for the pbs newshour, this isec omics correspondent paul solman, reporting from austin texas and cyberspace woodruff: one postscript to paul's repor espn and disney have just signed a deal for live tv coverage, yes actual tv, of an e-sports league. it's the first time that type of gaming will be shown live in primetime, starting later this month. uf >> woo next, we turn to another installment of our weekly brief but spectacular series. alan alda is an award-winning actor, wter, director, and now podcaster. his latest interview show, includes everyone from comedian sarah silverman to violinist itzhak perlman, is called "clear and vivid." the first episode dropped thisay past tue here he is, artfully demonstrating to our brief producers steve goldbloom and zach land-miller, the importance of communication >> mr. alda, i'll just get a sound level from you if you can tell me what you had f breakfast this morning. >> everybody wants to know what i had for breakfast i'so sick of that. i'll tell you what i had for breakfast. i had peanut butter. two spoons, i'm starving. that's what i had for eakf

our economics correspondent paul solman has the first of two reports on this issue.'s part of our serieing sense" which airs thursdays onho the neur. >> reporter: monica poremba works 75 to 95 hours a week as a home care worker, and that's not counng commuting time. >> there is a lot of driving involved. >> reporter: unpaid driving time she spends getting to her clients in rural areas outside summer vacation hotspoerse city, michigan. >> good morning, tom. >> reporter: poremba never knows what she'll find when she arrives to care for tom, who has advanced dementia, and needs he. care desperate >> one day a couple of weeks ago he wanted me to come out to the garage to look at something. h taken brick red spray paint to the wheelf his leisure van thinking it was a cleaner of some sort. now he has one wheel of his leisure van that is painted k red when he really mea to just clean it. your pills are right here.fo don'et to take those. >> reporter: after 6 to 8 hours here with tom, poremba will head to another client. everybody is always calling you, "can you pick up this

last fall, economics correspondent paul solman lookee atosts and the benefits of landing amazon hq2. a reprise of that story is part of our weekly series, "making sen$e." >> alexa, where should amazon locate hq2? >> frisco, texas. ca reporter: city officials across north ameri have come up with quirky, some might say desperate, ways of g the attention of amazon, the country's fourth largest mpany. birmingham, alabama boosters built giant delivery boxes around the city. southern arizona promoters sent the company a cactus. while other places touted traits lley're not usually known for. >> las vegas is ositioned to be a catalyst for the most advanced smart city technology in america. >> reporter: dallas' pitch: livability.>> lavor, vibe, margaritas, culture, because it's great for kids, it's great for your homes. >> reporter: detroit's case: make a difference. >> move here, move the world. >> reporter: in january, amazon narrowed the list of cities and regions in contention to host its second headquarters from 238 to 20. the company focused on finding assets, like the tech talent that

so am i. >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting fromwestchester, new york. >> woodruff: in the wake of massive news coverage of attempts of russia to interfere in u.selectionsod rosenstein announced tonight that the department of justice plans to alert the public to plans by reign countries to target u.s. democracy, will inform companies e thendividuals if they a target of disinformation, hack org other efforts to affect voting behavior. rand that's the newshour tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and r ihan salam. l of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ge >> knowlit's where innovation begins. it's what leads us to discovery and motivates us to succeed. 's why we ask the tough questions and what leads us to the answers. at leidos, we're standing behind those working to improve the world's health, safety, and efficiency. leidos. >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn mo

look at that one. >> oh he knows your name. >> reporter: "paul solman is a legend." >> he knows you!reporter: the tingle of a blatant butter-up aside, what's atnot to like about commung with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people worldwide in a heartbeat. >> i think for most they hear us after two to three seconds. >> reporter: tell us who you are.d w old you are. >> yeah you can tell us for example what country you're from. >> reporter: germany,la neths, nigeria, ireland, norway, scotland. oh my, really. >> it's amazing and erybody anst responds. >> reporter: in ge where more and more people consume video online, and especie ly more and mung people," streaming" is the internet's version ofive tv, but with instant feedback. the streamers are the stars. an incomehensible way to make a living? hey, annie didn't know how to h te own parents. until... >> they started becoming suspicious because they're like what you've traveled to the u.s. twse this year and before t year you had never been to the u.s. because it was too expensive. and my dad got so concerned because i couldn't

economics correspondent paul solman looks at the considerable odds americans are facing and one veryunusual market for taining a kidney. it's part of his weekly series, "making sense." >> i was born with something ca disease.ystic kidney and around the age of 23 i began to swell up more, retain water. >> reporter: at age 32, jairo acevedo ended up in the emergency room. >> they said your kidneys have totally shut down. >> reporter: so for over seven years now, acevedo's been undergoing kidney dialysis at new york's westchester medical center, learning to set the procedure up himself, in part to relieve the boredom of the fou t hour sessionee times a week. and the price? >> each treatment is about 7 $800. >> reporter: so that's 100,000 a year or more. >> it's pretty costly. >> reporter: in total, nearly a million dollars to date. d then there's the pain. >> there are days when i wake up andid my lower back, myy area just hurts too much, it's on fire. >> reporter: not to mention the mental toll. >> some doctors just call it pee in the brain. >> reporter: pee in the brain? >> yes, pee i