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jeffrey brown looks at the details of this case and the potential impact. >> brown: for now, the ruling applies only to private colleges and universities, but it is the first of its kind. and the decision is expected to reverberate more broadly. the ruling said the university's primary relationship with the football players was an economic one. michael mccann is director of the university of new hampshire's "sports and entertainment law institute," and legal analyst for "sports illustrated" magazine. he joins us now. the key thing here mr. mccann is the finding these athletes qualify as employees, not just students. explain that and why it's so important. >> sure. it's important because by being declared employees, the student athletes would be able to then unionize and enter into collective bargaining with northwestern university and try to command salary benefits but, more than that, also, better healthcare benefits, disability payments, workers' comp. the typical benefits that go along with the status of employment which they currently do not get as student athletes. >> brown: give u

jeffrey brown caught up with angelique kidjo here at george washington university recently where she called on the world to sing, dance, and lift up the women of her continent. >> brown: angelique kidjo dedicates her new album "eve" to the women of africa: to "their resilience and their beauty." born in the small west african country of benin, now living in brooklyn, kidjo has made the empowerment of women and girls a part of her music and life's work for decades. ♪ ♪ >> brown: to her anthem "afirika." she sings in a variety of african languages, along french and english. and mixes african rhythms with western pop, soul and jazz. the idea for her latest work came during a trip to kenya, when she encountered a group of women singing traditional songs. she went on to record them and then other women's choral groups in benin, and it all became part of an album celebrating women's potential. >> a woman does not sit home doing nothing. it's impossible. 5:00 a.m. in the morning she's already up humming a song, getting ready, thinking about how this day going to go, what can i do to make thi

jeffrey brown has this update. the national guard joined the efforts earlier this week, master sergeant chris martin is a member of the search and extraction team, he joins us from arlington right near the site of the mudslide. thank you for joining us. what is the situation there today, has it gotten any easier to do the work? >> you know t seems like we've made a lot of progress from yesterday. we have two teams of 25 people working out in the site today. we're doing more of a systemic grid search through the area and things look like they're moving in the right direction. >> we've been hearing for days about the quicksand conditions of the site and the difficulties of the search. how are you coping with that? >> they are-- the conditions are very rough. if you can kind of imagine, mud, the consistency of concrete before it sets, lots of trees strewn about, really it's slow going, painstaking. we just take our time to be safe and search through the debris field as carefully as we can to make sure that we don't mi

jeffrey brown has the story. >> breath in and bring your arms >> brown: at cesar chavez academy in east palo alto california, these seventh graders are learning that focused breathing can lead to focused learning. >> brown: stanford university researchers john redtger and michael fu are experimenting with yoga and mindfulness practices to help students concentrate on class work. >> we're going to get into our relaxed state and were going to get into mindful practice, so lets get into mountain pose, move your feet so they are shoulder length apart >> caesar is in a high crime neighborhood and many students face real world stresses and anxieties and fears which can impair their ability to learn. principal dion -- >> we have, by the 2010 census, 50% students who are homeless. there are some very concrete things like a telephone, a mattress, a refrigerator with food in it, an address that you are in charge of that's not to mention the shootings, lets not even go into the gang war that's going on right now in our neighborhood. just the simple things that are stressful. >> i want you to notic

jeffrey brown has our conversation. brown it began with an email, i am a senior member to have the intelligence community, the beginning of revelations leaked by edward snowden, the vast surveillance of data by the national security agency and the beginning of a new book entitled "the snowden files the inside story of the world's most wanted man." luke harding broke the story. i am a senior member of the intelligence committee, snowden wrote to glen greenwald. what's the impression you drew of the jung snowden? >> he was someone who had incredible access to top secret information, and he was unhappy about what he saw and thought he would lift the lid on unconstitutional mass surveillance. >> brown: you find insight into the mind of especially the younger snowden through anonymous postings on a tech web site and used this name, the true huha. >> yes, he made a posting, a slightly weird name, but these postings give us some insight into how he was as a young man. some not of the left or right, very patriotic, pretty obnoxi

jeffrey brown reports. >> brown: tanks guarded the fortified entrances of cairo's tora prison today. inside, al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed and peter greste, wearing white prison uniforms, stood in the courtroom's defendant cage. they and other al-jazeera journalists are accused of endangering egyptian national security by assisting a terrorist organization, namely: the muslim brotherhood. the military-backed government banned the group after ousting president mohamed morsi in july. al-jazeera maintains the charges are "absurd, baseless and false," as do the journalists' relatives, who spoke after the hearing. >> ( translated ): the accusations directed towards them are far from the truth, none of them are affiliated to any political party, movement, or the muslim brotherhood, they use the same equipment used by all other channels. if they have a problem with al- jazeera, the journalists have nothing to do with it the defendants' lawyer claimed progress, based on the way the hearing went. >> ( translated ): today the session was to hear witness testimonies. the

>> jeffrey brown. >> -- very special place because of planning yet in the last year this is threatened because of the number of applications for new houses amounting to thousands. localism seems to have gone out of the window and they are simply not being protected. what can my right honourable friend do to help resolve this. >> i know my right honourable friend feels strongly about and there are strong planning protections in place. outstanding natural beauty which is this country's most important treasures as he rightly said. it makes clear giving great weight to areas of standing natural beauty which have high levels of protection we announced last week you might be interested to know areas of natural beauty and natural parks will be excluded new legislation allowing agricultural buildings converted to housing without the need for planning applications. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can the deputy prime minister confirm if the independent review body on house service staff pay recommends an increase, the government will accept that advice, or will they freeze the pay of some of the low

jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the work was published in a series of papers in "jama pyschiatry," and done by independent researchers, funded, in part, by the army. among the key findings: one in 10 soldiers qualified for a diagnosis of what's known as intermittent explosive disorder. that rate is six times higher than in the civilian population. soldiers also came into the army with a higher rate of behavioral disorders such as substance abuse or a.d.h.d. than civilians. dr. ronald kessler of harvard medical school is one of the principal investigators. he joins us now. welcome. first, remind us of the extent of this problem and what piece of it were you most focused on? >> well, the extent of the problem is that roughly 18 out of every 100,000 soldiers commit suicide every year. so we're talking about really still quite a small number of people, but it's higher than the civilian population, and i was involved in the part of the study that looked at surveys to try to understand what the risk factors might be for these suicides. of course, the suicides are just the tip of the iceb

. >> ifill: now, jeffrey brown talks to a fiction writer, as he imagines where the world is heading next. >> reporter: we're in the future after much of the globe has become an environmental wasteland and the u.s. is divided into labor settlements where workers toil to produce food and much else, privileged few live in charter villages and everyone else inhabits the wild, often violent colonies beyond. a teenage girl makes her way through this world searching for a lost love. the novel is entitled "on such a full sea" and quite a departure for author chang-rae lee. >> great to be here. >> reporter: your original idea was to write a novel of social realism. >> yes. >> reporter: about chinese labor. so how did that evolve into a if futurestic story? >> i had gone to china to the villages where there are lots of factories and visited a factory and had this, you know, big idea to write this broad, social novel about workers, owners, you know, all their struggles. but when i got back to my writing desk, i felt as if i didn't have a special angle on the material, that it was going to be good j

jeffrey brown has more on the day's developments. >> brown: the sign reads in cyrillic, "crimea: russian land," and tens of thousands of russians flooded red square for a government-sanctioned rally to urge the crimeans to join russia. >> ( translated ): it is our land, our grandfathers and grand-grandfathers shed their blood there. crimea should be part of russia. >> brown: the crimean parliament has set a march 16 up or down vote on leaving ukraine to become part of russia. late today, the associated press reported that a ukrainian military post in crimea was under siege by russians, but no shots were fired. and today, leaders of both houses of russia's parliament said that they would welcome crimea becoming russian. valentina matvieynko is speaker of russia's upper house. >> ( translated ): if the people of crimea expresses their will at the referendum and make a decision to join russia we, as the upper house of parliament, will of course support such a decision. >> brown: but the interim government in kiev, the united states and the european union have all denounced the vote as illeg

jeffrey brown looks at how it's changed the world we live in. >> brown: one way to do that is look at how individual americans think about the internet and its impact on their lice. the pure research internet project did that in a survey just out, among much else it finds that 87% of american adults now use the internet and the number goes up to 97% for young adults from 18 to 29. 90% of internet users say the internet has been a good thing for them personally, though the number drops to 76% when asked if the internet has been a good thing for society generally, with 15% saying it's been bad for society and 53% of internet users say the internet would be, at minimum, very hard to give up. we're joined by three people who've watched the growth of the internet from different angles. jenny is journalist and editor at weblog boing boing which covers technology and culture. katherine is a clinical and consulting psychologist at harvard middle school, author of big disconnect protecting child and family relationships in the digital age and daniel teaches computer science and internet public

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: three reports attracted attention, one involved injections of drugs into monkeys that helped stop infections, the second revealed promising news of a baby born with the virus and given aggressive treatment, the third concerned so-called gene editing, altering cells to resist hiv. n.i.h.'s institute of allergy and infectious diseases has been funding much of this work. dr. anthony fauci is its longtime director and joins me now. welcome back. let's walk through some of this. first the injections of long-lasting drugs into monkeys. explain the work and why it's so important. >> well, the reason the work is important is that we know, in human studies, several human studies, that if you give a drug to an uninfected person who's practicingriesing behavior, we call it preexposure prophylaxis, that if they take the drug every day, it absolutely works and prevents infection in over 90% of the people. the problem with the approach is that people don't like to take medicine every day or before or after a sexual encounter. so a modality of prevention that

jeffrey brown has the latest on the difficulties of the rescue effort. >> brown: the search teams labored on, four days after disaster struck and with rain likely to make their job that much tougher. coupled with the difficulty is the fading hope of finding any more survivors. but amid the muck, the local fire chief insisted today they're not giving up. >> rescue or recovery, we're doing both. and that's not gonna change the pace at what we're working here, whether we call it rescue or recovery. we're still in rescue mode in my mind and we are throwing everything that we have at this >> brown: many families, though, fear the worst. rae smith's daughter is still among the missing. >> my daughter, my 16 year old, my adult son and his two young sons were down there digging with their hands trying to find her trying to find any sign of her. >> brown: as the search continues, questions have arisen on whether the disaster might have been foreseen. "the seattle times" reports a scientist warned in 1999 of "the potential for a large catastrophic failure." >> brown: still, officials stressed today

jeffrey brown has our book conversation. >> brown: it's been more than 50 years since the death of raymond chandler but his trademark and radiance are suddenly back in full. 1950s los angeles, the hollywood stars, underworld, dead bodies and private eye phillip marlow, one of the great characters in american fiction. all of this found in the new crime model "the black-eyed blonde," the author benjamin black, series by acclaimed irish writer john banville. welcome. >> glad to be here. >> brown: this is confusing. we have john banville doing benjamin black doing raymond chandler. who is sitting here with me? >> it's banville, of course. i mean, it's just me. i invent these other voices. but none of us is a singular being. we all invent versions of ourselves. >> brown: part of what you do anywhere as a writer? >> yes. >> brown: what attracted you to taking on phillip particular? >> i have been writing since my rly teens. he's a wonderful writer, invented a new kind of fiction. he brought the crime novel up to the level of literature and above, also wonderfully entertaining and accommodating.

jeffrey brown explores that part of the story. >> brown: the mudslide destroyed some 30 homes and occurredut 55 miles northeast of seattle, near the town of oso, right off state route 530. just before 11:00 a.m. saturday, a wall of mud and debris slammed into the former fishing village, covering an area about one- square-mile wide and 15-feet deep in some places. david montgomery is a geologist at the university of washington. he joins us now with more. thanks for being with us. so what can we say so far? what appears to have happened to cause this mudslide? >> well, the proximal cause is that we had one of the wettest months of march on record. that region had something north of 7 inches of rain, as i understand it, in the last month. it's been very wet out here lately. but that slide actually slid before. this is a reactivation of a prior salad that was a reactivation of a much older prior slide. so the hill had failed before so it had been weakened by the act of sliding in the past and the material that forms that hill is glacial sediments. it's fairly weak material for such a tall clif

jeffrey brown has our book conversation. >> reporter: nazi scientists, some tied to war crimes including horrific concentration camp experiments left the u.s. in a secret program to advance american security interests during the cold war. it sounds like the plot of a film drama but actually happened and on a large scale. the story is told in the new book operation paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought nazi scientists to america." annie jacobsen joins us. they were sought out by the military as the war was coming to an end. >> these were hitler's top weaponmakers and operation paperclip became a military program to bring them to the united states and also had a public face. there was on the one hand the truth about the program kept secret and the other hand the idea that we'll tell the public that these are the good germans. >> brown: but they were dedicated nazis, the ones you write about. there were 1,600 in all. >> yes. >> brown: you document about 21, dedicated nazis, some involved in horrific stuff. what they did was known to the americans seeking them out? >> certa

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: at the outset of the war in 2011, rebels seemed to have the initiativeshar al-assad's forces have fought back hard. and infighting among rebel group has led to even more bloodshed. all told, the syrian observatory for human rights estimates more than 140,000 killed, as of february. and, according to us-aid, more than eight million displaced within syria, as well as in neighboring countries. now comes word of a major cost of this war: a growing health care disaster. in a new report, the international charity group save the children says: the crisis has hit children especially hard, with 10,000 deaths, and many more suffering from serious injuries and diseases. >> brown: im joined now by michael klosson, save the children's vice president for policy and humanitarian response. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> brown: from the beginning of this report it says it's not just the bullets and the shells that are killing and mamming children, they are also dying from the lack of basic medical care. >> right. >> brown: that is the main message here. >> it is

jeffrey brown takes us to an exhibition that offers the chance to see the artist in a new light. >> reporter: a recent evening at the seattle art museum and visitors are puzzling over an assortment of cast-off items. a bent garden rake a headless doll. a flattened straw basket. >> reporter: all assembled into sculptural creatures by the spanish artist joan miro, who once said, "he wanted to create a phantasmagoric world of living monsters." curator, catharina manchanda, says if they are monsters, they are at least playful ones. >> this sculpture really resonates with me. it captures both something so light-hearted, but also it has a certain gravitas, which is, of course, reflected in its title. its called "the warrior king." >> reporter: "the warrior king," but with a spoon in its hand. >> yes, he is brandishing a cooking spoon instead of a sword. >> reporter: what is that, do you know? >> it might be an embroidery hoop. so an object that comes from the home, perhaps more feminine. there is something both very strong but also fragile there. >> reporter: the 60 works here, from the last two d

our jeffrey brown takes a closer look at the tensions escalating between russia and ukraine. >> brown: to do that i'm joined by dimity rye simes president for the center of national interest, a foreign policy think tank and angela stent, director for the center of eurasian, russian and east european studies at georgetown university, her latest book is the limits of partnership, u.s.-russian relations in the 21st century. angela stent, i will start with you. president obama cited-- cited reports of troop movement in ukraine but it is a very confusing situation, isn't it? >> it is very confusing. we do know that in crimea pro russian forces, people and some forces have taken over local buildings. some crimeans would like a referendum to-- and on the other hand there are other groups in crimea that are not pro russian and support the interim government in key avenue. -- key eve. we really don't know that much about what is whatting but we do know russia is flexing its mills t has important equities in crimea t is the headquarters of the black sea fleet and they want to make sure that the

and jeffrey brown has sent us his second dispatch from myanmar, where he's reporting on "cultures at" how does an ancient city, and its thousand-year-old buddhist temples, cope with newfound popularity? you can read his blog on art beat. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at federal reserve chair janet yellen's first news conference and her take on the state of the economy. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you on-line. and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> 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 contribu

jeffrey brown traveled to detroit with u.s. poet laureate natasha trethewey. their report is part of the ongoing series "where poetry lives." >> brown: middle school students at the marcus garvey academy in detroit, reciting the work they'd just written. teacher and poet peter markus often prompts the students with a question. today, he worked off our theme, asking: where does poetry live? >> poems live in stars, waiting to be wished on. >> brown: it's part of an 18- year-old program called "inside/out" that sends professional writers into detroit's schools. when natasha trethewey and i arrived at marcus garvey recently, she recalled her own introduction to poetry in the third grade. >> i was writing poetry. and the librarian in my school took a group of my poems and bound them and put them in the library. >> brown: ah, a published poet? >> at third grade. ( laughs ) >> brown: inside/out also turns its students into published poets, part of creating a sense of authorship and voice that peter markus says the program aims for. >> number one, i want to build conf

>> jeffrey brown. >> -- very special place because of planning yet in the last year this is threatened because of the number of applications for new houses amounting to thousands. localism seems to have gone out of the window and they are simply not being protected. what can my right honourable friend do to help resolve this. >> i know my right honourable friend feels strongly about and there are strong planning protections in place. outstanding natural beauty which is this country's most important treasures as he rightly said. it makes clear giving great weight to areas of standing natural beauty which have high levels of protection we announced last week you might be interested to know areas of natural beauty and natural parks will be excluded new legislation allowing agricultural buildings converted to housing without the need for planning applications. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can the deputy prime minister confirm if the independent review body on house service staff pay recommends an increase, the government will accept that advice, or will they freeze the pay of some of the low

our political director chuck todd, jeffrey goldberg from the atlantic magazine and stephanie rawlings-blake, the mayor of baltimore, tina brownunder of the women in the world foundation, and nationally syndicated columnist from the "washington post" kathleen parker. welcome to all of you. this is a conversation about obama's leadership, pure and simple. this is a major test for whether the rest of the world, particularly bad actors, take him seriously when he says to not do something. chuck todd, "the washington post" editorial that i've been looking at this morning says this. it took vladimir putin less than a day to trample on president obama's warning against a russian military intervention in ukraine. the u.s. now faces a naked act of armed aggression in the center of europe by a russian regime that is signaling its intent to the steam roller this u.s. president and his allies, mr. obama must demonstrate that can't be done. and he said don't do it for ten days. >> this is not the first time with putin. he actions, obama warns. putin acts, obama warns. this is a pattern he can't afford to stay in here and just continue to

brown. next jeannie clark harris, a long-time supporter of gray and a business partner of jeffrey thompson plead guilty to funneling more than $650,000 from thompson to a shadow campaign for gray. not long after that, three business associates of thompson, lee calhoun, troy white, and stanley slaughter plead guilty to helping thompson illegally fund national campaigns, including hillary clinton's. and then a long-time associate of both thompson and gray, vernon hawkins, plead guilty to lying to investigators about the shadow campaign. former councilmember michael brown has now admitted to not only taking bribes, but also taking illegal campaign funds from thompson through harris. three years after the investigation began, we have eight people have already plead guilty, and it appears thompson will make nine. mark segraves, news4. >>> right now if you live in the area of d.c., highlighted on this map, you should still boil your water before you drink it. the district is waiting for more test results before declaring the water safe for drinking. a power outage at the fort reno pumping station yest

brown illegal campaign contributions. that very same year, campaign consultant, jean clark harris admitted she concealed $653,000, which had secretly been paid by jeffrey thompson. and then in 2013, former aid, vernon hawkins admitted he took money supplied by thompson and gave it to another man. the goal, get him out of town so he couldn't talk to the fbi about that shadow campaign. >> and it is a bit of an under statement if we tell you this could impact the upcoming election. we will note early voting for d.c. drentzs starts next monday. that's march 17. primary day is april 1. stay with us. we have a lot more on this could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.s everybody knows that. well, did you know that when a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, it does make a sound? ohhh...ugh. geico. little help here. i need>>that's my geico digital insurance id card - gots all my pertinents on it and such. works for me. turn to the camera. >>ah, actually i think my eyes might ha... next! digital insurance id cards. just a tap away on the geico app. it's your last chance to get small business ready with verizon fios for just $99.99 a mon

brown illegal campaign contributions. that same year, jean clark harris admitted she dispursed and concealed $653,000, which had secretly been paid by jeffrey thompson. in 2013, vernon hawkins admitted he took money and gave it to another man. the goal, get him out of town so he couldn't talk to the fbi about that shadow campaign. >> and as we noted, a press conference is scheduled at 5:30. that's 20 minutes away. we'll bring to to you live. >>> here's something to lift your spirits. gorgeous day out there today. i guess we better enjoy it because there is a yellow alert in place for wednesday, which means first alert chief meteorologist, topper shutt, has some work to tell us about. >> rain, showers and thunderstorms and strong winds heading our way. it will be a wild wednesday. it really is. low pressure is going to track into kentucky as we get into tomorrow night and right over head. snow is going to be inland into your sections of new england. rain possible and then thunderstorms possible as well. going home. your evening commute. and damaging winds at night behind the system as cold air wraps around the system. all the moisture will b