ch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining uus. bakr al-bagadi, an iraqi who ran the terrorist group knn as isis-- the islamic state-- is dead. >> was the founder and leader of isis, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world. >>en sasan: speaking from the white house this morni, president trp said u.s special forces attacked a compound in northwest syria near the y rder with tur a two hour overnight operatio >> last night was a great night for the united states and for the world. a brutal killer, one who has caused s o much hardship and death, has violens y been eliminated. heerill never again rm ano innocent man, woman or child. >> sreenivasan: al-baghdadi was rarely seen after an appearance at a sque in iraq in 2014 wedhere he declhe creation of an islamic caliphate. isis quicquy took over a huge section of iraq and syria-- capturing and killing llousands including four amer hostages-- james foley, steven s sotloff, peter kassig, an.kaya muelle u.s., syrian and coalition forcesorced

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>> yes. >> sreenivasan: 22-year-old han gil is a daca recipient who is applying for ph.d.ograms while working at a lab on campus. the recent ohio state grad, who also prefers to go by only her first name, was born in korea and has been in the u.s. since the age of four. she and other daca beneficiaries must reapply every two years. >> the programs i'm looking into are minimum five years. and reapplying costs money. it's hard for me to have any confidence in what i'm going to do in the future, when i can't even have the basics of knowing if i'm even going to be here or not. >> sreenivasan: those kinds of concerns are all too common for undocumented students, says yolanda zepeda. she's assistant vice-provost in the office of diversity and inclusion at ohio state university. >> what i find is, our students have to work a lot of hours in order to just pay for their schooling. that can very much extend the time to degree. and i've seen students who start out very enthused and very determined, and over time, they just get tired. >> sreenivasan: ohio state university does not dis

hari sreenivasan looks at that work and how it fits into th program's growing legacy. it's part of our arts and culture series, "canvas." >> sally, you've never seen a street here like sesame street. you're going to love it.re >>ivasan: ever since big bird and his friends took their first steps onto their mneighborhood full of har brownstones and into public television households, the program's creators have always had a few goals in mind for its young audience. it all seems as simple as a-b-c today.ck but bahen, its secret sauce television.dented for children's it provided children with a mix of early childhood education, social and emotional learning, and hundreds of guest stars toic keep parents engaged a. >> sreenivasan: at the samee time, eators wove diversity into the show's d.n.a. at a time when that was not mmon in tv. over its more than 4,500 episodes, 35 tv specials, and the 1,000-plus fuzzy characters it introduced, the show's reach is enormous. tens of millns of adults and new episodes air fst on hbon and then on pbs, and more than five million subscribe to

just keeping them exposed. >> sreenivasan: amanda westbrook has participated in several internships, including one with kaiser-permanente where her payment was a $1,000 collegep. scholarshi that will come in handy next year-- she's currently applying to colleges and hopes to be a marine biologist one day. >> try that piece righthere. >> sreenivasan: amanda's big brother jordan, who graduated frg, green street last sprin decided to go the career route. he's now in a paid construction traing program earning certifications. >> i knew i didn't really want go to college, so i just knew that once i graduated i really i'm pretty good with my hands so i want to do construction. >> sreenivasan: mom nicole mcclinton wilks says green street has given her children opportunities that matched their interests. >> amanda wants school, jordan doesn't want school. jordan, this is what he wants, it's not my dreams, but his dreams. and that's what i lith. don't sell a fake dream here, they give you reality. >> sreenivan: for most green street graduates, the reality is school and work go hand in handa >>

me and my roommate both pay that, so it's like we're paying $1,500 a month each. >> sreenivasan: the-bedroom one-bath apartmentas assigned to her by temple after she transferred last spring from a nearby private college. weeks, who is on her own financially, covers her tuition through scholarshipser part-time wages. she says she tried hard to get into a cheaper apartmentear campus, but didn't have any luck. affordable housing oions are becoming increasingly hard to find. apartment rents in philadelphia have gone up5% over the past decade. so, several months ago, she took out a private loan for $5,000 to pay for her housing. >> it's upsetting. t tong to be in debt j live on campus, i feel like is a little ridiculous. onlyne going into debt forthe housing. a u.s. department of housing and urban development analysis found that "for many students, livingo s exceed and even dwarf the cost of tuition and fees."a >> it'ry serious problem. >> sreenivasan: sara goldrick-ss rab is a pro of higher education policy and sociology at temple, who studiesng costs. >> we estimate that approximately o

>>s sreenivasan: that goa expanded over the past 15 years.ame workshop's "communities" initiative now reaches specific .dilngesarfa maj that can mean inctive videos for children of parents who are incarcerated or families with children who have special needs, or live in foster care, or are homeless. sesame workshop has done this internatnally as well, creating early chiodhorefues in, iraq, syria, and banesh. though the communities program has grown, there'still a big targeted groups: military families. >> it started actually 13 years ago with our military family initiative, when we realized how many young children had parents often multiple deployments and realized there were no tools foe those s and no resources for those young children to help understand it. >> sreenivasan: sesame creates videos, apps and books with messages aimed at these families about how to help them cope with the realities of their experiences. they are available online to all, but they are crafted to show parents how they can talk to children about their chalnges. elm

from the tisch wnet studios att lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining u californians are bracing for what may be days and nights s power tages as winds whip up and wildfires continue to burn.i startingafternoon, pacific gas and electric began cutting power to almost one millionle people amuch of northernmu california, the third time this month the utility company hasal used what it c" tative" shut-offs. in the evacuation zones, officials are calling forr sidents to leave before the power goes out. >> the decisions that people make regarding evacuations fect the first responders lives. and we can't ask you enough-- for us tbe successssl, we must have the public evacuate. >> sreenivasanin northern california, 50,000 people in the path of the kincade fire north of san francis are under mandatory evacuation orders. the fire in sonoma county whh started last wednesday has and was only 10% ctained byes this morning. the risk to the region wonl grow tonight when an abrupt win shift is expected, with wind gusts reaching 60-80 miles per h

sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the state department missed a congressional deadline yesterday to send cuments related to the achment inquiry. secretary of state mike pompeo, who was meeting withfireek als in athens today, said the state department sent a to congress last night and would "do all the things we are required by law."hi on his way to virginia golfia course this morning, the president tweeted angry remarks about democrats, the press and republican senator mitt romney, who criticized the president on twitter yesterday. in addition to the state, departmentthe democrat-led house committees have also issued subpoenas to the whitesud house and the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani among others. the inquiries seek documents related to the president's july de call with ukraine's pre and the whistleblower complaint. and in another development, the , th york times" reports that a second intelligence offici who has "more direct information" may file his own whistleblower complaint. in a surprise announce

hari: f the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan in philadelphia. at the oldonvent isec edo open to students in january. ♪ ♪ judy:ht finally tona new addition to our newshour bookshelf. e e fictional character "olive kitteridge" is eation of pulitzer-prize winning novelist elizabeth stro. olive is abrasive and difficult , known to everyone in her small readers around the country. in a sequel out toda strout has brought olive back. jeffrey brown headed north to talk with the thor, for our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas. " elizabeth: very often, i absorb people that i just pass on the street. jeffrey: when elizabeth was an young girl, he would- she would sit with her mother in her car on a street in bath, maine, tching people walk by. elizabeth: that woman, she doesn't seeme.ager to go h i would think, why, what is it about her? my mother might say, well, her coat hem hasn't been mended for a while, or some little detail. i was immediately interested in what the woman's story wgo, wanting tome to see what her home looked like, what her other

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university, walter isaacson, and professor of information studies and design media arts at ucla, ramesh sreenivasanecond. fascinating. but walter, try to pull back and give us the big picture. can you put into words, can you find the words to describe how the internet has changed the world and shaped history? >> it's been totally amazing that 50 years ago today, we began a path that allowed everybody to connect anywhere, to anybody they wanted to, everybody to be a publisher. everybody to be a pundit, everybody to get information or send information. and it transformed and we thought it was going to be very connecting. and we thought it would bend the arc of history to more freedom. however, there were certain design flaws in the original internet that have now come back to really haunt us. and it's made the internet, in some ways, especially social media, to be ways to spread lies, to poison our discourse, and to polarize us. so it's been great for 50 years, and we love the internet almost as much as when we first came into our lives. but almost as much. we got to fix some of its design flaws. >>