for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz. >> nawaz: as schools across the country reopen, parents and educatorsdebating the relative merits of at-home and in-class learning. but what do students think? our student reporting labs program teamed up with detroit public television for a series of video diaries to document this very unusual school year as it unfolds. here is the first installment. >> the start of school is going to be very chaotic just because no one really knows what's going on. >> detroit public schools is having students take a survey about whether they want to take in-person learning or virtual learning. i chose online learning because i thought it was the safest. >> i'm a little sad that we're nna start online. and i just think the thought of doing things online in my own room by myself. it's a very isolating feeling. >> for me, i'm going to be going into school. i'm a little bit nervous, but i'm also excited too, like, get back to school because it's been a really long time since've actually physically been in school. >> everything is still online, but you can go to the school

amna nawaz focuses on where that began, the work she did before she joined the supreme court. >> nawaz: let's look now at some of the key ideas, the arguments and decisions ginsburg took on early in her career that helped shape history and our legal protections today. attorney brenda feigin co-founded the a.c.l.u. women's rights project with ruth bader ginsburg in 1972. that'shere ginsburg first worked on cases targeting discrimination on the basis of sex. and aclu attorney ria tabaccoma now heads the project. thanks to both of you for joining us today. brenda, i want to begin with u, because it was during that time when you were wh her there at the a.c.l.u. women's rights project that she argued her very first case before the supreme court. it was for air force lieutenant sharon frontiero arguing that federal benefits the laws there treated married female members of the armed forces differently than males. it was 1973. you were there in washington with her. tell us what it was like to watch her argue that case. >> i had all these big, huge casebooks with me that i was prepared to usto

amna nawaz has the day's developments. >> what country are we in? >> nawaz: democrats, including former vice president joe biden, in disbelief... >> look, he says the most irrational things. i don't know what to say. >> nawaz: ...after president trump's latest remarks about the election, responding to this question in the briefing room yesterday: >> do you commit to making sure that-- that there's a peaceful transferal of power? >> we want to have-- get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very trans-- we'll have a very peaceful-- there won't be a transfer, frankly. there'll be a continuation. the ballots are out of control. you know it. >> nawaz: following mr. trump's failure to commit to the constitutional standard for every american election since the country's founding, the senate passed a resolution committing to a peaceful transfer of power, and lawmakers, including house speaker nancy pelosi, weighed in. >> that a president of the united states would place in doubt the idea of peaceful transition of power is-- well, it's no surprise. >> nawaz

amna nawaz has an hdate on whatpening in rochester, new york, and portland, oregon.e >> nawazyorkersay awoke to more details, but still many questions, months afterno the death ofer black man, daniel prude, after an encounter with rochester pice. >> hey, hey, which side are you on, my people? >> nawaz: the renewed focus follows more protests, after video emerd wednesday showing prude in police custody in march. police handcuffed prude after he ran naked into the street. officers say he was spitting, and put a hood on his head as part of new statewide covid- safety rules. they then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes. prude died a week later. the coty medical examiner ruled his death a homicide caed by asphyxiation, and lied acute intoxication fr the drug p.c.p. as a contbuting factor. his family says prude had struggled with mental health issu. >> first and foremost. >> nawaz: the head of the rochester police union said today the video misrepresented what happened, and that officers so-called "spit hood" during the pandemic. >> an officer does not have the ability to g

newshour's amna nawaz has more on the life and career of justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> serving on this court is the highest honor, the most awesome trust that can be placed in a judge. >> nawaz: she was born ruth joan bader in 1933 in brooklyn, new york to parents of ukrainian and austrian descent. >> what is the differee between a bookkeeper, a new york city garment worker and a supreme court justice. a generation. high own life bears witnesses. the young ruth bader graduated first in her class from cornell university in 1954. that same ar, she married martin ginsburg. he became a lawyer and encouraged her to do the same. >> i have had the great good fortune to share life with a partr truly extraordinary for his generation. a mawho believed at age 18 when we met, that a woman's work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man's. >> nawaz: ginsburg was one of just nine women in her entering class at harvard law school. it was 1956. the dean admonished the women fortaking spots that could have gone to men. despite that, she became the first woman to join the prestigious har

. ♪ captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: od evening, i'm amna nawaz.ff is away. on the newshour tonight, california burning-- record- breaking temperatures complicate efforts to control multiple fires across the state then, the testing problem-- how the covid-19 testing system in the u-s continues to fall short, and how to fix it. >> we can't even test people to make sure that the sick people are getting tested in a consistent, timely and easy way. and that's the dysfunction of our health system and our implementation system. >> nawaz: and, a house divided-- why two generations in the same family are split over politics. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

all of you for sitting through this with us and now i want to trn to our national correspondent amna nawaz she has been watching the debate along with a group of americans as part of our voices of the voters project. am naah, their reactions? amna. their reactions.rt >> we she night with six voters, three leaning toward voting for mr. biden, three leaning toward voting for president trump, and basically ended exactly the same way. i can tell you even though a lot of them had different ideas about some of the issues, some of the approaches as weed che in with them and had a conversation as they watched the debate, we all watchedt together, we kind of ended the evening with bipartisan support on a few big issues, one, none of them found thee debat informative, none of them thought there was nearly enough policy, and nearly everyone said they were disappointed both candidates conduct during the debate. a couple of quick pullouts, austin is one of our voters we were focusing on because he is a college student, he comes from a family of republicans but he i leaning towards voting for a presiden

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amna nawaz has a report from there. amna: thanks, judy.hat surge in iowa has been driven i school, including the state's major universities. o. kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa and she appears regularly on iowa pbs. she joins me now from des moines. twelcome bathe newshour. let's jump in because the numbers are worth highlighting areas statewide, iowa has more than 66,000 cases, more than 1100 deaths. it inot the infection volumetr bling experts, it is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa is triple the national average. kay: there was -- amna: there w a pre conference about this earlier today. how would you describe the e response to test troubling figures? kay: the white house coronavirus task force has been advising states on ways to mitigate the spread of the virus. the taskhi forcepast week recommended iowa close bars in 61 of its counties and have a statewidete man for face coverings in public places. the governor has resisted both of those things, but last week she did close bars in six of iowa's counties. thre

judy: as we reach this devastating milestone, amna nawaz has more about the people behind the number. over the last six months, we've tried to capture the heartbreaking and staggering loss of life by sharing the names, faces, and stories of just a few of the hundreds of americans who died each week from covid-19. and here they are -- 115 mothers, fathers, teachers, nurses, artists and grandparents from every corner of the country and every walk of life. one was philip kahn. he was 100 years old, but, his family says, as vely as ever. he kept his album of military photos close at hand. >> i stood next to the enola gay but i didn't know it had a bomb on it. i didn't know i was four feet from the atomic bomb. amna: an air force co-pilot, kahn fought at iwo jima, later taking aerial surveys of the devastation from u.s. atomic bombs. he settled in new york, worked construction on the world trade center, and became a a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. this is lynika strozier. raised by her grandmother, she was diagnosed early with a severe learning disability, but studied nonstop

amna nawaz explores the hurdles faci the once-in-a-decade population count. adline for counting the 2020 cens is fast approaching. the census bureau announced that it's ending door to door outreach efforts at the end of september. a month earlier than plaed. rat's sent local organizers into a scramble ch hard to count communities. there are hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds at stake, and pivotal congressional seats hang in the balance. npr's hansi lo wang has been reporting on the census and he joins me now. hasi, welcome back to the n hour. let's start with that timeline and help people understand what it is behind it. what drove that shortened timeline? moving it up from thend of october to the end of september. and what's the potential impact? hansi: well, this is surprise move by the census bureau, who and the bureau's director, steven dillingham, said this was following a diremmive from the ce secretary who oversees the census bureau. essentially, the trump administration has taken the position that they want to cut short counting for the 2

amna nawaz begins our extensive coverage. >> nawaz: after a bruising first debate, the candidates werek on the campaign trail today, and back to trading barbs... >> trump has no plans, no ideas, didn't express a single plan about how he was gonna move forward. it was just a smtional embarrt. >> we're hitting what people want, law and order. biden was unable to talk about it because he'd lose thes adical left, dical left followers. i don't think there's too many of them left. >> nawaz: the night before begao with a civilally-distanced greeting, but quickly devolved into chaos. moderator chris wallace's very first question on the supreme court vacancy set off the first back and forth... >> we won the election. elections have consequences. we have the senate, we have the white house, and we have a phenomenal nominee. people should speae american you should go out and vote. >> are you going to pack the court? and who is on your list joe?" >> i'm not going to answer the question. >> nawaz: the president repeedly sought to paint bid as a far-left candidate... >> if you say those words you're

amna nawaz wl focus in a moment on what's happened with some of the armed civilian groups and the role police. but first, white housees corrpondent yamiche alcindor reports on how the presidentl candidates addressed it today. >> reporter: amid a weekend of largely peaceful ptests, dueling messages on who bears the blame for outbursts of violence. in pittsbuh today, democratic presidential nominee joe biden pointed at president tmp. >> this president long ago frfeited any moral leadership in this country. he can't stop the violence because for years he has fomented it. >> reporter: after the speech, president trump tweeted, "to me, he's blaming the police far more than he's blaming the rioters." and white house press secretaryi ka mcenany said democrats are at fault. >> when the trump administration arrives in a democrat-run city engulfed in chaos, peace is restored, law and order is held. >> reporter: the vast majority sparked by the kilf georgens floyd in may have not turned violent, but incidents ofti shoos, property damage andha looting ignited debates over how authorities should re

amna nawaz follows the money for us today on the campaign trail. accounts, the 2020 election will be the most expensive in history. both presidential campaigns are raising and spending money by the millions, despite the ongoing pandemic and economic recession. it is part of a trend that sees each election more costly than the last. to track this i am joined by adav noti of the non-partisan campaign legal center. he previously worked as a lawyer at the federal election commission. thanks for being here up it i wanted to ask younumbers. the president built up an impressive warchest, nearly $1 billion, whichs why reports he is in a cash crunch is striking. he has so far spent $800 it is such a massive number. where is that money going? adav: a lot of it in any campaign, not just residential, but any level, goes to fundraising and advertising. the amounts the trump campaign has been spending on those have been high, but every election cycle gets more expensive, advertising gets more expensive. his cycle of fundraising has been difficult. it is not huge

amna nawaz has the latest. >> nawaz: judy, the tongass national forest in alaska has been called "america'amazonone of the world's largest temperate rain forests, absorbing carbon dioxide emitted by the u.s., which is why th plan to roll back protections is worrying environmentalists and imate scientists. following this story for the "new york times," and she joins me now. coral, wel"nme back to the shour". let's just start with what exactly it is that the trump administration is proposing change. what would the rollbacks entail? en so the trump administration proposed -- has orking on this role change for a couple of years. in the next 30 days it'ing to become final. what they're doing is lifting a clinton era protection called the road list rule, it was a national law that band logging and road construction in most of the nation's forests. the trump administration is lifting the road list rule in 7 million acres of the 16 million-acre tongass national forest, so that is a huge amoun of prech pristine wilderness including aout 16000 acres of virgin old growth forest that would now be open to lo

but as amna nawaz tells us, the accelerating speedf this process is raising many questions. >> nawaz: in fact, the c.d.c. confirmed it has notified public health officials in all 50 states and five large cities to prep for potential vaccine distribution. that would be for some higher- risk people as early as late october or early november. but there are a number of concerns about developing and distributing a rushed vaccine, especially when the president himself has been promising one. dr. michael mina is an assistant professor of epidemiology, diseases at harvard's school of center for communicable disease dynamics. j and ns me now from boston. dr. mina thanks for beinwith you should point out to people the normal vaccine process takes year. it's been dramically accelerated during the pandec. and the firms that are developing vaccine are already in phase three of the trialsic is the final phase before they are supposed to seek fda approval. so how would an emergency authorizeation change the timehe line androcess? >> well, essentially what happen is havg the emergency authorization a

amna nawaz, nick schifrin, thank you. ♪ judy: the political fallout from the president's comments tob woodward about the coronavis remains to be seen. but there are also questions about what more could or shauld been done when president trump realized the coronavirus was much more serious than he publicly acknowledged. the president says he was trying to avoid creating a panic. william brangham explores some of those questions now. t willia washington post yesterday revealed that, for his new book, bob woodward interviewed president trump numerous times per it on this is said to woodward about the novel coronavirus -- pres. trump: you just breathe the air, that is how it is past. that is a tricky one, a delicate one. it is also more deadly than even your strenuous flus, more deadly. this is 5% versus 1% and less than 1%. this is deadly stuff. william: but at that time in public the president wri deng the gravity of the situation differently. three days later the president said thi-- pres. trum lks by april, in theory, when it gets warmer, am miraculously goes away, i hope it is true.

amna nawaz has a report from juere. >> nawaz: thanks.t surge in iowa has been driven in part by the return to school, including the state's .ajor universities. but that's not a o. kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa, and appears regularly on iowa pbs. e joins me from des moines. kay, welcome back to the newshour, the numbers are worth highlighting statewide we shoulo meiowa currently has more than 66,000 con furthermored cases, more than 1100 deaths, but it's not the infection volume that is troubng experts t is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa ise tri the national average over the last week. conference about this earliers today. how would you describe her response to the latest troubling legures? >> well, many penow the white house coronavirus task force has been advg isates on steps to take to sort of mitigate the spread of the virus and the task force this paswet recommended iowa close bars in 61 of its 99 cunties and have a statewide mandate for face coverings in public place the governor's resisted both of th

amna nawaz looks at how thehi experiences te and learning this year have varied greatly. first, let's hear from rsrents, students, teachers and school board membout what the first month or so has been like for them. >> my me is devin evans, i'm a literary history itor at an school in the far south side. we are hard working on the weeken, nighttime, mornings, and it takes a lot more time to prepare an eaging lesson for remote instruction. >> hi, my name is brianna gonzales, and i'm a 7ter. school is a lot harder this year with remote learning because it feels like we have a lot of it's really not that much, but it feels like a lot because you have to keep track of everything by yourself. >> my name is amanda prieto and i live in miami-dade county. i have two children in the miami-dade county public schoolt . the first day school started with the students logging into the same platform, and what happened was they all experienced a whole bunch of errors, they were not able to communicate with their teachers or their classmates. >> my name is trishia bermudez and i live in ro

amna nawaz is following the >> nawaz: by all as, theail. 2020 election will be the most expensive inhistory. raising and spending money byre the millions, despite the recession.ndemic and economic it's part of a trend that sees each election more costly than the last. torack this, i'm joined by: campaign legal center.tisan he previously worked as a lawyer at the federal election. commissi welcome and thanks for being here. i want to ask you about the numbers. the president built up an impressive war chest, arly a billion dollars, which is why reports he was in a cah crunch are striking, but he's so far spent more than.$800 mill it's such a massive number. now does that happen? where is that ey going? >> at lot of it in any campaign, not just presidential but onany level, goes to funvedraising and ising. the amounts that the trump campaign has been spending on those, they have been certainly high, but, you know, every election cycle gets more expensive, this fundraising cycle has been particularly difficult. soit's not hugy surprising the campaign is spending more in 2020 than 2016. >

. ♪ -- amna nawaz. >> i am stephanie sy with newshour west.icials in louisville, kentucky bracing for a second night of protests over the breonna taylor killing and have extended a nightly curfew through the weekends. two officers were shot and wounded last night after the decision not to charge police with taylor's death. yamiche alcindor has the report. yamiche: last night in louisville, kentucky, demands for justice for breonna taylor had more urgency, after a grand jury brought no charges against two officers that fatally shot taylor in he home. they were trying to serve a drug warrant in march. a third officer who was fired was charged with recklessly shooting into a nearby apartment. taylor had no criminal record and no drugs were found in her apartment. kentucky's attorney general said officers acted in self-defense after taylor's boyfriend fired the initial shots. angry and distraught, hundreds took to the streets for protests across the nation from los angeles to new york city. >> this will be in the history books. if we do nothing, p

urged to downplay russian interference and was pressure to skew igence.se our nick schiffrin and amna nawaz help fill in the picture. nick, i'm going to start with you. tell us exactly what it was that microsoft announced today. >> microsoft says foreign groups stepped up efforts targetinthe examples. and cites three e same russian military intellence unit that hacked a leak in 2016 has now targeted0 ganizations including campaigns, political consultas, and one analyst said skdk, nicker bakr which consults for biden. microsoft says chinese actors ukes successfully tarlgtd people affiliated with the biden campaign and a promine individual formally associated with the trump administration, but we have no details. microsoft says iranian actors tried unscess friday to log into the accounts of trump administration and campaign officials. microsoft acknowledme of the foreign influence operations have been successful and there are also details how russians are going to new lengths to avoid detection. department of homeland securitye and intelligefficials said today this is a sign of private-public

amna nawaz explores a new, blistering report reveals the extent oerrors and the need for change. >> nawazdy, that report was issued by the democratic members of the house transportationco ittee. and their investigation into the crashes in indonesia and ethiopia fou what they called "a horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by boeing's engineers, a lack of transparency on e part of boeing's management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the f.a.a." the report also found "boeing tsthheld crucial information from the f.a.a.,ustomers and 737 max pilots." our own aviation correspondent, miles o'brien, continues to cover this story and joins me now. miles, welcome back. it's always good to see you. we should note this isn't the first investigatcrn into those hes but it is the most comprehensive. it's also striking they seem to find a problem o a failure a every single step along the way. how unusual is that? >> it is unusual, amna. this is systemic problem. this is not just an isolated situation. what the report paints is a picture of a company in a very competitive

as amna nawaz reports, carriers across the industry are struggling to stay solvent, in some cases perhaps to survive, during the cornavirus pandemic. >> nawaz: judy, u.s. airlines received about $25 billion in federal assistance earlier this year, as part of the cares act. as part of that deal, airlines promised to not cut jobs until october. but the industry continues to struggle, and several carriers now say they have no choice but to furlough up to 35,000 employees this week. unless they get more federal aid. for more on this, i'm joined by nick calio. he's the president and c.e.o. of airlines for america, the trade association for the country's leading passenger and cargo airlines. >> welcome back to the "news hour," and thanks for being with us. a lot of people look at this and say once the airlines had the money in hand, the first chance they got to furlough employees, they took it. so why give them billions more now if they're just going to do the same thing? what do y say to that? >> i would say that the facts be belie that notion. the airlines are doing everything they can to kee

breonna taylor's family, six months after she was shot by police and her death became a refrain of as amna nawaztells us, policing changes are part of that agreement. potential criminal charges against the officean remains froncenter to the family and many around the country.aw >>: in the eyes of her family, one step toward justice for breonna taylor. >> it's only the beginttng of g full justice for breonna. her beautiful spirit and all of us on the ground, sough please continue to say her name. >> nawaz: today, the city of louisville announced a $12 million settlement with taylor's mother, tami palmer, after she sued over her daughterling by police. louisville mayor greg fischer. >> i cannot ben to imagine ms. palmer's pain, and i am deep f, deeply sor breonna's death. >> nawaz: it is the largest sum ever pd by the city in a police misconduct case, and the settlement includes a package of police reforms. >> say her name! >> nawaz: the settlement comes after months of protests following breonna taylor death. the medical technician was shot in her home march 13th by louisville pice, serving a dru

amna begins our coverage. >> nawaz: a moment more than six months in the making.now many iaclouisville and ss commonwealth in the country have been anxiouslypl awaiting the cion of our investigation into the death of breonna taylor >> nawaz: kentucky attorney general daniel cameron announcing that one of the three officers involved in the fatal crooting of 26-year-old breonna taylor would facinal charges, not for her death, but for recklessly shooting into a neighboring apartment. t >> after heari evidence from our team of prosecutors the grand jury voted to rern an indictment against detective hankison for three counts wanton endangerment, for wantonly placinghe three individuals in apartment 3 in danger or serious physical injury or death. if found guilty the accused can serve up to five years. >> nawaz: hankison had already been firedrom the force this summer. officers miles cosgrove and jonathan mattingly were not charged. >> the decision before my office as special prosecutor was not to decide whether loss of breonna taylor's life was a tragedy. the answer to

amna naw has more on the litical views of voters born on one of america's darkest days. >> nawaz: judyose young americans' lives have been shaped by wars, school shootings, and now, a deadly global pandemic. interviewed several of them for his piece in "politico" magazine, called "the children of 9/11 are about to vote." he's also the authorf the "new york times" bestseller, "the only plane in the sky: an oral history of 9/11." garrett, welcome back to the gnars. always good the talk to you. it is remarkable to read in your latest piece thtse young ad have only ever known a nation at chloe said, every single daymen since i was born, we haven't been in a time where wee at thing to read.s a rem what did these young americans tell you about how they view america'wars after 9/11? >> part of wt is so fascinating, amna, is that, for them, it's just been background noise. as you said, they have never known a day of peace in their lives, and, so, they ha very little understanding of the wars inraq and afghanistan, why we're there, and really have arned very little abohe warsn school. >> report