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but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps ke >> thank you for joining us for tonight's edition of "the "pbs newshour"." i'm paul anthony along with patty kim. we're taking a brief intermission to ask you to take action -- to support outstanding journalism and weta. you can do it all with one call -- and by making a donation that reflects what the "pbs newshour" means to you. would you pay a quarter to watch this program tonight? 25 cents? if you multiply that donation for the whole year, that's a $65 pledge. there's an operator waiting to take you through the process right now. it's quick and easy. don't put it off. >> definitely easy to do. your pledge also shows your appreciation for the expertise and effort that go into every single broadcast. the newshour team produces many excellent stories for broadcast and online every week. it's little wonder that in the past 35 years they've literally won every prestigious award in the re
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first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for sc yo surrt. and that support helps keep programs like ourselves on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations not taking a pledge break, a look at one of the nation's premier black drama troupes. the penumbra theater company in saint pau orwa each time, we count on new contributions from a few more people like you. and if you haven't made a gift yet, we're hoping that tonight will be your night! take a minute to consider everything weta has to offer. the "pbs newshour," of course, along with programs like "antiques roadshow," "great performances," "frontline," "nature," "masterpiece," and our many children's shows. no matter what the subject, your pledge funds an amazing array of enlightening programs. but we've always relied on viewer support. that's viewer support from you. and your pledge in any amount: it could be $50, or $75 or $150 for the year. but don't delay. call us now and join us. kimberly? >> thanks, paul. it's so
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now back to "pbs newshour"." thanks again for your support. >> ifill: a new investigation into what it takes to get a presidential pardon reveals that politics still plays a role, and that whites are four times more likely than blacks and other minorities to have their records wiped clean. here to talk about her story is dafna linzer, senior reporter for pro publica, a nonprofit online news organization. tell us in a nutshell who benefits and who doesn't. >> we were very surprised at e results. white applicants as you said are nearly four times as likely to get a pardon. hispanic applicants fared quite well when we looked at them as a group. but african-americans fared the worst among the group. applicants who were married had a better shot. in fact, there were two times as likely to get a pardon. this is a pardons office that is looking at all kinds of stability tests and seems to favor married applicants. what else did we look at? congressional support. if you had a member of congress in your corner, you were t
now back to "pbs newshour"." thanks again for your support. >> ifill: a new investigation into what it takes to get a presidential pardon reveals that politics still plays a role, and that whites are four times more likely than blacks and other minorities to have their records wiped clean. here to talk about her story is dafna linzer, senior reporter for pro publica, a nonprofit online news organization. tell us in a nutshell who benefits and who doesn't. >> we were...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a suicide attacker killed 56 people and wounded more than 160 others in kabul, afghanistan, today. it was the worst of several attacks that shook the country. penitentiary nent worshippers ritually beating themselves on shiite islam's holiest day had flooded central kabul streets when the bomber struck. the crowds were commemorating the 7th century death of imam hussein a grandson of the prophet mohammed. >> the ceremony was about to finish. a new group arrived and the suicide bombers placed themselves among the new group. >> woodruff: a short time later the shoes of the dead and wounded were piled in the gutters near the.mosque the shrine is i area of the capital near the presidential palaced an manoven gernmt ministries. a second attack in the ... killedity of four more shiites. a third attack in kandahar killed one person. major sectarian violence in afghanistan between sunnis and the 20% of afghans who are shiites had been nearly unknown since the fall of t
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a suicide attacker killed 56 people and wounded more than 160 others in kabul, afghanistan, today. it was the worst of several attacks that shook the country. penitentiary nent worshippers ritually beating themselves on shiite islam's holiest day had flooded central kabul streets when the bomber struck. the crowds were commemorating the 7th century death of imam hussein a grandson of the prophet...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the secretary of health and human services has waded into the politically charged issue of birth control r younger girls. in a very public and high-level disagreement, kathleen sebelius today blocked the food and drug administration from allowing girls under 17 to buy the plan "b" morning-after pill without a prescription. for the details, we're joined by rob stein covering the issue for the "washington post." rob, so fill in what's happened here. this is the h.h.s. secretary overruling her own f.d.a. >> right. this was a big surprise. a real shock. nobody knew what the f.d.a. was going to do but nobody expected the secretary of health and human services to overturn the decision by the f.d.a. what happened was the f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamberg reviewed the evidence and said, yeah, it was okay to approve this company's request to sell plan "b" on any stores and grocery stores, drugstores, right next condoms or sperm sides. but secretary sebelius stepped in a
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the secretary of health and human services has waded into the politically charged issue of birth control r younger girls. in a very public and high-level disagreement, kathleen sebelius today blocked the food and drug administration from allowing girls under 17 to buy the plan "b" morning-after pill without a prescription. for the details, we're joined by rob stein covering the issue for the...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the people who were >> woodruff: the people who were running two mortgage giants when the housing bubble burst were formally accused today of civil fraud. the securities and exchange commission filed a lawsuit naming six former executives at fannie mae and freddie mac. the six were accused of lying about how deeply fannie and freddie had invested in securities backed by risky home mortgages. >> in two separate complaints, we allege that these individuals caused their companies to materially misstate their sub- prime mortgage exposure in filings with the s.e.c., through public statements, through investor calls, and media interviews. >> woodruff: the head of the s.e.c.'s enforcement division, robert khuzami, spoke in washington, and said the charges go right to the top. >> our suits reach into the corporate boardrooms and name the former c.e.o. of fannie mae, daniel mudd, and the former chairman and c.e.o. of freddie mac, richard syron. >> woodruff: together, mu
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the people who were >> woodruff: the people who were running two mortgage giants when the housing bubble burst were formally accused today of civil fraud. the securities and exchange commission filed a lawsuit naming six former executives at fannie mae and freddie mac. the six were accused of lying about how deeply fannie and freddie had invested in securities backed by risky home mortgages....
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but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> brown: finally tonight, new questions about the disposal of remains of service members killed in action. the pentagon responded today to a "washington post" report that incinerated partial remains of 274 troops had been taken from dover air force base in delaware and disposed of in a landfill in virginia. this afternoon, the air force said that the practice was stopped three years ago. >> prior to 2008 we took the unidentified -- torsoes under military escort in a dignified manner to a local funeral home and they were cremated. the remains were then turned over to a contractor as was the industry standard. if there was residual mat ter was handle in accordance with the-- the process at the time. in 2008, our own inspection, not driven by any outside force took a look at the process and said we can do better than that. here's a better way to provide dignity and honor to these families and our fallen heroes and
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first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> brown: finally tonight, how do your feelings about economic inequality impact your sense of happiness? "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman finds out. it's part of his regular reporting on "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: how happy areyou, e not at all happy, four very happy? >> i'm a four. >> reporter: a four. >> i'm very happy. >> reporter: laurie sanders works at the conservative washington think tank the american enterprise institute. a few blocks away, occupy eric is on the more liberal end of the spectrum. what number would you give yourself? >> one. >> reporter: are you unhappy, do you think, because of the inequality, economic inequality in this country? >> well, yeah. >> reporter: study after study, it turns out, finds conservatives happier than liberals. social psychologist jamie nappier has a theory as to why. >> economic inequality really does affect people's well-being. >>
first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> brown: finally tonight, how do your feelings about economic inequality impact your sense of happiness? "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman finds out. it's part of his regular reporting on "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: how happy areyou, e not at all happy, four very happy? >> i'm a four. >> reporter: a four....
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first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for ue thatpport. conservatives tend to be less concerned about income inequality. arthur brooks president of the a.e.i., and the author of "gross national happiness" agrees with nappier about the conservative happiness edge. >> conservatives think fairness is one in which outcomes are based on merit and people start with more or less equal opportunities or at least working for equal opportunities. if you believe those things and you see that some person makes more than others or the top 1% is breaking away from the bottom 99%, that's not going to affect your happy happiness very much at all. >> reporter: with the average wage flat lined and more than 28 million americans still jobless or underemployeed, do merit and hard work make a difference these day. >> the owners of this country know the truth. it's called the american dream. because you have to be asleep to believe it ( laughter ). >> reporter: nappier says american econom
first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for ue thatpport. conservatives tend to be less concerned about income inequality. arthur brooks president of the a.e.i., and the author of "gross national happiness" agrees with nappier about the conservative happiness edge. >> conservatives think fairness is one in which outcomes are based on merit and people start with more or less equal opportunities or at least working for equal...
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but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: now, for those stations not taking a pledge break: we look at efforts in washington state to curb pollution from storm water runoff. this report is from katie campbell at our pbs partner station kcts-9 in seattle. >> reporter: as much as 40,000 metric tons of oil and grease enter puget sound every year. that's as much as a battleship weighs. you might think all that pollution comes from the usual suspects-- cargo ships or factories. but actually it's caused by rain. even a light shower can create thousands of gallons of storm water that washes over seattle's streets, sidewalks and parking lots, sweeping up an array of pollutants. it turns into a river of oil, metals, pesticides, and other contaminants. it's estimated that 75% of the toxic chemicals found in puget sound are carried there by runoff. >> many people in the puget sound region thi
but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: now, for those stations not taking a pledge break: we look at efforts in washington state to curb pollution from storm water runoff. this report is from katie campbell at our pbs partner station kcts-9 in seattle. >> reporter: as much as 40,000 metric tons of oil and grease enter puget sound every...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> suarez: the carnage that has bloodied much of syria came home to the capital today. two bombs erupted in damascus, killing nearly four dozen people and wounding more than 150. we begin with a report narrated by inigo gilmore of independent television news. >> reporter: one of the bomb blasts left this huge crater in the ground. the tangled bodies of the dead were ferried away on stretchers, a doubly whammy in the heart of the capital damascus. the targets-- two buildings belonging to syria's security forces. >> ( translated ): i heard the explosion and saw many body parts. there were dead bodies all over the place. bodies of women and children in their cars. >> reporter: the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers driving vehicles packed with explosives. at least that's what the government claims. >> ( translated ): even before >> reporter: even before the dust had settled, syria's state media seized on the attacks, saying they were further evidence of a threat from
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> suarez: the carnage that has bloodied much of syria came home to the capital today. two bombs erupted in damascus, killing nearly four dozen people and wounding more than 150. we begin with a report narrated by inigo gilmore of independent television news. >> reporter: one of the bomb blasts left this huge crater in the ground. the tangled bodies of the dead were ferried away on stretchers, a doubly whammy...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: republican presidential candidates spent another long day hunting for votes in iowa. they were heading into the final weekend before the presidential election season officially opens with tuesday night's caucuses. the weather turned colder and windy, but mitt romney warmed to his audience as another new poll, this one from nbc marist, showed him pacing the field. >> if you can get out here in this cold and this wind and a little bit of rain coming down, then you can sure get out on tuesday night, and you can sure find a few people to bring with you. >> brown: one key supporter showed up today, new jersey governor chris christie, campaigning with romney in west des moines. >> it really energizes me, the young people. >> brown: texas congressman ron paul was either tied for first or a close second. 41% in the nbc poll said his libertarian leaning makes him unacceptable. newt gingrich had been the iowa front-runner just a few weeks back but has fallen far behind. in
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: republican presidential candidates spent another long day hunting for votes in iowa. they were heading into the final weekend before the presidential election season officially opens with tuesday night's caucuses. the weather turned colder and windy, but mitt romney warmed to his audience as another new poll, this one from nbc marist, showed him pacing the field. >> if you can get out here in this...
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but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support, and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: now, for those stations not taking a pledge break, we look at new technology used to harness powerful winds located high above the earth into usable energy. our report is part of the series newshour connect, which showcases public media reporting from around the nation. it was produced by christopher bauer for the science program "quest," which airs on kqed-san francisco. the story is narrated by andrea kissack. >> ifill: a new investigation . >> reporter: on a win southwest tarmac at the former naval... an inventive group of scientists and engineers is testing the concept of a new clean energy technology. with a change in climate and mounting energy challenges, the race is on to develop viable sources of alternative energy. >> there are not very many options for providing low carbon power at the scale of civilization. to solve this problem,
but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support, and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: now, for those stations not taking a pledge break, we look at new technology used to harness powerful winds located high above the earth into usable energy. our report is part of the series newshour connect, which showcases public media reporting from around the nation. it was produced by christopher bauer...
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first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ourselves on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations not taking a pledge break, a look at one of the nation's premier black drama troupes. the penumbra theater company in saint paul was founded by lou bellamy in 1976. he takes us behind the scenes of the current production, "i wish you love" on the life and times of nat king cole. this report comes from twin cities public television. >> you got props. you got your coat and everything. okay, all right, all right. we're in, i think, the middle of the third week of rehearsal. so people are just getting off book, hopefully not off lines. what does that mean, you're married? you don't think i know how it work with the ladies and money? >> they're starting to create character and put together all the pieces. >> you could send them anything. they're just happy something is sent, that's all. you're going to give them something
first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ourselves on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations not taking a pledge break, a look at one of the nation's premier black drama troupes. the penumbra theater company in saint paul was founded by lou bellamy in 1976. he takes us behind the scenes of the current production, "i wish you love" on the life and times of nat king...
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but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public >> woodruff: finally tonight, scientists on the hunt for an earth like planet. newshour correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> reporter: more than 20 years ago, space scientist william borucki dreamed up a plan to explore our galaxy to find the extent of life, if there is any beyond the earth. it was a daunting and expensive challenge. this week and $600 million later at a conference of his peers in mountain view, california, borucki and nasa announced they had found the first planet in the habitable zone. that means, what's being called the "goldilocks" planet, is just right, orbiting its star at the proper distance to have water, necessary for life. similar to earth, though bigger, scientists say the temperature averages about 72 degrees. 600 light years away, it orbits its own sun every 290 days. borucki and his team found it using the kepler space telescope, which was launched three years ago and remains in orbit around the sun. he calls it a
but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public >> woodruff: finally tonight, scientists on the hunt for an earth like planet. newshour correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> reporter: more than 20 years ago, space scientist william borucki dreamed up a plan to explore our galaxy to find the extent of life, if there is any beyond the earth. it was a daunting and expensive challenge. this week and $600 million later at a conference of his peers in...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the president today welcomed the end of the war in iraq with all u.s. troops due to leave before the month is out. he also acknowledged the costs of the long conflict. >> on behalf of a grateful nation, i'm proud to finally say these two words, and i know your families agree: welcome home, welcome home. ( cheers and applause ) >> woodruff: it was a homecoming-- complete with the commander in chief-- for the latest detachments of troops arriving back at fort bragg, north carolina. president obama praised the efforts of one and a half million americans who've served in iraq since 2003. >> we're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march towards home. this is an extraordinary achievement nearly nine years in the making. and today we remember everything that you did to make it possible. >> woodruff: that effort came at a high price in blood and treasure. the president said the united states
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the president today welcomed the end of the war in iraq with all u.s. troops due to leave before the month is out. he also acknowledged the costs of the long conflict. >> on behalf of a grateful nation, i'm proud to finally say these two words, and i know your families agree: welcome home, welcome home. ( cheers and applause ) >> woodruff: it was a homecoming-- complete with the commander...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the november jobs report came out today, and it showed new job creation and a surprising drop in unemployment. it also gave president obama some progress to point to as congress battled over bills to help those working and those out of work. >> this morning, we learned that our economy added another 14,000 private-sector jobs in november. the unemployment rate went down. >> brown: at a construction site in washington this morning, the president was eager to plug the news from the labor department. the economy scored a net gain of 120,000 jobs, combining the 140,000 created in the private sector with the loss of 20,000 government jobs. the increased hiring came mostly in retail and hospitality industries, helped by businesses adding staff for theolidays. that helped pu the unemployment rate down to 8.6%, the lowest in nearly two and a half years. moreover, the number of jobs added in previous months was revised upward for the fourth month in a row. but improvements
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the november jobs report came out today, and it showed new job creation and a surprising drop in unemployment. it also gave president obama some progress to point to as congress battled over bills to help those working and those out of work. >> this morning, we learned that our economy added another 14,000 private-sector jobs in november. the unemployment rate went down. >> brown: at a...
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but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: to those stations not taking a pledge break we turn to japan, still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami last march. 2,000 people were killed in the town of minan san rue key. it's flattened and abandoned. >> eight months are and that car is still there. here in minami san rikyu, they thought the unthinkable. there will be no rebuilding. people will never live here again. it's not just the earthquake, a massive tsunami 60 feet high, the very coastline has shifted here. >> ( translated ): come and see my front door, i'll show you. and that's the bathroom over there. yes, it's decided. basically our plan is to move the entire town to the higher ground because the ground level has dropped to 70 centimeters. when we get higher tides and the entire area is underwater. >> reporter: green sea wood covers market street and the pacific creeps in at every
but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: to those stations not taking a pledge break we turn to japan, still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami last march. 2,000 people were killed in the town of minan san rue key. it's flattened and abandoned. >> eight months are and that car is still there. here in minami san rikyu, they thought the...