william brangham has the latest. iam: former miami dolphins head coach brian flores took to the morning shows today, explaining why he's suing the nfl and its 32 teams over alleged racist hiring practices. >> we didn't have to file a lawsuit for the world to know that there's a problem, from a hiring standpoint, in regards to minority coaches in the national football league. the numbers speak for themselves. >> right. we filed the lawsuit so that we >>we filed the lawsuit so that we could create some change. william: flores said the league is, quote, "rife with racism," pointing to stark racial disparities in players vs. management. the lawsuit alleges that, out of 32 nfl teams, none has a black owner, only one has a black head coach, only four have a black offensive coordinator, and only 11 have a black defensive coordinator. that's against the backdrop of nfl players, where 58 percent of them are black. flores was fired last month, after three years leading the dolphins, the last two being winning seasons. he was in

william brangham reporting on these distressing reports. william. >> reporter: thanks, judy. >> woodruff: one reason the economy is dealing with a labor shortage? early retirements. economics correspondent paul solman reports on the exodus of older workers during the pandemic >> covid really pointed out to me, to me and to my wife that life was tenuous. it was fragile. >> i felt in order to preserve my sanity, i need to leave. >> my daughter asked me early last year if i would take care of her baby. >> it was like, anybody your age is liable to die if you get it. and i just was afraid of it, i said, i'm not going to stay, i can't. >> reporter: you've heard plenty, especially from employers who can't find workers, about the “great resignation.” but here's what's also happening: “the great retirement.” since february 2020 some 2.6 million more americans than expected retired. >> the pandemic has interrupted what was a decades long trend towards later retirement in the united states. >> reporter: wellesley economist courtney coile. >> if we lo

as william brangham tells us, it provided the starkest warnings yet; not only about what could happent what's already been set into motion. >> brangham: the evidence is everywhere: burning forests in argentina. massive floods in bangladesh. drought in spain: the impacts of climate change are here, and they're getting worse. and, according to a landmark united nations report, not only are some of these impacts worse than previously known, some may already be irreversible. >> today's i.p.c.c. report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. with fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change. >> brangham: the report, conducted by a u.n. panel of more than 200 scientists from over 60 countries, emphasized that our warming of the planet is unleashing damages at a pace and inteity that many nations won't be able to handle. and that reducing the pollution that's driving climate change isn't happening nearly fast enough. >> the longer you wait, and the longer you follow the illusion that you ha

william brangham has our report.ing: there is some very disturbing video in this report. >> brangham: it was early wednesday morning when the minneapolis police department's swat team executed a no-knock warrant as part of a homicide investigation. police entered the apartment, announced their presence, and approached 22-year-old amir locke, who was sleeping under a blanket on the couch. locke didn't live in the apartment-- he was just visiting. and, he wasn't even named on the warrant. but, he had what his family says was his legal, permitted handgun with him, and when police saw it in his hands, they shot and killed him. the whole event took just a few seconds. police body cam otage was not released until late last night. here's what it showed. again, some people may want to turn away for about ten seconds. >> get on the ground! ( bleep ) ( gunfire ) >> brangham: at a press conference last night, minneapolis' interim police chief amelia huffman described how she interpreted the video. >> as they proceeded toward th

william brangham has the story. >> brangham: judy, last month, travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and williambryan were sentenced in a georgia state court to life in prison for chasing down and murdering arbery. this federal trial will look at whether the killing was racially motivated, which wasn't addressed in the state case. the justice department has charged the three men with hate crimes and attempting kidnapping. deval patrick used to prosecute these types of cases as former assistant attorney general for civil rights under bill clinton. he is also the former governor of massachusetts and now co- chairs "american bridge 21st century," a democratic party organization. very good to you have back on the news hour, so the d o.j. is prosecuting this as a hate crime. and is it my understanding that the prosecutors then have to prove that these defendants had racist beliefs in their heart when they committed this murder? >> that motivated the most-- and there is evidence of this in this case, and that in itself has been deemed a federal interest, deserving of punishment. >> so is it your sense

william brangham explains more. >> brangham: that's right, judy. the largest reservoirs in north america, lake mead and lake powell, reached their lowest-ever recorded levels. megadroughts have come and gone in the past, but this current one, now 22 years long, is being driven largely by human-caused climate change, according to the study. our warming atmosphere has made this drought much worse, 40% worse, and it's likely to continue. the new study was just published in the journal "nature climate change," and its lead author, park williams joins me now. park, great to have you back on the newshour. could you just tell us a little bit more about the historic nature of this drought? i mean, 1,200 years that this is the worst that we've seen? how do you go about proving something like that? >> well, in the early 1900s, tree rings scientists in arizona discovered that tree rings actually correspond to drought in the southwestern united states. and, in fact, after more work was done across most of western north america, trees are very sensitive to drou

william brangham focuses on those questions. william: judy, that's right. three former police officers, tou thao, thomas lane, and j. alexander kueng, are charged with violating george floyd's civil rights. thao and kueng are charged with failing to intervene. all three are charged with failing to provide proper medical care. for more on this and broader issues of police behavior, i'm joined by christy lopez. she oversaw investigations of police departments at the department of justice from 2010 to 2017. she now teaches urses on policing at georgetown university law center and co-directs their innovative police program. christy lopez, very good to have you on the "newshour." we all watched that nine-plus minutes of video of derek chauvin kneeling on george oyd's neck. but we also watched ose three other officers who were on scene and what they did and did not do in that moment. at trial, what have those men been explaining about their behavior that day? christy: they seem to be taking two tacks. one is to emphasize the hierarchy of the situation, that they

william brangham looks intthe details. >> instead of using just case counts, the cdc's mass guidance on local cases, hospital capacity and rates of severe disease. based on those metrics, communities will be rated low, medium or high ris universal masking, iluding in schools, will be recommended only in the high-risk account -- counties. the cdc emphasize anyone with symptoms or known covert exposures should still wear a mask and especially the immunocompromised and medically vulnerable. i'm joined by epidemiologist jennifer from the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. eat to have you back on the newshour. i want to ask you about the cdc guidance. the cdc essay that 70% of americans live in counties where the risk is so low that they don't need to wear a mask indoors. where -- what do you make of that? >> what we are hearing is not that they he loosened their recommendations, but they have changed how they calculate who is at risk. they are using new data and that is reflective of a few important changes. the virus is not the change, -- the same. we had surge that was ch

william brangham breaks down the new information, and how it's been distorted. sten to conservative media over the past five days, you'd think there was now smoking-gun evidence that hillary clinton's campaign was guilty of illegally spying on donald trump. >> the clinton campaign paid a tech firm to infiltrate the servers at trump tower, and later infiltrate the servers at the trump white house. >> has anything like this ever happened in american history? not that we know of. william: this all stems from a court filing from special counsel john durham, who was appointed by former attorney general william barr to investigate any potential wrongdoing during the 2016 russia probe. the filing relates to a low-level case that durham has brought against michael sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who'd represented the democratic party and the clinton campaign. durham alleges sussmann lied to the f.b.i. about who his client was during a meeting where sussman shared information about possible links between russia and the trump campaign. but in a few extra sentences, durham

william, the worst state- sponsored doping since the east germans of 50 or 60 years ago. and yet here it was russia. it looks, at least for right now, getting away with it again. >> branghamusa today." thank you so much for your time and for your journalism. >> thank you, william. >> woodruff: president biden plans to personally interview potential nominees to the supreme court this week, and likely among them will be federal judge ketanji brown jackson. jackson isn't new to supreme court consideration. she was seen as a long-shot pick back in 2016 when former president obama was looking to fill a vacancy. this go round, she's seen as a leading contender. geoff bennett has this report on how she got here. >> i'm even handedly applying the law in every case. >> reporter: ketanji brown jackson has a resume seemingly tailor-fit for the moment. harvard grad, supreme court clerk, and a federal judge with a deep history in public service. >> there is a direct line from my defender service to what i do on the bench. >> reporter: d.c. born and miami raised, jackson stood out early, excelling in high school as class president and on the debate team. even then her goal was clear: s

william brangham talks with one of the chairs of the national commission that's looking for solutionsrangham: judy, a majority of those overdoses are being driven by the highly-potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl. manufactured abroad and trafficked into the u.s., it is then sold by itself, or mixed into various street drugs or counterfeit pharmaceutica, where its potency often turns deadly. overdoses now kill more people than car crashes, firearms, suicide, or homicide. so, how do we address this? representative david trone, democrat from maryland, is co-chair of the national commission on combating synthetic opioid trafficking. congressman trone, great to have you on the "newshour". your report lays out ways to address the supply of these drugs and the the demand for these drugs. i want to talk about the supply issue first. as your report points out, mexican cartels are largely manufacturing this fentanyl and shipping it into the u.s., but they are relying on a steady stream of precursor chemicals to make those drugs from china. what do you think we ought to be doing vis-a-vis china to

william brangham has more on the trial's key moments, and what's at stake. >> brangham: judy, this casers on a 2017 "new york times" editorial about dangerous rhetoric and political violence. it was written the day a gunman opened fire on congressional republicans during a baseball practice, critically injuring representative steve scalise. the "times" editorial drew a false link between another shooting-- the 2011 attack on democratic congresswoman gabrielle giffords, and others-- and a map that included giffords' district marked with what seem to be gun crosshairs. the map was published by palin's political action group. the editorial said, “the link to political incitement was clear”" when the "times" realized its mistake, it issued a correction the very next day. but in court this week, palin took to the stand to make the case that the main author of that piece, former opinion editor james bennett, had political motivations to harm her, that he knew the claim was wrong, and that he published it anyway. the "times" counters, he made an honest mistake, and quickly corrected it. at sta

william brangham has a look at the latest research on the disorder, beginning with the perspective fromvid survivor and advocate. >> brangham: judy, one of the largest grassroots support groups for people suffering with long-covid is called“ survivor corps.” it has roughly 200,000 members. diana berrent founded the group after her own bout with long-covid, and she shared with us the harsh reality for those in her community. >> our members are going through hell. just surviving covid does not mean recovery from covid, and they are experiencing things as dramatic as parkinsonian-like tremors, and feelings of inner vibrations that are causing them to not be able to sleep; extreme neuropathic pain that mimics advanced diabetes... we are getting suicide threats daily. people are losing hope. i'm overwhelmed with fear about the shr number of people who have been affected by covid, and the more we realize that it is also a neurological disease-- it really should put the fear of god into everybody. my biggest fear, that is in ten years, we see a-- you know, a group of 30-year-olds coming, being

willm brangham has our report and a warning, there is disturbing video in this report. williamesday morning, the minneapolis tpete -- police department swat team executed a no-knock warrant as part of a homicide investigation. police entered the apartment, announced their presence, and approached a 22-year-old who was sleeping under a blanket under a couch. he did not live in the apartment and he was not even named on the warrant, but he had what his family says was his permanent handgun with him and when police saw it in his hands, they shot and killed him. the event took a few seconds. body cam footage was not released late until last night. some people may want to turn away for 10 seconds. >> no-knock warrant. >> police. >> get on the ground. >> [expletive] william: at a press conference, the interim police chief, amelia hoffma, described how she interpreted the video. chief huffman: there was a couch as you saw in the video, and you can see there is a form under a blanket or comforter that begins to rise up. the officers were approaching. they were giving commands to show y