i know that weta embarked on the same mindset. we will work with them in that regard to establish a program here that accounts for and is responsive to the need in that regard. >> thank you. i think your point on responsiveness is so important. as the city brings these new components that are expensive. the vision of clean energy future to make sure costs are affordable and equitable. >> one final point we have established a good working relationship with the resources district there are opportunities for grants on the zero emissions side across the board. that is something we are working diligently as part of the overall plan here. >> both commissioners said can you add this to remarks on the partnerships what is able to be financed by the city or by other grants to help implement these great ideas? >> yes, definitely. that will be part of the financial side of the house here when we come back with draft recommendations or alternatives, we will make sure we include that. >> thank you so much. i appreciate the work you and your te

. >> this is pbs newshour west from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. ♪ judy: the fda costs -- the fda's approval of a new alzheimer's drug today followed months of debate within the medical community about the ency's procedures, which, as amna nawaz reports, the announcement has done little to quiet. amna: that's right, judy. the approval was based on two clinical trials. one showed some improvement in patients who'd been given the drug aducanumab, but the other found no benefit. a number of practitioners said that was not good enough and fell short of fda's usual standards for approval. in an outside advisory board november recommended that fda not approve the drug. but other medical professionals said the need was so great that any medication that offered promise was worth trying. the last treatment for alzheimer's came on the market some 18 years ago. pam belluck is a health reporter for the new york times. she has been following these developments closely and joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour.

. >> this is the "pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. judy: since the presidential election, a wave of new state measures to tighten voting laws has raised questions about access and integrity. across the country, laws that expand access to the ballot box have passed in at least 14 states, shown on this map in green. at the same time, the states in 14 yellow have passed laws restricting access. all have republican-controlled state legislatures. the restrictive laws have sparked outrage from voting rights groups and from two men who served as general counsels for competing presidential campaigns. democrat bob bauer worked for president obama in 2008 and 2012 and advised the biden campaign in 2020. ben ginsberg, his years as a republican election lawyer include work on the landmark bush v. gore dispute in 2000. they both joined me now. welcome back to the "newshour," to both of you. let me start with you, bob bauer. it isn't often these days that we see a republican and a democrat, prominent re

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and arizona state university. at the white house, president biden met with afghanistan's leaders, just weeks before the u.s. completes withdrawing almost all of its forces. there was a lot on the agenda -- finalizing plans on how many u.s. troops to keep in the country, how to continue training afghan troops, and how to safely evacuate afghans who worked for the u.s. nick schifrin reports. nick: today at the white house, president biden vowed to keep fighting america's longest war -- just without u.s. troops. president biden: the partnership between afghanistan and the united states is not ending, it's going to be sustained. nick: flanked by afghan president ashraf ghani, and high council for national reconciliation chairman dr. abdullah abdullah, president biden promised to confront afghanistan's third covid wave, by donating 3 million doses of johnson & johnson vaccine, and badly needed oxygen. and he pledged support for afghanistan's government, but with what an administration official called “tough love.” pres

." ♪ >> this is the "pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and from the west from the walterschool of journalism at arizona state university. amna: the pacific northwest is getting hit for a third straight day with record-setting triple digit temperatures. the heat wave is straining the capacity in the region and forcing people to find relief wherever they can. stephanie sy reports from oregon. stephanie: another day, another record-breaking high across the pacific northwest. in portland, oregon, temperatures hit 108 degrees on saturday, then 112 on sunday. today, highs were expected to reach 115. in ashland, oregon, people and their pets took shelter at a cooling center, offering air conditioning and cold water. >> i think it's a public health emergency. stephanie mayor julie akins : warned, the heat can be deadly. the most vulnerable in this heat wave are the most vulnerable all the time and of the heatwave exacerbates that. we are talking unhoused people, people below the poverty line, people who don't have air conditioning in their homes or cannot afford the high-power bi

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. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. judy: now to tulsa, a century after a storm of racial killing engulfed the city. the president's visit today came as the nation is reassessing race relations, past, present, and future. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. yamiche: 100 years after the tulsa race massacre, president biden came to mark one of the darkest chapters in american history. >> for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. and while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing. yamiche: he's the first u.s. president to travel to tulsa to do so. he acknowledged the scars seared onto the nation's conscience. >> private planes dropping explosives, the first and on domestic aerial assault of its kind on an american city, here in tulsa. eight of greenwood's arly two dozen churches burned like mou zion. my fellow americans, this wa

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitel of journalism at arizona state university. judy: we return to israel. nick schifrin explores how this coalition government might usher in a new era of political leadership. nick: it's the unlikeliest of coalitions. the next prime minister, right-wing naftali bennett, who vows there will never be a palestinian state. the next foreign minister, centrist yair lapid, former tv host who believes in the two-state solution. and mansour abbas, leader of an islamist party, who'demanded improved rights for israel's arab minority. along with others, they formed the change coalition, unit only in their opposition to one man. benjamin netanyahu is the country's longest running prime minster, one of israel's most consequential politicians, and today, one of its most divisive. the change coalition's strange bedfellows needed to come together to oust him because of the knesset, or parliament math. a government coalition needs 61 of 120 seats. in the last election, netanyahu's likud got the most, 30

from weta studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizonarsity. judy: it has been seven years since the islamic state declared its so-called "caliphate" from a mosque in mosul, iraq's second largest city. a punishing iraqi and american military campaign routed isis from there in 2017, while leveling large swathes of the city. now, special correspondent leila molana-allen and videographer adrian hartrick look at the slow and agonizing task of rebuilding mosul. >> centuries of history, annihilated in a few short months. it was from this spot in mosul's 12th century al-nuri mosque that isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi announced the group's self-proclaimed caliphate seven years ago. their reign of terror here and the fight to defeat them claimed thousands of lives and would leave the ancient city pounded into dust. four yea aftrs the battle to retake the city, much of west mosul remains in ruins, an unknown number of bodies beneath the rubble, exactly how many people died in the assault here is still unclear. part of the city is starting to get

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and that would be to the timma and weta board. so this is an informational part of the with five tasks and a service plan, operating option and cost and revenue analysis with the partners and a final report. to go in a little more depth, this is looking at with the recommend racingsal demand to have the seasonal demand to have the top frequency and vessel ties and operating toss. this will also include a peer review of the difference services and the other operating parameters. and the task will be looking into different alternatives and interlining ways to provide with the short run to treasure island and we will be developing operating schedule to recommend the final ferry service. and task three, we will estimate the capital cost for the infrastructure and task four and five to coordinate and the landing rights as well as golden gate bridge district with how they have run their system. and the study will be wrapping up to be back for the recommendation. and that will be coming out of the study for approval. with that, i am open

so the transit agencies which is weta and ac transit. but the new two routes will need to be adopted by the transit agencies. but the path price cost, you know, this institutional past price cost that is under tida's discretion. our board to the board of supervisors will adopt that pass price. when i talk about the inflation rate, that will be applied to the pass price and not to the fare. and i don't imagine that working every year. i think we will monitor the inflation rate until we hit a dollar or a couple of dollars and come to our board for an adoption. so those policies, so that's still in the proposal phase. those policies will still need to get ironed out in the next couple of months, but the fare will need to get opted by the entities. we don't want to be coming up with a policy where we need to keep going back and forth between the transit agencies because they can take a long time. so the pass price will be adopted by our board and the inflation rate, we will be kind of monitoring to see when it will be appropriate. and then i

. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the water cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. judy: this evening, the u.s. senate on a rare bipartisan basis, is passing a major piece of legislation designed to counter china and its global influence. the roughly $200 billion measure is also one of the largest eces of industrial legislation ever to make its way through congress, though it still needs to be reconciled with a house version. stephanie sy has more. stephanie: the senate bill invests billions in innovation and critical technologies, many of which the chinese government has made a top priority for years. earlier, the biden administration announced it was taking steps to ensure the u.s has its own supply of essential products and components, many of which are today manufactured in china. this is aimed at boosting the u.s.'s competiteness with the world's second-largest economy. nick, what steps did the white house take, and how did they fit in with the bill the senate is voting on? nick: this is the white house and congress making