its "style" is many styles overlapping and evolving over time. >> this is the mess that is rotterdam,nd rotterdammers are proud of it, including myself. >> brown: renowned dutch architect reinier de graaf waser born in rom, and has worked here for decades. >> you have a tower there. i think that's l zeros., early there's this green thing here. that is the 1980s. >> brown: and then there's the w buildinge were standing in, that de graaf had design, the. timmerhu se building starts to rec with roof terraces the moment it peeps over the attics of ing buildings, so the style is very modern and individual. >> brown: it merged a 1950s office building with a new steel and glass structure that houses city offices, shops and apartments. long known as a great and grittt inal port city, rotterdam today has a made a reputation as one of the world's leading laboratories for archicture and design, a place where you can find buildings and structures of all kinds. one reason? its particular history. >> flights of unopposed nazi bombers flew low over the center of rotterdam and methodically bombed it

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in rotterdam, e netherlands.t >> woodruff: ton "brief but spectacular" features ichthyologist prosanta ischakrabarty, who studiesto help explain the evolution of t.human beings and the pla he's a professor and curator of fish at the museum of natura science and department of biological science at louisiana state university. >> every once in a while, you go to someplace new whereo one has been before, and you see something that is so d kferent that yw it's new right away. it's like, "what is this thing? this is so new, i can't believe it, i'm going to go home now and describe this thing before anyone else finds out about it. >> i grew up loving animals and nature despite growing up in queens, new york. and i went as a kid to the bronx zoo and the american museum of natural history and looked up at dinosaurs and blue whales and i never looked down. i just wanted to study biology. in the bigger schemetrying to understand who's related to i om on this planet. one of the things love to study are freshwater fishes. one

in rotterdam. thousands and thousands of fans have been arriving, decked out in either bright orange are red, white and blue, depending on whether they were following the dutch or the americans. i even spoke to one lady who had gold clogs, jeevan had a big cheese head with a cow on top. they came well prepared to show what they could bring to this party. this is the dutch first ever world cup final. they feel very strongly that they are side has come through this tournament very well, as they have started to really play the kind of football that the nation loves and that really took them to the centre of the nation‘s football when they won that euros a couple of years ago. had they been as good as the us? the outside that there is no, and the first ten months of the game has followed a similar theme. the us have had more of the bowl, the dutch picked up a yellow card, a late tackle. they have not really been too many attempts on target. both of these teams know that the deeper into the game they go

rotterdam is at the forefront of defensive design.this basketball court can hold 450,000 gallons of storm runoff. this sloping park atop a shopping center is a storm surge barrier. and this world-class rowing facility doubles as a flood reservoir. the dutch pride themselves on blending form and function. so what is this place? these look like dunes. >> ovink: they are dunes. >> whitaker: but, i take it, this is the netherlands, so these aren't just dunes. >> ovink: no, these are man-made dunes. >> whitaker: henk ovink took us to one of his favorite projects along the north sea. the beach town of katwijk was vulnle engineers created these natural- looking dunes. many beaches in the u.s. have man-made dunes, but they'reke t. and these dunes protect the town from a sea surge or a big storm? >> ovink: sea surge, storm, and also we incorporate sea level rise of the future. >> whitaker: they also integrated urban planning. to unclog katwijk's streets when tourists flock to the beach, and to raise the height of the dunes to 25 feet above sea

the gases brought in virus subterranean pipeline from rotterdam. now and again supply it cools by. bloomberg has 600 greenhouses on his books. of crops fetch the balls cut flowers growing greenhouses they used to get a better product traditionally used to fuel gases from natural gas burning. they can stop using an eco gas and create even better products. the carbon dioxide comes from the port of rotterdam from one of the world's largest oil refineries 400000 barrels of oil a processed each day and hundreds of thousands of tons of c o 2 generated each year as a by product. or organic c o 2 for assimilation by plants or uses some of that. the company has a plant in the dutch port and supplies half a 1000000 tons of c o 2 to greenhouses. this is what it sounds like when the gas is released it smells slightly acidic. so. it's coming from a from the shell or refinery it's transported to our facility fired by by and over here it gets said defied it over the 4 compressors that we have standing in the back and in a compressed source put the pressure and entered into by playing that well th

schols, whose relatives were among the hundreds of dutch who perished in the german bombings of rotterdam in 1940. these two gentlemen paid half a million dollars to obtain the flag just so they could return it as a gift to the american people and to the united states of america. as they explained, they wanted to thank the united states for the extraordinary sacrifice our servicemens made to liberate their nation and all of europe in world war ii. so nice. thank you very much. so nice. thousands of americans gave their lives on d-day and many thousands more gave their lives to drive the nazis from the netherlands. following today's ceremony, the extraordinary flag will be displayed at the smithsonian's museum of american history, and very proudly. with us this afternoon are secretary of the sith smithsonian, a friend of mine, lonnie bunch. thank you very much for being here. thank you. and director of the museum of anthea hartog.y, thank you very much. i know they'll take great care of this priceless american artifact. thank you very much for being here. i know they share mr. kruk's visio

farm is now reality in the netherlands, 32 cows have set up home on the 3 story high structure in rotterdam it has a circular design principle, the farm process is the milk and collects them a new or the farm also desalinate sea water and produces energy with solar panels so much so in fact that most of its facilities are capable of operating unmanned the farm offers one solution to the problem of feeding future generations as sea levels continue to rise. in the last decade, congress has spent more than a trillion dollars on disaster relief and >>now it is only growing after the break what lawmakers are trying to do to rein in the spending and if you're streaming us on kron on on the news continues during the commercial break go to kron on >>in the past 40 years the us has spent more than trillion on natural disasters. the high-spending came in the last 3 of the past 6 years and given climate change and the threat of more earthquakes such as the one california just experienced yesterday. >>washington correspondent recall martin reports some lawmakers say the current pay as you go approach i

is now reality in the netherlands, 32 cows have set up home on and the 3 story high structure in rotterdam that's a design following a circular design principle. the farm process is that male into dairy products while also collecting their or in addition to this the farm also a decelerate sea water and produces energy due to its solar panels so much so in fact that most of the facilities are capable of operating and. the farm offers one solution the problem of feeding future generations as sea levels continue to rise. >>they don't get to run around on the grass. all right taking a live look outside at the embarcadero on this friday evening some changes ahead, they were not grasp it. but mentally yeah, looking for something new we got some ideas for you got we've got for fun things coming up right now that's right. he wanted are some nice music head to san francisco. this is a great one this the film or jasta full they have 12 blocks of multiple stages, their bands playing all along that area is going to be great weather too starting at 10:00am both saturday and sunday. so now some patchy m

all along the roads of france, the beaches from rotterdam to share ball, from mexico stone. taken by the heroes we are honoring here today, as in the summer of 1944, all along have seen milestones, that are decorated with the start of the american flag and displayed with the statue of liberty, that statute at one of our greatest sculptors in the city of new york. these monuments serve as a reminder, an indelible reminder. inscribed in the countryside of france, a reminder of what this country owes the united states of america. their presence resonates with an invitation to us to continue to renew this secular pacs that unites the united states of america and freedom. i am ready, mister president of the united states of america, dear donald trump, the people of france are ready, ready to renew this friendship, between our nations. contributing so much that the history -- thank you. long live the united states of america. long live liberty. long live the republic of france and long live the friendship between these two nations. >> will not present the legion of honor to five o

chemicals company, who came out with one is because they rely on the river to ship all the way to rotterdam switzerland. vonnie: is global warming to blame? benedict: that is one of the key factors being identified. hot we are seeing is two summers and not enough snowfall in winter to sort of make up for the disappearing glaciers in the summer. that equilibrium has sort of come undone in the last couple years. we have always had times of high and low levels, but never in these recurring moves we are seeing now, or to these extremes. this could be the second year this happens, and that certainly is a worrying development we have not had before. it is something we are not just seeing in europe, we see it in other mountainous areas that rely on the supply of water, like the iraqis, like the himalayan's -- rockies, like the himalayans, and certainly something here we see in europe. the glaciers are not giving what they should. bs, theytalk about suffered last year. what other companies will be affected? we also saw this feeding through into the german economic data last year, are we likely to s

secret shipment of two of the armored limos to the pyongyang and they say that the journey started in rotterdamine. then after a 41-day journey, they reported in the port of d a, lian in china, and then to south korea, but there a mysterious ghost ship which the times says was tied to a russian businessman pick up the limos. once out to sea, according to the "times" and think tank, they turned off the transponder and then based on the pictures they believe that the ghost ship took the limos to vladivostock, russia, where korean cargo planes picked them up and took them to pyongyang. >> they have used shady operations that are not clear and they do not report all of their commercial activities and obfuscate their vessels and so for law enforcement, it is exceedingly difficult to track these. >> reporter: north korea has been banned from smuggling in luxury items, but it has not stopped them from smuggling in watches and liquor and other operations to be used on a ski lift. and close to $191 million from 2015 to 2017, but while that is going on, kim says that he needs donations from the average n