as jeffrey brown reports, the issue involves location data, typically transmitted by cell phones. >> rown: in late 2010 an armed robbery occurred at a radio shack in detroit. over the next three months,gh more stores in the area were robbed. data obtai from cellphone companies helped lead to arrests and convictions. today the supreme court ruled on an appeal of the case. marcia coyle of "the national law journal" was there to hear the decision. welcome back. >> thanks, jeff. >> brown: it's worth adding one of the ironies of the cases one thing they were stealing were celt'phones. >> tcorrect. >> brown: what kind of data? we're talking about self-site location data. when you lose your cell phone for a call, it pings a cell tower and your cell phone company keeps a record of where the pings landed. eolice want the cell sit location records because, once they know where the cell tower is, ey have a rsonable idea of where the cell phone was used, and it was tht information that led them to timothy carpenter who was convictim iconvictim. t >> brown: a issue is whether it was an unreasonabl

tonit, jeffrey brown reprises this culture at risk report. >> so, welcome to one of our walk-in virtual realityen environm. >> brown: it's meant to transport you across space and time. ea it's the world's highest resolution virtualty environment. it's running at 500 agapixels, haigapixels worth of resolution. >> brown: called the "sun cave," it's an mersive, sci-fi-like wonder-- hard to fully convey on television-- driven by the latest advances in computer visualizatn and 3d imaging. >> so, it really gives us a mechanism to deliver, visually, ve compelling representations of that environment. >> brown: it's all part of a project overseen by faulko kuester, a german-born professor of structural engineering at the fornia, sa of cali diego, one that puts high tech to work on behalf of cultural preservation. >> virtual reality is a very powerful mechanism that allows us to explore spaces, and environments, and scale, but on our own terms, in a controlled and it became somewhat natural to think about how we can actually create a future for the past. >> brown: a future for the past? >> yes, c

jeffrey brown takes us to a magical spot in the south pacific for his series, "culture at risk." >> brown: it's one of the most spectacular sights in the world: the 15 giant statues, some as tall as 40 feet, at tongariki on easter island. the island, called "rapa nui" in e polynesian language, i considered one of the most remote inhabited spots on earth, some 2200 miles from the coa of chile. the statues, called "moai," are said to portray the rapa nui ancestors, and evoke history and mystery. u.c.l.a. archeolist joanne van tilburg has worked here for more than 35 years. me they're friends in a lot of ways. to me they're frustrating andff upsetting and ult, but-- >> brown: because? >> because they elude me sometimes. >> brown: the statues were made from around 1100 to 16 a.d., from hardened volcanic ash t callf, and most were carved here in the rano raraku quarry. where van tilburg and her rapa nui colleague christian arevalo pakarati have been excavating two statues, while they document the more than 1000 others around the island. >> once the rapa nui people discovered this material, i t

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in santi uf >> woo that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks.to welcomoth of you. let's start with what happened this week on the other side of the pacific ocean. david, the president met, historic meeting, kim jong un, the leader of north korea.en the prescomes away saying there's no more nuclear threat, he's got very god personal chemistry, personal relationship with many . kim, what's yor take? >> i read a joke that the lion can lie down wih themb but you've got to get a new lamb each day give him credit than a lot other people who are reading. we were terrified si eight months ago that we were heading in a bad direction and there wag of things spinning out of control. now that doesn't seem to be the case. tensions have settled. there seems to be no risk of rynfrontation or war, so, to me, that's the big sthat's the lead and a good thing. once you get to the second and third paraggph, it beins the eeter yet quickly -- the things trump said about regime, calling a murderous dictator a tough guy, tha

jeffrey brown takes a time- traveling look at how modern researchers are using the latest d.n.a. sequencing technology to understand the movements and interactions of very ancient humans. it is the latest in our weekly science series, "the leading edge." >> reporter: it's a trip into the deep human past, in a lab at the harvard medical school. disposable tyvek suits, gloves, headgear-- all required to avoid cthontamination of ancientones . >> the bones we're looking at right now are about 5,000 to 6,0 italy.old samples from and we're trying to understand populat italy over time.s in >> reporter: david reich, who heads this lab, is at the forefront of revolution in d.n.a. studies now providing new insight into human history as old as 40,000 years. >> we can open up an ancient skeleton from 10,000 years ago, sequence its genome, have s much information from that individual as we would have from a person living today. >> reporter: and tell a story about them and their movement, and their relation to others? >> exactly. and the power of this information is evident from the fact that

jeffrey brown talks with this month's author and announces our pick f july. arthur less is a minor novel is about to turn 50 and about to see his younger lover marry someone else. tit's a vain and very com attempt to escape everything, told in the new novel callewi "less,ner of this year's pulitzer prize and our june book club pick, arthur andrew sean greer joins me to answer questions from you, our readers. welcome and congratulations on the pulitzer. >> thank y, thank you for having me. >> brown: must be a nice terprise. >> q surprise. >> brown: it's also funny to think about a novel about a novelist who can't accplish much overanything wins a pulitzer prize. >> it's the irony of the whole ing. ite last thing arthur would have expected for sure. >> brown: and andrew? and me, for sure. >> brown: we've got questions from readers. t's look at the first one. >> my name is rhonda brewer, live in d.c. one of the many things i adoumie this book are all the travels of arthur less. mr. greer, could you sha with us how you got familiar with all these cultures and lan

as jeffrey brown reports, she is also a strong favorite forte tony award this week. >> rumble thy bellyfull>> brown: it was quite a returny after rs away from the theater, glenda jackson took to the stage of london's old vic in 2016 in shakpeare's "king lear," as lear! >> well, that's one of the endearing things about the theater.o i can put it ikind of immediate context. you work with people, you may not see them for deca bs and then yp into them in the street and it's as though you've just walked out to the same coffee bar. you know, there's no time gap. >> brown: now 82, jackson is back on broadway for the first time since 1988, starring with urie metcalf and alison pill in edward albee's "three talln. wom" it's a play about memory and aging that appealed to jackson because of its strong female roles, something she says is a rarity. we talked recently at the famed sardi's restaurant in times square. >> it has been my experience, ever since i first walkd onto a stage and got paid for it, that contemporary dramatists find women really, really boring. we are never, or hardly ever, the sort

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jeffrey brown looks at a project to rebuild dntown whe maintaining a sense of its heritage.rt of his ongoing series, "culture at risk." >> brown: "colored" and "white": inscribed on two stones that once stood in a kress department store in the heart of downtown montgomery, alabama, where everyone knew their place. >> you knew where you could and could not go. >> brown: valda harris montgomery used to go to kress as a young girl. >> it was just the unfairness and the inequality that you sensed that was so strong, you could sense that that you're not welcome. >> i think it is a vestige of truth. >> brown: now, those old stones are part of an effort by new york-based entrepreneur sarah beatty buller to revitalize a building and downtown that had fallen on hard times. >> it really started very pragmatically with, "wow, those are some spectacular buildings, and they're not really being loved. do you think that we could do something maybe about buying those buildings and helping to restore them?" >> brown: but then it went further. buller, and her husband mark, have spent the last

jeffrey brown reports from santiago, chile. >> brown: jaime concha says he was just ten years old when the abuse began. >> ( translated ): there aul six who abused me again, repeatedly and systematically,th betweeyear 1973 and 1979.ac it's as if a a tribe, a group of sexual predators had attacked me time and time again. and that for me was almost like a murder. i felt they as if they had rdered me. >> brown: at the time, he was a fifth-grader at this catholic school in santiago. it took more than 40 years before concha was able to speak publicly about what happened. >> ( translated ): a victim of sexual abuse does not speak when he wants. he speaks when he can. because our victimizers silence us. i have been able to heal by seeing that my suffering became meaningful in the search foric ju >> brown: other victims are also speaking out, and today, nearly 80 catholic clergy across chile have been accused of sexually abusing minors over the last several decades. the child abuse scandal here has grown into a national crisis, in a country in which the catholic church has historically been on

. >> naw: he spoke to newshour's jeffrey brown, and, shed some light on his own decision- making. fallible. ar we tend to err. but law and literare both show us ways in which we can progress and mend our ways. >> nawaz: now, justice kennedy's retirement gives the psident a chance to nominate another conservative, having already placed neil gorsucon the bench. and, that sets the state for a senate battle royale. majoty leader mitch mcconnel today promised speedy action. >> senate stands rea fulfill constitutional role by offering aice and consent for trumps nominee. will vote and confirm this fall. >> nawaz: minority leader chuck schumer demanded that any nomination wait until after the mid-term elections in november. >> our republican colleagues should follow the rule they set in 2016 not to consider aur supreme justice during election year. anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy. >> nawaz: the president says he will pick a nominee from a list of 25 nservative judges. marcia coyle of the "national law journal" has covered the ichigh court ever since ju kennedy

and, as jeffrey brown reports, the world's most-dire humanitarian ergency somehow could get even worse. >> reporter: w cries rang out from saudi-led fighters early today, closing on hodeid. they're being aided by a fierce air campaign involving nine sunni muslim-majory countries and supported by the united states. but aid groups sounded alarms over a new escalation in what is already the world's largest humanitarian crisis. >> today we are at the point where "catastrophic" is becoming t' understatement. >> reporter:the latest turn in a bloody proxy war-- the saudis and their sunni allies backing the exiled government on one side; the houthis aligned with shi'ite iran on the other. in 2014, the rebels seized yemen's capital sanaa, plus other territory in the e rthwest and eventually hodeidah on d sea, a critical port of entry for some 70% of all humanitarian aid in men. abdikadir mohamud is direccor of mercs in yemen. he spoke via skype from sanaa rned of what happens if hodeidah is cut off. he the larger part of the population is inorth and if that is cut, then we will have a crisis, y

. >> woodruff: finally tonight, jeffrey brown remembers renowned writer donald hall-- widely consideredone of the greatest poets of his generation. >> reporter: in 1975 donald hall came to live in the small new hampshire farm he'd visited as a boy, when his grandparents lived here. he told me of it when i visited in 2006. >> i'm incredibly lucky. i fell in love with this place when i was eight or 10, andve it, and loved the people in it, and loved the culture around it, loved the hills and valleys, loved the old houses,hi likeone, white cobber with green shutters. when i came ck, i decided i'd been writing about new hampshire from a distance so muc now that i was back in new hampshire, i wouldn't write about it ae more. quite verse: i went through everything. i wrote about all the old farm animals. i wrote about the hills. everythi about it stimulated me, and i had perhaps the most prolific year of my life when i arst came back. >> reporter: thereoem called "mount kearsarge." >> "mount kearsarge." "great blue mountain aghosts. i loyou from the porch of the farmhouse where i watched you

band's visit" an .nusual and welcome addition to broadway this seas for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brownly won hockey's stanley cup. and as newshour senior foreign affairs producer-- and hockey fanatic-- morgan till reports, it was a long time coming. >> reporter: more than 40 years of hockey futility evaporated in the nevada desert last night. >> and the capitals have won it! the capital of the nation is the capital of the hockey world!>> reporter: at the final horn, the washington capitals grabbedi thfirst stanley cup title sinc playing, in 1974.an they beat the las vegas golden knights four games to one in the best-o that expansion team's surprising inaugural seasls. for capita' captain alex ovechkin, hoisting the storied cup puts the capstone on a dazzling career. he was nearly overcome with emotion: >> this is right now going home to our families, our fans and you know it's just something special. ay reporter: post-game, what happened in vegas ed all over social media, as ovechkin and team marched into a sin city club early this morning, the well-traveled cup held high. back in wain

jeffrey brown talks with this month's author and announces our pick for june. >> brown: a 17-year-oldps into a classroom not unusual unless it's her first time receiving any kind of formal education in the memoir. in "educated," tara westover tells of growing up in a survivalist family in the mountains of idaho and eventually leaving to enter the world on her own. ultimately receiving a ph.d. in history from cambridge university in the u.k. tara westover joins me now to answer questions from readers. first congratulations on his book. thank you for joining us for the book club. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: let's go right to the readers questions. there were a lot of them will start with one right now. >> my name is wynn wagenseil. i'm from ocean isle beach, north carolina. my question is how did your world view change so much from your parents? >> brown: okay, so fill in the picture for those who are not familiar with the book but your worldview certainly changed over time. yeah. >> so i was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in sout

. >> pamela brown at the white house. here for more, jeffrey toobin and former fbi supervisory agent josh campbell who working for comey in 2015 and 2017. let's start with this extraordinary exchange, josh, between they were lovers and fbi colleagues, peter strzok and lisa page in august, 2016, this is after the hillary clinton investigation ended. page writes "trump's not ever going to become president, right?" and strzok replies "no, he's not. we'll stop it." the inspector general writes it's not only indicative of a biased state of mind but applies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidates electoral prospects. this is antithetical to the core values of the fbi and the justice department of justice. >> this is a damning report. no question. it was done thoroughly by an independent body whose job is to police those who have these powers. that said -- and i'm the first to admit that lisa page and peter strzok i think have caused more damage to the fbi's