for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. the day's other news, democrats in the u.s.atives moved to create an independent commission to investigate the capitol assault last january. the bill debated today began as bipartisan legislation, but the top republican leaders in thehouse and the senate have nowr in the news summary. the new york state attorney general's office has now opened a criminal probe into former president trump's family business. at issue iwhether the trump organization falsely reported property values to get betterloans and fi investigation today, and said he's being unfairly attacked. more pandemic restrictions were eased today new signs that life is returning to something like normal. new york city began letting fully-vaccinated people go without masks in most situations. also allowemost businesses to open at full capacity. meanwhile, the european union moved to re-open borders to vaccinated travelers from outside the 27-nation bloc. >> the council now recoms mber states ease some of the current reions, in particular for those vaccinated with e.u.-

again, john yang begins our coverage. hn: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's security cabinet approved the cease-fire in a late-evening meeting, joining hamas in accepting an egyptian proposal for a mutual halt to hostilities, without preconditions. earlier, the pace of combat appeared to slow as behind-the-scenes diplomacy and u.s. pressure intensified. israel did unleash a wave of airstrikes on targets across gaza and says it destroyed a rocket launcher belonging to the militant gro. but parts of towns throughout gaza were reduced to rubble. 14-year-old amira isleem's home was struck by a missile. >> what happened was we were in the sitting room, the missile hit us, there was a lot of smoke and we did not see anything. john: a neighbor said he didn't know why the home was targeted. >> we were sound asleep, and had no idea about this. we suddenly hear a blast, and the house flew. we rushed thinking it is on our house, but realized it hit our neighbor's house, abu khalil isleem, who works here in shifa hospital, w

here again is john yang. >> yang: night after night, israelairstrikes light up gaza's sky. after morning, palestinians living in the densely-populated strip of land search through the wreckage. >> when you lie in your bed, you just start to think and know that you may not wake up or if you wake up, you will be under rubble. >> yang: fikr shalltoot runs gaza programming for the u.k.- based group, medical aid forle saentiedical services have come to a halt. according to the u.n., israeli airstrikes have damaged at least 17 of gaza's 76 hospitals and medical clinics. >> all of these services is interrupted not only because of the destruction of tse centers, but also because the lack of safety. the roads are destructed in gaza and the people are hesitant even to move outside because they are risking their lives. >> we feel like a war zone. when you lookt the sky almost every evening, every night, it's unbelievable. if you want to go to disneyland, it may look like fireworks, but we are not in disneyland. >> yang: miles to the north in tel aviv, technology executive eitan singer

john yang has the latest. >> tanks headed for the border with gaza as israeli military officials say they have begun a ground assault into the palestinian enclave. earlier the israeli defense minister approved the call-up of 9,000 more reservists and israel face aid new threat from the north. rockets were fired from lebanon, towards northern israel, according to military officials in both nations. this comes after violence among citizens and police in mixed arab israeli cities. this new wave of unrest between arab and jewish israelis raises the specter of civil conflict. >> ( translated ): peopl >> ( translated ): people are doing whatever they want, torching, looting, hitting. we are on the verge of an abyss. this is not a way to manage a country. >> ( translated ): we need to live here together. co-existence, we need to be together, partners, to be partners to each other. >> yang: in bat yam, just south of tel aviv, a stunned arab shop owner returned to her damaged ice cream parlor. a jewish mob had attacked the business late yesterday. >> ( translated ): we've been living here for

even so, as john yang reports, israel stepped up airstrikes in gaza, and hamas contnued rocket fire inton: today, plumes of gray smoke marked the sites of more israeli airstrikes that pummeled the gaza strip, as the latest spasm of violence showed no signs of letting up. most of a high-rise building in gaza city collapsed. in khan younis, at the southern end of gaza, people searched through the rubble for victims in a building hit by an airstrike. ambulances rushed the injured to a hospital after a car was hit. >> what should i say? this is a crime. they were civilians -- a woman, her children, a barber, and a shop owner. these are the people who were at the scene. they didn't hit a militant nor an official, we are civilians. john: a woman grieved the loss of her grandchild killed in a blt and those who remain missing. >> my son's wife and my son's son died, and my son's daughter is missing without any trace. the jews target women and children. my son's wife is five months pregnant. this is terrorism. they bombed them without any warning. john: several leaders of the militant wing of ham

john yang takes a look at his life. >> hearing no objection, so ordered. >> yang: john warner representednia in the senate for 30 years, respected on both sides of the aisle for h independence and efforts at consensus-building. a former navy secretary and veteran of both world war ii and the korean war, he was an important voice on military affairs. >> america has always led in the calls of freedom. >> yang: as armed services committee chairman, warner backed president george w. bush on the iraq war, but split with the commander-in-chief over his later troop build-up. >> wake up! we're paying a heavy price. >> yang: his independent streak was also on display when he opposed president reagan's bid to put robert bork on the supreme court, defied the n.r.a. on gun issues and refused to back fellow virginia republican oliver north's 1994 senate campaign. warner was first elected in 1978, often campaigning with his then-wife, actress elizabeth taylor. she would introduce herself as“ a housewife from a small town in virginia.” after retiring from the senate in 2009, he endorsed democrats, inclu

here is john yang.respondent: on this latest crisis in the middle east is turning out to be much of a chance for president joe biden and u.s. policy in the middle east as it is for benjamin netanyahu. daniel brumberg is the director of democracy and governance udies at georgetown university. thanks so much for joining us. in the last couple of days, we have seen the only palestinian-american and congress who has been very critical of president biden on this issue press him on the tarmac at the airport in detroit when he arrived yterday. 138 house democrats urged the president to present both sides for a cease-fire as soon as possible. what do these internal democratic party forces do? i was this affecting president biden's response? >> these developments suggest the ground is shifting in dramatic ways not only in congress but in the broader american population and it some -- to some extent at the jewish-american population, and it will pose a challenge for biden to balance the position of mainstream sup

justice -- >> i apologize. >> yeah. >> i apologize, your honor. >> justice thomas. >> yang: and with chief justice johnroberts playing timekeeper... >> so you really can't tie -- >> so, justice alito? >> yang: ...oral arguments are more formal question-and-answer than free-flowing discussion. with the time now, each justice getting a set amount of time discrete from the others, does that make a difference? >> it makes a huge difference. i mean, one of the unique things about the supreme court is that the justices may not have even talked to each other about the case at all before the oral argument. so sometimes the questions, both pre coronavirus and during coronavirus, are as much statements to one of their colleagues as they are questions to the advocate. >> yang: over the centuries, oral arguments have changed drastically. >> in the first decades, the justices heard cases cold, which meant that they hadn't read any briefs. >> yang: historian clare cushman of the supreme court historical society: >> the attorneys took advantage of the situation of having unlimited time and they would argue for five h

john yang reports on the day's developments >> yang: today in gaza, another >> reporter: tonight a rage of rockets fired from gaza into israel lit up the sky as the latest cycle of violence between israel and the palestinians escalates. some were intercepted by israel's air defense system called iron dome. tel aviv residents ran fo shelter. the militant palestinian group hamas says the rockets were in response to an earlier strike on a gaza residential building. among the dead in the israeli airstrike this morning, an >> ( translated ): why did they kill him? they kill and there is no one to make them answer for it, the whole world is watching. it doesn't matter if they kill a child or a woman there is no one to hold them accountable for it. >> yang: across the gaza strip others gathered at morgues to search for their loved ones. israeli rocket fire into gaza began last night as families broke their fast for the holy month of ramadan. israel says it was responding to earlier rockets fired toward jerusalem from militant group hamas. >> ( translated ): we were just sitting outside the hou

john yang reports on the big adjustment. >> oyez oyez oyez. : few institutions are as tradition-laden as the supreme court, but the pandemic has created a lot of changes. >> god save the united states and this honorable court. john: for a year, the high-ceilinged marble courtroom has been empty, all oral arguments conducted by telephone conference call. >> it's hard to know when to stop speaking, when to stop answering your question. john: former acting solicitor general neal katyal says the three cases he's argued over the phone have been a little different from the pvious 41 in-person. >> i think one of the skills, you know, that you learn over time is you really learn body language down to, you know, where their finger is put on their cheek or something like that. now, of course, we have no vision at all. it is just oral and audio. in real life, or even on skype, i can at least look at you and see, are you zoning out? do you look satisfied with my answer? on the phone, it's impossible. we don't get that just very simple level of feedback. >>

john yang has our report.n israel on the west bank, streets normally bustling with activity were empty today as palestinians went on a general strike. unusual joint action to show solidarity with gaza and to protest their own treatment by israel. >> [speaking non-english language] >> as youth, taking part in the strike to stop working for at least a day, to create change in jerusalem and the country. reporter: hundreds of thousands gathered in central squares, waving palestinian flags. >> this is reflecting the common struggle of palestinians not only against apartheid buzz all -- but also a voice in solidarity with our people that are being bombarded in gaza. reporter: israeli soldiers moved to disperse crowds. on the west bank, they fired tear gas canisters at protesters who had been burning tires. in east jerusalem, police fired stun grenades and deployed a water cannon. this as the israeli military operations against hamas militants in gaza maintain their steady pace. this morning, desks, chairs, and books

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, inflation fears washed overet. major indexes lost two percent or more, after news that consumer prices rose 8/10ths of a percent in april, the most in 10 years. the dow jones industrial average lost 681 points to close at 33,587. the nasdaq fell 357 points. the s&p 500 dropped 89. the u.s. death toll from covid- 19 has fallen to an average of about 600 a day, the lowest in 10 months. fatalities have dropped to single digits in more than half of the states. and, in boston, newspaper headlines celebrated after massachusetts had no covid deaths on tuesday. this afternoon, at the white house, president biden also hailed the good news. >> safe and effective vaccines are curbing the spread of the virus. and they're saving thousands of lives. there's a light at the end of the tunnel, well it's growing brighter and brighter. and we need all of you to bring it home. >> woodruff: as of this evening, the total official u.s. death toll is more than 583,000. panic buying of gasoline is shut it down. clone yam pipeline announ

john yang tells us of one scientist's journey to the discovery both of a new tool to fight t.b., and own potential. it's part of breakthroughs, our series on invention and innovation. john: in many ways, mireille kamariza's life journey longer than just the miles from her native burundi to the united states. now 31 years old, she's a fellow at harvard, has deees from berkeley and stanford, and through her silicon valley startup, is working on a potential breakthrough diagnostic tool to fight tuberculosis. but if someone had told her as a teenager in africa that this is where she'd be now? >> what are you drinking? can i have some? john: growing up in burundi, a small, landlocked country in east africa, kamariza remembers loving science, particularly astronomy. frequent power outages gave her plenty of opportunities to marvel at the night sky. >> you would see, like, amazing bright stars. and i used to wonder, what's there? who's there? is there a light out there? i mean, is there someone shining a light towards us? is that why we're seeing it? the unknown is what attracted me. john:

john yang reports on day one of the ceasefire. ( cheers ) >> yang: the sounds of celebration replacedchoes of artillery fire and rockets as the fragile truce largely held for its first full day. thousands of palestinians rallied in gaza, declaring victory over israel after 11 days of fighting. >> ( translated ): this is a liberation. we won. we broke their pride. i hope god will protect the resistance. >> yang: a senior hamas official in gaza city had a message for israel. >> ( translated ): netanyahu, the zionist enemy, and his army said that they would destroy the tunnels above our resistance, and i tell him today that our fighters are now striding proudly in the tunnels. >> yang: hamas' leader, ismail haniyeh, also thanked iran for supplying weapons to gaza. hundreds of hamas supporters marched in khan younis after friday prayers. there were also celeations in the west bank and east jerusalem. at the same time, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared his own victory. >> ( translated ): when we embarked together on the campaign, i defined its main goal to land a hard blow

john yang reports. >> he said, "i can't get up.the only time this headache is manageable is if i'm laying flat on my back." and so it was a trip to the urgent care, and then to the e.r., and they came back and said "there's a mass in his brain and we think it is cancerous." >> yang: jennifer howard has to speak for her husband jason. at age 44 he's barely conscious. the reason? glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that usually occurs in much older adults. >> they came in and said, life expectancy with this type of tumor is not long. make the best of your time that you have. >> yang: jason served two tours in iraq as a marine. he was always fit and healthy, and loved to run marathons. >> when they came back, they talked a bit about how everything was on fire. they burned everything. >> yang: jason took these photos of the thick noxious smoke that billowed from burn pits on the bases in iraq, where he served in 2003 and 2004. >> hey, we have a burn pit down here. >> yang: in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. military burned all its t

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> nawaz: in the day's other news, u.s. public health officials stepped up appeals for younger americans to get vaccinated. more than four million eligible adolescents, aged 12 to 17, have been given shots so far. the head of the c.d.c. said getting young people immunized could accelerate downward trends. >> we should all have cautious optimism. cases have continued to decrease and have not been this low since spring of last year, hospital admissions are down, deaths are down and we are vaccinating between 1.5 million and two million people per day. >> nawaz: meanwhile, in hard-hit india, deaths from covid hit a record 4,300 in 24 hours, even as daily infections fell again, to 260,000. western india's death toll from a tropical cyclone has risen to 29. the storm weakened after making landfall in gujarat state last night with winds up to 130 miles an hour. first responders rescued aut 180 people from an oil barge that sank off mumbai, and the indian navy searched for 81 others. southern louisiana braced today for more downpo

here again, john yang. john: the escalation has been very quick.e have widespread civil unrest in israel, rockets coming from lebanon, and now israeli tanks rolling into gaza. a senior fellow with the brookings institution and advisor to the u.s. united nations joins us. a senior at the carnegie endowment for international peace for more than three decades and four administrations who helped shape u.s. policy in the middle east at the state department joins us as well. welcome to you both. we have seen a lot of cycles of violence in the middle east, but does this feel different to you, the way this ratcheted up so quickly? the way we are seeing people fighting in the streets? >> yes, escalation was very rapid. it happened seemingly out of nowhere. one reason is that the issues at stake were core issues for palestinians. evictions from homes of palestinians in jerusalem -- this is something that is obviously an immoral act, but obviously when the eu says blatantly violates international law for the united nations calls a possible war crime, and it s

our john yang explores. >> yang: judy, the nine-page memo is to then-attorney general william barr from department's office of legal counsel, which provides legal advice to government agencies. barr said it was the basis for his conclusion that there wasn't enough evidence to establish that president trump broke obstruction of justice laws. a watchdog group sued to make it public and earlier this month a judge said it must be released. last night, the justice department released a heavily redacted version and appealed the judge's order to release the rest of it. noah bookbinder is predent and c.e.o. of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, or "crew," which sued for the memo's release. mr. bookbinder, thank you so much for joining us. your group filed this suit literally the afternoon of attorney general barr's news conference. what does this struggle over this document whether to keep it secret or not, what does this represent to you sort of the larger implications of this struggle? >> absolutely. well, what it looked like happened back when the mueller report came out w

john yang has the details. >> yang: judy, hydrofluorocarbons, or "h.f.c.' powerful greenhouse gases widely used in home and commercial refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps. today's e.p.a. proposal would cut the u.s. production and import of h.f.c.'s by 85% over the next 15 years. the agency estimates that would prevent almost a full degree fahrenheit of warming by the end of the century. kristen taddonio is a senior climate and energy advisor at the institute for governance and sustainable development, which works to strengthen environmental law. she previously worked at both the e.p.a. and the energy department in the george w bush and barack obama administrations. thanks so much for joining us. in layman's terms, you can help us understand why hfc's are so mot ent-- potent in climate change. >> certainly. so we've all heard about carbon dioxide or co2 and we know that it is responsible for much of the world's warming. however there are these other classes of climate poll out ants called short lived climate pollutants of which hfc's are one of th

our john yang has this. >> yang: amna, the court will review a mississippi law that would ban almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. that's significantly before viability-- the point after which a fetus can sustain life outside the womb and the point before which the cou has said states may not regulate abortion. at 15-weeks, mississippi's ban would be one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. according to theuttmacher institute, which advocates for abortion rights, 18 states ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. mary ziegler is a florida state university law professor and author of "abortion and the law in america: roe v. wade to the present." now this mississippi law has not taken affect because lower kowforts say it conflicts with "roe versus wade," does the courts say in taking this that they will use this case to overturn roe. >> no, you but i think the court taking this case says they are interested at least rethinking viability at point in which stats can ban abortions, that will be almost as significant as rover turning roe itself. i thk an

we've got john in the weather center with a closer look at this particular cluster john yang, a lot of people here in the bay area actually got the little quake alerts for it. like, but they didn't feel it. they didn't feel it. my roommate said he hot under his lake get that alert. it's over. yeah. haha. >> like we're stuck but definitely a lot of people, the central valley and lake tahoe region. northern sierra and general did feel this quake last night resulted in quite a lot of shaking. >> eastern portions of the bay area usgs reports also showed a couple of people felt it out into eastern solano and contra costa counties, too. really the quake was centered just north of lake tahoe down and there were 3 consecutive quakes. the first being the largest. that was the 4.8 around 09:35pm last night that we had over 7,000 shake reports just reported the usgs. obviously a lot more people felt that than that and some people just down the road in grass valley actually lost a bit of power because of this quake. this picture from our kron 4 viewer mitchell pack who spends time in the bay area,