hari: there is a tiny town called kermit.tiny town, population 392, over a two-year period one pharmacy had 9 million pills delivered to it. charlie: 9 million? hari: when you think about that -- that is why there is significant concern that it is primarily a problem of over prescription that started this. they got these people look. when those pills started going away, they turned somewhere else. charlie: what are we doing about it? hari: there are all different types of treatments. there's a treatment in rhode island where people are -- who are recovering from this scourge are the ones on the front lines. they are talking to people in a way, they can empathize with someone who has a substance abuse disorder right now in a way they you and i can't. they can say i have been in this exact same emergency room bed. there was a piece about virtual reality and how it is used at the university of washington to ,ry to treat pain, acute pain say someone in a burn unit. the kind of pain they are experiencing when they have to have the

so we could quit our day jobs, hari., obviously, scientists are not as focused on the gold themselves. for them, knowledge is gold. duncan brown browne is a fizzibs professor at syracuse university. >> this really is a new type of astronomy. we're now bringing together all the tools that humans have to bear on observing the universe. we can feel ripples in space time. we can see the light from things colliding out there in the universe and exploding and the light from stars. and bringing all these tools together is going to allow us to learn so much more about the universe. >> sreenivasan, you know, give me a sense of this collaboration. right now in the united states we kent get two parties to agree on, some but you're talking about different teams from all over the world responding at the droch a hat. >> yes. and there are case where's astronomers will line up observatories to look at events, and they collaborate on these things. but as best we can tell, this is unprecedented in its scope and its speed of response. it

. >> yang: thanks, hari. we turn back to president trump's exchange with the family of a soldier killed in action earlier this month, and the president's role in the bipartisan effort to stabilize the health insurance market. for that, i'm joined by karine jean-pierre. she's a senior adviser to moveon.org, a contributing editor to bustle, an online women's magazine, and a veteran of the obama administration. and, matt schlapp. he's the chairman of the american conservative union and the former white house political director under president george w. bush. matt, karine, welcome. karine, let me start with you. we heard the reporting about the journalistic scrutiny into these telephone calls, contacts, the president has with gold star families, not just the phone call yesterday. but others. the white house is pushing back saying it's disgusting that journalists are looking into

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from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. puerto rico is looking for new helping hands to rebuild its power grid, destroyed by hurricane maria last month. today, governor ricardo rossello demanded the $300 million contract between the island's electrical utility, known as prepa, and a montana company called whitefish, be cancelled. later, prepa said that it would, once current work is finished. at a news conference in san juan, rossello called on prepa's board to terminate the deal and said he'll ask the governors of new york and florida to identify other vendors. whitefish is a tiny, two-year- old energy company based in whitefish, montana, where president trump's interior secretary, ryan zinke, is from. until recently, whitefish had only two employees, though it's hired more than 300 workers for the puerto rico job. zinke has said he had nothing to do with awarding the contract. so did the federal emergency management agency. the department of homeland security, which oversees fema, and congress a

lisa desjardins has more. >> desjardins: thanks, hari.'s a lot to unpack this politics monday. we're joined by our regulars, amy walter of the "cook political report," and tamara keith of npr. and thank you for joining us. we start with the topic that obviously we've had to touch on before, a sad one, mass shootings again. we've been on this territory for before. but yet we still have the obligation to really check in with what our leaders are doing and saying, tam, what are the dynamics that play tonight for our leaders in washington when it comes to gun violence. >> tonight chris murphy of connecticut, the senator, democratic senator is giving a floor speech. he's given these floor speeches before. and he is talking about that in the floor speech saying that gun violence continues. he believes, he firmly believes that now is the time to have a conversation about gun control and he is really not satisfied by what his colleagues have been doing am meanwhile i was at the white house press briefing earlier today and it is very clear the whi

>> i don't think i am, to be honest with you, hari, to be straight with you. i don't think i am. this was a... these last eight years, it was the culmination of a long journey that started in west baltimore. i looked at, you know, my neighbors and my family, and i saw how they were living and then i would turn on the tv and see how the broader country represented itself and see how different it was. i always wondered why. i think i have some good answers now. i guess we probably have a set of questions now that you would be answered in other forms and about other things total. >> sreenivasan: coates, the book is "we were eight years in power." thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much. >> woodruff: and now, a new independent film opening this weekend spotlights a community not often seen in cinema and has been racking up the accolades. jeffrey brown has the story. >> okay, i warned you, one drip and you're out. >> oh come on. >> out now. >> it's going to melt outside. >> it's melting inside too. >> brown: "the florida project" follows a rebellious little girl named moonee and h

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president of the european council that's the governments in europe done to us that he talked to my piano hari the spanish prime minister and obviously voiced his concerns and he said that he shared the constitutional concerns are far higher about the legality of the referendum however he hoped that there would be no further escalation and no further violence and very similar things we heard earlier from the european commission here in brussels there a friend of mine was and remains illegal however let's listen to what spokesman margarita sheena's had to say to the violence we call on all the relevant players to know move very swiftly from confrontation to dialogue. violence can never be only instrument in politics so beyond talking a barber of a so what can be you do. nothing simply because as opposed to popular opinion the european union is not this supra national organisation that can sort of interfere in the in the sort of inner affairs of its member states it simply doesn't have that power it can offer itself as a mediator and it has behind the scenes obviously try to mediate during the l

mood is to find really a name government stores just issued a sort of statement saying now if the hari really wants to take over power here if he wants to administrate catalonia he will need a lot of people because he announced that he would really meet was resistance in all sorts of offices hundreds and hundreds of places where water and electricity and every all the services public services are good nice he would meet resistance there and so he would really need to send people from madrid to sort of control the area that was in fact rebelling against him so far the government. resistance that sounds potentially ominous what do you think is as to come today with some demonstrations that are already planned. we will see a big demonstration about two hours from now that might really be quite large the organizers are saying they expect about two hundred thousand people we don't know but they are capable of mobilizing people very quickly in large numbers the supporters here really of independence really do come out and the government the still in office government will march with them and

wahab riaz grabbed four for 41 and left—arm spinner haris sohail took three wickets in a single overa for 96 in their second innings. on day 4 leaving pakistan chasing 317 for victory. asad shafiq and sarfraz ahmed hit fighting half—centuries in a partnership that is so far worth 146 after they had stumbled to 52 for 5. in major league baseball the houston astros have won a thrilling game 4 of their american league divisional series 5—4 against the boston red sox at fenway park to hand them a 3—1 series win. with the red sox leading 3—2 at the top of the 8th inning alex bregman hit a solo homer to level the game up and then as the astros won their first postseason series since the 2005 national league championship series and will face either the new york yankees or the cleveland indians in the american league championship series for the first time in their history please —— both teams, that is what you leave for. big—time situations but our team puts pressure on ourselves and each other in practice so ourselves and each other in practice so that we are prepared in game situations. th

a cafe and in came this indian looking man who asked if he could sit down at my table and that was hari. hardy har on new delhi our organizes for weeks stays in indian are you afraid of clinics for patients in germany companies them and serves as their interpreter. you tire of data is five thousand years old so it must be doing something right otherwise it would be around that long. then i went to a clinic in india and i was initially surprised at the treatment simplicity even the food was simple vegetable soup with rice for breakfast lunch and dinner she received daily treatments of anti-inflammatory pastes steam baths and massages. you know my condition actually got worse in the first two weeks the mass songes caused me more pain than i had previously so they weren't as pleasant as i was expecting. and there's one thing i am vain i cannot do act fast europeans always have to get back to work the next day but i ave to take some time. but over signing sayit week three animas. knocked all this drainage lead to a release of all that pain so i could really enjoy the fourth week and i reall

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away.hour tonight: the senate passes a $4 trillion budget measure, creating a path for president trump's tax plan. then, after isis, u.s.-backed forces take a key city from the terror group. what's next on the ground there. and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks on the politics of gold star families, and rare comments from former u.s. presidents. plus, activism and art. jeffrey brown talks with ai weiwei about his focus on the global refugee crisis. >> i'm always interested in the issues which relate to most people, what affects our humanity today, and what is our politics in relating to those issues. >> sreenivasan: all that a

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan.ff is on assignment. on the newshour tonight... >> it stuns me that a member of congress would listen in to that conversation. >> sreenivasan: ...the white house chief of staff who lost a son in combat defends president trump's call to a gold star family. then, president trump meets with puerto rico's governor on the island's recovery-- a look at the devastating damage and why relief has been so slow. also ahead, "troubled water"-- the teacher and students behind a documentary that looks at communities across the nation that have challenges getting access to clean water. plus... ♪ ♪ keeping new orleans music alive. jeffrey brown talks with trombone shorty about his latest album and how he hopes to inspire the next generation of artists.

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is on assignment. on the newshour tonight... >> it stuns me that a member of congress would listen in to that conversation. >> sreenivasan: ...the white house chief of staff who lost a son in combat defends president trump's call to a gold star family. then, president trump meets with puerto rico's governor on the island's recovery-- a look at the devastating damage and why relief has been so slow. also ahead, "troubled water"-- the teacher and students behind a documentary that looks at communities across the nation that have challenges getting access to clean water. plus... ♪ ♪ keeping new orleans music alive. jeffrey brown talks with trombone shorty about his latest album and how he hopes to inspire the next generation of artists. >> i'm not expecting you to keep a certain style alive, but just to learn what we do here, and then you can be creative and take it to the next part. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs n

hari sreenivasan begins our report in northern new mexico. >> how'd your week go this week?sreenivasan: this is what progress against the opioid epidemic looks like. >> i kind of messed up. guy pulled out a baggie and it was meth. i kind of messed up, and i kind of relapsed with meth. >> sreenivasan: it's the latest relapse for anthony ocana. his doctor, gina perez-baron at las clinicas del norte had already discovered it during a routine drug screen. >> i'm glad you told me. not happy, but glad you told me. >> sreenivasan: then the surprise-- anthony's drug of choice is heroin... >> did they have heroin? they did? no kidding. and you didn't use? alright. >> sreenivasan: in rio arriba county, a place known for heroin overdose death rates six times >> yes, i may have relapsed, but this time i didn't do heroin, right? you know? or if i did heroin, i didn't inject it, you know? those are all small recoveries. those are all small victories. >> sreenivasan: the opioid epidemic has spared few families lieutenant billy merrifield of the sheriff's office, bringing >> it's hard to sa

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... >> it was an act of pure evil. >> sreenivasan: a massacre in las vegas. more than 50 killed and 500 injured after a gunman opens fire on a concert crowd in the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. also ahead, rebuilding from nothing-- millions of puerto ricans tackle the long road to recovery amid a political firestorm and little-to-no aid. plus, our series, "america addicted"-- tonight: we travel to west virginia where the opioid crisis has taken hold of one city, shattering its way of life. >> the level of addiction is beyond anyone's comprehension. i have never known anything that was so all-consuming.

they could calmly way to few days and quietly think about what they exactly will do if they harness haris so they must know what they're doing i would like him to stop everything he's incapable of doing this independence will hurt both spayed and catalonia it took many years to make the country whole and to divide it just like that is absurd i can more that it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know even dependence if the solution this is. demonstrates that half of the population is stirred up. if the state were intelligent it would negotiate a special agreement with catalonia so that catalonia remained inside spain but their mentality ideology and franco ism prevents them from doing that as people wait to find out the direction in which their leaders will take them it's clear that the time for answers has come and clarity on this major crisis is now overdue reporting from barcelona and is this issue for our team. well ninety percent of those who cast their ballots in the catalan referendum voted to split from spain but if the region does move to become independent it would have a le

i'm hari sreenivasan in washington. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff in phoenix, arizona. >> sreenivasan: on the newshour tonight: >> i won't do anything to enrich the insurance companies. >> sreenivasan: in an apparent reversal, president trump backs away from a bipartisan health care bill that would stabilize insurance markets. >> woodruff: also ahead, a look at the future of the demoratic party. i sit down with congressman ruben gallego, a young, rising star from arizona. >> sreenivasan: plus, cleaning up mosul. the massive task of clearing mines and bombs left behind from isis fighters, as iraqis make their way back home. >> members of the university staff found bomb-making instructions among the rubble. this was likely an isis bomb making factory, and judging by the crater, a high value target.

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>> guest: it's artistically hary great about that given particular because it hasn't been announced. we don't even know if there will be one. they are just rumors. in general we don't comment on other companies mergers. but i can say whatever happens in the market, competition is a good thing. it makes us better. whatever happens we will stick to our strategy and our plan. >> i want to follow up because of been a lot of talk of deals and with the trump administration and he ended incentive auction people say now we'll see a lot of him and activity but it hasn't come to pass that. why do you think that is? i know verizon has backed with legit cable companies. >> guest: that's hard to say. i think we're in a time where it's by the one of the most complex times in the industry that we've seen in years. companies the use be in one basis are now and another and we are all competing against each other and people trying to figure out the white what way to position themselves. that's not a lot of what's going on behind the scenes. >> one deal that is going on is the at&t-time warner do. time

the west bank under the control of one government for the first time since two thousand and seven hari fawcett reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. in a grand hall of the egyptian intelligence headquarters and hamas officially signed on to egypt's grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that at this time it was very good. and there has been full agreement on the concept of empowering the government and the legitimate palestinian government will return to working normally in accordance with its prerogatives and the law. despite the fact that we have some different views different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the national interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for a unity of our people to secure the end patients of our people this isn't the first time they've been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main stumbling block the fu