shame on brian stelter and miles o'brien.ea how their liberalism effects and infects their journalism. shame on them. >> you saw mr. o'brien say it should not be permitted therefore andrea tantaros. >> now, in miami, where you live right now, there is a neighborhood called little haiti. and there are thousands and thousands of home invasions who have come over to the united states to seek a better life. very small number of those home invasions practice voodoo. all right? >> exactly. >> they do. bernie and i know it i have done a story in haiti on voodoo. it is there. there are hongans which are witch doctors, there they are there. they charge for their services. in africa the same thing it may not be called voodoo it is called something else. andrea saying it is possible that some infected patient with ebola can get on a plane, go to miami, go to dallas, texas, where there it are the communities though have these people in the united states and go there instead of going into the hospital. it is an absolutely possible and in

she tells her son andrew o'brien, it really was murder. what's more, now she wonders whether the killer might be her own son, andrew's brother lee. >> she asked me, she said, "do you think your brother could have done it?" she asked me if her own son could have killed gregg. >> she had to plant a reasonable doubt that someone else could have been there that night, someone else could have squeezed that trigger. >> reporter: by pinning it on you. >> yes. >> reporter: but police say lee and andrew o'brien both have strong alibis. the brothers say they began to realize mommy dearest might be a monster. >> she doesn't even know what reality is anymore. she's been lying so long, and i think that somewhere along the way, reality -- reality left. and so she just kept going. she knew nothing else. and so she just kept going. she knew nothing else. lie after lie. >> she would attempt to kill dogs. if someone had a salt water fish tank, she would pour ajax in there and kill fish. >> reporter: in texas a murder charge can land you on death row. but no

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>>> coming up -- tim o'brien on an attention-getting case the supreme court is hearing: whether an american muslim convict has the religious freedom to grow a beard. >>> and a key summit on the family opens at the vatican. might there be changes ahead in some of the catholic church's most controversial rules? >>> also fred de sam lazaro on the nobel prize winning humanitarian group, doctors without borders healing and making themselves heard. >> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. more than 2 million muslim pilgrims descended on mecca this week for the annual hajj, one of the five pillars of islam. diseases carried by travelers are always a concern, and this year saudi officials took precautions against ebola. in addition to screening all arriving airline passengers, the saudi ministry of health refused to issue visas to would-be pilgrims from countries that have been hit hardest by ebola -- liberia, sierra leone, and guinea. meanwhile, the united nations is appealing for more medical aid as the ebola death toll continues to spiral. u.n. officials said that local heal

miles o'brien, cnn aviation specialist. you know a lot about this.hat do we know -- i'm guessing you don't know specifics about what this anomaly is, correct? lost miles. okay. as we work to get miles o'brien back on the phone because he is the person i would love to talk to, stephanie elam is with me. throw the pictures up so our viewers can see what this looks like. this has been years in the making to take these people up into the periphery of space. what do we know? >> the whole idea here is to let an average regular old citizen of earth to find their way and feel that weightlessness at the edge of space. what would happen here with space 2 is you go up to the edge of space. the pilots would actually remove themselves from the rocket as it's on its way up and six passengers inside are supposed to be able to get that weightless feeling for a few minutes. engines would be off. they could take those pictures. do whatever they want. say they were in space and get back into their seats and then glide back to earth. that's the idea behind this rocket t

he gave his last interview to soledad o'brien. in a moment we doctor baby doc's life and what his death means to haiti. >>> and in washington - how quickly things can change in the nation's capital - a reminder. >>> even in death jean-claude duvalier causes controversy, haiti decided to send him off with a national funeral - he is a former president. the decision shocked victims of his regime. baby doc became president at the age of 19. in 1986 they reported with truckloads of money, several years ago he turned. and the special contributors soledad o'brien had a rare interview. in one of his last appearances on television, she brought us what his rein of terror meant for his victims. >> this is a real space of the prison. >> reporter: this is the flooring. >> this is the flooring. >> reporter: bobby duval is a survivor, serving 8 months at fort dooum ash. >> i counted 20 of them died when i was there in my hands. >> 20. >> duval, a political prisoner was tortured and starved under the rule of haitian president. jean-claude duvalie

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he gave his last interview to soledad o'brien. in a moment we doctor baby doc's life and what his death means to haiti. >>> and in washington - how >> kentucky, a state that's hurting economically. >> when the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. >> some say it's time for a change. >> mitch has been in there so long. >> while others want to stay the course. >> all the way mitch! you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. >> communities trying to cope. what does the future hold? >> the economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. >> "america votes 2014 / fed up in kentucky". all this week. only on al jazeera america. >>> even in death jean-claude duvalier causes controversy, haiti decided to send him off with a national funeral - he is a former president. the decision shocked victims of his regime. baby doc became president at the age of 19. in 1986 they reported with truckloads of money, several years ago he turned. and the special contribut

we were hoping to have pbs correspondent miles o'brien on the factor this week initially.d he would come on. apparently he has changed his mind. on sunday, mr. o'brien went on cnn and attacked andrea tantaros for saying this about ebola in africa. >> in these countries they do not believe in traditional, medical care. so someone could get off a flight and seek treatment from a witch doctor that practices. this is a bigger fear. we are hoping they come to the hospitals in the u.s. they might not. >> it's offensive on several levels. it reflects, frankly, a level of ignorance which we he should not allow in our media and in our discourse. >> here now ace correspondents molly line and eric shawn. what's the truth? was andrea off base there. >> first of all miles o'brien not a pinhead i went to college with him for years. >> what college. >> georgetown. >> do you know him. >> yeah. he is is a good man. good guy. good journalist but in this case it goes to andrea because actually the facts are and one of the real tragedies of this disease is the belief in witchcraft in africa a

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mark o'brien. stay with us for all of the breaking news. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room," erin burnett "outfront" picks up our coverage. >>> "outfront" tonight, breaking news, a rocket with classified crypto equipment explodes seconds after liftoff just moments ago. the rocket headed for the international space station with classified equipment on board. what went wrong? we'll show that to you and find out what happened with the breaking news. and more breaking news with new security measures, thousands of federal buildings across the united states as isis ramps up calls for terrorist attacks in the homeland. let's go "outfront." >>> the breaking news tonight, a failed nasa rocket launch ended moments ago with a dramatic and shocked explosion. the launch director saying that it had classified crypto equipment on board. cnn were told there was no loss of life but significant damage on the ground. the launch, an explosion happening over wallops island, virginia. mission control trying to assess what went wrong. launch director saying

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miles o'brien, great to have you with us. thanks so much.there is another rocket launch today it will be the highlight of wolf blitzer's show from kavl. >> not virginia like where this last one -- >> no, people -- i was corrected by one of our writers. there have been rocket launches can from virginia for decades but not always unmanned. we'll show you a live broadcast launch from florida. >> very exciting. >>> ahead at this hour, we are less than a week away from the election day. >> i can feel your excitement. >> less than a week away. what will happen? who will control the senate? we are going to tell you the answers to those questions coming up. >> and later, pope francis does it again, he said things about science and i are lidge i don't know. science and religion that you might not necessarily expect to hear from the vatican. i won this 55 inch tv for less than $30 on dealdash.com. visit dealdash.com for great deals. and start bidding today! >>> less than one week to go until election day, less than one week until we know who will cont

jane o'brien, bbc news, washington. >> now here is something fit for a king. take a look at this. it can you imagine how much this fancy pink diamond sold for at auction? 18 million u.s. dollars. it broke the world record for the most expensive pink diamond ever sold. they are considered having the highest possible concentration of color. joule did go to an undisclosed bidder in 70's in hong kong. it is beautiful. thank you for watching. do tune in again tomorrow. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, kovler foundation, beijing tourism, and union bank. ♪ >> tased, listen, feel. discover the best memories of your life. >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: islamic state militants on the verge of capturing a key town near turkey, despite ramped up u.s. air-strikes. and the harrowing story of a young girl escaping the group's brutal treatment of women. good evening,

gather for the annual chamber of commerce meeting, they welcomed the new chairman of the board dennis o'brien, abc news anchor david muir was the speaker and i was honored to introduce him before the leaders at the convention center. he took over the reins from world news tonight last month and during a one-on-one interview after the breakfast he says he is visiting cities like philadelphia to make a connection with the viewers beyond the tv screen. >> i hope they recognize it's a two-way conversation now not at a desk with a suit. can you tweet me during the broadcast and i treat them back. they can reach out and tell me where to go with made in america next. i hear from viewers in philly and i want them to recognize that world news tonight is the evening broadcast that is listening to you. >> you can see david muir next on world news tonight right after this broadcast. >>> a salem factory that provided jobs now out of business, the art of glass on griffin street, back in july the company announced operations would cease because of a significant loss of business, the move puts 300 people out

jane o'brien, bbc news, washington. >>> now, what do you give a president who has everything for hisday? president putin is turning 62, and a group of his supporters has come up with a most unusual gift. they're staging an art exhibition featuring the president in a number of heroic poses. steve rosenberg has a look. >> reporter: whenever it's vladimir putin's birthday, strange things tend to happen in russia. and what's happening behind me now is, quite frankly, very strange. it's an art exhibition comparing president putin to the greek hero hercules. and it's been organized by the so-called vladimir putin supporters group. now, hercules was the son of zeus, and so the story goes, he carried out 12 labors, 12 incredibly differently tasks, and here, those tasks have been redrawn, reinterpreted to represent vladimir putin's deeds in the kremlin. for example, instead of hercules slaying the lion, here we see vladimir putin battling terrorism, and next door, whereas hercules took on the multi-headed hydra, here we see vladimir putin battling the european union, japan, canada, and the un

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our science correspondent miles o'brien is the producer and reporter for the report titled "why planesish" and joins me from boston. so, miles, as the search starts, where do things stand? a what are they focused on now? >> reporter?they're focus openeg area. it's hard to say we're not still at square one on this one. that's an amazing thing to say so many months after the loss of flight 370. engineers in this company which operates communications satellites which was part of what was equipped on mh370, were able to turn capability into a positioning tool and define the location in the southern indian ocean as a search zone for the flight which went down seven hours after it disappeared from radar screens. we know it's in the hemisphere by virtue of the mathematics but it's in a big swath, they can't define a bullseye. so we've got to be ready for a long search here. >> brown: so the mystery of where it is and what happened. i know your documentary is looking at various possibilities of what might have happened from accident to human intervention. how much -- is the evidence pointing i

miles o'brien reports on scientists' efforts to track space objects before they strike earth. >> it's just a matter of time before a large one is on an earth threatening trajectory. >> woodruff: and it's friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here, to analyze the week's news. those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the nation now has an official "ebola response coordinator." he was named today in a bid to corral any spread of the virus and ease mounting public anxiety. >> woodruff: the appointment of ron klain came in a paper statement this morning and the explanation came this afternoon, from white house spokesman josh earnest. >> what we were looking for was not an ebola expert, but rather an implementation expert. and that's exactly what ron klain is.

but if that's the best of this journalism, well, let's take a look at the worst with miles o'brien, thecience correspondent for pbs news hour and a former anchor at cnn. let me play a couple clips for you from the coverage in the past few days. first this one from fox news and elizabeth hasselbeck. >> you have a very calm tone. i think it must calm by nature with what you do professionally doctor. i think the rest of us are saying wait a minute, there's a lot of panic when it comes to flu, to lice. as a parent, i'm thinking, well, there should be a little bit of justification for worry here. am i wrong? >> the viruses behave a little different and flu virus is contagious through the air, through droplet. this carries another layer because it requires bodily fluids. >> but it's here. >> it is here but we're not in the same infrastructures a other area where is this has taken off. >> we've heard the words ebola in america a lot the past few days. to me that kind of feels like an exaggeration. it's technically true. but to say ebola is here sunt that sort of inflame people's fears? >> it s

our science correspondent, and resident space expert, miles o'brien joins us from south carolina tonightk. problems with the engine. what's known about what happened? >> well, we can't say for certain, but all roads lead to suspicion about the engine. you have to ask yourself what is operating at that stage of flight? first, you know, 10 seconds, give or take, is the first-stage engines which are these 40-year-old engines. and we're not talking about 40-year-old technology. these are actually engines that go back to the soviet era, were put in a warehouse, and were purchased by orbital sciences, refurbished and put on this rocket. these were old engines, old designs. and you see the rocket kind of lurch, almost stop in its traction. you see something falling through the plume. you see a discoloration in the rocket plume. ask then very shortly thereafter things go bad very quickly. not long after that, they pushed the red button which terminates the vehicle, as they say, the destruct button. so the suspicion is focused squarely on the engines. >> woodruff: was there reason to suspect thes

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here to help us understand what's happening, our science correspondent, miles o'brien, and thomas wagner of n.a.s.a., an expert on volcanos. we welcome you both. miles, to you first. was this as unexpected as we're reading? >> it was, judy. this was what's called a "freeatic" eruption. it means it was shallow and involved some hot water essentially, steaming water that entered into a crevice and came in contact with magma, which is many thousands of degrees. it causes an understand and insh like what you would have in your oven and causes that cloud to come out. this is not something that those censors, and japan has many censors on their volcano, this is not the type of thing they predict well. >> woodruff: so they're not always unpredictable, are they? >> no. it depends on what's going on in the volcano. in hawaii there are big bodies of ma "gma" moving around. you can think of a volcano like a crazy plumbing system in a big old building. >> woodruff: there are many different kinds of volcanos active around the world, but they're operating at different speeds. >> some volcanos like the