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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, an excerpt of the president's remarks. >> woodruff: and we get the latest on the rising floodwaters and evacuations inç the northeo and mid atlantic states. >> brown: ray suarez reports on the verbal jousting among g.o.p. presidential hopefuls at last night's debate. >> woodruff: tom bearden continues our coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a look at how life has changed for air travelers since the terror attack. >> a lot of americans don't feel that they should be patted down. it's not necessary to be patted down. but when you try to take things on the plane that don't belong, then it is necessary. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with author amy waldman. her new novel imagines a 9/11 memorial designed by a muslimçç american. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> auto companies make hug

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we update the rescue, the recovery and the clean up after hurricane irene. >> ifill: then, ray suarez examines the obama administration's move to block the merger of two wireless giants at&t and t-mobile with cecilia kang of the "washington post." >> brown: we have a report from tripoli, where libyans are marking the end of ramadan and celebrating the first holiday in decades without moammar qaddafi in power. >> ( translated ): this is the first time in my life i feel that i am free and i pray free without any restrictions from qaddafi's regime. >> ifill: from texas, we get the latest on the scorching temperatures, raging wildfires and the worst drought on record from wade goodwyn of npr. >> brown: we look at who's behind the spike in the illegal marijuana trade in california in a story produced by the center for investigative reporting. >> we're at a fork in the road. if we don't make an aggressive push now to take back public lands, we may be at a point of

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the actions and inactions of global finance chiefs, and look at what's next for europe. >> woodruff: then, from cairo, margaret warner recaps her reporting trip with a look at egypt's collapsing economy. in the last five days the stock market has been down every day and according toed egyptian media this is nonarab investors pulling their money out. >> brown: we talk to former vice-president dick cheney about his new memoir chronicling 40 years in american politics, and the state of national security today and more. >> i worry very much that we're still vulnerable to attack, if you have a group of terrorists who are dedicated to launching an attack, killing americans, and they don't care about surviving themselves. >> woodruff: david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the week's news. >> brown: and from the economist film project, we have the story of a filipino woman who left her family and country to teach in baltimore's inner city. >> woodr

>> brown: and that's the "newshour' for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. 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." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies f

he sat down with jeffrey brown recently to talk about it. >> brown: what are you going to have to give up in terms of the priorities that you would bring as president of the united states.... >> brown: for american voters, presidential debates are usually the only chance to see and take the measure of candidates side by side. >> jim, under my plan all seniors will get prescription drugs. >> brown: upwards of 60 million viewers. >> you voted against the crime bill. >> brown: the stakes are incredibly high. >> none of us has any idea what jim lehrer intends to ask. >> brown: the man who has moderated more of these debates than anyone else says it's like walking down the blade of a knife. that does not sound like a lot of fun. >> it's not a lot of fun but if you get to the other end it's really exciting. >> brown: you've made it. >> our questions this evening will be about equally divided between foreign and domestic policy matters. >> brown: jim lehrer moderated his first presidential debate in 1988 and nine more since as well as a vice presidential debate. in 1996 and 2000, he moderated

. >> brown: did that surprise you? >> it surprises me a lot. it does. >> brown: that's not who you are. really or who you think of yourself. >> that's right. >> brown: and she says the act of creating became her own path to healing. >> it helped me cope with what had happened. i think that that's important. we all have to find our own way to deal with it. >> brown: emotional and physical scars everywhere. but planning for the future is now in high gear. both st. john's hospital and joplin high hope to have new buildings by 2014. >> woodruff: next, the escalating tensions between the u.s. and pakistan. margaret warner has that story. three bloody recent attacks in afghanistan claimed many lives, but the greatest casualty may be the u.s. alliance with pakistan. in ge june insurgents laid siege to kabul's inter-continental hotel killing 11. ea truck ,s ruck bomb wounded 77 u.s. troops in eastern afghanistan. days later back in kabul, insurgents fired grenades and automatic weapons at the u.s. embassy and nato compound. 16

scott brown is number two among all u.s. senators in receiving money from private equity and investment firms. he's also number two in money from the securities and investment industry. look at his top campaign contributors right now. fidelity, that's listed fmr corp. goldman sachs, bank of new york melon. scott brown has taken so much money in from wall street in the short time in washington that "forbes" magazine last year put him under the headline "wall street's favorite congressman." we maybe should have seen this coming. maybe wall street and scott brown knew something nobody else did before he was elected. in the six days before his special election victory last year, scott brown in six days took in nearly half a million dollars from the financial industry. the return on wall street's investment, the payoff they have gotten on what they have spent on scott brown, is the kind of margin that makes wall street guys drool on to their tasselled loafers. as the wall street reform bill was being crafted in the senate it was

good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we examine the latest move to dealm with europe's debt troubles and assess whether it will avert a crisis.i >> brown: then, two updates on the arab spring. we have a report from bahrainup where doctors have been jailed for treating protesters.fo and margaret warner looks at politics in saudi arabia whereic women will soon vote but can't drive. v >> woodruff: we have another of our interviews with republican presidential candidates.an tonight, former house speaker newt gingrich. >> it would be nice to have somebody who actually knows what they're doing and could actually get it done in washington, and i think of the candidates running, i'm the only one with a trackac record of actually achieving things at a national level. >> brown: from our "economist film project" series, we excerp a documentary about the united nation's push to stem the flow of opium out of afghanistan. >> we focus on high-all targets. we focus on the biggest, the baddest, the largest drug

i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight: new york one correspondent errol louis and "newshour" political editor david chalian explain what the upset means for president obama's sinking political fortunes. >> brown: then, ray suarez examines the congressional probe of a failed solar-panel company that received federal loan guarantees worth half a billion dollars. >> ifill: from cairo, margaret warner reports on the rise of egypt's oldest and most established islamic movement, in the aftermath of the arab spring. >> now the muslim brotherhood, long confined to only social and religious service, could soon become the dominant force in the government. >> brown: and we assess the looming showdown at the united nations as palestinian officials push for statehood and a vote in the general assembly. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the ones that he

>> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we assess what caused the stock market rout and the federal reserve's latest action to prop up the economy. >> woodruff:: then, we examine the latest battle over u.s. federal funding, as a congressional tug-of-war over disaster aid could lead to a government shutdown. >> brown: ray suarez looks at turkey's prime minister erdogan, who took the stage today at the united nations, part of an effort to boost his country's profile in the middle east and elsewhere. >> woodruff:: from texas, betty anne bowser has the story of one city's push to rebuild better and stronger, after a disaster. >> if there is one thing people in galveston know about its hurricanes. but these days, they're working on something new-- how to make this gulf coast city a healthier place to live. >> brown: and as part of our "economist film project" series, we talk to the director of "last train home"-- a film about the world's largest human migration. >> i wanted to make a film about the chi

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