the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from chris and lisa kaneb. support for "being mortal" is provided by the john and wauna harman foundation. (sirens blaring) >> atul gawande: i've been a surgeon for more than a decade now. in medicine, your first fear as a doctor is that you're supposed to be able to fix a problem, and our anxieties include wanting to seem competent, and to us competent means "i can fix this." in fact there's often a kind of implicit promise, "i'm going to be able to fix this, i'm going to certainly give you the best shot you can have. nobody could have given you a better shot." and then when things aren't working, part of your anxiety is, was there something i missed, was there anything else i could have done? when i started out in my training in surgery, you discover that all the stuff you learned about in the books in medical school is really just a tiny little bit of what it means to be good

the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler and additional support from millicent bell, through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> in tucson it was a beautiful, crisp, clear blue sky with a few puffy white clouds. it was a perfect january morning. >> narrator: 40-year old arizona congresswoman gabby giffords was about to meet constituents at an outdoor shopping center. >> i went to thank her for her being kind of a blue-dog democrat and really working for the people and not for the lobbyists. >> her first person she met with was a young man that was in the army reserve. she took some pictures with him. and that was the last picture taken of her before she was... before she was shot. he shot gabby from about three feet away, right in the middle of the left side of her forehead. he had a 9 millimeter glock in his hand and a 33-round magazine in it. >> there was a bang and then a slight pause and then a continuous bang, bang, bang, bang, b

the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from laura debonis and chris and lisa kaneb. (baseball commentary playing) >> i found out about fanduel when i was in high school. i had played fantasy football for years and whatnot. i never played daily fantasy. now i play probably 450, 500 different games a day. a typical morning, it's pretty much just me hanging out, poring over baseball stats. i'll spend between four and five hours a day on it. so after that, i'm just hanging out doing whatever, just living life as a normal college student as best i can. >> narrator: we met bryce mauro on the last day of his junior year at indiana's depauw university. he's one of the nation's best players on fanduel, a popular daily fantasy sports site. there are many ways to play, but basically, you create your own fantasy team made of real professional players, and earn points based on how they do in real-life games that day. fantasy spor

the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from the douglas drane family fund. >> ♪ o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free... ♪ >> jelani cobb: in newark, new jersey, every city council hearing starts with whitney houston's version of the national anthem. she's a hometown hero. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the newark municipal council's public meeting. >> cobb: but tonight is not just an ordinary meeting. people have packed city hall to speak up about the need for more police accountability. it's a conversation happening in cities all across the country. >> hello. my name is laquan thomas. i done been robbed by the cops. i done been assaulted by the cops. like, that's crazy. like, y'all supposed to be serving and protecting the community, but they serve and disrespect the community. >> i've been a victim of them more than once. i've been a victim of retaliation a