erin: kimberly: four students with ties to our area are among the latest rhodes scholars. rst african-american woman to lead west point cadets. one attends the naval academy. scholarfirst rhodes from the university of maryland baltimore county also. the new movie "wonder" is trying to change the attention to a story about a 10-year-old boy who struggles with cranial facial disfigurement. tonight in washington there was a screening of the movie for patients and their families. the movie opens friday stepping into the unknown, it can be difficult to find the way. but with the compassion and strength of a name,

they were named rhodes scholars and only 32 of the best students in the entire country get that each ar. their prize? a full ride to the prestigious oxford university in england. now rhodes psychological similars have strict -- scholars have strict guidelines. these are you ready to feel like you're standing still? the first scholar made army history. fairfax's simone askew is the first black woman to be named the the school's 215 year history. the next one, matthew chun. he is originally from arlington. and he's a senior at mit this year. studying mechanical engineering. and yeah he's got a 5.0. gpa is there. go that high. he leads the team that's designing the first prosthetic knee intended for people in develop countries. and lastly, naomi mburu from ellicott city. she's a senior from the university of maryland baltimore county and studies chemical engineering. right now she's working to create a machine that preserves human organs awaiting transplant longer and she san bernardino at a nuclear -- interned at a nuclear research facility in switzerland. wow congrats to all three. >>>

he is a lawyer, was chosen a rhode scholar, and maybe most important, he grew up under a media microscopeactress and activist, mia farrow. >> it was perhaps an unexpected advantage in one sense that any dirt that could be uncovered on me had already lived in the tab lid for my entire life. which is a painful and unpleasant thing, but, in this case, it meant that, there were really no surprises to of uncover when there were efforts to discredit me. >> farrow born in 1987 during his mother's long term relationship with woody allen. he was 4 when in the middle of his parents's any custody battle his 7-year-old sister dylan accused allen of sexually abusing her. after two different state investigations, allen was never criminally charged. >> those are painful family experiences that i for many years tried to outrun and avoid. >> wood yy allen denied it. denied it powerfully. >> has always denied it. has gone very directly after any woman, proximate to it. huge, huge public relations apparatus designed to do that. >> in 2014, farrow's sister then an adult decided to repeat her accusation again

. - you were a rhodes scholar? - yeah. - you are a reservist in the military? - mm hmm. - in the... - navy. - which branch, the navy. and then you deployed. - yeah i did a tour in afghanistan in 2014. - right. - yeah. - make me feel bad about myself just sitting here. it's wonderful resume lines but beyond that it shows that you aspire to great things and that you've achieved at a high level. i'm not as interested in the education stuff as i am, in particular about the military stuff. because we're at a moment now where there are a lot of people who served in afghanistan and iraq who are cycling back into non-military society that are getting involved in office, running for office or public service, there's been, it's like a boom, a little boom of this. - yeah i'm really energized to see a generation of leaders that's emerging. - and both parties! - yeah. - yeah both parties. - yeah it's a generation of post-9-11 vets who served in iraq or afghanistan and one reason that i think it's very healthy is that you have a generation of people who, again, politics isn'

>>>four bay area students are now rhodes scholars. three of them are students at stanford. you see them on your screen. the other is from san jose. they are among 32 american students selected from more than 860 applicants to take post grad studies at oxford university. >>> one man is a million dollars richer after buying a lottery ticket at a wine shop. the shop sold the ticket to vernon holland on september 27th. he went back to the store with his winning ticket and collected that money. >> lucky him. >> yeah, a million bucks, that's nice. >>>sal, we have a million dollar traffic commute so far this morning. reporter: yeah, it doesn't look like a million bucks though, let me tell you. >> oh no. >> on the altamonte pass we have a lot of slow traffic out there. we had an earlier car fire. that's been gone for a while. no one was hurt, which is the important thing but westbound 580, that car fire may be on the shoulder, but we can still see a lot of slow traffic on 205 coming through the altamonte pass. if that's your commute, you need to give yourself extra time. if you're

charlie: they came out of radio, rhodes scholars.d r murrow had a symbol to all these people during the war. that is how the organization was born. it was born and given these values. the practices, storytelling, how we will tell our stories, in narrow ways, all the things i write about in the book that don taught us. why the time fred friendly became president, the big job, walter cronkite, he said i don't want him there. he is too much of a showman. charlie: he admired him. jeff: he looked up to them like news gods. he really did. charlie: he was a broadway producer. jeff: he was, but he called them gentlemen correspondents. he looked up to them so much. it was a shock because he had been the director of the nixon-kennedy debate. charlie: when he was 37 years old. jeff: he had been a pioneer of television. the idea that he rose to that level at cbs news and got fired, it was a shock. charlie: it is said that fred friendly called him and and said, we are going to promote you to your own documentary unit. he called his wife and said,

. >>> the least of new rhodes scholars were released today, and three attend here in the bay area. among 32 men and women chosen from more than 860 applicants to take postgraduate studies at oxford university. this year they have ten african- americans, the most ever in a single class and for the first time a transgender man. >>> a person is now being questioned by the secret service after possibly trying to jump a fencety white house. the -- fence at the white house. he tried to jump the so called bike rack fence. the secret service tweeted the person was taken into cuss did i. this is the -- custody. this is the same fence someone tried to jump back in june. at least 7 times this year the secret service stopped someone from getting on to the white house grounds. >>> and the trump administration hit the talk show circuit today to try and sell tax reform. it's expected to be on the floor some time after the thanksgiving holiday. >> reporter: the white house is very optimistic congress will get a tax reform bill to the president's desk by the end of the year, and the next week is ex

. >> rose: the murrow boys came out of london and radio and they were rhodes scholars. >> yes. they had to assemble these people, the murrow boys. that's how the organization was born. and it was born and it was given the values and you know, the practices that storytelling how we're going to tell our stories, we're going to tell them in narrow ways, all of thing we talk about that i read about in the book that don thought us. bite time fred friendly became president and he found don hewitt in the big job, flag ship broadcast, walter cronkite, he said i don't want him there, he's too much of a showman. not enough of this kind of murrow boy. don knew he wasn't a murrow boy. >> rose: he admired them. >> they were news gods, he really did. >> rose: he was a broadway producer type. >> but he called them correspondents. he looked up to them so much. it was a shock because he had been the director of the nixon kennedy debate the first one. >> rose: when he was 37 years old. >> he was young and on fire. he had been a pioneer of television. and so the idea that he rose to that level th

and they were rhodes scholars, young doctors, young medical students. but their passion to use their science for a larger good, not just an individual, person to person but a larger good, was stunning to me. you know. and hopeful to me. it gave me great enthusiasm about the possibilities. because they were so engaged by the teubt of making a difference. >> uh-huh. and so aware of all the things that are available to make a difference in medicine and law and all the different fields. >> rose: i was somewhere with a major executive in america. and it was jamie diamon, the c.e.o. of jpmorgan. >> harvard alum, business school. >> rose: and jamie was so very proud of the fact you know, that 50% of his principal executives, and i want to get this right, were women. >> uh-huh. >> rose: so where are we in terms of coming to grip with both opportunity and also eliminating all bias. >> we have a long way to go. >> rose: a long way to go. i go back to your mother who said, it's a man's world. >> it's a man's world, and the sooner you figure that out the happier yo

from the university of oxford as a rhodes scholar her work has touched and improved the lives of many in terms of health and, safety and millions of americans. please join me in welcoming president sylvia burwell to the podium. [applause] >> thank you for those kind words and your leadership at the american university and i also want to thank you for your advice and guidance in the first human as i joined the american university family. i want to thank the american society of ethics for bringing together such a great group of both people and speakers. if i could log one complaint about my previous job, it wasn't one but two lawyers who failed to warn me that once confirmed, all court cases switch to my name. first, the burwell family council, my husband, the second, the 44t 44th president of the ud states of america, and i'm just saying a little heads-up would have been nice. my transition to american university is interesting, exciting and challenging. i've joined a passionate campus, community and thinking, learning and doing things about the world's most interesting and important p

it was at the time that the 32 rhodes scholars of the you were going to sail over to the united kingdomd he stood out from the very beginning, and i got to know him particularly well when i was there. we shared a house together. his interest in the world was absolutely exhilarating to hear him talk about it. i made a trip, my first trip, to the soviet t union. there was once upon a time of very large country by that name. [laughing] during a christmas break, and he, when i got back to oxford, he just pummeled me with questions. he was full of curiosity. and i might just jump ahead to his coming to the presidency. he was very aware that his chances of being a rather unknown political figure and still be able to ascend to the white house, especially after having to defeat one of the best foreign-policy presidents we've had in a long time, george h. w. bush, that would only happen because, well, maybe not only happen but he thought it gave him a t huge advantage that the cold war was over. and he came into office wanted to do everything he could to make sure that thef cold war was over and

finally the next class of american rhodes scwolt scholars was announced including a record 10 african-americans among the 32 chosen. they will all attend england's oxford university next year. that is all for this edition of pbs newshour weakened, i'm hari sreenivasan, thanks for watching and good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein of abby m. o'neill. in memory.. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. be more, pbs. [speaking spanish] woman: the landlord drilled a hole during a time that she wasn't here and ran an extension cord that connected to this outlet here. so right now she owes about a thousand. man: so she owes $1,100 on an el

it was at the time that the 32 rhodes scholars of that year the oing to sail over to united kingdom and he stood out from the very beginning. and i got to know him particularly well when i was there. we shared a house together. his interest in the world was absolutely exhilarating to hear him talk about it. i made a trip, my first trip to the soviet union, there was once upon a time a very large country by that name. during a christmas break. and he, when i got back to oxford, he just pumped me with questions. he was full of curiosity. i might just jump ahead to his coming to the presidency. he was very aware that his chances of being a rather unknown political figure and still be able to ascend to the white house, especially after having to defeat one of the best foreign policy presidents we've had in a long time, george h.w. bush, that would only happen because, well maybe not only happen, but he thought it gave him a huge advantage that the cold war was over. and he came into office wanting to do everything he could to make sure that the cold war was over and that russia, post-soviet

. >> well, it is not everybody that become a rhode scholar from the streets of north philadelphia, to oxford. let me just explain. that is citizens bank park you see... roads >>> apparently it is passing the test ihop is officially rolling out, ihop and go, on line ordering service they were trying in some locations earlier this year. it is happening. >> explain what that is, and i can call them, on line. >> you can do it on a app or something. >> tracie, is that it, it is in app laying around in my underwear and my basement, it is late at night i want pancakes, and they will bring them to my home. >> well, not yet. here's how it works. you can right now order on line from about 1700ihop locations around the country they are working on the app. that will be out hopefully by the even of the year. they are testing out delivery through amazon and through door dash and in california, texas, oak washington and so not quite will they deliver them to you. it is a great step forward. that is what they are working toward. but my favorite part of the story is they have been working on special p