jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: a stark message stops visitors in their tracks at the thresholde internationalre center of photography's new home: "by entering this area, you consent to beingei photographed, filmed and/or/o otherwise recorded, and surrender the right to the use of such material throughout the universe in perpetuity." and that's what the museum's first exhibition in its brand new space in lower manhattan explores: the changing role of privacy in a world inundated with surveillance and oversharing. >> what is your secret life? how can you keep it secret? i think that's one of the keys of this exhibition is really that: keeping your privacy, but also making sure that your secret life remains your secret life. >> brown: pauline vermare is the associate curator of "public, private, secret", a mix of visual media, modern and m historical. there's this 1946 yale joel j photo of a couple through a two- way mirror for a series in "life" magazine. and more contemporary surveillance art by jill magid,b who captured herself on surveillance cameras, and merrym alpern, who se

jeffrey brown makes a new addition to the newshour bookshelf from brooklyn, newws york. >> the basketball moved. they used to be along here. but they came along and renovated the park and put down >> brown: did you come back up here when you were writing?re >> i did. i wanted to talk about walking through it. i really wanted to get this pare on the page. >> brown: the park is in the brooklyn neighborhood of bushwick, where author jacqueline woodson came of age in the 1970s. her new novel, set in that timet and place, is about four teenage friends, as woodson writes "growing up girl" in the citywo with big aspirations, but also suffering terrible losses along the way. it's called "another brooklyn". >> i knew it was going to be an" story about friendship and the way people come together and eventually come apart. so i just went in, and of course having grown up girl in brooklyn myself, it was, i had some information that i needed to tell this story.or >> brown: and you wanted to tell this because? >> i don't think it's a story that's really been told in that way that we talk intimately i a

in washington, jeffrey brown caught up with herzog to discuss the new film and more. >> this is the birthplaceinternet. >> brown: in his new documentary, "lo and behold: reveries of the connected world, ilmmaker werner herzog is again asking big questions. >> brown: this time about the internet-- its history, its impact, good and bad, on all of us. >> i try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls. some deep echo from-- even fromo prehistory. what makes us humans? how do we communicate? where are we going at this moment? something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in an ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. and that's what i'm trying in documentaries and in feature films. >> brown: that search played out in early dramas such as "aguirre, the wrath of god", in 1972, about a mad conquistador seeking gold in peru. and, ten years later, "fitzcarraldo", the story of aof man obsessed with bringing opera to the amazon jungle. that film would become famous for what happened behind the scenes as herzog insi

i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. ♪ ♪ >> ifill: online right now: get a preview of our upcoming, greek-american long-distance runner competing at the rio games, who's also a poet. watch her read two of her poems about pushing herself to her limit. all that and more is on oural website: pbs.org/newshour. >> woodruff: tune in later tonight on "charlie rose." former acting c.i.a. director mike morrell talks about america's challenges overseas and his endorsement of hillary clinton. and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday we'll start a two- part series on living as an adult with autism. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge ofed your future. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economicno performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. maca

jeffrey brown kicks off our coverage tonight. >> brown: first, the first time the women's team failednce to the semifinals. simone biles met challenges last night as she soared through the all around competition to wino her second gold medal, confirming her place as the best gymnast in the world today and best ever olympian, many would put michael phelps high on that list. yesterday the 31-year-old swimmer won the 200-meter individual medley for the fourth consecutive olympic games and fourth gold medal in these games. his astounding career now stands at 22 gold medals, 26 olympic medals overall. simon manuel tied in the 100-meter free style, setting the olympic record and becoming the first african-american woman to win an olympic gold medal in swimming. >> i mean this medal isn't just for me, it's for a whole bunchho of people who have came before me and been an inspiration for me, maritza correa, and it's foe all the people after me who can't-- who believe they can't do it and i just want to be an inspiration to others that you can do it. and let's go to rio now for more on these b

jeffrey brown took that walk with the man who helped create it.ow >> this is one of my favorite moments, where these tracks criss-cross, it's called a frog. >> brown: railroad tracks of old, in a park that has helped changed thinking about public space in cities across america today. recently i visited new york's phenomenally successful 'high line' park with its designer, landscape architect james corner. >> i think this is what a lot of people like, they come up here, they see this, it's like they've discovered a found object, there's a sense of surprise and delight, it's real andof authentic, it's not disney. >> brown: it really is real. >> and people get a kick out of it, especially in the context of modern day manhattan. >> brown: the original railway tracks, 30 feet above street level, were built in the 1930s. trains carried meat, milk and other cargo, sometimes making deliveries direct to manhattan companies. after trains stopped running here-- the last was in 1980-- the site wasted away; an eyesore that no one could figure out what to do with. until they did: create a new kind of

jeffrey brown has our second look at the musical group, "black violin," which begins a a national toureptember and is working on a new album out next year. >> brown: wil baptiste and kev marcus, members of black violin two former high school orchestrm nerds. that's how they met. but, also, by their ownow description, two six-foot-two black men who are eager to change perceptions about whoce plays what when it comes topl music. their new album is titled "stereotypes." >> i think that's probably thehe main agenda, right? you think of-- >> brown: you use the word agenda? >> yes, i think so. if you look at us, we don't look like your typical violinists. we talk to the kids all the time, and the kids love us just because we can relate to them, so to speak. and that's what it's all about, breaking stereotypes. >> i look like i should be a linebacker, but to be a violinist, when i realized that, i was just, like, i love it. i'm drawn to it.m it's the thing that-- that's why i wake up in the morning, is to take the violin and kind of change people's perceptions about it. >> brown: blending cla

jeffrey brown has the latest edition of our newshoursh bookshelf. >> brown: on february four, 1974 19d patty hearst,t, grandaughter of publishing titan william randolph hearst, was kidnapped from her home berkeley, california by members of a radical group that called itself the symbionese liberatioh army. it was an event that riveted the nation, even more so when not long after her abduction it began to look as though hearst might have joined the group. in april, she took part in a bank robbery. hearst was captured in september, 1975. six members of the s.l.a. were killed in a gun battle with police in los angeles. she served almost two years in prison before her sentence was commuted by president carter. she later received a full pardon from president clinton. the incredible story is told anew in "american heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst." and author jeffrey toobin, staff writer at "the new yorker" and legal analyst for cnn, joins men now. welcome. >> good to be here. >> brown: i want to begin where you do.u it's the strangeness of this peri

he spoke with jeffrey brown earlier this summer at "book expo america" in chicago. >> brown: let me ask to sort of introduce what you've done here. it's a novel, but... >> it's not the traditional novel about slavery. the main protagonist is 16 and 17 will living on a cotton plantation. when conditions deteriorate, she's convinced to flee north on the underground. when i first came up with the idea many years ago, i thought, what if the underground railroad was a actual railroad, literally underneath the earth. >> brown: explain that. the underground railroad was a system, an idea, it was people, place, but not a real railroad. >> no, there were people who were sympathetic to slaves and arranged safe havens and got people north, hid them, moved them station to station, and it was not a literal underground railroad, but i think a lot of people when they first hear about it, when they're kids, they think it's a actual subway, so what if it actually was an underground train system, how would that work. >> brown: you said this came too many years ago? >> about 16 years ago. i knew if i trie

he spoke with jeffrey brown earlier this summer at "book expo america" in chicago. >> brown: let me ask to sort of introduce what you've done here. it's a so each state you go to is a different state of american possibility. south carolina is a benevolent pa tern listic state where slaves are given programs for racial uplifted. north carolina is a white supremacist state. so each stop is an island in the gulliver's travels. >> brown: one that you've imagined. >> yes, but it's treated in a very deadpan, matter of fact way. so while i am stretching the truth or tweaking reality, it is still much grounded in what we would call, you know, the truth. >> brown: once you opened it up that way, was it freeing as a writer? >> very liberating. once you have a literal railroad, you're bringing a fantasy element that allows you to do different things. and so i bring in the tuskegee s experiment.ur i bring in sort of naziism andch white supremacy. and even though it takes placeno in 1850, i'm allowed to have these different modes and bring in a lot of differentsl aspectst american history in a way i

jeffrey brown got a preview of u.s.opes with christine brennan, sportswriter and columnist for usa today and abc news. >> brown: christine brennan, we can withum back. >> thanks. >> brown: let the games begin, right? >> exactly. >> brown: let's talk about athletics. summer olympics, americans, and we've talk about gymnastics and swimming. start with gymnastics. another big year. >> it may be the biggest year ever, especially the women's side, which is saying something because women have become the dominant gymnasts in the world. going back to mary lou retton and miller. in this list of names i mentioned, there is another one coming, maybe the best of all, simone biles. she has won the best of everything. >> brown: she is already coming in as being talked about as bun of the west ever. >> she's so good, she's being anded the gold meddle everywhere around, team gold meddle, no problem at all. >> brown: no pressure, then. that's the great thing, she stumbled at the olympic trials, which was uncharacteristic. from watching

jeffrey brown has our newshourn bookshelf conversation. >> brown: in recent decades, scientists have made great advances in understanding howat and where the human brain makes and stores memory, a key part of forming our identities. man who unwittingly helped them do it, henry morrison, who underwent a lobotomy in 1953 intended to relieve his epileptic seizures.se a large part of his hip to campus was removed.ed >> as soon as he came out of the operating room, it was career he was no longer able to create new memories, so this gave scientists for the first timers really a clear sense of how important these structures were to the creation of new memories. that was sort of the first and in many ways most fundamentalnt thing that he taught us about how memory works. >> brown: in his new book, luke dittrich tells the story of the man known for decades as patient h.m., considered the most important research subjectt in brain science. and there's more, the lobotomy was performed by dr. william w scoville, a prominent brain surgeon at a time when such procedures were done by the thousands.

jeffrey brown has the story-- it's part of our ongoing series, "culture at risk". >> brown: 16 holy tombsting back to the 14th century, all reduced to rubble in a wave ofe violence unleashed on timbuktu by islamist militants four years ago. today, one of those responsible stood in front of the international criminal court ant admitted his guilt. >> ( translated ): i regret all the damage that my actions have caused. i regret what i have caused toha my family, my community in timbuktu, what i have caused my home nation mali. >> brown: prosecutors say al- mahdi directed the destruction of nine mausoleums and damage to a mosque. he'd been recruited to lead aui vice squad by a group of islamist rebels, affiliated wite al qaeda, who seized control of northern mali in 2012.al >> ( translated ): i was influenced by a group of deviant people from al qaeda, and they were able to influence me, to carry me in their evil wave, through actions that affected the whole population. >> brown: the rebels were eventually driven out by french troops in 2013. the heaps of rubble they left behind have since be

jeffrey brown has our look. >> brown: the governor recently declared a "state of public calamity." city waterways are fouled and filled with bacteria, streets are clogged with traffic and transportation projects aren't finished, and some of the and beyond the olympics:e political chaos, as president dilma rouseff awaits an a impeachment trial. days before the start of theef olympic games, we look at the state of play in brazil, withh npr's rio de janeiro-based lourdes garcia-navarro. alex cuadros, author of the book, "brazilionaires," a look at wealth and inequality in brazil in the decade leading up to the olympics.s. and paulo sotero, director of the "brazil institute" at the 'woodrow wilson internationalrn center for scholars' in washington. welcome to all of you. lourdes garcia-navarro, let me start with you. how prepared or unprepared is brazil for these game, and how are people that you're talking to feeling about the games just before they start? >> i mean, i think it's undeniable that it's been very bumpy. starting with the athletes and the olympic village, half of them cou

jeffrey brown has a closer look at all of this with sarah sparks of the "education week" team. >> brown: sarah sparks, welcome to you. i think a lot of people would be surprised at the continuing prevalence of this. were you and your colleagues? >> we were a little surprised at how many states were still using corporal punishment. we found 21 states and more than 4,000 schools were using physical discipline. >> brown: all different age level, grade levels? >>le absolutely. we found from kindergarten all the way up through high schoolsc there were at least some students at every level. >> brown: also surprising and notable in your stories were how much policies can and do vary state to city and even within states. >> right. in some districts it was even school by school differences. there is no official training, not much guidance, and in the a whole lot of accountability on how corporal punishment gets meeted out. brown brown what about law? >> we have 29 states who have outlawed corporal punishment. 21 allow it to some degree or another. and from state to state, the policies and practi

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: "the birth of a >> brown: "the birth of a nation" tells the story turner, who led a bloody slave, rebellion in virginia in 1831. >> the lord has spoken to me, visions of what's to come. a rise of good against evil. >> what are we gonna do? >> we'll fight. once it begins, our brothers and sisters will join.er and we'll number in the hundreds, thousands even. >> brown: 36-year-old nate parker wrote, directed and starred in the movie, which first wowed audiences last january at the sundance film festival. parker spoke of his motivation. >> people asked me who i wanted to be like, i'd say nat turner. about two years ago, i steppedt away from acting and said, the next film i'm involved with will be "the birth of a nation." >> brown: the movie won then. "audience award" and the "grandh jury prize" at sundance. fox searchlight bought itsse rights for a festival-record $17.5 million, and its national release is due in october.e but earlier this month, headlines emerged about a 1999 rape allegation made against parker when he was a student at penn state.de t

woodrow wilson signed what was called the "organic act," creating the national park service.ic jeffrey brownes our "bookshelf" outdoors. >> brown: terry tempest williams, author, naturalist and environmental activist, grew up in utah surrounded by national parks. >> they were our backyard, and with our family business laying pipe in the american west, it was this wonderful juxtaposition between intrusion in the land and protect the land.ot >> brown: the story of the land, right?la >> i feel like the american west is in my bones in the deepest way, and i also felt conflicted at a very young age because i saw my father, uncle, grandfather, brothers, digging trefns in the land and yet i saw prairie dogs on the side of the trenches and my impulse was to protect them from the very destruction that was puttingde food around our table.e. >> brown: 100 years since the creation of the national parks service, the contradictions and controversies over america's public lands continue. but there is no denying the popularity of the parks themselves.es great smokey mountains in the east.ey yosemite in the

that's the focus of the latest addition to the newshour bookshelf, and to jeffrey browno >> brown: "thisk tells many stories... arguably the mostor important is the one we as a people have trouble embracing:pe the pervasiveness of a class hierarchy in the united states." that line comes from a new book with the provocative title:k "white trash," which makes awh provocative argument that, from the nation's earliest history tn now, ideals such as opportunity and upward mobility haven'twa characterized the lives of manyh americans. author nancy isenberg is a professor of history at louisiana state university. welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: i think what hit me most is the idea that the poor have nothaha only been acceptedt expected, that it's a part of our national d.n.a. that's the argument you're making? well, i think one of the things we forget is that for half of our history we were an agrarian nation. so "white trash" really comesme out of notions of world poverty, and it goes all the way back to british ideas, because in the colonial period and well throughout the 1

fox 8 eye ten i'm8 bill filled jeffrey jordan we do begin with breaking news a heavyi police presence in brook park police say they're on the scene of a reporter alison brown is live in brooke part that has the latest we cana see the police lights flashing off just got through allison what we know so far. i did speak with the townsmen minutes ago whereas confirmed as a standup situation here at the end of h the drive i want to shw you we are looking we got up to this drive but we can't go much further than base we don't even know what exactly this house has , basically the councilman said that there is a suspect a man n his 30s possibly shot his wife this happened according to mansi about two hours ago and she was taken away.ho he also the two children are inside of the home and believe this is all going on right now we believe around that age suspect is in thes home right now along with these children do not know the agess. maybe a little bit before. lots of concern in this area according to this councilman.a not something they general and brook park definitely of concern. we do know that brooke park police swat teams also, and right now it's hard to see