Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Xq institute. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention. In the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Jewish Cemetery near st. Louis won an outpouring of support today, from Vice President pence on down. More than 150 tombstones that were toppled or damaged over the weekend, part of a spate of antisemitic attacks and threats nationwide.
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Xq institute. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention. In the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Jewish Cemetery near st. Louis won an outpouring of support today, from Vice President pence on down. More than 150 tombstones that were toppled or damaged over the weekend, part of a spate of antisemitic attacks and threats nationwide.
Rather, the quicker we are going to solve this case. Reporter there are people cooperating with the investigation who saw the shooting happen . We know there must have been people who saw something. Were still trying to track those people down. Reporter Prince Georges County police are releasing very few details about this as this is an investigation that is just beginning. I can tell you homicide detectives are on the scene. The chief of police was also here for a short time talking with detectives about what they found here. Were waiting for more details. As soon as they become available, we will share them. Reporting live in oxon hill, im tracee wilkins. Turning to politics now and the announcement just over half an hour ago from attorney general Jeff Sessions that he will recuse himself from any investigations involving the Trump Campaign and russia. That move after some democrats in Congress Called for him to go a step further and resign. Our Chris Lawrence is in the newsroom with
California to explore its history. San jose was founded in november 1777 as californias first civilian settlement. Learn more about san jose all weekend here on American History tv. Right now, we are in the revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View california. Behind me are over 1000 artifacts that tell about the history of computing, going back to thousand years. It is laid out into 19 galleries, each one focuses on a certain theme or object from the history of computing. One of those themes is realtime control. Here we look at things like pacemakers for hearts. These are Computer Systems that must function. Theyre not like your laptop, which can crash once in a while and the worst is that you lose your work. If a pacemaker crashes, you die. The oldest item is a set of what are called napiers bones, small ivory counting sticks from the 17th century. The most recent thing we have is an iphone, the first model. We are in the punchcard gallery. Behind me you see
2007 and the reasons range from higher speed limits to drunk driving. But there may be one other big factor. Phil lebeau has more. Reporter driving in america has become deadlier. The National Safety council estimates more than 40,000 people died in Car Accidents last year, the most since 2007. It caps the steepest twoyear rise in auto fatalities since 1964. Some of it is because drivers are going faster, as states raise speed limits, while distracted driving remains a huge problem. Ironically, highway deaths are rising even as new technologies like lane Departure Warning systems, are becoming more common. But the National Safety council says some of these new systems are being ignored by drivers. There are oral warnings, visual warnings. Some of these warnings are confusing to drivers and some of them are, the functionality is really not there, so drivers are turning them off. Reporter doug simpson, founder and ceo, thinks he has a way to keep drivers from picking up their phone. Sinc