The crimes against women and girls exceed almost anything ive ever known in my lifetime as far as human rights abuses. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the numbers kept climbing today in that devastating mudslide in Washington State. At least two dozen people are now believed dead, with officials adding to the count every evening. Scores more are missing. Jeffrey brown reports on the days developments. Brown day five since the disaster found search teams still digging. Theyve been using everything from cadaver
Make contact without causing damage to them on the floor on that later in the show. I am. Washington d c our friends are watching. Sear the journalist who broke the story of the reach of nsa surveillance returns to us today for the First Time Since they began reporting on documents leaked by former contractor adverts noted Glenn Greenwald and mark waitress arrives in new york this morning to receive the prestigious george polk award for journalism. They said the National Security reporting award with fellow reporters. Elaine in a cask ale and Washington Post partum down. It is an ss teacher and mentor greenwald at the event and joins us now with more. This aussies spoke with the pre op this morning the First Time Since he stepped foot onto us soil after the nsa revelations whats the significance of this return. There were concerns he may have trouble getting back into the us thats right when yemeni significance of this guy is pretty cute because the june will mark exactly one year sinc
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Abc7 news is live. Laura, it would normallye packed with swimmers. Exactly. Behind me here, the beach and lawn would be filled with people on a warm evening. There is nobody here. Same goes for part of the beach ov shadow cliff lake both dueo water contamination. Both very nasty. These ducks dont know what to make of e yellow tape at Lake Temescal where there is unusually high levels of toxins. Some of those who came t cool off didnt realize the lake was closed until they saw signs. Do you think its better its closed . Definitely. If there isdanger. You know . If its not something we have known implications of, it should be closed. Id rather be swimming. This weeks junior camp is also been grounded strictly by land for e next few days here you are in life guard camp u cant go into the water. Dry land is fun. We can get into the water, but we beefed it up with other stuff like survival and making fires he sh the issues high levels of e coli,reated by the drought because dead grassis no
Were should be great. You know, on the roads nowving is really quiet. We have not had too many incidents since this morning. Heads up about later on tonight. A different story for the evening commute home. Of course, we have the San Francisco giants playing at at t park. That is at 5 07. So yes, expect extra heavy delays coming into San Francisco at least at that hour. Its the commute against the commute, i should say. Right now everything is quiet. But again, that is going to be extra busy there and along the peninsula, along the skyway, everything is going to be extra crowded. You can use mass transit. Extra Ferry Service golden gate alamedaoakland ferry offering direct service to the stadium and Vallejo Baylink muni is offering extra shuttle buses to the game and then on top of that over at levi, we have the cal game and that kicks off right around 7 00 as well so thats during the heart of the evening rush, as well. So between all this stuff going on, it just kind of makes you want