he, i think, feels vindicated by the fact that there has been six months of very intensive attention to things he thought were worthy of attention. ifill: and in the forests of mexico, worries are growing about the shrinking number of monarch butterflies spending winter there. those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. 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: christmas eve was marked by festivities and preparations around the world today. the faithful prepared for midnight services in places both traditional and unusual. some of 2013 s first christmas eve celebrations occurred in china, where guards and volunteers h
six months of very intensive attention to things he thought were worthy of attention. ifill: and in the forests of mexico, worries are growing about the shrinking number of monarch butterflies spending winter there. those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. 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: christmas eve was marked by festivities and preparations around the world today. the faithful prepared for midnight services in places both traditional and unusual. some of 2013 s first christmas eve celebrations occurred in china, where guards and volunteers held back hundreds crowding into a beijing cathedral for holiday
p poisoned him? there s the allegation of poisoning. narrator: a toxic mystery with an unforgettable meltdown in court. and a surprise witness with a bombshell. do you remember what you told me about the drinks? what did i tell you about that? it wasn t supposed to happen like this. i m holt, and this is dateline. here s keith morrison with toxic. narrator: it was a mystery from day one. from that time right around the end of the hockey season. it didn t make sense what was happening to matt podalak. matt the outdoorsman, the fisherman, the athlete. he woke up that morning with that pain in his back. and after that night in the hospital a couple of weeks later, nothing made sense of that. god knows there were accusations. oh, yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, for whom the story, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an affect on me for the past seven years. let s begin in the spring of 2006. matt was 31 years old. maybe more than ev
and a brother, mark, for whom the story, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an affect on me for the past seven years. let s begin in the spring of 2006. matt was 31 years old. maybe more than ever, he was loving the intense male roughness of amateur hockey. he was number 10 an he was good at it. he even managed to keep all these teeth. he started to take it up when he was in high school. that was really one of his loves. mark podalak was a little older, a little les athletically accomplished than his brother. but he loved him. my dad was a cop, so he sort of put the fear of god into me and my brother growing up. matt told his wife that he was going to brooklyn, ohio, it s one of the towns around the edge of cleveland. matt has always wanted to be a police officer since he was little. narrator: his dad was a 39-year-old veteran of the brooklyn pd. he went to work for his uncle, whose phoenix industrial powder coated engine parts for ford and o
and another american has brought to atlanta for treatment. we begin this hour at the white house. the president briefed them on the plan to displantin dismantle the islamic state group. the president is set to address the nation tomorrow night and there is ever are polls that americans are becoming hawkish about the situation. give us a sense of what was discussed, and this idea that the president told lawmakers he doesn t need their authority. what is that about? reporter: that s the biggest take away because if congressional leaders had met with the president today, the top congressional leaders had prepped him saying they want a vote. he may have opened up that option. however, it s politica politically riskry to vote on the airstrikes in iraq because they face midterm elections in just eight weeks. so it s safer for republicans and democrats over in congress and the white house may be able to go in the direction it chooses. you may hear grumbling, but so far leaders a