and i saw it turn brown. then the needles fell and i saw it turn gray and then i saw it turn green again. then the beatles came back and it turned brown and then now it's going gray and some of it is now black. but it's going to come back. i'll watch it come back. >> reporter: thousands of other colorado mountain dwellers share baker's hope to watch it all come back. but it will be many years before the forest regenerates. >> woodruff: we take a closer look now now at the connection between these weather events and changes in the environment. kevin trenberth is a senior scientist with the federal government's national center for atmospheric research. thank you very much for being with us. let's start with these wild fires. are they worse this year than usual? >> this year has certainly gotten off to a very bad start. we always have some wild fires in patches. but we don't expect to see them until much later in the season. of course, this relates to how dry it has been and exceptionally dry in all of the south

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, armed with an i.m.f. report issued today, christine lagarde warns that u.s. policy-makers must be careful not to overdo debt reduction. >> to bring the debt under control, action needs to be taken over a period of time. that is not just next year. that is going to extend for the next ten years. it needs to be gradual, not so contractionary that the economy folds. >> woodruff: we have an update on efforts across the country to recover from wildfires, extreme heat, and power outages. >> brown: susan dentzer of the journal "health affairs" answers questions many of you are asking about how health care reform will work, now that the supreme court has weighed in. >> for somebody who is running a small business, what does this new health care plan... how does that impact future busess owners? >> brown: margaret warner interviews mexico's new president-elect, enrique peÑa nieto, about drug war violence and relations with the u.s. >> brown: pakistan reopened an important supply route for u.s. forces into afghanis

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the grim findings coming amid news of further setbacks to the nation's economic health. >> ifill: then, ray suarez examines how the worst drought in 55 years is choking half the country, causing crops to wither and the price of food to rise. >> brown: we update the security woes in london, as athletes arrive for the olympic games. >> brown: as the political map shrinks, we join anna sale of wnyc radio on her tour of the nation's battleground states. >> brown: from panama, the story of a tug-of-war in the rain forest between a canadian mining company and the local community. >> is building what would be one of the biggest compromises in the world. right in the middle of the rain forest. home to thousands of animal and plant species. some of them endangered. >> ifill: and we close with a mystery about an electric guitar that just might be the same one bob dylan played at the 1965

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the execution- style killings on what rebels call one of the worst days of bloodshed since the uprisings began in syria more than a year ago. >> woodruff: then, we examine the ballooning losses at j.p. morgan chase and the role of government regulators in monitoring the banking industry. >> brown: miles o'brien has the story of an austin, texas, neighborhood that uses "smart grid" technology to track and control its energy consumption. >> the fishers have two solar volume dayic power system, sophisticated digital metres and state of the art thermostats that allow them to fine-tune their indoor climate here orion line when they're away. >> we >> woodruff: we update the presidential campaign as the candidates trade shots over outsourcing jobs. >> brown: mark shields and michael gerson analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and we close with a report from south sudan about a flood of refugees fleeing the violence, only to encounter grim

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we examine the investigation's conclusions that joe paterno and others hushed up evidence and claims against former assistant football coach jerry sandusky. >> woodruff: and we explore the broader lessons learned for other institutions in the wake of the scandal. >> brown: then, from our "food for nine billion" series, fred de sam lazaro reports on some promising efforts to address a looming crisis in the west african nation of niger. >> famine is frequent in this region, but that very routineness is helping relief workers anticipate and contain the damage this year far better than the last crisis in 2010. >> woodruff: on the "daily download" tonight, ray suarez looks at facebook as it boosts its profile ahead of the november election. >> brown: and from our partners at "global post," we have the story of young chinese migrants coming to the big city in search of a new life. >> china's generation y face a group dilemma. they no longer belong in their rural h

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i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: carnegie of new york >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is n.b.r. i'm susie gharib. tom has the night off. stocks slide as spain cuts its growth forecast. global strategist nick colas joins us with an update. i.p.o.s were a brightspot. strong market debuts today from palo alto networks and travel site kayak. a look at whether i.p.o.s are making a comeback. and just two years ago, president obama signed the dodd frank financial reforms into law. a look at how that's

i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: carnegie of new york >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is "bbc world news america." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, shell, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small business

so that's a good thing. >> brown: all right. the great movie makers from the 1950s to hollywood today, george stevens jr., thanks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: jeff also continued his conversation online. learn more about what went into the making of some classic hollywood films like "shane." >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: there was word that the f.b.i. and the justice department have launched a review of thousands of criminal convictions that may have been based on flawed forensic evidence. simpson bernardino became the third california city to file for municipal bankrupt in recent weeks. out city council voted last night to take that step as it faces a $45 million budget hole. and the republican-led house of representatives voted again to repeal the two-year-old health care law. the measure was expected to die in the senate, where democrats hold sway. our health care coverage continues online. find my blog about the disconnect between the political back and forth in washington and the reality playing

i have also read people versus brown. my understanding of that case, and i am happy to have my fellow commissioners or council tommy i am wrong -- it appears that that case allows, in a domestic violence action, the expert testimony of a domestic violence experts to explain why a witness may change her testimony, if she testifies, if a certain amount of time passes. the opinion appears to permit that, pursuant to evidence code 801, as well as one that relates specifically to domestic violence, and does not appear to require that there be more than one allegation of abuse. mr. kopp, my question to you -- why doesn't people versus brown require us to allow dr. lemon to testify at least for that limited purposes? >> it might, if her expert opinion or relevant to the real issues of the case. our position is that that opinion does not relate to the issues in the case. we do not believe that all the material she is relying on and all the facts she has set forth in our opinion really affect -- i noted specifically, the silver bu

that is a mission accomplished for governor brown. cuts to the poor are at the core of the budget, as they have been over the last couple of years. there were reforms to cal-works. the welfare to work program and the elimination of the healthy families program which we talked about which will transfer about 880,000 children into the medi-cal program. that is where the vitriol came this week. republicans were quick to blame democrats of abandoning low-income children. although republicans have stood in the way of revenue adjustments to pay for that program. they felt the cuts should have been elsewhere. they also derided the governor and democratic peers for not addressing pension reform in the budget and certain other things. >> what about the home health care workers? that was a hot item that you unions were on the street over that one. >> they ended up preserving a lot of what they wanted to preserve. it is not all good news. there were cal grants and they receive a cut in awards. loss in additional child care. some of the home heal

it is the timothy ray brown foundation. purpose of it is to support efforts to look for a cure for hiv. that is what i want to do. i believe this is something that gives hope to a lot of people hiv and their families. and that is very important to me. >> and hearing about the other two men this week or just announced on thursday who seem to be having gone through what you went through, hiv/aids-free? >> it is very exciting. i am hoping it does turn out to be true and that they are cured of hiv. that is what my foundation -- these are the kinds of things what one might foundation is all about. >> thank you very much for being with us, timothy ray brown, the berlin patient, the first person believed to be cured of aids. and dr. jeffrey laurence, a leading aids researcher, senior scientist at the foundation for aids research known as amfar. when we come back, we will be joined by the first african religious leader to announce publicly his hiv-positive status. stay with us. o♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democrac

it was very heartbreaking. >> the crime occurred when brown was 16 years old.stepfather. >> aaron brown bewilders me. he sat in wait with a shotgun until his parents came home one night, and as his mom walked through the door, he blasted her with the shotgun, shot at his stepfather, missed, and ended up chasing his stepfather around the house shooting at him until he finally killed him. and i wanted to know why. >> weeks earlier before he grew out his hair and beard, we interviewed brown about the murders. >> i just remember when i woke up like the first thing i said that day was, today is the day. i had myself convinced and for whatever reason there was nothing wrong with it in my mind. i didn't see any other way. >> any other way than what? >> there was no other way for me to escape that environment. it wasn't -- i didn't get abused physically or sexually or any other way, but i did not love my parents then, i did not feel like i was loved, and i just did not feel i could be there anymore. >> whatever he told me was pretty common stuff that occurs in a lot of

i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on efforts to restore power, cool off, and get life back to normal, plus tom bearden reports from charred colorado, where evacuation orders are starting to lift. were allowed to return to their homes for the first time here in risk canyon this weekend but when they got here there wasn't much left. >> brown: and we'll discuss the factors impacting weather extremes with a leading government climate scientist. >> woodruff: margaret warner reports from mexico, where an overwhelming call for change brings a new president from an old party. >> brown: we examine the continuing legal debate over the larger implications of the supreme court's health care ruling, and the key role played by chief justice john roberts. >> woodruff: and actor alan alda shows our science correspondent miles o'brien why he wants to help kids enjoy science by challenging teachers to be more engaging. >> it's important to communicate

you know from one thousand nine hundred ninety two thousand and two gordon brown sold off four hundred tonnes of britain's gold they haven't read max revealed why gordon brown sold britain's gold at a knockdown price but it seemed as if the treasury were only seeking to achieve the lowest price according to the telegraph so they're now looking back on it and they found out that one globally significant u.s. bank in particular is understood to have been heavily short on two tons of gold enough to call into question its solvent see a free demps in occurred at the prevailing price faced with the prospect of a global collapse in the banking system the chancellor took the decision to balance the banks by dumping britain's gold forcing the price down and allowing the banks to buy back gold at a profit thus meeting their borrowing obligations but this is the beginning of a major period in manipulation by governments which now the latest chapter is the lie bore barclays bank of england and it relation but going back to this gold manipulation there was a major bank in the us short gold they hav

sherrod brown joins us tonight. plus, we've got new poll numbers out from key swing states that he's going to win in november. happened when the mayor of one city wanted to raise taxes an the city council said no. the mayor busted city workers and other public employees to minimum wage. we will ask the mayor how he fends that one. did you ever want to rewrite history? dozens of members of congress are doing just that, editing out embarrassing moments from their wikipedia pages. wikipedia is pushing back. we begin with the attempt to paint mitt romney as being for the rich. howard fineman is the editorial director of the huffington post media group. michael steele was chairman of the republican party. both a msnbc political analysts. gentlemen, want to show you something that vice president biden, he spoke to one of the largest latino political organizations today. what he had to say. take a look. >> when his father was a candidate important president in 1968, his pear released 12 years of tax returns because he said