we have been working with students from the university of arizona and also the university of icelandbeing able to develop some new experimental types of drones that are able to push the edge of what can be done. this large drone is a beast, it has two 6 horsepower motors and over 1.5 metres wing tip to wing tip and is able to lift potentially 35 kg. today we are mainly trying a thermal infrared camera which measures the temperature of the lava, which is a first for us to be able to do from the air with this system. even though we don't see it with our eyes we can actually map out regions that are hot and potentially having lava flowing underneath the crust. we are also testing a series of things like grippers, basically a claw that can be used to pick up loose examples, but also drills that can actually core a sample using the drill and bring it back to a lander or even a rover for further analysis. the different drones, the different instruments, the different mission concepts we are putting together will enable new exploration of the red planet and to see parts of the planet we hav

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. >> he's at the university of arizona? >> he is at the university of arizona, he's a professor of political science and he and i have written together 200, 300 and over the past decade. we have a podcast words and numbers and probably several hundred videos on economics, public policy and governance and all of this in an effort to basically publish. whatever age you happen tobe from grade school till retirement . the key to building a more healthy society, to moving all the wonderful things the united states has done and progressing forward into the next generation, the key to it and it sounds trite but true. the key is an educated populace and i don't mean people who can go " shakespeare. i understand how a shared system works. because if they don't, they become fodder for politicians and politicians come along and say a lot to me and i will give you free. and everybody tears and says yes, i want free college so i like this guy and you find out after it's too late that there is no such thing as free college. that you just

an associate professor my name is christopher hamilton, i'm an associate professor at the university of arizonan geldingadalir, which is a new volcanic eruption that has occurred in southern iceland in reykjanes. iceland provides an ideal testbed for being able to test different kinds of drones for mars because the wonderful characteristics of the environment are actually very similar to what we would expect on mars. so, this has been a really exciting year for mars exploration. the drone ingenuity has demonstrated flight on mars for the very first time, being able to operate in a very thin atmosphere, about i% of what the earth's atmosphere is. is it still giving you that warning? no. the other drone we are using has a larger payload, has a number of different cameras and zoom functions, really beautiful, but also a lidar instrument. so, lidar uses light to be able to range the distance between the sensor that is emitting a set of photons and a surface. it's a world first to be able to use a drone—based lidar to image the lava flow and develop a time series topography which we can use to infor

is the "pbs newshour," from w eta studios from the walter cronkite school of journalism at everest -- arizona state universitye return now to our top story as the taliban struggles to rule amid protests and dissent in kabul and across the country. we explore the collapse of the country's government, which was built and supported by the u.s. and its allies for 20 years. >> that's right. for deeper perspective on how we got here, i'm joined by someone who has had years-long involvement in afghanistan. she covered the fall of the taliban after 9/11 or npr and started and ran several ngo's in the country. she served as an advisor to several senior u.s. military commanders in afghanistan and then to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. she is the author of several books. the most recent is "on corruption in america and what is at stake." she joins us now from paris. it is great to have you back. you recently published an essay called "th ides of august," and you laid out several factors that you argue helped get us to where we are today. the first element was corruption that you pointed to. n you explain the

go forward and never lived to correct the issue because we know by 2016, researchers at the university of arizona conducted tests that cleared patient zero. the particular strain of hiv that he carried was introduced to the united states as early as 1970 when he was just a little boy and had never visited the united states before. so he was not the person who brought aids to america. aids had been in america prior to that time. we now of course there are many times of hiv strains. so it's rather absurd to think we can connect a pandemic on a continent of 200 or 300 million people down to one person. it's just not possible to do. this is where shilts's -- the post humous review of it is shhh's work has been most critical. there are books, and a documentary, coming about patient zero, and about the problematic creation of that character and how he was set up as being somehow different from many other gay people in that era or really any person in their 20s who is interested in expressing themselves sexually and otherwise, meeting new people and exploring life. and he had not lived his life necessar

my name is christopher hamilton, i am an associate professor at the university of arizona and a planetaryeally exciting year for mars exploration. the drone ingenuity has demonstrated flight on mars for the very first time, being able to operate in a very thin atmosphere, about 1% of what the earth's atmosphere is. is it still giving you that warning? no. the other drone we are using has a larger payload, has a number of different cameras and zoom functions, really beautiful, but also a lidar instrument. so lidar uses light to be able to range the distance between the sensor that is emitting a set of photons and a surface. it's a world first to be able to use a drone—based lidar to image the lava flow and develop a time series topography which we can use to inform the thickness of lava, the volume, and ultimately, the amount of lava that's coming out of a volcano at a particular time. today we're mainly trying a thermal infrared camera which measures the temperature of the lava, which is a first for us to be able to do from the air with this system. even though we don't see it with our ey

she was industerous, and ultimately she became a spanish instructor for the university of arizona. and as you can see here she was also inducted into the arizona hall of fame. our next is henrietta "jennie" bull culver. she had met ian an attorney who had setup a law practice in her hometown, and i would say this last bride was a story of heartache. jennie was not in good health. and everyone thought the climate would help her improve. she left in 1869 on a train with her husband. at the time she was 27 years old and eight months pregnant with her second child. they took the train from kansas to the end of the rail line which at that time was shared in kansas. and upon arrival in sheridan jennie wrote they had secured lodging above a saloon and she went onto say, well, last night we were frightened almost out of our wits. we did not get any sleep at all on account of all the noise in the bar room, the drinking and the gambling. finally they got one of the mens money away from them, and they undertook to put him outdoors. she went onto say that they commenced firing and fired about 3

and ultimately she became a spanish instructor for the university of arizona and as you can see here,she was also inducted into the arizona women's hall of fame. our next bride is henrietta, jenny bull culver who was born in latinville, ohio now, she had met and married eno's culver an attorney who had set up law practice in her hometown and i was saying this last bride is a story of heartache. jenny was not in good health and everyone thought that the climate of the west would help her health to improve. she left independence. in 1869 on the train with her husband at the time. she was 23 years old and she was eight months pregnant with her second child. anyway, they took the train from kansas to the end of the railroad line which at that time was shared in, kansas. and upon arrival in sheridan jenny wrote that they had secured lodging above a saloon and she went on to say well last night. we were frightened almost out of our wits we did not get any sleep at all on account of all the noise in the bar room drinking and the gambling finally they got one of the men's money away from them

have historically black cholleges an universities, hispanic-serving institutions like the university of arizonain thinking about various populations that need upskilling and resource and have schools across the entire united states that are now saying, how do we serve the new normal student, that 32-year-old single mom? it's really fantastic because it means they can learn in a way that meets the needs of their life >> great to see if that lifts the whole economy as well as that big cohort gains skill and broader perspective. rachel carlson, thank you. >> thanks, jon >> guild is a two-time cnbc disruptor 50 company and our weekly newsletter offers a closer look at disruptors like guild. sign up by visiting cnbc.com/disruptornewsletter >>> shares of uber making a u-turn in the past 24 hours. now trading higher after selling off following its earnings report yesterday we'll tell you what's driving turn around next >>> plus, amazon, wells fargo and blackrock all delaying their return to office dates today, but should employers be ready with a leave the office plan if cases continue to climb? we'll

alright now we go to megan at the university of arizona. hi chairman powell, thank you for taking questions from students and educators. today, my office at the university we support people, teachers with professional development workshops around economics, including an economics book club. so i'm wondering if you have any book recommendations for economics educators and their students. >> hmm, interesting. so i don't know whether you read this one yet, but whole who passed away a couple of years ago was one of the really all time great fed chairs as many of you will know he was he was here at the end of the great inflation and it became the end of the great inflation because of the very strong measures that he took as chair or that the fomc took during his chairmanship under his leadership. so um and there followed what was called the years of the great moderation, really a long period in which we have ultimately recession sometimes, but we it was a very good period in us in the development of the u. s. economy. so, paul volcker wrote uh a

of water they can use. the worst affected state is arizona which will now have to use 18% less water. for more let's speak to sharon megdal director of the university down to climate chan . e? , think this is down to climate chance? , ., ., , ., change? there is no doubt that climate change _ change? there is no doubt that climate change is _ change? there is no doubt that climate change is the _ change? there is no doubt that climate change is the major i climate change is the major influencer of what we are experiencing now, but there is something else at play here and that is that the river itself has been over allocated. is that the river itself has been overallocated. even is that the river itself has been over allocated. even before the last 20 years, if you looked at average flows and the allocations, particularly to the lower basin states, more was allocated toward those state deliveries each year than could be expected, so you couple the two together and we are in the situation we are in now. i spent a large part of my career in africa and asia, and i have seen what happens when there are water shortages, you get difficult conversations in

from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitya variant continues its spread, now accounting for more than 98% of new infections in the u.s. states, particularly those with low vaccination rates, are scrambling to care for an influx of sick patients in their intensive care wards. as william brangham reports, more texas hospitals are reporting a shortage of icu beds than at any point in the last 18 months. william: that's right, judy. texas is experiencing its fourth covid surge. right now, less than half of the people in texas are fully vaccinated. 96% of icu beds are full, leaving just over 300 available across the entire state. the state's health department has had to recruit personnel from out of state to address staffing shortages, and to request additional mortuary trailers from fema, in anticipation of more lives lost. dr. joseph chang is chief medical officer for parkland health and hospital system in dallas, texas. very good to have you on the “newshour.” thank you. i wonder if you could just give us a sense of what it's l

from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityorida is experiencing one of the worst covid outbreaks in of the country at the moment. over the weekend, the state reported more than 21,000 cases in single day. its highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. a quarter of the nations hospitalized covid patients are in flooded. the cdc and a number of public health officials say schools should require masking when they reopen. the miami-dade school district is considering requiring students and staff to do so. on friday, florida governor ron desantis who is opposed to any masking requirements said parents and students should have the option to mask and that he would block any effort to require masking. >> we have a lot of push from the cdc and others to make every single person, kids, staff, have to wear masks l day regardless of -- masks all day regardless of the immune status, regardless of the effect it has on their educational experience that would be a huge mistake. >> let's go to florida for an on the ground dispatch

from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: millions of americans lack safe drinking water as waste water overflows power -- pour bacteria in rivers and lakes. one of the key provisions in the infrastructure bill in congress targets those issues. lisa desjardins has more on the difference it could make. lisa: the bill would be the largest investment in clean water in american history and it tackles enormous issues. as many as 22 million americans get their drinking water from systems with lead pipes, known as potentially toxic, and twice as many americans rely on systems in violation of safe standards. the senate infrastructure bill would spend about $50 billion to overhaul those systems. i'm joined by erik olsonsenior strategic director for health anfood at the natural resources defense council. erik, let's start with the big picture here. how seris are the issues with clean water in this country right now? and how is this bill trying to tackle them? erik: unfortunately, the whole issue of water infrastructure has been

is the pbs "newshour" f rom weta studios in washington and from the croite school of journalism at arizona state universitydy: let's take an in-depth look now at the human effects of the latest surge in vid. louisiana has the nation's highest per capita infections, driven in large part by e extremely contagious delta variant. at the same time, louisiana also has one of the country's lowest vaccination rates. this week, governor john bel edwards reimposed a statewide mask mandate for all indoor settings. william brangham and our team re given special access to one hospital, baton rouge general, as staff there try to save lives and to convince more people to get vaccinated. dr. brierre: so, we have got 59-ish, fixing to be 60 icu patients. of those, 47 are covid-positive. william: each morning at baton rouge general hospital begins like this. dr. brierre: yesterday was incredibly busy. we went from 39 to 47 covid icu patients. william: dr. stephen brierre, the chief of critical care, briefs the hospital's division chiefs on the latest covid numbers. dr. brierre: ohe other thing that -- and this is ugly. i ha

" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona ate university: tomorrow, the biden administration is expected to recommend coronavirus booster vaccinations for americans starting eight months after they received their second shot. william brangham joins me to explain who is affected. hello, william. what we're told is that the government is going to say that everybody who had the pfizer or the moderna vaccine, and that is over 100 million americans, are going to recommend that they have this booster. what is behind this? william: the rationale is twofold. one is the delta variant we all know so well, which is this incredibly contagious strain which is sickening people and filling hospitals, sickening largely unvaccinated people. the second is a small number of studies that are showing that these two mnra vaccines are slightly waning in their efficacy is, going from something like 90%-plus down to 50%, 40%. the waning of efficacy is about your ability to get infection. these are still very good in preventing you from getting sick and going to the

from w eta studios in washington , and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university to the u.s. southern border. the supreme court ruled against the biden administration in its attempt to end the trump-era "remain in mexico" policy that forced migrants to stay in mexico while seeking asylum. while its future is unknown, another policy to rapidly expel migrants during the pandemic remains in place. we check in now with robert moore, founder of the non-profit news organization, el paso matters. welcome back to the newshour. thanks for making the time. just explain to us the supreme court move. what does this operationally change at the border? how does it change the way things are being processed right now? >> in the short-term, it doesn't change anything really. title 42 is the main method both administrations have used the last year and a half to keep people from crossing the border. longer term, it could have implications if mexico agrees to receive more mpp recipients and if the biden administration puts the court's ruling into effect, but that is further down the

i'm a graduate some of cum laude of the arizona state university and sturm college of law. -- sturm college of law. semper fidelis. i don't come here as any one of those sorts of titles. i come to you as a county election official. come to you representing the concerns, stresses, worries of tens of thousands of local county and municipal officials, appointed and elected permanent and temporary employees, volunteers, whole workers, election judges, marshals. --poll workers, election judges, marshals. i greatly appreciate you have invited our voices into this conversation. i ask you continue to listen to these people. we need your help. we need your protection. there's one more group i've yet to mention, who also get greater protection under the proposed legislation. the single most important group of people in our democracy, boaters. -- voters. my written testimony describes the following in more detail than i can get into. many of the security and integrity measures that we put in place and maricopa county, which resulted in an honest, fair and safe election in 2020. the subversive efforts

from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityowing the full fda approval of a covid-19 vaccine, an increasing number of cities and states are now mandating employees roll up their sleeves to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. but as william brangham reports, there's been some intense pushba from law enforcement and first responders across the country. william: that's right, amna. in chicago, responding to that city's october vaccine mandate, the head of the police union said his members won't comply. this has literally lit a bomb underneath the membership. he said, we're in america, g-damn it. we don't want to be forced to do anything. period. this ain't nazi f-ing germany. similarly, in los angeles, a city fire department captain went online and blasted the imminent vaccine mandate for all city employees. >> this is not a political issue. this is not left-right. this is not democrat-republican. this is not vax-unvax. this is a fight for freedom of choice. free will. this is a fight against tyranny. william: joining me n

put together this research, dr beth tellman who's an assistant professor of geography at the university of arizonaand both things i are something we could and should be doing something about. you've got climate change on the one hand but you've also got where building is happening and how, and how robustly the building is taking place. definitely. we need stronger land use and zoning policies to try to prevent that development from happening, and real options for people for managed relocation in retreat, public housing programmes to make sure people have other places to live and don't have to settle there, if we can't relocate people, really think about what are the safety systems we have in place for evacuation, early warning, insurance and to make sure floods don't devastate their lives and livelihoods. 50 don't devastate their lives and livelihoods.— don't devastate their lives and livelihoods. so it can be done, --eole livelihoods. so it can be done, people can _ livelihoods. so it can be done, people can be _ livelihoods. so it can be done, people can be protected, - livelihoods. so it can be

west from w eta studios in washington and are pure at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university♪♪ -it was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage. [ dogs barking ] -[ breathing heavily ] -william still was just a boy when he helped the first one escape. he never knew the man's name, only that he was being hunted by slave catchers. but in the years ahead, there would be many hundreds more, and still vowed their stories would never be forgotten. -the heroism and desperate ruggle that many of our people had to endure should be kept green in the memory of this and coming generations.

of education. and arizona state university. our goal was to provide a framework for rebuilding history and civics learning for all learners k-12. what exactly is in this? the first and most important thing is it offers an inquiry framework, a review of the question that all learners k-12 have a chance to encounter as they work to bring together the historical understanding of narratives about the past and civics understanding about our government, institutions, the foundations of democracy, right and responsibility. bringing them together rather than giving people a list of what they should know, proposing questions every learner should have a chance to those questions are structured in 7 themes. i want to name those themes because it is important to understand what they are to understand the focus of the question. physics participations one. what is the? why do we evaluate it? the changing landscape. how is it the geography of this country is changing our borders and boundaries, how have we come to be? we the people, how to th

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from weta studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitye have been reporting an earthquake has brought new , devastation to haiti. landslides have made major roads impassable for aid groups. now, hospitals in southern haiti are overwhelmed and forced to turn people away. all as a tropical storm bears down on the nation. william brangham has the latest. lisa: saturdays --william: saturdays earthquake occurred on the very same fault lines as the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and destroyed much of haiti's capital port au , prince. today thousands are sheltering in the streets or on soccer fields, with the few belongings they could salvage from their homes. haitian authorities are still going door to door searching for survivors. the suffering could get worse later today, because tropical depression grace is expected to dump roughly 10 inches of rain on the country, which could trigger flash flooding and landslides. akim kikonda is the haiti country representative for catholic relief services, and he joins us from port-au-prince.

from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university: we return now to afghanistan, and the uncertain future for women and girls now living under taliban rule. here's william brangham. william: judy, with the taliban back in power, the gains that millions of afghan women and girls made in the past 20 years are now in danger. for more, we turn to two woman who know the country well. rina amiri was born in afghanistan and left in the 1970's. she has since focused on conflict resolution for the u.n. and was a senior advisor in the obama administraon's state department. she's now senior fellow at new york university's center for global affairs. and nura sedique is a public policy fellow at princeton university's school of public and international affairs, and a member of the afghan-american coalition. welcome to you both. thank you both very much for being here. rina, my colleague jane ferguson in kabul spoke with a young woman earlier in the program who was in tears, despairing over her future in a taliban-led afghanistan. i know youave be

of border patrol agents. i've been to the texas, california and arizona border. i start inned that career. i wore that universitya lot of guys trust me, vent to me and morale has never been worse. they feel abandoned by the commander in chief, feel abandoned by the secretary of homeland security who doesn't want to admit that there is a crisis, other than he was caught on tape the other day. he can't claim what he claimed that the border is closed. the border patrol feels unappreciated. they feel like they're abandoned. they're working very hard. a lot of them have covid. not only is the job dangerous, like the shootings, over 140 border patrol agents have died in the call of duty. covid deaths are racking up too. it's a dangerous job already. to have them dealing with covid people coming across to the country, where they could shut it down and take title 42 seriously and reinstate the remain in mexico program, they feel they were put in harm's way on purpose. jillian: there was a huge victory in texas where a federal judge ordered the biden administration to reinstate the program that keeps people in mexico as

of the political history and leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so it's a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. just tell us a little bit about your book. basic information for those who haven't had a chance to read it yet. thank you in absolutely. thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the virginia book festival for including us. i'm looking forward to a great event. so my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. as the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against the north against the united states, but much of their attention was also perhaps unexpectedly abroad. so i have one example the editors of the richmond daily dispatch wrote in may of 1861 using an international context to explain to their audience the meaning of the impending struggle and as they put it the struggle for nationality is the identical struggl

arizona tate university right now. we want to make sure that they're safe of in every way that we can, we want to work with all parties,states and around the world to get those out that can get out and then to support them to realize their lives. now, will the taliban be a block in that? most likely, but i have a great faith in our capabilities as a country and as a human community, and certainly we are all in to make a difference. neil: you know, doctor, what did you make of the president saying the other day, i think yesterday, that -- the day before yesterday, that the rights of women and a necessary offense after the way they're treated under sharia law, there's only so much you can do, that you can't militarily correct that, that you can't force the issue, and if you did and if you had to, be doing it all over the world. i don't know whether that was signaling there was a limit to what he was going to do and how many he planned to rescue, but what did you think of the argument that to topple, you know, a military entity that is threatening women, to do so militarily defeats the cause? what did you think of that in

of around 300 and scholars educators and families and students who participated in the conversation. is sponsored by the humanities and leading organizations between icivics and harvard and arizona state university. and as we did this work, our goal was to provide a framework with the whole country might for rebuilding excellence in learning for all workers k through 12. first and foremost important thing is that it offers framework for history. and in view of the question, all through k - 12, i would work to bring together understanding and narratives about fast and civics understandings about a government institution of the philosophical and rights and responsibilities pretty were bringing those together rather than getting people a list of what they should know however, frozen questions that every person have a chancellor. now those questions are structured in themes, and grade levels and each statement i want to go ahead and just named those names because it is important to understand that the focus. the participation, what is and why do we value it. and are changing landscape of how is it that the geography are boundaries and how we come to be. we the people, and the multitude of us from so

arizona the governor -- >> it was an error to sign the mask mandate law. >> reporter: in texas a large crowd of health care workers protested outside of baylor university medical center where they're requiring staff be vaccinated. as the pandemic presses on, the sturgis motorcycle rally does too. >> i'm a realist, if it's my turn, it's my turn. so i'm not going to worry about it. >> i'm very concerned, chuck, that we're going to see another surge related to that rally. >> meanwhile, the battle continues to rage on between parents and schools over masks in the classroom. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard has that part of the story for us. >> reporter: thousands of students are preparing to go back to school this week while covid runs rampant. >> it really concerns me. it does. >> reporter: as parents square off with lawmakers and school officials with masks. >> it's parents' choice, family's choice, physicians' choice. >> reporter: texas now saying schools will not have to contact trace or inform families of positive cases in the classroom. and in florida, governor ron desantis banning from requiring masks. >> let the parents make the decision, let the kid