jeffrey brown takes us there for a preview. >> brown: billionaire art collector eli broad still rememberse managed to acquire this early painting by modern master roy lichtenstein. >> a parisian collector wanted a lot of money and i wasn't going to pay that. so what i did was write a check for x-million dollars and said "you can take the check and send me the art or tear it up." and we ended up with the art! >> brown: not something that most of us can do, but eli broad can and has for more than four decades. the results can now be seen in the brand new $140 million broad museum in los angeles. designed by the firm of diller, scofidio and renfro, it features an outer 'honeycomb' veil that allows natural light to filter in, a floor for storage of art works that visitors can peer into and 30 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art: andy warhol, keith haring, kara walker, jeff koons and many others-- including jasper johns. a number of these were in your home? >> yes. they were indeed. i decided i wanted a lot of these to be shown in public so we stripped them off our w

jeffrey brown has our story from the newshour bookshelf. >> brown: in salman rushdie's new novel, the genies or gin are out of the bottle and on the loose in new york, entering through a crack in the world, wringing on a time of what's called the strangenesses. >> it was dark, a time the start attacking the city. one of them has a tendency to turn into a sea monster, and he just rises up. >> brown: it's a world in some ways like our on, reason battedling extremism, a rising city where great towers suddenly disappear, a beautiful day on the water, but a police boat keeping watch. in the novel, fear is in the air, but so is magic. these are genies, after all. >> the book uses comic devices, but it's of course talking about something serious, abattack on the city. >> brown: mixing magic and reality, myth and history, it's what salman rushdie has been doing in his writing for decades. his new book is titled. "two years eight months and twenty-eight nights." which just happens to add up to 10001, and like the classic 1001 arabian night, rushdie told me when we met at the waverly inn, one o

jeffrey brown catches up with frank gehry, now in his ninth decade, but still breaking new ground.exhibition all about his work is opening in los angeles this weekend. >> this is city hall. >> a visit to the studio of frank gehry is a bit like the world wind tour of the globe. with a tour guide whose help create what we see around us. you got cities all over the world here. >> toronto where i was born. >> part of his motivation is that so many buildings are just plain boring. >> anybody i talked to agrees that maybe 2% of the building environment since the war would be called architecture. >> and the rest you call nothing? junk. so gehry now adds a bit of tblair that you could call art. really the foundation building in paris wrapping sales of glass. are you better at this than you were at a young man. >> probably more secure about it. this is sort of healthy insecurity that i think is necessary. if you think you got everything, forget it. >> he's been the world's most famous architect since he graded the guggenheim in 1997. there are plenty other eye catching building. the house i

jeffrey brown looks inside the new $140 million museum that is the centerpiece. >> brown: it features0 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art. andy warhol. keith haring. kara walker.

jeffrey brown paid him a visit to talk about it. >> that is the curlew again.the summer they just get these amazing rust pink colors. the rest of the year they go gray and camouflage. >> brown: the long-billed curlew, the least sandpiper, the heermann's gull. everywhere you look there are birds. here at the moss landing wildlife area on the california coast, oddly enough in the shadow of a power plant. and jonathan franzen, a dedicated, even obsessed birdwatcher, knows them all. >> brown: it's a pastime, he says, that repays patience and a keen eye for the unexpected. much like the work he's best known for: writing novels. he will spend time with me and then we'll see him or her looking where everyone is not looking and that i definitely recognize from my own practice of fiction. >> brown: franzen lives in the seaside town of santa cruz, but was raised in a rather different setting, in the suburbs of st. louis. he gained critical attention from his first two novels, but not many readers. that changed with the 2001 publication of "the corrections," a sprawling n

jeffrey brown has the latest report in our ongoing series on mass incarceration: "broken justice". >> you put leg shackles on someone who can't walk and then throw him in the back of a paddy wagon like a dead animal, you know what i'm saying. >>a story on the stage. taken from the streets of america today: the arrest of freddie gray in baltimore earlier this year, as witnessed and video-taped by a bystander named kevin moore. >> the camera is the only thing...? >> yeah, the camera is the only thing we have to protect us that's not illegal. >> brown: the storyteller is writer and actor anna deavere smith, who wove moore's experience into her new project, titled "notes from the field: doing time in education." the project began with an anecdote a friend told her about a young person in baltimore who was arrested after urinating on a water cooler. >> she said to me, "what ever happened to mischief?" and i said, "wow, poor kids are pathologized. and rich kids have mischief." and it just grabbed me. i thought it's time to go home really. go back to what i began with and look and see what's

from san francisco, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour >> woodruff: on the newshour online: a youngoned facebook post went viral last week after he described being called a racial slur on his college campus. payton head said he could remain silent, or he could speak up. he chose the latter, and he challenged his classmates at the university of missouri to do the same. the political science major and student body president wrote about what inspired his plea. plus chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports after meeting with iranian president hassan rouhani. you can read her blog on our home page. you can find that and more on our website, pbs.org/newshour. and a reminder about some upcoming programs from our pbs colleagues. gwen ifill is preparing for "washington week," which airs later this evening. here's a preview: >> ifill: the pope takes the world by storm. the u.s. and chinese presidents talk cyber crime and military maneuvering and house speaker john boehner's resignation bombshell. all that plus an update on the slippery world of 2016 politics tonight on "was

jeffrey brown caught up with composer and musician rob kapilow recently at the signature theater in arlington, virginia to deconstruct the iconic gershwin song, "summertime." >> brown: summertime and the living is easy ♪ except we know it isn't somehow, right? >> one of the things that's great is aaron copland, when he talked about martha graham, who did the choreography for "appalachian spring," he said about her that she is seemingly- - but only seemingly-- simple. and the same thing's true with gershwin. it is seemingly but only seemingly simple. this is supposed to be just a simple lullaby, but, in fact, there's craft everywhere. take even the beginning of this piece. i mean, everybody knows this piece as just starting with just one bar of introduction because normally we just sing it as a song. ♪ and the voice already comes in, and you barely even notice that there was an introduction. but in the opera, there's eight fantastic measures before this that transition us into the world of catfish row in a fantastic way, and one note makes all the difference. >> brown: musically, but one note

jeffrey brown has the story, part of our continuing series "culture at risk". >> brown: satellite imageseased yesterday by the u.n. confirmed the fears: the destruction of the temple of bel in the ancient syrian city of palmyra. unesco official giovanni boccardi: >> we know for sure that some time after august 27, most likely on august 30, this temple was blown up by explosives. it was dedicated to a local god, bel, but during byzantine times, it was turned into a church and then with the arrival of the arabs it turned into a mosque so so this is why it has this profound humanistic meaning which goes beyond the historic and even aesthetic aspects. >> brown: palmyra, a modern city and antiquities site located 150 miles northeast of damascus, was taken over by isis forces in may. who then continued a pattern of targeting ancient sites in iraq and syria. last week they destroyed a smaller temple at palmyra. and before that, gruesomely beheaded the guardian of palmyra's ruins, khaled al- asaad, an 82 year-old syrian archeologist who had looked after the city's sites for more than four decade

jeffrey brown has our labor day look. >> brown: this summer has been a big one for the movement. angeles officials agreed to raise minimum-wage from $9 an hour to $15. mayors of eight other cities including san joseeÉ are going o resume a similar plan and new york is $15 for all fast food workers. $15 has been signed into law in other cities including seattle with wages liked gradually depending on the city green 2017 and 2021. we look at the movement's success and questions about impact. robert reich, professor at university of california, berkley, former labor secretary under president clinton. he wrote "saving capitalism for the many not the few." and michael r. strain is an economist who studies labor market and wages, a scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome both of you. we start with you. overview. is it fair to see if movement as taking hold and why do you think it picked up so much momentum? >> i think it is taking hold. i think it's picked up momentum because, for one thing, the minimum-wage in real terms adjusted for inflation keeps on dropping. if we had

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the pentagon's inspector general is now conducting an investigatione allegations. and this morning, the commander of central command, general lloyd austin, addressed this issue at a hearing on capitol hill. >> because the allegations are currently under investigation, it would be premature and inappropriate for me to discuss this matter. what i will say is i welcome the d.o.d. i.g.'s oversight and once the investigation is complete, based upon the findings, you can be assured that i will take appropriate actions. >> brown: but general austin drew a sharp rebuke from arizona senator john mccain when he described the u.s. efforts to combat isis. fortunately, amidst all the, amidst the many challenges that exist in iraq and syria, we find opportunities, and we remain confident that our actions in pursuit of these opportunities will continue to produce positive results in the coming days. >> if things aren't going well and we've had quote setbacks, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says it's tactically stalemated and you think everything is go

jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: is it man against or with machines? do machines help, hurt us?are seeping into more and more of our lives burks how much are their value and impact understood and accounted for? such questions are part part of a new book that looks at the last decades of artificial intelligence and robotics, entitled "machines of loving grace." author john markoff is a long-time science and technology reporter for the "new york times." welcome. >> thank you. >> brown: "machines of loving grace," sounds great, right? a little bit original, a little human love but more complicated. >> right, and i might have put a question mark after it. >> brown: okay. ecause i think we can go down and probably will go down both paths. my point is it's a human choice at this point. these machines are not evolving by themselves. they're hume designers. >> brown: you're making a distinction. you're coming up as a reporter and making a distinction between machines that are replacing humans and those that are sort of helping us. >> yes. >> brown: give me an example of why that's impor

jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: and with us is hungary's ambassador to the united states reÉka szemerkeenyiformer british foreign ambassador, let me start with you. at the meeting today in brussels, the u.n. officials spoke of a heated debate of the majority of countries wanting to move forward but some countries, including hungary, i gather, still against a quota system. why? >> the quota system is one that really does not happen in the situation. in hungary we see an unprecedented wave of migration and that is really dramatic shock to the world country and i think a dramatic shock to the whole continent. what we can see is also a major need of basic humanitarian needs, and what we could see from the society -- i just got back from hungary a few days ago -- is a massive wave of response for the immediate humanitarian needs for these people coming into their country. we have been providing food, shelter, medication, even schooling for the children of the migrant families entering. but unfortunately, sympathy is not enough. we have to move beyond. >> brown: but you as a whole have not moved

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the bones were found in a deep cave 30 miles west of johannesburghe way they were found and gathered is another incredible part of the story. all 1500 fossil remains were brought up and contained remains of 15 individuals of all different ages. scientists created this rendering. the quest is chronicled in the new issue of national geographic and in a special documentary airing on nova next week called the dawn of humanity. here's a short clip. >> as the analysis goes on, the bones from the rising star cave are finally ready to be presented to the world. >> we've got a new species of early humans in the genus, and that's exciting. we've never had anything in that transition period up to the earliest members of our genus in abundance and, boy, we have it in abundance now. >> to members of the team, the fossils suggest a creature unlike anything ever found before. >> we are looking at creatures that are human-like in their hands and human-like in their teeth. everything that interacts directly with the environment is homo, and everything that's sort of

jeffrey brown picks up the story from there. >> brown: expectations began to change just weeks ago following market turmoil and worries over china. during a press conference this afternoon, federal reserve chairwoman janet yellen spoke of those factors, but also said a hike may still be in the cards. >> most participants continue to think that economic conditions will call for or make appropriate an increase in the federal funds rate by the end of this year. of course, there will always be uncertainty. we can't expect that uncertainty to be fully resolved, but in light of the developments that we have seen and the impacts on financial markets, we want to take a little bit more time to evaluate the likely impacts on the united states. >> brown: some insight now into the this decision and where the fed may head soon. krishna guha is the vice chairman of evercore isi, an independent investment banking advisory firm. from 2010 to 201 he served as the head of communications at the new york federal reserve. >> nice to see you. >> brown: the fed made clear the recent turmoil was a factor here. >> i

jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the egyptian government says that an apache helicopter crew mistook the tourists for a group of islamic militants. an investigation is ongoing. egypt is one of the largest recipients of u.s. military aid in the world, receiving $1.3 billion annually. and even before sunday's incident, there's been friction between washington and cairo over how the egyptian military uses american hardware. i'm joined now by michele dunne, senior associate at the carnegie endowment for international peace. welcome to you. >> thank you. >> brown: what more do we know about this incident on sunday? >> we know there was a group of tourists. they had an egyptian police escort and apparently had the proper permits that were touring near an oasis in the western desert, and the convoy was attacked obviously by mistake by an egyptian military helicopter. 12 people were killed. seven of those seemed to have been mexican tourists. there were others who were injured, including one person who is a dual mexican-u.s. citizen. >> brown: now, the helicopter and these other weapons are

jeffrey brown has more. >> >> brown: we hear about these high-level data breaches all the time.ay's story connects some of the dots in a chilling way. claiming, for example, that at least one clandestine network of american engineers and scientists who work with u.s. undercover agents overseas has already been compromised. one of the articles author, "los angeles times" reporter brian bennett, joins me now. welcome. this is about what happens afterwards, right? cross indexing and putting together the information, what kind of clues are they looking for? >> right now, countries like china and russia are collecting massive amounts of data on lives of americans and government workers. and this is going to allow them to get a dos isier on people and know about their medical history, banking information if they have financial difficulties and might be vulnerable. to blackmail or something else. any indiscorrections they had come out, connections overseas all this information put together massive databases and powerful computers can crunch them and give a very detailed view of people

jeffrey brown picks up the story from there. >> brown: the investigation reportedly was looking intoher united had restored flights from newark, new jersey, to columbia, south carolina, even though those flights were losing money and had been discontinued. columbia is near the weekend home of david samson, former chairman of the port authority. united, in return, allegedly wanted improvements done at newark airport, which was overseen by samson. united's c.e.o., jeff smisek, had led the airline since it merged with continental in 2010, but that merger has been anything but smooth. yesterday, amid the new turmoil, smisek and two other united officials resigned. scott mayerowitz covers this for the a.p., and george hamlin is an airline industry analyst and consultant. welcome to both of you. scott mayerowitz, let me start with you. trading favors, cronyism, inside dealings? it's quite a tale. tell us a little bit about the alleged dealings here. >> this is one of those scandals that started with the closing of a few lanes on a bridge has now led to the toppling of the c.e.o. of th the

jeffrey tony was in that original class. today he's 33, works in construction, owns a clothing line and records music. >> ms. ora lee brown my real life angel. >> he says it was her emotional support even more than her financial support that made the difference. >> because when you grow up in inner cities you don't see anything positive that you can, you know, model yo yourself aft. she says you can do this you can do that don't let anybody tell you you can't. >> brown herself was born into poverty, picked cotton in mississippi until moving to oakland. a chance encounter of a child begging for food during school hours haunted her. she impulsively adopted a first grade class. >> in life we are going to pay for these kids. we can either pay for them to get an education and we will have control or we can pay for them in prison and we have no control. >> but brown herself could barely pay. she was making just $45,000 as a realtor but still set aside $10,000 to fulfill his promise. 12 years later, 19 of the 23 kids walked across the stage to claim their high school diplomas. >> are thinking of ds and cs forget it. always striv

brown steen. our cnn political commentators dan pfeiffer, ana navarro and jeffrey heard. the two also battled over their shared areas of expertise business. let's listen to this. >> i led hewlett-packard through a very difficult time. the worst technology recession in 25 years. >> she can't run any of my companies, that i can tell you. >> you ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other people's money and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice -- >> i never filed for bankruptcy. >> -- four times. >> i made over $10 billion. >> all right. ron, who got the better of those exchanges between fiorina and trump? >> i think on the appearance exchange, clearly fiorina who delivered kind of an understated retort that was more powerful because it was understated. on the business side, i think it was more of a case of mutually assured destruction. they both pointed to vulnerabilities in the other and neither, i think, has heard the last of the arguments that were raised last night about their business career. >> i think chris christie got the best of

jeffrey tony was in that original class. today he's 33, works in construction, owns a clothing line and records music. >> ms. ora lee brown, my real life angel. >> he says it was her emotional support even morning her financial support that made a difference. >> ms. brown. >> when you grow up in inner cities you don't see anything positive that you can, you know, model yourself after. so she's telling you you can do this, you can do that, don't allow anyone tell you you can't. >> brown was herself born into poverty. she picked cotton in mississippi before moving to the bay area to attend college. a chance encounter in her neighborhood with a child begging for food during school hours haunted her. she impulsively adopted a first grade class offering them love, tutors and food and clothes if negatives. police. >> in life we can pay for these kids. we can either pay for them to get an education and we will have control or we can pay for them in prison and we have no control. >> but brown herself could barely pay. she was making $45,000 a year as a realtor but set aside $10,000 a year to fulfill her promise. adjusting to havi