hari?sreenivasan: on pbs newshour saturday, california's drought is in its fifth year, and now health concerns are on the rise as some wells have run dry. that's tomorrow night on pbs newshour weekend. and we'll be back, right here, on monday, with a wrap-up of campaign events from the holiday weekend. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm hari sreenivasan. have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbsor newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> bnsf railway. >> xq institute. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's mostr pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> and the william and florae hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and foundations. >> this program was madepr possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbb station from vie

kamau bell teemed up with hari kondabolu for edgy talk on the time. podcast. scott shaeffer takes it from here. >> joined by the hosts of politically reactive. w. kamau bell, he currently serves as aclu celebrity ambassador on racial justice and hari kondabolu, a self-described killjoy who does comedy. >> former intern to hillary clinton? >> i guess so. >> get immunity? >> i was 19 or 20. 2003, i don't know what -- >> you meet. >> i met her once in one interaction. five minutes in the history of her life? >> 13 years ago. may have been open miking it dins then. >> hitting the mikes. >> obama is naturally funny. has good timing for a president. >> could do a tour. >> i don't think funny for president, just funny. when he did the correspondents dinner, one that larry will more hosted. comics after that in the green room, he made us all look bad. he's really good. and it's not fair. natural timing. improvise, facial expressions, it's like he didn't need to learn that, just knows how. >> talk about the podcast, "politically reactive." what were some of the names y

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is on assignment.n on tonight's pbs newshour: n donald trump turns again to social media, unleashing a storm of tweets, while hillary clintoe keeps up her attacks on the trail. also ahead: in search of ahe better life, how nigerian women are being conned by fellowy africans to work as prostitutes on the streets of italy. >> reporter: the problem isem their clientele is poor, the prices are low, which means that the girls have to work extrao hard to pay back their debt.ck >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze this week's political fallout following the first presidential debate. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. yut >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> a

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. gwen ifill is away. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, at least one person is dead and more than 100 injured after a new jersey commuter train crashes into the hoboken station. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, how the candidates are taking advantage of early voting, with up to a third of americans casting their ballot before november 8. >> woodruff: and, a report from afghanistan, on the fight for womens' rights despite injustices embedded in the society even before there was a war. >> a lot of people don't realize that afghanistan is a country where it's been reported that over 85% of the women are victims of domestic violence. >> sreenivasan: plus, making sense of donald trump's taxes. what voters should know, and how the u.s. tax system often favors the rich. >> for certain very wealthy people, our federal income tax system is a subsidy system that makes them richer. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been

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. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. >> ifill: on the newshour tonight: >> in a trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced.en >> ifill: donald trump outlines tough immigration proposals, hours after returning from a surprise meeting with mexico's president. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday: a deep dive into the politics of trade thisad presidential election, and where hillary clinton stands on america role's in the global economy. >> ifill: and empty shelves line venezuela's grocery stores as desperate crowds await a rare meal-- a look at the country'snt worsening food shortage. >> it's one article of food per person and then you have to wait eight days because if you try to buy food. they'll stop you. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future.is >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and i

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sreenivasan. >> ifill: tomorrow, hari's series continues with the particular financial and culturalenges latino males face when it comes to earning a degree. and online: while students have asked colleges and universities to do better in hiring more professors of color, institutions have struggled to live up to their pledges. our partners at the hechinger report explore why. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we return to our coverage of the 15th anniversary of the september 11th attacks, and the aftermath. a decade-and-a-half after the u.s. invasion, afghanistan is still rebuilding and heavily dependent on international aid-- relying on other countries for i 70% of its government budget. still, afghanistan is takingng steps to stand on its own. one project on the outskirts of kabul is both a symbol of the effort to rebuild the country, and a potent reminder of national pride. special correspondent jennifernn glasse reports. >> reporter: mohammad kabir has lived in the shadow of the darulaman palace all his life. through years of peace and decades of war. king amanulah khan commissionedn

hari sreenivasan has the story.v >> sreenivasan: okay, the first thing to know-- uber tried this witheral journalists this week. k each self-driving car was accompanied by a human operator, who loosely kept hands on theel steering wheel. the cars are equipped with sensors, radars and light- mapping systems. select uber customers will be able to opt into a driverless car pick-up. alex davies writes about all d things transportation for "wired" magazine, and took a ride in one of uber's self- driving cars. he joins us from san francisco. so, alex, unless you were a friend ofex a tesla driver or google engineer, you're one of the first people to sit in the back of one of these cars.se what was the experience like? >> for the most part, it was kind of like a regular uber ride, minus the fact it was a carefully orchestrated media preview. it's same way most uber rides start. you pull out your phone, open up the uber app, enter your destination and call up the car. what's going to happen from now on for some select customers in pittsburgh is it will say, hey, would you like a self-driving c

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hari sreenivasan has our story. >> sreenivasan: for more now on the state of labor, we're going to bykay henry, service employees international union, and harley shaiken, a professor and labor expert at the university of california, berkley.ia professor, when we think of the labor movement, we think it's smaller than it used to be, but what are the challenges the movement is facing today? >> there are many challenges but it's a particularly criticali time for labor movement and the united states generally.it in the last three decades, labor has declined from representing one out of every five members to one out of every ten today, butt recent polls from bloomberg and others indicate that over half of people polled would like to join a union. how does that square with 11% being in unions? here i think we're looking at tough employer opposition, laws that don't facilitate a free choice and some broader changes in the economy.c >> sreenivasan: mary kayry henry, how do you square that gap, if people are interested still in being part of the union but the reality is they're not? >> 20 mill

hari sreenivasan reports. a warning: images in this story will disturb many viewers >> reporter: blood mingled with fresh bread on the streets of east aleppo-- the remains of a bakery, and its customers, struck this morning amid the ongoing, thunderous bombardment. in the terrible stillness after the attack, a medical worker told of the carnage. >> ( translated ): the russian planes started dropping missiles and rockets. people who were coming to get bread from the bakery, were martyred; there are a number we cannot reach due to the number of shells that were dropped. >> reporter: and nearby, two hospitals-- referred to by codenames "m2" and "m10" to hide their locations-- were also hit. they are supported by the syrian-american medical society, an n.g.o. on a social media chat group monitored by the newshour, medical personnel and activists said "m10" was the lone "trauma center" left, and that only six hospitals remain operational. those serve a quarter-million people. now, just two can perform surgery. a wo

hari sreenivasan has our report. >> we're going to just take notes now. >> reporter: it's called a highboot camp. six months of intense work that turns a beginner computer coder into a software engineer. >> here's a tool you can use but if it stresses you out too much, don't use it. >> reporter: the academics are difficult, but the camps all but promise jobs that pay more than double the median income in america. >> it's an immersive program it's incredibly tough. >> reporter: so tough, only 20% of those who apply get accepted. instructor wes reid. >> the things that we're really focused on is how do we get people as career-ready as fast as possible. >> reporter: students are flooding in. from 2014 to 2015, the number of graduates from coding boot camps jumped by 138%. >> there isn't any general education classes that you have to take, or stuff that's not necessary used for your end goal. >> reporter: it's a learning model that is not only experiencing explosive growth, but also attracting tens of millions of dollars of private investment. >> the world is evolving so quickly that in the

when the first iraq war happened, all of you here i believe know who colonel hari summers was. wrote the book on war and i got to know him when i was writing my first book at the war collegele and he predict thread would be 30,000 casualties in the war, and i wrote a piece at the time, i said american casualties will be under 500 and the war will last as long as it takes a tank to drive to baghdad. we didn't go to baghdad that time but that wasn't the point. the point was we could. after the war, and we had fewer than 500 casualties, a lot fewer, hari called me up to congratulate me. the point is, there's no entity in world that can stop one u.s. armored brigade, supported, mind you, with choppers and planes and drones and missiles and offshore naval support. lots of support. but there's nothing that can stop it. so when donald trump talks bet the hollow military and crazy things, it's simply not accurate. the romans during the period -- 200 year of rome afternoon peace, they would envious for what we have today. so, the problem is, they all agree that war and the use of medica

in washington, d.c., i'm hari sreenivasan for the pbs h newshour. >> woodruff: and a nice postscript to the story: this month, alexis oni-eseleh started a job as a media buyer at an ad agency on madison avenue. a and online, a look at whether remedial classes really help college students succeed. that's at pbs.org/newshour. >> ifill: and now to another in >> something we thought might be of interest to you.be a town in washington state is home to a group of serve former lab chimpanzees who have been given a second chance to live out their lives in the rural pastures where they are honorary citizens. the story comes to us from television kccs in seattle. >> diane and i have been here now a little over eight years. >> so they are hanna honorary cs and are known throughout the world. annie is a really sweet chimp and she's best friends with my feet. she adores my feet.e he is spur goofy spu goof supero they are just in love with my -- >> he's the oldest of the group, about to turn 43. foxy is known around the world now for her level of trade offs. she has about 400.00 >> the manner is l

tonight, hari sreenivasan reports why some latino males are being urged to turn down a job today in favor of four years of college tomorrow. the series is called "rethinking college," and part of our weekly education coverage, "making the grade."e, >> can i have the mentors on the right and the mentees on the left? c >> sreenivasan: graduate student juan lopez wants to bring too college campuses what he sees as largely missing: latino males. >> they're not seen as people who will succeed. especially minority males. >> sreenivasan: so on this day, lopez and undergraduates from the university of texas at austin are mentoring high school freshman boys as part of an initiative called project males. >> undergraduates mentoring high school students, graduate students mentoring undergraduate students.s, >> sreenivasan: in this exercise, college and highll school students move together over shared experiences. >> i want to help my family out financially after high school. >> sreenivasan: one common concern emerges for both mentors and mentees. >> they're expected to be the wage earner in the fami

for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> ifill: charlotte and tulsa are just the latest cities to grapple with the enormousmo struggles occurring nationally over shootings, violence, protests, civil rights, social justice and the role of law enforcement. list of other cities, including new york, chicago, minneapolis, oakland, baton rouge andci, ferguson to name just a few. these issues are particularly wrenching and part of an ongoing conversation among communities of color. we explore some of that now witn rashad robinson, executive director of the racial justice organization, color of change. vanessa deluca, editor-in-chief of "essence" magazine. and andre perry, an author and educator welcome to you all. this has been a week, we reported about it last night on the "newshour", where we weree talking about this brand-new museum opening in the mall, lots of rejoicing, lots of excitement about that, upbeat, and at the same time, the same conversations turn to what's happening in charlotte and tulsa. rashad robinson, there is a dichotomy at work here. h what do you see? >> i thin

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away.on tonight's pbs newshour, the first hurricane to hit the u.s. mainland in more than a decade makes landfall. as florida recovers, the east coast braces for the storm's remaining impact. also ahead, the f.b.i. releases excerpts of its interview with hillary clinton. what's in the documents, and how could it impact the election? then, five years later, a missouri city hit by a devastating tornado is rebuiltby from the ruin, physically and emotionally. >> now we have this single past experience that links us all together. it's made it so much better. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the full week of news. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. gwen ifill is away. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, at least one person is dead and more than 100 injured after a new jersey commuter train crashes into the hoboken station. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, how the candidates are taking advantage of early voting, with up to a third of americans casting their ballot before november 8. >> woodruff: and, a report from afghanistan, on the fight for womens' rights despite injustices embedded in the society even before there was a war. >> a lot of people don't realize that afghanistan is a country where it's been reported that over 85% of the women are victims of domestic violence. >> sreenivasan: plus, making sense of donald trump's taxes. what voters should know, and how

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan.. >> ifill: on the newshour tonight: >> in a trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced.en >> ifill: donald trump outlines tough immigration proposals, hours after returning from a surprise meeting with mexico's president. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday: a deep dive into the politics of trade thisad presidential election, and where hillary clinton stands on america role's in the global economy. >> ifill: and empty shelves line venezuela's grocery stores as desperate crowds await a rare meal-- a look at the country'snt worsening food shortage. >> it's one article of food per person and then you have to wait eight days because if you try to buy food. they'll stop you.

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is on assignment.n on tonight's pbs newshour: n donald trump turns again to social media, unleashing a storm of tweets, while hillary clintoe keeps up her attacks on the trail. also ahead: in search of ahe better life, how nigerian women are being conned by fellowy africans to work as prostitutes on the streets of italy. >> reporter: the problem isem their clientele is poor, the prices are low, which means that the girls have to work extrao hard to pay back their debt.ck >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze this week's political fallout following the first presidential debate. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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hari sreenivasan has more. >> reporter: all this week, the guerrilla group has been meeting at a desolateation in southern colombia. today, unanimously, the farc voted to approve the deal and form a new political party. after the signing this coming monday, the accord must survive one more hurdle: a nationwide popular referendum next weekend. special correspondent nadjaia drost has been at this meeting all week, and joins me now. nadja, we usually don't talk about political conventions in other countries and the imagesie i've seen have sound stages, fog ma sheerntion seems almost like a musical festival. give us a sense of what it was like. >> to give you a sense of whereh we are, we are in the middle of the colombian plains, essentially the middle ofdd nowhere and we're surrounded by miles and miles of shrubland. it might strike someone as strange to hold a conference but this is a f.a.r.c. stronghold and has significant historical meaning for the rebel group. the conference that the f.a.r.c. has been holding here this week is historic. it is their final conference as an armed group. her

hari sreenivasan: we have a pretty good relationship with our audience in that they are the kind of intelligentcan say, 'okay, this isn't exactly how i think but i'm better for hearing this point of view.' man: what you get on pbs what you get on frontline is in-depth, long-form coverage that you don't get anywhere else. charlie rose: we have a unique opportunity to have in-depth conversation not just with candidates but, with advisors, with experts, with people who understand and know how to assess the political process. judy woodruff: if we can understand what voters want to know and then distill that into coverage that people can count on then we're doing our job. gwen ifill: news and public affairs is still at the heart of our mission and pbs is the place to come for that. your favorite pbs shows ready to watch, when you are anytime, any place find more ways to explore than ever before at pbs.org slash anywhere ♪ >> narrator: tonight on frontline, two reports about education in america. >> the closing of itt tech is affecting students... >> narrator: first, for-profit colleges and allegatio

hari sreenivasan spoke with him last week, about the report and also what has been a longep violent summerworld's youngest nation. >> reporter: this summer, clashes between forces supporting the president of south sudan and the former vice president have turned violent, pushing the nation toward the brink of a civil war. on july 7th, troops loyal to th president fired between 50 to 100 rounds of ammunition at a convoy of american diplomats.. one group of americans had to be rescued from the scene of the attack by u.s. marines. no one was hurt. some reports said it was the president's own guards who led the assault.e that same week, a group of government soldiers stormed the terrain hotel, targeting american aid workers with beatings and sexual abuse.us eyewitnesses told the associated press that many of the soldiers wore the insignia of the presidential guard. former vice president riek mashaar left the capitol, and in his absence president salva kiir recently appointed this man taban deng gai as vice president in his place. are presidential guard under the president's control? >> yes, yea

he is smarter than reid, everybody bit as partisan as harry hari harry reid but there's one difference, thes transactional. he can do business. there dismiss hope out there. but it all begins in the white house. leadership begins in the white house. so we've got to get a different tempo coming out of that place. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. every you're online book seller amazon puts out a list of the 20 mostel