up next, funeral director p.j. staab talks about the effort to re-create the hearse that carried lincoln's body to his grave site. he discusses the 1865 funeral, as well as the research that went into duplicating the original hearse, which was destroyed in the early 20th century. the illinois historical preservation agency hosted this 30 minute event. >> a way to remember, educate, and heal. i want to tell a story about a brief and interesting story, a summary of what has taken place for the last 18 months. abraham lincoln hearse build. to remember, thank you president lincoln for affording us a reason to remember. to educate, thank you elizabeth simpson, president of the allstate capital foundation which afforded us a way to educate by reaching out to me last december for the opportunity to speak you this evening. to heal, thank you katie spindel, chair of the 2015 lincoln funeral coalition, for the opportunity to heal through this project and the upcoming reenactment event. thank you, our audience, our friends at

[laughter] [indiscernible] p.j.: ok. i guess i can read it. i don't know what that one word means though. [indiscernible] p.j.: what does that say? how has this impacted our life? i'm sorry. does a big word -- impact. -- that is a big word -- impact. one of them the things that has come out of this is that i have begin to heal. i am not a veteran, but you slowly begin to heal wounds that have surfaced over many years of working with that. -- death. it is different from ptsd. he call it cumulative stress syndrome. and with that comes the burden of trying to take people's grief away. and we can't do that. we can only walk through it with the and that is what we try to to everyday -- with you and that is what we try to do every day. how did you get so lucky to find such great talent and all the veterans? this is a good story. it did not start out to be a veterans project. but that is the way god wanted it to end up. and as it went along, i called her friend, jack feather not because he was a veteran, but because he knew how to do good work. he wa

thank you. >> woodruff: you can join p.j.tomorrow to talk about another issue he's covered on "shortwave": modern day slavery. it's part of the newshour's weekly twitter chats-- that's 1:00 p.m. eastern every thursday. the details are on our home page, pbs.org/newshour. >> ifill: on the newshour online, the oxford english dictionary could be adding a new title that would join the likes of "mister," "mrs." and "ms." the authority on english language usage is considering the gender-neutral honorific "m.x.," pronounced "mix." read more about the history of that prefix, on our home page. all that and more is on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. >> woodruff: tune in later this evening, on charlie rose: the man who has been called "obama's secret weapon" in the iran nuclear talks: energy secretary ernest moniz. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on thursday, how the recent unrest in baltimore damaged the local economy. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you on-line, and again here tomorrow eveni

according to figures compiled by the c p.j., more than 20 media workers are missing or are known to haveeen conducted. i.s.i.l. holds significant territory, and journalists know to go there amounts to risking their lives for a story the militants want told their way. i.s.i.s. targeted journalists who are iraqis and non-iraqis there is a lot of killing. i.s.i.s. considers them to be a tart. shia or kurds. i.s.i.s. had a smart media operations and they used their own journalist, social media experts. they are a tv channel in mosul, and the journalists are a newsance, because they don't want to look for the facts. that is what this is about >>> iraq's minister for communication summoned the journalist, blaming the media for some of the setbacks. gathered reporters were told most of the security collapses were due to psychological warfare, and the media has a major role in creating this feeling among the people. since 2003, they had a tremendous proliferation of non-state media. we have gone from two state channels to 100 channels. these sometimes are sectarian empires, different interest gr

for more let me bring in p.j. haun pelican coast environmental consulting. mr.od to have you with us tonight. how significant is this study and this statement that has come out from noaa as you see it? >> ed i think it's very clear that what the study does show there were problems with the dolphins, with marine mammals in the gulf and it's clear that this study, they had very excellent peer review. i've gone through the report and it shows once again bp's denial of causing any damage whatsoever to the gulf coast. bp dumped 4.9 million barrels of oil into the gulf and they chased it down with nearly 2 million gallons of corexit. you know that won't bode well for marine life along gulf coast. >> any doubt in your mind that the spill had to do with these dolphin deaths? this is as conclusive as you see it? >> very conclusive. no surprise to anyone who lives or works along gulf. during the oil spill we started seeing a lot of dead dolphins showing up. they even early on in the spill even had what they called the dolphin -- dolphin program going out looking for dead

. >> tonight on the communicators p.j.ennedy on the creation of a communications network for first responders. >> it would be able to provide a network for first responders. so police, fire, emergency technicians responding to an incident, on the scene of that incident when the first net network is up and running would have video, things from the scene sent, to have pictures from the scene, to be able to have important situational awareness data on where everybody is on that particular scene. it would not be where the additional ambulances are. a casualty situation. you could leverage that for triage. you could go so far as to think today there are different bits and wearable technologies in the fitness world. what that was done for emergency medical services where they could play fed on a patient and get vital signs? not necessarily the devices today, but just think about the innovations. you would know who those patients are, be able to track their vital signs, and you would be able to track them to hospitals and make su

[laughter] p.j. staab: until they saw the plate on the car and said, "oh that is just one of the stabb abs." at the bottom of the gable when you measure down to the ground it is about 13 feet. to the top of the plume of the hearse to the ground matches that exact height, 13 feet. the hearse build can now commence. >> again, we are back live in springfield, illinois, on american history tv on cspan3. a reenactment of president abraham lincoln's funeral 150 years ago this weekend. with us at the cemetery, you can see richard hart, the springfield resident and author. we are going to let you have a chance to ask questions or weigh in with your thoughts on this event. our phone lines for you on the east or central time zone. one for those of you in the mountain or pacific time zones. you get a chance to ask a question if you like. i'm going to ask one now. the procession we are waiting to make its way up to the cemetery, and the reenactment of the actual speeches and funeral ceremony itself, are those hi

you have more journalists in gaol than any other african country >>> that is the report from the c p.j. we are next to eritrea, in the continent. currently we have around 17 journalists. the government says they are not journalists, it includes six bloggers and three journalists arrested last year. that brings in the number of those associate with different newspapers private and independent neurals, that brings the number to 17. that is the largest next to eritrea. >> what do you think people are voting for in these elections. if you can put those aside, the country economically is doing pretty well. >> it is doing pretty well. that's one of the strongest points that the government is holding for open party members. people are - you would see there were a lot of indifferent systems during the election in 2010. people have given up after what has happened in 2005. but this election it's a bit different. we see a good turn in the registration to the election, and a good turn out of people turned out to attend opposition party members and rallies, and the government strong hold. it is sa

up next, funeral director p.j.

what's take you to springfield is old state after we talked to funeral director p.j. staub. >> this is the same room abraham lincoln served the last of his four terms as legislator and delivered his house divided speech. after an estimated 75,000 mourners viewed the president's body here right in front of us, in this very room, pallbearers carry him from this location to the hearse which made its slope recession to oak ridge cemetery where thousands more lined the streets to watch the hearse carrying president lincoln on his final journey. with this year marking the 150th anniversary of president lincoln's death, the special events and reenactments that will take place would not be complete without the abraham lincoln hearse at the center of it all. getting involved, one might ask how to do family get involved. after a meeting with the 2015 lincoln funeral coalition, i was asked could i find a suitable hearse. i responded sure, we will. [laughter] not really knowing at that time what it would entail. katie's countless hours of hard work fueled our families passion to

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and p.j. joining us from the weather center, and what are you looking at this point? does, and also an ak aktive line of thunderstorms that can produce large hail and strong wind ss. you are thinking of a saturday night in a populated region with over 24 million people impacted by this. it is going to be a big story developing over the region but talk about this, because we vhave the cool dry air coming in from the west, and the humid air from the south, and the prime region across tornado alley in the arena you would see nearly 300 foreign does in the month of may is lining up from western oklahoma to the kansas and the northern texas panhandle, but notice the large area of rotation there. and i want to take you in for the closer perspective. you can see it in arizona, it is firing up right there across the texas panhandle, and that is the area of interest where there is over 2 million people and 2 million people right here under this tornado watch. so conditions are favorable for the tornado to develop. and for oklahoma city it is going to go for 1.5 million people,

my good friend p.j. >> okay. >> you're using your chopped tomatoes, garlic, lots of garlic, your sliced basel. >> ever worry about your breath? >> i mean yeah but it's just me and two little girls and eight dogs and a husband that has to put up with it. >> how old are the girls by the way? >> 6 and 3. i wish i had a photo. i was going to send a photo for you guys. i couldn't get it off my computer. >> should we put this in there? >> yes. >> put a wheel of brie in the freezer. >> trouble already. >> for just like, i don't know, 10, 15, minutes to get it hard enough to make it easy to sort of slice the rind off. you want to slice that off. >> okay. >> people sometimes don't know they're not supposed to eat the rind. >> i mean i'll eat it. >> i like her. >> anything -- >> it goes with it no little cheese on there, i'll eat it. >> suck the cheese off of it, baby. >> try to do that. >> should i do a pinch of salt. >> do like a lot of salt and olive oil. >> how much would you say? >> a good -- >> drench it? >>