and louise, possible by judy and josh westin, joyce b. hale, the wallace family, in memory of miriam and ira d. wallach. the cheryl and phillip milstein family. bernard and irene schwartz. rosalyn p. walter. pacific islanders and communications, corporate funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish wnet studios in lincoln center, new york. hari sreenivasan. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. secretary of state john kerry traveling to europe early next week to explore ways to end the civil war in syria. international peace conference could be held in switzerland next month. just today, at least 30 people were killed near damascus, after a suicide bombing against syrian security forces and the clashes with rebels that followed. earlier this week, a senior syrian intelli

next on pbs "news hour weekend" made possible by judy and josh westin, joyce b. hale, the wallace family, in memory of miriam and ira d. wallace. the millstein family. bernard and irene schwartz. rosalyn p. walter. pacific islanders and communication. corporate funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish studios in new york, hari sreenivasan. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. several national parks around the nation are starting to reopen following a decision by the obama administration to let the states pay the cost of operating them. the parks have been closed to tourists since the federal government shut down 11 days ago. the park closures have cost businesses tens of millions of dollars. a much larger deal to get the government up and running again and to raise the debt ceiling continues

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deadlocked over potential spending cuts and earlier i spoke to equity strategist and economist peter westin about the situation and he says a default would be nothing short of devastating. default would be a catastrophic event you would have the increase in the cost of borrowing for. around the globe you would have inflation in the u.s. increasing on the back of a very sharply falling dollar. and it would basically affect every single country in the world given that the dollar remains from the key reserve currency looking at a congress that is basically run by children. and you know the fortunate thing is that the people that believe that the default could be manageable is very tiny but it's a question of winning them over but given the seed time and time again these political crisis appear in the u.s. i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependency in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil but it has to be a very slow and sort of gradual process and beijing is the single largest holder of u.s. debt wi

standoff shows that there has to be an alternative currency but equity strategist in economist peter westin told us it may not be that simple to actually d.m. merican our system of calling it is going to be if it's going to happen a very slow process but given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the us i think there would be more cause for thought of trying to reduce dependency on america in the same way as america's been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil but it has to be a very slow and sort of gradual process. to get more of this potential deal this construct with director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute joining us live now hi there. no matter what you say about it for the bad let's look at the good focus on probably better to kick the can down the road than to to default in the next few days no. yes well i have some sympathy with the tea party people because they we do have a sixteen point nine trillion dollar debt and we have a big budget deficit and that what they're trying to do i think is to reduce governme

idol hopefuls who made it past the first round in july lined up today at the westin st. francis hotel union square. they were chosen by judges and some were chosen to go into the next round. >>> getting ready for winter got a santa cruz skunk in a little bit of trouble this week. all fattened up this skunk found himself stuck in a wire fence on dacota avenue in santa cruz yesterday. fortunately for the skunk, emergency wildlife services came out to free the critter. responders say the skunk was barely responsive when they arrived but after an electrolyte solution something like gatorade the skunk perked up and was handed off to a skunk expert for evaluation and care. >>> tim lincecum is staying with the san francisco giants. the dollar amount of today's deal. >> plus apple unveils its newest i pad. the features the company leaders hope will keep their tablets on top. >>> cool and foggy, will it last? meteorologist rosemary orozco has your complete bay area forecast. >>> also changed opinions when it comes to legal marijuana and the push to get the issue on the november b

idol hopefuls who made it past the first round in july lined up today at the westin st. francis hotel union square. they were chosen by judges and some were chosen to go into the next round. >>> getting ready for winter got a santa cruz skunk in a little bit of trouble this week. all fattened up this skunk found himself stuck in a wire fence on dacota avenue in santa cruz yesterday. fortunately for the skunk, emergency wildlife services came out to free the critter. responders say the skunk was barely responsive when they arrived but after an electrolyte solution something like gatorade the skunk perked up and was handed off to a skunk expert for evaluation and care. >>> tim lincecum is staying with the san francisco giants. the dollar amount of today's deal. >> plus apple unveils its newest i pad. the features the company leaders hope will keep their tablets on top. >>> cool and foggy, will it last? meteorologist rosemary orozco [ male announcer ] it is more than just a new car... more than a new interior lighting system. ♪ it is more than a hot stone massage. and more

because a gunman, rusty westin, walked into the capitol, shot officers chestnut and gibson, killed one of them instantly and then he was detained and he's now incarcerated to this day. but it shook the capitol complex. the family of the capitol, both the house and the senate, and it changed the way we did business. it changed our badges. it changed where we could go. more police security and then, of course, after 9/11 things were very, very different. but this is -- i know what these people are going through, and it literally shakes you to your core. you're in your office and you get this thing that comes across and the person could be right outside your office door. you just don't know. you think about your friends that are in other offices and the other house and senate office buildings. those on the capitol and the senate floor, the members themselves, the people that are working in the woodworking shop. literally, this is your family, and everyone is being attacked at the same time for all intents and purposes. >> yeah. jimmy, luke was talking to us earlier, luke russert, about th

joining success professor drew westin author of "the political brain: the roll of emotion in deciding" welcome. >> nice to see you again. i think americans have lost faith. members of the obama administration including the president now saying they're sorry. does that restore faith in government? what does that really mean to the people of america? >> you know, at this point i think we've gone from the eisenhower era 50 years ago where 85% of americans said when they were asked do you believe in the government will do the right thing most of the time or all of the time, 85% said most of the time or all of the time. now it's over 85% say none of the time or little of the time. so even before this debacle with the website it was really at such a low ebb. >> the thing that struck me yesterday, here's kathleen sebelius getting her butt kicked in congress, right, and then you have president obama in boston holding an obama care rally, he's smiling, saying go team, we're going to get it done, and you look at that as a citizen of this country, and you really don't know what to believe, and i

john ebel is a seismologist and director of the westin observatory, department of earth and environmentals at boston college. good to see you, sir, this morning. >> good day. arthel: i want to start, first of all, are you surprised by the relatively large number of buildings in los angeles area are not earthquake, if you will or in major danger in the event of a big one? >> well, i'm not surprised. los angeles is a very large city. of course we have buildings that have been built in modern times and many buildings have been built says the 19 '20s, '40s, '50s, before modern seismic building codes took effect. arthel: we're talking about buildings that don't have enough steel reinforcement, is that right? >> that's right. in the early part of the 20th century, especially earthquakes like the 1933 long beach earthquake emphasized how vulnerable brick buildings were in the cities, especially los angeles. many of those buildings have been either replaced or retrofitted. now engineers are looking at another class of vulnerable buildings, ones made of con cleat that have relatively steel in them