. >> woodruff: spencer michels updates the story of honey bees dying in large numbers for the last five years. >> a lot of research is taking place in the lab and in the field but the mystery of the disappearing bees remains. >> brown: ray suarez talks to paul farmer about his new book on haiti, still reeling from the massive earthquake and cholera epidemic. >> you can get stuff done in haiti, you work with haitian colleagues and public health authorities, you can get things done. but it does require just gutting it out, sticking with it, and not being discouraged. >> woodruff: plus, we explore the discovery of a new traveling companion for planet earth, an asteroid dancing back and forth in orbit around the sun. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for e pbs newshour has been provided by: s >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses,

pbs correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> reporter: in turn of the century paris the american writer gertrude stein held court for avant garde painters and writers at the home she shared with her brothers and sister-in-law. she had been raised in oakland then went to baltimore, but paris was where the art scene was. century-old photographs of their apartments show the walls nearly hidden by paintings of picasso and others the families had bought cheaply. a collection that was dispersed over the years. today that amazing assemblage of groundbreaking art has been reassembled at the san francisco museum of modern art. >> the exhibition brings together over 150 pieces that were once owned by the steins, from five different continents, from public collections, from private collections, really from all over the world. >> reporter: janet bishop, one of the show's curators, said this wasn't any art collection. stein scoured art galleries and shows buying paintings by unheralded artists like pierre bunare, wan gri as well as picas picasso. cutting edge artists of the day whose work not

. >> suarez: then, from california, spencer michels reports on the fallout from a supreme court ruling forcing the state to shift inmates out of overcrowded prisons. >> there's no room in our jail. if we put somebody in from the state prison, we've got to kick somebody else out the back end, or we have to put more people on probation or electronic monitoring. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and hari sreenivasan previews the coming clash between the u.s. and japanese teams in the women's world cup final with christine brennan of "u.s.a. today" and abc. >> this is really a little bit about soccer and a lot about nationalism and about, whether it's tidally-winks or soccer, americans want to see americans win. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> well, the best companies are driven by new ideas. >> our history depends on new ideas. we spend billions on advanced technologies. >> it's all about investing in the future. >> we can find new energy-- more cleaner, safer an

he spoke with the "newshour's" spencer michels last year. >> there was a survey done not too many months ago. they asked the citizens of some cyber-savvy nations around the world, who do you fear most in the cyber-domain? and, quite interestingly, we were number one. >> suarez: the u.s. does have a reserve of cyber weapons it can use to respond to attacks. some resemble an elaborate computer virus dubbed "stuxnet" that spread in 2010. its targets included centrifuges at iranian nuclear facilities and thousands of the machines were ruined. that attack triggered a warning from the onetime united nations inspector hans blix, who had monitored iraq's weapons program. >> this computer virus that affects centrifuges, that may affect centrifuges, this is a very terrible warning, it is like a new biological warfare inserting viruses into computers. if it can be in a centrifuge factory, it could be somewhere else very sensitive. >> suarez: there are calls for a more aggressive u.s. approach. marine general james cartwright said today the military will have to do more than simply improve digital d

michelle. >>> we have some breaking news in the district this afternoon. several homes are on fire in northwest d.c. darcy spencer is there now. dars? >> reporter: several firefighters told me you could see the thick black smoke from the fire from as far away as the verizon center downtown. they got the call here just before 5:00 this afternoon in the 900 block of decatur street in northwest washington. apparently the fire started toward the rear of one of the row houses in this block in the middle of this block, and then spread to additional units. let's go ahead and show some of the video that was shot by a d.c. firefighter here on the scene this afternoon. again, this started at one row house and spread. we believe to at least two additional row houses. as i mentioned, there was heavy smoke in this area. that also extended into several of the houses here in the middle of this block. it appeared that the bulk of the fire was toward the rear of this building. i was able to speak to one woman who lives here in the block. she said it seems like the fire just came out of nowhere. >> i was out back on my deck with m