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Joyce b. Hail, the wallach family in memory of miriam and ira d. Wallach. The millstein family. Bernard and irene schwartz. Corporate funding provided by since last october, more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors, mostly from central america, have been apprehended after crossing into the u. S. Along the texas border with mexico. The president spoke about the issue during an interview that aired this morning on abc. We have to house these kids and take carezn of themco unti machinery underr allows us to send them back. The president also is expected to asknr congress to grant the Homeland Security Department New powers toni fast track theco screening and deportation of minors entering the country illegally. During that same interview, the president alsoni talked about h the movement of terrorist sympathizers between europe and i i threat here. Weve seene1xd europeans who sympathetic to their cause traveling into syria and now may travel into iraq, getting hardened. Then they comak back. Theyve got european passports. They dont need a visa to get into the United States. On that same program, new york republican congressman peter king went further. Not only are there thousands of europeans who are visas sent to the United States going to syria,qcoq theres also at leas 100plus americans who are over there in syria right now. So any of these people can go back to the United States and can carry out the type of attack that theyre being trained in, in syria. Inni iraq today, the governments efforts to recapture northern cities recently seized byi] islamic extremists reportedly has jlln stalled. Iraqi Government Troops using tanks and helicopters tried to move into tikrit, about 90 miles north of baghdad. But the xdcounteroffensive was halted and government trooped reportedly retreated after what was described as heavylp fighti with militants from thexd islam state of iraq and the levant. The militants placed improvo explosive devices on the roads leading into tikrit to slow the governmentnadvance. This weekend, russia delivered five fighter jets toxd the government in baghdad in an effort to turn back the extremists. Uneasiness over iraq has lifted oil prices here ate1 home, and that being entire gas prices for the jupe1 coming holidayx whistlesized insulin inhaler. The inhaleable diabetes drug acts more quickly than injectable insulin, butt xd theg will carry a warning for people conditions like asthma because of potential adverse effects the fda saysq manufacturers mus still test for the potential to heighten the risk of lung cancer. Theres nook date yet on when t drug may be r its gay pride weekend, and there were parades around the world today. Thism the scene in new york where an estimated millie0 people turned out. 5xq h lc its also the 45th anniversary of the stone wall riots in greenwich village, the event seen as triggering the gay rights movement. A new mammal species. The creature which lives in the desert in southwest africa looks Something Like a mouse with a long nose and weighs a single q ounce. But it is actually genetically linked to elephants. Biologists who discovered it ar3 planning to place miniw3 radio collars on them. And laste1 week we w3mistak reported George Zimmerman used floridas saund your ground law as the basis for his defense in the shootingw3ko ofco trayvon. Stand your ground was not used by zimmermans defense. We regretco the error. coxd a story published a few days agos7 caught our attention and so what are theyfa buying and w are they buying it from . Theyre buying the same type of data retailers have been using for years to target products at you. What were talking about here is information thats collectedcoc compj. qah p led data brokers, whichq can track every transaction a consumer makes. They can find out how much your home is worth, what type of car you on, even things like your d8hiking or rock climbinge1 bas off public bdatabases. For years, retailers have used this to send you a coupon or figure out who might like to subscribe to a certain list. Now hospitals are saying,e1 cane use thi xyqdata, this informati to try and predict whos going to get sick and end up at the ÷n why areni hospitals interest in this kind of information . Under obamacare, they have an increased incentive to keep patients healthy because the law changes the wayxd they are paid. So under the law, hospitals now get penalized if you come back to the emergency room too frequently and if hospital isnt meeting certain patient quality and health qoutcomes. And insurers are following the same mold too. Insurers no longer want to pay for hospitals who are just doing more and more tests and procedures over and over again. They want to be paying for quality. So hospitals are going to be held accountable if patients are too sick,fa if patients are goi back to the emergency room too frequently. What about all ofq this information as a am i opting into this, orni am opting out of it . If theres something wrong, can i correct the assumption that the hospital is going by . So right now hospitals are at the very early stage of usingi] this e1data. Butq theres a very large hospital chainfa calledtncarols health care system. They own over 900 hospitals,co nursing lphomes, physicians i aq ns, the hospital feels they want to know and should be able to know that. If you dont wthpt the hospita knowing what youre buying at cvs or the grocery store, you can have an option to that. Certain things they want to definitely know about you because theyre being held accountable for your health. And very briefly, they cannot use this to discriminate against a preexisting condition, even1 you might have a heart condition, right . Absoltvely. Theres a lot of things thanq e illegal for hospitals to do, and also bound byxd the same anq e privacy rules as anything else is that you would share with your doctor. All right. Thanks so nimuch. Thank you. cou nowo[ to our signature sto. Tonight, we look atxd a controversial new tool in the prosecution of xdcrime. The growing use of rap lyrics to helpnr establish motive or inte or even to findu be interpreted as a xdconfessio. Critics say the practice is misguided andxd undermines a defendants chance to get a fair trial. E1 our news hour correspondent ezap seven years ago, middle the day in newport news, virginia, and someonee1 starts r shooting. 911. We shot. He shot this boy. When local Police Arrived at the scene,ok they found two you victims. A 20yearold was laying near death on the front porch. He died later at thee1 hospital. A 16yearold was already dead behind the house face down in rass. But police couldnt find any leads. No witnesses, no weapon. Jf so a double murder information went nowhere. But four years later, a new detective named carlos nunez was assigned toq the r he got a tip that a local rapper named antwan stewa a÷, seen her in this voideo, wasi]ni the sho. And stewart had actually written a rapjf song bragging about the murder. Stewart produces what some call gangster rap, his lyrics . ; overwhelmingly focused on gang life. One songe1 caught the detective eye. When nuneze1 heard it, he belied stewart was bragging about the murder. Listen. ni ni some of the details match. The shooting happened on a porch. No witnesseslp immediately came forward. But others dont. The time of day is wrong. There wasnt a stabbing. Caliber of the gun is wrong. And there3nf only onenr victim] mentioned, not two. But more importantly, is this evidence of anything . Is it just a song, or is itni a confession . Based largely on that rap anne on the accounts of two witnesses given years after the shooting, the rapper was arrested and iq hes been in jail since the timq of hisarrest. During his initial interrogation, the detectivei] zeroed in on stewarts rap lyrics. The rap song you sang way back then said everybody saw me but nobody saw me when i smoked you. What doeslp that got to do wh t ]8[ bleep ]. That you just you talked about a porch. What do thatzv got to do wi anything . When i was in interrogation, thats the first thing he threw at me. It seemed like the rap lyrics ocm wvnjxqn3inir hes nowe ,he ceo of the association of prosecuting attorneys. If its matching, that would very much be another piece of evidence that we would like to admit in the case because we think it is relevant. I can tell you that its in the hundreds. Hundreds of instances . Hundreds of instances where rap lyrics are being used at some point in the criminalfa justice process. Eric neil son of the university of richmond is a scholar of rap and a n strong critic of its use in criminal proceedings. He says it too often mistakes the musical art form for evidenceco of criminal t behavi. I mean, what prosecutors have found is that when they can introduce rap lyrics as evidence, particularly in situationsxuahere they dont hae strong evidence otherwise, they are still able to secure convictions. No one tracks exactly how often rapr sewlqe convictions in xdcourt, just as no one keeps track of how often theyreq used to secue pleaninir and there are no hard and fast rules about using them in court. A judge has to weigh a lyrics relevance versus its potentialf to unfairly prejudice the jury. Theres somei] cases like denni greens where the connection between a rap and a crime is clear. In 2003, green brutally killed his wife and then rapped specifically about committing the murder. The lyrics were introduced at trial, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But other cases arent as clear cut. Three specific words arer prosecutors hope will link two years ago in louisiana, a rapper namedxd terrence hatch w tried for nrfirstdegree murder. Prosecutors argued that a few cryptic words of one rap song were, in fact, a confession. Not guilty. But one of the most skinner was convicted in 2008 of shooting a fellow drug dealer outside this new jersey house. During his wfntrial, prosecutor read 13 pagest of skinners but his conviction was overturned by an Appellate Court that ruled the extensive readings unfairly bqejudiced the jury. The state Supreme Court is now weighing whether skinner deserves a new trial. ni to critics, prosecutors rarely, if ever, should use rap as evidence in court. He says its an z] art form tha intentionally uses elaborate word play andfa exaggeration. Ca1 while itt may oftenu contain  thats a reflection of the communities where many young black men live. M are creating characters not writing diaries. That is the most important c5 mmi lc that constantly gets there is an author and a narrator. We seem to be able to grasp tha1 concept with every other art form that uses the firstperson narrative. But rappers who go the extra mile to signal that they are inventing a narrator with their use of aco stage name, cif we s revert back to this idea that theyre the same, that we conflate the two. So you dont buy the argument thatjf this is all fiction . You believe if they are rapping about a violate, crimeridden life, that it does tell you enmething about the artist themselves . Absolutely. You cant have it both ways. You cannot say that im rapping about stuff because this is whae every day and then come into court and say everything that i said in that rap is completely untrue. If that song is just a storyn a madeup story, why do you write a story like that . Why are you tellingco that stor . Thats my lane. Im in the lanefa of hardcore rap. Thats just what it is. Like i said, i got to keep building my brand until i get to where i want to be. Fa i found something that im talented at and found a way to make money off of it. Xd Antwan Stewart says like it or not,ni gangster rap is what sells,e1 and theni violent, gangridden streets where he sq about. E1 just every day lifeambujut ia from, itok just goes on. Walking down the street, you might seetx needle that was used sot i thinkz prosecutors have very powerful] tactic, and onf the things thatsxd most powerf about it isni that it allows th to play upon butnr unfortunatel also perpetuate those enduring stereotypes. What about ther the content of somecoxd kinds op music is so violent that if you put that in front of a nijury, that if the prosecution says, this guy raps like this and we think hes guilty of x, that the jury will believe anything. 4z dont think that matches reality of what happens in a courtroom. We mustko5a get a unanimous j beyond ae1 reasonable doubt. And playing to rap isxlu going to convict coaaat y if it was, youd have rap being played every day, and we wouldnt need to worry about producing other faevidence. Antwan stewarts doublemurder triale with no mention of his lyrics by the prosecution, the case hung on those who eyewitnesses whofa identified him four years after the fatal shootings. The jury found stewart not guilty ofe1 either murder but guilty on a related weapons charge. Hell be sentencede1 later this month. In the meantime, stewart says his arrest and the publicity around itlp has driven up downloads and youtube views of his song. Hear from the brother of a man who was brought to trial in part because of rap lyrics he wrote. Visit e1newshour. Pbs. Org. The Obama Administration has decided to try the man accused of orchestrating the q2012 terrr attackq in benghazbenghazi, lib thelp nations capital. Were joined now bynr michael s mitt of the new york times. This is unusual for several fa reasons. Lets talk having the venue in d. C. Theres already the pushback this is a very expensive proposition. Okyeah, typically in the pas since 9 11, these terror trials p8ve been in new york or ine1 alexandria, virginia. Theres a Real Advantage took having them in new york because the jail is actually connected to the courthouse by a tunnel, so you dont have to move the suspect every time in a car that he has to appear in court. We saw that yesterday whenni th hearing was niover. A big motorcade came flying out of the™xcourthouse. The streets were shut down. Sirens were blasting. There were men in bullet proof vests and machine guns on the street. So that is something well probably see every day that that forth here. All right. What about the evidence in the the fbi wasnt able to get to the crime scene, so to speak, forco weeks. Yeah, this is an interesting] case. This is not just a murder that happened andi] the police came t and they put up the tape and they went and did their evidence collection and then wentq back and indicted it innr front of a grand jury. This is something that happened on the other side of the t wo. Investigators werent ablexd to get into the crime scene until several weeks after it ku 11e occurred. That was after members of the media had gone in, after militia members could go back andqlp go through whateverw3 documents we still at the u. S. Mission there. So thisco has notni been ideal the beginning. On top of that, the case will rely in partxd onym witnesses libya whot have to come over a testify and will have to stand up to e1crossexamination in th courts here. So this is not your average case. So your reporting says that he was cooperative under interrogation on a u. S. R before got here. Yet, he has pled not guilty. What do we know about the type of intelligence thatw3 he share . Well, theres a difference betweenw3 giving up everything about what his role may have wi them about, say, what the security situation in libya is like, what he knows about past or prior planned attacks, or sort of his knowledge of what ties al qaeda may have to groups in that part off4ur country. So cooperative doesnt necessarily mean that hefa gavep all of this stuff about the attack. It may have been about other roles in the attack. We know hes been cooperative, but beyond that, we dont have a ton. Who knows,i] this could be something that goes on for a very long time. Hes only been indicted on one count. Thats sort of a place holder. The government is expected to indict him on several more Going Forward as it feels more comfortable with the case. Xd this is something thatjf could on for many, many years. All right. Michael schmitni of the new yo times joining us from washington, thanks so much. Thanksxd for having me. This isnr pbs newse1 hour wed sunday. T t ne h lc in england, scientists are exemployering ways to diagnose Breast Cancer through a routine test resembling a pap smear. E only axd few years lp away. Judy stewart was diagnosed with Breast Cancer three years ago. Shes had a series of treatments. nr chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a mastectomy. Xdnr fortunately, its now behind her, but she never had anq indication she could be at risk. Neither her mother nor her grandmother had Breast Cancer. I started to feel a bit uncomfortable wearing bras under my arm. Just after christmas, i got a bit of alp lump. Tiny lump. Xd but i was ill. I had a cold. I had a cough. A very bad hackingni cough. I just thought it was a gland. Didnt even cross my mind it was cancer. Most screening has beennrjf focused on women who have aok Family History of Breast Cancer. Now sign ittists are in thenr early stages of creating a new test, which could be applied to all women. Only 10 of women using blood samples, scient 7s here at University College dn ondone1 identified afa speci fault in white blood cells. This was present in all the women who develop breast cane1 session, regardless of Family History. Their aim now is to develop the test further,t and they hope tt within five years an ordinary smear test could also be used to q cancer. Its an Exciting Development for those who work in cancer research, but with Clinical Trials yet to rc sbegin, its v early days. So in the meantime, women are urged to continue to be cautious as one in eight of us will be affected. nrn wi]lp some late news, president obama will name bob mcdonald,co west point graduate and former ceo of proctor and gamble, to take over the department of veteran affairs. The u. S. Isxv6qt r 75 hellfire missiles to iraq to help iraqi Government Troops too recapture tikrit. In nigeria, islamic extremists are suspected in attacks that left dozens dead. Church go eers were among the target. And an organization of central bankers is warning of an asset bubble, citing what it calls an puzzling disconnect between risingni markets and global growth. Announcer pbs news hour weekend is made possible by, lewis b. And Louise Hirschfeld komen. Joyce b. Hail. E1co the wallach family, in memory of miriam and ira d. Wallach. The sheryl and Philip Milstein family, bernard and irene schwartz. Ok the city foundation. Rosalind p. Walter. Corporate funding provided by ek pcustomized individual and g retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support is provided by 5a and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you

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