ovarian cancer. but we clearly need to get better at finding these cancers earlier and treating them before they can reach a point that they threaten the life of the woman with the disease. >> woodruff: to sum up, it sounds as if there is certainly some excitement

about what came out of this meeting with regard to melanoma. >> absolutely. real progress on that front. >> woodruff: dr. george sledge, we thank you very much for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> brown: now, we grade the students, but how do you determine if a school is "good" or "bad"? newshour education correspondent john merrow explores that question in this report. >> reporter: reading is the foundation of all learning. but according to 2 the nation's report card, only 33% of fourth graders are competent readers. at this elementary school in new york city, 33% would be good news. gast year on the state read test only 18% of fourth graders were on grade level. strong evidence of a failing school.

>> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,. >> reporter: by contrast this school is filled with enthusiastic students. >> the setting, the character. >> reporter: teachers provide a supportive and nurturing environment. principal jorge cardoma was a dedicated leader. and the students are excited to learn. strong evidence that the school is a success. but what you're looking at is in fact the same school. ps-1 in new york city's south bronx. it serves about 700 students from pre-k through fifth grade, most of whom qualify for free lunch. based on its reading scores, the school is failing. but in person, it seems to be thriving. is it a good school or a bad school? there may be a lot of schools like ps-1. how should they be judged? do you believe what you read or what you see?

could educational quality be like beauty in the eye of the beholder? or does the test score say it all? we went back to ps-1 to find out more. >> nice and loud especially on the vowels. >> reporter: our search for answers began in rachael hunt's first grade classroom. we found her students getting a lesson in phonics, the building block of reading. they're learning that letters make sounds, that groups of letters make different sounds. and that when you put those letters together, they make words. it may appear to be a simple lesson but it's not. ms. hunt's students seem to be getting it. what we are doing is called decoding, but decoding is only half the battle. understanding what the words mean is a much harder skill called comprehension. which is where many children fall flat. >> with your eyes closed, no

cheating. >> reporter: to test that skill i took over the class. i asked the kids to close their eyes and wrote a nonsense story on the board. >> okay. are you ready to read this story? is there anything wrong with that story? >> yes. >> what's wrong with that story? >> there's no such thing as a blue pancake. >> there's no such thing as a blue pancake. anything else wrong with that story? >> pancakes don't have no mouth. >> pancakes don't have a mouth. anything else? >> they can't swim. >> okay. so maybe it's not a very good story. >> the blue pancake went.... >> reporter: the first graders across the hall were also able to understand the story. is there anything wrong with that story? >> it doesn't make sense because a pancake can't swim. >> reporter: a pancake isn't can't swim? >> a pancake can't even anything because they don't

have a mouth. >> reporter: by the end of the day it was clear to me that most of ps-1's first graders were on their way to becoming competent readers. so what happens between first and fourth grade? remember, according to last year's state test, only 18% of fourth graders at ps-1 were reading on grade level. we went upstairs to michelle alpert's first grade class to find out. >> in first grade everything is literal. by the time you get to fourth grade there's a much bigger thinking component. >> the fourth grade is a lot harder. a lot harder. >> reporter: brenda has been teaching for 12 years. >> if you look at the test, the third grade test in comparison to the fourth grade test it's night and day. >> reporter: the state's fourth grade reading test expects students to draw inferences and conclusions from what they read, a complicated skill. but why aren't children able to meet the demands of fourth grade? she believes by the time

students enter their class their often difficult home lives have started to take a toll. >> they're not as innocent anymore. they're realizing the things that are affecting their school work. i mean, i have homeless students in my room. i have students with fathers in jail. there's drugs. so that obviously comes into play at a certain point as well. >> reporter: both teachers believe that the social and academic challenges their students face in the early grades catch up to them by fourth grade. >> so i have readers even as low as first grade through sixth grade. >> reporter: in your fourth grade class. >> right. >> reporter: your job is to do what? >> make miracles. >> reporter: i wondered how the fourth grade class might perform on the state test this year and asked the teacher to send me two of her students who were reading below great level. jeannet who is nine came first. >> so far i have hoped to find many new species. >> reporter: i asked her to

read a passage about dragon flies from last year's state test. >> 5,500 dragon fly species around the world. who doesn't like looking at these amazing insects? >> reporter: what are species? >> many kinds. >> reporter: kinds. kinds of species. right. exactly. yeah. >> late in the summer on a cool evening.... >> reporter: next came brian who was 11. >> heard a song high in the tree. when it grows bigger. it left its shell behind. >> reporter: wow. he has to know this word is an interesting one. >> emotionally. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> it means he stood there without moving. >> reporter: no motion. i also asked them questions from the tests. >> which word best describes? curious, funny, strong. b.

>> reporter: b which is what? >> she was finding out she asked how does it get out of its shell. >> reporter: read the question and tell me the answer. >> according to the article what can the adult dragon fly do. >> reporter: a. >> a, live for years. >> reporter: b. >> b, flying backwards. >> reporter: c. >> walk on legs. >> reporter: d. >> swim in water. >> reporter: which answer would you give? >> b. flies backwards. >> reporter: because you learned that. okay. so you can really take this apart. these supposedly below grade level readers were able to read and understand passages from previous state tests. so why were fourth grade test scores so low? tell me about the kids. are they nervous before the tests? >> some of them, they do get a lot of anxiety some of them. some of them will shut down because they get so nervous. >> reporter: in many public schools, before students take

state tests, they spend up to several weeks preparing and practicing. do you spend a lot of time teaching kids how to take a test? >> to some degree, yes, because i do think that there is an art to test taking. so i want to give them whatever strategies i can to make them more successful. you know, especially my lower functioning ones. >> reporter: for school leaders and policy makers across the country, test scores are typically the only evidence used to determine whether a school is doing a good job. the stakes are high. >> the system takes the fun out of reading. i want them to read for enjoyment. i want them to grab that book because it's fun. i tell them reading, you travel, you meet new friends, you learn how to do new things. but it's very difficult, you know. they take a joy out. it's hard to win his back. >> i don't know what the

better solution is. but i do think obviously that this puts way too much value on test scores. there have to be some sort of... you know, something else taken into account if you really want to measure a teacher's success, a school's success, a student's success. >> reporter: so what you think? is ps-1 a good school or a bad school? you may have already made up your mind but the people who make decisions about budgets, who gets hired and fired, they rely on test scores. ps-1's fourth graders took the state test in early nay. those results aren't expected until july. >> ifill: now, apple's steve jobs returns to the stage to promote a new way to store and stream music online. ray suarez has our report. >> apple's ceo steve jobs received a standing ovation as he took the stage at the

annual apple developers conference in san francisco. he brought news of a new, long- awaited service called i-class that will allow customers to more easily share their data like photos, contacts, documents and music among devices. >> we're going to move the digit hub, the center of your digital life into the clouds. >> suarez: i-cloud users will have the ability to buy, store and stream music selections online. users currently have to connect to their computers to transfer songs. but i-cloud would eliminate that step. >> i-cloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices. so it automatically uploads it, stores it and automatically pushes it to all your other devices. but also it's completely integrated with your apps.

and so everything happens automatically and there's nothing new to learn. it just all works. ( applause ) it just works. >> suarez: google and amazon recently launcheded similar services for music. the other news was jobs himself whose announcement today was a break from a medical leave that began in january. he last made a public appearance in march to announce a new ipad. the newshour spencer michels was at the apple event today and asked other attendees about their impressions. >> he's got good things to say. i think as time goes on and he gets older and more frail that the things he actually puts his energy and talking about and promoting are things that he considers really really important. >> this is like the thomas edison of our day. we have all these new innovations that are coming out, all these applications, and developer tools that

nowhere else in the industry that you have. >> suarez: but i-cloud wasn't the only keynote announcement. apple introduced an operating system for mack computers called lion which it says will make personal mp for more on apple's announcement we're joined again by the "washington post's" technology reporter, cecilia kang. if you've been ignoring it so far, what is the cloud? >> the cloud is a very fluffy-- to use a pun-- term to describe the internet for devices. it's this idea, this service, this idea that your information, be it your music, your videos, your calendar, whatever information that you use on your devices, your laptop, your smart phone, ipad, your personal computer, no longer resides just in those silos on those devices itself but can be accessed through the internet. that really is a pretty

revolutionary step in that it makes all of us much more mobile and it makes access to the internet much easier and efficient from wherever you are and from whatever device and all in bun place. >> suarez: a lot of people have digital cameras, smart phone, a laptop. and they've been managing content from place to place to place. what does this make possible that wasn't made possible pre-cloud? >> well, pre-cloud everything had... your personal computer was really the center of your device eco system, if you will. so if you wanted to share the songs that you just downloaded off of amazon, i-tunes, what have you, from your i-pod to, say, your i-phone you had to do it through the personal computer. this is no longer. now the internet is actually the central platform or really the stall or the reservoir of where all your information will reside. that means that if you want to, on your i-phone access a song that previously was really on your laptop computer at home, you can do this through

accessing the internet right on command on... at that moment and very easily. for free. that was one of the big announcements as well too today. >> suarez: if i put my stored and accumulated content on the cloud, is is it private? >> that's a good question. the devices will be encrypted. that's what apple said in passing. but there's a lot of questions as to your privacy and the security of cloud-based applications, internet-based services. we've seen a lot of attacks, hacking attacks into sony, nintendo, pbs. we've seen a lot of these... the vulnerability of information that resides on the internet. when i say resides on the enter, i mean it resides on servers. you don't know where they are but large data forums all over the country around the world where there are bits and pieces, the bits, i should say, of the music that you have. the videos that you have. the bits, the actual digital pacts. they reside in these places

that you don't really have so much control of. when you make this decision to switch to cloud-based applications, it's much easier, more convenient and often much cheaper. but there often is the... there is the consideration of afraid-off perhaps in that there may be less security involved. it's much safer when you have your information on your own computer. but only you can access. than on the internet. your privacy is also perhaps in question. more people, more companies have access to what you're doing. they can see what you're doing online. >> suarez: i know young people. i'm not going to use any names. they have a lot stuff on their hard drives that they didn't necessarily come to have in the most conventional ways. music. pieces of television shows. images. movies. if you put that kind of stuff on the cloud, are there rights issues? are there copyright issues? are there purchase issues? can somebody say, you know, that doesn't really belong to

you. and purge what doesn't belong in your memory? >> it's a great question, ray. things that concern some people about this announcement is that apple has decided with i-match, one of the services announced today, is to allow you to actually upload some of the content that you already have to match to what is available on i-tunes. that could include pirated music and pirated videos perhaps. there's no way to really tell how people got it. so there is a question as to whether this can expediate in some ways piracy. perhaps not. that's one thing that has held up the music industry from going full force into going into the cloud and sharing these kinds of services and sharing the revenues that come from these services from i-tunes and apple and services like amazon and google services as well. >> suarez: if i'm a music company, am i better off leaving well alone or do i have some interests in making

sure pirated material is isn't in people's memory? >> i think it's both. in some ways you don't have any choice. it's going to be captured anyway. your music and your videos right now are being exchanged throughout peer-to-peer file sharing anyway. there are lots of technological solutions but really when it comes down to i, the amount of pirated material online is so overwhelming that in some ways these new, cheaper services provide at least some sort of a solution to make it a little bit harder for piraters to exchange their information because there may be more people will to go get it the lee jat mat way. it's a good question to stop piracy or illegal trading of copyrighted material. this is one way so people can see a more legitimate way to share information and to get their information across devices that apple and the music companies and maybe the film companies as well down the road will like. >> suarez: quickly before we go a lot of people were wait to go see steve jobs since

he's been on sick leaf. how does he look? is it enough to reassure people that he's still in control? >> i think the fact that he showed up and he made an announcement about this service, i-cloud, that he feels pretty strongly about obviously is a sign that he at least is not getting worse. it's very important for steve jobs as the head of his company really few people in corporate america personify their companies that they had... that they head like steve jobs does. he's so much the iconic figure and the head of this company. he didn't look any worse. he looked like he was excited about the announcement he was going to make. that was well enough to assure people even though he didn't make any commentary about his health. as you know he's on medical leave. the fact that he showed up and the fact that he looked no worse was good news. >> suarez: cecilia kang, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. we'll be back shortly with a look at the life of former u.s.

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. >> ifill: finally tonight, remembering an outspoken diplomat. margaret warner has that story. . >> warner: he was lauded in diplomatic circles as the only career foreign service officer ever to become secretary of state but lawrence eagleburger who held crucial foreign policy posts under five presidents was anything but the ordinary diplomat. his state department career took off in late 1968 when he became an assistant to and then protege of henry kissinger in the nixon administration. his foggy bottom years ended with five months as acting and then actual secretary of state for george h.w.bush in 1992-93. eagleburger's cabinet post came after nearly four years as the state department's number two man under secretary james baker.

a time when eagleburger served as baker's number one troubleshooter. eagleburger was dispatched to china after the tooenmen square massacre in 1989. and again to israel during the first gulf war when iraq fired scud missiles at the jewish state. in a statement over the weekend former president george h.w.bush credited eagleburger with persuading the israelis not to shoot back. that could have killed the arab state support for the war against iraq. we sent larry to israel to preserve our coalition, mr. bush said. it was an inordinately complex and sensitive task and his performance was nothing short of heroic. yet despite his three-piece suit the perennial lae overweight chain smoking eagleburger didn't have the appearance of a diplomat. "time" magazine said he looked like a michelin man with a cane. he relished blunt talk and humor, once referring to ukraine as my only six-aspirin

country. but what characterized larry eagleburger was a foreign policy thinker was the hard edge realism of his view of the world. feared by his years as a young embassy officer in yugoslavia and as ambassador there in the '70s, eagleburger cautioned against u.s. intervention as yugoslavia was disintegrating during the first bushed administration. and then secretary eagleburger appeared on the macneil/lehrer newshour in december 1992 after serbian strong man milosevic had just been re-elected president of serbia. >> it looks like milosevic is going to remain president of serbia. is that bad news from the american point of view? >> well obviously we ought to wait until we have a clear account. we don't want to intervene in their internal affairs but the answer to your question in short is yes. >> why? >> we've seen all of the reports of humanitarian

excesss in terms of camps and murders and rapes. it is not a pretty picture. but the fighting goes on. it is intolerable. but as we've talked about this on more than one occasion on your program there is no immediate solution to this outside the putting in some hundreds of thousands of troops to try to stop it. >> warner: eight years later despite having adviseded john mccain in the republican primaries he spoke approvingly of then candidate george w. bush's approach to the world. >> we have spent the last eight years bouncing around putting troops where they didn't belong and i think it is perfectly appropriate and i think one of the good things about this team that we see is they are going to be far more careful before we commit american troops into situations where we are not clear about the objective and we are not clear about how long we ought to be involved. >> warner: two years after that, he publicly split with president bush on the wisdom of going to war against iraq a second time. after decades battling a neuro

muscular disease, eagleburger made his last public appearance may 18 at a state department event. just three weeks later on saturday, he died of pneumonia at a hospital near his home in charlottesville, virginia. >> ifill: lawrence eagleburger was 80 years old. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day. the vice president of yemen said president ali abdullah saleh means to return soon from medical treatment in saudi arabia. but the u.s. called again for an immediate transition of power. the government of syria reported armed groups ambushed and killed 120 security troops in a northern town. new york congressman anthony weiner admitted tweeting lewd photos and messages to several women. he apologized but said he would not resign. and to hari sreenivasan, for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: we follow up on the recent outbreak of deadly e. coli in europe. authorities are still working to confirm the source of the contamination. and our political team has more on rick santorum's entry into

the 2012 g.o.p. presidential field in today's morning line. that's our daily e-mail dispatch on all things politics. plus, economics correspondent paul solman explores the connection between self-control and your financial well-being. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.oprg. jeff? >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at aids 30 years after the first diagnosis. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and agnai here morrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: chevron. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial

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