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i'm hari sreenivasan. judy is away.also ahead, it's an instinct all parents have: to keeptfeir kids safe, but have we gone too far? we conclude our parenting series tonight by asking if this has become the age of "the overprotected kid." >> we've become so preoccupied with safety that we're basically robbing our children of the chance to take risks, the kind of physical, emotional risks, the kind of risks they need to become independent adults. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on aour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ç ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.ç >> i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged.ç they are not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is, "how did i end up here?" i started schwab with th

good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. also ahead, the widening racial gap in survival rates from breast cancer. and what health officials in one city are doing, to make sure more black women fighting the disease get the treatment they need. >> i'm trying to get a person from a, to b, to c, to d. i'm not going to leave you, until we know what has to be done for you. so you need to go in early, and i need to stay with you. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering 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. >> i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged. they are not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is, "how did i end up here?" i started schwab with those people. peopl

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good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away.lso ahead, the widening racial gap in survival rates from breast cancer. and what health officials in one city are doing, to make sure more black women fighting the disease get the treatment they need. >> i'm trying to get a person from a, to b, to c, to d. i'm not going to leave you, until we know what has to be done for you. so you need to go in early, and

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy is away.so ahead, it's an instinct all parents have: to keeptfeir kids safe, but have we gone too far? we conclude our parenting series tonight by asking if this has become the age of "the overprotected kid." >> we've become so preoccupied with safety that we're basically robbing our children of the chance to take risks, the kind of physical, emotional risks, the kind of risks they need to become independent alt

hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: he's a former c.e.o.microsoft, long-time sports fan, and now, perhaps, the newest owner in the national basketball association. steve ballmer has agreed to shell out $2 billion to buy the los angeles clippers, the most ever for an n.b.a. franchise. shelly sterling, wife of disgraced owner donald sterling, announced late last night that she'd signed a binding contract for the sale. n.b.a. commissioner adam silver banned donald sterling from the league last month, after a recording surfaced of the billionaire making racist comments. silver said the n.b.a.'s board of governors would make the formal decision on stripping sterling of the team. >> i fully expect to get the support i need from the other n.b.a. owners to remove him. >> brown: just yesterday, donald sterling's attorney said his client will fight to keep the franchise. >> there is something that is really wrong when someone is talking to his girlfriend has a private conversation and winds up losing his life and his property. >> brown: despite that

hari sreenivasan has our story. >> i'd like to introduce to john barry. >> hi john-- >> sreenivasan: john barry, the award-winning historian and writer, and a man who's normally holed up in a book-lined office by himself, has lately become one of the busiest men in louisiana. >> this is no just another piece of legislation. >> sreenivasan: he's been talking to rotary clubs. >> i'm john barry. >> sreenivasan: testifying before the state legislature. >> there is no debate, scientifically, about that fact. >> sreenivasan: why? barry is fighting a controversial legal and political battle to try and force the powerful oil and gas industry to pay billions for the role their dredging and drilling has played in the erosion of the coast of louisiana. >> sreenivasan: barry is best known for his book "rising tide," an account of the devastating 1927 flood in louisiana. that bestseller made him something of a local celebrity, and has given him a platform to sound the alarm about the current land-loss crisis in the state. >> we've lost close to 2,000 square miles of land, that loss continues ever

hari sreenivasan has that story. >> this is intolerable.s of this report are troubling and grave, of course, they are unacceptable, unconscionable and unworthy of the service of our men and women in uniform. >> reporter: the reaction of house minority leader nancy pelosi spoke for politicians from both parties today, after an inspector general's interim report on the v.a. medical center in phoenix, arizona. it alleged v.a. staffers there cooked the books using various ploys to make wait times appear closer to the goal of just 14 days. in fact, the i.g.'s findings revealed phoenix-area veterans seeking care had to wait an average of 115 days for a first appointment. and 1,700 veterans were kept off any official waiting list and were at risk of being lost or forgotten. the report did not conclude whether long wait times have contributed to any patient deaths because that part of the investigation is still ongoing. but the findings struck sparks at a house hearing last night with top department officials. tennessee republican phil roe charged

extraordinary means to improve the leader's vote count, many egyptians stayed away from the polls hari sreenivasan more on this story. >> sreenivasan: joining me now to talk about the voting in egypt is borzou daragahi of the financial times. >> borzou there is little doubt on who is going to win the egyptian election but let's talk about the turn utt. it seems it was surprisingly low. >> it was recorded to be low. right now authorities are saying that they are considering it about a 44% turnout which is not as much as the election that pitted the former president mohammed morsi in 2012 but what they consider rather respectable at this point. but they had huge troubles trying to get people out to the polls and even went through the labor of adding a voting day to the two already in place. they canceled the stock market yesterday and they closed all government ministries and urged the private seconder to release workers to let them go home and vote. >> so even with all that you are talking about 44%, is the percentage of turnout important to have what's perceived as a mandate or to legitimize the t

hari sreenivasan has more. >> reporter: the "u.s.a." is congress's attempt to codify some proposals made by president obama earlier this year after he received recommendations from a review board on the country's surveillance program. joining us to discuss what's in the bill, what's not and what it all means is new york times correspondent charlie savage. so let's talk about the legislation it is,s with's in there, as it is its working its way through congress. >> sure. so this bill which is passed with over 300 votes in the house today and heads to the senate aims to reform surveillance law and the foreign intelligence surveillance act in several ways. but its center piece is to replace the program that has been systemically correcting records of american phone calls going back to shortly after 9/11 and which was brought under the secret court orders in 2006. and it does that by allowing the nsa to obtain records of callers up to two links removed from a terror suspect but the bulk records would remain in the hands of phone companies.

. >> woodruff: next, hari sreenivasan talked with an author who wrote about the impact one man had on the success or failure of a company. >> sreenivasan: when the one man is steve jobs, it's a question worth asking. it's been more than two years since he died at age 56. since then, more than 200 people inside and outside the company have been interviewed. the upshot, who knew apple after steve jobs. welcome. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: you ended up with a story about apple having seen its best days. why? >> how apple is handling the transition at a time when it's trying to stay at the top of its game and i just thought that it was a fascinating period to be watching them really closely because, you know, i think of them as this empire and it's an age-old question, right? it's been asked many times what happens to an empire when your great leader dies, and that, to me, was a fascinating story. >> sreenivasan: you're saying the empire is not doing so great? >> i'm saying the empire is struggling to find a new identity after the loss of somebody around which it revolved for a very lon