i'm thuy vu.ave a good night. ♪ >>> funding for kqe differently arts is provided by the william and flora foundation. the california arts council. diane b. willsy. helen sarah stier. captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition, for sunday august 16: spying on americans emails and phone calls: the unique partnership between the national security agency and at&t. remembering civil rights pioneer julian bond. and, from hawaii, residents invest in solar power, will the local utility keep up? next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by:

i'm thuy vu. have a great night. [protesters chanting] the country is reaching a tipping point, as the number of shootings between police and black men increase. we'll show you what local communities are doing to strike a balance between police presence and relations with the public on this edition of equal time. welcome to the campus of san jose state university in this edition of equal time. i'm your host, journalism school director bob rucker. across the united states scenes of police shootings are prompting protests by many people.

i'm thuy vu. tech companies are under increasing pressure to show progress. apple, intel and other firms will be meeting to press them to diverse their workforces. we're going to look at one aspect of this problem, the gender gap. yahoo!'s marisa and facebook's sheryl sandberg are the exception, not the rule in silicon valley. women are underrepresented. at yahoo! women make up 37% of the workforce. at facebook, 32% of the employees are female. at google 30% are women. most software engineers are men and so are most of the executives. we asked some women what it's like to work in that male-dominated world. >> i'm a solution engineer. >> my name is ema. i'm a software engineer. >> my name is zoe and i'm a software engineer. >> i am coding and language, a web framework called rails. you might hear the term ruby on rails. >> i learned python recently and even dab belled with a very old, low level language. and the services i can provide range from consulting and advising around how to use technology

i'm thuy vu. have a great night. captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, august 2: president obama pushes for deeper cuts in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. but industries vow to sue to block new regulations. in our signature segment, sowing seeds of diversity in the tech industry, by training black and hispanic teens to code. >> i can now build something and bring it to the table and show this is what i've done. >> sreenivasan: and, taking on muslim stereotypes... through stand-up comedy. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

. >> i'm thuy vu. the waters off the monterey are home to otters, seals, sea lions and whales among other creatures. next week,s. they'll be feature in big blue live, a television special spanning three nights here on kqed. pbs and the bbc are procing the special airing live at 8:00 monday. big blue live will focus on the comeback of monterey bay where decades ago dozens of species of sea life were on the verge of extinction. >> although many of the species are thriving, ocean waters throughout the world are facing a new threat. coral reefs like these, vibrant and teeming with life, may hold clues to the future of the world's oceans. >> coral reefs only make up a fraction of 1% of the ocean, but they hold 25% of the ocean's species. not only that, but they feed hundreds of millions of people and a billion people or more get some income from coral reefs. so this is an ecosystem that is really fundamental to humans on the planet. >> steve polumbi is the director of the hopkins marine station. he's studie

i'm thuy vu. it's back to school time. in a few minutes we'll talk with university of california president janet napolitano and california community college chancellor bryce harris about the challenges facing their students. first, scientists have uncovered new information on the impact of california's drought. scott shafer spoke with science editor craig miller about the findings. >> craig miller, welcome. >> thanks, scott. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double whamny. 2013 was the driest year on record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. here we were already two years into drought. any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and it's gone. setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. in reporting in the past, i'v

. >> i'm thuy vu. a convicted felon accused san francisco mayor ed lee of accepting bribes.h an a accusation coming froa man behind bars awaiting trial on money laundering charges might be easy to dismiss but the felon in question is raymond shrimp boy chow. chow previously served time for armed robbery. he was indicted last year as part of a federal criminal investigation that ended the career of a prominent san francisco politician, storm state senator leland vee. in a bid to have

i'm thuy vu. tech companies are under increasing pressure to show progress. apple, intel and other firms will be meeting to press them to diverse their workforces. we're going to look at one aspect of this problem, the gender gap. yahoo!'s marisa and facebook's sheryl sandberg are the exception, not the rule in silicon valley. women are underrepresented.

. >> i'm thuy vu. the waters off the monterey are home to otters, seals, sea lions and whales among other creatures. next week, they'll be featured in big blue live, a television special spanning three nights here on kqed. pbs and the bbc are producing the special airing live at 8:00 monday. big blue live will focus on the comeback of monterey bay where decades ago dozens of species of sea life were on the verge of extinction. >> although many of the species are thriving, ocean waters throughout the world are facing a new

i'm thuy vu. tech companies are under increasing pressure to show progress.pple, intel and other firms will be meeting to press them to diverse their workforces. we're going to look at one aspect of this problem, the gender gap. yahoo!'s marisa and facebook's sheryl sandberg are the exception, not the rule in

i'm thuy vu. it's back to school time. in a few minutes we'll talk with university of california president janet napolitano and california community college chancellor bryce harris about the challenges facing their students. first, scientists have uncovered new information on the impact of california's drought. scott shafer spoke with science editor craig miller about the findings. >> craig miller, welcome. >> thanks, scott. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double am

. >> i'm thuy vu. a convicted felon accused san francisco mayor ed lee of accepting bribes.uch an a accusation coming froa man behind bars awaiting trial on money laundering charges might be easy to dismiss but the felon in question is raymond shrimp boy chow. chow previously served time for armed robbery. he was indicted last year as part of a federal criminal investigation that ended the career of a prominent san francisco politician, storm state senator leland vee. in a bid to have charges against chow dropped his attorneys filed a court motion claiming he was unfairly targeted by the government's politically tainted selective prosecution. chow's lawyers write the fbi alleged ed lee took substantial bribes in exchange for favors and that federal prosecutors gave lee and other public officials a pass, ignoring overwhelming evidence against them. mayor lee has denied the allegations. >> so have board of supervisors president london breed and alameda county assistant district attorney charmin bach mentioned in the filing. walk has been placed on paid leave. "the chronicle" r