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that's why we're your additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. a day after white nationalist protesters and counter- protesters clashed violently in charlottesville, virginia, the city is starting to pick up the pieces. today, mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial where an intentional car crash took the life of a woman. it is now being labeled an act of terrorism. friends say the victim stood up to bigotry. "newshour weekend's" megan thompson has more. >> reporter: a 20-year-old ohio man is charged with murder for plowing his car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia, yesterday. james alex fields, jr. is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned in charlottesville general district court tomorrow morning. he was holding a shield with the emblem of a white supremacist grou

the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. what a week. we learned that north korea is now capable of miniaturizing nuclear warheads that could hit the united states. we also witnessed a very public war of words between president trump and leader kim jong-un over the communist country's nuclear ambitions and as tensions escalated, the president didn't pump the brakes. instead he intensified his ominous warning to north korea, saying the united states was locked and loaded to take military action. president trump: if north korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack of anybody that we love or we represent or our alleys or us, they can be very, very nervous. robert: north korea issued it own warning to the united states saying trump is driving the situation on the korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war. making such outcries as the u.s. will not rule out a war with the north creanl regime. nancy, the question tonight

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the mayor of houston had a message for his constituents in the nation's fourth largest city today-- please, stay off the roads. the warning came as hurricane harvey-- still classified as a tropical storm-- dumped torrential rainfall on the texas coast along the gulf of mexico. two days after making landfall as a category four hurricane friday night, harvey has weakened, but with little relief for millions of texans. at least five deaths are blamed on the storm. an estimated 300,000 texans are without power today. parts of southeast texas expect a cumulative 50 inches of rain, the most ever recorded in the state from one storm. the worst flooding is in houston, where there have been more than 2,500 rescue calls. >> wading through deep water in search of higher ground people used inflate annal rafts and

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. at least one person is dead and several are injured tonight after protests and counter- protests turned violent in charlottesville, virgina. virginia governor terry mcauliffe declared a state of emergency. hundreds of white nationalists and alt-right activists clashed in the streets with counter- protesters and police. mcauliffe said the declaration would facilitate the state's response, which included calling out virginia national guard soldiers. newshour producer p.j. tobia has been covering today's demonstrations and has more. >> reporter: the violent clashes began before a so-called "unite the right" rally scheduled to take place in charlottesville's mcintire park. organizers had originally planned to hold a rally in the city's emancipation park, which used to be called lee park, in honor of conf

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. the fallout continues over president trump's shifting remarks on last saturday's white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia. of 52 republican u.s. senators, only one-- south carolina's tim scott-- appeared on any of the sunday morning news shows today, and his comments on the president were far from laudatory. >> this nation responds to moral authority, when we believe that our president has the entire nation's best interests at heart. his comments on tuesday that erased his positive comments on monday started to compromise that moral authority that we need the president to have for this nation to be the beacon of light to all mankind. >> sreenivasan: republican governor john kasich of ohio appealed to those around the president to rein in his incendiary remarks. >> people around him have to ge

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. once-mighty hurricane harvey is weakening, and drifting slowly but dangerously over land. forecasters warn the storm is still capable of generating" catastrophic" flooding as far as 100 miles inland. after making landfall overnight, harvey was downgraded today from a category 4 hurricane, with 130-mile-an-hour winds, to tropical storm status-- still with very severe 75-mile-an-hour winds. harvey came ashore about 30 miles northeast of corpus christi, as the strongest hurricane to hit texas in almost 60 years. harvey has already dumped 20 inches of rain in some places. there's a report of one hurricane-linked death. but the storm knocked out power to almost 300,000 homes. because of harvey, officials say about a quarter of gulf coast oil refinery production has been taken off-line. hurricane harvey str

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the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator, robert costa. robert: good evening. as hurricane harvey barrels toward the texas gulf coast we send our thoughts to those who call the region home. please, stay safe. here in washington, a different type of storm is brewing between the president and congressional republicans over the debt ceiling. a budget to keep the government running and funding for a border wall. the president continues to pick fights with fellow republicans and play the blame game over the defeat of health care. in fact, he tweeted this week the only problem i have with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is that after hearing repeal and replace for seven years, he failed. that never should have happened. during a visit to his home state, kentucky, mcconnell joked about the limits of his power as a senate leader with a slim majority. >> i'm asked what is being majority leader of the senate like? it's a little bit like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery.

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. one week after the violent white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia, a self-described "free speech" rally today in boston organized by conservative activists was eclipsed by thousands of counter-protesters. hours before the rally in the massachusetts capital was to start, an estimated 15,000 counter-protesters marched peacefully through downtown boston. in sharp contrast with charlottesville, today's events in and ner the historic boston common were largely peaceful. more than 500 police officers were on hand, some undercover, and commissioner william evans greeted the counter-protesters today, telling them violence would not be tolerated. a few dozen people attended the event organized by the boston free speech coalition, but shortly after the rally was scheduled to start-- and vastly out

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. north korea's only ally, china, lectured its neighbor in no uncertain terms today to stop its missile and nuclear tests. the stern warning came a day after the united nations security council imposed tough new economic sanctions choking off about a third of north korea's exports. but at a regional summit of 27 foreign ministers in manila, chinese foreign minister wang yi said he told his north korean counterpart to remain calm, that more tests would only inflame the crisis. wang called for the quick resumption of six-party talks, including the u.s., to end the standoff peacefully. wang also met with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and said he told the secretary that sanctions alone are not the solution. a u.s. diplomat at the summit welcomed the new chinese pressure on north korea, but said the

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: north korea had tough talk today for the united states, following the weekend adoption of new sanctions by the united nations. the new measures target north korea's already-limited export market, and seek to further isolate the nation after recent missile tests. lisa desjardins reports. >> desjardins: to new sanctions, north korea today reacted with its own threat. >> ( translated ): the us's villainous illegal actions against our country and people will be reciprocated by thousands-fold. if it thinks that it will be safe because it is across an ocean, there is no bigger misunderstanding than that. >> desjardins: that sharp warning after north korea test- launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month that some analysts believe could reach parts of the united states. today at a summit of southeast asian nations in manila, a north korean spokesman defended its nuclear program. >> ( translate

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the president continued the war of words between north korea and the u.s. today, as guam, the small u.s. territory island in the pacific, became the center of global attention. special correspondent nick schifrin begins our coverage. >> things will happen to them like they never thought possible. >> reporter: today president trump doubled down on his threats against north korea. >> i will tell you this north korea better get their act together or they're gonna be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world. >> reporter: he met with his national security team in new jersey and disparaged a quarter century of what he called failed north korea negotiations. >> look at clinton. he folded on the negotiations. he was weak and ineffective. you look at what happened with bush, you look what happened with obama. obama-- he didn't even want to talk about it. >> reporter: meanwhile, on

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> o'brien: the crisis in houston deepens by the day, as tropical storm harvey lurks just offshore. more than 3,500 people have been rescued, but officials have confirmed four deaths. much as 30% more than 1700 square miles and is home to heat advisory is now under water. and more and more is washing into the city itself. p.j. tobia begins our coverage. >> reporter: images of a region pushed to the brink. torrents poured through parts of downtown houston, as a pair of aging dams overflowed. rescue crews had worked through the night, with flood victims crowding onto dump trucks heading for higher ground. some waited until morning, only to see the water climb higher. >> it quit raining and the water had gone down and we thought we were okay, until the fire department come and told us they were going to reopen the dams and they were going to reflood everything. so i said, let's go. >> i've been here two years. th

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president trump again denounced north korea today, saying the u.s. and its military was ready to deal with any provocation by the pyongyang regime. special correspondent nick schifrin starts us off. >> reporter: the u.s. military calls guam the tip of its pacific spear, and today it showed off bombers that carry more conventional weapons than any other american plane. from guam, b-1 bombers can reach north korea in only a few hours. >> that's what this continuous bomber presence does. it assures our allies and deters our adversaries. >> reporter: the military wouldn't detail the bombers' mission, but the message was clear, as president trump tweeted this morning: "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path!" he continued his warning late this afternoon. >> i hope that they are going to fully understand the

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: north korea may have taken a fateful step forward on the path towards being a nuclear weapons power. the "washington post" reports that u.s. intelligence officials have concluded the north korean regime has developed a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles, which are believed capable of striking not only south korea and the immediate region, but also the united states. speaking in new jersey this afternoon, president trump had tough words for pyongyang. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal statement and as i said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> woodruff: joining me now to dissect these latest developments are wendy sherman. she served as undersecretary of state for

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the latest flashpoint in the american showdown with north korea, has drawn sharply different responses from president trump and his top national security aides. it all follows reports that pyongyang can now make nuclear weapons small enough to fit inside a long-range missile. john yang begins our coverage. >> yang: amid the escalating war of words, secretary of state rex tillerson urged calm. >> i think americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days. what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jong un would understand, because he doesn't seem to >> yang: tillerson spoke on his way to the u.s. territory that's home to the b-1 bombers that have been flying training missions over the korean peninsula, drawing north korea's ire. >> ( translated ): the korean people's army is now carefully examining

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: july was the second straight month of solid job gains for u.s. employers. the u.s. labor department says employers added 209,000 jobs last month. that dropped the unemployment rate down to 4.3%, tying a 16-year-low. the good report pushed stocks higher on wall street. the dow jones industrial average gained 66 points to close at 22,092. that is its eighth straight record high. let's get an assessment about the job market and the stock market and what it means for millions of americans. i'm joined by mark vitner, managing director and senior economist at wells fargo. mark vitner, welcome to the program. so just how good a jobs report is this? >> well, it's a pretty solid report. pretty much top to bottom. 209,000 jobs exceeded what folks were looking for. we had a small upward revision of the prior data and we saw that a very wide majority of industries added jobs, over 60% of the industries that make up

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: people gathered across the country for a historic event today, a total eclipse of the sun in a 70 mile- wide band, crossing from the pacific to the atlantic coasts. with special eyeglasses or homemade boxes, tens of millions looked to the sky to witness a sight not seen in most people's lifetimes. our science correspondent, miles o'brien, was in idaho to watch for us and in partnership with our colleagues from the pbs program, "nova." miles gets us started and then, he and william brangham discuss the day's celestial and earthly events. >> reporter: it is the first coast to coast american eclipse in a century. millions had front row seat for a celestial minuet of moon and sun. >> we got to charleston yesterday morning and came up because this was in our path and we could come and when you can, you should, so we came to see the eclipse because it's a once-in-a-lifetime deal. >> i'd never seen an eclipse

through the yuen foundation. , the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your cbsstation from viewers like up. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. this was supposed to be a chance for the white house to reset. a new chief of staff was instituted to stabilize a divided west wing. but instead president trump found himself in a familiar place, up against the ropes with new developments about the ongoing russia prokes. special counsel rob mueller is assembling a grand jury in last year's election and russian potential collusion with the trump campaign. last night the president did what you'd expect, counter punch. president trump: the russia story is a total fabbri days. there were no -- fabrication. there were no rushesens in our campaign. there never were. robert: dan, the russia issue day in and day out seems to be the issue the president cannot escape. dan: call it what you will. the festering wound, the low-grade fever that could become an acute fever. no one knows how it will end but he's totally obsessed wit

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: u.s. military and diplomatic leaders are moving ahead on the afghanistan strategy that president trump laid out in a speech to the nation last night. his remarks brought reaction today from the region, and the world. nick schifrin begins our coverage. >> reporter: today, in the birthplace of the taliban, afghan president ashraf ghani praised president trump's decision to deploy more u.s. troops without an end date. >> ( translated ): from now on, there will not be any timetable or conditions. america will stand with the afghan nation till the end. >> reporter: afghan chief executive abdullah abdullah, who came to prominence fighting the taliban, said the new strategy should serve as a warning. >> the message is very clear: that if there are groups that they think that they can win militarily, they should give up their thinking. >> reporter: but afghan officials say that statement also applies to u

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: we begin tonight with continuing coverage of the attacks in charlottesville, virginia, over the weekend. on saturday, president trump drew criticism from the left and right alike when he did not name neo-nazi groups for inciting the attacks. he instead denounced violence "on many sides." today, he was more specific. >> racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the k.k.k., neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. we are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of america. >> sreenivasan: the fallout from the weekend's violence continued to reverberate around the country today. in charlottesville, the driver of the suspected vehicle that rammed into a crowd of people appeared in court vi

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> o'brien: harvey is back on land tonight, and finally moving on. in its wake, officials in texas and louisiana are beginning to calculate the costs. at least 21 confirmed deaths, 32,000 people in shelters and tens of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. william brangham begins our coverage. >> reporter: after five days of record rain, nearly 52 inches, the skies stopped pouring, and the houston area finally saw sunlight again. better still, officials announced nearly all waterways have now crested and should start going down. jeff lindner is with the harris county flood control district, that includes the city: >> the water levels are going down. and that's for the first time in several days. >> reporter: but the danger is far from over. police today confirmed six members of a family drowned when their van was swept away in a bayou. and, officials are still monitoring levees that are straining under the load

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> o'brien: houston, the nation's 4th largest city, is virtually paralyzed tonight. huge swaths are underwater in the wake of hurricane, now tropical storm "harvey." at least eight people are dead, thousands rescued, untold numbers stranded. about 30 inches of rain has fallen already with 20 more inches possible. special correspondent christopher booker reports from houston >> reporter: hour by hour, the water keeps rising and rescuers keep going, with whatever is at hand. >> it's just gonna get worse and if they don't get out today, they're going to have to get out tomorrow or the day after anyway. power is not gonna come back, so might as well get out and try to ride it out at a shelter. >> reporter: whole communities have already been inundated, and officials opened two reservoirs today to ease pressure on dams and protect the city's business core. it could also mean flooding thousands more homes. that's lent ne

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: from president trump today, more not-so- friendly fire, aimed at his own political party. he lambasted senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan for not raising the nation's debt ceiling before now. he also attacked mcconnell, again, over the u.s. senate's failure to replace obamacare. we'll have a full report, after the news summary. the california supreme court has upheld a ballot measure to speed up executions. voters narrowly approved the initiative last year. it calls for expediting appeals, and granting extensions only in rare instances. the court did rule that a five- year deadline for carrying out an execution is only advisory, not mandatory. california has not executed anyone since 2006. the texas gulf coast is now bracing for a major hurricane, late friday or early saturday. "harvey" powered up today in the gulf of mexico, and could have winds of 125 miles-an-hour

the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: secretary of state rex tillerson made a rare and unexpected appearance in front of news reporters today, commenting on tensions around the world. he said neither he nor president trump were "happy" with new sanctions congress imposed on russia. and on north korea, tillerson said the united states' options are "limited" and that the u.s. is looking to apply "peaceful pressure" on pyongyang. >> and we're trying to convey to the north koreans, we are not your enemy, we are not your threat. but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond. and we hope that at some point, they will begin to understand that, and we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them about the future that will give them the security they seek. >> woodruff: the secretary of state also acknowledged some differences he has with president trump, including over the iran nuclear deal, also known as the j

the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: it is a call to overhaul immigration. president trump endorsed today new legislation from republican senators david perdue of georgia and tom cotton of arkansas, that would cut in half the number of people allowed in the nation legally, marking a profound shift in policies that have been in place for half a century. >> for decades, the united states has operated a very low skilled immigration system, issuing record numbers of green cards to low wage immigrants. and is has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, our workers. >> woodruff: the president's senior adviser, stephen miller, fiercely defended the policy change at a white house briefing today. >> this is a reality that's happening in our country. maybe it's time we had compassion, glenn, for american workers. president trump has met with american workers who've been replaced by foreign workers. and ask them how this is affecting their li

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: hurricane harvey is bearing down on the gulf coast of texas tonight, with all the makings of a major disaster. by early evening, the storm had sustained winds of 125 miles an hour, and could get even stronger. lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> reporter: waves battered galveston and the rest of the texas coast all day, the punishing winds and rain only beginning. from high overhead, cameras aboard the international space station captured the scope of the storm as it closed in. texas governor greg abbott activated 700 national guard troops and braced for the worst. >> we are going to be dealing with immense, really record- setting flooding in multiple regions across the state of texas. you may think that the initial surge is something you can deal with. what no one knows is the magnitude of flooding over the coming days, and the aftermath. >> reporter: harvey is poised to make landfall overnight ne

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: 13 dead, scores more hurt, two arrests: grim results of today's attack in barcelona, where a speeding vehicle vaulted a sidewalk and drove down its victims. it follows similar attacks across europe, and last weekend, in charlottesville, virginia. for more, we turn to max gayler, reporting for reuters in barcelona, and lorenzo vidino, who leads the program on extremism at george washington university. spain hasn't been the site of this attacks. we've seen a lot of focus on london and france. >> yeah, the last time spain was hit was in 2004 when we had the ma -- madrid bombings. since europe has been i.s.i.s.ing linked, spain has not been touched by radicalization and attacks as some of the northern and central european countries have. >> sreenivasan: why is that? for a number of reasons but mostly mobilization in europe for i.s.i.s. has been a second generation phenomenon. the southern countries

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: two major stories tonight: the fall of steve bannon, and the fallout in barcelona. we begin with the news that bannon's tenure as white house chief strategist is over. it came three days after president trump praised him, but left his fate in doubt. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. and i like him, he's a good man. he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he's a good person. he actually gets very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. but he's a good person, and i think the press treats him, frankly, very unfairly. >> sreenivasan: joining me now to discuss the ouster of president trump's chief strategist, is robert costa, national political reporter with the "washington post" and host of "washington week." what happened? >> this was a long, simmering problem inside of the white house, at least according to